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dwtisgay · 2 years

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I've mentioned this before, but what makes skephalo really fascinating is that the entire relationship is documented from the start till now, hours and hours of content and clips where they'd sit together almost daily on stream and talk and hang out because of this you can chart the progression scarily well if you are insane enough to watch all that content. Of course some things are behind the scenes and they are both very good at being theatrical and faking things, badboyhalo especially thus the skephalo issue becomes as this, what is real and what is fake in all that content?

my method with mapping them out was just brute force, collecting information over time and comparing it with other moments to see where the patterns of behavior repeat and where they break, this is a really fucking mentally insane task that I don't wish on anyone but it does explain why skephalo discussions are so lacking in the general sphere because they either draw in the same crowd as karlnap who cant pick up the subtleties (this why a lot of the popular skephalo clips are cringe) or more commonly people at first glance dismiss skephalo as blatantly fake, I know I did at first when I first joined the fandom, but over time I'd get exposed to little bits of inconsistency in their theatrics that made me go hold on? especially with badboyhalo

there are subtle progressions and phases to their relationship that I will divide using years and I will also map out notable moments that I remember

The start

they've first met at the end of 2018 in the infamous "I applied for staff on 50 minecraft servers" skeppy video, bbh was the only person who responded to skeppy because he knew skeppy was a popular youtuber and hoped skeppy making content on munchymc would popularize the server tl;dr of the video is that skeppy keeps "pranking" bbh till bbh has a meltdown and gets pissed, this video is not faked as far as I could tell, bbh did have an inkling, I think, that skeppy might do something, but due to the fact this was their first time interacting I do think his reactions are genuine in it this video blows up and really kicks skeppys brand as a "minecraft prankster" into high gear, skeppy then riding the high of that video tries to milk bad for more content by convincing his mods and admins to force them into calls together and shit like that a couple more videos of this get made and in the last video of this nature skeppy asks people to go follow bbh because he felt like giving back to bbh (and I assume also because he felt bad for harassing this dude) skeppy manages to get bbh to 100k subscribes, bbh at this point has been on youtube for almost 7 years and he hasn't cracked past 10k at the time, bbh is VERY thankful to skeppy for this to the point of crying - skeppy feels morally good about this now its never explicitly said by badboyhalo but the way he phrased things to me in the early years whenever he'd talk about his relationship with skeppy is that he felt so thankful that he would've let skeppy get away with a lot and boy did skeppy take that sentiment and run with it

2019

so with that running start I am sure they've realized they're a great pair, talked about how they wanted to handle videos and what their boundaries were going forward, right? wrong 2019 skephalo is very rough play, skeppy is exactly what you'd expect from someone who would do prank videos in that time period: 0 empathy 0 social awareness skeppy had two ways of creating content at the time, prerecorded videos and more commonly going live with a prank/plan in mind and winging it and then editing down the stream later a decent amount of the prerecorded videos are faked I am very sure of, like the pizza video, due to later inconsistencies that they'd drop but there are multiple videos and theories online about that so I wont discuss them I am more interested in the ones that are not faked and they more often than not happen to be the livestreamed ones! in those not faked ones I am very certain they've never had conversations about boundaries because guess what? they've had them live instead! in the middle of it happening! a notable prank of skeppys at the time is that he'd go live without telling bbh, join a call with him and keep streaming for hours with bad unaware that what he is saying is broadcasted to hundreds/thousands of viewers oh he'd tell bad eventually, when the time is right and the moment is funny and bad would get pissed and it would net the views and rinse repeat, there are plenty recorded instances of streams of this nature that I could find and in each and everyone bad immediately after finding out tries to calmly tell skeppy not to do that and skeppy would promise till next time, this prank definitely was one of the shorter lifespan pranks it stopped happening pretty fast but it showed me a couple of things -they never talked about the types of pranks -skeppy cant actually understand when bbh is being serious and when he isn't when they are live and it took upwards of 3+ times of bbh telling him to stop I think bbh had to tell him to stop in private and that's when skeppy got the hint I am not saying badboyhalo was completely a doormat victim in all of this, bbh is very smart he recognized that him and skeppy are growing in popularity, he knew what people wanted to see from him and he leveraged this, I think his reactions were 60/40 fake to real a lot of the time bbh didn't trust skeppy but he could trust in not being able to trust him, and he was willing to let skeppy do things like that because he figured it was worth it in the long run after skeppy did the live streaming without telling him, bbh started becoming wary of it knowing that it is a possibility with skeppy, and he'd check skeppy's channel to make sure skeppy isnt live, to circumnavigate this skeppy would stream instead on his backup channel starting a really fucking insane cat and mouse game but hey thats their entire relationship also talking about shipping and possible feelings in this time period I definitely think there isn't much to be seen, a lot of popular clips are from this period but they are just skeppy's repressed gay pandering coming into play while bad is just trying to avoid it/stay neutral skeppy was the first to tell bad he loves him to get him to soften up after a prank and bad immediately throws it in his face very coldly

amusingly it was also in this time period, after skeppy singlehandedly spawned a ship by himself, seems he got too fruity for his birches and said he was "uncomfortable" with being shipped with bad, while he was telling bad that he wanted to kiss him, that he loved him etc etc this isnt to say there was nothing there, I definitely think skeppy got a crush on bbh first

here is the clip that killed skephalo in 2019

things of note: he never joked about wanting to kiss a6d or hug him or told him he loved him not even once (also the excuse is very dreamcore, bisexual denial) skeppy has talked a LOT about kissing bad, but one of the bigger moments that is still big till this day is this clip

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now funnily enough the stream where this clip is from actually illustrates perfectly why I think badboyhalo faked a lot of his reactions, the stream starts out with skeppy griefing bad for around half an hour, bbh at the time was known as "the angriest man on youtube" and he'd spend a lot of the time just having breakdowns and yelling at stream because he knew that's what people wanted from him but it definitely took its toll on him in that stream alone he goes from riled up and shouting and breaking down to quiet and hanging out with skeppy and talking with him and messing around like pals, he is exhausted after the shouting but he seems generally okay to be around skeppy for extended periods of time because he enjoys his company another stream that is always brought up to the counter that bbh wasn't faking it point at the time is his birthday stream, where the memes and bullying got so intense he starts crying

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again without context it looks fake, but things of note -bbh is a very easy crier -this was a huger wave than usual of memers -bbh immediately moves on after and goes into his "shouty persona" my assessment is that he probably cried for real because it was overwhelming or tiring to him/he was having a bad day but he knew there wasn't much he could do about it a common thing bbh does is he tells people to "stop" and it just makes things worse, he is aware of this and most of the time utilizes it to his advantage (telling meme donos to stop, increases the donos) but I do think when things get rough he doesn't actually have a failsafe on how to handle things when they get overwhelming so he just defaults to asking people to stop which backfires the 2019 era in a nutshell is VERY blurry boundaries, exhausting to watch and has some of the most fascinating interactions I've ever had the displeasure to witness between 2 humans who still say they like each other , this period of time held a lot of mixed emotions from both parties they definitely were fond of each, skeppy would let bbh track his location irl fairly early on in their friendship, and then 3 months from then you'd have bad telling skeppy that he wouldn't even consider them friends

2020

okay moving on to greener pastures, 2020 has skeppy maturing and them getting closer, MUCH closer than they were before, if you clicked on any of the previous videos or looked them up in 2019, I'd like you to compare it with this shit

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this was in the middle of 2020, in the dream smp so what happened in the time period between? absolutely no clue in much the same way I think if you are stuck with someone you hate long enough you can start to like them, or if you stare a stranger in the eyes for 10 minutes you fall in love - I think they just spent SO much time around each other mapping out how the other thinks and talks that they've just become comforted by each others presence

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skeppy in this period still pulls pranks on bad, but they take on a "pig tail" pulling quality, bbh definitely enjoys this softer side of skeppy and encourages it a lot and they seem to have a better understanding of each others boundaries, live streams become more about hanging out than fucking with each other. The transition is very subtle and very gradual that I'd be hard pressed to point out a moment as a "Moment" sure there are things like skeppys breakdown and bad comforting him you could point to, but I wouldn't call them quintessential moments but a byproduct of their growing closeness in the odd situation they've found themselves in

I glossed over the meetup stuff in 2019, because a lot of it was non serious, the moment where bad offers skeppy to move into his house was later addressed by skeppy in a stream in which I have since frustratingly lost, he says that he was sure bbh was joking and wasn't actually serious about renting him a space or so he assumes anyways there was one serious attempt in early 2019 where skeppy wants him bbh and a6d to meetup at vidcon but bbh throws every excuse in the kitchen sink at him, while skeppy gets more and more upset as the conversation goes on, the video is privated sadly and I couldnt find clips of it but it is the first mention we have of bbh saying he dislikes planes, skeppy offers to drive him, and then bad says he gets nauseous being driven, skeppy tells him he can drive and bad says "ah shucks I am busy" basically bad tries to outright avoid saying he doesn't want to go while making up shitty lies in the process, skeppy is hurt by this and throws a tantrum the reason I bring up the meetup now in 2020 is because in early 2019 you could tell one of the biggest factors bbh didnt want to meetup with skeppy is that he simply didnt trust him but as they got closer and the lines get blurrier, the topic is revisited multiple times and each time with the same excuses or under "joking" pretenses you can tell there is a larger issue here than just bbh not trusting skeppy if you watch this clip even though it seems fake and like they are acting a lot of these issues and fears are genuine and byproducts of 2019 trust issues, skeppy still thinks bad doesn't trust him, and it is causing a rift between them I wish I could show you the 2019 clip because it is a lot less bullshit and uwu theatrics and really shows "oh wow this is an issue between them" but meetup things aside 2020 marks them as obscenly fond of each other, and can almost finish each other's sentences by the end of it, they have some issues with communication still and they default to theatrics instead of talking about it but overall its not 2019 and thats great, I'd say this is where skeppy's crush properly flourishes and his obsession with bbh starts to really kick into gear, and bbh loves and enjoys this

2021

can't start a year without a drunk stream where you ask 20k viewers if they know if your crush is straight or not what I am referencing above is the since deleted best decision any content creator could do once they get to a legal drinking age, which is stream it live! skeppy turns 21, does a drunk stream and in front of god and his people asks chat if they know if bad is gay, keeps repeating bad's name while giggling, acts like a fool around him and is generally just embarrassing with such a great start to the year you can tell they got worse in their totally heterosexual behavior, which frankly I didn't think was possible

now going back, that's a good question to ask, is bad gay? a better question would be, is skeppy? skeppy has demonstrated over the years so far an issue with hypermasculinity that he only starts to shed once he meets bad, he only does soft gay shit solely with bad and not a6d who has his own masculinity issues going on that no one cares about skeppy fucks, as I am sure will come as a surprise to some of you, he is a very successful fuckboy from the offhand mentions he tends to drop here and there, it seems to be just a girl thing but due to the influence bbh has had on him I would not be surprised if he started to consider more and that influence is very considerable, bad is soft and very in tune with his emotions, skeppy starts matching this and he also becomes really soft, and starts acting in frankly bisexual fuckboy disaster ways I wasn't kidding earlier when I said this year was much gayer than 2020, their voices got even softer, skeppy ditched the pretenses and stopped griefing and pranking bad outright, and all the content they made together that pretended to be that was just filled with so much love and adoration and respect I honestly feel disgusted watching it at times I think this is the year where bad starts really liking him back hard, and that's why the tone shifted the only way I can describe how bad talked, interacted and or did anything skeppy related was infatuation and it wasn't all theatrics, he'd manage to make any and every topic about skeppy simply because that's where his brain was constantly at this year

speaking of bad's infatuation this is the year when the egg arc was also introduced and its plotline is nowhere near subtle and it puts every other romance coded ship on the server to shame bad gets infected by the egg, skeppy sacrifices himself so bad can continue to live free of its influence, bad doesn't want to live without skeppy and thinks kissing him will free him but when that doesn't work he throws himself back again at the egg bargaining with it to give skeppy back

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now if you watched this without knowing about the whole skeppy jokes about kissing thing you'll note that this is probably just pandering and you wont be fully wrong, but I just explained how skeppy went through a phase where he regretted doing the kissing jokes and how bad tended to stone wall him when he did in 2019, now compare to this, this is what makes skephalo intriguing this is also the year where the skephalo renaissance happens, mostly by bad liking unhinged kissing fanart and showcasing art of him and skeppy making out with tongue on stream - but skeppy isn't also blameless, he draws himself choking on bad's dick in gartic, amps up the flirting, and bares his heart to him multiple times etc the big elephant in the room by this point is the meetup, why isn't it happening when they are so fond of each other? how does skeppy feel about it when before he saw it as a sign that bad didnt trust him and still held him at arms length and that upset him, did they simply move on from it? is it still in the background?

how can they be this close with that between them?

you know how I said before I cant tell you a specific moment where their emotions and tones shift? well I can now, the 2021 gayness uptick happened specifically around march-may, so everything I wrote above for this year barring skeppy asking chat if bad is gay, started full force around those months the difference is so marked and stark that it just jumps at you full force I cant tell you in certain terms why, but I can put on my little tin hat and speculate it had something to do with them finally talking about said elephant! since to me that was the only thing stopping them from getting closer

around march bbh and skeppy made a deal that they would meet before the summer is over and the months ticked by with no indication of them meeting but the odd thing was, they only seemed to grow flirtier and more into each other - which you would think would negate my theory but hold on! by july (7/15/2021) bbh was actually, and every seriously considering going to vidcon and he seemed he would go through with it too and this took a LOT out of bad, he spent 4 or so hours explaining to puffy and skeppy why he was so afraid of vidcon reusing a lot of the same old things he'd say in the past, and adding in more things like how he wants to meet skeppy before they go to vidcon and if they dont they will just ignore each other at vidcon, but instead of skeppy taking it personally and getting upset with him like he usually did they were literally on the same page for once, skeppy even said that he just wants to do whatever bad was comfortable with and that there is no pressure so, my analysis on why they got so close is that, bbh finally explained to skeppy his fears and reasons and skeppy finally understands that its not an issue with him, they've probably affirmed how much they care for each other and assuaged their anxieties and skeppy is willing to wait because it seems that bad DOES want to meet up eventually

in a youtube video I have since misplaced and I am too tired to search for bad goes "me and skeppy are in agreement that our first meetup shouldn't be in vidcon and we will just ignore each other" skeppy previously would've yelled at how incredulous that is and would've been hurt and taken it personally

but now he finally understands and agrees with bad because he wants this to be perfect for him you can even see in the first clip I sent in the 2020 portion that bad mentions he wants it to be 100% at around 13:30 minutes and bad says and I quote "he(skeppy) wont accept that" it seems like skeppy finally did the meetup ended up cancelled but there has been no issues between them and they kept going strong with the gay if you want to consume any skephalo content I recommend this year as their peak, honorable mentions being "blow on my dice" ppsat, pride month jackbox, chess stream where andrea and alex ask if they are dating, ant calling them platonic soulmates while drunk and gushing

2022

so where are they now? well...skeppy is not having a good year, his merch company got bought out, he got triple cancelled on twitter and youtube and he has been feeling demotivated about his videos he literally dropped off the face of the earth and the only person in contact with him is bad and the only reason we know this is because bad is still rotten enough to go "oh skeppy told me this" or "skeppy did that!" skeppy still puts out videos with bad but they lack the charm they had in 2021 and he seems to just be doing them for the sake of doing them the mcc bodes well for skeppy getting back into content but I genuinely think he has been traumatized from ever streaming because he is actually self aware enough now and fears he will say something stupid because he does tend to blurt out and do stupid shit if you haven't watched the dnf skephalo mcc video I really recommend skeppy's pov him and bad are really cute

-------------- I could've added so many more clips for each year but that wont actually help you understand skephalo, it isn't defined by definitive moments because they are very good at showing others only what they want to be shown and a lot of their interactions are made with the mindset of entertainment first and foremost I hope I managed to showcase that just because they approach things from a theatrical perspective doesn't mean there isn't much more going on under the hood

Dnf tends to have a lot more raw unfiltered moments, where as skephalos moments are all filtered through a bullshit filter because they just have so much experience with being live for hours together and never saying what they mean ever

#skephalo #be warned this is 4k words slammed out at fuck o clock at night #I wasnt kidding when I said thesis #long post #if I made a typo no I didnt #also I had to reformat this whole thing because the ask got deleted somehow and it refused to post #the things I do for this fandom #Youtube

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rotting-in-your-arms · 4 months

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Let's Plays Over the Years

Posted 23rd December 2023

I found myself thinking about how much the Let's Play format has changed over the years, and came to the conclusion that there are four main "eras" of the genre.

