#i literally forgot what today was like i kept seeing new posts mentioning anniversary and it didnt click. until like 30 minutes ago

[waywardsalt]

happy 15th anniversary of phantom hourglass’s north american release here’s the funniest thing my friend has ever said while discussing linebeck with me

[strawberrynamjoon]

farmer boy, i love you

– Pairing: Taehyung x Reader

– Genre: farming!au, lowkey e2l, smut, humor & tons of nagging

– Word count: 35k

– Summary: Needing change in your life you decided it would be a brilliant idea to move to your uncle’s small farm, helping him and your cousin Jimin with the daily work. What you didn’t plan was to fall in love with your beautiful yet very annoying neighbour Taehyung, who seemed to make it his personal mission to tease you every chance he got. And what you expected even less was that he seemed to like you too.

– Warnings: includes smut, alcohol and mentions death of a father

– A/N: this is a rewritten edition of a fic i already posted before when i was still writing for got7 but i loved it too much to let it go <3

– Disclaimer: This is not proofread because I was too lazy, so you might find a few mistakes!

Walking the long but yet very pretty way towards the small village that, from today on, was supposed to be your new home you felt a bit indifferent. While you were convinced that it was time for you to start a new chapter of your life you still couldn’t help but feel anxious about taking such a big step.

Moving to the farm that belonged to your uncle seemed like such a great idea when he first offered the plan he had to you – the place held such special memories and as a child you always wanted nothing more than to live there, working on the farm, supporting your uncle and his son, your super annoying yet lovely cousin Jimin.

Now that the idea wasn’t an idea anymore but your reality you were scared and not so sure anymore that this was the right step, yet your second thoughts didn’t matter anymore, it was already too late for you.

The big city you grew up had nothing to offer you anymore – so now, you wanted, or better said needed a cut in your life.

There was nothing you used to love more than sneaking out with your cousin at night, secretly meeting up with your friends, going for a swim in the small lake right next to your house. You wouldn't trade those memories for nothing, cherishing each and every one of them. So, you concluded that this town was the best option you had.

It had been such a long time since you visited, you actually felt a bit nostalgic when you arrived in the center of the town. The residents liked to call the marketplace at the beginning of the town „the heart“ of the city.

Ever since your last visit many years ago nothing seemed different. Basically, it was a round and rather big circle, surrounded by a small café that has been there all your life, right next to it the library that was owned by the Jeon family, the parents of Jimin's closest friend, Jungkook. You couldn't help but smile as you remembered how you used to hide in the library, reading the same few books over and over again.

Opposite of the library was the old restaurant – every single rather important event was celebrated in that specific restaurant, no matter if it were birthdays, anniversaries, New Year's Eve or whatever other occasion there was.

It was so popular not only because of the delicious food they offered but also because it was literally the only restaurant around. Your uncle and your neighbors, the Kims, were providing them with the food they needed, so you usually always got food for free which lead to you and Jimin spending a lot of time at the restaurant, no matter how often your uncle insisted he could cook dinner for you – in hindsight you felt kind of bad for him because the two of you constantly turned down his meals.

And last, but certainly not least, there was the little pub that you never actually were allowed to spend time in since you used to be too young. The Mins, the owners of the place, were very strict about that. None of you and your friends were ever allowed to be inside the pub as long as you were minors – even their son Yoongi rarely ever saw it from the inside, probably because the adults didn’t want the children around after work was done.

As you stood in the middle of the marketplace you couldn't help but smile as the last sunrays of this warm late summer day were falling right onto the pub, making it look a bit more beautiful than it actually was. The paint on the outside was splintered and the sign that simply said ‘The Mins’ Pub’ was slowly falling apart – somehow all of this gave it a certain charm though.

The vibe of the village always made you feel comfortable. There were about 150 people living here if you had to guess and the next supermarket was a twenty-five minute drive away but the people seemed so happy, not worrying about a lot of things.

You decided that a short stop in the pub before you’d go home to your uncle’s house wouldn’t hurt anyone. After all, you were way too curious to finally see the magical place from inside.

As you carefully entered the door you felt cheerful – it looked exactly like you always imagined it to be. Most of the furniture was made out of old wood, the bar was long and it was the first thing one would notice as they came in since it was on the opposite wall of the entrance.

Your smile was wide when you spotted the one man you hoped to find standing behind the bar. Of course, Yoongi was the bartender by now, it was always his plan to work here, to him it seemed to be the coolest thing ever to be a bartender, especially in his own bar – and turns out, he was right, he looked extremely cool behind the bar, washing glasses while chatting with villagers.

For a second you studied him, he looked dangerously handsome. Certainly a lot taller than the last time you had interacted with him and his face seemed more mature, a defined jawline but the same round cheeks, his hair long and falling in his face, making him look almost evil for a seocnd. If it wasn’t for gummy smile you would have had to look twice to be sure it was the same Min Yoongi you spent so much time with as a child.

The expression on his face as he recognized you, the young lady from out of town, was priceless – his whole relaxed and cool facade vanished immediately as he stared at you with his eyes wide open, a questioning glance as he saw you. He was caught off guard, his slightly opened mouth giving him away.

“Just the man I hoped to find. Yoongi, you look good,” you playfully flirted as you walked towards the bar, “I’d like to have one beer please.”

Within seconds he was walking away from his place behind the bar to come and embrace you in a tight hug before mustering you, shortly studying your face to make sure you were really the person he thought you were.

“(Y/N), live and in color? I thought you forgot about us,” he joked, the surprise of you in his bar very pleasant to him.

A joyful laugh came out of your mouth as he walked back behind the bar, opening both, you and himself, a beer.

“You could’ve called, you know? No need to surprise me like this. My old heart can’t take those kinds of surprises anymore,” he sounded lighthearted, just like you remembered him.

Immediately you felt ten times lighter, clicking with people you haven’t seen in a long time was one of the purest and most magical feelings in existence and you were more than relieved to see that you and Yoongi were equally as excited to be reunited after such a long time. Not getting along with your old friends, especially him, was one of the many fears you had about moving here.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t assume Jimin actually kept quiet about me coming back,” you admitted.

“How long has it been since we saw each other?” he asked as he was leaning against the bar, his whole attention on his former best friend, still having an obviously hard time to believe that you were actually sitting in front of him right then and there.

Before you could give him an answer someone else started to answer for you from behind you and you immediately recognized his orotund voice, “Six long years,” your cousin said while he and another familiar face walked up to you.

Jimin pulled you into an even deeper hug than Yoongi did and you felt home within seconds. Jungkook was right beside him, of course, where else would he be than next to Jimin? The two of them still were inseparable and it was almost heartwarming to see how little has changed.

“How did you manage to not say anything?” Jungkook scoffed in shock before looking at you, “It’s good to see you again, (y/n). I can’t believe Jimin didn’t tell us.”

You were almost amazed to see how much he grew, his chin could easily rest on your head by now, something that you would’ve never thought could happen. Jungkook has always been the youngest and smallest kid back then and now he was the tallest in the room.

“I wasn’t sure if she’d actually come. Didn’t want to get your hopes up, Jungkook,” he teased his friend, still nagging about the crush he had on you when you were literally five years old.

Jungkook rolled his eyes at his comment before bringing his attention back to you and Yoongi, sitting down on the stool beside yours.

“So, how long are you going to stay?” Yoongi asked.

For the first time, you actually had to say the truth out loud, making it feel much more real.

“I’m not planning to leave again,” you sounded more confident than you expected, the nice encounter with your old friends almost making you feel like all of your previous worries were groundless.

There was a moment of silence, both of them not knowing what to say – it almost seemed like you broke them.

“You know, I never saw you speechless until now,” Jimin chuckled amused.

“You mean –”, Jungkook started to form a sentence but dropped it, not knowing how to continue.

“You’re moving here?” Yoongi asked, wrinkles on his forehead as his brows narrowed in confusion.

As you slowly nodded his concentrated expression vanished and changed into a grin. “You’re actually moving here,” he repeated breathlessly, more to himself than to you, slowly nodding to himself as if he had to progress the new information.

“Welcome home then, (y/n). I think this is a reason to celebrate,” he smiled while pouring shots into a few glasses in front of him.

Time went by fast and you had fun learning about what happened in the last six years. It didn’t sound like a lot has changed though, they were still as close and as fun to be around as you rememberd.

Every time you looked at them it hit you how fast time flew by, it felt like a just few months ago all of you were playing hide and seek in the middle of the night while your parents had no idea you sneaked out.

A few hours and way too many shots later, you and Jimin walked home, the night sky was breathtakingly clear and full of stars – a sight you simply would never see in your hometown, all the city lights drowing them out. You forgot how special it felt to walk under millions of stars.

No matter how much fun you had in the bar, walking home with Jimin was your favorite part of today, you definitely missed him the most.

He told you a bit about how Hoseok and Namjoon were thinking about taking over the old restaurant because the owners are getting too old to manage everything and about Jungkook and Seokjin being into the same girl, without knowing that Namjoon was already dating her in secret – it was nice that he filled you in with everything you missed, so you could start right where you left.

As you arrived at home your uncle was sitting in the rocking chair on the porch in front of the old farmhouse.

“Uncle Minwoo,“ you almost shouted out as you saw him, jogging over to where he was sitting. Minwoo always was your favorite uncle and you were his favorite niece, much to the dislike of your siblings.

“(Y/n),” he laughed as you hugged him, “you smell like you had a good time in the pub.”

“We actually have a small surprise for you,” Jimin seemed excited as he told you to follow him.

He lead you to the old little cottage that has been on the farm for as long as you were able to think – back in the days it was mainly used for storing tools and electronics that shouldn’t be exposed to the rain. Confusion coming over you, your uncle handed you a key and you opened the small cottage. Stepping inside, you couldn’t believe your eyes.

“Welcome home,“ your uncle chuckled as you observed the room in front of you. A small kitchen, a couch and a TV in the living room, a bed on the other side of the room. They painted the walls white and decorated a bit – it might have been something small but enough to touch you deeply.

You were sure you could stay here forever, it was cute and welcoming, like a real home. Not a thousand words could describe how much you appreciated them for putting in so much effort, just to make you feel comfortable.

As you thanked both, Jimin and your uncle, the three of you talked for a bit longer, the excitement taking over before your uncle advised you that it would be better to catch some sleep – work wouldn’t wait for you and you had to be thankful for any second of sleep you could get.

Waking up the next morning, you immediately regretted the alcohol you had the night before. Your phone said it was currently six in the morning and while being woken up by the sound of chicken and cows was way more relaxing than your usual alarm clock you still would have preferred to just sleep in.

Walking outside a few minutes later you inspected the farm – it was a giant property with two big houses on it. Half of the farm belonged to your uncle, he took care of the animals and artisan goods, the other half belonged to the Kims, in charge of the crop harvest

Starting the day with feeding the chickens and collecting eggs was one of the easier tasks you had to face today since it almost didn’t require any kind of skill. While you were picking up another egg you flinced as you heard someone scream at you from behind.

“Hey! Put the eggs back! Who in the world steals eggs these days?” the deep voice belonged to a man but before you could turn around to find out who was screaming at you, he held your wrists behind your back, not giving you any space to move.

Your attempt to free yourself was almost embarrassing, it was clear that you had no chance against whoever decided to disturb you.

Turning your head around to scream at the stranger you muted as soon you met his eyes – the words you wanted to scream wouldn’t come out as you looked into the familiar face of his, your brain working hard as you realized who he was.

His thick eyebrows were furrowed, his dark eyes were piercing you, filled with a mixture of anger and annoyance – he was still staring at you and waiting for an explanation.

“Kim–“ your voice died and you fastly cleared your throat, “Kim Taehyung?”

His annoyed expression changed into a confused one as you called him by his name. You couldn’t believe he was accusing you of stealing eggs.

“Let go of me!” you demanded but Taehyung wasn’t planning to listen to you, not trusting you.

“Who are you?”, he asked harshly, “You’re not from here. How do you know my name?”

The grip on your wrists became tighter and actually started to hurt a bit.

“I’m (Y/N). Minwoo’s niece,” you replied just as harsh as he asked you, “Didn’t Mrs. Kim teach you any manners?”

He let you go and you immediately grabbed your own wrist just so he couldn’t grab them again. A small pout formed on your lip as you looked at them, trying not to let him see that it actually hurt.

“What are you doing here?” he asked you, voice cold.

Now you were facing him and you had to stop for a second to take in his beauty. As he was holding you, you didn’t really manage to study his face since you were too busy trying to free yourself but now you started realizing how handsome he became.

It's not like he was ugly before, you and him just never clicked and that’s why you never gave his face any kind of attention.

Taehyung wasn’t a bad guy, you knew that because Yoongi repeatedly assured you that he was actually a very loving person once you get to know him.

Personally, you just never really got the chance to, since he definitely wasn’t interested in anything that had to do with you. Not in a mean way though, he just didn’t seem to care about the girls in town, especially not the one who always came over the summer break and then left again.

Glowering at you, he was waiting for an answer. You, on the other hand, didn’t dare to look him into his eyes, instead your eyes were studying the rest of his face. His features were sharper and manlier now, his brows thick but he still had the same wrinkles around his eyes.

For a second you wanted to look at his lips but you stopped yourself, not wanting him to get wrong ideas.

“What are you doing here?” you asked in retund instead of giving an answer, “Didn’t you always say you wanted to leave this place?”

He rolled his eyes as you avoided his question.

“I asked first,“ he insisted, making it hard for you not to chuckle at the very immature conversation you were having.

“I am working here. Don’t you have some vegetables to take care of?” you asked coldly asked before turning your back to him.

“You better get used to my face, if you scare me like this one more time I might have a heart attack,” you added as your attention was back to feeding the chickens.

But instead of leaving Taehyun was walking to stand right beside you, “You’re working here? Why would you do that?” he asked. It never was a secret that he wanted to leave this town, he used to talk about it a lot back then already and, even though he still was here, apparently, he still wanted to leave.

“I’m supporting my family,” you shrugged, not looking at him. You really didn’t want to be cold to him but you were tired and you knew how Taehyung was, he didn’t mean to be rude, he had a soft nature, everyone could see that once they got to see his warm smile but sometimes he was a bit rough.

You could see him shake his head in confusion as you were continuing with your work, “Okay, you go milk those cows and churn that butter if this is what fulfills you, (y/n). I’ll go back to work,“ he pointed at the field of tomatoes on the other side of the farm your families shared and left you alone again.

Walking over to the cows, you couldn't help but wonder why he still was here. He was a very clever guy, he could easily go and leave this town to study and open a business or whatever it was he wanted to do. Glancing over to him one more time, you tried to divert your attention to milking the cows.

The field of tomatoes he was currently working on was not too far away but luckily still far enough to give you a bit of privacy. He seemed to be very invested in picking the best tomatoes he could find, a concentrated glance on his face. And you really should try to concentrate too, since you haven’t milked a cow in years.

And you failed miserably. To your desperation, no one was around when you went looking for Jimin or your uncle to help you. Trotting back to the cows you sat down on a small stool in front of one them, giving it another try.

You groaned at the cow, laying your head back and closing your eyes in frustration. It was only your first day and you knew practice makes perfect but you wanted to cry.

“Just give me your stupid milk, please,” you mumbled while taking a deep breath, your eyes still closed.

“Are you sure this is the right job for you? If you can’t even milk Bertha maybe you should reconsider,“ Taehyung’s voice startled you, making you jump a bit. The grin on his face clearly was teasing, full of satisfaction because you were struggling, “Do you need help?”

“Please,“ you didn’t care about the triumphing grin on his face, you were more than willing to take his offer. Any kind of help was good. And in the end, you didn’t dislike Kim Taehyung, you just weren’t close to him.

He nodded before telling you to wait for a second as he walked towards the little shed. Coming out again he held a strange looking machine in his hand while attaching it to the cow’s udder.

“We haven't milked them by hand for years,” he explained to you as he took your wrist once again, this time more careful though, and slightly pulled you towards the cow’s udder, right next to him.

“Watch closely, I’ll show you once and if you can’t follow, you’re on your own,” his words sounded harsh but you didn’t take them that way. The fact that Yoongi was his best friend was something you two had in common and if he wanted you to give Taehyung a chance you would do that. For Yoongi, but also for yourself.

After all, Taehyung was your neighbor and, in addition, he was a handsome man, you wouldn’t mind being able to look at his face whenever you wanted at all.

You saw the way he acts around the guys and you saw that he indeed had a very soft heart, maybe he just had a hard time showing it.

“Hey! Are you even watching?” he asked annoyed while glancing at you, “I know how to do this, I am not the one that has to learn. I’m being nice here, don’t waste my time.”

You chuckled a bit at him losing his temper so easily. “Yes, Taehyung, I’m watching," you said grinning, “Wasting your time was not a task on my list today.”

After he rolled his eyes at you you could swear you saw a small smile on his face while he started to milk the cow, explaining to you what he was doing step by step.

You tried to concentrate on how exactly he does it, what movements his hands made and so on but you kept on finding yourself thinking about how good his hands looked – what in the world was wrong with you? It's not like you've never seen an attractive man before so you had no clue why your hormones were playing a game with you.

After you started to try milking the cows yourself you felt more than relieved that you actually managed to do it right. Letting out a small ‘thank god’ under your breath you realized that Taehyung still stood right beside you, watching your every move.

“You know, you can go back to the toma–” you started to say before he interrupted you in the same moment.

“Just a tip for you,“ he said, not sounding cold for the first time, “Don’t dress up for farm work. You’ll ruin your clothes. You can still wear cute outfits after you’re finished here. But while working just wear something old,“ he said as he was just about to turn around before you had to take the chance to annoy him one last time for now.

“You think my outfit is cute?” the grin on your face was wide and you were way too amused.

As a response his eyes squinted together in regret, knowing that you’ll probably never stop teasing him about it.

“Please don't,“ was all he could whisper frustrated under his breath.

“What a softie you are,“ you playfully poked his upper arm, “Didn’t know you had that in you.”

He let out yet another sigh, sounding almost whiny but the smile on the corner of his mouth came out nonetheless, “Are you always this awful?“

“Dear diary,“ you said in a nagging tone, “Today Kim Taehyung complimented my–”

Before you could end your sentence he was covering your mouth, shaking his head in disbelief slowly, “I’ll go back to work, (y/n). Don’t forget to churn the butter. The wooden pitcher we use for it is in the shed,“ and with that, he walked back to his side of the farm again.

Just a second before he arrived he glanced over to you again, screaming so that you would hear him, “I didn’t compliment you okay? Don't let it get to your head.“

Waving at him from the shed, you nodded your head. “Sure. Talk to you later! Your outfit looks cute too by the way”, you screamed back.

Maybe working next to Taehyung wasn’t so bad after all, if he was always such an easy target to provocate you'd at least have your fun.

When Jimin came into the shed with the tools to take over a few hours later, you were busy churning the butter, cursing under your breath.

Sweat was dripping all over your forehead and it was seriously tiring, every single muscle of your arm hurt, including some muscles you didn’t even know you had. You weren’t sure if you could manage to do that on a daily base. At least you wouldn’t have to worry about a gym membership anymore.

Your cousin stared at you confused, a sly grin in the corner of his mouth, “What exactly are you doing?“

“I’m churning the goddamn butter. Why is it so hard?” you complained while looking up to him. He was holding two beers in his hands, handing one over to you before starting to laugh at your action.

“Why would you use that old thing for that? We have a machine that churns it for us,“ he laughed, “I don’t know why we even still have that old thing.”

“Fucking Kim Taehyung,“ you cursed under your breath, leaving Jimin even more confused.

“You met him?” he asked while sitting down in the hay beside you.

“I did," you hissed, “He was the one who told me to do it this way.”

Jimin’s smile grew wide as he tried to contain his laughter, “I didn’t know he could be so evil.”

He almost sounded satisfied that you were getting fooled by him, “He likes you if he teases you.”

“Well, that’s not a very nice way of showing it,“ you took a big sip of the beer, knowing that you probably deserved it for all the teasing earlier, before continuing, “You didn’t tell me he became so handsome though.”

Jimin’s eyes widened immediately as you confessed and you could tell he was trying not to spit out his drink out of shock. He fastly swallowed, “You have a crush on our Tae?”

You shook your head scoffing, lightly kicking his leg, “A crush? How old are we? I just think he’s very attractive. But he was pretty rude though.”

Jimin pressed his lips together in a thin line, looking into the sky, „His father died two years ago. He had a hard time. But he opens up sooner or later, just be patient with him – I promise, he is one of the most kind and caring people in this town.“

You gulped at the news, “What a sad loss, Mr. Kim was such a ray of sunshine, always ready to help if help was needed.”

Jimin nodded, “He was. Olli was only six years old when his father died. But dad took a lot of care of them since then.”

There was a short silence. You still remembered little Olli, Taehyung’s younger brother. The last time you saw him he was barely two years old.

“I can’t believe he’s your type though. I thought I really wanted to set you up with Jungkook,“ Jimin broke the silence before you could think about it any longer, almost offended.

You laughed at him. He was close to Taehyung, you knew that, but he always wanted you to date Jungkook, only for the purpose of having him as an official family member.

“That won’t happen,”, you broke it to him, much to his disappointment.

A deep sigh came from him, “Well if you want Taehyung so bad, come to the pub with us. I bet he’ll be there too tonight. We are meeting at eight. What do you say?”

“I don’t want him, I simply said that he is good looking,”  you desperately hoped he wouldn’t tease you all the time about this from now on, already starting to slowly regret that you even brought it up in the first place. And as much as you would like to go out to the pub with the others you had a date with your bathtub that you wouldn’t want to miss for anything else tonight.

“I’ll pass though. I’ll come next time,“ you promised, standing up and walking towards your door.

“I can’t wait to tell Yoongi that you and Taehyung are going to become a couple. How exciting!” he yelled after you in his typical teasing voice, making you laugh out in frustration. Sharing your opinion on Taehyung’s look with your cousin probably wasn't the best idea.

It fastly got dark outside and you were lighting the candles in your bathroom, the bathtub slowly filling up with hot water.

Exactly what your muscles needed after churning the butter all afternoon. Putting a bit of milk in the bathtub, you wondered if you had some honey in the farmhouse by any chance. As you wrapped the first towel you could find around your body, you wanted to hush over to your uncle’s house to check. But what stopped you from your plans was a shadow you saw walking past your window, making you freeze until someone rang your door.

Opening it, no one else than Taehyung was standing in front of it, his work clothes traded into sweatpants and an oversized hoodie, a basket in his hand and his eyes fixed on your exposed legs.

The towel you were wearing luckily covered all of your breast and bottom but that was about it. And, as if it couldn't get worse, it also had a lot of fairies on it – it used to be your favorite towel when you were about five years old. Still, you didn’t need Taehyung to see you wearing it.

“Taehyung?“ you asked him, unsure why he was visiting but he was still looking at the exposed parts of your body, not doing a good job at hiding the fact that he got distracted by your legs. You barely noticed though because your thoughts wandered to this morning. “How dare you not telling me that we have a machine for the butter? Are you crazy?”

“My arms hurt so much,“ you added in a complaining tone, too tired to fight him so you decided to whine instead.

Coming back to reality, he laughed at you, his eyes now looking at your face, “You seriously did it all by yourself?” – he was lucky the wrinkles around his eyes were so cute whenever he laughed, otherwise you would have killed him right there, “You must be pretty strong then.”

“What do you want?” you asked him annoyed before you saw his eyes wandering down to your legs once again.

Not missing out on the opportunity to nag him, you chuckled, “Do you like my outfit?” as you struck a small pose, you had to be careful not to expose any parts he shouldn’t see.

Rolling his eyes he handed over the basket, “Seriously, you’re so annoying.”

You grinned, thinking it’s quite funny how easy it was to annoy him, “But you still think I’m cute, so it doesn’t matter.”

There definitely was a smile hidden on his lips that he tried to hide at all cost, but you could see it reaching his eyes, “This is for you. My mum put your favorites in it. Tomatoes, cherries, peaches, blueberries. She asked me to bring it to you,“ the man said, trying to sound as uninterested and unbothered as possible.

“That–“ you started to gather your words, feeling very touched about the little gift but a bit confused as to why Taehyung brought it to you, “That’s so nice of her. I’ll come over tomorrow and thank her.”

He immediately focused on you again, “No, it's fine. I’ll tell her. She’s kind of sick at the moment, she needs to rest, Olli is not even letting me go near her because he doesn’t want anyone else to get sick, so I doubt he would let you come over.”

You mustered him suspiciously but decided to leave him be, you surely teased him enough for today and didn’t want him to actually dislike you.

“Alright, Tae. Thank you,“ you gave him a soft smile as you were about to close the door.

“Wait,” he stopped you before you closed the door and you waited for him to say something, “Are you planning to go to the pub later?“ – if you didn’t expect him to ask one thing than it was this one. Why did he care suddenly?

“I don’t think so. Churning that butter has really worn me out, you know?” you said, laughing lightly, “And my bathtub is already waiting for me.”

“Oh alright. That’s cool. See you soon, I guess,“ he said before awkwardly giving you a small smile and leaving again. What a strange yet interesting guy he was.

Something about him made you look forward to your future on the farm. But before you could let it get to your head, you were interrupted by a text from no one else than Yoongi.

[Yoongi, 22:29]

Glad to hear you're getting yourself a man! Taehyung and (y/n), how sweet.

You let out a small laugh before finally meeting your only date for tonight: Your bathtub. Though you had to admit that the handsome face from next door was coming to your mind every now and then.

After a week you slowly got used to the daily work on the farm, your body was finally starting to react differently, your arms weren’t getting as sore anymore and waking up early was bothering you less and less.

It was a sunny Saturday which meant you had to gather all of the goods your uncle wanted to sell on the market the next morning. Picking out the best eggs, milk, wool and cheese was pretty boring, especially since Jimin left early because he was going on a date tonight with some random girl you never heard about before. But since you wanted him to be happy, and also because his teasing about Taehyung was slowly but surely making you go insane, you told him it would be okay if he let you work alone today.

It took you about an hour until you were finally done with carrying all of the boxes into your uncle’s car as you saw Mrs. Kim, Taehyung’s mother, and decided to help her quickly carrying her own boxes filled with pretty fruits and vegetables.

His mother was a beautiful and lovely lady, always has been. Her black hair was long and even though there were a few grey strands in it by now she still looked as young as ever.

“Mrs. Kim, let me help you,“ you shouted while jogging over to her, “Where’s Taehyung? Letting his mother carry all the heavy boxes of fruits and vegetables alone is not a nice thing to do,” you disapproved, one box already in your hands.

She let out a laugh and you were reminded of how warm her laughter was, it sounded like the giggle of a small child.

“It’s fine, I told him to rest for today. He always works so much,” she let out a worried sigh, “I’m very thankful, I know helping me on the farm was not what he wanted to do with his life but he does it for me.”

You never really thought about it that way before – that might explain why he was still here despite always hating the small village he was born and grew up in, it was probably hard for him to leave his family behind after losing his father.

While carrying a box full of blueberries you ate a handful, not able to hold back. The Kim’s blueberries have always been your favorites, none of the ones back at home could compare to the juicy fruits you'd get here.

“You still love blueberries, I see,” She hummed joyfully as she was carrying the last box to the car.

“I am obsessed with them,” you answered, “Oh how rude of me – I still wanted to thank you for the little basket full of fruits you send to me. I was in heaven, your peaches were even better than I remembered.”

Mrs. Kim looked at you in confusion for a second before getting a grip of the situation, the confusion vanishing while a different kind of expression came to her face, unable for you to read at first.

“So he can actually be charming,“ she mumbled to herself with an almost mischievous smirk and within seconds you knew exactly what she was talking about. That little shit.

Scoffing, you wondered why Taehyung wouldn't just admit that the little basket was a present from him, not from his mother – who would do something so sweet without wanting to let the other person know? But then, on the other hand, you didn’t understand Taehyung at all.

“Mum,” you heard his voice yell out while he walking out of the door to their house.

When he saw you he froze for a second, “Oh, hey, (y/n),“ he said with a slight and not really convincing smile, it almost seemed forced.

You nodded towards him, ready to go back to work and leave them alone, as his little brother came running outside, chasing after Taehyung.

“Tete,” he let out a scream as he tried to jump on his back. He was surprisingly tall for an eight-year-old, almost managing to get to Taehyung’s shoulders if he jumped high enough, “Can I come with you? Please?”

Before he could answer, Olli’s attention shifted somewhere else. Or better said, onto someone else. To be precise, you caught his attention, the girl standing in front of his mother and brother, a stranger he’s never seen before.

“Who are you?” he asked curiously, studying you exactly, “Are you Minwoo’s niece?”

You kneeled down to be at an eye to eye level with him, shaking his hand, “Yes, that’s me. I’m (y/n). It's nice to meet you.”

He had a big grin on his face, “Hi, I’m Olli,“ after introducing himself to you he turned around to his big brother, “Did you make the basket for her?”

Taehyung shushed him within a second, giving him a warning glance before trying to cover up his story, “Yes, I did it because mum asked me to.”

She let out a sarcastic laugh, making fun of her son, “Sure. It was totally me asking you to do that.”

A heavy sigh fell from Taehyung’s mouth before shaking his head in disbelief, “Where is your cousin? He promised he’d help me picking up our new couch.”

“Oh, I am afraid he forgot. He’s on a date right now,“ you informed him.

Taehyung let out a heavy sigh, rubbing his temple, not believing that Jimin completely forgot about him. Now even more frustrated, he started mumbling, “It’s always the same with this guy.”

“I’ll help you,“ you volunteered determined, not even bothering to ask him first, knowing he’d say no anyway, “I’m done with work for today and I don’t mind coming along.”

“No, it’s fine. I’ll go alone,“ he insisted, clearly mad at your cousin before walking over to his car. Not caring you decided to follow him, hoping that he’d be nice to Jimin if you helped him instead, even though you had little hope.

“Stop being so stubborn,“ you said to him as you opened the door and sat down inside the car, “Just accept my help.”

And much to your surprise, he did accept it, not bothering to start another discussion with you. Maybe he was just too tired of the constant bickering going on between the two of you.

As the two of you drove out of town the sky looked like it was painted in golden colors, the sun slowly setting but the air was still warm, brushing the arm you held out of the open window.

“Where are we even going?” you asked the obviously bothered boy beside you.

“It’s not far away, the dude I’m buying the couch from lives like twenty minutes away,“ he answered, his eyes glued to the street, „You really didn’t have to come. I could’ve easily done it alone.”

Slowly but surely, you were starting to get mad at Taehyung. You couldn’t tell why his constant attitude was getting to you but it did. Of course, he didn't have to like you and honestly, maybe you did go a bit too far with the teasing but after all, you were neighbors, co-workers and also shared the same group of friends. Being nice to each other was the least you could do – especially when you knew that he wasn’t like that at all towards other people. You’ve seen him interact with his little brother and his mother and his friends, he was a warm and loving person, laughing and joking whenever he could. He just wouldn’t open up towards you.

„Dude, you’re the worst. Can you keep quiet for once and accept help? Stop being so rude all the time, being nice every now and then won’t hurt you, you know? You can take your bad mood out on Jimin later.” you snapped at him, not even intended to sound so mean but it just happened – you just wanted him to at least accept you.

He peaked at you, his eyes grew wide in shock at your rant. Even though your voice was still low he clearly heard the frustration in it, “What do you mean? I am being nice all the time. I told you that you shouldn’t wear your good clothes to work in. That was a piece of nice advice I gave you for example.”

