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honeykngdom · 6 years

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souvenir for the road | fangs x reader

WARNINGS: mentions of alcohol, angst PROMPT: “You’re a Serpents who’s afraid of snakes.” A/N: I actually had a really hard time figuring out what kind of twist I wanted this story to have - while it is a fic written for @southsidejuggie‘s writing challenge; it’s the first Fangs fic I’ve posted and I really wanted to be nothing less than the best I can offer for such a small, neglected character. I sincerely hope you all enjoy!

August 24th, 2017

Feet dangling over the ledge, I lifted the bottle back to my lips; the burning sensation travelled from my nose to my stomach, encouraging me to take a few deep breaths before I held it out. “Where did you get this? Why did you get Jäger?” I asked sourly, mouth pinched together.

He rips the bottle from my hand, eyes set into a hard glare before he tilts his head back and swallows a mouthful, “Jäger is delicious.” My eyes rolls, prompting him to continue, “Mix this with Goldschlager, and you’ve got yourself liquid cocaine.”

“That sounds like a bad time.” I retorted wearily, leaning back on my hands. The night was unreasonably quiet and still; the water beneath us flowed silently, the crickets in the long grass on either side of Sweetwater River played their gentle melodies. It had been Fangs idea to drive out and sit on the ledge of the bridge, split a bottle in a toast to the summer days coming to an end — to celebrate. After months of building the courage, Fangs had finally gotten his chance to undergo the initiation process.

Of course, this was all to be kept a secret from his mother. The mother whom I loved dearly, the mother who welcomed me into her home on numerous occasions, the mother I couldn’t stand to see in a state of unhappiness, or worry. He had made me promise not to tell her — and as much as I loved her, my loyalty to her son would always come first. Always.

I stared at the bandage on his arm, watching as he inspected the freshly inked tattoo. His eye was still swollen, and his lip had a rather sizable split in the corner. “Are you sure this is what you want?” I asked quietly, returning my gaze to my hands folded in my lap.

I was surprised when my question prompted him to sigh loudly into the night and fall back with his arms raised above his head. I examined the cuts and bruises on his fingers and knuckles, poking the nearly healed scabs on his palm. Fangs hissed in response, fist clenching tightly; I offered him a sad smile in apology and took the bottle at his side. “She’s dating losers.” He started quietly, although its softness didn’t hide his annoyance. Confused as to what he was talking about, I allowed him to continue, “I’ve gotta do something that’ll offer her some sort of protection.”

He was referring to his mother — this made more sense. “Paul wasn’t so bad.” I tried optimistically, tilting my head back to swallow another mouthful of the dark liquor.

“And the Serpents aren’t so bad — there’s less of us than Ghoulies. We aren’t into drugs or racing. Just all about family loyalty and shit like that.” I quirked a brow as he paused, thinking to himself before he started to laugh — loudly.

“What?” I asked, watching as his hands came down to clutch his stomach and he rolled onto his side, face pressing into the pavement of the bridge. “What?” I asked again, this time louder.

“You wanna know what’s really funny?” He asked in between fits of giggles, resting his hands on his aching stomach as he stared up into the night, “I fucking hate snakes.”

I blinked, hoping for a small moment that he was kidding, but when he continued to rest against the warm pavement, I let my eyes fall shut and dropped my head, holding the bottle between my knees. “So, you’re a Serpent who’s afraid of snakes.” I laughed once, shaking my head before I lifted my eyes and stared out at the river. “Great.”

September 25th, 2017

I sat in the first seat just outside their chained fence, somehow still trying to remain close to my friends. So many of them had fallen into cycle after their parents, and if not their parents then their siblings or peers. Your loyalty in the Southside mattered to these groups of people that stood as one solidified unit of trust and unity and respect. Who you lie with defines who you are as a person, and that was a simple fact.

I lifted my eyes, catching a quick smile and brow raise before he returned his attention to his new live-in bestie, Sweet Pea. Since his initiation, Fangs had started to fall into step with his fellow brothers like it was second nature. Like he was finally becoming the person he only ever believed he could be. And while his intentions were pure and good, they were equally dangerous. That made him all the more terrifying — he was all in. He wanted to feel everything all at once, and he wanted it raw.

The Serpents were able to provide him with solid protection and family loyalty — to ensure his mothers well-being at all times. Being the man of the house could be exhausting, that much I knew. I watched the mornings he would arrive at school with tired eyes and sleepy smiles, each one always paired with disarrayed bedhead and thick heavy hoodies. He loved having his hair played with, at any time. How many lunch periods had I sat in the library with him so he could nap, and lull him to sleep by scratching his skull lightly with my nails.

Now, no one played with his hair or lulled him to sleep. Sleepy Fangs never existed in this new version of himself; he was always, always on high alert. Always. Like he had to drink an extra large instead of a medium,l or have a red bull with his bagel. No one touched anyone, unless it was aggressively. Punching, slapping, hard back pats — you name it. It was intense and intimate. The only thing that made anyone on the outside more uncomfortable than the rough behaviour? Their calm and lulled conversation, when they’re in each other’s ears and careful, because something terrible was going to happen. And it was going to happen soon.

Wasn’t the point of joining in unity to protect the Southside is to be approachable, not intimidating?

But he was always Fangs whenever it was just the two of us, that much I was sure. While I ceased to exist within the school halls, I could count on gossip, and long walks home after class. We’d still do Sunday brunches at Pop’s — chicken waffles and milkshakes. We still called each other if the other was up late and couldn’t sleep, just because the screen hurt his eyes and he hated texting (his thumbs are just too damn big).

Yeah, he was still in there. This version of him was exclusive to few people while he earned and grew into his hard exterior. He grew his stubble out longer, making him appear older, and started dressing the part.

Couldn’t have lied to him if I wanted to, he looked too damn good in that leather jacket.

There was a day he walked me home from Pop’s because he wanted to make sure I got in okay; we split a mickey (courtesy of Mama Fogarty’s girl’s night out), and took the long path around the park instead of straight through.

“I feel like you should be with your friends.” I started, staring at my shoes as we walked, hands shoved deep into my pockets. “Aren’t you like .. obligated to be with the community in all your free time if you’re not with VIP’s like ma?”

“You’re not a VIP anymore?” He asked, clearly amused by my poor word choice. “C’mon, it’s not that bad. Ma gets her time, you get your time, I get me time.” Fangs smiled, holding up the empty mickey.

I chucked it into the bushes, “Your time? What exactly are you doing in your time?”

“Y’know, the running, resistance, lifting shit.” He started to flex his muscles, brows wiggling in a very ha-ha Funny Man Fangs way. “Gotta keep the hot bod.”

“Uh huh.” I laughed, deviating my eyes from his biceps.

He snorted, “What, you don’t wanna look? Everyone else does, they made me cut off all my sleeves on my shirts.”

I remember, I wanted to say but didn’t. Instead, I kicked a rock in his path, laughing when he kicked it up and away with his foot. We shared a knowing look, before he nudged me with his arm and sighed, “Lemme hear it, baby. What is it? I’m not pretty enough for you?” He laughed once and stopped to look at me, “Nah, we both know you’ve had it bad for me for years.”

I stared at him over my shoulder for a moment; his smile was smug and sure, but eyes still appeared soft and warm,q so I caved. I turned to look at him and shook my head in annoyance, “So full of yourself; it’s becoming pathetic how much you sound like the Serpent Drama King.” Fangs knew better than anyone how self-righteous Sweet Pea could be with his alpha male attitude. Over the top, but hot and charming, nonetheless.

Fangs fingers hooked into my belt loops, and he pulled me into his hips roughly, pulling the breath from my lungs. His eyes darkened, lips falling into my smile with a tainted twist. Something darker, more intense. I inhaled deeply, pursing my lips tightly as he examined my reaction, and then the intensity melted away, and his hands relaxed onto the exposed skin above my hips, holding me close. “Am I wrong?”

I shook my head once, tearing my eyes from his gaze. “Don’t.”

“There’s still a lotta firsts we promised each other.” He reminded me, swaying his hips with mine. “I don’t know why you don’t let it happen anymore.”

“Because it means more to one of us than the other.” I snapped, meeting his eyes with a hard glare. Fangs blinked, considering this for a moment before he dropped his hands and took a small step back.

“That’s what you think?” He asked, almost amused, “That it’s just you?”

“It is just me.” I hissed, unwilling to meet his eyes again. “So don’t.” It’ll complicate everything more — how unbiased could I be in the Southside with a Serpent for a boyfriend? That kind of influence? “Please don't.”

“Who said I didn’t want that?” He asked abruptly, suddenly in my face (his eyes were swimming, but the intensity remained). “You can’t just assume.”

I shook my head with a smile, taking another step away from him, “Everyone’s already thinking it,” I shrugged, adjusting the strap on my bag. “So it’s just better if you don’t.”

Fangs squinted, a smile tugging at his lips, “Not even a souvenir for the road?”

I paused, licking my lips slowly as I considered his words; I then took a step forward with a nod, no more than two seconds later he had roughly attached his lips to mine and tangled his fingers into my hair. And soon as I reacted, everything balanced. Hands traveled, our tongues worked against each other as though we were insatiable. When we finally parted, chests heaving and lips stretched in large smiles, he leaned down to gently lift my chin up and press his lips to mine, much softer this time.

“See ya around, Pigeon.” He patted my backside as I turned, tongue running along his bottom lip before he retreated across the street towards the park.

God, I wish I hadn’t let that night happen.

October 19th, 2017

I had been busier this year peer tutoring with the influx of Serpents; FPs absence was making the group anxious, so the younger gen had grown nearly doubled in size since the summer. Like they were preparing, knowing they would need numbers. Due to dedicating most of my lunch periods to tutoring, I wasn’t able to sit outside the fence as much, and therefore didn’t see Fangs within the school halls at all.

Which was fine — until one day his greeting in the morning across the parking lot had gone from a shared friendly smile to just simply a look. The first day he didn’t offer a smile, I felt my chest tighten, and my mood instantly dropped. After the first week, it stopped hurting. I usually waited until he and his friends and gone inside for the day, and if necessary, I walked around to the east wing door.

He finally landed his hands on the motorcycle he had been helping Julio with in the shop over the summer. This meant we couldn't’ walk home together — and I was excited for him until I realized neither of us was willing to go without a helmet, so I had to walk as he rode off with his friends.

We had only had Sunday brunch once in the last three weeks, and the brunch we had resulted in a lot of uncomfortable silence. Fangs was unable to talk about FP or what was going on with the Serpents, which I ultimately respected since they still scared the crap out of me in general. There was only so much I could fill him in on, and in all honesty, Fangs seemed too preoccupied and on edge for me to believe he was really paying attention to a word I was saying.

So I didn’t bother to reach out and speak to him anymore.

There was that one day we bumped into each other at Mel’s; he was helping Mama Fogarty with the grocery haul, and I had walked in to grab some milk and conditioner (still used the strawberry, just because I knew it was his favourite. I still hated it).

“Oh, hey.” Fangs waved, pulling his lips back in a warm, familiar grin as he took a step towards me. “How’s tutoring going?” It had been his idea for me to volunteer, having always prided me on my strengths.

I shrugged, hugging the milk carton to my stomach, “Busier that normal, but it’s mainly just lack of patience, so it’s a working progress.”

His mother — with her bright and beaming smile — came around the corner and rushed towards me, wrapping her arms around my frame in excitement, “Oh, baby! How are you?” She asked, rubbing my arms.

Fangs’ mother was a wonderful woman; there was no getting around that. Only thirty-seven, having had Fangs during her teen years, made her the poster child for the typical Southside mom: single and fun. She had a warm, vibrant soul, and when necessary, she had her dark moments. Over the years, it wasn’t too difficult to tell where Fangs got all of his humor and anger from.

After the awkward confirmation that neither of us had been able to see the other in nearly a month, she tsked her son and apologized for his rudeness. Reminding him that she didn’t raise him to be anything but a gentleman — or something like that, she always started to speak Spanglish when she got angry with him. She invited me over for dinner the following night — I promised to think about it and let Fangs know. I had to excuse myself shortly after, casting them a final smile before I darted for the self-checkout.

I spent the remainder of my night thinking about the last time I had tasted him, the last time I had run my hands eagerly over his muscled chest, and how it could’ve been so much more. How all of the first times could’ve been fulfilled that night, and I had done everything I could to try and keep a distance to avoid any shift in my bias.

I wish I had just gone for dinner.

December 4th, 2017

The head staff member for the peer tutoring organization at Southside High was imprisoned, and then later killed by the Black Hood. With nothing to do at lunch, I still didn’t sit outside of the fenced area that contained what was left of my friends. It was too bitter and heartbreaking, seeing him them all the time. It was better if I sat at my locker or outside, away from the clear divide between the students within the two gangs.

Fangs no longer waited in the parking lot after school when it let out for the day because he had started to miss class to leave early. Most of the Serpents had; faculty wasn’t oblivious to their collective disappearance but still took no punitive action. Our mornings consisted of silence. He never looked up across the parking lot for me, instead seemed too preoccupied with Sweet Pea or Toni to see anything outside of the three of them. He had definitely settled into his place among them, and seemed quite happy and at home. I tried to be comforted by that.

