#How do I fuck with her Facebook algorithm That would be so funny

[00venator]

I swear to god if I hear another piece of misinformation from my mums phone, I am going to scream.

Actually that’s a lie. I will bite something.

[sobachyakukla]

almost may

had a fight with mom last night like the old times walking through town, too, embarrassing i wasn't myself im just so tired of being in a ~Christian~ family. i wonder if given the freedom to share my love of science with my family, how healthy i would have turned out. i mean i shared my love of science with my grandfather, but that was mostly just the air force museum. all these memories keep pouring into my mind. & when i sit & think about it, my mother & i are switching places every now & then. we share some sort of freaky Friday bond. its getting easier to deal with but thats only because ive accepted this must serve a purpose i am not needed for. the spider nests all over the bridge say something i cant translate. but i know thats my best bet with the hanging, not the tree in the park. the ghost of the lady that hung herself here told me i could just do it here but the utility room with the pipes is locked. so im going to do it at the bridge. i binge ate all day today even though i got my medicine back. i hate it when i do that, wake up from sleeping & eat. i dont know why sleeping hard makes me eat its so disgusting. i wish i could enjoy sleeping more but when i wake up from deep sleep & nearly sleepwalk to the kitchen & just eat everything in sight it gets to be too much. so i try to keep myself from sleeping. from other reasons, too. but lately mostly that. i need to lose a lot of weight for me to be happy & confident in my body. this size im at now is fucking despicable. its way too much. but if i just wake up from sleeping & choose coffee with almond milk & flavorings then thats fine. but today i "had to use creamer" which is another thing making me feel taken over by my mother. because i drank black coffee for years. its how i take my coffee usually. with ice at that. i like it watered down. my mother & i are so different its not even funny. maybe we are similar in some ways but not many that i know of. ive just noticed this specific all-senses feeling when ive looked at her facebook scrolled by my eyes before & i get that feeling looking at mine now. its hard. when i put Michael on my phone with words sometimes it gets fixed. & goes back to normal. a lot of the algorithm stuff goes by our ages.

[saltyandsassynomad]

As far as my sexuality is concerned, I’ve never felt the need to make a big declarative speech.  I simply lived my life how I wanted to and didn’t give two shits about what others thought.  I’d always said “straight people don’t make a speech about being straight.  Why should people who aren’t straight make one?”  (Granted this was made easier by the lack of family in my life but that’s a whole other season of “What Dumpster Fire Do You Call A Family?”)

I am a middle-aged woman (a lady never reveals her age “winky face”) and when I was coming of age we didn’t have all the terms that are now available to describe the various orientations that make up the beautiful rainbow of life.  I knew of the big 3: heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual.  I had a tumultuous childhood/upbringing (yet another season of “WDFDYCAF?”) and thinking about my sexuality wasn’t really a priority; not that I felt stifled or scared to talk about it; I was simply dealing with much larger issues at the time.  Tune in next season on “WDFDYCAF?” and you’ll find out.  I lost my virginity to a male and primarily dated & hooked-up with guys but there was always the attraction to females as well.  Therefore, I identified as bisexual.  

While I identified as bisexual, I had never imagined myself married to a woman, just a man (of course with a girlfriend on the side “winky face”).  I’m not sure why I felt that way; maybe it was because there wasn’t a strong presence of anything else readily available.  But this never fully satisfied my soul.  It always felt like work, something that needed to be done, not something that was enjoyed.  First I would say it was because I hadn’t met the right guy so I kept searching and searching and marrying and divorcing (you can find out more about that shit show on “WTF Did I Just Do?”) and searching and dating and searching and searching (remember I’m a middle-aged woman so that’s a LOT of searching).  

Maybe it was because all good things take work, right?  I mean that’s what all the pillows on Etsy say don’t they?  Maybe I needed to work harder at making relationships work (this is where the disastrous marriage came into play).  

When that didn’t work, I thought I might need to direct that hard-working attitude towards myself.  Given the family I was born into and the upbringing I had, I have a tons of trauma to work out and a fuck-ton of baggage to unpack.  This is a work-in-progress.  I am a work-in-progress #UnderConstruction 

Not wanting to deny the feminie aspect of my sexual attractions, I started to learn about open relationships and polyamory.  I enjoy the fluidity and openness of an honest ployamorous relationship.  I’ve found them to be much more in touch with their feelings, more open to listening about others feelings, and easier to be myself around.

Unfortunately there are MANY toxic and unhealthy relationships out there, including in the polyamorous communities.  I could write a book on this chaos but I’ll save that for another day.  While I did my best to distance myself from those relationships, I did encounter them and it was enough for me to realize that this wasn’t a lifestyle for me.  I want to be someone’s number one, someone’s one and only.  Those feelings are the opposite of polyamory.  I’m glad I had a chance to explore polyamory but I can definitely say it was a phase (in the cliched sense of any sexual choice we make is a “phase”).  

Once I realized my desire to number 1, I stopped having casual sex, I became celibate by choice.  Not because I am opposed to it but because I’m tired of meaningless encounters.  I want to make love to someone not just have sex with them.  I want the connection, the intimacy, the closeness and that’s not usually found in a one-night stand.  I’m currently at 4 years, 7 months, and 13 days sexually sober.  

Don’t get it twisted...I haven’t had sex with anyone ELSE in that time.  With myself?  Now that’s an entirely different story #SelfLove #GetYouSome

Then in March of 2020 COVID-19 hit & threw us all for a loop.  We all found ourselves stuck at home, quarantining with nothing to do (remember back in the beginning when stores were running out of TP and we even had problems getting things delivered? Oh, the good ol’ days, lol).  Most of us turned to social media to fill our time.  Being ‘old school’ I usually turned to Facebook.  Tired of all the drama that fills up the newsfeeds, I usually went straight to the video section and started scrolling.  I could get lost there for hours on end.  

Getting bored with seeing the same old things time after time, I took someone’s suggestion and looked into TikTok.  I was hooked instantly!  It was basically all the videos that I was watching on FB but shorter and more entertaining.  This is how I began to fill my socially distanced life.  I found videos about cooking, animals, crafts, and more.  They were sarcastic, funny, sentimental, weird, goofy, everything that I find enjoyable.  

Then came the ‘thirst traps’ and damn were they delicious!  I had no idea what a thirst trap was but I knew I liked them.  After a quick Google search I found my explanation and went right back to the Tok.  

As we all know, the algorithm will feed you more and more of what you like.  It took a little while for it to kick out the male thirst traps and replace them with the female ones and down the rabbit hole I went.  The further I went, the more content I felt I connected with (crafty algorithm).  The more I connected, the more my mind wandered (ADD - it does this often “shoulder shrug”).  Then one afternoon while doing dishes something clicked in my head.  All the sudden I had this thought of sitting on the couch watching TV with my WIFE sitting next to me, not a girlfriend, not someone I was fooling around with casually, not even someone that was a friend but we hooked up occasionally.  Nope.  I imagined my wife!  That was the first time in all my years (still not telling you my age “smirk”) that I ever thought of myself married to a woman.  The sense of ease, peace, and comfort I felt in that moment was like none other.  It didn’t seem like work.  It seemed like home.  

For the first time in my life I felt like I was home.  

You have NO IDEA what that means to me.  I am a middle aged woman without a home.  I’m a rootless nomad.  To feel at home...I...well...it left me, the Loquacious Lady, at a loss for words.  From that moment on I knew I wasn’t pansexual, bisexual, into polyamory, or anti-marriage...I was simply hardcore lesbian who never realized it.  

So there you have it Tumblr: My Coming Out Speech, something I never, ever thought I’d make.  Having no family (toxicity) and no real life friends to share this with (mental health has thrown me for a loop), I am telling you, the anonymous void, that I am a lesbian. 

Happy Taco Tuesday!

LMFAO...I’ve always loved tacos and this day has a whole new meaning now!  OMG, I’m dying!  

That is all.

Cheers!

[purplesurveys]

1089

survey by --rainboweyes--

Lasts - Who

Who was the last person you hugged? Andi, but it’s been a week. It’ll probably be another few weeks or months before I receive a hug again since it’s hard to get together with friends these days.

Who was the last person you kissed? Gabie.

Who was the last person you cried in front of? Ooh, I hate crying in front of people. I mean I recently cried to both Angela and Andi through voice memos on Messenger...but the last person I cried in front of? It’s most likely ^ still. For the longest time she was the only person I had been willing to cry and look ugly in front of.

Who was the last person who cried in front of you? My demon child of a cousin; the spoiled one that I’ve been talking about on some of my recent surveys. He didn’t really cry in front of me, i.e. to me, but he was whining and crying in my presence so I’m counting it.

Who was the last person who made you laugh? I was watching Friends until a few minutes ago and the scenes where the girls were working together to hide Rachel’s pregnancy from the guys will always be funny. But in real life, the last person was one of my aunts because she posted a comment on Facebook that made me laugh.

Who was the last person who made you angry? Nina. She occasionally exhbits an annoying habit of persistently asking for money, so when she did it a couple nights ago when she knew I barely had any left for the week, I got a little irritated.

Who was the last person you hung out with? In real life, Andi. We went to UPTC last Friday and had Korean barbecue for dinner, then we had a quick grocery run so they can buy their soju, then we drove to UP and parked in some isolated spot so we can talk and do some catching up in the car. In general, I had a really long virtual catching-up/drinking session through video call with my college best friends last Saturday.

Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? Andi. A friend of mine advised me that one of his friends seems to be interested in me, and I got super anxious and overwhelmed because that was when it hit me that I was really single and that things like that can happen now. Anyway, I freaked out and started crying and talked to Andi about it and they reassured me with a lot of great advice.

Who was the last person you went out for a meal with? LOL still Andi. My college group is supposed to go out for ramen soon since we’ve all been craving - plus we all want to see each other - but idk when that’s going to happen.

Who was the last person who lied to you? JM kind of pissed me off last weekend during our Zoom call because when we asked him if he has since joined a frat in law school, he said no. The thing is, he has and has been in one for a while, and I knew about it because Andi told me literally the night before.

To be fair to him, I get why he lied given the messy situation and reputation of frats here and because I get the importance (and maybe even the necessity) of joining a frat in law school; but he still lied to our faces and that was just unsettling to bear.

Who was the last person you lied to? Idk I don’t really like to lie.

Who was the last person you swore at? Probably my sister. I swore around her though, not at her.

What.

What was the last film you saw? The last one I attempted to watch (but didn’t finish) was That Thing Called Tadhana. The last one I was able to watch in full was I’m Thinking of Ending Things all the way back in September.

What was the last book you read? I’m not so sure; I don’t really read anymore.

What was the last show you watched? Friends.

What was the last conversation you had about? Nina received a parcel around 15 minutes ago and it was some kind of shirt, so I asked her what shirt it was and what’s it for; and I learned that it’s a Voltes V shirt and it’s her gift for dad for his 50th birthday next week.

What was the last joke you heard about? I saw a Facebook post earlier asking people to come up with their best Filipino translations of Paramore song titles, and I saw some pretty great entries from my friends hahaha. I’d share some on here but no one would understand them anyway.

What was the last argument you had about? My mom was such a pain in my ass earlier. So I shared a post on Facebook saying how ‘rendezvous’ was my Achilles heel in one spelling bee in 7th grade. And she saw the post and I saw her scrunch up her nose as she does when she think someone is being stupid, and she got all condescending and was like, “‘Rendezvous’ is so easy, how could you get that wrong in Grade 7?” then when I tried to rebut, she called me sensitive. The mental gymnastics of that woman...

What was the last thing you ate? I haven’t treated myself in a while so I had spicy tuna salad and tempura maki delivered just a bit earlier. My mom and I have since finished the salad, but I’m keeping the maki as an evening snack for myself.

What was the last thing you drank? Water to cool my mouth since the spicy tuna salad was...spicy, lol.

What was the last thing you cried over? The failure of my relationship. I’m doing a lot better now, but the grief is as strong as it had been in day one whenever it does hit.

What was the last song you heard? A lo-fi track. I never keep track of the titles or the artists, though.

What was the last concert you went to? Paramore. It’ll be three years this year :(

What was the last word you spoke out loud? The song-related question earlier got me in the mood to listen to Olivia Rodrigo’s drivers license, so the last word I ‘said’ out loud was a lyric from the song.

What was the last text message you received? It was the cake shop from yesterday thanking me after our interaction ended.

What was the last commercial/ad you saw selling? For some reason my Facebook loves to show me ads from foreign universities that offer MA degrees in business, economics, and law lmao. I’ve never taken an interest to nor looked up possible Master’s courses, so I have no clue how the algorithm started.

What was the last injury you got? A scratch from Cooper.

When.

When was the last time you ate? My last bite was maybe a half hour ago when I got the last piece of tuna from my spicy tuna salad.

When was the last time you drank? ^ I washed said tuna down with water.

When was the last time you cooked a meal? It’s been months. I don’t cook.

When was the last time you cried? Friday morning before work.

When was the last time you laughed? This afternoon when I was playing with Cooper up on the rooftop and he was being silly.

When was the last time you had a kiss? Early September.

When was the last time you swore at someone? Maybe sometime earlier today?? I swear around Nina often but never keep track of it, though I’m sure I’ve definitely done it at least once today.

When was the last time you went for a walk? Around a week or so ago.

When was the last time you argued with someone? A few hours ago with that stupid rendezvous argument with my mom.

When was the last time you were shocked? This morning when I saw the cryptic teaser of new material from Hayley. Either way, it’s still definitely too soon for a new song or an entire fucking album so I’m excited to see what Flowers for Vases will actually be.

When was the last time you lied? I honestly can’t tell you lol. I hate lying.

When was the last time you had a takeaway? I don’t really go out, so...but the last thing I had delivered to my home was the spicy tuna salad and tempura maki I got today.

When did you last buy someone a gift? Around two weeks ago when I got a cute skirt and dress for Andi.

Why.

Why did you last lose your temper? Because I hated how unnecessarily condescending my mom got over the word ‘rendezvous.’ Like wtf? I was better in spelling than anyone else in my class and you flip out because I failed to spell that one word 9 years ago???? It was so fucking annoying and I hate that I’m still riled up about it until now lmao. Anyway, welcome to Asian mom culture!!

Why did you last burst into tears? Again, I still get sad when my mind ends up lingering on my failed relationship.

Why did you last feel content? Because my Friday shift was over and my weekend could finally start.

Why did you last tell someone a secret? When JM left the Zoom call once he got sleepy, I told the rest of the girls who were left in the call that he had lied and that he is in fact a part of a frat now. I felt it was the fair thing to do, and I think they appreciated it anyway.

Some Xtras.

Why do you like your favourite band? Aside from the obvious “I love everything they put out,” they’ve consistently kept me company, taught me life lessons, and made me want to keep on keeping on. I’ve been  quite literally able to grow up and evolve alongside them. There’s no other artist or band that’s been able to do all that for me.

What was the last survey you took about? It was a scattergories-slash-alphabet themed survey. It was fun.

Who was the last person to call you? A client who for some reason prefers to call me every single time he needs something, no matter how simple, instead of just messaging me on WhatsApp.

When was the last time you felt truly loved? Last Saturday in my Zoom call with friends. We aren’t super affectionate with one another, but it just felt so nice to be with a group of friends again. It’s nice to feel that I belong somewhere.

What will you do next? Work even though it’s the weekend, since I’m in the mood to do some anyway.

[toxic-waste-dump]

weird to think that if something like heaven’s gate were to happen today, all they would need to recruit people is a strong enough social media presence.

you’re probably wondering, why that, specifically? why is that the specific example? they thought their leaders were god and jesus reincarnated and if they died they were all headed to space. to which i ask you, is that any crazier than what Q is spitting out these days? people believe that. people lately would absolutely follow if Q said it was time to commit mass suicide.

and the funny thing is, it’s the same principle. this kind of *lt-r*ght think follows the exact same pattern as cult recruitment. they’ll find these people, who feel alienated by society. they’ve lost their jobs, they’re destitute. in an increasingly progressive society, they’re mocked for their backwards beliefs. and the sick, evil fuckers will tell them, there’s a place for you here. here, you will be understood. here, you belong. they lure them in with kind words and the promise that Things Will Get Better. the slide into an attack on the capitol doesn’t happen overnight. they introduce all the n*zi shit slowly, very slowly, in carefully worded arguments that almost even make sense to someone who isn’t desperate to belong. they worm their way into your brain using that sense of belonging, until you’re spouting their talking points and buying plane tickets to join in a treasonous raid.

these days, the rapid advancement of social media makes that so, so much easier to do. 70 million people weren’t always this. some were. there’s always real evil out there. but all it takes is one talking point from a facebook group you decided to follow because the people were nice to you, or you have a distant cousin in one. the talking point makes a bit of sense, even to someone who’s pretty moderate. but then the algorithm gives you more, and more extreme, propaganda until suddenly you’re casting your ballot for someone you couldn’t imagine voting for four years ago. it’s a terrifying, terrifying thing, and it’s so easy to fall into that trap.

and don’t you think for a second that the l*ft is immune to this. this is how t*rfs recruit people. i’d be shocked if this wasn’t how r*wling ended up digging her own grave to kids that used to revere her. this is exactly how the people on twitter ended up drawing the conclusion that “r*ots are good actually”; the echo chamber gave disenfranchised people a place to belong and slowly drew them down a path that sounds fucking loony to anyone looking from the outside without this kind of insight.

maybe the world just needs another good death cult to remind us all why this kind of thing is so dangerous.