You scoffed at him not knowing if he was being serious, “You also attacked me because you thought I was stealing chicken and made me churn butter.”

He chuckled amused as you brought the churning up, “I still can’t believe you did that.”

“My arms still hurt. You’re an asshole,“ you rolled your eyes, not in the mood to put up with Taehyung being, well, himself, when you were just being nice, “If that is your interpretation of being nice I’m beyond sorry for your future girlfriend.”

“Hey, now you’re the one being mean,“ he acted offended and honestly, a bit confused, not knowing why the two of you were fighting. You weren't even mad at him, you just felt fed up, craving at least peace between the two of you.

“Well, maybe you just need a taste of your own medicine,“ you shrugged, calming down a bit as the discussion started to shift to a more playful mood than a serious one.

But before you or Taehyung could fuel the fire and add anything into the it, you let out a small scream as he was turning right with full speed, making you feel like you were about to crash, holding onto the seatbelt for dear life.

“For fucks sake, where did you learn how to drive? Do you not know that you’re supposed to slow down before turning?” you asked him, gasping for air.

“If this is already scaring you, I’ll give you the nice advice to not drive with Yoongi,” he laughed out loud as he parked his car in front of a big house, “Ready to use the strength in your arms built up from churning butter?”

It took you about twenty minutes to carry all the parts of the couch from the third floor to the trailer attached on Taehyung’s car. When you were done it was beginning to get dark outside and the weather was cooling down, making you shiver a bit.

All done, you sat back inside Taehyung’s car as he was securing the trailer so you could drive back home safely – or at least as safe as a ride with him could be.

“If you’re cold there’s a blanket on the backseat, I'll get it for you,“ he yelled from outside before coming getting inside the car, a blanket in his hand, “See how nice I am? So caring, not wanting you to freeze to death.”

You shook your head amused, „What a gentleman you are.”

The drive home was more peaceful, no discussions this time. You looked outside, seeing a big and bright star in the sky, pointing to it excited.

“I can’t get over how beautiful the starry night sky is here. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it,“ you mumbled, almost sounding dreamy, eyes glued to the sky. It wasn’t even completely dark outside yet, but the first stars were already sparkling brightly.

“Isn’t it the same in your hometown?” he asked a bit perplexed as he looked over to you, wondering how you could be so excited about some stupid stars.

“Not at all. The big city lights drown them. You can barely see some, and if you can, they are not as bright as here.”

“I suppose living here isn’t all bad.”, he shrugged after thinking about it for a few seconds, his glance wavering to the sky every few seconds.

You hummed in agreement, “Except for this terrible guy living next to me I quite enjoy my time here.”

He chuckled, enjoying the little game you two were playing, „Must be really hard to live right next to such an attractive young man. I bet you have a hard time.”

Laughing, you were impressed at his wittiness, “Don’t think too highly of yourself.”

Before you could let him answer your favorite song suddenly started playing in the radio, making you turn up the volume instantly, “You need to shut up now. This is my all-time favorite song.”

But of course, Taehyung didn't shut up. Much more like him, he did the opposite, trying to sing along as loud as he could just to ruin the song for you – and he had way too much fun doing it.

“I didn’t know you could sing,“ you said, giving him an approving look.

A smirk formed on his lips, “I'm a man full of surprises.”

The rest of the drive the two of you were singing along to the radio loudly, having genuine fun together for the first time since you arrived. It was nice to see him loosen up a bit, even though it was only a small step.

Driving up to the farm, you already saw Jimin sitting on the porch. He immediately stood up, walking over to the car, already apologizing without you really arriving yet, “I’m so so sorry mate. I completely forgot. I owe you a beer next time we go out.”

Taehyung chuckled as he turned the engine off, “Doesn’t seem like his date had a happy ending, considering he’s home already.”

“Good for me,“ you shrugged, “I’m way too tired to carry the whole couch inside anyway.”

You were the first to get out of the car, making Jimin narrow his eyebrows in confusion.

“What are you doing in Taehyung’s car?” he asked suspiciously.

“I’m doing your fucking job,“ you shot him a mean glance.

As you were walking towards your home you were stopped by Taehyung holding your arm, making you turn around.

“Thank you, I suppose,“ he said, pressing his lips together, obviously feeling awkward, “Just trying to be nice.”

You gave him a genuine smile, “No problem. Sleep well.”

“You too, (y/n).”

Waking up you were almost shocked to see the weather. Yesterday the sun was still shining while today it was pouring like you never saw before. The sky was dark and grey and your whole farm seemed quite sad, making you wish you could just stay in bed all day, just being lazy, reading, eating and maybe fantasizing about a certain someone.

Checking your phone you saw a text from Jimin: it’s going to storm today, you have to make sure all the animals are in the barn and safe, please. i’m getting food for tonight. see you later, favorite cousin.

You immediately threw on a thick cardigan and brushed your teeth, hurrying to get things done before the weather got even worse. Looking in the mirror you scoffed for a second at your sad reflection – your hair was in a very messy bun and your under-eye circles were almost black. But there was no time to pity yourself right now, you could do that after work.

After you fed and, of course, petted the chickens and made sure that all the windows were closed tightly you ran over to the barn where the cows and goats were in. Your clothes were completely drenched even though the way between the barns was very short, the heavy rain was so strong that there was no way you could’ve stayed dry.

Entering the barn your eyebrows narrowed as you saw that the light was on and the food for the cows was already laid out.

“Uncle Minwoo?” you screamed loudly, the rain was so loud that otherwise, no one would hear you.

“Oh thank god, there you are,“ the owner of the voice was coming out of the little shed you kept your tools in, throwing one of the milking machines over to you. You barely had time to catch it because Taehyung was throwing it without caring if you’d catch it or not.

“What are you doing here?” you asked him skeptically as you sat down to the cow next to the one he was currently milking.

He glanced at you with an annoyed expression on his face - but only until he saw how wet you were from the rain. Right then, he bursted out into laughter, “Why are you not wearing a raincoat for fucks sake?” he asked you, enjoying the sight in front of him a little too much.

“I don’t even own one,“ you admitted a bit hesitant while shrugging, knowing he’d make even more fun of you.

And of course, he did.

“How can you not own a raincoat? Seriously, (y/n), you’re something else. Who on earth doesn’t own a raincoat?” he shook his head in disbelief, still laughing.

You simply pressed your lips together, coming back to your actual question, “But why are you here? Certainly not because you wanted to help me.”

“Hey, maybe I’m not as bad as you think and just wanted to be friendly for once?” he said, acting offended, “Since you’re always complaining.”

“Yeah, I doubt that,“ you answered.

Suddenly you heard a loud thunder outside, making you jump - you usually were not afraid of thunder but the sudden loud noise startled you for a second. What really scared you though was the reaction of two of your cows, immediately after they heard the thunder they let out the deepest and loudest sounds you’ve ever heard of them. They sounded terrified.

Taehyung immediately jumped up from his stool and walked over to Bertha, the small brown cow, petting her face.

“Shhhh, it's okay,“ he tried calming her down before looking over to you, “I’m always here when it storms. Bertha and Marnie are deadly afraid of the thunder, so I accompany them. It calms them down.”

For a second you thought he was fooling you but before you could say something another loud thunder was heard followed by loud sounds of the cows once again. God, you weren't sure if you ever could get used to the sounds they made.

“Wait,“ you interrupted confused as you saw Taehyung pet Bertha once again, giving her a small kiss on the side of her face, “You’re serious?”

He looked at you with a grin, “Of course I am. Go, pet Marnie a bit. She loves getting pets right under his chin, she’s such a lovely cow.”

You did as he said but not really trusting him yet.

“I didn’t know he had feelings, Marnie, did you?” you asked the cow sarcastically.

Taehyung chuckled, shaking his head, “I only have feelings Marnie and Bertha.”

Bertha was walking away from him to the hay he just put down for them to lie down for a bit, something you barely ever saw them doing,

“When I first looked into Bertha’s big brown eyes I fell in love,” he stated lovingly, petting some of the other cows while Bertha was still lying down, „Her eyes are just too pure.“

“That’s adorable,” you had to admit, “Didn’t expect that from you.”

“Are you aware that just because I’m telling you you’re stupid because you don’t own a raincoat or work on a farm with a goddamn Gucci shirt doesn't mean I'm an asshole? That’s my way of helping,” he said confidently, “You just seem to not know exactly what to do, so I’m trying to help.”

„You're still being mean while doing it,“ you insisted, not giving in.

“Whatever,“ he walked over to Bertha, who was resting on the ground, lying down next to her, “Just go inside and relax, I’ll take care of the cows.”

“No way,“ you sat down next to him, “I’ll not leave you alone with my cows. I don’t trust you.”

Of course, that was only an excuse to spend some time with the pretty boy from next door but he didn't need to know – his ego was big enough already. Both of you were now starting to relax slowly, leaning against Bertha, petting her every now and then.

“So, farmer girl, how do you like it here?” he asked you after a few seconds of silence, seeming to be actually interested in you for once.

“It’s nice,“ you shrugged as he was peaking over at you, “I like the fact that I finally am allowed to go into the pub the most.”

“I remember when we first were allowed to go in, it was like Harry Potter seeing Hogwarts for the first time,“ he remembered laughing, “and now we’re the ones that get drunk in there while the younger kids are jealous they can’t.”

“Some things never change, right?“ your eyes darted to Taehyung, who had his eyes closed and seemed to be truly relaxed in your presence for the first time since you arrived. He was using his arm as a pillow, a smile on his lips - for once a genuine smile, not the usual teasing one he gave you. The rain was pouring so hard onto the roof of the barn it sounded like applause. You couldn’t help but smile to yourself, exhaling a breathy scoff through your nose, not believing that he actually had a soft side.

“What's so funny?“ he asked curiously, still with closed eyes.

“I just love the sound of heavy rain,”  you lied, also getting into a comfortable position and closing your eyes.

Your neighbour let out a hum, agreeing with you before yawning, “Me too. It’s cozy.”

Your eyelids started to feel heavy, you didn’t have much sleep last night and your body was shivering a bit because of your wet clothes. Taehyung was snoring lightly beside you within a few minutes and before you knew it you were asleep too. You wouldn’t have expected the barn to be such a comfortable place to sleep in.

The sound of someone calling your name, you couldn't quite identify who it belonged to yet, woke you up. As you were slowly starting to realize where you were, you were just as perplexed as Taehyung, who was still beside you, seeming to just have woken up too, according to his dreamy gaze.

“Did we fall asleep?” he asked you, yawning and stretching his arms from his body.

As you looked up, Jimin was standing in front of both of you, confusion was written all over his face, “What the hell are you two doing in here? How do I keep finding you two together?”

Taehyung shrugged, sitting up as you were doing the same, “What does it look like? We obviously fell asleep.”

“Okay but why were you here together in the first place?” he asked, a smirk on his lips, “Did you make out in front of the cows? They are too young to be exposed to such wild and unholy behavior.”

Chuckling at his remark, you rubbed your eyes a bit, “Don't be noisy, please. I’m having a headache.”

“You two are just too cute,“ he teased a bit before telling you the reason he was looking for you in the first place, “Dinner’s ready. We’re having some meat with different salads and corn. Feel free to join us Tae, your mum and Olli are there too.”

“I don’t know,“ he replied, a little unsure, “I still wanted to meet up with Namjoon and Hoseok later.”

Jimin narrowed his eyebrows, “Why didn’t you ask me to join, you jerk?”

Taehyung laughed at Jimin, standing up, surprisingly offering you a hand to help you get up from the ground, “I’ll eat dinner with you and then you can come with me, alright?“ he proposed to Jimin.

Your cousin agreed happily and the three of you walked over to the big house Minwoo and Jimin lived in.

“Did you find her?” your uncle screamed from the kitchen as he heard the door open.

“Yes, I’m here,“ you shouted back as you took off your shoes.

Walking over to them, Mrs. Kim was surprised to see her son, “Oh, Tae. How lovely that you’re here,“ she smiled as cute as always, “Where have you been?”

Both, Taehyung and you felt a bit awkward telling them where exactly Jimin found them, not wanting anyone to get a wrong idea. But, of course, your annoying cousin was faster.

“They were sleeping in the barn together,“ he smirked as he told your family, enjoying every minute of it, “You two seem to get along better by now.”

Taehyung rolled his eyes, “We were literally just taking care of the cows.”

You nodded, “It’s not like we met to take a nap in the barn.”

Uncle Minwoo and Mrs. Kim both giggled a bit at the bickering between their families, “Stop teasing them. They are already flustered,“ she said lightheartedly.

Everyone sat down on the table as your uncle brought the food to the table. It smelled like you were sitting in a restaurant and you could feel your mouth watering as you saw the food.

“Thank you for letting us eat with you,“ Taehyung said in a polite manner.

“Oh, Tae!” Minwoo exclaimed joyfully, “You’re always welcome. We’re like family.”

He nodded thankful as all of you started eating. The food was truly delicious and the conversation was nice, all of you participating in it, talking about current events and life on the farm.

You weren't sure if it was because your families were there but Taehyung was unusually nice to you, not even nagging you once. He passed you the salt when you asked him to and he even asked you about your job back at home.

It was a nice evening and you cherished it, knowing that it probably was a once in a lifetime experience to have a normal, peaceful conversation with Taehyung in the same room as you.

About an hour later you started walking from the big house to the small hut and even if it only took a minute or two Taehyung walked right beside you, not leaving your side.

Maybe he truly wasn't as bad as you made him out to be – the two of you might have had some difficulties but thinking about it now he seemed to open up to you more and more. As both of you stood in front of your door, you fiddled with your hands, not knowing how to react to being all alone with him.

“Don’t let Jimin drink too much tonight. I need him to be fit tomorrow. It’s my day off,“ you joked.

“I promise to stop him if he drinks too much,“ he smiled brightly, the wrinkles around his eyes showing slightly, “I’ll see you around?”

A scoff escaped your lips before you could hold it back, “Considering the fact that you can look inside my living room from your window I think so yes.”

And with that, he started walking towards his house but even after he was gone you still couldn't stop smiling.

The few next weeks were pretty unspectacular, working on the farm was part of your everyday life by now and your work was a routine, knowing every small step of it.

But still, today you woke up with a smile plastered on your face – it’s not like anyone besides Jimin and Minwoo, maybe Yoongi, would know it’s your birthday today but you still loved your special day.

It didn't matter that no one would know, you were quite happy that to everyone else this day would be just another day. You, on the other hand, had tons of self-care plans for tonight.

The first thing you did that morning was checking your phone, happy to see that your friends from home – or more like what used to be home to you – thought of you and send you very nice birthday greetings full of love, telling you that they missed you. In no time you got up and dressed to go over to the main house.

“So, what do you want to do today?” Jimin asked you as you had breakfast with him and your uncle. Despite you telling them that they shouldn't worry about you, they still made you some scrambled eggs and cut a lot of the vegetables from the Kim’s farm, Jimin even managed to go to the heart of the city to buy some buns for all of you.

Stretching yourself, tiredness still washing over you, you thought about his question. “I actually don’t know, I thought I'd just do some sheet masks later and watch Netflix,” you said shrugging before eating a piece of cucumber, “Why? Any ideas?”

“Why don’t you invite your friends over, (y/n)?” your uncle suggested but you’d rather not. The problem with inviting people over is you can’t leave early since they are literally at your own place and you'd never kick them out, not wanting to be unfriendly.

“No way, I don’t even think most people know about my birthday. I’ll stay lowkey about it,“  you denied your uncle's request, just wanting to have a nice night on the couch after you took a long bath – an ideal night for you.

“Why don't we have a movie night?” you suggested to your two family members but they didn’t seem to show much support to your idea.

Uncle Minwoo immediately stopped you, “I’m not letting you stay at home with your old uncle and cousin on your birthday.”

“I’d love that though. We hadn’t had a movie night in a long time,“ you pouted, hoping to convince your uncle despite knowing you had no chance against him.

“Jimin, take her to the pub, alright?” he instructed his son who was currently not listening to the conversation and instead was texting someone.

“Sure,“ he agreed with his father before looking up from his phone, “I’ll take you to the pub later, (y/n). No discussion.”

So a few hours later you found yourself in your small bathroom, putting on a real full face make-up for the first time ever since you moved here, you almost forgot how pretty you could be.

Jimin said to make sure that you looked your best since a lot of other people would be there, including the girl he ‘sometimes takes out’, as he liked to call it.

Even though you were still not fully in the mood, you started to warm up to the idea of going out as you got ready. In the end, you knew it wouldn't hurt to doll yourself up and go out every now and then – and maybe, just maybe, Taehyung would be there too.

Jimin picked you up from your place at around eight in the evening, the sky already pitch-black.

“Hey birthday kid,“ he said lovingly, “I didn't know you could look this lovely. Trying to impress a certain boy?”

Throwing him a glare that was about to end his life you were ready to hit your cousin if he wouldn’t stop mentioning your attraction towards your neighbor. You prayed he didn’t tell Tae about it, his ego was big enough and you didn’t know if you could survive if he’d become even cockier. Taehyung knew how handsome he was and that he could probably get just any girl if he wanted already so you didn't want to give him the satisfaction.

“I’ll kill you if you don’t shut your mouth,“ you threatened him even though you knew that nothing could stop Jimin's teasing ever.

Arriving at the Pub, you couldn’t help but grin like an idiot – all of your friends were waiting inside, a whole booth decorated just for you. Yoongi was the first to welcome you, hugging you tightly. “Happy Birthday, princess,“ he almost whispered into your ear before the other people were waiting for their turn to congratulate you.

Hoseok and Namjoon were there, including Namjoon’s girlfriend, that you hadn’t met before. Jungkook, of course, was there too and even gifted you some sunflower. “Those are my favorite!” you told him excited, to which he replied that he still remembered.

Jimin introduced you to his almost-girlfriend and she seemed to be a nice girl, a bit smaller than him, with cute glasses, short hair and a nose ring that she pulled off like no one else could.

And last but not least Kim Taehyung was standing in front of you, trying to look cold and unbothered like always, but his eyes were sparkling a bit, giving away that he wasn't as cool as he wanted to be.

“You’re here!” you gasped, genuinely excited to see him, “I feel honored.”

He shook his head joyful. “Don’t let it get to your head. Happy birthday, farmer girl,“ for the first time ever Taehyung hugged you, and you hated to admit that it felt quite comforting – the hug didn’t feel awkward or forced at all, he even had his hand on your head, right in your hair.

Yoongi and Jimin, who were standing behind Taehyung, were inspecting the hug you shared, drawing hearts with their fingers in the air for only you to see as you turned red.

“(Y/n), we got a present for you! Come on, sit down,” Hoseok happily singsang from the table and Taehyung let you go, way too early for your liking, but you weren’t complaining – you appreciated what you got this far.

As you sat down beside Yoongi, Taehyung sat right next to you, pretty close since you were sitting on a small bank with five people.

The booth was decorated with a paper chain that spelled “Happy Birthday”, a few presents were waiting for you on the table, right next to many glasses and several bottles of alcohol.

“This one is from me, Hoseok and Seokjin,“ Namjoon said excited, handing you a present.

Opening it you couldn’t help but pout at their heartwarming idea: They gifted you a framed picture the four of you when you were little, you were maybe around three to four years old.

„God, we were so small,“ you chuckled, studying the picture.

Hoseok smiled wholeheartedly, “There’s a little wheel on the side that you have to move,“ he explained and so you did – as you turned the little wheel more pictures of your friends and you appeared, all of them from different years.

“I love it,“ you smiled at them, “I'll find a special place to display it, I promise.”

“Open our’s next,“ Yoongi said, an untrustworthy smirk on his face. “It’s from me and Jimin.”

Just because you knew the two of you too well, you didn’t trust them at all.

“I bet it’ll get also a very, very special place at your home,“ Jimin assured you and you just knew at that point they probably got you something very stupid.

And they did – you let out a deep breath, shaking your head in disbelief.

“Thanks, I really needed that,“ you said sarcastically as you hold the box of the vibrator they gifted you in your hand.

Both of the boys bursted out into laughter, making you sigh.

„You think you're so funny, don't you? How old are you? Fourteen?“ you snipped both of their foreheads but still, a chuckle managed to slip out. Not really because you thought the present was funny but more because the boys were so amused by their own idea.

“We know the nights get lonely here,“ Jimin said, still laughing like a teenager, “Much fun with it. Just call Taehyung if you need any help with it.”

“Yeah, no, thanks, I think I can handle that on my own,“ you quickly responded before anyone else could join their nagging, “I really need a shot now. Otherwise, I won't be able to deal with you.”

Yoongi immediately poured a round of shots for everyone, “To our little (y/n).”

All of your friends clinked glasses and downed the shot. Within a few hours, one shot became quite a few, too many to count them. Jimin and his girl were making out heavily in the corner of the pub – much to your disgust. While you were happy for your cousin you still could imagine better things than seeing your family member's tongue in someone's mouth.

Yoongi, you, Seokjin, Namjoon and Taehyung were currently playing a card drinking game that you not only never heard of before but was also killing you at a fast pace.

“(Y/n), your turn,“ Taehyung glanced at you, raising his eyebrow – his cheeks were red and the sloppy smile on his face gave away that he also was at least a bit intoxicated by now, “Red or black?”

That was the whole point of the game, basically the only rule. You had to say a color and if the card didn’t have the color you had to take a shot. Seokjin said it was the best game to get really drunk really fast, and boy, he was right.

“Red”, you answered or to be exact, mumbled since you had a hard time pronouncing your words clearly by now.

And, of course, luck wasn’t on your side - as Taehyung turned around the card it showed black. “Tae~“ you let out a whine as he laughed, “I literally cannot drink this shot or else I’ll throw up.”

Your head was turning and your stomach felt warm and tingly, a part of you suddenly felt playful and giggly, which was pretty unusual for you. Looking at Taehyung you felt something deep down in your stomach – the way his rather long and curly hair fell into his face and his tanned skin was glowing was a beautiful sight. God, you really wanted to blame it on the booze but deep down you were aware that you were just fooling yourself.

“You’re no fun,“ he almost whined before taking the shot, “I’ll take it for you since it’s your birthday.”

“Oh, what a gentleman you are,“ you nudged him.

“Just trying to get drunk,“ he shrugged laughing before downing the shot as if it was nothing.

Your glance waved over to Jungkook, who was e the drunkest, his eyes slowly closing. “Jungkook!” you poked his upper arm, not sure if you should laugh or be concerned, “Are you passing out?”

“Hmm?” he responded, trying to open his eyes but failing, “Oh no. I’m just taking a nap.”

You peeked to Taehyung beside you, questioning him what to do, “Are you going to babysit him?”

He scoffed, “That isn’t my problem to deal with.”

About two hours later you decided that it was time to go home, having to admit that you did have fun despite wanting to stay home at first. You thanked everyone and grabbed your bag.

“What about you?” you asked Taehyung who was sitting on his phone, texting someone with his eyebrows furrowed, “You’re staying?”

His eyes met yours as he looked up from his phone, “No, I’m walking you home. Give me a second.”

You decided to wait outside, in need of some fresh air to sober you up.

Slowly, you started to walk towards your home, knowing Taehyung would be able to catch up in no time. And he did, of course.

“Oh!” he looked at you with wide eyes as he arrived by your side, before opening his bag, looking for something, “It’s your birthday!”

“No shit, Sherlock,“ you responded unimpressed at his sudden realization, walking through the little city at night, still not used to how beautiful the stars were here, „You just got that now?“

“No, wait. I actually got you something,“ the boy mumbled and you thought you heard wrong for a second. At least until Taehyung handed you a box, a rather big one.

“Are you serious?” you asked surprised, suddenly feeling shy. This morning you were convinced he didn’t even know it was your birthday but now he was standing in front of you, with a present that was neatly wrapped in yellow wrapping paper.

“Don’t make a big deal out of it, please,“ he chuckled as you two walked through the dark night, only a few lanterns on your way home, “Just open it. It felt wrong not to get you anything. I mean, we’re neighbors now, and also co-workers.”

Your arm nudged him, playfully asking, “Maybe even friends?”

His laugh seemed to be even louder and happier when he’s drunk, “Says who? You wish!” before immediately adding, “I’m kidding, I’m kidding. Maybe even that. Now open it. Let’s sit down.“

Your neighbor gestured at the bank on the side of the way, a few steps away.

He took out his phone to turn on the flashlight so you could see, sitting dangerously close to you. “Why didn’t you give it to me earlier?” you asked him curiously.

“You know, I gotta keep my cool reputation in front of them,“ he joked.

“Ah, can’t let them know that you have a crush on me?” you blurted out, trying to flirt, knowing you would never say those things if it wasn’t for all the shots you drank earlier.

“You’re a pain in the ass,“ he mocked you a bit, “Will you please just open it now? There are a few smaller things.”

As you ripped open the wrapping paper you let out a laugh, impressed by his first present, “A raincoat? I could’ve seen that one coming.”

“I still can’t believe you don’t own one. Look underneath, there’s also a shirt you can use for work so you won’t ruin your good clothes,“ he said, almost proud of his idea and it was adorable.

The shirt was grey and oversized - and also, there was a picture printed onto it. Taehyung let out another laugh, covering his mouth with his hand to stop him from laughing harder, before you could see what was on it.

As he shined his flashlight on the picture you were not only extremely amused but also very amazed that he did that for you, even though he obviously was trying to be funny, you genuinely liked it – the picture was a selfie of Taehyung, giving a thumbs up, right next to his favorite being on this earth, Bertha. Underneath the picture the sentence ‘(Y/n), you can do it. I hope.’ was written in big letters.

“You’re seriously the worst,“ you joined his laughter, wondering how in the hell he got this idea. The atmosphere was almost friendly – a new step for the two of you. Not that you didn’t like him before, you just thought that he didn’t like you back.

“I think you’ll look quite good in it, (y/n),“ he smiled proudly, definitely satisfied with himself.

“You’re such a flirt,“ you said sarcastically.

The last gift in the box really got to you though - it immediately brought back a lot of memories, cherished ones, of your childhood. An overwhelming rush of sentiment came over you as you couldn't believe your eyes.

“Tae, I–” you were looking for the right words to say but none came to your head, “Is it what I think it is?”

“If you think it’s your old music box that played Somewhere Over The Rainbow over and over again, then it is, yes,“ he replied, playing it cool as if it wasn't a big thing.

You totally forgot about it until now, back in the day you always used to play it before going to bed, falling asleep immediately to the soothing sound of it – back then it didn't matter where you were: you wouldn't fall asleep without the petite woodbox playing your favorite song.

“Where did you even get this?“ you asked him, gulping.

“Oh, Minwoo gave it to me to calm the cows on thunder days,“ he said amused.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,“ you chuckled, still inspecting the music box. It seemed to be even prettier than you remembered it.

“Do you like it?” he asked, turning towards you, “I know how obsessed you were with it as a child so I thought you’d like to have it back. The cows didn’t like it anyway.”

Your eyes met his, not knowing what to say. He was so cool about it when to you, this might be one of the most meaningful presents you've gotten in a long time. The fact that he even remembered how in love you were with this music box and how thoughtful of him it was to give it back to you. Slowly you put the box down, still feeling a bit overwhelmed. It was probably stupid, for him it was just a simple present and you were overreacting, right? But still, it was so much more than you would’ve expected. Especially from him

“I love it,“ you assured him, the wrinkles around his eyes deeper than you’ve ever seen them before. “Thank you so much.”

Before he could say something to ruin the moment you wrapped your arms around his neck and buried your face in his collar. It took him a few moments to realize what was happening, a hug was something he didn’t expect at all, but it did feel nice. His arms carefully found your waist and hugged you back.

You could see how red his cheeks were as your hug ended but for once you decided to not tease him, not wanting to ruin a genuinely nice moment. The two of you didn’t have those very often.

“Shall we go home?” Taehyung asked softly as he stood up, waiting for you to join him.

The two of you were walking for a while, way slower than usual. It might be the alcohol in your veins or simply the secret desire to spend some more time together, alone and outside of the farm.

“Be honest,“ you started carelessly, it almost sounded like you were singing it, “You do think I’m cute.”

Looking up to Taehyung you saw that he was smiling and didn’t seem to care about your teasing anymore.

“I do think you’re cute. That doesn’t make you less any annoying though,“ he replied, his tone almost playful. As you were walking your shoulders were lightly brushing every now and then, a rush of excitement going through your body every single time.

“Now you be honest. You were totally checking me out when you saw me on the day you moved here,“ he countered, the conversation light.

You let out a small scoff, “I maybe would have if I hadn’t been to busy trying to free myself from your grip since you thought I was stealing your chicken,“ you snapped at him and Taehyung let out a laugh at that memory. Even though it wasn’t long ago it felt like years, considering how much your relationship developed since then.

“Your turn. You would’ve gone home sooner but you were waiting to walk me home,“ the vibe Taehyung gave you told you it was okay to dig a bit deeper.

“Now you’re just being overconfident, (y/n),“ he laughed and you thought about how his laugh is so different than his mum’s. His mother's laugh was light and charming while his laugh was deep and full of joy, almost bold and loud.

“If you say I’m wrong you’re lying,“ you insisted while looking up to the beautiful night sky, not letting loose. Even though you were a bit cold you didn’t really care, you could walk and talk for a few more hours without complaining.

“I never said you’re wrong,“ he answered quietly, now more soft and serious, “But don’t let it get to your head, I know my mum would kill me if she heard that you had to walk home alone.”

“You’re so in love with me dude, how gross,“ you joked, not able to stop your usual nagging.

By now it seemed like that was Taehyung’s and your’s thing somehow. It was an open secret that there was something between the two of you, whatever that was. Maybe, you and Taehyung were still denying it but your friends weren't completely wrong when they talked about your relationship to each other.

“I really don’t know if I wanna shove you off this bridge or kiss your annoying ass,“ he stated shamelessly, trying to sound annoyed but his mood was just as good as yours and the cheeky flirting was something he missed over the last years.

It’s been too long since he met someone he liked so much that he didn’t have to care about what he said. Spending time with you made him feel careless. The night air and the sky that was full of stars just loosened up the mood even more.

Even though your heart was beating faster at his comment you tried to remain cool – he said it so casually as if the topic of kissing you was something completely normal to him, making you realize that maybe Taehyungand you were indeed becoming something more than friends.

“Oh, can I pick?”, you grinned at him.

“No,“ he answered easily while pushing you towards the edge of the bridge you were currently walking on, making you gasp a bit, while trying to balance yourself so you wouldn’t fall over the low wooden railing.

What exactly was he doing? Just in the right moment, he held you, his arm around your waist, being a bit too close to you which was making your heart beat insanely fast. As you looked at him your eyes were opened wide, the shock written all over your face.

Taehyung still was holding you close, giving you the brightest smile ever, his expression full of joy, “Did you really think that I’d let you fall?”

“Yes!“ you almost shouted out of shock, a hundred percent sure that he’d actually do something like that, “If anyone in this town would then it would be you.”

He acted a bit offended, as he pulled your body a bit closer to his again, your intestines feeling all over the place. Half of your body was still bent over the bridge as Taehyungs hold was the only support that stopped you from falling right into the water. His face came near yours and at this moment you wanted nothing more than to feel his lips on yours.

“Well, if you think that lowly of me,“ he started, before pausing his sentence, you could swear that you could feel his breath tingling on your lips and see his eyes wandering down to look at your them – but before anything else could happen you started losing balance as Taehyung let go of your body, making you fall right into the lake behind you.

Of course, he’d do something like that. You should've guessed that.

