In episode 220 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked whether translating YouTube video titles and descriptions results in more traffic.
The exact question was:
One more question please – I have been pitched software that translate your YT videos’ title and description to multiple languages. Can this really help in getting more traffic from our videos on YT?
– Mayank
In Hump Day Hangouts episode 229, one participant asked if the Semantic Mastery team recommends building out citations with the business.site address instead of the typical website to rank in maps.
The exact question was:
I have a new client and their goal is to rank in maps. Would you suggest building out citations with the business.site address and not their typical website?
In episode 220 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if one should link multiple YouTube channels within the same niche to one syndication network.
The exact question was:
Can I, and should I, link multiple YT channels (within the same niche) to one Syndicate Network? How about other combinations like 1 YT channel and 1 website rss feed?
– Mayank
In episode 229 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked how often one should post a blog article to benefit from the syndication network.
The exact question was:
I am trying to rank a service area business. Last week you suggested that I use press releases and blogs through syndication Network to do so. The company does not currently have a blog. If we create one – How often do you suggest to post a blog article to benefit from the syndication network.
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Adam: Alright, we’re live Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts Episode 233. This is the episode where you get to watch her non finger all over the camera.
Hernan: Actually, unless I talk you won’t be able to watch it because it’s the cameraman. It’s on right, Bradley?
Adam: Yeah. So, have you ever seen the movie fire in the sky? Yeah, there’s this horrible alien abduction and it has to do with stuff going to people’s eyeballs. Anyways, that’s what I think of it just makes me want to stop looking at the screen. So we’re going to stop doing that and we’re going to move on and say hello to everybody real quick. We got a few short announcements and then we’re going to hop into some good stuff. So let’s start with the Hernan “finger pointer Vasquez” as he’s known around here, toys that.
Hernan: Hey, everybody, what’s up? Really excited to be here really excited for what’s coming up today. So pay close attention because it’s going to be epic and really excited for this episode. So good to be here.
Adam: Alright Marco. How are you doing, man?
Marco: I’m doing a do, man. I’m doing what do I do you know how to do?
Adam: Very well, very well. Bradley, How about yourself?
Bradley: That’s tough to follow that Onomatopoeia or what is there’s a lot of do’s in there. So I don’t know how to follow that much. But I’m good. I’m happy to be here. I’m going to do once we get through announcements, I’m going to do a brief kind of update to video Legion system which is in launch right now, really, I just want to talk about some advanced follow up methods that are not in the training, but I’m going to just cut this section out and put it into the training because there’s some really cool stuff that can be done to help get much better results with automating follow up specifically in a way that I’m going to talk about that’s kind of unique. And again, the whole point of video lead gen system was really to set yourself apart from all the other spammers out there that are contacting local businesses, trying to you know, get, sell them advertising and marketing services or leads or whatever the case may be. And so, once we get through announcements, I got a couple of things I want to go through and you guys will see hopefully, some of the power of how this unique method can really help you stand out above and beyond, you know, separate you from the crowd of other marketers out there. Does that make sense?
And I’m going to hold up the rest because I want to hear what Bradley has to say. And I think a lot of other people do as well. And just want to say if you’re not aware of it right now, Bradley just added a major update and expansion to Video Lead Gen System, which is, like all of our products, something I wholeheartedly support and something I personally use. I hadn’t done exactly what Bradley did. When he first kind of, I don’t know, Bradley, this was years ago. I mean, we just kind of talked about it, or you showed me I forget how it came about. But this is something I’ve done, hugely successful, used it in a bunch of different areas, and I don’t want to steal the thunder. So I’m just gonna say I’m gonna put the link on the page, along with a there’s a limited time discount if you want to get in and get this training for a hell of a deal. So anyway, with that, Bradley, I’ll turn it over to you.
Bradley: Sure. Okay. So real quick and I’m gonna jump into just a just I’ve got one slide that I’m going to kind of walk through and show you a couple of examples of what I’m talking about. But the video lead gen system, it’s how I started growing my own agency back in 2012. When I got started in 2010, I built lead generation assets. And that was really just to prove to myself that I knew that I could do it, number one, and also because I knew that if I was going to go up, approach businesses and say, Hey, I can do SEO for you. And they said, Oh, yeah, prove it. Like I had no credibility because I had nothing to show. And so part of the reason I started building lead generation assets was, again, one to learn to prove to myself that I could do it. Number two, so that I could build kind of a portfolio of proof that gave me credibility, you know, to be able to show to potential businesses that I wanted to work with, Hey, I know what I’m doing. Look what I’ve been able to do and how those lead generation assets.
And then in 2012, once I had built up a portfolio of sites that in, you know, maps, essentially said sites that were ranked in both Google Maps and Google and they were generating leads, that’s when I opened up my agency. However, I hated cold calling, absolutely hated it. And I was having trouble finding clients other than going to like local, you know, networking events and stuff. But I didn’t even really like doing that very much. I think we as digital marketers want to be able to do everything from the comfort of our computer desk, you know what I mean? Like from behind the screen and not have to go out and interact with people at least that’s how I was at the time. So I really just decided that I wanted to do cold email, but in a way that was unique. And so I started contacting businesses that I wanted to work with. I would go just, you know, search for particular industries in particular areas and then look and find companies that I thought I might want to work with. And then I would create a video where I basically audited their digital presence, where I would analyze what their current presence was and show them where there were missing opportunities to get better results. And send them an email with the video would look like a video embed in the email, but it was really just a screenshot of the video itself. And then it would have like a play button superimposed on it, and it would be linked to the actual video. So when they clicked it, it would take them over to the video. And it would, you know, it was a video specific to them. But it’s a 10 or 15-minute video usually, that I would create for each prospect. And I would send out for every 10 emails I sent out, I would get three or four responses like clockwork, and so that’s a 30 to 40%. So an average of 35% response rate and it was great, it was fabulous. But and then out of those three or four responses for every 10 that I sent out, I would usually close one sometimes two of those into some sort of level of marketing services could be Video SEO, you know, full on SEO and Maps SEO could have been whatever. But I would usually end up closing at least one.
Well, recently, over the last several months, we’re really almost the last year now, you know, we’ve been building a lot of lead generation assets and that that kind of thing. And so I needed to learn how to more efficiently use that same sort of process. So that’s what the 2019 update for lead video lead gen system is, is kind of what I’ve done over the last couple of months, which was to refine the process, streamline it make it much more efficient, to where now, I’m still doing pretty much the same method where I’m still proposing via video what it is that I can do for prospects but it’s much more streamlined because of the way that I’ve developed it now it’s much more systematized and a lot of it can be outsourced. And so now what used to take me at least 30 minutes per prospect now literally takes me just a matter of two to three minutes per prospect. And again, all that’s explained in the training. But, you know, that said, there are some other things in there that I’ve learned along the process like how to in streamlining the process of finding prospects before I used to do it all manually. Now you can use there are tools and there are two tools in particular that I recommend. One of them’s a great tool called Leads Recon. It’s fabulous for this method. It really, really is. So there’s, you know, there’s a lot of things that I’ve been able to do knowing what I know now, you know, seven years after I started doing this, I’ve learned how to process turn it into processes and systematized it and become much, much more efficient and even outsource a big portion of all of it so that it really, you know, I say this is a, if it were up to me to do it all the time, it probably wouldn’t get done, at least not regularly and consistently. But because I’ve learned how to systematized and an outsource part of it, I know it gets done because I’m paying somebody to do it. And so, therefore, I know for sure that my prospecting is going to continue on a regular basis. And my pipeline is always going to be full of conversations to be had with prospects because this process has been implemented if that makes sense.
So anyway, let me grab the screen real quick. And I want to show you guys what I’ve got. And we’re just going to give you a couple of quick examples. I want to add this to the end section, where I talk about advanced methods or strategy for vertical prospecting. And specifically, what that means for you know, anybody that gets the training, you’ll know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, I highly recommend that you get to training vls.semanticmastery.com will take you to where you can buy the training, but if you’re looking to get clients or you’ve got Lead Generation assets that you want to monetize. I’m telling you this method is fat. It’s great. It’s one of the best ways that I’ve ever seen to get the conversation started okay with prospects and remember guys, that’s the hardest thing. If you’re cold calling, well God bless you. Because that sucks period. And you know, if you’re cold calling already how many times you piss people off when you call them and interrupt them, and they think that you’re soliciting them for anything whatsoever, you’re going to get called all kinds of names you’re going to get cussed at, they’re going to hang up on you all that stuff. If you just stand out cold emails, then you know that most of those emails are going to be considered spam by the prospects, they’re never going to reply or you’re going to get really shitty messages back from them. The ones that do reply, which I always thought was funny because they took the time to type out something negative to say back to you instead of just deleting the email. But that happens and don’t get me wrong, this method occasionally you will get that too but it’s much much less likely.
Then it’s going to be up to you to close the sale, right? I’m not giving you sales training here, I’m giving you contacting and prospecting training. All right, but that’s what I wanted to point out was it’s a very unique method, it works really, really well. And there’s a lot of things that you can do to you know, once if you’re a digital marketer and you understand digital marketing, you can apply a lot of the things that you know already to make it work so much better. So, specifically, there’s a module within the new training for advanced methods for vertical prospecting. When I say vertical prospecting that means when you’re prospecting to one type of business vertical or one industry, which is what I totally recommend, and if anybody’s been following us for a long knows that I’ve always been telling you guys to you should really become a big fish in a little pond, which means stick to one industry, because then you can fully develop your marketing, your sales messaging, the way that you communicate, your creatives, you know, everything around one industry, it reduces the workload significantly, exponentially than it does if you’re trying to be all be you know everything to everybody then you’re a small fish in a big pond right that makes sense. So with vertical prospecting, when using this method it’s better to do it, in my opinion, you can use this to approach anybody okay for to sell or to prospect for any marketing service, but I recommend doing it where you’re approaching a particular business vertical, okay. And because of that, then you can do things like get people on to an autoresponder right that then you can follow up with them so prospects that may not end up becoming your client now could very well become your client, six weeks, six months, you know, a year down the road because you’ve got them on an autoresponder and also a remarketing list, for example, and you can constantly remind them, gently nudge them, that you’re still there, right and that your marketing services are there.