- The Forum Era - This era originated on Something Awful in circa 2006 credited to user "slowbeef", often using screenshots and text descriptions of the gameplay rather than recorded video or commentary. This format was very rudimentary and often, once a game was completed and discussions over, the thread would be archived and forgotten about, left to rot. The Let's Play Archive was founded in 2007 to archive these threads properly in an easily accessible manner, and later expanded to archiving the later YouTube Let's Plays.

- The Classic YouTube Era - slowbeef is also credited with spawning this circa 2007; traits common in this era include low quality video/audio, YouTube's 10 minute time limit, and little-to-no editing. Many of the games played in this era were classic Nintendo and PC games, things easily emulated and captured with free recording software.

Notable YouTubers include:

retsupurae [a duo consisting of Something Awful users slowbeef and Diabetus, with other users being featured occasionally]

Gaming Garbage [a duo consisting of the late Something Awful founder Lowtax and the disgraced Shmorky]

Chuggaaconroy, NintendoCapriSun, ProtonJon [the three forming TheRunawayGuys channel, but all having solo YT careers]

lucahjin

HCBailly

and many more.

- The Modern YouTube Era - Many would say Pewdiepie was the origin of this new era of Let's Plays on YouTube, introducing a webcam to see the player behind the gameplay (not always featured, but definitely the standard), as well as a deeper focus on PC games, especially titles from independent developers. Other YouTubers include Markiplier, jacksepticeye, CinnamonToastKen VenturianTale, ZackScottGames, Tobuscus' gameplay channel TobyGames, and several others.

An interesting difference with this era and those most popular in it is the focus on indie games, especially horror games. Like Pewdiepie playing Amnesia, or Markiplier playing SCP: Containment Breach, and of course most famously, Five Nights at Freddy's. Rarely do you see console titles, AAA games, or games from companies like Nintendo or Sega. This creates opportunities such as Markiplier's ongoing "3 Scary Games" series, with over 100 episodes and counting. In this series he features indie horror games to bring awareness to the titles and their developers, using his platform to support small creators. Other creators collaborate in this format, some of the most popular of which being Grand Theft Auto V and Gmod gameplay videos.

- The Livestreaming Era - This is a nebulous era, with the rise of Twitch (and YouTube introducing livestreaming features to compete with them), many have taken to playing games live on air. Rather than record with live commentary to be uploaded later, this era is exclusive to playing live with audience (chat) interaction and discussion. Many people who got their start in the modern YT era, and even some from the classic era, have migrated to streaming. One benefit of streaming over prerecording is the ability to generate more content; one can stream gameplay for a sum of hours, upload the VOD, and then edit it down into highlight videos (and in the current YouTube landscape, Shorts). Streaming also allows for multiple sources of income, being able to take Twitch subscriptions, donations, or even on-stream sponsorships, on top of YouTube's standard ad revenue (and sponsors there, too). Although, due to the nature of online content creation, this is always a gamble- making money is never guaranteed and many creators have a lot of luck (or networking) on their side when they finally make their break (of course, this applies to the prior two eras, but the prospect of making content creation a job is much more realistic today than it was back then).

I personally grew up with the "classic era", seeing a lot of the modern era too. I was kinda right in-between them, I watched a lot of NCS, RunawayGuys, ScykohPlays if anyone remembers him (though he was actually a few years later), and then Pewdiepie got big. I remember spending a lot of time watching Happy Wheels videos from Pewdiepie, TobyGames, a lot of Markiplier's SCP Containment Breach series and obviously his FNAF playthroughs (I actually rewatched his SCP series a few years back, it was fun). I really respect Mark for showing off indie devs' work on his channel, he's kind of been doing it since he started but he's put more focus on it. I also think it's really interesting that you rarely see him play anything triple-A, same with the other big channels of those years. It makes me wonder if he's ever played Resident Evil or Silent Hill or something, like old PSX or PS2 horror games.

Anyway, sorry for the sort of "stream of consciousness" blogpost. And the lack of site updates in the past couple months. Life hasn't been treating me very well lately. Maybe I'll write a blogpost about it someday. I just felt like writing about something that made me feel a little happy :D.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays too, almost forgot to say that.

#necroblogs #let's play

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1ddiscourseoftheday · 3 years

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💙Fri 11 Dec ‘20◟̽◞̽

Louis' big show is TOMORROW but that may not even be all we have to look forward to from him! Producer Alex Oriet (half of the duo Saltwives, who have worked with Zayn a lot, and he got his start working with 1D) reposted Louis' “new song” tweet to his insta with a caption- “soon”. OMG. Billboard had a 'year in livestreams' feature and wrapped up with Louis', saying “the best is yet to come” and reporting that Louis' show is Veeps' bestselling of the year “in excess of $1 million” (so either over a mil so far or a mil over the next best, hard to say, but it'll be well over a million by the end for sure so either makes sense).“I can't wait for tomorrow!” Louis tweeted, SAME, and “feels so good to be back with the boys getting ready. Can't wait for you all to see what we've been working on!” He included the brand new special Live From London twiiter emoji (!), it's a really cute lil vintage TV with the xx smiley on it, and a pic-- it's him looking over the backstage prep (so many screens) and you can see his hair flowing free and long and lovely! You can also see a piece of paper in front of him with 20 lines on it-- even if it is a set list I imagine some lines say “banter with crowd” and such like (as we saw on Louis' tour set list) but that's still soooo many lovely songs :))). Charlie Lightening says “this is going to be special, can’t wait for people to see what we have planned” and LTHQoffical is hitting us hard with the hype, posting another rehearsal pic (he's holding a beer and they didn't even scribble it out! wow almost like there's nothing wrong with that), and a time zone guide showing 66 cities around the world, and a digital fan pack, and they said more merch will be out tomorrow (heeelllp), and there's a show day itinerary-- ticket sales cut off 4 hours before the stream but much more interestingly, don't reopen (for the 28 hours of rewatch) until TWO HOURS after the start time. While they could (probably should) be allowing time for technical difficulties I much prefer to believe it's because we're getting a LONG SHOW YES PLEASE! I like my Louis shows like I like his hair, as long as he can possibly manage!! So that's plenty that we DO know to be excited about at the moment but the mystery of Louis new label also remains a hot topic nonetheless, with the known high cost of a twitter emoji stirring questions of who footed the bill (not something we're ever likely to find out sadly). If his team really understood us in the least they'd set up a viral video style Q and A where every Q pulled out of the bowl was an intensely detailed bookkeeping or promo strategy type query- tbh the faces Louis (or any one of the boys) would make would be 100x more entertaining than they get from any tired trying-to-be-cheeky standard Q and the answers sure would be!

Harry's prerecorded (months ago!) Jingle Ball performance aired at last and OH MY GOSH! SO GOOD! I think we can all agree (I know right?? I can't believe it either) that the backing band, Free Nationals, were phenomenal, and Harry's performance was terrific, just simply next level versions of the songs and Harry's sound in general. What more could we ask? For me, not much. For the Jingle Bell Ball organizers, well, they might have liked something Christmassy I suppose, maybe a holiday cover song, or a “tour of his home and holiday traditions.” LOL too bad! Whatever, they DID get vocal variations all over the place and oh did they work, a little lyric change in Golden (“I'm hoping someday I'll open”?), Harry in a sunny LA backyard (whose? who knows!) and everyone in not remotely festive Gucci. There were some decorations though! Not xmassy though- they were, can you guess, yes that's right: sky blue. And there was TRUMPET! A horn section, like revenge, is best served cold apparently: all these years on we can only assume Julian Bulian is good and sorry for denying Harry his trumpets cause DAMN did that sound GOOD. Julian may not say it but I will: you were SO RIGHT Harry, trumpets on every song!! Please! In fact, if you just took that guy on tour with you... or any of those people really? He can just have a really BIG backing band how about, then we won't have to argue about whether wanting this to be his band is mean to the old band. Anyway I hope the fan who ran into him in LA this morning told him how much we liked the show-- she did take a distanced pic, Harry is in his running gear (mostly black but bright fruity shoes) and holding a beverage. Oh yeah and Fine Line is now available to stream in “3D audio” (there's a moving in a New Direction from 1D joke in here headline writers, have at it) which is something that apparently only works with an Amazon device and is strange because physicists assure me that all sound is 3D, but what do they know. Anyway I'm sure it sounds great to those who can access it but luckily for me the album sounds great in plebian unbranded sound as well.

In the wake of Liam's no-show livestream yesterday fans are full of theories about what could be going on to cause such a thing, except actually it's only one theory; everyone is quick to ascribe the glitch to management struggles. May I simply say: there are so very very many things that could be happening in a person's life, even in a 1D member's life, that could cause a missed event and reducing any of them to 1 Dimensional figures who only have work related problems does them (and rigorous theorizing) a disservice. I hope we can all agree on wanting what's best for Liam, and that that extends to supporting him even if things are going on that are less glamorous than management villainy. I will ascribe one thing to management though-- I do believe the guys do the bulk of their own tweeting etc nearly always, but @Liam's tweet that yesterday's live didn't happen due to “technical difficulties” and they are “looking to reschedule” is one that I will make the exception for, sometimes you can just feel the PR person behind the screen! Tik Tok said it was rescheduled for next Tuesday, but the tweet was after that sooo hmm. The Billboard article about Veeps of course also talked about Liam (his Halloween show had 3.7 BILLION chat messages my god) and Liam's prerecorded alarm content today is Roman teaching Liam to do a Harry impression. How come when Roman does it it sounds like Harry but when Liam does it he sounds like Roman? Tip to Liam, just call it a Roman impression and you've GOT it!

Meanwhile, Lewis Capaldi weighs in on Niall and whether he (Lewis) enjoys golf with uncharaceristic delicacy; “we have different interests,” he says, and he sympathizes with a fan who said they'd slap him to meet Harry: “I understand.”

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mariaiscrafting · 3 years

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I don’t like the comparisons between Tales and Quackity’s latest stream.

I feel like, every single storyteller on the SMP has a unique method of storytelling. The most common we see, because it is most-easily compatible with livestreaming, is a mixture of improv, very loose scripting, and transitioning between being semi in-character and fully in-character. This is the kinda storytelling we get from most of the Eggpire, the Syndicate - that which was first started by Wilbur, at least on the Dream SMP. There’s also the kinda monologuing and intensely angsty experience we get from a couple streamers, most often from Ranboo. Tommy adopts this method sometimes, too, and Jack has done this kind of RP style since early December. Tommy, however, has sketched out a new kind of storytelling for himself, marked by relatively shorter RP bits, where time is traded for quality and planning.

Now, let’s talk Karl. Karl, from the beginning, with that first Tales stream when he challenged them to create a nation in an hour flat, has always told his stories through loose planning, a focus on builds and atmosphere, and frequent banter and fourth wall breaks. Every Tales episode, I see people complaining about the CCs involved not taking the plot seriously, when that is literally just the nature of any Tales episode. The Tales episodes are not meant to have a huge impact, individually, and they are not meant to be fully-scripted or artful. The focus is always on building and tying each episode to a greater storyline - that of time travel and the In Between. Karl doesn’t seem to be the best at the traditional, fully in-character style of RP we’ve grown used to seeing other CCs employ. So, he works to his strengths, and in my opinion, balances a Dora the Explorer-style knowledge of the plot and the audience with short, impactful storylines. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, and it doesn’t make Tales any less fun to watch than angstier, more immersive storytelling. On the contrary, I think having at least one storyline that is told in a somewhat light, comedic manner, is beneficial for SMP fans who can get emotionally exhausted from keeping up with the heavy topics of normal lore. For example, while the greater SMP tackles death so heavily, deaths in Tales can still be laughed off, while understanding that they still have canon implications. Sometimes, it just nice to not have to genuinely mourn a character and think about all the emotional trauma surrounding their death; sometimes, it’s just nice to make memes about a character’s death and make only lightly-angsty headcanons and fanart about those deaths.

Quackity is, no doubt, revolutionizing RP storytelling within the SMP. He’s using factors we’ve seen in a few others’ styles of storytelling - a stricter outline/script like Tommy, improvised dialogue like most CCs, and cinematic, prerecorded sections like Ponk and Karl - but he’s also exemplifying just how much talent and effort he can put into the SMP and his character’s position in the story. I’m fuckign exciting, and I can say without a doubt that his lore streams will likely bump their way to the top for me, in regards to my own personal preferences.

But still, I fucking hate the comparisons between his and Karl’s streams. Karl’s streams aren’t trying to be like what Quackity created today. Karl’s streams work best with what Karl wants to put effort into, with what Karl is best at doing. Quackity has always had the potential for amazing RP, and he’s clearly a really dedicated guy and probably a good writer, considering the whole career in law schtick. It makes sense that he’d focus on organizing all these CCs together, on making a stricter script rather than a loose take on lore streams, on tackling morality and character-building. It speaks to what cc!Quackity is best at and most interested in. In the same damn way, it makes sense that cc!Karl would focus on including as large and diverse a cast as possible, given that he is known for jumping between content creator groups and befriending people all across the Internet. It makes sense that he would focus on builds, when he is literally one of the only CCs on the SMP to care about aesthetics, and when you consider that his first Tales episode was literally about building a nation within a time frame. It makes sense that he would focus on entertainment, rather than seriousness or immersiveness, given that he isn’t great at RP without breaking the fourth wall and that he’s still pretty new to streaming.