As you came up again you were drenched. The water was at least still warm enough to not make you shiver while climbing up to the bridge again. Taehyung was laughing wholeheartedly, his one hand once again covering his mouth, while holding his other hand out for you so he could help you.

You immediately took his offer, taking a tight grip on his hand before getting your revenge – within seconds Taehyung forcefully joined you in the water, his eyes popping out when you completely caught him off guard.

“I should’ve seen that coming,“ he admitted, now also completely wet but still amused, “I deserved that.”

The two of you were chuckling, no one of you seemed to want to get out of the water for now.

“Remember the one time we were having a contest here about who can stay underwater the longest when we were children?” you asked him thinking back to older days, one of the few memories you had with him.

He nodded while walking towards you, leaning his back against the bridge. His body was close to yours, his face facing yours, “I remember you and Jimin being afraid because you thought I fainted because I let my body swim on the surface with my head under the water still.”

Hitting his chest, you squinted your eyes, “You were the worst, seriously! Why would you do this to me? I was so afraid.”

His arm found your hip, resting lazily on it - you wondered if he’d also do that if he was completely sober, “To make good memories.”

“Well, that’s also about our only memory because you always avoided me when we were younger,“ you stated, a bit salty.

His laughter sounded different this time, if you didn’t know better you’d almost say there was some kind of admiration in it. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,“ he apologized, putting his hands up in the air, still laughing before looking at you once again – it’s like you completely forgot about being in the water now in the middle of the night.

“Wanna know a secret?” he asked you, whispering as if you had to be careful to not get caught.

“Always,“ you answered eager as your eyes widened in excitement.

“I avoided you because I had the biggest crush on you and Yoongi always said girls suck and if anyone of us ever kissed a girl they’d be kicked out of the gang,“ he admitted, smiling back at the memory.

“Okay, but Yoongi was literally my first kiss,“ you confessed to him, “I think he knew exactly why he told you that.”

Now it was Taehyung who was in shock, not you. “You’re kidding me,“ he sounded offended, “I can’t believe he’d play me like this because of some chick.”

“Hello? I’m right here,“ you scoffed, shaking your head amused.

“Oh, I bet you’d rather be where Yoongi is, huh?” he stared you down for a second before breaking character and starting to laugh, “But seriously, he never even told me. He knew I’d fight him about it.”

“It must be hard to always be as dramatic as you are,“ you scoffed, as you got out of the water again, starting to shiver a bit, “Let’s go home, I’m cold.”

He got out of the water too and you tried hard not to stare at his chest that was completely showing through his white shirt.

“You should have put on a jacket,“ he shrugged, acting as if it's your fault that you were completely drenched and cold.

“You little shit,“ you countered as the two of you were walking towards your home, “I’m only cold because you pushed me into the lake.”

“I had fun tonight,“ you admitted to him as you were standing in front of your door once again, “You’re not awful.”

“Thank you?”, he laughed unsure before he continued, “You’re also not awful, (y/n).”

“I mean, you were not the nicest in the beginning, I thought you hated me. But now, I think you tolerate me,“ you said, a winning smile on your face.

“Believe it or not, I think you’re pretty cool,” he mirrored your smile, nodding.

“I’ll let my diary know about that,” you assured him.

He just stood there for a second, looking at you. Both of you didn’t want to part, enjoying time with each other but you didn’t want things to get awkward.

“I’m sorry I pushed you into the water,“ he mentioned, laughing while apologizing.

You rolled your eyes at his half-assed apology, “Yeah sure. You better make up for that.”

He nodded, “I will. I promise. Good night, (y/n).“

Suddenly you felt him hugging you, not expecting it once again. Three hugs in one day were something you didn’t expect at all when you woke up this morning.

“Sleep well,“ you told him as you closed the door behind you, removing your make up, changing into comfortable clothes and letting yourself fall into your bed, falling asleep with a smile on your lips. You were definitely making progress.

A few days after your birthday and the situation with Taehyung, it was about time to talk to someone about your confusing feelings. Yoongi was the first person that came to your mind, definitely not wanting to talk to Jimin about it.

As the two of you were sitting outside on your porch, drinking a beer and enjoying the sunset slowly going down, you decided to tell him about what happened after you and Taehyung left on your birthday.

“He gifted you your old music box?” he asked confused, almost shocked, “That’s so much better than the vibrator we gifted you, dammit.”

You let out a laugh, “Anything is better than that.”

“Well, apparently you won’t be needing it any time soon if you and Taehyung continue to fall in love at that pace,“ your best friend gave you a small wink.

“Yoongi,“ you let out a pout, “I really don’t know what I should do. He was about to kiss me by the lake but instead, he let me fall into the water.”

He was trying his hardest to contain his laughter as you told the story but he couldn’t help it, “You really think he’s the one you want? I bet not even Jungkook would behave that awkward.”

Chuckling, you shrugged, “I guess I just like a challenge.”

Yoongi nodded, “He definitely is one. Bare with him, it’s been some time. His last girlfriend and him broke up quite some time ago.”

When Yoongi mentioned the word gilfriend you felt curiosity awakening inside of you, “What was she like?”

Taking a sip of his beer, he glanced at you, a bit pitiful, “Are you sure you wanna do this to yourself?”

“I’m just curious,“ you assured him, „No hard feelings.“

Before Yoongi could start telling you about her you were disturbed by your cousin, who just finished his work, a beer in his hand as he sat down on the free chair on your table, „What are you talking about?”

“My hopeless crush,“ you said, laughing.

“What else,“ he shrugged, unimpressed, “You could still date Jungkook, you know.”

You shook your head before turning back to Yoongi, “So, tell me about her, I can’t imagine him with a girl at all.”

“Are we talking about Elly?” Jimin asked confused, trying to catch up with your conversation.

“Yes,” Yoongi said, trying to start once again before getting interrupted by Jimin, also once again.

“She wasn’t shit, (y/n). Don’t worry about her. I never liked her. They weren’t even really a couple.”

Yoongi rolled his eyes, “She wasn’t all bad, Jimin. She was actually quite nice at the beginning. She’s from the town next to ours, the granddaughter of the owner of the library – we were friends with her back then when she still visited every weekend. I guess she was into Tae from the first second and he was, well, frustrated. So they became friends with benefits. Nothing too serious at first.”

“(Y/n), I really don’t get why you’d wanna know. You’ll just hurt yourself,“ your cousin seemed to worry, clearly disagreeing with your curiosity.

“They broke up so I won’t be hurt, I just can’t imagine him in a relationship at all. I need some information for research,“ you argued.

“He was a good boyfriend, I guess,“ Jimin thought about it, taking a big gulp of his beer, “Like he visited her often and made sure to bring her to every event or birthday. But one of them would always start a fight and it got so annoying over time. Every time he brought her I was afraid to say anything to him because if I only said one wrong word she’d start to discuss with him.”

Yoongi now interrupted him, “Well, it wasn’t only her who started fights, to be fair. Taehyung often enough started one too, whenever he was in a bad mood he’d always find a reason to fight.”

A scoff came out of your mouth, “I already thought he’d be one to pick fights, to be honest.”

“Speaking of the devil,“ Yoongi nodded towards the house of the Kim’s and as you turned around you saw Taehyung jogging over to you. He seemed to be in a good mood, a smile on his lips, something rather unusual.

“Why are you having a nice evening and no one cared to call me?” he asked as he arrived in front of you, holding up a big plate with many different pieces of cakes on it, “I brought cake.”

Jimin immediately took the plate and set it down in front of him as Taehyung sat down on the free seat on the bench beside you.

“We were just talking shit about you,“ Jimin started, getting up to get some forks from inside.

“Why? What did I do?” he asked, already sounding offended, ready to defend himself without knowing what even seemed to be the problem.

“I just told them about how you let me fall into the lake,“ you huffed, salty, not letting it go easily.

“Why would you do that?” he asked in a whiny tone, “Aren’t they teasing us enough already?”

“I don’t care about that. I still can’t believe you’ve done that. I could’ve caught a cold.”

He now crossed his arms in front of his chest, “You didn’t though, right? I brought you cake as an apology, just to find you hanging out with our friends, without me?”

Yoongi let out a laugh at your constant bickering, “Young love must be so nice.”

“Be quiet,“ you gave him a warning glance before you turned back to the real enemy here, “You think cake can just fix the trust I lost in you?”

He let out a laugh, “You’re being overdramatic.”

Actually, you couldn’t care less that he let you fall into the lake. It was just fun to pick fights with him, “You’re being an asshole.”

He scoffed before continuing your discussion in a mocking voice, “Wanted me to kiss you so bad that you can’t get over the fact that I didn’t?”

You let out a small gasp, not expecting his comeback. Yoongi and Jimin were both trying no to laugh watching the two of you fight.

“If you think that, you’re truly delusional,“ you stated, even though everyone here knew he was right, “The only reason I didn’t kill you right then was because I was so relieved you didn’t kiss me.”

He snorted, not ready to give up yet, “Sure, just keep on telling it to yourself until you start to believe it.”

And this is how you spent the rest of the evening. Three of your closest friends, cake, one or two or maybe even more beers, a beautiful pink sunset and most important - in the place you loved to call your home.

“(Y/n), give me a hand, please,“ your neighbor screamed from the other side of the farm, struggling to put up the pavilion that was supposed to cover the tables from the weather.

It was a warm autumn day but you knew that it could basically start to pour any second. Quickly you jogged over to Taehyung, leaving Jimin alone with the other preparations for the big harvest festival that was held once a year on the farm. It was a tradition you used to love as a child and you were more than happy to participate again this year.

As you walked over you couldn’t help but notice how mesmerizing he looked once again. There was sweat dripping down his face while he gave you a light and exhausted chuckle, holding up one side of the pavilion with his rather strong arms. The white shirt and grey sweatpants he was wearing might as well be the death of you. Oh god, you definitely hated being attracted to him.

“What’s up, Kim?” you asked, desperately trying to sound as unbothered as possible.

He, on the other hand, continued to smile, shaking his head, “Can you please hold up the other side over there?” he asked, pointing to it, “I’ll do the rest.”

You went over and held up the other side, having to stand on your tiptoes. “Are you excited for tonight?” you asked him, desperate to make conversation with him. Even though by now Taehyung was being very nice to you, you were still always trying to make him like you. Even though Jimin and Yoongi assured you he likes you quite a lot by now you still wanted him to admit to it. His attention was your favorite thing at the moment, you couldn’t get enough of it.

He shrugged while concentrating on a screw he was currently trying to get in, “Not really. It’s not gonna be different than any other year.”

“I’m here now so it is gonna be different than before,” you said, making him look up from his work for a second, his eyes finding yours.

“So, you’re going to make the harvest festival interesting again?” you saw the smirk on his face before continuing, “Don’t get up my hopes.”

“Share a bottle of liquor with me and I bet we’ll have a lot of fun,” you stated boldly, immediately embarrassed at your way too obvious flirting. At this point, you were sure that he was very aware of your obvious crush on him. He was many things. Rude, annoying, sometimes even a bit mean but delusional wasn’t one of them.

“Are you flirting with me, (y/n)?” he asked almost a bit teasingly.

“I am,” you said, trying to sound confident but you were pretty sure your now deep red cheeks were giving you away.

He seemed to be amused and he shook his head in what seemed to be joy.

“Not bad,” was all he said, shrugging before his full attention was back on building the pavilion.

You looked around the big farm as Taehyung was working. It looked beautiful, there were a lot of tables with benches, all of them had some flowers and candles on top of them, you could only imagine how cute it would look as soon as the sky was dark and all the candles were lit.

Jimin was currently preparing some baskets filled with eggs, milk, some wool, all different kinds of fruits and vegetables and even some feathers you picked up from the pond where the ducks stayed as a lucky charm – your uncle and Taehyung’s mother would sell them later on, the people always loved those little baskets.

Taehyung’s mother was inside, preparing food for the night. She was overdoing herself, cooking four different kinds of soups, baking too many loaves of bread for the visitors to eat, she even has been baking all kind of cakes since yesterday night.

“Your mum is an angel,” you mumbled more to yourself than to him but Taehyung still heard you, laughing a bit.

“She just really loves the harvest festival. But yes, I agree, she really is,” he answered without looking at you, “There’s gonna be plenty of leftovers tomorrow, I’ll bring you some if you want.”

You nodded even though he didn’t see, “I’d love that.”

“Hey, (y/n)!” Gus, the owner of the restaurant, came up to you. He drove up here in his truck, the whole back of it filled with different meals that he contributed for tonight, “Where should I put the fish and meat?”

Taehyung told you that you could leave and help Gus for now so you showed him where the food was being served. There was a long in the middle of the farm, where Gus’ and Mrs. Kim’s food was going to be sold later on. It was opposite to the little dancefloor your uncle built earlier, he even got a pretty good sound system for the night. You already anticipated seeing all of the older people dance later, it was always very cute to see them be happy. All the tables to sit on were placed in between the dancefloor and the food.

As you were helping Gus’ to carry the food you saw Yoongi and his parents coming up to you.

“Hey cutie,” your best friend greeted you as he put down the three beer crates he was casually caring like they didn’t weigh anything, “How are things going?”

“I’m really excited for tonight,” you cheered with a wide smile on your lips, “My last harvest festival was years ago, I still had to go to bed at eight o’clock at that time.”

He let out a laugh, “Oh, that’s when the fun is just starting.”

You only managed to finish all the work an hour before the first people came to the festival. Within no time the whole farm was filled with people as the sun was slowly going down.

You didn’t expect so many people to actually show up. Not only the whole village was attending tonight’s fest but a lot of them also brought their family from out of town, a lot of faces you’ve never seen before.

It luckily didn’t rain yet and you were hoping it would stay that way for the rest of the night. The sky was dark now and all the candles were lit, making the atmosphere cozy. People were eating, drinking and enjoying themselves, some even danced to the 80′s music that was playing already.

You were sitting on the side of a table, just looking around and appreciating everything as a few of your friends came up to you.

“Don’t you wanna eat something?” Jungkook asked you, nodding towards the table with the food, “We were just about to grab something, join us.”

“Let’s also grab a drink or two,” your cousin, who clearly already had more than just a drink or two, his bright pink cheeks exposing him, shouted as he came up behind Jungkook, Yoongi and Yoongi’s girlfriend.

Your mouth watered as you saw, and especially smelled, the food that was offered. Now you were very thankful that you didn’t have the time to eat all day. All the food looked amazing and you didn’t even know where to start. Hoseok and Namjoon both went for the meat but you wanted to start with something more light for now, looking at all the soups Mrs. Kim made.

“Try mum’s Italian wedding soup, it’s the best,” you flinched lightly as Taehyung came up behind you out of nowhere, his arm casually resting on your shoulder.

You tried to play it cool in front of your friends but inside you were all tense, just because of Tae being so close to you.

“I’ll have that then,” you agreed, telling his mother who was handing out food tonight. Both you and Taehyung offered her to help out earlier but she insisted that you should just enjoy the evening.

“Of course, my darling,” she poured some of the soup into a big cup, giving you and her son a wide smile, “You two look just adorable together.”

You felt yourself blushing but you were pretty sure that no one would notice in the dark.

“Right? We’ve been telling them the whole time,” Hoseok joined, excitement in his eyes, agreeing with his friends’ mother. You heard a deep, frustrated groan from Taehyung.

“Guys,” he squinted his eyes at both of them with a warning glance but he still was resting his arm on you, not even thinking about removing it, “Can you mind your own business? Just for once?”

Yoongi chuckled at the two of you, knowing exactly that you were trying your hardest to keep your cool, “You know they won’t leave you alone until something happens.”

He was right. But you weren’t sure if and when things would happen. And what those things even would be. When it came to Taehyung you felt more clueless than ever before. Not even your math class in senior year seemed that confusing.

“Yeah, because no one in this town knows how to respect the boundaries of other people,” Taehyung bitterly said through gritted teeth, slightly annoyed but everyone just let out a laugh, not taking him seriously, thinking it’s funny that he gets so worked up over some simple teasing.

“I’m sorry (y/n),” Mrs. Kim turned towards you, apologizing, but you could still see a little amused smile on her lips, “I hope I didn’t make you feel uncomfortable.”

“Oh, don’t worry. I don’t mind at all,” you assured her, “Don’t apologize.”

“I’ll go and get us something to drink,” Yoongi offered after he got some food, his lips already pressed against his girlfriend’s neck again before turning to you, “Save us a seat.”

You waited for the rest to get something to eat and wondered what was suddenly going on with Taehyung, he wasn’t leaving your side at all which was pretty unusual for him. Last week he was still too afraid to give you a birthday present in front of the boys and now he was suddenly even touching you in front of everyone?

“I’m sorry,” he whispered for only you to hear as all of you were looking for a table to sit on. On the way, he let go of you but still was walking right next to you. Not that you minded, you enjoyed the sudden attention he was giving you, you just had to get used to it.

“What for?” you asked him, shrugging lightly, “I don’t care if the guys tease us. They think we’re into each other, they won’t stop anyway.”

“Well, they aren’t so dumb after all, huh?” he still whispered to you, chuckling a bit as he turned around to the others, pointing to a free table, “Let’s sit down over there.”

This little shit was flirting with you.

The soup was amazing. The alcohol was pouring. The atmosphere was loud and filled with banter and laughter. Yoongi and his girl were making out in front of everyone in no time, literally being all over each other. Hoseok, Jungkook and Jimin were screaming along to ‘Come on Eileen’ playing in the background, doing those stupid fortnite dances to the old music, constantly motivating each other to do stupid moves and having the time of their lives. Namjoon was talking to his girlfriend, the majority of your friends still had no idea that they were actually dating and you wondered how they managed to keep it a secret in such a small town like this.

You were just laughing every now and then, enjoying everyone’s presence - an evening like this was exactly what you needed, full of friends and possibilities to make amazing memories.

Looking back at the fact that in the beginning, you were so afraid to start a new life here was ridiculous by now – this was your home, you were doing the thing you love with people you wouldn’t trade for anything. Not in a hundred years would you have thought that you’d find your happiness in this small town.

You carefully dared to look over to Taehyung, hoping he wouldn’t catch you staring – you felt tingly, it might be the wine or the butterflies in your stomach but you felt so much comfort and happiness that you wanted to explode.

The way he was laughing was making you go insane – you got lost in the wrinkles around his eyes and his side profile that seemed to be the most perfect thing you’ve ever seen. It was so nice and rare to see him letting go, being completely relaxed and warm. The longer you looked at him the more you craved something deep down in your stomach.

It felt like you were in a movie, the world around you blurred and slowing down while all you could concentrate on was the guy next to you: The guy, that used to be so cold to you and opened up step by step, going from thinking you were stealing chickens to flirting with you in front of everyone.

You secretly hoped that the two of you were figuring out the future of your relationship rather sooner than later, slowly growing impatient. It was obvious to anyone who’d spent only five minutes around you: There was an undeniable tension, a chemistry that both of you felt.

Still staring at him while everyone was laughing and talking he stole a glance from you, seeing that your attention was already completely on him. His features softened as soon as his eyes met yours and the big laughter on his face turned into a small but impactful smile - immediately you felt a rush of confidence running through your veins, your heart beating faster. You hated how you were literally melting for him but you knew exactly that you couldn’t fight it so you might as well let him in.

His eyes were still locked with yours, no one daring to break eye contact. You wondered how this moment could feel so intimate when there were literally 200 people gathered around you – it felt like you were all alone, everyone else was busy cracking jokes while the two of you were busy falling in love. Or at least that was what it felt like.

He gave you a small nod before sitting a bit closer to you, your thighs now touching. “Stop flirting with me. I might just break my cool character and blush,” he joked, making you chuckle before the two of you brought your attention back to your friends who were currently cheering for Jungkook and Jimin, both trying to down their beer faster than the other one.

You shook your head, letting out a laugh at them being messy. Taehyung’s hand sneakily rested on your lower back and you hoped it would stay there for a while.

Jimin finished first and laughed at Jungkook, who was still drinking, “Oh, I can’t believe you thought you could win against me. I’m the king when it comes to drinking,” he bragged.

Yoongi, who was for once breaking free from his girlfriend, shook his head at Jimin, “You’re overconfident. Taehyung, finish him.”

Taehyung let out a groan, “Don’t make me do this.”

“Let’s go Taehyungie, I bet I can beat you easily,” Jimin challenged him, knowing exactly how to provoke his friend.

“Dude, don’t do this to yourself, you’ll lose,” Hoseok yelled, “No one can beat Taehyung, you should know better than that.”

“I trained. And Taehyung didn’t show off his skills in a long time, I think you’re underestimating me,” he insisted, opening another bottle of beer and putting it down in front of Tae.

“Jimin, take it easy. It’s your fourth beer in what? Twenty minutes?” you interrupted, “I don’t wanna clean up all alone tomorrow because you are dying.”

“It’s harvest festival (y/n),” he whined while opening another bottle of wine for you, pouring something into your glass, “You gotta start learning how we do it here.”

Taehyung shook his head, letting out another deep sigh, “You have no chance against me,” he held up his beer and waited for Jimin to do the same.

Jimin had a satisfied smile on his lips, ready to give it his all, “I’m going to fight for your title.”

Taehyung let out a laugh, “That’s cute. Much luck trying.”

All of you were counting down from three and the guys started chugging down the beer like it was a life or death situation. It was stupid and childish but all of you were enjoying it, rooting for Tehyung. If all of your friends could agree on one thing then it would be that Jimin needs to be taken down back to earth every now and then.

You looked at him, your mouth slightly open. One thing you definitely didn’t know about Taehyung was how fast he could drink. He always seemed like the most reasonable and mature guy so you were kind of taken by surprise to see how he downed the bottle in the matter of a few seconds.

“Ha!” he let out, laughing as he put his bottle down, “You’re a fool, dude.”

Jimin let out a laugh, shrugging, “Never thought I had a chance, just wanted you to drink a bit. Who’s the fool now?”

“I didn’t know you could drink like that,” you turned to Taehyung.

“This guy used to get so wasted every weekend, he just acts all pure in front of you,” Namjoon exposed his friend, laughing.

You raised your eyebrow at Taehyung, “Oh, let’s see who can handle more then, shall we?”

Taehyung’s eyes widened surprised, not expecting you to challenge him when it comes to drinking, “You might regret that.”

“I don’t mind regretting a thing or two,” you poured the two of you some shots.

“That’s the spirit,” Jimin cheered, opening another bottle of beer.

Taehyung and you were clinking glasses, “To Bertha!” he mentioned his favorite before both of you downed the shots, making a grimace as the bitter liquor went down your throat.

“That shit tastes horrible,” you stated, making him laugh.

“No one said getting drunk is easy,” he countered before immediately pouring you another shot, “But you wanted this. We can stop if you can’t take it, you know.”

“Definitely not,” you scoffed raising your eyebrow at him and holding up the shot glass, “It’s going to be a long, long night.”

“Oh, don’t promise what you can’t keep,” he flirted amused, laughing at you before getting ready to down the next shot, “To you and me.”

Nodding, you gave him a smile, “Whatever that might mean.”

You didn’t know what was faster: The time flying by or your alcohol level rising. It was around midnight now and the night just started. All of you were still drinking eagerly, sharing stupid stories and daring each other to do even more stupid things. The music was loud and the older people were dancing like there’s no tomorrow while you were still sitting at the table, playing cards and taking videos and photos of each other.

Some other girls around your age joined your group, you didn’t know them but the rest did. It was a nice group of people overall.

You still were watching the elders dance, smiling to yourself as your uncle and Taehyung’s mum were dancing with each other, seemingly having the best time.

“Aren’t they cute?” Tae turned to you with a grin, his hand resting right above your knee, slightly squeezing it. You could tell the alcohol had its impact on him because he was getting more touchy by minute, his eyes sparkling.

You nodded, feeling a bit nostalgic seeing them together. They always have been close, both of them lost their significant others early and were left with their children and a whole farm to manage. “It’s nice that they’re having fun. I wish they’d take a break more often.”

Taehyung hummed in agreement, his thumb caressing your leg, “I’m happy Mum has Minwoo. They are always there for each other and talk shit about me and Jimin,” he joked, his eyes still glued to his mother.

He was clearly adoring their little dance while you were adoring him.

“He’s really grateful you’re here.”, you didn’t expect Taehyung to be so serious, a new side of him showing.

“I like being here. Wouldn’t go back,” you told him as you put your hand on top of his, appreciating the moment.

His eyes met yours, not thinking you’d hold his hand in front of everyone, even though no one could see, “You do? I didn’t think you’d fit in or like it here at first if I am honest.”

You let out a laugh, “Yeah, I know. You were very vocal about that if you don’t remember our first encounter as I came back.”

He joined your laughter, giving you an apologetic pout, “I’m sorry. I was being a bit rough, wasn’t I?”

You nodded, “Didn’t expect anything else though. You never opened up towards me when we were younger,” you explained to him in a soft voice, you didn’t want to hurt him with your words.

“I just wondered why you’d move here. I thought it was stupid. What does this little town offer you?” he asked curiously, his eyes glued back to your family.

“This, for example,” you gestured to them, “It’s very heartwarming here. You might not realize because you’ve always been here but this town is full of love.”

Taehyung narrowed his eyebrows a bit, “I bet the actual reason you like it so much here is this cute neighbor of yours.”

You scoffed at his confidence, “Oh, you mean that Taehyung guy? No, he’s just too busy loving himself, I doubt he could ever make time to let someone else in.”

He opened his mouth a bit, acting shocked, “Didn’t you hear?”, he asked you, turning his body to you now to completely face you, “Everyone says he’s a total sucker for you.”

Playing along, you slightly brushed your knees against his, “I don’t think so,” you let out a sigh, “Last week he had the perfect chance to kiss me but instead he threw me into the lake.”

He grinned, not expecting you being so witty. “I’m sure he was just nervous and regrets it very much.”

“I wonder what your sources are. They don’t seem very trustworthy. You know that guy, he has a heart made of stone.”

“Don’t let him fool you,” he came closer to whisper in your ear, “He’s actually a soft man inside.”

“(Y/n)!” your cousin screamed over to you, clearly drunk, ruining your little moment with Taehyung, “Let's go, dance with your favorite cousin.”

You sighed heavily, knowing that refusing won’t work even though you didn’t want the playful banter with Taehyung to end. So a few seconds later you found yourself on the dance floor, jamming to the old classics with your favorite human in town. Taehyung and Yoongi might be close, but no one would beat your family.

The two of you danced around like crazy, exaggerating every move, having fun without any worries for a few songs.

That was until you saw Jimin looking over to the rest of your group, his eyebrows narrowing, a mixture of confusion and anger in his eyes - his jaw clenched as he was glaring somewhere. You followed his gaze to see Taehyung talking to a girl you didn’t know. You didn’t think anything of it at first, he didn’t seem very close to her, maybe even a bit uncomfortable.

“That little shit,” your cousin raised his voice, looking at you, “He better doesn’t do anything stupid.”

You threw him a questioning look, no idea what was going on, “What do you mean? They’re just talking.”

He shook his head, “That’s Elly. Elly and Taehyung are never just talking.“

His ex. What did this mean to you? You didn’t feel jealous somehow. The evening was fine, Taehyung was clearly giving all of his attention to you, the two of you weren’t dating, you didn’t even kiss yet. Of course, you hoped that this would change sooner or later, your feelings for him were undeniable at this point and part of you thought that they weren’t one-sided.

Before you said anything, Jimin was losing his temper, “He can’t treat you like this, (y/n). I’m going to talk to him.”

You laughed at his clearly drunken state, shaking your head, “No no, I can manage my relationships alone, don’t worry.”

He tried to look you in the eyes, failing slightly. You were pretty sure that if you’d ask him to touch his nose right now, he’d miss it by miles.

“Why, of all people, Taehyung? He’s too cold for you. I love this dude but I don’t want you to go through a hard time because of him,” he pouted, suddenly wanting to discuss your love life with you.

You knew you shouldn’t laugh, Jimin was being sincere and caring about you right now but his state was so fucked up that you couldn’t help it, “Let’s get you some water.”

Letting out a heavy sigh because you ignored him, he followed you to the Mins’ table where they were selling drinks.

They immediately let out a laugh, “Oh, Jimin,” Yoongi’s mother said amused at his clearly fucked-up state.

“Can we have a water, please?” you asked her as you held Jimin, wishing he’d stay still.

“I’m fine, I’m fine,” he tried to convince you, “I could do a cartwheel without a problem.”

“Please don’t,” you laughed at his confidence, giving him the cup of water and thanking Yoongi’s mother, “Should we go back to the table?”

He nodded and you walked over to your group of friends, handing Jimin over to Jungkook. Looking around you saw that Taehyung was missing. Just as his ex-girlfriend.

Of course, you couldn’t know if they left together. Maybe Taehyung just went home without saying goodbye. Checking your phone to see if he maybe texted you just disappointed you even more. You hated that you suddenly felt so vulnerable. The evening was so much fun up to this point, the fact that such a tiny thing could ruin your mood completely made you feel foolish.

Not daring to ask Yoongi if he knew where he went or if they left together, knowing he’d try to comfort you, making you feel even worse, you said your goodbyes to your friends, claiming you were tired and needed some sleep.

Walking over to your home luckily was only taking you a minute, considering that the harvest festival was held on your farm. The worst thing about all this was that you didn’t know how to feel. Technically, you had no reason to be mad or jealous, Taehyung and you never did anything more than flirting.

On the other hand though, you liked him, so of course, it hurt you that he was probably enjoying himself with his ex-girlfriend right now. Your head hurt from all the alcohol and overthinking. You wished he would at least have said goodbye to you. Maybe, after all, he wasn’t into you as much as you thought. Today would’ve been his chance to make a move otherwise.

Opening your door you almost got scared to death. Your heartbeat was going crazy fast and you were even more confused than before. Just as you accepted the fact that Taehyung left the party with his ex-girlfriend, he was sitting on your sofa, playing games on his phones, waiting for no one else than you.

“What are you doing here? How did you even get in?” you almost screamed, still shocked by the thought that someone broke into your house at first.

He laughed, simply stating, “I know where your spare key is.”

You shook your head in disbelief, “But what are you doing here? Why are you just sitting on my sofa?”

“I wanted to leave the party. But I still wanted to spend time with you.”

“What about Elly?” you blurted out, your eyes immediately widening after you asked, realizing that he and you never talked about her.

He looked at you in shock, “W-What?” you never head him stutter before, “What about her? How do you know?”, the confusion on his face vanished a bit, sighing heavy, “Yoongi told you about her, right?”

You nodded, “It just came up once in a conversation we were having. And when I saw you with her I just assumed you left with her.”

He laughed, looking at you like you were crazy, “Why would I do that?”

You shrugged, not having an answer to his question. “What do I know? Maybe you missed her.”

“You’re crazy if you think I’d waste your time like that. And my time also,” he said softly, “Forget about her. She came up to me as soon as you left, trying to talk so I left.”

You nodded, understanding what was going on now, “So, you decided to break into my house?”

“Oh, I can leave if you want me to.“

“That’s not what I said,” you rolled your eyes. Suddenly, there was a pause. Neither of you were saying anything and you felt unsure of how to continue.

“Shouldn’t we clean outside a bit already?” you asked Taehyung, trying to break the silence so you’d get out of this overwhelming situation.

Taehyung, on the other hand, seemed to be very relaxed, he almost felt at home on your sofa. He stood up, coming closer and closer to you, “It can wait until tomorrow.”