[daynamartinez22]

Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 318

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Announcement

Only a few shaved. Yeah, everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 318. This is the 16th of December 2020, as we wind down the year here, and we get close to Christmas and New Year’s and all that sort of fun stuff. So we’re gonna say hello to everybody real quick. We got some short announcements and then we’re gonna dive into it. So I’m gonna go around here. Hernan you’re, you’re moving around the most you look excited. So tell us how you’re doing. Yeah, man. I’m excited. I mean, this is a this is a pretty cool season of the year I’d like it. And because you get to wind down you get to you a little bit of insurance. Instruct in instant. How do you say that in introspection in Instagram, bro? Instagram, Instagram stories. Now, but you get you get to do a little bit of that. So I’m excited about that. I can believe that. You know, we’re almost Christmas

already. Everything’s good. So

that’s cool, man. So what do you got? Any like special things? You do? This is uh, we’ll do the international Christmas conversation real quick here. Is there something that you guys do in Argentina that for Christmas? Yeah, we might sacrifice a chicken or two. I’m just kidding. No, I wish I wish this guy would ban me and she’s enjoy good Argentinian meat.

That’s it.

Nice. Awesome. That’s Yeah, I mean, I want to go to Argentina. I guess I’ll visit her Nan but I’ve heard that going down there for the meat is the reason to go down there and eat the wine. Yep, sure. Awesome. All right. Well, Chris, how about how about you first of all, how you doing? Doing good. So what we are having we have eaters smoked bacon fresh or smoked fish, usually trout kind of thing. So that’s pretty sweet. Other than that, the family is most people and yeah. Gifts obviously under the Christmas tree. Yeah, and tons and tons of cookie so like, I don’t know about you, but like usually the moment when they prepare the coffee and stuff I got to disappear and take a walk for two hours because otherwise I don’t know. Yeah, the holidays make you fat.

Yeah, man. I’m working on a new way to do this with my wife with Jenny I was like I love what you make I love how you bake stuff but I was like man we cannot keep this stuff in the house let’s let’s be nice and give it away to people.

Awesome. All right. Well Marco How about you How you doing today?

I’m good man. Let there be light in the Lord said let there be light. And this light 65 It seems like right?

I guess honey on Christmas for you probably was that I guess it’s gonna be sunny on Christmas for you. It’s gonna be warm and sunny man pool was

awesome. Any any Costa Rica stuff you do any anything you guys get up to?

Yeah, well, it’s customary to make our version of tamales but it’s not wrapped in in corn husk like the Mexican tamales it’s wrapped in. In banana leaves. The traditional one is banalities, which gives it a really good. You gotta, you gotta try it.

Man, it’s fucking amazing.

They’re delicious. That that’s the custom. I mean, it’s also the like, the big deal here is that the night of the 24th not so much the 25th God big deal is the 24th so that that’s what we’re looking forward. That’s what we have our dinner like Christmas Day is just leftovers and toys. Of course, when you have kids gifts Other than that, just hang around with family does not a big meal on the 25th and everything happens the night of the 24th

Cool. All right. Well, Bradley last but not least how you doing man?

We’ve got our first snow of the winter storm coming in.

Yeah, we had about three inches and now it’s freezing rain. So we’re getting some accumulating sleet and ice. And then I guess tonight it will probably get really treacherous again. But yeah, I mean, it’s the first snow of the the winter season here in Virginia. So it’s kind of it’s kind of early for us to see snow really to be honest with you. But um, it’s cool. It’s in my I texted my daughter earlier though to find out because she lives in a county adjacent to mine and I texted her to see how it was over there. And it’s not it wasn’t as severe over there. And she was she’s coming this weekend to be with me this weekend. And she was like, You think it’s gonna mountain called pepper? like, Yeah, probably. And she’s like, damn it, or Darn it. Darn it. Because it’s funny my daughter’s 15 and a half and she’s never she’s never been with me when it snowed. We don’t get a whole lot of snow in Virginia, but probably three or four. Okay, snowfalls per year on average. And she’s never been with me when we’ve had a good snow. And so it sucks because I feel like I’ve been cheated. I’ve been able to play with my daughter and go sledding and stuff, build snowman and all that kind of stuff. But, uh, so she was looking forward to hoping that we’re going to have snow when she got here this weekend, but I don’t think that’s the case. So, we’ll kill any any exotic Virginia Christmas customs that you guys are going to partake in?

Uh, yeah, just family stuff like my older sister and her kids. So my niece and nephew are going to be coming up this weekend as well. So it’s we’re going to have my whole family together. So it’ll be it’ll be a lot of fun. Get all the, my daughter with all her cousins together, which is kind of rare. We don’t we don’t get to do that very often. It’s been two or three years since last time, so it’ll be fun.

I’m looking forward to it.

Good deal. All right, so I’m just gonna put this out there. First of all, I want to say to anyone watching, thanks for watching. If you’re watching live, I know we switched up how we do things a little bit, you might need to hit refresh to see the video, which I guess if you’re hearing me, then you don’t need that instructions. But I’m gonna put it down here in the list of people see it on the replay. But let us know how things are going for you. You know, we can’t have everyone on the call. But let us know what you’re up to. If you got any cool Christmas plans, just say hi, whatever you want to do. And then secondly, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery to MGYB to heavy hitters club, we’ve got some great places for you to get started. You know I say this at the beginning of each one but it’s true we get asked a lot Hey, what Where should I start? You know, I’m new to you guys and check out Hump Day Hangouts. Kind of what’s next? And first of all, just keep coming back, keep asking questions every Wednesday you’re in the right place, but hover over to the SEO shield.com in find out how to shield your site never worry about algorithm updates. Again, it’s free training again that’s the word is seoshield.com right if you want to take things up a notch from there grab the battle plan and find out more about that a battleplan.semanticmastery.com And if you’re ready to grow your digital marketing business and you want to join a community, then check out the mastermind need to find out more about that mastermind dot semantic mastery.com and I had mentioned Semantic Mastery MGYB and heavy hitters club Semantic Mastery You can find out more at semanticmastery.com. MGYB that’s a done for you services whether it’s SEO shield, syndication networks, link building, all that sort of stuff. That’s mg y v.co and heavy hitters club. I’ve Marco what’s the best URL? I’d never actually wrote that down. I just haven’t saved in my browser.

Have you had any hitter? dot club?

That’s okay. I was like I couldn’t remember it’s heavyhitterclub.com or dot club. I just have it in there. So I start typing and just autocomplete it. So there you go.

motherfucking hippie club. No.

Ooh, that’s what we need to get to you. It’s like a baseball bat like a Louisville Slugger. It says give me

give me a jackhammer, man. Give me a sledge hammer than that. No, no Louisville Slugger. Got a big hammer.

You got to have this sledge hammer head like etched with Google like POFU on one side. No, no,

no, no, we got to get Marco for Christmas next year.

And speaking of great things, like for Christmas is not for Christmas. But right after Christmas. I’m starting my charity webinar. Bradley has volunteered to come on this year and give you guys a presentation on something of his choice. Nothing is finalized. Right. And I’m still setting up the times and the date. The dates are starting on on January 28. I’m sorry, December 28. So right after Christmas, the Monday after Christmas, we’re kicking it off. We are kicking it off. And it’s gonna be all about entities. Because people want to know what’s working entities. They want to know why because their entities. People want to know how because we’re building entities. Marco I can’t be that simple. Yes, the fuck you can’t. And that’s what we’re doing. So I’m bringing in different people Jordan, has volunteered to Jordan has volunteered to come on. From my mini mastermind as has a Brian cattle. Mike Pierce is also going to do it. And I’m trying to bring in another heavy hitter on on entity to see if we can’t get this like get everyone’s opinion, might or take I don’t want I don’t want opinions. Because everyone has an opinion. I want them to be able to come and say this is what’s working. This is why and I guarantee you that is the foundation of it all is his entity does that’s what it’s about. It’s about we’re going to be giving away I know that you volunteered to give away an email series and a half hour of your time on how to set it up and why they work. Her Nan and and his Facebook ads and Bradley has also volunteered his time. So as Chris, I’ll volunteer volunteer some of my time. I’m still talking to people, which is why nothing is finalized right now. As soon as it does. We’ll start sending out emails. All is going to take and I always say this is number one. Your heart has to tell you that you want to donate. So that has to come from here. If you don’t feel it then don’t write because then it becomes the meaningless. So that’s going to dictate whether you donate and how much you donate. But of course, it’s the wallet, because I don’t want you putting yourselves yourselves out for the donation. But I’m not really asking for any amount. I mean, there’s no set amount that gets you in or keeps you out long as you donate and you have proof of that of the donation, then we’ll get you in. So there you go. It’s like I don’t have anything for anyone to go to yet. But we will, we’ll set it I’ll set it up before the end of the week, we’ll get emails that will get people involved. We got lots of good stuff to give away lots of information, as a matter of fact, so it’s something to look forward to, and get that wallet ready.

Outstanding. All right. Well, I’m not going to follow on to that. I think leaving it there, Marco. The link is on the page already. Right for people who aren’t doing.

Yes, I dropped the link on the page. Awesome. Just get a like a screenshot of the donation. Perfect. Well, let’s leave it at that. Let’s jump into the questions if nobody else got any, anything we didn’t cover. All right, let’s do it.

I got a quick mention. I’m doing a lot of ton of YouTube ad stuff. I’m doing a lot of paid traffic with Google. And I’m trying to do get better at optimizing landing pages for conversions, find out why people aren’t converting if they’re not that kind of stuff. And I found another app Sumo deal that is called what’s it called flirty, pl er D, why I grabbed the link and drop it on the page here in a moment. But it does heat map. It does all kinds of stuff. But heat maps is one of them, which is kind of like hot jar and stuff like that. But App Sumo is lovely when you get lifetime deals. So I just picked it up today and started installing it on some of my landing pages. And it’s a it’s a really robust system, it’s still in development. That’s how a lot of Appsumo deals are. That’s where they get funding to continue to develop. But I just want to kind of point that out. It looks like a pretty cool thing. For anybody that is doing a lot of paid traffic. You want to be converting why not even paid traffic, just but you can be organic traffic, you want to optimize for conversions. So anyways, I’ll post that here on the chat box in just one moment. Okay, you guys are seeing my screen, correct?

Yes, sir. Yep.

Just scroll down and paste that. It’s really inexpensive. And it’s it looks, it’s pretty cool. I started already recording visitors on some of my landing pages. And it’s cool. It’s got a lot of different functionality anyways, not a pitch, I just thought I would share that. Moving on. We don’t have a lot of questions today, which is interesting. So if you guys have questions, post them, we should be able to get to them.

Does The Age Of A GMB Listing Matter?

First one comes from rocket blaster. Okay, he says, Does GMB listing age matter? I have a friend who ranks in multiple busy areas, and some of his listings don’t have website or much reviews. But I do know they are like 10 years old. I think it does. I don’t have any definitive data that states that but maybe Marco does, but I think it does, because I’ve got some older GMBs too, that some some of them are ranking really well. And I haven’t done a damn thing to them and yours just because they’ve been ranking so well. But if we were to look at traditional things, or items that I would be looking at, if I was entering a new market, some of my really old listings, don’t cut it, like they just don’t have the the metrics that I would expect for them to be ranking so well. So I think it does, but I’m not 100% sure mark, what do you say?

I’m gonna say it doesn’t matter. I mean, it’s not just one, it’s a few new ones that are killing it. It’s not so much with it’s new, or it’s like with anything else. It’s what you do with it. Because even if you don’t do anything, yet, you’ll rank well for something. But everything related to it, it’s not going to happen because you need that activity in their activity, relevance, trust and authority. You can establish activity, relevance, trust and authority rather quickly, or over time. So I’m going to say it doesn’t make a difference. I’m seeing new stuff rank really well, and rank for one word, keyword terms and two word terms in the Google insight. I mean, you guys saw it the other day.

Yeah, you should post that screenshot in the chat box here so people can see what you’re talking about.

So I’m gonna say yeah, it makes no doubt I’ll post one of the one of the screenshots makes no difference.

Yeah. And that’s interesting, because even so, some of the ones that I just mentioned that I have that I haven’t done a lot with, but they’ve remained ranked. It’s probably based on what Marco just said, to Marco’s point. It’s probably because they’ve been ranked so well, that they they’re always getting traffic which is activity relevance, trust and authority. That’s activity and people convert. So they’re either submitting a lead form or calling. Most of the leads that I generate are still through calls. But so my guess is it’s because of that activity. And because there’s a high conversion rate, often that it ends up it still ranks without doing a lot of the stuff that I would typically do if I was going to be entering a new market area with a new listing. That makes sense.

So okay, Mohamed’s up at some point, he says, Hey, guys, I have a writer doing weekly blogs for multiple car dealerships, I make a list of titles for each company. And then the writer tackles me tweak however, I started writing for a second dickeya dealer, should I find a new set of keyboards for the stealer? Or use the same ones I used in my first gear dealer specifically, regarding brand specific titles? Like what’s new in the 2021 Sorento? Is it okay to have something like that repeated for multiple clients. Um, I would, I would try to vary the titles slightly. Here’s the thing, your title tags, Muhammad are going to often your title tag for like your SEO tag, essentially, title tag is what I’m talking about is going to often have you know, the brand name for the company or the blog that you’re blogging on. So that’s going to make it somewhat unique, it might still be the same, like actual article title, but the SEO title is going to be different, but I would still try to vary it. And let you know, unless you’re in like completely different locations entirely, which I can, I can only imagine you are. But I just wouldn’t want competing content for the same the same exact title. Personally, that’s how I would do it, my bloggers are really good at that. They don’t duplicate titles across, even if they’re using basically the same, they’re optimizing for the same keyword across multiple because most all my clients are Tree Service clients. So it’s hard to count constantly come up with new stuffs, a lot of times we’ll use the same idea or topic, but they’ll just kind of vary it slightly. And, and so they’re really good at that. So that’s just the way I prefer to do it, you probably can get away with using the same titles. I know like mass page sites, they’re all basically that. So I know you probably can, but my personal preference has always been to add some diversity or variety to the titles. But that’s my own. That’s, that’s how I do it. How would you guys do it? Marco?

This is why I won’t take on the second client in the same area. Because you end up competing, so which one are you going to rank above the other? Now you’re now you’re in an ethical quandary? Right? You’re in an ethical dilemma. Because I mean, you can’t produce. So you have the exact same thing. This is one of those where things on the internet, I never be URL are never equal. All things being equal. In this case, all things are equal. Now you as the SEO have to choose who gets the content, and how it’s not something that I want to get into. I mean, you have already, and I’m going to go with Bradley, you focus on the entity, right? And that’s what you build on. And you build the content around the entity try to make the entity a little different. Because if they see each other’s content, they’re gonna say, What the fuck are you doing? That’s, that’s a big problem that you’re that you’re going to create. If they see that you’re producing the same content for both. So why the fuck am I paying you? They can both say this now. Why the fuck am I paying you? If you’re using my content for this other guy? I’m paying you for the content. Why are you You see what I’m saying? Yeah, that’s good. You’re getting into a big problem. Mohamed? I’m telling these people don’t play. They’ll sue the fuck out of you.

What Are Your Plans For SM And MGYB For 2021?

Yeah, I agree with that. Too many questions BB. This is so funny. Anyways, he says what does the SM/MGYB team at planned for 2021? I’m curious to hear about your vision for SM MGYB for 2021 and beyond? Um, well, I don’t know. I don’t know how much we we can reveal here or we should we’ve got lots of stuff in development. I’m working specifically on something big for semantic mastery mastermind. It’s probably one of the biggest projects I’ve ever worked on. No kidding. But it’s a it’s something that I’m really hoping to. If I can get it to work properly, then it’s going to really revolutionize how we manage our mastermind, which is something that we’ve been looking to do for some time. So anyways, that’s my back can’t really reveal what it is. I’ve talked about it a little bit in the mastermind, but I’m not going to reveal that here because I haven’t proven it yet. I’ve got to prove it first before I’ll reveal it. So but I’m pretty big stuff. I know that that’s on my end on MGYB. We’re going to be Oh, can I talk about? What what’s going to occur sometime next month?

Marco? Ah, it depends on which thing it I got so much shit. I can’t keep it straight in my head. What are we talking about the new UX? Oh, sure, Yes, please. Okay,

well, I’ll let you talk about it because that’s more on your in your camp? And do I be moving to new framework, better ordering, we think we would just have a better user experience when ordering. We’re trying to fix things we’re trying to give you a recurring options, for example, for link building, and all of the different things that can be available through MGYB that aren’t currently because of how we’re like we’re constricted by the framework we’re on. So at the end of the year, beginning of January 2021, we will be moving to the new framework. And of course, we want you people to please be patient, because we’ll be working the entire month on working out the bugs that will come up when you’re ordering. But as we go along into the year, the system will be much more intuitive and much easier to work with, we’re hoping that you’ll be able to save instead of timing out that you’ll be able to save everything so that you don’t have to start all over. So we’re introducing a whole bunch of new things for MGYB for 2021.

Yeah, and, like another thing is being able to save client details, essentially. So for project details so that whenever you go to order another service for that project, it’ll have all the details already. So I mean, just a lot of a lot of things that we we weren’t able to do because you guys think about this, and I saw that a BB is asking a question next about specifically subspace, but we are not software developers, right. And so when we were partnered with the other, with the software development company that we had called, we’d created subspace that looked pretty and had good high functionality and all that kind of stuff. But that partnership dissolved. And we went off on our own for various reasons. But when we went off on our own, again, we’re not software developers. So we put MGYB together, Robyn Marco did with Cesar our programmer and stuff, put it together kind of in a rush to get to be able to provide our services to our audience and we wanted to do it on our own. So that’s why it is as clunky as it is. And it’s sufficed for a period of time, but we understand, especially with the growth that we’ve seen an MGYB that it’s not it, we needed to upgrade that and it’s, it’s been in progress for months and months and months, to be honest with you, we’re finally at the point now where we’re about ready to, to release it. And that’s part of the reason is because we’re trying to develop it out now to where it will be much more user friendly for you guys for the ordering process for everything. And again, so, we’re glad that you guys have been patient with us for as long as you have been, it’s going to get better, I promise you that.

