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[thedaveandkimmershow]

"I'm so glad to see you!"

We had a different experience with Jacquie this time largely because of the 100+ degree weather during which our visit took place. We also came bearing gifts. For the memory care community through their Activity Coordinator, matching chairs to augment the existing courtyard furniture along with compact discs and colored pencils. This was us delivering on a conversation Kimmer previously had with the Activity Coordinator.

And for Jacquie...

Okay. Lemme back up.

We showed up this time with Jacquie's grandson in the midst of, as I said, 100+ degree weather. As he and I settled into a wonderfully shaded area of the courtyard, hydrating as much as possible while being serenaded by the courtyard's sound system with popular music from my childhood and Jr. Highhood in the seventies including the monster hit "After the Love is Gone" by Earth Wind & Fire.

So Jacquie's grandson and I are getting ready while Kimmer goes into the nearby cottage to find Jacquie in her room. She breezes into the doorway with greetings and energy to which Jacquie responds

"I'm so glad to see you!"

Is that the same thing as remembering Kimmer? I don't know. And I'm also not sure it matters at this point. We're trying to create an experience for Jacquie, you see, not only for ourselves. We want her to know she's loved and cherished and that this moment, this one right here, even as it's disconnected from all the ones that were and all the ones to come...

This moment right here is the best.

It's family. It's fun. It's laughter. It's enjoying this moment however it chooses to manifests itself. However Jacquie's brain chooses to engage it.

That's tricky, of course. But it certainly helps to create a certain mood. For example, during this visit, we came bearing an RV-themed nightgown. Very retro. Very cute. And completely Jacquie's thing. So much so that as soon as Kimmer showed it to her, Jacquie took it from her hands and, after a quick exercise in determining front from back, slipped it right over her clothes.

No joke.

She put the nightgown on over her clothes and we spent the rest of our hour with her dressed that way.

It wasn't a bad look, by the way.

We also brought with us a few stuffed animals and bobble toys from Jacquie's home that were immediate hits. Such hits, in fact, that she insisted on going back to her room to return with her most favorite stuffed bear to join her new friends.

Seriously. These little animals and bobbles thoroughly captured her attention.

Now, we also always show up with treats, this time with Trader Joe's corn chips and dark chocolate of which the corn chips were a pass while the dark chocolate we're the bomb.

After which she returned to her stuffed bear and its new stuffed friends. During the course of our visit, she continued to reach for one or the other of these new companions.

In the meantime (and it took a while for us to become conscious of this), a water fight was brewing in the courtyard.

Water fight?

Yeah. The first I became aware was as collateral damage. I was grazed by a stream of water directed between two staff members armed with water pistols. Looking around, I noticed other staff members setting up water bins for fast reloads. I also then became aware of children running up to arm themselves. And then I saw staff handing out water pistols to all of the residents sitting out on the patio under the shade.

Thus a water fight was born.

Later that day, Jacquie's grandson pointed out to me how easily these elderly human beings—some of whom wielded incomplete memories—how easily they slipped into water fight mode.

Like children again. Complete with

"Ha ha ha. Got you!" and

"I'm out! I need a fill up!"

It's a helluva thing to watch the elderly shed sixty maybe seventy years as soon as their hands embraced the toy grips.

You have no idea.

By 'n by, Kimmer 'n Jacquie walk back to Jacquie's room to set up all her new animal friends and bobble toys. When they come back, Jacquie wants to move closer to the water fight action.

Okay. Did I say "wanted"? Because it was something more like "demanded". She walked over to the exact spot she wanted her chair to be and whipped out her Mom voice on Kimmer. That always rattles us when she does that, by the way. Because no matter how advanced her dementia, her Mom voice is nothing but authority. She Who Must Be Obeyed, if you will. It's crazy effective and definitely commandeers something in us that exists outside of logic and reason.

So we did what she asked. I moved her chair over to this spot next to one of the other residents and definitely more in the midst of the ongoing squirt gun fight.

Kimmer stood nearby as Jacquie slid into her chair in its new spot and as Kyle and I went back to where we were sitting to gather everything up and move it to the new location.

Except.

Once we had everything in hand, we realized Jacquie's attention was now engaged with the water shenanigans involving residents and staff and children. So we took the opportunity after our hour-long visit from 12:30 to 1:30 in the early afternoon to exit stage left.

Kimmer quickly noticed our absence and our intention and, with a loving shoulder squeeze as her aunt focused on the water fight...

Kimmer slipped away as well.

As if we were never there.

Like I said before, this was a different visit, all of it, in a way, attached to the hot hot temperature. You see because of how the temps affected the staff's plans, Jacquie's attention moved on to the next thing while we were still there.

I'm still processing that, by the way.

In the end, though, Kimmer showed up in Jacquie's doorway with greetings and energy to which Jacquie responded

"I'm so glad to see you!"

Is that the same thing as remembering Kimmer? I don't know. And I'm also not sure it matters at this point. We're trying to create an experience for Jacquie, you see, not only for ourselves. We want her to know she's loved and cherished and that this moment, this one right here, even as it's disconnected from all the ones that were and all the ones to come...

This moment right here.

Is the best.

☺️❤️❤️❤️

[fastup]

[thekingreturn]

League Roadtrip Headcanons

Characters: Shigaraki, Spinner, Twice, Mr Compress, Big Sis Magne, Dabi

Tomura Shigaraki

Tomura Shigaraki makes your departure late waiting until he’s sure his devices are properly charged. Nevermind if you’ve got a remote charger, or that its only going to be a few hours, he’s not risking being screenless and stuck looking at the scenery (heaven forbid). You’ve (affectionately, probably) described his car ride habits as nesting. He swaddles his lower half in blankets, reclines the seat as far back as he can get away with, shoves a pillow behind his head, and settles in for a few hours with his headphones and whatever game he’s reserved for this thing. Just set whatever snacks you get him on his chest and he’ll graze on them at his leisure.

In general he prefers to be pretty quiet, long car rides actually aren’t great for him mentally. He doesn’t like the idea of being forced to be in close proximity to a person with no feasible exit. Not that he resents spending time with you, just that he gets grouchy and withdrawn on principle if he thinks he has no choice. Every two hours or so, though, he’ll turn off the game, straighten his seat (likely sending a shitload of crumbs into your car carpet) and just sort of. Butt his head against your shoulder until you start talking to him or at least pet his head. He’ll let himself enjoy it for a few minutes before relapsing back into his pseudo den

He can’t drive and thus you will be running this show for the entirety of it. Afterwards, though, you notice him..hovering, more than usual, just sort of urging you to lie down and bringing you food with the same sort of furtive expectance as a cat bringing you dead mice. You think this is his way of thanking you, but don’t confront him on it. Each time is a little easier with him. 

Spinner

Shuichi Iguchi (Spinner) may be one of the few members of the League who knows what he’s doing behind the wheel, but between you and him he actually doesn’t like doing it very much. He gets jumpy on the road and is prone to getting snappish with the other drivers. Still, he wants to do his part to pitch in, so tends to take the beginning and end of the drive. He also casually takes over snack detail and is the one to get out of the car and fill it with gas, as well as unload and reload the car. And navigation to boot. He’s a giver. Don’t tell anyone.

The level of conversational adeptness really depends on how long you’ve been seeing each other. Early stages comes up abruptly against his inability to small talk, you swear at some point he furtively checks his phone for icebreakers he found on the internet. Later stages bring ease with them, though, and with them Spinner’s favorite Olympic sport, complaining. The man pretends to hate gossip but if you hit the right buttons he’s more than happy to give you heavily editorialized anecdotes about the League and his various observations therein. Join in with some of your own, he’s a surprisingly good audience. The conversations will turn political at some point (and if you’re dating him, chances are good that’s somewhere you’re happy to follow) but if needed he can be convinced to leave work at work.

Spinner rarely initiates, even later on, but he’s kind of a sucker for tropey couple shit. Hold his hand while driving and he’ll get real quiet, even if it’s just for a second or two. Wrap your arms around him in the gas station while he pays, remind him that you’re proud to be seen with him. Kiss his cheek for getting your bags, make him feel valued. He’ll be following you around like a lovesick puppy.

Twice

Jin Bubaigawara (Twice) prefers to be the one driving, even going over his limits while insisting he’s fine. He can be convinced to take a break once you start to notice he’s barely holding his eyes open, but it will in fact, take some convincing not to get him to just slam back a questionable amount of five hour energies. He finds it relaxing, one of the few times he can just sort of sink into a process. Keep an eye on his turns, occasionally he’ll take a couple he didn’t mean to, but its a good way to feel a little more in control of himself and the situation.

He’s a good guy to have around a car, capable of changing a tire or getting the engine back up and running before you finish looking up tow services. He won’t necessarily ask for a reward but depending on how late in the relationship you are he’s definitely going to be giving you hopeful glances until he gets the affection he craves so badly.

The man basically invented rubbing your partner’s thigh while driving, he likes keeping a hand on you whenever he can, likes feeling you next to him. It’s such a simple thing but something about having you in his car really does make him feel trusted. He doesn’t really get a whole lot of areas where he feels competent. When you fall asleep a little before arriving home, and he gets to carry you inside, feeling how completely you let yourself depend on him? There’s nothing else quite like it.

Mr. Compress

Atsuhiro Sako (Mr. Compress) is...an ok driver. He thinks he’s better than he is, you can tell from the way he handles the wheel, the little flick of his hand as he hits his turn signal and the way he’ll narrate whatever he’s doing. And in practice, he is pretty good! Until other drivers with less of a showmanship factor hit the road. Which is always. All it takes is one guy pulling ahead of him too fast and he gets flustered enough to throw him off his game.

The two of you switch off driving at pretty even intervals. Even with navigation apps (which he does use, he’s not a Luddite) he still prefers to have a paper map on hand to cross reference it. He can be a little annoying with it but he more than makes up for it with the way he’ll touch your shoulder to indicate an offramp. “Why don’t we turn here, angel, its scenic.”

He’s much more about the journey than the destination, happy to divert the trip into an exploration of local curiosities if the two of you have time. He likes the anonymity of these small drive through towns where the two of you could be anyone, anything to the locals. He’ll squeeze your hand and murmur legends or history pieces if he knows any about the place (he makes about half of them up, but they’re nice stories anyways).

These things always take longer than it should, but he makes it all feel like but a moment.

Big Sis Mag

Mag Hikishi (Magne) is another one who prefers to drive than be driven, and to be frank, you may as well let her. If stuck in the passenger seat she has a bad case of invisible brake and tends to grip the ceiling a little too pointedly. She has absolute faith in your abilities, and also if she’s going to be in a car crash she at least wants it to be her own fault. Its alright, darling, just sit in the passenger seat and look pretty for her, won’t you?

Master of the shortcut that takes you an hour off course, its best if you leave without an expected arrival time. She likes starting trips bright and early, likes seeing the roads clear of other cars and getting to enjoy those quiet morning hours with you. Not that things are often quiet with Mag. She has this ability to get you talking about almost anything for hours, with plenty of her own contributions to boot. She’s lived a storied life, and she wants to hear your own.

Mag has strong opinions on gas station snacks (Takis, string cheese if they have any, and water being a go to) and will absolutely hover a little to make sure you’re well hydrated for long hours in the hot car. She has an eclectic collection of CDs if you don’t feel like talking, and if you need silence, well...that’s harder, but she’ll do it for you, only occasionally breaking it with a peck on the cheek. She enjoys these moments with just the two of you, able to just bounce off of each other and get absolutely mushy without her beloved coworkers around to tease. For a moment, at least, things all feel like they might be ok.

Dabi

Dabi, like Shigaraki, never got his license and isn’t really interested in trying for it. He doesn’t really like any form of transportation and tends to walk most places when he gets the option, given he has a tendency to get motion sick and it’s really hard to keep up your persona of unflappable bad boy while turning a few shades of green. Still, sometimes its unavoidable, so he flings himself in the backseat, props open a window, and prays he’ll knock out soon.

Dabi’s not the easiest partner in the world to communicate with under the best of circumstances, but now especially when every jolt makes him regret being born (moreso than usual) and the only thing coming out of his mouth when he opens it is complaints about how that brat of a leader is doing this to him on purpose, has to be. This is one of the rare instances where fussing over him actually gets some desirable results. Tuck a blanket around him, get him set up with some water, and check in on him every time you stop. Eventually a hand shoots out from between the front seats and grabs at the air until you take the hint and lock your fingers through his. Its not much, but from Dabi? Its everything.

Ultimately he does his best to sleep through these incidents and has you under a firm promise to never describe them to the others, ever. He’ll incentivize it if he has to. You know he’s good for it.

[sasskarian]

Your Danse fic though! Can you do something for "My heart is thrilled by the still of your hand?"

oh, nonnie, have I got a ficlet for you. 

Note: I still maintain that this is all @asaara-writes​ fault. TWs for illness, wounds, and needles.

*** Hozier Prompts! *** Read on AO3! ***

Danse has been a soldier too long to be a deep sleeper. 

That’s the first thing the Brotherhood trains you out of. The indoctrination comes later, because only a good soldier can be indoctrinated, and a good soldier has to wake up at the first hint of danger. So when he hears the first whimper from across the room, his eyes snap open. The night is quiet, except for Evelyn’s breathing. But even as he watches in the dim moonlight of the gutted building they’re squatting in for the night, her arm spasms— and the dog bellies up to her, nosing at her with a low whine. 

Now that he’s awake, he can hear the uneven, ragged edge to her breath in place of the normal steady and slow he’s used to. Switching on his low-light red headlamp, he makes his way over to her bedroll. Dogmeat looks up at him, snuffling at the quick pat Danse gives him. The closer he gets to Evelyn, the more alarm fills him until he’s kneeling next to her and trying to stay calm. Sweat beads on her forehead, rolling down her damp skin in rivulets he might find aesthetic under literally any other circumstances. In the places it’s already hit her flight suit, dark patches lay like lightless pools against her chest. 

Even as he watches, she convulses once, twice, and then a third time before falling so still, Danse checks to make sure she’s still breathing. Every good field medic has scanners built into their suits but Evelyn has something better. He tilts her Pip-Boy, fumbling with the tiny controls until, in frustration, he shucks off the heavy gauntlets and gloves of his power armor. She teases him about all but living in it, and his gut clenches as he convinces the Pip to show her vitals. He taps it, wondering for a moment if it’s malfunctioning, but the high pulse rate and low oxygen levels stay exactly the same. 

Injury detected, it reads. Deploy stimpak?

Injury? His eyes sweep over her, pinning on a darker spot than the rest and rolls down the collar of her suit, hissing. Imprinted on freckled flesh is an almost perfect set of bite marks, flaming red and hot to the touch. Danse tries, desperately, to remember when she could have been bitten. Was it the fight near the old bookstore? Or down outside of Goodneighbor? In his memory, he hears the clang of armor hitting the ground, and a pained goddammit! But when he’d looked, Evelyn had been reattaching her pauldron, a smoking mutant hound at her feet. 

I’m fine, she’d reassured, reloading her gun— the one he’d given her, some absurdly pleased part of him noted— before heading out. It’s a lie he should have known, recognized, after telling it so much himself.

How long had she been out of her armor? How long did radiation last after a radstorm? Danse searches his brain for answers but none came. Lists of symptoms, survival chances, those things dance in his brain, but the best he can do is shrug out of his own armor (that she wasn’t coherent enough to tease him about it stung) and sit on the side of her bed. 

“Come on, Evelyn,” he murmurs. Shaking hands pry out a bottle of purified water and a cloth from their supply pack, trying to clean the bite of dried blood. As he puts gentle pressure on the wound, dribbles of pus and debris come away on the rag and he rips it in half, trying to prevent contamination as he cleans her, holding on to his forced calm by the tips of his fingers.  

Danse’s scores in field medicine had been average across the board, but with his team more versed in it, those skills are rusty and fuck, he wants to kick himself for it. 

“RadAway,” he tells himself, searching the field kit. Attaching the IV to the bag is easier than finding a place to hang it; he settles on taping it to the hip-brace of his armor with the medical tape Evelyn had insisted on. Finding a vein is harder. He bit his lip as he presses on her arm, thumps it with his fingers, curls her hand into a fist. Nothing seems to work until finally, the smallest hint of blue in the dawning light shows in the back of her hand. 

Evelyn jumps and moans as he swabs the area with the cleaner side of the damp cloth and slides the needle in, her eyes fluttering. The first signs of the medicine helping come around eleven that morning, her crumpled features smoothing out a little. It’s subtle, but Danse can tell; he’s spent the entire night cataloging her every exhale and movement. Dogmeat has somehow ended up half curled on his lap, half draped over his mistress, his heavy rump giving a tentative wag when Evelyn’s breathing begins to even. 

The last of the RadAway drips from the bag, traveling down the long, thin tube to her arm, and Danse slides the IV from her with relief. Next is hydration: a stimpak will have to wait, since he isn’t sure what the mixed medications might do. But as he shifts, leaning over her to drip lukewarm water into her mouth, her hand shoots out and grabs his. 

“Nate?” Her voice cracks, ragged and wet-sounding, and oh, how his heart clenches. “I’m so cold, Nate.” 

He— what does he do here? Dozens of suggestions zip through him, at least half fueled by the heat of her hand on his. “It’s okay,” he finally manages. “You’re a bit sick. Just rest.” 

“Mm.” She curls into him, her cheek nuzzling against his thigh; Danse stares, frozen, disbelieving. “Stay? I’ve been having the worst dream.”

There’s only one answer to that, and his voice is soft, almost wondering, even as the soldier the Brotherhood raised to need nothing beyond himself quails and shivers in his cage of steel. “Of course,” he whispers. Slow, so slow and tentative, he brushes through the coppery hair spread across his lap. Danse can’t remember the last time— if ever— he’s touched someone without his gloves, and the silky slide of her curls through his fingers rocks him down to his bones. 

And that's when he knows he’s in trouble. This— the soft afternoon, with wasteland birds warbling and the touch of her hand on his— is boggy ground. He is her Paladin, her commanding officer. She is his soldier, but… she’s also a friend. In this, though, the way she rests against him, warm and shivering and somehow more real than anything else he’s felt before, Danse is knee-deep in emotion and sinking fast. 

It’s past midnight before her fever breaks. Danse has long since given up on propriety, stretched out on his side next to the bedroll to help keep her warm. Dogmeat drapes over both their feet, snoring softly in the night, and the only stretch of time measured is in the small beep the Pip gives for the alarm he set. Slowly, so he doesn’t disturb Evelyn, he reaches into his pocket for the stimpak syringe and eases it into her injured shoulder. She tenses in his arms, burrowing her face deeper into his chest, but doesn’t wake. 

(It shouldn’t feel good, right? Is he a selfish old bastard, for enjoying this simple human contact?)

Still moving slow, he nudges Dogmeat into waking. “Your turn, boy,” he says, almost soundless. The dog is smarter than most humans Danse knows, though, and he trusts him to stand watch and wake him if something goes wrong. But they’ve picked their camp well, so he doesn’t expect much trouble: Ferals were cleared long ago in another patrol, and there’ve been no signs of mutants for at least a mile. So for a moment, a desperately needed moment after almost two days of trying to keep Evelyn breathing, Danse lets his eyes droop. 

Sleep has almost claimed him when she stirs, breathing her husband’s name against his neck. Guilt lazily slides through him, that her delirium has slapped a dead man’s face over his own in her mind and he hasn’t corrected her, but shock freezes him solid when her lips brush his. Once, soft and sleepy, and then again, more firm; not quite a demand, but when her hands slide to his jaw, he knows he is definitely awake and not hallucinating from exhaustion. He pries her hands from his jaw, ignoring her quiet whine, and settles them between his chest and hers, shuddering when her fingers curl into his undersuit.

“Missed you,” she mumbles against his mouth, her breath a thousand soft pleas against his skin. 

“You’re still sick,” Danse says, summoning the words from somewhere deep inside, a place where willpower reigns over guilt and loneliness. “Rest now, Evie.” 

When she finally settles against him, her ankle resting trustingly between his and her hair tickling his nose, Danse squeezes his eyes shut against the prickling that is most definitely not tears. Paladins don’t cry, and especially not over lovers they can’t have. Loving Evelyn would be a betrayal of her trust, of his military discipline, and disrespecting the memory of her husband. (Wouldn’t it?)

But a smaller, sly part of him knows that he’ll tuck this memory in the depths of his heart: the way she feels, the heavy, reassuring warmth of her body against his. How she fits in his arms, and the silken, forbidden glint of sunlight on her curls. How soft her lips are, even in this dried out desert of horrors.

He’s not in love. He’s not. 

But his final thought, before finally dropping into sleep, is a faint wish that maybe he could be, if he let himself.

[scottrunsultras]

Leadville 100 recap

It took a while to fully process the experience.  I suffered from some post-race depression.  I wasn’t sure what to think.  I told myself that i was about 50/50 disappointed and proud.  But I think it felt more like 80/20.  But I think that was just the depression talking.  Yeah, I had performance goals going into the race.  And at no point did I ever consider “finishing” to be good enough, even if I tried to convince myself that it was.  But an amazing amount of life happens in the course of 30 hours on your feet in the thin air of the Colorado Sawatch Mountain Range.  And as I’ve thought about it, talked to my wife/crew chief/final pacer, as well as other friends who were either there or have ultra experience themselves, I think I’ve finally managed to full understand the experience and what it meant to me.

image: 3:30 am Saturday morning.  Heading to the start line.

Let me start with the week leading up to the race.  It was pretty rough.  I had a burning anxiety that I just couldn’t get under control.  Part of it may have been the taper.  It seemed to do its job because I had a ton of energy.  But I was also constantly visualizing the race, constantly thinking and rethinking the logistics of aid stations and what I needed to bring.  I also had stomach problems the entire week leading into the race - another likely byproduct of the anxiety.  I was mostly super excited to do the race.  There wasn’t any fear like last time I attempted Leadville.  It was absolutely a positive stress.  But it was exhausting.  And there was still, in the back of my mind, a pressure to finish after DNFing my last attempt.  

I attributed my previous DNF to dehydration.  And I still think that was a big part of it.  But the reality was probably closer to altitude sickness, made more pronounced by dehydration.  So I was extra focused on hydration and nutrition going into race day.  Probably overly focused.  But I was convinced that the only way I would fail is due to another crushing gastro-intestinal breakdown like last time.  It doesn’t help that the thin, dry air of Leadville sucks the moisture from your body unlike anything I experience in Boulder.  So I drank a ton of water the 36 or so hours prior to the race.  An absolute ton.  It seemed like the right thing to do.

I also get very anxious about sleeping.  I never sleep well the night before a race.  And I hit rock bottom last year the night before the Never Summer 100k by literally not sleeping at all.  Instead just laying in my tent for hours stressing about not being able to sleep - making it impossible to relax and actually doze off.  I’ve resorted to meds for sleep in races since then.  Before Javelina last fall I intentionally overdosed a little on Benadryl and it worked out great.  I did the same on Friday night, and actually slept a bit.  Probably in the neighborhood of 4 good hours - which isn’t bad considering I had to wake up at 2:30.  But I also felt... weird that night.  I told myself it was the Benadryl.  I wouldn’t say I was hallucinating, but I felt just mentally off.  I’d been freaking out about getting sick all week and was convinced that it hit me the night before the race.  Luckily I felt okay when I woke up.  My legs felt strong.  My stomach was mostly okay.  No real aches or pains from chronic achilles and ankle injuries.  I felt good and excited and ready to go.

I went out way too fast last time I ran this - doing the easy early section in the 7:00′s.  Between that and bombing the final descent of Powerline my legs were shot by the marathon point of the race.  I was determined to not let that happen this time.  My barometer for success began with how well I ran from 25-35, an extended slightly uphill but more or less easy section.  So I went out easy and ran the first 13 mile section in a bit over 2 hours.  Probably within 5 minutes of whatever my goal would have been if I’d cared.  But I knew that part didn’t really matter.

In the second section of the race - Mayqueen to Outward Bound, including the infamous Powerline - things started to get bleak.  On the 1 mile easy dirt road section just past the single-track Colorado Trail section, my stomach was killing me.  My entire nutrition plan had already fallen apart.  In my training runs I’d eat a granola bar of some sort every 30 minutes.  And I could go on for hours like that.  In my 9 hour big training run for the race, I did that the entire time and my stomach was thrilled.  This time my stomach was upset with solid food after the first hour.  

I made the conscious decision to try to settle things with electrolytes so I ate some salt tablets and started relying much more on Gatorade than water, and 30 minutes or so later I started to feel a little better.  But from that point on, every 30 minutes I’d have to force myself to eat and I was always unhappy about it.

image: Outward Bound Aid Station. Mile 24.

After leaving my crew at Outward Bound, things actually got a bit better.  This was the first test section for me and it went great.  Long, easy, semi-uphill miles.  I even hit a high point around the top of the climb on the way to Twin Lakes and flew down the hill.  I did that 15 mile section in a little less than 3 hours.  And while I was steadily losing time to my 25 hour goal time, I felt pretty good.  Then the logistical nightmare started.

Due to avalanches, the road to the halfway point, Winfield, was closed to crews and pacers.  So they had to take a shuttle from Twin Lakes.  So literally every crew, pacer, and spectator was parked at Twin Lakes.  From what I was told, the line of cars along the highway reached 5 miles long.  So when I got into the Twin Lakes Aid Station, I couldn’t find my crew... because they weren’t there.  So I walked back and forth for 10-15 minutes looking for them and spotted the crew of a friend from work also running the race.  I had shoes to change in to for the monster climb coming up and food/drinks... with my missing crew.  So I scrounged up some Gatorade from a stranger and prepared myself to cross a river and hike over a 12,600′ pass in my road shoes.  Then, right before getting back on the trail, I spotted my kids.  My wife had dropped them off on the side of the road with my crew bags and told them to find me.  They got there about 60 seconds before I left.

image: Hope Pass Llamas

So with proper food and trail shoes, I started the Hope Pass climb.  It went fine.  It’s a difficult, but beautiful and rewarding section of the race.  The section near Winfield was harder than I remembered, but I finished the 12 mile section in a little under 4 hours, cruising into the half way point a bit under 12 hours.

This time my crew was there and ready.  They apparently spent almost 2 hours in line to get on a shuttle, so they hadn’t been there for long.  But I got what I needed - a grilled cheese sandwich and a reload on gatorade and gus.  My stomach still wasn’t happy and I was heading into the section that ruined me last time.  So I had a definitely plan.  I had 3.5 miles until the major climb started.  So I gave myself 2.5 miles for my stomach to relax from what I ate at Winfield - then forced down a gu and a granola bar and resigned myself to not eating again until I got to the top of the pass. It didn’t feel good, but I didn’t puke - so it worked.

image: Hope Pass Part 2

The way down was fine.  Not easy - 4 miles of 800 feet per mile of vertical drop 15 hours into a race is pretty rough on the quads - but it was fine.  I had a great pacer for this section, who kept me super entertained with some great conversation.  And the peak crossing once again took about 4 hours - better than I had mentally planned going into the race but I’d lost so much time at Aid Stations and on the first crossing, the 25 hour dream was dead.

image: River Crossing heading back to Twin Lakes

Twin Lakes Inbound was good.  My crew was there and much more relaxed this time.  My pacers were there.  My wife brought me tacos.  i changed my shoes and socks and grabbed some cold weather layers and started the night section of the race.  That’s when things really started to grind.  This was the second test section for myself.  After a climb from 9,200 to 10,600 feet, I had a very long easy section.  Mostly downhill, reasonably smooth.  If I was going to have a good finish, this would be where it came from.  But it didn’t happen.  I told myself once it started going downhill I’d start running.  But my feet were trashed from blisters and my stomach was still giving me problems.  I felt like if I really pushed myself, I’d puke.  So I kept giving myself more time.  But more time didn’t help.  And the more time I gave myself, the more accustomed I got to hiking easy terrain - to the point that I couldn’t find it in myself to really run anymore.  So I’d shamble at 13:00′s on some sections, but actual running seemed to be over.  And that’s when the despair kicked in.

Staring down 50k of walking in the dark is hard to deal with.  I kept looking at my watch and thinking, “my god I have 10 hours left of this.”  In the back of my mind I felt like I’d still hit some high points and be able to turn it around, but it never happened.  I switched pacers again at Outward Bound, going into the last hard part of the race.  It was only 11 miles until the next aid station, but I had a big climb.  Once again I told myself that once I got to the top I’d dig deep and run down.  But I couldn’t.  My feet hurt so much that any rocks at all made things impossible.  And even on the smooth sections I only managed to run 13:00-14:00 minute miles.  My stomach still felt terrible.  It just never got better.

On this section I started to realize some mistakes that I’d made.  According to my pacer, I peed 8 times in this 11 mile section.  And it dawned on me that I drank too much during the race and in the days coming in to the race.  I’d always laughed off hyponatremia and the idea of drinking when thirsty, mostly because most of my races have been in hot weather.  But it looks like it may have bit me, though luckily only mildly.  Once I made this realization I ate the rest of my salt tablets and mostly stopped drinking except for the occasional sip of Gatorade.  It was 4am and 37 degrees.  I definitely wasn’t sweating.

I came into Mayqueen just before 5:00am, an hour under the cutoff.  And once again lost my crew.  After using the restroom I spent a good 10 minutes wandering back and forth looking for them - too tired to walk fast or yell anyone’s name.  I finally found my wife, decked out in her pacer gear, ready to pull me through the final 13 miles.

She did her best to encourage me.  “Run the easy sections.  Stumble the downhills.”  And I tried.  But my feet hurt so much that if there were any rocks at all I just couldn’t do it.  And the first 4 miles of the Turqoise Lake trail are pretty rocky.  So I did the best I could.  The finish still seemed impossibly far away, but I knew I’d get there at least.  Once the trail smoothed out I started to slow jog it a bit.  At this point, 27 hours into the race, my stomach finally started to feel normal.  I was no longer nauseous and I actually started to feel hungry. But I couldn’t stomach gus at this point so I was surviving on a snack bag of trail mix and some gatorade.  I couldn’t tell the difference between hunger and nausea so I was still afraid of throwing up.  But I was getting close and needed a goal to keep myself from slumping my shoulders and walking it in.  So I pushed to get under the 29 hour mark.

The sun came up, it started to get warm, and we pushed the long uphill back into Leadville.  I power hiked the ups and jogged the downs.  I passed at least a dozen people.  We turned the corner at the high school and started up the final real uphill.  I told my wife we’d start running once we got over the top.  And once we reached the crest, I turned to her and told her: “let’s blow the doors off.”  So we ran down the hill.  The first real running I’d done in more than 10 hours.  We were in the 7:00′s when the downhill turned back up into the final few blocks before the finish line.  I started running faster and dropped my wife.  I was in the 6:00′s going up the hill passing more people.  Then my son jumped in at the last minute and ran across the line with me.

28 hours.  44 minutes.  101 miles.  15,000 feet of climbing.  All mostly at or above 10,000 feet of elevation.  This is a hard fucking race.  And while I missed my stretch goal by several hours, it’s an honor to have finished it.  

I first heard of the Leadville 100 when I read Born to Run back in 2009.  It seemed mind-blowlingly impossible.  Apparently it wasn’t.

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How To Get Rid Of A Hangover: What To Eat, Drink, And Do

Celebrations and parties abound throughout the holiday season. Even though most parties are more low-key than in previous years, you can still overindulge and wake up with a headache.  While there are strategies to minimize a hangover, such as drinking in control (which you definitely will not do) or avoiding sugary beverages, there are also several Hangover Cure options to help you cope the next day. Read on to learn about some hangover remedies that can come in handy the next time you wake up with a queasy stomach, overwhelming thirst, and intense exhaustion.

Rehydrating The Body

Since alcohol is a laxative, being dehydrated is a contributing factor to your pounding migraine after a night out. To restore your lost electrolytes, drink lots of fluids as soon as you wake up, or better still, coconut juice or a Sport Hydration drink. It is one of the most effective methods for regaining your power.

Sleep

This should go without saying, but when healing from a hangover, persons sometimes overlook the importance of sleep. Allowing your body to relax and sleep over the worst of it by taking the much rest after consuming to reload some missing nutrients.

Banana

When you consume, your potassium levels drop, so eating a ton of bananas the next day replenishes your supply of vitamins and helps to alleviate nausea and fatigue. Bananas are also easy on the stomach, which helps. Make a banana salad to help it go down the chute and get those vitamins into your body if chewing is a chore.

Eggs

Good food will help you feel better after a night out, and eggs are one of the best things to eat the next day. Eggs are high in vitamin B and glycine, an amino acid that aids in the removal of alcohol-related contaminants from the body, so they will help you avoid getting a hangover. Having eggs in the morning, whether poached, fried, cooked, or fried, will improve your mood and decrease nausea.

Hair Of The Dog

It may sound counterintuitive; however drinking more alcohol is one of the most effective ways to alleviate hangover symptoms. Increasing your alcohol consumption can help to lift your spirits and alleviate the symptoms of a hangover.   This Hangover Cure is a delicious and easy dish to prepare at home. However, keep in mind that this cure only provides temporary relief from the previous night's poor choices, so make sure to get plenty of rest and rehydrate.

IV Drips Rich In Vitamins And Nutrients

Hangover drips have been available for some time, and a number of celebrities swear by their effectiveness. These IV treatments moisturize your body, aid in the removal of toxins, replenish nutrients lost from a night of intense drinking and cleanse your body. There are numerous holistic and wellness centers that provide a fast and effective way to alleviate hangover symptoms, receive assessments, and determine the best medication to restore your health.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 283

Click on the video above to watch Episode 283 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

Full timestamps with topics and times can be found at the link above.

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://semanticmastery.com/humpday.

Announcement

All right, we’re live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangout Episode 283. Today is tax day or maybe it’s the day formerly known as tax day. 2020. So for those of you in the US believe, you know, tax day got setback, kind of a free extension, if you will. But we’re not delaying Hump Day Hangouts. We’re just going right along schedule, although to go with the Coronavirus stuff going on I’m wearing a hacks My hair is getting all crazy now that I my clippers broke and it’s taken forever cuz Amazon’s not shipping stuff as fast as they normally would, which is fine. But I was on actually on a call earlier today as a mastermind call and one of the guys had just given up and just shaved his head and so I’m starting to see some fun Coronavirus haircuts. I think that might be a meme. Yeah, might might go like Marco just get it down. So with that said, we got a few announcements and then we’re going to get into the good stuff. We got a lot of really good questions today. But let’s start I’m gonna start with Bradley How you doing today?

I’m happy to be here man. Nice nice spring day outside it’s kind of cool but I got to go out and go for a run before about an hour ago so nice glad to be here

all right now hold on for those of you who don’t know Bradley’s more of a weights guy so I just want you went for a run

yeah well I when I can’t lift weights which I can’t right now I run and I run often so I run ran five miles yesterday and three and a half today and so I run when I don’t lift

good deal that makes me I’m a runner. So yeah, like hearing that. All right, Marco. How about you?

I ran to the door just earlier.

How was it was it a good workout?

It was tiring man. I’m I’m recovering I’m I had to go get some oxygen an make sure you got a water bottle nearby. Take care yourself.

Always. Always do keep water close by Just in case you gotta hydrate from all that heavy stuffs going all the good things are good, heavy hitter club is coming online. Today, mastermind members contact support at heavy hitters club, because you’re going to get the deal of a lifetime to join the heavy hitter code. You know, we take when we say membership has its privileges, one of those privileges is to get discounts deep discounts into any of the things that we do, right? Whether whatever it is from RYS Academy Reloaded, Syndication, they had just whatever is either included in the price, or we give them a steep discount. Everyone else is also going to get a discount because we understand we’re in the middle of a crisis. Things aren’t the way that they’re supposed to be, but we’re going to help you make money guys. If that’s what you’re looking for. We’re going to give you a really good deal. And yes, it’s a one time only offer you can take advantage of it. And if not, I sincerely sincerely believe it’s your loss, not ours, because we’re going to help you make money in any and every way we can. Technical SEO. I mean, it’s for ranking. That’s the easy part. We’re going to teach you how and why especially why things are the way they are. So I know it’s kind of last minute because yesterday I was saying, if we don’t do it in the next 45 days, if we don’t launch it, then it’s not gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, it just came together and and here it is today. Contact support at heavy hitter club for the discount of your mastermind member. And if you’re not, then I’m going to post the link to the signup page in the in the Hangouts help I’ll go and post in Facebook. There is a there is a page for those of you who want to take care of us want to take advantage of The special that we’re offering, it’s a it’s a bonehead special you can’t you can’t say no, you you can but why would you? So there you go.

Awesome just to clarify though, because I know we’re gonna get this question what’s the difference between heavy hitter club and the mastermind and heavy coder hitter club is technical SEO spearheaded by Robin Marko Of course some of us might may linger and pop in appear you know and such but it’s going to be primarily Marco and Rob talking about technical SEO stuff like just real nitty gritty shit guys. So that’s what that is. And the mastermind includes SEO but also so much more right includes business building and you know, marketing and branding and all different types of marketing, digital marketing and holistic marketing and everything else. So there’s, you know, outsourcing, management, all everything else that goes into running an operating a business, or a heavy hitter club is specifically technical SEO and How to monetize and get best results from SEO, that sort of thing. So I just want to clarify that.

Yeah, I think well, Marco, I’ll let you put in your own words, but I think you put it best for the difference between each come in there because you want to well, like you’re saying scorched earth with SEO. But if you’re a business owner, if, unless that’s your passion, that may not be where you should be spending your time.

exactly exactly. What if you’re a business owner, and you’re what’s in your mindset should be growing your agency growing your business, SEO is part of growing your business. But you as a business owner shouldn’t be in there, you should delegate you should have someone a partner via just whoever so that you can stay in the Semantic Mastery mastermind and grow your business, whatever business it may be. It doesn’t have to be an agency. And at the same time you have someone with us in in the SEO part of it, learning the technical aspect aspects that are going to help you with with rankings. that are going to help you drive traffic to the website. It’s all about entity. Right? In today in the Semantic Web, think about it. This is where it was going all along the Semantic Web of things, not strings. It’s all about things. And there’s nothing better as far as Google is concerned than a brand, then if that thing is a brand, and it’s related to all of the entities that it finds under that niche, right. So this is what we’re looking to push to people how this how this is happening, why it’s happening, and how you can take advantage of it because we look for any, any and every loophole, an advantage that we can take out. We do. Most of the stuff we do, by the way, are not loopholes, loopholes, that they can be closed rather easily. And we’ve seen that happen time after time after time, but all is people said it was a loophole. But it’s been a five year old loophole that hasn’t been closed. So think about that. What what why, why you’re concentrating on this. Like don’t don’t don’t think that you To choose one or the other, if you’re a business owner, you shouldn’t, you should you should be. You shouldn’t do both. And if you can’t do both, then yes, you should have someone who takes care of the SEO part so that you can concentrate on growing your business.