Well, one of the things that I wanted to talk about today specifically was advanced automation follow-ups. Again, this isn’t in the training, but I’m going to cut this section out and put it in the training specifically because I wanted to show you guys that are digital marketers, how you can use your knowledge to increase your own success with this method. So for example, if you get them onto an autoresponder and what which I recommend that you that should be one of your goals right is to get them onto an autoresponder because again, just because they’re not going to be a prospect now doesn’t mean that they won’t be a client later, right? Does that make sense? But with most autoresponders, any of the good ones I recommend using drip.com and the training but on any number of them do these kinds of things.
Now, there’s a use our recent unopened feature with most autoresponders to where if you get them an autoresponder and you send an email and they don’t open the email, the email autoresponder will actually know that they didn’t open it and will send it to them again and you can tell them to send it you know in three days or five days or whatever it was so that you’re making sure that they’re getting another opportunity to read those emails, especially if they’re value based, right? You want them to see those emails. You want them to open and see that you’re trying to help them without asking for anything except for Hey, if you need additional help, call me or reply to this email or schedule a call with my calendar app or whatever it is, whatever your contact, your call to action, your conversion goal is for contacting right so again, that’s something really simple that you can do once you have them on an autoresponder something else guys. Ringless voicemail, slidebroadcast.com if you don’t know what that goes check out slidebroadcast.com. It’s great. It’s a ringless voicemail system, where basically you can upload an mp3 with a message that you want to send to them and what it will do is it will call their number and their phone won’t ring if they pick up the thing hangs up on them. But if they don’t pick up then it will because it’ll be a ringless voicemail anyway, it’ll just show on their like mobile device and it will also work on about 50% of landlines. By the way, guys, not all landlines, but about 50% of landlines that have voicemail, this will work on also. But for mobile devices, it’s almost 100% it will send them a voicemail message. So that and it doesn’t ring but all of a sudden on their phone, it will show that they’ve got a message waiting, and they go listen to the message. And it could be you, you know, hey, this is Bradley Benner from Big Bamboo Marketing. And I just wanted to reach out and tell you that, you know, I’m really looking forward to or I’m hoping you know, whatever the message may be. I’m hoping that you got my video email. And if you’re interested in lead generation services, or Google might, you know, getting more leads from Google My Business, certainly give me a call or schedule a call with me via my Calendy app and give the link whatever the case may be, guys. It’s up to you to create the message but my point is that ringlets voicemail is something that you can use as part of your automated follow-up strategy.
The next thing direct mail zendirect.com. Zen Direct also connects with Zapier. So with Zen Direct for example, right here is Zen Direct okay was then direct. For example, you could set up another automation or similar automation that you can send them a letter or a postcard. All you do is upload the design to send direct. And then you fund the account to pay for the print the printing of the design, whether it’s a postcard or a letter, and it pays for the postage and Send Direct will actually create the mail piece and send it out. They’ll print it and send it out to you via us mail based upon whatever action it is that you tell them what you want it to do. So with Zapier, once again, you can say, send a postcard or a letter I typically use postcards but send a letter with anybody that’s any prospect that schedules a call with me via Calendly, right Calendly connects to Zapier. Right. So my point is, you can use Zapier and some of these other services to really set yourself apart. Think about how many spammers spam local businesses for solicitation on a regular basis or how many times Yelp calls a local business or Home Advisor for those of you in the contracting industries, how many times they get hammered with shitty sales calls, and that’s how people contact businesses. But if you set yourself apart with a unique video email, then you get them on an autoresponder there are ways to do that through the video email sequence, I talked about that in the training, and then start sending the value based emails with a soft nudge at the end just to contact you. And then you set up some of these automatic follow up.
Automated follow-ups like sending a postcard, who else sends direct mail? Nobody anymore, right? Send direct mail, send a ringless voicemail during the middle of an email sequence that, you know they’re opening because that’s the reason why they got the voicemail broadcast, right? And saying it just giving them some additional information about that particular sequence right and how, hey, don’t forget if you have any questions, I’m still here. Here’s my number, call me. Those are the kind of things that are really going to set you apart because nobody else does that stuff, guys. And so for those of you that are looking to get clients looking to monetize assets you got to think creatively instead of doing what the herd does, right the traditional wisdom which everybody’s sick and tired of just do these kinds of things and it will give you better results. So with that, I’m done. okay.
Adam: Do we have anything else before we wait too long on my screen froze for a second they’re trying to come in strategically but no good stuff. Can’t talk it up enough I love this way of doing it like you said a lot of it you know you’re providing value but you’re automating the hell out of it and you know works for you and it works for them so anyways, anyone to you know, anyone who’s doing stuff outside of this if it’s not strictly client, SEO, whatever it is, you’re doing this works across industries like don’t narrow dumping god, this is just for the one place I can use this. You can do this for damn near anything. So.
Adam: all that good. Guys, you guys got anything?
Bradley: That’s no. Okay, I’m gonna grab the screen again. Okay.
Bradley: The hangouts Alright, so we’re going to go with starting here because that was from six days ago and go forward. So Andy says hi there. You mentioned in a GMB video with Peter Drew’s Dominator site that one should consider registering a GMB in a particular area. If the GMB I don’t know niche looks uncompetitive, okay, but unless we actually have a business scenario, how do we actually do that? Thank you. That’s a great question, Andy. Well, we have a service in our store MGB for verifying or registering GMB, Google My Business profiles, where you don’t actually even have to have a physical location. Now, before we had to pause that for a bit because of some changes that were going on. It was making it very difficult to verify but is that can somebody confirm that is available still now is that correct word.
Marco: It’s available only to our MasterMind right now.
Bradley: Only to our Mastermind right now. Okay. Well, hopefully, we’ll have it back available in our store here shortly, but available for everybody. But right now there was we were verifying a ton of locations for people. And then what happened was, Google started cracking down, which they always do. We were expecting it at some point. And so we had to literally stop taking new orders for some time, but we just started like in the last couple days, I know opening that back up, and apparently it’s just to our mastermind, which is often how we do things when we have to shut stuff down when we reopen it, or when we even launch new products, it’s typically to our mastermind first, and then we smooth out any potential bugs or issues before we launch it to the general public.
Marco: Hey, hey, Brad, the breaking news from Rob. He’s opening it up to everyone. Okay, there you go. So at first he wanted to test with the mastermind and we wanted to get caught up with all of the orders that we had, you know, backward because of all the problems. So that’s all cleared up. So yeah, we’re open and ready to go.
Bradley: So mgyb.co, that’s the store. You can buy them there. Okay, Andy, so you can just go check them out there.
Okay, Will’s up, he says Bradley and Local Lease Pro you showed us how to find the GMB share URL for our profile. And every time I do this, I’m getting a different URL that resolves to my profile. Is this than a dynamic assignment by Google? Is there a time expiration by this link? By any chance? Thank you know, but what I, I’m not going to go into a gym be an asset right now. But one the best URL for that now, guys, because it’s a straight three on one with no redirects. or excuse me, it’s a straight URL with no redirects at all. Not even a 301 redirect is if you go into your DMV dashboard, and where you can click on the Info tab or even from the Home tab. Inside the GMB dashboard, you’ll see where it says view on search and view on maps. right there are two links that will save you on search your maps if you right-click the View on maps, and click copy link address, paste it into a text file a notepad file. Then you’ll see it’s a Maps, Google com something question marks, cid= but that that URL there you that if you actually put that URL into a, and there’s some character sometimes that’s appended to the end of that, cid, you know that cid number or whatever, you can eliminate that. But if you that, that cid URL, essentially, if you put that into a redirect checker, you’ll see it redirects to www.google.com slash map slash, question mark, whatever equals c ID, whatever. So all you do is the short method here is just right-click on that view on maps link inside your GMB dashboard, click copy link address, paste it into a notepad file, and then change the maps. google com the map subdomain, change that to www. That’s it. Once you do that, now you have a straight URL to the maps listing is no redirect. And it’s the best URL to use because it’s going to stay consistent. And you can use that for link building. Okay. So there you go. That’s the best URL for that.
Mark says hi, in GMB. For service area businesses, Google only requires a service area zip code or city they no longer require an address. Well, they do when you register the listing, you have to have an address. However, if the distance is one of the most important ranking factors, I’m assuming that providing an address would be important. Otherwise, how would Google know where you are located? Is that correct? No. Again, because by Google’s own terms of service, if you are a service area business and you list your physical address, you can get your profile terminate or suspended. Okay, we’ve had seen it time and again from people that didn’t know that or they would assume what you’re assuming Merv and they would go in and put their show their address, right so they put a physical address. Remember, when you registered the GMB, you had to have a physical address period, you can’t get it without listing a physical address when you register the GMB and so Google knows where that business is located. If it’s a service area business, the first thing you’re supposed to do before adding your services areas is clicked into the physical location setting and click that blue link that says clear address, you clear the address, then save, then you go to the service area section and add your service areas. So Google knows for sure where your business is located when you verified that profile. Okay?
Ken says what’s the best way to get at least one review to a gym be so it doesn’t stand out? So much How can I get the initial review? Well, you can spam it can, you know, I don’t recommend doing that there are legal reasons, sometimes depending on what state you’re in. So you got to be real careful about that kind of stuff. But you could certainly spam a review. You know, just so you know, I mean, I’m not encouraging that I’m just telling you, that’s one way you could do it. The other way you could do it would be if you have, if you’ve never sold a lead from that particular location, or you’ve, you don’t have a client or whatever, then you can’t really solicit an actual customer review. But if you have actually generated leads that you’ve been able to monetize, then you could always ask the, you know, one of the leads that have come through to leave a review, that’s always you know, a possibility. Again, I know that’s difficult. But if you want to do it legit way, that’s the way you do it. Otherwise, you could spam it. Again. I’m not encouraging that because you got to be careful about which states you do that in and that kind of stuff, but that’s certainly a possibility.
Jason says two questions and MGYB store for embeds, there is P1-P6. Other than the numbers of embeds, is there a difference between each p order? I don’t know. I can’t answer that.
Marco: No, no, there’s no difference. It’s just the number of embed.