When he stopped, he was right in front of you, your feet were almost touching and if someone would push you at this moment, you surely would land on top of him, which actually sounded pretty nice to you. You nodded, trying to sneakily take a deep breath to calm down, you had no idea why you were so nervous. He’s by far not the first guy you kissed but he might be the one kiss you anticipated the most.

His hand slowly ran up your arm, then down again, giving you goosebumps all over your skin, his gentleness making you fall for him even more. His hand found yours and you looked into his eyes, wanting to drown in them as your stomach felt like it was tied in knots.

A small smile formed on Taehyung’s lips as you locked eyes, not able to have a single clear thought. By now you were sure that tonight would be the night you’d finally have him where you wanted him. All for yourself.

Coming nearer, you felt his upper body almost touching yours, his head was leaning in and you saw him slowly closing his eyes as his free hand found your hip, bringing you even closer to him.

The moment before the actual kiss was already breathtaking enough. The mixed smell of his cologne and the alcohol the two of you drank earlier was making you feel dense. The touch of his hand was already burning but as his nose brushed yours slightly, a rush of adrenaline was sent through your whole body, making your stomach turn and you suddenly felt hot in places you didn’t know he had an impact on until now. It was rather quiet, the only sound you could hear was the muffled music from outside, but you couldn’t figure out what song was playing, only feeling the bass of it. Your heart was beating so fast, you hoped he couldn’t hear it.

But all those little and unimportant things around you vanished as soon as you felt his soft lips, pressed onto yours with the perfect amount pressure. The kiss developed from something shy and soft into the projection of what both of you had been craving secretly for so long in no time. No one dared to break the kiss, not wanting it to be over.

His hand wandered all over your body, from your hip to your waist, to your arms, to your neck, right back down to your lower back until he held onto your thighs.

“Jump,” he mumbled hectic, his voice deeper than usual, between your kisses, not wanting to stop.

“Are you sure?” you asked him carefully.

He chuckled into your kiss, “Never been more sure.”

So you did as he told you and jumped up, your legs now crossed around his hips as he held you up like it was nothing, deepening the kiss once again, your tongue playing with his. Being with him like this was more exciting than you ever could’ve imagined.

Your hand found the nape of his neck, burying itself in his soft hair, as he was carrying you to the sofa he was sitting on just a few minutes ago.

So there you were, on top of Kim Taehyung, straddling his muscular thighs, feeling a heat in your core that you haven’t felt in such a long time but missed so much. The way his hands were exploring your body while his lips were busy kissing every single spot on your jaw and your neck was making you feel like you were going insane, leaving you wanting every single part of him.

A small, rather quiet groan came out of your mouth as he pulled you closer to him, not able to suppress what you were feeling any second longer. He chuckled once more, clearly satisfied with the feelings he was giving you, before giving his attention to your lips again.

His one hand was now on your neck, supporting every movement between the two of you, as his other hand was resting on your hip, slowly making you rock back and forth on him, the tension in both of your pants growing.

Slowly, his hand started to wander under your shirt, to a place where you needed him desperately. He was caressing the skin under your shirt carefully, teasing while taking his time. You wanted nothing more than for him to move them upwards towards your breasts, giving you more and more.

His lips were doing its magic on your neck again, kissing and nibbling on a soft spot under your ear as his hand slowly wandered up until his thumb finally found your nipple under your lace bra, the contact making you flinch a bit because of the intense feeling.

He let out a deep groan, sending shivers down your body and an undeniable friction in your underwear grew, making you rock your hips into him once more.

You started to wonder if you were prepared for what was about to happen, the two of you were just starting and you already felt like a mess, wanting him so much more. But he took his time, enjoying every single second of you on top of him.

His hand was now kneading your breast, the pressure just exactly right as he brushed your nipple every now and then, already knowing its effect on you. Every time he touched your bud lightly you couldn’t help but moan.

You let out a small whine as your breast lost contact with his hand, not wanting him to stop. But as you realized that he was only stopping to pull up your shirt you were more than willing to give him what he wanted. Within seconds you were not only shirtless but also braless, as Taehyung was throwing your bra away to the floor.

He studied what you looked like, wanting to never forget this moment. Leaning back on the couch you saw a satisfied smirk on his lips as his hand found your nipple again. He now was looking right into your eyes and you held eye contact with him, trying not to break it as you got wetter every time his thumb was caressing your nipple.

He enjoyed watching you trying to contain yourself for sure. The smirk on his lip was growing now and his glance was filled with a mixture of lust, adoration and mostly, anticipation of what was going to happen next.

You put your hand on his shoulder to support yourself as you started to dry-hump him, letting out a moan, a louder one this time, as you felt his erection under you.

“Shit,” he moaned, breaking eye contact and throwing his head back, his eyes closed as he bit his lip.

All of a sudden he stopped you from your actions, holding your hips down with both of his hand as he looked at you, frustration all over his face, “(Y/n), are you sure about this? I don’t think I’ll be able to stop once we started.”

Your heart skipped a beat, appreciating his question but you immediately gave him another kiss, this time a bit softer, kissing him deeply, before whispering into his ears. “Don’t you dare to stop now, Taehyung.”

You could hear his chuckle, his breath on your neck giving you goosebumps. “Thank god,” he said before lifting you up without warning you, making you scream a bit, afraid he’d let you fall.

“Be careful, you scared me to death,” you laughed as you were being carried towards your bedroom.

“You think I’d let you fall?” he said amused, shaking his head in disbelief.

“Wouldn’t be the first time,” you countered, making him laugh as he arrived in your bedroom, letting you down on top of your bed - now you were under him, lying down as he was still sitting on his knees, taking in the view of your naked upper body right in front of him, for him only.

You did the same - and what a beautiful view it was. He was hovering over you, your legs between his as he was pulling his top over his head, throwing it away before unbuckling his belt as you were running your hand over his toned chest.

Not long until both of you were only left in your underwear. Taehyung slowly removed your pants, before coming back up to you, supporting himself on his elbows as he gave you a deep kiss, adding tongue and caressing your cheek before looking at you. You couldn’t help but smile.

Taehyung gave you a small smile back, his eyes soft, “I love that smile.”

Before you could think about his compliment, one that he never gave you before, before you could get flustered or say anything back he suddenly changed the game completely, fastly pulling your underwear to the side and sliding one finger inside of you while his thumb was rubbing circles against your clit.

Taken aback by his sudden actions, you let out a loud moan, almost a scream, making Taehyungg smirk a bit before his lips wandered down to your neck once again, taking his time with you as he pumped his finger in and out in just the right rhythm. You moved your hip into his movements as his lips kissed down to your chest, his free hand holding your breast while his mouth teasingly played with your nipple, licking it and twirling his tongue around it, making you a moaning mess already.

Your hand was lightly stroking his dick through his boxers, leaving you wanting more. God, the things you wanted him to do with you were unholy.

The way he glanced at you as he was kissing his way down to your core looked like living art. Your whole body wanted him so bad, just the thought of where his mouth would travel to next or how it would feel when you’d finally feel him inside of you was making you go insane. Never before have you wanted something as much and at the same time hoped he’d take his time before.

Arriving at his destination he let out a moan, definitely being into all of this a bit too much too. He started to slowly kiss your inner thighs, holding your legs up a bit, teasing every part around where you wanted him the most.

“Stop teasing,” you whined, wanting him so much more than you currently had.

He chuckled against your core, the warm air making you flinch, “I thought that’s our thing,” before licking along your wet folds and then adding another finger, his tongue giving all its attention to your clit.

The pace in that he was going down on you was making your knees feel weak. He looked so handsome, his forehead in wrinkles as he was concentrating on pleasing you completely, moans vibrating against you.

It didn’t take long for the two of you until you were having sex, the two of you completely concentrating on the sensational feeling for the next moments.

After you finished you laid down on your stomach, not able to really move, as Taehyung let himself fall right next to you, giving your nose a small peck. He was not only out of breath but also still in trance of what had just happened, “I didn’t expect this,” he breathed, calming down from his orgasm.

You giggled a bit, “What? Us having sex?”

The smile he gave you made your heart race like crazy, his messy hair falling into his eyes, “I’m not complaining though.”

For a second you were lying there, letting Taehyung catch his breath and calming down. You felt your legs shaking from the intercourse you just had.

“Feel my legs,” you ordered chuckling, his hand on your thigh in a second as he felt how much you were shaking.

“Glad you liked it,” he laughed before getting up, “I’ll get you a towel, be right back.”

As you were waiting for him to come back you realized what had just happened. After all the flirting and teasing Taehyung and you actually ended up in your bed. The thought made you dizzy, but it could also be from the alcohol you drank. It seemed too good to be true.

Cleaning you up, you suddenly heard a laugh as he grabbed your ass, “I may or may not have left some marks. I’m sorry.”

You turned you head back, squinting your eyes at him, “You’re lucky no one else sees that part of me. The others would tease me to death about that.”

Slowly, he climbed back up to lay next to you, both of you on your stomach, his hand caressing your side, “Apparently they have a bet going on about when we’re going to end up together.”

“I’m not even surprised. Sounds like them,” you closed your eyes, enjoying Taehyung’s affection, “This feels nice.”

He hummed in agreement before giving you a small kiss, his forehead resting next to yours, “I could stay like this forever.”

“Then stay,” you offered, still not opening your eyes. Taehyung was getting a blanket, throwing it over both of you so you wouldn’t freeze, “Don’t leave. Stay here.”

“You want me to?” he asked, his hand now playing with your hair, “Alright, I’ll stay then. Sleep a bit, it’s late and you’re drunk.”

“I will, just give me one more kiss, okay?” you asked him, feeling yourself getting more tired by any passing second.

He chuckled as he came closer to your face once again, holding your face in his hands as he softly pressed his lips onto yours one more time, your naked bodies touching. “Good night, (y/n).”

Falling asleep, everything seemed too good to be true. Taehyung beside you, his scent in your nose as you slowly drifted to sleep in his arms.

As you woke up he was gone. First, you thought you had dreamed about yesterday's events but after a few seconds, you realized that it wasn’t a dream. You got drunk, you had sex, you fell asleep next to him. And now, he was gone.

Standing up, you wrapped your blanket around your naked body, looking for the man that you spend the night with but he was nowhere to be seen.

Well, maybe it was too good to be true.

It’s been five days. Five days since you shared your bed with Taehyung. Five days and your goddamn sheets still smelled like him – or maybe you were hallucinating at this point, wanting just something that reminds you of him around you.

The two of you talked to each other casually when you met on the farm. You said hello and talked about the weather. Shared awkward smiles. And that was about it. It’s not like he was cold to you or anything, he seemed to feel just as helpless and awkward about your drunk night together as you. As much as you loved the night and what happened, you definitely hated the aftermath.

Talking to Yoongi about it didn’t help, sadly. While you appreciate that he always listens to you and is ready to give you advice at any given time, you still had hoped that he’d suggest something else than to give him a bit of time.

The current tension between you was even worse than the sexual tension between you before. You didn’t care if you and Taehyung wouldn’t end up as a couple, of course, you’d like that very much and still hoped that things were going into that direction, but the two of you developed too much to just destroy the nice friendship you built because of feelings getting in the way.

So you decided to visit him that afternoon, feeling anxious as you were walking up the front porch of your neighbors. You barely remember how their house looked like from the inside since it’s been so long since you been inside. The front door stood open and you knocked against it, not wanting to be rude.

“Mrs. Kim?” you called for her as you slowly stepped inside, looking if you could find her but there was no sign of her being home.

Walking up the stairs, you tried to remember which room belonged to Taehyung until you were distracted by something odd and unexpected – suddenly your ears were filled with a beautiful but rather sad piano melody coming from the room on the back of the corridor.

Curious, your feet walked towards the source of the sound, your heart suddenly felt heavy, the sad melody immediately managed to impact your mood, making you feel blue. A part of you wanted to turn around and leave Taehyung alone, just like he probably wanted you to – if you figured out one thing about him over the last few months than it was the fact that this man was a complicated person, hard to read and even harder to talk to, but you decided to accept that. There were only two options: Either you’d work it out with him or you wouldn’t.

You stood in the open door, looking at the back of the man your heart wanted so bad, sitting in front of a big, wooden piano – for a second you couldn’t even believe that he was able to play such a heart touching piece of art, sitting in his room all alone. What a waste it was for him to play all alone, with no one around to hear. It made your heart sting for a second, at this point you liked him too much to go back. Just looking at him being at peace was making you crave to be the woman beside him. After all, he was Kim Taehyung, the one man that managed to surprise you over and over again.

As quiet as possible you walked into the tidy and light room, not wanting to give him a heart attack by creeping up on him but also not wanting him to stop playing. It was a beautiful sight, the way his hands were gliding on the big instrument so smooth and without thinking. You couldn’t see his face yet but you were already swooning over how beautiful he looked.

He looked over his shoulders as you cleared your throat, continuing to play even without paying attention to the keys, giving you an unreadable smile. You sat down on his bed that was placed right beside the piano as he stopped playing.

“Didn’t expect you to come visit me if I am honest,“ Taehyung admitted, almost sounding shy. He seemed to be a bit uncomfortable, knowing exactly that he finally had to face the night you shared a few days ago.

“Well, I didn’t expect you to be able to play the piano so skillfully but yet, here you are, doing exactly that,“ you countered in a soft tone, not wanting him to feel like you were mad at him, “That sounded beautiful.”

He chuckled and you were happy to see him relax a bit, “You think so? It was rather depressing, wasn't it?”

“Matching your mood?” you dared to ask him carefully, trying to address the whole situation somehow.

He stood up from his chair and walked over to you, sitting down next to you on his bed, “It’s my dad’s birthday today. He taught me the song I just played.”

His voice was full of love while talking about his father but you could hear the hidden sadness behind it. You didn’t know about that and suddenly, you felt guilt rushing over you. While you were wondering why he didn't try to solve the obvious problem between you and him he had something way harder to deal with. Looking up at you, he forced a small smile, “Mum and Olli are visiting his grave but I didn’t feel like going.”

Trying to give him any kind of comfort you nodded, pressing your lips into a thin line. You were surprised that he was opening up to you but as sad as the situation was, it was relieving you that he finally talked to someone about it. According to Jimin and Yoongi he tried to avoid this topic as much as he could.

“Why did you stay here?” you asked him, trying to keep the conversation going and show him your support. What you didn’t want was overwhelm him with questions, so you slowly started to see how comfortable he was around you.

He shrugged, looking up at the ceiling, “It’s such a sad place. I feel like we shouldn’t be sad on his birthday, if that makes sense. We should eat his favorite food and drink a beer and stay up too long, playing guitar on the porch. Mum and Dad always sneaked out at night on his birthday, taking drunk walks. They thought I didn’t notice but they were always coming back, laughing loudly. I miss celebrating his birthdays. But it’s hard to be happy on his birthday without him here.”

He laid down on his bed, his head right next to where you were currently sitting. You studied his face, his eyes still glued to the ceiling, not daring to look at you, the woman he hurt by leaving her after having sex with her. The sun outside was setting, leaving Taehyung’s whole room in a golden light, his tan skin was glowing and his light-brown hair shimmering.

While he seemed to be sad on the outside you could see that talking about the memories he made with his father was making him feel lighter. It was nice seeing him talking about his dad - they always have been very close, you still could recall that.

“I still remember him so vividly. He always gifted me self-made jam before I left the city and no other jam, literally not a single one at home was comparable to his,“ you shared your memory with Taehyung, looking out of the big window in his room, admiring the sun, “He has a beautiful soul.”  

When you came over you wouldn't have expected to talk to Taehyung about his father but you knew that everything else, every problem and unsolved question, between the two of you could wait for now.

“I wish I was more like him,“ his voice was nothing more than a mumble, almost inaudible. The sudden craving to hold him came over you, to comfort him in your arms, to kiss him until he felt better. But you held back, as long as you didn’t talk about the obvious.

“What do you mean?” you asked him, daring to lay down beside him – luckily, he didn’t seem to mind. The two of you didn’t touch or cuddled, you just were lying there, on his bed, having a serious and meaningful conversation.

“He was so kind and positive. He told my mother different reasons why he loved her every night. Even after a long day of work he still took his time and practiced the piano with me every night and then brought Olli to bed, reading him a good night story or playing him songs on the guitar until he fell asleep. He taught me so much but still, I could never be so full of love like he used to be.”

“You think too low of yourself, Tae,“ you said determined, meaning it, “I don’t think you see how much your mother appreciates everything you do for her. She knows that you didn’t plan out your life like this but you’re staying here for her. And Olli looks up to you so much, you could do nothing to let him down.”

He shrugged, looking at you for a second, “I don’t feel like that’s enough.”

Feeling heartbroken about hearing him talk so bad about himself, your hand found his in between the two of you, linking it with yours, now it was you who didn't dare to look into his eyes, “Look at us then.”

“What do you mean?” he asked you, confused.

“Since I moved here you gave me so much joy and helped me everywhere you could. You have no idea how much I appreciate all the things you’ve done for me since I came here, complicated tensions between us or not,“ you meant every word.

He scoffed lightly, “I attacked you on your first day, made you churn butter and let you fall into the lake in the middle of the night on your birthday.”

You couldn’t help but laugh a bit at his words, “Well, yes. And I could still kill you for all of those things. But,“ you started, turning your body towards him to look into his eyes, “You also helped me calm the cows during the storm. You gave me the most meaningful birthday present I could’ve thought of. You brought me a basket full of my favorite fruits even though you still deny that you did-”

He let out a soft chuckle before interrupting you, “That wasn’t me,“ he insisted once again with a grin on his face.

“Sure, Kim,“ you rolled your eyes at him picking up this discussion again, “You might think you’re being cold but you’re not at all.”

Now he turned to face you too, both of you lying on the side, looking in each other’s eyes. His brows narrowed as he tried to say something to you, the expression in his eyes seemed to be hurt, maybe even guilty.

A heavy sigh came from his lips before he closed his eyes, “I just left you. That morning. I just got up and left.”

Those words made you freeze. After all, you came here to talk about exactly that but it seemed so wrong right now, “We don’t have to talk abou-”

“I just left,“ he repeated, seeming disappointed with himself, “I never just left someone after having sex with them. There were people that meant way less to me and I still stayed the morning after. I am being a complete asshole to you all the time and still, you don’t hate me. You’re here, trying to make sure I’m okay.”

Keeping quiet was the only thing you could do at that moment. Taehyungs words seemed harsh but the tone in his voice sounded guilty. Even if you wanted to, you couldn’t say anything – you had no idea what Taehyung was trying to say.

“Tae,“ you finally started after a few seconds, his full attention on you, “This day is hard enough for you already. We don’t have to talk about that right now. I’m not mad at you.”

“You should be though. I know, I am pretty amazing but not even such a godlike man like me shouldn’t treat you like this,“ he joked but both of you knew it was his way of comprehending because he didn’t know how to handle the conversation you were about to have since he always struggled to talk about his feelings, especially sober.

“Why did you leave then?” you asked him the one question you asked yourself over and over again. There could have been millions of options in your mind. Maybe, he regretted it and it was just a drunk mistake. Maybe, the feelings you thought he had for you were just sexually. Maybe, he simply had to go and do something early in the morning. So many maybes that have gone through your head without any idea if any of those maybe’s were right.

“I don’t know. I wish I didn’t,“ he bit his lip nervously, not looking into your eyes anymore, afraid to see your reaction, “Maybe I’m afraid.”

“Afraid of what?” you asked, not sure if you actually wanted to know the answer. You felt many emotions when it came to him. You felt happiness, joy, hope, possibly love. On other days you felt powerless, insecure and confused. What you never felt was being afraid. Pretty sure, you actually felt safe around him.

“I’m not as flawless and strong as I constantly try to convince you I am,“ he sighed, pressing his lips into a straight line, “I couldn’t stand to hurt you because of my own problems. But I still did.”

Slowly you nodded as your heart was sinking deeper and deeper in your stomach, “You’ve got to talk to me. What are you thinking about?”

Taehyung hated this probably even more than you did. He was good in so many things – he was a good friend, a better brother and the best son. He was an amazing cook and apparently, an amazing piano player. He could flirt like no tomorrow and crack jokes around his friends that would make everyone laugh. He could drink a lot and he could make your heart beat faster.

There were countless things he was able to be and to do without any problem. But when it came to talking about his feelings and showing his vulnerable side he failed. You knew that just as good as everyone else but if he wouldn’t talk, you couldn’t continue to work on your relationship.

“I–“ he started but stopped, looking at you sternly while clenching his jaw a bit. His eyebrows furrowed and his expression looked almost pained, trying to find the right words, “I think that I loved the night with you. I did, really. But maybe, it was a bit thoughtless of us.”

“So, what you’re trying to say is that you regret it,“ you stated, trying to just get this conversation over with, hoping he couldn’t see or hear that you felt like he just put a knife in your stomach.

„God, no,“ his answer bursted out of him like a bullet before he started mumbling to himself, „I am truly terrible at this.“

You gave him a few seconds to gather his thoughts even though the silence was deafening. This wasn't how you expected to spend your first time in Taehyung's bed at all.

„I like you, (y/n),“ he then spoke, determined, „Obviously I do. And I think you like me too, or at least I hope you do. But we were drunk and desperate when we had sex and I wanted it to be special.“

You couldn't help but pout at his helpless confession, adoring him even more than before. Within seconds all of your doubts vanished – as long as Taehyung liked you too you would find a way to work everything out. Trying not to let your overflowing happiness show, you gave him a small smirk, „You thought about us having sex?“

Luckily, his body relaxed too, an annoyed smile appearing on his handsome face, „All the time,“ he scrunched his nose, his arm wrapping itself around your waist.

„So, what you're saying is that you ignored me for days because you didn't like the way it happened?“ you asked him, coming back to the actual topic.

Frowning, he sighed, „When you put it like this it sounds stupid.“

„Because it is,“ you insisted, squinting your eyes at him, „I thought you avoided me because you hated me or something like that.“

„I'm so sorry,“ he apologized again, his face coming closer to yours, „Apparently, I'm very bad at this.“

„So, what are we doing now?“ you asked him, feeling a bit anxious even though Taehyung just told you that he liked you too, so you had nothing to worry about.

„First, I want to kiss you if you're fine with that,“ his fingers were drawing little patterns on your waist, „and then I'd like us to become something serious.“

Nodding, you did as he asked and gave him a kiss, his soft lips feeling just as good, if not better, as you remembered them. You felt something like butterflies in your stomach and you thought that Taehyung would probably make fun of you if he knew how jolly he made you feel.

Breaking from the kiss, the most handsome man you've ever seen stared you down for a second, not saying anything.

„We should celebrate,“ he suddenly suggested.

„What do you have in mind?“ you asked him curiously, not once escaping his gaze.

„Let me take you out to dinner,“ his voice was sweet as honey and you were sure you never heard him talk in such a soft tone – it might be the rest of guilt he still felt towards you or the fact that now you officially knew about each other's feelings but you could get used to it. You wanted to get used to it.

„Right now?“ you asked him, wondering if it would be okay considering it was his father's birthday.

„I don't wanna wait a second longer,“ he smirked at his own cheesiness, getting out of his bed to get ready to go.

You joined him, „Stop being so loving. God, where did my cynical Taehyung go?“

Rolling his eyes, he chuckled as he wrapped his arm around your waist, walking down the hallway with you. „This changes nothing,“ he gestured between the two of you, „You're still terribly annoying even if we're together now.“

„I could get used to the sound of that,“ you scrunched your nose as your eyes met before you repeated his words, „We're together now.“

Even though he tried to hide it, he was just as excited about the label as you were. You could feel it in the way he touched you and the sparkle in his eyes gave him away.

A few minutes later you were sitting outside of the restaurant in the heart of your city, the marketplace was pretty quiet as it slowly got dark outside, a candle lit on your table.

The owner of the restaurant greeted you, raising his eyebrow and smirking as he saw the two of you together. „Oh, what a nice sight to see the two of you here together. Is this a date by any chance?“

You let Taehyung answer, not knowing if he was okay with telling people yet.

„It's still a secret so you have to keep quiet, please,“ he answered with a proud smile on his lips and you could swear his chest was sticking out a bit.

„What a pretty couple,“ he sang as he went back inside, giving you a bit of time to read the menu and decide on what to eat.

Even though it was almost autumn it was still warm outside – you loved those kind of late summer evenings. Without even having a single sip of alcohol you felt almost tipsy, the man opposite of you making you feel all light and smitten.

„This is the downside of living in such a small town,“ Taehyung started, his skin glowing in the candlelight, „We have zero privacy.“

„I don't mind,“ you shrugged, „They're going to find out sooner or later. It's the charm of towns like ours.“

„I just would like to take you out on a date every now and then without one of the guys crashing it because they see us,“ he explained, „But you're right, it's not as bad here as I make it out to be.“

He took your hand that was resting on the table, caressing it with his thumb. Every touch you two shared make you shiver in anticipation for more. Even though you already knew you were head over heels for him you felt yourself falling deeper every time you touched.

Time went by way too fast for your liking and before you knew it you two had your dinner, your dessert and even some drinks afterwards. The atmosphere was light, both of you enjoying each other's company after not talking for some days.

„I don't want this night to end just yet,“ you pouted. Before you dared to take his hands you glanced around to see if Jimin was anywhere to be seen, not wanting him to disturb your peace.

Your new boyfriend, still a weird thought to call him that, nodded, „I can stay if you want to.“

Before you could say anything he fastly added, „I don't have to though. It's your decision. I can leave too.“

You gave him a weird glance, „You're acting like this would be a first for us.“

Not saying anything he almost froze in front of you, fidgeting with his hands, staring at your door. For a few seconds you mustered him, waiting if he'd say something but nothing came out of his mouth, which was pretty unusual for him.

„Oh god, you're nervous!“ your grin was a mile wide and you clapped your hands amused, „Kim Taehyung is nervous because of me. I can't wait to tell my diary about this.“

Frustration was written all over his face as he closed his eyes as if he couldn't believe himself. „Your diary must be full of my name,“ he mumbled under his breath before looking at you again, the satisfied smile on your face provoking him, „Stop making fun of me.“

As you were searching for your keys in your back he hugged you from behind, pressing a kiss against your hair, “Let’s drink some beer and watch a movie.”

Nodding, you stole a quick kiss from his lips and opened the door, letting the both of you in.

“I’m going to get a blanket,” you informed him, “Get some beers, I’ll meet you in the couch in a minute.

„What do you wanna watch?“ he asked you a few moments later, one leg bent while the other one was spread out on your sofa, his arm spread on the back of it, just waiting for you to join him.

The sight of him comfortably sitting on your sofa gave you the most domestic feeling you've felt in a long time – he seemed to look even better than before somehow.

„Let's watch an animal documentation,“ you responded, sitting down next to him. The blanket you brought from your bedroom spread over the two of you, you dared to cuddle yourself up to him and he seemed to enjoy it as much as you, giving your head a quick kiss, your face resting on his chest.

„You're weird,“ he muttered, „Let's watch a horror movie instead.“

Giving him an unimpressed glance, you sighed, „How cliche.“

You could feel his chuckle going through his chest, „At least it would give me a reason to stay for the night.“

Rolling your eyes, you looked up at him, his glance already on you, „Why? Because you're too afraid of horror movies? Because I am certainly not.“

„I have such a brave girlfriend,“ he acknowledged in a sarcastic tone while opening two beers, handing you one, „Here's to us, babe.“

Clinking your bottles, you took a sip of your beer, „So, you're a babe kind of guy? Wouldn't have thought that.“

„I can call you asshole if you prefer that,“ he said seriously before starting to laugh at his own joke once again.

And with that, the rest of the evening was just as perfect as the first part. It was just you, Taehyung, some beers and Netflix. Every now and then you shared kisses, sometimes those kisses were a bit more passionate and longer, turning into full make-out sessions before Taehyung started to whine because he missed the plot of the movie you were watching.

“God, I’m so happy,” he told you softly as you were slowly falling asleep in his arms, relaxing completely under his touch, “I wanted this for so long.”

You and Taehyung managed to keep your relationship a secret for about two weeks. It took you only two short weeks to decide that it didn’t make any sense to keep it from them. Not only were both of you pretty sure that the relationship between you was serious but also, like always, none of your friends stopped their teasing, making it difficult to stay hidden because their eyes were always on you.

“We have to tell them,” your boyfriend looked at you, “It’s a miracle they didn’t find out yet.”

You chuckled, wrapping your legs around his, “I guess you’re right. But they are going to be so nosey about it. I hate it already.”

It was a late summer Saturday evening, probably one of the lasts warm days for this year and Yoongi decided to gather your friends and your family together for one last barbecue.

Walking outside, you linked your arm with Taehyung’s, something you’ve never done before in front of other people. A part of you almost felt nervous to let the rest know.

“You’re ready?” he asked you, giving you a small wink as you walked towards the big table next to the barbecue grill. Your families were already sitting down on the big table while Yoongi and Hoseok were struggling to get the barbecue grill to work. It was a beautiful evening, the sun was still high but was about to sink, the warm summer breeze felt refreshing and the big table in the garden was full of drinks and food, from meat to salads to bread to vegetables. Yoongi’s parents were there too, currently mixing some cocktails.

Jimin was the first to spot the two of you walking out of your cottage, giving you a confused glance, his eyebrows narrowed. He stopped telling the other a story he was in the middle of, wondering about the sudden skinship. Immediately, everyone turned their heads to where he was looking, wondering what made Jimin speechless.

As you arrived you said nothing, waiting for anyone to say something.

Yoongi looked at you with a big grin on his face. “What is that supposed to mean?” he asked, pointing onto your linked arms.

“You are fucking with us, aren’t you?”, your cousin asked suspiciously, “Ha Ha. Very funny.”

“No, for once I’m serious,” you replied, amused because he didn’t believe you, “Are you really surprised?”

Mrs. Kim and your uncle looked at each other, a smile on their faces.

“Taehyung, are you serious? You can’t trick your old mother like this, don’t make me excited for something that isn’t true.”

Taehyung chuckled at his mother, nodding, “Don’t worry, mum. I’d never lie to you.”

Jimin still didn’t seem to believe you, “If you’re not kidding you gotta kiss,” he insisted with a sly smirk, thinking that he exposed you now.

You looked at Tae, giving him a questioning glance, not knowing if he’d be comfortable kissing you in front of everyone. But he didn’t seem to care and just shook his head amused before he came closer to give you a short, but still very adorable, kiss on your lips, his arm now around your waist, before turning to Jimin, who looked like he was about to faint.

“Who do you think you are just dating my cousin without asking me for permission?” he yelled angrily, getting ready to fight Taehyung.

You, Yoongi and Hoseok started to laugh out loud as Jimin started to chase after Taehyung.

Sitting down on the table right next to Yoongi’s seat he pinched your cheeks lightly, “Congratulations, finally trapped him, huh?”

You nodded, “Was about time. I was slowly going insane.”

“In a more peaceful minute, you need to tell me all about how it happened, alright?” your best friend said with a satisfied smile on his lips, “And don’t forget me now that you’re in love.”

“How could I ever?” you promised, laughing as Taehyung came back to the table, out of breath from running away from Jimin.

“Your cousin is crazy, (y/n),” he breathed heavily, shaking his head, “Maybe I have to reconsider becoming part of your family.”

“Well, too late now,“ you shrugged as Jimin  joined the table again too, a goofy smile on his face as he turned to you.

“So, I assume I can’t try to set you up with Jungkook anymore, right?” he joked, sitting back down on his chair and opening two cans of beer, one for himself and the other one for you.

„You better watch your mouth,“ your boyfriend warned Jimin, giving him a warning glance.