Definitely. Good stuff. All right. Well, Hernan How you doing? what’s what’s going on? You? Look, you look good. You look excited.

Yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to be here. It’s hoody season, we’re good, we’re safe. I’ve been I’ve been working a lot like lately, you know, a lot of our business owners, they’re starting to understand the power of digital marketing, they’re pivoting. So you know, I’ve been doing some consulting for those for those entrepreneurs that they are, you know, that they’re not letting things dictate how they’re running their business, but rather, they’re getting ahead of the curve. And I’m excited that, you know, we’re helping business owners to achieve just that, you know, to achieve, hey, we all know that this is like some, these are weird times, but we need to get prepared. We need to be there. So it’s, you know, it’s really cool. It’s really cool to be able to help some of these people out. So I’m getting Be Here

cool good stuff all right Chris last but not least how you doing man?

Yeah doing good here I’m not so excited this or not involved the Facebook stuff at the moment the bots in like with today’s or not no so that means but like yeah like it’s good otherwise you’re moving on and I’ll be back

nice all right yeah you need to get like what did you have was it uh it was like a box of roses The Terminator?

yeah pretty much it’s awesome

all right actually don’t pull out a gun on screen and pray freak people out but it’d be critical real quick just want to say for those of you joining us for the first time you probably a little confused but we want to say thank you and you’re in the right place we’re going to get into answering SEO digital marketing questions. If you’re watching the replay you can always join us live at semantic mastery comm slash HD questions, ask your questions attend live, but if you can’t we understand things come up. You can check out the replays on YouTube and Grab your channel so you get notified of those updates. Also, if you’re an agency owner or a consultant, you want to get more clients, you want to grow your revenue, and you want to scale your team so that you can work less and earn more. Find out more about that at two x your agency COMM The membership, there is definitely growing. We got some great stuff going on. We just wrapped up the last of the training was out Monday.

Yeah, Monday. So there is a ton. I’m not going to go into the details of it. But there is a ton of good stuff, but it is all centered around those three central pillars, right, getting more clients growing your revenue and scaling your team. Right. That’s what it’s about. So if you’re interested in any one of those, it’s a no brainer. You put all three of those together. And it’s kind of the rocket fuel for your agency rocket, if you will.

May I interrupt for a moment?

No, just kidding.

I just finished we finished week 12 which was a collaboration of of all of us, you know, that you’re seeing on screen right now. And so, it was it was on Monday. We kind of Recorded

what we call insights from agency veterans. And so we each kind of spoke throughout the recorded webinar of us kind of just kind of having conversation about what we’ve learned over the last, you know, throughout our digital marketing careers, with Marco having the most experience or tenure of all of us, but you know, combined, we’ve got a lot of damn experience. And so we’ve each we each have our own businesses apart from Semantic Mastery. And so we all have and we’ve all experienced similar issues but unique to our own businesses. So we kind of really just spoke about, you know, what, what we would do differently if we could do it all over again, in an effort to help you guys our audience to not make the same mistakes or at least to recognize when something is occurring and a way to push through it or get around it or over it or whatever. much quicker, if that makes sense. So it I think it was really powerful way to kind of wrap up The 12 weeks of intense training and there’s over 80 freakin videos in that course. So it’s, it’s definitely a lot more value than what we’re charging for it. So I would encourage you guys to go pick it up.

Definitely. Yeah, and we’ve got some more news about that coming. We also added some little bit of additional, but there’s gonna be some more information coming in next week about this and then I’ll just drop a little hint. It’s for those of you who are interested, and getting started. You know, you can start with 2xyouragency, that’s fine. But for those of you who are just saying, Hey, you know, there’s too many obstacles, or I’m not sure you know, what niche to choose, I’m not sure what service or vertical I should be working in. I’m not sure if I had the money or the capital to start consulting business. Things like that. Keep your ears and eyes open and we’ll be getting with you next week. Also, for those of you who are more concentrated on the SEO side of things, besides the heavy hitters club, if you want to get step by step results from proven processes, then the battle plan is where you should be starting is generally where we tell everyone to start with Semantic Mastery. You can find out more about that a battle plan dot semantic mastery comm now what I’m going to say is we’re going to have a brand new edition of the battle plan coming out and yet I would still advise you to go pick up battle plan right now, it’s a no brainer. It’s a just, I can’t I don’t want to say this on here, but it’s a ton of bonuses that are included in there, you can get access to it now and it’s going to pay for itself while we had one person pay for itself in 13 minutes, but for you, you can pay for itself and definitely like a week or two and then pick up the new edition when it comes out and keep the price low. It’s an entry price that we love and that everyone else loves. We’ve had I think 13 or 1400 people get the battle plan, put it to use and get good results. So anyways, if you haven’t yet, just go grab it and then the new edition will be coming out we’ll have some good stuff involved with that. And last but not least, mg y v. If you aren’t familiar with that, head over to mtv.co check out where you can get all the done for you services. If you’re live today I posted on the page, the current flash sale we have going on with link building and the SEO field. You can save a bundle over there, but only for the next 48 hours. And if you’re checking this out later, and you’re wondering how you can find out about stuff like that, just go over to Mt. yt.co. Hop on the newsletter list and that’s how you can get notified of good stuff like this.

All right, I think that’s it guys. Let’s dive into the questions.

Sweet. Grab the screen.

Marco. I posted a message in slack for you. Yes.

That’s pretty cool. All right. Sorry, guys. Let me get into Okay, you should be seeing my screen. Is that correct?

Yep. Okay.

All right. Uh, get my bearings standby.

How Do You Exclude The SEO Powershield G-Site From Google SERPs?

Okay, all these questions came from the That’s interesting. All right, a DC SEO says Thanks for answering my question last week, guys, I appreciate it. One last question. Before I worded the shield just so I’m completely clear, can I make sure that only my site appears in the SERPs, and the G site doesn’t appear on the results pages? If you set it to no index, but I don’t know why you would do that. Here’s the question. Here’s my question for you. Why would you not want to take up another spot in the search engine results in the top 10? Right? Every every asset that you can rank on the first page for whatever your desired keyword is, is another competitor that’s not showing up on the page. So in my opinion, why would you ever not want the G site to also appear for your primary keywords or your entity search or whatever it is that you’re trying to rank? It seems like to me that you’d want to have all 10 spots on the first page if possible. So a G site can absolutely and will often rank for your primary keywords. In fact, it will often rank right below the money site. Here’s the thing if you’re if you’re I framing your money site pages, you theme mirror like we tell you guys to do. And you’re I framing your money site pages in your G site pages and somebody lands on the G site, they’re gonna see your money site page anyways, they could still submit a contact request form they could order you know, make a purchase, submit an opt in do whatever it is that you want to do right from the within the iframe of the G site. So why the hell would you not want it so that that would be my question to you. But yes, if you don’t want it to show up in the SERPs, you could always set it to no index. I have no idea why you would do that though.

Anybody want to comment on that? And not only that, once we release the the cracking, we can’t control it. We can’t control the beast. It’s gonna do what it’s going to do and there’s just no way to control it. Yes, you set it to no index. But as Bradley said, why would you want to give your your competition extra real estate space to compete against you? It makes absolutely no sense you can make last pages that are that are really neat, or you can everything that’s above the fold with CTA that are attractive, and that will get clicks, they’ll get action. You can get a video in there, you can get a whole bunch right above the fold. So so if you don’t like how the rest of it looks, person isn’t likely to scroll down, if they find what they’re looking for, like right above the fold, they’re not likely to scroll down. SEOs are the ones who, who tend to do that. But if you’ve answered the question, or the pain or the problem, right above the fold, they’re just going to click and go over to where they need to go. So think about it that way. And no, I’ll say it again. We cannot control the beast once it’s released. It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do. And that’s it.

Should We Add The GSite To Google Search Console Of The Main GMB Email?

Awesome. Fitz is up. He says, Can we or maybe also should be at the G site to search console for our main GMB email. Yeah, you can’t I just I just typically add it to the Search Console, the same google google account that The drive stack g site were built under. That’s typically how I do it. But you can always so so in other words, you know, whatever Google account it is that MGYB creates for the drive stack and the G site, I submit to search console within that Google account. Now if I want to still be able to, you know, view it or manage it, you know, look at reports and such from Search Console from the main GMB account that it’s, you know, pushing relevance to then you can add that as an additional user. But you know, it’s up to you. I don’t think it makes any difference either one way or the other. The whole idea of putting it into Search Console so that you can you know, help with the index and such comments.

Should Different Website Properties Have Different NAP?

Okay, and up he says should different website properties have different n AP, name, address and phone number working with an Umbrella Corporation as multiple ecom website brands want to have SEO power shields for each individual econ property but worried about penalties or issues that may occur with shared or overlapping NAPs.

Um, you know, I don’t know, because it’s not a local business. If it’s ecom, I don’t know that, you know, NAP issues are ambiguous with NAP is going to cause any problems if you’re not trying to rank in maps. That makes sense. You know, I’ll let Marco take this one, though, because this is more up his alley than mine. I don’t all I do is local. So I don’t really know the best answer for that. Marco, what do you say?

This is one of those things is is what what is the what are one of the places where I look at the competition? First of all, what are they doing? Not not because I’m concerned about the competition, but just what are they doing? If they’re national, they’re global. How are they relating their entities and and if they have offices in other places, how are they relating those? you saying that you have different websites, but if it’s all part of the same Corporation, if there’s one Umbrella Corporation, then you’d relate those through the schema You can create all kinds of neat relationships through scheme. And it’s one of the things that Rob is going to show in the heavy hitter club how to relate all of these so that it becomes just one big umbrella. Right? And under that umbrella would be all of the different offices or places, or products or services or whatever it is that you’re trying to do to create all of these associations.

Yeah, because see, I mean, that’s I would use organization or corporation, structured data for the umbrella company, right? And that would apply to each individual site as well, because it’s all part of the overall organization or corporation, right. But then you could have like website schema, for example, not necessarily local business. I mean, you could have local business if you do have a GMB for each one, which could be part of the organization, right, but there would be individual locations, but for ecom I don’t know that that’s necessary. Again, I don’t do ecom. So I don’t know if That’s correct or not, or if that would help. But you could do something like website schema for that if that makes sense.

So the organization would tie it all together. And that’s what Marco was saying is, you know, when you have an entity, even if you have multiple divisions, or multiple locations, or different, you know, pseudo brands that are like the children, like child companies have a larger parent company, a broader parent company, if you can tie all that together through through the entity, all of them will benefit, if that makes sense. Because, again, you’re talking about branding and the entity itself, even if they’re separate, like divisions or sub brands and that kind of stuff. It will benefit from the overall organization that kind of ties everything together, if that makes sense. So, anyways, as far as the URL shortener go to mgyb.co, slash s, mg y b.co slash s, and this is our URL shortener now, there are different subscription levels. You could have a free account if you want it, but you get a lot of cool things with different subscription levels. And we’ve been using this for all the drive stacks URL shortening that we do for customers of ours, and everything else for what, a year and a half, two years now. And it’s super, super powerful. And you can do a lot of really cool things with our URL shortener. If you have a paid plan such as ad retargeting scripts and things like that into the, the header for the redirect all kinds of really cool things that you can do password protect URLs and stuff like that. So I would go to mgyb.co/s, and use that. Anybody want to comment on that?

No. The power behind our shortener is incredible. It is. It ranks for keywords. And so it just, it’s just ridiculous, as you said, Why you can do so by all means, if you want to use I only mean that’s fine. Bitly Be careful. It’s a 302 Google Firebase, it’s also 302. It can be a 301 if you go through the trouble of making it a 301 redirect, but you’d have to figure out how to do that.

Yeah, and what’s interesting is, is it’s crazy. But oftentimes, and I’ve seen this happen with drive stack files, for example, the MG y b, the redirect URL will rank. And in the search results, the shortened URL will show even though when you click it it for, you know, it redirects to the actual Google Drive File. And it’s really interesting to see the Drive files rank with the mgyb.co short URL, because typically, you don’t you don’t see the redirect URL in the search results, you see the target or the final destination, right? So it’s very interesting to see that.

Can You Upgrade A Single Tier Into Multi Tier Syndication Network When You Order The SEO Power Shield In MGYB?

Karen says, Hey, there I had a few questions from last week, which, unfortunately, we’re not able to get to So here they are. The SEO power shield syndication network. If you order an SEO power shield, it comes with a syndication network. However, I am assuming it’s a single tiered syndication network. Yes, it is the branded network. But let’s say I want a multi tier syndication network, is there an upgrade option rather than purchasing a full syndication network, since single tiered network already exists? Contact support at mgyb.co. And make that request and I’m sure I’m not sure, maybe Marco sure, but I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate that sort of a request, but it’s gonna have to be a custom order as opposed to just something that’s done through the normal channel. If that makes sense. Marco’s that’s something we can do.

Maybe I mean, we’d have to bolt on the the tiered syndication network to the to the already existing cynic. But But why would you want a tiered syndication network when tier one works just fine.

I mean, that’s a good question. I would ask the same thing but maybe he has a reason.

So okay, I mean, a fine, right to support and then what Robin I’ll do is we’ll sit and talk about it and see if it’s even worth it because the price that we might have to charge you may not make it worth it to you.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t think I mean unless there if you have a reason for wanting a multi tiered syndication network and then by all means do that, but I don’t you know, we have been encouraging people to not use multi tiered syndication networks for blog syndication, because they’re kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. However, if you’ve got something like RSS masher, which is Damon Nelson’s product, it’s really good for creating beautiful spliced feeds with like, it’s really really cool you can you can create really cool custom spliced feeds and in use that to power your second tier networks so that you have multiple relevant content sources posting to those networks, which is what we recommend. And with something like RSS masher, it becomes much much easier to maintain multi tiered networks. The more manual method, which is how it had been done for four years, requires adding a bunch of relevant RSS content feeds to the second tier. triggers, which becomes a nightmare, because let’s say that if all you did was add, you know, three additional arts, so you got your money site RSS feed. But then let’s say you add three additional Khan relevant content feeds for each blog. second tier syndication network, right? So So if there’s three of them, which is there are the way that we build them. So the first single tier is first ring, right, one ring, and then there’s three syndication networks on the second tier, each being triggered by one of the blogs from the tier one network, right? So when I say blogs, I mean, blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress. But if you were to add three additional content feeds at the second tier trigger point. So for each one of those, you would need an additional nine feeds relevant content feeds that you don’t control. And not only that, you have to set up a separate set of recipes or applets inside of IFTTT for each feed. So let’s say there’s 15 applets that you need to set up for each RSS feed that you add, that’s an additional 45 applets per syndication network that you need to create, which in itself is not that bad. It’s a bit tedious. But you know, once it’s done, it’s done. But the problem occurs when you don’t have control over those feeds. And because of that, like things can happen to their site, the site that you’re using the feed from, where it could have a you know, it could I’ve seen RSS feeds hiccup and they just spit out a shit ton of posts and it can terminate your have a lot of your syndication network properties terminate because of over publishing, I, you know, they’re things could break. This is a ton of things that cause a lot of maintenance issues. And if you’re just dealing with one project, it’s okay because you know, you’re only managing one project, but you’ve got SEO in your name up here. So I’m assuming you probably do client work or more than just one project. And so multi tiered networks become kind of a nightmare to too cumbersome to manage. When you’re doing multiple projects. At least that’s my opinion, unless you’re using something like Like RSS masher which really simplifies that process, and adds a whole lot of control to even the input feeds that you create the super spliced feed from, because it has filters and all these other really cool things like it can actually strip out content from the feed. There’s a code inserter, a code stripper, there’s all kinds of things in there. So, again, multi tier networks are not recommended. Obviously, if you know what you’re doing and you have a strategic reason for using it, then by all means, do so.

Have You Done A Test On Linking Your Money Site At The Footer Disclaimer Section Of Client Site?

Okay, next question. Disclaimer links. Disclaimer link on client sites. As you know, there is a long term practice for SEO web design companies to add a link back to their site in the footer. Yes, like the footer link section, right. I’ve recently been switching all of those links for SEO and marketing by brand plus keyword plus location with brand plus keyword plus location being the anchor text linking to my SEO company’s GMB profile, and I’ve seen some big results from it. Have you done any testing related to this just curious? No, though, those are considered Wide links and I mean you know, I, I do put those often in client sites the footer as well, but I usually just link back with my brand name and I usually nofollow those links, I have not done any testing with them in years, just because it became kind of a you know, site wide links could work what had become a negative factor essentially, for a long long time and so I just got into the habit of the routine of just note just linking to my brand name, so big bamboo marketing and then know following the link so that it didn’t cause any, like penguin issues, if that makes sense. But uh, but no, I haven’t done any testing with it. It’s interesting to hear that anybody else.

Well, it stands to reason right the brand plus keyword plus location by eliminating marketing because you don’t need it. If you have if you’ve done your entity work correctly on your on your marketing website. then adding a link that’s your brand, and the keyword and the locations that you creating that relevant For the bot, there’s no reason why then it should pick up an algorithm, any type of algorithmic penalty, because it’s what you’re asked to do at the local level. This is how you’re taught to associate everything brand, plus location plus keyword, brand. keyword, okay. That’s what the bottom is looking for comes in, and it looks for this. So what it’s picking up is all of that relevance back to your site, which is what we do really with our academy reloaded, except that we protected 111 layer out through the SEO partnership, the drive secondary site, right? We create all of our all the all of the relevance in there because we know that what Google is going to do is power it up, rather than look to to penalize it algorithmically. So if he’s obviously getting results just from those changes, it works. It could stop working in the future. I can say anything that’s working in Google could stop working tomorrow. Theoretically, simply because they decide to, you have to be careful with that type of thing.

Would You Get An Algorithmic Penalty For Using Generic Terms Too Many Times?

Okay, thanks Marco. The next question is from big Billy says anchor question, I have several product pages that I put a link to my category page for that type of product. I use the word here many, many times to link up to the same page, any chance I could get that page and algorithmic penalty or doesn’t matter because it’s a generic term now not for that. If you over optimized for a singular keyword, then that can actually cause problems, but something like that, but my question is, I’m not sure. Well, again, product pages, I don’t do e commerce. So I’m not even going to explain why I wouldn’t use here so much, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I would try to use various keywords though. Again, I don’t do e commerce. So I don’t know what you’re specifically doing. But I typically when I’m linking back up to you know, any sort of like a silo landing page or homepage or whatever, I try to just vary the anchor text with LSI keywords right. So synonyms for whatever my primary keywords are from. So for example, if I’m coming from a blog post about Tree Removal in a particular area, then I’m going to use some sort of tree removal keyword or variation of a tree removal service tree cutting service, arborist tree removal, something like that, to link back up to the landing page for that particular silo. But again, using a generic term like that it should, it’s not going to cause any out I’ve never heard of that causing an algorithmic penalty, because I don’t know of any SEOs out there that are optimizing for here. You know what I’m saying? So, Margaret, do you have any comments on that?

No, I haven’t seen it. And in fact, when I do my interlinking, I use the generic terms a lot. But not only here, go here, more information, learn more, read more, all of that. So there’s about 10 or 12 terms that you can use, and you know, you can spin those so that so that they don’t appear that way. The same thing, right one one after the other because it can get as far as the user, it can get repetitive. And that’s not something that that you want, you don’t want the user to hear hear again, and again, here, here, here. And here. This is a, it’s e commerce, I assume there’s a bunch of products on there, all of them with here. So create variations simply for the sake of not boring the user with the same terms over and over and over again.

Yeah, and remember, you can also lengthen the phrase for the that you’re going to use for the anchor text. It doesn’t always have to just be a keyword guys, or if keyword phrase, it can be a longer statement, like, you know what I mean? So, you know, get, get more information about key word here, that could be an entire link. That makes sense. The whole, you know, short sentence could be a link. And what that does is, again, it adds diversity, but you still get your keyword in there without it being over optimized, and it makes sense to the reader or the user. You know, Because you know that the phrase itself is, is a call to action. Does that make sense? So there’s a lot of variations that you can do to kind of add some diversity to that. That’s cool. Go ahead. No, nothing. Yes, absolutely. Also question for Marco, I own our bias and RYS reloaded, and I’m about to get serious about it. Well, that’s good. Should I even learn the original version or just drive straight in the ROI ASR?

Well, there’s a lot of neat stuff by Dr. Gary in the archives. So I would say by all means, you need to get to the archives. But to get to the archives, first start with what’s with what the most current training is. And that’s whatever is in our academy reloaded. And please understand, we do need to update it, update that at some point because a couple of things have changed, not the power, power, the power that that we’re generating doesn’t change, and it’s gotten even better, but there’s a few things in there. That we do have to that we do have to go over. I’m glad mean, I wish I knew your name, come on the Facebook group and say what’s up. So go through the training. We’re still supporting after five years, we’re still supporting the damn Facebook group. We’re still in there answering questions. So come on in there. If you have any questions, ask away.

How Do You iFrame An Ecom Site If The G Site Has A Frame Breaker?

Awesome. Last week, Marco mentioned to iframe your eecom page onto a G site, but the new g site has a frame breaker. Is that true Marco? No, I always work in the old site. But I I’m quite sure that new g sites have iframes do don’t they?

Okay, so maybe he has his terms mixed up. You cannot take the new g site and iframe that anywhere else. Right. It does have a frame breaker. But you can iframe on the new g site. There’s a right insert embed code, right that does a What do you call it? There’s an icon in there that allows you to iframe anything unless what you’re trying to iframe has a frame breaker also.

Right? Right. So your ecom platform may have an iframe breaker, but you are able to iframe pages into the new g site. That’s and that’s what I was. I always work in the old site, the GMB builders build the new site, but all the work that I do for theme earring and everything is always in the classic g sites. But I was gonna say, I know the new g sites have my pages I, you know, like the pearl trees and, you know, press advantage page and things like that all get iframe in there, so I can’t imagine. The only thing I would assume that Billy is that perhaps your eecom platform might have an iframe breaker. So Okay, moving on. Bibi says Hey guys, what is the problem of duplicate content during syndication? For full text post? Is there a problem apply on branded network also, or just tier two and beyond? There’s no problem at all, when you have it. That’s the whole point of the attribution link below. If you your RSS feed should have, depending on what if what kind of plugin you’re using RSS plugin, God forbid, you’re using Yoast. But almost all RSS plugins now have an RSS setting that will allow you to inject an attribution link either before the content or after the content. And so when your plugin settings, you go in and you you code in the attribution link. And there’s typically some sort of tokens in there like post URL, post title, site title, all of those things that you can tokenize your attribution link for so that essentially it will pull the title so what I always do is I always use the post title as the anchor text, and it links to the post URL. Again, those are tokens that you can code into the attribution code in the RSS plugin settings. However, if your RSS plugin settings don’t have, if you don’t have the ability to code in an attribution link, then you can do that within the applets inside of IFTTT, which just means you have to edit the app. It’s really only count you really only Well, you should do it also for Google Drive. So like, your document sharing when you’re when you read syndicate a blog post into Google Drive, and what is it Microsoft One Drive or whatever the hell it is. Those should also have attribution links. But really, it’s your going to be your blogs, so blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, that you really want to make sure that you have the attribution links. And, and that’s it, there’s no problem with duplicate content, because you’re, you’re citing the original source. That’s the whole point. And even if you weren’t citing the original source, it’s still not a duplicate content problem. duplicate content only occurs on the same domain. It doesn’t occur off site if it did, then press releases would be toxic. And some press releases are toxic, actually, that there is there’s no such thing as duplicate content anyway. Even even on site it I mean, all that’s going to happen if the pages are similar, or the same what Google is going to do. And we’ve explained this before, it’s going to start AB AB testing ABCD. However many pages are similar, it’s going to take those, it’s going to start giving an impression. And then it’s going to decide which one answers the query the best. And that’s the page, that’s going to end up indexed, right. And in the active index, let’s just call it versus all of the others, but you’re not going to get any penalties. What you are going to get is warnings about duplicate titles and descriptions, so that you can make unique titles and descriptions. And the content can pretty much be the same. And then again, you’re leaving out you’re leaving it up to Google to decide which version of your page is the best for the query. Instead of you deciding on your best converting page versus all the other pages, look in Search Console, and see which pages are being served for the different keywords and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll see ABC ABCD you’ll see that like if the pages are Very similar, you’ll see four or five, six pages. If you’re doing mass mass page built, you’ll see even more. And Google will give give all of those pages impressions until it decides which one the best one would be. That’s what they call keyword cannibalization. It’s not really that it’s Google deciding which pages was the query the best. So let’s, let’s end this duplicate content myth. once and for all. I actually saw a definitive guide to SEO by a company which I kind of respected. They have really good information. They put out the Definitive Guide to technical SEO, and they went into into duplicate content as if it could be an issue. And it can only be an issue if you’re having all of these pages competing against one another to see which one, Google is going to rank. That’s the only way that they can affect it. You’re not going to get a penalty. You’re not it. Nothing’s going to happen other than Google. Know, it’ll take Google, as long as it takes Google to decide which page is the best, you want to leave that up to Google, or do you want to go in, figure out which one it is that you want, and then rel canonical or redirect all of the other pages to that one page?

Yeah, go look, go search Google for canonical. And you’ll see or rel=canonical. And you’ll see that Google created that specifically for that reason, and that so that you can push credit from similar pages to whatever you want to be the parent or master page, so to speak. And that’s to specifically address potential duplicate content issues on even the same domain. That’s what canonical was originally developed for. And they came up with cross domain canonical, as well. And that’s for canonical Ising, similar pages from other domains to a specific target, if that makes sense. So maybe I’m gonna I think this is the same BB that we’ve answered questions before, but we guys we’re going to have to say this once again, and I can’t assume that everybody knows this, but we don’t Typically allow people or want ask people to post this many questions because it’s just not fair to other people. So, because these are all around the exact same thing, and they’re very, very short going to be really easy to answer, I will answer these guys. But come on next time just post a question or two, please and then allow some others to post and then post another question or two just because it’s not fair. Okay. So the next question was, is there a reason why we should have REL equals nofollow on attributed link on the RSS items? No, other than a lot of the plugins that there are SEO plugins, when you code in an RS an attribution link, they’re going to automatically apply a nofollow tag to it. And unless you want to go in and actually edit the plug in code, which I used to do with Yoast years ago, but every time Yoast like I would go in and into the plug in code, right but and actually edit the plug in code to remove that REL equals nofollow tag to the RSS attribution link. However, every time the plugin updated, it would, it would update that code. didn’t have to go back and edit it. And you can imagine if you have more than just a couple of sites, how how much of a pain in the ass that was, so I just stopped doing it. I don’t even care anymore. If we can make it follow great. If not nofollow will is good enough. It’s just it’s a it’s a, it’s a, you know, an efficiency thing. Right? That makes sense. It’s it’s just too difficult to go in and edit plug in code. However, if you got a plug in code that will allow you to put in a follow link as opposed to and it doesn’t automatically apply the nofollow tag then by all means, do that, which by the way, if you code it in through IFTTT, then you it will be it will be a follow link as long as the blogs or the syndication point provides follow links but many of them are nofollow links anyways. Okay. The next one was why should you use spintax? Why should you spintax the attribution and the after text post when syndicating RSS, it just adds diversity to the attribution link. So it makes sense right? If if you if you can add spintax to the attribution link text that you’re, you know, in the plugin settings like our plugin does, then it just adds diversity so it’s not always the same exact line right on every single post that gets syndicated out but that’s it’s not a problem it just adds some diversity if you if you have that functionality use it if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. Okay. Why you have limited the RSS plugin to only five posts. I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Chris has an on he’s the one that developed our pup but there should be settings to be able to adjust that. And also it’s not the RSS plugin typically that does that go into your WordPress settings go to WordPress admin area, go to settings, reading and then take a look there and right there is where you should see how many posts show in the RSS feed. And that should be the set that should be where you adjust that setting not necessarily RSS plugin. Okay. Is the RSS plugin just for adding spintax functionality now that well, I can’t tell you unless you’re in the mastermind the mastermind plugin adds a whole RSS plugin which is only available in the mastermind it’s free to mastermind members it has a lot of additional functionality I you must if you’re talking about our RSS plugin, but the free version I can’t tell you because I haven’t used that five years no shit so I don’t even know what the dashboard that looks like. Does anybody know here?

No, no cuz I only use the Pro.

Yeah, the pro version which is in the mastermind is it adds all kinds of additional functionality like it allows you to republish old posts it allows you to add hashtags and all kinds of cool stuff that Chris coded into it but um again that’s that’s the pro version which is in the mastermind I don’t use the free version guys. I just there’s really no reason for me to so I can’t tell you what that even looks like. I’m sorry about that. Two k says. How do you guys use AWS site? Yes, Amazon s3 bucket for the ID page. Why is that two site? Well, a couple reasons one, to siphon some authority from Amazon to because it’s an Amazon domain, which we can just fucking hammer with, with kitchen sink, spam and everything else we want to throw at it. Number three, because it’s just an HTML page that we upload because it loads really fast. And we’re going to, we load it up with our iframe stacking that we do the the infinite loop, right, the infinite entity loop, the mirror and mirror picture and picture that never ends. That’s what we do. And those pages, trust me when you build out an ID page, the way that we do it. And then go back and even add in some additional things, it will literally break your computer, if you try to load it. It takes so much cash because so many iframes are trying to load and it will overwhelm the cache or the memory on your on your on your on your PC. I know because it’s locked up mine many times. And remember guys that Id pages aren’t supposed to be for public consumption. In other words, they’re not necessarily something that you want to rank or anything else, it’s specifically for the bots. So it doesn’t matter if it’s going to lock up your browser because how often are you or you or anybody else going to actually visit it? So but there’s a number of reasons why we use that Marco, you could probably name a few others.

No, no, I mean, you name the main month. The main purpose of that is to create another property in another powerful domain for the entity loop. So it goes to however it is that we do it. That’s how we do it. And we just add another we could add more, but more isn’t necessarily better that there’s diminishing returns on what that loop will bring back. I think we’ve tried others and it locks it up even with with as much RAM as I have. Yeah, it’ll lock up my computer and I have tons around.

I got 3232 gigabytes or whatever, whatever it is megabytes, whatever the hell it is. And it’s in it’ll lock machine right up, man. I got 64 and That’s ridiculous what it is. Yeah. But anyway, the main reason is power and an additional place where we store our entity information so that the bot can come and pick up some more somewhere else. Just following the breadcrumbs. That’s all it is.

Yeah. It’s interesting because one of our mastermind members, Darrell had shared with us one of his entity stacks that he had entity loop stacks that he had created was like an ID page, essentially. And it was freakin insane. I can’t remember it as something like, I don’t remember, I’m just gonna throw a number out there. Because it was ridiculous. Like 30 freakin iframes in it, like, it was just it was nuts. And he was like, careful. Make sure you got everything else shut down when you click this link. It was funny. But it’s, it’s pretty cool. So the next question was, could you not just a part of the second half of that question was could you not just use the Google site with all the embedded stuff and put that in the schema, or is there a reason you don’t do that? Yeah, let me just explain why. The last question from today we do use the G site,

we do it right and we embed the idx page in the G site right. So and the and the G site gets embedded in the idx page. Hence the mirror the entity loop, right. Infinite entity loop. The second or the next question was one more question when I order a press release from MDB. Do you guys create the press advantage new newsroom page? Yes, yes we do. Okay, so you will get the benefit of that. Nathan says I saw your post today marketing the SEO location shields is that the ROI stack extension you have been working on launching No not yet. The SEO location shield can also be utilized for brands or adding a second location under an already established brand with the syndication network. Already have an SEO shield for my brand. I need some created for inner service pages. I’m trying to rank well The location shield is if you like, and market will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way because all I do is local, the location shields for me as if I have multiple locations for a particular brand. So for example, I’m working on a tree service project and the map that’s making available to the public to the mastermind. I’m doing it as essentially a live case study, by the way, my mastermind webinars tomorrow, and I’ve made a lot of progress on that. So those of you that are in the mastermind, I’ll be sharing a lot more about that tomorrow. But anyways, it’s it’s, it’s a new brand with several GMB locations that I’ve already established but I’m rebranding from an old an older brand to the to the new company that because I got a new service provider anyways, so I ordered a SEO power shield for the main brand. In fact, I was working on I’m working on, here you go take a look. Here’s the entity assets here. I’m working inside process street developing that stuff out right now. So you can see the SEO, I’m not going to click into there, but the Seo shield would be there. And it’s the same thing as I’m actually working through developing the process out so that my team can can do that for me. And so the primary brand is associated with whatever top level keyword is, in this case, it won’t have a location associated with the top level keyword in the brand, because I want to create that as like an organization. In other words, and then all of the individual locations, which will be built on inner pages inside of the main site will each get its own location shield, which means it gets its own g site and drive stack that are optimized for that particular location. And it’ll have an ID page as well. But then they get basically placed underneath the primary branded ri ri S Drive stack. Does that make sense? So in other words, each location shield the ri s stack becomes an inner folder of the primary entity stack, if that makes sense. And that that way is that Don’t have to build the ID page for each location. Each separate location drive stack is optimized specifically for the market level keywords plus the location, look at location modifier for that particular location, and then the ID page, which is unique to each location as well. But all of that gets placed under the parent main entity stack. And so that’s that’s the way that I do it, because all I do is local. And so that’s how I think of location shields, although I’m sure location shields can be applied to other stuff other than local. How would you do that Marco?

And why would you want to location shield for something other than local?

Well, there’s the answer then.

So Nathan, that’s hopefully that makes some sense. If you have, you know, multiple locations, that’s what you would want to do. If you have inner service pages, then those would just be expanding your current drive stack. You wouldn’t need a separate idx page and a separate drive stack built for a particular service page. You could just clone Which you currently have, and then optimize, like, edit and that’s, that’s something that we will have available soon and MGB that’s the entity or the drive stack expansion service, which is coming soon. Marco, did we have a time on that yet?

No, we just asked the developer today and he’s still working on it.

Okay. So hopefully that makes some sense Nathan

Would It Be Okay To Use A General Location Of A Nearby City When Doing Schema For Service Area Businesses?

Troy says hello when doing schema for service area business address lat long and don’t want to use exact address because trying to rank a nearby bigger city can should be okay to use more general location of a nearby city like city state. lat long Okay, um, you know, you can you can omit? Well, not necessarily, I can’t remember if it will take it or not, if you like if you were to go to local business schema, for example, and right here where it does say geo coordinates lat long, you might be able to just remove that from the code and then go try to validate the code in the structured data testing tool and see if it still validates. I know I was like, for example, I was just talking about this tree service project I’m working on Well, the primary domain isn’t, I don’t want that associated with like the homepage. I don’t want that associated with a particular GMB because I want all that I want it to just be brand and keyword. And so I still have structured data for that. But because I don’t want, I still have local business structured data, but I don’t have an actual street address. I just have city state and zip, and then the Latin long, but I was able to omit the street address and still have the local business structured data validated in the structured data testing tool. So I was able to admit that so that I can still have local business structure. Well, there’s organization Plus Local Business structured data, even on the homepage, which isn’t associated with any particular one, one specific address, if that makes sense. So you might want to be able to just go in and actually Edit the latitude and longitude out and see if it will validate. Otherwise, I don’t know Mark, what do you say? I don’t know that I would want to use a generic problems, right? I see potential problems, because he’s talking about a local business with a business centroid, the centroid being the point where the business is and and we’ll extend in a radius from that from that is the center of the business in relationship to the radius. Correct. So Google has that, because you went to the pains of verifying and Google verifying your business, you not have a pin. Google knows the exact location of that pin. Now you go and you submit structured data, which is directed directly to Googlebot. Googlebot comes in crawls and you have different geo settings, different latitude and longitude. Now is that in and of itself, going to cause a problem? I don’t know. I haven’t tested it but Essentially, it could be a problem, right? And I don’t understand why you want to do that, instead of extending your central, I try to trick the bot.

I agree. Instead of trying to extend instead of trying to extend the centroid and creating that relationship between the business centroid, and the area that he’s trying to target, if you create that relationship, that’s gonna work a whole lot better than trying to trick the bot into seeing different latitude and longitude for your business.