Bradley: Okay. Thanks.
Bradley: Number two, what is the typical turnaround time with MTV orders in particular deep keyword research?
Marco: He keeps asking, I think this is the same person, he’s asked the same question like three, four different places. Please don’t do that. It doesn’t help. But it’s three days, typical turnaround. But, of course, if there are orders previously in the queue, that’s going to delay your orders will still take three days to create, but it’s three days from the moment they start working on it. So it could be a week, it could be 10 days before they start working on it. It all depends on how many orders are already in the queue, which each of those will take three days to complete.
Bradley: Ron says I just received my first job is from you. Do you have video training for best practices? you should get the black book run that should get sent with every order is that correct?
Marco: No. That they get the done for you User’s Guide the Black Book is only available in RYS Academy Reloaded. So the done for you User’s Guide is not sent. But that’s sent with the order. That’s what I meant. He should have gotten that done for you Users Guide if he didn’t, then he should write to support@mgyb.com and request the done for you User’s Guide.
Bradley: Okay, there you go. I’m sorry. I can conflict the two terms. But yes, get the User’s Guide. And then obviously, if there are any specific questions about that, we can answer them in here and Hump Day hang out. So we’re in one of the groups about, you know, things that you can do link building is one of the best things you can do to get more power out of them. So, you know, we’ve got a link building service that is designed specifically for that kind of stuff in our store, mgyb.co, again, it’s by our own link builder has been working for me for like five or six years now. He’s freaking fabulous. He knows exactly. He’s a pro. And so he’s the one that handles all the link building specifically for these kinds of methods, and it works incredibly well. So this is I’m really afraid of doing something wrong and jeopardizing my investment. Bradley does such a great job training. I was hoping there would be some video available. Yeah, again, the user’s guide has all the training that you should need. But if there’s something in particular that you need to know about, you know, we’re actually Marco and I starting tomorrow. By the way, we should have announced this by the Marco and I starting tomorrow are doing MGYB training where we’re going to hold a webinar monthly, where we’re going to talk about the best practices for different products tomorrow, it’s going to be about syndication networks, why they’re so important in 2019, because they have a lot of people say, well, the syndicating content really still helping 2019. Well, they still survive. Yes, it does help. Maybe not as effective as it was four years ago, but it’s still as effective but syndication networks have a are very effective for another reason. And that’s entity validation. And they’re more effective for that reason now than they have than they were in the past. They’re more effective than ever, in fact, and that’s, in particular, that reason. So again, Marco and I starting tomorrow at 4:30 pm. Eastern, we’re having a webinar and MGYB and we’re going to do one monthly where we’re going to take a particular product or service and highlight the best uses of it best practices and what are the things to do once you’ve received them to get the best use out of them are the most that you know the best results from them, so perhaps Marco and I will do drive stacks next month. What do you think Marco? I’ll take the silence as a yes.
Marco: Oh, sorry. I was talking to a muted Mike. Yes, definitely.
Mike says when coming up with a name for YouTube channel for lead gen or local business, how can I make up also an address for using it for some kind of NAP backlinks and local citation. Thanks. Well, when coming up with a name for YouTube channel for lead gen for a local business, how can I make up also an address for using it for some kind of NAP backlink? Well, if it’s for a local business, they have an NAP, so I don’t understand I’m not sure I understand the question might if it’s for a local business, they already have an NA P. So why don’t you just list there NAP YouTube citation is a powerful citation. I know that because I use bright local citations for my clients. And it’s always ranked as one of the highest or most you know the most powerful citations. So YouTube you can put it in the channel the about or the description of the channel description the about section, you put the sap there you also every time you publish a video for that business or lead gen video, whatever you always put the sap in the video description as well. If it’s for lead generation asset, you should still have an NAP, I don’t recommend if it’s a spam address that you put the street address, but you can still put the name, city state zip and phone number but don’t put the street address, it still counts as a citation. It’s just a partial citation, right? And a link back obviously to the digital asset, whether it’s a GSB website, the GMB map URL, or if you have a self-hosted website link back to that as well let link to all of them. Does that make sense? So again, if it’s if you have a Google My Business profile, it had to have had an address period at some point, it had to have had an address for else you can’t have a Google My Business profile. So if that’s what you’re looking to promote, use that address. If it’s a service area business or a spam address, hide the street address. Don’t publish that just published. The name, the city state zip and phone number and in the links back to the digital assets again, GMB website GMB map share URL, or excuse me that the GMB map URL the one that I just talked about, where you right-click the View on maps. Change the subdomain from maps.to www dot. And that’s your that’s the best URL to use for that for now on. Okay. And then obviously if you have a self-hosted website link to that, too. All right.
Greg says I want to begin uploading some videos to my channel. Do you still recommend uploading as a live event scheduled without a week? What is the software you recommend for uploading? I can’t remember the name something like oh, GM or GMB note. There was excuse me OBS which is I think, I don’t know, OBS if you just click go to Google and search for OBS broadcasting software or something like that. Whatever our live stream OBS live stream that’s the software that you can use this free you know there’s other ones like wire cast or two but their pain in the ass to use. OBS works really well we’ve got a video on our YouTube channel, just go to youtube.com slash semantic mastery use the search channel feature and in search for OBS and you’ll find a couple of videos where I Talk about how to use that to live stream even pre-recorded videos. It’s not hard to do, and it works really well. And yes, live streaming still gets more reach guys, like even live streaming and pre-recorded video gets more reach than just uploading. So I still do some video SEO stuff for a video production company, not nearly as much as I used to, they really slow down onboarding new clients, but occasionally I still get a new job for that. And when I do I still do the same thing. They just send me the video file. And then I livestream it into my channel that I used to syndicate out to a bunch of networks, syndication networks, right? And so it works really, really well it does, it absolutely helps. It’s better than just a straight upload.
Bradley: That’s right. That’s right subscribe so you get notified when we have new videos and live streams and all that kind of stuff. So.
Alright, so the next question is, can you order multiple stacks to target multiple location pages? You can.
Marco: No we won’t do it. I mean, yeah, multiple stacks in the same stack. We won’t do that. But if you’re going to order multiple drive stacks targeting each location, yes, we will do that. We are talking. Here’s the thing we are talking about being able to expand dr stacks offering that as a service, but it takes about as long to create a drive stack inside the root folder, and then a companion Gsite, inner page as it does to create the original stack. And so we’d be close to the same price unless we can figure out how to do it quicker. Robin and I were just talking about it this morning. By the way, we’re going to figure that out. But the answer is yes. If you’re going to order individual stacks if you want it within the same stack. We’d have to charge you the same price regardless. And we don’t we’re not offering that at this point.
Bradley: Yeah. Okay, there you go.
Bradley: service business, can they rank in multiple locations with one address, not in target location? Do you offer any products to help with that in mgyb.co? Yes, you can. That’s really what local GMB pro was about being able to rank in order and get leads from Google My Business even as kind of a workaround for the proximity issue. I know what you’re talking about, Tash I guess, you know, part of what Local Lease Pro was about was registering new GM bees in the actual locations that you want to get ranked in because that was really the point because of the proximity issue ever since the mobile index first switch which occurred in July of 2018. Proximity is a huge factor now for GMBs. Yes, you can still get GMBs to produce leads or and you know, some rank in cases in adjacent areas. But once you go far outside of or beyond immediate adjacent areas, it’s very difficult to have a GMB rank. It still can be done but you have to build massive authority and you also have to do a lot of what Marco calls expanding the centroid and that’s what we teach in Local GMB Pro. We do we have something in mg y be that can do that for you other than drive stacks and, you know posting which I don’t think we’re offering GMB posting yet publicly. You know, where we do the actual posts and everything for you. I don’t think that we have anything available in the store that can do that for you yet, that is coming. We are working on some of these GMB services off page services especially while including posting which is really on page but we can do that through API so we don’t have to actually have access to your account. And that’s really, again, there are certain things that you can do to get better results in and circumvent the proximity issue to a degree, but it requires developing a massive authority as well as very specific procedures or methods we cover in local GMB Pro. Mark, do you want to add to that?
Marco: No, I like it, man. You have to create, as you said, its massive trust, massive authority. So you can expand the center and you have to create the relationship, right. So it’s not just going willy nilly and trying to expand that century, it’s creating that relevance between your business your center, it is a business center. That’s all that means what Google considers the origin of your business. So for us, it’s a location, it’s at the center of the area that you service. So from there, if you want to extend past your service area into an adjacent area, you’ll see sometimes when you’re looking at maps or whatever, that some businesses will bleed into areas where they should where they shouldn’t be ranking. This is where your local least pro method comes in and really takes advantage of those areas where you can really go in and hyper-target and go in and, and rank real quick in the three pack. But in order to do that from your business century, it takes overpowering kind of the proximity factor in the algorithm so that you can get past that you need to break past it somehow. And that takes massive power.
Bradley: Jeff says I have three brands and related real estate niches. We Buy Houses real estate agents and discounted property marketplace, would it be beneficial to associate these brands using links between the sites or is it better to keep them completely separate? If it’s all the same brand? You know, then yeah, I would absolutely encourage you to interlink those guys like got guys branding is so important now and authority and entity authority is so important. Again, we’re going to be covering part of that tomorrow. The mg Why be a webinar about syndication networks, um, but so my point is that
Guys, you know, we used to always think we always had to hide footprints, but I’m telling you, you know, spammy footprints, yes, but if you have a brand, but you’ve got it spread across three different websites, because they’re there, they’re related, but yet they’re separate services. And I get what you’re saying, right? You’ve got a, a website for sellers. In other words for you to acquire properties for seller p property owners to come to you that says, Yes, come by my property, right. For motivated sellers, I get all that, then you have one that is for real estate agents, obviously. And then the last one would be for where you’re selling properties that you’ve acquired, right, so that now you’re the owners, and you’re looking to sell or to flip properties. I get that, well, if it’s all the same brand, I can understand having three separate websites, but yes, I would absolutely interlink those, because, again, it’s just, you know, it makes sense. It’s logical. It’s all the same brand. It’s not, in my opinion, there’s nothing spammy about that. Because you’re you’re essentially the same brand and you’re just letting Google know hey, this is my Buying site is my real estate agent site. And this is my selling site. But we’re all the same brand. And in my opinion, that’s going to give you a boost because Google’s going to see it that way. Right? So for example, with some of my multi-location lead generation assets, you think that I would say, Oh, no, you want to keep all of your assets separate. But if it’s for a, a brand, if they’re all for one brand, not pseudo brands, but an actual bona fide brand, I linked those now, like, and I do, because it really does help create a bigger footprint in this case, it’s a beneficial footprint, not one that’s going to harm you. Does that make sense? and Marco, do you want to add to that?