That was put up this everybody that was put up in record time. I’ve never seen anyone put up a store that way, we did put up the ordering system the way we did in the time that we did, because we decided what parting way, and we need a store. So we did. And we incorporated our people. And if you guys remember, we moved the initial one to WooCommerce. So the so what people are actually seeing is version web 2.0 of the initial store because that was garbage. Yeah, he couldn’t really get anything done with it. WooCommerce allowed us to incorporate stripe and a whole bunch of other things. But there are limitations because of the framework where that WooCommerce store was installed. So we’re moving it to a different framework, which is, as I said, more intuitive, better UX. And so it should be better. And I’m not gonna make promises. It’s currently being tested. And as far as the developer, what he tells me is, on the end, I told Adam already on the fourth the ad midnight, as a matter of fact, it will be migrated. So the website will be going down just everyone is aware everyone who’s here. And anyone who watches is the website, it will be down until the migration takes place. And the new the new store. So if you can get any ordering done, do it before. So we have everything in place, just while during the migration and right after. It might be a little complicated, right? Well, you’re always going to have bugs you can’t get it perfect. The first time when you’re coding. Anyone who codes understands that

What Is Up With Marco’s Way Of Press Release?

all right, sweet. So the real bb with the real baby please stand up. He said Hey guys, number one see too many Questions BB num. Number one of many says, what is up with the testing of Marco’s way of press releases? Please remind me how to do it exactly which way you create the links in the PR how many where they point? What anchor texts you use? Well, that’s like eight questions in one.

Yeah, nothing’s gonna happen in here. Yeah, baby, I would wreck I would encourage you remember, go take a look at the press release silo webinar that we did Marco and I did, it’s pretty much the exact same skill as that the only difference is in my press releases the way that I was doing it at the time that I recorded that webinar, which by the way, just go to semantic or youtube.com slash semantic mastery, use the channel search feature and search press release SEO, or whatever you could even do it just search YouTube, you’ll see it and you can go through and watch that. The only difference is, Marco does just to create the PR silo stack is they’ll just use one the first in the stack. So the top of the silo essentially will link to the destination URL on the site. But then every subsequent and then it can link to another top tier one profile or whatever. But every subsequent PR within that silo, he only does one link, right Marco? Oh, am I correct? to two lanes in each PR. Okay.

I under the previous PR and in one to any tier one entity asset, whatever, whatever.

Right? Yeah. And that’s the only difference what what I was doing. At the time that I recorded that press release SEO webinar was I was always linking to the previous press release in this silo, a corresponding blog post or GMB post URL, right, because typically, we write our press releases now for my business from my clients and for my lead gen stuff. We typically will have a press release that is promoting or highlighting a blog post. Okay, so the way that I used to do it, and I just started I kind of switched over to Marco’s method recently because his results are undeniable. But when when I what I was doing before was I was always having one link in the press release, go to the previous press release. And that same silo, I would always have a link going to whatever blog post, the press release was promoting, right, it could either be the blog post URL or a GMB post URL that was a snippet of the blog post and the GMB posts would link to the blog post URL. And then I would always link to one tier one entity asset. So so I would always have three links in every PR. But now I’ve actually switched down to doing what Marco is doing, which is just linking back to the previous press release and in that same silo and then also just another tier one entity profile essentially. And and I just started doing that about two weeks ago, and am seeing some better results with that. So that’s the only difference. But everything else is exactly the same as we talked about in that webinar. So again, go to YouTube channel youtube.com, slash semantic mastery, use the channel search feature and search for press release SEO. You guys can watch that for free. It’s on our channel. It’s public. But that’s exactly the same process. It might be time to do local PR pro because I’ve got some other shit we can throw on there that supercharges that shit.

I do to actually we were talking. It’s fine. We’re not here.

Yeah,

Yeah, you were, somebody was asking earlier. Too many questions BB the other BB was asking what some of the plans are that, we’ve had discussions about updating local GMB pro to add some new things into their Local PR pro might be on the block on deck to be updated as well. So we do have some things that we can we can do. But I can’t really contribute to those until I finish working on what I’m working on. And it’s a rather big project. So it might be a few months.

Any News With The RSS Software?

All right, so the next question from BB was any news with the new RSS software? what it does? Yeah, Adam, we had a landing page for people to opt in to be notified when it is going to be open for more beta testers and such Do we still have that?

Yeah, let me get it I forget what the URL was. It was kind of a jumble. So let me paste that up there but

It’s a very powerful news and media site generator, you can create networks of sites that can be like auto blog auto populated with RSS feeds and or content content database that you can populate using RSS feeds and all kinds of stuff. It’s, it’s really cool. It’s hard to explain right now. It’s still in beta. So and it’s simple. There’s a lot of similar functionality to RSS masher. But I think it’s more industrialized, so to speak.

I haven’t used it. It’s a lot simpler, really a lot simpler to me, right? I like the way that it flows. I like how simple it can be, to us a little clunky right now because it’s under development. It’s in beta testing, right. And so what we do is we find any bugs, we report it back to Jeremy, he goes, he fixes it, he’s really good about it. And that that’s how it’s supposed to be right? Because you work it out before you release it to the police what we’ve been doing with MGYB it’s not as if it hasn’t been tested all this time that we’ve been announcing new framework is that we keep breaking it, finding new things, finding other ways to do it better ways. And so we have to go back, and like coding isn’t just Okay, so something is broken on online 15,000. Just to say, a number. It’s not as if you go to line 15,000. And it’s fixed, it might be that you change that line, but it changes everything downstream and upstream. So that you have to go back and work on an entire section of code, but then you realize that there’s another section that jumps to that section. So it just triggers a whole lot of things that need to be fixed. And it all takes time. Yeah.

Okay. Um, so I can’t say whether it’s better or anything else in RSS manager yet, I’ve not been able to test with that much or do with it much because I just haven’t had the time I’m actually waiting until some of it gets developed a little bit further before I get in there and start testing So anyway, we’ll reveal more about it when we can guys it’s still too early for that.

Do You Recommend Serp Space?

So Alright, the last part of BB’s many questions is do you use Serp Space or do you recommend it now? stay the hell away from it. We parted ways with those guys for various reasons. But from what I understand that it’s still real slow and delivery or not no delivery at all. And so anyways, we don’t recommend it. You know, for for you guys. That’s why we started MGYB was specifically so that we could provide our services to our audience. So there you go. Okay, and then he has a comment about too many questions. BB is rather slow. I can see dueling BB let’s go dueling DVDs.

Can iFrame Loops Be Used To Index Links?

Okay, so law says hello there. Can iframe loops be used index links? That’s a good question. Marco.

Ah, yeah, I haven’t tried it. I’ve been trying other shit that’s working really, really fantastically well. I can’t say come join me in the heavy hitter club. So so so that when I, when I share it, with me and I and as a matter of fact, I did. One of the things that’s what I’m going to be sharing guys, the heavy hitter club is going to be like the ground zero. For all our experimentation for all our testing. For everything that we’re doing. I shared the as a matter of fact that Google My Business listing that there’s an image of that I shared that I shared, what I did with it, I shared the interlinking everything that’s going to be ground zero, guys, you want to know what’s going on how everything is working. 2020 and beyond and what was working in 2004 how it’s everyone thinks it’s new again, because I take it and I get it that it on the on the internet. 17 1617 years is a very long time. It’s eons on the internet. But everything that’s old, becomes new, again, foundational, little changes, there’s little changes, there’s little flips and twists. That’s all you have to keep up with. But the foundation always works man you do the shit, right? And Google core up this who gives a shit, I don’t give a shit. My Stuff five to 25% across the board for every core update ever since they started doing this shit. Five to 25% some of them not at all sometimes. And yes, others often. And like the new stuff when we apply our methods, which is entity based SEO, which is what we’ll be discussing in the charity webinars. That’s gold, and therefore the when, and I understand people don’t really get the concept of entities because nobody, nobody has done a really good job of explaining it. And so that’s what we’re going to try to do.

Yeah, and just it’s interesting, but I my mastermind webinar last week, I went through and even demonstrated how I do it the theme earring process that I do four g sites for the RYS expansions. So I work so that’s something that I covered in the mastermind it’s working really, really well. It’s a very simple process too, which is cool after you’re done. In our ys expansion, it’s just taking a few minutes and a VA can be trained to do it very, very easily. But it’s a heavy hitter club is where you want to get all the technical nitty gritty, or the mastermind.

Okay, moving on our sorry. Oh, last follow up question was so for instance, if there is a loop and on every page, there is also an iframe of a Google Sheet with links in them yeah, again, haven’t tried it. Something we’re working on though, for syndication Academy since that’s also going to be relaunched guys that is in progress of being updated now. So that’s something else to get back to too many questions bV. That’s another thing that we’re doing for 2021 is syndication Academy is being relaunched totally updated and relaunched with a lot of additional stuff to it. And one of the things that is being worked on now is a automated Google Sheet for all your RSS feeds from your different various profiles, so that whenever content is published it autumn auto populates a Google Sheet which you could just have a single Google Sheet that you just start hammering away with Google backlinks. So that every time a new link, get something gets published, it’s going to automatically be added to a Google Sheet that is just this pool of link juice. So there’s a lot of really cool things that we’re doing for the for version three of syndication Academy, and that’s in progress as well. And that’s not going to be too long before I think we’re are we’re aiming to launch that and relaunch that in February I think.

And actually what he talks about a Google Sheet with links that’s the part of the drive stack and that’s always part of the drive second he said that that has been standard operating procedure for now over five years. That’s the way we do it. That’s the way we do to do

Do You Include High Ranking Competitors Names When Adding Keywords To The SEO Shield Order?

okay, so Fitz is up what’s up fitzy says good agents please remember the kids still need your help anything you can give 2050 or even a one time $100 anything would be great. My question today so thank you for that the charity URLs right there guys. It’s gonna be a lot of good coming out of that again this year. My question today when adding keywords to your SEO shield order, do you include high ranking veteran names? Okay, so you’re talking about for the keyword list that you add, or submit to the text file with the keywords for the drive stack build? Do I include high ranking competitors names? I’m going to tell you I do not maybe I’m wrong and not including them but I always manually go through my keyword list and remove competitors names or brand names and I’m anxious to hear what Marco has to say about that.

Okay, let me just be adding keywords here SEO Shield. No, no, if I go after competitor names, I don’t even know if I should save it. Yeah, why not? And alternative to silo review silo? Yeah, you’re looking for this Have you thought about whatever. Because if you if you mentioned your competitors as a co citation, and if you pushing enough power, and they have more power than you then then you’re never going to catch up by pushing power over to them.

You ambiguous the entity, you will ambiguous your entity if you push enough power to their entity from yours. Yes, absolutely. It’ll create kind of like a parent child relationship where they’re where they’re the dad, they’re your dad and you can’t get through that. Who’s your daddy? Your daddy?

Yeah, and so I’m glad you said that because that confirmed why I never did it I would always manually go through and clean out any brand names it’s interesting Google Keyword Planner, the Google Ads Keyword Planner now when you and I still I use that a lot because I do a ton of Google Ad stuff now a lot more than I ever have to be honest with you so it’s interesting but now when you like there’s probably a lot of you’re familiar with this but there’s a right sidebar section on the keyword planner results so like when you have a pullback your keywords, you can there’s like some drop down arrows and you can go in and like select brand terms and things like that it’ll automatically remove all of those or filter those out. It makes it a hell of a lot easier. Now to filter there’s also have the filtering options like there’s a ton of different filtering options. So you can have keywords like for example you can set a filter for keyword contains or keyword does not contain and it can be keyword contains the exact word or phrase or the semantic term like in other words, if it’s semantically related it will also filter out or only show those that contain depending on which which option you choose. Either a specific keyword or terms that are semantically related to that synonymous with it. So it’s really, really cool. The keyword planner gives you that option to filter and clean the list a lot better than it ever did before. But there’s still some manual cleaning involved. And so that’s, again, that’s what I do is I’ll go in and clean out any competitors names, and my thought process. And I’m glad that it was right or that Marco confirmed it was that I didn’t want to include competitors names in the drive stack builds because it could ambiguous eight, the entity that I’m trying to promote. So there you go. I’m glad that he confirmed that.

How Long Do You Wait To See If The Backlinks Were Enough Since It Takes A While From Ordering To Delivery?

Second question, when you are backlinking press releases, how long do you wait to see if the backlinks were enough? Since it takes a while from ordering to delivery? Usually, we’ll see what I do is when I get back a link building package back or an embed package, whatever, I submit the tier one links to an indexing service. And then I put that on drip for 30 days, because I usually order I don’t usually order anything less than the gas it up link building where embed packages, which is the middle package. I don’t usually ever order anything less than that. So it’s, a lot what is it like 7000, tier one links or something on the on the first. So I always submit that to through a indexer and put it on a 30 day drip schedule. And then at the end of 30 days, that’s when I’ll start looking to monitor results or see what kind of movement I got from it. And remember, that doesn’t mean all at the end of 30 days when when when the indexing schedule has completed or the indexing process has completed. Some of those were just indexed yesterday, you know what I mean, or sent through the index, it doesn’t mean they’re indexed, it just means they were processed. So there’s usually still a lag of a few weeks beyond when the indexing processes stops before you’ll truly see all of the results from the link building gig. But usually what I do is because it takes what, two to three weeks for me to get a link building gig completed, then it’s 30 days after that. So we’re talking about and that’s why I do things in stages. Guys, I’ve talked about this many times, but I’ll do a link building gig this month, next month, I’ll do or sometimes six weeks later, just depends. I’ll do an embed gig, then for six weeks later, I’ll do another link building gig but maybe two different targets or two isolated silos or things like that. And so cumulatively, over the course of a few months, all this stuff starts to take effect. So I don’t have any things in isolation to where I would do just a link building gig and and wait for three months and monitor to see when the bump from that link, that one and only link voting gig took a fact, because I’m always doing things in stages sequentially, like I just mentioned. So at some point, all of these things start to kind of coalesce and push create buoyancy for the project. And I can’t really attributed to any one specific thing because I haven’t been testing in isolation. That that’s my take on it. Margot, what do you say?

I think this is an absolutely great question, man.

No, it is a good question.

The thing? And I just lost my train of thought. I’m sorry about your scheduling.

I’m sorry that how long? Right How long? I got it up. I just started thinking about something that I do. In addition to if you’re in the heavy hitter club. If you were you would know. Like how long to wait because we tell you once it’s delivered, once it’s delivered, we track it, we tell you where to track it analytics and search console, we tell you how to take a look at your analytics and search console and your GMB insights and how to combine all of this information so that you know how to focus on the money. This is how you do not know how long do you see the backlinks were enough. But you have to take a look at the data. And the data doesn’t start coming back until 21 days after your gig is delivered to you. It started sooner. But that puts you in a safe place so that if you have to do more, you’re okay in ordering more right away. You don’t get stuck in over how long has been tying clears enough so that you can go after the next one. And then you can put you can even put the next one in the queue. Once you’ve said your cycle. You’ll have a cycle when they start coming back. And you’ll have time to go take a look at the data to use. And I don’t see how people can say that analytics and search console are broken that they’re no good. That’s where the fucking money is. Because it’s information from Google. If you’re telling people that this information is no good, you’re a fucking idiot. You just don’t know how to use it. Because it’s all there. Google gives you everything. This is what we want. This is how we want it. Use these, hey, look at all of these related words, and look at the money. That’s in those words, because you’ll be setting your conversions and analytics. And they’ll be telling you how much money you’re making per page, how much money a person is in your cart. Google will give you everything if you know what you’re doing, if you know how to use it, that that guy that you use for analytics and not forget that measure school, right, Julian antastic.

Yeah, he’s bad at it, you should set your Shut up, set your conversions, you have to understand how much each one of your money pages is making you. Because if you’re flying blind, if you don’t know where your money’s coming from the management, just throw shit up against the wall and hope that it makes you money. Because it’s a total waste of time what you’re doing so focus on the analytics focus on the Search Console focus on your GMB insights and gather the data from there, we have to be scientists about this shit, not guessers you can guess your way to bankruptcy. Or you can understand the data, use it scientifically, and dance all the way to the fucking Batman.

So measure school because you mentioned it, I was I happen to see a notification on Facebook earlier today. And it was Julian this guy, I think his name is Julian or Julius. I think it’s Julian. Anyways, this guy, uh, he I noticed on Facebook, I had a notification and I clicked it. And it was him doing a live stream from earlier today. This is it. It’s Google track conversion tracking with Google Analytics for which I just started installing Google Analytics for on my newer landing pages and sites and stuff like that. I’m having converted old projects to that yet, but it adds a shit ton of additional data guys and analytics, like it is the next generation of analytics. It’s just insane, especially with, with with Google Ads catching up to like behavioral and interest marketing, or audiences like what Facebook has had. That’s part of the reason Google Analytics for is what it is, is that has evolved to what it is now because it adds so much more data to the, to the visitors that come to the site. And it’s just incredible how much data can be available that connects with Data Studio and all this stuff. And so it’s a, it can be overwhelming, I’m just starting to implement some of this stuff now. And measure school is where I will go, I’m just talking about his Facebook page now because I just like I said, I put on in the background, his his live stream today where he was talking about setting up conversion tracking, and all different types of like micro conversions. And so different tags and triggers, that you could set up a Tag Manager to fire off an event or goals inside of analytics, and all of these things can actually help to improve your SEO, because it’s going to register as conversion actions like things that you can do. So like scroll depth, for example, can be a conversion action, or if you wanted it to be or a micro conversion, I can even call it that. Things like that all different kinds of things time on site, like so event triggers for Well, time, and all kinds of things like that can be added as conversion or micro conversions, which can improve your SEO because those are engagement signals that you’re feeding directly into Google. So like, it’s just amazing the kind of things that can be done. And this guy right here, there’s no question anytime I have any, anything that I need to look up about tag manager or how to set up triggers and tags or events or Google Analytics, anything, I go to measure school, either to his website, or mainly his YouTube channel, and I hadn’t thought to go to his Facebook page until I saw his live stream today. So again, I don’t get anything for promoting this. I’m just telling you, because it’s badass. He’s his information is incredibly right to the point and again, to help you get set up.