Yeah, I agree. Here’s what I was showing, though, just in case you wanted to test that is that part of it right there, into that comma down there. I know, it’s probably hard for you guys to see. But if you were to eliminate that section right there, and then try to validate the code once the rest of the code was fleshed out, it’s, I’m assuming it would validate but it might require the geo Latin long, I’ve never tried to omit that intentionally. But you could try it and see if it validate, but I agree with Marco 100%. There’s, in my opinion, there’s really no need to do that. I don’t know why you would want to do that when actually you could just use Is the the specific that coordinates for where the business actually resides where the physical location is. And then through your content, your silo structure and everything else you can tell Google what your service areas and that’s, that’s what my Tree Service case study that I’m doing in the mastermind is going to be demonstrating is how through just blog posting through silo structure which simple silo structure not even complex silo structure and just blog posting, and then theme mirroring and interlinking correctly, that we can get significant results for a very large service area even with only one GMB if needed. I’ve got multiple GM B’s but we’re expand for this particular project. We’re expanding south in Virginia, from where the central location is and all of the southern areas are going to be strictly organic rankings. All of the northern areas have already GMP s. So that’s how we’re going to kind of set separate the two Two different tests on one site for one brand. Some are going to have GM B’s the rest, all the southern locations are going to be strictly organic. And and I’m going to be demonstrating that in there. So I agree with Marco. I don’t know why you’d want to trick the bot when you could just expand your area. So, okay. All right. That was a good question though. Troy says, Hey, same goes with GMB images. geotag. Can general bigger nearby cities be the default instead of the exact business address? city state? Yeah, well, that’s, that’s what we teach in local GMB Pro. Right. That’s how you expand the centroid is you start to upload images that are geotagged for a larger service area. So that’s, that’s, that’s exactly what we teach in local GMB Pro. So that’s different than trying to tell Google through structured data, the latitude and longitude of where your business is, when it’s not actually where your business is. That’s that’s a lot different when you’re uploading images from a larger broader service area. So let’s say your account takeover, right like In other words, its service area business. So again, comm Tree Service contractor residing in Culpepper. Their business physical location is in Culpepper, Virginia, which is where I am. And let’s say they’re they go to Fredericksburg, it’s 45 miles east, and they do a job out there. They take photos of on that job from their phone. Geo Data is, you know, Latin long and the EXIF data is all part of the metadata of the image. They can upload it right there, from there, on the GMB app from their phone to the GMB profile, and that starts to tell Google Hey, their business might be located in Cole pepper, but their service area does go to Fredericksburg. And here’s the images with the Geo Data to prove it. It takes time. It’s not like you’re going to upload a couple of photos and all of a sudden you’re going to pop in adjacent cities in the maps pack. It takes consistent repeated effort, but you can do it Mark has proven that many many times. So, okay. We’re almost done. Cool. Oh, it’s five o'clock, right? Realize that that hour flew by. So Aaron says is Google once again posting reviews? I lost five reviews this last month. Does anyone know if Google will display those reviews? Are they last forever requiring reposting Thanks. No, you know, I don’t know the answer to that. Except that I know what your mean, new reviews are not showing up. But I i because I left a review. A couple of reviews myself for other businesses that aren’t are not showing, but I’m assuming that when they do when Google lifts this, whatever restriction that they will publish, but I don’t know because I don’t work for Google. Do you know the answer to that Marco?

I have no idea if they will republish the ones that you lost. I know that they’re, like opening it back up slowly that there was a GMB email that went out. I don’t know if you got that Bradley with it where they were mentioning that reviews were back and that they will be opening up other things. Slowly, I don’t know. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know what they close and I don’t know what’s going to happen from that. They’re,

yeah. Yeah, Your guess is as good as mine. So, Alright guys, it’s five o'clock. Sorry if we didn’t get to all the questions mom, it looks like we missed one of yours.

I’m so sorry about that guys, but we’ll catch you all next week. Remember mastermind members. I have my webinar tomorrow. So we will see you guys there. Thanks for hanging out guys. Bye, everyone.

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All right, we’re live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangout Episode 283. Today is tax day or maybe it’s the day formerly known as tax day. 2020. So for those of you in the US believe, you know, tax day got setback, kind of a free extension, if you will. But we’re not delaying Hump Day Hangouts. We’re just going right along schedule, although to go with the Coronavirus stuff going on I’m wearing a hacks My hair is getting all crazy now that I my clippers broke and it’s taken forever cuz Amazon’s not shipping stuff as fast as they normally would, which is fine. But I was on actually on a call earlier today as a mastermind call and one of the guys had just given up and just shaved his head and so I’m starting to see some fun Coronavirus haircuts. I think that might be a meme. Yeah, might might go like Marco just get it down. So with that said, we got a few announcements and then we’re going to get into the good stuff. We got a lot of really good questions today. But let’s start I’m gonna start with Bradley How you doing today?

I’m happy to be here man. Nice nice spring day outside it’s kind of cool but I got to go out and go for a run before about an hour ago so nice glad to be here

all right now hold on for those of you who don’t know Bradley’s more of a weights guy so I just want you went for a run

yeah well I when I can’t lift weights which I can’t right now I run and I run often so I run ran five miles yesterday and three and a half today and so I run when I don’t lift

good deal that makes me I’m a runner. So yeah, like hearing that. All right, Marco. How about you?

I ran to the door just earlier.

How was it was it a good workout?

It was tiring man. I’m I’m recovering I’m I had to go get some oxygen an make sure you got a water bottle nearby. Take care yourself.

Always. Always do keep water close by Just in case you gotta hydrate from all that heavy stuffs going all the good things are good, heavy hitter club is coming online. Today, mastermind members contact support at heavy hitters club, because you’re going to get the deal of a lifetime to join the heavy hitter code. You know, we take when we say membership has its privileges, one of those privileges is to get discounts deep discounts into any of the things that we do, right? Whether whatever it is from RYS Academy Reloaded, Syndication, they had just whatever is either included in the price, or we give them a steep discount. Everyone else is also going to get a discount because we understand we’re in the middle of a crisis. Things aren’t the way that they’re supposed to be, but we’re going to help you make money guys. If that’s what you’re looking for. We’re going to give you a really good deal. And yes, it’s a one time only offer you can take advantage of it. And if not, I sincerely sincerely believe it’s your loss, not ours, because we’re going to help you make money in any and every way we can. Technical SEO. I mean, it’s for ranking. That’s the easy part. We’re going to teach you how and why especially why things are the way they are. So I know it’s kind of last minute because yesterday I was saying, if we don’t do it in the next 45 days, if we don’t launch it, then it’s not gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, it just came together and and here it is today. Contact support at heavy hitter club for the discount of your mastermind member. And if you’re not, then I’m going to post the link to the signup page in the in the Hangouts help I’ll go and post in Facebook. There is a there is a page for those of you who want to take care of us want to take advantage of The special that we’re offering, it’s a it’s a bonehead special you can’t you can’t say no, you you can but why would you? So there you go.

Awesome just to clarify though, because I know we’re gonna get this question what’s the difference between heavy hitter club and the mastermind and heavy coder hitter club is technical SEO spearheaded by Robin Marko Of course some of us might may linger and pop in appear you know and such but it’s going to be primarily Marco and Rob talking about technical SEO stuff like just real nitty gritty shit guys. So that’s what that is. And the mastermind includes SEO but also so much more right includes business building and you know, marketing and branding and all different types of marketing, digital marketing and holistic marketing and everything else. So there’s, you know, outsourcing, management, all everything else that goes into running an operating a business, or a heavy hitter club is specifically technical SEO and How to monetize and get best results from SEO, that sort of thing. So I just want to clarify that.

Yeah, I think well, Marco, I’ll let you put in your own words, but I think you put it best for the difference between each come in there because you want to well, like you’re saying scorched earth with SEO. But if you’re a business owner, if, unless that’s your passion, that may not be where you should be spending your time.

exactly exactly. What if you’re a business owner, and you’re what’s in your mindset should be growing your agency growing your business, SEO is part of growing your business. But you as a business owner shouldn’t be in there, you should delegate you should have someone a partner via just whoever so that you can stay in the Semantic Mastery mastermind and grow your business, whatever business it may be. It doesn’t have to be an agency. And at the same time you have someone with us in in the SEO part of it, learning the technical aspect aspects that are going to help you with with rankings. that are going to help you drive traffic to the website. It’s all about entity. Right? In today in the Semantic Web, think about it. This is where it was going all along the Semantic Web of things, not strings. It’s all about things. And there’s nothing better as far as Google is concerned than a brand, then if that thing is a brand, and it’s related to all of the entities that it finds under that niche, right. So this is what we’re looking to push to people how this how this is happening, why it’s happening, and how you can take advantage of it because we look for any, any and every loophole, an advantage that we can take out. We do. Most of the stuff we do, by the way, are not loopholes, loopholes, that they can be closed rather easily. And we’ve seen that happen time after time after time, but all is people said it was a loophole. But it’s been a five year old loophole that hasn’t been closed. So think about that. What what why, why you’re concentrating on this. Like don’t don’t don’t think that you To choose one or the other, if you’re a business owner, you shouldn’t, you should you should be. You shouldn’t do both. And if you can’t do both, then yes, you should have someone who takes care of the SEO part so that you can concentrate on growing your business.

Definitely. Good stuff. All right. Well, Hernan How you doing? what’s what’s going on? You? Look, you look good. You look excited.

Yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to be here. It’s hoody season, we’re good, we’re safe. I’ve been I’ve been working a lot like lately, you know, a lot of our business owners, they’re starting to understand the power of digital marketing, they’re pivoting. So you know, I’ve been doing some consulting for those for those entrepreneurs that they are, you know, that they’re not letting things dictate how they’re running their business, but rather, they’re getting ahead of the curve. And I’m excited that, you know, we’re helping business owners to achieve just that, you know, to achieve, hey, we all know that this is like some, these are weird times, but we need to get prepared. We need to be there. So it’s, you know, it’s really cool. It’s really cool to be able to help some of these people out. So I’m getting Be Here

cool good stuff all right Chris last but not least how you doing man?

Yeah doing good here I’m not so excited this or not involved the Facebook stuff at the moment the bots in like with today’s or not no so that means but like yeah like it’s good otherwise you’re moving on and I’ll be back

nice all right yeah you need to get like what did you have was it uh it was like a box of roses The Terminator?

yeah pretty much it’s awesome

all right actually don’t pull out a gun on screen and pray freak people out but it’d be critical real quick just want to say for those of you joining us for the first time you probably a little confused but we want to say thank you and you’re in the right place we’re going to get into answering SEO digital marketing questions. If you’re watching the replay you can always join us live at semantic mastery comm slash HD questions, ask your questions attend live, but if you can’t we understand things come up. You can check out the replays on YouTube and Grab your channel so you get notified of those updates. Also, if you’re an agency owner or a consultant, you want to get more clients, you want to grow your revenue, and you want to scale your team so that you can work less and earn more. Find out more about that at two x your agency COMM The membership, there is definitely growing. We got some great stuff going on. We just wrapped up the last of the training was out Monday.

Yeah, Monday. So there is a ton. I’m not going to go into the details of it. But there is a ton of good stuff, but it is all centered around those three central pillars, right, getting more clients growing your revenue and scaling your team. Right. That’s what it’s about. So if you’re interested in any one of those, it’s a no brainer. You put all three of those together. And it’s kind of the rocket fuel for your agency rocket, if you will.

May I interrupt for a moment?

No, just kidding.

I just finished we finished week 12 which was a collaboration of of all of us, you know, that you’re seeing on screen right now. And so, it was it was on Monday. We kind of Recorded

what we call insights from agency veterans. And so we each kind of spoke throughout the recorded webinar of us kind of just kind of having conversation about what we’ve learned over the last, you know, throughout our digital marketing careers, with Marco having the most experience or tenure of all of us, but you know, combined, we’ve got a lot of damn experience. And so we’ve each we each have our own businesses apart from Semantic Mastery. And so we all have and we’ve all experienced similar issues but unique to our own businesses. So we kind of really just spoke about, you know, what, what we would do differently if we could do it all over again, in an effort to help you guys our audience to not make the same mistakes or at least to recognize when something is occurring and a way to push through it or get around it or over it or whatever. much quicker, if that makes sense. So it I think it was really powerful way to kind of wrap up The 12 weeks of intense training and there’s over 80 freakin videos in that course. So it’s, it’s definitely a lot more value than what we’re charging for it. So I would encourage you guys to go pick it up.

Definitely. Yeah, and we’ve got some more news about that coming. We also added some little bit of additional, but there’s gonna be some more information coming in next week about this and then I’ll just drop a little hint. It’s for those of you who are interested, and getting started. You know, you can start with 2xyouragency, that’s fine. But for those of you who are just saying, Hey, you know, there’s too many obstacles, or I’m not sure you know, what niche to choose, I’m not sure what service or vertical I should be working in. I’m not sure if I had the money or the capital to start consulting business. Things like that. Keep your ears and eyes open and we’ll be getting with you next week. Also, for those of you who are more concentrated on the SEO side of things, besides the heavy hitters club, if you want to get step by step results from proven processes, then the battle plan is where you should be starting is generally where we tell everyone to start with Semantic Mastery. You can find out more about that a battle plan dot semantic mastery comm now what I’m going to say is we’re going to have a brand new edition of the battle plan coming out and yet I would still advise you to go pick up battle plan right now, it’s a no brainer. It’s a just, I can’t I don’t want to say this on here, but it’s a ton of bonuses that are included in there, you can get access to it now and it’s going to pay for itself while we had one person pay for itself in 13 minutes, but for you, you can pay for itself and definitely like a week or two and then pick up the new edition when it comes out and keep the price low. It’s an entry price that we love and that everyone else loves. We’ve had I think 13 or 1400 people get the battle plan, put it to use and get good results. So anyways, if you haven’t yet, just go grab it and then the new edition will be coming out we’ll have some good stuff involved with that. And last but not least, mg y v. If you aren’t familiar with that, head over to mtv.co check out where you can get all the done for you services. If you’re live today I posted on the page, the current flash sale we have going on with link building and the SEO field. You can save a bundle over there, but only for the next 48 hours. And if you’re checking this out later, and you’re wondering how you can find out about stuff like that, just go over to Mt. yt.co. Hop on the newsletter list and that’s how you can get notified of good stuff like this.

All right, I think that’s it guys. Let’s dive into the questions.

Sweet. Grab the screen.

Marco. I posted a message in slack for you. Yes.

That’s pretty cool. All right. Sorry, guys. Let me get into Okay, you should be seeing my screen. Is that correct?

Yep. Okay.

All right. Uh, get my bearings standby.

How Do You Exclude The SEO Powershield G-Site From Google SERPs?

Okay, all these questions came from the That’s interesting. All right, a DC SEO says Thanks for answering my question last week, guys, I appreciate it. One last question. Before I worded the shield just so I’m completely clear, can I make sure that only my site appears in the SERPs, and the G site doesn’t appear on the results pages? If you set it to no index, but I don’t know why you would do that. Here’s the question. Here’s my question for you. Why would you not want to take up another spot in the search engine results in the top 10? Right? Every every asset that you can rank on the first page for whatever your desired keyword is, is another competitor that’s not showing up on the page. So in my opinion, why would you ever not want the G site to also appear for your primary keywords or your entity search or whatever it is that you’re trying to rank? It seems like to me that you’d want to have all 10 spots on the first page if possible. So a G site can absolutely and will often rank for your primary keywords. In fact, it will often rank right below the money site. Here’s the thing if you’re if you’re I framing your money site pages, you theme mirror like we tell you guys to do. And you’re I framing your money site pages in your G site pages and somebody lands on the G site, they’re gonna see your money site page anyways, they could still submit a contact request form they could order you know, make a purchase, submit an opt in do whatever it is that you want to do right from the within the iframe of the G site. So why the hell would you not want it so that that would be my question to you. But yes, if you don’t want it to show up in the SERPs, you could always set it to no index. I have no idea why you would do that though.

Anybody want to comment on that? And not only that, once we release the the cracking, we can’t control it. We can’t control the beast. It’s gonna do what it’s going to do and there’s just no way to control it. Yes, you set it to no index. But as Bradley said, why would you want to give your your competition extra real estate space to compete against you? It makes absolutely no sense you can make last pages that are that are really neat, or you can everything that’s above the fold with CTA that are attractive, and that will get clicks, they’ll get action. You can get a video in there, you can get a whole bunch right above the fold. So so if you don’t like how the rest of it looks, person isn’t likely to scroll down, if they find what they’re looking for, like right above the fold, they’re not likely to scroll down. SEOs are the ones who, who tend to do that. But if you’ve answered the question, or the pain or the problem, right above the fold, they’re just going to click and go over to where they need to go. So think about it that way. And no, I’ll say it again. We cannot control the beast once it’s released. It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do. And that’s it.

Should We Add The GSite To Google Search Console Of The Main GMB Email?

Awesome. Fitz is up. He says, Can we or maybe also should be at the G site to search console for our main GMB email. Yeah, you can’t I just I just typically add it to the Search Console, the same google google account that The drive stack g site were built under. That’s typically how I do it. But you can always so so in other words, you know, whatever Google account it is that MGYB creates for the drive stack and the G site, I submit to search console within that Google account. Now if I want to still be able to, you know, view it or manage it, you know, look at reports and such from Search Console from the main GMB account that it’s, you know, pushing relevance to then you can add that as an additional user. But you know, it’s up to you. I don’t think it makes any difference either one way or the other. The whole idea of putting it into Search Console so that you can you know, help with the index and such comments.

Should Different Website Properties Have Different NAP?

Okay, and up he says should different website properties have different n AP, name, address and phone number working with an Umbrella Corporation as multiple ecom website brands want to have SEO power shields for each individual econ property but worried about penalties or issues that may occur with shared or overlapping NAPs.

Um, you know, I don’t know, because it’s not a local business. If it’s ecom, I don’t know that, you know, NAP issues are ambiguous with NAP is going to cause any problems if you’re not trying to rank in maps. That makes sense. You know, I’ll let Marco take this one, though, because this is more up his alley than mine. I don’t all I do is local. So I don’t really know the best answer for that. Marco, what do you say?

This is one of those things is is what what is the what are one of the places where I look at the competition? First of all, what are they doing? Not not because I’m concerned about the competition, but just what are they doing? If they’re national, they’re global. How are they relating their entities and and if they have offices in other places, how are they relating those? you saying that you have different websites, but if it’s all part of the same Corporation, if there’s one Umbrella Corporation, then you’d relate those through the schema You can create all kinds of neat relationships through scheme. And it’s one of the things that Rob is going to show in the heavy hitter club how to relate all of these so that it becomes just one big umbrella. Right? And under that umbrella would be all of the different offices or places, or products or services or whatever it is that you’re trying to do to create all of these associations.

Yeah, because see, I mean, that’s I would use organization or corporation, structured data for the umbrella company, right? And that would apply to each individual site as well, because it’s all part of the overall organization or corporation, right. But then you could have like website schema, for example, not necessarily local business. I mean, you could have local business if you do have a GMB for each one, which could be part of the organization, right, but there would be individual locations, but for ecom I don’t know that that’s necessary. Again, I don’t do ecom. So I don’t know if That’s correct or not, or if that would help. But you could do something like website schema for that if that makes sense.

So the organization would tie it all together. And that’s what Marco was saying is, you know, when you have an entity, even if you have multiple divisions, or multiple locations, or different, you know, pseudo brands that are like the children, like child companies have a larger parent company, a broader parent company, if you can tie all that together through through the entity, all of them will benefit, if that makes sense. Because, again, you’re talking about branding and the entity itself, even if they’re separate, like divisions or sub brands and that kind of stuff. It will benefit from the overall organization that kind of ties everything together, if that makes sense. So, anyways, as far as the URL shortener go to mgyb.co, slash s, mg y b.co slash s, and this is our URL shortener now, there are different subscription levels. You could have a free account if you want it, but you get a lot of cool things with different subscription levels. And we’ve been using this for all the drive stacks URL shortening that we do for customers of ours, and everything else for what, a year and a half, two years now. And it’s super, super powerful. And you can do a lot of really cool things with our URL shortener. If you have a paid plan such as ad retargeting scripts and things like that into the, the header for the redirect all kinds of really cool things that you can do password protect URLs and stuff like that. So I would go to mgyb.co/s, and use that. Anybody want to comment on that?

No. The power behind our shortener is incredible. It is. It ranks for keywords. And so it just, it’s just ridiculous, as you said, Why you can do so by all means, if you want to use I only mean that’s fine. Bitly Be careful. It’s a 302 Google Firebase, it’s also 302. It can be a 301 if you go through the trouble of making it a 301 redirect, but you’d have to figure out how to do that.

Yeah, and what’s interesting is, is it’s crazy. But oftentimes, and I’ve seen this happen with drive stack files, for example, the MG y b, the redirect URL will rank. And in the search results, the shortened URL will show even though when you click it it for, you know, it redirects to the actual Google Drive File. And it’s really interesting to see the Drive files rank with the mgyb.co short URL, because typically, you don’t you don’t see the redirect URL in the search results, you see the target or the final destination, right? So it’s very interesting to see that.

Can You Upgrade A Single Tier Into Multi Tier Syndication Network When You Order The SEO Power Shield In MGYB?

Karen says, Hey, there I had a few questions from last week, which, unfortunately, we’re not able to get to So here they are. The SEO power shield syndication network. If you order an SEO power shield, it comes with a syndication network. However, I am assuming it’s a single tiered syndication network. Yes, it is the branded network. But let’s say I want a multi tier syndication network, is there an upgrade option rather than purchasing a full syndication network, since single tiered network already exists? Contact support at mgyb.co. And make that request and I’m sure I’m not sure, maybe Marco sure, but I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate that sort of a request, but it’s gonna have to be a custom order as opposed to just something that’s done through the normal channel. If that makes sense. Marco’s that’s something we can do.

Maybe I mean, we’d have to bolt on the the tiered syndication network to the to the already existing cynic. But But why would you want a tiered syndication network when tier one works just fine.

I mean, that’s a good question. I would ask the same thing but maybe he has a reason.

So okay, I mean, a fine, right to support and then what Robin I’ll do is we’ll sit and talk about it and see if it’s even worth it because the price that we might have to charge you may not make it worth it to you.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t think I mean unless there if you have a reason for wanting a multi tiered syndication network and then by all means do that, but I don’t you know, we have been encouraging people to not use multi tiered syndication networks for blog syndication, because they’re kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. However, if you’ve got something like RSS masher, which is Damon Nelson’s product, it’s really good for creating beautiful spliced feeds with like, it’s really really cool you can you can create really cool custom spliced feeds and in use that to power your second tier networks so that you have multiple relevant content sources posting to those networks, which is what we recommend. And with something like RSS masher, it becomes much much easier to maintain multi tiered networks. The more manual method, which is how it had been done for four years, requires adding a bunch of relevant RSS content feeds to the second tier. triggers, which becomes a nightmare, because let’s say that if all you did was add, you know, three additional arts, so you got your money site RSS feed. But then let’s say you add three additional Khan relevant content feeds for each blog. second tier syndication network, right? So So if there’s three of them, which is there are the way that we build them. So the first single tier is first ring, right, one ring, and then there’s three syndication networks on the second tier, each being triggered by one of the blogs from the tier one network, right? So when I say blogs, I mean, blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress. But if you were to add three additional content feeds at the second tier trigger point. So for each one of those, you would need an additional nine feeds relevant content feeds that you don’t control. And not only that, you have to set up a separate set of recipes or applets inside of IFTTT for each feed. So let’s say there’s 15 applets that you need to set up for each RSS feed that you add, that’s an additional 45 applets per syndication network that you need to create, which in itself is not that bad. It’s a bit tedious. But you know, once it’s done, it’s done. But the problem occurs when you don’t have control over those feeds. And because of that, like things can happen to their site, the site that you’re using the feed from, where it could have a you know, it could I’ve seen RSS feeds hiccup and they just spit out a shit ton of posts and it can terminate your have a lot of your syndication network properties terminate because of over publishing, I, you know, they’re things could break. This is a ton of things that cause a lot of maintenance issues. And if you’re just dealing with one project, it’s okay because you know, you’re only managing one project, but you’ve got SEO in your name up here. So I’m assuming you probably do client work or more than just one project. And so multi tiered networks become kind of a nightmare to too cumbersome to manage. When you’re doing multiple projects. At least that’s my opinion, unless you’re using something like Like RSS masher which really simplifies that process, and adds a whole lot of control to even the input feeds that you create the super spliced feed from, because it has filters and all these other really cool things like it can actually strip out content from the feed. There’s a code inserter, a code stripper, there’s all kinds of things in there. So, again, multi tier networks are not recommended. Obviously, if you know what you’re doing and you have a strategic reason for using it, then by all means, do so.

Have You Done A Test On Linking Your Money Site At The Footer Disclaimer Section Of Client Site?

Okay, next question. Disclaimer links. Disclaimer link on client sites. As you know, there is a long term practice for SEO web design companies to add a link back to their site in the footer. Yes, like the footer link section, right. I’ve recently been switching all of those links for SEO and marketing by brand plus keyword plus location with brand plus keyword plus location being the anchor text linking to my SEO company’s GMB profile, and I’ve seen some big results from it. Have you done any testing related to this just curious? No, though, those are considered Wide links and I mean you know, I, I do put those often in client sites the footer as well, but I usually just link back with my brand name and I usually nofollow those links, I have not done any testing with them in years, just because it became kind of a you know, site wide links could work what had become a negative factor essentially, for a long long time and so I just got into the habit of the routine of just note just linking to my brand name, so big bamboo marketing and then know following the link so that it didn’t cause any, like penguin issues, if that makes sense. But uh, but no, I haven’t done any testing with it. It’s interesting to hear that anybody else.

Well, it stands to reason right the brand plus keyword plus location by eliminating marketing because you don’t need it. If you have if you’ve done your entity work correctly on your on your marketing website. then adding a link that’s your brand, and the keyword and the locations that you creating that relevant For the bot, there’s no reason why then it should pick up an algorithm, any type of algorithmic penalty, because it’s what you’re asked to do at the local level. This is how you’re taught to associate everything brand, plus location plus keyword, brand. keyword, okay. That’s what the bottom is looking for comes in, and it looks for this. So what it’s picking up is all of that relevance back to your site, which is what we do really with our academy reloaded, except that we protected 111 layer out through the SEO partnership, the drive secondary site, right? We create all of our all the all of the relevance in there because we know that what Google is going to do is power it up, rather than look to to penalize it algorithmically. So if he’s obviously getting results just from those changes, it works. It could stop working in the future. I can say anything that’s working in Google could stop working tomorrow. Theoretically, simply because they decide to, you have to be careful with that type of thing.

Would You Get An Algorithmic Penalty For Using Generic Terms Too Many Times?

Okay, thanks Marco. The next question is from big Billy says anchor question, I have several product pages that I put a link to my category page for that type of product. I use the word here many, many times to link up to the same page, any chance I could get that page and algorithmic penalty or doesn’t matter because it’s a generic term now not for that. If you over optimized for a singular keyword, then that can actually cause problems, but something like that, but my question is, I’m not sure. Well, again, product pages, I don’t do e commerce. So I’m not even going to explain why I wouldn’t use here so much, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I would try to use various keywords though. Again, I don’t do e commerce. So I don’t know what you’re specifically doing. But I typically when I’m linking back up to you know, any sort of like a silo landing page or homepage or whatever, I try to just vary the anchor text with LSI keywords right. So synonyms for whatever my primary keywords are from. So for example, if I’m coming from a blog post about Tree Removal in a particular area, then I’m going to use some sort of tree removal keyword or variation of a tree removal service tree cutting service, arborist tree removal, something like that, to link back up to the landing page for that particular silo. But again, using a generic term like that it should, it’s not going to cause any out I’ve never heard of that causing an algorithmic penalty, because I don’t know of any SEOs out there that are optimizing for here. You know what I’m saying? So, Margaret, do you have any comments on that?

No, I haven’t seen it. And in fact, when I do my interlinking, I use the generic terms a lot. But not only here, go here, more information, learn more, read more, all of that. So there’s about 10 or 12 terms that you can use, and you know, you can spin those so that so that they don’t appear that way. The same thing, right one one after the other because it can get as far as the user, it can get repetitive. And that’s not something that that you want, you don’t want the user to hear hear again, and again, here, here, here. And here. This is a, it’s e commerce, I assume there’s a bunch of products on there, all of them with here. So create variations simply for the sake of not boring the user with the same terms over and over and over again.

Yeah, and remember, you can also lengthen the phrase for the that you’re going to use for the anchor text. It doesn’t always have to just be a keyword guys, or if keyword phrase, it can be a longer statement, like, you know what I mean? So, you know, get, get more information about key word here, that could be an entire link. That makes sense. The whole, you know, short sentence could be a link. And what that does is, again, it adds diversity, but you still get your keyword in there without it being over optimized, and it makes sense to the reader or the user. You know, Because you know that the phrase itself is, is a call to action. Does that make sense? So there’s a lot of variations that you can do to kind of add some diversity to that. That’s cool. Go ahead. No, nothing. Yes, absolutely. Also question for Marco, I own our bias and RYS reloaded, and I’m about to get serious about it. Well, that’s good. Should I even learn the original version or just drive straight in the ROI ASR?

Well, there’s a lot of neat stuff by Dr. Gary in the archives. So I would say by all means, you need to get to the archives. But to get to the archives, first start with what’s with what the most current training is. And that’s whatever is in our academy reloaded. And please understand, we do need to update it, update that at some point because a couple of things have changed, not the power, power, the power that that we’re generating doesn’t change, and it’s gotten even better, but there’s a few things in there. That we do have to that we do have to go over. I’m glad mean, I wish I knew your name, come on the Facebook group and say what’s up. So go through the training. We’re still supporting after five years, we’re still supporting the damn Facebook group. We’re still in there answering questions. So come on in there. If you have any questions, ask away.

How Do You iFrame An Ecom Site If The G Site Has A Frame Breaker?

Awesome. Last week, Marco mentioned to iframe your eecom page onto a G site, but the new g site has a frame breaker. Is that true Marco? No, I always work in the old site. But I I’m quite sure that new g sites have iframes do don’t they?

Okay, so maybe he has his terms mixed up. You cannot take the new g site and iframe that anywhere else. Right. It does have a frame breaker. But you can iframe on the new g site. There’s a right insert embed code, right that does a What do you call it? There’s an icon in there that allows you to iframe anything unless what you’re trying to iframe has a frame breaker also.

Right? Right. So your ecom platform may have an iframe breaker, but you are able to iframe pages into the new g site. That’s and that’s what I was. I always work in the old site, the GMB builders build the new site, but all the work that I do for theme earring and everything is always in the classic g sites. But I was gonna say, I know the new g sites have my pages I, you know, like the pearl trees and, you know, press advantage page and things like that all get iframe in there, so I can’t imagine. The only thing I would assume that Billy is that perhaps your eecom platform might have an iframe breaker. So Okay, moving on. Bibi says Hey guys, what is the problem of duplicate content during syndication? For full text post? Is there a problem apply on branded network also, or just tier two and beyond? There’s no problem at all, when you have it. That’s the whole point of the attribution link below. If you your RSS feed should have, depending on what if what kind of plugin you’re using RSS plugin, God forbid, you’re using Yoast. But almost all RSS plugins now have an RSS setting that will allow you to inject an attribution link either before the content or after the content. And so when your plugin settings, you go in and you you code in the attribution link. And there’s typically some sort of tokens in there like post URL, post title, site title, all of those things that you can tokenize your attribution link for so that essentially it will pull the title so what I always do is I always use the post title as the anchor text, and it links to the post URL. Again, those are tokens that you can code into the attribution code in the RSS plugin settings. However, if your RSS plugin settings don’t have, if you don’t have the ability to code in an attribution link, then you can do that within the applets inside of IFTTT, which just means you have to edit the app. It’s really only count you really only Well, you should do it also for Google Drive. So like, your document sharing when you’re when you read syndicate a blog post into Google Drive, and what is it Microsoft One Drive or whatever the hell it is. Those should also have attribution links. But really, it’s your going to be your blogs, so blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, that you really want to make sure that you have the attribution links. And, and that’s it, there’s no problem with duplicate content, because you’re, you’re citing the original source. That’s the whole point. And even if you weren’t citing the original source, it’s still not a duplicate content problem. duplicate content only occurs on the same domain. It doesn’t occur off site if it did, then press releases would be toxic. And some press releases are toxic, actually, that there is there’s no such thing as duplicate content anyway. Even even on site it I mean, all that’s going to happen if the pages are similar, or the same what Google is going to do. And we’ve explained this before, it’s going to start AB AB testing ABCD. However many pages are similar, it’s going to take those, it’s going to start giving an impression. And then it’s going to decide which one answers the query the best. And that’s the page, that’s going to end up indexed, right. And in the active index, let’s just call it versus all of the others, but you’re not going to get any penalties. What you are going to get is warnings about duplicate titles and descriptions, so that you can make unique titles and descriptions. And the content can pretty much be the same. And then again, you’re leaving out you’re leaving it up to Google to decide which version of your page is the best for the query. Instead of you deciding on your best converting page versus all the other pages, look in Search Console, and see which pages are being served for the different keywords and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll see ABC ABCD you’ll see that like if the pages are Very similar, you’ll see four or five, six pages. If you’re doing mass mass page built, you’ll see even more. And Google will give give all of those pages impressions until it decides which one the best one would be. That’s what they call keyword cannibalization. It’s not really that it’s Google deciding which pages was the query the best. So let’s, let’s end this duplicate content myth. once and for all. I actually saw a definitive guide to SEO by a company which I kind of respected. They have really good information. They put out the Definitive Guide to technical SEO, and they went into into duplicate content as if it could be an issue. And it can only be an issue if you’re having all of these pages competing against one another to see which one, Google is going to rank. That’s the only way that they can affect it. You’re not going to get a penalty. You’re not it. Nothing’s going to happen other than Google. Know, it’ll take Google, as long as it takes Google to decide which page is the best, you want to leave that up to Google, or do you want to go in, figure out which one it is that you want, and then rel canonical or redirect all of the other pages to that one page?

Yeah, go look, go search Google for canonical. And you’ll see or rel=canonical. And you’ll see that Google created that specifically for that reason, and that so that you can push credit from similar pages to whatever you want to be the parent or master page, so to speak. And that’s to specifically address potential duplicate content issues on even the same domain. That’s what canonical was originally developed for. And they came up with cross domain canonical, as well. And that’s for canonical Ising, similar pages from other domains to a specific target, if that makes sense. So maybe I’m gonna I think this is the same BB that we’ve answered questions before, but we guys we’re going to have to say this once again, and I can’t assume that everybody knows this, but we don’t Typically allow people or want ask people to post this many questions because it’s just not fair to other people. So, because these are all around the exact same thing, and they’re very, very short going to be really easy to answer, I will answer these guys. But come on next time just post a question or two, please and then allow some others to post and then post another question or two just because it’s not fair. Okay. So the next question was, is there a reason why we should have REL equals nofollow on attributed link on the RSS items? No, other than a lot of the plugins that there are SEO plugins, when you code in an RS an attribution link, they’re going to automatically apply a nofollow tag to it. And unless you want to go in and actually edit the plug in code, which I used to do with Yoast years ago, but every time Yoast like I would go in and into the plug in code, right but and actually edit the plug in code to remove that REL equals nofollow tag to the RSS attribution link. However, every time the plugin updated, it would, it would update that code. didn’t have to go back and edit it. And you can imagine if you have more than just a couple of sites, how how much of a pain in the ass that was, so I just stopped doing it. I don’t even care anymore. If we can make it follow great. If not nofollow will is good enough. It’s just it’s a it’s a, it’s a, you know, an efficiency thing. Right? That makes sense. It’s it’s just too difficult to go in and edit plug in code. However, if you got a plug in code that will allow you to put in a follow link as opposed to and it doesn’t automatically apply the nofollow tag then by all means, do that, which by the way, if you code it in through IFTTT, then you it will be it will be a follow link as long as the blogs or the syndication point provides follow links but many of them are nofollow links anyways. Okay. The next one was why should you use spintax? Why should you spintax the attribution and the after text post when syndicating RSS, it just adds diversity to the attribution link. So it makes sense right? If if you if you can add spintax to the attribution link text that you’re, you know, in the plugin settings like our plugin does, then it just adds diversity so it’s not always the same exact line right on every single post that gets syndicated out but that’s it’s not a problem it just adds some diversity if you if you have that functionality use it if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. Okay. Why you have limited the RSS plugin to only five posts. I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Chris has an on he’s the one that developed our pup but there should be settings to be able to adjust that. And also it’s not the RSS plugin typically that does that go into your WordPress settings go to WordPress admin area, go to settings, reading and then take a look there and right there is where you should see how many posts show in the RSS feed. And that should be the set that should be where you adjust that setting not necessarily RSS plugin. Okay. Is the RSS plugin just for adding spintax functionality now that well, I can’t tell you unless you’re in the mastermind the mastermind plugin adds a whole RSS plugin which is only available in the mastermind it’s free to mastermind members it has a lot of additional functionality I you must if you’re talking about our RSS plugin, but the free version I can’t tell you because I haven’t used that five years no shit so I don’t even know what the dashboard that looks like. Does anybody know here?

No, no cuz I only use the Pro.

Yeah, the pro version which is in the mastermind is it adds all kinds of additional functionality like it allows you to republish old posts it allows you to add hashtags and all kinds of cool stuff that Chris coded into it but um again that’s that’s the pro version which is in the mastermind I don’t use the free version guys. I just there’s really no reason for me to so I can’t tell you what that even looks like. I’m sorry about that. Two k says. How do you guys use AWS site? Yes, Amazon s3 bucket for the ID page. Why is that two site? Well, a couple reasons one, to siphon some authority from Amazon to because it’s an Amazon domain, which we can just fucking hammer with, with kitchen sink, spam and everything else we want to throw at it. Number three, because it’s just an HTML page that we upload because it loads really fast. And we’re going to, we load it up with our iframe stacking that we do the the infinite loop, right, the infinite entity loop, the mirror and mirror picture and picture that never ends. That’s what we do. And those pages, trust me when you build out an ID page, the way that we do it. And then go back and even add in some additional things, it will literally break your computer, if you try to load it. It takes so much cash because so many iframes are trying to load and it will overwhelm the cache or the memory on your on your on your on your PC. I know because it’s locked up mine many times. And remember guys that Id pages aren’t supposed to be for public consumption. In other words, they’re not necessarily something that you want to rank or anything else, it’s specifically for the bots. So it doesn’t matter if it’s going to lock up your browser because how often are you or you or anybody else going to actually visit it? So but there’s a number of reasons why we use that Marco, you could probably name a few others.

No, no, I mean, you name the main month. The main purpose of that is to create another property in another powerful domain for the entity loop. So it goes to however it is that we do it. That’s how we do it. And we just add another we could add more, but more isn’t necessarily better that there’s diminishing returns on what that loop will bring back. I think we’ve tried others and it locks it up even with with as much RAM as I have. Yeah, it’ll lock up my computer and I have tons around.

I got 3232 gigabytes or whatever, whatever it is megabytes, whatever the hell it is. And it’s in it’ll lock machine right up, man. I got 64 and That’s ridiculous what it is. Yeah. But anyway, the main reason is power and an additional place where we store our entity information so that the bot can come and pick up some more somewhere else. Just following the breadcrumbs. That’s all it is.