A few hours later, the sky was pitch-black by now and the stars sparkling, you noticed that Taehyung was gone for quite some time now and decided to go check up on him - you saw him going to the barn earlier.

As you walked over to Taehyung he already noticed you but didn’t look at you yet. Instead, you only saw his back as he was busy giving Bertha some kisses.

“Oh no, don’t worry, Bertha,“ he talked to her, “You’re still my favorite cow, just don’t tell (y/n).”

You rolled your eyes, scoffing, “You’re trying to make me jealous?”

He turned around, acting as if he didn’t realize you coming on, “Oh no, (y/n),“ his voice was mocking, “You shouldn���t have seen this, I can explain, I promise.”

Laughing at his own joke, he came over to you and put his arm around your shoulder, pulling you closer to him. Trying to give you a kiss, you freed yourself from his grip, giving him the cold shoulder.

“No, go and kiss Bertha, if you love her so much,“ you huffed and held your chin up high, trying to stay serious but Taehyung wasn’t having it. Within seconds his arms were wrapped around you once again, now tighter than before so you couldn’t escape if you wanted.

Pulling you into a hug, he locked his eyes with you, a joyful smile on his still so beautiful lips, “You’re so annoying.”

Scoffing, you avoided his eyes, still playing hard to get, „I thought we're over the whole 'you're annoying me' phase.“

„Actually, each time I told you that you're annoying I fell in love with you a bit more,“ your boyfriend confessed, still hugging you tightly before smirking, „But you still were a pain in the ass.“  

You gave him a quick and small kiss before resting your forehead against his, “I want to spend the rest of my life annoying you.”

He let out a small laugh, his eyes closed. “Oh, that’s good,“ suddenly he picked you up, giving you no other chance as to hold onto him, your legs around his waist as he was holding you up, his arms tightly around your waist, “Because I want to spend the rest of my annoying life with you.”

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The Sweetest of Them All

A/N: just another little bonus part of the AFTR universe that I came up with out of nowhere. Also, I left this as third person instead of second. Enjoy!

Word Count: 3.2k

Y/N has never been a big fan of Valentine's Day.

To her, it was overrated and expensive. But, she'd be lying if she said she didn't love the fact that it gave an extra reason to love on Auston a ridiculous amount. Sure, she did that every day, but to be fair, she loved how the title of Valentine's Day added a bit more fun and excitement to something she'd normally do any other day. It felt different for some reason, so even though she didn't love the so-called holiday, she still tried to plan something special for it every year.

Admittedly, she and Auston almost got competitive about it with trying to one-up the other with affection. They didn't care about gifts. They cared about the time they spent together and the thoughtfulness behind it.

Usually, it was Y/N that came up with something ridiculously sweet for Valentine's Day to do for Auston. However, this year, he had her beat.

For some odd reason, Y/N woke up very early that day. Maybe it was the baby waking her, or perhaps it was her internal clock saying sleep was no longer necessary. But, regardless, she was awake much earlier than usual. She also knew Mia wasn't awake or else she would've heard her, so she took that time to lie back in bed and relax for a few minutes on her own.

The bed felt incredibly empty, given that Auston was with the Leafs in Washington and wasn't expected to be back in Toronto until late that night. Frank was a good cuddle buddy alternative, but sometimes the Goldendoodle just wasn't enough when Y/N was missing her man. Of course, this was one of the days when she missed him a lot, so she took that as an excuse to text Auston and at least get this so-called holiday kicked off.

Y/N Happy Valentine's Day, Aus 🥰 can't wait to see you tonight

She wasn't expecting him to message back right away, seeing as it was only 7:30 in the morning, but much to her surprise, he did.

Auston Happy Valentine's Day, babe 💕 Can't wait to see you either. Did the flowers for Mia get delivered?

Y/N Yes, they got here last night. They're beautiful. I set them on the kitchen counter, so once she's awake and we go downstairs, she'll see her little V-Day gift from you

Auston Perfect. I got part of your Valentine's thing with me right now too. Ready for it?

Y/N Is it going to make me cry?

Auston Probably

Y/N Great. Hit me with your best shot

She stared at her phone screen for a moment, expecting it to light up with the notification of an incoming FaceTime call from her husband or a picture, but instead, he sent her a link. But not just any link, it was the link to the video recording of a new Spittin' Chiclets podcast episode that was over an hour-long called 'Love Day: Part One.'

Confused, but also insanely curious, Y/N then leaned over to grab her laptop from the bedside table and got into the most comfortable position her growing baby bump would allow so she could watch the video like that. As soon as she was about to press play, her phone buzzed with another text.

Auston This was filmed a couple of weeks ago when the Chiclets guys were in Toronto. They interviewed at least 10 different guys in the league at different times, and they're kind of long, which is why there's more than one part. Just watch the intro, then I'm the first interview. Mitch is on part 2 if you want to watch that as well, but yeah... call me when you're done 💕

Still unsure of how to process what was going on, Y/N just shook her head and followed the link.

The video started with Biz, Whit and Rear sat all-around a table, each wearing a different red, white or pink shirt with heart-shaped balloons positioned behind them. Empty bottles of Pink Whitney sat on the table, acting as vases for bouquets of roses, making Y/N roll her eyes and chuckle at how far these guys would go for good product placement. But, she kept watching, and unsurprisingly, Biz was the first to speak.

Biz: "For Valentines Day this year, we wanted to do something different. Something more soft. So, we're going to tell, well, I guess, show some love stories."

Whit: "Bet you all didn't know that some of the greatest love stories to ever be told have happened to some of the guys that play in the NHL. Don't believe me? Guess you'll have to listen to find out what they are."

Rear: "We asked some players to come in and talk to us about their relationship stories and give as many details as they were willing to give. And let me tell you, they were great. To start us off, we have Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs telling us his fairytale romance."

The video then clipped to a shot of Biz sitting next to Auston in what Y/N assumed was the hotel downtown that the Chiclets guys were staying at. Auston wasn't dressed extravagantly or anything, just wore a grey hoodie, black pants, and his signature Raiders snapback.

Y/N immediately recognized his outfit. She remembered Auston coming home in those same clothes early one afternoon after he did some running around downtown with Mia, and started thinking of how not once did he mention doing anything for the podcast. He kept this very on the down low, and Y/N was excited to see how it would all play out.

Biz: "Alright, with us today, we have none other than the Leafs number 34, Auston Matthews. Welcome back to the show, Auston. How ya doin?"

Auston: "I'm great. Thanks for having me. How are you guys?"

Whit and Rear: "Good."

Biz: "Great, real good. Now, Auston, you know what you're here to talk about, right?"

Auston: (chuckling) "You're acting like you didn't spend the last week blowing up my phone until I agreed to do this."

Biz: "Amazing! You do know. So, here's how it's all going to go down. We've got a list of questions about your relationship with your significant other. Your obvious better half. And are going to take turns asking them so the people listening at home can get a bit of insight on your, and I quote, iconic love story. Why don't you give us a little summary of your relationship before we dive in?"

Auston: (hesitantly) "Sure, okay. So, my wife Y/N and I have been married for almost two years now. Our anniversary is at the end of July. She accidentally forgot it last year, which I haven't let her live down. Y/N, babe, this is your six month in advance warning that our anniversary is indeed coming up again this year… She's going to hate that I mentioned that. We, uh, we've been together since my first season in Toronto, so for a pretty long time now, and it's been amazing. We have a daughter, Amelia, but everyone just calls her Mia unless she's in trouble. She just turned two on January 25th, and we have our second baby on the way. They're due to be making their grand appearance in late June. We also have our firstborn, Frank, the Goldendoodle. Can't forget about him. But, yeah, that's my little family."

Whit: (nodding along with Biz and Rear) "Fair enough. Now, how and when did you and Y/N meet exactly?"

Auston: "We met on the night of my first NHL game back in 2016. She was at that game."

Biz: "Oh, yeah? Was she there for a reason?"

Auston gave him an unimpressed look.

Biz: "What?"

Auston: "You know why she was there!"

Biz: (shrugging) "Our listeners don't. C'mon, refresh my memory. Was she there to cheer someone else on?"

Auston: (shaking his head) "Yeah. She, uh, she's a cousin of one of my teammates, so she was there with their family to watch him during our first game."

Biz: (grinning widely) "What teammate?"

Auston: "The one out in the hallway keeping my daughter occupied while you keep being annoying and asking me questions you already know the answer to."

Everyone laughed at that, including Y/N, as she shifted onto her side, being mindful of her growing bump that seemingly became more noticeable each day, and got comfortable as she braced herself for what the rest of this interview would entail.

Biz: (still laughing): "Just to clarify for everyone who still doesn't know, he's talking about Mitch Marner."

Auston: "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up."

Rear: "I take it that Mitch and Mia get along really well? I haven't heard a peep from her since you came in here."

Auston: "Oh, she loves him. Yeah, that's her Mitchy, alright. Him and Steph, who you will hear all about once Mitch comes in here, are Mia's godparents and some of her favourite people."

Whit: "That's awesome. And how was that at first, though, being romantically involved with one of your teammates' family members? Sounds like grounds for some chaos, if I'm honest."

Auston: "It sure made meeting the family a bit more nerve-wracking. I'm just kidding. No, it was fine. It was definitely a little awkward at first trying to figure out how I was going to tell Mitch that I wanted to date his cousin. Like, he and Y/N are very close. Always have been. And the last thing both me and Y/N wanted was for Mitch to be uncomfortable. He did handle it really well, though. It's because of him I was even able to get to know her in the first place, which I'll never be able to thank him enough for."

Rear: "Now, you're a pretty private guy. You post the odd picture of your little family from time to time. Y/N is rather private, as well. So, really, no one knows your guys' story other than those who have lived it with you or watched it unfold. I'm sure many people will jump right on the chance to listen to this, seeing as you and Y/N are one of the most beloved couples in the NHL. But, what exactly made you want to come on here, give a bit of insight into your private life, and talk about it all?"

Auston: "Well, for one, Biz would not stop asking me to do it. Literally kept calling and texting me for days until I finally agreed."

Whit: "Shocker."

Biz: "Hey, now."

Auston: (chuckling) "That and also I figured, why not. I love my wife, and I love our little story. It's nice to think back on everything that's happened and see how it all got us to where we are now. With all the ups and the downs, its uh, it's been an amazing ride for sure, and I wouldn't change it for a thing. Also, it's for Valentine's Day. I haven't told her I'm doing this, so when you guys drop the episode, I'm just going to send it to her without much context."

Whit: "Do you think she'll cry?"

Auston: "Absolutely. I know this kind of thing would make her tear up regularly, but those pregnancy hormones have got her bad. Without a doubt, she's going to call me crying once she's done watching this."

Y/N scoffed as he said that and grabbed some tissues to wipe away the waterworks she already felt coming on.

Biz: "I've met Y/N many times now. The first time being back in what, 2018?"

The screen then showed an old picture of Biz sitting in a restaurant with his arm wrapped around Y/N's shoulders, both smiling widely as they held up their drinks, with Auston seemingly moping off to the side a little bit. Y/N chuckled at the image, instantly thinking back to the day she first met Paul Bissonnette and how wild it was before the photo faded away and showed the guys again.

Biz: "Yeah, it was when she was in Scottsdale visiting you during the summer. Great girl, completely out of Auston's league."

Auston: "Hey!"

Biz: "I'll never forget you sassing her when she commented on how hot Arizona was, with her being Canadian and all, but damn she was fast putting you in your place by calling you a, what was it?"

Auston: (grumbling) "Desert Boy."

Everyone burst out laughing again, except Auston, who just rolled his eyes and sighed dramatically.

Auston: "Whatever. She sasses me all the time when I complain about the snow, but the one time I do it back, I get called a Desert Boy and can never live it down."

Biz: (still laughing) "Ugh, amazing. Okay, moving on because we don't have much time and can probably fit in like two more questions. So, Auston, tell us how you knew that Y/N was the end game for you. How did you know that she was the one?"

Auston: "Oh, man. I don't even know how to explain it. Growing up, you see all these movies and shows, or read books where people always find someone who is their soulmate. Their perfect match. And I never knew what the feeling of finding that person was because I had never experienced it. My mom would tell me that when I did find that person, I'd know. That it'll be such an intense feeling, and to be honest, I didn't believe her. Until I met Y/N, I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true. The first time I met her, something drew me in, and I knew I wanted to get to know her better right away. Mitch spoke so highly of her, so did the other guys on the team that had already met her and over the first couple of months of us knowing each other, I saw what they meant. She quickly became one of my best friends ever. When we started dating, I saw more of how good a person she is, which attracted me even more. She is so selfless and caring for everyone around her; it truly blows my mind. I had never seen my family welcome a girl I introduced them to as quickly as they did her, and I trust their judgment the most. But even if they didn't do that, I know they would have accepted her regardless because, honestly, I probably seemed like a lovesick idiot. I still do. Y/N became this significant light in my life that I knew I wanted to be there forever. I began thinking about what it'd be like spending the rest of my life with her. Then it became something that I knew I needed. I can't imagine my life without her, and I never want to. She makes me so happy and has given me more than I could ever thank her for. I'll never understand how I, of all people, was the one to capture her massive heart, but I do know how lucky I am."

As he spoke, the screen showed a little picture slideshow of Y/N and Auston over the years of their relationship. It started with one that Ema took the first time Y/N had ever gone to Scottsdale. Y/N was sitting on the edge of a pool, and her legs dipped into the water. Auston stood between them as he wrapped his arms around her middle and leaned against her while looking over at where Ema stood taking the picture. The next one was from a Christmas party where the two were under a mistletoe as Auston leaned Y/N back and was kissing her cheek as she laughed and held onto him for dear life. There was a picture of them with Auston's family, one of them with Mitch and Steph, and another of Auston with his arms around Nate and Mya, Y/N's younger brother and sister, as the three smiled at the camera and Y/N was in the background looking confused.

The last few pictures were a bit more recent. They showed Y/N holding Frank as a puppy, a maternity photo of her and Auston posing when she was pregnant with Mia, and one of them on their wedding day with Mia and the rest of the gang. Then, the slideshow concluded with a very recent picture of them taken just a couple of weeks prior at Mia's birthday party, where Auston has his arms wrapped around Y/N from the back, showcasing her growing belly. At the same time, she leaned against him and glanced over her shoulder at him lovingly. The photos then went away and showed the guys again as Auston finished speaking.

Auston was right. Y/N was full-on bawling by that point.

All the guys were smiling as Auston finished saying his thing, but were soon interrupted by a knocking noise followed by a door opening.

Mitch: (offscreen) "Wait, no! Don't let her in!"

Mia: (also offscreen) "Daddy!"

Mia then came into the frame as she ran towards Auston, not caring about what was going on or who was there. Auston was quick reacting as he smiled widely and scooped Mia right up into his arms, making sure to place multiple kisses on her cheek as she giggled and squirmed in his hold, while Mitch became visible too and shrugged.

Auston: "Hi, mini. I missed you. Did you have fun with Mitchy?"

Mia: "Yeah! Where's mommy, daddy?"

Auston: "She's at home, baby girl. I'm almost done, then we can go get a Timbit while we wait for Mitch to be done. Sounds good?"

Mia: (knuckling at her eyes, tiredly) "Mhmm."

Rear: "This is adorable."

Biz: "Hi, Mia."

Mia: (shyly while hiding against Auston's chest a bit) "Hi, Biz."

Whit: (laughing) "Okay, I think we've kept you long enough now, Auston. Is there anything else you and Mia would like to say to Y/N?"

Auston: "Yes. Happy Valentine's Day, babe. I love you so much, and I'm sorry I'm not there right now. You're going to hear a lot more from me on actual Valentine's Day, but for right now, I think that's just about it. Mia, can you blow a kiss to the camera so mommy can see it and say 'happy Love Day!'"

Mia: (blows the kiss) "Happy Love Day, mommy!"

Auston: "Can you tell her that you love her?"

Mia: "Love you!"

Auston and Mia then waved to the camera and said bye as the clip faded out, and a new interview of another NHLer began playing.

Y/N's heart felt so full. She couldn't stop crying over how much she loved her family and how badly she needed to hear something like that. Life had been particularly hard on her as of late and seemed to keep throwing her curveballs, but this, this was exactly what she needed. To be reminded of how loved she is and that she genuinely is never alone.

She then grabbed her phone to call Auston and remind him of how much she loved him, that day and every day. The two talked for a few minutes before Y/N was pretty sure she could hear Mia waking up. After saying their goodbyes, Y/N found herself thinking about how, regardless of how she feels about the actual day, this was a Valentine's Day she will never forget.

[amisbro]

Deep Dive:  Utapri Movie and beyond

So earlier today I was telling a friend of mine on twitter in @heavens-saved-my-life that I was going to be talking about UtaPri because its that time when we get closer to the start of all the chaos with all the big releases coming out and I have to start to think about WHAT is possibly going to happen soon. Now before we get started I must make mention of this The title is “UtaPri Movie and beyond” BUT we are going to start with the buildup FIRST and THEN get into the actual movie and beyond cos a lot of crazy s**t is about to go down for UtaPri and we need to really take hold of it Let’s get started

Alright so between NOW and the end of the year the big things that we already know are happening/coming out are as follows Shining Live’s 1st Anniversary around the end of this month QUARTET NIGHT’s Duet Dramas in October A Shuffle Unit MV CD set in November And the first Drama CD for Oto/Van/Ai on Van’s birthday no less...interesting time for his birthday to be sure! You will note that I omitted for now the “STARISH BEST” CD and the HEAVENS “Mini Album”.  I did that because as of now we don’t know when those are coming out but I think its safe to say that they are going to be sometime at the end of this year but its a matter of “When”.  It should also be noted that the QN event will be taking place in November as well so that is definitely something to think about when we look at how jammed up this year is with events and releases THIS however brings us to the Duets and thinking about the idea that ,with the releases ending February of 2019, that the Movie couldn’t be that far behind right? WELL... Something I have been thinking about recently is that Broccoli has had the project for Dolce Vita going LONGER than the movie coming up.  The game was announced at the 6th Anniversary with HEAVENS being revealed at the Anniversary before this one.  Now when you take into consideration also that ,at least for Western markets, the gamecards for the VITA stop production as of March of next year then things get interesting. Now...how would this effect the movie? One thing I keep thinking about is HEAVENS’ role within the game and the movie coming up.  The CDs are “trio” CDs and that could lead for some interesting potential given that they are going to be considered “drama” CDs. One thing I have wondered lately is this:  Are the CDs just going to be the song for the units and then the Drama OR...could they do this  Track 1 is the Trio song 2-4 would be a solo song for the members of the units track 5 is the drama then a couple more for the off vocals Another way they could do it (if they wanted to) would be like this Track 1 is the drama Track 2 is the main song 3-5 are solos 6-9 would be the off vocal versions. THIS is something I was thinking about for the CDs and if this is what they would do then I’m cool with it.  If they do just the “dramas” and the one song that’s fine too...but there is something I considered over the past few months IF (and I mean IF) they are using the CDs to do the the story and then the movie is the concert...that could be an issue.  The reason is that because the CDs are never sold with an English translation on the booklet (and this CAN be done...I own a couple of CDs that have the JP lyrics and the English or Romanji so its NOT like that can’t be done) then the fans are fucked unless someone LITERALLY buys each CD with the intent to translate all the dramas and even then by the time those get posted are you still interested in them? Now let’s talk about the game and why I was wondering about the track listing For at least the first two seasons the CDs had one song which was the insert for that character/group and the other was used for a game.  If I remember right the ones for S1 had songs from “Debut” in them and then 2000% was for one of the All-Star games...so far those are the only ones of memory I remember being used for games that were on the Anime singles.  If they are planning to have songs for all the characters in the game then you need to create a B-Side for each one of them UNLESS Brocc intends to use the songs from S4 for that purpose but then that would be weird cos you are using “old songs” to market for the game...see the problem? Now this is just Dolce and MLKingdom I’m talking here...we haven’t even DISCUSSED beyond that! Well before that we have to go over this as it pertains to HEAVENS 2019 is going to be a very interesting year for the group that you could argue SHOULDN’T be in the position they are.  They are a group that ,let’s be fair, WAS an Antag group in Season 2 that got beat ,should have disbanded but got saved, and then reappeared at the end of Season 3 cos apparently Shining and Raging were in cahoots the whole time up until all hell broke loose with the EiiOto episode.  Ironically THAT has become a pretty popular ship in Japan with all the fanart I see for them together (even the fem versions which is interesting). (and for anyone curious Yamato/Kira and Eiji/Yamato is apparently a thing over there too) The thing is that HEAVENS SHOULDN’T be in the position they are and even I can freely admit that.  Brocc has allowed them to remain long enough where they are gaining a following (at least on twitter) and now they have a store coming and their own radio show next year.  THIS makes me wonder Brocc’s plan with the series because you CAN’T just stop it after starting to give HEAVENS their own store and stuff now.  Maybe if they were kept as pure Antags and they were beat in S2 and gone I don’t think anyone would care but now the group is about 5 years old in total with 3 being a 7 member unit and getting traction.  THAT could have either BEEN in the plan from the start with them OR it could have been something that was pure accident...I’m very close to thinking the latter. HEAVENS’ future I think will be determined with their single coming up near the end of this year (and the possible concert for them after that) because if they start to really get traction in Japan (and Korea as well from what I have seen which shocks me somewhat) AND they can start to become more accepted in the West like STARISH or QN did then we have the makings for a genuine rivalry because you will have 3 very strong and healthy fanbases that want to see what is next for their groups. THIS brings me to “What should Broccoli do after the movie?” Let’s say the movie does well enough (and with three years production time it kind of better at this point) and Brocc sees that UtaPri is still being supported strongly at least Domestically in Japan (and to a lesser extent internationally) they might consider doing a “10th Anniversary season” for the Anime in 2021 which ,if they do, I would LOVE for them to do one season that is purely HEAVENS and no distractions and the reason is this IF we are to assume that this movie will be the “send off” for STARISH (and possibly QN and I am not sure about either right now) then it would be nice to see HEAVENS get a run on their own so we can develop them NOT as Antagonists anymore but more as people that want to establish their own identity and brand.  I think that is part of the issue Broccoli kind of has with them now is they are so stuck on doing things for them like they are STARISH or QN that all people might see them as internationally is “carbon copies: and that is what I want to see them get away from.  Show US that HEAVENS is more than just a “rival group” and show us what makes them special.  I think some of us kind of ALREADY know but some might still need convincing and I get it but how is going to be the important part. Do I think Broccoli has a plan for HEAVENS right now?  I do but what is going to be interesting because if they keep tying them to STARISH then they can’t grow as a group cos they will live in their shadow to be honest.  Now they have QN members to deal with and ,even though they stuck up for them at the Triple S, the idea that QN would want to see them “grow” would be an interesting development. Keep this in mind too In a good number of these its one HEAVENS member to a STARISH and a QN member.  The ONLY one that is different is the one with Nagi/Shion/Syo and its a very interesting thing there because the question I would ask then is this “What role will the QN members play in these dramas?  Are they the buffers between HEAVENS and STARISH members or are they going to side with their Agencymates?” I still think that it would be interesting for them to introduce a manager for HEAVENS and come up with some plotline where they get infatuated with Nanami and that could cause a unique bridge for Season 5 because ,if you want to keep it going, you could have now two separate things going with Shining and Raging offices going at it for the ultimate popularity...okay STARISH might win in the end in that season BUT as we know in the real world HEAVENS has beaten STARISH in the peak ranks before.  There are #’s to back this up. Again though everything I am going on is speculation.  I think for now its going to be interesting because of the fact that the “Drama CDs” are ending at the end of February so I’m wondering when you would air the movie?  One idea I had was in July because ,look it up, and its the 8 year Anniversary of Season 1 next year in July.  I think that would be a fitting bookend for the Anime for sure. OH...there is ONE OTHER THING I thought about recently While the Anime hasn’t been officially/publicly declared as “ended” I did recent;y think about this The month that the season STARTED in was October One thing I have noticed at times is that when some Animes air any other time of the year they usually are going to get another season.  Now...I looked it up and one of the last Animes I remember watching start to finish that has had a “definitive end” at this point is K Project because ,despite the OVAs that are coming out, there has not been a new season announced. For those of us that forgot K Project’s “final season” aired from 10/3/2015 to 12/26/2015...almost parallel to UtaPri no? The difference between K Project and UtaPri was that when they showed Adolf Weismann sitting in Shiro’s old apartment they basically said about K Project “Game Over” The thing is that at least made some kind of sense cos you got to meet JUNGLE in the Movie a little bit and we saw them TRULY get theirs in “Return of Kings” so that ending fit like a glove The end of Season 4 for Utapri for SOME might probably signify the end of the series (and if it is then fine I can live with it somewhat now) but the thing is with UtaPri there was no one that NEEDED to “get theirs” and in reality all the groups should have been allowed to be happy.  Okay we know what one of the final scenes for the season was with all of them singing “Legend Star” together but think about this from the perspective of a HEAVENS fan after watching your group get the crap kicked out them to a degree with the ending not so much being “happy” but one of those you reluctantly come to terms with cos you think eventually you get YOUR moment and you are happy with it. I think that is why I am reluctant to think Brocc is just gonna pull the plug on the Anime when it no doubt still makes them money along with their CDs...I defy you to show me that it doesn’t and if you can then great but right now I think its probably one of their more popular franchises so why can it?  If they think Classical Stars is going to blow up like UtaPri they MIGHT be setting themselves up for a cold dose of reality BUT we’ll wait and see. I think for a lot of fans (myself included) the day we have to accept UtaPri is “over” is gonna be hell.  Like when it happens we are gonna be in tears because of the fact that ,no matter what group you affiliate with or who your “best boy” is, UtaPri is going to be such an integral part in all of our lives that NOT hearing from any of the members of STARISH ,QN or HEAVENS would SUCK! What does Broc have in store for us after the movie in 2019?  Hopefully a lot more content musicwise and hopefully they keep expanding UtaPri because there is still A LOT of growth for it to have but they have to be willing to not pull the plug before it reaches its peak potential. Anywho I believe I kept you long enough.  I hope you all have a grand rest of your night and I will see you in the next post take care my fellow Princes and Princesses

[jenniferbowley]

Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 249

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we’re getting there. We’re coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we’re going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We’re going to get into that. But let’s see Hernan you’re not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You’re holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I’m working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what’s everybody so it’s really good to be here. I’m excited about POFU Live and now I’m also holding this going right here which is something little something I’ve got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That’s awesome. And in case anyone didn’t know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we’re back to the normal deal. I don’t know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It’s, this is odd. We get used to this. And I’m we’re also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I’m like number two how that happened?

Adam: You’re actually number one. It’s we’re just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we’ll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I’m good.

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It’s showing you so showing the speaker I’m just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It’s coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn’t work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we’re going to be celebrating, we’re going to be giving good stuff away. It’s we’re actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we’re going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It’s going to be fun. And we’re going to show you how it’s still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that’s not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn’t even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside’s don’t work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it’s good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we’re out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That’s not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don’t you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we’re still benefiting from it. So those that you know that’s that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we’ve been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I’d say it’s,

Marco: it’s fear, isn’t it? It’s just people it’s one of the things that I’ll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It’s part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I’m how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It’s literally like, I’m the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don’t believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we’re doing some magic. But yeah, it’s super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don’t want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What’s going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we’re talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I’m a few hours off from these guys. And I’m like, some kind of pain or I’m, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we’re getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I’m asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you’re just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell’s going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can’t join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what’s the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you’re ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it’s their own agency, whether it’s their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you’re outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It’s where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven’t yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it’s going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we’ve got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can’t think of any.

Adam: All right, let’s do it. And I don’t even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I’ll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what’s up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don’t Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we’re going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what’s up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don’t have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you’re already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that’s not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don’t have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I’ve got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I’ve noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr’s is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it’s WordPress, sometimes it’s Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn’t typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that’s not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you’re using press releases, you could also use the press, if you’ve got your own subscription, the press advantage, that’s an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don’t have the RSS feed, but you’ve been you because you don’t have your own account in but you’ve been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That’s perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I’ve been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That’s a really, really good question. I can’t really answer that one. Marco, maybe you’re the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won’t know it won’t, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there’s a method to the madness, I wouldn’t just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we’ve done it, people simply just since they haven’t ordered already, they don’t give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you’d be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don’t get the information. So I wouldn’t want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It’s set up the way it’s set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you’ve set up along the way. That’s when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That’s when you don’t get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you’re not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we’ve talked about this in the past on you don’t have to answer this now Marco, but I’m just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that’s not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that’s going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they’re looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that’s something

Marco: No, no, we don’t we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that’s what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we’ve got to start cracking the whip hop. I’m kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one’s up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I’m not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I’m going to read through it anyway, I’m going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I’d like to have your advice before buying anything you’re done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I’m kind of lost on the question. I just don’t know exactly what it is that you’re asking I maybe because I don’t understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you’re selling subscriptions, I don’t understand really exactly what it is that you’re selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don’t have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it’s the same brand, and I’m assuming, you know, I don’t know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you’re trying to brand each one, then you’d want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it’s all separate, then you’d want separate syndication networks if it’s one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I’ve always mentioned in the past, like let’s put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let’s let’s try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that’ll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one’s branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you’re going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that’s one way that I would do it. Because it’s easier to manage it’s one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you’re not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it’s five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you’d want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you’re using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it’s going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it’s usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it’s syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That’s key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there’s a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it’s a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that’s a good way to get traction. And it’s just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we’ve been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he’s doing. Follow that. We don’t do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he’s targeting French audience. You’d have to do your own syndication network, you’d have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don’t know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you’re right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we’re not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it’s still like way, way, way easier. It’s not as easy, it’s what it was before, it’s not as easy. It’s like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it’s, it’s great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what’s up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You’re welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don’t know if there, I don’t think there is a rule of thumb, but what you’ll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we’re talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there’s a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it’s crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that’s because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they’ve been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That’s what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it’s something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that’s one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We’ve talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I’m seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I’m not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there’s a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I’m just saying there’s, you know, there, I don’t know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn’t have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you’ll start to see those rank higher. So I know that’s probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I’m Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I’ve got clients where you’ll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they’re still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they’ve been around for a lot longer. They’ve got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you’re gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I’ll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they’re listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it’s about 23 square miles, right. And we I’ve had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let’s say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they’ve got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it’s really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what’s taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it’s the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don’t have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we’ve seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you’re going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it’s so hard to answer these questions. Because we’re not sitting there. Looking at a computer that’s hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we’ve seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I’m revealing too much, but I don’t think I am because we’re just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we’ve got time because I don’t see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There’s it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we’ve talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that’s very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let’s say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we’ve talked about a number of ways to do that. We’ve talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don’t recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they’re very difficult like they just don’t get counted any more. It’s not that I think they’re going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don’t think that they get, they don’t get counted any more. We’ve talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don’t have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they’re clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you’re selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you’re building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you’re typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it’s a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you’re not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don’t have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it’s going to register as a conversion won’t show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it’s that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It’s that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren’t doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you’ll see a difference in results.