Marco: No, I thought that was great.
Bradley: Okay. Yeah, I would absolutely do that, Jeff. You know, as I said, I’ve got some projects I’m working on where I’ve seen an absolute benefit from doing that. Again, if you’re not doing anything spammy with those three sites, like on page spam stuff, then there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be interlinking those and because again, that’s just going to continue to further validate that entity. Right.
Bradley: Yeah, and I’m actually working on a very similar project, Jeff, that I’ll be revealing in the mastermind in the coming weeks. That would be right up your alley, very closely related to kind of what you’re doing here. So I’m actually really anxious to talk about it now. But I can’t I’m not going to yet. But that’s something that in the coming weeks, I’m going to be revealing, like some stuff that I’ve been working on it. And so I think that’ll it’ll be really helpful for you as well. So we’ll talk about that in the mastermind. PoFU. Okay, that must have been well.
Marco: I wonder who that is? Yeah.
Bradley: It must have been Marco.
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Fit says how would you get the many different versions of a YouTube channel URL? Um, well, there’s I know there’s one we had a mastermind member who a remember I don’t he has. I think he’s not with us anymore. But no, yes. Yes. He Yes. He shared it out in our mastermind. And that’s the only way that I’m going to share this with you right now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I wasn’t going to share it. But he created a Google Sheet or Excel sheet. I think it was a Google Sheet that you would just post the URL and it would spit it like and it would convert it to all the versions of that URL for YouTube, which was like dozens and dozens of them was ridiculous, but I know there’s software’s out there that will do that too. Probably. You can find them nine two, I would just do some searches pits Google searches, it’s likely that you’ll find like a script in a black hat forum or something like that, that you can use that will convert it. You just paste in a URL and it’ll spit out all the different results. Damon Nelson had something called Vid Penguin was that that was a funny name, but I think it was Vid Penguin. And it did exactly what you’re talking about. And then it would also create an RSS feed out of the videos and like do some other stuff. But I don’t know if he still supports that product or what but it’s, I know that it did exactly what you’re asking about. Okay, check that out.
Bradley: Okay, um, let’s see, Toby. Where’s the live Hump Day? Is this not live? should be.
Adam: Yeah, we’re good videos.
Paul’s up. In Syndication Academy you say the workaround for G Plus is the HTML page as a data hub to replace you. Plus, my question is, would you make the HTML page a single page that includes the ad ID? And all that’s included on it? Or would you break it up into s3 or into three or four s3 pages interlinked with jump links to each other? Or have just two HTML pages, one for social properties? And then IP and the other is the ad ID page. Ideally, which option? Really, that’s just a personal preference. Um, you know, I would probably have two separate pages for that, like, in other words, have one it’s just that would, what I would what I would do is have one that would be specifically just for like, like a social hub where it doesn’t have all the iframe embeds only because that one would be like, it would load quicker, it would be one that I would just have the NTP listed. And then maybe like it would be like essentially a resource for all of the syndication network properties as well as other web to auto-properties. I mean, again, it’s syndication Academy, you know that we encourage going out and creating a web to Dotto profiles, even ones that you can’t syndicate to because those are like social citations. That’s essentially what they are. And especially if you take the time to fill out the profile and complete it, put a nice description in interlink when and when and where available. Put branding on the correct branding, as well as graphics, you know, the same logo images and header images where you can, all of that stuff really does make a difference, you know.
So, we, you know, we’ve encouraged to do that. The point is, is to catalog all of those, put them in one location shit, you can put them in a G sheet that you make public and then hammer that out with links, you know, there are things that you can do. My point is, you could do that with an S three page, the one that’s just a clean page that would list all of where you’re located like you but I’d still put an AP on there. If it’s for a local business. I’d also you know, maybe do you know, list all of the different profiles and make sure that they’re linked to those profiles, and just go in and update it as you add new profiles. But then I would still have the ad ID page. Separate because of that
Something again, it loads slow. That’s strictly an SEO thing. The profile page could actually be something that I would publish in places if that makes sense. That’s what I would do, Paul. Okay. And again, I was talking about using just the ad ID page as the G Plus replacement. But as you have a project that builds up more and more profiles, I really would separate the two because the one like I said, could literally be like a public site, that one that you promote in places, I wouldn’t necessarily do that with the ad ID page. Because you know, the pages look can look spammy. And because the iframe is they load slow shit sometimes, especially the more iframe you stack into it. And that can create issues. It’s again, that’s an SEO tactic. All right.
All right. We’re just about done. We’re almost out of time. Anyways, so.
Okay, well, looks like we’re done. So hope everybody enjoyed it. We will see. Some of you are hopefully all of you at the MTV webinar update webinar tomorrow. It’s also going to double as the syndication Academy update webinar but 30 minutes of training about syndication networks and in 30 minutes of questions and answers. What time is that up brother 4:30 pm. Eastern. Awesome. Alright, everybody and links on the page and I’m going to put the links in the Video Lead Gen System. If you’re looking to fill your pipeline without cold calling, that’s the way you want to do it. And especially right now where you can get a sweet nice discount since Bradley just did this big update to it.
Awesome. All right. Do we have a couple of minutes before we go? Adam and you’re Yeah, I’m familiar with it too. But what’s your average opening rate without the video? lead gen system? Man, this is kind of embarrassing on two counts like one. It’s been a while since I haven’t done that. So I don’t recall exactly, but it was a hell of a lot lower. I mean, I the number I quote was because I was like, You know what, I never kept great stats on this. I’m going to go look it up. And I was actually shocked the industry average like Well, sorry, across industries is under 1%.
It’s under 1%. I can say that when I was doing it. I was at around 1.75 or some shit like I hate cold calling and I hate it for that reason because it’s like you have to be, I don’t know, rejection, rejection proof, almost, because you’re going to be rejected almost 99% of the time. And so that kind of, it sucks it if you’re trying to do that, and you’re trying to generate clients, and you’re trying to keep clients in the pipeline, but you have to reach out to 100 to get, you know, one, one and a half 1.75 or whatever your averages for whatever industry, which is ridiculous. So, so think about doing it that way. Versus Yeah, I don’t know if you’re going to get that to 30 or 40. Bradley has it home then. That’s what he’s teaching. And if you work it enough, I know that you can get that or better. But man, if you can get a 20 your, what, 200 times above industry average. Come on, man, that that’s like that’s a no brainer.
They’re always going to call you back or scheduled call via your Calendy app or opt-in or whatever your call to action is your conversion goal is it doesn’t mean they’re going to take action. But what it does is you can use the email tracking app to determine which ones are the most engaged with your message. And then you follow up with them more again, Adams got a little order bump that talks about follow up as part of the funnel for this, this product. That is absolutely true. Don’t one and done it, guys. If you send a message and you see that they’ve engaged with your landing page or your video, depending on how you haven’t set up I recommend the landing page. And they don’t reply, don’t give up on them. Send them another email, send them another email. And that’s the thing. When you see that you can set up email, activity tracking and notifications so that you can get notified when they click the link. So you know, when they’re when they have seen your video, they’ve gone to your landing page. That is the very best time to follow up. Follow up with the phone call. If you’re not afraid to or follow up with the follow-up email and say right
Alright, guys, we’ll see you all next week or tomorrow on July be webinar and do I be there. I’ll be everyone. Bye, everybody.
In episode 220 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked if one needs to use separate YouTube accounts when using Hangout Millionaire to upload the same video to different channels.
The exact question was:
If I use a tool like Hangout Millionaire to upload the same video to different YT channels, is that safe enough, or do they need to be separate YT Accounts?
In episode 229 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if there is a way to check keyword rankings by bulk.
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Is there a way to check keyword rankings by bulk?
In episode 220 of the weekly Hump Day Hangouts by Semantic Mastery, one viewer asked for the difference between the GMB Post Scheduler and Briefcase plans in MGYB.
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Going to post this in FB GMB group too but thought it might be helpful for others outside of that group.
I’m not quite understanding the application differences for the GMB Post Scheduler and the Briefcase plans inside MGYB…
My immediate need: I have 4 separate GMB properties right now I’d like to auto post to. In other words, set up roughly 30 posts for each entity and let the poster run. Then do the same each month. 1 post per day 5 days a week in each property.
It seems the $20 a month Post Scheduler program would work for now. But what or how is the Briefcase plan used in comparison? I guess I’m trying to be clear on advantages to each.
In episode 229 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked how to choose a name for a local lead gen YouTube channel.
The exact question was:
Hello everyone,
I want to create a Youtube channel for a local business lead gen.
Can you please show an example of the right way to choose a name for the channel and for the company?It should be just “”city + industry””?
Or it better to make up a brand name for that?And also, It is good to include the exact keyword in each title name of every social network like Tumblr and google site?
Thanks a lot!
In episode 220 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if the Semantic Mastery team recommends using the deep link interlinking tool from Ultimate SEO Plus to silo a data center facility architect site with 650 blogs.
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Inherited a non-siloed site (Data Center Facility Architect) that has 650 blogs on it. Traditionally, I like BOTH hard and linked silo structures. However, the thought of even having one of my staff categorizing each blog to /%category%/%title% and 301 redirecting all those gives me tired head. If you were me, would you just use Ultimate SEO Plus’ deep interlinking tool and just link the keywords as they occur in all those blogs to the appropriate Service Page when possible? (Granted, it means a single blog might link to two different service pages…tensile siloing not clean siloing). #onpage
In episode 229 of the weekly Hump Day Hangouts by Semantic Mastery, one viewer asked about recommended tools that scrape business directory listing and job advertisements.
