Friday, January 31, 2020

Should You Create A New Website For Keywords That Have A Large Potential Audience Or Would You Rather Include To An Existing Brand?

In episode 270 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if one should create a new website for keywords that have a large potential audience or is it better to include them to an existing brand.

The exact question was:

I have a niche website in a hobby education space which has been around for years and gets good (~130k/month) organic traffic. I’m looking at some projects for this year where it seems like there might be some advantages in terms of branding and SEO to spinning up new, separate websites. One is to target broader keywords and reach a larger potential audience than our current website does. Another is to publish summaries of interviews from the existing website, as early promotion for a book that will be based on those summaries. In both cases I can make an argument that it “”should”” be its own brand and dedicated website, and perhaps that would be good in terms of interlinking with the main site and having more presences in the SERPs (e.g. might get multiple of our sites ranking alongside each other). But I can also see that it might be better to focus on our main site rather than spreading it all across multiple sites. How would you approach making this decision? What matters and what doesn’t, what are the pros and cons of each approach (separate sites vs. all in one)? Any input appreciated, thanks in advance!

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SEO for 2020 - Whiteboard Friday

Posted by BritneyMuller

It's a brand-new decade, rich with all the promise of a fresh start and new beginnings. But does that mean you should be doing anything different with regards to your SEO?

In this Whiteboard Friday, our Senior SEO Scientist Britney Muller offers a seventeen-point checklist of things you ought to keep in mind for executing on modern, effective SEO. You'll encounter both old favorites (optimizing title tags, anyone?) and cutting-edge ideas to power your search strategy from this year on into the future.

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Video Transcription

Hey, Moz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Today we are talking about SEO in 2020. What does that look like? How have things changed?

Do we need to be optimizing for favicons and BERT? We definitely don't. But here are some of the things that I feel we should be keeping an eye on. 

☑ Cover your bases with foundational SEO

Titles, metas, headers, alt text, site speed, robots.txt, site maps, UX, CRO, Analytics, etc.

To cover your bases with foundational SEO will continue to be incredibly important in 2020, basic things like title tags, meta descriptions, alt, all of the basic SEO 101 things.

There have been some conversations in the industry lately about alt text and things of that nature. When Google is getting so good at figuring out and knowing what's in an image, why would we necessarily need to continue providing alt text?

But you have to remember we need to continue to make the web an accessible place, and so for accessibility purposes we should absolutely continue to do those things. But I do highly suggest you check out Google's Visual API and play around with that to see how good they've actually gotten. It's pretty cool.

☑ Schema markup

FAQ, Breadcrumbs, News, Business Info, etc.

Schema markup will continue to be really important, FAQ schema, breadcrumbs, business info. The News schema that now is occurring in voice results is really interesting. I think we will see this space continue to grow, and you can definitely leverage those different markup types for your website. 

☑ Research what matters for your industry!

Just to keep in mind, there's going to be a lot of articles and research and information coming at you about where things are going, what you should do to prepare, and I want you to take a strategic stance on your industry and what's important in your space.

While I might suggest page speed is going to be really important in 2020, is it for your industry? We should still worry about these things and still continue to improve them. But if you're able to take a clearer look at ranking factors and what appears to be a factor for your specific space, you can better prioritize your fixes and leverage industry information to help you focus.

☑ National SERPs will no longer be reliable

You need to be acquiring localized SERPs and rankings.

This has been the case for a while. We need to localize search results and rankings to get an accurate and clear picture of what's going on in search results. I was going to put E-A-T here and then kind of cross it off.

A lot of people feel E-A-T is a huge factor moving forward. Just for the case of this post, it's always been a factor. It's been that way for the last ten-plus years, and we need to continue doing that stuff despite these various updates. I think it's always been important, and it will continue to be so. 

☑ Write good and useful content for people

While you can't optimize for BERT, you can write better for NLP.

This helps optimize your text for natural language processing. It helps make it more accessible and friendly for BERT. While you can't necessarily optimize for something like BERT, you can just write really great content that people are looking for.

☑ Understand and fulfill searcher intent, and keep in mind that there's oftentimes multi-intent

One thing to think about this space is we've kind of gone from very, very specific keywords to this richer understanding of, okay, what is the intent behind these keywords? How can we organize that and provide even better value and content to our visitors? 

One way to go about that is to consider Google houses the world's data. They know what people are searching for when they look for a particular thing in search. So put your detective glasses on and examine what is it that they are showing for a particular keyword.

Is there a common theme throughout the pages? Tailor your content and your intent to solve for that. You could write the best article in the world on DIY Halloween costumes, but if you're not providing those visual elements that you so clearly see in a Google search result page, you're never going to rank on page 1.

☑ Entity and topical integration baked into your IA

Have a rich understanding of your audience and what they're seeking.

This plays well into entities and topical understanding. Again, we've gone from keywords and now we want to have this richer, better awareness of keyword buckets. 

What are those topical things that people are looking for in your particular space? What are the entities, the people, places, or things that people are investigating in your space, and how can you better organize your website to provide some of those answers and those structures around those different pieces? That's incredibly important, and I look forward to seeing where this goes in 2020. 

☑ Optimize for featured snippets

Featured snippets are not going anywhere. They are here to stay. The best way to do this is to find the keywords that you currently rank on page 1 for that also have a featured snippet box. These are your opportunities. If you're on page 1, you're way more apt to potentially steal or rank for a featured snippet.

One of the best ways to do that is to provide really succinct, beautiful, easy-to-understand summaries, takeaways, etc., kind of mimic what other people are doing, but obviously don't copy or steal any of that. Really fun space to explore and get better at in 2020. 

☑ Invest in visuals

We see Google putting more authority behind visuals, whether it be in search or you name it. It is incredibly valuable for your SEO, whether it be unique images or video content that is organized in a structured way, where Google can provide those sections in that video search result. You can do all sorts of really neat things with visuals. 

☑ Cultivate engagement

This is good anyway, and we should have been doing this before. Gary Illyes was quoted as saying, "Comments are better for on-site engagement than social signals." I will let you interpret that how you will.

But I think it goes to show that engagement and creating this community is still going to be incredibly important moving forward into the future.

☑ Repurpose your content

Blog post → slides → audio → video

This is so important, and it will help you excel even more in 2020 if you find your top-performing web pages and you repurpose them into maybe be a SlideShare, maybe a YouTube video, maybe various pins on Pinterest, or answers on Quora.

You can start to refurbish your content and expand your reach online, which is really exciting. In addition to that, it's also interesting to play around with the idea of providing people options to consume your content. Even with this Whiteboard Friday, we could have an audio version that people could just listen to if they were on their commute. We have the transcription. Provide options for people to consume your content. 

☑ Prune or improve thin or low-quality pages

This has been incredibly powerful for myself and many other SEOs I know in improving the perceived quality of a site. So consider testing and meta no-indexing low-quality, thin pages on a website. Especially larger websites, we see a pretty big impact there. 

☑ Get customer insights!

This will continue to be valuable in understanding your target market. It will be valuable for influencer marketing for all sorts of reasons. One of the incredible tools that are currently available by our Whiteboard Friday extraordinaire, Rand Fishkin, is SparkToro. So you guys have to check that out when it gets released soon. Super exciting. 

☑ Find keyword opportunities in Google Search Console

It's shocking how few people do this and how accessible it is. If you go into your Google Search Console and you export as much data as you can around your queries, your click-through rate, your position, and impressions, you can do some incredible, simple visualizations to find opportunities.

For example, if this is the rank of your keywords and this is the click-through rate, where do you have high click-through rate but low ranking position? What are those opportunity keywords? Incredibly valuable. You can do this in all sorts of tools. One I recommend, and I will create a little tutorial for, is a free tool called Facets, made by Google for machine learning. It makes it really easy to just pick those apart. 

☑ Target link-intent keywords

A couple quick link building tactics for 2020 that will continue to hopefully work very, very well. What I mean by link-intent keywords is your keyword statistics, your keyword facts.

These are searches people naturally want to reference. They want to link to it. They want to cite it in a presentation. If you can build really great content around those link-intent keywords, you can do incredibly well and naturally build links to a website. 