You don’t have to, like get as intricate as he does. Now, as long as you’re setting up your goals and conversions. And on the pages that make you money, you have to know which pages make you money. First and foremost, you set up your conversions and goes on that. So that you can hyper target everything. And then where your money is coming from how it’s coming in. You can track the people that come in, you can put in, like you can get a whole lot of information from each user. How do they interact with your page? Why do they leave your pay? These are all things that you need to know or else you’re losing money.

Yeah, so again, guys, I highly encourage you to go check out measure school again on Facebook, YouTube, and he’s got his website. He’s got a ton of free training. He’s got some paid courses, but to be honest with you, I couldn’t imagine even needing he was paid courses unless you’re a true data nerd, because he’s got so much really good information for free. So kind of like what we do here. Oh, dang. Alright, moving on.

Will I Most Likely Rank If I Purchase The MGYB SEO Shield And Link Building?

Rocket blaster says if I purchase SEO and link building from MGYB done for you will I most likely rank it’s too? I mean, that’s, that’s too There’s no way that we can answer that question on so I’m sorry. But there’s just no way there’s too many variables. We don’t know what kind of you could be going after like the keyword gold and are and SEO shield and the link building gig is not going to rank you for gold.

Look, we got a backup because that actually happened.

Yeah, what not someone was like, Yeah, I put out two posts, and they went out to my syndication network didn’t rank for gold. And it’s like, oh,

no, no, that was for DUI attorney or something in Toronto, Canada. Come on, man.

Yeah. Yeah, that was that was an old mastermind member that joined the mastermind and did two posts to a shitty syndication network and no images or nothing. And he said, I’m not ranking for DUI attorney Toronto, this shit doesn’t work. Any quit. Good riddance. See ya. rocker blaster? Sorry, I can’t answer that question is there’s too many variables. Not enough context in your question. Even if you did provide more context for you, for us to say and SEO showdown link building one one link building gig to rank, I would never promise that or guarantee that. It usually requires more than just that. Okay.

It usually requires consistency over time. That’s great might, depending on so many variables that we can’t even begin to get. I’m in a very competitive niche. The image that I posted in, in the event is in the I’m telling you a hyper competitive niche. And Google is ranking me for one and two word keyword terms already. And it went live on Thanksgiving Day. And so that’s not likely to happen for everybody. Now, it does have the, it has everything that we tell you guys to do. Seo shield is in place. We have the GMB in place, we have everything in place. We started posting, we started uploading images, we started working on the G site, we started expanding it. So everything that we tell you has been done. And we’re getting rewarded, and we’re getting rewarded consistently. So that means I have to be consistent in that niche over time to see even better results. It might be that in your net it, you might hit it in a way and you might hit the entity, which means that your schema better be in place, right? That you hit it that way. And that’s all you need. But then we’d be speculating as to why because we don’t know, we don’t have everything from Google, we do know. And we’ve boiled it down to activity, relevance, trust and authority. And but but all but that condenses over 2000 signals, or 3000. signals, that you can send Google both good and bad. We focus on the good and try to avoid the bad. And by sending Google good good signals, we try to become the best entity, the best entity option for that niche. And then once we have that we just force feed Google the rest, because once you’re the authority, you can get away with basically whatever you want.

There you go.

One second night, we’re all going to be running out of time. But there’s a few more questions I’d like to get to. So we’ll try to roll through the next few just one moment. We’ll come back to that.

Is It Good When Google Site Ranks Better Than The Money Site?

Pavlo says, Hey, guys, is it a good sign when Google Site ranking, much better than the money site? How to change the situation? Thank you. Yeah, I mean, it’s a good sign because it means you’re making progress. In my experience over time, oftentimes a Google site will outrank a money site when I want, especially for new projects when I’m starting. But over time, the once the entity is fully solidified, oftentimes the money site will outrank the G site, it’s rare that the G site over time will stay above the money site, the self hosted website, the domain, the main, the primary domain. And again, a lot of that has to do with your structured data. And what you’re telling is the primary asset for the entity and all of that, and it just takes time, like I said, most of the time, it’s often that the G site for new projects will outrank the money site. But over time, when you continue solidifying, validating the entity all the stuff that we talked about, the money site will outrank the G site, no matter how much power you push, at least that’s been my experience. Anything you want to add to that Marco?

No man, because that’s how it should be. That’s what we expect. The expectation is that you’re going to push so much power to that g site, it’s going to RYS group is going to pop it before anything else. That’s why your schema should be in place so that you creating the right relationships, the parent child relationship, Google will understand that that the TLD that you’re using is the actual Parents have that T site, that that g site is simply an extension, an extension of your money site. Once that relationship happens, then Google switches that over to your money site. And then you that’s why we use the shield for power, then, and for protection. Yeah, and again, that’s amazing. And you seeing it? Yes, that’s part of the plan. The structured data is a big part of that, as Marco said, so.

What Are The Possible Consequences When There’s A Duplicate Content On The Same Website?

Alright, so another question from Pavlo. If I did a mistake and duplicate content on the same website, what are the consequences Sandbach or penalty? Do you recommend recover the website from Google actions or create a new website? If I can recover from that now, from that, then how long? can it take? Thank you so much. If I did a mistaking duplicate content on the same website, what are the consequences? I mean, I don’t mark, this might be a question for you. I’m not I’m not sure what he’s talking about. I mean, you just talked about keyword cannibalization. Right, if you have the same content posted on the site more than once, it can cause some overall site quality issues. And those pages can be competing, but I’m not sure what you’re talking about recovering a site and everything else. I’m not sure what he’s asking about to you.

So Pablo, let me ask you this. You use the conditional if? Is this something that happened that Google hit you for duplicate content on your website? If so, how do you know? Like, did you get a notification in Search Console? Because what they usually say, in the in the manual action, or in Google is that you have duplicate titles and descriptions. I haven’t seen a duplicate content message in there, you get unnatural link building messages, and then you’re in trouble. But the only thing that you have to do to recover is canonicalize. The content? Yeah.

Uh, yeah. There you go. Look at the index if you got the index start over.

Yeah, I agree with that. So he says, Oh, Pavlos. This is a good, good point. And I think we are going to be doing this Pavlo, I can’t swear to that. Maybe Marco knows. But he says, hopefully we will be adding a PayPal option to our store as part of the new interface.

I can’t say but it’s one of the things that we’re supposed to be working on.

Do You Outsource Phone Services To Your Agency?

Are you go? Scott says, Scott Walker. What’s up Scotty says this is a 2xyouragency type of question. I’m so bad on the phone. That calling a business and asking for email addresses is not at all useful. Are there any? Are any of you using a service or outsourcers to place calls? Thanks and Merry Christmas. Okay, I have in the past I’ve used telemarketers that have hired from Upwork for specific campaigns of some sort. And I’ve been fairly successful with that in the past more recently, because I am working on the project that I’m working on that will be part of the mastermind. If all goes well includes hiring an appointment center and let me see if I get the right.

Rent a caller. Yes, this is it here. Okay. Rent a caller go to rentacaller.com. This is a service by Ross cristofolini. I think his name is the guy from lead carrot. I don’t like the carrot. It’s a lead scraper pipeline app and all that it might be great for certain industries. But for the industries that I work in, I don’t like it. But he’s got some good training. This guy Ross here for various things. And run a collar is a service that he launched that where you can rent a collar a telemarketer like an appointment center set, excuse me an appointment setter for a week at a time. And it’s it’s inexpensive. You know, if you need somebody that much, if you were if you’re doing a lot of heavy prospecting, then you can hire a caller for a week to handle all of the leads that you’ve generated in a month or something like that. I’m just giving you an example. If you want if you don’t have that much of a need, where you can you need somebody for an entire week, then I would recommend going to Upwork and just looking for telemarketers. And you can even hire a few of them on a trial basis to figure out which ones work are going to work best for you. Kind of like what we teach and Outsource Kingpin hire more than just one because you’re going to you’re going to find some that work better with you than others and that kind of stuff. So I’m just pointing this service out here guys, because this is something that I’m going to be trying for what I’m doing for my own business, but if you just needed on a lesser, you know, not as much where you don’t need as much of as much time from one of them then I would recommend just going out work. Okay. That’s a good question.

somebody’s saying Do you just use Shopify for our store right now There’s a bunch of comments about our courses and everything else. Okay, we appreciate your input. Thank you for that. Let’s see Wayne Clayton the saying maybe you really should join the mastermind. I agree with that. All the questions maybe asks. It’s five o'clock, we got just a couple more I want to roll through guys. If anybody has to leave, then feel free to do so. I’m gonna roll through the last couple.

What Are Your Thoughts On A Client Who Requests Schema To Each Review On His Websites From Yelp And Google?

This one says so by the way, thank you, Wayne, appreciate that. I agree BB should be joining the mastermind. There’s no question. I have a client who’s requesting schema every review on each of his websites 21 from Yelp, Google, etc. I’m not liking this and wonder if this is something I missed in proper SEO. I don’t know why you would want to do a I don’t know. Personally, I don’t I do aggregate review rating. And that’s it. Period. And that’s because I work with local businesses. I do aggregate review rating. For example, if it’s a location page for a multi location Tree Service business, then on the location page, I’ll have the GMB map embedded. And then I’ll use schema for the aggregate review rating for that particular location. Does that make sense? That’s what I’ll do. And that page will rank with stars showing the review stars because I have the aggregate rating schema. But I don’t do individual markups for every single review nor what I I mean, maybe I would but it would be outsourced for damn sure. I’m not sure why somebody would need that. But again, I’m talking about local business reviews. If you’re talking about product reviews, and things like that, it might be different. I don’t know, because I don’t do that. Any comments on that? Hire someone, train them. mark it up. You’re good to go.

Yeah. And again, are you saying Google reviews from Yelp, Google, it’s got to be a local business. I can’t imagine why you would need to mark up every individual review, I just don’t understand the point of that. Aggregate review rating is all that’s needed. is, as far as I’m, as far as I’m concerned.

So I look, sometimes clients are idiots. And we understand that you sometimes need to keep those idiot clients because they pay the bills. If you’re in that. cop, if you’re in that party, then hire someone, but make sure the client pays for at all. sure we’ll do it. This is what is going to cost or we can do aggregate under what we’re currently charging. Which would you prefer?

Yes. It’s so much easier. Just plugins By the way, there’s a fuck the reviews bundle. Google reviews plugin rich plugins right here. I use this on WordPress sites, rich plugins. They’ve got a I mean, they’ve got it. As a matter of fact, if you take a look, they’ve got the business reviews bundle, which will do Facebook, Yelp and Google. And this is what I use. It’s fantastic for WordPress sites. Because you can just it will add the schema automatically for the aggregate reviews. It’s really really cool. So I would check out rich plugins comm if it’s a WordPress site, if you’re doing other kinds of sites or landing pages, which I’m doing a lot of that now I’m using something else called elf sight apps, which they had a an app Sumo deal l site apps right here. And they have a Google reviews. This is really, really cool, because they’ve got a ton of fucking apps By the way, Mark. Oh, he had to leave. I guess. Marco needs to check this out. But there’s a ton of apps here that you could use outside widgets and apps. And they’ve got something like that to where you it’ll add the aggregate review schema as part of the review widget a redo showcasing widget so you might want to check out those.

In What Order Should I Purchase MGYB Products For Local And Lead Gen Assets With No Websites?

Alright, the last thing I want to answer guys, we’re over that’s why everyone else bailed. The last thing is rocket blaster asks, in what order Should I purchase MGYB products for local lead gen assets with no websites? Alright, there’s two resources I’m going to point you to. So the first one is semanticmastery.com/process. I talked about using a self hosted money web website but you can just if all you have is a GMB and no self hosted website, it’s fine. Just use the GMB website. So whatever dot business dot site as your primary website, right, that’s it. And now if you don’t have an RSS feed, you can use the GMB with certain. You know, like post scheduling apps for example, you can get an RSS feed from a GMB. You can also get a GMB an RSS feed I think from Zapier out of a GMB. So you could use that to actually trigger like a syndication network, for example, but regardless, outside of wanting to syndicate posts, you can just use your GMB website as your primary money site. And then everything else is the same. Our methods are the exact same whether you have a self hosted website or not, it doesn’t make any difference because you can use the GMB website URL as your money. The site or the Google site, sites google.com the G site from the RYS stack can be your primary money site. And so all of the things the same that we teach and so again go to semanticmasterycom/process, you can check out the process that I’ve set up for that specifically to teach you guys and what order to sequence to do things. And then lastly is seoshield.com. Okay, if you go there that’s going to teach you about the SEO shield. It’s different components in which sequence to put them together. And, and again, it’s the same thing whether you have a self hosted website or not, it doesn’t matter. You can use the GMB website or the Google site from the drive stack, the SEO shield essentially as your primary money site. Alright, thanks everybody for hanging out. Looks like Hernan stuck around for an extra five minutes. Thanks, buddy. We done See you guys next week.

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Only a few shaved. Yeah, everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 318. This is the 16th of December 2020, as we wind down the year here, and we get close to Christmas and New Year’s and all that sort of fun stuff. So we’re gonna say hello to everybody real quick. We got some short announcements and then we’re gonna dive into it. So I’m gonna go around here. Hernan you’re, you’re moving around the most you look excited. So tell us how you’re doing. Yeah, man. I’m excited. I mean, this is a this is a pretty cool season of the year I’d like it. And because you get to wind down you get to you a little bit of insurance. Instruct in instant. How do you say that in introspection in Instagram, bro? Instagram, Instagram stories. Now, but you get you get to do a little bit of that. So I’m excited about that. I can believe that. You know, we’re almost Christmas

already. Everything’s good. So

that’s cool, man. So what do you got? Any like special things? You do? This is uh, we’ll do the international Christmas conversation real quick here. Is there something that you guys do in Argentina that for Christmas? Yeah, we might sacrifice a chicken or two. I’m just kidding. No, I wish I wish this guy would ban me and she’s enjoy good Argentinian meat.

That’s it.

Nice. Awesome. That’s Yeah, I mean, I want to go to Argentina. I guess I’ll visit her Nan but I’ve heard that going down there for the meat is the reason to go down there and eat the wine. Yep, sure. Awesome. All right. Well, Chris, how about how about you first of all, how you doing? Doing good. So what we are having we have eaters smoked bacon fresh or smoked fish, usually trout kind of thing. So that’s pretty sweet. Other than that, the family is most people and yeah. Gifts obviously under the Christmas tree. Yeah, and tons and tons of cookie so like, I don’t know about you, but like usually the moment when they prepare the coffee and stuff I got to disappear and take a walk for two hours because otherwise I don’t know. Yeah, the holidays make you fat.

Yeah, man. I’m working on a new way to do this with my wife with Jenny I was like I love what you make I love how you bake stuff but I was like man we cannot keep this stuff in the house let’s let’s be nice and give it away to people.

Awesome. All right. Well Marco How about you How you doing today?

I’m good man. Let there be light in the Lord said let there be light. And this light 65 It seems like right?

I guess honey on Christmas for you probably was that I guess it’s gonna be sunny on Christmas for you. It’s gonna be warm and sunny man pool was

awesome. Any any Costa Rica stuff you do any anything you guys get up to?

Yeah, well, it’s customary to make our version of tamales but it’s not wrapped in in corn husk like the Mexican tamales it’s wrapped in. In banana leaves. The traditional one is banalities, which gives it a really good. You gotta, you gotta try it.

Man, it’s fucking amazing.

They’re delicious. That that’s the custom. I mean, it’s also the like, the big deal here is that the night of the 24th not so much the 25th God big deal is the 24th so that that’s what we’re looking forward. That’s what we have our dinner like Christmas Day is just leftovers and toys. Of course, when you have kids gifts Other than that, just hang around with family does not a big meal on the 25th and everything happens the night of the 24th

Cool. All right. Well, Bradley last but not least how you doing man?

We’ve got our first snow of the winter storm coming in.

Yeah, we had about three inches and now it’s freezing rain. So we’re getting some accumulating sleet and ice. And then I guess tonight it will probably get really treacherous again. But yeah, I mean, it’s the first snow of the the winter season here in Virginia. So it’s kind of it’s kind of early for us to see snow really to be honest with you. But um, it’s cool. It’s in my I texted my daughter earlier though to find out because she lives in a county adjacent to mine and I texted her to see how it was over there. And it’s not it wasn’t as severe over there. And she was she’s coming this weekend to be with me this weekend. And she was like, You think it’s gonna mountain called pepper? like, Yeah, probably. And she’s like, damn it, or Darn it. Darn it. Because it’s funny my daughter’s 15 and a half and she’s never she’s never been with me when it snowed. We don’t get a whole lot of snow in Virginia, but probably three or four. Okay, snowfalls per year on average. And she’s never been with me when we’ve had a good snow. And so it sucks because I feel like I’ve been cheated. I’ve been able to play with my daughter and go sledding and stuff, build snowman and all that kind of stuff. But, uh, so she was looking forward to hoping that we’re going to have snow when she got here this weekend, but I don’t think that’s the case. So, we’ll kill any any exotic Virginia Christmas customs that you guys are going to partake in?