I just think that, objectively, the two styles of storytelling aren’t comparable.

#this is the first of my many many posts im gonna make about this stream lol #quackity #karl #tales from the smp #tftsmp #dream smp #.txt #long post #bangers

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Idk why but somethings feels slightly odd about prerecorded things on twitch. Like yeah a little bit hear or there (like less than a couple minutes per stream) is totally chill, but honestly it felt like half of Quackity’s stream (even though I’m not done yet) was prerecorded, at which point I’m kinda just like, it’s a YouTube video? And you can premiere a YouTube video to get the same effect. Maybe it’s cause I’m newer to twitch, but it just feels weird.

big agree anon, its so weird that on a livestreamed platform, to just play videos with little actual live content. the only thing i'd say i disagree with here is that youtube premieres would have the same effect.

not only is a live youtube chat different from a live twitch chat in how they behave, but most of the dsmp ccs youtube audiences are very different from the people who watch the dsmp on twitch. like, think about how many of the dsmp ccs actually put dsmp content, especially the more plot heavy content, on their youtube channels? practically none of them.

but i will agree that on a technical level, its the same concept, gathering an audience to watch a video for the first time together, a chat the audience can react to live. the only technical difference is that youtube premieres already have the entire video uploaded, while when premiering on twitch, the streamer still has to actually manage the stream.

#asks #dsmp critical #critical

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DSA: Direct Selling and the Virtual Push because of COVID

“ Like most people, direct selling executives are crossing out travel and large in-person gatherings from their calendars. For an industry known for its relational appeal, eliminating the face-to-face factor should be crushing. But instead, many executives are reporting that they feel more connected to their teams than ever before and are experiencing record engagement.”

“I’ve been involved in more field events in the last two months than I have been since I started the company in 2014,” says MONAT President Stuart MacMillan. Connecting virtually has become part of the daily workflow for MacMillan and many direct selling executives like him, as their teams and distributors take part in trainings while experiencing the benefits of connecting from home for both small- and large-scale events. “I still don’t believe there’s any replacement for face-to-face, and our people are itching to get back together—both employees and the field,” MacMillan says. “But I think what we’ve learned is that between those opportunities to get together, there are better ways to do this.”

Increasing Engagement with Function and Fun

This shift to virtual has opened the event doors wider, allowing people who would normally be limited by family obligations or financial flexibility to participate. For SeneGence Founder and CEO Joni Rogers-Kante, virtual events have drastically impacted the company’s attendance numbers. “Only a percentage of distributors go to our events, and ours was never a huge percentage,” Rogers-Kante says. “But we have five times more distributors than we have ever had at a single seminar because it was online, and they just got to sit down and login.”

The SeneGence virtual event sought to emulate a lot of the function—as well as fun—of a live event by passing out virtual awards that instantly appeared across social media channels as names were announced, conducting drawings and shipping prizes to distributors’ houses. While their next company-wide in-person event has been postponed, the SeneGence team is already implementing plans for a conference that will take place in Tulsa. “We think it will be the largest event we’ve ever had because people are so excited to get back together, and we have so many new distributors who can’t wait to actually physically show up at a SeneGence event. We just know it’s going to blow everything we’ve done out of the water.”

“We have five times more distributors than we have ever had at a single seminar because it was online, and they just got to sit down and login.”—Joni Rogers-Kante, SeneGence Founder & CEO

10 Cents on the Dollar, 10 Times the Reach

Twenty-four hours after a recent Mannatech virtual live event, the entire 12-hour event was available for replay. The 6,500 unique visitors, representing a ballpark of 8,000 to 12,000 viewers who watched the virtual event live, quickly multiplied as people shared the content and participated after the event had ended. A traditional Mannatech event hosts 1,200 to 1,500 people.

“For one-tenth of the expense, we were able to connect with six to ten times the number of people we would have connected with,” says Mannatech CEO and President Al Bala. And although event product sales were one-third of the normal amount, Bala says it was offset by the savings in product transport to the event and the convenience of shipping it directly to consumers’ homes. “It was more efficient and definitely more profitable sales than we would have had normally.”

“Even though we aren’t all together, we see you!”

“Going virtual” has a simple ring to it, but executives in the driver’s seat know the challenging behind-the-scenes experience of sifting through broadcasting options and platforms. Arbonne, who planned to launch 13 new products at their live convention this year, suddenly had only a fraction of their usual preparation time to devise communication strategies that would build excitement while playing well through the screen. Social media, which has always assumed a role at Arbonne events, was now critical, and the company leaned hard into these social integrations. To allow the executive team space to focus on engaging with attendees through the chat function, much of the content was prerecorded.

“Virtual GTC 2020 was created in about four weeks, and because of the incredibly pressing deadline, we absolutely learned as we went,” says Arbonne Senior Director of Communications Kristen Gruber. Gruber’s social media team developed teasers, quizzes and other interactive content that posted throughout the event. “This provided a level of engagement to our audience to really say, ‘Even though we aren’t all together, we see you!’”

Despite the fog of uncertainty during the first few weeks of the stay at home orders, LegalShield dove headfirst into creating virtual experiences and may have been the first direct sales company in North America to pivot to an entirely live-streamed international convention on April 4. When it became clear that their planned live event would not take place, the company transformed the auditorium in their Oklahoma headquarters into a full studio with only three weeks’ lead time. From there, they offered 16 hours of training content and recognition from over 40 field leaders and live hosts to more than 10,000 viewers. In addition, more than 5,000 associates joined their two-day Zoom Breakout Trainings before the larger event.

“For one-tenth of the expense, we were able to connect with six to ten times the number of people we would have connected with.”— Mannatech CEO & President Al Bala.

“Our field leaders are extremely creative in using Zoom as a recruiting and training platform,” says LegalShield Network Division President Don Thompson. “They use breakout rooms to host associates and their guests after a presentation for a Q&A session and for associate interaction.”

To not only survive, but thrive in this unprecedented environment, LegalShield’s CEO Jeff Bell has cast a vision for the company as a “digital disruptor” who uses technology to fulfill their company’s mission. The focus for the company is not on their limitations, but rather on how they can innovate and improve and use the tools available to spread their message and keep the field engaged and excited. “We are not at the level of Netflix or CBS,” Bell says, “but we are getting smarter and more successful in producing engaging content.”

As companies expand their live-streams to their international markets, the existing cultural and language barriers will have to be considered. Elepreneurs Chief Impact Officer Garrett McGrath, who also serves as President of the Association of Network Marketing Professionals, is watching as these virtual events begin to take shape on a global, multi-lingual scale. Although these broader events are more complex, McGrath is encouraged by the existing platforms that can do the heavy lifting for the direct sales industry.

Vimeo, a tool the ANMP relies on for its broadcasts, is paired with remote translators who use the Interactio app—which McGrath describes as a flawless application—to tap into the livestream and recreate the content in their listeners’ language.

“All you have to have is a good originating broadcast quality, and that becomes the place from where everybody views the actual convention, even though we’re bringing people in from all over the world,” McGrath says.

Caution: Challenges Ahead

Everyone is more than eager to get back to normal and industry leaders are at the front of the line, hurriedly trying to recreate their office environment from thousands of satellite home offices scattered across the globe where their leaders live and now work. But as the world has quickly discovered, working separately but together has come with its own set of unique challenges, and large virtual events are not immune to these foibles.

Security has been a hot topic for Zoom users (LegalShield reported instances of “Zoom Bombers” during their first few training sessions before password protections halted any further disruptions), but for other, more complex broadcasting platforms, hacking isn’t as much of a concern. The security concern, according to Katapult Events President Erik Johnson, should be privacy. “I wouldn’t put anything out on a stream that you wouldn’t want the world to see,” Johnson says. “Someone at home is likely recording it whether you want them to or not, and it’ll be on YouTube by the end of the day.” For companies who live and die by FTC compliance, it’s a stern warning for leaders. Even if a distributor thinks they’re in a private virtual room with only top-tier leaders, there is great potential that their words will become public.

“Our field leaders are extremely creative in using Zoom as a recruiting and training platform. They use breakout rooms to host associates and their guests after a presentation for a Q&A session and for associate interaction.”— LegalShield Network Division President Don Thompson.

There will also be a fluency issue for older distributors who aren’t used to virtual interactions and for whom these new changes will require a steep learning curve. “I feel sorry for companies that are older and already have their culture set in stone because they’re going to have to switch at some point to this,” RevitalU CEO Andrew McWilliams says.

Even though virtual events are notoriously less expensive than their in-person counterparts, going too cheap can be very obvious. “A lot of people think they can just hop on Zoom and be fine,” says Johnson, who now produces SeneGence’s virtual events. The result of a frugal presentation, however, is fuzzy resolution, glitchy streaming and a visible mouse pointer on shared screens—not the high-quality presentation multimillion- and multibillion-dollar brands should attach their names to.

For the April SeneGence virtual event, Johnson utilized Vimeo for live streaming at the Enterprise level and set up studios at the Oklahoma and California SeneGence offices. With his crew and all of their gear at both locations, they connected the two offices live on camera for a high def broadcast that looked like prime time tv.

As physical events reemerge in the months to come, Johnson warns that virtual events should never be just a recorded version of the live event. Instead, he encourages leaders to plan for physical and virtual hybrids. For example, his crew is building a side stage that is reminiscent of the ESPN Sports Desk for the host of the virtual watch party at one of his client’s upcoming in-person events. Even though one large event will be happening, two different audiences with different attention spans will be watching. By having a dedicated host, he’ll be able to accommodate both.

Facebook Live Fright

As leaders who are used to delivering speeches from stages in loud rooms begin broadcasting from their kitchen table or home office to an audience they can’t see, they’re discovering that stage fright and Facebook Live fright are two different fears and require two different skill sets.

McGrath described his feelings about hosting an eight-hour live event as somewhere between nerve-wracking and exciting. He and wife Sylvia, Elepreneurs Chief Experience Officer, introduced live speakers and announced prerecorded segments and then watched comments and emojis unfold in real-time over an eight-hour stretch.

The stamina required to create these engaging content segments back-to-back for that length of time is similar to expecting sprints in the middle of a marathon. “The biggest concern you always have is: can you keep people’s attention for 12 and a half hours?” Bala says.

But it’s not just the audience’s attention that leaders are concerned about. “I don’t think you can underestimate what it does to the speaker’s energy to talk to a crowd,” Bala says. “When you’re a speaker, it engages you at a different level. You can’t replicate that virtually.”

An Attention Shift

Change can be a dirty word in an industry rooted in tradition, and that’s why McWilliams is choosing to embrace this time of disruption. As people readily accept digital platforms out of necessity, McWilliams says this temporary shift to virtual will now be permanent for his young organization. “I’m never going back,” he says. “It has been the most cost-effective thing we’ve ever done.” In April, RevitalU experienced double-digit percentage growth over March. After their first major virtual event on May 2, the company was up almost 55 percent over April by May 7. “It does not feel like a blip on a radar screen,” he says. “What it feels like is a shift of attention.”

These live virtual events with openly visible comment boxes bring with them a lack of control, but the effect, McGrath says, is unparalleled. “We were very aware that people don’t want a presentation; they want a conversation,” he says. “There’s a risk with a conversation because you don’t know what the other person is going to say, but that’s why people show up: because it hasn’t gone through the corporate whitewash and hasn’t been overly sanitized. It’s spontaneous and real.”

“We were very aware that people don’t want a presentation; they want a conversation.”– Garrett McGrath, Elepreneurs Chief Experience Officer

In the short term, physical events aren’t possible, but even when the restrictions from the global pandemic are lifted, some executives are expecting a slow return as people remain gun-shy about close social interaction and even handshakes. McGrath says the question of when things will go back to normal is the wrong question. “The real question is, between now and then, can we document a plan that people can rely on as proven to work today?”

Is Virtual Really a Success?

There is no industry-wide metric for success when it comes to this new switch to virtual. Still, as many leaders face pent up demand and anxiety swirling around the new normal that has been thrust upon them, the measurement for success will depend upon each company’s specific goals and missions.

For affiliate-focused companies, comment engagement on a Facebook Live event could provide a gauge for distributor reach. Many executives are now reporting a sharp increase in sales during and after virtual events—when distributors would usually be socializing or traveling home—and are using that as their new benchmark for success.

Virtual can’t mimic the adrenaline rush of a packed arena, but industry leaders are approaching this new playing field with cautious optimism. For now, there is convincing emerging data that pivoting to virtual is doing little to harm the health of direct selling companies, and might actually be making a once-in-a-lifetime paradigm shift that offers a glimpse into where the future of the industry might be headed.

“This is here to stay,” Bala says. “It’s just going to become another tool in our toolbox to create that engagement with our associates and for associates to create engagement among themselves.” DSN

VirBELA: The New Virtual Headquarters

Virtual events may be booming, but it will be finding ways to digitally recreate the ordinary daily interactions that will be key for direct selling to weather this storm of isolation and uncertainty. RevitalU has found its solution through VirBELA, a technology platform that allows companies to create a virtual headquarters. With VirBELA, people can come together formally for events, like a conference room where they’ll hear keynote speakers, as well as informally, like in virtual hallways between sessions where they can start up casual conversations.

Through avatars and multi-dimensional rooms, users can interact digitally in a personal way that doesn’t create the Zoom fatigue that comes with endless video chats. “It gives you autonomy to interact with whom you want to interact with and go where you want to go,” says VirBELA Founder and President Alex Howland, Ph.D. “When you read a book, you’re not paying attention to the black and white words or pages; you’re getting immersed into the book. The same thing happens with VirBELA. Your brain starts to feel like you’re physically in the room with colleagues.

Glenn Sanford, eXp Realty Founder and CEO, has been using VirBELA as his company’s virtual campus since 2016. During that time, he grew his number of agents from 900 to 29,000 from the virtual headquarters that he mans from the casita over his garage. In April of this year, his success with the virtual platform led him to join the VirBELA team as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer so that he could extend his knowledge and experience with simulated campuses to other business leaders navigating these unprecedented waters.

Sanford offered advice to McWilliams, one of the newest CEOs to become an adopter of the VirBELA technology, by explaining that the simulated campus will only work if McWilliams insists that people meet him in his virtual Planet RevitalU office, rather than picking up the phone. “We have an office, and I don’t care if it opens back up,” McWilliams says. “We’re going to make the physical office voluntary. For our business practices and working together, it’s going to be done online.”

Virtual Event Tips

Take your virtual event to the next level with these tips from production expert and consultant to the direct selling industry, Erik Johnson of Katapult Events.

“How good your first event is will determine if they buy your next.” — Erik Johnson, Katapult Events President

Forget Zoom. Use Vimeo to live stream.