☑ Podcasts

Whether you're a guest or a host on a podcast, it's incredibly easy to get links. It's kind of a fun link building hack. 

☑ Provide unique research with visuals

Andy Crestodina does this so incredibly well. So explore creating your own unique research and not making it too commercial but valuable for users. I know this was a lot.

There's a lot going on in 2020, but I hope some of this is valuable to you. I truly can't wait to hear your thoughts on these recommendations, things you think I missed, things that you would remove or change. Please let us know down below in the comments, and I will see you all soon. Thanks.

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Thursday, January 30, 2020

What Are The Reasons Why Google Remove Multiple GMB Sites With Legit Home Addresses Of People Working In The Company?

In the 270th episode of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked about the reasons why Google removed multiple GMB sites with legit home addresses of people working in the company.

The exact question was:

One more question. One of my clients had 6 of his GMB sites removed by Google. They were home addresses of people that worked at his company. Why would Google do that? And would PO boxes (without using “”PO Box”” in the address be the best thing to do to get ranked in 8 other suburbs.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

How Do You Display 5-Star Reviews In Google Search Engine Results Page?

In episode 270 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked how to display 5-star reviews in the Google search engine results page.

The exact question was:

Hi gang! How do you get the 5 stars that show up in some Google searches, it seems to be random but I’ve never been able to accomplish this.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Do You Allow Pingbacks From IFTTT Network Sites To Your Money Site?

In episode 270 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if the Semantic Mastery team allows pingbacks from IFTTT network sites to the money site.

The exact question was:

Do you recommend to allow Pingbacks from IFTTT Network sites on main sites? What is your take on Pingbacks in general, allow them, block them or monitor them manually?

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Google's January 2020 Core Update: Has the Dust Settled?

Posted by Dr-Pete

On January 13th, MozCast measured significant algorithm flux lasting about three days (the dotted line shows the 30-day average prior to the 13th, which is consistent with historical averages) ...

That same day, Google announced the release of a core update dubbed the January 2020 Core Update (in line with their recent naming conventions) ...

On January 16th, Google announced the update was "mostly done," aligning fairly well with the measured temperatures in the graph above. Temperatures settled down after the three-day spike ...

It appears that the dust has mostly settled on the January 2020 Core Update. Interpreting core updates can be challenging, but are there any takeaways we can gather from the data?

How does it compare to other updates?

How did the January 2020 Core Update stack up against recent core updates? The chart below shows the previous four named core updates, back to August 2018 (AKA "Medic") ...

While the January 2020 update wasn't on par with "Medic," it tracks closely to the previous three updates. Note that all of these updates are well above the MozCast average. While not all named updates are measurable, all of the recent core updates have generated substantial ranking flux.

Which verticals were hit hardest?

MozCast is split into 20 verticals, matching Google AdWords categories. It can be tough to interpret single-day movement across categories, since they naturally vary, but here's the data for the range of the update (January 14–16) for the seven categories that topped 100°F on January 14 ...

Health tops the list, consistent with anecdotal evidence from previous core updates. One consistent finding, broadly speaking, is that sites impacted by one core update seem more likely to be impacted by subsequent core updates.

Who won and who lost this time?

Winners/losers analyses can be dangerous, for a few reasons. First, they depend on your particular data set. Second, humans have a knack for seeing patterns that aren't there. It's easy to take a couple of data points and over-generalize. Third, there are many ways to measure changes over time.

We can't entirely fix the first problem — that's the nature of data analysis. For the second problem, we have to trust you, the reader. We can partially address the third problem by making sure we're looking at changes both in absolute and relative terms. For example, knowing a site gained 100% SERP share isn't very interesting if it went from one ranking in our data set to two. So, for both of the following charts, we'll restrict our analysis to subdomains that had at least 25 rankings across MozCast's 10,000 SERPs on January 14th. We'll also display the raw ranking counts for some added perspective.

Here are the top 25 winners by % change over the 3 days of the update. The "Jan 14" and "Jan 16" columns represent the total count of rankings (i.e. SERP share) on those days ...

If you've read about previous core updates, you may see a couple of familiar subdomains, including VeryWellHealth.com and a couple of its cousins. Even at a glance, this list goes well beyond healthcare and represents a healthy mix of verticals and some major players, including Instagram and the Google Play store.

I hate to use the word "losers," and there's no way to tell why any given site gained or lost rankings during this time period (it may not be due to the core update), but I'll present the data as impartially as possible. Here are the 25 sites that lost the most rankings by percentage change ...

Orbitz took heavy losses in our data set, as did the phone number lookup site ZabaSearch. Interestingly, one of the Very Well family of sites (three of which were in our top 25 list) landed in the bottom 25. There are a handful of healthcare sites in the mix, including the reputable Cleveland Clinic (although this appears to be primarily a patient portal).

What can we do about any of this?

Google describes core updates as "significant, broad changes to our search algorithms and systems ... designed to ensure that overall, we’re delivering on our mission to present relevant and authoritative content to searchers." They're quick to say that a core update isn't a penalty and that "there’s nothing wrong with pages that may perform less well." Of course, that's cold comfort if your site was negatively impacted.

We know that content quality matters, but that's a vague concept that can be hard to pin down. If you've taken losses in a core update, it is worth assessing if your content is well matched to the needs of your visitors, including whether it's accurate, up to date, and generally written in a way that demonstrates expertise.

We also know that sites impacted by one core update seem to be more likely to see movement in subsequent core updates. So, if you've been hit in one of the core updates since "Medic," keep your eyes open. This is a work in progress, and Google is making adjustments as they go.

Ultimately, the impact of core updates gives us clues about Google's broader intent and how best to align with that intent. Look at sites that performed well and try to understand how they might be serving their core audiences. If you lost rankings, are they rankings that matter? Was your content really a match to the intent of those searchers?


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What Is The Best Way To Use Stacks For A National Brand?

In Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts episode 269, one viewer asked about the best way to use stacks for a national brand.

The exact question was:

What would be the best way to attack a national brand …target specific geo areas or the general broad Kws//example: “” we buy houses”” niche with stacks?

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The Dirty Little Featured Snippet Secret: Where Humans Rely on Algorithmic Intervention [Case Study]

Posted by brodieclarkconsulting

I recently finished a project where I was tasked to investigate why a site (that receives over one million organic visits per month) does not rank for any featured snippets.

This is obviously an alarming situation, since ~15% of all result pages, according to the MozCast, have a featured snippet as a SERP feature. The project was passed on to me by an industry friend. I’ve done a lot of research on featured snippets in the past. I rarely do once-off projects, but this one really caught my attention. I was determined to figure out what issue was impacting the site.

In this post, I detail my methodology for the project that I delivered, along with key takeaways for my client and others who might be faced with a similar situation. But before I dive deep into my analysis: this post does NOT have a fairy-tale ending. I wasn’t able to unclog a drain that resulted in thousands of new visitors.

I did, however, deliver massive amounts of closure for my client, allowing them to move on and invest resources into areas which will have a long-lasting impact.

Confirming suspicions with Big Data

Now, when my client first came to me, they had their own suspicions about what was happening. They had been advised by other consultants on what to do.

They had been told that the featured snippet issue was stemming from either:

1. An issue relating to conflicting structured data on the site

OR

2. An issue relating to messy HTML which was preventing the site from appearing within featured snippet results

I immediately shut down the first issue as a cause for featured snippets not appearing. I’ve written about this topic extensively in the past. Structured data (in the context of schema.org) does NOT influence featured snippets. You can read more about this in my post on Search Engine Land.

As for the second point, this is more close to reality, yet also so far from it. Yes, HTML structure does help considerably when trying to rank for featured snippets. But to the point where a site that ranks for almost a million keywords but doesn’t rank for any featured snippets at all? Very unlikely. There’s more to this story, but let’s confirm our suspicions first.


Let’s start from the top. Here’s what the estimated organic traffic looks like:

Note: I’m unable to show the actual traffic for this site due to confidentiality. But the monthly estimation that Ahrefs gives of 1.6M isn’t far off.