I still walked by him in silence.

The last text I sent to Fangs was dated 10/30/17. He hadn’t responded. He spent plenty of time with Sweet Pea at the Wyrm; I’d seen his bike parked out front in a circle with the others. The rare occasion we did bump into each other, it was awkward side-steps around one another and muttered apologies. Looking on the outside in, you would’ve never known we had been best friends four months prior.

There had been a raid, and I watched Fangs and his friends walk out of the school doors, cuffed and shoved into the back of the cruisers. That was the second visit from the Sheriff in two weeks. If Fangs hadn’t told his mom about his affiliation with the Serpents yet, I was sure she knew about it now.

I walked out of Pop’s, hot chocolate in hand as the snow littered the ground and my breath spun in swirls into the bitter air. I had just made it past the train tracks and was passing the mini-mart when I rounded the corner and saw his beefy frame leaning against the side of the building.

Fangs glanced up, hands shoved into the pockets of his leather, mouth and brows pulled together. His exterior had hardened significantly over the last three months; Funny Man Fangs didn’t live here anymore. What was left was merely a shell of the person he used to be. His eyes had grown tired, and he sported heavy dark bags underneath of them. His muscle had packed in bulk, ensuring his shoulders reached their full potential to give him a full, thick frame.

Stop that.

“You don’t say hi anymore?” He asked loudly, surprising us both. It had been the first thing he had said to me in almost six weeks — with the exception of the run in at Mel’s.

I laughed once, shaking my head in slight disappointment, “You used to be the boy who hated snakes,” I replied, turning to look at him over my shoulder, “Looks like that’s changed.”

I wish he had said something, or stopped me. I wish he had gotten angry, or offended. I wish he had gotten vocal, gotten loud, given me anything that reminded him of what we were supposed to be.

Instead, he let me walk away in silence.

read part two here

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ethereal-pluto-blog · 6 years

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I feel like shit today

I'm lethargic, slow, crying, and insecure. So yep ~depression~ has come to rear its ugly head once again.

But since I'm not into the whole anti-recovery thing, I'll give you some useful tips on how to maybe help YOUR depression that doesn't seem like a generic twitter self help thread. (Though I'll mention some things I found helpful and give explainations as to why.)

Talk to your therapist/counselor/mental health expert if available. Not everyone has the luxury of seeking professional help, but if you have the opportunity, PLEASE go to a professional. However be noted that it's often an experience to go through many different experts to find the one that matches your specific needs/ you like the most. Also keep in mind there are also online therapists ready to help if you're not big on one-on-one contact like myself, though often insurance is tricky. I put this one first because it might be the most beneficial for some, though not readily available for others.

If you have the strength, shower. Showering/cleaning yourself is a blessing in itself as it gives you a sense of detox. Though if you don’t have the strength or motivation, try some of this instead-

Utilize facewash and lotion. Particularly facewash that makes your face feel all chill and tingly, it makes you feel more refreshed. Lotions and cream will help you keep skin smooth.

Simply get wet with water, a quick 5 minute rinse in hot water is less of a chore than a full shower.

Dry shampoo will help with hair oiliness. Though if you don't have access just brush your hair and pull it/part it so it's out of your face.

Baby wipes. Baby wipes will cure yo soul. But seriously use baby wipes and rub them on your face, underarms, and genitals. A good rub down will help prevent you from feeling gross.

Splashing your face with cold water, it makes your pores tighten up and as a bonus it'll wake you up.

Utilize deodorant and vaseline. I haven't tried it out for myself, though if you put down deodorant and then vaseline on top it should trap the nice fragrant smell. And while you're at it you can put on cologne / perfume if you think you're getting a lil ripe, but if you want to smell like a fresh shower use ones that are labeled "shower fresh" or "baby powder."

If your lips are chapped, put on some balm shisters. (I don't trust the brand chapstick, I'm a conspiracy theorist okay I'm soRRy)

Change into some cleaner clothes. They don't have to be normal everyday clothes but at least change into new clothes, especially underwear.

Clean your fingernails/toenails. Clean under them, since random junk can get stuck up in there. Also clip them if they're too long for your liking.

Brush your teeth. But if you can't, use mints, gum, mouthwash, mouthspray, etc, or a combination of those. Anything minty will make your mouth tingle and feel fresh and clean.

Clean yo ears! Since probably nobody uses an ear vacuum (like you're supposedly supposed to idk I'm too broke for that shit anyways) just be careful using Q-tips.

If you don’t have any deodorant, try hand sanitizer! I'm not kidding. Put a dollop under each underarm, and let dry. Smells are caused by bacteria, so if you get hand sanitizer, it should greatly reduce smell.

Try to get some sun. Using the natural sunlight will help you absorb vitamin D. So open up the blinds and photosynthesize binches. Though it also helps to open up the window if you can, a breeze/fresh air blowing in with the smell of outside might even raise your mood. Though if it's currently shitty weather outside, try turning on your lights to match your circadian rhythm, so keep lights on during the day and dim it at night so it'll help with letting you be on a decent sleep schedule.

Feeling like there's no hope or that your future is going to be shit? Highkey me too, but here's what I do to combat that feeling.

It's corny, but I write a whole idealized future for myself. I write about my dream job, I write about my dream s/o, I even imagine the type of house I want to live in, the kids I'll have, what kind of pets I want to own. Etc. Although the economy is shit and no future is guaranteed, it's nice to put some positivity into light and show what I really want in life. I don't want to be some millionaire, I just want to be comfortably well off with a family and people that love me. And in all honesty a future like that isn't hard to obtain.

Even if you can't imagine a good future for yourself, imagine being a part of your friends or loved one's futures. For example, you know your friend who's dating this really cute person that you totally ship them with? Imagine being a part of the bridesmaids/groomsmen for their wedding when they tie the knot! Imagine your really smart friend finally graduating from college and you're at their graduation party giving them a speech! For me this really helps since I aspire to be drinking buddies with my best friend's future husband. (I'm rlly goofy ik lmao)

Feeling stressed about not doing anything? We've all been there. Try:

Doing work if you're due for assignments, though don't do it alone, if you can, arrange a group text/tutoring session/Skype call. If everyone is focused on getting something done then you'll be motivated to do it with them.

Though if you don’t absolutely have to do anything but want to do ~s o m e t h i n g~ I also got your back on this too.

Organize your inbox for your email. (Ik I'm lame)

Tidy/clean your room/any room if that gives you something to do.

Make your bed.

Cuddle someone/something.

Rearranging your stuff in your room, makes it feel like a whole remodel tbh.

Burn candles/incense. Don't ask just...trust me on this it can change the aura.

If you're religious, practice!

Take aesthetic photos of things in your room. Download VSCO and experiment with it. I also recommend Huji Cam and Afterlight. All are available for IOS and Android.

If you appreciate music- use YouTube and find some Playlists, or if you can, spotify premium will save yo mortal soul.

Like video games? Play some! Or if you're a brokeass like me, let's plays and walk throughs work well too.

If you got pets, pet them. Do it. Snuggle. Or if you love animals in general go and watch some vids on YouTube.

Build a fort.

If you're an artist or appreciate art- draw! Or you can watch animatics, animation memes, art channels, or follow artists on here or on Instagram and Twitter if you want to be inspired, or just observe.

Have a certain series you keep putting off? Watch! It! Netflix/Hulu that shit. Or cable TV works too.

Go on Wikipedia and just go on an adventure. Click from link to link and see where it takes you. Learn some weird new facts!

Read a new book.

Read the news/watch the news.

Write about a certain topic that you're absolutely fascinated about.

Watch movies!

Join a club/interest group. You can do this online too and it'll help meet people with similar interests as you. You can make new friends this way.

Give your friends a call/text. Having conversations will keep you occupied.

Self love aka masturbate. Or have (safe) sex with someone you trust!

Workout

Do some makeup/skincare routine. Even if you think you look bad just commit to practicing.

Sometimes it's just funny to go through and read some Reddit threads so be safe when surfing on there.

Stretch and move around! Dance if you wanna!

Do your hair/experiment in some new styles, maybe even dye it if you feel daring.

Have an icon you stan? Stan HARDER.

Watch iconic vine/rare vine compilations until you can memorize them.

Clean out your phone contacts of people that are irrelevant/toxic!! Out of sight out of mind! Don't hang on to them if they did you wrong. All the text conversations will just make you feel worse!

Actually cook your favorite food, cooking it will make you more dedicated to eating it and give you more of an appreciation for it.

Organize your closet.

Organize anything in your room/closet. Throw away things that you don't need or are too old to use.

Start collecting things, stuffed animals, pins, snowglobes, you name it.

Pinterest is addictive lowkey so try that if you're into that kind of stuff.

Write! Write a new story, write poetry, write about your feelings, write a letter, write fanfiction, express yourself.

Use Duolingo to try and study a new language to learn. (The owl will harass tf outta your email though but as long as you do like 5 minutes a day he won't bother.)

That's about all I can think of but feel free to add more for activities to dedicate your time to.

If you need to, because of your self image, don't go and stand in front of mirrors. If I stand in front of a mirror too long I'll end up scrutinizing myself and find a flaw after flaw. If you are specifically insecure about something with your body, look up models who have the same thing! Like if you're insecure about having vitiligo, look up Winnie Harlow! She's gorgeous! If you're insecure about being chubby, look up plus sized models! If you have a tooth gap, there's plenty of people like you! You don't have to feel ugly because of that when you have these awesome models rocking what they got.

Vent. You can vent to your friends, family, or even online. There are apps that allow you to vent anonymously to others without the fear of judgement. But if you can't do that, take a pen/pencil and write something down in your notebook. Though don't reread it to keep drowning in the negativity, once you write it, shut it. You can do the same on Google Docs online, once you write down everything, delete it. Don't keep trying to fuel your negative thoughts and bitterness, get your rant over with and be done. It's like a fresh start. (Plus on my Instagram spam account I always feel really silly looking at my old rant posts, so I usually delete stuff afterwards when I'm not feeling so in my feelings).

Don't expect recovery to be in a straight line. You'll have amazing days and also have extremely shitty days. Recovery isn't hoping to never experience shitty days, recovery is being able to feel the strength on those shitty days and know that they'll pass, and with each storm you'll be stronger than before. Don't push yourself to be flawless, because shit happens. But you'll make it through. And that's what matters.

And last but not least, seek emergency help if you feel like you're dangerously close to ending your life due to pain. Call the suicide hotline for support, because the pain can ease soon if you ask for the help that you need and deserve.

Not everyone that reads this is going to be like "wow this really helped me cope with my depression/mental illness!" But my goal was to at least try. It may not work for everyone unfortunately, but I hope that anyone dealing with a mental illness is on the road to recovering. Because I know how it feels. It feels sucky as fuck. But if this helps even just one person, then that's enough. I hope everyone has at least a decent day, and I hope that everyone's pain eases soon.

#depression #mental health #mental disorder #positive mental attitude #mentally ill #trigger warning #tw #anxitey #strategies & tips #tips #self love #self care #personal growth and development #road to recovery #recovery #remission #illness #i love you

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polar-stars · 7 years

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Hey! For the ship meme, can I request sorina and ibusaki x ryoko? It's alright if not, thank you anyways!

Oh, oh no it’s absolutely alright qwq

I’d love to do that and just hope that you’ll kinda enjoy it as well…

so yah

Original Meme

Sorina

How did they they meet?

“Hey I wanna transfer here!”

Who developed romantic feelings first?

Most likely Erina. It does takes it time tough. She first just feels….weird.

Like…why does her heart accelerates just because he steps into the room? It’s a normal occurrence?

At some point she does recognize what these feels are and has like no clue how to act with them.

Lucky, that she now has good friends who are ready to assist her!

Who is their biggest “shipper?”

Alice probably.

Like “Omg, yay Erina! You finally found someone!”

She certainly does cherish their relationship quite a lot and is just so happy Erina found someone who can give her that one special smile.

Other very strong supporters include Senzaemon, Hisako, Yuki and at some point also Megumi.

When did they have their first kiss and under what circumstances?

Depends in which fanfiction we’re in //slaps herselfOkay! I headcanon Erina and Soma to both travel the world after graduation and welp, their kiss happened on one of the thousands of plane flights.

Most of the other passengers were sleeping because it was a flight and night and well, Erina looked out of the window inspecting the night sky outside while Soma next to her minded his stuff as she suddenly whispered. “This is pretty nice, a little like back then on the train…..in the past I often didn’t even looked at the sky during flights once…” He responded with a laughter. “Glad you like it.”They ended up in a small, calm conversation about past, present and future with a lot of shy giggles in-between, hardly trying to not wake anyone up. At some point he says. “Who could have imagine that some day we would sit here…together, huh Erina?”She doesn’t responds and just looks at him. He does so as well. One things lead to the other and suddenly their lips lock.

Who confessed their feelings first?

Soma.

Right after the kiss he whispers “I love you.”

What was their first official date?