Prerecording some content eliminates the potential for user error, streamlines transitions and trims the boring out of stories.

Use permissions to put events and event extras behind paywalls or passwords. Erik uses Phinkific.com to preserve special VIP treatments, like a Q&A with the keynote speaker, for specific distributor ranks and above.

Hire a professional. Picture-in-picture, title animation and HD screen shares matter.

Show others what they’re missing. Even if you’re charging for a virtual event, share a short segment onto Facebook Live for things like new product announcements. At the end of the segment, offer viewers the opportunity to buy access to the rest of the event. It’s a double bang for your production buck and a quick upsell.

Everything has to be faster. What might have taken you four minutes to say on a live stage, should take you 90 seconds when speaking to a virtual audience.

Shoot with two cameras. A simple wide shot and a close up will give your broadcast movement and will be more likely to hold attention.

A high-quality mic is just as important as good video. If they can’t hear you well, they will leave.

Don’t be afraid to hire an outside emcee. Professional talent can take your event from stagnant to funny, drive the energy of the show, and be in charge of throwing it to different hosts—chief executives, distributors—to keep the show moving.

Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. Get rid of the extra stuttering and “um” sounds and give your team the chance to feel the flow of the event.

Double-dip your filming days. When broadcasting virtual events, you’ll likely have the members of your executive teams and an elaborate, staffed studio all in one place. Use this opportunity to film upcoming product launches, expand your expert interviews and update your opportunity presentation.

Five Ways to Simplify Your Pivot to Virtual

Don’t confuse virtual with automated. Even though there are no smoke machines and spotlights, this is not a set-it-and-forget-it type of environment. Building an interactive experience is key to getting virtual events right.

Prepare your team. Expect worst-case scenarios and plan how they’ll be addressed on the spot to protect your brand.

Choose your comment comfort level. Instantly visible, unfiltered feedback may complement the tone of a keynote address, or it might exacerbate the awkwardness of lackluster attendance. Pick an audience participation level that matches the event vibe.

Tap into existing partner platforms. Seamlessly charge registration for large events and automatically capture potential customer contact information. (Eventbrite, PayPal, Pardot and HubSpot are good leads for these functions)

Deliver an in-person experience. Pick two or three elements of your usual in-person events that can be creatively replicated while apart. If distributors have come to expect a lavish lunch break at events, send restaurant or food delivery gift cards to registrants ahead of time. These small gestures will build community while making a memorable impact.

#SeneGence goes Virtual #DSA #direct sales #direct selling #directsales #direct marketing #senegence distributor #joni rogers-kante #Zoom #virtual meetings #Jeri Taylor-Swade #cuppa with the queen

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In recent years, the annual E3 trade show, has increasingly been overshadowed by the press conferences that precede it. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have traditionally used the venue to crow about their sales and business successes, and unveil their latest offerings via live [or seemingly live] demos with game designers.

But that's all changing now. Boring corporate biz speak is now reserved for quarterly reports, and live demos are increasingly being supplanted by prerecorded material. Celebrities guests and superstar presenters are on the wane, and influencers from the esports and livestream scene are on the rise.

As we watched the press conferences this year, Gamasutra staff exchanged emails about what these changes might mean for developers. (You should also tune in for Gamasutra's Twitch livestream on Thursday at 3pm EDT, in which we'll discuss our reactions to the conference.)

Chris Baker (@chrisbaker1337), assignment editor: Hi everybody! I've put in my time at E3 over the years. I was there for Sony's stunningly successful PS4 unveiling in 2014, and the stunning debacle of the PS3 unveiling in 2006. I've seen surprise game reveals and surprise guest appearances. (Muhammad Ali! Paul and RIngo! Gaben!)

But this year, I watched the precedings from my couch, for the most part. (I saw the Microsoft press conference on my phone while I did laundry.) It seems clear that the nature and purpose of these events are shifting. The Microsoft press conference was chockablock with interesting games, but it was essentially a series of trailers and Let's Play videos.

I think there are a couple of things going on here. One, of course, is that there's less of an emphasis every year on the people in the room, and more of an emphasis on the global streaming audience. Two, I think there's an effort to limit banter and live demos, since every flub and glitch has the potential to be endlessly memed and GIFed.

I'm writing this on Monday, morning, catching up on clips from the Bethesda conference that I missed. So far, I thought the Sea of Thieves demo at the Microsoft press conference was particularly interesting, firstly because there was a lot more graphics and a lot more game there than the last time we saw it, but also because it was presented as a sort of hybrid trailer and Let's Play, with a voiceover narration accompanying lengthy chunks of what looked like actual gameplay footage. Last year, they did a formal trailer and then a more Twitch-like gameplay reveal. I thought this year's fusion of the two was far more successful.

[embedded content] Sea of Thieves gameplay walkthrough

Bryant Francis (@RBryant2012), contributing editor: Sending this on Monday afternoon, caught up on all conferences except obviously Sony.

"I hope this means that developers get to spend less time on E3 vertical slices.

I agree with Chris that everyone seems to be following Sony’s lead from last year of trying to keep these things as trailer-focused as possible. Ubisoft’s the only developer to not greatly change their flow (dropping Aisha Tyler is notable I guess), but everyone seems to have caught the message that for marketing purposes, pre-recorded gameplay footage, or a chance to play the game on the floor, matters more than spokespeople or live gameplay, whether it’s a trailer or just a demo vehicle.

That sort of has to do with now, more than ever, these E3 conferences being “for the folks at home?” Now that they start a full four days before the expo itself (good lord) the purpose of these things isn’t to sell your game to intermediaries, it’s to sell them to the people who may go and pre-order them on the spot. I hope this means developers get to spend less time on “E3 vertical slices,” and I wonder if this makes journalists feel like they’re being edged out of the room. (Maybe that’s why they keep complaining about all the YouTubers?)

The PC game show, awkward as it can be sometimes, is turning into a surprising highlight for indie developers looking to make an impact on Steam. Finji’s managed to take the stage 2 years in a row now with interesting-looking games, and since there is a sit-down-and-talk factor, I wonder if it’s a way for game devs to start making a personal introduction to an interested audience. (Admittedly while someone is pitching Intel hardware 2 minutes later)

[embedded content] The charming Tunic, from Andrew Shouldice and Finji

Demo-wise, my two biggest hits came from the Ubisoft conference. First, the Mario/Rabbids game turning out to be an unexpected game genre was a great surprise, and as I think Alissa said on Twitter, it’s a shame that the game’s existence was leaked a while ago, otherwise seeing Shigeru Miyamoto come out on stage with Yves Guillemot would have made a bigger impact. And ironically, while everyone’s talking about ‘more gameplay, less cinematics’ at E3 this year, the Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer absolutely rekindled my interest in that game. If you’re going to introduce your game with a CG trailer, it’s worth loading every inch of it with style and verve that’s going to make the gameplay worth waiting for.

Also while I’m at it I should say I’m super impressed with Microsoft’s announcement to take backwards compatibility all the way to the original Xbox. I’ll probably blather about this more on our livestream later this week, but I think the fact that the Xbox One X (oy) can now be sold as “it plays ALL Xbox games at their best quality” is a huge selling point for the device.

[embedded content] Beyond Good & Evil 2 announcement trailer

Alex Wawro (@awawro), news editor: My Dearest Friends,

It has been quiet here, of late. The shoutcasting has stopped. I write to you on Monday evening, not long after the latest dispatch from Sony, and I must say: E3 has changed. The lion's share of the excitement will be over soon, and after witnessing much of it from the comfort of my couch I have to say -- I like the change.

This year more than ever, it's clear that the big publishers are catching on to what many game devs already know so well: enthusiastic people (whether they be devs or YouTubers or Twitch streamers) are great vectors for advertising your game. So is PAX. And since nobody but Microsoft seems to have much of anything to talk about this year except games, it's not hugely surprising that Electronic Arts, Bethesda, Ubisoft, and Sony all stacked their E3 presentations with lots of trailers (Sony was basically back-to-back trailers, for the second year in a row) and gameplay videos.

"It's interesting that this year, indie devs had a presence at Microsoft's E3 event, but were basically absent from Sony's showcase. "

Sometimes those gameplay videos were live, sometimes they were pre-recorded, but most were introduced with minimal drama (no overwrought whinging about surveillance states, for example) and maximum enthusiasm. It was pure salesmanship, to be sure, but refreshingly open and earnest -- I noticed Ubisoft even took the time to flash a link to its online merch store multiple times throughout its show.

Microsoft stood apart a bit though, huh? I think that Xbox showcase reminds us what E3 has typically been: a place where publishers sell a vision of what they want to be in the year to come, replete with new hardware, new services, and new games from devs across the industry.

Kris also mentioned something in chat that I didn't notice right away: It's sort of interesting that this year indie devs had a presence at Microsoft's E3 event (Tacoma, The Artful Escape, Ashen, etc) but were basically absent from Sony's showcase.

That's a sharp turnabout from a few years back, when Sony made a show of embracing indie devs and promoting them as a core pillar of the PlayStation 4. Now that Sony has plenty of its own games to talk about, it looks like the company is a lot less interested in promoting indie devs on its stage. And if you're an indie dev, that doesn't seem like a great look.

Bryant Francis: Jumping in on Tuesday after the Nintendo and Sony streams.

What the heck happened to the indies at the Sony press conference last night? Has it been 48 hours yet? Do we need to file a missing persons report?

"A return to Metroid does give creedence to the theory that Nintendo isn’t as focused on the casual market anymore."

I don’t know if it’s just a case of the development cycles of Sony’s current games, but last night’s trailer reel + twitching bodyfest didn’t reveal a lot of new info about the direction of games on PlayStation. It’s possible this is one of those case where “E3 doesn’t matter the same way anymore so we’re saving these for PSX or something,” but this is the first year Sony didn’t seem to be banking on revealing a new game with an unknown release date.

I also heard from the floor that there was some confusion over why Knack 2 has been playable at the press events but didn’t show up in the press conference last night. Given our love for Sony hardware enthusiast Mark Cerny, I’m worried that game is getting hidden due to the intense online anger over the first game.

Nintendo continued the (4-days old) tradition of a short conference with a big focus today, and I admit to being extremely surprised by the revelation of Metroid Prime 4, which is being developed by a new team that’s not Retro Studios. But then a 2D Metroid Game was announced in the Treehouse session afterward?? Will 2018 (maybe 2019) be the year of Samus Aran? A return to Metroid does actually seem to be a nod to Kris’s ongoing theory that Nintendo isn’t going to deal much with the casual market anymore, since that was a series it seemed to push aside for a little while for its seeming lack of broad appeal.

(I will note another recurring trend at these conferences, which is re-announcements with more info of stuff that was very much public knowledge beforehand. Bethesda’s VR games, many of Sony’s games, Nintendo’s announcement about a ‘core’ Pokemon game for the Switch... all of this was previously announced. This conference just was where they got the marketing push.)

Kris Graft (@krisgraft), editor-in-chief: *APPEARS FROM THE BUSHES, GASPING FOR AIR. CLOTHES IN TATTERS*

Ok hey guys I’m here, I’m here. So while you all were doing laundry and watching people talk about teraflops from the comfort of your own homes, I was at E3 2017 living it. While I was there for the press conferences and pre-E3 meetings and events, I actually only stayed for the first full day of the proper expo, just so I could get a good handle on the sights – and smells – of an E3 that included 15,000 non-industry public guests. I’ll try to keep this reasonably succinct! (As a side note, this was my 11th E3.)

"Developers I spoke with noted how networking is especially difficult this year."

So, as far as the show itself, the biggest difference this year are the extra public fans wandering about. They’re easily spotted because their tags were bright yellow, and typically were the most loaded-down with free merch, sometimes wearing shirts that say “Awesome Gamer” or “Yeah, I was at E3 2017.” It’s super easy for me to get annoyed with E3 adding so many more people to an already crowded event with virtually no extra accommodations for that traffic, but…wait there is no “but.”

Really I’m not down on the fans. I am confused with what the ESA is doing here with this event. Developers I spoke with noted how networking is especially difficult this year, because you simply can’t assume that everybody is a “somebody,” and those “somebodies” are more difficult to connect with. E3’s been going this direction for years by lowering the barrier for press accreditation, though adding so many straight-up fans into the mix only exacerbates the issue.

E3 is trying to serve two masters here: Industry and fans. It wants to be “old” industry-centric E3, and it wants to be Comic-Con. I really wonder how many more game companies, especially after this year, might pull out of the show floor because they’re (further) questioning the value proposition of E3. It’s a tricky scenario. ESA needs to maintain and grow its event business, but it seems the growth it needs can only come from increasingly angling the event toward fans, and going head-to-head with large consumer-focused events like PAX. E3 2017 is a weird an awkward transition towards that.

E3 is very crowded [Image: GameRevolution]

Ok so I spent a lot of time talking about the event itself, so I’ll just give a quick rundown of some notable E3 things:

Sony: They’re pretty much done with highlighting indies, E3 2017 confirms. That said, PolyArc, a small studio made up of ex-triple-A devs, was included in Sony’s press conference. They’re making a really nice-looking VR game called Moss, starring a mouse.

[embedded content]PolyArc's Moss

Microsoft: Obviously their big thing is Xbox One X. Price is a bit high, value proposition is shaky, but I’m not sure where else console-makers (that aren’t Nintendo) can go. We’ll see how it goes this November.

Nintendo: Metroid Metroid Metroid. I’m just glad they didn’t forget about Metroid. Also wow at some of these Super Mario Odyssey hat-possession gifs.

Bethesda: Yeah, I’m playing through Wolfenstein: The New Order again.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 124

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Announcement

Bradley: I’m sure we’re live, already.

Adam: Well, we are now. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts. This episode 124, on the 22nd of March 2017. We got almost everybody here, I think Hernan is out doing something amazing or I don’t know. Actually, he’s just not here. Anyways, let’s go around and see what’s up with everybody. Sorry about my non video, I know everybody is just looking forward to seeing me, but apparently my bandwidth isn’t so great, here, while I’m on the road. Let’s see picking the top right.

Bradley: The problem-

Adam: Is it?

Bradley: The problem is, Adam, my beard isn’t as majestic as yours.

Adam: I know. I’m getting tied down. Now, that I’m getting it trimmed regularly and I don’t look like a hobo, I’m being cut off on the camera. We’ll start in the top right, Marco, how’s it going, man?

Marco: Hey, what’s up man? Doing good. Just lots and lots of spam, I mean testing.

Adam: Good recovery. Chris, what’s up, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good to be here on another Hump Day.

Adam: I second that. Bradley, how are you doing, today?

Bradley: Happy to be here. I got lots of questions, already, so I’m ready to go.

Adam: All right. I think, this morning everyone probably heard, I’m going to let Bradley talk about this a little bit, because Bradley is going to be working, or sharing some information about the case study. Actually, I’ll just kind of hand it over to you, Bradley, if you want to tell people about the [inaudible 00:01:30] case study stuff.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:32].