Let’s say you got to lead gen properties. And you’re getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you’re not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you’ll see that if you’re getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you’ll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don’t have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it’s because again, Google’s tracking that and it’s a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they’re getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they’re interacting with your brand, they’re getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it’s very, very important even if you’re not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that’s how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you’ll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that’s another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I’d like to add and getting back to the GMB that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you’re doing is you’re switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we’re talking about the map pack, it’s actually the entity, it becomes all about what’s going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it’s generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that’s what Google is actually looking for that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we’ve done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what’s taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that’s going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That’s what you know, you’re the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I’m not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I’m going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort’s account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It’s a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That’s a tough question. Because I don’t really understand what it is that you’re asking. I didn’t understand what you’re trying to promote three different hotels, they’re targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I’m understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that’s what you’re calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don’t know how you could do that on with keyword can’t like how you wouldn’t keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it’s there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that’s you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I’m not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you’re always going to be competing with each other. If it’s all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you’re talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There’s no way to avoid what you’re calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I’m going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don’t know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn’t. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you’re trying to run it on the same domain, and we’ll just call it cannibalization, I don’t call it that. That’s what everybody else calls it. And that’s fine. But yeah, I don’t see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that’s different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You’re in can you’re in Cancun, and you’re by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they’re probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don’t see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it’s Google’s, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don’t, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it’s one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there’s be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that’s probably what you know, a big part of what you’re experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that’s what we do. And that’s why it’s called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it’s the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We’re almost out of questions, guys. So we’re going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that’s beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We’ve got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we’ll get through these two, and we’ll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I’m not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don’t teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don’t have if you don’t, if you don’t have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that’s unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it’s a lot, it’s a lot of work to build those things out. So you’re better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that’s something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it’s no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that’s again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that’s a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it’s going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it’s going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it’s going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn’t, it was, you know, and again, it’s they’re not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it’s better, it’s more accurate, it’s more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it’s actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven’t changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven’t changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn’t mean that RYS Academy stops working. It’s simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it’s all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What’s there, because that’s what Bradley did. And it’s still ranking To this day, guys. We’re in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it’s still there? You haven’t done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I’m saying good. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn’t work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what’s coming. Because when Marco it’s funny, because when Marco says that he’s gonna put the SEO one on his head. He’s not fucking around. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I’m going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it’s the first time I’ve had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I’m asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that’s what it called, it’s called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it’s already, especially if they’ve been in place for any period of time. And they’ve accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it’s a includes a link or not, it doesn’t matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that’s published on if they’re indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it’s going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don’t recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it’s a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I’ve used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I’ve tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you’ve got a lot of them out there. It’s expensive, it’s 500 bucks per location. But it’s a really good service. And if you’ve got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that’s going to it’s a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they’re about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that’s what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you’ve got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There’s just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don’t have a ton of citations, you don’t want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don’t know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I’m still fighting, it’s been about 10 months, maybe a year, I’m still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it’s really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it’s guys, you don’t want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he’s, if he’s working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he’s working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he’s paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it’s powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she’s wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I’m in the syndication to Dotto training. So he’s talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don’t think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I’ve said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don’t recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it’s great to go through the training. And if you if you’re the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you’re not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don’t recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don’t need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you’re a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we’ve got all of our VA is that we’ve trained our arts, the team that we’ve trained through that same training, right, they’ve all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they’ve been building we’ve got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they’re very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that’s what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don’t, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you’re building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don’t already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don’t work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don’t work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we’re getting there. We’re coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we’re going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We’re going to get into that. But let’s see Hernan you’re not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You’re holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I’m working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what’s everybody so it’s really good to be here. I’m excited about POFU Live and now I’m also holding this going right here which is something little something I’ve got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That’s awesome. And in case anyone didn’t know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we’re back to the normal deal. I don’t know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It’s, this is odd. We get used to this. And I’m we’re also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I’m like number two how that happened?

Adam: You’re actually number one. It’s we’re just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we’ll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I’m good.

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It’s showing you so showing the speaker I’m just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It’s coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn’t work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we’re going to be celebrating, we’re going to be giving good stuff away. It’s we’re actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we’re going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It’s going to be fun. And we’re going to show you how it’s still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that’s not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn’t even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside’s don’t work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it’s good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we’re out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That’s not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don’t you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we’re still benefiting from it. So those that you know that’s that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we’ve been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I’d say it’s,

Marco: it’s fear, isn’t it? It’s just people it’s one of the things that I’ll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It’s part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I’m how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It’s literally like, I’m the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don’t believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we’re doing some magic. But yeah, it’s super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don’t want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What’s going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we’re talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I’m a few hours off from these guys. And I’m like, some kind of pain or I’m, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we’re getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I’m asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you’re just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell’s going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can’t join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what’s the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you’re ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it’s their own agency, whether it’s their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you’re outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It’s where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven’t yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it’s going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we’ve got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can’t think of any.

Adam: All right, let’s do it. And I don’t even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I’ll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what’s up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don’t Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we’re going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what’s up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don’t have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you’re already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that’s not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don’t have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I’ve got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I’ve noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr’s is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it’s WordPress, sometimes it’s Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn’t typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that’s not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you’re using press releases, you could also use the press, if you’ve got your own subscription, the press advantage, that’s an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don’t have the RSS feed, but you’ve been you because you don’t have your own account in but you’ve been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That’s perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I’ve been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That’s a really, really good question. I can’t really answer that one. Marco, maybe you’re the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won’t know it won’t, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there’s a method to the madness, I wouldn’t just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we’ve done it, people simply just since they haven’t ordered already, they don’t give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you’d be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don’t get the information. So I wouldn’t want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It’s set up the way it’s set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you’ve set up along the way. That’s when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That’s when you don’t get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you’re not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we’ve talked about this in the past on you don’t have to answer this now Marco, but I’m just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that’s not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that’s going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they’re looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that’s something

Marco: No, no, we don’t we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that’s what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we’ve got to start cracking the whip hop. I’m kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one’s up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I’m not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I’m going to read through it anyway, I’m going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I’d like to have your advice before buying anything you’re done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I’m kind of lost on the question. I just don’t know exactly what it is that you’re asking I maybe because I don’t understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you’re selling subscriptions, I don’t understand really exactly what it is that you’re selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don’t have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it’s the same brand, and I’m assuming, you know, I don’t know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you’re trying to brand each one, then you’d want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it’s all separate, then you’d want separate syndication networks if it’s one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I’ve always mentioned in the past, like let’s put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let’s let’s try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that’ll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one’s branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you’re going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that’s one way that I would do it. Because it’s easier to manage it’s one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you’re not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it’s five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you’d want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you’re using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it’s going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it’s usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it’s syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That’s key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there’s a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it’s a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that’s a good way to get traction. And it’s just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we’ve been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he’s doing. Follow that. We don’t do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he’s targeting French audience. You’d have to do your own syndication network, you’d have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don’t know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you’re right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we’re not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it’s still like way, way, way easier. It’s not as easy, it’s what it was before, it’s not as easy. It’s like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it’s, it’s great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what’s up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You’re welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don’t know if there, I don’t think there is a rule of thumb, but what you’ll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we’re talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there’s a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it’s crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that’s because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they’ve been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That’s what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it’s something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that’s one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We’ve talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I’m seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I’m not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there’s a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I’m just saying there’s, you know, there, I don’t know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn’t have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you’ll start to see those rank higher. So I know that’s probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I’m Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I’ve got clients where you’ll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they’re still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they’ve been around for a lot longer. They’ve got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you’re gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I’ll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they’re listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it’s about 23 square miles, right. And we I’ve had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let’s say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they’ve got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it’s really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what’s taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it’s the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don’t have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we’ve seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you’re going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it’s so hard to answer these questions. Because we’re not sitting there. Looking at a computer that’s hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we’ve seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I’m revealing too much, but I don’t think I am because we’re just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we’ve got time because I don’t see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There’s it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we’ve talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that’s very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let’s say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we’ve talked about a number of ways to do that. We’ve talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don’t recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they’re very difficult like they just don’t get counted any more. It’s not that I think they’re going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don’t think that they get, they don’t get counted any more. We’ve talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don’t have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they’re clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you’re selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you’re building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you’re typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it’s a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you’re not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don’t have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it’s going to register as a conversion won’t show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it’s that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It’s that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren’t doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you’ll see a difference in results.

Let’s say you got to lead gen properties. And you’re getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you’re not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you’ll see that if you’re getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you’ll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don’t have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it’s because again, Google’s tracking that and it’s a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they’re getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they’re interacting with your brand, they’re getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it’s very, very important even if you’re not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that’s how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you’ll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that’s another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I’d like to add and getting back to the GMB that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you’re doing is you’re switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we’re talking about the map pack, it’s actually the entity, it becomes all about what’s going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it’s generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that’s what Google is actually looking for that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we’ve done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what’s taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that’s going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That’s what you know, you’re the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I’m not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I’m going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort’s account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It’s a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That’s a tough question. Because I don’t really understand what it is that you’re asking. I didn’t understand what you’re trying to promote three different hotels, they’re targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I’m understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that’s what you’re calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don’t know how you could do that on with keyword can’t like how you wouldn’t keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it’s there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that’s you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I’m not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you’re always going to be competing with each other. If it’s all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you’re talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There’s no way to avoid what you’re calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I’m going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don’t know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn’t. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you’re trying to run it on the same domain, and we’ll just call it cannibalization, I don’t call it that. That’s what everybody else calls it. And that’s fine. But yeah, I don’t see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that’s different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You’re in can you’re in Cancun, and you’re by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they’re probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don’t see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it’s Google’s, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don’t, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it’s one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there’s be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that’s probably what you know, a big part of what you’re experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that’s what we do. And that’s why it’s called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it’s the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We’re almost out of questions, guys. So we’re going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that’s beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We’ve got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we’ll get through these two, and we’ll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I’m not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don’t teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don’t have if you don’t, if you don’t have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that’s unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it’s a lot, it’s a lot of work to build those things out. So you’re better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that’s something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it’s no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that’s again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that’s a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it’s going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it’s going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it’s going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn’t, it was, you know, and again, it’s they’re not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it’s better, it’s more accurate, it’s more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it’s actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven’t changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven’t changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn’t mean that RYS Academy stops working. It’s simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it’s all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What’s there, because that’s what Bradley did. And it’s still ranking To this day, guys. We’re in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it’s still there? You haven’t done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I’m saying good. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn’t work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what’s coming. Because when Marco it’s funny, because when Marco says that he’s gonna put the SEO one on his head. He’s not fucking around. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I’m going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it’s the first time I’ve had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I’m asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that’s what it called, it’s called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it’s already, especially if they’ve been in place for any period of time. And they’ve accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it’s a includes a link or not, it doesn’t matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that’s published on if they’re indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it’s going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don’t recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it’s a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I’ve used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I’ve tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you’ve got a lot of them out there. It’s expensive, it’s 500 bucks per location. But it’s a really good service. And if you’ve got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that’s going to it’s a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they’re about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that’s what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you’ve got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There’s just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don’t have a ton of citations, you don’t want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don’t know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I’m still fighting, it’s been about 10 months, maybe a year, I’m still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it’s really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it’s guys, you don’t want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he’s, if he’s working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he’s working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he’s paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it’s powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she’s wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I’m in the syndication to Dotto training. So he’s talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don’t think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I’ve said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don’t recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it’s great to go through the training. And if you if you’re the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you’re not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don’t recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don’t need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you’re a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we’ve got all of our VA is that we’ve trained our arts, the team that we’ve trained through that same training, right, they’ve all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they’ve been building we’ve got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they’re very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that’s what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don’t, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you’re building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don’t already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don’t work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don’t work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we’re getting there. We’re coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we’re going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We’re going to get into that. But let’s see Hernan you’re not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You’re holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I’m working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what’s everybody so it’s really good to be here. I’m excited about POFU Live and now I’m also holding this going right here which is something little something I’ve got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That’s awesome. And in case anyone didn’t know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we’re back to the normal deal. I don’t know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It’s, this is odd. We get used to this. And I’m we’re also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I’m like number two how that happened?

Adam: You’re actually number one. It’s we’re just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we’ll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I’m good.

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It’s showing you so showing the speaker I’m just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It’s coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn’t work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we’re going to be celebrating, we’re going to be giving good stuff away. It’s we’re actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we’re going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It’s going to be fun. And we’re going to show you how it’s still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that’s not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn’t even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside’s don’t work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it’s good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we’re out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That’s not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don’t you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we’re still benefiting from it. So those that you know that’s that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we’ve been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I’d say it’s,

Marco: it’s fear, isn’t it? It’s just people it’s one of the things that I’ll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It’s part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I’m how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It’s literally like, I’m the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don’t believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we’re doing some magic. But yeah, it’s super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don’t want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What’s going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we’re talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I’m a few hours off from these guys. And I’m like, some kind of pain or I’m, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we’re getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I’m asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you’re just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell’s going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can’t join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what’s the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you’re ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it’s their own agency, whether it’s their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you’re outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It’s where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven’t yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it’s going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we’ve got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can’t think of any.

Adam: All right, let’s do it. And I don’t even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I’ll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what’s up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don’t Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we’re going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what’s up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don’t have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you’re already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that’s not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don’t have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I’ve got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I’ve noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr’s is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it’s WordPress, sometimes it’s Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn’t typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that’s not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you’re using press releases, you could also use the press, if you’ve got your own subscription, the press advantage, that’s an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don’t have the RSS feed, but you’ve been you because you don’t have your own account in but you’ve been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That’s perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I’ve been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That’s a really, really good question. I can’t really answer that one. Marco, maybe you’re the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won’t know it won’t, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there’s a method to the madness, I wouldn’t just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we’ve done it, people simply just since they haven’t ordered already, they don’t give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you’d be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don’t get the information. So I wouldn’t want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It’s set up the way it’s set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you’ve set up along the way. That’s when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That’s when you don’t get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you’re not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we’ve talked about this in the past on you don’t have to answer this now Marco, but I’m just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that’s not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that’s going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they’re looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that’s something

Marco: No, no, we don’t we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that’s what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we’ve got to start cracking the whip hop. I’m kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one’s up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I’m not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I’m going to read through it anyway, I’m going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I’d like to have your advice before buying anything you’re done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I’m kind of lost on the question. I just don’t know exactly what it is that you’re asking I maybe because I don’t understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you’re selling subscriptions, I don’t understand really exactly what it is that you’re selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don’t have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it’s the same brand, and I’m assuming, you know, I don’t know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you’re trying to brand each one, then you’d want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it’s all separate, then you’d want separate syndication networks if it’s one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I’ve always mentioned in the past, like let’s put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let’s let’s try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that’ll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one’s branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you’re going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that’s one way that I would do it. Because it’s easier to manage it’s one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you’re not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it’s five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you’d want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you’re using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it’s going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it’s usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it’s syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That’s key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there’s a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it’s a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that’s a good way to get traction. And it’s just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we’ve been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he’s doing. Follow that. We don’t do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he’s targeting French audience. You’d have to do your own syndication network, you’d have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don’t know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you’re right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we’re not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it’s still like way, way, way easier. It’s not as easy, it’s what it was before, it’s not as easy. It’s like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it’s, it’s great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what’s up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You’re welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don’t know if there, I don’t think there is a rule of thumb, but what you’ll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we’re talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there’s a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it’s crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that’s because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they’ve been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That’s what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it’s something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that’s one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We’ve talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I’m seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I’m not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there’s a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I’m just saying there’s, you know, there, I don’t know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn’t have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you’ll start to see those rank higher. So I know that’s probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I’m Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I’ve got clients where you’ll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they’re still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they’ve been around for a lot longer. They’ve got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you’re gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I’ll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they’re listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it’s about 23 square miles, right. And we I’ve had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let’s say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they’ve got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it’s really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what’s taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it’s the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don’t have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we’ve seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you’re going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it’s so hard to answer these questions. Because we’re not sitting there. Looking at a computer that’s hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we’ve seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I’m revealing too much, but I don’t think I am because we’re just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we’ve got time because I don’t see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There’s it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we’ve talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that’s very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let’s say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we’ve talked about a number of ways to do that. We’ve talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don’t recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they’re very difficult like they just don’t get counted any more. It’s not that I think they’re going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don’t think that they get, they don’t get counted any more. We’ve talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don’t have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they’re clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you’re selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you’re building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you’re typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it’s a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you’re not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don’t have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it’s going to register as a conversion won’t show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it’s that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It’s that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren’t doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you’ll see a difference in results.

Let’s say you got to lead gen properties. And you’re getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you’re not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you’ll see that if you’re getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you’ll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don’t have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it’s because again, Google’s tracking that and it’s a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they’re getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they’re interacting with your brand, they’re getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it’s very, very important even if you’re not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that’s how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you’ll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that’s another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I’d like to add and getting back to the GMB that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you’re doing is you’re switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we’re talking about the map pack, it’s actually the entity, it becomes all about what’s going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it’s generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that’s what Google is actually looking for that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we’ve done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what’s taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that’s going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That’s what you know, you’re the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I’m not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I’m going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort’s account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It’s a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That’s a tough question. Because I don’t really understand what it is that you’re asking. I didn’t understand what you’re trying to promote three different hotels, they’re targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I’m understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that’s what you’re calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don’t know how you could do that on with keyword can’t like how you wouldn’t keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it’s there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that’s you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I’m not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you’re always going to be competing with each other. If it’s all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you’re talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There’s no way to avoid what you’re calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I’m going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don’t know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn’t. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you’re trying to run it on the same domain, and we’ll just call it cannibalization, I don’t call it that. That’s what everybody else calls it. And that’s fine. But yeah, I don’t see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that’s different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You’re in can you’re in Cancun, and you’re by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they’re probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don’t see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it’s Google’s, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don’t, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it’s one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there’s be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that’s probably what you know, a big part of what you’re experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that’s what we do. And that’s why it’s called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it’s the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We’re almost out of questions, guys. So we’re going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that’s beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We’ve got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we’ll get through these two, and we’ll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I’m not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don’t teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don’t have if you don’t, if you don’t have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that’s unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it’s a lot, it’s a lot of work to build those things out. So you’re better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that’s something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it’s no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that’s again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that’s a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it’s going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it’s going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it’s going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn’t, it was, you know, and again, it’s they’re not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it’s better, it’s more accurate, it’s more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it’s actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven’t changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven’t changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn’t mean that RYS Academy stops working. It’s simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it’s all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What’s there, because that’s what Bradley did. And it’s still ranking To this day, guys. We’re in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it’s still there? You haven’t done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I’m saying good. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn’t work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what’s coming. Because when Marco it’s funny, because when Marco says that he’s gonna put the SEO one on his head. He’s not fucking around. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I’m going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it’s the first time I’ve had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I’m asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that’s what it called, it’s called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it’s already, especially if they’ve been in place for any period of time. And they’ve accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it’s a includes a link or not, it doesn’t matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that’s published on if they’re indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it’s going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don’t recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it’s a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I’ve used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I’ve tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you’ve got a lot of them out there. It’s expensive, it’s 500 bucks per location. But it’s a really good service. And if you’ve got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that’s going to it’s a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they’re about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that’s what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you’ve got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There’s just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don’t have a ton of citations, you don’t want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don’t know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I’m still fighting, it’s been about 10 months, maybe a year, I’m still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it’s really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it’s guys, you don’t want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he’s, if he’s working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he’s working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he’s paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it’s powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she’s wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I’m in the syndication to Dotto training. So he’s talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don’t think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I’ve said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don’t recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it’s great to go through the training. And if you if you’re the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you’re not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don’t recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don’t need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you’re a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we’ve got all of our VA is that we’ve trained our arts, the team that we’ve trained through that same training, right, they’ve all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they’ve been building we’ve got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they’re very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that’s what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don’t, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you’re building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don’t already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don’t work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don’t work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 249

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we’re getting there. We’re coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we’re going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We’re going to get into that. But let’s see Hernan you’re not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You’re holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I’m working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what’s everybody so it’s really good to be here. I’m excited about POFU Live and now I’m also holding this going right here which is something little something I’ve got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That’s awesome. And in case anyone didn’t know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we’re back to the normal deal. I don’t know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It’s, this is odd. We get used to this. And I’m we’re also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I’m like number two how that happened?

Adam: You’re actually number one. It’s we’re just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we’ll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I’m good.

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It’s showing you so showing the speaker I’m just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It’s coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn’t work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we’re going to be celebrating, we’re going to be giving good stuff away. It’s we’re actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we’re going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It’s going to be fun. And we’re going to show you how it’s still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that’s not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn’t even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside’s don’t work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it’s good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we’re out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That’s not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don’t you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we’re still benefiting from it. So those that you know that’s that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we’ve been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I’d say it’s,

Marco: it’s fear, isn’t it? It’s just people it’s one of the things that I’ll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It’s part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I’m how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It’s literally like, I’m the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don’t believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we’re doing some magic. But yeah, it’s super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don’t want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What’s going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we’re talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I’m a few hours off from these guys. And I’m like, some kind of pain or I’m, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we’re getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I’m asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you’re just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell’s going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can’t join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what’s the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you’re ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it’s their own agency, whether it’s their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you’re outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It’s where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven’t yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it’s going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we’ve got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can’t think of any.

Adam: All right, let’s do it. And I don’t even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I’ll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what’s up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don’t Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we’re going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what’s up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don’t have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you’re already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that’s not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don’t have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I’ve got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I’ve noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr’s is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it’s WordPress, sometimes it’s Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn’t typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that’s not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you’re using press releases, you could also use the press, if you’ve got your own subscription, the press advantage, that’s an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don’t have the RSS feed, but you’ve been you because you don’t have your own account in but you’ve been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That’s perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I’ve been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That’s a really, really good question. I can’t really answer that one. Marco, maybe you’re the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won’t know it won’t, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there’s a method to the madness, I wouldn’t just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we’ve done it, people simply just since they haven’t ordered already, they don’t give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you’d be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don’t get the information. So I wouldn’t want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It’s set up the way it’s set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you’ve set up along the way. That’s when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That’s when you don’t get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you’re not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we’ve talked about this in the past on you don’t have to answer this now Marco, but I’m just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that’s not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that’s going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they’re looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that’s something

Marco: No, no, we don’t we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that’s what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we’ve got to start cracking the whip hop. I’m kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one’s up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I’m not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I’m going to read through it anyway, I’m going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I��d like to have your advice before buying anything you’re done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I’m kind of lost on the question. I just don’t know exactly what it is that you’re asking I maybe because I don’t understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you’re selling subscriptions, I don’t understand really exactly what it is that you’re selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don’t have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it’s the same brand, and I’m assuming, you know, I don’t know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you’re trying to brand each one, then you’d want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it’s all separate, then you’d want separate syndication networks if it’s one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I’ve always mentioned in the past, like let’s put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let’s let’s try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that’ll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one’s branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you’re going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that’s one way that I would do it. Because it’s easier to manage it’s one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you’re not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it’s five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you’d want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you’re using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it’s going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it’s usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it’s syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That’s key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there’s a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it’s a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that’s a good way to get traction. And it’s just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we’ve been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he’s doing. Follow that. We don’t do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he’s targeting French audience. You’d have to do your own syndication network, you’d have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don’t know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you’re right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we’re not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it’s still like way, way, way easier. It’s not as easy, it’s what it was before, it’s not as easy. It’s like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it’s, it’s great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what’s up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You’re welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don’t know if there, I don’t think there is a rule of thumb, but what you’ll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we’re talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there’s a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it’s crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that’s because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they’ve been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That’s what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it’s something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that’s one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We’ve talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I’m seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I’m not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there’s a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I’m just saying there’s, you know, there, I don’t know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn’t have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you’ll start to see those rank higher. So I know that’s probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I’m Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I’ve got clients where you’ll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they’re still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they’ve been around for a lot longer. They’ve got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you’re gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I’ll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they’re listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it’s about 23 square miles, right. And we I’ve had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let’s say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they’ve got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it’s really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what’s taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it’s the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don’t have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we’ve seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you’re going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it’s so hard to answer these questions. Because we’re not sitting there. Looking at a computer that’s hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we’ve seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I’m revealing too much, but I don’t think I am because we’re just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we’ve got time because I don’t see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There’s it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we’ve talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that’s very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let���s say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we’ve talked about a number of ways to do that. We’ve talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don’t recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they’re very difficult like they just don’t get counted any more. It’s not that I think they’re going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don’t think that they get, they don’t get counted any more. We’ve talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don’t have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they’re clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you’re selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you’re building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you’re typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it’s a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you’re not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don’t have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it’s going to register as a conversion won’t show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it’s that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It’s that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren’t doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you’ll see a difference in results.

Let’s say you got to lead gen properties. And you’re getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you’re not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you’ll see that if you’re getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you’ll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don’t have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it’s because again, Google’s tracking that and it’s a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they’re getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they’re interacting with your brand, they’re getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it’s very, very important even if you’re not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that’s how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you’ll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that’s another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I’d like to add and getting back to the GMB that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you’re doing is you’re switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we’re talking about the map pack, it’s actually the entity, it becomes all about what’s going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it’s generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that’s what Google is actually looking for that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we’ve done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what’s taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that’s going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That’s what you know, you’re the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I’m not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I’m going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort’s account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It’s a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That’s a tough question. Because I don’t really understand what it is that you’re asking. I didn’t understand what you’re trying to promote three different hotels, they’re targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I’m understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that’s what you’re calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don’t know how you could do that on with keyword can’t like how you wouldn’t keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it’s there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that’s you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I’m not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you’re always going to be competing with each other. If it’s all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you’re talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There’s no way to avoid what you’re calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I’m going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don’t know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn’t. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you’re trying to run it on the same domain, and we’ll just call it cannibalization, I don’t call it that. That’s what everybody else calls it. And that’s fine. But yeah, I don’t see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that’s different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You’re in can you’re in Cancun, and you’re by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they’re probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don’t see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it’s Google’s, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don’t, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it’s one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there’s be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that’s probably what you know, a big part of what you’re experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that’s what we do. And that’s why it’s called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it’s the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We’re almost out of questions, guys. So we’re going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that’s beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We’ve got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we’ll get through these two, and we’ll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I’m not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don’t teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don’t have if you don’t, if you don’t have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that’s unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it’s a lot, it’s a lot of work to build those things out. So you’re better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that’s something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it’s no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that’s again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that’s a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it’s going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it’s going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it’s going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn’t, it was, you know, and again, it’s they’re not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it’s better, it’s more accurate, it’s more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it’s actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven’t changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven’t changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn’t mean that RYS Academy stops working. It’s simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it’s all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What’s there, because that’s what Bradley did. And it’s still ranking To this day, guys. We’re in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it’s still there? You haven’t done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I’m saying good. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn’t work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what’s coming. Because when Marco it’s funny, because when Marco says that he’s gonna put the SEO one on his head. He’s not fucking around. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I’m going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it’s the first time I’ve had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I’m asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that’s what it called, it’s called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it’s already, especially if they’ve been in place for any period of time. And they’ve accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it’s a includes a link or not, it doesn’t matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that’s published on if they’re indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it’s going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don’t recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it’s a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I’ve used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I’ve tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you’ve got a lot of them out there. It’s expensive, it’s 500 bucks per location. But it’s a really good service. And if you’ve got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that’s going to it’s a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they’re about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that’s what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you’ve got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There’s just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don’t have a ton of citations, you don’t want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don’t know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I’m still fighting, it’s been about 10 months, maybe a year, I’m still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it’s really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it’s guys, you don’t want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he’s, if he’s working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he’s working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he’s paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it’s powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she’s wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I’m in the syndication to Dotto training. So he’s talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don’t think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I’ve said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don’t recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it’s great to go through the training. And if you if you’re the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you’re not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don’t recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don’t need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you’re a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we’ve got all of our VA is that we’ve trained our arts, the team that we’ve trained through that same training, right, they’ve all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they’ve been building we’ve got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they’re very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that’s what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don’t, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you’re building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don’t already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don’t work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don’t work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

bye-bye.

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we’re getting there. We’re coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we’re going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We’re going to get into that. But let’s see Hernan you’re not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You’re holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I’m working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what’s everybody so it’s really good to be here. I’m excited about POFU Live and now I’m also holding this going right here which is something little something I’ve got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That’s awesome. And in case anyone didn’t know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we’re back to the normal deal. I don’t know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It’s, this is odd. We get used to this. And I’m we’re also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I’m like number two how that happened?

Adam: You’re actually number one. It’s we’re just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we’ll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I’m good.

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It’s showing you so showing the speaker I’m just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It’s coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn’t work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we’re going to be celebrating, we’re going to be giving good stuff away. It’s we’re actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we’re going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It’s going to be fun. And we’re going to show you how it’s still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that’s not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn’t even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside’s don’t work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it’s good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we’re out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That’s not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don’t you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we’re still benefiting from it. So those that you know that’s that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we’ve been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I’d say it’s,

Marco: it’s fear, isn’t it? It’s just people it’s one of the things that I’ll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It’s part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I’m how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It’s literally like, I’m the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don’t believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we’re doing some magic. But yeah, it’s super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don’t want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What’s going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we’re talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I’m a few hours off from these guys. And I’m like, some kind of pain or I’m, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we’re getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I’m asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you’re just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell’s going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can’t join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what’s the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you’re ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it’s their own agency, whether it’s their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you’re outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It’s where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven’t yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it’s going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we’ve got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can’t think of any.

Adam: All right, let’s do it. And I don’t even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I’ll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what’s up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don’t Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we’re going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what’s up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don’t have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you’re already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that’s not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don’t have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I’ve got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I’ve noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr’s is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it’s WordPress, sometimes it’s Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn’t typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that’s not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you’re using press releases, you could also use the press, if you’ve got your own subscription, the press advantage, that’s an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don’t have the RSS feed, but you’ve been you because you don’t have your own account in but you’ve been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That’s perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I’ve been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That’s a really, really good question. I can’t really answer that one. Marco, maybe you’re the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won’t know it won’t, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there’s a method to the madness, I wouldn’t just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we’ve done it, people simply just since they haven’t ordered already, they don’t give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you’d be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don’t get the information. So I wouldn’t want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It’s set up the way it’s set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you’ve set up along the way. That’s when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That’s when you don’t get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you’re not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we’ve talked about this in the past on you don’t have to answer this now Marco, but I’m just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that’s not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that’s going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they’re looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that’s something

Marco: No, no, we don’t we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that’s what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we’ve got to start cracking the whip hop. I’m kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one’s up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I’m not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I’m going to read through it anyway, I’m going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I’d like to have your advice before buying anything you’re done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I’m kind of lost on the question. I just don’t know exactly what it is that you’re asking I maybe because I don’t understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you’re selling subscriptions, I don’t understand really exactly what it is that you’re selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don’t have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it’s the same brand, and I’m assuming, you know, I don’t know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you’re trying to brand each one, then you’d want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it’s all separate, then you’d want separate syndication networks if it’s one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I’ve always mentioned in the past, like let’s put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let’s let’s try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that’ll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one’s branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you’re going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that’s one way that I would do it. Because it’s easier to manage it’s one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you’re not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it’s five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you’d want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you’re using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it’s going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it’s usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it’s syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That’s key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there’s a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it’s a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that’s a good way to get traction. And it’s just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we’ve been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he’s doing. Follow that. We don’t do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he’s targeting French audience. You’d have to do your own syndication network, you’d have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don’t know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you’re right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we’re not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it’s still like way, way, way easier. It’s not as easy, it’s what it was before, it’s not as easy. It’s like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it’s, it’s great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what’s up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You’re welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don’t know if there, I don’t think there is a rule of thumb, but what you’ll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we’re talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there’s a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it’s crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that’s because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they’ve been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That’s what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it’s something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that’s one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We’ve talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I’m seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I’m not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there’s a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I’m just saying there’s, you know, there, I don’t know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn’t have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you’ll start to see those rank higher. So I know that’s probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I’m Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I’ve got clients where you’ll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they’re still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they’ve been around for a lot longer. They’ve got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you’re gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I’ll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they’re listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it’s about 23 square miles, right. And we I’ve had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let’s say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they’ve got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it’s really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what’s taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it’s the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don’t have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we’ve seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you’re going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it’s so hard to answer these questions. Because we’re not sitting there. Looking at a computer that’s hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we’ve seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I’m revealing too much, but I don’t think I am because we’re just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we’ve got time because I don’t see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There’s it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we’ve talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that’s very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let’s say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we’ve talked about a number of ways to do that. We’ve talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don’t recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they’re very difficult like they just don’t get counted any more. It’s not that I think they’re going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don’t think that they get, they don’t get counted any more. We’ve talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don’t have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they’re clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you’re selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you’re building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you’re typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it’s a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you’re not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don’t have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it’s going to register as a conversion won’t show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it’s that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It’s that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren’t doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you’ll see a difference in results.