Actually the whole world travel was one, but however if you ask the two they will say this:

At some point they return home to the diner and well at their first evening, Jou prepares a very nice diner just for the two, which they enjoy with candlelight in the small diner.

How do they feel about double dates/group dates?

Absolutely okay with it.

What do they do in their down time?

They like to sit on the coach together, Erina reading Shoujo Manga leaned against Soma who plays some games on his mobile phones.

Sometimes one of them suggests to start a movie…..

…then the argue about “which movie” starts…..

What was the first meeting of parents as an official couple like?

Jou just had these two standing in front of him right out of nowhere all of the sudden. But he did end up laughing and shaking his head. “Knew it all the time.” For the first day, he leaves them to peacefully arrive and makes them candlelight dinner (as mentioned above). They start the real talk the next day, but it’s a calm talk and everything’s fine. Let’s skip Azami for now alright? Since this is rather difficult.

What was their first fight over and how did they get past it?

Their first fight was over Transforming Furikake and Transfer Exams.

It got resolved trough Erina saying “Delicious” but also by these two just in general starting to actually like each other.

Which one is more easily made jealous?

Erina probably. I can just picture her as a girl who rather easily gets jealous.

Not that Soma can’t be jealous either, but Erina doesn’t actually gets hit on a lot of times, simply because nobody is brave enough to do that.

What is their favourite thing to get to eat?

Erina loves to eat Soma’s Chicken Egg Tempura Don of course.

Soma just in general loves every dish in which Erina tried something new. The more creative the more he’s going to enjoy it. Because he is just filled with so much happiness when he actually sees her trying things and going beyond her horizon.

It’s a tradition that they try to use Salmon Roe in dishes meant for anniversaries.

Who’s the cuddly one? What their favourite cuddling position?

Soma loves to cuddle her, but Erina defiantly enjoys it and never complains. It makes her feel all soft and safe.

It’s often simple spooning, with Soma being the big spoon who hugs Erina from behind and pulls her closer to him.

Are they hand holders?

Yeah sometimes, but not all too much. Soma rather lays his arm around her and they walk like that.

How long do they wait before sleeping together for the first time? What’s the circumstances?

(okay we are coming to the light nsfw stuff, just so you know)

Oh well it happens on their traveling.

You know they had to share a bed in one of the hotels, since the rooms they have are always rather smol and well. It was quite chilly at night and Erina was freezing so she snuggled closer to Soma, saying that she is cold. He just chuckled and laid his arm around her again.

In the end……it happened.

Who tops?

Ehhh…..Soma probably most of the time, but Erina is able to as well

(Nsfw is over now)

What’s the worst first they’ve ever gotten into?

Their first meeting didn’t went that nice q w q ;;

Who does the shopping and the cooking?

Well, the cooking is of course pretty balanced as expected from Totsuki students. Whoever gets to the pots and pans first, has it for today! It’s almost a little competition.

The shopping they most of the time do together.

Which one is more organized and prone to tidiness?

Erina loves to have it tidy and she actually started to like tidying up during her time in the dorm.

Soma does assist her a lot of times tough and they have a lot of fun.

Who proposes?

Soma.

Do they have joined Bachelor/Bacheloette parties or separate?

Seperate.

Who is the best man/maid of honour? Any other groomsmen or bridesmaids?

Best Maid is Megumi and Maid of Honour is Hisako.

Big Ceremony or Small?

Surprisingly rather small.

But Erina’s dress is defiantly a high class one.

Do they have a honeymoon? If so, where?

Hokkaido

Do they have children? How many?

Yes! A son and a girl just one year younger than the son.

The boy is on the surface personality-wise more like his mother, he also adapted her special sense of taste. But he is very chaotic actually and can be quite dense, also he enjoys disgusting dishes because “Wow, they’re just so bad.” Admires his grandfather a lot.

The girl is most of the time all happy-go-lucky and very creative when it comes to cooking. She’s surprisingly rather anti-social tough, because of her intense focus on the dream to take over the diner someday. She also is way more organized than her brother and even uses sarcasm!

Shuyoko

How did they they meet?

On Totsuki in a certain dormitory!

Who developed romantic feelings first?

Ryoko probably. She also admitted her feelings to herself way faster.

Shun was a little confused with his feelings for quite some time. And after he finally acknowledged them, he sure didn’t knew how to tell with them and of course also didn’t ask anyone for help.

Luckily Isshiki and Zenji both noticed at some point (Satoshi did first) and tried to help, each in their way, without making Shun feeling uncomfortable.

Who is their biggest “shipper?”

Yuki! Defiantly!

Right after Ryoko told her that she started to crush on Shun, Yuki just squealed and was like: “Yes! I approve!”

I mean yo, Yuki get’s excited about the other people’s relationship and probably loves to hear about her friend’s crushes.

She gets especially supportive of Ryoko’s and Megumi’s love life.

And well, luckily for Ryoko Megumi also lives in PSD and can actually calm Yuki down to not make a too obvious move.

When did they have their first kiss and under what circumstances?

After a date in a restaurant, they walked home, close together and linking arms, peacefully talking.

As they arrived right in front of the door of the dorm, Ryoko turned to Shun and smiled and says that she had a wonderful evening, for which she also thanks him.

He smiles back and responds. “Glad to hear so.” He turns away from her to open the door and mumbles “Really, I am still glad that you actually enjoy my company….”

She then softly turns his head to her, get’s on her tiptoes and then the soft first kiss happens.

Who confessed their feelings first?

Shun. Because he surprisingly was just faster, but actually Ryoko had planned a confession as well. She wrote a love letter and actually wanted to confess to him.

But well he then suddenly approaches her and asks if she would come with him for a second on a sunday. She of course agrees and follows him into the woods.

They stop at a very beautiful clearing and Shun takes all of his courage together, gulps and then takes out little wood thingies. Turns out he carved a crane and an orchid out of wood. Crane being one of Ryoko’s favorite animals and Orchid is her absolute favorite flower.

Ryoko’s heart stops as she sees these things in his hand and her eyes widen.

He then says his carefully prepared confession and well, she takes his gifts with such a carefulness, in fear she could break them or something, and looks at them in awe. Before she smiles and answers.

She wears his wood crafts on a necklace later by the way.

What was their first official date?

Picnic in the woods!

How do they feel about double dates/group dates?

Ryoko is fine with them, but Shun is not an all too big fan of it.

The most double dates they have are with Zenji and Yuki, because after all Zenji is Shun’s best friend and they do come along of course.

Also the four did spend a lot of time together before.

What do they do in their down time?

Going on walks and while doing so Ryoko often reads Shun some of the stuff she wrote (she likes creative writing) or talks to him about a lot of things on her mind.

He carefully listens and she of course does so too, when he starts talking.

What was the first meeting of parents as an official couple like?

Oh! Well. Shun was defiantly quite nervous to meet Ryoko’s parents. Her parents were first a little troubled with how silent the guy is. But in the end, they did felt how much he cared for their daughter and how much he loved her. The one who was immediately overexcited at the encounter is Ryoko’s granny (to who she has a very close relationship) but also told Shun that if he’d ever hurt her lil cherry blossom, he’ll go trough hell.

Meeting Shun’s father was a little more complicated. Ryoko insisted to meet him and at some point Shun gave in. You know Shun’s relationship to his father is rather complicated. Since the death of his wife, the man drowned himself in work and got more and more isolated from his family, which gave Shun the feel that he doesn’t cares at all. The meeting defiantly was quite uncomfortable with an awkward atmosphere. Not really because of Ryoko but just because of the relationship between the two.

What was their first fight over and how did they get past it?

Well again, Shun didn’t really wanted to meet up with his dad but Ryoko did.

Which one is more easily made jealous?

Shun!

S H U N!

But Ryoko defiantly can get quite jealous as well.

What is their favourite thing to get to eat?

Each other’s cooking. (Ryoko especially loves when Shun smokes fish)

Who’s the cuddly one? What their favourite cuddling position?

Ryoko is mostly starting the cuddles.

It’s really often that Ryoko rests her head on Shun’s chest and he lays his arm around her.

Are they hand holders?

Y E P!

Either hand holding or linking arms!

How long do they wait before sleeping together for the first time? What’s the circumstances?

(light nsfw)

Well they had some talks about it first and then some night, it just happened.

They shared the same bed, kissed each other, snuggled and well went a little farer…

Who tops?

Varies.

(Nsfw is over)

What’s the worst first they’ve ever gotten into?

The meeting with Shun’s father.

Who does the shopping and the cooking?

Shun always does the shopping and the cooking is balanced. Both cook (often also together)

Which one is more organized and prone to tidiness?

Ryoko.

Who proposes?

Shun and he after all knows how romantic Ryoko can be.

He planned trough the whole day, starting with breakfast at bed. Gave her a bouquet of orchids. After that he got her to the spa. Lunch at her favorite café, followed by a romantic stroll trough town together and ending it with a delicious and expensive dinner in a really fine and nice restaurant, which Shun has booked for this night just for these two. He proposed there after the dinner as she asked her “What this day was all about..” The ring box was made by himself out of wood of course

She did start crying and gave him a hectic and energetic nod, because she lost her words for seconds but still wanted to inform him that she “defiantly will”.

Do they have joined Bachelor/Bacheloette parties or separate?

Separate probably.

Who is the best man/maid of honour? Any other groomsmen or bridesmaids?

Best man is defiantly Zenji and Maid of Honour is Yuki.

Big Ceremony or Small?

A rather small one, but a nice and elegant one defiantly.

Do they have a honeymoon? If so, where?

Vienna, Paris, London, Prague or some other European City. I can just picture that.

Do they have children? How many?

Two kids, a boy and a girl.

The boy is a calm, friendly and well-behaved fellow who’s rather silent and does need his private time sometimes, but he’s very helpful and liked by a lot of people defiantly. A lot of people view him as a big brother type of person. Does hate loosing tough.

The girl is rather blunt and can defiantly tell you off if she wants to. She’s stoic but also rather polite.

#*dies* this took quite some time #but was still fun #thanks for asking!#Sorina #Shuyoko #Soma Yukihira #Erina Nakiri #Shun Ibusaki #Ryoko Sakaki #Shokugeki no Soma #Gofer answering to stuff #Lea is headcanoning

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 210

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Announcement

Adam: Hello and welcome to Episode 210 of Hump Day Hangouts. I am Adam Moody with Semantic Mastery. We are gonna say hi to everyone real quick before we dive into some announcements and questions from everybody watching us live. Also, if you’re watching this on YouTube, we noticed from time to time that we get questions over there, but you need to come to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and ask your questions there, that’s where we’re monitoring. Before we dive in, real quick, Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good weather in Florida always the last couple weeks. I highly recommend it, like I love it. How are you doing?

Adam: Not bad. It’s like 60 here, which is perfect. Everyone in California thinks it’s like the middle of winter and I’m just enjoying myself. This is good. Marco, how about you? How’s the weather for you, man?

Marco: Things are good here, man, transitioning to the dry season. So we’re gonna have about five and a half months of absolutely no rain, not even a drop. I’m looking forward to … Yeah, but then, it’s seven months of afternoon showers. You gotta pay the price for the life you live, right?

Adam: Yeah, fair enough.

Marco: But always warm, like if it were 60 here, we’d all be dying literally. It’s freezing cold.

Chris: [Inaudible 00:01:19] stay in Florida.

Adam: Definitely. Bradley, how about you, man? How are you doing?

Bradley: I’m good, I’m happy to be here. Got lots of stuff going on at the moment. Just been really, really busy. In last week, well, I took off for a couple days because my sister got married again. I actually got to go down to Hilton Head, South Carolina and meet one of our members, Ed, who also went to POFU Live; he’s in the Mastermind also. That was cool because I got to spend an hour with him just chatting. It was really, really cool. I always enjoy getting to meet members whenever we have the opportunity. So that was a lot of fun. But I had to take really Friday and Monday off, so now I’m behind.

Besides that, I got a quick little story to tell very, very quickly. Just last week, it was funny because I was actually reviewing the Hump Day Hangout from last week and I was talking about mitigating risk. Marco and I, we were talking about reducing exposure and trying to mitigate risk because, if you put all your eggs in one basket and Google takes that basket, you’re screwed, you’ve lost all those assets.

Well, I was using a test with what’s called GMB Location Groups. It’s a setting inside of Google My Business. I was running a test on a set of GMB assets for a particular metro area, so one metropolitan city area. I had seven assets in there that were fully optimized, 100% done. In fact, they were the seven assets that my VAs has been training on as he’s been learning the processes for doing this whole method, the Local Lease Pro model, essentially.

Long story short, on Saturday, I was down at the Hilton Head and I happened to get an email saying that the account that was used as the recovery email for that particular GMB manager account, which had to be turned into an owner in order to use location groups, had been terminated for violating Google’s spam policies. I lost all those damn assets, every single one of them, and I can’t even access them through the original Google accounts now, guys.