Yeah. It’s interesting because one of our mastermind members, Darrell had shared with us one of his entity stacks that he had entity loop stacks that he had created was like an ID page, essentially. And it was freakin insane. I can’t remember it as something like, I don’t remember, I’m just gonna throw a number out there. Because it was ridiculous. Like 30 freakin iframes in it, like, it was just it was nuts. And he was like, careful. Make sure you got everything else shut down when you click this link. It was funny. But it’s, it’s pretty cool. So the next question was, could you not just a part of the second half of that question was could you not just use the Google site with all the embedded stuff and put that in the schema, or is there a reason you don’t do that? Yeah, let me just explain why. The last question from today we do use the G site,

we do it right and we embed the idx page in the G site right. So and the and the G site gets embedded in the idx page. Hence the mirror the entity loop, right. Infinite entity loop. The second or the next question was one more question when I order a press release from MDB. Do you guys create the press advantage new newsroom page? Yes, yes we do. Okay, so you will get the benefit of that. Nathan says I saw your post today marketing the SEO location shields is that the ROI stack extension you have been working on launching No not yet. The SEO location shield can also be utilized for brands or adding a second location under an already established brand with the syndication network. Already have an SEO shield for my brand. I need some created for inner service pages. I’m trying to rank well The location shield is if you like, and market will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way because all I do is local, the location shields for me as if I have multiple locations for a particular brand. So for example, I’m working on a tree service project and the map that’s making available to the public to the mastermind. I’m doing it as essentially a live case study, by the way, my mastermind webinars tomorrow, and I’ve made a lot of progress on that. So those of you that are in the mastermind, I’ll be sharing a lot more about that tomorrow. But anyways, it’s it’s, it’s a new brand with several GMB locations that I’ve already established but I’m rebranding from an old an older brand to the to the new company that because I got a new service provider anyways, so I ordered a SEO power shield for the main brand. In fact, I was working on I’m working on, here you go take a look. Here’s the entity assets here. I’m working inside process street developing that stuff out right now. So you can see the SEO, I’m not going to click into there, but the Seo shield would be there. And it’s the same thing as I’m actually working through developing the process out so that my team can can do that for me. And so the primary brand is associated with whatever top level keyword is, in this case, it won’t have a location associated with the top level keyword in the brand, because I want to create that as like an organization. In other words, and then all of the individual locations, which will be built on inner pages inside of the main site will each get its own location shield, which means it gets its own g site and drive stack that are optimized for that particular location. And it’ll have an ID page as well. But then they get basically placed underneath the primary branded ri ri S Drive stack. Does that make sense? So in other words, each location shield the ri s stack becomes an inner folder of the primary entity stack, if that makes sense. And that that way is that Don’t have to build the ID page for each location. Each separate location drive stack is optimized specifically for the market level keywords plus the location, look at location modifier for that particular location, and then the ID page, which is unique to each location as well. But all of that gets placed under the parent main entity stack. And so that’s that’s the way that I do it, because all I do is local. And so that’s how I think of location shields, although I’m sure location shields can be applied to other stuff other than local. How would you do that Marco?

And why would you want to location shield for something other than local?

Well, there’s the answer then.

So Nathan, that’s hopefully that makes some sense. If you have, you know, multiple locations, that’s what you would want to do. If you have inner service pages, then those would just be expanding your current drive stack. You wouldn’t need a separate idx page and a separate drive stack built for a particular service page. You could just clone Which you currently have, and then optimize, like, edit and that’s, that’s something that we will have available soon and MGB that’s the entity or the drive stack expansion service, which is coming soon. Marco, did we have a time on that yet?

No, we just asked the developer today and he’s still working on it.

Okay. So hopefully that makes some sense Nathan

Would It Be Okay To Use A General Location Of A Nearby City When Doing Schema For Service Area Businesses?

Troy says hello when doing schema for service area business address lat long and don’t want to use exact address because trying to rank a nearby bigger city can should be okay to use more general location of a nearby city like city state. lat long Okay, um, you know, you can you can omit? Well, not necessarily, I can’t remember if it will take it or not, if you like if you were to go to local business schema, for example, and right here where it does say geo coordinates lat long, you might be able to just remove that from the code and then go try to validate the code in the structured data testing tool and see if it still validates. I know I was like, for example, I was just talking about this tree service project I’m working on Well, the primary domain isn’t, I don’t want that associated with like the homepage. I don’t want that associated with a particular GMB because I want all that I want it to just be brand and keyword. And so I still have structured data for that. But because I don’t want, I still have local business structured data, but I don’t have an actual street address. I just have city state and zip, and then the Latin long, but I was able to omit the street address and still have the local business structured data validated in the structured data testing tool. So I was able to admit that so that I can still have local business structure. Well, there’s organization Plus Local Business structured data, even on the homepage, which isn’t associated with any particular one, one specific address, if that makes sense. So you might want to be able to just go in and actually Edit the latitude and longitude out and see if it will validate. Otherwise, I don’t know Mark, what do you say? I don’t know that I would want to use a generic problems, right? I see potential problems, because he’s talking about a local business with a business centroid, the centroid being the point where the business is and and we’ll extend in a radius from that from that is the center of the business in relationship to the radius. Correct. So Google has that, because you went to the pains of verifying and Google verifying your business, you not have a pin. Google knows the exact location of that pin. Now you go and you submit structured data, which is directed directly to Googlebot. Googlebot comes in crawls and you have different geo settings, different latitude and longitude. Now is that in and of itself, going to cause a problem? I don’t know. I haven’t tested it but Essentially, it could be a problem, right? And I don’t understand why you want to do that, instead of extending your central, I try to trick the bot.

I agree. Instead of trying to extend instead of trying to extend the centroid and creating that relationship between the business centroid, and the area that he’s trying to target, if you create that relationship, that’s gonna work a whole lot better than trying to trick the bot into seeing different latitude and longitude for your business.

Yeah, I agree. Here’s what I was showing, though, just in case you wanted to test that is that part of it right there, into that comma down there. I know, it’s probably hard for you guys to see. But if you were to eliminate that section right there, and then try to validate the code once the rest of the code was fleshed out, it’s, I’m assuming it would validate but it might require the geo Latin long, I’ve never tried to omit that intentionally. But you could try it and see if it validate, but I agree with Marco 100%. There’s, in my opinion, there’s really no need to do that. I don’t know why you would want to do that when actually you could just use Is the the specific that coordinates for where the business actually resides where the physical location is. And then through your content, your silo structure and everything else you can tell Google what your service areas and that’s, that’s what my Tree Service case study that I’m doing in the mastermind is going to be demonstrating is how through just blog posting through silo structure which simple silo structure not even complex silo structure and just blog posting, and then theme mirroring and interlinking correctly, that we can get significant results for a very large service area even with only one GMB if needed. I’ve got multiple GM B’s but we’re expand for this particular project. We’re expanding south in Virginia, from where the central location is and all of the southern areas are going to be strictly organic rankings. All of the northern areas have already GMP s. So that’s how we’re going to kind of set separate the two Two different tests on one site for one brand. Some are going to have GM B’s the rest, all the southern locations are going to be strictly organic. And and I’m going to be demonstrating that in there. So I agree with Marco. I don’t know why you’d want to trick the bot when you could just expand your area. So, okay. All right. That was a good question though. Troy says, Hey, same goes with GMB images. geotag. Can general bigger nearby cities be the default instead of the exact business address? city state? Yeah, well, that’s, that’s what we teach in local GMB Pro. Right. That’s how you expand the centroid is you start to upload images that are geotagged for a larger service area. So that’s, that’s, that’s exactly what we teach in local GMB Pro. So that’s different than trying to tell Google through structured data, the latitude and longitude of where your business is, when it’s not actually where your business is. That’s that’s a lot different when you’re uploading images from a larger broader service area. So let’s say your account takeover, right like In other words, its service area business. So again, comm Tree Service contractor residing in Culpepper. Their business physical location is in Culpepper, Virginia, which is where I am. And let’s say they’re they go to Fredericksburg, it’s 45 miles east, and they do a job out there. They take photos of on that job from their phone. Geo Data is, you know, Latin long and the EXIF data is all part of the metadata of the image. They can upload it right there, from there, on the GMB app from their phone to the GMB profile, and that starts to tell Google Hey, their business might be located in Cole pepper, but their service area does go to Fredericksburg. And here’s the images with the Geo Data to prove it. It takes time. It’s not like you’re going to upload a couple of photos and all of a sudden you’re going to pop in adjacent cities in the maps pack. It takes consistent repeated effort, but you can do it Mark has proven that many many times. So, okay. We’re almost done. Cool. Oh, it’s five o'clock, right? Realize that that hour flew by. So Aaron says is Google once again posting reviews? I lost five reviews this last month. Does anyone know if Google will display those reviews? Are they last forever requiring reposting Thanks. No, you know, I don’t know the answer to that. Except that I know what your mean, new reviews are not showing up. But I i because I left a review. A couple of reviews myself for other businesses that aren’t are not showing, but I’m assuming that when they do when Google lifts this, whatever restriction that they will publish, but I don’t know because I don’t work for Google. Do you know the answer to that Marco?

I have no idea if they will republish the ones that you lost. I know that they’re, like opening it back up slowly that there was a GMB email that went out. I don’t know if you got that Bradley with it where they were mentioning that reviews were back and that they will be opening up other things. Slowly, I don’t know. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know what they close and I don’t know what’s going to happen from that. They’re,

yeah. Yeah, Your guess is as good as mine. So, Alright guys, it’s five o'clock. Sorry if we didn’t get to all the questions mom, it looks like we missed one of yours.

I’m so sorry about that guys, but we’ll catch you all next week. Remember mastermind members. I have my webinar tomorrow. So we will see you guys there. Thanks for hanging out guys. Bye, everyone.

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All right, we’re live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangout Episode 283. Today is tax day or maybe it’s the day formerly known as tax day. 2020. So for those of you in the US believe, you know, tax day got setback, kind of a free extension, if you will. But we’re not delaying Hump Day Hangouts. We’re just going right along schedule, although to go with the Coronavirus stuff going on I’m wearing a hacks My hair is getting all crazy now that I my clippers broke and it’s taken forever cuz Amazon’s not shipping stuff as fast as they normally would, which is fine. But I was on actually on a call earlier today as a mastermind call and one of the guys had just given up and just shaved his head and so I’m starting to see some fun Coronavirus haircuts. I think that might be a meme. Yeah, might might go like Marco just get it down. So with that said, we got a few announcements and then we’re going to get into the good stuff. We got a lot of really good questions today. But let’s start I’m gonna start with Bradley How you doing today?

I’m happy to be here man. Nice nice spring day outside it’s kind of cool but I got to go out and go for a run before about an hour ago so nice glad to be here

all right now hold on for those of you who don’t know Bradley’s more of a weights guy so I just want you went for a run

yeah well I when I can’t lift weights which I can’t right now I run and I run often so I run ran five miles yesterday and three and a half today and so I run when I don’t lift

good deal that makes me I’m a runner. So yeah, like hearing that. All right, Marco. How about you?

I ran to the door just earlier.

How was it was it a good workout?

It was tiring man. I’m I’m recovering I’m I had to go get some oxygen an make sure you got a water bottle nearby. Take care yourself.

Always. Always do keep water close by Just in case you gotta hydrate from all that heavy stuffs going all the good things are good, heavy hitter club is coming online. Today, mastermind members contact support at heavy hitters club, because you’re going to get the deal of a lifetime to join the heavy hitter code. You know, we take when we say membership has its privileges, one of those privileges is to get discounts deep discounts into any of the things that we do, right? Whether whatever it is from RYS Academy Reloaded, Syndication, they had just whatever is either included in the price, or we give them a steep discount. Everyone else is also going to get a discount because we understand we’re in the middle of a crisis. Things aren’t the way that they’re supposed to be, but we’re going to help you make money guys. If that’s what you’re looking for. We’re going to give you a really good deal. And yes, it’s a one time only offer you can take advantage of it. And if not, I sincerely sincerely believe it’s your loss, not ours, because we’re going to help you make money in any and every way we can. Technical SEO. I mean, it’s for ranking. That’s the easy part. We’re going to teach you how and why especially why things are the way they are. So I know it’s kind of last minute because yesterday I was saying, if we don’t do it in the next 45 days, if we don’t launch it, then it’s not gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, it just came together and and here it is today. Contact support at heavy hitter club for the discount of your mastermind member. And if you’re not, then I’m going to post the link to the signup page in the in the Hangouts help I’ll go and post in Facebook. There is a there is a page for those of you who want to take care of us want to take advantage of The special that we’re offering, it’s a it’s a bonehead special you can’t you can’t say no, you you can but why would you? So there you go.

Awesome just to clarify though, because I know we’re gonna get this question what’s the difference between heavy hitter club and the mastermind and heavy coder hitter club is technical SEO spearheaded by Robin Marko Of course some of us might may linger and pop in appear you know and such but it’s going to be primarily Marco and Rob talking about technical SEO stuff like just real nitty gritty shit guys. So that’s what that is. And the mastermind includes SEO but also so much more right includes business building and you know, marketing and branding and all different types of marketing, digital marketing and holistic marketing and everything else. So there’s, you know, outsourcing, management, all everything else that goes into running an operating a business, or a heavy hitter club is specifically technical SEO and How to monetize and get best results from SEO, that sort of thing. So I just want to clarify that.

Yeah, I think well, Marco, I’ll let you put in your own words, but I think you put it best for the difference between each come in there because you want to well, like you’re saying scorched earth with SEO. But if you’re a business owner, if, unless that’s your passion, that may not be where you should be spending your time.

exactly exactly. What if you’re a business owner, and you’re what’s in your mindset should be growing your agency growing your business, SEO is part of growing your business. But you as a business owner shouldn’t be in there, you should delegate you should have someone a partner via just whoever so that you can stay in the Semantic Mastery mastermind and grow your business, whatever business it may be. It doesn’t have to be an agency. And at the same time you have someone with us in in the SEO part of it, learning the technical aspect aspects that are going to help you with with rankings. that are going to help you drive traffic to the website. It’s all about entity. Right? In today in the Semantic Web, think about it. This is where it was going all along the Semantic Web of things, not strings. It’s all about things. And there’s nothing better as far as Google is concerned than a brand, then if that thing is a brand, and it’s related to all of the entities that it finds under that niche, right. So this is what we’re looking to push to people how this how this is happening, why it’s happening, and how you can take advantage of it because we look for any, any and every loophole, an advantage that we can take out. We do. Most of the stuff we do, by the way, are not loopholes, loopholes, that they can be closed rather easily. And we’ve seen that happen time after time after time, but all is people said it was a loophole. But it’s been a five year old loophole that hasn’t been closed. So think about that. What what why, why you’re concentrating on this. Like don’t don’t don’t think that you To choose one or the other, if you’re a business owner, you shouldn’t, you should you should be. You shouldn’t do both. And if you can’t do both, then yes, you should have someone who takes care of the SEO part so that you can concentrate on growing your business.

Definitely. Good stuff. All right. Well, Hernan How you doing? what’s what’s going on? You? Look, you look good. You look excited.

Yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to be here. It’s hoody season, we’re good, we’re safe. I’ve been I’ve been working a lot like lately, you know, a lot of our business owners, they’re starting to understand the power of digital marketing, they’re pivoting. So you know, I’ve been doing some consulting for those for those entrepreneurs that they are, you know, that they’re not letting things dictate how they’re running their business, but rather, they’re getting ahead of the curve. And I’m excited that, you know, we’re helping business owners to achieve just that, you know, to achieve, hey, we all know that this is like some, these are weird times, but we need to get prepared. We need to be there. So it’s, you know, it’s really cool. It’s really cool to be able to help some of these people out. So I’m getting Be Here

cool good stuff all right Chris last but not least how you doing man?

Yeah doing good here I’m not so excited this or not involved the Facebook stuff at the moment the bots in like with today’s or not no so that means but like yeah like it’s good otherwise you’re moving on and I’ll be back

nice all right yeah you need to get like what did you have was it uh it was like a box of roses The Terminator?

yeah pretty much it’s awesome

all right actually don’t pull out a gun on screen and pray freak people out but it’d be critical real quick just want to say for those of you joining us for the first time you probably a little confused but we want to say thank you and you’re in the right place we’re going to get into answering SEO digital marketing questions. If you’re watching the replay you can always join us live at semantic mastery comm slash HD questions, ask your questions attend live, but if you can’t we understand things come up. You can check out the replays on YouTube and Grab your channel so you get notified of those updates. Also, if you’re an agency owner or a consultant, you want to get more clients, you want to grow your revenue, and you want to scale your team so that you can work less and earn more. Find out more about that at two x your agency COMM The membership, there is definitely growing. We got some great stuff going on. We just wrapped up the last of the training was out Monday.

Yeah, Monday. So there is a ton. I’m not going to go into the details of it. But there is a ton of good stuff, but it is all centered around those three central pillars, right, getting more clients growing your revenue and scaling your team. Right. That’s what it’s about. So if you’re interested in any one of those, it’s a no brainer. You put all three of those together. And it’s kind of the rocket fuel for your agency rocket, if you will.

May I interrupt for a moment?

No, just kidding.

I just finished we finished week 12 which was a collaboration of of all of us, you know, that you’re seeing on screen right now. And so, it was it was on Monday. We kind of Recorded

what we call insights from agency veterans. And so we each kind of spoke throughout the recorded webinar of us kind of just kind of having conversation about what we’ve learned over the last, you know, throughout our digital marketing careers, with Marco having the most experience or tenure of all of us, but you know, combined, we’ve got a lot of damn experience. And so we’ve each we each have our own businesses apart from Semantic Mastery. And so we all have and we’ve all experienced similar issues but unique to our own businesses. So we kind of really just spoke about, you know, what, what we would do differently if we could do it all over again, in an effort to help you guys our audience to not make the same mistakes or at least to recognize when something is occurring and a way to push through it or get around it or over it or whatever. much quicker, if that makes sense. So it I think it was really powerful way to kind of wrap up The 12 weeks of intense training and there’s over 80 freakin videos in that course. So it’s, it’s definitely a lot more value than what we’re charging for it. So I would encourage you guys to go pick it up.

Definitely. Yeah, and we’ve got some more news about that coming. We also added some little bit of additional, but there’s gonna be some more information coming in next week about this and then I’ll just drop a little hint. It’s for those of you who are interested, and getting started. You know, you can start with 2xyouragency, that’s fine. But for those of you who are just saying, Hey, you know, there’s too many obstacles, or I’m not sure you know, what niche to choose, I’m not sure what service or vertical I should be working in. I’m not sure if I had the money or the capital to start consulting business. Things like that. Keep your ears and eyes open and we’ll be getting with you next week. Also, for those of you who are more concentrated on the SEO side of things, besides the heavy hitters club, if you want to get step by step results from proven processes, then the battle plan is where you should be starting is generally where we tell everyone to start with Semantic Mastery. You can find out more about that a battle plan dot semantic mastery comm now what I’m going to say is we’re going to have a brand new edition of the battle plan coming out and yet I would still advise you to go pick up battle plan right now, it’s a no brainer. It’s a just, I can’t I don’t want to say this on here, but it’s a ton of bonuses that are included in there, you can get access to it now and it’s going to pay for itself while we had one person pay for itself in 13 minutes, but for you, you can pay for itself and definitely like a week or two and then pick up the new edition when it comes out and keep the price low. It’s an entry price that we love and that everyone else loves. We’ve had I think 13 or 1400 people get the battle plan, put it to use and get good results. So anyways, if you haven’t yet, just go grab it and then the new edition will be coming out we’ll have some good stuff involved with that. And last but not least, mg y v. If you aren’t familiar with that, head over to mtv.co check out where you can get all the done for you services. If you’re live today I posted on the page, the current flash sale we have going on with link building and the SEO field. You can save a bundle over there, but only for the next 48 hours. And if you’re checking this out later, and you’re wondering how you can find out about stuff like that, just go over to Mt. yt.co. Hop on the newsletter list and that’s how you can get notified of good stuff like this.

All right, I think that’s it guys. Let’s dive into the questions.

Sweet. Grab the screen.

Marco. I posted a message in slack for you. Yes.

That’s pretty cool. All right. Sorry, guys. Let me get into Okay, you should be seeing my screen. Is that correct?

Yep. Okay.

All right. Uh, get my bearings standby.

How Do You Exclude The SEO Powershield G-Site From Google SERPs?

Okay, all these questions came from the That’s interesting. All right, a DC SEO says Thanks for answering my question last week, guys, I appreciate it. One last question. Before I worded the shield just so I’m completely clear, can I make sure that only my site appears in the SERPs, and the G site doesn’t appear on the results pages? If you set it to no index, but I don’t know why you would do that. Here’s the question. Here’s my question for you. Why would you not want to take up another spot in the search engine results in the top 10? Right? Every every asset that you can rank on the first page for whatever your desired keyword is, is another competitor that’s not showing up on the page. So in my opinion, why would you ever not want the G site to also appear for your primary keywords or your entity search or whatever it is that you’re trying to rank? It seems like to me that you’d want to have all 10 spots on the first page if possible. So a G site can absolutely and will often rank for your primary keywords. In fact, it will often rank right below the money site. Here’s the thing if you’re if you’re I framing your money site pages, you theme mirror like we tell you guys to do. And you’re I framing your money site pages in your G site pages and somebody lands on the G site, they’re gonna see your money site page anyways, they could still submit a contact request form they could order you know, make a purchase, submit an opt in do whatever it is that you want to do right from the within the iframe of the G site. So why the hell would you not want it so that that would be my question to you. But yes, if you don’t want it to show up in the SERPs, you could always set it to no index. I have no idea why you would do that though.

Anybody want to comment on that? And not only that, once we release the the cracking, we can’t control it. We can’t control the beast. It’s gonna do what it’s going to do and there’s just no way to control it. Yes, you set it to no index. But as Bradley said, why would you want to give your your competition extra real estate space to compete against you? It makes absolutely no sense you can make last pages that are that are really neat, or you can everything that’s above the fold with CTA that are attractive, and that will get clicks, they’ll get action. You can get a video in there, you can get a whole bunch right above the fold. So so if you don’t like how the rest of it looks, person isn’t likely to scroll down, if they find what they’re looking for, like right above the fold, they’re not likely to scroll down. SEOs are the ones who, who tend to do that. But if you’ve answered the question, or the pain or the problem, right above the fold, they’re just going to click and go over to where they need to go. So think about it that way. And no, I’ll say it again. We cannot control the beast once it’s released. It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do. And that’s it.

Should We Add The GSite To Google Search Console Of The Main GMB Email?

Awesome. Fitz is up. He says, Can we or maybe also should be at the G site to search console for our main GMB email. Yeah, you can’t I just I just typically add it to the Search Console, the same google google account that The drive stack g site were built under. That’s typically how I do it. But you can always so so in other words, you know, whatever Google account it is that MGYB creates for the drive stack and the G site, I submit to search console within that Google account. Now if I want to still be able to, you know, view it or manage it, you know, look at reports and such from Search Console from the main GMB account that it’s, you know, pushing relevance to then you can add that as an additional user. But you know, it’s up to you. I don’t think it makes any difference either one way or the other. The whole idea of putting it into Search Console so that you can you know, help with the index and such comments.

Should Different Website Properties Have Different NAP?

Okay, and up he says should different website properties have different n AP, name, address and phone number working with an Umbrella Corporation as multiple ecom website brands want to have SEO power shields for each individual econ property but worried about penalties or issues that may occur with shared or overlapping NAPs.

Um, you know, I don’t know, because it’s not a local business. If it’s ecom, I don’t know that, you know, NAP issues are ambiguous with NAP is going to cause any problems if you’re not trying to rank in maps. That makes sense. You know, I’ll let Marco take this one, though, because this is more up his alley than mine. I don’t all I do is local. So I don’t really know the best answer for that. Marco, what do you say?

This is one of those things is is what what is the what are one of the places where I look at the competition? First of all, what are they doing? Not not because I’m concerned about the competition, but just what are they doing? If they’re national, they’re global. How are they relating their entities and and if they have offices in other places, how are they relating those? you saying that you have different websites, but if it’s all part of the same Corporation, if there’s one Umbrella Corporation, then you’d relate those through the schema You can create all kinds of neat relationships through scheme. And it’s one of the things that Rob is going to show in the heavy hitter club how to relate all of these so that it becomes just one big umbrella. Right? And under that umbrella would be all of the different offices or places, or products or services or whatever it is that you’re trying to do to create all of these associations.

Yeah, because see, I mean, that’s I would use organization or corporation, structured data for the umbrella company, right? And that would apply to each individual site as well, because it’s all part of the overall organization or corporation, right. But then you could have like website schema, for example, not necessarily local business. I mean, you could have local business if you do have a GMB for each one, which could be part of the organization, right, but there would be individual locations, but for ecom I don’t know that that’s necessary. Again, I don’t do ecom. So I don’t know if That’s correct or not, or if that would help. But you could do something like website schema for that if that makes sense.

So the organization would tie it all together. And that’s what Marco was saying is, you know, when you have an entity, even if you have multiple divisions, or multiple locations, or different, you know, pseudo brands that are like the children, like child companies have a larger parent company, a broader parent company, if you can tie all that together through through the entity, all of them will benefit, if that makes sense. Because, again, you’re talking about branding and the entity itself, even if they’re separate, like divisions or sub brands and that kind of stuff. It will benefit from the overall organization that kind of ties everything together, if that makes sense. So, anyways, as far as the URL shortener go to mgyb.co, slash s, mg y b.co slash s, and this is our URL shortener now, there are different subscription levels. You could have a free account if you want it, but you get a lot of cool things with different subscription levels. And we’ve been using this for all the drive stacks URL shortening that we do for customers of ours, and everything else for what, a year and a half, two years now. And it’s super, super powerful. And you can do a lot of really cool things with our URL shortener. If you have a paid plan such as ad retargeting scripts and things like that into the, the header for the redirect all kinds of really cool things that you can do password protect URLs and stuff like that. So I would go to mgyb.co/s, and use that. Anybody want to comment on that?

No. The power behind our shortener is incredible. It is. It ranks for keywords. And so it just, it’s just ridiculous, as you said, Why you can do so by all means, if you want to use I only mean that’s fine. Bitly Be careful. It’s a 302 Google Firebase, it’s also 302. It can be a 301 if you go through the trouble of making it a 301 redirect, but you’d have to figure out how to do that.

Yeah, and what’s interesting is, is it’s crazy. But oftentimes, and I’ve seen this happen with drive stack files, for example, the MG y b, the redirect URL will rank. And in the search results, the shortened URL will show even though when you click it it for, you know, it redirects to the actual Google Drive File. And it’s really interesting to see the Drive files rank with the mgyb.co short URL, because typically, you don’t you don’t see the redirect URL in the search results, you see the target or the final destination, right? So it’s very interesting to see that.

Can You Upgrade A Single Tier Into Multi Tier Syndication Network When You Order The SEO Power Shield In MGYB?

Karen says, Hey, there I had a few questions from last week, which, unfortunately, we’re not able to get to So here they are. The SEO power shield syndication network. If you order an SEO power shield, it comes with a syndication network. However, I am assuming it’s a single tiered syndication network. Yes, it is the branded network. But let’s say I want a multi tier syndication network, is there an upgrade option rather than purchasing a full syndication network, since single tiered network already exists? Contact support at mgyb.co. And make that request and I’m sure I’m not sure, maybe Marco sure, but I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate that sort of a request, but it’s gonna have to be a custom order as opposed to just something that’s done through the normal channel. If that makes sense. Marco’s that’s something we can do.

Maybe I mean, we’d have to bolt on the the tiered syndication network to the to the already existing cynic. But But why would you want a tiered syndication network when tier one works just fine.

I mean, that’s a good question. I would ask the same thing but maybe he has a reason.

So okay, I mean, a fine, right to support and then what Robin I’ll do is we’ll sit and talk about it and see if it’s even worth it because the price that we might have to charge you may not make it worth it to you.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t think I mean unless there if you have a reason for wanting a multi tiered syndication network and then by all means do that, but I don’t you know, we have been encouraging people to not use multi tiered syndication networks for blog syndication, because they’re kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. However, if you’ve got something like RSS masher, which is Damon Nelson’s product, it’s really good for creating beautiful spliced feeds with like, it’s really really cool you can you can create really cool custom spliced feeds and in use that to power your second tier networks so that you have multiple relevant content sources posting to those networks, which is what we recommend. And with something like RSS masher, it becomes much much easier to maintain multi tiered networks. The more manual method, which is how it had been done for four years, requires adding a bunch of relevant RSS content feeds to the second tier. triggers, which becomes a nightmare, because let’s say that if all you did was add, you know, three additional arts, so you got your money site RSS feed. But then let’s say you add three additional Khan relevant content feeds for each blog. second tier syndication network, right? So So if there’s three of them, which is there are the way that we build them. So the first single tier is first ring, right, one ring, and then there’s three syndication networks on the second tier, each being triggered by one of the blogs from the tier one network, right? So when I say blogs, I mean, blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress. But if you were to add three additional content feeds at the second tier trigger point. So for each one of those, you would need an additional nine feeds relevant content feeds that you don’t control. And not only that, you have to set up a separate set of recipes or applets inside of IFTTT for each feed. So let’s say there’s 15 applets that you need to set up for each RSS feed that you add, that’s an additional 45 applets per syndication network that you need to create, which in itself is not that bad. It’s a bit tedious. But you know, once it’s done, it’s done. But the problem occurs when you don’t have control over those feeds. And because of that, like things can happen to their site, the site that you’re using the feed from, where it could have a you know, it could I’ve seen RSS feeds hiccup and they just spit out a shit ton of posts and it can terminate your have a lot of your syndication network properties terminate because of over publishing, I, you know, they’re things could break. This is a ton of things that cause a lot of maintenance issues. And if you’re just dealing with one project, it’s okay because you know, you’re only managing one project, but you’ve got SEO in your name up here. So I’m assuming you probably do client work or more than just one project. And so multi tiered networks become kind of a nightmare to too cumbersome to manage. When you’re doing multiple projects. At least that’s my opinion, unless you’re using something like Like RSS masher which really simplifies that process, and adds a whole lot of control to even the input feeds that you create the super spliced feed from, because it has filters and all these other really cool things like it can actually strip out content from the feed. There’s a code inserter, a code stripper, there’s all kinds of things in there. So, again, multi tier networks are not recommended. Obviously, if you know what you’re doing and you have a strategic reason for using it, then by all means, do so.

Have You Done A Test On Linking Your Money Site At The Footer Disclaimer Section Of Client Site?

Okay, next question. Disclaimer links. Disclaimer link on client sites. As you know, there is a long term practice for SEO web design companies to add a link back to their site in the footer. Yes, like the footer link section, right. I’ve recently been switching all of those links for SEO and marketing by brand plus keyword plus location with brand plus keyword plus location being the anchor text linking to my SEO company’s GMB profile, and I’ve seen some big results from it. Have you done any testing related to this just curious? No, though, those are considered Wide links and I mean you know, I, I do put those often in client sites the footer as well, but I usually just link back with my brand name and I usually nofollow those links, I have not done any testing with them in years, just because it became kind of a you know, site wide links could work what had become a negative factor essentially, for a long long time and so I just got into the habit of the routine of just note just linking to my brand name, so big bamboo marketing and then know following the link so that it didn’t cause any, like penguin issues, if that makes sense. But uh, but no, I haven’t done any testing with it. It’s interesting to hear that anybody else.

Well, it stands to reason right the brand plus keyword plus location by eliminating marketing because you don’t need it. If you have if you’ve done your entity work correctly on your on your marketing website. then adding a link that’s your brand, and the keyword and the locations that you creating that relevant For the bot, there’s no reason why then it should pick up an algorithm, any type of algorithmic penalty, because it’s what you’re asked to do at the local level. This is how you’re taught to associate everything brand, plus location plus keyword, brand. keyword, okay. That’s what the bottom is looking for comes in, and it looks for this. So what it’s picking up is all of that relevance back to your site, which is what we do really with our academy reloaded, except that we protected 111 layer out through the SEO partnership, the drive secondary site, right? We create all of our all the all of the relevance in there because we know that what Google is going to do is power it up, rather than look to to penalize it algorithmically. So if he’s obviously getting results just from those changes, it works. It could stop working in the future. I can say anything that’s working in Google could stop working tomorrow. Theoretically, simply because they decide to, you have to be careful with that type of thing.

Would You Get An Algorithmic Penalty For Using Generic Terms Too Many Times?

Okay, thanks Marco. The next question is from big Billy says anchor question, I have several product pages that I put a link to my category page for that type of product. I use the word here many, many times to link up to the same page, any chance I could get that page and algorithmic penalty or doesn’t matter because it’s a generic term now not for that. If you over optimized for a singular keyword, then that can actually cause problems, but something like that, but my question is, I’m not sure. Well, again, product pages, I don’t do e commerce. So I’m not even going to explain why I wouldn’t use here so much, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I would try to use various keywords though. Again, I don’t do e commerce. So I don’t know what you’re specifically doing. But I typically when I’m linking back up to you know, any sort of like a silo landing page or homepage or whatever, I try to just vary the anchor text with LSI keywords right. So synonyms for whatever my primary keywords are from. So for example, if I’m coming from a blog post about Tree Removal in a particular area, then I’m going to use some sort of tree removal keyword or variation of a tree removal service tree cutting service, arborist tree removal, something like that, to link back up to the landing page for that particular silo. But again, using a generic term like that it should, it’s not going to cause any out I’ve never heard of that causing an algorithmic penalty, because I don’t know of any SEOs out there that are optimizing for here. You know what I’m saying? So, Margaret, do you have any comments on that?

No, I haven’t seen it. And in fact, when I do my interlinking, I use the generic terms a lot. But not only here, go here, more information, learn more, read more, all of that. So there’s about 10 or 12 terms that you can use, and you know, you can spin those so that so that they don’t appear that way. The same thing, right one one after the other because it can get as far as the user, it can get repetitive. And that’s not something that that you want, you don’t want the user to hear hear again, and again, here, here, here. And here. This is a, it’s e commerce, I assume there’s a bunch of products on there, all of them with here. So create variations simply for the sake of not boring the user with the same terms over and over and over again.

Yeah, and remember, you can also lengthen the phrase for the that you’re going to use for the anchor text. It doesn’t always have to just be a keyword guys, or if keyword phrase, it can be a longer statement, like, you know what I mean? So, you know, get, get more information about key word here, that could be an entire link. That makes sense. The whole, you know, short sentence could be a link. And what that does is, again, it adds diversity, but you still get your keyword in there without it being over optimized, and it makes sense to the reader or the user. You know, Because you know that the phrase itself is, is a call to action. Does that make sense? So there’s a lot of variations that you can do to kind of add some diversity to that. That’s cool. Go ahead. No, nothing. Yes, absolutely. Also question for Marco, I own our bias and RYS reloaded, and I’m about to get serious about it. Well, that’s good. Should I even learn the original version or just drive straight in the ROI ASR?

Well, there’s a lot of neat stuff by Dr. Gary in the archives. So I would say by all means, you need to get to the archives. But to get to the archives, first start with what’s with what the most current training is. And that’s whatever is in our academy reloaded. And please understand, we do need to update it, update that at some point because a couple of things have changed, not the power, power, the power that that we’re generating doesn’t change, and it’s gotten even better, but there’s a few things in there. That we do have to that we do have to go over. I’m glad mean, I wish I knew your name, come on the Facebook group and say what’s up. So go through the training. We’re still supporting after five years, we’re still supporting the damn Facebook group. We’re still in there answering questions. So come on in there. If you have any questions, ask away.

How Do You iFrame An Ecom Site If The G Site Has A Frame Breaker?

Awesome. Last week, Marco mentioned to iframe your eecom page onto a G site, but the new g site has a frame breaker. Is that true Marco? No, I always work in the old site. But I I’m quite sure that new g sites have iframes do don’t they?

Okay, so maybe he has his terms mixed up. You cannot take the new g site and iframe that anywhere else. Right. It does have a frame breaker. But you can iframe on the new g site. There’s a right insert embed code, right that does a What do you call it? There’s an icon in there that allows you to iframe anything unless what you’re trying to iframe has a frame breaker also.

