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#also he called. and cus they were super busy he was like ‘i can provide information aboyt felonies. also i have been shot in the chest’ LOL
marsbotz · 12 days
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i had a dream i had a beautiful loving friendship with gus fring to match the one where i was besties with mike. im so broken take me BACK!!!!!
#i could FIX him#alsooooo jesse was there i think he like. helped save gus at some point idk#i was like god damn best episode EVARRRR. heartbroken#i dont rlly remember the details i kinda slept like shit so im a bit scrambled#but ik we were fucking around w like.. game code? to make a pet shop?#so fucking random#we made a starfish and fucked up dog. there was a pool. a guy tried to kill gus. OH#he got shot and i had to stop him from bleeding out until the ambulance arrived#also he called. and cus they were super busy he was like ‘i can provide information aboyt felonies. also i have been shot in the chest’ LOL#wtf mike got shot in my dream abt him too. why thats so random#there was also a separate dream abt ummm. idk some sort of puzzle thing we had to do as a team…? saul was there. he set a fire as a scheme#but the fire ppl wouldnt come until he said there were ppl inside 😭#idk if i ever talked abt the mike dream here actually.#we were just friends…. besties… and he got SNIPED…….. and i tried to save him but he died#it was so sad the next day i was sad like all morning#feels similar now. miss u gus#^^^ EFFECTS OF ZERO FRIENDS#ummm anyway. more updates#i bought a meta quest like on impulse cus i saw they were cheaper now. the thing fucking sucks but vr is so awesome#ive been mostly playing beat saber cus my room is teeny tiny so i cant rlly safely turn#i started making my own map w a patricia taxxon song. SUPER fun i can see this becoming a new hobby#ive also been fucking around in vrchat a little. that shit is mindblowing#so immersive. its like unbelievable#ive only been playing that solo rn bc im shy and also testinb how well my laptop csn hsndle it LOL….#but its so awesome. i feel like a little kid#i had to get a better headstrap and face pad bc the stock pne is So bad. like i camt wear it for more thsn like 20 mins at a time#so maybe when that comes i will muster up the courage to go into public worlds#best world i have visted so far. udons bird sanctuary. i think irs called#U CAN FEED DUCKSSSSS. WAAAAGHHHH#one day i want to make my own avatar too. im feeling the inspiration
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Texts from The Lost Tomb, part 3
I didn’t mean for this to stray into angst but like the lack of updates with Li Cu in LTR?? I had to do it to em.
Wushanju Crew Chat, 11:05pm
Li Cu: what’s up losers I’m outside
Li Cu: someone come on and open the damn door
Wang Meng: Language:(
Li Cu: fine, someone come on and open the damn door please
Snake Eyes Chat, 7:00am
Wu Xie: hey are you awake? Sorry I missed you coming in:) was finishing up some work. How was the end of your first semester? Did that geology paper go well? Did the food budget work out or do you need some extra money next semester?
Li Cu: yeah about your work
Li Cu: heard a little rumor
Li Cu: about you going through some stuff during ur recent trip
Li Cu: some stuff you maybe forgot to mention
Li Cu: and you told me we gotta check in with stuff, so this is me checking in, okay
Wu Xie: oh? What stuff?
Li Cu: idk just like
Li Cu: THE STUFF WITH YOU ALMOST FUCKING DYING FOR FUCKING MONTHS AND THE WAREHOUSE SHIT AND ERJING AND PEOPLE HURT YOU AND WHAT THE FUCK IS A THUNDER CITY AND NOONE FUCKING CALLED ME ABT THOSE PARTS ONCE
Wu Xie: oh. That stuff.
Li Cu: yeah asshat I’m in the kitchen whenever you’re ready to explain your fucking bullshit. Also you’re out of milk wtf how am I supposed to make breakfast here
Main Chat, 11:14am
Wu Xie: okay so it’s possible I fucked up a little bit.
Wang Pangzi: THERES JUST SO MUCH YOU COULD BE REFERRING TO I DONT KNOW WHERE TO START
Zhang Qiling: What’s wrong?
Honorary Wu Chat, 11:30am
Wang Pangzi: KID IM SO SORRY THAT PUNK IS A TRAINWRECK BUT YOU KNEW THAT
Wang Meng: Welcome home, Li Cu <3 not much has changed, ultimately.
Wang Pangzi: IT DIDNT EVEN OCCUR TO ME THAT HE WOULDNT TELL YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT IT ONCE THE REST OF US FIGURED IT OUT
WAIT HOW DID YOU FIND OUT
Li Cu: it’s okay. not your fault, uncle. Doesn’t matter how I found out. Wait wait hold on what do you mean “the rest of us figured it out” who figured it out
Wang Pangzi: SAY HELLO LIU SANG
Liu Sang: …hello.
Wang Pangzi: SAY MORE THAN THAT.
Liu Sang: uh…so you’re Wu Xie’s protégé, huh?
Li Cu: oh well howdy there homewrecker
Liu Sang: Excuse me??
Zhang Qiling: I think someone on the roof is calling me and I should go find out.
Wang Meng: I would also very much like to be removed from this conversation.
Wang Pangzi: AHAHAHAHA KIDDO IVE MISSED YOU
Li Cu: all I’m saying is aren’t you the little creep who’s obsessed with Xiao Ge
Liu Sang: ???
Zhang Qiling: Li Cu is referring to a brief period of irrational thought on Wu Xie’s part, where he mistakenly believed you to be a threat to our relationship.
Liu Sang: what do you mean a threat??
Wang Pangzi: WHAT DO YOU MEAN TIANZHEN HAD “A BRIEF PERIOD OF IRRATIONAL THOUGHT”
YOUVE MET YOUR HUSBAND RIGHT
Wang Meng: can you please take me off this chat.
Liu Sang: Wait, so Wu Xie told you about me, but…reading between the lines, he didn’t mention the cancer or anything bad that happened? Oh yikes.
Li Cu: don’t change the subject “Liu Sang”
if that is your real name
Like yeah you’re right abt it but still
just saying
heard you got good ears but I’ve got snake powers
kinda
so like no more funny business okay you superhearing harlot
Wang Meng: LANGUAGE, LI CU. IN THIS HOUSE WE SHOW GOOD MANNERS.
Wang Pangzi: LMAO OH DO WE NOW
Zhang Qiling: Li Cu, this is all unnecessary and childish. Please apologize.
Li Cu: you say that now bruh but apparently you weren’t complaining when he was all “idol this” and “idol that”
oh and hey Wang Meng while we’re here can I show you my business class grade report later bc Wu Xie is all “what matters is that you learned and enjoyed the experience” blah blah all eat pray love you know how he gets and I want to actually discuss areas to improve so that when I take over this joint I do better than Wu Xie? Tho that shouldnt be hard lol
Wang Meng: hurtful but accurate. I’ll bring my best red pen:)
Liu Sang: oh my god. I’m too jetlagged to keep up with any of this.
Wang Pangzi: BEST. DAY. EVER. IM SCREENSHOTTING THIS FOR HEI XIAZI.
Not A Homewrecker Chat, 11:52am
Liu Sang: Okay, we started off on the wrong foot.
Li Cu: I agree let’s start over
Start with how your little prank game almost got ppl killed
Liu Sang: And I seriously regret that. But we moved past that.
Wow, he seriously skipped over so much bullshit but didn’t skimp on mine, huh.
Li Cu: AHA so you ADMIT IT
Liu Sang: I’d like to think I’ve grown since then. That I’ve come to see Xiao Ge as a person and mentor, rather than an idol. I count Pangzi and Wu Xie as my close friends. I’m going to be staying here with them right now, I hope you can be okay with that.
Li Cu: see in my head you were going to be a lot less mature about it and I had a bunch of great follow-up insults planned
Liu Sang: I figured. I’d like us to be friends, though. Or at least not enemies.
Li Cu: okay but only bc you don’t know me yet so you won’t judge too much for this and I need to get this out to somebody I’ve been thinking about it for hours and my friends are still in finals and I’m stressing a little bit maybe
Liu Sang: ?
Li Cu: I yelled at dad
*Wu Xie sorry autocorrect
Liu Sang: …uh huh.
Li Cu: I yelled at him earlier. for keeping all that stuff from me. He started crying
Liu Sang: Wu Xie has been pretty emotional since we got back. Not necessarily your fault.
Li Cu: I made him cry right there at the kitchen sink and it felt like maybe the worst thing I’ve ever done
Snake venom and stabbings, no tears
Me saying I wouldn’t have gone to his funeral, all tears
Which I know was shitty to say but I was really mad
Liu Sang: If it’s any consolation, I think Wu Xie can understand the concept of being led by his emotions to make bad decisions…better than most people.
Li Cu: Xiao Ge came in then and looked weird
Like weirder than usual
Like he didn’t know which of us to be more mad at
Liu Sang: A common problem for the iron triangle, I understand.
Li Cu: I just ran out I didn’t have words right then and I feel stupid
but whenever they come back from their walk I’m gonna say sorry and stuff bc i could’ve come home to his funeral and I’m mad about it but also like. I could have come home to his funeral. I can get mean when I’m in a freakout mood. It’s not like I was scared or anything at all I don’t get scared really anymore ever but just like. Freaked out.
Liu Sang: He’s probably going to say sorry, too.
Li Cu: sorry I called you a homewrecker. Didn’t mean to slut-shame either
Liu Sang: I admit that after the initial shock, it was pretty funny. Super hearing harlot, it should be on my business card;)
Li Cu: this situation with Wu Xie is weird but kinda good ya know. And I have these freakouts sometimes that something maybe bad could happen to this situation. So consider this a shovel talk. But like, also not a shovel talk at the same time.
also I appreciate you saving his life and whatnot
Liu Sang: Noted. Now. Coffee?
Li Cu: sounds sick.
Be in the kitchen in 10. You can pick out what we watch for the household tv show tonight. no way is Wu Xie choosing some dry documentary about gravestone rubbings again. Pangzi just watches real housewives reruns and Xiao Ge won’t watch tv after he caught the last half hour of A Walk To Remember. Also i need my phone now to send some $ to Hei Xiazi since I owe him for…providing some intel
Liu Sang: Not even surprised.