That was three weeks work, not necessarily my work, but my VA’s work wasted. Now, is it all bad? No, because I learned a valuable lesson. Number one, don’t use GMB location groups, it’s like a trap, number one, lesson number one. Number two is always mitigate risk. Don’t set yourself up with vulnerabilities that Google can take … We exploit Google’s vulnerabilities. Don’t you think Google will exploit ours? So I learned that … In fact, I’m actually updating the entire process for how to first log in and set up and manage a lot of GMB assets. I’m updating all those processes this week, in fact, because we have to do something new that reduces our overall risk.

Anyways, that was my little story. I’m a little bit behind now because all the work that I’ve done for the last several weeks on all the processes now has to be updated and redone. But that’s the cat and mouse game that we play.

Marco: Yeah. One of the great things about our Mastermind is that we do all of the testing, we take all of the risk, we were the ones who go in the lab. I mean, we do encourage our own people to test so that they can verify that our results are what we’re saying they are. But it’s one of the things that we do, we go, we blow things up and it happens, and then now we know what not to do. And right into our Mastermind, we’ll share all of test result with the membership exactly what was done so that they don’t repeat the process and get stuck losing assets because nobody wants to lose an asset, especially not seven. But so be it, lesson well-learned and it’s a lesson that the Mastermind doesn’t have to repeat.

Bradley: That’s true and, just real quick segue, that leads me to, that’s kind of like what the Mastermind is about. The scaling option, like doing all these heavy processes and stuff, is really reserved to the POFU Live group attendees at the moment, but we’re polishing all this stuff. Obviously, the Mastermind, we update, like tomorrow we’ve got a Mastermind webinar and I’m certainly gonna be talking about what not to do because I want to make sure all of our members are fully aware of what not to do so they don’t lose assets.

But once we have this 12-week process done, that the POFU Live attendees are kind of in accountability group with me right now, and we’ve got a target that we’re trying to hit at the end of 12 weeks, which is 50 GMB assets fully developed and ready for monetization, if they’re not already monetized by that point, and so when we’re done at that 12-week period, we will have discovered or perfected, really fine-tuned the method and all of the processes to get us there, to get us to that point. That’s when we’re gonna release in its entirety the Mastermind.

That training will not be released outside of the Mastermind, period, and that’s only because it’s highly valuable and we put a lot of work. In fact, the other members of the POFU accountability group with us, that’s like 12 of us in there, and so that’s a lot of intellectual property, a lot of a work that goes into that. So the Mastermind members will get that.

But that’s just one of many things that we do there. For example, we had some questions about how to structure ad ID pages and set up as three buckets with HTTP, SSL protocol, and all that stuff. Two weeks ago, we went in and showed exactly how to do that. I mean, it’s just stuff like that that we do in the Mastermind all the time.

Adam: Yeah. Something else that I just remembered, that reminded me of, Bradley, was, I think it was Jason who posted yesterday, who’s one of our Mastermind members, just out of the blue was like, hey, I’ve seen some questions about blah blah blah-, not blah blah blah, but some heavy-duty IT stuff. He’s like, “Hey, if anybody needs help just ping me. I’ll do it for free if you’re a Mastermind member.”

That’s just awesome to see. Again, you get that in a tight-knit group like that. It’s cool having that ability. Everyone who knows our story kind of knows where we came from and how we were part of a Mastermind. That’s why part of why we do this to get that community, it’s not just a jumble of people, you do have a community.

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: Well, cool. I also want to say then to you guys, we mentioned the GMB stuff, we’ve got a sale going on right now at MGYB. It’s wrapping up today. So if you’re interested or you need a GMB verification service, whether it’s for your clients, it’s for yourself, you’re doing some lead gen, head over there. I posted it on the page. If you’re watching the replay, sorry, it’s probably too late. But a good reason to watch live and open the emails is you get a 35% discount on that service right now. So head over there do that.

Real quick, too, if you’re joining us for the first time, thank you so much for watching us. If you want the right place to start, because it is one of the questions we get, “Hey, where should I start? Should I take this course and do that?” start with Battle Plan. No matter what you’re doing, even if you want to hop into Mastermind, get the Battle Plan, come join the Mastermind. That’s the path. The link is on there. It’s a great way to get repeatable results, which is why we put it together, so that we can have that. It’s our home processes put into an easy-to-digest format.

Then, obviously, like we’ve been talking about it, if you’re ready to take things up a notch, if you wanna scale, you wanna grow, then the Mastermind is the place to be.

Bradley: Did you open up Local Lease Pro as a standalone product now?

Adam: Yes.

Bradley: I’ll be damned. I didn’t realize that was available yet. Okay.

Adam: Sneaking that onto the page, if people are interested.

Bradley: Yeah. Okay.

Adam: I’m gonna say no more.

Bradley: Everything I’ve been talking about with this Local Lease Pro method, that’s it. Most of you guys are probably aware of it because of the Side Hustle Toolbox promotion, that was our contribution. But now that that’s closed, it’s a standalone product. I’m gonna be updating that in a couple of weeks with some of the new processes that I’ve just discovered.

Again, GMB, like the actual optimization process has changed slightly. Not much, but slightly, and I’m updating the processes for my VAs right now. So next week, I’ll kind of polish it up a bit and then add that into the Local Lease Pro training. So if you guys don’t have it yet, I recommend you get it. This method is freaking killing it. I think it’s the most opportunity I’ve seen in my local marketing career. I mean that, so check it out.

All right. Can we get into questions?

Adam: I think so. If you guys are good, let’s do this.

Do I Need Access To A Client’s Website If I Do Local SEO For Them?

Bradley: All right. Starting off with Chris Green posted a support question from Vincent. He says, “I’m considering to join the RYS Reloaded or the GMB course. My question is this: if I do SEO for local businesses in my country, which is Malaysia, do I need to have access to my clients website?” No. It can help. You don’t have to have access to the client’s website, but it would certainly help because you could take care of some on-page SEO issues. In other words, you can optimize the site itself, which is considered on-page SEO, and that can help that can help quite a bit.

In fact, with proper on-page SEO, a lot of the times you can rank a site with a fraction of the off-page SEO because any off-page SEO that … If on site is proper, if it’s tight, if it’s strong, then any off-page will significantly affect, it will have a strong impact on the site because then the site will respond well to off-page because it is a well-built, well-structured site.

But that doesn’t mean that you have to have access to the site because you can accomplish through off-page. You can still rank a site with off-page. If the on-page is terrible, then you probably are fighting a losing battle. But if it’s decent, then you could probably still accomplish what you need to, depending on how competitive the keywords are that you’re targeting. But it’s likely that you could still accomplish what you needed to with off-page alone. But again, there are benefits certainly to being able to access the client’s website. Right? If you’re starting with garbage, it’s gonna be difficult to rank. So just keep that in mind. Okay.

It helps, it’s not 100% necessary. Well, it depends, right? It depends on what the status of the site is currently. If it’s a shitty site, if it was built poorly, optimized poorly, or if it’s spammed to death or whatever, then you may never be able to rank that site. But if it’s decent, if it’s fairly okay, then you could still just apply off-page methods and probably get the results that you want. However, if you can do both, manage the on-page and the-off page, you will get the best results. Right?

Are The SEO Methods In RYS Reloaded And GMB Work On WordPress.com And Wix.com Websites?

Number two, he says, “If my client has a WordPress.com or Wix.com website, can the SEO methods taught in RYS Reloaded and GMB work and getting first page ranking on Google?” Well, yes. Well, Local GMB Pro course is not really anything that have to do with websites, right? Local GMB Pro is how to optimize Google My Business and set up all of the Google assets to rank. Well, not even to rank, but to just generate leads from Google, independent of ranking. That’s what Local GMB Pro is about. It’s about getting leads, getting exposure from Google My Business, whether it ranks or not, and that’s what that whole … Again, despite traditional SEO, Local GMB Pro can generate leads from Google. Okay. So that’s what local GMB Pro is.

RYS is about using Google’s assets as an off-page tool as well as an entity validator, an authority builder, and multiple other things. But it’s more of an off-page thing. Again, it has nothing to do with the website structure or the platform itself, WordPress or Wix. It doesn’t matter because all you’re doing is using Google properties to push relevancy and authority over to whatever property is that you’re trying to rank.

Marco, do you wanna chat about that a little bit?

Marco: Yeah. It’s just one of the pillars that we teach, ART, the art of ART, activity, relevance, trust and authority, both on the link origin and on the link destination. What that means is you get visitors no matter how you show activity and Google reward you as long as everything is relevant and you’re working with trusted and authoritative entities. If you become along with that, a trusted and authoritative entity, then you get rewarded. Google will also reward you for being in Google because Google trusts itself. It’s the ultimate as far as what it trusts. So working in what we call working inside the belly of the beast also has its rewards.

Yeah. As Bradley said, it makes absolutely no difference. I mean, you work with whatever. I mean, you have a free WordPress blog ranking for … what is it? Free-, no, not free. SEO Virginia. Yeah. I mean, it just goes to show that if you get that activity in there, everything else just fall into place as long as it’s relevant, trusted and authoritative.

I keep telling people, and I just mentioned it in our Semantic Mastery Facebook group, the Mastermind, that ART, A-R-T, will trump anything. It will even overcome any of the negative factors, of the algorithm, penalties and all of that. You become almost immune to anything that Google has to throw at you because you’re signaling rank pot-, excuse me, rank brain in the way that it wants to be signaled. You’re doing the Google tickle, the T tickle. I mean, it blows up. It becomes a self-feeding monster once you get all that activity in there.

Bradley: Yeah. This is an example of what Marco was just talking about, this is that WordPress.com. So free wordpress.com blog, guys. If you take a look at this, there’s no content on this page. It looks like there’s content, but the only content on this page is this right here. That’s it. The rest of those are embedded files. That’s RYS at work there, guys. That’s RYS Academy right there at work. Okay. Again, go view page source, the post body, the article body of this post. The content body is this right here. That’s the only text on the page. The rest of it is all embedded files RYS style, and that’s all.

Look at that, guys. It’s ranked number three in organic for SEO Virginia. I mean, that’s pretty powerful. Again, that’s all off-page stuff. There is some on-page going on there because of the iframes that are actually embedded in this page, but it’s primarily an off-page thing that’s got this ranking. And that’s the power of RYS, right?

By the way, the Google site as part of the stack and that’s been number one since May of 2015. Guys, that’s been number one since May of 2015, or within a few weeks anyways, that’s when it was published. Look at that, it’s a horrid site. It was just for a test purpose, guys. Still ranked. Still ranked, it’s three and a half years now. Still ranked. Anyways, there you go. Will it work? It damn sure does.

How Do You Get The URL Of A Scheduled Post In The MGYB GMB Service?

Dustin’s up, or Da B. “Hey there. I’m using the MGYB post scheduling service but I was wondering, in the Local GMB course you link to the previous post but when I scheduled a post, then I don’t have the URL of the last URL because it will be scheduled. How do I link to the post then if the last post yet is not published or is not published yet? Greetings. Dustin.” That’s a good question Dustin.

Marco, that’s something that I think Rob was talking about that was going to be a feature, that was going to be released soon within the auto poster was the ability to silo a post. Is that correct?

Marco: Yeah. We keep going back and forth with Shripad. I’m not sure if that’s available yet. But I mean, there’s an easy solution to that. Link in the body or you’re still not gonna have the post URL. You would need the original post URL, and then the next one, then the next one. So Shripad will have to come up with something regarding that so that we can solve that issue. But, yes, he is working on it so we can silo GMB posts.

Bradley: Yeah. I’m thinking if the script would wait until a published one was pulled and then grab the short URL and then link to that before the next one that’s scheduled publishes. You know what I mean? That would work to build a silo on that. I know that if you post the post … So you publish the post, then you grab the URL and link to it from the next post. But, you’re right, if you wanna schedule out multiple posts in advance, right now there’s not an ability to do that yet.

But that’s something, Marco, if you wanna make a note of that specifically, silo posts together, schedule post together, which I’m sure that can be integrated at some point. Right now that’s not something that can be done, Dustin, but we’re working on that. It’s a great feature.

Marco: No. Dustin, what I would suggest is you just have your VA go in and add links as needed.

Bradley: As they’re published.

Marco: Correct.

Bradley: Right. As they publish, go grab the URL, and then go post the next one. That’s the only thing we can do to daisy chain them together right now until we have the automation such that it will be able to do it. Okay.

Jordan says, “On one of the, or …” Okay. One of the guys, here we go. “One of the guys on our SEO team said after an SEO pitch this probably sounds like magic to them. I still can’t believe we get paid for this stuff, almost like grownup version of video games. Haha.” That’s funny. Well, I can believe we’d get paid for it, man. Think about all the testing and all the studying and all the learning and stuff that you, guys, and the money that you invest in your education and to tools and all that stuff.

I mean, we spend a lot of time learning this stuff, guys, we should be paid for it. I mean, think about that. We spend all our time learning how to perform this SEO magic stuff. A business owner that’s doing plumbing, for example, he’s out unclogging drains and that kind of stuff. He wouldn’t have time to learn all this stuff. How do I know? Because I was an electrical contractor and I had to learn how to do this shit while I was doing electrical work. It just so happens I found that I could make more money at this, that’s why I switched to this all together.