Out of the 1.6M monthly organic visits, Ahrefs picks up on 873K organic keywords. When filtering these keywords by SERP features with a featured snippet and ordering by position, you get the following:

I then did similar research with both Moz Pro using their featured snippet filtering capabilities as well as SEMrush, allowing me to see historical ranking.

All 3 tools displaying the same result: the site did not rank for any featured snippets at all, despite ~20% of my client's organic keywords including a featured snippet as a SERP feature (higher than the average from MozCast).

It was clear that the site did not rank for any featured snippets on Google. But who was taking this position away from my client?

The next step was to investigate whether other sites are ranking within the same niche. If they were, then this would be a clear sign of a problem.

An “us” vs “them” comparison

Again, we need to reflect back to our tools. We need our tools to figure out the top sites based on similarity of keywords. Here’s an example of this in action within Moz Pro:

Once we have our final list of similar sites, we need to complete the same analysis that was completed in the previous section of this post to see if they rank for any featured snippets.

With this analysis, we can figure out whether they have featured snippets displaying or not, along with the % of their organic keywords with a featured snippet as a SERP feature.

The next step is to add all of this data to a Google Sheet and see how everything matches up to my client's site. Here’s what this data looks like for my client:

I now need to dig deeper into the sites in my table. Are they really all that relevant, or are my tools just picking up on a subset of queries that are similar?

I found that from row 8 downwards in my table, those sites weren’t all that similar. I excluded them from my final dataset to keep things as relevant as possible.

Based on this data, I could see 5 other sites that were similar to my clients. Out of those five sites, only one had results where they were ranking within a featured snippet.

80% of similar sites to my client's site had the exact same issue. This is extremely important information to keep in mind going forward.

Although the sample size is considerably lower, one of those sites has ~34% of search results that they rank for where they are unable to be featured. Comparatively, this is quite problematic for this site (considering the 20% calculation from my client's situation).

This analysis has been useful in figuring out whether the issue was specific to my client or the entire niche. But do we have guidelines from Google to back this up?

Google featured snippet support documentation

Within Google’s Featured Snippet Documentation, they provide details on policies surrounding the SERP feature. This is public information. But I think a very high percentage of SEOs aren’t aware (based on multiple discussions I’ve had) of how impactful some of these details can be.

For instance, the guidelines state that: 

"Because of this prominent treatment, featured snippet text, images, and the pages they come from should not violate these policies." 

They then mention 5 categories:

  1. Sexually explicit
  2. Hateful
  3. Violent
  4. Dangerous and harmful
  5. Lack consensus on public interest topics

Number five in particular is an interesting one. This section is not as clear as the other four and requires some interpretation. Google explains this category in the following way:

"Featured snippets about public interest content — including civic, medical, scientific, and historical issues — should not lack well-established or expert consensus support."

And the even more interesting part in all of this: these policies do not apply to web search listings nor cause those to be removed.

It can be lights out for featured snippets if you fall into one of these categories, yet you can still be able to rank highly within the 10-blue-link results. A bit of an odd situation.

Based on my knowledge of the client, I couldn’t say for sure whether any of the five categories were to blame for their problem. It was sure looking like it was algorithmic intervention (and I had my suspicions about which category was the potential cause).

But there was no way of confirming this. The site didn’t have a manual action within Google Search Console. That is literally the only way Google could communicate something like this to site owners.

I needed someone on the inside at Google to help.

The missing piece: Official site-specific feedback from Google

One of the most underused resources in an SEOs toolkit (based on my opinion), are the Google Webmaster Hangouts held by John Mueller.

You can see the schedule for these Hangouts on YouTube here and join live, asking John a question in person if you want. You could always try John on Twitter too, but there’s nothing like video.

You’re given the opportunity to explain your question in detail. John can easily ask for clarification, and you can have a quick back-and-forth that gets to the bottom of your problem.

This is what I did in order to figure out this situation. I spoke with John live on the Hangout for ~5 minutes; you can watch my segment here if you’re interested. The result was that John gave me his email address and I was able to send through the site for him to check with the ranking team at Google.

I followed up with John on Twitter to see if he was able to get any information from the team on my clients situation. You can follow the link above to see the full piece of communication, but John’s feedback was that there wasn't a manual penalty being put in place for my client's site. He said that it was purely algorithmic. This meant that the algorithm was deciding that the site was not allowed to rank within featured snippets.

And an important component of John’s response:


If a site doesn’t rank for any featured snippets when they're already ranking highly within organic results on Google (say, within positions 1–5), there is no way to force it to rank.

For me, this is a dirty little secret in a way (hence the title of this article). Google’s algorithms may decide that a site can’t show in a featured snippet (but could rank #2 consistently), and there's nothing a site owner can do.

...and the end result?

The result of this, in the specific niche that my client is in, is that lots of smaller, seemingly less relevant sites (as a whole) are the ones that are ranking in featured snippets. Do these sites provide the best answer? Well, the organic 10-blue-links ranking algorithm doesn’t think so, but the featured snippet algorithm does.

This means that the site has a lot of queries which have a low CTR, resulting in considerably less traffic coming through to the site. Sure, featured snippets sometimes don’t drive much traffic. But they certainly get a lot more attention than the organic listings below:

Based on the Nielsen Norman Group study, when SERP features (like featured snippets) were present on a SERP, they found that they received looks in 74% of cases (with a 95% confidence interval of 66–81%). This data clearly points to the fact that featured snippets are important for sites to rank within where possible, resulting in far greater visibility.

Because Google’s algorithm is making this decision, it's likely a liability thing; Google (the people involved with the search engine) don’t want to be the ones to have to make that call. It’s a tricky one. I understand why Google needs to put these systems in place for their search engine (scale is important), but communication could be drastically improved for these types of algorithmic interventions. Even if it isn’t a manual intervention, there ought to be some sort of notification within Google Search Console. Otherwise, site owners will just invest in R&D trying to get their site to rank within featured snippets (which is only natural).

And again, just because there are categories available in the featured snippet policy documentation, that doesn’t mean that the curiosity of site owners is always going to go away. There will always be the “what if?”

Deep down, I’m not so sure Google will ever make this addition to Google Search Console. It would mean too much communication on the matter, and could lead to unnecessary disputes with site owners who feel they’ve been wronged. Something needs to change, though. There needs to be less ambiguity for the average site owner who doesn’t know they can access awesome people from the Google Search team directly. But for the moment, it will remain Google’s dirty little featured snippet secret.


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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Are There Any Google Properties That Don’t Play Well Together?

In Hump Day Hangouts episode 269, one participant asked if there are any Google properties that don’t play well together.

The exact question was:

Hello! Are there any Google properties that don’t play well together? (i.e. shouldn’t embed on a G site, should link to from another property)

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Saturday, January 25, 2020

What Are The Benefits Of Hosting Your WordPress Using Amazon S3?

In episode 269 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked about the benefits of hosting a WordPress site on Amazon S3.

The exact question was:

Good day and Happy New Year thank you guys for this forum. If you host your wordpress site on Amazons S3 then can you hammer it with links or is it the best practice to treat like all other money sites? Is there any other benefit to hosting on S3?

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Friday, January 24, 2020

Is Google’s AMP Stories Valuable For Ranking And Traffic?

In episode 269 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if Google’s AMP stories are valuable for ranking and traffic.

The exact question was:

Hi. I’ve come across Google’s AMP Stories recently. Do you see any value in these for ranking or traffic. Thanks

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

How Do You Add Schema To A Google Site And Pages?

In episode 269 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked how to add schema to a Google site and pages.

The exact question was:

Hi. You talk also about optimizing Google sites with Schema. can you show as how to ad schema to google site and pages. Thanks

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Can You Create A Second Tier Network Promoting The Money Site Without Compromising Brand Image?

In episode 269 of the weekly Hump Day Hangouts by Semantic Mastery, one viewer asked if you can create a second-tier network promoting the money site without compromising the brand image.