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keepcopinghoe · 3 years
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catch up pt.1
quick rundown of what’s been going on with me
ramo is the first guy that i’ve consistently and personally interacted with since about 2018 and definitely the first guy who actually around my age that i’ve formed a relatively close bond with. i think it’s for this reason that i’m so attached to him. he frequently described himself as an incel (ironically tho) and i think his last actually non-paid-for sexual relationship was back in 2017. so i stupidly assumed that i was the only girl in his life that he was actually close with and this delusion i think in many ways also is what build the foundation behind the inexplicable quasi-infatuation that i have now.
 on 06th june he told me about some girl that was part of his i***c*** discord which i already knew he was a part of since ages ago. i asked about her and he said she was from lithuania and that he was pissed off because some other guy was orbiting her which immediately set off alarm bells to me since there’s legit no reason to get pissy that someone else is orbiting a girl unless you like her yourself. he also said some shit to me which i think was unintentionally (or maybe intentionally?) hurtful, about how he could easily afford my prices and that i sell myself way below the market rate (both true but still). i think it’s both these things happening at the same time which particularly stung: ramo orbiting some e-girl who is involved in the same interests and hobbies to a greater extent than i am and also the emphasis that i’m a whore (and a cheap one at that) who no one would ever really consider as a serious dating prospect if they knew anything about my history.
i told him shortly after than i didn’t want to see him for a month or so, making up the excuse that it was because i was gonna be too busy. this is partially true cus i did initially have the plan to work every single day until the date of my breast augmentation/lift surgery which would be 25th june, earning like £700 a day in profit if i worked very hard. that didn’t quite come to fruition because there was some guy who booked with me that left a negative review on UKP which led to a fussilade of criticism from various users about me being a power-tripping time waster who frequently ghosted clients. this is kinda true except the power-tripping part; my timewasting is a direct result of substance abuse problems which is a direct result of whoring myself out to men that i often find unattractive. all in the preceding week (i met ramo on a sunday and this shit happened the following week).
two separate people passive aggressively threatened to send me another negative review over text, i have to provide a discounted rate to two of my regulars due to consistantly missing bookings, someone left me a negative review under my AW profile (which they did through sending a booking request that i didn’t confirm) saying that my service had declined massively over the last few months and that it was like ‘fucking a zombie’ and the final night of working on thursday (10/06), i saw this guy who has followed me under various aliases i’ve had in the past (jade/sana/etc.) and that i last meant at kingston premier inn in like june 2019. would have been a nice blast from the past in some respect but i made a stupid retarded decision to do coke with him - i then sniffed poppers which was retarded as well because poppers are a stimulant and speeds the heart up even further which i didn’t really know at the time. i then got super paranoid that i was gonna have a heart attack and kept telling the client in question to ensure that he call an ambulance if i collapsed, which i’m sure really got him in the mood. his name was james and i stupidly told him my real name. he couldn’t come and i felt like shit because i knew he didn’t enjoy himself - he told me in his mind that he had kind of ‘built’ the meeting up and i suppose it must have fallen massively short of his expectations. it is what it is.
i couldn’t sleep really at all due to the coke. i had several meetings arranged for the next day on friday with regulars all of which i cancelled. i just couldn’t continue on with the same routine of waking up in the morning feeling disgusting because i keep eating junk food delivery, doing an enema, getting drunk and just getting fucked until bedtime even though it was really good money.
i fucked around and went to chinatown on saturday evening and was feeling really happy and relieved about not having to work. i’ve figured that i can just make money after my surgeries and start again under a new profile where i don’t have any negative reviews attached to it and maybe rent out an actual apartment on a monthly basis, since it’d be cheaper than air BnB and i can set things up the way i want. i ate sweet and sour fish and egg fried rice, it was taste (ramo always says that lol).
idk what compelled me to do it but on 14th june, i looked through ramo’s likes on twitter. i think it was because i recalled seeing an obvious girl account in his likes previously - this is something i didn’t really think about at all previously but with the new information he had told me the sunday before, i ended up browsing her account which kind of led to a personal crisis. i found out fairly quickly that this girl was the same one he had referred to on discord (m** on discord, j**** on twitter) simply because there were screencaps on her media referring to the same discord and she was definitely from lithuania. i always assumed that women in these circles were lame and bland tradthots who lacked any kind of constitution beyond mindless pandering to irony poisoned scrotes and genuinely retarded wignats but i was suprised at how immediately endearing this girl appeared even to me, through the internet and as someone i have every reason to feel petty resentment towards.
her shitposts were funny and while she is edgy, she has an underlying sweet and kind disposition. her art is shit but cool in its own scrambled way. she’s also apparently only 16 so it’s understandable - i was a lot more cringe at her age and just as shit at art.
the feeling of inadequacy was overwhelming since in addition to being an actual whore, i’m super cringe, lame and normie compared to her. it made completely sense that ramo would orbit a girl like this and i’ve since completely re-evaluated my position and meaning in his life. it’s a good thing that my cope of feelings of intense inadequacy is to launch myself into a phase of hyper-productivity - i kept practicing drawing (apeing her in a way ig since i recently had kind of given up on drawing), fasting, reading, etc. to try and overcome how worthless and self-loathing i felt at being the unwitting basis of comparison to a young girl who was better than me in every conceivable manner. i even listened to msg 3.
i was in so much pain over this that i couldn’t listen to songs which reminded me of ramo (any i****c*** but specifically drug approved and also temptation) and when i did, i just felt anger at my position and a weird resentment towards him. worth mentioning than ramo had sent me a weird bootycall kind of text sometime before then which came across as really crash, so that made me feel even more devalued. 
this is already super long so i’m gonna follow up with a pt. 2 later or maybe edit.
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somar78 · 4 years
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A Brief History of the Brough Superior SS100 – The World’s First Superbike
A Motorcycle Superior to All Others
George Brough was a man who had a love of motorcycles and a social intelligence that enabled him to put his finger on the pulse of what would be attractive to Britain’s upper classes. This meant he was able to offer them a niche product that would sell well, despite being highly priced.
In the 1920s and 1930s British society was still very class conscious, something that the country has retained even until the present day. So George Brough set out to create not only a motorcycle that was actually superior to all others, but one that would be a fashion statement for his wealthy clientele. He set out to create the motorcycle equivalent of the Rolls-Royce, and he succeeded.
Brough Superior – No Humble Beginnings
George Brough’s father was William E. Brough and he had been in the motorcycle making business since 1908. This provided the young George Brough with a considerable knowledge and expertise base with regards to motorcycles, their use both as transportation and in competition, and their design and manufacture.
He worked in his father’s business and had begun in motorcycle competition when he was still at school in 1906. He won the London to Edinburgh and Back Trial three years in a row; 1910, 1911, and 1912, completing that last year by winning a Gold Medal and prize for best performance in the 1912 Scottish Six Days Trial using a single gear with no clutch and with sealed tool bags. So George had built for himself a well established name in motorcycling circles.
Above Image: A Brough (not Superior) motorcycle
As it turned out George and his father had an argument in 1919 and it proved to be sufficient for George to make the decision to leave his father’s business and set up a motorcycle manufacturing business of his own, which he did that same year. George and his father William had quite different views on what would be the best strategy to prosper a motorcycle manufacturing business.
William it seems had a penchant for flat tanks and the horizontally opposed twin cylinder engine much as used by British motorcycle maker Douglas. George on the other hand wanted to embrace the modern style of motorcycle powered by a large capacity V-twin: something like a Harley-Davidson but with extraordinary attention to handling and quality control to go with the power. In a sense George wanted to build bikes that were in some respects like the Harleys and the Indians, but aimed at the “Rolls-Royce” top end of the market.
It’s important to note that at this time Indian and Harley were building somewhat different motorcycles to what they make today. The Indian Motorcycle factory team took the first three places in the 1911 Isle of Man TT and both companies built board track racing V-twin motorcycles capable of over 100 mph – a heady speed in the 1910s.
Brough Superior and “Brough Inferior”
George began his business with a determination to build motorcycles that were “superior”, not only to his father’s machines but superior to every other motorcycle being made: when told that George was going to call his motorcycles “Brough Superior” his father William stated “I suppose that makes mine the Brough Inferior!”
Notwithstanding the family rivalry George was provided with £1,000, his share in the family business and he invested that in purchasing a suitable piece of land in Haydn Road, Nottingham, and on erecting a single story workshop on it.
Above Image: The Brough Superior works, George Brough is on the far left.
In 1919 George made his first Brough Superior motorcycle and then, in time for Christmas of 1920, began offering a model that was purpose designed to stand out from everything else on the market. This first Brough Superior was handmade, like a Rolls-Royce, bespoke, like a London “best” gun or double rifle from the likes of Purdey or Holland & Holland. This was a motorcycle created to appeal to the wealthy upper class, and made to become a fashion icon, having a 1920’s “coolness factor” even before the notion of “cool” was invented.
Its important to mention at this point that George Brough had well developed mature ideas as to what an ideal motorcycle should be: he had been riding in competition since 1906 and had learned a great deal both from experience and from talking with various competitors and makers, so his thinking was well developed. This meant that he had a strong knowledge base and expertise foundation on which to design his own machines. He built the motorcycles he would want to ride. He did not employ “market research”, he already knew what a truly great motorcycle should be whether the market wanted it or not. So he did not follow fashion, he set the fashion and left others in his dust to imitate and try to catch up.
He was fond of quoting from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Mary Gloster”
“They copied all they could follow
But they couldn’t copy my mind
And I left ’em sweating and a’stealing
A year and a half behind.”
George Brough’s first Superior motorcycle followed the design specification he would keep close to throughout the two decades of manufacture. The main engine offering of this first model was a V-twin 986cc OHV JAP (J.A. Prestwich) as were used on a number of other rival motorcycles: the 1921 Coventry Eagle would follow this pattern for example. The JAP engine breathed through an Amac carburetor and was given its spark by an ML magneto.
George Brough had not yet completely settled on the JAP V-twin at that point however and also offered the unusual Barr & Stroud V-twin sleeve-valve engine of 999cc capacity. Although a sleeve-valve engine might sound like a curious option it is worth remembering that the exotic and prestigious Avions Voisin luxury cars of the 1920’s were using sleeve-valve engines because of their silence in operation. In addition to this Brough also offered the Swiss Motosacoche (MAG) IOE engine (Inlet Over Exhaust, which has an overhead inlet valve and a side exhaust valve: otherwise known as an “F” head) in either 733cc or 993cc: a Swiss engine could be sold on the idea that it was “made like a Swiss watch”. The gearbox was a three speed Sturmey-Archer and the bike’s tube steel frame was fitted with Montgomery front forks.
Over the period from 1919 up until 1922 George Brough’s business was still finding its feet and making a name for itself. Various models were made and offered including OHV and side-valve versions of his Mark I, Standard and Sports models of his Mark II, an OHV 500cc, a side-valve 680cc Junior, and a 750cc side-valve.
The observant will already have noticed that George Brough was using major components from other manufacturers, as were most of his lower priced competitors. What then was his justification for the high price of his motorcycles, how did he sell the idea that his bikes were indeed “Superior”?
George Brough was skilled at marketing and he put the effort in to have his parts made to special order, and would go to the extreme of assembling a motorcycle twice; the first build for testing and ensuring all parts fitted perfectly, then the bike was stripped down, painting and parts plating would be done, and it would be finally assembled and tested. His big selling point was superiority in quality control. Just as when you went to Rolls-Royce for a car, or James Purdey & Sons for a gun you knew you were getting the best that money could buy, that no expense had been spared in making it as close to perfect as human engineering can accomplish.
Enter the Brough Superior “Super Sports” Models
It had not been long after he set up his business that George Brough got to work on his ideal motorcycle, the bike that was to become his “Super Sports” model. In his development work he built a very lightweight low framed bike, and installed it with a JAP side-valve in a high state of tune.
He named it “spit and polish” (because he kept it spotlessly clean and polished) and took it to Brooklands where he proceeded to lap the circuit at over 100mph making this the first side-valve motorcycle to accomplish such a feat. Having won a five lap race he got going in a subsequent race but his front tyre parted company with the rim while he was going flat out with the result that George and the bike parted company and George reputedly set a new Brooklands record: that for the furthest slide on one’s backside. Happily for George it was the tyre that failed, not the bike, and he was able to walk away from the crash: as pilots say “Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing”.
Undefeated, and now just a bit more famous, George built another even lighter bike, a bike so lightly constructed it needed external struts from ahead of the crankcase to the rear spindle to ensure it would not bend under engine power when the throttle was opened up. The little beast was nicknamed “Old Bill” after Bruce Bairnsfather’s cartoon character of the First World War.