What are you gonna say, Marco?

Marco: Yeah. I was gonna say we deserve to be paid and be paid well. I mean, do you know how much time we’ve spent between RYS Academy, RYS Reloaded, Local GMB Pro, Local PR Pro, Local Lease Pro? Do you know how many hours have gone into researching that and making it work? Making that all work hand in hand so that one pushes the other and you’re pushing ultimate power to whatever destination so that that client’s phone rings?

Yeah. It may seem like magic. “Well, my phone rang. You did all that.” But it’s actually just hours and hours and hours of being a total geek.

Are There Ways We Can Use Press Releases Based On The Battleplan Aside From Launching A New Site?

Bradley: Rabbit-hole time. Yeah. Dan’s up. He says, “I’ve looked using press releases based off the Battle Plan and saw that you have them at the store. Besides using them for launching a new site would there be other places that I could use them? I do some consulting on the side for local businesses and build sites, lead gen, et cetera?”

Yeah, Dan. “Press releases are my favorite off-page or link building method really. Like no question, I absolutely love press releases. I use them as my primary off-page link building tool or method. I still use spam links from time to time for certain things, but for the most part I’m using press releases for link building.”

Yeah. You can use them. Guys, there’s dozens and dozens of things that you can publish press releases about. I’ve talked about them. Dan, we have a course called Local PR Pro which is specifically about how to use press releases to rank in the Maps pack, to get Google GMB, Google My Business profiles ranked in the maps pack using press releases. Right?

That’s what that course, Local PR Pro, is all about. In that course, I talk about how there’s multiple different things that you could publish a press release about. Because that’s a question that comes up often, “Well, I don’t think my client has anything that’s really newsworthy to publish a press release about.”

But think about it, getting a five-star review, you could publish a press release about receiving a five-star review or your client. Or you could publish a press release about a new employee being hired. Or a seasonal change to the product line that’s available. Or the services that are available, depending on what kind of business you’re dealing with. Or an accolade that the company receives, some sort of award or something like that. Or any charitable things, any charity events that they’re hosting or that they contribute to or participate in. Right?

There’s just dozens and dozens of things, hooks, angles that you could use to write a news release or something that can be … Guys, you can even publish a press release about a new blog post that’s been published on the website. No kidding. I mean, you just have to get a little bit creative. Dan, when I say you have to get creative, I don’t mean you. I mean, what I would recommend is hiring a PR writer, from Upwork or something like that, that can come up with these angles. A good press release writer can come up with a newsworthy angle for just about anything.

Again, if you’re doing a lot of this work, you could hire a PR writer, a good PR writer from like Upwork or something like that. Or if you’ve got a good press release distribution service that you subscribe to for monthly press releases or whatever, if they’ve got good writers in-house, which most good services do now, then they’ll have writers that are already trained on how to find news where the angles or to create hooks or their stories for the press releases. Right?

For example, if you use the MGYB press release service, the writers there from the Press Advantage distribution network, if that’s what you’re using, it’s fabulous, and there the press releases are almost twice the content length of typical press releases. There’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 words as opposed to 300 to 400, which is what most of them are. So those writers are really, really good, like their sole purpose in life is to find an angle or to create an angle to write a press release about. Those are the same writers that you have access to when you buy a press releases from us individually.

Okay. Anybody wanna comment on that before we move on? It’s a good one, Dan.

Marco: No. I think you hit the nail on the head. They’re great for just about everything. The only thing that you have to avoid is self-promotion, but you get that from most of them. You just have to define what self-promotion is. You go and you advertise. Well, we’re in Facebook, if you’ve just started your Facebook page, we’re doing this, we’re doing that. It’s still self-promotion. It’s just not getting sales. That’s what you wanna try to avoid.

Other than that, it’s fantastic for link building. Not only that, if you hit the press release, whatever the distribution network is with link building, it’ll push through. You’re putting a filter in between the destination so that you hit that with link building. It’ll power it up even more. They just work really well for everything.

Bradley: They damn sure do. Like Marco said, you can actually do self promotional PRs, but the salesy part is what you gotta leave out. They shouldn’t be salesy. But they can be self-promotional. Again, a good PR writer will be able to disguise a promotion as a story, a news story, and that’s really what you wanna do. That’s why I say don’t do it yourself. If I had to write press releases, I’d be a very miserable person. I wouldn’t wanna do it, but some people enjoy that stuff and they’re good at it. All right.

Is It Okay To Start With Battleplan Before Going Into The Mastermind and Syndication Academy Courses?

Andrew Walker’s up. Andrew is a local guy to me. I was in lead share, like a breakfast lead share group with him for several years that I don’t attend those things much anymore. Andrew is a great guy. Anyways, it’s good to see you here, Andrew. I haven’t seen him in a while. He says, “Hey guys, it’s been a long time since I’ve been on Hump Day Hangouts. I got caught up in the cold calling strategy to build my business and also had a case of the shiny object syndrome.” Well, we all do, Andrew. Don’t beat yourself up, buddy. We all go through that. I promise you, I’ve been through it. I still struggle with that, to be honest.

“I don’t fully understand how powerful-,” or excuse me, “I didn’t fully understand how powerful digital marketing is and what it can do for your business. You would think that that’s a no-brainer for an IT guy. Anyway, I’m back for real and I’m ready to learn this stuff. I’ve just downloaded the Battle Plan. I’d love to get involved in the Mastermind, but I’m not able to afford that at this time. Syndication Academy looks to be a great runner up. Can I start there to get things going or just start with the Battle Plan? Thanks, guys, and congrats on your four year anniversary.”

Okay. Great question, Andrew. Again, glad to see you back, man. The Syndication Academy is, yeah, it’s good, however, because, I’m not gonna knock Syndication Academy, but what we recommend is, especially for you, Andrew, you’re running your IT business, your IT services business, and so it depends on how much time you have. If you’ve got a lot of time and no money then, yes, pick up Syndication Academy because then you can learn how to build your own syndication network, which is gonna be one of the critical components to your business in expanding your reach and helping to generate more leads, it’ll help with your SEO and all that kind of stuff.

However, there’s a lot of time that goes into learning how to build a syndication network and, unless you plan on building syndication networks for others or selling them to others, I wouldn’t recommend that you go through all the trouble of learning how to build all that stuff for your own branded syndication network, for your own business. If you’re looking to try to grow your business, then your time is better spent not learning how to build a syndication network that you’re only gonna build one for your own business.

Your time is better spent marketing your business. You can instead just buy a Done For You Syndication Network from us and we will build it to our specifications, which is exactly what we teach in the training. You can save yourself weeks of study and implementation by just buying a Done For You Syndication Network and you still reap the benefits of it without having to spend weeks of your time. Does that make sense? They’re inexpensive enough that there’s really no reason that you can’t just buy a Done For You Syndication Network from us. It’s cheaper or about the same price as the cost of a month tuition to Syndication Academy. Right?

Anyways, my point is, if you want, Andrew, since you can’t join the Mastermind yet, what I recommend is that you attend our Hump Day Hangouts regularly on Wednesdays, ask your questions here try, keep it to one question per post. In other words, you can post a few times, but try to keep it one question per post please. Ask questions here and we will try to guide you in the best way possible to help you to start growing your IT business, just from these Hump Day Hangouts. Then once you have generated some revenue you can always come join the Mastermind, which is your best bet, because the Mastermind is not just about marketing stuff.

Guys, we’ve gotten away from just teaching SEO or just teaching marketing methods. It’s more about building your business regardless of whether you’re building a local agency or consulting firm, or you want to build your own brick and mortar business, or virtual business for that matter. We want to teach you how to do all of that, which includes marketing and includes SEO, and includes all that stuff, but we’re not pigeon holing our training into just marketing training, if that makes sense. A lot more goes into it than that.

I would suggest, Andrew, that what you do is come back and join us here in Hump Day Hangouts, get involved, stay engaged, ask questions. We also have our Facebook group, the SEO tutorials Facebook group that you could ask questions there. As soon as you’re able to, I would invest in joining the Mastermind so that you can get, basically, almost one-on-one guidance from each one of us my partners and I as well as all of the other members in the Mastermind that are also savvy business owners. Right? That’s part of why it’s Mastermind because it’s not just about us teaching all the time, it’s about everybody in there contributing and helping each other, which is fabulous. Okay.

By the way, one of our top members, longtime members, Jason Johnson, who is what Adam was just talking about at the very beginning of this Hump Day Hangout, he was mentioning somebody was having difficulty setting up their MX records for G suite email to use their domain for their email within G suite. Jason Johnson posted, “Hey, I saw somebody was having trouble with MX records. Hey, I’m an IT guy. If anybody has any questions or any problems, tell them to reach out to me. I’ll help them for free as long as they’re a Mastermind member.”

Andrew, what I’m saying is, Jason is an IT guy who’s been in our Mastermind. He does digital marketing on the side, but also markets his own business and somebody that you could absolutely click with. Probably the two of you could chat about what he’s doing for his business and what’s working for him in generating leads for his IT business and all that kind of stuff. Right?

Again, that’s part of the power of a Mastermind. It’s not just learning from me or Marco when, you know, I’m gonna teach you how to generate leads for your business, but I generate leads for contracting businesses. Right? You’re trying to generate leads for IT services, and computer repair networking, and that kind of stuff, so why not get the advice direct from somebody that’s already generating leads for that type of a business, which we have members in our group to do that? Does that make sense?

That’s the power of a Mastermind. Okay. So that’s what I recommend. In the meantime, if you don’t have the money, come back here, ask questions, implement what you can, go through our YouTube channel Semantic Mastery, youtube.com/semanticmastery. Use the channel search function, ask questions over there. You’re likely going to find already video answers for many of your questions. Then, like I said, anything that you can’t find answers to, post in either the Facebook group or post back here on the event page every week and we’ll come in and answer your questions. As soon as you can generate a little bit of positive revenue, I would reinvest that back into your education and into building your business by joining the Mastermind, getting guidance from us as well as our other members.

Marco: I’m gonna give him just a couple of weeks. First of all, welcome back, Andrew. Sorry that you had a shiny object syndrome. I mean, that sucks and it makes you spend a whole lot of money and time chasing. It becomes a useless path. You fill up your computer with a whole bunch of garbage that you’re never going to use and you realize how much money you spent and then you get caught up at where you are right now where you ended, and dropped all that money and you have nothing to show for it.

But that’s okay, lesson learned. The two examples that I’m gonna give you is, I’m gonna give you Paul Fussell, who’s always in these Hump Day Hangouts, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he drops in today; or if he isn’t, it’s because he’s out making money. He was at POFU Live, as a matter of fact, our event. The way he went about doing it, he come into Hump Day Hangouts, ask questions, and then go and go and apply. Ask questions, go and apply. then he started purchasing our drive stacks to rank. I know that he was doing dental for a while, I don’t know what he’s doing now.

Anyway, the thing about Paul is that he just went and he got Done For You services, and then he was chasing clients. Every time he’d get a client, drive stack, and that’s how he would he would rank them. But that’s Paul and that’s how he did it, so Hump Day Hangouts and Done For You services.

Then, we get to Jordan in Syndication Academy. Jordan lives in Syndication Academy, he’s always there. He’s one of our, I don’t know, one of our long-running and most active members of Syndication Academy. He runs an agency and I think he just got a huge nationwide client, but it’s from Syndication Academy. I’m not gonna say that he got everything from Syndication Academy, but I know that that’s his foundation and I know that that’s what he’s doing to rank his clients, to help his clients and to help his agency.

He has an agency, actually he’s an agency owner, but he decided that Syndication Academy was the thing for him. But, of course, they’ll all tell you, and Jordan will tell you that the Battle Plan is the place where you start, and you have to follow it. If you follow the Battle Plan, then you’re going to get to our Done For You services.

It’s a whole lot easier to go and buy a Syndication Academy Network, as Bradley mentioned, than to learn how to build a one-of-a-kind that you only need that one time. Why not go buy it and pay that than to pay a monthly membership to learn how to build one, or you might not wanna learn how to build one, or you might need?

It’s just to buy them and then go and sell it to clients, to people you know. Then, you pitch the benefits of being branded of having that footprint of being seen, of your content being seen everywhere, pushing your content to where the people are hanging out. So that’s one of the benefits.

You could do it many ways. Now, of course, we’re always going to tell you that the Mastermind is the place to be because that’s where like-minded entrepreneurs hang out, people who want to grow their business and get away from just that weekly paycheck and having to wait until the next one so that you could do whatever it is that you wanna do. We wanna push you, guys, past that. We call it POFU, position of fuck you.

Whatever that position is for you, Andrew, we want you to get there. There isn’t just one way to get there, but we do wanna help you get there. So whether you choose Hump Day Hangouts, whether you choose Syndication Academy, or what we suggest, whether you join our Mastermind, we’re going to help you any way we can. That’s what we’re here for.