Adam: Tell them about that, and we can pop some links in there for people, if they’re interested.

Live Rank Sniper Webinar

Bradley: All right. Yeah. Sorry, guys, I’m looking at a text file to grab some links that I can drop on the page. All right. Peter Drew, a great developer, a friend of Semantic Mastery, the link is on the page, now, guys. He launched Live Rank Sniper, it’s been in beta for like a year. No shit. I’ve been part of the beta testing group. I like to jump in on every one of Peter Drew’s products, because they’re always really good. Anyways, I’ve been using it on and off again for about a year, but I haven’t used it much, but the launch is obviously happening today. I’m sure you guys have gotten a million emails about it, from us as well as many others. It’s a great product, and in fact, we’re having a webinar, so I dropped the links on the page, guys. By the way, did we check to make sure the page has got the video right? Let me just double check-

Adam: [crosstalk 00:02:27].

Bradley: Sorry guys. Yeah. Okay. It’s good.

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Anyways, I dropped the links on the page, but we’re having a webinar with him tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, I believe. Is that correct? I’m looking at-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah. 7:00 p.m.

Adam: Yes. 7:00 p.m.

Bradley: 7:00 p.m. eastern. It’s a great product and I was originally going to just do two projects as a case study, as a bonus for anybody that purchases through our link, but knowing two wasn’t enough, apparently. I’ve actually got like four separate, or excuse me, four local case studies and another one, which is a near me case study that I’ve been working on diligently since Saturday. Literally, I’ve spent the last four days working on these case studies and I hope to have them 90% complete by the webinar tomorrow. If not, we’ll just setup a membership site or something, or whatever that we can add the additional remaining content into. It’s working really, really well. I absolutely love it.

It’s a really simple software to us, there’s a very little learning curve, and it does what it’s suppose to do and it does it well. It basically pokes keywords, but what’s great about it is it pokes keywords using scheduled live events, which means you don’t have to actually stream any videos, so essentially it just creates the live events and then it goes and it ping’s them, it gets them indexed. It’s a you bot, guys, so the bot just runs in the background and it will go schedule the events, use a spintax, you can add geo coordinates like the location meta tags, that kind of stuff.

Tags, I said, I think I mentioned spintax, already, but you can schedule, you can add unlimited accounts, YouTube accounts to the software, which means you can, I think it does, I think Peter says it does 15 live event’s persona, or per account that’s added to the software, but I’ve been testing it heavily over the last few days, and I’ve seen it go up to as much as 25, so I’m not sure exactly what the number is, but the point is that it goes out and schedules all these events, and then it ping’s them, and then [inaudible 00:04:38] anyone that lands on page one or two of the indexed scheduled events then it will put them into a text file.

Then, you can actually use the software to stream a prerecorded video directly to that live event, if you’d like, or you can just delete everything and you know, which keywords are going to rank, because it’s just like any other poking software in that respect. I like it, because it doesn’t require any video uploads at all, but you can use it for money channels, which is what one of the sites in the case studies that I’m working on, or one of the YouTube channels is an actual money channel. I didn’t see any reason, I mean, I’ve used about 25 different YouTube channels in the last four days, because I’ve got batches of five.

I’ve got one group of seven channels, and all the other groups are five channels per campaign, essentially. That allows me to do up to 75 videos in one round. It’s really amazing. I really like the software a lot. I’ve been using it real heavy the last few days and I can see that becoming more and more a part of my normal strategy. Once poking has been done and I’ve identified keywords, depending on how I set the campaign up originally, I may do that through the money channel, so that I can just stream prerecorded videos, that works great for client channels, guys, because if you’ve got good videos from clients that can be ranked, using livestreams then that’s a great way to do it.

Because remember, you can take the same video and livestream it over and over again and it’s going to be unique every time. [inaudible 00:06:10] that way, but if you’ve got decent quality videos anyways then it wouldn’t really be considered spam in my opinion, unless your competitors complain about it. Other than that, if you want to test keywords, it does it very quickly.

You don’t have to worry about any videos, and then you can go back through, if you’re using like persona channels, for example, you can go back through, delete everything, but you’ll have a record of what ranked, and then you can use other software, or other programs, or whatever you want to actually upload or publish the videos for those keywords. It’s entirely up to you, but I’ve been working on it heavily for the last few days. It’s called, Live Rank Sniper, Scott, I just saw your question come in, or your comment. Yeah. It’s really, really cool, and again, we’re going to be on a webinar with Peter, tomorrow night and anybody that purchases through our link is going to get access to the case study details that I’m going to be sharing. Check it out. Okay?

Adam: Yeah. Awesome. By all means go signup for the webinar. Check it out. It’s one of those, obviously we don’t tell people to buy stuff that they’re not going to use, but come check out the webinar, see if it’s something you can put in your toolbox.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: I have an announcement, if I may.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Marco: I’m going to be doing another webinar. Another one of those, just super secret spicy hot type shit webinars, where I tend to give the farm away. If people want to learn more about the knowledge graph, knowledge panel, RankBrain, how you can even train the bot to see whatever you want it to see. I talk about that, and ambiguity, and complexity, and get some more of my secrets. It’s being setup, we don’t have the webinar page ready, yet, as soon as we have it ready we’ll mail it out, and I’ll also post it in our group, so that it’s available to everyone. Now, here’s the caveat. Right?

This one is going to be offered live only, barring technical difficulties, once it’s done, and I’m sorry for those who cannot attend live, but if you do not attend live it goes on pay per view, no, we’re not going to make any exceptions, there won’t be any reason, nothing. It’s going into the Marco retirement fund, excuse me, it’s a pay per view, and that’s it. I suggest try to get it live, try to be there, it’s going to rock. Again, I’m going to give everything away that I can and I hope to see you all there. April 3rd, tentative. We will be giving more information during the week, as I said in the groups, in email, so just stay tuned.

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right.

Adam: One more quick one, real quick. Also, next week we’ve had a lot of questions about this and with the RYS Stack, stuff that you can now get through Serp Space, and it’s something that we offered for a while, we’re going to be explaining more about that, how you can apply it, how you can order it, when to order it, things like that. That’s going to be next week, so if you’re interested in that just keep your eyes open, we’ll be holding, it’s going to be a short kind of informational webinar about RYS Stacks and how you can do that. That’s going to be awesome. That will be late next week.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s next Thursday, correct?

Marco: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Yeah. We’ll be sending out some more info, so you can decide if that’s something, you know, if you’re doing client work, or your own stuff, why you would want to do it, stuff we’re going to cover in the webinar.

Bradley: Yeah. Okay. All right. The last thing, I think, well, somebody had a question about Live Rank Sniper, “Will it work for launch stacking?” Yeah. It will probably work really well. I haven’t tested it with that, yet. I’m testing it with near me keywords, which are national. It’s doing fairly well with that, it’s working like crazy for local. For near me keywords it’s working okay, but I just started really heavy testing it. The last thing about that is, but for launch stacking stuff, because those keywords are new, they will probably perform will, but you’d have to play with it, I suspect it would perform more, but I don’t know. One last thing, guys, we started our livestreams on a daily basis, we’re doing, each one of us, Monday is my day. Hernan has Tuesday. I know, I think Chris, do you have Wednesday?

Adam: Chris is being oddly silent.

Bradley: Okay. No, but it’s Wednesday. I think, Adam has got Thursday and Marco’s got Friday.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:10:36].

Bradley: Okay. We started doing our Facebook livestreams and it’s just once, Monday through Friday, each one of us are going to jump on and just do a quick livestream rant about whatever we want to talk about, but I know we talked about this months ago and we never actually got it started, but we started it this week. Monday, was the kickoff of that. So, if you guys have anything that you would like for us to talk about, this is not a Q and A, like a marketing question and answer like a how to, if you have questions about high level stuff, mindset strategy, or anything else, whatsoever outside of technical questions then you can post them at rant.semanticmastery.com, it’s a 100% anonymous, so we won’t even know who’s submitting comments or stuff for us to rant about, but anything that you guys would like for us to talk about outside of technical answers, like how to stuff, just post there. Again, that’s rant.semanticmastery.com. It’s a Google form, you can submit anonymously and then that will give us stuff that we can pull from for content for our daily livestreams. Okay?

Marco: Okay. Yeah. I just want to add that if you’re sensitive and you’re offended easily, and you don’t want to cry then don’t be there on Friday when I’m on.

Bradley: Yeah. Their raw, guys, these aren’t going to be polished, at all. The occasional cuss word is going to, in some cases the frequent cuss word is going to slip. It’s rant mastery, you know what I mean? If we want to rant about something, we’re going to rant. Just know that it’s going to be unfiltered, so if you have sensitive, if you’re sensitive to that kind of stuff just don’t watch. That’s all. All right. Okay. Cool. We’re going to go ahead and jump into questions guys, unless there’s something else.

Adam: Yeah. Let’s do this.

Bradley: Hello?

Adam: Yeah. You’re good.

Bradley: Okay. Finally, it’s slow. This is the Rant Mastery page that you’ll be taken to, guys, if you go to rant.semanticmastery.com. All you got to do is put in your comment right there and watch this lovely video, that has become the motto of Semantic Mastery. All right. With that said, let’s get into questions. You guys seeing my screen okay? Hello?

Adam: Good to go. I’ve got your whole screen.

Duplicate Content Issues From Copying Product Description And Canonical URL Tag Of Original Product Page To A WooCommerce Affiliate Site

Bradley: Okay. All right. By the way, Wayne, thanks for that. Prick. All right. I’m not going to say his name, because I’m going to screw it up if I do, so first question up is, “I have a WooCommerce affiliate site, is it okay to copy the product description in add a canonical URL tag of the original product page? Does it create any bad impact or issues? Is it okay to copy the product description and add a canonical URL tag of the original product page?” Okay. I wouldn’t do that and the reason I say that is because if you add a canonical to the original product page then Google is basically going to disregard your page.

As far as for ranking purposes. Right? Google is going to look at your page and it’s going to recognize the canonical is pointed to the original product page and it’s going to pass the credit to there. If that makes sense, so you don’t want to canonicalize something to another domain unless you’re intentionally trying to push the relevancy to that page. Right? Because canonicals are typically used within the same domain. You can do cross domain canonicals there’s no doubt, but there’s really no reason to do that, unless their both your domains and you’re trying to push credit from one domain to another, but in this case as an affiliate you don’t want to push the credit to the original product page, because if so then you’re basically passing any authority that you had over to there. Does that make sense?

Yeah, again, I wouldn’t do that. I would not canonicalize it. You can take the product description, I mean I don’t know what the legalities of that are, I’m not an attorney, but personally I just copy the damn product description, I might add a couple of lines of text above it, or below it to make it somewhat unique, but other than that, I would definitely not canonicalize it. Okay.

Redirection & Duplicate Content Concerns WIth SEO Switchbox Strategy

All right. Dean’s up, and he says, “I am considering the SEO Switchbox strategy, not sure how to word this, but the question is with the RSS syndication strategy how can posts be made on the clone site, if the site redirects to the client site when visited. Also, if a post is made, the same post won’t be on the clients site it will be on the clone site, so is that just left normal part of the clone site?” All right. I’m not going to even finish reading this question, Dean, just because you’re a little bit confused about the process. This has been covered multiple times.

This is something that would probably be difficult to find on our YouTube channel, but there is something that I did want to point this out for people that are new, if you go to our YouTube channel, guys, for example, if you just go to YouTube and you search, I’m going to just walk you guys through this, and then Dean, I’ll finish answering your question. Excuse me. Why did I just type that into there? If you just go to Semantic Mastery, search it, and then just go to the channel, so click on the channel button, and Dean, I know you probably know this, but this is more for the benefit of new people.

If you click this little search icon here, guys, and search, because of all the Hump Day Hangouts and because we actually have a team that splits up our Hump Day Hangouts in the individual questions and answers, a lot of the times some of these questions can be answered just by going to search channel. You just type in your query, here, and hit enter, and then you can kind of look through there. Again, Dean, I’m going to answer your question in just a minute. The other thing is guys remember at the support.semanticmastery site, so support.semanticmastery.com we have a knowledge base, if you click on that, you’ll see that we have, by the way, Adam, we need to change that, just as a side note.

Adam: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Our knowledge base, we have categories here that you can go into and look for frequently asked questions. Okay? Because that kind of stuff comes up often. Now, Deans question isn’t really a frequently asked question, so I just wanted to point that stuff out guys, because people that are new to us might not know this, and this will give you a way to find answers to a lot of common questions. All right. Back to Dean, Dean when you do a-

Marco: If I may before you get into answering his question, I think, Dean just joined our Mastermind. If he did, then, he’s more than welcome to post questions, more advanced questions in the Semantic Mastery Mastermind for webinars, or for us to answer them there. He has more availability to it.

Bradley: I know he joined RYS, I didn’t know that he joined Mastermind, but that’s awesome if he did. Okay. All right. Dean, to get back to your question, and I apologize for that, all right, so with the Switchbox SEO strategy or when you’re cloning a client site, I’ve mentioned this before, but you don’t, there’s certain things that you’re not going to do through your domain. Okay? Number one, is when you’re syndicating content from the client’s domain, it’s going to be pushed out to the clients branded network, and the back links are going to point back to the client’s domain.

There’s really no other way around that, well, there is one other way around it, which would be to publish the post on your cloned domain that would go out to their network, then you’d have to 301 the post URL to the clients post URL, but you’d have to duplicate the post on the client site. You can see how quickly this gets out of hand. That’s why we don’t bother with that. My point is you don’t, you cannot do the content marketing from your domain, because there’s no way without having to publish the post twice, once on your domain, and then once on the client’s domain, and then redirect from your domain to the clients, your post URL to the clients post URL.

Then, if the client ever looks at their branded syndication network and they see your domain, that’s going to bring up a question. Right? You cannot do that. Remember, the client is paying you for content marketing, too, if that’s part of your SEO strategy. That is absolutely part of my SEO strategy. Right? Content marketing and SEO are one and the same in my opinion. They go hand in hand. When I do content marketing, it goes from the client’s domain out to the clients network. There’s just no way around that, but that’s what they’re paying for, so it’s not a problem. Right? To me, it’s not an issue.

The other thing is when you’re building citations, when you build citations, you got to build them directly in the client’s domain, not to your domain, or else you will screw up the NAP. Right? If you’re listing your domain in the name, address, and phone number, the NAP, if you put your domain in there then it’s going to screw up the NAP data, so you cannot do that either. You got to build citations directly to the client’s domain. Does that make sense? Those are two examples, or two instances where the Switchbox strategy doesn’t work.