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sorry me again, any tools you can recommend to scrape business directory listing/job adverts/ that’s easy to use and doesn’t have a big learning curve? many thanks, gentleman
In episode 220 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if one can syndicate content from YouTube or RSS feed for both self-hosted and wordpres.com blog using the same IFTTT account.
The exact question was:
For any applets that deal with any service publishing to wordpress. Is it possible for me to have an applet that gets triggered by my youtube channel uploading a video, or an update in an rss feed…that will post to a wordpress.com blog AND a self hosted wordpress blog that I host myself? I can only seem to find one ‘service’ for both of them? IE do I need to set up a 2nd ifttt account to be triggered and push content to my self hosted wordpress blog if my first account triggers and pushes content to my wordpress.com blog?Thanks
In episode 229 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked some recommendations on directory style plugins and themes for WordPress.
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hey guys, Have you got any recommendations for a directory style plugin or WP theme? many thanks
In episode 220 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked what long tail keywords are and why one should target them.
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I know this might sound dumb, but I keep hearing people say I should target long tail key words…but I want to rank for a keyword like credit card rewards (not really that). What exactly is a long tail keyword and why should I be targeting them?
In the 229th episode of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if service areas and NAP address set in GMB causes negative SEO from Google.
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GMB- will having both service areas set and business NAP address set in GMB cause a filter or negative SEO from Google? If service area only, then use one single city point or surrounding city points for maps listing?
In episode 220 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked how to fix formatting issues when republishing content from RSS to Blogger via IFTTT?
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Hi guys, I keep missing the live event for one reason or another. And for some reason, the Humpday videos between episode 211 and 219 are not on youtube.
So if you have answered this question before I apologise.
I have been using IFTTT to republish posts from my WordPress based blog RSS onto my Blogger account. I was surprised to see only the article title appear on Blogger with no content.
I looked into the Blogger content to find obscure div styles copied in from the WordPress page builder that Blogger could not read. As a result, Blogger is not publishing the article content.
Any ideas how to work around this. ? Thanks in advance.
ps. I don’t even know if this is the right place for questions to get answered on the show. Please, can someone copy it into the right place if not?
Keep on making Google your bitch!
In episode 229 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked if one should geotag GMB photos based from different service locations they were taken or should you always use the business address.
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Should photos for GMB be geotagged from different service locations they were taken from or always the business address? What’s the better SEO?
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Hernan: Hey, everybody, welcome to Hump Day hangouts episode hold on episode 232 My name is Adam Moody. I’m reading the script that has just said and it’s pretty cool to have you guys here. Today’s the 17th of April and this is looking good. So I’m just going to go and you know in honor to or beloved Adam and Secretary which will be going to be missing on this episode. I’m going to be saying hi to everyone on the list as I see them. What’s up, Marco?
Marco: Oh, I’m first Holy fuck the Latinos first today.
Hernan: Yeah, man.
Marco: We always end up in the back of the bus, but here I am, man. I got a little bit of a cold but I’m still enjoying the beautiful weather. So that’s life. You know, life sucks sometimes. Yeah.
Hernan: How about you Bradley? How’s everything man?
Bradley: I’m happy man I’m happy to be here. Things are good. So yeah, we got a very few questions on the new chat app guys we really apologize about that piece of shit Facebook app that we had on here for two weeks and it got every everybody that commented last week apparently got their Facebook account locked. It was nuts. And anyway, I apologize for that we had no idea was going to be like that I got my I got locked out of my account, or non did Marco did. Several of our mastermind members. It was Wow. Anyways, we apologize, we had no idea something like that was going to happen. That’s why we got this new one on there that looks kind of funky. But it’s kind of cool because it I mean, we’re going to find out if it’s cool or not. It looks old school as hell but it does give us the ability to post gifts and you can sign in and create an account so that you can actually put your image there which I recommend you guys do so that we know who we’re talking to. But if you want to stay anonymous that just use the use it without logging and that’s up to you. But anyway, so moving on. Hopefully, this will be satisfactory. We’ll see.
Hernan: Yeah, yeah, it sounds good man. So we have some people putting Jeff’s or gifts already. That’s pretty cool. So a couple of things that we usually do. If you’re new to semantic mastery, welcome, good to have you here. Don’t forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel. If you want to know more about how we do things, you can go to semantic mastery calm for a slash hump day to be notified every time we go live. And you can come and ask your questions. This is free 100% free. We’ve been doing this for the past seven or five years. And it’s been awesome. So thank you for being here. And if you’re not new to semantic mastery, thank you, thank you for the support. This is awesome. Don’t forget to if you want to step by step repeatable system to you know, rank your websites whatever those are local websites, new websites, age websites, go to Battle Plan out semantic mastery calm and get the battle plan and if you’re ready to join a group of people that are growing their local marketing agencies and whatnot, come to the mastermind which is mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for all of your done for you premium done for you with SEO services with the stamp of approval of semantic mastery don’t accept second options go to em gee, Why be the SEO and you will have everything that you will ever need for your you know, delivering needs because you shouldn’t be doing the link building you should be growing your agency that makes sense. So those are the announcements I think I nailed it. I might have something I’m going to paste Now I need to copy and paste some stuff on the thing so so yeah, there was we got I guess,
Bradley: Let me tease what you’re doing tomorrow or non so that you don’t have to toot your own horn. We got, we’ve been doing kind of a series in the mastermind. We’re probably going to end up launching a product around it anyways, but it’s Pay Per Click marketing for local and how to get results. We had a course that I produced about two, maybe two and a half years ago now called Local Kingpin. And it was specifically for using Google AdWords obviously, it’s now Google ads, but formerly Google AdWords for setting up lead gen assets and dry and using, you know, producing leads for local businesses, either on a client basis or even on a lead gen basis where you’re selling leads. And that worked really well. But the Google Ads dash dashboard, the whole platform has evolved a lot in the last two and a half years, considerably. And, you know, Google Ads themselves for search ads, excuse me, so search ads are rather expensive, you can still be profitable with that. There’s no question but it’s fucking expensive. So I’ve actually gotten away from using search ads and get more into using display ads and YouTube ads and remarketing obviously, and it works really well because the display ads are the display ad platform is so much better than it used to be. And you know, years ago when I had developed the local kingpin training
It’s a square version and rectangular version for each. And then you get to add up to five short headlines, one long headline and then up to five descriptions. So and there’s, you know, character limits for each. But then what Google does is Google will create responsive display ads out of just the images that you upload it to just regular photos will work or graphics, either one and then will automatically start rotating through your various headlines and descriptions to find out which gets the highest click through as an engagement. And then it will start to auto-optimize the campaign and start serving the ads that are the combinations that performed the best more and more often. And so it’s so much easier to set up a campaign now. And although obviously, display ads don’t convert nearly as well as like search ads do, it’s a fraction of the cost guys, and with the audience targeting that Google Display Network has now or Google has period. They have what they call in market audiences and life event audiences and you can even create custom intent audiences.
is now based on keywords which are really cool. I just started playing with that actually. And so if you go and find the you know in the in the in the in-market audience targeting settings if you can go in and find an end market audience for the businesses that you’re generating leads for then those tend to be very good and like for me for contractors typically a the average cost per click runs between anywhere between about 85 cents to $1 50. So somewhere in that range depending on what type of contractor it is that I’m generating leads for. And so that’s a fraction of the cost it just for it’s just quickly for some perspective here, for roofing leads, for example, it could in some of the areas that I do SEO work and generate leads for roofers of roofing. A click for search ads for roofing type keywords can cost 35 to $40 per click. And you know, typically an average conversion rate is somewhere anywhere between 32
40% right, so you’re talking about three clicks to get one lead at $35 per click, that’s $105 per lead. That, to me is incredibly expensive. But with those, if you can there in the market audience targeting, you can actually see that there are a roofing odd Roofing Services in the market audience, and you can use that for display ads. And maybe this says you pay $1 per click will just use a nice round number. And it might be a 10% conversion rate as opposed to 30 or even a 5% conversion rate, which means you need 20 clicks to get one lead, but 20 clicks at $1 to get one lead guy think about that as 20 bucks per lead as opposed to 100 bucks per lead when you’re using search ads. So keep that in mind and that’s for cold traffic. But also for remarketing purposes. Like honestly, if you’re not using remarketing in you’re doing Client Services, you’re nuts because it’s just an inexpensive way to get additional traffic back to
The site and even if that traffic doesn’t convert a lot, a lot of it will, but doesn’t convert into leads. It’s a great branding tool to help that business to gain brand recognition so that people will think of them and go search for their brand name when it’s time for them to need their product or service because they’re constantly reminded of that business. So, long story short,
we’re going to work we’ve been doing a series of training inside the mastermind about using Google ads for Local Lead Generation, not search ads, but display ads and YouTube ads and remarketing ads. And tomorrow Hernan being the Facebook marketing expert that he is, he’s coming into the mastermind to do a full training on how to use Facebook ads for Local Lead Generation. And then we’re actually going to probably be packaging all that up over the next 60 to 90 days at some point and then launching that as a separate product as kind of an update to local kingpin, but we’re going to rebrand it because it’s really going to be a whole new course. Did you guys lose me?