The racing bikes served the purpose of making Brough Superior into a household name and helped launch the first of the production series, which was ready for production by 1922 and was introduced to the public as the Brough Superior SS80, the “80” denoting that it was guaranteed to achieve or exceed 80mph. Brough had his own in-house test riders who would take each machine out and ensure that it would make its advertised speed in a quarter mile.
The SS80 was powered by a side-valve 988cc/60.3 cu. in. JAP V-twin engine and was made in standard and “De Luxe” versions. The De Luxe SS80 featured rear suspension which was in some ways similar in concept to that which would be seen on the Vincent motorcycles of 1927 onwards.
But the SS80 was not to be the last word in Brough Superior motorcycles: Brough knew that 80mph was not going to be enough to keep up with the competition and thus that he would need to create a model guaranteed to be able to do “the ton” or 100mph.
It was in 1923 that motorcycle journalist H. D. Teague of “The Motorcycle” did a road test of an SS80 and in his article described it as “The Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles”. This was one of the nicest accolades George Brough could have hoped to receive and he promptly began to use it in all his advertising, although being careful to attribute the quote just in case the gentlemen at Rolls-Royce decided to get upset about it.
As it turned out the gentlemen over at Rolls-Royce were a bit miffed and let George Brough know of their discontent. George invited them over to have a look at how Brough Superior motorcycles were made and on the day of their visit the workshop was immaculate, and the Rolls-Royce men were greeted by the sight of nice young men in clean white coats building these “Rolls-Royce of motorcycles” with meticulous care. The Rolls-Royce men were so impressed that they said that George was welcome to refer to his bikes as “The Rolls-Royce of motorcycles”, and so he did.
The Brough Superior SS100
It was a combination of three men, George Brough, engine designer Val Page, and Swiss motorcycle racer and engine tuner Bert le Vack, who’s talents came together to create the next and greatest of the Brough Superior motorcycles. At this point in history, for four years in the early to mid 1920’s, le Vack worked with Val Page at JAP to build a large capacity V-twin, an engine to beat the American V-twins from Indian and Harley-Davidson. While Val Page was the engine designer le Vack was a tuning and fuel blending expert. The project was to build a “Yank Buster” V-twin engine with overhead valves. The resulting 1924 JAP 8/45 was a 986cc OHV V-twin which was tuned by le Vack to become the JAP “Super Big Twin”.
In 1924 Bert le Vack and George Brough put together a motorcycle around a specially tuned 867cc JAP OHV “Super Big Twin” engine. The bike was fitted with parts from other suppliers as were Brough Superior bikes generally including front forks that were straight out of a Harley-Davidson.
In order to ensure this bike would stand out as a Brough Superior George Brough ensured its was fitted with the trademark Brough Superior fuel tank so there was no mistaking what bike it was. This bike was taken by le Vack up to a crisp record breaking 118.93mph at Arpajon. George Brough now had an engine at his disposal that could propel a Brough Superior to at least 100mph, the SS100 was born.
George Brough worked on the SS100 prototype to ensure it was a bike that would handle and stop well. To this end the front and rear brakes were upgraded to drums with decent stopping power. The resulting motorcycle was a work of visual art as well as being one of, if not the, best handling and fastest motocycle’s the world had seen up to that point in history. The SS100 made its debut in the 1925 Brough Superior catalog and was described as being “an exact replica of the Brough Superior ridden by H. le Vack when capturing 9 world’s records including the fastest speeds ever accomplished on a motor cycle – 123 m.p.h. SOLO and 103 sidecar.”
Once the SS100 was established George Brough decided to try his hand at a world speed record. George got together with a man named Freddie Dixon and between them they built a special purpose SS100 on a shortened frame with the newest long stroke JAP V-twin. Freddie Dixon took it for an outing at Brooklands and managed 103mph for five miles. George then took the bike to Arpajon in 1928 to see what he could accomplish. He almost succeeded: he managed a one-way run of 130mph, making him the fastest man on two wheels, but on the return run a piston failed bringing his record breaking to an unexpected end, because to officially obtain a world record a two way run was required. The bike was taken back to Britain and re-built, and then Bert le Vack took it back to Arpajon the following year and achieved a two way run of 129mph, and a new world record.
Brough Superior SS100 – Models and Specifications
The Brough SS100 was offered in three main models; the SS100, the SS100 AGS “Alpine Grand Sports”, and the SS100 “Pendine”. All were fitted with JAP engines up until 1936 when Brough progressively made the switch to Matchless engines. JAP engined bikes continued to be made up until 1938.
The Brough Superior SS100 was fitted with four stroke, four camshaft, JAP OHV 50° V-twin engines from 980cc up to 996cc capacity depending on model variant. As all Brough Superior SS100 bikes were made bespoke to customer order there are many variations possible and it has been said that no two were identical. When a customer came in to order a Brough the process was very much like that experienced by a customer who went to one of London’s “best” gunmakers. The customer was measured as if for a custom gun or Saville Row suit. The shape, length and position of the handlebars and controls were custom fitted to the customer so the bike would feel as if it fit them “like a glove”, because it was made to do so. Other options included such things as an unsprung or sprung frame and various other fitments.
Three main variants of the engine were the JAP 980cc 8/45, the 996cc JTOR-JAP 8/50, and the 996cc JTOS-JAP 8/75 which was fitted to the SS100 Alpine Grand Sports beginning in 1934. The JTOS-JAP 8/75 was known as the “two of everything” because it was fitted with two magnetos and two oil pumps. The use of dual systems was quite common in the highest quality motor cars of the 1920s and 1930s and so such use in the Alpine Grand Sports provided it with an even higher degree of fail-safe reliability. The SS100 engine was mated to a “four stud” three speed Sturmey-Archer gearbox with chain final drive up until 1935 when the change was made to a Norton four speed gearbox.
The frame of the SS100 was a duplex cradle type with the option of either unsprung rear or a Deluxe model fitted with Brough’s patented sprung rear suspension. The front forks were Brough’s modified Harley-Davidson style Castle forks which he had patented in collaboration with Harold “Oily” Karslake.
Every SS100 came with a written guarantee that it had been ridden and tested to confirm it would do 100mph, for a period Bert le Vack was involved in tuning customer’s motorcycles and is known to have worked on some of “Lawrence of Arabia” T.E. Lawrence’s Broughs.
The model up from the standard SS100 was the SS100 “Alpine Grand Sports”. This bike was named after the Austrian Alpine Eight Days Trial and for the year of the SS100’s debut, 1925, George Brough along with Freddie Dixon and Austrian Champion Eddy Meyer competed on Brough Superior SS100’s.
The result of the 1925 Austrian Alpine Trial proved to be most satisfactory for Brough Superior with them winning no less than six cups including the one for “Best Performance”. The SS100 Alpine Grand Sports was fitted with a lower compression ratio engine to ensure it would happily cope with the variable quality of fuel that would be encountered while touring in the 1920s and 1930s: but these bikes were still guaranteed to be able to meet or exceed 100mph in a quarter mile.
The SS100 Alpine Grand Sports was offered with a number of optional extra cost fittings such as dual headlights and large pannier bags, but the sprung rear suspension was a standard fitting on this model as was a small fly screen and a pair of tool boxes.
The model of the SS100 for those looking for speed was the SS100 “Pendine”, named after Pendine Sands in Wales. Pendine Sands was a seven mile beach that provided a hard and almost perfectly flat surface better than many of the roads of the 1920’s. Pendine Sands was used as the track for the Welsh TT motorcycle trials from 1922 onwards and was also the site used by Sir Malcolm Campbell for his successful land speed record attempt in his 350hp Sunbeam record car “Bluebird”, in which he attained 146.16mph/235.22km/hr.
The SS100 Pendine made its debut in 1927 and was normally fitted with a rigid frame (no rear suspension), lightened for racing, typically with no lights, and with an engine in a higher state of tune with a high compression ratio that would require blended racing fuel. Each Pendine model was guaranteed to achieve 110mph in a quarter mile.
The standard engine for the SS100 Pendine was the 981cc JAP KTOR 8/45 twin cam engine with bevel drive magneto. Other engines were used however, the largest of which was an 1,150cc twin carburetor bike made to order for Eddy Meyer in 1927: the larger engine being permitted under racing rules in Austria where Meyer competed with that bike. A common engine for the Pendine was the 996cc JAP JTOR 8/50 producing 73hp @ 6,200rpm.
The Arrival of Vincent HRD, and the Final Version of the SS100
By the time the SS100 had been in production for ten years other motorcycle makers had not been idle. With the establishment of Vincent HRD in 1928 another visionary motorcycle designer, Philip Vincent, entered the scene and he was not one who was going to be playing catch up with George Brough, quite the reverse.
Vincent started out building motorcycles using Phil Vincent’s patented cantilever rear suspension with conventional girder front forks and he used JAP engines predominantly much as George Brough had done up until 1934. In that year Australian engineer Phil Irving joined the company and designed a new engine, resulting in Vincent making their own 500cc single cylinder engines. By 1936 Vincent had created their own in-house 998cc OHV V-twin engine and installed it in a motorcycle so advanced that it would take decades for others to catch up: the Vincent Rapide.
By comparison with the Brough Superior SS100 the Vincent Rapide boasted dual drum brakes front and rear as opposed to the Brough’s single drums, a superior suspension to go with its superior brakes, and a superior engine. The Vincent was built to just as high levels of quality control as the Brough which was not looking superior anymore.
That first Vincent Rapide engine featured external oil lines which led the motorcycle press to dub it “The plumber’s nightmare” and George Brough may have breathed a sigh of relief at that. But we suspect that with the arrival of the Vincent Rapide of 1936 George Brough realized that he was at risk of not being in front of the competition anymore, and that he would have to stop using his favourite Rudyard Kipling quote unless he could come up with a motorcycle that would be superior to everything else once more.
The 1935 Brough Superior SS100 made the move to a new engine, the 1,000cc Matchless V-twin OHV V-twin with a Norton four speed gearbox, but in other respects it was still faithful to the 1924 original. Only 102 of this last model SS100 would be built.
George Brough turned his attention to creating a motorcycle that would be superior to everything else once more and in 1938 unveiled his “Golden Dream” at the London Earls Court motorcycle show. The Brough Superior Golden Dream was powered by an “H” engine, which is essentially two horizontally opposed twin cylinder engines stacked one on top of the other with their crankshafts connected together by gears, this having the effect of providing perfect engine balance as the upper and lower banks of cylinders are counter-rotating. This 988cc engine was mated to either a three or four speed gearbox and shaft final drive.
The frame of the Golden Dream was essentially that of an SS100 but with Brough’s own version of a cantilever rear suspension replaced with a plunger type, while at the front he kept his familiar Harley-Davison-based Castle forks. It would prove to be an expensive failure and was not put into production.
The End of Brough Superior SS100 Production
By 1939 both George Brough and Phil Vincent were forced to turn their wonderfully creative minds away from building superior motorcycles because of the antics of a German with a Charlie Chaplin moustache who somehow managed to persuade the German people to give him absolute power. Lord Aston warned us that “All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely” but perhaps because Lord Aston was British the German people did not take notice of his warning, but the British did. The result was World War II and Brough Superior found themselves making crankshafts for beautiful Rolls-Royce Merlin engines while Vincent were tasked with making munitions. The last ten Brough Superior SS100 bikes were made in 1940, and after that there would be no more.