The exact question was:

2) If a company is worried about their restaurant “”image”” can I create my IFTTT network and twitter (Twitter to use for SEO purposes where I post backlinks to everything) will it work if I don’t do a branded IFTTT but instead use something like “”Fans of Restaurant Chain Name”” and run everything through that? This way I can post anything to Twitter and not have to worry about them not liking content I would want to post to the blog, since I don’t have time or budget for expert copywriting. Thanks!

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Should You Use GMB Service Areas For Restaurants Or Is It Only Applicable For Service Area Business?

In episode 269 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if one should use the GMB service areas for restaurants or if it is only applicable for service area business.

The exact question was:

Two questions, if you only have time for one, please answer the second one: 1) Should I enter GMB “”service areas”” for restaurants or are service areas only for service area businesses?

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What Are Some Best Practices You Follow When It Comes To Reverifying A GMB?

In the 269th episode of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked about some best practices one should follow when it comes to reverifying a GMB.

The exact question was:

2. Is there a best practice you use when it comes to reverifying a GMB? I am getting several assets that are being asked for reverification. Are you still offering GMB Verification or has that gotten too difficult to be a good business model for ya?

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Is The Local Lease Pro Method Still Valid From A Location Research Perspective?

In episode 269 of Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked if the local lease pro method is still valid from a location-perspective.

The exact question was:

1. Is Local Lease Pro method still valid from a location research perspective or are there any changes I should be aware of to outsource the process?

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Is It A Good Practice To Do Internal Link Exchange Between Blog Posts And Pages?

In episode 269 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if it is a good practice to do internal link exchange between blog posts and pages.

The exact question was:

Hello SEO Experts, I want to ask that is it good practice to do internally link exchange between two blog post or pages. Thanks for your reply in Advance.

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Monday, January 20, 2020

The True Value of Top Publisher Links

Posted by KristinTynski

I’m often asked about what results are earned through content marketing and digital PR.

So I decided to take a data-driven approach to quantifying the value of links from top-tier press mentions by looking at the aggregate improvements seen by a group of domains that have enjoyed substantial press attention in the last few months. Then I examined which publishers can have the biggest impact on rankings.

My goal was to answer this question: What sort of median bump can be expected when your brand secures media coverage? And how can you potentially get the biggest organic lift?

First off: Top-tier links matter a great deal

This chart represents the correlation between the number of times a site was linked to from within the article text of publishers and its rankings and traffic.

Considering the sheer number of possible variables that contribute to rankings changes (on-site factors, amount and quality of on-site content, penalties, etc.) seeing R-values (which determine the linear relationship) this high is a good result.

In general, the higher the R-score, the stronger the relationship between number of links from publishers and improvements in organic ranking.

We found significant relationships between the number of mentions on news sites ranked in the Top 500 and an even stronger relationship for those ranked within the Top 300.

The likely reason for this is twofold:

  1. Top 300 publishers confer more Domain Authority than less popular sites.
  2. Top 300 publishers often have larger syndication networks and broader visibility, leading to more links being built as the result of a press mention, leading to more Domain Authority accumulation overall.

Which publishers link out the most?

When pitching publishers, it can be extremely useful to understand who is most likely to actually provide a link.

Some publishers have policies against outbound links of any type or nofollow all outbound links.

Looking at the huge dataset, I got a better understanding for which publishers link out to other sites most frequently.

Notice the large number of local news sites with high numbers of outbound links. Local news is often keen to link out.

Unfortunately, most local news won’t have large scale syndication, so looking at top-tier publishers with large numbers of outbound links is likely a better strategy when developing a pitch list. So when you remove those from the list, here are the winners.

The top 15 national publishers that provide links

  1. Forbes
  2. The New York Times
  3. ZDnet
  4. NPR
  5. PR News Wire
  6. Seeking Alpha
  7. The Conversation
  8. USA Today
  9. CNN
  10. Benzinga
  11. Business Insider
  12. Quartz
  13. The Hill
  14. Heavy
  15. Vox

Sites like Forbes only dole out nofollow links, but many of these others provide dofollow links (in addition to just being great, high-authority coverage to achieve). Some industry specific options, like Seeking Alpha, Benzinga, and The Hill, can make for great vertical-specific dream publications to strive for coverage on.

Which publishers confer the most value in terms of organic search improvements?

Looking at this database, it’s possible to look at the median organic traffic gains aggregated by the site that gave the link.

This view is filtered to only include sites that had linked out 100+ times in order to reduce outlier publishers with small volumes of outbound links to only a handful of sites.

More popular sites are clustered near the top, further reiterating the fairly obvious point that the more popular a site, the more value a link from them will be in terms of improving organic ranking.

While most of the top-value links are from these sites, there are quite a few mid-tier sites that seem to grant disproportionate value, including several local news sites and niche authoritative publishers.

Methodology

I used The GDELT Project, a massive repository of news articles that are searchable using BigQuery, to extract the links from all news articles over the last year. Then I aggregated them by root domain.

For each domain from the GDELT dataset that was mentioned in a news article at least 30 times, we then pulled organic data from SEMrush’s API for each one.

I combined the SERP change numbers to the cleaned GDELT data by matching it to the URL of the linked-to site. This gave me organic changes (traffic volume, price, ranking keyword volume change) for each of the root URLs linked to more than 30 times from within the text of articles in the GDELT scrape.

From there, I ran a correlation analysis to see if we could find a statistically significant influence of news coverage on rankings.

Conclusion

Using insights like the ones above, you’ll be able to craft content better suited to those specific writers and audiences, increasing your chances of getting extremely impactful links via a digital PR strategy.

You can download the Tableau notebook and sort in the desktop version to explore the different sites relevant to your vertical. While not all of them may accept outside content, it’s a great start for building a “dream” pitch list. Study the type of content they typically publish, what their audience seems to enjoy most (based on shares and comments), and consider using these insights to hone your content strategy.


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Friday, January 17, 2020

Can You Rank A Google Site And GMB While Waiting To Book A Client?

In Semantic Mastery’s weekly Hump Day Hangouts episode 268, one viewer asked if you can rank a Google site and GMB while waiting to book a client.

The exact question was:

Can you rank a Google site without a GMB? (Rank and rent without a client until site is rented?)

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Mining Reddit for Content Ideas in 5 Steps - Whiteboard Friday

Posted by DanielRussell

For marketers, Reddit is more than a tool to while away your lunch break. It's a huge, thriving forum with subreddits devoted to almost any topic you can imagine — and exciting new content ideas lurk within threads, just waiting to be discovered. In this edition of Whiteboard Friday, Daniel Russell takes you through five simple steps to mine Reddit for content ideas bolstered by your target audience's interest.


Video Transcription

Howdy, Moz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. My name is Daniel Russell. I'm from an agency called Go Fish Digital. Today we're going to be talking about mining Reddit for content ideas.

Reddit, you've probably heard of it, but in case you haven't, it's one of the largest websites on the internet. It gets billions of views and clicks per year. People go there because it is a great source of content. It's really entertaining. But it also means that it's a great source of content for us as marketers. So today what we're going to be talking about is two main groups here.

We're going to first be talking about the features of Reddit, the different things that you can use on Reddit to find good content ideas. Then we're going to be talking about five steps that you can take and apply today to start finding ideas for your company, for your clients and start getting that successful content. 

Features of Reddit

So first, Reddit as a breakdown here.

Subreddits

First, a big feature of Reddit is called subreddits. They're essentially smaller forums within Reddit, a smaller forum within a forum dedicated to a particular topic. So there might be a forum dedicated to movies and discussing movies. There's a forum dedicated to food and talking about different types of food, posting pictures of food, posting recipes.

There is a forum for just about everything under the sun. If you can think of it, it's probably got a forum on Reddit. This is really valuable to us as marketers because it means that people are taking their interests and then putting it out there for us to see. So if we are trying to do work for a sports company or if we're trying to do work for our company that's dentistry or something like that, there is a subreddit dedicated to that topic, and we can go and find people that are interested in that, that are probably within our target markets.

Upvoting and downvoting

There's upvoting and downvoting. Essentially what this is, is people post a piece of content to Reddit, and then other users decide if they like it or not. They upvote it or they downvote it. The stuff that is upvoted is usually the good stuff. People that are paying really close attention to Reddit are always upvoting and downvoting things. Then the things that get the most upvotes start rising to the top so that other people can see it.