Hernan: No
Average and that’s on the low side. So there’s, there’s effectively we have been moving the needle real hard. He’s super happy Of course because he’s growing. He’s expanding locations and whatnot, and some of the stuff that we were able to implement for him. We will be talking about tomorrow on the mastermind, so it’s going to be pretty cool. Yeah, awesome. Yeah. Alright, so the last thing we’re going to tease before we get into questions, which we were kind of just hoping that more questions would fill in this chat box anyways, uh, we’ve got video lead gen system
to Dotto really is launching next week, next Tuesday. As a matter of fact, we’re going to talk about it well, the first part of next week’s webinar, Hump Day hangouts is going to be where we’re going to, you know, kind of get into some detail about what it’s about and all that because I completely updated it so that still the old training is there, the old method, which I did for years, but over the last several months, I’ve been really redeveloping that method to make it more streamlined and efficient, something that a lot of it can be outsourced, but also just to make it to where, even if you were doing this yourself like, you know, managing the all of the video lead gen or video email campaigns on your own, I don’t recommend that. But if a lot of people still going to do it on their own anyway, it’s a lot more efficient now to where what used to take roughly 20 to 30 minutes per video email to send out. Now what will take you just two to three minutes No kidding, there’s there will be a setup period on the front end where you can’t get into the method here, there’ll be a setup period where it might take you an hour to get everything set up. But then from there for every prospect you want to mail to, it’s literally two to three minutes. And that’s it. And so it’s a hell of a lot more efficient. And I’ve tested a lot of different follow-up methods from that as well to once you are notified of engagement and I talked about all of this in the training and found several different methods that work really well to the kind of get the conversation going and stuff and so I go into great detail. It’s basically a whole new course but you’re still going to get the original version, as well as the Everything’s under
The same membership site now. So there’s the original version, which still works, but it’s a bit more time-consuming. And then there’s the newer version that can be applied to pretty much any sort of marketing service I use specifically one, were really two types of methods for monetizing it. In the examples and in the training, I talked about how to use it for monetizing lead gen assets. And then I also talked about for client services, if you’re just doing outreach for clients instead of lead generation service providers. Then, you know, there’s a method I talked about specifically optimizing GMB stuff, but it can be modified or an applied to pretty much any sort of service that you offer. So if you’re a digital marketer does Facebook ads like her non for example, you could still use the video lead gen system, you just obviously are going to talk about how you can get results with Facebook as opposed to how you can get results with Google My Business. So any of you guys one of the things that we do is we surveyed you guys on a consistent basis to find out what what-what our audience needs, and something that comes up all the time is client getting right? securing clients and that kind of stuff. And so that’s really what this was all about. It’s so that you guys can go out and least get the conversation started. It’s not sales training. I’m not real good at sales unless I got a referral, like been referral but as far as getting the conversation going for prospecting, it’s an outstanding way to do it’s very unique, you’ll get a lot of responses that way. And then it’s really going to be up to you to present your offer in such a way that you close the client, you know what I mean? Or the prospect at that point. So anyways, be on the lookout for that guys. Next week, we’re going to do like we typically have done in the past, which is a limited offer on the front end for 24 hours and then the price will go up. And that’s typically how we do that. So be on the lookout for that next week.
Okay, anything else?
I think we’re good.
Alright, cool. Let’s get into questions. Alright, so with our 1989 looking chat box, which kind of cool though. Let’s get into it will start at the top
KT says what are your thoughts on keyword research ninja? I have no thoughts on it whatsoever I’ve never used it I really don’t use any keyword research tools anymore other than Power Suggest Pro, Google AdWords you know, the Google Ads keyword planner for because I still do PPC stuff. And then we have our own in-house keyword research product that is like anytime you need keywords, that’s, you know, our go-to source now is MGYB? We have the keyword research done over there because it takes hours to compile a good list of keywords. Really, you can spend hours doing that and organizing the keywords into silos and you know, proper themes and that kind of stuff. And that’s what our, you know, our product on keyword research is specifically it’s you know, our assistant or employee that does all of that have access to multiple tools, SEM Rush, Power Suggest Pro, you know, all different kinds of tools that she uses to actually develop these reports and puts them into silos and all that kind of stuff. So different type of intent keywords, commercial intent, informational queries, that kind of stuff. So it just makes it super easy. So honestly, I can’t give you an opinion on any of those keyword tools because I just don’t use them. It just requires too much time in my opinion. And I’d rather outsource that or use a simple tool when I’m going to do it myself such as Power Suggest Pro. Marco or anybody else wants to comment on any of those.
Bradley: Yeah. And again, it’s the amount of time that goes into that, you know, I got away from doing it myself because it just takes too much time. Especially to Oregon. Like it’s easy to spit out a bunch of keywords with a tool but to organize them in proper themes, you know, and basically silos and that kind of stuff and intent type people words like that’s yet I mean, as far as I know, that’s manual. I don’t know tools that actually do that maybe keyword research and into does that. I don’t know, I don’t even look at tools like that anymore. So, unfortunately, I can’t give you a good answer to that.
Gordon’s up he says thank you very much again for the help you provide on hump days. You’re welcome. He says he when setting up a multi-city local lead gen site you have advised in the past few subdomains of the main domain for each city instead of using a page under the main domain. When using pages, I know that the SEO juice can be spread among all the city pages, but when using subdomains is the SEO just spread among all the subdomains to help each other one rank met each one rank better, or does each subdomain stand on its own for SEO purposes? Well, it’s a little of both Gordon because, again, a subdomain is treated as a separate entity by Google right. But there is the parent domain being the root domain. So you can the way I always looked at it was subdomains and other subdomains of the same root domain are called siblings, sibling domains, right and the parent domain being the root.
And so what happens is each one of the subdomains or sibling domains are their own standalone sites, which is good for protection purposes. And that’s what we’ve talked about. That’s the reason why I’ve always done that. Now, it’s funny because I really don’t do anything spammy anymore, at least not to the actual money sites. So I can probably get away with just doing the inner pages, but it’s still allowed. You’re still a, you know, and that it doesn’t mean that what we do right now, doesn’t couldn’t be considered spammy tomorrow, because we don’t work for Google. Right. And so even though I’ve never really had, at least for several years now, I haven’t had any issues with getting sites deindexed or penalize. I’ve always kept using subdomains specifically to minimize risk, right to reduce exposure, so to speak. Because as I’ve said before, if you put all of your location pages on the root, so their inner pages, right, and if you catch a penalty against any one of those pages, it could pull the whole site down and all of your other location pages.
Although again, as I said, the methods that we teach, haven’t knock on wood, they haven’t created any penalties that I’m aware of, for any of my own stuff, as well as any of our students, okay, that I’m aware of. And so you could probably get away with doing it on inner pages for management purposes, that would be much easier for there’s no doubt because you’d all you’d have just one site to manage. That said, though, just keep in mind that that’s putting all of your eggs in one basket. So if Google decides to take that basket, or destroy one of the eggs in that basket, it could very well hurt all the others as well. So back to the original question, a subdomain is kind of a standalone site in that if a subdomain was to catch a penalty, for some reason or another, it would only affect that subdomain, the route would be left intact would remain healthy and all of the other sibling domains or subdomains would also remain healthy, untouched, essentially, from that penalty that’s been levied against that one subdomain. So it’s isolates any potential penalty problems. However, if you were to catch a penalty against the root domain, it would automatically apply to all of the child domains or subdomains. Does that make sense? So that’s why we all I’ve done that in the past was to always protect the root against all odds, right? Protect the root. And then if I was going to do anything spammy, it would be on a subdomain level. And that was specifically for that reason.
However, what you can do is in this is something I’ve actually been testing recently, but I don’t have enough time passed to see in fact, I just talked about this on the last mastermind webinar, so 13 days ago, actually, about how to use subdomains and the root domain in conjunction to kind of power it up. And I can’t give away the the the method here because it can’t do that because it’s kind of an extension of something that we teach in our paid courses. But there is a way to still use somebody domains and use the root domain to kind of help power up the subdomains, with inner pages without doing anything that could catch it catch up a penalty to your route. But again, you know, as far as does the subdomains benefit each other, yes, it may not be quite as a quick effect or, or might not be as effective as inner pages. But here’s the thing, every one of those subdomains are still attached to the root, right. So again, the root domain being the parent domain is going to benefit now, you guys know we don’t talk. We don’t care much about metrics. We stopped caring about proprietary third-party metrics several years ago, but let’s just use one as an example because a lot of you guys will understand it this way. Let’s just use domain authority Moz’s metric and page authority is an example okay?
So, anyway, I can’t get into any more further of that, honestly, because I will be giving away too much. Come join the mastermind and will tell you all about it. So, Marco, do you want to comment on that at all or Hernan?
Marco: Now, just to validate a little bit what you’re talking about on domains, we see that domain subdomain. We see that when we do drive stacks, and we add additional folders and files, right? The more you add the more power that as you say, a cruise and I call it power. I don’t give a shit about domain authority or trust flow. I don’t give a crap about any of that its power. And so the more that you do have whatever it is that you’re doing inside the drive stack, the more power that you pushing through, and the more power that ends up wherever it is that you got that drives tech game. That’s why they work so well. Yeah. And so the more work that you do inside, the more keywords that you target, whether it’s keyword plus location or service, whatever it is that you’re doing.
You do more of it inside your drive stack. And before you know it, I mean, it’s just pushing tons of power wherever it is that you want to go. And we’ve seen people live from case studies that they even get an empty folder to rank before anything else rank. So it’s crazy the amount of power that you can do in this method, whether you’re doing it at the TL D and subdomain level or at the drive stack and G site level. Right?
So if it says it says good day Semantic Mastery team thanks for this form to ask questions and get real answers. When optimizing the site, I framed Twitter the area stays blank with no message saying it won’t connect. Is that still okay? All right. I don’t do much Twitter stuff. But I know that if you just take a Twitter URL, tweet URL, a Twitter profile, URL, whatever and try to use an iframe create generator that it won’t show you have to go into Twitter developers and actually generate an embed code for it which you can do with like your timeline, tweets and stuff. So for example, you can take a Twitter profile and go to
The developers, I think it’s developers.twitter.com or something like that just do a Google search, you’ll see what I mean. And you can ask you, or even just go to Google and search, how do you create or embed a Twitter feed? And that’s what you would? Again, I don’t do much Twitter stuff. But if I was going to try, and I haven’t, so I haven’t tested it with G sites, guys, but you could probably it’s probably you’re using the wrong type of embed code. And that’s why it’s not displaying is what I’m saying. If you go generate the correct proper embed code from the Twitter developers site, or whatever, whatever it is, again, I don’t do much Twitter stuff, just like you can, you know, I recently I built Believe it or not, I built some PB ends recently because I was testing. I don’t use PB ends. Often guys, I very rarely use them. But I did build a few that I was testing and somebody product actually. And one of the things that they required was that you had made the site look, you know, very real. So one of the things that asked for was embedding a Twitter feed, so I had some persona profiles from some older since networks that I had built that had Twitter profiles with, you know, updates. And so I just had I had, that’s how I learned to go build this little embed code. And that’s a Twitter feed in bed, that you have to go to the developers console and sign into that account. And then you create it that way. And it gives you the specific embed code for that Twitter feed. So it’s probably that you’re using the wrong one. Now, I could be wrong guys. Because like said, I don’t do much of that stuff with Twitter at all. But I’m pretty sure if you’re trying to use just an iframe generator with a Twitter profile or something like that, it’s going to be blank, it’s going to not work.