What I do with the Switchbox strategy, where I clone the site, it’s strictly for pages, not for posts. It’s the core of the site that gets cloned, and then everything is on a one to one ratio, so it’s a page by page redirect to the clients site, and then I do external link building to that page, so you guys know that the majority of the SEO work that I do, or the kind of SEO that we practice is we do mostly the IFTTT networks, and other tier one links like citations, and press releases, and things like that. But, the majority of external link building that we do, or inbound link building that we do is too the tier one properties, not directly to the money site.

That’s what I’ll do with the 301 domain, that’s my own domain, is if I’m going to be doing additional external link building, which we do from time to time, when it’s needed, then I will do that to my domain, that’s 301 to the client’s domain. In the event that the client decides that they don’t need me anymore, I can lift the 301 or remove the 301 redirects from my domain. The client still gets to keep much of the SEO work that was done, because all the content marketing is going to benefit their site. All the citation work that you did is going to benefit their site.

The only thing that you’re going to end up recovering is any external inbound links that you built. Right? That’s going to be pointed at your domain, when you lift those redirects it’s going to remove them from the client’s domain and their going still be pointing at your domain. It doesn’t mean that when you remove the redirects your clients domain drops out of the index, and yours is replaces it. That’s not the way it works. Chances are if you’ve done everything right the client’s domain may see a little bit of drop, but they’ll probably still be strong, anyways, because of the content marketing, the citation building, everything else that you’ve done. Right?

The client’s domain will probably still be strong. However, your domain, now has already has a bunch of SEO work done from any external link building already in place, so you are not starting from scratch. You’re starting from a position, a well placed position already, as far as, how much SEO work has been done to your domain. Does that make sense? It just gives you like a jumpstart on setting up a new site, because now you have a site that’s already had SEO work done.

Of course, you’re going to have to go in and change some graphics, you’ll probably have to reword the content, somewhat, change contact information, stuff like that from the cloned site, it cannot be a copy of the clients site, obviously. When you revive it as your own, I mean, if that makes sense, but you can change all that stuff out, swap out some details and then you can sell that site or lease that site to another provider, another contractor, another business in that same industry in that same city. Right?

Or, you can keep it as your own and use it as a lead gen site, that’s what I do. That’s typically what I will do, and it’s only happened a handful of times in my career, but I’ve done that where I’ve ended up turning the cloned site, with some editing, or some modification into a lead gen site, and that way it’s my asset, and that’s why I do that guys, so that as I’m building up client asset, at the same time I’m building my own assets with no additional work on my part. Does that make sense? Okay. Well, hopefully that was clear, Dean. We’re going to keep moving we’ve got a lot of questions to get through today.

Different Gmail Address For An IFTTT Network

Wayne’s up next, he says, “I outsourced the build for a tier one and tier two network for a client. The service provider set up a new Gmail account and used that for most of the web 2.0 profiles. The client already had a Gmail account,” I think, didn’t we see this question last week? I swear to God I saw this question already, once and we answered it, but that’s okay, we’ll go through it again. “The client already had a Gmail account for YouTube, Google Plus, Google My Business, and Blogger, should I run a network as it has been built with the different Gmail address, or should I rebuild the entire network making sure there’s only one Gmail account across the board? As of right now, I’m moving forward as is. Wayne.” The service provider, I’m assuming this wasn’t Serpspace.

Anyways, with that said, let’s see … It’s up to you, you’re going to get more authority out of it, Wayne, I just had to read the question a couple of time and process it. You’re going to get more authority out of it. It will be better if you swap out the Google accounts with the ones that you already had. It’s a little bit of manual work on your part, I know that. Depending on the service provider, I know at SerpSpace, we will go in and make changes, we charge a service fee for it, but we’ll go, we’ll have our builders, if we built the network for you, you can submit a support request, and ask for it to be, the network to be reworked a bit, if you explain that kind of stuff, and provide the details, and we will do it.

Now, if we didn’t produce the network for you, if you bought it from another provider, don’t send it to us and ask us to fix it, because we’re not going to. If you bought it from us then I know you can submit a support ticket and just pay a service fee. I don’t know what that is off the top of my head, I think it’s 20 bucks, but I could be wrong, to go back in and edit it and swap those profiles out. What I mean by that YouTube, Google Plus, the GMB, and Blogger, you can swap those out if the details our provided. All right. Again, we charge a service fee for that, unless that was made up front when you ordered the network. Even then, I think we still charge a service fee for custom stuff like that. Okay.

Adam: Also, real quick, just something to say, because I saw a couple of support tickets about this, and people are like, “Hey. You know, why should we buy network via SerpSpace,” and I’m not going to say that we never make mistakes, obviously it’s a human process, but our quality is very high and if there are mistakes they get fixed.

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: That’s just one of the reasons why buying through SerpSpace makes sense. I mean, it’s the process that Bradley developed and we’ve ported that over so that other people could take advantage of that. I just wanted to put that out there, too, since there are questions people ask and fairly so, “Why should we buy through SerpSpace?”

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: Yeah. That’s exactly what I was going to, well, one of the things that I was going to say is we have the experience. We’ve been doing this for years and years. We have it down to a process. If we get it wrong, we do what we have to, to fix it. Now, if it’s something like this, where I don’t see any wrong in this, it’s just that he wants the clients Gmail account to be the one that’s triggering everything and in charge of everything, we do go in and fix it. We charge a minimal fee of 20 bucks. I mean, come on, it’s like, yeah, sure go get it fixed, but what sets us apart? Why should you buy from us? We’re the originators, guys. We do it right.

Bradley: Yeah. And, it’s 100% manual, guys. These are completely hand built. Everything that we do in SerpSpace is 100%, as far as the network building, 100% hand built there’s no automation involved, whatsoever. Because of that they’re stronger. They stick longer, for the most part, unless you’re doing some really nasty spammy stuff. Also, in case something goes wrong or you have a custom request like this it’s easier, because it just gets routed back to the original builder, so they’re already with the project, because they built it and they can go in and make those changes very, very quickly. Right?

Otherwise, the only other thing, Wayne, is again, if it’s another service provider they probably won’t do that for you, but you can do it on your own. To do something like that on your own it would take you probably about an hour. Depending on how much you think your time is worth, if you have, again, if you bought it from SerpSpace and asked us to fix it then it’s a small nominal fee, and in my opinion it’s definitely worth the money, because if it takes you an hour, I think an hour better spent doing something else.

It is kind of a pain in the ass, because you have to go in and not only update the applets inside of IFTTT, but you got to go through all of the properties that are interlinked, if they’re interlinked properly and swap the URL’s out. If that makes sense? Okay. Again, a little bit of a pain in the ass, but it can be done manually. It would probably take you about an hour, or you could ask your service provider, chances are they’re going to deny that, but you could always ask. I think, it’s going to be stronger if you swap those out, you can proceed the way that it is, but just know that you’re not going to be pushing authority into that one profile, or brand account as much as you would if you were using the actual client accounts that were set up, originally. Okay.

Using VPS For PBN

Cass is up, says, “Hi. I was watching your explanation about PBN’s and IPN hosting,” excuse me, “an IP hosting, if I need a class IP for each PBN, why shouldn’t I host all my PBN’s in one VSP?” Okay. He must mean VPS, “and use services of Cloudflare like 100 unique IP’s and name servers. It would be nice if you would tell me if it’s any good.” Well, you can. There’s just, okay, here’s the thing with Cloudflare there’s a block of IP’s, so I don’t know that it’s a 100. You can actually search that in Google and it will show you.

Let’s take a look at that real quick. What I would suggest is using multiple DNS services, so that you’re not just using one. If you look at IP ranges, so go to cloudflare.com IP’s guys, here’s the IP ranges. Okay. That’s what you got. Right? These are ranges, here, so you can see zero to 20, so there’s 20 IP’s, but those are class D, so that you’d get, these are all on the same, the only thing that’s unique is the last part, what do they call that? Subnet, or whatever. My point is you do have a good list of IP’s, but I won’t recommend doing, because we’ve done that, too.

For example, in the Mastermind we talked about hybrid PBN’s, I cannot get into the details of that, but hybrid PBN’s are where you buy an expired domain, you build a PBN on the site, on the root domain, and then you build a bunch of sub domains, and you can host the sub domains on various IP’s. Right? Remember guys you can create sub domains and map them using third party DNS services to other IP’s they don’t have to be on the same IP as the root domain. We talked about using various sources, you can use Amazon S3, you can use other Cloud storage accounts to host HTML files, you could do other hosting accounts.

You could do all of that and map the IP’s, so that you have multiple IP’s for a PBN cluster that’s built off of one domain, with a bunch of sub domains all having unique IP’s. Does that make sense? The way that you can do that is using multiple third party DNS services. My two preferred ones are CloudFlare [inaudible 00:30:38] and Amazon Route 53. Okay? They will give you a range of IP’s and you can do what you’re mentioning, but I recommend using more than just one, like more than just CloudFlare, is my point. Okay.

Marco: If I could just add. I hate this word, PBN, because it’s not really PBN, what he’s doing is he’s probably buying either expired domains or domains with metrics, resurrecting them, setting it up, and then driving a link from that to whatever the destination is and that’s not the definition of a PBN, because a PBN is a set of websites that are linked to each other and built for the sole purpose of providing a link. You had big PBN networks taking down where you go in and you’d get your URL and multiple, it depended on how much you paid.

What the tests are showing, right now is that a lot of these domains that you guys are buying, especially if they’re expired, if you don’t do your due diligence and if you don’t look carefully at the back link profile, all you’re going to do when you link over from that PBN to the destination is you’re going to tank the rankings of the destination website. Remember, I’m warning you. I’m telling you what’s happening. I’m not telling you from what I heard. I’m telling you from what I tested and what I know.

Bradley: Yeah. Now, what about, though, as far as using them as second or third tier links to power up first or second tiers?

Marco: That’s what we would do-

Bradley: Right.

Marco: First we said, though, we don’t just have a website sitting there for the sole purpose of setting up, or sending a link. We’ll add interpages, we will, I don’t know if I should tell all our strategy, but IFTTT, some content marketing on the blog, so even the blogs start bringing in, the so called PBN, starts drawing traffic, starts making you money, and becomes really stronger than something just sitting there providing a link. Seriously, it’s tested and it’s what’s happening. I’m not saying PBN’s are dead, but they’re a dying breed. You better get it right.

Bradley: Yeah. I agree with that. I mean, I stopped building PBN’s months ago, probably a little over a year ago, because what I’ve been doing, and I don’t even do this much anymore, but was buying spider domains using Bluechip back links to find them, scrap them, and then buying them and just rebuilding the old site with HTML download it from Wayback Machine, or archive.org, and just hack my link into the page, and that’s it. The reason I like doing that is because they used to be real sites, right?

That way they look like real sites, still, and I don’t have to worry about content marketing and all that other shit, because remember guys, you buy a brand new domain or an expired domain. You go in and you build a WordPress blog on it with new content and all that, and the other, even if it’s in the same topical category that the old site was in, it’s still a new domain, it’s a new WordPress site, so it’s going to look like a PBN, unless you really build it out to look like a real business website.

What I like about rebuilding old sites is that they look like real business websites, because they were real business websites. I don’t have to worry about any of that stuff. Right? I don’t have to worry about content, and siloing the site properly, and adding all the social profiles and all that crap, I don’t have to do all that, but even now I don’t even do that very much anymore, because we’re able to get results, not doing it. Not having to do it as much. Anyways.

Marco: That’s without bringing up the fact that you’re linking probably from a sandbox domain over to your money site.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: If you don’t know how to get that so called PBN out of the sandbox quick enough.

Bradley: As far as this Cass, looking at the IP, like rocket IP’s, I mean the price looks good, it’s actually a really good price for IP’s. The problem that I have with using any sort of providers like these is that they overload the hell out of their IP blocks, so that they end up with 100’s of sites on shared IP’s and because it’s SEO hosting, it’s a ton of spammers that have just got a bunch of spammy sites hosted on these IP’s. Right? You end up, you put your sites in what they call bad neighborhoods.

All that is going to do is basically cause bad footprint issues, because links coming, and that’s pretty common, guys. Over the last couple of years that’s become more and more of a negative factor. Right? If you’ve got, that’s why we always recommend for your money sites, especially, that you go out with good, you go pay for good hosting, and we’ve been saying that for years, because you don’t want money sites being hosted in bad neighborhoods. All it takes to be in a bad neighborhood is to have a few really spammy sites in the same IP block, and that’s one of the problems with shared hosting. Right? Especially cheap shared hosting.

These type of SEO hosts, here, they literally weigh over stuff the IP’s way past capacity and the reason they do it is because they realize that the majority of those sites are used specifically for SEO purposes and don’t generate any traffic. They’re just websites sitting out there on the web, for the purpose of a back link, because of that for the most part, the vast majority of sites on the shared IP’s don’t receive any traffic, which means there’s very little bandwidth usage, so they can overload the hell out of these IP’s. Right? What happens then, is if anyone of those sites, or a number of those sites in that IP block end up receiving traffic for whatever reason, maybe the bots come crawling like crazy on a handful of sites, or maybe somebody actually strikes it lucky with a promotional campaign or something, who knows. If any amount of bandwidth, like if a number of those sites start to receive traffic it can end up tanking the whole entire block. Right? All of the sites go down.

That’s another common thing you’ll see with SEO hosting is that your sites, especially if you put uptime monitor on them, like Up Robot, or something like that, that would notify you of when the sites go down, you’ll get hammered with notifications about how often your sites go down, and it’s because, again, the IP blocks are way overloaded. I don’t recommend it.

What your actual question about using a VPS, and using Cloudflare and various DNS services is a better way to go, in my opinion, than IP hosting, or SEO hosting and the reason why is because if it’s a VPS you’re going to have essentially dedicated bandwidth for that, that’s for your particular VPS. You’ll have a lot more control over that and a lot less chance of your sites going down. Okay. Make sure if you’re going to do that, you got to get your SOA records, your name servers, your SOA records, all that stuff you have to be real careful about setting all that up Cass.

Okay. Tim’s up next, he says, “Yes. I’m the real Vasquez,” so Hernan, he’s saying that he’s the real Vasquez.

Adam: Man, good day, too, Hernan’s not here to-

Bradley: Defend himself.

Adam: Yeah.

Using Multiple IFTTT Accounts To A Client Site

Bradley: “Is it okay to have to or more IFTTT accounts directing traffic to website? Thanks, as always.” Yeah. Tim, absolutely, you can have as many as you want, you just got to consider the consequences of what you’re doing. You know what I mean? It’s absolutely fine to do that. It just depends on what you’re trying to do. For a money site, I recommend always to just stick with a tier one network, a branded tier one network, only, if you’re doing blog syndication. If you’re doing YouTube syndication, you can stack as many networks as you want it makes no difference with YouTube as the trigger, it makes no difference.