Right? Right. So your ecom platform may have an iframe breaker, but you are able to iframe pages into the new g site. That’s and that’s what I was. I always work in the old site, the GMB builders build the new site, but all the work that I do for theme earring and everything is always in the classic g sites. But I was gonna say, I know the new g sites have my pages I, you know, like the pearl trees and, you know, press advantage page and things like that all get iframe in there, so I can’t imagine. The only thing I would assume that Billy is that perhaps your eecom platform might have an iframe breaker. So Okay, moving on. Bibi says Hey guys, what is the problem of duplicate content during syndication? For full text post? Is there a problem apply on branded network also, or just tier two and beyond? There’s no problem at all, when you have it. That’s the whole point of the attribution link below. If you your RSS feed should have, depending on what if what kind of plugin you’re using RSS plugin, God forbid, you’re using Yoast. But almost all RSS plugins now have an RSS setting that will allow you to inject an attribution link either before the content or after the content. And so when your plugin settings, you go in and you you code in the attribution link. And there’s typically some sort of tokens in there like post URL, post title, site title, all of those things that you can tokenize your attribution link for so that essentially it will pull the title so what I always do is I always use the post title as the anchor text, and it links to the post URL. Again, those are tokens that you can code into the attribution code in the RSS plugin settings. However, if your RSS plugin settings don’t have, if you don’t have the ability to code in an attribution link, then you can do that within the applets inside of IFTTT, which just means you have to edit the app. It’s really only count you really only Well, you should do it also for Google Drive. So like, your document sharing when you’re when you read syndicate a blog post into Google Drive, and what is it Microsoft One Drive or whatever the hell it is. Those should also have attribution links. But really, it’s your going to be your blogs, so blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, that you really want to make sure that you have the attribution links. And, and that’s it, there’s no problem with duplicate content, because you’re, you’re citing the original source. That’s the whole point. And even if you weren’t citing the original source, it’s still not a duplicate content problem. duplicate content only occurs on the same domain. It doesn’t occur off site if it did, then press releases would be toxic. And some press releases are toxic, actually, that there is there’s no such thing as duplicate content anyway. Even even on site it I mean, all that’s going to happen if the pages are similar, or the same what Google is going to do. And we’ve explained this before, it’s going to start AB AB testing ABCD. However many pages are similar, it’s going to take those, it’s going to start giving an impression. And then it’s going to decide which one answers the query the best. And that’s the page, that’s going to end up indexed, right. And in the active index, let’s just call it versus all of the others, but you’re not going to get any penalties. What you are going to get is warnings about duplicate titles and descriptions, so that you can make unique titles and descriptions. And the content can pretty much be the same. And then again, you’re leaving out you’re leaving it up to Google to decide which version of your page is the best for the query. Instead of you deciding on your best converting page versus all the other pages, look in Search Console, and see which pages are being served for the different keywords and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll see ABC ABCD you’ll see that like if the pages are Very similar, you’ll see four or five, six pages. If you’re doing mass mass page built, you’ll see even more. And Google will give give all of those pages impressions until it decides which one the best one would be. That’s what they call keyword cannibalization. It’s not really that it’s Google deciding which pages was the query the best. So let’s, let’s end this duplicate content myth. once and for all. I actually saw a definitive guide to SEO by a company which I kind of respected. They have really good information. They put out the Definitive Guide to technical SEO, and they went into into duplicate content as if it could be an issue. And it can only be an issue if you’re having all of these pages competing against one another to see which one, Google is going to rank. That’s the only way that they can affect it. You’re not going to get a penalty. You’re not it. Nothing’s going to happen other than Google. Know, it’ll take Google, as long as it takes Google to decide which page is the best, you want to leave that up to Google, or do you want to go in, figure out which one it is that you want, and then rel canonical or redirect all of the other pages to that one page?

Yeah, go look, go search Google for canonical. And you’ll see or rel=canonical. And you’ll see that Google created that specifically for that reason, and that so that you can push credit from similar pages to whatever you want to be the parent or master page, so to speak. And that’s to specifically address potential duplicate content issues on even the same domain. That’s what canonical was originally developed for. And they came up with cross domain canonical, as well. And that’s for canonical Ising, similar pages from other domains to a specific target, if that makes sense. So maybe I’m gonna I think this is the same BB that we’ve answered questions before, but we guys we’re going to have to say this once again, and I can’t assume that everybody knows this, but we don’t Typically allow people or want ask people to post this many questions because it’s just not fair to other people. So, because these are all around the exact same thing, and they’re very, very short going to be really easy to answer, I will answer these guys. But come on next time just post a question or two, please and then allow some others to post and then post another question or two just because it’s not fair. Okay. So the next question was, is there a reason why we should have REL equals nofollow on attributed link on the RSS items? No, other than a lot of the plugins that there are SEO plugins, when you code in an RS an attribution link, they’re going to automatically apply a nofollow tag to it. And unless you want to go in and actually edit the plug in code, which I used to do with Yoast years ago, but every time Yoast like I would go in and into the plug in code, right but and actually edit the plug in code to remove that REL equals nofollow tag to the RSS attribution link. However, every time the plugin updated, it would, it would update that code. didn’t have to go back and edit it. And you can imagine if you have more than just a couple of sites, how how much of a pain in the ass that was, so I just stopped doing it. I don’t even care anymore. If we can make it follow great. If not nofollow will is good enough. It’s just it’s a it’s a, it’s a, you know, an efficiency thing. Right? That makes sense. It’s it’s just too difficult to go in and edit plug in code. However, if you got a plug in code that will allow you to put in a follow link as opposed to and it doesn’t automatically apply the nofollow tag then by all means, do that, which by the way, if you code it in through IFTTT, then you it will be it will be a follow link as long as the blogs or the syndication point provides follow links but many of them are nofollow links anyways. Okay. The next one was why should you use spintax? Why should you spintax the attribution and the after text post when syndicating RSS, it just adds diversity to the attribution link. So it makes sense right? If if you if you can add spintax to the attribution link text that you’re, you know, in the plugin settings like our plugin does, then it just adds diversity so it’s not always the same exact line right on every single post that gets syndicated out but that’s it’s not a problem it just adds some diversity if you if you have that functionality use it if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. Okay. Why you have limited the RSS plugin to only five posts. I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Chris has an on he’s the one that developed our pup but there should be settings to be able to adjust that. And also it’s not the RSS plugin typically that does that go into your WordPress settings go to WordPress admin area, go to settings, reading and then take a look there and right there is where you should see how many posts show in the RSS feed. And that should be the set that should be where you adjust that setting not necessarily RSS plugin. Okay. Is the RSS plugin just for adding spintax functionality now that well, I can’t tell you unless you’re in the mastermind the mastermind plugin adds a whole RSS plugin which is only available in the mastermind it’s free to mastermind members it has a lot of additional functionality I you must if you’re talking about our RSS plugin, but the free version I can’t tell you because I haven’t used that five years no shit so I don’t even know what the dashboard that looks like. Does anybody know here?

No, no cuz I only use the Pro.

Yeah, the pro version which is in the mastermind is it adds all kinds of additional functionality like it allows you to republish old posts it allows you to add hashtags and all kinds of cool stuff that Chris coded into it but um again that’s that’s the pro version which is in the mastermind I don’t use the free version guys. I just there’s really no reason for me to so I can’t tell you what that even looks like. I’m sorry about that. Two k says. How do you guys use AWS site? Yes, Amazon s3 bucket for the ID page. Why is that two site? Well, a couple reasons one, to siphon some authority from Amazon to because it’s an Amazon domain, which we can just fucking hammer with, with kitchen sink, spam and everything else we want to throw at it. Number three, because it’s just an HTML page that we upload because it loads really fast. And we’re going to, we load it up with our iframe stacking that we do the the infinite loop, right, the infinite entity loop, the mirror and mirror picture and picture that never ends. That’s what we do. And those pages, trust me when you build out an ID page, the way that we do it. And then go back and even add in some additional things, it will literally break your computer, if you try to load it. It takes so much cash because so many iframes are trying to load and it will overwhelm the cache or the memory on your on your on your on your PC. I know because it’s locked up mine many times. And remember guys that Id pages aren’t supposed to be for public consumption. In other words, they’re not necessarily something that you want to rank or anything else, it’s specifically for the bots. So it doesn’t matter if it’s going to lock up your browser because how often are you or you or anybody else going to actually visit it? So but there’s a number of reasons why we use that Marco, you could probably name a few others.

No, no, I mean, you name the main month. The main purpose of that is to create another property in another powerful domain for the entity loop. So it goes to however it is that we do it. That’s how we do it. And we just add another we could add more, but more isn’t necessarily better that there’s diminishing returns on what that loop will bring back. I think we’ve tried others and it locks it up even with with as much RAM as I have. Yeah, it’ll lock up my computer and I have tons around.

I got 3232 gigabytes or whatever, whatever it is megabytes, whatever the hell it is. And it’s in it’ll lock machine right up, man. I got 64 and That’s ridiculous what it is. Yeah. But anyway, the main reason is power and an additional place where we store our entity information so that the bot can come and pick up some more somewhere else. Just following the breadcrumbs. That’s all it is.

Yeah. It’s interesting because one of our mastermind members, Darrell had shared with us one of his entity stacks that he had entity loop stacks that he had created was like an ID page, essentially. And it was freakin insane. I can’t remember it as something like, I don’t remember, I’m just gonna throw a number out there. Because it was ridiculous. Like 30 freakin iframes in it, like, it was just it was nuts. And he was like, careful. Make sure you got everything else shut down when you click this link. It was funny. But it’s, it’s pretty cool. So the next question was, could you not just a part of the second half of that question was could you not just use the Google site with all the embedded stuff and put that in the schema, or is there a reason you don’t do that? Yeah, let me just explain why. The last question from today we do use the G site,

we do it right and we embed the idx page in the G site right. So and the and the G site gets embedded in the idx page. Hence the mirror the entity loop, right. Infinite entity loop. The second or the next question was one more question when I order a press release from MDB. Do you guys create the press advantage new newsroom page? Yes, yes we do. Okay, so you will get the benefit of that. Nathan says I saw your post today marketing the SEO location shields is that the ROI stack extension you have been working on launching No not yet. The SEO location shield can also be utilized for brands or adding a second location under an already established brand with the syndication network. Already have an SEO shield for my brand. I need some created for inner service pages. I’m trying to rank well The location shield is if you like, and market will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way because all I do is local, the location shields for me as if I have multiple locations for a particular brand. So for example, I’m working on a tree service project and the map that’s making available to the public to the mastermind. I’m doing it as essentially a live case study, by the way, my mastermind webinars tomorrow, and I’ve made a lot of progress on that. So those of you that are in the mastermind, I’ll be sharing a lot more about that tomorrow. But anyways, it’s it’s, it’s a new brand with several GMB locations that I’ve already established but I’m rebranding from an old an older brand to the to the new company that because I got a new service provider anyways, so I ordered a SEO power shield for the main brand. In fact, I was working on I’m working on, here you go take a look. Here’s the entity assets here. I’m working inside process street developing that stuff out right now. So you can see the SEO, I’m not going to click into there, but the Seo shield would be there. And it’s the same thing as I’m actually working through developing the process out so that my team can can do that for me. And so the primary brand is associated with whatever top level keyword is, in this case, it won’t have a location associated with the top level keyword in the brand, because I want to create that as like an organization. In other words, and then all of the individual locations, which will be built on inner pages inside of the main site will each get its own location shield, which means it gets its own g site and drive stack that are optimized for that particular location. And it’ll have an ID page as well. But then they get basically placed underneath the primary branded ri ri S Drive stack. Does that make sense? So in other words, each location shield the ri s stack becomes an inner folder of the primary entity stack, if that makes sense. And that that way is that Don’t have to build the ID page for each location. Each separate location drive stack is optimized specifically for the market level keywords plus the location, look at location modifier for that particular location, and then the ID page, which is unique to each location as well. But all of that gets placed under the parent main entity stack. And so that’s that’s the way that I do it, because all I do is local. And so that’s how I think of location shields, although I’m sure location shields can be applied to other stuff other than local. How would you do that Marco?

And why would you want to location shield for something other than local?

Well, there’s the answer then.

So Nathan, that’s hopefully that makes some sense. If you have, you know, multiple locations, that’s what you would want to do. If you have inner service pages, then those would just be expanding your current drive stack. You wouldn’t need a separate idx page and a separate drive stack built for a particular service page. You could just clone Which you currently have, and then optimize, like, edit and that’s, that’s something that we will have available soon and MGB that’s the entity or the drive stack expansion service, which is coming soon. Marco, did we have a time on that yet?

No, we just asked the developer today and he’s still working on it.

Okay. So hopefully that makes some sense Nathan

Would It Be Okay To Use A General Location Of A Nearby City When Doing Schema For Service Area Businesses?

Troy says hello when doing schema for service area business address lat long and don’t want to use exact address because trying to rank a nearby bigger city can should be okay to use more general location of a nearby city like city state. lat long Okay, um, you know, you can you can omit? Well, not necessarily, I can’t remember if it will take it or not, if you like if you were to go to local business schema, for example, and right here where it does say geo coordinates lat long, you might be able to just remove that from the code and then go try to validate the code in the structured data testing tool and see if it still validates. I know I was like, for example, I was just talking about this tree service project I’m working on Well, the primary domain isn’t, I don’t want that associated with like the homepage. I don’t want that associated with a particular GMB because I want all that I want it to just be brand and keyword. And so I still have structured data for that. But because I don’t want, I still have local business structured data, but I don’t have an actual street address. I just have city state and zip, and then the Latin long, but I was able to omit the street address and still have the local business structured data validated in the structured data testing tool. So I was able to admit that so that I can still have local business structure. Well, there’s organization Plus Local Business structured data, even on the homepage, which isn’t associated with any particular one, one specific address, if that makes sense. So you might want to be able to just go in and actually Edit the latitude and longitude out and see if it will validate. Otherwise, I don’t know Mark, what do you say? I don’t know that I would want to use a generic problems, right? I see potential problems, because he’s talking about a local business with a business centroid, the centroid being the point where the business is and and we’ll extend in a radius from that from that is the center of the business in relationship to the radius. Correct. So Google has that, because you went to the pains of verifying and Google verifying your business, you not have a pin. Google knows the exact location of that pin. Now you go and you submit structured data, which is directed directly to Googlebot. Googlebot comes in crawls and you have different geo settings, different latitude and longitude. Now is that in and of itself, going to cause a problem? I don’t know. I haven’t tested it but Essentially, it could be a problem, right? And I don’t understand why you want to do that, instead of extending your central, I try to trick the bot.

I agree. Instead of trying to extend instead of trying to extend the centroid and creating that relationship between the business centroid, and the area that he’s trying to target, if you create that relationship, that’s gonna work a whole lot better than trying to trick the bot into seeing different latitude and longitude for your business.

Yeah, I agree. Here’s what I was showing, though, just in case you wanted to test that is that part of it right there, into that comma down there. I know, it’s probably hard for you guys to see. But if you were to eliminate that section right there, and then try to validate the code once the rest of the code was fleshed out, it’s, I’m assuming it would validate but it might require the geo Latin long, I’ve never tried to omit that intentionally. But you could try it and see if it validate, but I agree with Marco 100%. There’s, in my opinion, there’s really no need to do that. I don’t know why you would want to do that when actually you could just use Is the the specific that coordinates for where the business actually resides where the physical location is. And then through your content, your silo structure and everything else you can tell Google what your service areas and that’s, that’s what my Tree Service case study that I’m doing in the mastermind is going to be demonstrating is how through just blog posting through silo structure which simple silo structure not even complex silo structure and just blog posting, and then theme mirroring and interlinking correctly, that we can get significant results for a very large service area even with only one GMB if needed. I’ve got multiple GM B’s but we’re expand for this particular project. We’re expanding south in Virginia, from where the central location is and all of the southern areas are going to be strictly organic rankings. All of the northern areas have already GMP s. So that’s how we’re going to kind of set separate the two Two different tests on one site for one brand. Some are going to have GM B’s the rest, all the southern locations are going to be strictly organic. And and I’m going to be demonstrating that in there. So I agree with Marco. I don’t know why you’d want to trick the bot when you could just expand your area. So, okay. All right. That was a good question though. Troy says, Hey, same goes with GMB images. geotag. Can general bigger nearby cities be the default instead of the exact business address? city state? Yeah, well, that’s, that’s what we teach in local GMB Pro. Right. That’s how you expand the centroid is you start to upload images that are geotagged for a larger service area. So that’s, that’s, that’s exactly what we teach in local GMB Pro. So that’s different than trying to tell Google through structured data, the latitude and longitude of where your business is, when it’s not actually where your business is. That’s that’s a lot different when you’re uploading images from a larger broader service area. So let’s say your account takeover, right like In other words, its service area business. So again, comm Tree Service contractor residing in Culpepper. Their business physical location is in Culpepper, Virginia, which is where I am. And let’s say they’re they go to Fredericksburg, it’s 45 miles east, and they do a job out there. They take photos of on that job from their phone. Geo Data is, you know, Latin long and the EXIF data is all part of the metadata of the image. They can upload it right there, from there, on the GMB app from their phone to the GMB profile, and that starts to tell Google Hey, their business might be located in Cole pepper, but their service area does go to Fredericksburg. And here’s the images with the Geo Data to prove it. It takes time. It’s not like you’re going to upload a couple of photos and all of a sudden you’re going to pop in adjacent cities in the maps pack. It takes consistent repeated effort, but you can do it Mark has proven that many many times. So, okay. We’re almost done. Cool. Oh, it’s five o'clock, right? Realize that that hour flew by. So Aaron says is Google once again posting reviews? I lost five reviews this last month. Does anyone know if Google will display those reviews? Are they last forever requiring reposting Thanks. No, you know, I don’t know the answer to that. Except that I know what your mean, new reviews are not showing up. But I i because I left a review. A couple of reviews myself for other businesses that aren’t are not showing, but I’m assuming that when they do when Google lifts this, whatever restriction that they will publish, but I don’t know because I don’t work for Google. Do you know the answer to that Marco?

I have no idea if they will republish the ones that you lost. I know that they’re, like opening it back up slowly that there was a GMB email that went out. I don’t know if you got that Bradley with it where they were mentioning that reviews were back and that they will be opening up other things. Slowly, I don’t know. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know what they close and I don’t know what’s going to happen from that. They’re,

yeah. Yeah, Your guess is as good as mine. So, Alright guys, it’s five o'clock. Sorry if we didn’t get to all the questions mom, it looks like we missed one of yours.

I’m so sorry about that guys, but we’ll catch you all next week. Remember mastermind members. I have my webinar tomorrow. So we will see you guys there. Thanks for hanging out guys. Bye, everyone.

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All right, we’re live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangout Episode 283. Today is tax day or maybe it’s the day formerly known as tax day. 2020. So for those of you in the US believe, you know, tax day got setback, kind of a free extension, if you will. But we’re not delaying Hump Day Hangouts. We’re just going right along schedule, although to go with the Coronavirus stuff going on I’m wearing a hacks My hair is getting all crazy now that I my clippers broke and it’s taken forever cuz Amazon’s not shipping stuff as fast as they normally would, which is fine. But I was on actually on a call earlier today as a mastermind call and one of the guys had just given up and just shaved his head and so I’m starting to see some fun Coronavirus haircuts. I think that might be a meme. Yeah, might might go like Marco just get it down. So with that said, we got a few announcements and then we’re going to get into the good stuff. We got a lot of really good questions today. But let’s start I’m gonna start with Bradley How you doing today?

I’m happy to be here man. Nice nice spring day outside it’s kind of cool but I got to go out and go for a run before about an hour ago so nice glad to be here

all right now hold on for those of you who don’t know Bradley’s more of a weights guy so I just want you went for a run

yeah well I when I can’t lift weights which I can’t right now I run and I run often so I run ran five miles yesterday and three and a half today and so I run when I don’t lift

good deal that makes me I’m a runner. So yeah, like hearing that. All right, Marco. How about you?

I ran to the door just earlier.

How was it was it a good workout?

It was tiring man. I’m I’m recovering I’m I had to go get some oxygen an make sure you got a water bottle nearby. Take care yourself.

Always. Always do keep water close by Just in case you gotta hydrate from all that heavy stuffs going all the good things are good, heavy hitter club is coming online. Today, mastermind members contact support at heavy hitters club, because you’re going to get the deal of a lifetime to join the heavy hitter code. You know, we take when we say membership has its privileges, one of those privileges is to get discounts deep discounts into any of the things that we do, right? Whether whatever it is from RYS Academy Reloaded, Syndication, they had just whatever is either included in the price, or we give them a steep discount. Everyone else is also going to get a discount because we understand we’re in the middle of a crisis. Things aren’t the way that they’re supposed to be, but we’re going to help you make money guys. If that’s what you’re looking for. We’re going to give you a really good deal. And yes, it’s a one time only offer you can take advantage of it. And if not, I sincerely sincerely believe it’s your loss, not ours, because we’re going to help you make money in any and every way we can. Technical SEO. I mean, it’s for ranking. That’s the easy part. We’re going to teach you how and why especially why things are the way they are. So I know it’s kind of last minute because yesterday I was saying, if we don’t do it in the next 45 days, if we don’t launch it, then it’s not gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, it just came together and and here it is today. Contact support at heavy hitter club for the discount of your mastermind member. And if you’re not, then I’m going to post the link to the signup page in the in the Hangouts help I’ll go and post in Facebook. There is a there is a page for those of you who want to take care of us want to take advantage of The special that we’re offering, it’s a it’s a bonehead special you can’t you can’t say no, you you can but why would you? So there you go.

Awesome just to clarify though, because I know we’re gonna get this question what’s the difference between heavy hitter club and the mastermind and heavy coder hitter club is technical SEO spearheaded by Robin Marko Of course some of us might may linger and pop in appear you know and such but it’s going to be primarily Marco and Rob talking about technical SEO stuff like just real nitty gritty shit guys. So that’s what that is. And the mastermind includes SEO but also so much more right includes business building and you know, marketing and branding and all different types of marketing, digital marketing and holistic marketing and everything else. So there’s, you know, outsourcing, management, all everything else that goes into running an operating a business, or a heavy hitter club is specifically technical SEO and How to monetize and get best results from SEO, that sort of thing. So I just want to clarify that.

Yeah, I think well, Marco, I’ll let you put in your own words, but I think you put it best for the difference between each come in there because you want to well, like you’re saying scorched earth with SEO. But if you’re a business owner, if, unless that’s your passion, that may not be where you should be spending your time.

exactly exactly. What if you’re a business owner, and you’re what’s in your mindset should be growing your agency growing your business, SEO is part of growing your business. But you as a business owner shouldn’t be in there, you should delegate you should have someone a partner via just whoever so that you can stay in the Semantic Mastery mastermind and grow your business, whatever business it may be. It doesn’t have to be an agency. And at the same time you have someone with us in in the SEO part of it, learning the technical aspect aspects that are going to help you with with rankings. that are going to help you drive traffic to the website. It’s all about entity. Right? In today in the Semantic Web, think about it. This is where it was going all along the Semantic Web of things, not strings. It’s all about things. And there’s nothing better as far as Google is concerned than a brand, then if that thing is a brand, and it’s related to all of the entities that it finds under that niche, right. So this is what we’re looking to push to people how this how this is happening, why it’s happening, and how you can take advantage of it because we look for any, any and every loophole, an advantage that we can take out. We do. Most of the stuff we do, by the way, are not loopholes, loopholes, that they can be closed rather easily. And we’ve seen that happen time after time after time, but all is people said it was a loophole. But it’s been a five year old loophole that hasn’t been closed. So think about that. What what why, why you’re concentrating on this. Like don’t don’t don’t think that you To choose one or the other, if you’re a business owner, you shouldn’t, you should you should be. You shouldn’t do both. And if you can’t do both, then yes, you should have someone who takes care of the SEO part so that you can concentrate on growing your business.

Definitely. Good stuff. All right. Well, Hernan How you doing? what’s what’s going on? You? Look, you look good. You look excited.

Yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to be here. It’s hoody season, we’re good, we’re safe. I’ve been I’ve been working a lot like lately, you know, a lot of our business owners, they’re starting to understand the power of digital marketing, they’re pivoting. So you know, I’ve been doing some consulting for those for those entrepreneurs that they are, you know, that they’re not letting things dictate how they’re running their business, but rather, they’re getting ahead of the curve. And I’m excited that, you know, we’re helping business owners to achieve just that, you know, to achieve, hey, we all know that this is like some, these are weird times, but we need to get prepared. We need to be there. So it’s, you know, it’s really cool. It’s really cool to be able to help some of these people out. So I’m getting Be Here

cool good stuff all right Chris last but not least how you doing man?

Yeah doing good here I’m not so excited this or not involved the Facebook stuff at the moment the bots in like with today’s or not no so that means but like yeah like it’s good otherwise you’re moving on and I’ll be back

nice all right yeah you need to get like what did you have was it uh it was like a box of roses The Terminator?

yeah pretty much it’s awesome

all right actually don’t pull out a gun on screen and pray freak people out but it’d be critical real quick just want to say for those of you joining us for the first time you probably a little confused but we want to say thank you and you’re in the right place we’re going to get into answering SEO digital marketing questions. If you’re watching the replay you can always join us live at semantic mastery comm slash HD questions, ask your questions attend live, but if you can’t we understand things come up. You can check out the replays on YouTube and Grab your channel so you get notified of those updates. Also, if you’re an agency owner or a consultant, you want to get more clients, you want to grow your revenue, and you want to scale your team so that you can work less and earn more. Find out more about that at two x your agency COMM The membership, there is definitely growing. We got some great stuff going on. We just wrapped up the last of the training was out Monday.

Yeah, Monday. So there is a ton. I’m not going to go into the details of it. But there is a ton of good stuff, but it is all centered around those three central pillars, right, getting more clients growing your revenue and scaling your team. Right. That’s what it’s about. So if you’re interested in any one of those, it’s a no brainer. You put all three of those together. And it’s kind of the rocket fuel for your agency rocket, if you will.

May I interrupt for a moment?

No, just kidding.

I just finished we finished week 12 which was a collaboration of of all of us, you know, that you’re seeing on screen right now. And so, it was it was on Monday. We kind of Recorded

what we call insights from agency veterans. And so we each kind of spoke throughout the recorded webinar of us kind of just kind of having conversation about what we’ve learned over the last, you know, throughout our digital marketing careers, with Marco having the most experience or tenure of all of us, but you know, combined, we’ve got a lot of damn experience. And so we’ve each we each have our own businesses apart from Semantic Mastery. And so we all have and we’ve all experienced similar issues but unique to our own businesses. So we kind of really just spoke about, you know, what, what we would do differently if we could do it all over again, in an effort to help you guys our audience to not make the same mistakes or at least to recognize when something is occurring and a way to push through it or get around it or over it or whatever. much quicker, if that makes sense. So it I think it was really powerful way to kind of wrap up The 12 weeks of intense training and there’s over 80 freakin videos in that course. So it’s, it’s definitely a lot more value than what we’re charging for it. So I would encourage you guys to go pick it up.

Definitely. Yeah, and we’ve got some more news about that coming. We also added some little bit of additional, but there’s gonna be some more information coming in next week about this and then I’ll just drop a little hint. It’s for those of you who are interested, and getting started. You know, you can start with 2xyouragency, that’s fine. But for those of you who are just saying, Hey, you know, there’s too many obstacles, or I’m not sure you know, what niche to choose, I’m not sure what service or vertical I should be working in. I’m not sure if I had the money or the capital to start consulting business. Things like that. Keep your ears and eyes open and we’ll be getting with you next week. Also, for those of you who are more concentrated on the SEO side of things, besides the heavy hitters club, if you want to get step by step results from proven processes, then the battle plan is where you should be starting is generally where we tell everyone to start with Semantic Mastery. You can find out more about that a battle plan dot semantic mastery comm now what I’m going to say is we’re going to have a brand new edition of the battle plan coming out and yet I would still advise you to go pick up battle plan right now, it’s a no brainer. It’s a just, I can’t I don’t want to say this on here, but it’s a ton of bonuses that are included in there, you can get access to it now and it’s going to pay for itself while we had one person pay for itself in 13 minutes, but for you, you can pay for itself and definitely like a week or two and then pick up the new edition when it comes out and keep the price low. It’s an entry price that we love and that everyone else loves. We’ve had I think 13 or 1400 people get the battle plan, put it to use and get good results. So anyways, if you haven’t yet, just go grab it and then the new edition will be coming out we’ll have some good stuff involved with that. And last but not least, mg y v. If you aren’t familiar with that, head over to mtv.co check out where you can get all the done for you services. If you’re live today I posted on the page, the current flash sale we have going on with link building and the SEO field. You can save a bundle over there, but only for the next 48 hours. And if you’re checking this out later, and you’re wondering how you can find out about stuff like that, just go over to Mt. yt.co. Hop on the newsletter list and that’s how you can get notified of good stuff like this.

All right, I think that’s it guys. Let’s dive into the questions.

Sweet. Grab the screen.

Marco. I posted a message in slack for you. Yes.

That’s pretty cool. All right. Sorry, guys. Let me get into Okay, you should be seeing my screen. Is that correct?

Yep. Okay.

All right. Uh, get my bearings standby.

How Do You Exclude The SEO Powershield G-Site From Google SERPs?

Okay, all these questions came from the That’s interesting. All right, a DC SEO says Thanks for answering my question last week, guys, I appreciate it. One last question. Before I worded the shield just so I’m completely clear, can I make sure that only my site appears in the SERPs, and the G site doesn’t appear on the results pages? If you set it to no index, but I don’t know why you would do that. Here’s the question. Here’s my question for you. Why would you not want to take up another spot in the search engine results in the top 10? Right? Every every asset that you can rank on the first page for whatever your desired keyword is, is another competitor that’s not showing up on the page. So in my opinion, why would you ever not want the G site to also appear for your primary keywords or your entity search or whatever it is that you’re trying to rank? It seems like to me that you’d want to have all 10 spots on the first page if possible. So a G site can absolutely and will often rank for your primary keywords. In fact, it will often rank right below the money site. Here’s the thing if you’re if you’re I framing your money site pages, you theme mirror like we tell you guys to do. And you’re I framing your money site pages in your G site pages and somebody lands on the G site, they’re gonna see your money site page anyways, they could still submit a contact request form they could order you know, make a purchase, submit an opt in do whatever it is that you want to do right from the within the iframe of the G site. So why the hell would you not want it so that that would be my question to you. But yes, if you don’t want it to show up in the SERPs, you could always set it to no index. I have no idea why you would do that though.

Anybody want to comment on that? And not only that, once we release the the cracking, we can’t control it. We can’t control the beast. It’s gonna do what it’s going to do and there’s just no way to control it. Yes, you set it to no index. But as Bradley said, why would you want to give your your competition extra real estate space to compete against you? It makes absolutely no sense you can make last pages that are that are really neat, or you can everything that’s above the fold with CTA that are attractive, and that will get clicks, they’ll get action. You can get a video in there, you can get a whole bunch right above the fold. So so if you don’t like how the rest of it looks, person isn’t likely to scroll down, if they find what they’re looking for, like right above the fold, they’re not likely to scroll down. SEOs are the ones who, who tend to do that. But if you’ve answered the question, or the pain or the problem, right above the fold, they’re just going to click and go over to where they need to go. So think about it that way. And no, I’ll say it again. We cannot control the beast once it’s released. It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do. And that’s it.

Should We Add The GSite To Google Search Console Of The Main GMB Email?

Awesome. Fitz is up. He says, Can we or maybe also should be at the G site to search console for our main GMB email. Yeah, you can’t I just I just typically add it to the Search Console, the same google google account that The drive stack g site were built under. That’s typically how I do it. But you can always so so in other words, you know, whatever Google account it is that MGYB creates for the drive stack and the G site, I submit to search console within that Google account. Now if I want to still be able to, you know, view it or manage it, you know, look at reports and such from Search Console from the main GMB account that it’s, you know, pushing relevance to then you can add that as an additional user. But you know, it’s up to you. I don’t think it makes any difference either one way or the other. The whole idea of putting it into Search Console so that you can you know, help with the index and such comments.

Should Different Website Properties Have Different NAP?

Okay, and up he says should different website properties have different n AP, name, address and phone number working with an Umbrella Corporation as multiple ecom website brands want to have SEO power shields for each individual econ property but worried about penalties or issues that may occur with shared or overlapping NAPs.

Um, you know, I don’t know, because it’s not a local business. If it’s ecom, I don’t know that, you know, NAP issues are ambiguous with NAP is going to cause any problems if you’re not trying to rank in maps. That makes sense. You know, I’ll let Marco take this one, though, because this is more up his alley than mine. I don’t all I do is local. So I don’t really know the best answer for that. Marco, what do you say?

This is one of those things is is what what is the what are one of the places where I look at the competition? First of all, what are they doing? Not not because I’m concerned about the competition, but just what are they doing? If they’re national, they’re global. How are they relating their entities and and if they have offices in other places, how are they relating those? you saying that you have different websites, but if it’s all part of the same Corporation, if there’s one Umbrella Corporation, then you’d relate those through the schema You can create all kinds of neat relationships through scheme. And it’s one of the things that Rob is going to show in the heavy hitter club how to relate all of these so that it becomes just one big umbrella. Right? And under that umbrella would be all of the different offices or places, or products or services or whatever it is that you’re trying to do to create all of these associations.

Yeah, because see, I mean, that’s I would use organization or corporation, structured data for the umbrella company, right? And that would apply to each individual site as well, because it’s all part of the overall organization or corporation, right. But then you could have like website schema, for example, not necessarily local business. I mean, you could have local business if you do have a GMB for each one, which could be part of the organization, right, but there would be individual locations, but for ecom I don’t know that that’s necessary. Again, I don’t do ecom. So I don’t know if That’s correct or not, or if that would help. But you could do something like website schema for that if that makes sense.

So the organization would tie it all together. And that’s what Marco was saying is, you know, when you have an entity, even if you have multiple divisions, or multiple locations, or different, you know, pseudo brands that are like the children, like child companies have a larger parent company, a broader parent company, if you can tie all that together through through the entity, all of them will benefit, if that makes sense. Because, again, you’re talking about branding and the entity itself, even if they’re separate, like divisions or sub brands and that kind of stuff. It will benefit from the overall organization that kind of ties everything together, if that makes sense. So, anyways, as far as the URL shortener go to mgyb.co, slash s, mg y b.co slash s, and this is our URL shortener now, there are different subscription levels. You could have a free account if you want it, but you get a lot of cool things with different subscription levels. And we’ve been using this for all the drive stacks URL shortening that we do for customers of ours, and everything else for what, a year and a half, two years now. And it’s super, super powerful. And you can do a lot of really cool things with our URL shortener. If you have a paid plan such as ad retargeting scripts and things like that into the, the header for the redirect all kinds of really cool things that you can do password protect URLs and stuff like that. So I would go to mgyb.co/s, and use that. Anybody want to comment on that?

No. The power behind our shortener is incredible. It is. It ranks for keywords. And so it just, it’s just ridiculous, as you said, Why you can do so by all means, if you want to use I only mean that’s fine. Bitly Be careful. It’s a 302 Google Firebase, it’s also 302. It can be a 301 if you go through the trouble of making it a 301 redirect, but you’d have to figure out how to do that.

Yeah, and what’s interesting is, is it’s crazy. But oftentimes, and I’ve seen this happen with drive stack files, for example, the MG y b, the redirect URL will rank. And in the search results, the shortened URL will show even though when you click it it for, you know, it redirects to the actual Google Drive File. And it’s really interesting to see the Drive files rank with the mgyb.co short URL, because typically, you don’t you don’t see the redirect URL in the search results, you see the target or the final destination, right? So it’s very interesting to see that.

Can You Upgrade A Single Tier Into Multi Tier Syndication Network When You Order The SEO Power Shield In MGYB?

Karen says, Hey, there I had a few questions from last week, which, unfortunately, we’re not able to get to So here they are. The SEO power shield syndication network. If you order an SEO power shield, it comes with a syndication network. However, I am assuming it’s a single tiered syndication network. Yes, it is the branded network. But let’s say I want a multi tier syndication network, is there an upgrade option rather than purchasing a full syndication network, since single tiered network already exists? Contact support at mgyb.co. And make that request and I’m sure I’m not sure, maybe Marco sure, but I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate that sort of a request, but it’s gonna have to be a custom order as opposed to just something that’s done through the normal channel. If that makes sense. Marco’s that’s something we can do.

Maybe I mean, we’d have to bolt on the the tiered syndication network to the to the already existing cynic. But But why would you want a tiered syndication network when tier one works just fine.

I mean, that’s a good question. I would ask the same thing but maybe he has a reason.

So okay, I mean, a fine, right to support and then what Robin I’ll do is we’ll sit and talk about it and see if it’s even worth it because the price that we might have to charge you may not make it worth it to you.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t think I mean unless there if you have a reason for wanting a multi tiered syndication network and then by all means do that, but I don’t you know, we have been encouraging people to not use multi tiered syndication networks for blog syndication, because they’re kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. However, if you’ve got something like RSS masher, which is Damon Nelson’s product, it’s really good for creating beautiful spliced feeds with like, it’s really really cool you can you can create really cool custom spliced feeds and in use that to power your second tier networks so that you have multiple relevant content sources posting to those networks, which is what we recommend. And with something like RSS masher, it becomes much much easier to maintain multi tiered networks. The more manual method, which is how it had been done for four years, requires adding a bunch of relevant RSS content feeds to the second tier. triggers, which becomes a nightmare, because let’s say that if all you did was add, you know, three additional arts, so you got your money site RSS feed. But then let’s say you add three additional Khan relevant content feeds for each blog. second tier syndication network, right? So So if there’s three of them, which is there are the way that we build them. So the first single tier is first ring, right, one ring, and then there’s three syndication networks on the second tier, each being triggered by one of the blogs from the tier one network, right? So when I say blogs, I mean, blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress. But if you were to add three additional content feeds at the second tier trigger point. So for each one of those, you would need an additional nine feeds relevant content feeds that you don’t control. And not only that, you have to set up a separate set of recipes or applets inside of IFTTT for each feed. So let’s say there’s 15 applets that you need to set up for each RSS feed that you add, that’s an additional 45 applets per syndication network that you need to create, which in itself is not that bad. It’s a bit tedious. But you know, once it’s done, it’s done. But the problem occurs when you don’t have control over those feeds. And because of that, like things can happen to their site, the site that you’re using the feed from, where it could have a you know, it could I’ve seen RSS feeds hiccup and they just spit out a shit ton of posts and it can terminate your have a lot of your syndication network properties terminate because of over publishing, I, you know, they’re things could break. This is a ton of things that cause a lot of maintenance issues. And if you’re just dealing with one project, it’s okay because you know, you’re only managing one project, but you’ve got SEO in your name up here. So I’m assuming you probably do client work or more than just one project. And so multi tiered networks become kind of a nightmare to too cumbersome to manage. When you’re doing multiple projects. At least that’s my opinion, unless you’re using something like Like RSS masher which really simplifies that process, and adds a whole lot of control to even the input feeds that you create the super spliced feed from, because it has filters and all these other really cool things like it can actually strip out content from the feed. There’s a code inserter, a code stripper, there’s all kinds of things in there. So, again, multi tier networks are not recommended. Obviously, if you know what you’re doing and you have a strategic reason for using it, then by all means, do so.

Have You Done A Test On Linking Your Money Site At The Footer Disclaimer Section Of Client Site?