Let’s say you got to lead gen properties. And you’re getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you’re not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you’ll see that if you’re getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you’ll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don’t have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it’s because again, Google’s tracking that and it’s a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they’re getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they’re interacting with your brand, they’re getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it’s very, very important even if you’re not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that’s how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you’ll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that’s another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I’d like to add and getting back to the GMB that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you’re doing is you’re switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we’re talking about the map pack, it’s actually the entity, it becomes all about what’s going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it’s generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that’s what Google is actually looking for that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we’ve done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what’s taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that’s going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That’s what you know, you’re the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I’m not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I’m going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort’s account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It’s a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That’s a tough question. Because I don’t really understand what it is that you’re asking. I didn’t understand what you’re trying to promote three different hotels, they’re targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I’m understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that’s what you’re calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don’t know how you could do that on with keyword can’t like how you wouldn’t keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it’s there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that’s you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I’m not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you’re always going to be competing with each other. If it’s all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you’re talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There’s no way to avoid what you’re calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I’m going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don’t know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn’t. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you’re trying to run it on the same domain, and we’ll just call it cannibalization, I don’t call it that. That’s what everybody else calls it. And that’s fine. But yeah, I don’t see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that’s different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You’re in can you’re in Cancun, and you’re by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they’re probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don’t see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it’s Google’s, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don’t, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it’s one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there’s be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that’s probably what you know, a big part of what you’re experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that’s what we do. And that’s why it’s called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it’s the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We’re almost out of questions, guys. So we’re going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that’s beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We’ve got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we’ll get through these two, and we’ll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I’m not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don’t teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don’t have if you don’t, if you don’t have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that’s unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it’s a lot, it’s a lot of work to build those things out. So you’re better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that’s something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it’s no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that’s again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that’s a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it’s going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it’s going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it’s going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn’t, it was, you know, and again, it’s they’re not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it’s better, it’s more accurate, it’s more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it’s actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven’t changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven’t changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn’t mean that RYS Academy stops working. It’s simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it’s all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What’s there, because that’s what Bradley did. And it’s still ranking To this day, guys. We’re in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it’s still there? You haven’t done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I’m saying good. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn’t work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what’s coming. Because when Marco it’s funny, because when Marco says that he’s gonna put the SEO one on his head. He’s not fucking around. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I’m going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it’s the first time I’ve had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I’m asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that’s what it called, it’s called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it’s already, especially if they’ve been in place for any period of time. And they’ve accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it’s a includes a link or not, it doesn’t matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that’s published on if they’re indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it’s going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don’t recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it’s a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I’ve used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I’ve tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you’ve got a lot of them out there. It’s expensive, it’s 500 bucks per location. But it’s a really good service. And if you’ve got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that’s going to it’s a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they’re about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that’s what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you’ve got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There’s just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don’t have a ton of citations, you don’t want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don’t know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I’m still fighting, it’s been about 10 months, maybe a year, I’m still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it’s really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it’s guys, you don’t want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he’s, if he’s working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he’s working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he’s paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it’s powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she’s wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I’m in the syndication to Dotto training. So he’s talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don’t think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I’ve said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don’t recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it’s great to go through the training. And if you if you’re the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you’re not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don’t recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don’t need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you’re a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we’ve got all of our VA is that we’ve trained our arts, the team that we’ve trained through that same training, right, they’ve all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they’ve been building we’ve got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they’re very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that’s what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don’t, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you’re building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don’t already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don’t work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don’t work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we’re getting there. We’re coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we’re going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We’re going to get into that. But let’s see Hernan you’re not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You’re holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I’m working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what’s everybody so it’s really good to be here. I’m excited about POFU Live and now I’m also holding this going right here which is something little something I’ve got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That’s awesome. And in case anyone didn’t know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we’re back to the normal deal. I don’t know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It’s, this is odd. We get used to this. And I’m we’re also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I’m like number two how that happened?

Adam: You’re actually number one. It’s we’re just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we’ll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I’m good.

Bradley: I’m good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It’s showing you so showing the speaker I’m just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It’s coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn’t work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we’re going to be celebrating, we’re going to be giving good stuff away. It’s we’re actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we’re going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It’s going to be fun. And we’re going to show you how it’s still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that’s not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn’t even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside’s don’t work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it’s good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we’re out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That’s not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don’t you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we’re still benefiting from it. So those that you know that’s that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we’ve been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I’d say it’s,

Marco: it’s fear, isn’t it? It’s just people it’s one of the things that I’ll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It’s part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I’m how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It’s literally like, I’m the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don’t believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we’re doing some magic. But yeah, it’s super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don’t want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What’s going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we’re talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I’m a few hours off from these guys. And I’m like, some kind of pain or I’m, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we’re getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I’m asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you’re just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell’s going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can’t join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what’s the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you’re ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it’s their own agency, whether it’s their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you’re outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It’s where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven’t yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it’s going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we’ve got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can’t think of any.

Adam: All right, let’s do it. And I don’t even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I’ll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what’s up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don’t Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we’re going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what’s up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don’t have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you’re already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that’s not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don’t have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I’ve got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I’ve noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr’s is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it’s WordPress, sometimes it’s Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn’t typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that’s not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you’re using press releases, you could also use the press, if you’ve got your own subscription, the press advantage, that’s an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don’t have the RSS feed, but you’ve been you because you don’t have your own account in but you’ve been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That’s perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I’ve been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That’s a really, really good question. I can’t really answer that one. Marco, maybe you’re the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won’t know it won’t, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there’s a method to the madness, I wouldn’t just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we’ve done it, people simply just since they haven’t ordered already, they don’t give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you’d be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don’t get the information. So I wouldn’t want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It’s set up the way it’s set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you’ve set up along the way. That’s when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That’s when you don’t get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you’re not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we’ve talked about this in the past on you don’t have to answer this now Marco, but I’m just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that’s not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that’s going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they’re looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that’s something

Marco: No, no, we don’t we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that’s what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we’ve got to start cracking the whip hop. I’m kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one’s up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I’m not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I’m going to read through it anyway, I’m going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I’d like to have your advice before buying anything you’re done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I’m kind of lost on the question. I just don’t know exactly what it is that you’re asking I maybe because I don’t understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you’re selling subscriptions, I don’t understand really exactly what it is that you’re selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don’t have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it’s the same brand, and I’m assuming, you know, I don’t know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you’re trying to brand each one, then you’d want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it’s all separate, then you’d want separate syndication networks if it’s one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I’ve always mentioned in the past, like let’s put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let’s let’s try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that’ll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one’s branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you’re going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that’s one way that I would do it. Because it’s easier to manage it’s one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you’re not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it’s five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you’d want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you’re using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it’s going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it’s usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it’s syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That’s key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there’s a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it’s a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that’s a good way to get traction. And it’s just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we’ve been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he’s doing. Follow that. We don’t do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he’s targeting French audience. You’d have to do your own syndication network, you’d have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don’t know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you’re right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we’re not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it’s still like way, way, way easier. It’s not as easy, it’s what it was before, it’s not as easy. It’s like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it’s, it’s great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what’s up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You’re welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there’s a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don’t know if there, I don’t think there is a rule of thumb, but what you’ll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we’re talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there’s a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it’s crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that’s because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they’ve been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That’s what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it’s something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that’s one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We’ve talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I’m seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I’m not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there’s a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I’m just saying there’s, you know, there, I don’t know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn’t have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you’ll start to see those rank higher. So I know that’s probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I’m Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I’ve got clients where you’ll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they’re still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they’ve been around for a lot longer. They’ve got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you’re gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I’ll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they’re listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it’s about 23 square miles, right. And we I’ve had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let’s say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they’ve got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it’s really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what’s taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it’s the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don’t have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we’ve seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you’re going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it’s so hard to answer these questions. Because we’re not sitting there. Looking at a computer that’s hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we’ve seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I’m revealing too much, but I don’t think I am because we’re just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we’ve got time because I don’t see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There’s it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we’ve talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that’s very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let’s say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we’ve talked about a number of ways to do that. We’ve talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don’t recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they’re very difficult like they just don’t get counted any more. It’s not that I think they’re going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don’t think that they get, they don’t get counted any more. We’ve talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don’t have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they’re clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you’re selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you’re building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you’re typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it’s a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you’re not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don’t have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it’s going to register as a conversion won’t show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it’s that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It’s that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren’t doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you’ll see a difference in results.

Let’s say you got to lead gen properties. And you’re getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you’re not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you’ll see that if you’re getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you’ll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don’t have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it’s because again, Google’s tracking that and it’s a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they’re getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they’re interacting with your brand, they’re getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it’s very, very important even if you’re not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that’s how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you’ll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that’s another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I’d like to add and getting back to the GMB that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you’re doing is you’re switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we’re talking about the map pack, it’s actually the entity, it becomes all about what’s going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it’s generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that’s what Google is actually looking for that it’s how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we’ve done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what’s taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that’s going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That’s what you know, you’re the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I’m not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I’m going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort’s account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It’s a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That’s a tough question. Because I don’t really understand what it is that you’re asking. I didn’t understand what you’re trying to promote three different hotels, they’re targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I’m understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that’s what you’re calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don’t know how you could do that on with keyword can’t like how you wouldn’t keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it’s there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that’s you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I’m not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you’re always going to be competing with each other. If it’s all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you’re talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There’s no way to avoid what you’re calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I’m going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don’t know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn’t. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you’re trying to run it on the same domain, and we’ll just call it cannibalization, I don’t call it that. That’s what everybody else calls it. And that’s fine. But yeah, I don’t see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that’s different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You’re in can you’re in Cancun, and you’re by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they’re probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don’t see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it’s Google’s, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don’t, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it’s one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there’s be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that’s probably what you know, a big part of what you’re experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that’s what we do. And that’s why it’s called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it’s the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We’re almost out of questions, guys. So we’re going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that’s beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We’ve got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we’ll get through these two, and we’ll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I’m not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don’t teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don’t have if you don’t, if you don’t have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that’s unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it’s a lot, it’s a lot of work to build those things out. So you’re better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that’s something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it’s no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that’s again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that’s a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it’s going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it’s going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it’s going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn’t, it was, you know, and again, it’s they’re not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it’s better, it’s more accurate, it’s more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it’s actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven’t changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven’t changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn’t mean that RYS Academy stops working. It’s simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it’s all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What’s there, because that’s what Bradley did. And it’s still ranking To this day, guys. We’re in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it’s still there? You haven’t done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I’m saying good. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn’t work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what’s coming. Because when Marco it’s funny, because when Marco says that he’s gonna put the SEO one on his head. He’s not fucking around. Yeah. That’s pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I’m going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it’s the first time I’ve had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I’m asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that’s what it called, it’s called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it’s already, especially if they’ve been in place for any period of time. And they’ve accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it’s a includes a link or not, it doesn’t matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that’s published on if they’re indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it’s going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don’t recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it’s a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I’ve used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I’ve tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you’ve got a lot of them out there. It’s expensive, it’s 500 bucks per location. But it’s a really good service. And if you’ve got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that’s going to it’s a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they’re about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that’s what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you’ve got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There’s just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don’t have a ton of citations, you don’t want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don’t know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I’m still fighting, it’s been about 10 months, maybe a year, I’m still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it’s really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it’s guys, you don’t want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he’s, if he’s working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he’s working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he’s paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it’s powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she’s wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I’m in the syndication to Dotto training. So he’s talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don’t think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I’ve said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don’t recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it’s great to go through the training. And if you if you’re the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you’re not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don’t recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don’t need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you’re a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we’ve got all of our VA is that we’ve trained our arts, the team that we’ve trained through that same training, right, they’ve all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they’ve been building we’ve got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they’re very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that’s what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don’t, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you’re building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don’t already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don’t work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don’t work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

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Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we're getting there. We're coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we're going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We're going to get into that. But let's see Hernan you're not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You're holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I'm working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what's everybody so it's really good to be here. I'm excited about POFU Live and now I'm also holding this going right here which is something little something I've got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That's awesome. And in case anyone didn't know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I'm good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we're back to the normal deal. I don't know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It's, this is odd. We get used to this. And I'm we're also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I'm like number two how that happened?

Adam: You're actually number one. It's we're just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we'll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I'm good.

Bradley: I'm good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It's showing you so showing the speaker I'm just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It's coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn't work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we're going to be celebrating, we're going to be giving good stuff away. It's we're actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we're going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It's going to be fun. And we're going to show you how it's still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that's not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn't even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside's don't work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it's good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we're out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That's not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don't you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we're still benefiting from it. So those that you know that's that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we've been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I'd say it's,

Marco: it's fear, isn't it? It's just people it's one of the things that I'll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It's part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I'm how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It's literally like, I'm the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don't believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we're doing some magic. But yeah, it's super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don't want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What's going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we're talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I'm a few hours off from these guys. And I'm like, some kind of pain or I'm, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we're getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I'm asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you're just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell's going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can't join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what's the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you're ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it's their own agency, whether it's their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you're outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It's where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven't yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven't picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it's going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we've got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can't think of any.

Adam: All right, let's do it. And I don't even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I'll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what's up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don't Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we're going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what's up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don't have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you're already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that's not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don't have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I've got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I've noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr's is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it's WordPress, sometimes it's Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn't typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that's not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you're using press releases, you could also use the press, if you've got your own subscription, the press advantage, that's an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don't have the RSS feed, but you've been you because you don't have your own account in but you've been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That's perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I've been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That's a really, really good question. I can't really answer that one. Marco, maybe you're the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won't know it won't, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there's a method to the madness, I wouldn't just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we've done it, people simply just since they haven't ordered already, they don't give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you'd be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don't get the information. So I wouldn't want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It's set up the way it's set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you've set up along the way. That's when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That's when you don't get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you're not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we've talked about this in the past on you don't have to answer this now Marco, but I'm just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that's not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that's going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they're looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that's something

Marco: No, no, we don't we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that's what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we've got to start cracking the whip hop. I'm kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one's up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I'm not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I'm going to read through it anyway, I'm going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I'd like to have your advice before buying anything you're done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I'm kind of lost on the question. I just don't know exactly what it is that you're asking I maybe because I don't understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you're selling subscriptions, I don't understand really exactly what it is that you're selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don't have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it's the same brand, and I'm assuming, you know, I don't know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you're trying to brand each one, then you'd want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it's all separate, then you'd want separate syndication networks if it's one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I've always mentioned in the past, like let's put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let's let's try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that'll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one's branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you're going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that's one way that I would do it. Because it's easier to manage it's one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you're not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it's five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you'd want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you're using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it's going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it's usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it's syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That's key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there's a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it's a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that's a good way to get traction. And it's just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we've been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he's doing. Follow that. We don't do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he's targeting French audience. You'd have to do your own syndication network, you'd have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don't know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you're right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we're not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it's still like way, way, way easier. It's not as easy, it's what it was before, it's not as easy. It's like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it's, it's great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what's up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You're welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there's a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don't know if there, I don't think there is a rule of thumb, but what you'll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we're talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there's a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it's crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that's because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they've been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That's what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it's something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that's one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We've talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I'm seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I'm not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there's a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I'm just saying there's, you know, there, I don't know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn't have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you'll start to see those rank higher. So I know that's probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I'm Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I've got clients where you'll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they're still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they've been around for a lot longer. They've got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you're gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I'll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they're listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it's about 23 square miles, right. And we I've had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let's say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they've got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it's really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what's taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it's the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don't have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we've seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you're going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it's so hard to answer these questions. Because we're not sitting there. Looking at a computer that's hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we've seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I'm revealing too much, but I don't think I am because we're just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we've got time because I don't see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There's it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we've talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that's very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let's say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we've talked about a number of ways to do that. We've talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don't recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they're very difficult like they just don't get counted any more. It's not that I think they're going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don't think that they get, they don't get counted any more. We've talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don't have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they're clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you're selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you're building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you're typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it's a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you're not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don't have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it's going to register as a conversion won't show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it's that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It's that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren't doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you'll see a difference in results.

Let's say you got to lead gen properties. And you're getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you're not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you'll see that if you're getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you'll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don't have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it's because again, Google's tracking that and it's a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they're getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they're interacting with your brand, they're getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it's very, very important even if you're not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that's how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you'll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that's another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I'd like to add and getting back to the GMB that it's how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you're doing is you're switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we're talking about the map pack, it's actually the entity, it becomes all about what's going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it's generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that's what Google is actually looking for that it's how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we've done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what's taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that's going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That's what you know, you're the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I'm not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I'm going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort's account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It's a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That's a tough question. Because I don't really understand what it is that you're asking. I didn't understand what you're trying to promote three different hotels, they're targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I'm understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that's what you're calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don't know how you could do that on with keyword can't like how you wouldn't keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it's there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that's you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I'm not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you're always going to be competing with each other. If it's all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you're talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There's no way to avoid what you're calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I'm going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don't know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn't. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you're trying to run it on the same domain, and we'll just call it cannibalization, I don't call it that. That's what everybody else calls it. And that's fine. But yeah, I don't see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that's different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You're in can you're in Cancun, and you're by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they're probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don't see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it's Google's, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don't, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it's one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there's be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that's probably what you know, a big part of what you're experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that's what we do. And that's why it's called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it's the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We're almost out of questions, guys. So we're going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that's beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We've got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we'll get through these two, and we'll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I'm not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don't teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don't have if you don't, if you don't have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that's unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it's a lot, it's a lot of work to build those things out. So you're better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that's something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it's no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that's again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that's a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it's going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it's going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it's going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn't, it was, you know, and again, it's they're not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it's better, it's more accurate, it's more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it's actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven't changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven't changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn't mean that RYS Academy stops working. It's simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it's all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What's there, because that's what Bradley did. And it's still ranking To this day, guys. We're in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it's still there? You haven't done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I'm saying good. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn't work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what's coming. Because when Marco it's funny, because when Marco says that he's gonna put the SEO one on his head. He's not fucking around. Yeah. That's pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I'm going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it's the first time I've had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I'm asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that's what it called, it's called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it's already, especially if they've been in place for any period of time. And they've accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it's a includes a link or not, it doesn't matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that's published on if they're indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it's going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don't recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it's a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I've used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I've tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you've got a lot of them out there. It's expensive, it's 500 bucks per location. But it's a really good service. And if you've got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that's going to it's a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they're about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that's what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you've got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There's just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don't have a ton of citations, you don't want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don't know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I'm still fighting, it's been about 10 months, maybe a year, I'm still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it's really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it's guys, you don't want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he's, if he's working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he's working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he's paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it's powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she's wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I'm in the syndication to Dotto training. So he's talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don't think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I've said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don't recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it's great to go through the training. And if you if you're the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you're not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don't recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don't need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you're a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we've got all of our VA is that we've trained our arts, the team that we've trained through that same training, right, they've all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they've been building we've got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they're very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that's what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don't, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you're building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don't already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don't work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don't work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

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  Announcement

Adam: Alright, Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is Episode 200. And I forgot to look at page 49 to 49. Holy moly. Alright, well, we're getting there. We're coming up on an anniversary here pretty quick. But first of all, just want to take a minute we're going to stop say hello to everybody. And then we got some good stuff coming up for you guys. We're going to get into that. But let's see Hernan you're not wearing your Semantic Mastery shirt. You really threw me off today?

Hernan: No, but I am learning to sticker wearing it.

Bradley: You're holding it.

Hernan: I can put it on like now. Okay, so now I'm working.

Adam: There we go. Alright,

Hernan: so what's everybody so it's really good to be here. I'm excited about POFU Live and now I'm also holding this going right here which is something little something I've got for attendees. So lots of good stuff, not only a lot of good information, but also a lot of a good actionable stuff people are still raving about POFU Live 2018, so POFU Live 2019 is going to be even better. So excited to be here.

Adam: That's awesome. And in case anyone didn't know the coin that Hernan was holding up his coin that was only given to attendees at POFU Live 2018. Word on the street is that there will be a new unique one for 2019 attendees. So come join us. Bradley, how you doing?

Bradley: I'm good. Happy to be here.

Adam: So is it locked on me? Or are we back to?

Bradley: I think we're back to the normal deal. I don't know. How can you guys can anybody confirm?

Adam: Yeah, go ahead and start talking all I mean, is it showing me now or what?

Bradley: It's, this is odd. We get used to this. And I'm we're also out of order and how you greet everybody because now I'm like number two how that happened?

Adam: You're actually number one. It's we're just gonna go with it. You know what? So yeah, we'll just keep rolling. But Bradley, how are you doing today? I'm good.

Bradley: I'm good. Happy to be here, man.

Hernan: It's showing you so showing the speaker I'm just confirming so good. Thanks,

Adam: Marco. How are you doing?

Marco: Speaking of anniversaries, dude. Two weeks from today was the day that SEO was turned on its head. August 29, 2014. It's coming up four year anniversary of something that doesn't work. Imagine that. Imagine that four years of it not working. Here we are. And we're going to be celebrating, we're going to be giving good stuff away. It's we're actually going to celebrate it two weeks from today, right? Just so people know to tune in one hour early in two weeks, and we're going to give them goodwill give good stuff away in prizes or whatever coupons, just whatever. It's going to be fun. And we're going to show you how it's still not working in 2019

Adam: so Marco What is it that's not working?

Marco: Oh, why is a cabbie didn't even know that Dr. Stephen Teesside's don't work? has nobody told you have you not been paying attention?

Adam: Yeah, it's good. You know, everywhere we go, we everywhere we go. It sounds like we're out there traveling around or something. But yeah, you know, come across that all over the place. That's not going to work. You got to do this other stuff.

Bradley: Or, or for four years ago, when when we launched it. And then we did the relaunch I think two years later, everyone kept saying well, don't you think Google is going to shut close that loophole at some point? Well, four years later, we're still benefiting from it. So those that you know that's that you know, kind of like scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset type thing you know what I mean? Like what if what if we can always what if yourself out of doing anything is my point so we've been taking advantage of it while it works, which is four years strong now. So I'd say it's,

Marco: it's fear, isn't it? It's just people it's one of the things that I'll be talking about POFU Live by the way. It's part of my message is fear man, people are just so scared of every Imagine if that person who was so scared because that came up in 2014. During the release, somebody mentioned that imagine that that person that taken action and four years later had continuously excuse me taking action. I'm how many people are outranking their competition with drive stacks, Gsites, on embeds link building. And how we do in Semantic Mastery, man, just imagine.

Adam: All right, sir, definitely. So last but not least, sorry to cut you off, Bradley. But Chris, how you doing, man? We got you on video. This is the real deal.

Chris: Yeah, family doing good. I think of Marco said like, actually hit another point. Like, every time that I actually apply drive stacks and stuff. It's literally like, I'm the internet, which is just too good to be true. You know, like, people don't believe it, until they see it. And then they always think like, we're doing some magic. But yeah, it's super simple. You just could apply it stick to the plan and execute.

Adam: You know, you bring up something good, Chris. I don't want me to put you too much on the spot. But if you can find that you remember that Facebook thread you had where you went through how you did that at the affiliate kind of short promo, and the results you got on Facebook, you want to post that on the page. And people can go check that out. Because I think this is a really good example where people are like, Does it still work? What's going on? Yes, Chris did this. He did these three things. And like, this is what happened is pretty awesome.

Chris: Yep. Sure, let me find it.

Adam: Good deal. And while we're talking about Chris, real quick before we get into some short announcements and answer questions, you know, sometimes I'm a few hours off from these guys. And I'm like, some kind of pain or I'm, you know, got this or that going on. Chris, what time is it for you right now?

Chris: 10pm

Adam: 10 pm we're getting started. And Chris is up at 10 pm on his time doing this. So I just want to say thank you for showing up and doing this because man that that. That takes a lot. I'm asleep at 10 pm. So get on it. Real quick. You guys. Before we get into the questions, I wanted to go over some quick announcements. If you're just watching us and wondering, you know, for watching for the first time and wondering what the hell's going on here. We are going to start answering your SEO digital marketing questions. But you are in the right place. This is the place to be every Wednesday, go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. You can ask them live we, you know we, of course, want you to join us live ask questions. So you can interact, you can clarify. You can talk to the other people who are viewing but we understand too. If you can't join us live, whether you got a client call something came up, you can always ask your question ahead of time and then go check it out on YouTube. The next step after that is definitely to pick up the battle plan. All right, go to https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com is where people say hey, what's the first thing I should do? Is there a course I should take? Is there something I should learn? Just go get the battle plan. It takes care of all of that. And when you're ready to take things up several levels, you want to join a real community of people who are trying to grow, whether it's their own agency, whether it's their own business, come join the mastermind, right and you can find out more about that at https://www.mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And last, but certainly not least, if you know that doing things, or rather getting things done for you is the way to do it. Whether you're outsourcing whether you are leveraging us via MGYB getting done for you services is such a great way to do this because you could turn around and resell to clients or provide the service and then add to that. So MGYB.co go check it out. It's where you can get syndication networks, press releases link building drives tax done for you all of that stuff. All right, and we really do practice what we preach guys, we mean it. These came about from you know us using this ourselves and then turning around saying well, we got the process other people are asking for it, why not? So go check that out if you haven't yet and then subscribe to our YouTube channel help us stay up to date as well as these videos and other stuff we post from time to time. So other than that, Hernan touched on it real quick on perfectly live, we talked about that. But if you haven't picked up your ticket yet, you can go to Whole Foods live.com it's going to be in Denver, can be October 11, 12th, and 13th 11th is the VIP day, we've got a fun time, where everyone can get together a little bit more relaxed, get to know each other and have a good time and then dive into the heavy stuff on the 12th and 13th. If you want to join us to find out more you can go there, grab your ticket. If you have questions about it. Just email us at support@semanticmastery.com Alright guys, do we have any other announcements before we get into it?

Bradley: I can't think of any.

Adam: All right, let's do it. And I don't even have to say cameraman anymore. So this is awesome.

Bradley: No, but gotta try to share the screen for how to do this again. There we go. I'll get used to it eventually.

Hernan: All right. So Bradley,

Bradley: what's up?

Hernan: We do can see your screen.

How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don't Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

Okay, good. Alright, so we're going to start with Ivan. It looks like so what's up to five and he says, hey guys, I created a branded tier one syndication network for a friend who has a local business beauty niche and I want to start publishing to it, but I don't have access to the main site yet to create an RSS feed. What would be the most effective way to start the process blogger, WordPress, the free versions? I was thinking of using the RSS feed from the GMB briefcase. Yeah, you could do that as well. I mean, if you're already posting to the GMB stuff, you know, as GMB through the auto poster than that, I mean, that's not a bad idea. You could try to do it that way. But yeah, if you don't have access to his self hosted site yet to where you can start blogging directly on there, then you could use the branded blogger or WordPress or Tumblr site, even Tumblr seems to be really strong right now I've got a couple. Well, for example, the new business that I recently started in the last few months that if you do a brand new search, the syndication network, the Tumblr property from the same syndication network comes up on the first page for that. And I've noticed that on a couple of other recent client examples of mine were so Tumblr's is strong right now. And that kind of stuff varies. Sometimes it's WordPress, sometimes it's Tumblr, for oddly enough, blogger doesn't typically rank all that well unless you purposely do a lot of stuff to get it to rank like link building and stuff. But so yeah, I would, I would recommend using, you know, blogger, WordPress, or Tumblr, as you know, from the branded syndication network as the trigger point until you get access to it, that's not a bad idea to do that. So also, if you're using press releases, you could also use the press, if you've got your own subscription, the press advantage, that's an RSS feed there that works really well the syndication, the syndicated press releases look beautiful, they come out looking really nice across the blog properties within the syndication network. If you don't have the RSS feed, but you've been you because you don't have your own account in but you've been using MGYB services for press releases just right to support we can get you the RSS feed for that particular organization. So that each time you publish a press release, it will also update the syndication network. Do you guys want to add to that?

Marco: No, not me. That's perfect.

Okay, cool.

Will Ordering The Entire Battle Plan Makes Order Processing Faster In MGYB?

Okay, Ernest is up. He says, Hey, guys, I've been following the battle plan as directed on average is taking about two weeks to get orders back from the MGYB. Store. If I placed an order for the entire battle plan at once in the future, will this help speed things up? That's a really, really good question. I can't really answer that one. Marco, maybe you're the best suited for that one.

Marco: And no, it won't know it won't, because it has to be done in a certain order, he has some places or his orders. Preferably, you would need to have your syndication Academy or your tier one branded in place, so that you can submit it, when you order your drive stack plus Gsite. And then that should be in place. So that you can go ahead and order the embed, and or the press releases, right you need your NAP. And anything that you want to link to in the drive stack and the tier 1 branded, whichever the destination you do to one of the destinations that you choosing in the press release. And then, of course, the embeds that you would do. And then, of course, the link building. So everything is there's a method to the madness, I wouldn't just skip it, or order it all at once. I mean, you could, but then we require for you to submit the information within 30 days because other times that we've done it, people simply just since they haven't ordered already, they don't give us the information and we need to get the process moving along. But that still would not speed it up because it takes time to build it. Syndication network takes time to build drive stack plus gsite. And I guess everything else could be built it and held. But then you'd be running against the against these time limits that we set inside the inside MGYB. What we do return the money if we don't get the information. So I wouldn't want to want you doing that I would want you to follow the battle plan. It's set up the way it's set up for a reason. This way, you get the full effect on everything that you when you order that those embeds and that link building to everything else that you've set up along the way. That's when the true power comes through when you start skipping or doing things other ways. That's when you don't get the full effect. So I would say no, no, you're not helping yourself any

Bradley: I would suggest well, or just make a request may be that we can chat about during our corporate meeting, perhaps about maybe and I know we've talked about this in the past on you don't have to answer this now Marco, but I'm just planting the seed but creating packages where you could just buy everything, you know, at once, and it would be done in succession. Like you know what I mean that that order, like you, would submit your details. But that's not a bad idea. I know recently, like, for example, with the link building or embed packages there, or excuse me, the embed services. There are like package levels in there now which are, which are great, I think that's going to help people make better decisions as to what they need to purchase in order to get the results that they're looking for. So maybe we can do something like that on, you know, in the coming weeks or months for actual like all of the different components together as put them into sort of a package level that somebody could purchase. And then submit all their details upfront and we would build them in succession and that would resolve the potential 30-day issue thing with the word order details if that makes sense. So anyway, just planting the seed for that's something

Marco: No, no, we don't we do have all of these packages in mind, right where you can do one of or just everything all at once. It but it all has to be built into the store. And that's what makes the most amount of time.