It's super valuable to us again because this helps verify ideas for us. This helps us see what's working and what's not. Before we even put pen to paper, before we even start designing everything, we can see what has been the most upvoted. The most upvoted stuff leads to the next big feature, which is rankings. The stuff that gets voted the most ends up ranking on the top of Reddit and becomes more visible.

It becomes easier for us to find as marketers, and luckily we can take a look at those rankings and see if any of that matches the content we're trying to create. 

Comments

There's the comments section. Essentially what this is, is for every post there's a section dedicated to that post for comments, where people can comment on the post. They can comment on comments. It's almost like a focus group.

It's like a focus group without actually being there in person. You can see what people like, what people don't like about the content, how they felt about it. Maybe they even have some content ideas of their own that they're sharing in there. It's an incredibly valuable place to be. We can take these different features and start digging in to find content ideas using these down here.

Reddit search & filters

Search bar

The search bar is a Reddit feature that works fairly well. It will probably yield mediocre results most of the time. But you can drill down a little further with that search bar using search parameters. These parameters are things like searching by author, searching by website.

Search parameters

There are a lot of different searches that you can use. There's a full list of them on Reddit. But this essentially allows you to take that mediocre search bar and make it a little bit more powerful. If you want to look for sports content, you can look specifically at content posted from ESPN.com and see what has been the most upvoted there. 

Restrict results to subreddit

You can restrict your results to a particular subreddit. So if you're trying to look for content around chicken dishes, you're doing work for a restaurant and you're trying to find what's been the most upvoted content around chicken, you don't want people calling each other chickens. So what you can do is restrict your search to a subreddit so that you actually get chicken the food rather than posts talking about that guy is a chicken.

Filter results

You can filter results. This essentially means that you can take all the results that you get from your search and then you can recategorize it based off of how many upvotes it's gotten, how recently it was posted, how many comments it has. 

Filter subreddits

Then you can also filter subreddits themselves. So you can take subreddits, all the content that's been posted there, and you can look at what's been the most upvoted content for that subreddit.

What has been the most controversial content from that subreddit? What's been the most upvoted? What's been the most downvoted? These features make it a really user-friendly place in terms of finding really entertaining stuff. That's why Reddit is often like a black hole of productivity. You can get lost down it and stay there for hours.

That works in our benefit as marketers. That means that we can go through, take these different features, apply them to our own marketing needs, and find those really good content ideas. 

5 steps to finding content ideas on Reddit

So for some examples here. There's a set of key steps that you can use. I'm going to use some real-world examples, so some true-blue things that we've done for clients so that you can see how this actually works in real life.

1. Do a general search for your topic

The first step is to do a general search for your topic. So real-world example, we have a client that is in the transportation space. They work with shuttles, with limos, and with taxis. We wanted to create some content around limos. So the way we started in these key steps is we did a general search for limos.

Our search yielded some interesting things. We saw that a lot of people were posting pictures of stretch limos, of just wild limo interiors. But then we also saw a lot of people talking about presidential limos, the limos that the president rides in that have the bulletproof glass and everything. So we started noticing that, hey, there's some good content here about limos. It kind of helped frame our brainstorming and our content mining. 

2. Find a subreddit that fits

The next step is to find a subreddit that fits that particular topic. Now there is a subreddit dedicated to limos. It's not the most active. There wasn't a ton of content there. So what we ended up doing was looking at more broad subreddits. We looked at like the cars subreddit.

There was a subreddit dedicated to guides and to breakdowns of different machines. So there were a lot of breakdowns, like cutaways of the presidential limos. So again, that was coming up. What we saw in the general search was coming up in our subreddit specific search. We were seeing presidential limos again.

3. Look at subreddit content from the past month

Step 3, look at that sub's particular content from the past month. The subreddit, for example, that we were looking at was one dedicated to automobiles, as I had mentioned earlier. We looked at the top content from that past month, and we saw there was this really cool GIF that essentially took the Chevy logo back from like the '30s and slowly morphed it over the years into the Chevy logo that we saw today.

We thought that was pretty cool. We started wondering if maybe we could apply that same kind of idea to our presidential limo finding that we were seeing earlier. 

4. Identify trends, patterns, and sticky ideas

Number 4 was to identify trends, patterns, and sticky ideas. Sticky ideas, it just means if you come across something and it just kind of sticks in your head, like it just kind of stays there, likely that will happen for your audience as well.

So if you come across anything that you find really interesting, that keeps sticking in your head or keeps popping up on Reddit, it keeps getting lots of upvotes, identify that idea because it's going to be valuable. So for us, we started identifying ideas like morphing GIFs, the Chevy logo morphing over time. We started identifying ideas like presidential limos. People really like talking about it.

5. Polish, improve, and up-level the ideas you've found

That led us to use Step Number 5, which is to take those ideas that we were finding, polish them, improve them, one up it, take it to the next level, and then create some content around that and promote it. So what we did was we took those two ideas, we took presidential limos and the whole morphing GIF idea over time, and we combined them.



We found images of all of the presidential limos since like the '50s. Then we took each of those presidential limos and we created a morphing GIF out of them, so that you started with the old presidential limos, which really weren't really secure. They were convertibles. They were normal cars. Then that slowly morphed up to the massive tanks that we have today. It was a huge success.

It was just a GIF. But that idea had been validated because we were looking at what was the most upvoted, what was the most downvoted, what was ranked, what wasn't ranked, and we saw some ideas that we could take, one up, and polish. So we created this morphing presidential limo, and it did really well.

It got coverage in a lot of major news networks. ABC News picked it up. CBS talked about it. It even got posted to Reddit later and performed really well on Reddit. It was all because we were able to take these features, mine down, drill down, find those good content ideas, and then polish it and make it our own. 

I'm really interested to hear if you've tried this before. Maybe you've seen some really good ideas that you'd like to try out on Reddit.

Do you have like a favorite search function that you use on Reddit? Do you like to filter by the past year? Do you like a particular subreddit? Let me know down in the comments. Good luck mining ideas. I know it will work for you. Have a great day.

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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 270

Click on the video above to watch Episode 270 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://semanticmastery.com/humpday.

Announcement

Adam: Hey, we are live now. Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts Episode 270. Today is the 15th of January. We’re over what halfway through the month. So halfway through the first month of the year, and we are rocking on with Hump Day Hangouts. And wouldn’t you know it my mom is calling me right as I get started? Alright, and this is where I’m going to put it face down over there. So we’re going to keep rolling with this instead of hopping on a phone call with mom. But let’s instead of speaking to her say hi to everybody and see what’s going on. So, Bradley, you’re up top on my screen. How are you doing today?

Bradley: I’m well, man.

Adam: Use three adjectives to describe how you’re doing today.

Bradley: Well, things are good. I’ve got several things popping in my real estate business right now, which is kind of exciting. And we got 2xyouragency or double your agency coming up next week starting that and that’s been fun kind of preparing for that. So I got a lot of cool things to share.

Adam: Good deal. All right. Hernan? How about you? You’re jumping up and down. So hopefully things are going well.

Hernan: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah. doing real good. It’s good to be here. Dude, your mom doesn’t know that we do have the Hangout every Wednesday at 3pm Eastern?

Adam: you know, she could have been calling to be like Adam, you know, have a great Hump Day Hangout. You’re going to be great. You’re all right.

Hernan: We’ve been doing this for the past five years to come on. Now. I really, I’m really excited about what’s coming. I’m really excited about the launch of 2xyouragency, this is going to be awesome. We have some really good stuff planned for everyone that wants to learn how to increase their revenue, get more agency clients. So if you own a digital agency, stay tuned, because this is going to be awesome. As usual, we will try to disrupt the industry. So we’re going to so this is not going to be any different. So it’s going to be awesome. Stay tuned. It’s launching soon.

Adam: Yeah, you know, I think something to that. Someone of the POFU Live attendees said to us, or rather, he wrote it I believe is on Hump Day Hangouts. But I like this one. I’m going to run with it. He said We’re the unicorns of Internet Marketing. So there you go. That’s that needs to be plastered all over me.