By the end of the war in 1945 both George Brough and over at Vincent both Phil Vincent and Phil Irving, had been thinking about what they would create for the new post-war era. At Vincent the decision was taken to perfect the Rapide and improve on it which resulted in the creation of the Vincent Black Shadow, arguably the world’s first “superbike”, and a bike that was advertised as “the fastest motorcycle in the world”, and that it was.
George Brough took a different route and claimed that he could not find a suitable engine for his SS100, and so had to cease production. But perhaps there’s a story behind that claim: there of course was a British V-twin engine that would have been perfect for the SS100, and that was the Phil Irving designed Vincent V-twin that would power the post-war Rapide, Black Shadow, and Black Lightning. Vincent would very probably have been willing to build and supply engines for Brough Superior, they were willing to make engines for American motorcycle manufacturer Indian and built them a prototype. But George Brough knew that Vincent actually had the superior motorcycle and thus he could not admit defeat and get his engines from them. Instead he decided not to resume motorcycle production, and so the history of one of the most famous of all the motorcycles to emerge from Britain quietly ended.
Above Image: George Brough
Picture Credits: Brough Superior, Bonhams, RM Sotheby’s, JAP.
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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 222
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Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That���s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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  Announcement
Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window��s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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  Announcement
Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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  Announcement
Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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  Announcement
Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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  Announcement
Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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  Announcement
Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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Adam: That’s what you get from making jokes right when we go live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts, episode 222. This is …Oh, man. I should have cued up some music. This is the last Hump Day hangouts that will be on a Google event page but more on that, first, let’s say hey to everybody. It is the sixth of February, 2019.
Bradley: Well, let me interrupt you for a minute because you said this will be the last Hump Day hangouts and I know some people, that’s all they heard and they’re gonna freak out like, “What,” so we’re gonna clarify. No, just the last Hump day hanging out on a Google event page guys. We’re still gonna do it, we’ll clarify that in a minute. I just want to make sure everybody understands; we’re still gonna keep doing Hump Day hangouts.
Adam: You dropped off right there. That might sound bad. Yeah, we’ll get back into it. We got some really good announcements; we got some great stuff coming up. We’re gonna say hey to everybody really quick and then we’ll jump into questions after that so I’ll do the normal lineup here. Chris, how you doing today?
Chris: Doing good. Actually, doing excellent man. It’s like a new PR in the tune today, same as yesterday, so I’m super excited. A good week. How are you doing?
Adam: I’m doing pretty good, just [inaudible 00:01:08]. Man, I don’t know what came over me there. Yeah, I’m doing pretty good.
Chris: Rich, you’ll need a couple more tee shirts man.
Adam: Yeah, [inaudible 00:01:15].
Bradley: What was the PR for … what movement?
Chris: Yesterday it was squats and today it was bench.
Bradley: You PR-ed your … for those of you that don’t know workout speed, that means personal record for squats and bench press. That’s very good man. Congratulations.
Adam: I figured Chris [inaudible 00:01:34] got a press release about his lifting.
Hernan: Chris now lifts 385 pounds.
Adam: Contact Chris Tow and [inaudible 00:01:46] for more information.
Chris: Nobody takes the coaching online but you can check out my Instagram. I might share a couple of things there.
Adam: Awesome.
Bradley: Chris is one of those guys. He’s in the mirror at Instagram posing.
Chris: Exactly.
Bradley: He’s one of those guys.
Adam: Herman, how are you doing man? Are you surviving the heat wave?
Hernan: Yeah I’m good, actually cooled off a little bit so it’s good. I went for a run, not a macho as you guys breaking PRs but still broke a sweat. But, yeah, I’m excited for what’s coming. I’m excited to be hanging out with Adam. We’ve got to be scheming and plotting a lot during FHL 2019 so I’m excited for that too.
Adam: Awesome, me too … me too. Marco, how are you doing?
Marco: I’m living the life and I’m loving this shit. Fuck all of you. It’s just so beautiful here, man. I can’t help it.
Adam: Yeah, it’s been funny. People around here were freaking out because there was snow dusting on the hills to the East; I’m in the bay area, and it’s just hilarious. It hits right at freezing and people are just like, “Oh, is this the polar vortex,” and then at 50 or 60 later in the day. But that’s my jam and I like it like that. Bradley, how about yourself?
Bradley: I’m doing well and if we ever had an invitation to be memed, Chris just did it. Greg and Wayne if you’re out there listening meme away, so to speak. But, yeah, that’s said I’m really excited too. I got lots of stuff going on. Tomorrow we’ve got the Mastermind Webinar and I’m gonna be releasing all the process docs and training that I developed over the last three or four months for scaling the local least pro method that business model out. Everything that I put together the last four months that’s been refined and refined and refined again and it’s polished enough now.
And I promised the Mastermind members that we’re gonna get it when we finished our 12 week sprint to build 50 GMB assets and that ended on Monday. I’m gonna release everything to the mastermind members tomorrow and in the following 12 weeks with the POFU live attendees, the people that came to our live event that joined me in the first 12 weeks sprint, which was to build 50 local assets, lead generation assets out and we all hit various numbers. Specifically for my build, I hit 42 out of 50 for semantic mastery, for our agency that we’re building separately. It’s not semantic mastery.
But anyways … I didn’t quite hit 50 but I hit 42 and that’s good enough, in my opinion. Aim high guys. If you aim high and you don’t quite hit it, you’ve still done good. Right? And so I’m pretty proud of that. And then we had varying levels of completion or hitting that goal through the other members that joined us and it’s across the board and I’m proud of everybody that helped me with that and participated throughout that process. But the next 12 weeks we’re gonna do another sprint when …
By the way, these guys only paid to come to our live event one time. They were just like 24 weeks of additional training and that was not planned. That was something that I chose to do once we were at the live event. And I’m glad because it’s given me a lot of help with developing these processes out and getting input from other people so it’s not just 100 percent me. And so the next 12 weeks, now that we’ve got all these assets built and we have our teams that are continuing to build more assets, now we’ve got to monetize them.
We’ve got a lot of assets now that are ready to be monetized, which means find service providers, either lease them, buy the leads, however the arrangement is that we work out. And so I’m really looking forward to getting back into prospecting from a lead generation perspective as opposed to a client/agency perspective; which I tried almost all of 2018 to just sell agency services, traditional agency services, and failed miserably at that. I was pretty good at prospecting but sucked at sales.
And it’s because the market, in my opinion, is so saturated with business owners being solicited to buy marketing agencies. The moment they think that they’re being solicited to, they put up their defenses. And I’m sure a lot of you guys can relate to that. But, just in the last few weeks, the lead generation business the word’s gotten out and I’m actually getting inbound calls now from contractors asking for lead generation services, which is amazing guys. I’m telling you the dynamic is completely different and so I’m really looking forward to the next 12 weeks of developing out and testing all different types of prospecting methods for service providers.
And I was on a mastermind call with one of our members earlier today who was telling me about his strategy. Scott, it was awesome. I’m gonna put your strategy to the test and I’m gonna be sharing all that data and in the Mastermind. Anyways, I’m just really looking forward to it; got a lot of stuff going on. Like Marco said, there’s so much opportunity right now, guys. It’s almost hard to sleep so I hope you guys see the same opportunity I do.
Adam: Good deal. Good deal. And for those of you just joining us, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, the Mastermind is a higher level group for people who are looking to either start or continue to grow their local digital marketing agency. That’s the place to be if you’re ready to take that plunge and you either want help getting started or, like I said, if you wanna grow it. You can find out more mastermind.semanticmastery.com. In general, though, the first place we recommend everyone to start is with the Battleplan and you can check that out battleplan.semanticmastery.com.
And we do have an update to the Battleplan coming out that’s bigger, badder, more kick ass and that’s gonna cover even more areas so stay tuned for that. And there’s gonna be reasons to get it. Don’t worry about getting one now. I know shit with, “Should I wait and get the third one when it comes out in February?” You just get it now, start putting it to work. You’ll get an ROI as one of our buyers even told us. He said it paid for itself in 13 minutes and that was great. There’s all the video training that goes into it too. All this stuff has been updated so go grab that if you haven’t yet. And then something else I wanted to talk about, Bradley, you were talking about the mastermind and hopping on a call.
Marco: Hey Adam-
Adam: Yeah. Yeah.
Marco: -before you get into that, I’d like to ask people if you haven’t subscribed to our channel, please do. It’s really encouraging when I see those numbers of subscribers grow, the people that follow us, the people that … It makes it worthwhile to come in here and give people all of this free information that they’re getting, information that people have used to build businesses. But just, all it takes is just a tick of a button guys. Go subscribe, let us know that you’re following us, that you’re interested in what we’re doing so thank you for doing that.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely, check it out on youtube. We’ll put the link out there. Let’s see. I had a couple more short ones. Bradley mentioned the Mastermind and then, obviously, MDYB is where you can get your done free services like syndication networks, RYS, drive stacks, all sorts of good stuff. What we’re also adding in there, we’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with finding VA’s, how to build their own team. And so the VA matching service, helping you build your own team or providing qualified VAs that we’ve vetted; they have given salary expectations, they’re full time, they’re ready to go and we’re gonna connect those with people.
But right now that’s gonna be limited to just the mastermind. We’re gonna be taking four orders or Beta testers in, helping them connect and giving them the best practices guide to get started with using their VAs. And then, eventually, we’ll be offering that to other people who want that. Hopefully, if you’re listening to this, that sounds interesting to you because that is a core part of growing your business. Whatever it’s doing is building that team and we’re happy to be able to do this and use the same process as we do to find our VAs and our help and get you the help you need.
A real quick note, we had a great webinar with Lisa Allen. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll put the link below; check that out, RSS Authority Sniper. She’s added some really cool updates, I’m not gonna go into that I’m just saying that it’s awesome and it’s part of Bradley’s case studies he’s doing right now which Bradley I’ll let you touch on that in a second. And then, just to wrap it up, as I talked about at the very beginning with a no more ‘Hump Day hangouts’. It’s no more Hump Day hangouts on Google event so they are shutting down.
Bradley: Wait, what?
Adam: They’re shutting down the Google events. We are gonna get it ported over. It doesn’t matter. All you need to know is keep using the same links you get to. When you get an email, click the link, I’m here. If you go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions you will still go there. We’re gonna get our own page setup, get stuff going so that it’s seamless; and it’s just gonna look a little different but, hopefully, it’s gonna be even smoother for you.
Bradley: Yeah, we’re gonna use the discuss app, as the commenting app below the webinars so it’ll make it really clean. It’ll be a nice clean page just like the Google events page are and it’ll keep all the comments on right below. And what’s kind cool about it is the comments are archived too so instead of every week having a separate event page, like we’ve had in the past where the comments … you’ll be able to scroll through the comments and just look through the questions and stuff from previous weeks as well once we start that.
We’ve been doing that, actually, for the Mastermind Webinar for what, two years guys, and it’s been working really well over there. It’s gonna be a seamless shift for you guys. It won’t affect you guys any at all.
Adam: Good to go. Alright guys, we got any other announcements before we dive into it? Okay.
YouTube Embeds Clarifications
Bradley: All right, so the first thing I’m gonna do is grab the screen and then I’m gonna take a moment to clarify some comments I made last week that, apparently, I wasn’t very clear on. I knew what I was trying to say but, apparently, I wasn’t very clear in my delivery and it caused a shit-storm in that we had a whole bunch of people freaking out about what I said about embeds. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it because I’m gonna clarify my statements now and it should make sense.