Okay, next question. Disclaimer links. Disclaimer link on client sites. As you know, there is a long term practice for SEO web design companies to add a link back to their site in the footer. Yes, like the footer link section, right. I’ve recently been switching all of those links for SEO and marketing by brand plus keyword plus location with brand plus keyword plus location being the anchor text linking to my SEO company’s GMB profile, and I’ve seen some big results from it. Have you done any testing related to this just curious? No, though, those are considered Wide links and I mean you know, I, I do put those often in client sites the footer as well, but I usually just link back with my brand name and I usually nofollow those links, I have not done any testing with them in years, just because it became kind of a you know, site wide links could work what had become a negative factor essentially, for a long long time and so I just got into the habit of the routine of just note just linking to my brand name, so big bamboo marketing and then know following the link so that it didn’t cause any, like penguin issues, if that makes sense. But uh, but no, I haven’t done any testing with it. It’s interesting to hear that anybody else.

Well, it stands to reason right the brand plus keyword plus location by eliminating marketing because you don’t need it. If you have if you’ve done your entity work correctly on your on your marketing website. then adding a link that’s your brand, and the keyword and the locations that you creating that relevant For the bot, there’s no reason why then it should pick up an algorithm, any type of algorithmic penalty, because it’s what you’re asked to do at the local level. This is how you’re taught to associate everything brand, plus location plus keyword, brand. keyword, okay. That’s what the bottom is looking for comes in, and it looks for this. So what it’s picking up is all of that relevance back to your site, which is what we do really with our academy reloaded, except that we protected 111 layer out through the SEO partnership, the drive secondary site, right? We create all of our all the all of the relevance in there because we know that what Google is going to do is power it up, rather than look to to penalize it algorithmically. So if he’s obviously getting results just from those changes, it works. It could stop working in the future. I can say anything that’s working in Google could stop working tomorrow. Theoretically, simply because they decide to, you have to be careful with that type of thing.

Would You Get An Algorithmic Penalty For Using Generic Terms Too Many Times?

Okay, thanks Marco. The next question is from big Billy says anchor question, I have several product pages that I put a link to my category page for that type of product. I use the word here many, many times to link up to the same page, any chance I could get that page and algorithmic penalty or doesn’t matter because it’s a generic term now not for that. If you over optimized for a singular keyword, then that can actually cause problems, but something like that, but my question is, I’m not sure. Well, again, product pages, I don’t do e commerce. So I’m not even going to explain why I wouldn’t use here so much, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I would try to use various keywords though. Again, I don’t do e commerce. So I don’t know what you’re specifically doing. But I typically when I’m linking back up to you know, any sort of like a silo landing page or homepage or whatever, I try to just vary the anchor text with LSI keywords right. So synonyms for whatever my primary keywords are from. So for example, if I’m coming from a blog post about Tree Removal in a particular area, then I’m going to use some sort of tree removal keyword or variation of a tree removal service tree cutting service, arborist tree removal, something like that, to link back up to the landing page for that particular silo. But again, using a generic term like that it should, it’s not going to cause any out I’ve never heard of that causing an algorithmic penalty, because I don’t know of any SEOs out there that are optimizing for here. You know what I’m saying? So, Margaret, do you have any comments on that?

No, I haven’t seen it. And in fact, when I do my interlinking, I use the generic terms a lot. But not only here, go here, more information, learn more, read more, all of that. So there’s about 10 or 12 terms that you can use, and you know, you can spin those so that so that they don’t appear that way. The same thing, right one one after the other because it can get as far as the user, it can get repetitive. And that’s not something that that you want, you don’t want the user to hear hear again, and again, here, here, here. And here. This is a, it’s e commerce, I assume there’s a bunch of products on there, all of them with here. So create variations simply for the sake of not boring the user with the same terms over and over and over again.

Yeah, and remember, you can also lengthen the phrase for the that you’re going to use for the anchor text. It doesn’t always have to just be a keyword guys, or if keyword phrase, it can be a longer statement, like, you know what I mean? So, you know, get, get more information about key word here, that could be an entire link. That makes sense. The whole, you know, short sentence could be a link. And what that does is, again, it adds diversity, but you still get your keyword in there without it being over optimized, and it makes sense to the reader or the user. You know, Because you know that the phrase itself is, is a call to action. Does that make sense? So there’s a lot of variations that you can do to kind of add some diversity to that. That’s cool. Go ahead. No, nothing. Yes, absolutely. Also question for Marco, I own our bias and RYS reloaded, and I’m about to get serious about it. Well, that’s good. Should I even learn the original version or just drive straight in the ROI ASR?

Well, there’s a lot of neat stuff by Dr. Gary in the archives. So I would say by all means, you need to get to the archives. But to get to the archives, first start with what’s with what the most current training is. And that’s whatever is in our academy reloaded. And please understand, we do need to update it, update that at some point because a couple of things have changed, not the power, power, the power that that we’re generating doesn’t change, and it’s gotten even better, but there’s a few things in there. That we do have to that we do have to go over. I’m glad mean, I wish I knew your name, come on the Facebook group and say what’s up. So go through the training. We’re still supporting after five years, we’re still supporting the damn Facebook group. We’re still in there answering questions. So come on in there. If you have any questions, ask away.

How Do You iFrame An Ecom Site If The G Site Has A Frame Breaker?

Awesome. Last week, Marco mentioned to iframe your eecom page onto a G site, but the new g site has a frame breaker. Is that true Marco? No, I always work in the old site. But I I’m quite sure that new g sites have iframes do don’t they?

Okay, so maybe he has his terms mixed up. You cannot take the new g site and iframe that anywhere else. Right. It does have a frame breaker. But you can iframe on the new g site. There’s a right insert embed code, right that does a What do you call it? There’s an icon in there that allows you to iframe anything unless what you’re trying to iframe has a frame breaker also.

Right? Right. So your ecom platform may have an iframe breaker, but you are able to iframe pages into the new g site. That’s and that’s what I was. I always work in the old site, the GMB builders build the new site, but all the work that I do for theme earring and everything is always in the classic g sites. But I was gonna say, I know the new g sites have my pages I, you know, like the pearl trees and, you know, press advantage page and things like that all get iframe in there, so I can’t imagine. The only thing I would assume that Billy is that perhaps your eecom platform might have an iframe breaker. So Okay, moving on. Bibi says Hey guys, what is the problem of duplicate content during syndication? For full text post? Is there a problem apply on branded network also, or just tier two and beyond? There’s no problem at all, when you have it. That’s the whole point of the attribution link below. If you your RSS feed should have, depending on what if what kind of plugin you’re using RSS plugin, God forbid, you’re using Yoast. But almost all RSS plugins now have an RSS setting that will allow you to inject an attribution link either before the content or after the content. And so when your plugin settings, you go in and you you code in the attribution link. And there’s typically some sort of tokens in there like post URL, post title, site title, all of those things that you can tokenize your attribution link for so that essentially it will pull the title so what I always do is I always use the post title as the anchor text, and it links to the post URL. Again, those are tokens that you can code into the attribution code in the RSS plugin settings. However, if your RSS plugin settings don’t have, if you don’t have the ability to code in an attribution link, then you can do that within the applets inside of IFTTT, which just means you have to edit the app. It’s really only count you really only Well, you should do it also for Google Drive. So like, your document sharing when you’re when you read syndicate a blog post into Google Drive, and what is it Microsoft One Drive or whatever the hell it is. Those should also have attribution links. But really, it’s your going to be your blogs, so blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, that you really want to make sure that you have the attribution links. And, and that’s it, there’s no problem with duplicate content, because you’re, you’re citing the original source. That’s the whole point. And even if you weren’t citing the original source, it’s still not a duplicate content problem. duplicate content only occurs on the same domain. It doesn’t occur off site if it did, then press releases would be toxic. And some press releases are toxic, actually, that there is there’s no such thing as duplicate content anyway. Even even on site it I mean, all that’s going to happen if the pages are similar, or the same what Google is going to do. And we’ve explained this before, it’s going to start AB AB testing ABCD. However many pages are similar, it’s going to take those, it’s going to start giving an impression. And then it’s going to decide which one answers the query the best. And that’s the page, that’s going to end up indexed, right. And in the active index, let’s just call it versus all of the others, but you’re not going to get any penalties. What you are going to get is warnings about duplicate titles and descriptions, so that you can make unique titles and descriptions. And the content can pretty much be the same. And then again, you’re leaving out you’re leaving it up to Google to decide which version of your page is the best for the query. Instead of you deciding on your best converting page versus all the other pages, look in Search Console, and see which pages are being served for the different keywords and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll see ABC ABCD you’ll see that like if the pages are Very similar, you’ll see four or five, six pages. If you’re doing mass mass page built, you’ll see even more. And Google will give give all of those pages impressions until it decides which one the best one would be. That’s what they call keyword cannibalization. It’s not really that it’s Google deciding which pages was the query the best. So let’s, let’s end this duplicate content myth. once and for all. I actually saw a definitive guide to SEO by a company which I kind of respected. They have really good information. They put out the Definitive Guide to technical SEO, and they went into into duplicate content as if it could be an issue. And it can only be an issue if you’re having all of these pages competing against one another to see which one, Google is going to rank. That’s the only way that they can affect it. You’re not going to get a penalty. You’re not it. Nothing’s going to happen other than Google. Know, it’ll take Google, as long as it takes Google to decide which page is the best, you want to leave that up to Google, or do you want to go in, figure out which one it is that you want, and then rel canonical or redirect all of the other pages to that one page?

Yeah, go look, go search Google for canonical. And you’ll see or rel=canonical. And you’ll see that Google created that specifically for that reason, and that so that you can push credit from similar pages to whatever you want to be the parent or master page, so to speak. And that’s to specifically address potential duplicate content issues on even the same domain. That’s what canonical was originally developed for. And they came up with cross domain canonical, as well. And that’s for canonical Ising, similar pages from other domains to a specific target, if that makes sense. So maybe I’m gonna I think this is the same BB that we’ve answered questions before, but we guys we’re going to have to say this once again, and I can’t assume that everybody knows this, but we don’t Typically allow people or want ask people to post this many questions because it’s just not fair to other people. So, because these are all around the exact same thing, and they’re very, very short going to be really easy to answer, I will answer these guys. But come on next time just post a question or two, please and then allow some others to post and then post another question or two just because it’s not fair. Okay. So the next question was, is there a reason why we should have REL equals nofollow on attributed link on the RSS items? No, other than a lot of the plugins that there are SEO plugins, when you code in an RS an attribution link, they’re going to automatically apply a nofollow tag to it. And unless you want to go in and actually edit the plug in code, which I used to do with Yoast years ago, but every time Yoast like I would go in and into the plug in code, right but and actually edit the plug in code to remove that REL equals nofollow tag to the RSS attribution link. However, every time the plugin updated, it would, it would update that code. didn’t have to go back and edit it. And you can imagine if you have more than just a couple of sites, how how much of a pain in the ass that was, so I just stopped doing it. I don’t even care anymore. If we can make it follow great. If not nofollow will is good enough. It’s just it’s a it’s a, it’s a, you know, an efficiency thing. Right? That makes sense. It’s it’s just too difficult to go in and edit plug in code. However, if you got a plug in code that will allow you to put in a follow link as opposed to and it doesn’t automatically apply the nofollow tag then by all means, do that, which by the way, if you code it in through IFTTT, then you it will be it will be a follow link as long as the blogs or the syndication point provides follow links but many of them are nofollow links anyways. Okay. The next one was why should you use spintax? Why should you spintax the attribution and the after text post when syndicating RSS, it just adds diversity to the attribution link. So it makes sense right? If if you if you can add spintax to the attribution link text that you’re, you know, in the plugin settings like our plugin does, then it just adds diversity so it’s not always the same exact line right on every single post that gets syndicated out but that’s it’s not a problem it just adds some diversity if you if you have that functionality use it if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. Okay. Why you have limited the RSS plugin to only five posts. I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Chris has an on he’s the one that developed our pup but there should be settings to be able to adjust that. And also it’s not the RSS plugin typically that does that go into your WordPress settings go to WordPress admin area, go to settings, reading and then take a look there and right there is where you should see how many posts show in the RSS feed. And that should be the set that should be where you adjust that setting not necessarily RSS plugin. Okay. Is the RSS plugin just for adding spintax functionality now that well, I can’t tell you unless you’re in the mastermind the mastermind plugin adds a whole RSS plugin which is only available in the mastermind it’s free to mastermind members it has a lot of additional functionality I you must if you’re talking about our RSS plugin, but the free version I can’t tell you because I haven’t used that five years no shit so I don’t even know what the dashboard that looks like. Does anybody know here?

No, no cuz I only use the Pro.

Yeah, the pro version which is in the mastermind is it adds all kinds of additional functionality like it allows you to republish old posts it allows you to add hashtags and all kinds of cool stuff that Chris coded into it but um again that’s that’s the pro version which is in the mastermind I don’t use the free version guys. I just there’s really no reason for me to so I can’t tell you what that even looks like. I’m sorry about that. Two k says. How do you guys use AWS site? Yes, Amazon s3 bucket for the ID page. Why is that two site? Well, a couple reasons one, to siphon some authority from Amazon to because it’s an Amazon domain, which we can just fucking hammer with, with kitchen sink, spam and everything else we want to throw at it. Number three, because it’s just an HTML page that we upload because it loads really fast. And we’re going to, we load it up with our iframe stacking that we do the the infinite loop, right, the infinite entity loop, the mirror and mirror picture and picture that never ends. That’s what we do. And those pages, trust me when you build out an ID page, the way that we do it. And then go back and even add in some additional things, it will literally break your computer, if you try to load it. It takes so much cash because so many iframes are trying to load and it will overwhelm the cache or the memory on your on your on your on your PC. I know because it’s locked up mine many times. And remember guys that Id pages aren’t supposed to be for public consumption. In other words, they’re not necessarily something that you want to rank or anything else, it’s specifically for the bots. So it doesn’t matter if it’s going to lock up your browser because how often are you or you or anybody else going to actually visit it? So but there’s a number of reasons why we use that Marco, you could probably name a few others.

No, no, I mean, you name the main month. The main purpose of that is to create another property in another powerful domain for the entity loop. So it goes to however it is that we do it. That’s how we do it. And we just add another we could add more, but more isn’t necessarily better that there’s diminishing returns on what that loop will bring back. I think we’ve tried others and it locks it up even with with as much RAM as I have. Yeah, it’ll lock up my computer and I have tons around.

I got 3232 gigabytes or whatever, whatever it is megabytes, whatever the hell it is. And it’s in it’ll lock machine right up, man. I got 64 and That’s ridiculous what it is. Yeah. But anyway, the main reason is power and an additional place where we store our entity information so that the bot can come and pick up some more somewhere else. Just following the breadcrumbs. That’s all it is.

Yeah. It’s interesting because one of our mastermind members, Darrell had shared with us one of his entity stacks that he had entity loop stacks that he had created was like an ID page, essentially. And it was freakin insane. I can’t remember it as something like, I don’t remember, I’m just gonna throw a number out there. Because it was ridiculous. Like 30 freakin iframes in it, like, it was just it was nuts. And he was like, careful. Make sure you got everything else shut down when you click this link. It was funny. But it’s, it’s pretty cool. So the next question was, could you not just a part of the second half of that question was could you not just use the Google site with all the embedded stuff and put that in the schema, or is there a reason you don’t do that? Yeah, let me just explain why. The last question from today we do use the G site,

we do it right and we embed the idx page in the G site right. So and the and the G site gets embedded in the idx page. Hence the mirror the entity loop, right. Infinite entity loop. The second or the next question was one more question when I order a press release from MDB. Do you guys create the press advantage new newsroom page? Yes, yes we do. Okay, so you will get the benefit of that. Nathan says I saw your post today marketing the SEO location shields is that the ROI stack extension you have been working on launching No not yet. The SEO location shield can also be utilized for brands or adding a second location under an already established brand with the syndication network. Already have an SEO shield for my brand. I need some created for inner service pages. I’m trying to rank well The location shield is if you like, and market will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way because all I do is local, the location shields for me as if I have multiple locations for a particular brand. So for example, I’m working on a tree service project and the map that’s making available to the public to the mastermind. I’m doing it as essentially a live case study, by the way, my mastermind webinars tomorrow, and I’ve made a lot of progress on that. So those of you that are in the mastermind, I’ll be sharing a lot more about that tomorrow. But anyways, it’s it’s, it’s a new brand with several GMB locations that I’ve already established but I’m rebranding from an old an older brand to the to the new company that because I got a new service provider anyways, so I ordered a SEO power shield for the main brand. In fact, I was working on I’m working on, here you go take a look. Here’s the entity assets here. I’m working inside process street developing that stuff out right now. So you can see the SEO, I’m not going to click into there, but the Seo shield would be there. And it’s the same thing as I’m actually working through developing the process out so that my team can can do that for me. And so the primary brand is associated with whatever top level keyword is, in this case, it won’t have a location associated with the top level keyword in the brand, because I want to create that as like an organization. In other words, and then all of the individual locations, which will be built on inner pages inside of the main site will each get its own location shield, which means it gets its own g site and drive stack that are optimized for that particular location. And it’ll have an ID page as well. But then they get basically placed underneath the primary branded ri ri S Drive stack. Does that make sense? So in other words, each location shield the ri s stack becomes an inner folder of the primary entity stack, if that makes sense. And that that way is that Don’t have to build the ID page for each location. Each separate location drive stack is optimized specifically for the market level keywords plus the location, look at location modifier for that particular location, and then the ID page, which is unique to each location as well. But all of that gets placed under the parent main entity stack. And so that’s that’s the way that I do it, because all I do is local. And so that’s how I think of location shields, although I’m sure location shields can be applied to other stuff other than local. How would you do that Marco?

And why would you want to location shield for something other than local?

Well, there’s the answer then.

So Nathan, that’s hopefully that makes some sense. If you have, you know, multiple locations, that’s what you would want to do. If you have inner service pages, then those would just be expanding your current drive stack. You wouldn’t need a separate idx page and a separate drive stack built for a particular service page. You could just clone Which you currently have, and then optimize, like, edit and that’s, that’s something that we will have available soon and MGB that’s the entity or the drive stack expansion service, which is coming soon. Marco, did we have a time on that yet?

No, we just asked the developer today and he’s still working on it.

Okay. So hopefully that makes some sense Nathan

Would It Be Okay To Use A General Location Of A Nearby City When Doing Schema For Service Area Businesses?

Troy says hello when doing schema for service area business address lat long and don’t want to use exact address because trying to rank a nearby bigger city can should be okay to use more general location of a nearby city like city state. lat long Okay, um, you know, you can you can omit? Well, not necessarily, I can’t remember if it will take it or not, if you like if you were to go to local business schema, for example, and right here where it does say geo coordinates lat long, you might be able to just remove that from the code and then go try to validate the code in the structured data testing tool and see if it still validates. I know I was like, for example, I was just talking about this tree service project I’m working on Well, the primary domain isn’t, I don’t want that associated with like the homepage. I don’t want that associated with a particular GMB because I want all that I want it to just be brand and keyword. And so I still have structured data for that. But because I don’t want, I still have local business structured data, but I don’t have an actual street address. I just have city state and zip, and then the Latin long, but I was able to omit the street address and still have the local business structured data validated in the structured data testing tool. So I was able to admit that so that I can still have local business structure. Well, there’s organization Plus Local Business structured data, even on the homepage, which isn’t associated with any particular one, one specific address, if that makes sense. So you might want to be able to just go in and actually Edit the latitude and longitude out and see if it will validate. Otherwise, I don’t know Mark, what do you say? I don’t know that I would want to use a generic problems, right? I see potential problems, because he’s talking about a local business with a business centroid, the centroid being the point where the business is and and we’ll extend in a radius from that from that is the center of the business in relationship to the radius. Correct. So Google has that, because you went to the pains of verifying and Google verifying your business, you not have a pin. Google knows the exact location of that pin. Now you go and you submit structured data, which is directed directly to Googlebot. Googlebot comes in crawls and you have different geo settings, different latitude and longitude. Now is that in and of itself, going to cause a problem? I don’t know. I haven’t tested it but Essentially, it could be a problem, right? And I don’t understand why you want to do that, instead of extending your central, I try to trick the bot.

I agree. Instead of trying to extend instead of trying to extend the centroid and creating that relationship between the business centroid, and the area that he’s trying to target, if you create that relationship, that’s gonna work a whole lot better than trying to trick the bot into seeing different latitude and longitude for your business.

Yeah, I agree. Here’s what I was showing, though, just in case you wanted to test that is that part of it right there, into that comma down there. I know, it’s probably hard for you guys to see. But if you were to eliminate that section right there, and then try to validate the code once the rest of the code was fleshed out, it’s, I’m assuming it would validate but it might require the geo Latin long, I’ve never tried to omit that intentionally. But you could try it and see if it validate, but I agree with Marco 100%. There’s, in my opinion, there’s really no need to do that. I don’t know why you would want to do that when actually you could just use Is the the specific that coordinates for where the business actually resides where the physical location is. And then through your content, your silo structure and everything else you can tell Google what your service areas and that’s, that’s what my Tree Service case study that I’m doing in the mastermind is going to be demonstrating is how through just blog posting through silo structure which simple silo structure not even complex silo structure and just blog posting, and then theme mirroring and interlinking correctly, that we can get significant results for a very large service area even with only one GMB if needed. I’ve got multiple GM B’s but we’re expand for this particular project. We’re expanding south in Virginia, from where the central location is and all of the southern areas are going to be strictly organic rankings. All of the northern areas have already GMP s. So that’s how we’re going to kind of set separate the two Two different tests on one site for one brand. Some are going to have GM B’s the rest, all the southern locations are going to be strictly organic. And and I’m going to be demonstrating that in there. So I agree with Marco. I don’t know why you’d want to trick the bot when you could just expand your area. So, okay. All right. That was a good question though. Troy says, Hey, same goes with GMB images. geotag. Can general bigger nearby cities be the default instead of the exact business address? city state? Yeah, well, that’s, that’s what we teach in local GMB Pro. Right. That’s how you expand the centroid is you start to upload images that are geotagged for a larger service area. So that’s, that’s, that’s exactly what we teach in local GMB Pro. So that’s different than trying to tell Google through structured data, the latitude and longitude of where your business is, when it’s not actually where your business is. That’s that’s a lot different when you’re uploading images from a larger broader service area. So let’s say your account takeover, right like In other words, its service area business. So again, comm Tree Service contractor residing in Culpepper. Their business physical location is in Culpepper, Virginia, which is where I am. And let’s say they’re they go to Fredericksburg, it’s 45 miles east, and they do a job out there. They take photos of on that job from their phone. Geo Data is, you know, Latin long and the EXIF data is all part of the metadata of the image. They can upload it right there, from there, on the GMB app from their phone to the GMB profile, and that starts to tell Google Hey, their business might be located in Cole pepper, but their service area does go to Fredericksburg. And here’s the images with the Geo Data to prove it. It takes time. It’s not like you’re going to upload a couple of photos and all of a sudden you’re going to pop in adjacent cities in the maps pack. It takes consistent repeated effort, but you can do it Mark has proven that many many times. So, okay. We’re almost done. Cool. Oh, it’s five o'clock, right? Realize that that hour flew by. So Aaron says is Google once again posting reviews? I lost five reviews this last month. Does anyone know if Google will display those reviews? Are they last forever requiring reposting Thanks. No, you know, I don’t know the answer to that. Except that I know what your mean, new reviews are not showing up. But I i because I left a review. A couple of reviews myself for other businesses that aren’t are not showing, but I’m assuming that when they do when Google lifts this, whatever restriction that they will publish, but I don’t know because I don’t work for Google. Do you know the answer to that Marco?

I have no idea if they will republish the ones that you lost. I know that they’re, like opening it back up slowly that there was a GMB email that went out. I don’t know if you got that Bradley with it where they were mentioning that reviews were back and that they will be opening up other things. Slowly, I don’t know. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know what they close and I don’t know what’s going to happen from that. They’re,

yeah. Yeah, Your guess is as good as mine. So, Alright guys, it’s five o'clock. Sorry if we didn’t get to all the questions mom, it looks like we missed one of yours.

I’m so sorry about that guys, but we’ll catch you all next week. Remember mastermind members. I have my webinar tomorrow. So we will see you guys there. Thanks for hanging out guys. Bye, everyone.

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All right, we’re live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangout Episode 283. Today is tax day or maybe it’s the day formerly known as tax day. 2020. So for those of you in the US believe, you know, tax day got setback, kind of a free extension, if you will. But we’re not delaying Hump Day Hangouts. We’re just going right along schedule, although to go with the Coronavirus stuff going on I’m wearing a hacks My hair is getting all crazy now that I my clippers broke and it’s taken forever cuz Amazon’s not shipping stuff as fast as they normally would, which is fine. But I was on actually on a call earlier today as a mastermind call and one of the guys had just given up and just shaved his head and so I’m starting to see some fun Coronavirus haircuts. I think that might be a meme. Yeah, might might go like Marco just get it down. So with that said, we got a few announcements and then we’re going to get into the good stuff. We got a lot of really good questions today. But let’s start I’m gonna start with Bradley How you doing today?

I’m happy to be here man. Nice nice spring day outside it’s kind of cool but I got to go out and go for a run before about an hour ago so nice glad to be here

all right now hold on for those of you who don’t know Bradley’s more of a weights guy so I just want you went for a run

yeah well I when I can’t lift weights which I can’t right now I run and I run often so I run ran five miles yesterday and three and a half today and so I run when I don’t lift

good deal that makes me I’m a runner. So yeah, like hearing that. All right, Marco. How about you?

I ran to the door just earlier.

How was it was it a good workout?

It was tiring man. I’m I’m recovering I’m I had to go get some oxygen an make sure you got a water bottle nearby. Take care yourself.

Always. Always do keep water close by Just in case you gotta hydrate from all that heavy stuffs going all the good things are good, heavy hitter club is coming online. Today, mastermind members contact support at heavy hitters club, because you’re going to get the deal of a lifetime to join the heavy hitter code. You know, we take when we say membership has its privileges, one of those privileges is to get discounts deep discounts into any of the things that we do, right? Whether whatever it is from RYS Academy Reloaded, Syndication, they had just whatever is either included in the price, or we give them a steep discount. Everyone else is also going to get a discount because we understand we’re in the middle of a crisis. Things aren’t the way that they’re supposed to be, but we’re going to help you make money guys. If that’s what you’re looking for. We’re going to give you a really good deal. And yes, it’s a one time only offer you can take advantage of it. And if not, I sincerely sincerely believe it’s your loss, not ours, because we’re going to help you make money in any and every way we can. Technical SEO. I mean, it’s for ranking. That’s the easy part. We’re going to teach you how and why especially why things are the way they are. So I know it’s kind of last minute because yesterday I was saying, if we don’t do it in the next 45 days, if we don’t launch it, then it’s not gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, it just came together and and here it is today. Contact support at heavy hitter club for the discount of your mastermind member. And if you’re not, then I’m going to post the link to the signup page in the in the Hangouts help I’ll go and post in Facebook. There is a there is a page for those of you who want to take care of us want to take advantage of The special that we’re offering, it’s a it’s a bonehead special you can’t you can’t say no, you you can but why would you? So there you go.

Awesome just to clarify though, because I know we’re gonna get this question what’s the difference between heavy hitter club and the mastermind and heavy coder hitter club is technical SEO spearheaded by Robin Marko Of course some of us might may linger and pop in appear you know and such but it’s going to be primarily Marco and Rob talking about technical SEO stuff like just real nitty gritty shit guys. So that’s what that is. And the mastermind includes SEO but also so much more right includes business building and you know, marketing and branding and all different types of marketing, digital marketing and holistic marketing and everything else. So there’s, you know, outsourcing, management, all everything else that goes into running an operating a business, or a heavy hitter club is specifically technical SEO and How to monetize and get best results from SEO, that sort of thing. So I just want to clarify that.

Yeah, I think well, Marco, I’ll let you put in your own words, but I think you put it best for the difference between each come in there because you want to well, like you’re saying scorched earth with SEO. But if you’re a business owner, if, unless that’s your passion, that may not be where you should be spending your time.

exactly exactly. What if you’re a business owner, and you’re what’s in your mindset should be growing your agency growing your business, SEO is part of growing your business. But you as a business owner shouldn’t be in there, you should delegate you should have someone a partner via just whoever so that you can stay in the Semantic Mastery mastermind and grow your business, whatever business it may be. It doesn’t have to be an agency. And at the same time you have someone with us in in the SEO part of it, learning the technical aspect aspects that are going to help you with with rankings. that are going to help you drive traffic to the website. It’s all about entity. Right? In today in the Semantic Web, think about it. This is where it was going all along the Semantic Web of things, not strings. It’s all about things. And there’s nothing better as far as Google is concerned than a brand, then if that thing is a brand, and it’s related to all of the entities that it finds under that niche, right. So this is what we’re looking to push to people how this how this is happening, why it’s happening, and how you can take advantage of it because we look for any, any and every loophole, an advantage that we can take out. We do. Most of the stuff we do, by the way, are not loopholes, loopholes, that they can be closed rather easily. And we’ve seen that happen time after time after time, but all is people said it was a loophole. But it’s been a five year old loophole that hasn’t been closed. So think about that. What what why, why you’re concentrating on this. Like don’t don’t don’t think that you To choose one or the other, if you’re a business owner, you shouldn’t, you should you should be. You shouldn’t do both. And if you can’t do both, then yes, you should have someone who takes care of the SEO part so that you can concentrate on growing your business.

Definitely. Good stuff. All right. Well, Hernan How you doing? what’s what’s going on? You? Look, you look good. You look excited.

Yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to be here. It’s hoody season, we’re good, we’re safe. I’ve been I’ve been working a lot like lately, you know, a lot of our business owners, they’re starting to understand the power of digital marketing, they’re pivoting. So you know, I’ve been doing some consulting for those for those entrepreneurs that they are, you know, that they’re not letting things dictate how they’re running their business, but rather, they’re getting ahead of the curve. And I’m excited that, you know, we’re helping business owners to achieve just that, you know, to achieve, hey, we all know that this is like some, these are weird times, but we need to get prepared. We need to be there. So it’s, you know, it’s really cool. It’s really cool to be able to help some of these people out. So I’m getting Be Here

cool good stuff all right Chris last but not least how you doing man?

Yeah doing good here I’m not so excited this or not involved the Facebook stuff at the moment the bots in like with today’s or not no so that means but like yeah like it’s good otherwise you’re moving on and I’ll be back

nice all right yeah you need to get like what did you have was it uh it was like a box of roses The Terminator?

yeah pretty much it’s awesome

all right actually don’t pull out a gun on screen and pray freak people out but it’d be critical real quick just want to say for those of you joining us for the first time you probably a little confused but we want to say thank you and you’re in the right place we’re going to get into answering SEO digital marketing questions. If you’re watching the replay you can always join us live at semantic mastery comm slash HD questions, ask your questions attend live, but if you can’t we understand things come up. You can check out the replays on YouTube and Grab your channel so you get notified of those updates. Also, if you’re an agency owner or a consultant, you want to get more clients, you want to grow your revenue, and you want to scale your team so that you can work less and earn more. Find out more about that at two x your agency COMM The membership, there is definitely growing. We got some great stuff going on. We just wrapped up the last of the training was out Monday.

Yeah, Monday. So there is a ton. I’m not going to go into the details of it. But there is a ton of good stuff, but it is all centered around those three central pillars, right, getting more clients growing your revenue and scaling your team. Right. That’s what it’s about. So if you’re interested in any one of those, it’s a no brainer. You put all three of those together. And it’s kind of the rocket fuel for your agency rocket, if you will.

May I interrupt for a moment?

No, just kidding.

I just finished we finished week 12 which was a collaboration of of all of us, you know, that you’re seeing on screen right now. And so, it was it was on Monday. We kind of Recorded

what we call insights from agency veterans. And so we each kind of spoke throughout the recorded webinar of us kind of just kind of having conversation about what we’ve learned over the last, you know, throughout our digital marketing careers, with Marco having the most experience or tenure of all of us, but you know, combined, we’ve got a lot of damn experience. And so we’ve each we each have our own businesses apart from Semantic Mastery. And so we all have and we’ve all experienced similar issues but unique to our own businesses. So we kind of really just spoke about, you know, what, what we would do differently if we could do it all over again, in an effort to help you guys our audience to not make the same mistakes or at least to recognize when something is occurring and a way to push through it or get around it or over it or whatever. much quicker, if that makes sense. So it I think it was really powerful way to kind of wrap up The 12 weeks of intense training and there’s over 80 freakin videos in that course. So it’s, it’s definitely a lot more value than what we’re charging for it. So I would encourage you guys to go pick it up.

Definitely. Yeah, and we’ve got some more news about that coming. We also added some little bit of additional, but there’s gonna be some more information coming in next week about this and then I’ll just drop a little hint. It’s for those of you who are interested, and getting started. You know, you can start with 2xyouragency, that’s fine. But for those of you who are just saying, Hey, you know, there’s too many obstacles, or I’m not sure you know, what niche to choose, I’m not sure what service or vertical I should be working in. I’m not sure if I had the money or the capital to start consulting business. Things like that. Keep your ears and eyes open and we’ll be getting with you next week. Also, for those of you who are more concentrated on the SEO side of things, besides the heavy hitters club, if you want to get step by step results from proven processes, then the battle plan is where you should be starting is generally where we tell everyone to start with Semantic Mastery. You can find out more about that a battle plan dot semantic mastery comm now what I’m going to say is we’re going to have a brand new edition of the battle plan coming out and yet I would still advise you to go pick up battle plan right now, it’s a no brainer. It’s a just, I can’t I don’t want to say this on here, but it’s a ton of bonuses that are included in there, you can get access to it now and it’s going to pay for itself while we had one person pay for itself in 13 minutes, but for you, you can pay for itself and definitely like a week or two and then pick up the new edition when it comes out and keep the price low. It’s an entry price that we love and that everyone else loves. We’ve had I think 13 or 1400 people get the battle plan, put it to use and get good results. So anyways, if you haven’t yet, just go grab it and then the new edition will be coming out we’ll have some good stuff involved with that. And last but not least, mg y v. If you aren’t familiar with that, head over to mtv.co check out where you can get all the done for you services. If you’re live today I posted on the page, the current flash sale we have going on with link building and the SEO field. You can save a bundle over there, but only for the next 48 hours. And if you’re checking this out later, and you’re wondering how you can find out about stuff like that, just go over to Mt. yt.co. Hop on the newsletter list and that’s how you can get notified of good stuff like this.

All right, I think that’s it guys. Let’s dive into the questions.

Sweet. Grab the screen.

Marco. I posted a message in slack for you. Yes.

That’s pretty cool. All right. Sorry, guys. Let me get into Okay, you should be seeing my screen. Is that correct?

Yep. Okay.

All right. Uh, get my bearings standby.

How Do You Exclude The SEO Powershield G-Site From Google SERPs?

Okay, all these questions came from the That’s interesting. All right, a DC SEO says Thanks for answering my question last week, guys, I appreciate it. One last question. Before I worded the shield just so I’m completely clear, can I make sure that only my site appears in the SERPs, and the G site doesn’t appear on the results pages? If you set it to no index, but I don’t know why you would do that. Here’s the question. Here’s my question for you. Why would you not want to take up another spot in the search engine results in the top 10? Right? Every every asset that you can rank on the first page for whatever your desired keyword is, is another competitor that’s not showing up on the page. So in my opinion, why would you ever not want the G site to also appear for your primary keywords or your entity search or whatever it is that you’re trying to rank? It seems like to me that you’d want to have all 10 spots on the first page if possible. So a G site can absolutely and will often rank for your primary keywords. In fact, it will often rank right below the money site. Here’s the thing if you’re if you’re I framing your money site pages, you theme mirror like we tell you guys to do. And you’re I framing your money site pages in your G site pages and somebody lands on the G site, they’re gonna see your money site page anyways, they could still submit a contact request form they could order you know, make a purchase, submit an opt in do whatever it is that you want to do right from the within the iframe of the G site. So why the hell would you not want it so that that would be my question to you. But yes, if you don’t want it to show up in the SERPs, you could always set it to no index. I have no idea why you would do that though.

Anybody want to comment on that? And not only that, once we release the the cracking, we can’t control it. We can’t control the beast. It’s gonna do what it’s going to do and there’s just no way to control it. Yes, you set it to no index. But as Bradley said, why would you want to give your your competition extra real estate space to compete against you? It makes absolutely no sense you can make last pages that are that are really neat, or you can everything that’s above the fold with CTA that are attractive, and that will get clicks, they’ll get action. You can get a video in there, you can get a whole bunch right above the fold. So so if you don’t like how the rest of it looks, person isn’t likely to scroll down, if they find what they’re looking for, like right above the fold, they’re not likely to scroll down. SEOs are the ones who, who tend to do that. But if you’ve answered the question, or the pain or the problem, right above the fold, they’re just going to click and go over to where they need to go. So think about it that way. And no, I’ll say it again. We cannot control the beast once it’s released. It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do. And that’s it.

Should We Add The GSite To Google Search Console Of The Main GMB Email?

Awesome. Fitz is up. He says, Can we or maybe also should be at the G site to search console for our main GMB email. Yeah, you can’t I just I just typically add it to the Search Console, the same google google account that The drive stack g site were built under. That’s typically how I do it. But you can always so so in other words, you know, whatever Google account it is that MGYB creates for the drive stack and the G site, I submit to search console within that Google account. Now if I want to still be able to, you know, view it or manage it, you know, look at reports and such from Search Console from the main GMB account that it’s, you know, pushing relevance to then you can add that as an additional user. But you know, it’s up to you. I don’t think it makes any difference either one way or the other. The whole idea of putting it into Search Console so that you can you know, help with the index and such comments.

Should Different Website Properties Have Different NAP?

Okay, and up he says should different website properties have different n AP, name, address and phone number working with an Umbrella Corporation as multiple ecom website brands want to have SEO power shields for each individual econ property but worried about penalties or issues that may occur with shared or overlapping NAPs.

Um, you know, I don’t know, because it’s not a local business. If it’s ecom, I don’t know that, you know, NAP issues are ambiguous with NAP is going to cause any problems if you’re not trying to rank in maps. That makes sense. You know, I’ll let Marco take this one, though, because this is more up his alley than mine. I don’t all I do is local. So I don’t really know the best answer for that. Marco, what do you say?