Hernan: Give me a little unicorn put at the top of Hump Day hangouts at the camel to the unicorn.

Adam: The camel corn. So, okay, before we go totally off the deep end, Marco, how are you doing today? What’s up, man?

Marco: I’m doing good. If I can just take some dissolute a little bit of time, and I gotta pull that up. Because I got to share this with people. The charity is doing really well by the donation drive. But what we’ve come up with is just a way for people to benefit from donating to the charity. And lo and behold, I can’t find it. But I mean, we have a whole list of things that we’re giving away. As a matter of fact ,you and Hernan each donated up to half-hour slots right? For one person and I’m not going to share my screen but I know Bradley donated an hour I donated two hours of my time so what two people are going to get an hour with me then Rob donated an hour, not only that, we’re going to tack teach someone for an hour.

Rob and I get them going in in the right direction as far as their online presence and everything that they’re doing is concerned. Jeffrey Smith donated an hour. Steven Kang from the Facebook group the SEO signals lab he donated, he’s going to take you through whether the potential ROI for whatever it is that whatever market you’re in. So he says nobody else has what he does. So whatever that is, Kang is a beast. And we have that.

We’re giving away drive stacks, we’re giving away SEO shield, Syndication Academy. And so if you haven’t donated, right, for whatever reason, now would be a perfect time to donate. So you can catch the next webinar, which is the giveaway webinar. And I keep talking to people. Oh, before I forget Jeremy from Press Advantage donated, three done for you press releases, so three people are each going to get a done for you press release. So you can see what this is all about, in case you’re curious. Or if you use them, whatever. And this is, this is randomized, we already have it, where it’s going to be randomized. Once you win a prize, you’re no longer available for any other prize. So that as many people as possible can benefit from all this. And I’m leaving a whole lot. I mean, we have a list and I wasn’t able to find the page. But just so everyone knows. I mean it’s just a whole bunch of just great information. A whole bunch of things that I’m sharing that I wouldn’t share otherwise and since people have donated to my favorite charity it’s my way of giving back and then on top of it, as if that weren’t enough as if giving your life like the key the keys to the kingdom but for me we were putting a cherry on top by giving you even more so there. I just want to get that in guys. Go donate I’ll drop the donation page if that’s good enough to get you going. I don’t know what it is.

Adam: that’s awesome. Yeah, I know is a great result over the holidays you can leading up to it and as Marco said, I’m not gonna go on and on about this but you’re definitely helping out a good cause. And hey, at the same time you get to help yourself so it’s win-win. Chris How you doing man?

Chris: Doing good. Just packing stuff. leaving tomorrow alone. So super excited.

Adam: Where are you going?

Chris: To the very number one to the tallest mountain of Austria and on that and on the backside. So no internet, no nothing. And yeah, I’m super happy about it. I’m part-time that I take some time off digital detox, how they call it. So yeah, super happy.

Adam: Alright, well sounds good. We just got a few things we need to run through before we get into questions here. And speaking of questions, if you’re just joining us for the first time, thank you so much for being here. This is the place to be every Wednesday at 4pm. Eastern, you can ask your questions. I do have to say if you’re asking questions, we try to keep them pretty short and succinct. If you ask a really tough question or a lot of questions in a series, we can’t get to them. We might have to skip it if we have time. Maybe we can come back but we always tell people to limit it to one question and then if you’re attending live you know you can come back and ask more you know, after that, we just want to make sure that everyone gets a chance. I know today we had at least one really in-depth kind of multi-part question come up. So wanted to say you know that we’re going to be able to answer what we can but some of that stuff goes into way more detail than we would even have the time to answer here. So make sure you guys keep it as short as you can. But we do appreciate all the questions.

And like Hernan said, I want to touch base on this again, because next week, we’re going to be doing something a little bit differently next Wednesday just for the intro. Next week 2xagency is going to be kicking off. So as Bradley said, Hernan said we’re excited about it. But we’re going to be talking a little bit more about that again, explaining you know, exactly what you can expect from that. And then there’s definitely definitely a very special chance for people who are subscribers who attend Hump Day Hangouts at finding out more about that, but Hernan you mentioned it real quick, but do you want to tell people a bit more, you know, just kind of who this is for and what we’re intending to go with this?

Hernan: Yeah. 100% So, um, so we’re really excited about it. And the reason why is because, for the past couple of years, most of our audience has been mostly digital agency owners in one capacity or another. Maybe you have a couple of clients, maybe you have two to three clients, and you want to take it to five to 10 clients. Or maybe you’re dealing with a whole team, you’re going, you know, you’re going out hard and have like 20 clients and the team of VAs and whatnot. And whatever that is right now, in order for you to take it to the next level, you need to learn new skill sets, maybe it is to prospect a little bit better that is to always have your pipeline full of new leads that want to talk to you that want to hire you. Or maybe it is delegating a little bit better, right? You cannot do it all on your own. So just imagine if you were from five clients to 15 clients in a week, there’s a high chance that you will potentially go crazy. So how do you solve that? Right?

So basically, we sat down and we asked the audience, what they wanted. And one of the main things was I need more clients, I want to get more clients, I want to get more productive, I want to double my revenue. So that’s where Double Your Agency Come come to play. So it’s going to be a really in-depth program where we’re going to take people that have a couple of clients again and want to, you know, get those 5-10 clients that they want, or maybe they want to completely revamp their business. I’m going to be showing you how to do it through paid advertising, SEO, PPC on Google, Facebook ads and whatnot. We’re going to be teaching you stuff that you can deploy for your current clients and you can charge more money. Last but not least, how could how to actually build your team, delegate and set up processes and whatnot. Remember guys that we have like 20 plus VA right now working for MGYB. So we kind of know our stuff when it comes to generating process. Hiring those VA is where hot VA is working with us for the past five years, growing your personal brand so it’s all going to be there. It’s gonna be pretty awesome. And yeah, really excited to get that going.

Adam: Sounds good. Definitely. We will have more coming out on that. If you haven’t and you’re watching live you can sign up, put the link down below to get an early notification that that will definitely pay off. I highly suggest you do that. And also wanted to mention that if you have not gotten MGYB emails, you should head over to MGYB sign up, we got some really cool things that you can get for free if you’re not quite ready to take advantage of all the great done for you services over there. But right now there is a sale going on only for MGYB subscribers 25% off all link building and embeds, which is awesome. I think we’ve already had, I don’t know, 10 or 15 people already taking advantage of that today. So you get 25% off a little bit of flash sale celebrating the beginning of the year helping people out with their projects. So I’ll pop that info onto the page here. And you can go and grab that stuff. So with that said, Did we get anything else before we get into questions, guys?

Marco: Yeah, well, one more anyone donating will have access to all of the past webinars and last year’s webinar. So even if you think about that, you’re only going to catch the last webinar that’s not so you’re going to catch all of them for just a simple donation. And as I said before, I’m not asking for any amount said before your heart is going to dictate whether you donate and your wallet is, of course, going to say how much you can donate. So I don’t want to put anyone out. Just do what you can.

Adam: Sounds good. Alright guys, let’s do it.

Bradley: Sweet. Alright, let me figure out where I’m supposed to be here. Okay, I think you’re seeing my screen correct?

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Adam: Yep.

Do You Allow Pingbacks From IFTTT Network Sites To Your Money Site?

All right. Uh, looks like we’re going to start with that’s Keith Goodwin under that super spawn article. Do you recommend What’s up? Keith has been a long time and he says do you recommend to allow pingbacks from IFTTT network sites on main sites? What is your take on pingbacks in general, I think that’s like 2008 technology. I don’t know that those have been benefited. So in any way, shape or form for many years, so I’ve always disabled that stuff. I’ve always blocked up, you know, just that’s just standard operating procedure when a site is deployed, I just disable comments altogether. So that includes pingbacks, and all that trackbacks and all that crap, too. Does anybody have any reason why they would suggest ever using any of those?