And for those of you that heard what I said last week and freaked out about it, I apologize for not being more clear about what I was saying. Again in my mind I was clear but, obviously, I confused a bunch of people. What I was talking about last week specifically was … and it was this dude here. I’m sorry, I can never say your name, Mayank. And, again, I would love to hear how that’s actually pronounced because I’m, probably, butchering it. He asked a question about embeds and I had said that yes, absolutely, embeds will help to push a video.
I was talking specifically about youtube guys and I think people conflated what I was saying about embeds with any type of embed including map embeds and things like that. But what I was talking about was specifically youtube guys. And that was that will embeds help push a video and I said, yes. However, mass embeds and mass links to a video that doesn’t have corresponding engagement signals, which means views, comments, likes, shares, those kinds of things, can be a spam signal. I wasn’t saying embeds themselves are a spam signal.
And that’s, apparently, how it was taken. And it might’ve been the way I said it or whatever. Again, I apologize but I wasn’t saying embeds are spam signals and I think that’s how it came across. What I was saying was specifically for videos. If you have a video that you go out and you do thousands of embeds and build thousands of links to it and you go look at the video on youtube or Google search and it’s got three views, guys, is that natural? No. And we know, for a fact, that youtube videos can rank purely on engagement signals now. We know, for a fact, that that’s true and I’m gonna show you right now, or in just a moment, the proof of that.
What I was saying was if you’re gonna build a bunch of backlinks and/or embeds for a video, then, I would recommend that you also build traffic or engagement signals. And how do you do that? Well, the easiest way, unless you can get real organic views, is to buy views … not spam views from view bots and from view services but buy views from Google directly from the Google ads network. Guys, you can set up Google ads for YouTube. I just did a two and a half hour webinar on that two weeks ago that I made public for 55 bucks, you can get access to it, where I go into great detail as to how to set up these ads, specifically how to set these campaigns up to get videos to rank in Google search, guys.
And it’s from buying engagement signals directly from Google, which is perfectly legit and legal. It’s encouraged as opposed to buying spam views from view services that don’t work anymore anyways. And so my point is you can still take and get results from mass embeds and from mass backlinks with videos. But watch what happens if you do backlinks and/or embeds and you just inject a little bit of real traffic engagement signals into that. Everything just comes alive. It’s like magic. I’m telling you. Marco has been talking about ART for two years, three years now and that’s … What is it? Authority, relevancy and trust?
Marco: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority.
Bradley: Activity, relevancy, trust and authority. There you go. And so if you’re going to be doing mass embeds and things like that, guys, if you just inject a little bit of traffic signals, and there are real traffic signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies, it will make everything come alive. And so I just wanna show this example really quick. This is a video … And I’m gonna show a real live example here guys, just to prove it to you. I’ll zoom in on this just briefly but this is exactly … I clarified this in the mastermind too because we had several people freaking out like, “Oh, I do a bunch of embeds and there’s no engagement signals. Am I fucked?”
And I was like, “No, no, no, you’re okay. Your videos are still okay if you do that.” But what I’m saying is if you’ve got a video that you’ve done a ton of embeds to and backlinks to or whatever and it’s not ranking yet, just go buy some traffic signals from Google and watch what happens. It’ll come alive; it’s like magic.
Marco: Yeah. But, before you go on, we’ve never recommended just thousands and thousands of embeds anyway.
Bradley: Correct.
Marco: We’ve always said slow and easy wins the race. We’ve never said go buy a million embeds. We’ve always said you can get 25, you can get 50, you see how it does, its niche relevant and watch it and then you adjust accordingly. That’s what we’ve always recommended throughout when we were with the other company where we were providing the video and map embeds and even we’re gonna be providing now. We’re not telling you go buy a million embeds tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah, we never recommended that.
Marco: Ever, ever. But slow and steady wins the race with anything.
Bradley: But one other comment that I made was [brute force SEO 00:16:54] and I’m not a brute force SEO kinda guy; Marco is though. And Marco was like, “Well, we can get results with brute force.” I said, “Yeah, you can and there’s no doubt, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying the way that I, particularly, like to do things is to try to make it look more natural if possible. And that’s all.” And that’s what I was trying to say last week guys and, apparently, I wasn’t very clear. But this is the example that I wanted to show because this is the video ranked.
This is for a local video production company that I’ve been doing wholesale. I’ve been providing wholesale video ranking services to them for five years now, four or five years, and we used to do a whole lot of it. I don’t have nearly as many campaigns as we used to but … Anyways, long story short, on December 28th, I took the video that they sent me, I live streamed it to my channel and it went through all the syndication networks that that channel is hooked up to. That’s an age syndication network, there’s multiple networks attached to that channel and it works well.
And I had also used some embed credits that I had from SerpSpace which, Marco, there’s a video powerhouse thing in there that we built when we were still part of SerpSpace and so I had some embed credits and stuff. And, for whatever reason, usually when I upload a video to rank for a client or for this company or for anybody really, usually I do the live stream to the channel. It automatically syndicates through all the networks and then I usually immediately follow up with setting up the youtube ad, the Google ad free for video, to start injecting engagement signals so that as the embeds are getting picked up and indexed and that kind of stuff, there’s automatically traffic going to them.
Again, that’s the secret sauce. It’s worked for years now for me. For, at least, two or three years now, that’s been my magic bullet. The trick up my sleeve is to just immediately add that the Google ad to it so that I start pushing traffic signals into it then I’m buying from Google; which you can get Geo targeted topically relevant traffic so highly relevant traffic from people that are likely to actually engage with the video too. And, again, all of this was taught in the training that I did two and a half weeks ago or three weeks ago or two weeks ago actually that’s available for 55 bucks. If you’re interested, just reach out to us and we’ll send you the link.
Anyway long story short, for whatever reason that day, I was short on time and I did not set up the youtube ad, for that so I let it push through. And about two weeks later I went to go look at where the results were because I always tell the client it’s gonna take me roughly 30 days to get results. It usually doesn’t take that long but I always tell them to prepare him for it taking as much as 30 days. Two weeks later I went by and I looked at it and it had finished or completed its initial Google dance.
You guys are aware of that where the video might show up on page one and then it disappears from the top 10 pages and then it comes back on page three and then it disappears and it comes back again. It had finished that because I had set up the pro rank tracker. I use proranktracker.com to track youtube videos … the rankings for youtube videos. Anyways, I looked at the history and I saw that the initial dance period was over and it had settled on page two between 12 and 15. It was steady bouncing between 12 and 15 so 12, 13, 14, whatever. You get what I’m saying.
I went then and set up the ad because I was like, “Okay, now it’s on page two.” And I went and looked and I was like, “Oh that’s why. There’s no ad.” I looked at the view count and I think there was like four views at the time and I was like, “Oh shit, I forgot to set up the ad.” I set up the ad for that and that was on a Friday … on a Thursday, excuse me, and it takes about 24 hours for a youtube ad to get approved. Sometimes it’s less but most of the time it takes roughly 24 hours. And so I set up the ad for this and I looked at it on Monday.
It had been running for roughly three days or four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then on Monday is when I looked. And by Monday it had had generated, I think, 86 views and boom, it was on page one. And, guys, it’s been on page one ever since. And that’s what I’m saying about just injecting traffic into that video after it had already been embedded. I prefer to do it while the embeds are just occurring. Before they even index, I like to start sending traffic but, in this case, I did it backwards to where I had all the embeds go out and it had sat for two weeks before I set up the ad.
But as soon as I injected traffic guys boom to page one and it’s been there ever since and here are the youtube stats. Let me zoom in on this a little bit. Let’s see, how do we use zoom in on this shit? It’s not letting me. Okay, well, I don’t know if you guys can see it but here’s the youtube stats for just the last 30 days and you can see that that’s the same video guys. My average cost per view, seven cents. My budget is 50 cents a day guys, look at that. You see that 50 cents a day, who can’t afford that?
I usually start off with a dollar per day but I backed it down to 50 to this point and you can see that I’ve spent $23 in the last 30 days to keep that video. I’ve got 332 views in the last 30 days and … Excuse me, I’ve actually generated six clicks. Those are six clicks because the targeting that I have set up for that, I’ve got the geographic targeting setup for about, I think, a 30 mile radius from the shop, the Warrington auto service shop so all the clicks or views that are coming through are from people within that service area. And they’re an in-market audience for people that were looking for auto repair services.
It’s highly relevant traffic and Google knows that traffic is in the in-market audience for auto repair services so it knows it’s a relevant audience that’s viewing this video. That’s what causes it to rank guys because it’s not like just getting random views from anywhere in the country or globally. These are views that are geo targeted from an audience that Google recognizes and knows is in market for that service so it’s a highly weighted view and it’s pennies guys. The average cost per view is at seven cents.
Do you get that? That’s what I was trying to say. Hopefully, that clarified everything. If anybody has any questions about that, just post them on the event page and I’ll be happy to answer it. Okay. You wanna comment on that before I move on guys?
Marco: No.
Chris: Okay.
Hernan: No, I think that that was pretty clear, thanks.
How Do You Get The First Post URL Of Your GMB Profile Using The Citation Builder Pro Software?
Bradley: Elaina says, “Bradley, in reference to you using the citation builder pro software you mentioned in a local least pro training, how do you get the first post URL of your GMB profile again?” Easy Elaina, log in to the GMB profile and go to posts and you’ll see the published post. If you’re using the citation builder pro software, once it’s been published through this post scheduler, you can also grab the link from inside the dashboard of the post scheduler. There’s a little link icon to the right column of the post and you can grab the link from that too so very, very simple.
That’s all you need to do. Or you can go do a Google search for the brand name of that GMB and in the knowledge panel … on the right side of the screen, in the knowledge panel, you’ll see your post. Click on the post, it will expand like a pop up window and you can click the share button on that and then grab the share link from that. That’s your GMB post URL. It’s a very, very simple process. Okay?
Does Long Form GMB Post Performs Better In Terms Of Ranking?
Will says, “I noticed that for GMB posts, there is room for 1500 characters to write a post and yet in the local pro training you use only a handful of characters to complete a post.
Shouldn’t we try to write longer posts to convert more keywords in our copy so we can rank for those keywords too? Or is there a point of diminishing return when we write writing longer pieces of content texts that yields no benefits?” That’s a good question Will. Honestly, I haven’t been testing long form copy because, for me … I know Marco and Rob, I think, have done some testing there so I’ll have Marco comment on that in a minute. But, for me, it was more about activity and consistency. In other words, we post the short little posts because the way that I look at GMB posts as more like call to action type posts.
And that’s what I called all of the templates that I created for local least pro CTA templates. I called action templates because it’s just an image where we inject a key word or two or three or whatever that sounds … it’s worded to where it reads well. And then we have a call to action and we do more posts. In other words, we do higher volume of posts instead of doing long copy post and only a couple of week. We do one post per day or two posts per day that are much, much shorter.
Because I also think when somebody’s looking for tree services there don’t care to read a freaking article just to get the contact information. They want to do a search, find a tree service company and call them to come out and provide an estimate. And I get what you’re saying about injecting more keywords and all that kind of stuff but you can do that by just doing more posts too. That’s been my methodology; I haven’t really tested long form content because it’s more work really and I’m able to get results without it. But that said, Marco, what has been your experience with that?