But, with money sites I recommend only doing a tier one branded network only because that makes sense, that’s normal for a business to share it’s content to its own network of web 2.0 and social media accounts. Right? That’s normal. That’s logical. It’s expected. When you start sharing the same content to persona accounts, for example, and the persona accounts the only thing they have on them is content coming from one source, then that is clearly used for SEO manipulation, and there’s no way, it’s like you can smell that from a mile away. You know what I mean?

My point is you don’t want to do that, because that’s a footprint issue. It just depends on what you’re doing. There are instances where that makes absolute sense. Somebody was asking a few weeks ago on Hump Day Hangout about having a multiple authored blog, and wanting to set up a separate syndication network for each author, and was that okay, and yes that’s perfectly fine, but I would, because you have a branded network around the main blog, then you have, if you have say four authors would you want four separate persona based, or maybe there real authors, there still personas, so persona based network rings with the same content. Yeah. That makes sense to do so because an author will share their own content, no matter where it’s published to, they’ll share it to their own social media accounts, most the time, for traffic generation and to show off their work and that kind of stuff. That’s logical, as well.

They probably wouldn’t be posting across their own personal social accounts, all of the content from that site, if there is other authors, too. Right? They’d just be posting their own content. In that particular case, using the author feed, which you can get from WordPress, using the author feed to trigger those persona based networks is the way to go. That way the persona based networks are being triggered by their, the authors content only. The branded network gets triggered by all content published on the site, but the persona or the author based networks would only get triggered by the author content, alone. Does that make sense?

Again, you just got to consider what you’re doing and think about it, does it seem logical? Does it seem natural, or does it seem spammy? If it seems spammy don’t do it. If it seems logical, or you could make it to where it’s logical, and don’t justify it, it’s got to be like, in my opinion, it would be like if somebody were to review this would they come to the conclusion immediately that you’re spamming, or would they have to do some more investigation to determine that? Right? Okay.

Ideal Number Of Links In A Blog Post

Next, Earl says, “Basic 101 question, how many links is too many links in a blog post? Client with multiple networks, he wants to rank for. Client with multiple,” excuse me, “keywords that he wants to rank for. 40 to 50, or more. A good breezy blog post and easing through five or six more keywords that matter to him without being stuffed, or forced. Can we link each keyword phrase, just one plus a domain URL or go overboard and link more? Averaging just one post a week or less. Do you not want to increase that velocity? Since we have so many keywords, should we also make them tags, whether or not we link them?” All right.

Earl, the main thing that I would see here with this is 40 or 50 more keywords you’d want to silo that site. Right? You’re talking about a lot of different keywords that this site wants to rank for, so because of that, you’re going to want to add silo structure, build silo structure into the site, so that’s going to determine how you have your site siloed, compartmentalized. Right? How you have it siloed is how it’s going to determine your internal linking structure from within the post. In other words, you got to place the post within the proper categories, or proper silos within the site.

You don’t want to cross link from one silo to another, for navigational purposes it makes sense to do so, guys, like if you’re optimizing for the visitor, for the user, human optimization, then it makes sense to link cross silo links. Right? It makes sense to do that, but I always recommend that you do that with a no follow link, so that you’re not bleeding the theme of the silo. As far as pushing internal juice, so what they call page rank sculpting or I guess we call it equity sculpting or juice sculpting, now. Right?

You would want to use your do follow internal linking structure, internal links to only link within the same silo. Again, when you’re trying to rank, if you’re trying to rank a site for 40 or 50 more keywords as a flat site, which means no silo structure, whatsoever, that’s going to be messy anyways. Right? I recommend that you would silo this site out and then depending on how you have your supporting articles stacked within the silos is going to determine how you’re going to do your internal links.

That’s going to cut way, way down on it, because you’re not going to link from one silo to another unless you’re doing it for navigational purposes in which case you’re going to use a no follow link, and that doesn’t really effect SEO, anyways. Does that make sense? As far as if there is a number of how many, I don’t know, what that number is, I know that there is a law of diminishing returns that applies to internal links within a page or a post, but I don’t know what the threshold is, where it really starts to have a negative effect or at least not have a positive effect, like a natural effect. I’m not sure what that threshold is. Marco, do have any insight on that?

Marco: No. No, I don’t.

Bradley: Yeah. The only reason why I don’t know what that threshold is, is I’ve never tested it, because typically the post, pages and posts on a site that I’m working on don’t have anymore than two or three internal links, anyways. It’s very rare that there’s more than that. That’s just because that’s the way that the sites are siloed out. Okay? You could play with it, Earl, I recommend you should build silo structure into that site, and then you can start playing, once you have structure in place, you can start playing with posts, and link number of links within the post, and then you’ll be able to determine if you’re tracking your keywords, and you have your site siloed properly, then let’s say in silo one you do three internal links from a post, within the same silo.

Then, over at silo two, in another post you do like 12 internal links and measure the kind of results that you see with your rank positioning, because if you see that one has a significant improvement over another, then you know you can start to through a process of elimination determine what’s working and what doesn’t. I mean, that’s all we do, guys. Is we just set up tests all the damn time. All right. Cool.

That’s an awful picture, Wayne. Thanks.

Adam: That is pretty disturbing.

YouTube Updates & Removal Of Annotations

Bradley: All right. Adam, says we got about five minutes. We got Masterclass webinar after this, guys, by the way, so anybody whose in Masterclass be ready for that. Okay. “Hi, guys. I’m curious if you’ve noticed changes on YouTube. I’ve been experiencing a lot of weird stuff, from having to unlock the account for suspicious activity and all I did was upload a video to a bunch of my channels being disconnected from my IFTTT and have to go in and reconnect them. One last thing is I see, I noticed from YouTube is there no more annotations after May two?”

Yes, Paul. No, first of all, I have seen some, it’s kind of odd, I’ve been spending 10 and 12 hours a day in YouTube for the last four or five days, for real. I’m doing a lot of YouTube SEO work, right now, and I’ve noticed, it’s interesting, but if you log in to a brand new account, the interface is completely different than what we’re used to seeing, like even from this, it’s different. It’s way different. It’s weird, because I only get that on new accounts, existing accounts I’m not seeing that, yet. It could have something to do with that, it’s just that change is going on in the background.

I suspect that’s probably the problems that you’re having, Paul, so if Paul is experiencing these problems now, guys just be aware that it’s probably coming down the pipe, we’re probably all going to start experiencing them, as well. All we can do is just roll with punches. Right? It’s all we can do. Yes, annotations are going to be deprecated guys, they are discontinuing annotations, after May two. It’s going to be end screens and cards, only. Okay. All right.

We got enough time for a couple more, Tim says, “My dumb earlier question, let me clarify, how can I have two or more IFTTT wheels, I guess I should have said, and this may be just as dumb, two or more wheels on different accounts, all pushing the same money site homepage, or break it up to other pages on the site?” Yeah. Okay. I just explained that, Tim, so hopefully that makes some sense. You know, like I said, what I would prefer, I would recommend that you do is if you’re going to build another tier one network, that’s not branded obviously it wouldn’t be branded.

You don’t want two branded networks for the same site that wouldn’t make sense, but if you had a second, like a persona based network that you want to use as a tier one network, you can get away with it, but you better be posting other content to that, besides the main site. You better be posting content from related content sources to that network, so that you’re burying the content from your money site among a bunch of other content that’s related and relevant. Right? Set it up as if it were a second tier blog syndication network. You can do that, I don’t recommend it, but you can do it.

Using Generic Keywords When Sending Links To Yelp Citations

All right. Ken’s up next, he says, “I have a question about using anchor text when it comes to my citation sites, so if I’m sending links to my Yelp page, do I still need to follow the rule of using a majority of generic keywords as anchor text?” Here’s the thing Ken, it’s a Yelp page, so it can withstand a hell of a lot more spam, because of the, just the authority of a site, but yeah, I recommend that you would still keep your back, excuse me, your anchor text ratio like you would as if you were building links direct to your money site, because you don’t want to spam it to death, you can go a little bit heavier on it, because it can withstand it, there’s no doubt, but I still try to keep the ratio relatively close to which you would be doing if you were building links directly to your money site. Okay.

Also, guys, remember your Yelp page, depending on, at least there used to be, I don’t know now, it’s been a while since I’ve checked, but it used to be once you verified the Yelp page, the link, became a verified Yelp business, then the link would become a do follow link from Yelp. I don’t know if they stopped that, it’s been awhile since I set up a new Yelp listing, because now I outsource all that, but it used to be, so if it was a verified business listing it would turn to a do follow link from Yelp, but if it was unverified it would be no follow.

They might all be no follow now, I would suspect they most likely are. Keep that in mind, because remember no follow links don’t pass anchor ratios. You can go more aggressive with Yelp, and you don’t have to worry about it effecting your money site, negatively. I would still try to keep it so that’s a natural looking back link profile, even if your velocity is completely unnatural, I would still want to keep the anchor text ratio somewhat natural looking, so it’s not a 100% pure spam. Okay.

All right. Adam, is yelling at me, so I got to get off, guys. “What kind of links are you sending to citation sites, since they would be considered tier one sites?” The same that we always do, Ken, which is using contextual links of higher quality for tier one, to the tier one sites. In other words, your tier two links, which are pointing to tier one, use contextual higher quality links, from higher quality sites, if possible, and then you can throw a kitchen sink spam behind those, if you want. Marco’s even seen through his testing in the lab more and more, Google is looking further and further out, now at back links. I would be cautious in throwing any kind of kitchen sink spam at all, now. Okay.

All right, guys. Sorry about the rest of the questions, I didn’t get to answer. A lot of really good ones today, though. We appreciate everybody being here. By the way, don’t forget rant.semanticmastery.com, go there to post content ideas for us for the livestreams. I think that’s it.

Adam: Yeah. Everybody go ahead and sign up for the webinar if you want to find out about Live Rank Sniper and also we have these pages usually set up by Friday, at the very latest, so it’s like we said, first come first serve, and if we get too many questions, obviously, we run out of time, but post your questions early and we try to answer them.

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We’ll see Mastermind members in about 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 124 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

Announcement

Bradley: I’m sure we’re live, already.

Bradley: The problem-

Adam: Is it?

Bradley: The problem is, Adam, my beard isn’t as majestic as yours.

Marco: Hey, what’s up man? Doing good. Just lots and lots of spam, I mean testing.

Adam: Good recovery. Chris, what’s up, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good to be here on another Hump Day.

Adam: I second that. Bradley, how are you doing, today?

Bradley: Happy to be here. I got lots of questions, already, so I’m ready to go.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:32].

Adam: Tell them about that, and we can pop some links in there for people, if they’re interested.

Live Rank Sniper Webinar

Adam: [crosstalk 00:02:27].

Bradley: Sorry guys. Yeah. Okay. It’s good.

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Anyways, I dropped the links on the page, but we’re having a webinar with him tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, I believe. Is that correct? I’m looking at-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah. 7:00 p.m.

Adam: Yes. 7:00 p.m.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: I have an announcement, if I may.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s next Thursday, correct?

Marco: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Chris is being oddly silent.

Bradley: Okay. No, but it’s Wednesday. I think, Adam has got Thursday and Marco’s got Friday.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:10:36].

Marco: Okay. Yeah. I just want to add that if you’re sensitive and you’re offended easily, and you don’t want to cry then don’t be there on Friday when I’m on.

Adam: Yeah. Let’s do this.

Bradley: Hello?

Adam: Yeah. You’re good.

Adam: Good to go. I’ve got your whole screen.

Duplicate Content Issues From Copying Product Description And Canonical URL Tag Of Original Product Page To A WooCommerce Affiliate Site

Redirection & Duplicate Content Concerns WIth SEO Switchbox Strategy

Adam: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Different Gmail Address For An IFTTT Network

Bradley: Yeah.

Using VPS For PBN

Bradley: Yeah. Now, what about, though, as far as using them as second or third tier links to power up first or second tiers?

Marco: That’s what we would do-

Bradley: Right.

Marco: That’s without bringing up the fact that you’re linking probably from a sandbox domain over to your money site.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: If you don’t know how to get that so called PBN out of the sandbox quick enough.

Okay. Tim’s up next, he says, “Yes. I’m the real Vasquez,” so Hernan, he’s saying that he’s the real Vasquez.

Adam: Man, good day, too, Hernan’s not here to-

Bradley: Defend himself.

Adam: Yeah.

Using Multiple IFTTT Accounts To A Client Site

Ideal Number Of Links In A Blog Post

Marco: No. No, I don’t.

That’s an awful picture, Wayne. Thanks.

Adam: That is pretty disturbing.

YouTube Updates & Removal Of Annotations

Using Generic Keywords When Sending Links To Yelp Citations

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We’ll see Mastermind members in about 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 124

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 124 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

Announcement

Bradley: I’m sure we’re live, already.

Bradley: The problem-

Adam: Is it?

Bradley: The problem is, Adam, my beard isn’t as majestic as yours.

Marco: Hey, what’s up man? Doing good. Just lots and lots of spam, I mean testing.

Adam: Good recovery. Chris, what’s up, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good to be here on another Hump Day.

Adam: I second that. Bradley, how are you doing, today?

Bradley: Happy to be here. I got lots of questions, already, so I’m ready to go.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:32].

Adam: Tell them about that, and we can pop some links in there for people, if they’re interested.

Live Rank Sniper Webinar

Adam: [crosstalk 00:02:27].

Bradley: Sorry guys. Yeah. Okay. It’s good.

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Anyways, I dropped the links on the page, but we’re having a webinar with him tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, I believe. Is that correct? I’m looking at-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah. 7:00 p.m.

Adam: Yes. 7:00 p.m.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: I have an announcement, if I may.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s next Thursday, correct?

Marco: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Chris is being oddly silent.

Bradley: Okay. No, but it’s Wednesday. I think, Adam has got Thursday and Marco’s got Friday.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:10:36].

Marco: Okay. Yeah. I just want to add that if you’re sensitive and you’re offended easily, and you don’t want to cry then don’t be there on Friday when I’m on.

Adam: Yeah. Let’s do this.

Bradley: Hello?

Adam: Yeah. You’re good.

Adam: Good to go. I’ve got your whole screen.

Duplicate Content Issues From Copying Product Description And Canonical URL Tag Of Original Product Page To A WooCommerce Affiliate Site

Redirection & Duplicate Content Concerns WIth SEO Switchbox Strategy

Adam: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Different Gmail Address For An IFTTT Network

Bradley: Yeah.

Using VPS For PBN

Bradley: Yeah. Now, what about, though, as far as using them as second or third tier links to power up first or second tiers?

Marco: That’s what we would do-

Bradley: Right.

Marco: That’s without bringing up the fact that you’re linking probably from a sandbox domain over to your money site.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: If you don’t know how to get that so called PBN out of the sandbox quick enough.

Okay. Tim’s up next, he says, “Yes. I’m the real Vasquez,” so Hernan, he’s saying that he’s the real Vasquez.

Adam: Man, good day, too, Hernan’s not here to-

Bradley: Defend himself.

Adam: Yeah.