Marco: I have nothing recent for that, man. I stopped doing that. So here’s the thing. I’m not saying that they don’t work or that they do work. They did have their place. But we moved on to something else, right? It could be that people coming in and interacting with the website, and getting all of that activity will have a signal for Google a positive signal. But since that’s something that I’ve tested, I would only have been able to theorize about it. The other stuff that we do just worked so well, that we haven’t needed to go in and check whether pingbacks still have their place in SEO.

Bradley: Yeah. I think you a long time ago, I’m sure there was some SEO benefit to it but I haven’t used them since God I want to say probably 2010 or 12 or probably 2012 somewhere around there is when I just always started disabled and all that stuff so and I have never looked back. I don’t think they’re helpful at all Keith but you know, maybe somebody someway has found a way to manipulate them. There’s such an old kind of feature with WordPress that you know, I’m sure if there was some sort of super cool hack it would have been exploited to the point where it was terminated anyway, you know, so

Hernan: Yeah, it’s been there forever. Like since the beginning of WordPress, I would say. Mostly because if you would leave a comment or if you would, leave a link on that will ping back the post if it was for press and whatnot. So and then you will have a lot of pingback spam as well. I remember like going through and deleting a bunch of them. So yeah, I haven’t used them,

Bradley: which is part of the reason I eliminated them entirely was because of that I got tired after to go in and clean out pingbacks and trackbacks spam, you know, and that kind of stuff. So

How Do You Display 5-Star Reviews In Google Search Engine Results Page?

wraps up, he says, Hey, gang, how do you get the five stars that show up in some Google searches? That seems to be random. I’ve never been able to accomplish this. It’s with structured data that would be what they call review, review schema. And so you can do that by marking up like product reviews, it could be customer reviews, you know, so basically, like user reviews, that kind of stuff. But that’s all accomplished through structured data that has to be added to the web page correctly and invalidated before Google and it does. There’s no guarantee that Google will pick it up and display them. But it’s that’s how you put it your site in a position to have the reviews stars show Marco. Are there any secret tips for that?

Marco: I really don’t have anything. It’s in the schema. Right? And sometimes they appear, sometimes they don’t. Google came out not too long ago, advising against because they see this as just being self-promotional. And that’s not the intent, not to say that it does or doesn’t work and sometimes, what Google says not to do works really well so you keep on doing it. So this is just totally the structured data on the website. There’s a way for you to get the stars in there. It’s not something that I bother with.

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Bradley: Yeah, agreed. I mean, I bother with structured data. Don’t get me wrong, but I don’t you know, there are some plugins and things like that some third-party services that you can use that will import like, for example, I can’t remember the name of the plugin suite now but they have a Yelp plugin, a Google My Business plugin and a Facebook plugin. So it’s essentially a plugin for WordPress sites that will import it connects via API to Google Maps, Facebook and Yelp. And so what happens is, it will pull in for that particular business location, the different reviews that are published on each one of those sites. And so you can buy each plugin individually or buy them all together as a suite. And what happens is that that actually imports the code. It’s like an iframe, I guess iframes in the code from those review sites so that it’s essentially not you pasting your own structured data into the site, which will show reviews, which is what Marco was talking about because Google thinks, you know, Google knows people can spam that, but it’s actually pulling in publicly posted reviews on other reviews sites and that’s a good way to do it. And I’ve actually been able to accomplish that using the Google My Business one for what I’ve got a roofing client that we weren’t able to ever get reviews stars to show for his site, yet, he had hundreds and hundreds of Google reviews. And I mean, across all the different platforms, he had hundreds of reviews on each platform, but we could never get the review stars to show and then I added the plugin, as you know, as a premium plugin, but I added the plugin to put in the Google My Business reviews. And we just put embed the widget in the sidebar of this site so that it was constantly being updated with new reviews. And that actually triggered the review stars to start showing for the site. So there I know there are other ways to do it besides just adding your own structured data. But you know, typically that’s how you would do it. It just adds structured data.

What Are The Reasons Why Google Remove Multiple GMB Sites With Legit Home Addresses Of People Working In The Company?

Okay. Another one is from Ralph says one of my clients had six of his GMB sites removed by Google they were his were home addresses of people that worked at his company. Why would Google do that and when PO boxes without using PO Box and the address be the best thing to get ranked in eight other suburbs?

Uh, that’s a good question that I mean it’s I’m curious Ralph is to we’re all six suspended at the exact same time or they suspended at different times there’s a ton of questions I have for you regarding that because for example if they were if I’m assuming it’s the service area business right because wouldn’t you wouldn’t have other GMB you know other GMB profiles for storefront businesses, right because that wouldn’t make sense then that would be like six separate locations and that’s not the way that you know it wouldn’t work. So I’m assuming as a service area business and that you hid, or didn’t pop chose not to publish the actual physical location of the business because it’s a service area business. And if that’s the case, then I can’t imagine how it would have been suspended unless it was something that you know, you were editing the GMB after it had been verified. I don’t know that that’s still an issue. But I know, many months ago, there was this kind of a threshold that no one really knows what that threshold was. But, uh, you know, once you cross that threshold with a number of edits of your GMB profile that it could trigger an automatic suspension. I know because I experienced it with one of my clients. It’s 100% valid business and has been been a valid location for many years and it got suspended.

And again, it was an automatic suspension just from making a change to the GMB listing and all I did was publish the GMB website, believe it or not, for some reason he had a GMB website. It wasn’t published. I click the Publish button and it suspended it. So my point is, there’s a number of things that may have triggered that. My question is like I said, we’re all six suspended at the exact same time because if so then there had to be some identifiable footprint that connected those sites together other than through the brand, but that also triggered them as being identified as spam. And also, again, I don’t know if that was an algorithmic or it was a manual suspension. They don’t give you that much information so it’s kind of hard to determine. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: I would just have to guess I had one suspended. And in fact, if it’s the land solutions network, companion, GMB really, and nothing Yeah, I mean that you know, the entity was tight. The entity was really good. And we did nothing to it. That is that that’s the whole thing we had not gone in there in about a month. And then all of a sudden, while I can’t remember how long exactly but all of a sudden it gets hit and gets suspended.

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So that’s definitely algorithmic, if you’re not in the triggering anything, then it was just a random ID or I don’t like this for whatever reason in the code, and it got hit. Yeah. I’m curious to know, what was being done to them. In those eight GMBs that they would get off, they would all get hit at the same time or did they not get hit at the same time, but separately, and since this is all in people’s homes, what I would suggest is that each one of these people, you get them to call Google and get them to try to get that suspension lifted, go through the process of getting lifted because in a home business is a legitimate way to get a GMB.

Bradley: Yeah, the only thing would be difficult to I mean, unless you know, because sometimes depending on you can contact Google My Business support and try to request reinstatement. It depends on sometimes they’re going to require you to jump through a bunch of hoops sometimes. So for example, let me make an example here. The one that I was talking about was for an outdoor Pest Control client of mine.

One main GMB that’s been in he’s a valid location. He’s been in business for many years, never had any issues whatsoever and then it got suspended. And again, all I did was click the Publish button on his GMB website because for whatever reason, it was never published and I don’t know why. But anyway, uh, so I submitted as a manager to the GMB right so my account is attached as a manager to the GMB and so I submitted the GMB reinstatement request and it was a two to three-week backlog at the time and it ended up taking like four weeks before I got the rejection email saying that they had rejected it because it didn’t meet quality guidelines, which was total bullshit. So and that was it that was the vague rejection response that I got so I emailed to that I mean, you know, replied to that rejection email with like, Can you give me some explanation as to why?