Marco: We started out doing the long form, taking up all the space in all of the posts. I know for a fact that Rob, he just likes to use the short form. However, lately what we’ve been doing is intermixing. We’ve been doing the long and the short, long and the short never in any set pattern because Google catches patterns. But I’ve found, and from what other people are telling me, it gets really good results when you use long form. That’s the way that … When this started out, when it was originally conceptualized back when I was doing, and I’m still doing the New York attorney project, I’m still with her. She’s not going anywhere, trust me. It was all long form and it has been to this day.
The writers do nothing except long form posts. Now what we take care to do is that in the image there’s a call to action and in the first few lines there’s a call to action. And the button is always a call to action button because, to me, that’s what works. The person seeing that they might want to read the rest but I could care less if the person reads the rest. If they take action, fine, but I want all of that content for the BOT.
Bradley: Sure.
Marco: That all I’m concerned about. I wanted to have all that, all of that relevance. I could be writing about something locally, main events. I’m not gonna get too much into this because I’m not giving it away but there’s so much that you can write about, to create relevance, inside that post to trigger just everything to relate your GMB to everything that’s going on in whatever your local is that you can get amazing results if you do it correctly. And I think that this calls for an update webinars sometimes in local GMB pro because you can get some fantastic stuff going if you mix it up right.
Bradley: There you go. There you go, there’s two sides of that coin. Well, I just haven’t tested with long form copy because I really haven’t had the time and I’ve been able to get results for the types of industries that I’ve been working in without it. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the absolute bare minimum to get results. Guys, I say that all the time and so I’m able to do that in the industries I’m in and still get results; there’s no need for me to do the long form copy. Eventually I made test that but for right now it’s still working and I’ve got the processes already developed. My teams handles all that and since it’s working … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it type stuff, you know what I mean?
Marco: Yeah.
Bradley: I may test that though.
Marco: I like that. But if you remember that the deal that I made with my attorney is it had goals; it had goals that I had to meet as far as call volume. And so I had to keep increasing the call … I didn’t have to just show a steady stream. Of course, I had to continually increase the call volume in order to get her to pay more and more and more and more and more. Each time we reached one of the call goals, the monthly went up and it has gone up. You’ll reach a saturation point where you just can’t do anymore but you also want to keep it up there.
And I’m not changing anything that got me up there. I’m not gonna try changing it and then have it fall off and her say, “Well, this month I’m paying you less.” That’s not gonna happen so I’m trying to avoid that at all costs.
Bradley: Okay. Mike has got several questions here just for future reference. I really appreciate you coming and asking questions, man. That’s exactly what we encourage you guys to do. Just for future reference though, it’s only fair to post one or two questions and then wait until other people to post some more questions just because it’s not fair to take up too much time. That said, I’m gonna run through these really quickly guys. Okay. The first one is, “I need help with the following questions.
  Should We Use The SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Increase The Power Of A Tiered Syndication Network?
For increasing power to syndication networks should we use the SerpSpace link building service?” Yeah, you can. [Daddy 00:29:52]who’s been with me for six years now, he’s amazing. He’s a link builder. He’s absolutely amazing. We’re gonna be launching that in our store, MGYB, in the next few weeks. I think it’s the next product that’s coming. Is that correct, Marco?
Marco: That’s correct.
Bradley: Okay. Any ETA when that’s gonna be available?
Marco: Within the next two weeks.
How Does The RSS Authority Sniper Fits Into The Video SEO Plan Laid Out In The Battleplan?
Bradley: Okay. That said, within the next two weeks we’re gonna have daddy working, in our … it’ll be available in MGYB. But in the meantime, yeah, absolutely. It’s the same guy, so no question. Number two is, “Can you talk about where RSS Authority sniper fits into the video SEO plan as laid out in the Battleplan? Should this be an add-on to everything else we were supposed to do for video SEO?” It doesn’t have to be but it can, certainly, help. Guys, to be clear, RSS Authority sniper is the software. It’s a software that helps you find RSS feeds that are relevant. That’s what that does.
It’s a one-time fee. It’s a software that will just help you to find a relevant feeds and it will create the spliced RSS feed from the different content feeds that you find. The magic of it is the subscription, which is the add-on service, which is rank feeder, R-A-N-K F-E-E-D-E-R. We can drop a link for that. That’s when you create the spliced feed that goes on the rank feeder server that serves that RSS feed and then that’s where the magic happens. It’s not the RSS Authority sniper, that’s just the tool.
The magic is from the feed that is created that is hosted in rank feeder and what you do with that feed, which is an SEO tool. And it’s an incredibly powerful yet simple SEO tool and that’s what I love about it guys. People like complicated stuff because it makes them feel smart and fancy and shit. I like simple stuff and the RSS rank feeder creates these really powerful SEO RSS feeds by combining relevant and authoritative feeds with your own content and so that it creates what’s called co-citation.
And, essentially, you are siphoning authority from all of the relevant content that you surround your content with within these feeds. And so it’s super, super powerful and if you’re doing any local video ranking, what she released in this newest version of it is geo tagging. You can add geographic data to the feeds and so that’s really, really powerful for local. And so I’ve got a case study going on with that right now where I’m testing for GMB assets. But for videos it’s the same thing. What’s really cool about it is you can actually take a video, just a video URL, and add it to, if you’ve got the front end software, RSS Authority sniper and it will pull an RSS feed from youtube from that video.
In other words, the RSS feed for the channel that that video comes from. And now you can use either that individual video as part of your feed or you can use the channel feed if there’s a bunch of relevant video. In your case Mike, since you’re gonna be having channels that you’re gonna be hosting videos on for video SEO services, you could add your channel feed as one of the content feeds that you create a spliced super feed from … a rank feeder feed from along with relevant content. When I say relevant, I mean topically relevant as well as geographically relevant if it’s for local.
How do you do that? Well, for example, you could go look at for your local, the town, the city that you want to rank the video for, you can go find their local government municipality website and see if it’s got an RSS feed. If it doesn’t, you can still add it as a sticky or a static item in the feed. You can find local blogs, you can find local event calendars that have the RSS feeds. And you can squeeze all the RSS feeds into one and create a spliced rank feeder feed that then you add the Geo tagging into which you can add specific coordinates or you can add what’s called a box, which is like a service area type business, where it will show…
It will, basically, add the geographic relevance from a service area instead of a single map point. There’s all this really cool stuff that you can do with it. What I would suggest Mike … And, yes, it can absolutely help with video SEO, guys and it’s all done and … it’s automated other than setting up the feed itself, which is simple process. And that’s what RSS Authority sniper will help you do in a step by step fashion. But you honestly don’t even need the front end product, you could just do it from the rank feeder dashboard, which is the subscription based product.
And from there, once you set up the feed, it just runs on autopilot. What I suggest doing is gonna Fiverr and using an RSS submit gig costs where it’ll you five bucks to get an RSS feed submitted. The super feed that you create that hosted on rank feeder, you take that feed, go to Fiverr, search for RSS submit. You’ll find a gig … I use one that it submits to 70 feed aggregators and directories and that’s it. It costs five bucks. You send the link, it’s done; two days later, you’ve got it submitted and it just works on autopilot.
You don’t have to do anything else with it so that’s what I like about it. It’s an automated way to continually inject both topical and geographic relevance and create co-citation for whatever content you want to siphon authority to, if that makes sense. Very, very powerful and it’s a simple, simple tool. That’s why I like it.
How Should You Connect The Drive Stacks And Syndication Networks Using The Video SEO Battleplan?
The video SEO Battleplan doesn’t mention syndication networks and drive stacks. Can you talk about that? Where do these fit in to the steps laid out in the Battleplan? Well, syndication networks, you just connect them to your channel. I’m sure you already know that Mike. The video SEO Battleplan, I’m not familiar with what that part of it says but it should say that you would want to connect your channel to a syndication network because that’s just automatic syndication and embedding and back links and social signals and bookmarks and all of that just from just uploading a video.
Drive stacks, I’ve never really used drive stacks for video SEO. Marco may have; I have not. I’ve only used drive stacks for pushing web pages, websites and GMB assets but not for videos specifically. Marco, what about that?
Marco: We’ve used it in conjunction and it works like crazy.
Adam: Okay.
Marco: It really does because you’re creating the three parts of art; Activity, relevance, trust and authority. If you’re embedding a Google property on a Google property, it’s only going benefit. You can’t go wrong with doing it. Either way, you do it and we always embed a video anyway into our drive stacks, it’s part of the process. And why wouldn’t you do that on the G site that you’re creating and create that relationship between your youtube channel and the G site and the drive stack and back and forth. Yeah, do it by all means. It really worked for the stuff that we were doing.
I could see also linking, for example … Without getting too far into the weeds, I could also see using drive stacks to promote an entire channel as well as playlists. Because, guys, remember YouTube Silo Academy? It’s about how to silo a YouTube channel just like you would silo a website and that’s incredibly powerful for video SEO. Again, it’s simple but it’s powerful. And so you could theme mirror your drive stack, like we talk about doing with websites, but you could do that with your youtube channel as well so that you’re basically mirroring the silo from your channel into a drive stack. And I think that that would be very powerful. I haven’t done any testing there, but I’m sure it would work because, again, it’s Google promoting Google.
Marco: Well, I’ll tell you right now. We stopped working in the niche, which is why I mentioned it but we got videos ranked in the gold niche.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Marco: That’s how powerful it is.
Bradley: He says, “If I have my YouTube Channel connected to a tiered syndication network, do I need to go with video powerhouse embeds.” You can. See, that’s the thing. Again, like I said, do the bare minimum to get results. I wouldn’t recommend syndicating a video to your network and then immediately going and ordering 300 embeds. It doesn’t make sense; you might not need that. You might get the results just from your syndication network so why waste the embeds and the any additional effort.
What I would recommend and this is how … Guys, I’ve always done this besides adding the youtube ad into it, the Google ad into the process. Whenever I’ve done video SEO stuff, and I’ve been doing it for years, I would just let it go through my networks and I would it two weeks before I would do anything else because a lot of the times the networks alone. Especially once your networks are aged and they are themed well, which means they have a lot of relevant videos and all that kind of stuff on there, they become more powerful over time.
And so a lot of times just syndicating a video to the network alone, it would rank within two weeks so I wouldn’t have to do anything else. But if it didn’t rank within two weeks, then, I would go and I would order like 50 embeds. 50 embeds and that’s it. And I would drip those out over 14 days. I would select the drip option for 14 days and then at the end of two weeks I would go check it again and again. When I say check it, I just go look at pro rank tracker because it made it real easy to look and see what the results were and if it needed some more, then, I’d put some more in there.
But, I’m telling you, the real magic is gonna also come from injecting real traffic in engagement signals which you can buy directly from Google for pennies guys. I’m not saying don’t do embeds; I’m not saying that at all. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that is the secret sauce now for me. It’s just buying the engagement signals because we know that YouTube will rank on engagement signals alone. You combine those two or three components, embeds, backlinks and traffic engagement signals, those three together are going to make it make it happen.
Should We Use A SerpSpace Tiered Link Building Service To Power Up A YT Playlist/Channel?
For powering up YouTube playlist channel, should we use SerpSpace tiered link building service? Again, that’s what I just said. That’s the same thing that we’re gonna have available in MGYB but, yes, you can do that too. But remember, again, it’s more about … In my opinion you can do that as well. You can do that too but I would focus more on engagement signals is what I’m trying to tell you. You can do both, don’t get me wrong, but if I had to choose one over the other I would probably do engagement.