Using Multiple IFTTT Accounts To A Client Site

Ideal Number Of Links In A Blog Post

Marco: No. No, I don’t.

That’s an awful picture, Wayne. Thanks.

Adam: That is pretty disturbing.

YouTube Updates & Removal Of Annotations

Using Generic Keywords When Sending Links To Yelp Citations

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We’ll see Mastermind members in about 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 124

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 124 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

Announcement

Bradley: I’m sure we’re live, already.

Bradley: The problem-

Adam: Is it?

Bradley: The problem is, Adam, my beard isn’t as majestic as yours.

Marco: Hey, what’s up man? Doing good. Just lots and lots of spam, I mean testing.

Adam: Good recovery. Chris, what’s up, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good to be here on another Hump Day.

Adam: I second that. Bradley, how are you doing, today?

Bradley: Happy to be here. I got lots of questions, already, so I’m ready to go.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:32].

Adam: Tell them about that, and we can pop some links in there for people, if they’re interested.

Live Rank Sniper Webinar

Adam: [crosstalk 00:02:27].

Bradley: Sorry guys. Yeah. Okay. It’s good.

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Anyways, I dropped the links on the page, but we’re having a webinar with him tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, I believe. Is that correct? I’m looking at-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah. 7:00 p.m.

Adam: Yes. 7:00 p.m.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: I have an announcement, if I may.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s next Thursday, correct?

Marco: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Chris is being oddly silent.

Bradley: Okay. No, but it’s Wednesday. I think, Adam has got Thursday and Marco’s got Friday.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:10:36].

Marco: Okay. Yeah. I just want to add that if you’re sensitive and you’re offended easily, and you don’t want to cry then don’t be there on Friday when I’m on.

Adam: Yeah. Let’s do this.

Bradley: Hello?

Adam: Yeah. You’re good.

Adam: Good to go. I’ve got your whole screen.

Duplicate Content Issues From Copying Product Description And Canonical URL Tag Of Original Product Page To A WooCommerce Affiliate Site

Redirection & Duplicate Content Concerns WIth SEO Switchbox Strategy

Adam: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Different Gmail Address For An IFTTT Network

Bradley: Yeah.

Using VPS For PBN

Bradley: Yeah. Now, what about, though, as far as using them as second or third tier links to power up first or second tiers?

Marco: That’s what we would do-

Bradley: Right.

Marco: That’s without bringing up the fact that you’re linking probably from a sandbox domain over to your money site.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: If you don’t know how to get that so called PBN out of the sandbox quick enough.

Okay. Tim’s up next, he says, “Yes. I’m the real Vasquez,” so Hernan, he’s saying that he’s the real Vasquez.

Adam: Man, good day, too, Hernan’s not here to-

Bradley: Defend himself.

Adam: Yeah.

Using Multiple IFTTT Accounts To A Client Site

Ideal Number Of Links In A Blog Post

Marco: No. No, I don’t.

That’s an awful picture, Wayne. Thanks.

Adam: That is pretty disturbing.

YouTube Updates & Removal Of Annotations

Using Generic Keywords When Sending Links To Yelp Citations

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We’ll see Mastermind members in about 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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🍄Mon 21 Dec ‘20🎉

Liam says he just finished his last thing of the year- CONGRATS BUD I know you were stressed about getting it all done!!- and issues a formal thank you to a faithful helper: his laptop, which “has seen more zooms than I've had dinners, thank you... you can rest now.” That last thing he did was an interview about the wizarding world thing, not yet posted, although he then comes back one more time to post a santa-hat bedtime selfie captioned 'merry christmas you filthy animals'. He's leaving us with plenty of prerecorded content to keep the updates going during his break though; for example he and Roman Kemp have something coming on the 27th, which makes sense what with it being a day ending in a Y and all, it's something about a naughty or nice list, I guess we'll see. And in their fourth to last alarm today, the final round of christmas cracker jokes-- bringing it up to date with an “elf isolation” punchline, nice! I mean not in the sense of being funny but like, timely, also Liam is actually back on the alarm so cheers to that.

They could have hit up Louis for jokes-- he's famous for them! Apparently! A museum exhibition in Baltimore (viewable virtually) quotes him as the author of a vaguely science-y joke-- (“why did the mushroom go to the party? because he's a fungi!”). He definitely isn't the originator of it but me as the curator who was like 'well he said this once and any excuse to write Louis' name on this wall, LET'S DO IT'. Everyone but you is out here telling bad jokes Harry, come reclaim your crown sir!

Niall puts on a cowboy accent for the dramatic unboxing of a Diplo promo package (LP, hankie- “very sexy!”, t-shirt, USB stick- “jeez haven't seen one of these in a while”), it's for a country album with features from Julia Michaels, Cam, Orville Peck, and more that came out back in May, and he knocks off some official sponcon unboxing as well, looking cozy in the promotional knitwear.

Aaaand the Clarks are at it again! First grandma Ruth said Louis was in LA with Freddie until two days ago (she also said he was going to spend xmas with him, pick one lady, but anyway) and everyone put on their thinking caps and were like okaaaay he COULD have flown to LA the day after his show and been there the 13th-18th but that seems crazy and would mean NO quarantine on either end (definitely not allowed in either place), but there's a rumor that Harry is back in London maybe Louis went to LA and got him or something?? But just when they almost had us, enter Brett to try to oversell and screw it all up- in response to a fan pointing out how ridiculous that was, Brett said 'no it's not, Louis was there for two whole weeks his livestream was just prerecorded' LMAO. This is pretty epic since your options are now: you can believe that Louis pulled a conspiracy of moon landing level complexity to pretend that a show that had been recorded previously was live, enlisting not just Veeps but also dozens of people also pretending it was happening at that time, many of them on their obscure official business accounts, without a single slip up, for NO REASON (he could have just visited the kid at... any other time, or had the show at a different time, or been like here's a prerecorded show), OR you can believe that Brett and his family are, hmmm, giant liars! Wild notion!! Sooo anyway guys tell me again how YOU don't believe in wacky conspiracy theories like us crazypants larries... I'm waiting...

#louis tomlinson #liam payne #niall horan #brett does not understand the two week quarantine rule lol he def said that cause he was like TWO WEEKS #that's what it's supposed to be for regulations right?? a TWO WEEK VISIT what an idiot #(Louis otoh knows all about two week rules)#as usual Liam alone is keeping this account from having to branch out to random other celebs thanks for prerecording stuff for break pal #hope that vaccine gets working soon after he goes for his big retreat or these are about to get reeeeal short #bg #freddie #diplo #roman kemp #20 dec 20 #but if I WAS branching out to random other celebs it would be Phil Lester dressing up like Harry (Fine Line cover)#he complains about his trousers being see through tho so not a very good impression overall Harry would have embraced that

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 124

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 124 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

Announcement

Bradley: I’m sure we’re live, already.

Bradley: The problem-

Adam: Is it?

Bradley: The problem is, Adam, my beard isn’t as majestic as yours.

Marco: Hey, what’s up man? Doing good. Just lots and lots of spam, I mean testing.

Adam: Good recovery. Chris, what’s up, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good to be here on another Hump Day.

Adam: I second that. Bradley, how are you doing, today?

Bradley: Happy to be here. I got lots of questions, already, so I’m ready to go.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:32].

Adam: Tell them about that, and we can pop some links in there for people, if they’re interested.

Live Rank Sniper Webinar

Adam: [crosstalk 00:02:27].

Bradley: Sorry guys. Yeah. Okay. It’s good.

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Anyways, I dropped the links on the page, but we’re having a webinar with him tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, I believe. Is that correct? I’m looking at-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah. 7:00 p.m.

Adam: Yes. 7:00 p.m.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: I have an announcement, if I may.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s next Thursday, correct?

Marco: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Chris is being oddly silent.

Bradley: Okay. No, but it’s Wednesday. I think, Adam has got Thursday and Marco’s got Friday.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:10:36].

Marco: Okay. Yeah. I just want to add that if you’re sensitive and you’re offended easily, and you don’t want to cry then don’t be there on Friday when I’m on.

Adam: Yeah. Let’s do this.

Bradley: Hello?

Adam: Yeah. You’re good.

Adam: Good to go. I’ve got your whole screen.

Duplicate Content Issues From Copying Product Description And Canonical URL Tag Of Original Product Page To A WooCommerce Affiliate Site

Redirection & Duplicate Content Concerns WIth SEO Switchbox Strategy

Adam: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Different Gmail Address For An IFTTT Network

Bradley: Yeah.

Using VPS For PBN

Bradley: Yeah. Now, what about, though, as far as using them as second or third tier links to power up first or second tiers?

Marco: That’s what we would do-

Bradley: Right.

Marco: That’s without bringing up the fact that you’re linking probably from a sandbox domain over to your money site.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: If you don’t know how to get that so called PBN out of the sandbox quick enough.

Okay. Tim’s up next, he says, “Yes. I’m the real Vasquez,” so Hernan, he’s saying that he’s the real Vasquez.

Adam: Man, good day, too, Hernan’s not here to-

Bradley: Defend himself.

Adam: Yeah.

Using Multiple IFTTT Accounts To A Client Site

Ideal Number Of Links In A Blog Post

Marco: No. No, I don’t.

That’s an awful picture, Wayne. Thanks.

Adam: That is pretty disturbing.

YouTube Updates & Removal Of Annotations

Using Generic Keywords When Sending Links To Yelp Citations

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We’ll see Mastermind members in about 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 124

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 124 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

Announcement

Bradley: I’m sure we’re live, already.

Bradley: The problem-

Adam: Is it?

Bradley: The problem is, Adam, my beard isn’t as majestic as yours.

Marco: Hey, what’s up man? Doing good. Just lots and lots of spam, I mean testing.

Adam: Good recovery. Chris, what’s up, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good to be here on another Hump Day.

Adam: I second that. Bradley, how are you doing, today?

Bradley: Happy to be here. I got lots of questions, already, so I’m ready to go.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:32].

Adam: Tell them about that, and we can pop some links in there for people, if they’re interested.

Live Rank Sniper Webinar

Adam: [crosstalk 00:02:27].

Bradley: Sorry guys. Yeah. Okay. It’s good.

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Anyways, I dropped the links on the page, but we’re having a webinar with him tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, I believe. Is that correct? I’m looking at-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah. 7:00 p.m.

Adam: Yes. 7:00 p.m.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: I have an announcement, if I may.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s next Thursday, correct?

Marco: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Chris is being oddly silent.

Bradley: Okay. No, but it’s Wednesday. I think, Adam has got Thursday and Marco’s got Friday.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:10:36].

Marco: Okay. Yeah. I just want to add that if you’re sensitive and you’re offended easily, and you don’t want to cry then don’t be there on Friday when I’m on.

Adam: Yeah. Let’s do this.

Bradley: Hello?

Adam: Yeah. You’re good.

Adam: Good to go. I’ve got your whole screen.

Duplicate Content Issues From Copying Product Description And Canonical URL Tag Of Original Product Page To A WooCommerce Affiliate Site

Redirection & Duplicate Content Concerns WIth SEO Switchbox Strategy

Adam: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Different Gmail Address For An IFTTT Network

Bradley: Yeah.

Using VPS For PBN

Bradley: Yeah. Now, what about, though, as far as using them as second or third tier links to power up first or second tiers?

Marco: That’s what we would do-

Bradley: Right.

Marco: That’s without bringing up the fact that you’re linking probably from a sandbox domain over to your money site.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: If you don’t know how to get that so called PBN out of the sandbox quick enough.

Okay. Tim’s up next, he says, “Yes. I’m the real Vasquez,” so Hernan, he’s saying that he’s the real Vasquez.

Adam: Man, good day, too, Hernan’s not here to-

Bradley: Defend himself.

Adam: Yeah.

Using Multiple IFTTT Accounts To A Client Site

Ideal Number Of Links In A Blog Post

Marco: No. No, I don’t.

That’s an awful picture, Wayne. Thanks.

Adam: That is pretty disturbing.

YouTube Updates & Removal Of Annotations

Using Generic Keywords When Sending Links To Yelp Citations

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We’ll see Mastermind members in about 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 124

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 124 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

Announcement

Bradley: I’m sure we’re live, already.

Bradley: The problem-

Adam: Is it?

Bradley: The problem is, Adam, my beard isn’t as majestic as yours.

Marco: Hey, what’s up man? Doing good. Just lots and lots of spam, I mean testing.

Adam: Good recovery. Chris, what’s up, man?

Chris: Doing good. Good to be here on another Hump Day.

Adam: I second that. Bradley, how are you doing, today?

Bradley: Happy to be here. I got lots of questions, already, so I’m ready to go.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:32].

Adam: Tell them about that, and we can pop some links in there for people, if they’re interested.

Live Rank Sniper Webinar

Adam: [crosstalk 00:02:27].

Bradley: Sorry guys. Yeah. Okay. It’s good.

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Anyways, I dropped the links on the page, but we’re having a webinar with him tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, I believe. Is that correct? I’m looking at-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah. 7:00 p.m.

Adam: Yes. 7:00 p.m.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: I have an announcement, if I may.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s next Thursday, correct?

Marco: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Chris is being oddly silent.

Bradley: Okay. No, but it’s Wednesday. I think, Adam has got Thursday and Marco’s got Friday.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:10:36].

Marco: Okay. Yeah. I just want to add that if you’re sensitive and you’re offended easily, and you don’t want to cry then don’t be there on Friday when I’m on.

Adam: Yeah. Let’s do this.

Bradley: Hello?

Adam: Yeah. You’re good.

Adam: Good to go. I’ve got your whole screen.

Duplicate Content Issues From Copying Product Description And Canonical URL Tag Of Original Product Page To A WooCommerce Affiliate Site

Redirection & Duplicate Content Concerns WIth SEO Switchbox Strategy

Adam: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Different Gmail Address For An IFTTT Network

Bradley: Yeah.

Using VPS For PBN

Bradley: Yeah. Now, what about, though, as far as using them as second or third tier links to power up first or second tiers?

Marco: That’s what we would do-

Bradley: Right.

Marco: That’s without bringing up the fact that you’re linking probably from a sandbox domain over to your money site.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco: If you don’t know how to get that so called PBN out of the sandbox quick enough.

Okay. Tim’s up next, he says, “Yes. I’m the real Vasquez,” so Hernan, he’s saying that he’s the real Vasquez.

Adam: Man, good day, too, Hernan’s not here to-

Bradley: Defend himself.

Adam: Yeah.

Using Multiple IFTTT Accounts To A Client Site

Ideal Number Of Links In A Blog Post

Marco: No. No, I don’t.

That’s an awful picture, Wayne. Thanks.

Adam: That is pretty disturbing.

YouTube Updates & Removal Of Annotations

Using Generic Keywords When Sending Links To Yelp Citations

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. We’ll see Mastermind members in about 10 minutes. Thanks, guys.

Marco: Bye, everyone.

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