Bradley: Well, I guess we've got to start cracking the whip hop. I'm kidding. I know. I know the guys have got their hands full and getting everything in there that we want.

How Do You Rank A Choir Website Selling Local Subscription In 5 Different Cities In France?

So Alright, the next one's up. This is an interesting one. I started reading it and I'm not quite sure I understand exactly what the question is. But I'm going to read through it anyway, I'm going to take a stab at it and see what I can come up with. Hi Semantic Mastery team, I'd like to have your advice before buying anything you're done for your store, which is MGYB.co. I have a French website which shows my choirs network in France, means I have six choirs in five different cities in France. Of course, as every choir, we rehearse together person each week, I want to know what is your advice for me to rank best with your services as a French website selling a local subscription to choirs in different cities? Thanks in advance for your help. Uh, I'm kind of lost on the question. I just don't know exactly what it is that you're asking I maybe because I don't understand the whole choir thing and everything else, or what your business model is, you say you're selling subscriptions, I don't understand really exactly what it is that you're selling. So my answer to you would be as far as the syndication networks, is if you have a different network for each different city, which you can do, you don't have to do that though, you can use a syndication network for one brand. So if it's the same brand, and I'm assuming, you know, I don't know, it could be you have different choirs in each different city that are like different names or something like that, and you're trying to brand each one, then you'd want separate syndication networks, or it could be one, you know, name brand for a particular choir name for the choir, that you want to use, and you want to promote it in six different, you know, five or six different cities looks like five different cities. In either case, you could use, well, if it's all separate, then you'd want separate syndication networks if it's one choir that you want to promote in five different cities, and you could really just use one network. Now what I've always mentioned in the past, like let's put this on a more local type, like the business type.

Let's let's try to describe it that way. Because that maybe that'll make more sense. At least it does to me if I had a brand that had five different locations, right, so a company that a business that had five different locations, what I would try to do is promote that one business through one's branded syndication network, in all five cities. And there are ways to do that, for example, if you have a website that you're going to be blogging content to are using as your content distribution engine to your network, or could be a YouTube channel for that matter. You could create silos within either the website or within the YouTube channel, using playlist is how you would create silos and YouTube channel. And they would be optimized for each location. So that each time you publish a new piece of content, you would put it in the correct location silo. And it would be it would go out across the same network and you build up authority and you theme it over time that way. So that's one way that I would do it. Because it's easier to manage it's one branded network that you maintain, you can do a ton of additional like off-page SEO stuff to it like link building embeds, like we just talked about, add it to a drive stack, then do link building and embed and link building to the drive stack properties, just a ton of things that you can do to that. So I prefer to do as much as I can with one branded network if that makes sense.

However, if you find particular areas that are more competitive, you're not getting the SEO traction that you want to, then you can always add a location modifier to that brand name and create a location-specific network then you could publish directly to for any content going into that particular location or that area to promote that area could go into that location-specific network. Again, I prefer to use one network if possible and get it what you know, push that build the authority up in that one network as much as possible.

Now, if it's five different brand names, five different choirs and totally and each with their own location, in that case, then you'd want to use five separate networks. The idea is to, first of all, publish regularly and consistently, whatever you're using to trigger publication to the network, right. Again, either it's going to be a blog, typically, it can be many, many things, guys, but it's usually either a blog or a YouTube channel, then you want to publish regularly and consistently to that so that it's syndicating across the network. And again, regular and consistent is important. That's key. But second of all, you can power the network up like I do, as mentioned, you can do link building to it, you can have a drive stack built and include those syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack. Then from there, you can do embeds and link building to the embeds and link building directly to the drive stack and all of that. So there's a lot of things that you do press releases, once again, it's a great strategy to get, especially in something like acquire, which is kind of like you know, entertainment, that kind of stuff, I would recommend that you also promote those, when you have concert events or choir events, whatever you call them. You could also do press releases to publish an announcement announcing the event, the upcoming event. And that's a good way to get traction. And it's just an excuse to publish additional press releases as well. So you fit all those components together with the same stuff that we've been teaching now for, you know, a long time. You stack all those things together, and it should work really, really well. Now, who wants to comment on that? And

Marco: Yeah, I would, I would tell him that the battle plan is perfect for what he's doing. Follow that. We don't do French in MGYB. I see that his website is in French and he's targeting French audience. You'd have to do your own syndication network, you'd have to do well, you could send the description, I guess, in French, and we could do it that way. I don't know. But we definitely will not do a drive stack and Gsite in French. He would have to do that himself. He would have to learn how to do that.

Bradley: Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I could Yeah, that drive stack, you're right, that would be really difficult. As far as the syndication network, we could build it in English, and then he could just, you know, yeah, publishing in French to it. And that would be fine.

Hernan: Yeah, that was that was what I was about to say is that you can even like, you can get away with subpar where that would have syndication. And we're not completely fully pledged, you know, the full-blown syndication like Semantic Mastery syndication network way. And you can even bill like you could have like your tier one links as a French, you know, properties and then you can be backlinks, from English speaking websites, to those to those websites. And, you know, as you if you follow the battle plan, you will be in a good spot because, you know, it's still like way, way, way easier. It's not as easy, it's what it was before, it's not as easy. It's like way easier to, you know, to keep on you know, ranking and gaining getting power and gaining traction in foreign markets. So it's, it's great, still great.

Bradley: Alright, so hopefully that helps.

What Do You Think Are The Estimated Radius A Search Needs To Be From A Business Before A GMB Listing Drops Out Of The 3-Pack Ranking?

Alright, so the next one is Gordon, what's up, Gordon, he says, Hey, guys, thank you for your help on these days or us customers would be lost. Without your help, excuse me, US customers would be lost. So thank you very much again. You're welcome. As always, Gordon, appreciate you coming and asking questions every week. The distance from the local searcher to the business is one of the main ranking factors that Google and I use this for GMB listings, yeah, we call that proximity. I know that each geolocation is completely the difference. So there is no real rule whatsoever. But what is your best guesses to the ballpark radius, a searcher needs to be from a business before the business is likely to drop out of the three-pack and the GMB listings that show when you click More list, and under the order of their ranking factors, or just randomly, know, there's a lot that can be done to manipulate that. I mean, for example, I don't know if there, I don't think there is a rule of thumb, but what you'll see is, and you can experience this, like if you know of a, if you do a search for a particularly well-known brand, for example. And again, we're talking about service industries, you know, you could pick a well known, you know, kind of a bigger, like, contracting company, like a big plumber. And we you know, I use that always as an example, just plumbers. But like, in Northern Virginia, there's a couple of them that are really big name brands that have been around for decades. And they built really big plumbing contracting businesses like Michael and sons is one of them and other ones like JD flood. So my point is they can have a location and because of its inherent authority, that it's crude, right? Then their maps listing can show up, way beyond the normal proximity, you know, filter, so to speak, or proximity limitations that we typically see for smaller type businesses. And that's because of the authority of the brand, as well as the associated website, the number of citations, the number of co-citations, so places that they've been mentioned on the web, all of that kind of stuff can really help to help push their maps listing into a much wider proximity area, then a smaller business would be that has less authority, right. That's what we teach. And local GMB Pro, though, is how to actually manipulate that kind of stuff. So there, even the little guy can get to there. It takes consistent effort. And, you know, it's something that has to be done consistently over time, in order to get those kinds of results. Typically, the bigger companies, they just have those results because people go do brand searches for them, which by the way, that's one of the biggest ranking factors right now, guys is what we call navigational search queries. We've talked about those in many years, or over the many years now for when we talked about CT spam, or click through spam. I'm seeing it time and time and again right now, specifically that if you can get people to do and I'm not talking about buying spam clicks and spam searches. But if you can get real people to do real searches for a brand name, and then when it comes up when their website comes up, click through to that website or to the maps listing, either one, that is a huge SEO ranking signal that will really kind of catapult you into that a high authority status, so that you can overcome a lot of those proximity issues. You know, you have to figure out ways to kind of social engineer that one way to do it, I know for sure from testing recently is through direct mail. But there's a ton of other ways to do that, too. But I'm just saying there's, you know, there, I don't know, if there is a rule of thumb, I know if the, if the organization or the company, the GMB and the website doesn't have a lot of authority built in the proximity could be very, very narrow. Right? If the more authority that it builds, then the more the broader that proximity area can be and you'll start to see those rank higher. So I know that's probably not a real quick, clear cut answer. I'm Marco, I know will chime in on this one. But um, you know, again, it because proximity, it really is going to depend on authority. But my point is, is I know for sure, because I've got clients where you'll see some of their competitors that will be, you know, three cities over and yet they're still showing in the three-pack. And they say, Well, how can that be? Well, because they've been around for a lot longer. They've got much bigger marketing budgets, you know, we can get there, but you're gonna have to come off some more money. That makes sense, Marco, so you.

Marco: This is a really interesting question. And I'll take the last part first saw they listed in, in the order of their ranking factors are randomly there, they're listed according to the relevance of the location of the person doing the search the proximity to the person doing the search, and how are you able to determine the Manhattan? Right? New York City is really small, it's about 23 square miles, right. And we I've had someone go in a building that has two entrances, right, let's say, on the east side, and on the north side, for example, right around the corner. And they've got two separate sets of data. Even though all the change was about maybe half a block in distance. So it's really the depending upon what Google considers is relevant to that person directly doing the query, considering the proximity of the place that the person is looking for. And how you override that is just how Bradley said, you have to become relevant, relevant, trusted and authoritative in the niche. So that you override a little bit of that proximity factor, which is what's taking place right at that moment? And So, back to the sorry, to the first part of that question. Yet, it's the main ranking factor, the geolocation has a lot to do with it. And again, we do teach, we teach you how to kind of get around that get around the proximity. Now what the radius is, I have no idea I have I have a lot of data that I will have to input into a computer and run some math to see if I can get something out of it. But I just don't have the time to do it.

Bradley: Yeah. And I think the radius would vary depending on how much weight the site hazard the brand, as you know what I mean?

Marco: Because we know that it bleeds, right? We know that it bleeds into surrounding suburbs, we've seen that and so that there is no definitive radius, you can increase that you can decrease if you lose some of that trust and authority that and of course, activity, ART, right? activity, relevance, trust, and authority, then you're going to lose maybe how wide that radius is expanded. We just guys, it's so hard to answer these questions. Because we're not sitting there. Looking at a computer that's hooked up to Google, and seeing what Google is giving us back. All we can tell you is what we have seen from what we tested. So and those are the things that we've seen.

Bradley: And so you know, we talked about this on a couple of recent webinars, Marco, I believe, on Hump Day hangouts as well. So stop me if I'm revealing too much, but I don't think I am because we're just going to talk about this on more of a conceptual level, we've got time because I don't see a lot of other questions coming through anyways. But one of the things, like I just mentioned, is how to manipulate kind of what is called site weight or brand authority, right? There's it was an hour and a patent that Google published, you know, many years ago, I think it was 2010, or 11, or maybe 12. When I first was introduced to it, it was around 2011, I believe, by Ivan Buddhamayor, we were, you know, really had a really big influence on my SEO, local SEO career really. Anyways, we've talked about this in the past with the CT spam, the click-through spam stuff. And that very early on Google had determined that navigational search queries would make an if all if there were two competitive sites, all things being equal. You know, and I know that's very difficult to do. But just theoretically, if there was to compare two competing sites and all and they were very similar in nature, as far as SEO value on-page, backlink profile, all of that kind of stuff. If one of them, one of the brands were so so let's say site, a its particular brand name, if there was a lot of navigational search queries where people would search by that company by name or that website by name, or that name plus contact or name plus phone or name plus location, any variation or number of what they call navigational search queries, then Google would recognize that as a higher authority, and we would it was called the site weight patent. And that was the nickname for it. But it would give that site more weight, right. So it would be weighted heavier, it would be more authoritative. And so Google would push that one about it to the top of the search results or above the other competitor, because of that nature. That that very reason, right. And so we've talked about a number of ways to do that. We've talked about manipulating that through a click through spam in the past, which I don't recommend anymore, because most of those are bots, they're very difficult like they just don't get counted any more. It's not that I think they're going to be negative or detrimental or harm, or, you know, hurt your rankings. But I don't think that they get, they don't get counted any more. We've talked about doing that through Facebook ads, or excuse me through through ads, you can do that through YouTube ads, and even search ads and display ads more recently, because display ads are a heck of a lot cheaper than search ads. But also, if you can get people through other marketing channels to go search for brand names. And then when they find when the brand comes up, and the various tier one assets or branded assets come up, they start to click through, they don't have to just click through to the website of the GMB map, right, because they could click through the Facebook page. And Google still sees that Google knows that they're clicking through from the search results page to a branded asset, and perhaps even clicking through from the branded asset, ultimately to the website or to the Google Map. And Google can track all of that stuff. And all of those are incredibly good engagement signals that add weight, right? They add site weight or brand weight in this case. But one of the things that I know, Marco has mentioned recently and Hernan has followed up with it is or seconded it co-signed it, so to speak, is that if you have conversion goals that are being achieved, on your assets, right, which think about what a conversion goal is a conversion goal on a website could be somebody filling out a contact request form. Or if you're selling a product, it could be purchasing a product or if you're building an email list, it could be completing an opt-in form, right but on a local level, you're typically going to contact request form. If somebody is completing a conversion goal on a GMB asset, it could be clicking the tab to call button or clicking driving directions if it's a storefront business, right, those are all considered conversion goals.

Then you if you have conversion tracking set up through Google ads, specifically on the site, even if you're not running ads, which I recommend that you do, especially display ads, really, even if you don't have the budget for search ads, you could still set up a very inexpensive display campaign and also on a remarketing campaign remarketing even cheaper. Doing remarketing and building a remarketing list and getting clicks from the display at Google Display Network on a remarketing list is cheaper than cold traffic clicks, right. But still set up conversion tracking through the Google Ads platform and all of that because even organic traffic that comes it's going to register as a conversion won't show as a conversion in the ads platform. But it's that firing mechanism through Google Tag Manager and everything. When you have the conversion tracking set up the conversion goals set up inside of ads, for example. And you can do this in analytics as well. It's that trigger that firing mechanism of when somebody converts and goes to, for example, a thank you page or whatever, that again, starts to build and accrue site weight. And that really helps to you know, it will give you an edge over competitors that aren't doing that. So think about if you and you can even experiment what this because I know for a fact that you'll see a difference in results.

Let's say you got to lead gen properties. And you're getting you to know, somewhat similar traffic on both of them if you take one of them and put the conversion tracking on. And even if you're not running ads, which I still again recommend that you run at least remarketing ads, you'll see that if you're getting conversions on both of those, but only one of them has conversion tracking setup and either Google ads and or analytics, you'll see that that one will start to actually outrank or do better perform better and search than the other one will don't have that conversion tracking setup. And why is that and it's because again, Google's tracking that and it's a way to pipe data directly to Google stating that the visitors that are visiting your brand site, your website in this case, are actually completing the conversion goal that you had set, which means they're getting what they were seeking, right, they were finding the information that they were seeking when they went to Google search, to begin with. And when they're interacting with your brand, they're getting satisfied that query satisfied by completing that conversion goal. And so it's very, very important even if you're not running ads. Again, I recommend that you still set up Google Ads conversion tracking where you can do it via analytics. And if nothing else, start building a remarketing list and running very inexpensive remarketing campaign ads, so that Google can see all that plus, that's how you start to increase your art activity, relevancy, trust, and authority, as Marco always calls it, because you'll start getting visitors that will engage with your brand more than once. And then that's another good brand signal or ranking signal, right? repeat visits. So you want to comment on that, guys?

Hernan: I think that you put it beautifully, Bradley.

Bradley: Okay,

Marco: yeah, I'd like to add and getting back to the GMB that it's how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the and the keywords. So that what you're doing is you're switching the map to a knowledge panel, or the entities becoming the keyword for that niche. Because one thing is, is adding site weight and getting all of that action. On the website, when we're talking about the map pack, it's actually the entity, it becomes all about what's going to be delivered to that person doing the query, it's generally on a mobile phone, right? Because most, most of it call it most of these searches, especially feedback, they get delivered on that on that phone or on that mobile device. And that's what Google is actually looking for that it's how you relate the entity to the geolocation and the keywords and niche. And again, we've done so much stuff in Manhattan in New York City, that this is like, I know what's taking place. And Google will tell you if you read all of the different patents and everything that that's going on right now Google will tell you exactly what it is that you need to do. So that you can be a change a three-pack, you can even get the map out of there. And you get a knowledge panel instead. That's what you know, you're the authority as a trusted entity trusted authority in the niche.

Bradley: Very good. So hopefully that was helpful, Gordon.

How To Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Between Pages Of A Resorts Website?

The next question is from Fermo, this one, I'm not quite sure I understand this question either. So I apologize. But I'm going to try it and says Hi, there, I have a resort's account, the problem three hotels share keywords on the same domain. Okay. So there are three separate hotels that are being promoted on the same domain, apparently. two languages English and Spanish. Okay. It's a pain in the ass to rank them by Mark, as the client intends is there is a Is there a way to avoid cannibalization between pages? That's a tough question. Because I don't really understand what it is that you're asking. I didn't understand what you're trying to promote three different hotels, they're targeting the same keyword on the same domain. The only thing I could say if I'm understanding this correctly would be to have you know, very good coded structured data on each one of those pages. That or pages that are associated with each location, or each separate hotel, I should say. So that you can kind of disambiguate between the three, that's what you're calling cannibals, cannibalization between pages. I don't know how you could do that on with keyword can't like how you wouldn't keyword Canada cannibalize? In other words, how because it's there three hotels in the same location competing for the same words on the same or the same keywords or search queries on the same domain. The only thing I could imagine, or suggest doing and Marco will probably have a much better reply to this than I do would be to make sure that everything, the entity for each one of them is very, very clear. And you know, concise, very tight like, and that's you could accomplish that with structured data, as well as you know, some of the other entity assets that would be connected to it. But I'm not really sure how you would do that. To me, I feel like you would almost if you're always going to be competing with each other. If it's all on the same domain to Marco, do you have any idea how to help them here?

Marco: No, because you're talking about the only variation here is the hotel name. Everything else is the same? Maybe the address is different. So maybe the location can vary by address. But you but you compete. There's no way to avoid what you're calling cannibalization, which is Google taking similar pages on your website and deciding which one it should display. Ideally, you want Google to display all three? is Google to this is Google going to display or three years? Or is it finally going to decide this the one that matters? This is the one that I'm going to display? I would almost go like with if you can three. So I don't know how much control you have three subdomains or three separate websites? Yeah. Because the then the three separate websites, you can schema, the three separate websites correctly, that they each will then have their own entity, you could even try to do it on the same website. I wouldn't. But if you could divide it into three websites, where all three of these would then take up real estate in SERPs. But then you run into this. How do you decide like which one you want ranking above the other? Yeah. Whereas Google? How is Google going to take that? As long as you deliver the same power? And whatever you do to one you do to all of the others? I think you can take up a lot of real estates that way on the SERPs. Other than that, if you're trying to run it on the same domain, and we'll just call it cannibalization, I don't call it that. That's what everybody else calls it. And that's fine. But yeah, I don't see how you can avoid it. If the only thing that's different is the name of the hotel, everything else is the same idea. You're in can you're in Cancun, and you're by Solaris, so Solaris common to all of them, that they're probably in close proximity to one another. I, other than putting them in three separate domains, or three, even three sub-domains, which are actually three separate domains. I don't see how you can do it.

Bradley: Yeah, cuz then that would separate the web entities, least the domain entities, right. So So I agree with Marco, you know, again, the only thing that I could do if it was I recommend on the same domain would be to have like, you know, again, each page for each location would have its own, you know, Corp organization or corporation type markup, as well as perhaps local business markup structured data. I mean, and all that. But then again, it's Google's, you know, one of the more recent updates was Google specifically stating that it was going to put fewer results from the same domain for the same type of keyword on the in the search results, right? I don't, I never I stopped keeping up with the names of the updates, guys, but it's one of the more recent Google updates, like within the last few months, and they one of the things that they said that they were going to do is reduce the number of pages from the same domain that could show up for any particular query on page one. Right? So there's be less overall search results from any given one domain. And so that's probably what you know, a big part of what you're experiencing there. So I agree with Marco, how do you beat that you do it separate the domain entity that way, either via subdomain or entirely separate domains? So I agree with that.

Is It Okay To Interlink The Properties In Google Stack?

Austin Don says Is it advisable to interlink the properties in a Google stack? Yes, that's what we do. And that's why it's called the what the spider silo correct?

Marco: Yep, it's the spider web silo.

Bradley: There you go. Absolutely. Alright, moving on. We're almost out of questions, guys. So we're going to answer the next thing that

Hernan: I think I think that we need to give Marco, a prize for the sexiest product naming convention. You know, like a spider web, silo and RYS Academy, and MGYB Oh, that's beautiful. So give him a gold star.

Marco: He got a prize, it gets to be here every week with us.

Do You Have Any Webinars About Building RYS Stacks And Tracking Results For Restaurants?

So Alright, the next question. We've got looks like two questions left, guys. So wrap, post any questions if you have them. Otherwise, we'll get through these two, and we'll wrap it up. I see. The next one says I follow you guys on the Facebook page bought older course but wanted to see best way or linking me to a webinar about building RYS stack for restaurants and tracking results. I'm not sure what you mean about that. I mean, if you the webinars about how to build RYS stacks in the RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, we don't teach you how to do that outside of that course. Now, what you could do is purchase from MGYB, if you don't have if you don't, if you don't have RYS Academy, or RYS Academy reloaded, which is the newer version, then I would say, the next best thing would be to just buy a drive stack from MGYB, and have it done for you. And in fact, that's unless you know, want to learn the components and how to build all of that stuff anyway, then, you know, it's a lot, it's a lot of work to build those things out. So you're better off buying them done for you. And then you can always tinker around with that one. But that's something I would recommend doing is buying an RYS stack from MGYB. As far as tracking results, it's no different than normal SEO type tracking, right. So whatever you use for tracking a tracker, you know, personally, especially for a local business, which a restaurant is a local business, right? I prefer to use Bright Local because it will track the domain as well as the third party mentioned. So pretty much you put in and that's again, bright local, has a Local Rank Tracker, that you can enter in 50 or 100, keywords dependent that you want to track depending on what level subscription you have. And then you can ask it to track third party mentions. So the reports will show you that and also you enter in a location. So you can like to have where you want it to track. So for a restaurant, cuz that's a storefront business, I would recommend just plugging into zip code that the restaurant is in as the location tracker. In other words, it's going to do searches via desktop, mobile, and maps. And it's going to try to simulate doing searches from that zip code location. So it's going to give you more accurate local rank results, then if you didn't, it was, you know, and again, it's they're not going to be entirely accurate because of the way that the algorithm works now, but it's better, it's more accurate, it's more closely resembles what somebody would be seeing if they were searching from a mobile device in that particular zip code. So I would recommend using bright local for tracking, because like I said, you can put it all those keywords, you can set the location that it's actually searching from, you can track, Google, desktop, mobile, and maps as well as Yahoo, and Yahoo, local Bing and being local. So those are like the all of them that you can track. And it will show third party mentions as well. So like if you have for example, you know, Facebook page and Yelp page and you know, all these other different pages, it will show where those are also ranking for each keyword query that you add her as the search terms that you want to monitor. So, Marco, do you have any comments on?

Marco: Yeah, the principles that RYS Academy was founded on in 2014, when you were Virginia CO, they haven't changed in like they never change from 2000, sorry, 2014 to 15, may have to 15, they haven't changed so that when we went after DC plumber, with our is Academy reloaded, all we did is add power. But that that that didn't mean that RYS Academy stops working. It's simply meant that we could push way more power with the new concepts that we applied to always Academy reloaded. So what you did in 2015, is the same basic things that we did in 2017. With with just different techniques, right, we brought in the calendar, we brought in just some different things, adding depth, and breadth to the drive stack, all of these things that that we conceptualize, and we brought in to make them even more effective. But yeah, that what he says, you know, as far you all of course, and the best way to link or, or how to rank a restaurant, it's all the same as the same way a local restaurant gets ranked the same way that a local plumber that any other local type place would get ranked, nothing has changed. And as a matter of fact, whether you doing it locally, or globally, the concepts are the same. You apply the same theory. Enough, nothing has changed. So I mean, just just go through the old training and apply. What's there, because that's what Bradley did. And it's still ranking To this day, guys. We're in 2019. How many updates have we been through? How many things has Google thrown at us? Even in the last two years, and it's still there? You haven't done anything?

Bradley: Not a damn thing, man.

Hernan: Every time I'm saying good. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think it works.

Marco: Yeah, it definitely doesn't work.

Bradley: Alright, so next question.

Hernan: Sorry, sorry. Sorry, Hernan. But get ready for what's coming. Because when Marco it's funny, because when Marco says that he's gonna put the SEO one on his head. He's not fucking around. Yeah. That's pretty cool. So get ready. Bradley: Yeah.

Will Changing One GMB Name Affect Other Listings Of The Same Company?

So the next question is got a follow-up question. So I'm going to read both of them before trying to answer. This is a very elementary question. But quite honestly, it's the first time I've had this situation, I have a large law firm that has seven locations across the US. Some locations have a simple name, law firm, and others have a full legal full name listing all the partnerships, example name, name, name, law firm, if I change to a simplified name law firm, will it screw up the other locations? Basically, I'm asking if changing the name will screw up the NA P. I should note that the simplified name was just created a few days ago, the more complex name has been in place for months, if not years. Yeah, it will. I mean it, it will because that's what it called, it's called invigoration, right, it will ambiguous the data that NAP data, the consistency, and it can and most likely will. And my experience, it always does, it will if you change the names, and it's already, especially if they've been in place for any period of time. And they've accrued citations which are published, you know, name, address and phone number published on the web, whether it's a includes a link or not, it doesn't matter. A citation is a citation is a citation. In other words, just publishing the name and address and phone number and website URL, or any combination of those data points, is called a citation. And those pages that that's published on if they're indexed in Google, then Google will count those as a mention of brand dimension. And so if you try to start messing with the name brand, which in this case, the business name or law firm name, and change them in the GMB is, then it's going to have a significant effect on what Google gives credit to that particular business for. That makes sense. So you know, I don't recommend doing it. Or if you are going to do it, then I recommend that if it's a law firm, you probably got a fairly good budget, then you can do it. And what I would recommend in that case is go to https://www.semanticmastery.com/loganix, if somebody wants to post that in the comments section, they have a really good citation cleanup services, the best one out there, in my opinion, and I've used a bunch of the guys, even a lot of other vendors that a lot of you guys are familiar with. I've tried and nobody does as good a job as Loganix, however, you want to pronounce it at cleaning up citations, especially if you've got a lot of them out there. It's expensive, it's 500 bucks per location. But it's a really good service. And if you've got some out there that have a lot of accrued a lot of citations over the months or years, then that's going to it's a big job. And I would recommend just having them do it. And they're about 70% successful with cleaning up citations. In other words, about 70% of the attempts that they make, get accepted and change. So that's what I would do if I were going to do it. Thank you, Adam. If I were going to change the name, and you've got the budget for it, or you can get the budget for it, then I would absolutely recommend that you ordered the citation cleanup service immediately upon changing the names. And also make sure that your client is aware that they will see some dancing until everything gets cleaned up. There's just no way around it. Okay,

Marco: yeah. And even if they don't have a ton of citations, you don't want to create ambiguity, right? Because I did it I unwittingly in a project that I was working on it, I created an ambiguity. And I don't know in cash and the Google cash cycle of what about 30 days. And to this day, I'm still fighting, it's been about 10 months, maybe a year, I'm still fighting it went, because it starts creeping back up. The ambiguity starts creeping back up, and you have to slap it. And it's really, really difficult to get to convince Rank Brain that you met the other thing, not not the new thing. And you want it to go back to the old thing where you started. And it's guys, you don't want to get into trust me, it takes a lot of effort go. Yeah.

Hernan: Sorry, I just wanted to, I just wanted to interject here for a second. Because I think that if he's, if he's working with a law firm, nothing to do it, you know, what you guys talking about, by the way, but if he's working with a law firm, grab a little bit of the budget that he's paying you and join the mastermind, because if you enjoy what these guys are saying right now, and they will save you a ton of money and time, because you know, we fuck up a lot. And we share all of our stuff of the mastermind. So go ahead and join the mastermind, if you think that what these guys are saying is, you know, it's powerful, and it will save you time and save you money, grab some of the money that these these, this, this client is paying you and join the mastermind and that will be one of the best investment that you have ever made in your, in your, in your business, you know, you will increase the value as a marker exponentially for that client and any other client that you might have. So she's wanting to say that.

Bradley: So Hernan gets the prize now instead of Marco.

Hernan: Also, like kind of come back next week. Next week.

Bradley: That was a good pitch, man. That was a good pitch. Appreciate that.

Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

So Alright, so the last question is Austin dawn, he says I'm in the syndication to Dotto training. So he's talking about Syndication Academy. Wow, tons of great info. I don't think I want to put one together though. I agree. 100%. Listen, I've said this a million times I think Syndication Academy is great. Uh, you know, I don't recommend anybody building syndication networks, though. Like, honestly, I think it's great to go through the training. And if you if you're the type that just has to do everything yourself, which you're not Austin Don, apparently, which is good, then then, you know, go through the training and, and put it to use and build it networks. I mean, I did it for several years. When I first started building them, I literally did all the building myself for the first probably two years and I made a lot of money on selling networks to clients as well as getting results as an overall like SEO monthly, you know, service. So you know, you can do it, but I don't recommend it because it is very time-consuming. And you don't need to do it. If you want to you can hire your own VA and put your own VA through our training. If you're a member and have your own in house VA that works specifically for you building networks or an alternative method would be just to purchase them from MGYB. Because we've got all of our VA is that we've trained our arts, the team that we've trained through that same training, right, they've all been personally trained by me and my training, and they built into our specifications. And they've been building we've got donors that have been with us literally for five years now. So they're very, very good at what they do. So I would recommend that that's what you do. Save your time. Let us do it for you to focus on bigger, broader things for your business allow us to do the grunt work, right. So he says what I ordered the first prior to the RYS deck. Yes, absolutely. Austin dawn, you should have the battle plan. If you don't, you should get it. Because the battle plan specifically lays out the order in which you should put these pieces together. And the syndication network always comes first. And then the drive stack when you order the drive stack. Now you can include the syndication network profile URLs in the drive stack build so that now you're building power into the network through the drive stack if that makes sense. So absolutely. If you don't already have the battle plan, get it and go through that and it will show you how to put these pieces together and the order that we recommend. Okay. Any other comments guys in the last two minutes?

Marco: Yeah, I have a question. If RYS Academy and drive stacks and syndication networks, remember someone called them a link wheel? If they don't work, why are there so many copycat courses and so many people offering them in Fiverr and conquer and all these other marketplaces? What? They must be cheating people out of their money, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Good question, Marco. I wonder why that is.

They don't work done right.

Alright, everybody, thank you for coming and participating today. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, everybody. Bye

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