Uh, yeah, just family stuff like my older sister and her kids. So my niece and nephew are going to be coming up this weekend as well. So it’s we’re going to have my whole family together. So it’ll be it’ll be a lot of fun. Get all the, my daughter with all her cousins together, which is kind of rare. We don’t we don’t get to do that very often. It’s been two or three years since last time, so it’ll be fun.

I’m looking forward to it.

Good deal. All right, so I’m just gonna put this out there. First of all, I want to say to anyone watching, thanks for watching. If you’re watching live, I know we switched up how we do things a little bit, you might need to hit refresh to see the video, which I guess if you’re hearing me, then you don’t need that instructions. But I’m gonna put it down here in the list of people see it on the replay. But let us know how things are going for you. You know, we can’t have everyone on the call. But let us know what you’re up to. If you got any cool Christmas plans, just say hi, whatever you want to do. And then secondly, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery to MGYB to heavy hitters club, we’ve got some great places for you to get started. You know I say this at the beginning of each one but it’s true we get asked a lot Hey, what Where should I start? You know, I’m new to you guys and check out Hump Day Hangouts. Kind of what’s next? And first of all, just keep coming back, keep asking questions every Wednesday you’re in the right place, but hover over to the SEO shield.com in find out how to shield your site never worry about algorithm updates. Again, it’s free training again that’s the word is seoshield.com right if you want to take things up a notch from there grab the battle plan and find out more about that a battleplan.semanticmastery.com And if you’re ready to grow your digital marketing business and you want to join a community, then check out the mastermind need to find out more about that mastermind dot semantic mastery.com and I had mentioned Semantic Mastery MGYB and heavy hitters club Semantic Mastery You can find out more at semanticmastery.com. MGYB that’s a done for you services whether it’s SEO shield, syndication networks, link building, all that sort of stuff. That’s mg y v.co and heavy hitters club. I’ve Marco what’s the best URL? I’d never actually wrote that down. I just haven’t saved in my browser.

Have you had any hitter? dot club?

That’s okay. I was like I couldn’t remember it’s heavyhitterclub.com or dot club. I just have it in there. So I start typing and just autocomplete it. So there you go.

motherfucking hippie club. No.

Ooh, that’s what we need to get to you. It’s like a baseball bat like a Louisville Slugger. It says give me

give me a jackhammer, man. Give me a sledge hammer than that. No, no Louisville Slugger. Got a big hammer.

You got to have this sledge hammer head like etched with Google like POFU on one side. No, no,

no, no, we got to get Marco for Christmas next year.

And speaking of great things, like for Christmas is not for Christmas. But right after Christmas. I’m starting my charity webinar. Bradley has volunteered to come on this year and give you guys a presentation on something of his choice. Nothing is finalized. Right. And I’m still setting up the times and the date. The dates are starting on on January 28. I’m sorry, December 28. So right after Christmas, the Monday after Christmas, we’re kicking it off. We are kicking it off. And it’s gonna be all about entities. Because people want to know what’s working entities. They want to know why because their entities. People want to know how because we’re building entities. Marco I can’t be that simple. Yes, the fuck you can’t. And that’s what we’re doing. So I’m bringing in different people Jordan, has volunteered to Jordan has volunteered to come on. From my mini mastermind as has a Brian cattle. Mike Pierce is also going to do it. And I’m trying to bring in another heavy hitter on on entity to see if we can’t get this like get everyone’s opinion, might or take I don’t want I don’t want opinions. Because everyone has an opinion. I want them to be able to come and say this is what’s working. This is why and I guarantee you that is the foundation of it all is his entity does that’s what it’s about. It’s about we’re going to be giving away I know that you volunteered to give away an email series and a half hour of your time on how to set it up and why they work. Her Nan and and his Facebook ads and Bradley has also volunteered his time. So as Chris, I’ll volunteer volunteer some of my time. I’m still talking to people, which is why nothing is finalized right now. As soon as it does. We’ll start sending out emails. All is going to take and I always say this is number one. Your heart has to tell you that you want to donate. So that has to come from here. If you don’t feel it then don’t write because then it becomes the meaningless. So that’s going to dictate whether you donate and how much you donate. But of course, it’s the wallet, because I don’t want you putting yourselves yourselves out for the donation. But I’m not really asking for any amount. I mean, there’s no set amount that gets you in or keeps you out long as you donate and you have proof of that of the donation, then we’ll get you in. So there you go. It’s like I don’t have anything for anyone to go to yet. But we will, we’ll set it I’ll set it up before the end of the week, we’ll get emails that will get people involved. We got lots of good stuff to give away lots of information, as a matter of fact, so it’s something to look forward to, and get that wallet ready.

Outstanding. All right. Well, I’m not going to follow on to that. I think leaving it there, Marco. The link is on the page already. Right for people who aren’t doing.

Yes, I dropped the link on the page. Awesome. Just get a like a screenshot of the donation. Perfect. Well, let’s leave it at that. Let’s jump into the questions if nobody else got any, anything we didn’t cover. All right, let’s do it.

I got a quick mention. I’m doing a lot of ton of YouTube ad stuff. I’m doing a lot of paid traffic with Google. And I’m trying to do get better at optimizing landing pages for conversions, find out why people aren’t converting if they’re not that kind of stuff. And I found another app Sumo deal that is called what’s it called flirty, pl er D, why I grabbed the link and drop it on the page here in a moment. But it does heat map. It does all kinds of stuff. But heat maps is one of them, which is kind of like hot jar and stuff like that. But App Sumo is lovely when you get lifetime deals. So I just picked it up today and started installing it on some of my landing pages. And it’s a it’s a really robust system, it’s still in development. That’s how a lot of Appsumo deals are. That’s where they get funding to continue to develop. But I just want to kind of point that out. It looks like a pretty cool thing. For anybody that is doing a lot of paid traffic. You want to be converting why not even paid traffic, just but you can be organic traffic, you want to optimize for conversions. So anyways, I’ll post that here on the chat box in just one moment. Okay, you guys are seeing my screen, correct?

Yes, sir. Yep.

Just scroll down and paste that. It’s really inexpensive. And it’s it looks, it’s pretty cool. I started already recording visitors on some of my landing pages. And it’s cool. It’s got a lot of different functionality anyways, not a pitch, I just thought I would share that. Moving on. We don’t have a lot of questions today, which is interesting. So if you guys have questions, post them, we should be able to get to them.

Does The Age Of A GMB Listing Matter?

First one comes from rocket blaster. Okay, he says, Does GMB listing age matter? I have a friend who ranks in multiple busy areas, and some of his listings don’t have website or much reviews. But I do know they are like 10 years old. I think it does. I don’t have any definitive data that states that but maybe Marco does, but I think it does, because I’ve got some older GMBs too, that some some of them are ranking really well. And I haven’t done a damn thing to them and yours just because they’ve been ranking so well. But if we were to look at traditional things, or items that I would be looking at, if I was entering a new market, some of my really old listings, don’t cut it, like they just don’t have the the metrics that I would expect for them to be ranking so well. So I think it does, but I’m not 100% sure mark, what do you say?

I’m gonna say it doesn’t matter. I mean, it’s not just one, it’s a few new ones that are killing it. It’s not so much with it’s new, or it’s like with anything else. It’s what you do with it. Because even if you don’t do anything, yet, you’ll rank well for something. But everything related to it, it’s not going to happen because you need that activity in their activity, relevance, trust and authority. You can establish activity, relevance, trust and authority rather quickly, or over time. So I’m going to say it doesn’t make a difference. I’m seeing new stuff rank really well, and rank for one word, keyword terms and two word terms in the Google insight. I mean, you guys saw it the other day.

Yeah, you should post that screenshot in the chat box here so people can see what you’re talking about.

So I’m gonna say yeah, it makes no doubt I’ll post one of the one of the screenshots makes no difference.

Yeah. And that’s interesting, because even so, some of the ones that I just mentioned that I have that I haven’t done a lot with, but they’ve remained ranked. It’s probably based on what Marco just said, to Marco’s point. It’s probably because they’ve been ranked so well, that they they’re always getting traffic which is activity relevance, trust and authority. That’s activity and people convert. So they’re either submitting a lead form or calling. Most of the leads that I generate are still through calls. But so my guess is it’s because of that activity. And because there’s a high conversion rate, often that it ends up it still ranks without doing a lot of the stuff that I would typically do if I was going to be entering a new market area with a new listing. That makes sense.

So okay, Mohamed’s up at some point, he says, Hey, guys, I have a writer doing weekly blogs for multiple car dealerships, I make a list of titles for each company. And then the writer tackles me tweak however, I started writing for a second dickeya dealer, should I find a new set of keyboards for the stealer? Or use the same ones I used in my first gear dealer specifically, regarding brand specific titles? Like what’s new in the 2021 Sorento? Is it okay to have something like that repeated for multiple clients. Um, I would, I would try to vary the titles slightly. Here’s the thing, your title tags, Muhammad are going to often your title tag for like your SEO tag, essentially, title tag is what I’m talking about is going to often have you know, the brand name for the company or the blog that you’re blogging on. So that’s going to make it somewhat unique, it might still be the same, like actual article title, but the SEO title is going to be different, but I would still try to vary it. And let you know, unless you’re in like completely different locations entirely, which I can, I can only imagine you are. But I just wouldn’t want competing content for the same the same exact title. Personally, that’s how I would do it, my bloggers are really good at that. They don’t duplicate titles across, even if they’re using basically the same, they’re optimizing for the same keyword across multiple because most all my clients are Tree Service clients. So it’s hard to count constantly come up with new stuffs, a lot of times we’ll use the same idea or topic, but they’ll just kind of vary it slightly. And, and so they’re really good at that. So that’s just the way I prefer to do it, you probably can get away with using the same titles. I know like mass page sites, they’re all basically that. So I know you probably can, but my personal preference has always been to add some diversity or variety to the titles. But that’s my own. That’s, that’s how I do it. How would you guys do it? Marco?

This is why I won’t take on the second client in the same area. Because you end up competing, so which one are you going to rank above the other? Now you’re now you’re in an ethical quandary? Right? You’re in an ethical dilemma. Because I mean, you can’t produce. So you have the exact same thing. This is one of those where things on the internet, I never be URL are never equal. All things being equal. In this case, all things are equal. Now you as the SEO have to choose who gets the content, and how it’s not something that I want to get into. I mean, you have already, and I’m going to go with Bradley, you focus on the entity, right? And that’s what you build on. And you build the content around the entity try to make the entity a little different. Because if they see each other’s content, they’re gonna say, What the fuck are you doing? That’s, that’s a big problem that you’re that you’re going to create. If they see that you’re producing the same content for both. So why the fuck am I paying you? They can both say this now. Why the fuck am I paying you? If you’re using my content for this other guy? I’m paying you for the content. Why are you You see what I’m saying? Yeah, that’s good. You’re getting into a big problem. Mohamed? I’m telling these people don’t play. They’ll sue the fuck out of you.

What Are Your Plans For SM And MGYB For 2021?

Yeah, I agree with that. Too many questions BB. This is so funny. Anyways, he says what does the SM/MGYB team at planned for 2021? I’m curious to hear about your vision for SM MGYB for 2021 and beyond? Um, well, I don’t know. I don’t know how much we we can reveal here or we should we’ve got lots of stuff in development. I’m working specifically on something big for semantic mastery mastermind. It’s probably one of the biggest projects I’ve ever worked on. No kidding. But it’s a it’s something that I’m really hoping to. If I can get it to work properly, then it’s going to really revolutionize how we manage our mastermind, which is something that we’ve been looking to do for some time. So anyways, that’s my back can’t really reveal what it is. I’ve talked about it a little bit in the mastermind, but I’m not going to reveal that here because I haven’t proven it yet. I’ve got to prove it first before I’ll reveal it. So but I’m pretty big stuff. I know that that’s on my end on MGYB. We’re going to be Oh, can I talk about? What what’s going to occur sometime next month?

Marco? Ah, it depends on which thing it I got so much shit. I can’t keep it straight in my head. What are we talking about the new UX? Oh, sure, Yes, please. Okay,

well, I’ll let you talk about it because that’s more on your in your camp? And do I be moving to new framework, better ordering, we think we would just have a better user experience when ordering. We’re trying to fix things we’re trying to give you a recurring options, for example, for link building, and all of the different things that can be available through MGYB that aren’t currently because of how we’re like we’re constricted by the framework we’re on. So at the end of the year, beginning of January 2021, we will be moving to the new framework. And of course, we want you people to please be patient, because we’ll be working the entire month on working out the bugs that will come up when you’re ordering. But as we go along into the year, the system will be much more intuitive and much easier to work with, we’re hoping that you’ll be able to save instead of timing out that you’ll be able to save everything so that you don’t have to start all over. So we’re introducing a whole bunch of new things for MGYB for 2021.

Yeah, and, like another thing is being able to save client details, essentially. So for project details so that whenever you go to order another service for that project, it’ll have all the details already. So I mean, just a lot of a lot of things that we we weren’t able to do because you guys think about this, and I saw that a BB is asking a question next about specifically subspace, but we are not software developers, right. And so when we were partnered with the other, with the software development company that we had called, we’d created subspace that looked pretty and had good high functionality and all that kind of stuff. But that partnership dissolved. And we went off on our own for various reasons. But when we went off on our own, again, we’re not software developers. So we put MGYB together, Robyn Marco did with Cesar our programmer and stuff, put it together kind of in a rush to get to be able to provide our services to our audience and we wanted to do it on our own. So that’s why it is as clunky as it is. And it’s sufficed for a period of time, but we understand, especially with the growth that we’ve seen an MGYB that it’s not it, we needed to upgrade that and it’s, it’s been in progress for months and months and months, to be honest with you, we’re finally at the point now where we’re about ready to, to release it. And that’s part of the reason is because we’re trying to develop it out now to where it will be much more user friendly for you guys for the ordering process for everything. And again, so, we’re glad that you guys have been patient with us for as long as you have been, it’s going to get better, I promise you that.

That was put up this everybody that was put up in record time. I’ve never seen anyone put up a store that way, we did put up the ordering system the way we did in the time that we did, because we decided what parting way, and we need a store. So we did. And we incorporated our people. And if you guys remember, we moved the initial one to WooCommerce. So the so what people are actually seeing is version web 2.0 of the initial store because that was garbage. Yeah, he couldn’t really get anything done with it. WooCommerce allowed us to incorporate stripe and a whole bunch of other things. But there are limitations because of the framework where that WooCommerce store was installed. So we’re moving it to a different framework, which is, as I said, more intuitive, better UX. And so it should be better. And I’m not gonna make promises. It’s currently being tested. And as far as the developer, what he tells me is, on the end, I told Adam already on the fourth the ad midnight, as a matter of fact, it will be migrated. So the website will be going down just everyone is aware everyone who’s here. And anyone who watches is the website, it will be down until the migration takes place. And the new the new store. So if you can get any ordering done, do it before. So we have everything in place, just while during the migration and right after. It might be a little complicated, right? Well, you’re always going to have bugs you can’t get it perfect. The first time when you’re coding. Anyone who codes understands that

What Is Up With Marco’s Way Of Press Release?

all right, sweet. So the real bb with the real baby please stand up. He said Hey guys, number one see too many Questions BB num. Number one of many says, what is up with the testing of Marco’s way of press releases? Please remind me how to do it exactly which way you create the links in the PR how many where they point? What anchor texts you use? Well, that’s like eight questions in one.

Yeah, nothing’s gonna happen in here. Yeah, baby, I would wreck I would encourage you remember, go take a look at the press release silo webinar that we did Marco and I did, it’s pretty much the exact same skill as that the only difference is in my press releases the way that I was doing it at the time that I recorded that webinar, which by the way, just go to semantic or youtube.com slash semantic mastery, use the channel search feature and search press release SEO, or whatever you could even do it just search YouTube, you’ll see it and you can go through and watch that. The only difference is, Marco does just to create the PR silo stack is they’ll just use one the first in the stack. So the top of the silo essentially will link to the destination URL on the site. But then every subsequent and then it can link to another top tier one profile or whatever. But every subsequent PR within that silo, he only does one link, right Marco? Oh, am I correct? to two lanes in each PR. Okay.

I under the previous PR and in one to any tier one entity asset, whatever, whatever.

Right? Yeah. And that’s the only difference what what I was doing. At the time that I recorded that press release SEO webinar was I was always linking to the previous press release in this silo, a corresponding blog post or GMB post URL, right, because typically, we write our press releases now for my business from my clients and for my lead gen stuff. We typically will have a press release that is promoting or highlighting a blog post. Okay, so the way that I used to do it, and I just started I kind of switched over to Marco’s method recently because his results are undeniable. But when when I what I was doing before was I was always having one link in the press release, go to the previous press release. And that same silo, I would always have a link going to whatever blog post, the press release was promoting, right, it could either be the blog post URL or a GMB post URL that was a snippet of the blog post and the GMB posts would link to the blog post URL. And then I would always link to one tier one entity asset. So so I would always have three links in every PR. But now I’ve actually switched down to doing what Marco is doing, which is just linking back to the previous press release and in that same silo and then also just another tier one entity profile essentially. And and I just started doing that about two weeks ago, and am seeing some better results with that. So that’s the only difference. But everything else is exactly the same as we talked about in that webinar. So again, go to YouTube channel youtube.com, slash semantic mastery, use the channel search feature and search for press release SEO. You guys can watch that for free. It’s on our channel. It’s public. But that’s exactly the same process. It might be time to do local PR pro because I’ve got some other shit we can throw on there that supercharges that shit.

I do to actually we were talking. It’s fine. We’re not here.