Now, the next part of that question is, can you iframe in a Facebook business page? As far as I know, no, I Facebook has iframe breakers that won’t allow you to embed them anywhere using any sort of tool. If anybody has a different answer please speak up.
Bradley: Yeah, I know. There are some like plugins and stuff that will allow you to embed a or you know, display a Facebook page. But it actually Yes, you have to connect it via API and all that kind of stuff like, so there are WordPress plugins that will do that. But as far as just an embed code from Facebook, I don’t think that’s possible. Once again, I don’t do much Facebook stuff. So I couldn’t tell you with all certainty, but I can I know that, like, if you try to just take a Facebook URL, and iframe it, it won’t it all, it will never display anywhere. I’ve never seen that ever work. So you have to use stuff that connects via API or authorize or what are they called Facebook apps or whatever. We actually create all that shit in order just to get even a Facebook page to show in like a widget area on a website.
Hernan: Um, so yeah, and they’re even more like they’re, they’re even more like restrictive with all of the privacy stuff that they’re going through. So that you may want to consider so.
Bradley: yeah, and then you try to iframe or when you try to embed a Facebook comments app you see what happens the previous couple on the Hangouts that and I get it I guess that’s because people can act that shit so right cool we’re going to keep moving. This chat is already thousand better than anything before devices that is cool thanks to Vaughn I’m glad you guys liked it for a bus the new battle call right revert I think that’s one of the guests says get repeatable oh that’s you that was you that’s maybe a farm setting up by a cat gotcha well mines Bradley hmm feisty forehead motherfucker in charge just in case you guys wondered what that was all about.
Bradley: The humanoid says Marco I have an RYS Drive stack order pending and creating an RYS stack I have my syndication network complete in my see when creating a try so that I have my syndication network completed my GMB URL done. would it add more value when I have you build my RYS stacks. Thank you will thank you will
I know that was directed to Marco I’m gonna put my two cents in first before Marco answers. And if you already have your syndication network all your profile URLs to become target URLs as well. guys remember it’s just kind of about it’s just like internal linking right with your syndication network. It’s there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be powering up your tier one assets as well. So if you have all of that I would actually absolutely include those but Marco, that’s more question for you.
Marco: Yeah, I’m thinking that he wants to know if he should have the team, put them into the bill, by all means, that that’s your tier one branded, it should be included and then So when did he get the spreadsheet to hit with link building. That’s what’s going to get hit your tier one branded your GMB and everything that’s inside that drive stack. So yes, by all means, have at it, and you’re going to see some really good results. I’ve been getting a bunch of testimony.
By the way of about people having to build links to their dry stacks and then the drive stacks just going crazy. Yeah once they get some the link building done so yes have added the same thing with the ad ID page. I’ve done some testing with that and just and that’s what I loved about it. It’s one of the easiest methods because all you gotta do is go submit link building gig order to you know, I wouldn’t say to just anybody but Daddy has got it down to a science and just taking like the ad ID the iframe loop stuff that we’ve talked about and again our paid courses and almost all of them it’s available that that just works really well and again, that’s just what that magic of I frames and when you combine that with Dr. stacks or even dr stacks alone, but that’s part of it because of you know, iframe in that gets done in the site, everything else so it’s just incredibly powerful. And just hitting those that’s the beautiful thing about it guys is you know, the daddy has link building pack service which is in MYB, right? They’re still spam links, but he’s good at what he does. He’s a pro, he’s a professional, there’s no doubt and because of that, he knows how to make it really effective. And then when you use something like Google assets as the target or Amazon domain as the primary target, then it can take that kind of abuse like you can hammer away at it, and it can take it and filter it like a champ. In fact, it just kind of powers it up. Now, it’s not something that I would ever direct to the money site, but you can do you know what I mean, but you can do it two very powerful tier one assets, which is why we developed the way that we do so that’s why we don’t even use VPN, who needs a pbn? When we can use Google and Amazon assets to create the same effect and then you spam links as opposed to and I call them spam and everybody who want to do spam. But guys, I mean, that’s what link building tools do they create spam links, you can call them whatever you want. That’s really what they are. Right and so pbn links are technically spammed links to you might be buying links from you know, a domain that has good metrics, but unless it’s super well themed and all that they’re typically spam links anyways, you know what I mean? So it’s just it’s about how you use them and what you point them at. And so we recommend doing it the way that you know, at least our method we use our method for specifically for a reason. It’s efficient, and it works well. Right.
All right old school, like daddy says, will it be set up like this tomorrow? Hernan? What’s tomorrow?
Hernan: The webinar? webinar or mastermind? Yeah, now it’s gonna be on a mastermind. Yeah. It’ll be in the regular mastermind.
Bradley: Jim, think that’s when? Yeah, just the regular master the live mastermind webinar page, just like we’ve always been doing over there. I we haven’t had any problems with that over there. Now it’s in the bond site. Yeah, right. The membership site, right.
I blue panda whoever that is, is hey guys hope this Jeff Oh, what the hell? That’s the same as what we had before. Maybe not okay. Hey, guys hope this chat function works better than this. That piece of shit Facebook jet cheese. Yeah. Or Geez, you’re right. That was terrible. Okay, onto my question. I have a list for my niche that is big enough to send 1000 emails per day for over a year. Wow. This is simply a law of big numbers campaign for my client. These will be a one time blast. Either they respond or they don’t and the next class goes out the next day what would be the best way to approach a list of this size style of sending? I don’t know I’ve never spammed at that level before. Spam demon.
And that’s exactly what you’re doing. So the best person to answer that question is unfortunately not here. That’s Chris, our partner, Chris, he, he’s been doing that kind of work for four years. He can give you the best advice on that. But he’s not here. I’m sorry, he’s traveling. Yeah, the only thing I would know to say is that make sure that you have plenty of sending from domain email account. So in other words, making sure that you’ve got several many, many, many different email account setup, you know, that you can send from because you’re probably going to burn every single account that you send from like, almost every day.
I don’t know for sure, because it depends on how clean your list is. But typically, when you’re sending out mass emails like that, from a particular account, especially 1000 per day, you have to have accounts that have developed some sort of reputation for or else when you go to hit send on 1000 emails from an account that’s not really seasoned. It will you know, the is the internet search or email service providers will throttle those accounts and not the inbox. You know a bunch of them and also with people will start hitting the spam button which it’s likely if they were unsolicited emails, you will get a lot of people hitting the spam button, it will flag that particular domain account for or domain email excuse me for spam and so it will like they’ll just stop unboxing her nine you were going to comment? Yeah, yeah,
I agree with you. What I was about to say is that if you want to, you know, reach out to Chris just post in the Facebook group and maybe take him I don’t know if blue pen is on the mastermind group. Yeah, if you’re in the mastermind, we could get to it. You know, Chris will give you a lot of help out there. Otherwise, you could try it in the free Facebook group and I don’t know how much he’ll reveal about something like that there. But yeah, that’s the only problem like guys I talked about this a few weeks ago, but you know, I got I’ve unsubscribed from just about every single marketing list that I’m I’ve ever been on.
Over the last several months, because I decided to get really focused and you know, buying shiny objects and getting pitched new training, you know, methods and stuff like that all the time was really, and I, you know, there’s they’re kind of happens in cycles. I know a lot of you guys we’ve I’ve talked with a lot of our mastermind members over the last several months I do calls now with, you know, one on one calls with mastermind members, as a new member, you get a one on one call with one of us. And then every quarter or so I try to open up the ability to have another 30 minute call with me so I can kind of help you know, find out more about people in our mastermind and what struggles are going through and offer some guidance and and and, you know, 90 days to six months and three to six months, I have another call with them, find out if they made any progress, and they’re going to have new issues at that point. So one of the things that I’ve heard a lot through those calls without calling anybody out is that, you know, constantly being bombarded with different opportunities. And that’s because we’re all marketers, right? And so we’ve gone out and been signed up for whatever ours, which puts us on email list or we bought products, which puts us on email lists. And the next thing you know, we get hammered and you guys can all relate I’m sure you get hammered and hammered and hammered all the time with solicitation offers for training or for software or tools or services and all that kind of stuff. And you know,
I found that although they may be interesting and sometimes entertaining to go like watch webinars or to go check out the new sales page of the new tool that or software or WordPress plugin or whatever the hell it is, that typically just distracts from making any progress a real progress in my business and you know, over the years I’ve gone up and down with that, you know, sometimes a more susceptible to that other times I’m not but over the last many months now I really just started to unsubscribe from you know, ton of people’s emails. The reason I started saying that was because my oldest email account that is the account that I use, it’s a Yahoo account, Yahoo mail account, that’s the one that I used to always sign up for stuff like I don’t use my main Gmail accounts for for to sign up for lists or two webinars and things like that, because I knew that I get on a spam list, right and people would start spamming me. I’m still getting a ton of spam over there. But I’ve never voluntarily or I very, very rarely voluntarily used one of those primary Gmail type email addresses for signing up for that stuff. But I had a Yahoo mail account that was just getting spammed to death. And so over the last several months, I have really, really gotten a much better handle on that too. Because what I’ve done is I’ve gone every time I get an email now I just daily maintenance Now, every single day, I go through my Yahoo account probably two maybe three times a day. And if there’s an email that came is comes to me that I was unsolicited, which is you know, it’s they don’t come nearly as often as they used to now, I open up the email, I scroll right to the bottom finance subscribe button, I click it and make sure you know in the page reloads that it’s that in the net new tab that I’ve unsubscribed. Then I close that tab and I go back in and I click the spam button and Yahoo
Anyways, it says when working with clients and you don’t have access to their email account, can you create a G site for them embed their properties and deliver the power to the money site URL? Well, yeah, I would never ask for access to my clients Google accounts ever never do I asked for that. So that’s how we do it right? We create and fits if it’s the same fits as I know that we used to be in our mastermind you should know that. And it might not be but ya know, like, for example, we just we create for clients created or even if for you guys that buy stuff from us, we’re going to go create a Google account.