Bradley: That’s right. Let’s not forget Mohammad. He’s a shining example. Mohammad Mackey. He started by just joining Hump Day Hangouts and coming and asking questions week in and week out and for months. Eventually, he got to a point where he landed a couple of his first clients and started making enough money. He came and joined the Mastermind. Then, he went through a little bit of a struggle for over-promising to clients and ended up losing some clients and had to drop out of the Mastermind for a little bit.

But he kept coming to Hump Day Hangouts and asking more questions, even during that time where he had to back out of the Mastermind, and he got the education that he needed and he implemented it. Right? It’s nothing we did, all we did was provide him with information, but he’s the one that took action and kept at it. He kept persisting in working and he kept finding stuff that wasn’t working until he found stuff that did work. Then, he landed some clients again, got his money back up, and joined the Mastermind again.

We have multiple examples of people that have done that just by starting here, right here at Hump Day Hangouts, Andrew, and you can do that too. Right? The Battle Plan, like I said, will tell you do this, this, this, and this, and you’re going to start getting results. It doesn’t say that you have to learn how to do those things, it just tells you apply these things. Right?

You can either learn how to do those things and do them yourself or, as a business owner, it would be much more efficient with your time to just purchase the Done For You services and apply them in the order that they’re recommended and reap the benefits of those without having to learn how to do it. Okay. Great question. Again, glad to have you back, Andrew. We’re happy to see you participate and be a lot more engaged over the coming weeks.

What Are The Factors You Consider When Finding The Best Keywords For Ranking Opportunity In Local Lead Gen Campaigns?

Gordon’s up. He says, “Hey guys, thank you very much again for the help you provide on Hump Days. It’s greatly appreciated.” You’re welcome, Gordon. “If you’re looking to find a low hanging fruit where you can easily rank in the GMB 3-pack, other than looking at the reviews of the current businesses in the 3-pack in their citation profile, what else do you do to decide whether or not you have found a golden goose ranking opportunity? Also, how do you determine whether or not there’s enough search traffic to generate adequate phone calls? Thanks again, Gordon.”

Okay. First of all, Gordon, Local Lease Pro, I showed the exact simple method, it’s kind of time-consuming, but the simple method using it, a free software that we show, we use to identify what I call slam-dunk opportunities, which is which you’re calling a golden goose in your question, okay? Again, that was in Local Lease Pro. If you have access to that, which I’m hoping you do because it was on sale for a very, very ridiculously low price for about eight days during the Side Hustle Toolbox launch. That’s close now, but it is available, Local Lease Pro, but we teach the method specifically how to find low-hanging opportunities.

Now I can’t go into the details of that right here, but it is very, very simple to do using the Easy Local Cash software, which is a free software. It’s Chad Kimball’s software. It just shows you, basically, ever since July of this year, when mobile implemented or switched to the mobile first index, that opened up just massive, massive opportunity. I’m telling you, guys, it opened up more opportunity than I’ve seen since I started my local marketing career in 2010. And that is what we teach on how to find those opportunities that have been opened up by this major change in the algorithm or which index is used first. Right? The mobile first index.

That’s all in Local Lease Pro. I can’t obviously say that right here. It is in the course. Also, you can find out, certainly, if you joined a Mastermind, because Local Lease Pro is one of the first courses that Mastermind members get now when they join.

Marco: Yeah, the how. I mean, that’s the course, the how is, you know, if we gave you that, then why have a course in the first place? So, sorry, that’s something that we can’t do. I’m glad that you mentioned again the Mastermind. I was in our mini, we have the mini-Mastermind and mine is on Tuesday nights for an hour. I have three great people. I have Jamina, I have Will Kenderdine, and John Wypick. We were going over my method for using the software and we went over it in detail. I don’t mind for an hour. I mean, I decided to give my time, right?

So this is what it’s all about. Membership has its privileges. I do things a little bit differently. I find targets a little bit differently, but it all works just the same way. The same way that you teach it, the way that I do it, I already decided to do it. The thing is that membership has its privileges. You have to be a member in order to get the information that you’re asking about. It’s not something that we can give away for free.

Bradley: Yeah. “Also, how do you determine whether or not there’s enough search traffic to generate adequate phone calls?” Well, that’s a good question. If you do your research properly upfront, you should know. First of all, you should research your industry or the niche that you’re targeting. Now if you followed us at all for any length of time, Gordon, which I know you have, you know that I’ve been telling you and I’ve been preaching this and beating this drum for years now, which is: specialize. Focus on one industry, guys. Become a big fish in one industry instead of a me-too agency or a me-too consultant or me-too local marketer that will just accommodate any business that will talk to you.

Trust me, you will never gain any traction in your business, or you will have a much harder time gaining traction in your business, if you just offer marketing services to any business that will talk to you. Because your amount of work multiplies exponentially because you have to do keyword research, you have to do market research, you have to understand the vocabulary of the industry, you have to figure out what the pain points are in those industries both for the consumer and for the business owner.

Because if you’re the business owner that you can help them market their products and services, you need to understand the consumer’s mindset, but you also have to understand the business owner’s mindset. So that you can talk to them and speak their language, build rapport with them. So you have to learn two different markets for every industry you enter, the consumer market and the business market. Right?

There’s just so much work that goes into learning, becoming a marketing special or professional in any industry. It requires a ton of research. So if you try to just say, “Oh, I’m gonna be a local marketing guy and I’ll talk to any business in my area that will talk to me,” you’re gonna create a shit ton of additional work that you can significantly reduce. You’ll gain a lot more traction a lot faster in your business if you focus in on one particular industry because then you can craft everything you do in your business around that particular industry. All your marketing messages, all your keyword research, your content templates, everything that you do can be designed around that one particular industry. Now you become a specialist.

I use this as an example. Would you go to a general health practitioner for a heart surgery? No, you go to a cardiologist. Why do you think businesses, like let’s say home remodeling contractors or general contractors, would they want to go to a me-too agency or would they want to go to a contractor media, contractor marketing agency that specializes in general and remodeling contractor marketing? Does that make sense? Which one would you prefer?

Gordon, I recommend specializing in on one industry. But don’t just arbitrarily decide on what industry you wanna focus in on and say, “I’m gonna build my business around that,” you need to research that industry and determine, is there a call volume? Is there significant interest in that? Is there money there?

What’s one of the ways that you can determine that? An easy and simple and a quick way is go do a search for the product and/or service as if you were a customer looking for that product or service. Just go do a Google search for it and take a look and see, are there ads? Are there Google ads? If so, that means there’s paying advertisers. If there’s Google ads, that means people are paying to bid on those keywords, which means there’s likely traffic for those keywords. If there wasn’t traffic for those keywords and if those keywords didn’t convert, there wouldn’t be ads. Does that make sense? People don’t pay and bid on keywords-, well, good advertisers don’t pay and bid on keywords that don’t convert or don’t generate traffic that converts. Right? So if you’re seeing Google ads, that’s a good indication.

Now I wouldn’t stop there. I’d research it further. You could do things, like use Google Trends to find out where in the country, or in the world for that matter, but I always do US-based searches, you can find out where the hotspots are for where the search traffic is the most or the search interest is the most for the types of products or services that you’d be promoting in that industry. Right? So then, you can start to develop out which locations you’re gonna target first for your business. Does that make sense?

Remember, specialize on one industry, guys, because then you can scale your business by geography instead of by type or kind. Does that make sense? Instead of trying to scale your business by taking on new industries where you’re gonna create so much additional work, scale your business by continuing with the same industry but expanding your service area or your territory, your target area. Right?

That’s a hell of a lot better or much more efficient way to build your business. Not only that, in time you will build a name and a reputation for being that type of a marketing specialist for that particular industry. People will start to seek you out as opposed to you having a force or push your marketing, your services onto others. People will start to seek you out because they know that you’re the specialist. Does that make sense?

How do you determine whether there’s enough search traffic? You have to research it. Make sure it’s an industry that has paying advertisers. Make sure that there is significant search interest for those types of things and that it’s profitable.

As I said about in the past, carpet cleaning, there’s a ton of search interest for carpet cleaning but there’s very, very, very small margins in the carpet cleaning industry. Right? Carpet cleaning companies don’t particularly like to pay for marketing services or for lead generation services, they don’t have the budgets for it because their margins are very small.

But if you just did keyword research, which is, when I first started, the very first lead gen site I ever built was carpetcleaningalexandriava.com. I don’t own that anymore, but it was a lead gen site that I built because all I did was base my decision on which industry I was gonna target based upon keyword search volume from the Google Keyword Planner. It said something like 600 exact match searches for that term “carpet cleaning Alexandria VA” per month. It was like 660 or something like that, 600 searches per month. So I said, “Oh man, there’s a lot of search volume there. I can make money with that.”

Well, I built the site and got it ranked number one. We were getting 30 to 40 calls a week through that lead gen site and I had trouble monetizing it for even a hundred dollars a month. No shit. Then when I finally got down to the chewy center of why that was by sitting down with the contractor that was renting that site from me or leasing that site from me, he told me, “Because the carpet cleaning business has very, very small margins.” Right? Very small margins. He was making something ridiculous, per carpet cleaning job $8 or $9 or $10, or $12 in profit. It was something stupid. After paying his labor and insurance costs and, the cleaning solution costs, and all of this overhead, he had a very small margin so he had trouble paying for that.

What happened? I ended up switching into other higher margin businesses. That’s why I love the tree service industry because it’s huge margin. That’s why I like remodeling contractors, home builders, HVAC repair, any sort of repair, roofers, all those types because the margins are so much larger. Does that make sense?

Again, you have to do the research, Gordon. There’s no real easy answer there. You just got to be logical and do the research and you should be able to find the opportunities as well as the perfect industry. Also, one last thing I would suggest about that is, seriously, guys, try to find an industry that you, not only has all the correct signals or markers of being a good industry to work at, but also one that you have a genuine interest in because it’ll make it feel less like work. Okay.

Honestly, I don’t have any interest in tree services, except for the fact that that does make me some damn good money, which kind of makes it interesting. But if you can find an industry that you have a genuine interest in, it’ll feel less like work while you’re building your business.

Anybody wanna comment on that before I move on? That was a long-winded answer I know.

Marco: No, but it was perfect. There’s no need to go into that any further.

How Do You Set Up The Syndication Network Of Several GMB Sites In Same Metro Area?

Bradley: He says, “Hey guys, so if I have a group of GMB sites in the same metro area and a WordPress site ranked on page one and Serps, a YouTube channel with videos ranking on page one of Google’s video page and I want to lease all of these as a total package deal to a business owner operating an area, how do I set up a syndication network for this? Can I feed the RSS feeds from all the GMB sites into the WordPress site blog into one generically branded syndication network? Or do I need to set up separate networks for each GMB site or WordPress site? Thank you very much for your comment.”

Michael, I don’t recommend a syndication network for lead gen assets unless you need them. For example, if you’re having trouble getting a lead gen asset to push another 3-pack, can a syndication network will help for that? Then, absolutely.

The other thing is, if you have a cluster of Google My Business profiles for a metropolitan area that are all branded the same, then you could use one syndication network for those. When you talk about grabbing the GMB RSS feeds, I’m not sure what you mean from that, unless you’re using our GMB auto poster which will generate an RSS feed, but you can’t just get an RSS feed, at least not that I’m aware of.

Marco, this may have changed, but is there an RSS feed from the GMB websites yet?

Marco: Not that I know of. Not that I’m aware of.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah. As far as I’m aware, there is not an RSS feed from the GMB websites. So our GMB auto poster will create an RSS feed from the GMB posts that are connected through that auto poster or that are posted with that auto poster. So you can do it that way. But like I said, you should have a common brand for all of those assets, if that’s the case. If you want to feed them all into one network, which again, I’m gonna be 100% transparent with you guys, I’m not building syndication networks for my lead gen assets. I build syndication networks for clients because I tell them that it’s critical. It is because it’s brand building, it’s entity validation and brand authority building, right?

So any client, I’m gonna tell them. “You should have a syndication network to protect your brand and to amplify your brand, expand your reach. It also helps to build your authority and all that kind of stuff.” For content marketing, all my clients, I suggest we do regular content marketing, blogging that gets syndicated out to the syndication network. That’s all true. It’s not just because I wanna charge them money, guys, it’s to protect their brand and to help them to stay ranked.

But for lead gen assets, that’s an additional expense. So why implement that? Until and unless you need to, right? So for my lead gen assets that I’m building right now, I’m not using syndication networks. If I have lead gen assets that I do all the other magic that I work to them and they don’t end up producing, because maybe they’re not ranking well or that area ended up being more competitive than I originally thought, then I may add a syndication network. But that’s only if and when it’s absolutely needed. It’s kind of like a last resort thing because it’s an additional expense that I don’t wanna have to put up for a lead gen asset if I can get results without it.

Now once you’ve monetized an asset, a lead gen or, in this case, a multiple assets, once you’ve monetized them, I’ve talked about this too, if once you’ve developed it … Like for me, when I monetize a lead gen asset, what I do is after several months, two or three months of the service provider paying on time and there’s no issues, if we develop a decent relationship, then I offer at that point to rebrand those lead gen assets after the client, certainly their name. It’s a lot more legit that way, right?