Yeah,

Yeah, you were, somebody was asking earlier. Too many questions BB the other BB was asking what some of the plans are that, we’ve had discussions about updating local GMB pro to add some new things into their Local PR pro might be on the block on deck to be updated as well. So we do have some things that we can we can do. But I can’t really contribute to those until I finish working on what I’m working on. And it’s a rather big project. So it might be a few months.

Any News With The RSS Software?

All right, so the next question from BB was any news with the new RSS software? what it does? Yeah, Adam, we had a landing page for people to opt in to be notified when it is going to be open for more beta testers and such Do we still have that?

Yeah, let me get it I forget what the URL was. It was kind of a jumble. So let me paste that up there but

It’s a very powerful news and media site generator, you can create networks of sites that can be like auto blog auto populated with RSS feeds and or content content database that you can populate using RSS feeds and all kinds of stuff. It’s, it’s really cool. It’s hard to explain right now. It’s still in beta. So and it’s simple. There’s a lot of similar functionality to RSS masher. But I think it’s more industrialized, so to speak.

I haven’t used it. It’s a lot simpler, really a lot simpler to me, right? I like the way that it flows. I like how simple it can be, to us a little clunky right now because it’s under development. It’s in beta testing, right. And so what we do is we find any bugs, we report it back to Jeremy, he goes, he fixes it, he’s really good about it. And that that’s how it’s supposed to be right? Because you work it out before you release it to the police what we’ve been doing with MGYB it’s not as if it hasn’t been tested all this time that we’ve been announcing new framework is that we keep breaking it, finding new things, finding other ways to do it better ways. And so we have to go back, and like coding isn’t just Okay, so something is broken on online 15,000. Just to say, a number. It’s not as if you go to line 15,000. And it’s fixed, it might be that you change that line, but it changes everything downstream and upstream. So that you have to go back and work on an entire section of code, but then you realize that there’s another section that jumps to that section. So it just triggers a whole lot of things that need to be fixed. And it all takes time. Yeah.

Okay. Um, so I can’t say whether it’s better or anything else in RSS manager yet, I’ve not been able to test with that much or do with it much because I just haven’t had the time I’m actually waiting until some of it gets developed a little bit further before I get in there and start testing So anyway, we’ll reveal more about it when we can guys it’s still too early for that.

Do You Recommend Serp Space?

So Alright, the last part of BB’s many questions is do you use Serp Space or do you recommend it now? stay the hell away from it. We parted ways with those guys for various reasons. But from what I understand that it’s still real slow and delivery or not no delivery at all. And so anyways, we don’t recommend it. You know, for for you guys. That’s why we started MGYB was specifically so that we could provide our services to our audience. So there you go. Okay, and then he has a comment about too many questions. BB is rather slow. I can see dueling BB let’s go dueling DVDs.

Can iFrame Loops Be Used To Index Links?

Okay, so law says hello there. Can iframe loops be used index links? That’s a good question. Marco.

Ah, yeah, I haven’t tried it. I’ve been trying other shit that’s working really, really fantastically well. I can’t say come join me in the heavy hitter club. So so so that when I, when I share it, with me and I and as a matter of fact, I did. One of the things that’s what I’m going to be sharing guys, the heavy hitter club is going to be like the ground zero. For all our experimentation for all our testing. For everything that we’re doing. I shared the as a matter of fact that Google My Business listing that there’s an image of that I shared that I shared, what I did with it, I shared the interlinking everything that’s going to be ground zero, guys, you want to know what’s going on how everything is working. 2020 and beyond and what was working in 2004 how it’s everyone thinks it’s new again, because I take it and I get it that it on the on the internet. 17 1617 years is a very long time. It’s eons on the internet. But everything that’s old, becomes new, again, foundational, little changes, there’s little changes, there’s little flips and twists. That’s all you have to keep up with. But the foundation always works man you do the shit, right? And Google core up this who gives a shit, I don’t give a shit. My Stuff five to 25% across the board for every core update ever since they started doing this shit. Five to 25% some of them not at all sometimes. And yes, others often. And like the new stuff when we apply our methods, which is entity based SEO, which is what we’ll be discussing in the charity webinars. That’s gold, and therefore the when, and I understand people don’t really get the concept of entities because nobody, nobody has done a really good job of explaining it. And so that’s what we’re going to try to do.

Yeah, and just it’s interesting, but I my mastermind webinar last week, I went through and even demonstrated how I do it the theme earring process that I do four g sites for the RYS expansions. So I work so that’s something that I covered in the mastermind it’s working really, really well. It’s a very simple process too, which is cool after you’re done. In our ys expansion, it’s just taking a few minutes and a VA can be trained to do it very, very easily. But it’s a heavy hitter club is where you want to get all the technical nitty gritty, or the mastermind.

Okay, moving on our sorry. Oh, last follow up question was so for instance, if there is a loop and on every page, there is also an iframe of a Google Sheet with links in them yeah, again, haven’t tried it. Something we’re working on though, for syndication Academy since that’s also going to be relaunched guys that is in progress of being updated now. So that’s something else to get back to too many questions bV. That’s another thing that we’re doing for 2021 is syndication Academy is being relaunched totally updated and relaunched with a lot of additional stuff to it. And one of the things that is being worked on now is a automated Google Sheet for all your RSS feeds from your different various profiles, so that whenever content is published it autumn auto populates a Google Sheet which you could just have a single Google Sheet that you just start hammering away with Google backlinks. So that every time a new link, get something gets published, it’s going to automatically be added to a Google Sheet that is just this pool of link juice. So there’s a lot of really cool things that we’re doing for the for version three of syndication Academy, and that’s in progress as well. And that’s not going to be too long before I think we’re are we’re aiming to launch that and relaunch that in February I think.

And actually what he talks about a Google Sheet with links that’s the part of the drive stack and that’s always part of the drive second he said that that has been standard operating procedure for now over five years. That’s the way we do it. That’s the way we do to do

Do You Include High Ranking Competitors Names When Adding Keywords To The SEO Shield Order?

okay, so Fitz is up what’s up fitzy says good agents please remember the kids still need your help anything you can give 2050 or even a one time $100 anything would be great. My question today so thank you for that the charity URLs right there guys. It’s gonna be a lot of good coming out of that again this year. My question today when adding keywords to your SEO shield order, do you include high ranking veteran names? Okay, so you’re talking about for the keyword list that you add, or submit to the text file with the keywords for the drive stack build? Do I include high ranking competitors names? I’m going to tell you I do not maybe I’m wrong and not including them but I always manually go through my keyword list and remove competitors names or brand names and I’m anxious to hear what Marco has to say about that.

Okay, let me just be adding keywords here SEO Shield. No, no, if I go after competitor names, I don’t even know if I should save it. Yeah, why not? And alternative to silo review silo? Yeah, you’re looking for this Have you thought about whatever. Because if you if you mentioned your competitors as a co citation, and if you pushing enough power, and they have more power than you then then you’re never going to catch up by pushing power over to them.

You ambiguous the entity, you will ambiguous your entity if you push enough power to their entity from yours. Yes, absolutely. It’ll create kind of like a parent child relationship where they’re where they’re the dad, they’re your dad and you can’t get through that. Who’s your daddy? Your daddy?

Yeah, and so I’m glad you said that because that confirmed why I never did it I would always manually go through and clean out any brand names it’s interesting Google Keyword Planner, the Google Ads Keyword Planner now when you and I still I use that a lot because I do a ton of Google Ad stuff now a lot more than I ever have to be honest with you so it’s interesting but now when you like there’s probably a lot of you’re familiar with this but there’s a right sidebar section on the keyword planner results so like when you have a pullback your keywords, you can there’s like some drop down arrows and you can go in and like select brand terms and things like that it’ll automatically remove all of those or filter those out. It makes it a hell of a lot easier. Now to filter there’s also have the filtering options like there’s a ton of different filtering options. So you can have keywords like for example you can set a filter for keyword contains or keyword does not contain and it can be keyword contains the exact word or phrase or the semantic term like in other words, if it’s semantically related it will also filter out or only show those that contain depending on which which option you choose. Either a specific keyword or terms that are semantically related to that synonymous with it. So it’s really, really cool. The keyword planner gives you that option to filter and clean the list a lot better than it ever did before. But there’s still some manual cleaning involved. And so that’s, again, that’s what I do is I’ll go in and clean out any competitors names, and my thought process. And I’m glad that it was right or that Marco confirmed it was that I didn’t want to include competitors names in the drive stack builds because it could ambiguous eight, the entity that I’m trying to promote. So there you go. I’m glad that he confirmed that.

How Long Do You Wait To See If The Backlinks Were Enough Since It Takes A While From Ordering To Delivery?

Second question, when you are backlinking press releases, how long do you wait to see if the backlinks were enough? Since it takes a while from ordering to delivery? Usually, we’ll see what I do is when I get back a link building package back or an embed package, whatever, I submit the tier one links to an indexing service. And then I put that on drip for 30 days, because I usually order I don’t usually order anything less than the gas it up link building where embed packages, which is the middle package. I don’t usually ever order anything less than that. So it’s, a lot what is it like 7000, tier one links or something on the on the first. So I always submit that to through a indexer and put it on a 30 day drip schedule. And then at the end of 30 days, that’s when I’ll start looking to monitor results or see what kind of movement I got from it. And remember, that doesn’t mean all at the end of 30 days when when when the indexing schedule has completed or the indexing process has completed. Some of those were just indexed yesterday, you know what I mean, or sent through the index, it doesn’t mean they’re indexed, it just means they were processed. So there’s usually still a lag of a few weeks beyond when the indexing processes stops before you’ll truly see all of the results from the link building gig. But usually what I do is because it takes what, two to three weeks for me to get a link building gig completed, then it’s 30 days after that. So we’re talking about and that’s why I do things in stages. Guys, I’ve talked about this many times, but I’ll do a link building gig this month, next month, I’ll do or sometimes six weeks later, just depends. I’ll do an embed gig, then for six weeks later, I’ll do another link building gig but maybe two different targets or two isolated silos or things like that. And so cumulatively, over the course of a few months, all this stuff starts to take effect. So I don’t have any things in isolation to where I would do just a link building gig and and wait for three months and monitor to see when the bump from that link, that one and only link voting gig took a fact, because I’m always doing things in stages sequentially, like I just mentioned. So at some point, all of these things start to kind of coalesce and push create buoyancy for the project. And I can’t really attributed to any one specific thing because I haven’t been testing in isolation. That that’s my take on it. Margot, what do you say?

I think this is an absolutely great question, man.

No, it is a good question.

The thing? And I just lost my train of thought. I’m sorry about your scheduling.

I’m sorry that how long? Right How long? I got it up. I just started thinking about something that I do. In addition to if you’re in the heavy hitter club. If you were you would know. Like how long to wait because we tell you once it’s delivered, once it’s delivered, we track it, we tell you where to track it analytics and search console, we tell you how to take a look at your analytics and search console and your GMB insights and how to combine all of this information so that you know how to focus on the money. This is how you do not know how long do you see the backlinks were enough. But you have to take a look at the data. And the data doesn’t start coming back until 21 days after your gig is delivered to you. It started sooner. But that puts you in a safe place so that if you have to do more, you’re okay in ordering more right away. You don’t get stuck in over how long has been tying clears enough so that you can go after the next one. And then you can put you can even put the next one in the queue. Once you’ve said your cycle. You’ll have a cycle when they start coming back. And you’ll have time to go take a look at the data to use. And I don’t see how people can say that analytics and search console are broken that they’re no good. That’s where the fucking money is. Because it’s information from Google. If you’re telling people that this information is no good, you’re a fucking idiot. You just don’t know how to use it. Because it’s all there. Google gives you everything. This is what we want. This is how we want it. Use these, hey, look at all of these related words, and look at the money. That’s in those words, because you’ll be setting your conversions and analytics. And they’ll be telling you how much money you’re making per page, how much money a person is in your cart. Google will give you everything if you know what you’re doing, if you know how to use it, that that guy that you use for analytics and not forget that measure school, right, Julian antastic.

Yeah, he’s bad at it, you should set your Shut up, set your conversions, you have to understand how much each one of your money pages is making you. Because if you’re flying blind, if you don’t know where your money’s coming from the management, just throw shit up against the wall and hope that it makes you money. Because it’s a total waste of time what you’re doing so focus on the analytics focus on the Search Console focus on your GMB insights and gather the data from there, we have to be scientists about this shit, not guessers you can guess your way to bankruptcy. Or you can understand the data, use it scientifically, and dance all the way to the fucking Batman.

So measure school because you mentioned it, I was I happen to see a notification on Facebook earlier today. And it was Julian this guy, I think his name is Julian or Julius. I think it’s Julian. Anyways, this guy, uh, he I noticed on Facebook, I had a notification and I clicked it. And it was him doing a live stream from earlier today. This is it. It’s Google track conversion tracking with Google Analytics for which I just started installing Google Analytics for on my newer landing pages and sites and stuff like that. I’m having converted old projects to that yet, but it adds a shit ton of additional data guys and analytics, like it is the next generation of analytics. It’s just insane, especially with, with with Google Ads catching up to like behavioral and interest marketing, or audiences like what Facebook has had. That’s part of the reason Google Analytics for is what it is, is that has evolved to what it is now because it adds so much more data to the, to the visitors that come to the site. And it’s just incredible how much data can be available that connects with Data Studio and all this stuff. And so it’s a, it can be overwhelming, I’m just starting to implement some of this stuff now. And measure school is where I will go, I’m just talking about his Facebook page now because I just like I said, I put on in the background, his his live stream today where he was talking about setting up conversion tracking, and all different types of like micro conversions. And so different tags and triggers, that you could set up a Tag Manager to fire off an event or goals inside of analytics, and all of these things can actually help to improve your SEO, because it’s going to register as conversion actions like things that you can do. So like scroll depth, for example, can be a conversion action, or if you wanted it to be or a micro conversion, I can even call it that. Things like that all different kinds of things time on site, like so event triggers for Well, time, and all kinds of things like that can be added as conversion or micro conversions, which can improve your SEO because those are engagement signals that you’re feeding directly into Google. So like, it’s just amazing the kind of things that can be done. And this guy right here, there’s no question anytime I have any, anything that I need to look up about tag manager or how to set up triggers and tags or events or Google Analytics, anything, I go to measure school, either to his website, or mainly his YouTube channel, and I hadn’t thought to go to his Facebook page until I saw his live stream today. So again, I don’t get anything for promoting this. I’m just telling you, because it’s badass. He’s his information is incredibly right to the point and again, to help you get set up.

You don’t have to, like get as intricate as he does. Now, as long as you’re setting up your goals and conversions. And on the pages that make you money, you have to know which pages make you money. First and foremost, you set up your conversions and goes on that. So that you can hyper target everything. And then where your money is coming from how it’s coming in. You can track the people that come in, you can put in, like you can get a whole lot of information from each user. How do they interact with your page? Why do they leave your pay? These are all things that you need to know or else you’re losing money.

Yeah, so again, guys, I highly encourage you to go check out measure school again on Facebook, YouTube, and he’s got his website. He’s got a ton of free training. He’s got some paid courses, but to be honest with you, I couldn’t imagine even needing he was paid courses unless you’re a true data nerd, because he’s got so much really good information for free. So kind of like what we do here. Oh, dang. Alright, moving on.

Will I Most Likely Rank If I Purchase The MGYB SEO Shield And Link Building?

Rocket blaster says if I purchase SEO and link building from MGYB done for you will I most likely rank it’s too? I mean, that’s, that’s too There’s no way that we can answer that question on so I’m sorry. But there’s just no way there’s too many variables. We don’t know what kind of you could be going after like the keyword gold and are and SEO shield and the link building gig is not going to rank you for gold.

Look, we got a backup because that actually happened.

Yeah, what not someone was like, Yeah, I put out two posts, and they went out to my syndication network didn’t rank for gold. And it’s like, oh,

no, no, that was for DUI attorney or something in Toronto, Canada. Come on, man.

Yeah. Yeah, that was that was an old mastermind member that joined the mastermind and did two posts to a shitty syndication network and no images or nothing. And he said, I’m not ranking for DUI attorney Toronto, this shit doesn’t work. Any quit. Good riddance. See ya. rocker blaster? Sorry, I can’t answer that question is there’s too many variables. Not enough context in your question. Even if you did provide more context for you, for us to say and SEO showdown link building one one link building gig to rank, I would never promise that or guarantee that. It usually requires more than just that. Okay.

It usually requires consistency over time. That’s great might, depending on so many variables that we can’t even begin to get. I’m in a very competitive niche. The image that I posted in, in the event is in the I’m telling you a hyper competitive niche. And Google is ranking me for one and two word keyword terms already. And it went live on Thanksgiving Day. And so that’s not likely to happen for everybody. Now, it does have the, it has everything that we tell you guys to do. Seo shield is in place. We have the GMB in place, we have everything in place. We started posting, we started uploading images, we started working on the G site, we started expanding it. So everything that we tell you has been done. And we’re getting rewarded, and we’re getting rewarded consistently. So that means I have to be consistent in that niche over time to see even better results. It might be that in your net it, you might hit it in a way and you might hit the entity, which means that your schema better be in place, right? That you hit it that way. And that’s all you need. But then we’d be speculating as to why because we don’t know, we don’t have everything from Google, we do know. And we’ve boiled it down to activity, relevance, trust and authority. And but but all but that condenses over 2000 signals, or 3000. signals, that you can send Google both good and bad. We focus on the good and try to avoid the bad. And by sending Google good good signals, we try to become the best entity, the best entity option for that niche. And then once we have that we just force feed Google the rest, because once you’re the authority, you can get away with basically whatever you want.

There you go.

One second night, we’re all going to be running out of time. But there’s a few more questions I’d like to get to. So we’ll try to roll through the next few just one moment. We’ll come back to that.

Is It Good When Google Site Ranks Better Than The Money Site?