I don’t know … I’d just do both. Why? Because I don’t have to choose one or the other. I’d do both. And that’s where I’m seeing the most results. Do v2 users get an upgrade for free to Battleplan v3? And I would say no, but am I wrong?
Herman:No, it’s not free but your ROI is there and we keep this price to low on purpose and we’re gonna do our best to keep it there.
Bradley: Yeah, it’s priced so low guys. Mike, you can afford it, I promise. Tim says …
Chris: Hey Bradley, hang on a second before you. When you read the next question include what was added by Adam above because he commented in YouTube and I would like this answered all at once.
Bradley: Where did Adam comment on there?
Adam: I posted a picture, you’ll see it keep going up.
Are Drive Stacks Not Effective Anymore?
Bradley: Okay. Sorry to jump in with a downer question. I was looking at DriveSpace, I was going to buy your course, got told by someone over at SerpSpace that DriveSpace aren’t really effective anymore. Tim, Tom said, Google said all links do no follow. It doesn’t matter. It’s a Google property. But do you wanna comment on that Marco? I’ll let you take that one.
Marco: Oh yes. We’ve been trying not to knock SerpSpace because it doesn’t make sense. We worked with them, we went; we each went our way. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing ours. Now, if …
Bradley: [Inaudible 00:41:42]no ill will there.
Marco: There is absolutely none on my part but ‘if’. And remember that I’m using a conditional ‘if’. If it’s true that somebody in SerpSpace said that DriveStacks don’t work because the links are no follow, then, they can kiss my ass because they’re absolutely fucking wrong and don’t understand the basic principle behind RYS academy reloaded. We don’t rely on those motherfucking do follow links, man. Read the fucking course. Read my shit. Go read the fucking black book you mother fucker, if you said it. Now if you didn’t, please excuse me. Tim may have misinterpreted it.
Bradley: Yeah, that could be it.
Marco: I went there and I said it. If you did that, then it’s on. Show me my shit doesn’t work. Don’t tell me because I can show you a thousand examples where my shit’s working, fuck you, not you Tim.
Bradley: Well, tell us how you really feel. There you go. Yeah, they work. In fact, I’ve got… I can show this. I’ve got a GMB off page SEO test that I’m doing right now in isolation guys. These are the nine different tests that I’m doing right now specifically to move a Google my business assets using all of these different off page SEO methods in isolation. In other words, I’m testing each one of these where that’s the only thing I’m doing besides the on page. It’s these off page things here? What I’ve got listed right here.
I’m doing all of these right now. I’ve got multiple tests going right now because I just told you guys, we’ve been building out assets like crazy and I got a ton of them that need help. They’re not ranking yet; they’re not producing so I’m testing all these different methods to figure out which ones produced the best results, move the needle the most. And then from there I’m gonna set up tests to start combining the methods to see which combinations move. This is gonna be a longer term process where I’m gonna be testing all these things so that I can really figure out what the magic combination is.
That’s what I’m trying to do because I wanna be able to provide the same instructions or the same kind of roadmap, or Battleplan if you will, for you guys so that you can get results too. And you can see that DriveStack was number two. I had to drive stacks so every one of these on testing on two different properties because if we see the same result on two properties, we know that it’s likely going to occur on a third or fourth test. If we see a good result on two properties for the same test and we see good results on one good and poor results on another well, then, it’s inconclusive and we need to test further anyways.
If we see two with poor results, then, we know it’s likely that it’s not going to work for a third or a fourth; so that’s what I’m doing right now. And so for drivestacks I’ve got two assets that I’ve got set up and I ordered the drivestacks; they’re about just over the three week mark now, which is usually when it takes 21 days or so before you start to see any movement at all from a drivestack. And I’ve already seen a significant jump in one of my GMB assets from a drivestack. I’m not gonna show you those here guys but, again, all of this case study data is going to be released in the mastermind as I have it.
And the drive stack absolutely will move a Google my business asset. Why would it? Well, because it’s another Google property. I don’t give a shit whether it’s follow or no follow links. Guys, I stopped caring about that a long time ago. Yes, you can still get better. You can do certain things with a do follow link that you can’t with a no follow link but does that mean no follow links don’t help ranking? No, absolutely not. It does absolutely help. And how do I know? I had somebody do a negative SEO to me, well not to me but what a client’s website, and they didn’t 100% anchor text, exact match anchor text links that were all no follow.
And guess what? We ranked number one for that keyword. He screwed up apparently. And we know, for a fact, that youtube links are no follow links within the descriptions and such yet YouTube Silo Academy works. Why? Because even though it’s a no follow link from one YouTube video to another in the description, it’s a YouTube linking to YouTube. I don’t know whether page rank passes through that or not but Google still treats that and it still will move the needle, whether it’s do follow or no follow up. Again, I wouldn’t get so caught up in that anyways, really.
Marco: And, by the way, we have the million link case study into a drive stack to rank in a major metropolitan area, one of the most competitive niches in that area. You’re aware of that?
Bradley: Oh, yeah. I remember that.
Marco: We’ve shared it in in the mastermind. You know what it is, man; and it’s ranking to this day with the porn links in the link profile. We have indexed porn links and it’s ranking man. Come on man, tell me my shit doesn’t work. Kiss my ass.
Chris: There’s that example again. Guys, that’s a drive stack at work right there and it’s been since May of 2015. We’re going on four years now guys. It’s still there. It’s drive stack stuff; never done anything to it ever since. It’s still there, four years later guys outranking all the other Virginia SEO agencies and it’s just a drive stack that I built, a very crude one that I built on a Saturday when I first learned about it from Marco and that was in May of 2015 and it’s still there today. No, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Go on. Move on. [Crosstalk 00:47:07]. Don’t create more competition for yourself, man.
How Do You Maintain A Persona Account Without Ever Leaving Footprint Issues To Google?
Bradley: Michael says, “Hey guys, Marco made a comment a month or so ago that has been gnawing at me ever since.” That happens often, Michael. He says, “The idea is that we maintain a firewall between us as individuals and the persona accounts we create when setting up all of our accounts. Marco said essentially that it’s better in Google’s eye to be a giver instead of a taker by buying Google services such as upgrading their G suite account, et cetera or buying ads. There’s a lot of things you could do. You could pay for the additional storage in drive, there’s a ton of things that you could do.” That is correct.
How does a Google persona do that and still maintain the firewall between me and the persona account? If I pay those services using my credit card then the firewall is broken and the footprint connection is made for Google to see. That may be so Michael but I can tell you I’ve got tons of accounts out there that still use a handful of billing options and I haven’t had any issues with that. Honestly, I’m not saying that it isn’t a footprint that could cause some issues, I’m just telling you personally I haven’t had any problems with that; and I’ve got multiple accounts that use pretty much the same billing details.
That said you can also get … I know we were talking about it in the POFU live group. Adam was chatting with one of our members about using privacy.com or those types of accounts where you can get virtual credit cards and things like that. Now apparently, the prepaid cards, Google doesn’t like those but I’ve used some prepaid cards in the past or virtual cards. NetSpend is one that I’ve used in the past that you could create a credit card and then get virtual card numbers to use for online services.
In other words, you log in and it will give you a new unique card number that you could use for an online service that you’re not using the same card number across multiple online services in case there was a breach so it’s unique and only to that one. Anyways, my point is I’ve used those in the past and that’s worked too. Marco, can you comment on that? Because I don’t know of it really causing a footprint issue. I could see the potential for it but I haven’t experienced that.
Marco: No, I have a bunch of stuff on my card too and I have multiple cards so my reference was to that. The persona, I bet you have family and you have friends that you can reach to and my friends don’t mind because they know that I’m covering whatever I spend on their credit card for that month. It’s all set to automatically repay. Now the bitch is went when I have to update to a new credit card; now that gets into a mess. But, of course, you should have a VA doing that. You don’t do all of that. It’s the same thing that I do with Google, my business listing.
I just don’t like have having everything on just one card because if something happens, then, I’m screwed. But if I have multiple cards and I have multiple things going then it’s protected because Google isn’t gonna hit all of them all at once, especially the different names, different things. That’s how I do it. Now, how you figure it out, that’s up to you Michael. There’s no one way to do this thing but you just have to figure out a way that’s worked for you and where you’re comfortable putting these sets of assets so that it works for you.
Bradley: There you go. This is just getdivvy.com. This is a virtual credit card with two different card types, burner cards, which are disposable credit cards, one time usage or subscription cards, which is probably what you would need for Google ads type stuff. But, again, you could just have to test that. But, again, just do this, go search virtual credit cards and just look through some of the offers. Privacy is the one that we talked about in the POFU live group but I don’t know if those work or not. Again guys, just go test some of these and find one that works for you.
Marco: And, by the way, I’ve tried using debit cards and Google won’t go or prepaid and Google won’t go for those. That’s why I think you need a subscription type card, which is what divvy had two different options. I think a subscription type card would work but you’d have to test. I can’t promise you that.
Hernan: That sounds like it would work because you have privacy it was definitely not.
Why Can’t We Use The RSS Feed From A GMB Account As A Trigger Point To Syndicate To A Branded T1 Network?
Bradley: Okay. Will says, “Bradley, is there a reason why I couldn’t just take the RSS feed from my GMB account and then use it to trigger my FTTT account to syndicate these GMB posts on my branded T1` network? In other words, create all this applets to each property and off it goes. Wouldn’t it have more power to my GMB post or when all these T1 properties linked to posts, what do you think? Yeah. And Will I answered you up here briefly but that’s exactly what syndication academy update webinar next Thursday, which was February 14th valentine’s day at 3:00 PM.
I’m gonna be hosting the update webinar, the next syndication academy update webinar, and I’m specifically talking about … Well, Google plus is dead now. What? Because that was one of our big social hubs and syndication network or syndication academy, excuse me. But then I’m gonna be talking about GMB post syndication; I’ve been testing that. Again, that’s right here. That’s on my GMB, post-test, syndication networks and GMB posts. I’ve been testing that and it is working. I’m seeing some movement so we’ll talk about that there and then. But yeah, you can absolutely do it. The short answer is yes. Can you ? Yes, you can.
Is It Possible To Pay To View The Recording Of A 2-3 Hr Google Ads For YouTube Videos?
Okay. Good question. Lisa says, “I’m just learning about the two to three hour Google ads youtube video that you heard that occurred last week. Is it possible to pay for the recording of the class?” Yeah, we just talked about that Lisa. It should be still available for 55 bucks. Am I right, Adam?
Adam: Incorrect. We took it down. It’s only available in the mastermind. I realized we had some confusion internally about that but I posted up there above.
Bradley: Oh shit. Okay. All right. Well, there you go Lisa. Come join the mastermind then. It was up guys for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, if the window’s closed, it’s closed. I just produce the training, I don’t make the rules; apparently they do. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please.” Yeah, Frankie, I read through this and I gave a brief answer there but I did want to spend a few minutes on this and we’re running out of time guys and I apologize. But I do want to spend a couple minutes on this. Frankie says, “Hey guys, some help please having a rather big problem.
How Would You Manage A Competitor Email Threatening Legal Issues Of A Rank And Rent Towing Websites?