Like I said, at that point, once I would offer the rebranding, then that’s where I could upsell them on, “Hey, since we’re gonna be rebranding these, we should also go to syndication network because it’s gonna help to protect your brand and we can use that to help continue to push the lead gen assets that I’m gonna rebrand. It’ll help to continue to keep them producing for you, blah blah blah blah blah.”

At that point, we set up syndication network. Might even set them up on content marketing services. That’s an additional charge beyond the lead gen leasing or pay per lead fees that I’m charging. Depending on how I’ve monetized that asset, this is now starting to build their asset, syndication network with their branding, building, doing content marketing on their website.

So now I’m double dipping, right? Now I’m generating money from my lead gen assets and also working on the client’s assets as a separate fee. Right? So it gives you a whole lot of opportunity, Michael. But for your lead gen assets, I don’t recommend setting up syndication network unless you absolutely need to. Try to get results without it. Guys, I am the firm believer of trying to get the most results or trying to get the best results with the least amount of effort possible and least amount of money invested too.

Should You Create A Blog Post If You Syndicate A GMB Post?

Okay. It’s a good Hump Day today, by the way. I’m liking these questions. It’s a good question, Michael. All right. Ray had some confusion earlier. We’ll pass over that. Quit This House, he says, “If I wanted to syndicate my GMB post, should I create a blog post with the post details and link or should I post to one of the social media sites and create a trigger from there?”

Quit This House, use the GMB auto poster. I’m telling you, it’s stupid and expensive, it’s super convenient and efficient, and it can generate an RSS feed from your GMB posts, and then you can just connect that directly to a syndication network, and then, viola, it’s done. You don’t have to go … Right now, what you’re talking about would require a manual action for every post. Right?

If you just set it up through the auto poster, you can, not only schedule out your GMB post all in one setting so that they automatically publish on the day and time that you select, but it will also generate an RSS feed that then you can populate or trigger a syndication network with, and all of that is automated.

Marco: By the way, since we’re back on the auto poster, I got an answer from Rob and he says, yes, we’ll be able to silo based on tagging. So you can create multiple silos within the auto poster just by tagging, by using different tags. The function isn’t integrated yet, but it’s coming. It’s already being developed, guys. Those of you who are looking to get into this, get in there now because it just keeps …

Shripad is a master programmer. He just keeps adding to it more and more functionality and he’s now charging more. We’re not gonna charge more monthly yet. If it gets to the point where there’s just a ton of programming that needs to be done, the price will probably need to go up. But we usually grandfather people into the prices where they are, so remember that.

Bradley: Yeah. Michael says, “Holy crap, I can’t believe I got the $1,000 Local Lease Pro course for $47.” Yeah, Michael. Look, for eight days, we promoted shit out of that and told everybody that once the Side Hustle Toolbox offer closed that it was gonna, I originally said it was gonna go to 500, but it’s such a damn good course. I mean, I’m telling you, this is I think the most opportunity I’ve seen in my local marketing career, that Local Lease Pro method right there. That’s why we made it $1,000.

Not only that, but we’re gonna be updating the course. Like I said, I’ve got some new stuff to add to it. That as soon as I get my VA on track for the new changes and I polish up the processes a little bit, I’m gonna be sharing that, I’ll be updating Local Lease Pro. So, yeah, you’re right. Good thing that you got in on it.

Abe says, “Hi. Can it hurt or help to have … ” By the way, guys, if you want Local Lease Pro, if you don’t have it, there’s only two options, you can buy it for 1,000 bucks or you can join the Mastermind and you can get it included in your Mastermind membership. So it’s entirely up to you, but I would recommend it. I mean, guys, it’s even worth $1,000, I’m not kidding, because of the opportunity. I’m telling you, it’s the most opportunity I’ve seen in my eight, almost nine year career now. Okay.

Does It Hurt Or Help To Have Multiple Syndication Networks?

Abe says, “Hi. Can it hurt or help to have multiple syndication networks?” Yes, it can, Abe. Not for YouTube channels-, well, depending on how they were set up, but if you’re using syndication networks for blog syndication to try to rank your own domain, like a self-hosted site, then, yes, multiple syndication networks can hurt you, depending on how you have it set up and how you have a syndication set up,

I’ve said for years now, like we teach branded tier one syndication networks and we also talked about when we teach how to build two-tier syndication networks. You can take it out multiple tiers. But I’ve also recommended for years that you only use two-tier syndication networks on YouTube channels or multi-tiered syndication networks on YouTube channels or for YouTube syndication, not for blog syndication.

However, if you wanna do it for blog syndication, I do teach in Syndication Academy and I’ve talked about it multiple times how you can use multi-tiered syndication networks and reduce the chance of getting a Google slap. You cannot eliminate it because you are still leaving a footprint. But you can significantly reduce the footprint if you add additional content feeds as triggers into your second or third tiers. Right? Because what you wanna do is you wanna mask or bury your content among a whole lot of additional route relevant and related type content so that the blogs don’t show or appear to be solely for manipulating search rankings. Right? And that’s essentially what they are.

Again, with multi-tiered syndication networks, I don’t recommend them for blog syndication unless you know what you’re doing and you’re willing to put forth all the additional effort. Also, multitude syndication networks can break down because there’s a lot of moving pieces, there’s a lot of different content sources, which can cause you know different RSS feeds that you don’t have control over because they’re not your RSS feeds, which can cause problems. Multi-tiered syndication networks can be a bitch to maintain for that reason and so that’s another reason I don’t recommend them.

If you are just flatly syndicating your content to multiple syndication networks and you’re not masking or hiding your footprint, then you are absolutely causing damage because it is clearly, the algorithm can pick that up in a split second. Right? Again, Abe, if you were gonna be building these types of stuff, like I said, the only way that … We have Syndication Academy where I talk about all of that stuff, seriously, I go into your best practices and everything about how to use them and where to use them. But for blog syndication, I highly recommend that you just use a one-tier branded syndication network and then you can boost the hell out of that. Okay.

Marco: Yeah. He also says that he’s used lower standard contractors in the past and he’s considering using our services on top. Dude, if you’ve done that, then don’t get a syndication network from us until you fix whatever it is that you’ve done. I suggest totally getting into Syndication Academy, seeing how it’s all supposed to work. I hope that you have access to all of these networks and multiple rings that have been done for you so that you can just stop whatever madness it was that was created and you could do it the right way. The way that it’s supposed to be done, which is branding. It’s done for branding and for syndicating your network. Yeah. It is done to manipulate but to manipulate in the right way. If you get caught manipulating the wrong way, you’re going to get slapped down.

What’s The Difference Between The Press Release Service In Serp Space And MGYB?

Bradley: That’s right. Ray says, “What is the difference between press release service from Serp Space, and MGYB? Are they overlapping and/or equivalent? They’re equivalent now, Ray, because, well, there’s two different levels of press releases orders from Serb Space. There was the press release and then press release plus. The press release was, the press advantage network, the distribution network, and that’s we have now a separate account. We have our own press advantage distribution network agreement with them that is available in MGYB. It’s basically the same distribution network. So it’s up to you if you wanna order from Serp Space or if you wanna come to MGYB which is owned and controlled entirely by Semantic Mastery and my partners. If that makes sense.

Serp Space was a collaboration. We are no longer part of that. There’s no issues there or anything like that. I’m just letting you know, if you wanna order directly from us, it’s through MGYB. Okay. Good question.

Should We Link From GMB Biz.Site Description?

Doodle Digital Marketing, I like that. He says, “Hey guys, I love Hump Day Hangouts. Tons of value. “Should we link out from the GMB biz site description?” Not … Well, wait a minute, the GMB, yes. You can link from the GMB website content. I don’t know about the description. But if you’re talking about the GMB business description, no, you can’t put links in that; that’s short. I think it only allows 750 characters. But if you’re talking about the GMB website, yes, you can link out to that.

What I don’t recommend doing a lot of external links, unless it makes sense, it has to be relevant guys, remember, this is a Google property, so I would not be doing some stupid “I’m gonna link to a .gov or .edu site for authority” because that’s bullshit and it has been for years. If it’s relevant, then, yes. If it’s not relevant, you’re just doing it because you learn that somewhere on some stupid SEO program somewhere, don’t do it because that’s dumb.

But what I would recommend doing is, I always link, and I teach this, but I always link from the GMB website text, the content body of the website, I always link to the GMB maps share URL, as well as to the GMB website. So it’s linking to itself, right? If you have an external website, so self-hosted website, you can link to that. That makes sense. You could also link to some of your social media stuff. That makes sense. Any type of branded property that you could link out.

Again, I wouldn’t spam the description or the GMB website content with a bunch of exterior external links, I would keep it … Really that’s why I usually just link from the GMB website to itself and also to the GMB maps share URL because those are Google properties. Right? So just consider that.

It’s after five o'clock, I don’t have to get my daughter-, or I don’t get to have my daughter for dinner tonight, so I do have a couple extra minutes. Marco, can you hang out for a few extra?

Marco: Yeah, I can hang out for a few extra. My daughter isn’t crying it.

Bradley: We’ve only got a few questions left.

Marco: Let’s go.

Bradley: All right. John says, “I’ve got a Semantic Mastery syndrome. I have no doubt it’s the place to be.” “Thanks, John. John is one in Marco’s small group that he was talking about. Jordan says, “Marco’s right. We learned the why behind all these Semantic Mastery tactics, Syndication Academy, RYS stack, Press Releases, et cetera, and then just sell them along with some other deep rooted stuff we had developed in the lab.” He’s talking about his own business specifically, Jordan.

“Then we also create all the content via writing and optimizing it, which we charge for, and then we do web design with SEO strategy pre-launch. I couldn’t build a drive stack if my life depended on it. Haha.” Yeah, that’s great. I mean, honestly, guys, those are the audience that are tech nerds and like to get their hands dirty, so to speak, roll up their sleeves and get to work. Then, RYS Academy will teach you how to build drive stacks. It’s a lot of work. You can benefit from RYS stacks without having to learn how to build them, by just buying them done for you and you’ll save yourself a shit ton of time and energy.

Again, I’m not trying to discourage anybody from buying the course, I’m just saying you got to consider where to spend your time. Is learning how to build drive stacks going to progress your business? It might. You have to make that decision. I can’t make that decision for you. Or is the benefit and the result that the drive stack can produce going to help your business? And if so, then why go through the trouble of learning how to build them when you could just purchase them done for you and receive the benefit that you were seeking to begin with? Does that make sense? Then that way you could spend your time focusing on how to sell it or how to monetize it or how to apply it to get the result that you’re seeking. Does that make sense?

Again, guys, you have to think about it on a higher level. That’s what I think is really wrong with our industry, is that everybody teaches, or the vast majority of products tell you, “Hey, we’re gonna teach you how to do this one skill.” Yeah, I’m not trying to take that away from anybody. That skill is valuable. Whatever that skill may be, it’s valuable. But just because you know how to get a result from it, one particular skill does not make you a business owner, it does not make it a profitable business for you. Right?

So you got to think about how are you going to make money from whatever it is you choose to do? Is doing that thing, being the mechanic or the technician, is that actually going to make you the money or is selling that service and the result that that service produces going to make you the money? If that’s the case, then why don’t you focus on learning how to sell it and find people that are already good at doing it, fulfilling it, to do it for you right.

That’s what we’re trying to get at, guys, and Jordan understands that. That’s why Jordan’s business is cranking, it’s just kicking ass. Okay.

Any Black Friday Sales For Done For You Services Or Training?

Luis, he’s a new Mastermind member. “Hey guys, any Black Friday sales?” By the way, welcome, Luis. “Any Black Friday sales for Done For You services or training?” Yeah. Isn’t that with the GMB stuff was the pre-Black Friday sale?

Marco: It’s the pre. We will have something. Something’s coming your way and it’s gonna be good. Trust me. It’s not Black Friday yet, dude. But we will have something. It’ll be big. We control MGYB now. As Bradley mentioned, it’s ours. Semantic Mastery is our own store. So we’ve got some really good stuff coming your way.

Luis, I will be talking to you on Monday, as a matter of, fact. It’s his onboarding call. Again, I’m sorry, all these Mastermind questions keep coming up or Mastermind people. As part of the onboarding process, we give people a half hour call just to get them pointed in the right direction, to see where they’re going, where they want to be. So we ask questions, we try to provide guidance. I just happened to get Luis.

Guys, you can’t ask for who you want. You’re going to get whoever is up on the calendar, because we rotate since there’s five of us. But whoever you get, you’re going to get the direction that you need and you’re going to get your questions answered so that you can get started on your way to POFU.

That’s what we want you to do. We want you to get started getting to that place where you’re going to be and say, “Okay. Now I don’t have to deal with shitty clients. I don’t have to deal with shitty people. I am at a place where I can go into any negotiation from a position of power. I know what I’m worth. If this guy gives me any flack, I’m gonna have to say ‘Fuck you. I’m gonna go to your competitor and charge them half price just because I feel like it, because I don’t need you.‘” That’s what we want you to be.