Pavlo says, Hey, guys, is it a good sign when Google Site ranking, much better than the money site? How to change the situation? Thank you. Yeah, I mean, it’s a good sign because it means you’re making progress. In my experience over time, oftentimes a Google site will outrank a money site when I want, especially for new projects when I’m starting. But over time, the once the entity is fully solidified, oftentimes the money site will outrank the G site, it’s rare that the G site over time will stay above the money site, the self hosted website, the domain, the main, the primary domain. And again, a lot of that has to do with your structured data. And what you’re telling is the primary asset for the entity and all of that, and it just takes time, like I said, most of the time, it’s often that the G site for new projects will outrank the money site. But over time, when you continue solidifying, validating the entity all the stuff that we talked about, the money site will outrank the G site, no matter how much power you push, at least that’s been my experience. Anything you want to add to that Marco?

No man, because that’s how it should be. That’s what we expect. The expectation is that you’re going to push so much power to that g site, it’s going to RYS group is going to pop it before anything else. That’s why your schema should be in place so that you creating the right relationships, the parent child relationship, Google will understand that that the TLD that you’re using is the actual Parents have that T site, that that g site is simply an extension, an extension of your money site. Once that relationship happens, then Google switches that over to your money site. And then you that’s why we use the shield for power, then, and for protection. Yeah, and again, that’s amazing. And you seeing it? Yes, that’s part of the plan. The structured data is a big part of that, as Marco said, so.

What Are The Possible Consequences When There’s A Duplicate Content On The Same Website?

Alright, so another question from Pavlo. If I did a mistake and duplicate content on the same website, what are the consequences Sandbach or penalty? Do you recommend recover the website from Google actions or create a new website? If I can recover from that now, from that, then how long? can it take? Thank you so much. If I did a mistaking duplicate content on the same website, what are the consequences? I mean, I don’t mark, this might be a question for you. I’m not I’m not sure what he’s talking about. I mean, you just talked about keyword cannibalization. Right, if you have the same content posted on the site more than once, it can cause some overall site quality issues. And those pages can be competing, but I’m not sure what you’re talking about recovering a site and everything else. I’m not sure what he’s asking about to you.

So Pablo, let me ask you this. You use the conditional if? Is this something that happened that Google hit you for duplicate content on your website? If so, how do you know? Like, did you get a notification in Search Console? Because what they usually say, in the in the manual action, or in Google is that you have duplicate titles and descriptions. I haven’t seen a duplicate content message in there, you get unnatural link building messages, and then you’re in trouble. But the only thing that you have to do to recover is canonicalize. The content? Yeah.

Uh, yeah. There you go. Look at the index if you got the index start over.

Yeah, I agree with that. So he says, Oh, Pavlos. This is a good, good point. And I think we are going to be doing this Pavlo, I can’t swear to that. Maybe Marco knows. But he says, hopefully we will be adding a PayPal option to our store as part of the new interface.

I can’t say but it’s one of the things that we’re supposed to be working on.

Do You Outsource Phone Services To Your Agency?

Are you go? Scott says, Scott Walker. What’s up Scotty says this is a 2xyouragency type of question. I’m so bad on the phone. That calling a business and asking for email addresses is not at all useful. Are there any? Are any of you using a service or outsourcers to place calls? Thanks and Merry Christmas. Okay, I have in the past I’ve used telemarketers that have hired from Upwork for specific campaigns of some sort. And I’ve been fairly successful with that in the past more recently, because I am working on the project that I’m working on that will be part of the mastermind. If all goes well includes hiring an appointment center and let me see if I get the right.

Rent a caller. Yes, this is it here. Okay. Rent a caller go to rentacaller.com. This is a service by Ross cristofolini. I think his name is the guy from lead carrot. I don’t like the carrot. It’s a lead scraper pipeline app and all that it might be great for certain industries. But for the industries that I work in, I don’t like it. But he’s got some good training. This guy Ross here for various things. And run a collar is a service that he launched that where you can rent a collar a telemarketer like an appointment center set, excuse me an appointment setter for a week at a time. And it’s it’s inexpensive. You know, if you need somebody that much, if you were if you’re doing a lot of heavy prospecting, then you can hire a caller for a week to handle all of the leads that you’ve generated in a month or something like that. I’m just giving you an example. If you want if you don’t have that much of a need, where you can you need somebody for an entire week, then I would recommend going to Upwork and just looking for telemarketers. And you can even hire a few of them on a trial basis to figure out which ones work are going to work best for you. Kind of like what we teach and Outsource Kingpin hire more than just one because you’re going to you’re going to find some that work better with you than others and that kind of stuff. So I’m just pointing this service out here guys, because this is something that I’m going to be trying for what I’m doing for my own business, but if you just needed on a lesser, you know, not as much where you don’t need as much of as much time from one of them then I would recommend just going out work. Okay. That’s a good question.

somebody’s saying Do you just use Shopify for our store right now There’s a bunch of comments about our courses and everything else. Okay, we appreciate your input. Thank you for that. Let’s see Wayne Clayton the saying maybe you really should join the mastermind. I agree with that. All the questions maybe asks. It’s five o'clock, we got just a couple more I want to roll through guys. If anybody has to leave, then feel free to do so. I’m gonna roll through the last couple.

What Are Your Thoughts On A Client Who Requests Schema To Each Review On His Websites From Yelp And Google?

This one says so by the way, thank you, Wayne, appreciate that. I agree BB should be joining the mastermind. There’s no question. I have a client who’s requesting schema every review on each of his websites 21 from Yelp, Google, etc. I’m not liking this and wonder if this is something I missed in proper SEO. I don’t know why you would want to do a I don’t know. Personally, I don’t I do aggregate review rating. And that’s it. Period. And that’s because I work with local businesses. I do aggregate review rating. For example, if it’s a location page for a multi location Tree Service business, then on the location page, I’ll have the GMB map embedded. And then I’ll use schema for the aggregate review rating for that particular location. Does that make sense? That’s what I’ll do. And that page will rank with stars showing the review stars because I have the aggregate rating schema. But I don’t do individual markups for every single review nor what I I mean, maybe I would but it would be outsourced for damn sure. I’m not sure why somebody would need that. But again, I’m talking about local business reviews. If you’re talking about product reviews, and things like that, it might be different. I don’t know, because I don’t do that. Any comments on that? Hire someone, train them. mark it up. You’re good to go.

Yeah. And again, are you saying Google reviews from Yelp, Google, it’s got to be a local business. I can’t imagine why you would need to mark up every individual review, I just don’t understand the point of that. Aggregate review rating is all that’s needed. is, as far as I’m, as far as I’m concerned.

So I look, sometimes clients are idiots. And we understand that you sometimes need to keep those idiot clients because they pay the bills. If you’re in that. cop, if you’re in that party, then hire someone, but make sure the client pays for at all. sure we’ll do it. This is what is going to cost or we can do aggregate under what we’re currently charging. Which would you prefer?

Yes. It’s so much easier. Just plugins By the way, there’s a fuck the reviews bundle. Google reviews plugin rich plugins right here. I use this on WordPress sites, rich plugins. They’ve got a I mean, they’ve got it. As a matter of fact, if you take a look, they’ve got the business reviews bundle, which will do Facebook, Yelp and Google. And this is what I use. It’s fantastic for WordPress sites. Because you can just it will add the schema automatically for the aggregate reviews. It’s really really cool. So I would check out rich plugins comm if it’s a WordPress site, if you’re doing other kinds of sites or landing pages, which I’m doing a lot of that now I’m using something else called elf sight apps, which they had a an app Sumo deal l site apps right here. And they have a Google reviews. This is really, really cool, because they’ve got a ton of fucking apps By the way, Mark. Oh, he had to leave. I guess. Marco needs to check this out. But there’s a ton of apps here that you could use outside widgets and apps. And they’ve got something like that to where you it’ll add the aggregate review schema as part of the review widget a redo showcasing widget so you might want to check out those.

In What Order Should I Purchase MGYB Products For Local And Lead Gen Assets With No Websites?

Alright, the last thing I want to answer guys, we’re over that’s why everyone else bailed. The last thing is rocket blaster asks, in what order Should I purchase MGYB products for local lead gen assets with no websites? Alright, there’s two resources I’m going to point you to. So the first one is semanticmastery.com/process. I talked about using a self hosted money web website but you can just if all you have is a GMB and no self hosted website, it’s fine. Just use the GMB website. So whatever dot business dot site as your primary website, right, that’s it. And now if you don’t have an RSS feed, you can use the GMB with certain. You know, like post scheduling apps for example, you can get an RSS feed from a GMB. You can also get a GMB an RSS feed I think from Zapier out of a GMB. So you could use that to actually trigger like a syndication network, for example, but regardless, outside of wanting to syndicate posts, you can just use your GMB website as your primary money site. And then everything else is the same. Our methods are the exact same whether you have a self hosted website or not, it doesn’t make any difference because you can use the GMB website URL as your money. The site or the Google site, sites google.com the G site from the RYS stack can be your primary money site. And so all of the things the same that we teach and so again go to semanticmasterycom/process, you can check out the process that I’ve set up for that specifically to teach you guys and what order to sequence to do things. And then lastly is seoshield.com. Okay, if you go there that’s going to teach you about the SEO shield. It’s different components in which sequence to put them together. And, and again, it’s the same thing whether you have a self hosted website or not, it doesn’t matter. You can use the GMB website or the Google site from the drive stack, the SEO shield essentially as your primary money site. Alright, thanks everybody for hanging out. Looks like Hernan stuck around for an extra five minutes. Thanks, buddy. We done See you guys next week.

Source: Semantic Mastery Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 318 published first on your-t1-blog-url

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It turns out purposely messing with your targeted ads isn't a good idea

Facebook is convinced that I am a young mother with a love of kraken-themed decor. 

Unless you count my cat, who is 11-years-old and the animal equivalent of the grumpy old man from Up, I absolutely do not have a child. But for the last six months, my feed has been inundated with ads for baby products, from nasal suction devices to teething toys that look like plush versions of a bad acid trip. 

Over the summer, my cat underwent a veterinary procedure that, to spare the nasty details for the faint of heart, required me to dab antibiotic ointment on his butt twice a day. Because he had a knack for getting out of his cone of shame and getting ointment everywhere, I put him in diapers for the day after the surgery. But diapers made specifically for pets are absurdly expensive, so I bought a pack of (human) infant diapers online and went on my cat owner way. I started seeing ads for baby products that night. 

I know big tech companies have too much on me already. I've been on social media since I was 10-years-old, entering my email and date of birth on Neopets and Club Penguin, so my data has likely been tracked for more than half of my life. I'm online for a majority of my day, and I've accepted the fact that my digital footprint runs too deep for me to ever truly go off the grid. 

Which is exactly why I've started fucking with my ads. 

It's not just weird baby products. I've been curating my ads to show me extremely specific cephalopod-shaped home decor. After months of carefully engaging with ads, I've finally cultivated what I want to see on my Facebook feed. 

Image: screenshot/morgan sung

Image: screenshot/morgan sung

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I'm not the only one. Caroline, a Twitter user who tweets under the handle @defundpoppunk, also curates their ads. After clicking on specific Facebook ads, they managed to prune their feed like an artisanal algorithm — a concept first floated by Twitter user @JanelleCShane — into a masterpiece: Unreasonably baggy pants.

It's like a cursed personal data-laden bonsai tree. 

I click every ad I see on Facebook for weird pants in an effort to train Facebook to show me the weirdest pants. I think it's finally starting to pay off: pic.twitter.com/nS1oMl1Mv7

— olivia colman's oscar (@defundpoppunk) March 12, 2019

Caroline says they searched for jogger-style pants before, and has been getting ads for them ever since. For weeks, they've been clicking on any ad featuring "vaguely interesting-looking" pants. 

Like me, Caroline is fed up with the unending lack of privacy we have, and started engaging with their ads just to mess with them. 

"So at first it was a little bit of private trolling just because I know e-comm [e-commerce] people take their click through rates really seriously," they told Mashable through Twitter DM. "But then once I started my targeted ads actually changing, I got a little more deliberate about it out of curiosity." 

Aside from being an "amusing reminder that everyone is being tracked online constantly," as Caroline said, playing with targeted ads is like playing a game. 

There's something deeply satisfying about knowing that even though I as an individual can't really stop power hungry tech giants, I'm giving them a digital middle finger by engaging with the "wrong" ads. It's the online version of the Florida man who runs into hurricanes with heavy metal and American flags. Realistically, messing with my ads won't shroud me from the inevitable tracking that comes from being online, but it feels like I'm making it slightly more inconvenient for large corporations to know everything about the real me. 

Shoshana Wodinsky, a tech reporter at Adweek, gets why deliberately polluting your targeted ads is entertaining. 

"These kinds of big tech platforms are really powerful," she said during a Skype call. "They're like multibillion dollar companies and the fact that they screw up sometimes is kind of funny. Part of it's definitely punching up, but part of it's like, even these behemoths are somewhat fucked up."

Wodinsky has also experimented with purposely muddling her digital presence; she once changed her Bitmoji to be pregnant to see if it would affect her targeted ads. (She told Mashable that she is very much not pregnant, and during her interview, she said that the only children she has are her two cats.) Although she said it started "as a joke," she wondered how far she could take it.

"Realistically, I know that me pretending to be pregnant isn't going to do anything, but it's kind of like looking outside of the fishbowl," she said. "It's fucking over the big businesses, and who doesn't like to do that." 

i gave myself a pregnant bitmoji to see if it would screw with the way ads are targeted toward me and..... im here to tell you that nothings changed pic.twitter.com/SmfWkpRGys

— שוש (@swodinsky) February 13, 2019

fb thinks im preggers,,,,,, success

— שוש (@swodinsky) February 13, 2019

Less than half an hour after creating the Bitmoji, her ad interests included "motherhood" and "breastfeeding."

It's unclear what prompted Facebook to include those options in her interests — it could have been her Bitmoji, or it could have been the fact that she tweeted about it. 

Realistically, just clicking on and engaging with specific ads won't do much to your digital footprint; if you really wanted to go deep, you'd have to change your entire online behavior. Your ads aren't just targeted based on what you interact with on specific social media platforms, but what you search and interact with across the entire internet. Thanks to the cookies Facebook uses to track users, regardless of whether or not you're logged in, you can leave fingerprints all over the web. Truly tricking the algorithm would mean a complete overhaul of your search habits, your social media, and whatever personal information is publicly available. 

Meddling with your ad preferences by intentionally engaging with them sounds like a harmless prank, but it might have a dark side. Dr. Russell Newman, a professor at Emerson College who specializes in internet privacy, surveillance, and political communication, worries that any engagement with ads can have long term consequences. 

"You might feel like you're exercising some bit of control, but in fact, you have none," he said during a phone interview. "There are unknown ways that the game you are playing right now will affect your future existence, and you won't really be able to know."

Newman stresses that we really have no idea what information can be pulled from our online interactions, and how it can be used in the future. Because internet users are "seen in a particular way, quantified in a particular way, and identified in a particular way," he says, engaging with certain ads and showing a preference for certain ads can preclude certain options. He worries that engagement like this can affect life-altering factors like credit score. It sounds far fetched, but Newman said convincing advertisers that my cat is actually my baby, for example, could possibly affect my future health insurance premiums without me even knowing. 

"All the decisions that are going to be made about you going forward," Newman said. "Or the rest of your existence, are going to be based on the truth provided digitally."

Washington Post editor Gillian Brockell experienced the insidious side of online advertising last year. Shortly after she delivered her son, who was stillborn, the credit company Experian sent her an email prompting her to "finish registering" her child to track his credit for life. She noted in a viral Twitter thread that she had never even started registering her baby, and it was particularly cruel that companies wanted his information after his death.

I find this hard to believe. I'd been using Experian to check my credit regularly, & I'd never received any spam like this from them before, just a monthly email saying my report was updated. + the ad didn't say “family protection solution.” it said “register your child.” 3/ pic.twitter.com/dUPRxyWRKH

— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) March 12, 2019

"These tech companies triggered that on their own, based on information we shared, Brockell wrote in a piece reflecting on how she never asked to be targeted with parenting ads. "So what I’m asking is that there be similar triggers to turn this stuff off on its own, based on information we’ve shared."

Newman emphasizes that while Google, Facebook, and Amazon market themselves as a search engine, social media network, and online marketplace, respectively, the companies have a greater goal: advertising. 

"It's notable that you're saying, 'My privacy is gone, so I'm just going to roll with it,'" Newman said during a phone interview. "The problem isn't that your privacy is gone, the problem is that we don't actually have a nationwide regime set in place in regards to privacy."

Luckily, there are a number of ways to scale back on ad tracking, from opting out of social media data collection to using private browsers. 

Here's the bottom line: It turns out messing with my targeted ads probably wasn't a good idea. As satisfying as it is to make it slightly more inconvenient for advertisers, purposely engaging with ads for kraken-specific products is less damaging than limiting the data that advertisers can hold over me. Since my conversation with Newman, I've stopped haphazardly clicking on strange ads and opted out of sharing across my social media presence. 

But old habits are hard to break, and I admit that when I'm scrolling through Facebook before bed, I'll still linger on ads that include octopi. 

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15 of the Most Important Instagram Trends to Watch Right Now

Instagram trends can make or break your social marketing strategy. That’s why it’s important to stay on top of them.

Brands that keep up with the top trends on Instagram can take advantage of new features and beta tools ahead of their competitors. They also show their followers they know what’s up.

With added pressure from TikTok and a new head of company, Instagram is rolling out lots of new innovations, features, and tools.

These are the top trends on Instagram we’re watching right now.

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15 top Instagram trends to watch for

1. More Instagram Stories, fewer posts

Instagram Stories have taken over, with more than 500 million viewers every day.