This is one of those things is is what what is the what are one of the places where I look at the competition? First of all, what are they doing? Not not because I’m concerned about the competition, but just what are they doing? If they’re national, they’re global. How are they relating their entities and and if they have offices in other places, how are they relating those? you saying that you have different websites, but if it’s all part of the same Corporation, if there’s one Umbrella Corporation, then you’d relate those through the schema You can create all kinds of neat relationships through scheme. And it’s one of the things that Rob is going to show in the heavy hitter club how to relate all of these so that it becomes just one big umbrella. Right? And under that umbrella would be all of the different offices or places, or products or services or whatever it is that you’re trying to do to create all of these associations.

Yeah, because see, I mean, that’s I would use organization or corporation, structured data for the umbrella company, right? And that would apply to each individual site as well, because it’s all part of the overall organization or corporation, right. But then you could have like website schema, for example, not necessarily local business. I mean, you could have local business if you do have a GMB for each one, which could be part of the organization, right, but there would be individual locations, but for ecom I don’t know that that’s necessary. Again, I don’t do ecom. So I don’t know if That’s correct or not, or if that would help. But you could do something like website schema for that if that makes sense.

So the organization would tie it all together. And that’s what Marco was saying is, you know, when you have an entity, even if you have multiple divisions, or multiple locations, or different, you know, pseudo brands that are like the children, like child companies have a larger parent company, a broader parent company, if you can tie all that together through through the entity, all of them will benefit, if that makes sense. Because, again, you’re talking about branding and the entity itself, even if they’re separate, like divisions or sub brands and that kind of stuff. It will benefit from the overall organization that kind of ties everything together, if that makes sense. So, anyways, as far as the URL shortener go to mgyb.co, slash s, mg y b.co slash s, and this is our URL shortener now, there are different subscription levels. You could have a free account if you want it, but you get a lot of cool things with different subscription levels. And we’ve been using this for all the drive stacks URL shortening that we do for customers of ours, and everything else for what, a year and a half, two years now. And it’s super, super powerful. And you can do a lot of really cool things with our URL shortener. If you have a paid plan such as ad retargeting scripts and things like that into the, the header for the redirect all kinds of really cool things that you can do password protect URLs and stuff like that. So I would go to mgyb.co/s, and use that. Anybody want to comment on that?

No. The power behind our shortener is incredible. It is. It ranks for keywords. And so it just, it’s just ridiculous, as you said, Why you can do so by all means, if you want to use I only mean that’s fine. Bitly Be careful. It’s a 302 Google Firebase, it’s also 302. It can be a 301 if you go through the trouble of making it a 301 redirect, but you’d have to figure out how to do that.

Yeah, and what’s interesting is, is it’s crazy. But oftentimes, and I’ve seen this happen with drive stack files, for example, the MG y b, the redirect URL will rank. And in the search results, the shortened URL will show even though when you click it it for, you know, it redirects to the actual Google Drive File. And it’s really interesting to see the Drive files rank with the mgyb.co short URL, because typically, you don’t you don’t see the redirect URL in the search results, you see the target or the final destination, right? So it’s very interesting to see that.

Can You Upgrade A Single Tier Into Multi Tier Syndication Network When You Order The SEO Power Shield In MGYB?

Karen says, Hey, there I had a few questions from last week, which, unfortunately, we’re not able to get to So here they are. The SEO power shield syndication network. If you order an SEO power shield, it comes with a syndication network. However, I am assuming it’s a single tiered syndication network. Yes, it is the branded network. But let’s say I want a multi tier syndication network, is there an upgrade option rather than purchasing a full syndication network, since single tiered network already exists? Contact support at mgyb.co. And make that request and I’m sure I’m not sure, maybe Marco sure, but I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate that sort of a request, but it’s gonna have to be a custom order as opposed to just something that’s done through the normal channel. If that makes sense. Marco’s that’s something we can do.

Maybe I mean, we’d have to bolt on the the tiered syndication network to the to the already existing cynic. But But why would you want a tiered syndication network when tier one works just fine.

I mean, that’s a good question. I would ask the same thing but maybe he has a reason.

So okay, I mean, a fine, right to support and then what Robin I’ll do is we’ll sit and talk about it and see if it’s even worth it because the price that we might have to charge you may not make it worth it to you.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t think I mean unless there if you have a reason for wanting a multi tiered syndication network and then by all means do that, but I don’t you know, we have been encouraging people to not use multi tiered syndication networks for blog syndication, because they’re kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. However, if you’ve got something like RSS masher, which is Damon Nelson’s product, it’s really good for creating beautiful spliced feeds with like, it’s really really cool you can you can create really cool custom spliced feeds and in use that to power your second tier networks so that you have multiple relevant content sources posting to those networks, which is what we recommend. And with something like RSS masher, it becomes much much easier to maintain multi tiered networks. The more manual method, which is how it had been done for four years, requires adding a bunch of relevant RSS content feeds to the second tier. triggers, which becomes a nightmare, because let’s say that if all you did was add, you know, three additional arts, so you got your money site RSS feed. But then let’s say you add three additional Khan relevant content feeds for each blog. second tier syndication network, right? So So if there’s three of them, which is there are the way that we build them. So the first single tier is first ring, right, one ring, and then there’s three syndication networks on the second tier, each being triggered by one of the blogs from the tier one network, right? So when I say blogs, I mean, blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress. But if you were to add three additional content feeds at the second tier trigger point. So for each one of those, you would need an additional nine feeds relevant content feeds that you don’t control. And not only that, you have to set up a separate set of recipes or applets inside of IFTTT for each feed. So let’s say there’s 15 applets that you need to set up for each RSS feed that you add, that’s an additional 45 applets per syndication network that you need to create, which in itself is not that bad. It’s a bit tedious. But you know, once it’s done, it’s done. But the problem occurs when you don’t have control over those feeds. And because of that, like things can happen to their site, the site that you’re using the feed from, where it could have a you know, it could I’ve seen RSS feeds hiccup and they just spit out a shit ton of posts and it can terminate your have a lot of your syndication network properties terminate because of over publishing, I, you know, they’re things could break. This is a ton of things that cause a lot of maintenance issues. And if you’re just dealing with one project, it’s okay because you know, you’re only managing one project, but you’ve got SEO in your name up here. So I’m assuming you probably do client work or more than just one project. And so multi tiered networks become kind of a nightmare to too cumbersome to manage. When you’re doing multiple projects. At least that’s my opinion, unless you’re using something like Like RSS masher which really simplifies that process, and adds a whole lot of control to even the input feeds that you create the super spliced feed from, because it has filters and all these other really cool things like it can actually strip out content from the feed. There’s a code inserter, a code stripper, there’s all kinds of things in there. So, again, multi tier networks are not recommended. Obviously, if you know what you’re doing and you have a strategic reason for using it, then by all means, do so.

Have You Done A Test On Linking Your Money Site At The Footer Disclaimer Section Of Client Site?

Okay, next question. Disclaimer links. Disclaimer link on client sites. As you know, there is a long term practice for SEO web design companies to add a link back to their site in the footer. Yes, like the footer link section, right. I’ve recently been switching all of those links for SEO and marketing by brand plus keyword plus location with brand plus keyword plus location being the anchor text linking to my SEO company’s GMB profile, and I’ve seen some big results from it. Have you done any testing related to this just curious? No, though, those are considered Wide links and I mean you know, I, I do put those often in client sites the footer as well, but I usually just link back with my brand name and I usually nofollow those links, I have not done any testing with them in years, just because it became kind of a you know, site wide links could work what had become a negative factor essentially, for a long long time and so I just got into the habit of the routine of just note just linking to my brand name, so big bamboo marketing and then know following the link so that it didn’t cause any, like penguin issues, if that makes sense. But uh, but no, I haven’t done any testing with it. It’s interesting to hear that anybody else.

Well, it stands to reason right the brand plus keyword plus location by eliminating marketing because you don’t need it. If you have if you’ve done your entity work correctly on your on your marketing website. then adding a link that’s your brand, and the keyword and the locations that you creating that relevant For the bot, there’s no reason why then it should pick up an algorithm, any type of algorithmic penalty, because it’s what you’re asked to do at the local level. This is how you’re taught to associate everything brand, plus location plus keyword, brand. keyword, okay. That’s what the bottom is looking for comes in, and it looks for this. So what it’s picking up is all of that relevance back to your site, which is what we do really with our academy reloaded, except that we protected 111 layer out through the SEO partnership, the drive secondary site, right? We create all of our all the all of the relevance in there because we know that what Google is going to do is power it up, rather than look to to penalize it algorithmically. So if he’s obviously getting results just from those changes, it works. It could stop working in the future. I can say anything that’s working in Google could stop working tomorrow. Theoretically, simply because they decide to, you have to be careful with that type of thing.

Would You Get An Algorithmic Penalty For Using Generic Terms Too Many Times?

Okay, thanks Marco. The next question is from big Billy says anchor question, I have several product pages that I put a link to my category page for that type of product. I use the word here many, many times to link up to the same page, any chance I could get that page and algorithmic penalty or doesn’t matter because it’s a generic term now not for that. If you over optimized for a singular keyword, then that can actually cause problems, but something like that, but my question is, I’m not sure. Well, again, product pages, I don’t do e commerce. So I’m not even going to explain why I wouldn’t use here so much, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I would try to use various keywords though. Again, I don’t do e commerce. So I don’t know what you’re specifically doing. But I typically when I’m linking back up to you know, any sort of like a silo landing page or homepage or whatever, I try to just vary the anchor text with LSI keywords right. So synonyms for whatever my primary keywords are from. So for example, if I’m coming from a blog post about Tree Removal in a particular area, then I’m going to use some sort of tree removal keyword or variation of a tree removal service tree cutting service, arborist tree removal, something like that, to link back up to the landing page for that particular silo. But again, using a generic term like that it should, it’s not going to cause any out I’ve never heard of that causing an algorithmic penalty, because I don’t know of any SEOs out there that are optimizing for here. You know what I’m saying? So, Margaret, do you have any comments on that?

No, I haven’t seen it. And in fact, when I do my interlinking, I use the generic terms a lot. But not only here, go here, more information, learn more, read more, all of that. So there’s about 10 or 12 terms that you can use, and you know, you can spin those so that so that they don’t appear that way. The same thing, right one one after the other because it can get as far as the user, it can get repetitive. And that’s not something that that you want, you don’t want the user to hear hear again, and again, here, here, here. And here. This is a, it’s e commerce, I assume there’s a bunch of products on there, all of them with here. So create variations simply for the sake of not boring the user with the same terms over and over and over again.

Yeah, and remember, you can also lengthen the phrase for the that you’re going to use for the anchor text. It doesn’t always have to just be a keyword guys, or if keyword phrase, it can be a longer statement, like, you know what I mean? So, you know, get, get more information about key word here, that could be an entire link. That makes sense. The whole, you know, short sentence could be a link. And what that does is, again, it adds diversity, but you still get your keyword in there without it being over optimized, and it makes sense to the reader or the user. You know, Because you know that the phrase itself is, is a call to action. Does that make sense? So there’s a lot of variations that you can do to kind of add some diversity to that. That’s cool. Go ahead. No, nothing. Yes, absolutely. Also question for Marco, I own our bias and RYS reloaded, and I’m about to get serious about it. Well, that’s good. Should I even learn the original version or just drive straight in the ROI ASR?

Well, there’s a lot of neat stuff by Dr. Gary in the archives. So I would say by all means, you need to get to the archives. But to get to the archives, first start with what’s with what the most current training is. And that’s whatever is in our academy reloaded. And please understand, we do need to update it, update that at some point because a couple of things have changed, not the power, power, the power that that we’re generating doesn’t change, and it’s gotten even better, but there’s a few things in there. That we do have to that we do have to go over. I’m glad mean, I wish I knew your name, come on the Facebook group and say what’s up. So go through the training. We’re still supporting after five years, we’re still supporting the damn Facebook group. We’re still in there answering questions. So come on in there. If you have any questions, ask away.

How Do You iFrame An Ecom Site If The G Site Has A Frame Breaker?

Awesome. Last week, Marco mentioned to iframe your eecom page onto a G site, but the new g site has a frame breaker. Is that true Marco? No, I always work in the old site. But I I’m quite sure that new g sites have iframes do don’t they?

Okay, so maybe he has his terms mixed up. You cannot take the new g site and iframe that anywhere else. Right. It does have a frame breaker. But you can iframe on the new g site. There’s a right insert embed code, right that does a What do you call it? There’s an icon in there that allows you to iframe anything unless what you’re trying to iframe has a frame breaker also.

Right? Right. So your ecom platform may have an iframe breaker, but you are able to iframe pages into the new g site. That’s and that’s what I was. I always work in the old site, the GMB builders build the new site, but all the work that I do for theme earring and everything is always in the classic g sites. But I was gonna say, I know the new g sites have my pages I, you know, like the pearl trees and, you know, press advantage page and things like that all get iframe in there, so I can’t imagine. The only thing I would assume that Billy is that perhaps your eecom platform might have an iframe breaker. So Okay, moving on. Bibi says Hey guys, what is the problem of duplicate content during syndication? For full text post? Is there a problem apply on branded network also, or just tier two and beyond? There’s no problem at all, when you have it. That’s the whole point of the attribution link below. If you your RSS feed should have, depending on what if what kind of plugin you’re using RSS plugin, God forbid, you’re using Yoast. But almost all RSS plugins now have an RSS setting that will allow you to inject an attribution link either before the content or after the content. And so when your plugin settings, you go in and you you code in the attribution link. And there’s typically some sort of tokens in there like post URL, post title, site title, all of those things that you can tokenize your attribution link for so that essentially it will pull the title so what I always do is I always use the post title as the anchor text, and it links to the post URL. Again, those are tokens that you can code into the attribution code in the RSS plugin settings. However, if your RSS plugin settings don’t have, if you don’t have the ability to code in an attribution link, then you can do that within the applets inside of IFTTT, which just means you have to edit the app. It’s really only count you really only Well, you should do it also for Google Drive. So like, your document sharing when you’re when you read syndicate a blog post into Google Drive, and what is it Microsoft One Drive or whatever the hell it is. Those should also have attribution links. But really, it’s your going to be your blogs, so blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, that you really want to make sure that you have the attribution links. And, and that’s it, there’s no problem with duplicate content, because you’re, you’re citing the original source. That’s the whole point. And even if you weren’t citing the original source, it’s still not a duplicate content problem. duplicate content only occurs on the same domain. It doesn’t occur off site if it did, then press releases would be toxic. And some press releases are toxic, actually, that there is there’s no such thing as duplicate content anyway. Even even on site it I mean, all that’s going to happen if the pages are similar, or the same what Google is going to do. And we’ve explained this before, it’s going to start AB AB testing ABCD. However many pages are similar, it’s going to take those, it’s going to start giving an impression. And then it’s going to decide which one answers the query the best. And that’s the page, that’s going to end up indexed, right. And in the active index, let’s just call it versus all of the others, but you’re not going to get any penalties. What you are going to get is warnings about duplicate titles and descriptions, so that you can make unique titles and descriptions. And the content can pretty much be the same. And then again, you’re leaving out you’re leaving it up to Google to decide which version of your page is the best for the query. Instead of you deciding on your best converting page versus all the other pages, look in Search Console, and see which pages are being served for the different keywords and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll see ABC ABCD you’ll see that like if the pages are Very similar, you’ll see four or five, six pages. If you’re doing mass mass page built, you’ll see even more. And Google will give give all of those pages impressions until it decides which one the best one would be. That’s what they call keyword cannibalization. It’s not really that it’s Google deciding which pages was the query the best. So let’s, let’s end this duplicate content myth. once and for all. I actually saw a definitive guide to SEO by a company which I kind of respected. They have really good information. They put out the Definitive Guide to technical SEO, and they went into into duplicate content as if it could be an issue. And it can only be an issue if you’re having all of these pages competing against one another to see which one, Google is going to rank. That’s the only way that they can affect it. You’re not going to get a penalty. You’re not it. Nothing’s going to happen other than Google. Know, it’ll take Google, as long as it takes Google to decide which page is the best, you want to leave that up to Google, or do you want to go in, figure out which one it is that you want, and then rel canonical or redirect all of the other pages to that one page?

Yeah, go look, go search Google for canonical. And you’ll see or rel=canonical. And you’ll see that Google created that specifically for that reason, and that so that you can push credit from similar pages to whatever you want to be the parent or master page, so to speak. And that’s to specifically address potential duplicate content issues on even the same domain. That’s what canonical was originally developed for. And they came up with cross domain canonical, as well. And that’s for canonical Ising, similar pages from other domains to a specific target, if that makes sense. So maybe I’m gonna I think this is the same BB that we’ve answered questions before, but we guys we’re going to have to say this once again, and I can’t assume that everybody knows this, but we don’t Typically allow people or want ask people to post this many questions because it’s just not fair to other people. So, because these are all around the exact same thing, and they’re very, very short going to be really easy to answer, I will answer these guys. But come on next time just post a question or two, please and then allow some others to post and then post another question or two just because it’s not fair. Okay. So the next question was, is there a reason why we should have REL equals nofollow on attributed link on the RSS items? No, other than a lot of the plugins that there are SEO plugins, when you code in an RS an attribution link, they’re going to automatically apply a nofollow tag to it. And unless you want to go in and actually edit the plug in code, which I used to do with Yoast years ago, but every time Yoast like I would go in and into the plug in code, right but and actually edit the plug in code to remove that REL equals nofollow tag to the RSS attribution link. However, every time the plugin updated, it would, it would update that code. didn’t have to go back and edit it. And you can imagine if you have more than just a couple of sites, how how much of a pain in the ass that was, so I just stopped doing it. I don’t even care anymore. If we can make it follow great. If not nofollow will is good enough. It’s just it’s a it’s a, it’s a, you know, an efficiency thing. Right? That makes sense. It’s it’s just too difficult to go in and edit plug in code. However, if you got a plug in code that will allow you to put in a follow link as opposed to and it doesn’t automatically apply the nofollow tag then by all means, do that, which by the way, if you code it in through IFTTT, then you it will be it will be a follow link as long as the blogs or the syndication point provides follow links but many of them are nofollow links anyways. Okay. The next one was why should you use spintax? Why should you spintax the attribution and the after text post when syndicating RSS, it just adds diversity to the attribution link. So it makes sense right? If if you if you can add spintax to the attribution link text that you’re, you know, in the plugin settings like our plugin does, then it just adds diversity so it’s not always the same exact line right on every single post that gets syndicated out but that’s it’s not a problem it just adds some diversity if you if you have that functionality use it if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. Okay. Why you have limited the RSS plugin to only five posts. I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Chris has an on he’s the one that developed our pup but there should be settings to be able to adjust that. And also it’s not the RSS plugin typically that does that go into your WordPress settings go to WordPress admin area, go to settings, reading and then take a look there and right there is where you should see how many posts show in the RSS feed. And that should be the set that should be where you adjust that setting not necessarily RSS plugin. Okay. Is the RSS plugin just for adding spintax functionality now that well, I can’t tell you unless you’re in the mastermind the mastermind plugin adds a whole RSS plugin which is only available in the mastermind it’s free to mastermind members it has a lot of additional functionality I you must if you’re talking about our RSS plugin, but the free version I can’t tell you because I haven’t used that five years no shit so I don’t even know what the dashboard that looks like. Does anybody know here?

No, no cuz I only use the Pro.

Yeah, the pro version which is in the mastermind is it adds all kinds of additional functionality like it allows you to republish old posts it allows you to add hashtags and all kinds of cool stuff that Chris coded into it but um again that’s that’s the pro version which is in the mastermind I don’t use the free version guys. I just there’s really no reason for me to so I can’t tell you what that even looks like. I’m sorry about that. Two k says. How do you guys use AWS site? Yes, Amazon s3 bucket for the ID page. Why is that two site? Well, a couple reasons one, to siphon some authority from Amazon to because it’s an Amazon domain, which we can just fucking hammer with, with kitchen sink, spam and everything else we want to throw at it. Number three, because it’s just an HTML page that we upload because it loads really fast. And we’re going to, we load it up with our iframe stacking that we do the the infinite loop, right, the infinite entity loop, the mirror and mirror picture and picture that never ends. That’s what we do. And those pages, trust me when you build out an ID page, the way that we do it. And then go back and even add in some additional things, it will literally break your computer, if you try to load it. It takes so much cash because so many iframes are trying to load and it will overwhelm the cache or the memory on your on your on your on your PC. I know because it’s locked up mine many times. And remember guys that Id pages aren’t supposed to be for public consumption. In other words, they’re not necessarily something that you want to rank or anything else, it’s specifically for the bots. So it doesn’t matter if it’s going to lock up your browser because how often are you or you or anybody else going to actually visit it? So but there’s a number of reasons why we use that Marco, you could probably name a few others.

No, no, I mean, you name the main month. The main purpose of that is to create another property in another powerful domain for the entity loop. So it goes to however it is that we do it. That’s how we do it. And we just add another we could add more, but more isn’t necessarily better that there’s diminishing returns on what that loop will bring back. I think we’ve tried others and it locks it up even with with as much RAM as I have. Yeah, it’ll lock up my computer and I have tons around.

I got 3232 gigabytes or whatever, whatever it is megabytes, whatever the hell it is. And it’s in it’ll lock machine right up, man. I got 64 and That’s ridiculous what it is. Yeah. But anyway, the main reason is power and an additional place where we store our entity information so that the bot can come and pick up some more somewhere else. Just following the breadcrumbs. That’s all it is.

Yeah. It’s interesting because one of our mastermind members, Darrell had shared with us one of his entity stacks that he had entity loop stacks that he had created was like an ID page, essentially. And it was freakin insane. I can’t remember it as something like, I don’t remember, I’m just gonna throw a number out there. Because it was ridiculous. Like 30 freakin iframes in it, like, it was just it was nuts. And he was like, careful. Make sure you got everything else shut down when you click this link. It was funny. But it’s, it’s pretty cool. So the next question was, could you not just a part of the second half of that question was could you not just use the Google site with all the embedded stuff and put that in the schema, or is there a reason you don’t do that? Yeah, let me just explain why. The last question from today we do use the G site,

we do it right and we embed the idx page in the G site right. So and the and the G site gets embedded in the idx page. Hence the mirror the entity loop, right. Infinite entity loop. The second or the next question was one more question when I order a press release from MDB. Do you guys create the press advantage new newsroom page? Yes, yes we do. Okay, so you will get the benefit of that. Nathan says I saw your post today marketing the SEO location shields is that the ROI stack extension you have been working on launching No not yet. The SEO location shield can also be utilized for brands or adding a second location under an already established brand with the syndication network. Already have an SEO shield for my brand. I need some created for inner service pages. I’m trying to rank well The location shield is if you like, and market will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way because all I do is local, the location shields for me as if I have multiple locations for a particular brand. So for example, I’m working on a tree service project and the map that’s making available to the public to the mastermind. I’m doing it as essentially a live case study, by the way, my mastermind webinars tomorrow, and I’ve made a lot of progress on that. So those of you that are in the mastermind, I’ll be sharing a lot more about that tomorrow. But anyways, it’s it’s, it’s a new brand with several GMB locations that I’ve already established but I’m rebranding from an old an older brand to the to the new company that because I got a new service provider anyways, so I ordered a SEO power shield for the main brand. In fact, I was working on I’m working on, here you go take a look. Here’s the entity assets here. I’m working inside process street developing that stuff out right now. So you can see the SEO, I’m not going to click into there, but the Seo shield would be there. And it’s the same thing as I’m actually working through developing the process out so that my team can can do that for me. And so the primary brand is associated with whatever top level keyword is, in this case, it won’t have a location associated with the top level keyword in the brand, because I want to create that as like an organization. In other words, and then all of the individual locations, which will be built on inner pages inside of the main site will each get its own location shield, which means it gets its own g site and drive stack that are optimized for that particular location. And it’ll have an ID page as well. But then they get basically placed underneath the primary branded ri ri S Drive stack. Does that make sense? So in other words, each location shield the ri s stack becomes an inner folder of the primary entity stack, if that makes sense. And that that way is that Don’t have to build the ID page for each location. Each separate location drive stack is optimized specifically for the market level keywords plus the location, look at location modifier for that particular location, and then the ID page, which is unique to each location as well. But all of that gets placed under the parent main entity stack. And so that’s that’s the way that I do it, because all I do is local. And so that’s how I think of location shields, although I’m sure location shields can be applied to other stuff other than local. How would you do that Marco?

And why would you want to location shield for something other than local?

Well, there’s the answer then.

So Nathan, that’s hopefully that makes some sense. If you have, you know, multiple locations, that’s what you would want to do. If you have inner service pages, then those would just be expanding your current drive stack. You wouldn’t need a separate idx page and a separate drive stack built for a particular service page. You could just clone Which you currently have, and then optimize, like, edit and that’s, that’s something that we will have available soon and MGB that’s the entity or the drive stack expansion service, which is coming soon. Marco, did we have a time on that yet?

No, we just asked the developer today and he’s still working on it.

Okay. So hopefully that makes some sense Nathan

Would It Be Okay To Use A General Location Of A Nearby City When Doing Schema For Service Area Businesses?

Troy says hello when doing schema for service area business address lat long and don’t want to use exact address because trying to rank a nearby bigger city can should be okay to use more general location of a nearby city like city state. lat long Okay, um, you know, you can you can omit? Well, not necessarily, I can’t remember if it will take it or not, if you like if you were to go to local business schema, for example, and right here where it does say geo coordinates lat long, you might be able to just remove that from the code and then go try to validate the code in the structured data testing tool and see if it still validates. I know I was like, for example, I was just talking about this tree service project I’m working on Well, the primary domain isn’t, I don’t want that associated with like the homepage. I don’t want that associated with a particular GMB because I want all that I want it to just be brand and keyword. And so I still have structured data for that. But because I don’t want, I still have local business structured data, but I don’t have an actual street address. I just have city state and zip, and then the Latin long, but I was able to omit the street address and still have the local business structured data validated in the structured data testing tool. So I was able to admit that so that I can still have local business structure. Well, there’s organization Plus Local Business structured data, even on the homepage, which isn’t associated with any particular one, one specific address, if that makes sense. So you might want to be able to just go in and actually Edit the latitude and longitude out and see if it will validate. Otherwise, I don’t know Mark, what do you say? I don’t know that I would want to use a generic problems, right? I see potential problems, because he’s talking about a local business with a business centroid, the centroid being the point where the business is and and we’ll extend in a radius from that from that is the center of the business in relationship to the radius. Correct. So Google has that, because you went to the pains of verifying and Google verifying your business, you not have a pin. Google knows the exact location of that pin. Now you go and you submit structured data, which is directed directly to Googlebot. Googlebot comes in crawls and you have different geo settings, different latitude and longitude. Now is that in and of itself, going to cause a problem? I don’t know. I haven’t tested it but Essentially, it could be a problem, right? And I don’t understand why you want to do that, instead of extending your central, I try to trick the bot.

I agree. Instead of trying to extend instead of trying to extend the centroid and creating that relationship between the business centroid, and the area that he’s trying to target, if you create that relationship, that’s gonna work a whole lot better than trying to trick the bot into seeing different latitude and longitude for your business.

Yeah, I agree. Here’s what I was showing, though, just in case you wanted to test that is that part of it right there, into that comma down there. I know, it’s probably hard for you guys to see. But if you were to eliminate that section right there, and then try to validate the code once the rest of the code was fleshed out, it’s, I’m assuming it would validate but it might require the geo Latin long, I’ve never tried to omit that intentionally. But you could try it and see if it validate, but I agree with Marco 100%. There’s, in my opinion, there’s really no need to do that. I don’t know why you would want to do that when actually you could just use Is the the specific that coordinates for where the business actually resides where the physical location is. And then through your content, your silo structure and everything else you can tell Google what your service areas and that’s, that’s what my Tree Service case study that I’m doing in the mastermind is going to be demonstrating is how through just blog posting through silo structure which simple silo structure not even complex silo structure and just blog posting, and then theme mirroring and interlinking correctly, that we can get significant results for a very large service area even with only one GMB if needed. I’ve got multiple GM B’s but we’re expand for this particular project. We’re expanding south in Virginia, from where the central location is and all of the southern areas are going to be strictly organic rankings. All of the northern areas have already GMP s. So that’s how we’re going to kind of set separate the two Two different tests on one site for one brand. Some are going to have GM B’s the rest, all the southern locations are going to be strictly organic. And and I’m going to be demonstrating that in there. So I agree with Marco. I don’t know why you’d want to trick the bot when you could just expand your area. So, okay. All right. That was a good question though. Troy says, Hey, same goes with GMB images. geotag. Can general bigger nearby cities be the default instead of the exact business address? city state? Yeah, well, that’s, that’s what we teach in local GMB Pro. Right. That’s how you expand the centroid is you start to upload images that are geotagged for a larger service area. So that’s, that’s, that’s exactly what we teach in local GMB Pro. So that’s different than trying to tell Google through structured data, the latitude and longitude of where your business is, when it’s not actually where your business is. That’s that’s a lot different when you’re uploading images from a larger broader service area. So let’s say your account takeover, right like In other words, its service area business. So again, comm Tree Service contractor residing in Culpepper. Their business physical location is in Culpepper, Virginia, which is where I am. And let’s say they’re they go to Fredericksburg, it’s 45 miles east, and they do a job out there. They take photos of on that job from their phone. Geo Data is, you know, Latin long and the EXIF data is all part of the metadata of the image. They can upload it right there, from there, on the GMB app from their phone to the GMB profile, and that starts to tell Google Hey, their business might be located in Cole pepper, but their service area does go to Fredericksburg. And here’s the images with the Geo Data to prove it. It takes time. It’s not like you’re going to upload a couple of photos and all of a sudden you’re going to pop in adjacent cities in the maps pack. It takes consistent repeated effort, but you can do it Mark has proven that many many times. So, okay. We’re almost done. Cool. Oh, it’s five o'clock, right? Realize that that hour flew by. So Aaron says is Google once again posting reviews? I lost five reviews this last month. Does anyone know if Google will display those reviews? Are they last forever requiring reposting Thanks. No, you know, I don’t know the answer to that. Except that I know what your mean, new reviews are not showing up. But I i because I left a review. A couple of reviews myself for other businesses that aren’t are not showing, but I’m assuming that when they do when Google lifts this, whatever restriction that they will publish, but I don’t know because I don’t work for Google. Do you know the answer to that Marco?

I have no idea if they will republish the ones that you lost. I know that they’re, like opening it back up slowly that there was a GMB email that went out. I don’t know if you got that Bradley with it where they were mentioning that reviews were back and that they will be opening up other things. Slowly, I don’t know. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know what they close and I don’t know what’s going to happen from that. They’re,

yeah. Yeah, Your guess is as good as mine. So, Alright guys, it’s five o'clock. Sorry if we didn’t get to all the questions mom, it looks like we missed one of yours.

I’m so sorry about that guys, but we’ll catch you all next week. Remember mastermind members. I have my webinar tomorrow. So we will see you guys there. Thanks for hanging out guys. Bye, everyone.

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All right, we’re live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangout Episode 283. Today is tax day or maybe it’s the day formerly known as tax day. 2020. So for those of you in the US believe, you know, tax day got setback, kind of a free extension, if you will. But we’re not delaying Hump Day Hangouts. We’re just going right along schedule, although to go with the Coronavirus stuff going on I’m wearing a hacks My hair is getting all crazy now that I my clippers broke and it’s taken forever cuz Amazon’s not shipping stuff as fast as they normally would, which is fine. But I was on actually on a call earlier today as a mastermind call and one of the guys had just given up and just shaved his head and so I’m starting to see some fun Coronavirus haircuts. I think that might be a meme. Yeah, might might go like Marco just get it down. So with that said, we got a few announcements and then we’re going to get into the good stuff. We got a lot of really good questions today. But let’s start I’m gonna start with Bradley How you doing today?

I’m happy to be here man. Nice nice spring day outside it’s kind of cool but I got to go out and go for a run before about an hour ago so nice glad to be here

all right now hold on for those of you who don’t know Bradley’s more of a weights guy so I just want you went for a run

yeah well I when I can’t lift weights which I can’t right now I run and I run often so I run ran five miles yesterday and three and a half today and so I run when I don’t lift

good deal that makes me I’m a runner. So yeah, like hearing that. All right, Marco. How about you?

I ran to the door just earlier.

How was it was it a good workout?

It was tiring man. I’m I’m recovering I’m I had to go get some oxygen an make sure you got a water bottle nearby. Take care yourself.

Always. Always do keep water close by Just in case you gotta hydrate from all that heavy stuffs going all the good things are good, heavy hitter club is coming online. Today, mastermind members contact support at heavy hitters club, because you’re going to get the deal of a lifetime to join the heavy hitter code. You know, we take when we say membership has its privileges, one of those privileges is to get discounts deep discounts into any of the things that we do, right? Whether whatever it is from RYS Academy Reloaded, Syndication, they had just whatever is either included in the price, or we give them a steep discount. Everyone else is also going to get a discount because we understand we’re in the middle of a crisis. Things aren’t the way that they’re supposed to be, but we’re going to help you make money guys. If that’s what you’re looking for. We’re going to give you a really good deal. And yes, it’s a one time only offer you can take advantage of it. And if not, I sincerely sincerely believe it’s your loss, not ours, because we’re going to help you make money in any and every way we can. Technical SEO. I mean, it’s for ranking. That’s the easy part. We’re going to teach you how and why especially why things are the way they are. So I know it’s kind of last minute because yesterday I was saying, if we don’t do it in the next 45 days, if we don’t launch it, then it’s not gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, it just came together and and here it is today. Contact support at heavy hitter club for the discount of your mastermind member. And if you’re not, then I’m going to post the link to the signup page in the in the Hangouts help I’ll go and post in Facebook. There is a there is a page for those of you who want to take care of us want to take advantage of The special that we’re offering, it’s a it’s a bonehead special you can’t you can’t say no, you you can but why would you? So there you go.

Awesome just to clarify though, because I know we’re gonna get this question what’s the difference between heavy hitter club and the mastermind and heavy coder hitter club is technical SEO spearheaded by Robin Marko Of course some of us might may linger and pop in appear you know and such but it’s going to be primarily Marco and Rob talking about technical SEO stuff like just real nitty gritty shit guys. So that’s what that is. And the mastermind includes SEO but also so much more right includes business building and you know, marketing and branding and all different types of marketing, digital marketing and holistic marketing and everything else. So there’s, you know, outsourcing, management, all everything else that goes into running an operating a business, or a heavy hitter club is specifically technical SEO and How to monetize and get best results from SEO, that sort of thing. So I just want to clarify that.

Yeah, I think well, Marco, I’ll let you put in your own words, but I think you put it best for the difference between each come in there because you want to well, like you’re saying scorched earth with SEO. But if you’re a business owner, if, unless that’s your passion, that may not be where you should be spending your time.

exactly exactly. What if you’re a business owner, and you’re what’s in your mindset should be growing your agency growing your business, SEO is part of growing your business. But you as a business owner shouldn’t be in there, you should delegate you should have someone a partner via just whoever so that you can stay in the Semantic Mastery mastermind and grow your business, whatever business it may be. It doesn’t have to be an agency. And at the same time you have someone with us in in the SEO part of it, learning the technical aspect aspects that are going to help you with with rankings. that are going to help you drive traffic to the website. It’s all about entity. Right? In today in the Semantic Web, think about it. This is where it was going all along the Semantic Web of things, not strings. It’s all about things. And there’s nothing better as far as Google is concerned than a brand, then if that thing is a brand, and it’s related to all of the entities that it finds under that niche, right. So this is what we’re looking to push to people how this how this is happening, why it’s happening, and how you can take advantage of it because we look for any, any and every loophole, an advantage that we can take out. We do. Most of the stuff we do, by the way, are not loopholes, loopholes, that they can be closed rather easily. And we’ve seen that happen time after time after time, but all is people said it was a loophole. But it’s been a five year old loophole that hasn’t been closed. So think about that. What what why, why you’re concentrating on this. Like don’t don’t don’t think that you To choose one or the other, if you’re a business owner, you shouldn’t, you should you should be. You shouldn’t do both. And if you can’t do both, then yes, you should have someone who takes care of the SEO part so that you can concentrate on growing your business.

Definitely. Good stuff. All right. Well, Hernan How you doing? what’s what’s going on? You? Look, you look good. You look excited.

Yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to be here. It’s hoody season, we’re good, we’re safe. I’ve been I’ve been working a lot like lately, you know, a lot of our business owners, they’re starting to understand the power of digital marketing, they’re pivoting. So you know, I’ve been doing some consulting for those for those entrepreneurs that they are, you know, that they’re not letting things dictate how they’re running their business, but rather, they’re getting ahead of the curve. And I’m excited that, you know, we’re helping business owners to achieve just that, you know, to achieve, hey, we all know that this is like some, these are weird times, but we need to get prepared. We need to be there. So it’s, you know, it’s really cool. It’s really cool to be able to help some of these people out. So I’m getting Be Here

cool good stuff all right Chris last but not least how you doing man?

Yeah doing good here I’m not so excited this or not involved the Facebook stuff at the moment the bots in like with today’s or not no so that means but like yeah like it’s good otherwise you’re moving on and I’ll be back

nice all right yeah you need to get like what did you have was it uh it was like a box of roses The Terminator?

yeah pretty much it’s awesome

all right actually don’t pull out a gun on screen and pray freak people out but it’d be critical real quick just want to say for those of you joining us for the first time you probably a little confused but we want to say thank you and you’re in the right place we’re going to get into answering SEO digital marketing questions. If you’re watching the replay you can always join us live at semantic mastery comm slash HD questions, ask your questions attend live, but if you can’t we understand things come up. You can check out the replays on YouTube and Grab your channel so you get notified of those updates. Also, if you’re an agency owner or a consultant, you want to get more clients, you want to grow your revenue, and you want to scale your team so that you can work less and earn more. Find out more about that at two x your agency COMM The membership, there is definitely growing. We got some great stuff going on. We just wrapped up the last of the training was out Monday.