Bradley: There you go so. Yes, Black Friday is this Friday. So, yeah, there will be some other specials. I don’t usually get involved with what promotions we’re doing, guys, so I couldn’t answer that. But I’m glad Marco said, yeah, we do have something coming Friday.

Should You Use Only The Main Keyword Phrase Or Should You Diversify Them When Building Links To All Assets?

Jay Turner. What’s up, Jay? He says, “I’ve been able to get my client ranked in the 3-pack for the second most trafficked keyword phrase with an RYS stack. High five, Marco.”

Marco: High five, dude.

Bradley: “But now I want to take on the main and most competitive keyword. I’m adding a silo of content to the RYS stack targeting the main keyword. So far so good. My question is when embarking on link building to all assets, like RYS, Syndication Network, GMB website, et cetera, should I use only the main keyword phrase or must I diversify the keyword phrases?”

Jay, diversify. What I recommend you do is go pool your … You should have probably already done keyword research anyways, so if you’re gonna be siloing, you should have your keyword themes relatively tight for the silos anyways. So make sure that if you’re gonna be direct targeting link building on a silo basis, that you’re only using a set of keywords that fall within that particular silo or keyword theme. Right? Does that make sense?

Let me take this down to a local level because what I wanna explain is, guys, when you’re doing a ton of like spam link building and such to power up tier one entities, which would be like drive stacks, press release, organization pages, syndication networks, even citations, you don’t want to hit, and I’m gonna say local because that’s primarily what I work on, and I’m assuming that’s what you’re talking about here anyways. You said client ranks, so it’s likely it’s locally You said 3-pack. Right?

So you don’t wanna use the keywords with the location modifiers. You can use a very small percentage of your overall keywords that you’re gonna add to the anchor text or the link building that you’re gonna be either doing or buying a package or whatever. You can have a very, very small percentage with location modifiers, but I would keep that to an absolute bare minimum. Because it’s more about pushing the theme, the keyword theme, not the location, or the geographic theme, if that makes sense, it’s not about pushing location relevancy.

Because think about it, the further you move away from a local business the more broader the market segment is. In other words, you don’t wanna be targeting keywords or link building to tier 1 assets all the way down to the local level, including local location modifier, because it’s, remember your link building to tier one assets is two hops away from your target which would be your GMB asset or your primary website, the client’s website, or whatever, the further you get away from the ultimate target, the ultimate destination, the broader your keyword set should be, the broader the theme of the keyword set.

That’s why I say I don’t like to include local modifiers and anchor text when I’m building links to tier one assets. Instead I use higher or market-level keywords, broader market keywords. What do I mean by that? Instead of water heater repair Fairfax Virginia or Fairfax VA as a keyword that I would use as an anchor, it would be water heater repair and plumbing and plumbing repair and plumbing service, if that makes sense. I’d lose the local modifier and use more broader market-level keywords. Okay.

Also, you don’t wanna do entirely 100% on anchor text links, even with a diverse set of keywords. You wanna also include naked URLs and some generics. You can even use some brand terms at that point. It’s a little bit odd to use brand terms at tier two links because that’s again two steps away from your target URL. But it does make sense if you’re link building to, for example, if it’s a tier one branded property it can make sense to also include the brand name in some of those anchor text too. Right? I would just use those sparingly as well. It’s more about the keyword relevancy at that point in naked URLs, which is just pushing link equity to those tier one assets regardless of anchor text.

Marco, do you wanna comment on that at all?

Marco: Yeah, thanks, Bradley. What I would recommend is reach out to Dedia. We have a Dedia, he knows exactly what to do with your RYS stack to get the most out of it.

Bradley: Right.

Marco: If needed, then get our keyword research gig because we will come up with thousands upon thousands of keyword targets for you to either add relevance or to push, we provide what’s called buoyancy. “Buoyancy,” that’s one of the words that I have difficulty with. But we help push up the main keyword by providing relevance throughout the keyword silo. We give you all that with the keyword research.

Then, all you do is turn that over to Dedia and say, “Here, this is the folder that I’ve created, this is the keyword that I’m targeting, have at it.” Dedia has been with us long enough that he just knows, okay, this is what I need to do. He’ll blast it. He’ll hammer that RYS stack so that it produces.

Bradley: That’s right. You don’t have to worry about all those ratios and stuff, Jay. I know. I mean, honestly, I don’t worry about any of that stuff anymore because I don’t ever do any of that stuff anymore. If I need it, I just contact Dedia, exactly what Marco said, and I just say, “Hey, this is what I got. This is what I’m trying to accomplish. Make it happen,” and he does it.

Honestly, guys, that’s what I’m talking about. Jay, again, I don’t wanna get back on this pitch again, but if you have your own tools and you’re running your own link building tools and stuff like that, that’s great, if you’re efficient and all that. But if you’re not, which I am not, I have no desire to run those tools, just let the expert do it and Dedia has an absolute ninja. He’s an expert, a link building expert, so that’s why I just turned it over to him, defer to him anytime I have something that I need to spam to push additional link equity to. I just contact him say, “This what I got is what I need you do, make it happen,” and he does it. All right.

Jay vouches for the GMB auto poster. He says, “It’s great and Shripad does great work. He is very responsive in Support. I can attest to that too, not just because it’s me, but every time there’s an issue a little support bubble on the bottom right corner of the auto poster, you can just contact Support through there and he’s very, very responsive.”

Would You Recommend Using One Website For Multiple GMB Locations?

Abe says, “Also, I would like to know about using one website for multiple GMB locations. Is this recommended and possible?” It can be. You can just create separate location pages. So each location each, GMB locations should have its own dedicated page on the website and that’s the URL that you would submit as the website URL in the Google My Business profile. Does that make sense?

So instead of just using the home root domain, so the home page of the website for that brand across all different GMB assets, create a location specific page on that domain and then use that URL as that landing page URL as the website in GMB. It’s perfectly fine to do that, guys. But what you want is, if it’s the same brand, you can share the same brand name across all GMB locations. That’s fine. But you want a unique URL and a unique phone number and a unique address, if possible. Okay.

Strange NAP issues occur if you have two or more of the data points, the primary data points in a citation or NAP, which would be name, address, phone number, and also website URL. If you have two or more common data points among multiple locations, that’s going to cause NAP issues, which is going to make it very difficult to rank. You can have one common data point, typically the business name, because it’s a brand that can be used across multiple GMBs as long as the other primary data points are unique, physical address, phone number, website address. Does that make sense? So, yes, it’s possible.

Now one other thing I would mention is go back through, Abe, watch some of our previous Hump Day Hangouts. We’ll talk about the difference between using location pages, which would be pages on the root domain, or using location-specific sub-domains, which are separate WordPress installations, but there’s a reason to do, that’s to help mitigate risk, potential losing all of your assets if you were to catch a penalty. Again, we just talked about this last week, go back and watch the replay from last week and I’m pretty sure we talked about that extensively, about the benefit of using sub-domains over sub-folders or sub-directories. That’s pretty much the same thing I’m talking about here.

“Where’s the GMB auto poster?” John, just posting the Mastermind, we’ll get to the link.

Marco: I posted the link higher up.

Bradley: Yeah. I just didn’t have it. Thank you, Marco. Nestor says, Hey, I got to go guys. I got to wrap this up. So, anyways, and there’s Rob with the yearly discount for the GMB agency offer. That’s the enterprise account level or subscription level, which is 200 posts per month-, or excuse me 500 posts per month capacity. If you buy it on a monthly basis, subscribe month to month, it’s $200. If you buy the yearly license … It’s $200 per month, excuse me. If you buy the yearly license, it’s 1,000 bucks, divided by 12, comes out to be $84 dollars or $83 per month. So it’s a hell of a lot cheaper that way.

By the way, if you’re scheduling out 31 posts, which there’s a post scheduling feature, which is amazing in the GMB auto poster, so you can schedule out one post a day or however many you want. Let’s just say you’re doing one post a day, you could do 31 days. Then, there’s a republish option to where it can republish the post based upon the interval that you set. For example, if you set every 31 days, you can publish, you can schedule out 31 posts and then have them republish 31 days later, each post thereafter. Right? Does that make sense?

So day one and then day 32, that post publishes again. Day two and day 33, that post publishes again. Does that make sense? That way you can set up all of your posting and in an automated fashion. Well, with 500 posts per month, if you were to actually fill out or post one per day for each location, you can essentially put 16 locations in one enterprise account. Sixteen times 31 comes out to be 496, so you get 496 posts. Essentially, you can serve 16 locations, 100% one post per day with a single enterprise account. Does that make sense?

That’s how I’m clustering my sites right now. I gave you a little insight on that.

Marco: Yeah. I mean, it’s an awesome deal because it saves so much money and then the auto poster just saves so much time and effort. Once your VAs get proficient with going in there and just scheduling and putting everything up, it just saves you a ton of time of money. So you’ll make the money back that you invest in this just by the time you’re gonna save with your VAs, or even if you try to do it on your own, which you shouldn’t be doing.

Bradley: Yeah. Just so you guys are aware, for clients, I have a VA that goes in and manually posts for all the clients. I do that for a reason because every post is 100% unique that way. She still has content templates, but she goes in and she puts in a new image every time, and the content templates she uses, there’s tokens that she swaps out with different keywords and such. The target URLs are always being recycled to whatever we’re linking to from the GMB post and all that. So they become unique for clients.

I pay my VA on a per post basis. So I pay her, for every post that she publishes she gets paid. It varies between $3.50 to $5 per post. But I charge my clients $10 to $15 per post, depending on what the volume is. So my point is, I make money on that even though she’s manually posting.

However, for lead gen assets, guys, once again, just like I was telling … Shit, who was I telling earlier? Michael. I was telling Michael earlier not to worry about syndication networks for lead gen assets because you wanna reduce expenses. Well, I don’t want to pay a VA to manually post to lead gen assets because that’s an additional expense when I can pay for-, or subscribe to the auto poster, schedule all the posts.

Do I do all these guys? Hell, no. I’ve trained a VA to go in and set up or schedule all the posts within the GMB auto poster and then schedule them to republish. So that, literally, I can pay a VA for three or four hours to schedule out, however long it takes them, to schedule all those posts out. Then, it’s done and those GMB assets will continually update posts because of the auto poster and I’m not paying anymore other than for the auto poster subscription. Does that make sense? So it’s a hell of a lot more efficient with money too. Right? It’s more cost-effective. Okay.

Nestor says … And I’m so over, we got to get out of here. Nestor says, “Hey guys, how about webs 2.0 example mybrand.wordpress.com point to my GMB property three links as a press release?” Okay. First of all, I’m not familiar with their example. I know that’s kind of a competitor that does, you know, they have their own store and blah blah blah. I’m not real familiar with what they teach or what they say, so I can’t really speak on that.

I’m not quite sure I understand, in the wording of your question, what you mean by mybrand.wordPress. I understand WordPress.com, that’s fine. That’s a brand identity property that you can create on the WordPress.com site, kind of like what I showed earlier. But, yeah, that’s normal. That goes into Syndication Network, right? You try to get your brand name as a sub-domain blah blah blah. That’s pretty standard.

But, “point to GMB property three links as a press release,” I’m not sure what that means. Can you point to a GMB property from your WordPress.com site? Sure. Can you also use press releases to link to that WordPress.com site? Sure. You can also link to your GMB.

I’m doing a press releases, Local PR Pro method is what I use and, as standard operating procedure, I published a press releases with every GMB asset, it gets created. Usually, my preferred method is to link from the first press release to the GMB, the Google Maps share URL, to the Google the GMB website URL, and to the GMB the first post URL. We teach that at Local Lease Pro and that’s just essentially my method. So I’m going direct from the press releases to the Google assets. Okay.

Yeah. Guys, there’s a thousand ways to skin a cat, right? So our method isn’t the be-all end-all. It’s just our method works for what we want it to work for and that’s what we teach. Other people have other methods that may very well work as good as ours. I’m not trying to say that ours is better than anybody else’s. I’m just telling you what we teach, I don’t know what they teach. I’m sorry. It’s likely that that would work too.

Will says, “Bradley, speaking about syndication networks, I finally figured out how to syndicate to Medium.com. I’ve been testing it for a while with a few posts now and it works well to syndicate your WordPress post with images and YouTube video embeds, and from there, you could syndicate to your tier two, if you’d like. I’ll send you an update to support@semanticmastery.”

Thanks, Will. That’s awesome. In fact, Will, if you would, I mean, if you’re cool with it, you can even send the update right in the Mastermind community so that everybody else could benefit from it. If not, send it to me and I’ll update everybody in the Mastermind, and Syndication Academy for that matter, once I see it. Thank you for that, Will.

Okay. “Link to pre-Black Friday deals, please.” Yeah. Luis, just contact us at Support.

That’s it. Okay, guys, we’re way over. We got all questions answered, though.

Marco: That was a good one.

Bradley: Thanks, Marco, for hanging out, man, I appreciate it.

Marco: Marathon. All right, dude.

Bradley: All right, everybody. Mastermind webinar tomorrow. Be there or be square. See y'all.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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