They have also become the place where people keep tabs on their friends and family, according to Instagram research.

On the other hand, the Instagram feed is primarily associated with polished content and discovery.

Getting rid of the chronological feed has only reinforced that perception. Posts now need to be slightly more evergreen. Stories seem more real-time by contrast.

The majority of users see the Instagram feed as a place to find information and discover products and brands.

While that’s good news for brands, regular users find it more difficult to imagine their content in the mix. Some have viewed Instagram’s decision to test hiding likes as an attempt to spur more sharing from those who feel intimidated by the feed.

2. Growth of the Explore tab

More than 200 million Instagrammers check the Explore grid every day and that number is expected to rise this year.

The feed’s new navigation bar now offers shortcuts to IGTV and Shop. From there, people can delve into their niche interests, like beauty, travel, food, or art.

Or, they can get lost in a selection of Stories that will now be algorithmically fed into the Explore feed.

3. Sound on for Instagram Stories

It’s still important to design for sound off environments. But a recent Facebook (and Instagram) study found that viewers like voiceover and music. 80% of Stories with voiceover or music performed better than ads without.

Currently 60% of Instagram Stories are viewed with sound on.

Maybe TikTok’s musical platform has helped turn up the volume across social media channels. Either way, expect TikTok to influence more Instagram trends to come.

4. Strategic stickers in Instagram Stories

Stickers are popular on Instagram Stories, but businesses have had mixed results with them. That’s going to change this year, though.

Expect to see fewer unnecessary and generic stickers, and more polished and original branded stickers over 2019.

5. More interactive Instagram Stories

While stickers have been a mixed bag for businesses, interactive stickers have been a hit.

Questions, poll, countdown, and emoji-slider stickers don’t just prompt more engagement, they make Instagram Stories more sticky. In other words, people stick around longer if there’s something for them to interact with.

For instance, Instagram internal data shows that nine times out of 10, the polling sticker increases video views.

Look for Instagram to unveil for interactive elements over the coming year.

6. Easier ways to shop on Instagram

With more than 70% of shopping enthusiasts using Instagram to explore brands, Instagram now rivals Pinterest as a platform for product discovery.

Over the past year Instagram introduced product tags in feed posts, product stickers in Stories, and a shopping feed via the Explore tab.

With more than 130 million taps on these tags each month, a direct buying option is the logical next step. In March 2019, Instagram rolled out a beta in-app Checkout feature that it’s testing with 20 brands, including Adidas, Burberry, Nike, and Revolve.

Instagram charges merchants a selling fee to use Checkout. But, if it spikes enough sales, the fee won’t stop more brands and influencers from getting in on the action.

Pick up tips on how to make your Instagram account more shoppable.

7. Shoppable influencers

Instagram influencers face a barrage of comments and DMs that often ask the same question: Where’d you get that?

To save influencers’ time, Instagram now lets creators tag products in their posts, which can be purchased directly with Instagram Checkout.

Only a select few currently have access to the feature, including Chiara Ferragni, Kylie Jenner, and Vogue.

Right now, they can only tag businesses participating in the beta Checkout program. But more will be available soon.

8. More realness and representation

Authenticity is so last year. 2019 is all about #nofilter.

Celebrity influencers like Jameela Jamil have waged a war on airbrushing, photoshopping, filtering, body shaming, and non-inclusive creative.

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Boob stretch marks are a normal, beautiful thing. I have stretch marks all over my body and I hereby rename them all Babe Marks. They are a sign my body dared to take up extra space in a society that demands our eternal thinness. They are my badge of honour for resisting society’s weaponizing of the female form. ❤️ ps. My face is white because I wear spf 100 sunscreen like a boss. ???? PS. LOVE YOUR BROWN SKIN. I tan responsibly but I love to tan! I love to embrace and celebrate my heritage. This skin bleaching and whitening should be banned. It’s inherently racist, classist and emotionally very damaging. #brownandproud

A post shared by Jameela Jamil (@jameelajamilofficial) on Apr 1, 2019 at 7:50am PDT

Expect to see stretch marks, zits, and more from brands, especially in Instagram Stories. And with it expect to see more real talk about mental health, body insecurities, and other important issues.

In fact, Jamil’s radically inclusive @i_weigh account continues to gain followers. And with a follow from @sussexroyal, the official account of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, I WEIGH’s profile will by royally amplified.

Expect brands to more frequently sub models for real people. You should also see more diverse creative.

Aerie has earned major social klout for its “Retouching free since 2014” aesthetic. This goes for influencer partnerships, too. See IKEA’s partnership with the rainbow Amina Mucciolo being @studiomucci.

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#tbt I can’t believe it’s already been a year since this happened! Caption from the original post: “Total full circle moment! @mrstudiomucci and I got married at @ikeausa 10 years ago and now our loft is featured in the @ikeafamilymag ???????????? and my mug is on the cover ????!” See link in my bio for the full #Ikea home tour.

A post shared by Amina Mucciolo (@studiomucci) on Mar 28, 2019 at 10:36pm PDT

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"Middle school and high school years were really hard for me. When it came to accepting my body it felt like a forever struggle that would never ease up. Now I know that my beauty is not determined by how skinny my waistline is or how perfect my skin is. The truth is I know I am beautiful, every day, outside and in. Every pimple, stretch mark, every roll and curve are real and unretouched. My beauty shines every day in every way. And yours does too." @daniebb3 Loves the swim she's in! Share your unretouched swim photos with #AerieREAL @Aerie & we’ll donate $1 (up to $50K) to @NEDA for every post.

A post shared by aerie (@aerie) on May 20, 2019 at 6:00pm PDT

9. Rise of relatable influencers

Users are looking for authenticity from their influencers, too. The unrealistic lifestyles and picture-perfect aesthetics of certain Instagram influencers has given rise to Instagram vs. Reality memes. Out of that has come a new breed of influencer: the relatable influencer.

For example, mommy blogger Laura Izumikawa shares the ups and the downs of parenting. Joana Ceddia channels her awkwardness into humour. Jen Gotch talks anxiety and bipolar disorder. These influencers attract followers who are going through similar experiences.

As Izumikawa shares, “People are on social media to connect—or at the very least—relate to others. Being open and transparent will go a long way to help you connect with your audience.”

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This is feels like my new normal. Swollen eyes, constant flow of tears and long, beautiful hair. It’s stress, and insecurity and sadness.  it’s emotions – some of which I haven’t felt in a long time.  And it’s not that my meds don’t work or that I’m having a depressive episode, and part of me wishes it was, because I know exactly what to do when that type of situation arises.  Strangely they come with less pain than this. Less tears.  Less rumination and obsessive thinking because the sensation is closer to no emotion than all emotion.  Add in a little shame, because I thought I was stronger than this.  And also I realized that I am not immune to vulnerability and vulnerability has kind of become my brand.  And it feels scary to share and it feels oftentimes meaningless to share, because it is really personal and I don’t have a solution and I usually like to offer solutions along with problems. And I’m in this fucked place because I asked to be and I should be grateful. I’m here alone, in solitary confinement – a form of psychological torture, writing this book that I really want a lot of people to read, because although it is a memoir, the goal is not just to share funny stories from my past. The goal is to enlighten people about their own mental health, to deglamorize success, build emotional intelligence, help as many people as possible feel less alone and yes of course, make everyone laugh. And I feel that instagram was a big part of what brought me this opportunity so I feel accountable to the platform and more specifically to you. So yeah, no solution here. Just an update, because the lack of an update was making me feel worse than an actual update. I know there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  I believe there is a light at the end of every tunnel. I just am not deep enough until the tunnel to see it and I want to go back, or lay down & cry or watch the entire first season of the Walking Dead while drunk.  But I won’t because I know moving forward is the only way through. Don’t feel bad for me, I am just identifying what is happening and acknowledging that I hate it more than going to the dentist naked – which I never have done, but it sounds awful.

A post shared by jen gotch (@jengotch) on Jan 27, 2019 at 3:59pm PST

10. The influence of TikTok

The unstoppable growth of TikTok, a music-backed video-sharing app that’s popular with teens, may inspire copycat behaviour from Instagram—as we saw with Snapchat.

IGTV will probably see the most changes, since many think the channel is due for a revamp.

And there are already early signs. Instagram’s recent overhaul of the IGTV feed resembles a cross between TikTok and Snapchat’s Discover feeds. Horizontal scrolling has been replaced with vertical scrolling. And, an algorithm automatically queues up the next video for you to view.

TikTok’s popular challenges have already organically migrated into Instagram follower feeds. So it wouldn’t be surprising to see Instagram attempt to foster more of that, especially since these challenges inspire content creation.

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anxiety has left the group chat.

A post shared by Liz Plank (@feministabulous) on May 14, 2019 at 11:19am PDT

11. More channel-to-channel sharing

With posts in Stories and IGTV videos in the feed, Instagram has been toying with increased linkage between its different formats. Expect to see more crossover from brands who are attempting to boost views in different streams.

For example, when Instagram changed its feed algorithm, we saw more people sharing “new post” alerts in their Stories. Also, one-minute IGTV teasers have been popping up in the feed to direct viewers to the main channel.

Stories are no longer contained to the top of the app either. Now, they’ll show up in the Explore grid too.

The grid will offer personalized Stories recommendations, reminiscent of TikTok.

Instagram is reportedly testing adding direct links for Instagram Stories, too.

12. Sharing Twitter takes on Instagram

Hot takes have taken over Twitter, and they’re showing up on Instagram more and more.

It’s true, @fuckjerry’s been stealing (ahem, now crediting) Tweet memes for years. But, accounts like @will_ent show that this Instagram trend is not letting up.

As The Verge author Megan Farokhmanesh notes, “For some meme creators, Twitter and Tumblr are a canvas, while Instagram is the wall where they display their work.”

Look for Tweets appearing in more Instagram-friendly templates, from branded backgrounds to cleaner, cropped screenshots.

Expect also to see more text-a-gramming, too, ranging from Rupi Kaur-esque poems to more type-moding in Instagram Stories.

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#ElleWoods2020

A post shared by Hello Sunshine (@hellosunshine) on May 17, 2019 at 9:59am PDT

Read more about what meme creators get right on Instagram.

13. Increased social activism

With heightened activism spurred by social unrest and the upcoming elections in Canada and the United States, people are sharing their opinions on social media more than ever.

Text-friendly platforms like Facebook and Twitter have traditionally been associated with social activism. But Instagrammers now have a stronger-than-ever grasp of how to use the platform to share and amplify their views.

From “I voted” stickers to climate change memes, it’s become increasingly common and sometimes inescapable for people and brands to take a stand on the platform.

Activism on all fronts often involves calls for donations to nonprofits.

In February, Instagram introduced a donation sticker that can be added to Stories. While the feature is not yet available to everyone, people will be able to select a nonprofit and even customize the name of their fundraiser.

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School strike Day 1… Now I’m not alone anymore! On Friday 24/5 we are striking in 1387 places in 111 countries. And counting! I Stockholm samlas vi i Humlegården kl 11:30 nu på fredag. Sen går vi till Kungsträdgården. Forskare och aktivister talar, inklusive jag. På scen: Astrid S, Molly Sandén, Jireel, Danny Saucedo, Lamix och Annika Norlin (Säkert!) Dela detta!! Sprid till alla!! #FridaysForFuture #schoolstrike4climate #climatestrike

A post shared by Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) on May 21, 2019 at 11:50am PDT

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Saw this sign near my neighborhood coffee shop. It, like all of last night’s firsts, gives me so much hope. For the first time in HISTORY, there will be more than 100 women in Congress, speaking for us. Check out @glennondoyle’s latest post for a great list of where things stand. #midtermsmatter

A post shared by Natalie Portman (@natalieportman) on Nov 7, 2018 at 1:51pm PST

14. Crackdown on Instagram bots

Facebook and Twitter have been under the microscope for their role in influencing elections and harbouring hate speech. And more recent reports are uncovering the role Instagram has played, too.

Over the coming year, we’ll likely see Instagram take steps to combat abuse on its platform. We’ve already seen a few, including increased access to verification and the addition of “About this Account” to profiles with large followings.

Bans on Facebook may start to apply to Instagram, too. For example, far-right figures Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, and Laura Loomer were removed from both sites this month.

But before there were any headlines about Russian meddling, Instagram already had a bot problem. Fake engagement bots have long been the scourge of the app, and Facebook has already started the year off by slamming bot sellers with lawsuits.

More purges, enhanced security, and increased scrutiny will likely follow in 2019.

15. Changes to Instagram Direct

Rumours that Instagram would completely push direct messaging to its standalone Direct app can finally be put to rest, at least for now.

With Direct gone, it’s likely that Instagram users will see some changes or improvements to the in-app messaging feature instead.

GIFs were introduced last year, and the Quick Replies tool was added to help businesses quickly answer frequently asked questions. It’s possible that Instagram will offer more filtering options for business and regular accounts.

For example, the option to make a Close Friends list for Instagram Stories makes it easier to direct message a group of friends at once. There are also rumours that Instagram will make direct messaging available on desktop.

Instagram is testing option to share content to Close Friends each separately pic.twitter.com/p21B4oiPof

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 15, 2019

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I see a big box of knives in my future. And possibly a tetanus shot. Maybe both.

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Funny Surgical Masks

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I Wish Someone Would Look At Me The Way Dogs Look At Food

The Blogess

I see a big box of knives in my future. And possibly a tetanus shot. Maybe both.

I need a lot of pills.

Amazon knows me too well and it’s insulting and also costing me money.

I don’t know how things work, part eleventy thousand

I think I found what I want on my tombstone.

The Hard Times

BREAKING: Aging Punk Marks Himself Safe on Facebook Following 7Seconds Break Up

Fuck: My Roommate Got a Book On Homebrewing

Awkward Japanese Teenager Thinks American Culture Would Understand Him

Everyone at House Show Confused How Middle-Aged Man Found out About This

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World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino Dies After Health Complications

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Major Laser

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Oh, the Shit You’ll Do After You’re Tenured!

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Passive Aggressive Notes

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Donna, bring a sweater

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The HOA in my friend’s neighborhood recently threatened her neighbors with a fine if they didn’t hide their trash cans, even though they’ve been in the same spot for over a decade. This is their solution.

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I need a lot of pills.

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Top 5 Things Thrift Store Workers Think Are Records

The Onion

World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino Dies After Health Complications

Adorable 23-Year-Old Yelling About Economic Injustice Must Have Just Read Howard Zinn For First Time

Facebook Algorithm Mortified It Has To Deliver Up So Much Embarrassing News About Own Company

Study: Only 40% Of Mice Have Little Welcome Mat, Doorway Leading To Tiny Home Inside Wall

Grumblethor The Mischievous Pleased With Mayhem His Magical Antics Have Wrought Upon White House–FBI Relations

Whiskey Leaks

Science Explains Why Tide Pods Taste Like Cilantro To Some, Soap To Others

Cummy Bears? Say “I Love You” This Valentines Day With Candy Made From Your Essence

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Self-Driving Uber Suspended After Touching Self In Front of Female Passenger

OP-ED: A Man Can’t Even Hug A Female Now Without Her Noticing That He’s Raping Her

[savetopnow]

2018-03-22 04 FUNNY now

FUNNY

Awkward Family Photos

Ceiling Swap

Sea Minus

Major Laser

Double The Fun

Shoes To Fill

Babylon Bee

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Church Backup Guitarist Thrashing Around Like He’s Angus Young Shredding For AC/DC Circa 1980

Report: Guy Who Says He Hates To Be ‘That Guy’ Actually Loves To Be ‘That Guy’

All-Seeing Eye Of Sauron Unveiled At Facebook Headquarters

Facebook Reminds Users Its Terms Of Service Specifically Allow For Orwellian Social Engineering

McSweenys

We Must Reduce Government Spending On Everything Except Our Luxury Office Renovation

List: Men At Work Song or Men at Your Work Responding to #MeToo Allegations?

Oh, the Shit You’ll Do After You’re Tenured!

Actually, There Are Many Ways You Can “Actually” Me

List: What Your Favorite Website Says About You

Passive Aggressive Notes

Coming soon, from Pixar…

Donna, bring a sweater

You can’t spare three squares?

Happy Birthday, and see you soon! xoxo, Cancer

Namaste, asshole.

Reddit Funny

Thug life

I am not coming quietly

When your house is on top!

Did this bitch really just toss me?

The tattoo artist and this guy they should never drive a car.

Reddit Humor

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Adam Ruins Paul Revere

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Sad and Useless

His Name Is Gizmo And He’s Really Excited Inside

Orthodox Priests Blessing Weapons

Funny Surgical Masks

This Month’s Funniest Internet Finds

I Wish Someone Would Look At Me The Way Dogs Look At Food

The Blogess

I see a big box of knives in my future. And possibly a tetanus shot. Maybe both.

I need a lot of pills.

Amazon knows me too well and it’s insulting and also costing me money.

I don’t know how things work, part eleventy thousand

I think I found what I want on my tombstone.

The Hard Times

Fuck: My Roommate Got a Book On Homebrewing

Awkward Japanese Teenager Thinks American Culture Would Understand Him

Everyone at House Show Confused How Middle-Aged Man Found out About This

Top 5 Things Thrift Store Workers Think Are Records

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The Onion

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Study: Only 40% Of Mice Have Little Welcome Mat, Doorway Leading To Tiny Home Inside Wall

Grumblethor The Mischievous Pleased With Mayhem His Magical Antics Have Wrought Upon White House–FBI Relations

Old Man's Son Also Old Man

Whiskey Leaks

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Cummy Bears? Say “I Love You” This Valentines Day With Candy Made From Your Essence

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Self-Driving Uber Suspended After Touching Self In Front of Female Passenger

OP-ED: A Man Can’t Even Hug A Female Now Without Her Noticing That He’s Raping Her