Yeah, Monday. So there is a ton. I’m not going to go into the details of it. But there is a ton of good stuff, but it is all centered around those three central pillars, right, getting more clients growing your revenue and scaling your team. Right. That’s what it’s about. So if you’re interested in any one of those, it’s a no brainer. You put all three of those together. And it’s kind of the rocket fuel for your agency rocket, if you will.

May I interrupt for a moment?

No, just kidding.

I just finished we finished week 12 which was a collaboration of of all of us, you know, that you’re seeing on screen right now. And so, it was it was on Monday. We kind of Recorded

what we call insights from agency veterans. And so we each kind of spoke throughout the recorded webinar of us kind of just kind of having conversation about what we’ve learned over the last, you know, throughout our digital marketing careers, with Marco having the most experience or tenure of all of us, but you know, combined, we’ve got a lot of damn experience. And so we’ve each we each have our own businesses apart from Semantic Mastery. And so we all have and we’ve all experienced similar issues but unique to our own businesses. So we kind of really just spoke about, you know, what, what we would do differently if we could do it all over again, in an effort to help you guys our audience to not make the same mistakes or at least to recognize when something is occurring and a way to push through it or get around it or over it or whatever. much quicker, if that makes sense. So it I think it was really powerful way to kind of wrap up The 12 weeks of intense training and there’s over 80 freakin videos in that course. So it’s, it’s definitely a lot more value than what we’re charging for it. So I would encourage you guys to go pick it up.

Definitely. Yeah, and we’ve got some more news about that coming. We also added some little bit of additional, but there’s gonna be some more information coming in next week about this and then I’ll just drop a little hint. It’s for those of you who are interested, and getting started. You know, you can start with 2xyouragency, that’s fine. But for those of you who are just saying, Hey, you know, there’s too many obstacles, or I’m not sure you know, what niche to choose, I’m not sure what service or vertical I should be working in. I’m not sure if I had the money or the capital to start consulting business. Things like that. Keep your ears and eyes open and we’ll be getting with you next week. Also, for those of you who are more concentrated on the SEO side of things, besides the heavy hitters club, if you want to get step by step results from proven processes, then the battle plan is where you should be starting is generally where we tell everyone to start with Semantic Mastery. You can find out more about that a battle plan dot semantic mastery comm now what I’m going to say is we’re going to have a brand new edition of the battle plan coming out and yet I would still advise you to go pick up battle plan right now, it’s a no brainer. It’s a just, I can’t I don’t want to say this on here, but it’s a ton of bonuses that are included in there, you can get access to it now and it’s going to pay for itself while we had one person pay for itself in 13 minutes, but for you, you can pay for itself and definitely like a week or two and then pick up the new edition when it comes out and keep the price low. It’s an entry price that we love and that everyone else loves. We’ve had I think 13 or 1400 people get the battle plan, put it to use and get good results. So anyways, if you haven’t yet, just go grab it and then the new edition will be coming out we’ll have some good stuff involved with that. And last but not least, mg y v. If you aren’t familiar with that, head over to mtv.co check out where you can get all the done for you services. If you’re live today I posted on the page, the current flash sale we have going on with link building and the SEO field. You can save a bundle over there, but only for the next 48 hours. And if you’re checking this out later, and you’re wondering how you can find out about stuff like that, just go over to Mt. yt.co. Hop on the newsletter list and that’s how you can get notified of good stuff like this.

All right, I think that’s it guys. Let’s dive into the questions.

Sweet. Grab the screen.

Marco. I posted a message in slack for you. Yes.

That’s pretty cool. All right. Sorry, guys. Let me get into Okay, you should be seeing my screen. Is that correct?

Yep. Okay.

All right. Uh, get my bearings standby.

How Do You Exclude The SEO Powershield G-Site From Google SERPs?

Okay, all these questions came from the That’s interesting. All right, a DC SEO says Thanks for answering my question last week, guys, I appreciate it. One last question. Before I worded the shield just so I’m completely clear, can I make sure that only my site appears in the SERPs, and the G site doesn’t appear on the results pages? If you set it to no index, but I don’t know why you would do that. Here’s the question. Here’s my question for you. Why would you not want to take up another spot in the search engine results in the top 10? Right? Every every asset that you can rank on the first page for whatever your desired keyword is, is another competitor that’s not showing up on the page. So in my opinion, why would you ever not want the G site to also appear for your primary keywords or your entity search or whatever it is that you’re trying to rank? It seems like to me that you’d want to have all 10 spots on the first page if possible. So a G site can absolutely and will often rank for your primary keywords. In fact, it will often rank right below the money site. Here’s the thing if you’re if you’re I framing your money site pages, you theme mirror like we tell you guys to do. And you’re I framing your money site pages in your G site pages and somebody lands on the G site, they’re gonna see your money site page anyways, they could still submit a contact request form they could order you know, make a purchase, submit an opt in do whatever it is that you want to do right from the within the iframe of the G site. So why the hell would you not want it so that that would be my question to you. But yes, if you don’t want it to show up in the SERPs, you could always set it to no index. I have no idea why you would do that though.

Anybody want to comment on that? And not only that, once we release the the cracking, we can’t control it. We can’t control the beast. It’s gonna do what it’s going to do and there’s just no way to control it. Yes, you set it to no index. But as Bradley said, why would you want to give your your competition extra real estate space to compete against you? It makes absolutely no sense you can make last pages that are that are really neat, or you can everything that’s above the fold with CTA that are attractive, and that will get clicks, they’ll get action. You can get a video in there, you can get a whole bunch right above the fold. So so if you don’t like how the rest of it looks, person isn’t likely to scroll down, if they find what they’re looking for, like right above the fold, they’re not likely to scroll down. SEOs are the ones who, who tend to do that. But if you’ve answered the question, or the pain or the problem, right above the fold, they’re just going to click and go over to where they need to go. So think about it that way. And no, I’ll say it again. We cannot control the beast once it’s released. It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do. And that’s it.

Should We Add The GSite To Google Search Console Of The Main GMB Email?

Awesome. Fitz is up. He says, Can we or maybe also should be at the G site to search console for our main GMB email. Yeah, you can’t I just I just typically add it to the Search Console, the same google google account that The drive stack g site were built under. That’s typically how I do it. But you can always so so in other words, you know, whatever Google account it is that MGYB creates for the drive stack and the G site, I submit to search console within that Google account. Now if I want to still be able to, you know, view it or manage it, you know, look at reports and such from Search Console from the main GMB account that it’s, you know, pushing relevance to then you can add that as an additional user. But you know, it’s up to you. I don’t think it makes any difference either one way or the other. The whole idea of putting it into Search Console so that you can you know, help with the index and such comments.

Should Different Website Properties Have Different NAP?

Okay, and up he says should different website properties have different n AP, name, address and phone number working with an Umbrella Corporation as multiple ecom website brands want to have SEO power shields for each individual econ property but worried about penalties or issues that may occur with shared or overlapping NAPs.

Um, you know, I don’t know, because it’s not a local business. If it’s ecom, I don’t know that, you know, NAP issues are ambiguous with NAP is going to cause any problems if you’re not trying to rank in maps. That makes sense. You know, I’ll let Marco take this one, though, because this is more up his alley than mine. I don’t all I do is local. So I don’t really know the best answer for that. Marco, what do you say?

This is one of those things is is what what is the what are one of the places where I look at the competition? First of all, what are they doing? Not not because I’m concerned about the competition, but just what are they doing? If they’re national, they’re global. How are they relating their entities and and if they have offices in other places, how are they relating those? you saying that you have different websites, but if it’s all part of the same Corporation, if there’s one Umbrella Corporation, then you’d relate those through the schema You can create all kinds of neat relationships through scheme. And it’s one of the things that Rob is going to show in the heavy hitter club how to relate all of these so that it becomes just one big umbrella. Right? And under that umbrella would be all of the different offices or places, or products or services or whatever it is that you’re trying to do to create all of these associations.

Yeah, because see, I mean, that’s I would use organization or corporation, structured data for the umbrella company, right? And that would apply to each individual site as well, because it’s all part of the overall organization or corporation, right. But then you could have like website schema, for example, not necessarily local business. I mean, you could have local business if you do have a GMB for each one, which could be part of the organization, right, but there would be individual locations, but for ecom I don’t know that that’s necessary. Again, I don’t do ecom. So I don’t know if That’s correct or not, or if that would help. But you could do something like website schema for that if that makes sense.

So the organization would tie it all together. And that’s what Marco was saying is, you know, when you have an entity, even if you have multiple divisions, or multiple locations, or different, you know, pseudo brands that are like the children, like child companies have a larger parent company, a broader parent company, if you can tie all that together through through the entity, all of them will benefit, if that makes sense. Because, again, you’re talking about branding and the entity itself, even if they’re separate, like divisions or sub brands and that kind of stuff. It will benefit from the overall organization that kind of ties everything together, if that makes sense. So, anyways, as far as the URL shortener go to mgyb.co, slash s, mg y b.co slash s, and this is our URL shortener now, there are different subscription levels. You could have a free account if you want it, but you get a lot of cool things with different subscription levels. And we’ve been using this for all the drive stacks URL shortening that we do for customers of ours, and everything else for what, a year and a half, two years now. And it’s super, super powerful. And you can do a lot of really cool things with our URL shortener. If you have a paid plan such as ad retargeting scripts and things like that into the, the header for the redirect all kinds of really cool things that you can do password protect URLs and stuff like that. So I would go to mgyb.co/s, and use that. Anybody want to comment on that?

No. The power behind our shortener is incredible. It is. It ranks for keywords. And so it just, it’s just ridiculous, as you said, Why you can do so by all means, if you want to use I only mean that’s fine. Bitly Be careful. It’s a 302 Google Firebase, it’s also 302. It can be a 301 if you go through the trouble of making it a 301 redirect, but you’d have to figure out how to do that.

Yeah, and what’s interesting is, is it’s crazy. But oftentimes, and I’ve seen this happen with drive stack files, for example, the MG y b, the redirect URL will rank. And in the search results, the shortened URL will show even though when you click it it for, you know, it redirects to the actual Google Drive File. And it’s really interesting to see the Drive files rank with the mgyb.co short URL, because typically, you don’t you don’t see the redirect URL in the search results, you see the target or the final destination, right? So it’s very interesting to see that.

Can You Upgrade A Single Tier Into Multi Tier Syndication Network When You Order The SEO Power Shield In MGYB?

Karen says, Hey, there I had a few questions from last week, which, unfortunately, we’re not able to get to So here they are. The SEO power shield syndication network. If you order an SEO power shield, it comes with a syndication network. However, I am assuming it’s a single tiered syndication network. Yes, it is the branded network. But let’s say I want a multi tier syndication network, is there an upgrade option rather than purchasing a full syndication network, since single tiered network already exists? Contact support at mgyb.co. And make that request and I’m sure I’m not sure, maybe Marco sure, but I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate that sort of a request, but it’s gonna have to be a custom order as opposed to just something that’s done through the normal channel. If that makes sense. Marco’s that’s something we can do.

Maybe I mean, we’d have to bolt on the the tiered syndication network to the to the already existing cynic. But But why would you want a tiered syndication network when tier one works just fine.

I mean, that’s a good question. I would ask the same thing but maybe he has a reason.

So okay, I mean, a fine, right to support and then what Robin I’ll do is we’ll sit and talk about it and see if it’s even worth it because the price that we might have to charge you may not make it worth it to you.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t think I mean unless there if you have a reason for wanting a multi tiered syndication network and then by all means do that, but I don’t you know, we have been encouraging people to not use multi tiered syndication networks for blog syndication, because they’re kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. However, if you’ve got something like RSS masher, which is Damon Nelson’s product, it’s really good for creating beautiful spliced feeds with like, it’s really really cool you can you can create really cool custom spliced feeds and in use that to power your second tier networks so that you have multiple relevant content sources posting to those networks, which is what we recommend. And with something like RSS masher, it becomes much much easier to maintain multi tiered networks. The more manual method, which is how it had been done for four years, requires adding a bunch of relevant RSS content feeds to the second tier. triggers, which becomes a nightmare, because let’s say that if all you did was add, you know, three additional arts, so you got your money site RSS feed. But then let’s say you add three additional Khan relevant content feeds for each blog. second tier syndication network, right? So So if there’s three of them, which is there are the way that we build them. So the first single tier is first ring, right, one ring, and then there’s three syndication networks on the second tier, each being triggered by one of the blogs from the tier one network, right? So when I say blogs, I mean, blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress. But if you were to add three additional content feeds at the second tier trigger point. So for each one of those, you would need an additional nine feeds relevant content feeds that you don’t control. And not only that, you have to set up a separate set of recipes or applets inside of IFTTT for each feed. So let’s say there’s 15 applets that you need to set up for each RSS feed that you add, that’s an additional 45 applets per syndication network that you need to create, which in itself is not that bad. It’s a bit tedious. But you know, once it’s done, it’s done. But the problem occurs when you don’t have control over those feeds. And because of that, like things can happen to their site, the site that you’re using the feed from, where it could have a you know, it could I’ve seen RSS feeds hiccup and they just spit out a shit ton of posts and it can terminate your have a lot of your syndication network properties terminate because of over publishing, I, you know, they’re things could break. This is a ton of things that cause a lot of maintenance issues. And if you’re just dealing with one project, it’s okay because you know, you’re only managing one project, but you’ve got SEO in your name up here. So I’m assuming you probably do client work or more than just one project. And so multi tiered networks become kind of a nightmare to too cumbersome to manage. When you’re doing multiple projects. At least that’s my opinion, unless you’re using something like Like RSS masher which really simplifies that process, and adds a whole lot of control to even the input feeds that you create the super spliced feed from, because it has filters and all these other really cool things like it can actually strip out content from the feed. There’s a code inserter, a code stripper, there’s all kinds of things in there. So, again, multi tier networks are not recommended. Obviously, if you know what you’re doing and you have a strategic reason for using it, then by all means, do so.

Have You Done A Test On Linking Your Money Site At The Footer Disclaimer Section Of Client Site?

Okay, next question. Disclaimer links. Disclaimer link on client sites. As you know, there is a long term practice for SEO web design companies to add a link back to their site in the footer. Yes, like the footer link section, right. I’ve recently been switching all of those links for SEO and marketing by brand plus keyword plus location with brand plus keyword plus location being the anchor text linking to my SEO company’s GMB profile, and I’ve seen some big results from it. Have you done any testing related to this just curious? No, though, those are considered Wide links and I mean you know, I, I do put those often in client sites the footer as well, but I usually just link back with my brand name and I usually nofollow those links, I have not done any testing with them in years, just because it became kind of a you know, site wide links could work what had become a negative factor essentially, for a long long time and so I just got into the habit of the routine of just note just linking to my brand name, so big bamboo marketing and then know following the link so that it didn’t cause any, like penguin issues, if that makes sense. But uh, but no, I haven’t done any testing with it. It’s interesting to hear that anybody else.

Well, it stands to reason right the brand plus keyword plus location by eliminating marketing because you don’t need it. If you have if you’ve done your entity work correctly on your on your marketing website. then adding a link that’s your brand, and the keyword and the locations that you creating that relevant For the bot, there’s no reason why then it should pick up an algorithm, any type of algorithmic penalty, because it’s what you’re asked to do at the local level. This is how you’re taught to associate everything brand, plus location plus keyword, brand. keyword, okay. That’s what the bottom is looking for comes in, and it looks for this. So what it’s picking up is all of that relevance back to your site, which is what we do really with our academy reloaded, except that we protected 111 layer out through the SEO partnership, the drive secondary site, right? We create all of our all the all of the relevance in there because we know that what Google is going to do is power it up, rather than look to to penalize it algorithmically. So if he’s obviously getting results just from those changes, it works. It could stop working in the future. I can say anything that’s working in Google could stop working tomorrow. Theoretically, simply because they decide to, you have to be careful with that type of thing.

Would You Get An Algorithmic Penalty For Using Generic Terms Too Many Times?

Okay, thanks Marco. The next question is from big Billy says anchor question, I have several product pages that I put a link to my category page for that type of product. I use the word here many, many times to link up to the same page, any chance I could get that page and algorithmic penalty or doesn’t matter because it’s a generic term now not for that. If you over optimized for a singular keyword, then that can actually cause problems, but something like that, but my question is, I’m not sure. Well, again, product pages, I don’t do e commerce. So I’m not even going to explain why I wouldn’t use here so much, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I would try to use various keywords though. Again, I don’t do e commerce. So I don’t know what you’re specifically doing. But I typically when I’m linking back up to you know, any sort of like a silo landing page or homepage or whatever, I try to just vary the anchor text with LSI keywords right. So synonyms for whatever my primary keywords are from. So for example, if I’m coming from a blog post about Tree Removal in a particular area, then I’m going to use some sort of tree removal keyword or variation of a tree removal service tree cutting service, arborist tree removal, something like that, to link back up to the landing page for that particular silo. But again, using a generic term like that it should, it’s not going to cause any out I’ve never heard of that causing an algorithmic penalty, because I don’t know of any SEOs out there that are optimizing for here. You know what I’m saying? So, Margaret, do you have any comments on that?

No, I haven’t seen it. And in fact, when I do my interlinking, I use the generic terms a lot. But not only here, go here, more information, learn more, read more, all of that. So there’s about 10 or 12 terms that you can use, and you know, you can spin those so that so that they don’t appear that way. The same thing, right one one after the other because it can get as far as the user, it can get repetitive. And that’s not something that that you want, you don’t want the user to hear hear again, and again, here, here, here. And here. This is a, it’s e commerce, I assume there’s a bunch of products on there, all of them with here. So create variations simply for the sake of not boring the user with the same terms over and over and over again.

Yeah, and remember, you can also lengthen the phrase for the that you’re going to use for the anchor text. It doesn’t always have to just be a keyword guys, or if keyword phrase, it can be a longer statement, like, you know what I mean? So, you know, get, get more information about key word here, that could be an entire link. That makes sense. The whole, you know, short sentence could be a link. And what that does is, again, it adds diversity, but you still get your keyword in there without it being over optimized, and it makes sense to the reader or the user. You know, Because you know that the phrase itself is, is a call to action. Does that make sense? So there’s a lot of variations that you can do to kind of add some diversity to that. That’s cool. Go ahead. No, nothing. Yes, absolutely. Also question for Marco, I own our bias and RYS reloaded, and I’m about to get serious about it. Well, that’s good. Should I even learn the original version or just drive straight in the ROI ASR?

Well, there’s a lot of neat stuff by Dr. Gary in the archives. So I would say by all means, you need to get to the archives. But to get to the archives, first start with what’s with what the most current training is. And that’s whatever is in our academy reloaded. And please understand, we do need to update it, update that at some point because a couple of things have changed, not the power, power, the power that that we’re generating doesn’t change, and it’s gotten even better, but there’s a few things in there. That we do have to that we do have to go over. I’m glad mean, I wish I knew your name, come on the Facebook group and say what’s up. So go through the training. We’re still supporting after five years, we’re still supporting the damn Facebook group. We’re still in there answering questions. So come on in there. If you have any questions, ask away.

How Do You iFrame An Ecom Site If The G Site Has A Frame Breaker?

Awesome. Last week, Marco mentioned to iframe your eecom page onto a G site, but the new g site has a frame breaker. Is that true Marco? No, I always work in the old site. But I I’m quite sure that new g sites have iframes do don’t they?

Okay, so maybe he has his terms mixed up. You cannot take the new g site and iframe that anywhere else. Right. It does have a frame breaker. But you can iframe on the new g site. There’s a right insert embed code, right that does a What do you call it? There’s an icon in there that allows you to iframe anything unless what you’re trying to iframe has a frame breaker also.

Right? Right. So your ecom platform may have an iframe breaker, but you are able to iframe pages into the new g site. That’s and that’s what I was. I always work in the old site, the GMB builders build the new site, but all the work that I do for theme earring and everything is always in the classic g sites. But I was gonna say, I know the new g sites have my pages I, you know, like the pearl trees and, you know, press advantage page and things like that all get iframe in there, so I can’t imagine. The only thing I would assume that Billy is that perhaps your eecom platform might have an iframe breaker. So Okay, moving on. Bibi says Hey guys, what is the problem of duplicate content during syndication? For full text post? Is there a problem apply on branded network also, or just tier two and beyond? There’s no problem at all, when you have it. That’s the whole point of the attribution link below. If you your RSS feed should have, depending on what if what kind of plugin you’re using RSS plugin, God forbid, you’re using Yoast. But almost all RSS plugins now have an RSS setting that will allow you to inject an attribution link either before the content or after the content. And so when your plugin settings, you go in and you you code in the attribution link. And there’s typically some sort of tokens in there like post URL, post title, site title, all of those things that you can tokenize your attribution link for so that essentially it will pull the title so what I always do is I always use the post title as the anchor text, and it links to the post URL. Again, those are tokens that you can code into the attribution code in the RSS plugin settings. However, if your RSS plugin settings don’t have, if you don’t have the ability to code in an attribution link, then you can do that within the applets inside of IFTTT, which just means you have to edit the app. It’s really only count you really only Well, you should do it also for Google Drive. So like, your document sharing when you’re when you read syndicate a blog post into Google Drive, and what is it Microsoft One Drive or whatever the hell it is. Those should also have attribution links. But really, it’s your going to be your blogs, so blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, that you really want to make sure that you have the attribution links. And, and that’s it, there’s no problem with duplicate content, because you’re, you’re citing the original source. That’s the whole point. And even if you weren’t citing the original source, it’s still not a duplicate content problem. duplicate content only occurs on the same domain. It doesn’t occur off site if it did, then press releases would be toxic. And some press releases are toxic, actually, that there is there’s no such thing as duplicate content anyway. Even even on site it I mean, all that’s going to happen if the pages are similar, or the same what Google is going to do. And we’ve explained this before, it’s going to start AB AB testing ABCD. However many pages are similar, it’s going to take those, it’s going to start giving an impression. And then it’s going to decide which one answers the query the best. And that’s the page, that’s going to end up indexed, right. And in the active index, let’s just call it versus all of the others, but you’re not going to get any penalties. What you are going to get is warnings about duplicate titles and descriptions, so that you can make unique titles and descriptions. And the content can pretty much be the same. And then again, you’re leaving out you’re leaving it up to Google to decide which version of your page is the best for the query. Instead of you deciding on your best converting page versus all the other pages, look in Search Console, and see which pages are being served for the different keywords and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll see ABC ABCD you’ll see that like if the pages are Very similar, you’ll see four or five, six pages. If you’re doing mass mass page built, you’ll see even more. And Google will give give all of those pages impressions until it decides which one the best one would be. That’s what they call keyword cannibalization. It’s not really that it’s Google deciding which pages was the query the best. So let’s, let’s end this duplicate content myth. once and for all. I actually saw a definitive guide to SEO by a company which I kind of respected. They have really good information. They put out the Definitive Guide to technical SEO, and they went into into duplicate content as if it could be an issue. And it can only be an issue if you’re having all of these pages competing against one another to see which one, Google is going to rank. That’s the only way that they can affect it. You’re not going to get a penalty. You’re not it. Nothing’s going to happen other than Google. Know, it’ll take Google, as long as it takes Google to decide which page is the best, you want to leave that up to Google, or do you want to go in, figure out which one it is that you want, and then rel canonical or redirect all of the other pages to that one page?

Yeah, go look, go search Google for canonical. And you’ll see or rel=canonical. And you’ll see that Google created that specifically for that reason, and that so that you can push credit from similar pages to whatever you want to be the parent or master page, so to speak. And that’s to specifically address potential duplicate content issues on even the same domain. That’s what canonical was originally developed for. And they came up with cross domain canonical, as well. And that’s for canonical Ising, similar pages from other domains to a specific target, if that makes sense. So maybe I’m gonna I think this is the same BB that we’ve answered questions before, but we guys we’re going to have to say this once again, and I can’t assume that everybody knows this, but we don’t Typically allow people or want ask people to post this many questions because it’s just not fair to other people. So, because these are all around the exact same thing, and they’re very, very short going to be really easy to answer, I will answer these guys. But come on next time just post a question or two, please and then allow some others to post and then post another question or two just because it’s not fair. Okay. So the next question was, is there a reason why we should have REL equals nofollow on attributed link on the RSS items? No, other than a lot of the plugins that there are SEO plugins, when you code in an RS an attribution link, they’re going to automatically apply a nofollow tag to it. And unless you want to go in and actually edit the plug in code, which I used to do with Yoast years ago, but every time Yoast like I would go in and into the plug in code, right but and actually edit the plug in code to remove that REL equals nofollow tag to the RSS attribution link. However, every time the plugin updated, it would, it would update that code. didn’t have to go back and edit it. And you can imagine if you have more than just a couple of sites, how how much of a pain in the ass that was, so I just stopped doing it. I don’t even care anymore. If we can make it follow great. If not nofollow will is good enough. It’s just it’s a it’s a, it’s a, you know, an efficiency thing. Right? That makes sense. It’s it’s just too difficult to go in and edit plug in code. However, if you got a plug in code that will allow you to put in a follow link as opposed to and it doesn’t automatically apply the nofollow tag then by all means, do that, which by the way, if you code it in through IFTTT, then you it will be it will be a follow link as long as the blogs or the syndication point provides follow links but many of them are nofollow links anyways. Okay. The next one was why should you use spintax? Why should you spintax the attribution and the after text post when syndicating RSS, it just adds diversity to the attribution link. So it makes sense right? If if you if you can add spintax to the attribution link text that you’re, you know, in the plugin settings like our plugin does, then it just adds diversity so it’s not always the same exact line right on every single post that gets syndicated out but that’s it’s not a problem it just adds some diversity if you if you have that functionality use it if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. Okay. Why you have limited the RSS plugin to only five posts. I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Chris has an on he’s the one that developed our pup but there should be settings to be able to adjust that. And also it’s not the RSS plugin typically that does that go into your WordPress settings go to WordPress admin area, go to settings, reading and then take a look there and right there is where you should see how many posts show in the RSS feed. And that should be the set that should be where you adjust that setting not necessarily RSS plugin. Okay. Is the RSS plugin just for adding spintax functionality now that well, I can’t tell you unless you’re in the mastermind the mastermind plugin adds a whole RSS plugin which is only available in the mastermind it’s free to mastermind members it has a lot of additional functionality I you must if you’re talking about our RSS plugin, but the free version I can’t tell you because I haven’t used that five years no shit so I don’t even know what the dashboard that looks like. Does anybody know here?

No, no cuz I only use the Pro.

Yeah, the pro version which is in the mastermind is it adds all kinds of additional functionality like it allows you to republish old posts it allows you to add hashtags and all kinds of cool stuff that Chris coded into it but um again that’s that’s the pro version which is in the mastermind I don’t use the free version guys. I just there’s really no reason for me to so I can’t tell you what that even looks like. I’m sorry about that. Two k says. How do you guys use AWS site? Yes, Amazon s3 bucket for the ID page. Why is that two site? Well, a couple reasons one, to siphon some authority from Amazon to because it’s an Amazon domain, which we can just fucking hammer with, with kitchen sink, spam and everything else we want to throw at it. Number three, because it’s just an HTML page that we upload because it loads really fast. And we’re going to, we load it up with our iframe stacking that we do the the infinite loop, right, the infinite entity loop, the mirror and mirror picture and picture that never ends. That’s what we do. And those pages, trust me when you build out an ID page, the way that we do it. And then go back and even add in some additional things, it will literally break your computer, if you try to load it. It takes so much cash because so many iframes are trying to load and it will overwhelm the cache or the memory on your on your on your on your PC. I know because it’s locked up mine many times. And remember guys that Id pages aren’t supposed to be for public consumption. In other words, they’re not necessarily something that you want to rank or anything else, it’s specifically for the bots. So it doesn’t matter if it’s going to lock up your browser because how often are you or you or anybody else going to actually visit it? So but there’s a number of reasons why we use that Marco, you could probably name a few others.

No, no, I mean, you name the main month. The main purpose of that is to create another property in another powerful domain for the entity loop. So it goes to however it is that we do it. That’s how we do it. And we just add another we could add more, but more isn’t necessarily better that there’s diminishing returns on what that loop will bring back. I think we’ve tried others and it locks it up even with with as much RAM as I have. Yeah, it’ll lock up my computer and I have tons around.

I got 3232 gigabytes or whatever, whatever it is megabytes, whatever the hell it is. And it’s in it’ll lock machine right up, man. I got 64 and That’s ridiculous what it is. Yeah. But anyway, the main reason is power and an additional place where we store our entity information so that the bot can come and pick up some more somewhere else. Just following the breadcrumbs. That’s all it is.

Yeah. It’s interesting because one of our mastermind members, Darrell had shared with us one of his entity stacks that he had entity loop stacks that he had created was like an ID page, essentially. And it was freakin insane. I can’t remember it as something like, I don’t remember, I’m just gonna throw a number out there. Because it was ridiculous. Like 30 freakin iframes in it, like, it was just it was nuts. And he was like, careful. Make sure you got everything else shut down when you click this link. It was funny. But it’s, it’s pretty cool. So the next question was, could you not just a part of the second half of that question was could you not just use the Google site with all the embedded stuff and put that in the schema, or is there a reason you don’t do that? Yeah, let me just explain why. The last question from today we do use the G site,

we do it right and we embed the idx page in the G site right. So and the and the G site gets embedded in the idx page. Hence the mirror the entity loop, right. Infinite entity loop. The second or the next question was one more question when I order a press release from MDB. Do you guys create the press advantage new newsroom page? Yes, yes we do. Okay, so you will get the benefit of that. Nathan says I saw your post today marketing the SEO location shields is that the ROI stack extension you have been working on launching No not yet. The SEO location shield can also be utilized for brands or adding a second location under an already established brand with the syndication network. Already have an SEO shield for my brand. I need some created for inner service pages. I’m trying to rank well The location shield is if you like, and market will correct me if I’m wrong, but the way because all I do is local, the location shields for me as if I have multiple locations for a particular brand. So for example, I’m working on a tree service project and the map that’s making available to the public to the mastermind. I’m doing it as essentially a live case study, by the way, my mastermind webinars tomorrow, and I’ve made a lot of progress on that. So those of you that are in the mastermind, I’ll be sharing a lot more about that tomorrow. But anyways, it’s it’s, it’s a new brand with several GMB locations that I’ve already established but I’m rebranding from an old an older brand to the to the new company that because I got a new service provider anyways, so I ordered a SEO power shield for the main brand. In fact, I was working on I’m working on, here you go take a look. Here’s the entity assets here. I’m working inside process street developing that stuff out right now. So you can see the SEO, I’m not going to click into there, but the Seo shield would be there. And it’s the same thing as I’m actually working through developing the process out so that my team can can do that for me. And so the primary brand is associated with whatever top level keyword is, in this case, it won’t have a location associated with the top level keyword in the brand, because I want to create that as like an organization. In other words, and then all of the individual locations, which will be built on inner pages inside of the main site will each get its own location shield, which means it gets its own g site and drive stack that are optimized for that particular location. And it’ll have an ID page as well. But then they get basically placed underneath the primary branded ri ri S Drive stack. Does that make sense? So in other words, each location shield the ri s stack becomes an inner folder of the primary entity stack, if that makes sense. And that that way is that Don’t have to build the ID page for each location. Each separate location drive stack is optimized specifically for the market level keywords plus the location, look at location modifier for that particular location, and then the ID page, which is unique to each location as well. But all of that gets placed under the parent main entity stack. And so that’s that’s the way that I do it, because all I do is local. And so that’s how I think of location shields, although I’m sure location shields can be applied to other stuff other than local. How would you do that Marco?

And why would you want to location shield for something other than local?

Well, there’s the answer then.

So Nathan, that’s hopefully that makes some sense. If you have, you know, multiple locations, that’s what you would want to do. If you have inner service pages, then those would just be expanding your current drive stack. You wouldn’t need a separate idx page and a separate drive stack built for a particular service page. You could just clone Which you currently have, and then optimize, like, edit and that’s, that’s something that we will have available soon and MGB that’s the entity or the drive stack expansion service, which is coming soon. Marco, did we have a time on that yet?

No, we just asked the developer today and he’s still working on it.

Okay. So hopefully that makes some sense Nathan

Would It Be Okay To Use A General Location Of A Nearby City When Doing Schema For Service Area Businesses?

Troy says hello when doing schema for service area business address lat long and don’t want to use exact address because trying to rank a nearby bigger city can should be okay to use more general location of a nearby city like city state. lat long Okay, um, you know, you can you can omit? Well, not necessarily, I can’t remember if it will take it or not, if you like if you were to go to local business schema, for example, and right here where it does say geo coordinates lat long, you might be able to just remove that from the code and then go try to validate the code in the structured data testing tool and see if it still validates. I know I was like, for example, I was just talking about this tree service project I’m working on Well, the primary domain isn’t, I don’t want that associated with like the homepage. I don’t want that associated with a particular GMB because I want all that I want it to just be brand and keyword. And so I still have structured data for that. But because I don’t want, I still have local business structured data, but I don’t have an actual street address. I just have city state and zip, and then the Latin long, but I was able to omit the street address and still have the local business structured data validated in the structured data testing tool. So I was able to admit that so that I can still have local business structure. Well, there’s organization Plus Local Business structured data, even on the homepage, which isn’t associated with any particular one, one specific address, if that makes sense. So you might want to be able to just go in and actually Edit the latitude and longitude out and see if it will validate. Otherwise, I don’t know Mark, what do you say? I don’t know that I would want to use a generic problems, right? I see potential problems, because he’s talking about a local business with a business centroid, the centroid being the point where the business is and and we’ll extend in a radius from that from that is the center of the business in relationship to the radius. Correct. So Google has that, because you went to the pains of verifying and Google verifying your business, you not have a pin. Google knows the exact location of that pin. Now you go and you submit structured data, which is directed directly to Googlebot. Googlebot comes in crawls and you have different geo settings, different latitude and longitude. Now is that in and of itself, going to cause a problem? I don’t know. I haven’t tested it but Essentially, it could be a problem, right? And I don’t understand why you want to do that, instead of extending your central, I try to trick the bot.

I agree. Instead of trying to extend instead of trying to extend the centroid and creating that relationship between the business centroid, and the area that he’s trying to target, if you create that relationship, that’s gonna work a whole lot better than trying to trick the bot into seeing different latitude and longitude for your business.

Yeah, I agree. Here’s what I was showing, though, just in case you wanted to test that is that part of it right there, into that comma down there. I know, it’s probably hard for you guys to see. But if you were to eliminate that section right there, and then try to validate the code once the rest of the code was fleshed out, it’s, I’m assuming it would validate but it might require the geo Latin long, I’ve never tried to omit that intentionally. But you could try it and see if it validate, but I agree with Marco 100%. There’s, in my opinion, there’s really no need to do that. I don’t know why you would want to do that when actually you could just use Is the the specific that coordinates for where the business actually resides where the physical location is. And then through your content, your silo structure and everything else you can tell Google what your service areas and that’s, that’s what my Tree Service case study that I’m doing in the mastermind is going to be demonstrating is how through just blog posting through silo structure which simple silo structure not even complex silo structure and just blog posting, and then theme mirroring and interlinking correctly, that we can get significant results for a very large service area even with only one GMB if needed. I’ve got multiple GM B’s but we’re expand for this particular project. We’re expanding south in Virginia, from where the central location is and all of the southern areas are going to be strictly organic rankings. All of the northern areas have already GMP s. So that’s how we’re going to kind of set separate the two Two different tests on one site for one brand. Some are going to have GM B’s the rest, all the southern locations are going to be strictly organic. And and I’m going to be demonstrating that in there. So I agree with Marco. I don’t know why you’d want to trick the bot when you could just expand your area. So, okay. All right. That was a good question though. Troy says, Hey, same goes with GMB images. geotag. Can general bigger nearby cities be the default instead of the exact business address? city state? Yeah, well, that’s, that’s what we teach in local GMB Pro. Right. That’s how you expand the centroid is you start to upload images that are geotagged for a larger service area. So that’s, that’s, that’s exactly what we teach in local GMB Pro. So that’s different than trying to tell Google through structured data, the latitude and longitude of where your business is, when it’s not actually where your business is. That’s that’s a lot different when you’re uploading images from a larger broader service area. So let’s say your account takeover, right like In other words, its service area business. So again, comm Tree Service contractor residing in Culpepper. Their business physical location is in Culpepper, Virginia, which is where I am. And let’s say they’re they go to Fredericksburg, it’s 45 miles east, and they do a job out there. They take photos of on that job from their phone. Geo Data is, you know, Latin long and the EXIF data is all part of the metadata of the image. They can upload it right there, from there, on the GMB app from their phone to the GMB profile, and that starts to tell Google Hey, their business might be located in Cole pepper, but their service area does go to Fredericksburg. And here’s the images with the Geo Data to prove it. It takes time. It’s not like you’re going to upload a couple of photos and all of a sudden you’re going to pop in adjacent cities in the maps pack. It takes consistent repeated effort, but you can do it Mark has proven that many many times. So, okay. We’re almost done. Cool. Oh, it’s five o'clock, right? Realize that that hour flew by. So Aaron says is Google once again posting reviews? I lost five reviews this last month. Does anyone know if Google will display those reviews? Are they last forever requiring reposting Thanks. No, you know, I don’t know the answer to that. Except that I know what your mean, new reviews are not showing up. But I i because I left a review. A couple of reviews myself for other businesses that aren’t are not showing, but I’m assuming that when they do when Google lifts this, whatever restriction that they will publish, but I don’t know because I don’t work for Google. Do you know the answer to that Marco?

I have no idea if they will republish the ones that you lost. I know that they’re, like opening it back up slowly that there was a GMB email that went out. I don’t know if you got that Bradley with it where they were mentioning that reviews were back and that they will be opening up other things. Slowly, I don’t know. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know what they close and I don’t know what’s going to happen from that. They’re,

yeah. Yeah, Your guess is as good as mine. So, Alright guys, it’s five o'clock. Sorry if we didn’t get to all the questions mom, it looks like we missed one of yours.

I’m so sorry about that guys, but we’ll catch you all next week. Remember mastermind members. I have my webinar tomorrow. So we will see you guys there. Thanks for hanging out guys. Bye, everyone.

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