I have a rank and rent towing website for two to three years now. Today a competitor’s contacted me and said I’ve only changed the location details. He said, City County and city of laws prohibit an operation such as yours to operate unlicensed. We will take legal action as well as communicate to the county towing regulations of your unlawful internet practices as well as the city of city of whatever. We are a legitimate business and pay for licenses, insurance, and taxes; you are a fly by night website with nothing except the selling leads. You have been warned. Is any of this true? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Should I be worried or is this BS?”
Okay, I don’t know whether this guy is just blowing smoke up your ass because he’s a jealous competitor or if that’s really true; but you need to find out if that is true. If you’re going to be operating lead generation in that industry, you need to make sure that you’re complying with the laws or else you could be, potentially, in trouble Frankie. And so I would recommend that what you do … However, that said, I wanna be really clear here guys. I started to type all this out yesterday Frankie but I didn’t because I figured it would take me too long to type number one, but number two, it would be easier just to explain it.
Yelp doesn’t have to have proper licensing and insurance to advertise or to have a listing from a towing company so why should your website has to have proper licensing? Well, because if you’re using a pseudo brand, a generic name brand, that company … that generic or pseudo brand company, a fake company essentially is not licensed. It doesn’t have proper insurance. But if you have a service provider that you have a good working relationship with … What is a good working relationship?
Well, to me, that’s a service provider that has been paying on time that I have good rapport with, I communicate well with, and the pays on time essentially. As long as you have a good working relationship with the towing provider that you’re selling your leads to why not just rebrand the website for them. Rebrand it; put their name on it, put their logo on it. Keep your tracking number on it but put their license number in the footer and all that. Do all the stuff that is required to comply with those laws. If they’re a licensed towing contractor or towing company, they’re gonna have all the proper licensing and everything.
By the way, if you’re selling leads to companies that require licensing, guys, make sure that they have licensing. I don’t sell tree service leads to companies that don’t have contractor’s license. You see what I’m saying? And proper insurance, a liability insurance and all that stuff. That’s one of the things that I require from the contractors I sell leads to because I don’t want that to ever come back and bite me in the ass. You see what I’m saying? My point is, Frankie, it could be just a jealous competitor but it’s in your best interest. Ignorance is not an excuse and so you should find out if that’s true.
And then also, like I said, if you have somebody that is licensed and insured and all that, then, why not just rebrand it for them? You still own the domain, you still maintain control of the website, you maintain control of the tracking phone number but you put their brand, their logos, maybe their address on it but it would be your phone number and then put their licensing number or whatever is required to be displayed on the marketing collateral for that type of business. Just like realtors have to have their license number, financial institutions have to have all kinds of regulation stuff in the footers of their site, you may have to do the same thing.
That’s the easiest fix that I can tell you; otherwise, get the hell out of that industry. And just so you guys know, one of the first lead gen sites I ever created … the first two lead gen sites I ever created one was for carpet cleaning and one was for locksmiths in the state of Virginia. And I found out, very similarly to what Frankie is saying, that there’s a ton of regulations in the locksmith industry. I don’t know if it varies state by state but in Virginia it’s heavily regulated. Fortunately, I found out before I had caused any damage and I just, basically, took the site down and I just abandoned it.
Does anybody wanna comment on that? Okay, moving on. All right, we’ll try to answer another one or two and then we’re gonna wrap it up guys because we’re almost at the 60 minute mark.
How To Evaluate Keyword Difficulty?
Mike has another one. He says, “A question about keyword research. How do you even evaluate keyword difficulty? I’m using ahtres and they show a lot more keywords and other tools but their keyword difficulty score seems to be way off the mark.” Mike, I gotta be honest with you man. I don’t trust tools and their competition metrics. I honestly don’t. I test.
I stopped following two metrics for keywords and stuff a long time ago. I don’t care. I just go test. I know you’re doing video SEO so how hard is it for you to just run a spam campaign, it’s called keyword poking. Just go poke the keywords that you wanna instead of relying on tools and what their proprietary metrics are. That’s just proprietary metrics. It might be well-educated proprietary metrics but they’re still proprietary metric. Just go test. Just run a spam campaign of poking campaign for all the keywords you wanna check and just go determine which ones are easy to rank for by the results.
That’s my opinion. Anybody else have a different opinion? Okay. You guys are quiet. Mike says, “Should we be sending links to entity stacks or branded brand once they sit a bit or should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Should we’d be sending links to an entity stack or branded brand once they sit a bit. Oh, okay. I’m sorry, I misread the question. Yeah, usually I would wait until there was a few pieces of content posted, what I call seasoning the networks before I would start hammering with links guys. That should be in the Battleplan by the way because that’s standard operating procedure.
We’ve talked about that many times about the order and the timeline of which I would apply or methods; and so, typically, I’d order the syndication network while my blogger is preparing the content. Well, I always said three to five posts. My blogger would prepare content for three to five posts that once the syndication network came back, she would schedule the post to go out and we drip out three to five posts over the course of one to two weeks. And then during that time I would order the link building package, while the posting is being done over that one to two week period.
Because there’s, obviously, a delay from the time we ordered to the time the link starts being built to the time the links gets submitted for indexing. And so, usually, by the time the link building campaign was completed the first initial batch of posts had been posted which had seasoned the network, so it seems a bit more natural. Again, guys, I try to do things more naturally now than I ever did in the past and it just seems to work well. And that’s typically how I would do it. So, yes, you can send links to it but I would recommend that you season your network a bit first; send some activity, consistent activity, through it but via publishing.
Should We Be Sending Links To Entity Stacks Or Branded IFTTT Ring Once They Site A Bit?
“Also, should we be filling more content on things like BlogSpot?” Well, I don’t know what you mean by that other than when you first get to network, if you’ve ordered it from us, it should already have one piece of seed content on it. If it doesn’t, then, if you’re building it then you should be adding a piece of seed content when it’s built. Otherwise it could just look spammy to begin with. And I also don’t … And that’s part of the reason. By the way guys, we add a piece of seed content from our networks because I don’t recommend that you have a brand new web two network or property that you automatically start syndicating posts to because that can get your accounts terminated.
Because, remember, web twos don’t like automated publishing. Most platforms don’t like automated publishing so that’s why we put a piece of seed content on there because by the time you get the network back, that piece of seed content has been published on that particular property for a few days, at least, before you start publishing automatically via IFTTT. I recommend that you do that. Just put some seed content on it and let it sit for a few days. Let it marinate and then you can just add additional content through syndication is what I recommend.
“Where can you get a T-shirt?” Come join the mastermind. There you go. I think we’re almost done. YouTube ads … Yeah, I wish we could do that honestly. That’s a really good course man but I don’t make the rules I just make the training. Michael says, can one of you … There you go. See all these people are asking for it. Wow, we might have to open that up Adam. You might have to twist your arm. Is he still here.
Adam: [Inaudible 01:01:45].
Bradley: You might have to twist your arm. We got a lot of people asking about this youtube ads webinar again, man. All right. Jay says, “Brad …” I got to go guys. I’m gonna try to answer just this. Yeah, look at this, another 55. Wow, we might have to open that up guys. If we’re gonna do it, it’ll be for a limited window.
Does An Adwords/YouTube Branding Campaign Improve Maps Rankings?
I’m gonna answer Jay’s question; it gonna be the last one. “Bradley, I just want a clarification on your ad words youtube branding campaign. Is there a correlation that they improve maps rankings or is that dependent on where the traffic is directed … maps, listing, homemade?”
Yeah, Jay and I covered that in that training that I was just talking about which, apparently, is closed right now. Specifically, the training was about how to rank the video but at the very, very end of it I talked about what you can do with that. Because the traffic from those videos, if you have your targeting set up correctly, which is super … I’m telling you guys, the targeting options inside Google ads has gotten really, really, really good. I mean, really good. And so you’re buying traffic from it a relevant audience guys. That’s crazy. That’s awesome. That’s great and that’s what makes it work so well .
It’s because Google knows that audience; they’re Google users. Google has them in specific buckets. They know that they’re within a specific geographic area. They know that they’re in market for particular services or products. And if you have a video that you are … Long story short, I was talking about doing it specifically for ranking videos but at the very end I talked about how if you do have a relevant audience that you’re targeting, then, you will get clicks. I just showed you in the screenshot, which I must have closed down, that I didn’t get a lot of clicks but, remember, those clicks are heavily weighted guys because it’s highly relevant.
And so you can send the clicks, the target URL, within the ad itself so the destination URL. When they click the link in the ad, where does it take them? You can direct that to a GMB map or a GMB post or a GMB website, whatever you want. And so that depends on where you want to send the traffic. But can it? Yeah guys, because you’re injecting relevant traffic and engagement signals to whatever property you want. And I’m doing almost everything exclusively inside Google ecosystem now because of GMB stuff. I’m not even building WordPress sites now. I hope to not have to build them again, but I’m sure it’ll happen.
Marco: Before you go on, I have a follow up since I saw that post again. If there is someone saying this stuff, I wish that person will come to me. Not with not with rhetoric because anyone can say anything. And I just said whatever the fuck I wanted because I can’t but that’s nothing. Come and show me that it doesn’t work; that when it’s done the way that I show and how I show it’s irrelevant, it doesn’t push, it doesn’t create what I say it does. That’s all I’m saying. If, in fact, there’s someone saying that just come to me because we can solve it. We can work through it.
I’ll apologize. I’ll come live and say, “Look what I’ve been teaching for the past, what, five, six years is wrong. I’m wrong.” But we have the data to back to back up everything that we’ve said about RYS, drive stacks, G sites and the power that they push. We know because we test, we don’t just talk. And I’ll leave it at that.
Bradley: Yeah guys, the things that we teach, it’s real world stuff. We all have our own agencies or businesses outside of semantic mastery and so I test things on my own properties or the lead gen assets and in clients. If I can get results from my lead gen assets that I can repeat, then, I apply them to client properties; and if I can get results there, then I teach about it here or in mastermind and various other platforms. But that’s it. Everything that we do, it’s not theory, it’s been tested. And guys, remember there’s more than one way to skin a cat so what we teach isn’t the only way. There’s other ways to do shit too.
I don’t like it when … And, again, I don’t know if that comment was made or not I just … I’m not talking shit about any other SEO out there or other groups, especially ones that we were partners with and I would expect the same courtesy from others. I made a mistake a few months ago about commenting on a comment that was posted on a hangout, or a hump day hangout, about something that Josh Bazinsky said. And I spoke out of turn because I didn’t clarify or confirm that that comment was even true and I spoke about it and I shouldn’t have and I apologized the next week because I felt that that was wrong.
Like I said, I’m not gonna talk shit about other people because I realize that other people’s methods can work too. See what I’m saying? But to come out and say drivestacks don’t work, well then, just … I agree with Marco, just show where they don’t because we have a lot of proof that shows that it does. And, again, just because it doesn’t work in one application it doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. And that’s all I’m saying so, hopefully, there won’t be a shit storm from that because you know what they say.
Marco: [Inaudible 01:06:53]
Bradley: You know what they say; don’t start none, won’t be none.
Marco: I couldn’t care less if there is. They could just come to me. And that’s what I’m saying, come to me. Let’s work through it and if we can’t, then, we can just find another way to do it. I’m all about it, man.
Bradley: All right everybody, no more Google plus. Rest in peace Google plus. Let’s all have a drink for it and we’ll see you guys next week on the new event page with the same link guys, semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, but it will be a different format. Okay? We’ll see you all next week. Thanks for being here. Thanks guys.
Marco: Bye everybody.
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