To create your assets, the same thing with my clients, I go create a Google account, right or if they’re on G sweet, which some of them are, but most of them aren’t, then I have them add, you know, create an email or user account for me. And then I will end up, you know, giving me they, and then I asked them to give me permissions for to access the other accounts, like our Google Apps essentially within that account, right? That makes sense. And guys, you know, send a screencast video tutorial video to your users. So for example, I don’t ever ask for Google account access, but I do ask for to be added as a Google My Business Manager to their GMB for example. Right. So how do you do that? Well, unless you ask for their login details and go do it set, you know, add yourself as a manager, you know, add yourself as a manager, you got to ask them to do it. So if they don’t know how to do it, you got to provide them with instructions. The easiest way to do that, in my opinion, is to just do a quick tutorial video and show them hey, show him another GMB account. say look, login go to business google. com
Left-hand sidebar, you’re going to go click users, this little box is going to show you’re going to see a little plus icon at the top, click that to add new user at my email address from the drop-down, select, you know, manager, not site or not owner, just add me as a manager and then click you know, invite or send or whatever the button says, and I’ll get an invitation and then I’ll go be able to access you can do the same thing, if they have, you know, if you wanted it to be hosted on their main Google account, like a G site, which is unnecessary. But if you wanted to, you could give them instructions on a go into sites, google.com and add me as a user or manager, whatever, give me permission to be able to access that app within your Google account. However, it doesn’t matter because you can create the new account, build everything under the new account and then add your client Gmail account as a manager and then transfer ownership if you needed to. But again, it’s really unnecessary. It doesn’t matter who the Google account is. You can push the power the SEO juice anywhere you want. Okay.
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Facebook also gives you an embed code for each post. Really? Yeah, it does. You so you can embed a Facebook post? Yes, that is correct. When did that start? Yeah,
it’s always been there. Yeah, it’s been rough. But Jay get. So if you get if you create, like, for instance, if you create, I don’t know, post with a link or a post with an image bubble, blah, then you can embed that somewhere. So it has to, it has to be on in your timeline. Or it has to be like, like on an open page. It can be like, if it’s a closed group, you can’t do anything with it. If if it’s a member, whatever it if it’s hidden or secret or Harvard. I don’t know too much about Facebook. I’m just there answering questions. Yeah, but if it’s open, right, and if it’s public, yes, Google will not Google Facebook will give you an embed code for that post or for whatever it
Is that you’re doing an image or video. But in those at one post though, right, correct, I don’t I think that you’re right that there’s an X breaker if you try to embed the like the entire face. Yeah. Yeah. And it has to come from a, from a Facebook page, if that makes sense. Not from a profile. You know, even if the profile is public, there’s a lot of, you know, stuff going on with privacy and whatnot. So it needs to come from a Facebook page, which is what your clients are going to be using anyway. Right. So um, so yeah, but that’s, that’s another caveat that you want to have in mind. Yeah, well, I mean, okay, so that may mean that that’s cool. And all but you know, unless you’re going to go in and update the iframe, or the embed code on a regular basis on your sites. I don’t see how I mean, obviously, if you’ve got I guess one post that you specifically trying to power up then yeah, and you could embed it and then hammer and you know, the G site or wherever you’ve got an embedded with links or something like that, but you know, typically I like to set up the iframe that is going to update dynamically. So I publish content and it’s on an automatically be in the iframe that I’m trying to power up. Do you know what I mean? So that’s cool. I didn’t, I wasn’t aware that you could embed individual posts, but say, that’s cool. I just learned something. Yep. Very cool. Yep.
Okay, so Gordon’s up again, it says, Thanks a lot for your previous answer. You’re welcome. He says, which brought up this question and used to be okay to use duplicate content for different sites targeting and local niche in different cities, just changing the location info one site for each city. But is that still true? I’ve never done that. Gordon. Honestly, I’ve always advocated for using unique content for all those and that’s specifically because, at some point, it could be, you know, toxic, it could you could end up catching a penalty because it is all duplicate content and duplicate content, guys, it’s supposed to be on the same domain, I get that, but on the same subdomains, you know, I don’t I don’t like that because it’s not as effective.
So that you paid 40 bucks for that, but then you order five rewrites, it might cost you $8 per rewrite. And now you’ve got six, original, unique, let’s just I’m using air quotes, but six or unique articles that are going to be more effective, in my opinion, long term, then having the same piece of content used across multiple sites where the only thing you change this is the location modifier. So that’s how I’ve done that, guys. I’ve got lead gen assets out there with subdomains with 20 subdomains, and they each have their own unique content. You know, and that’s specifically for that reason.
You know, again, it’s your call, I’ve always wanted to build long term assets that will rank and produce revenue for me for years, and I’ve got many of them. And so, you know, again, it’s all I always think about, it might be a little bit more expensive, a little bit more hassle on the front end. But what’s more of a hassle having assets that stopped producing or start performing poorly, because of you took shortcut cuts on the front end. You know if they’re producing revenue for you and again guys I don’t know if it works or not because I just don’t do it. I don’t know if it still works or not but other people may be able to comment and say oh it works fine that’s fine if you want to build your business that way do it you know, there’s it’s up to you. So I don’t recommend it though. Honestly, I try to do the work up front so that it will produce for me for the long term and I don’t have to continually worry about that shit.
Do you remember that when they first came out with pandas and penguins? What that what Google was asking for rich unique relevant content that’s updated on a regular basis how often they repeated that that was when the doofus what’s his name was still with with with the spam team gotten Matt Cutts right. When that was so that this is they kept asking them they didn’t they keep doing it over and over fresh, unique relevant content updated on a regular basis. But the telling you that for a reason the bot feeds of content
Now I know that people have done tests when and where, you know, they’ve used Latin. And it ranked, but there were still keywords interspersed with that Latin garbage that made it rank and that’s what the bite is feeding off. It’s feeding off that information that you’re giving it. And if you just keep pushing the same information over and over, we have seen this, again, we always test guys is why we can give you the answers to these questions. We’ve seen it time and again and local GMB Pro, that if you use different posts, that if you do it regularly, whatever regularly means for your niche because niches a different each unique niche will react differently to the post frequency. But we know that if you use fresh, unique, relevant content, update on a regular basis, fresh images or you make Google think that they’re fresh images
Marco: don’t even have to be, it’s just all about feeding them but the information that the bot is coded to look for. It’s looking for these variables, right the keyword in the right places, and in the right amount and then information. And, and it’s also looking at how a real person interacts with that content that you’re displaying. And whether that person finishes, whatever action they set out to do. All of this is part of it. Now, if you give people the same information over and over and over again until you change this is a little bit eventually that gets stale, and the bodies will be able to tell how people react to that. And the one thing you’d never want to do is you never want to send us a negative signal. We always concentrate on feeding them but the positive signals that’s going to get us positive actions and reactions going to get us better placement.
going to give us knowledge panel displays is going to get us calls. And it’s going to get us web site visits, and whatever else, right, whatever else that we’re looking for. But it all starts with your content. And yes, you can feed garbage. But eventually, what will happen is it’ll get the index just like it happened with that test website that was done. But that one was just to show what you could do with the content place in in in the right areas. And in the right amount. Guys, don’t trick yourself into thinking I’m going to take the easy way out and just change the location. Give people a reason to think about it. Think like the end user, right? If I’m going in there, and I’m looking to have my problem solved, and I keep seeing the same garbage over and over. I don’t want to deal with that. I want someone that that’s talking to me as the end user, and someone who’s going to help me solve my problem, become problem solvers and you’re going to go a long way towards really developing your content in a way that people are really going to enjoy interacting with, and in the long run is going to make your whole lot more money than taking shortcuts. Yeah.
Bradley: All right. We’re going to wrap it up here in a minute. But if it says mastermind calls from Bradley are awesome, relevant, timely, and actionable period. Thanks fits. Appreciate that. Yeah, I’ve enjoyed those calls. I had a couple of this week already. So again, I appreciate that. And then lastly, Gordon had posted one more question. That’s fine, Gordon, we appreciate that. He says, since relied on questions, I’ll ask something else. And this is a good question.
He says when creating local Legion pages, is it better or easier to create a different page for each keyword or to try to rank a single location page for a bunch of different keywords? Yeah, so that’s a great question. Because several years ago, that was the method was to it was and that was the industry, right? The traditional knowledge, right was to go out and create. Each page would be optimized for a singular keyword. Right. That was really how silo structure was started.
I wouldn’t go with optimizing for singular keywords. No, don’t get me wrong if you’re if you’re doing short blog posts, for example, I target, you know, with GMB posts a lot singular keywords, I mean, we still I still sprinkling variations of that single keyword, but there’s one primary keyword typically for me, for GMB posts. So you can still do that. But for your pages on your site, right, I’m talking about posts doing that. But for your pages on your site, which are typically what you’re trying to rank, you’re using posts to support the page, right? So for pages, I would recommend going with longer form content instead. That’s why I don’t usually recommend using complex silos anymore because you can accomplish it with simple silos, which is just categories and page, top-level categories and pages and then post supporting posts. Because complex structures are exactly what their name implies. They’re complex. They’re hard to manage. It’s hard to map out in the beginning, and it’s, it’s honestly, I think it’s overkill for most stuff, especially for local it’s overkill for most local things. All right.
Okay five o'clock I’ve got to go but I am going to read this comment real quick Jim says FYI everyone I placed an order for keyword research it was actually too good with too many keywords but they do break it down and suggest which keywords you should target which ones are good for silo and for supporting keywords. Don’t hesitate to order you won’t regret the quality time saved that it takes the guesswork out of it. shipped Marco trains them. Hello. Thanks, Jim. Jim. So, Alright guys, everybody. We appreciate you being here. I’m kind of digging this app even though it looks old school. It’s kind of cool. what you guys think. I like it. I mean, it works. Yeah. Works. Nobody’s complaining about getting locked out of any account so far. So we’ll see. All right, everybody. We’ll see you guys tomorrow on the mastermind and everyone else next week. Thanks for being here, man. Later see