Doesn’t mean quality guidelines this has been a valid business has been serving local customers for you know set the past seven years or however long they’ve been in business or whatever it was that I said. And you know anyways long story short, it just was ignored that went into oblivion somewhere that that request for more information as to why it was suspended or didn’t meet quality guidelines. So anyway, I ended up contacting the owner who was listed his primary Gmail account was listed as the owner, the primary owner for the GMB. So I contacted him and told him like I was ready to say Okay, look, we’re just going to have to start another GMB from scratch which would have sucked because this was his main location I put a lot of work into over the years. But he said was there anything that I can do and I said, Well if you want to attempt I’ll give you a quick tutorial video showing you where to go and how to do it and what to say but if you want to attempt as the primary owner account to request reinstatement do so you know like I’m let’s give that a shot before I try starting with a brand new GMB all over again. And he agreed. So within about I think, I think it was less than 10 days. He had the next day he submitted the request based upon my instructions. And I think it was less than 10 days and we got the notification. Well, he forwarded it to me saying that it had been reinstated. So the reason I tell you all of that is because if you have different GMBs, it depends on how you have them all together. Do you have one owner? like, are they all under one GMB account? Are they all under separate GMB accounts? How are they connected? Do you have a common manager through all of them? If they have individual separate primary owners, then the primary owner I guess could go in and potentially try to request a reinstatement.

You know, that would be difficult to do if each location like if it’s all part of one brand, you just got to be really careful. There are a couple of things that you could try to try to get reinstated as well. Before starting all over. My point, because if their home addresses as Marco said, you know, you could potentially verify it, even if they required you to do like, you know, take photos of the office space and things like that, because you’re allowed to have a home office, right, you’re allowed to run a business from home. Even if it’s a service area business and you’re hiding your physical address, you just have to prove that there’s like a business being operated at that location. But again, it would be a lot of the times they want to see like, you know, corporate logos, and they want to see, you know, mail being sent, that I’ve had to do that in the past with another client, Mario’s cab service where we had to have a utility bill that had the company name on it with the new address on it because we were changing locations in order to re-verify a listing. So I mean, there’s just a number of things that they could require you to do. I would try to go that route before starting new ones if possible.

But you know, as a last resort, if they were suspended, you could always try it again. PO boxes are a good alternative. If somebody’s house is hands down the best way to go first if you have access to somebody that will receive a postcard for you at the residence that is hands down the best way to go in my opinion. But if you can’t do that then my opinion the next best is the PO Box method. Remember you do not put PO box in the address field when you’re trying to register it will automatically reject it you have to use the street address option which means you go down to the post office you rent the PO box and you tell them you want to use the street address option and they have to fill out a separate form it doesn’t cost anything additionally, but then you get to use the street address of the post office itself and then you get a box number so it but if you don’t put box you just put the number sign and then whatever the box number is so like 123 Main Street number 212 right.

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Any town whatever that would be the address that you use, and that still works. It’s not doesn’t work 100% of the time but I would say probably you know 80% greater it does. So those are good questions. All right.

Should You Create A New Website For Keywords That Have A Large Potential Audience Or Would You Rather Include To An Existing Brand?

CJ, I guess is what I’m going to call you. He’s got a lot of setups here for a question. I’m not going to read through all this, guys, anybody watching this can read through the questions if you’d like, I’m just going to get cut right to the chase, which is how would you approach making this decision? What matters and what doesn’t? What are the pros and cons of each approach? And so essentially, he’s asking, he’s got a brand site, that he wants to utilize some of the other content and, you know, content assets that he has out there and he was considering creating separate, like satellite feeder sites to use to kind of push traffic from those sites into his main entity, but they’re all tied together. So I’m going to give you a very brief answer and then let Marco expand on this a lot more because he’s our entity guru. But I would say no, keep all of those feeder sites essentially within the same brand, so either if you want separate websites for each one of them, because you want a different design, you know, and that kind of stuff, different functionality for each one of those sites, that’s perfectly fine. I would use subdomains of the primary asset, the primary entity, the primary website, I would use sub-domains if you want separate websites. But that way, they’re all still tied to the brand. They’re physically connected to the brand through the domain, right. And then I would still make sure that you brand consistently brand all of those so that you’re not in big, ambiguous aging the entity, that’s number one, but if you’re not worried about different design options and functionality for each one of those types of sites, then you could you should and I, Marco mentioned this prior to starting the webinar, but I totally agree you should keep them as inner pages, you will get more benefit. By building out even you could even build silo structures for those types of content types with the site and use it that way, you get more SEO benefit using inner pages than you do from subdomains, but subdomains will give you some additional options that you wouldn’t be able to use with inner pages. So either one of those is going to be the better approach than trying to build separate websites. And Marco can talk more about how you utilize MGYB to help, you know, help with a lot of this fulfillment and to get the most results that you can from this sort of structure.

Marco: Yeah, what I’m thinking about is, we clone the money site, right. And so if he’s got these different parts of the company sections of the company, however, it is that it’s going to be structured, I definitely go with inner pages with companion inner pages on the Gsite and drives tech targeting those keyword sets. So he wants more SERP real estate, right? But I would argue that what you actually want to go further up for your top-level keyword, right, the market level keyword because what we have seen from that approach is that when you start targeting that market-level keyword is it brings everything else up. So you’ll be ranking for a whole lot of keywords that you didn’t even think about just because you targeted that top-level category. And then when you see that there are keywords that are sticking maybe the second page, maybe towards the bottom 9-10 you can isolate those I mean, we have the webinars at MGYB, that shows how to add power to your drive second, push that power over to the website. So I would say to you focus on that so that your website, your main brand, your entity produces as much power as possible and brings up as many keywords as possible and you add those inner pages.

The only way that I would go to a subdomain or to a separate website is if it were just a completely different part of the business that would break up the semantic relevance if it were included on the money site. Now, if it’s if everything is totally related, then you put that on an inner page. And what you do is an individual schema for each one of those inner pages that relate those pages to the main brand. Look at what all of these different companies don’t look at what Google does. Google definitely takes advantage of subdomains, right they go the subdomain route.

Another way you know, Apple has it all on the main domain. Amazon has a lot of this stuff on their main domain. What I would say is you get a whole lot more power, and you’ll be ranking for a whole lot more keywords a lot quicker. If you add the power to the G site and competitive drive stack and push it over to the money site. Because of then everything benefits, right? Everything that that on that route those all of those inner pages when you pushing all of that power, the entire website is going to benefit, from all of your efforts. That’s how I would approach this.

Bradley: Yeah, the only thing and I agree. But like, for example, the glossary site is one of the examples that he’s talking about, I think that would be better suited on a subdomain like glossary dot whatever your domain is only because I think that’s kind of I mean, again, you could do it on an inner page or even a separate category within the site. I think that’s kind of more of a reference type thing could be on a subdomain. But as Marco said, is, if you can, if you can work with it in the existing, like layout, you know, the design that kind of stuff of the existing site, then you can, you can accomplish that with inner page stuff. But the second-best option would be subdomains In my opinion, but not separate websites all together because you want to make sure that you’re continuing to tie all of those together. Structured Data could do all of that together.

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Well, you have proper structured data across all of them, you’re going to be tying entities together or the entity together through all those different assets anyways. So I was a good question. Very long setup,

Should You Link And Embed Links One At A Time Into The Google Site?

fences up, he says, What’s up, Vince? He says, When embedding links into a Google site, is it better to iframe the sheet with the links into the Google site? Or is it better to iframe each link and embed them one at a time into the Google site? I don’t know how you iframe each link unless you’re talking about each individual file. So I’m not sure I understand the question fits. embedding is a good period. Like that might be the easiest answer. Margo was What do you say? I don’t think I can understand uncomprehending the question fully.

Yeah, I’m fits. I don’t know why you’d be looking to embed individual links, Gsite. That’s what you get the spreadsheet for. And that’s exactly what we do we embed the spreadsheet if you need to go to another page with the spreadsheet, then by all means and link below to everything. So that the entire again, yeah, you have to think of this as a whole. You can’t break this up into little pieces and think that one is better than the other unless there’s a purpose for that individual link embed Unless Unless you’re pushing power from an inner page over to a money site, inner page. And that’s what you’re trying to accomplish with either that iframe or that link. Otherwise, there’s no reason to think about it. We, I mean, literally have thousands of links on that spreadsheet, right when when when we turn it into one of our clients. And if we were to embed each one of those links instead of two

Bill taking between six and eight hours, it would take between six and eight days. So that there’s no reason for that we get tons of power, the way that we do it. And the only other reason to do one, not all of them, but one will be when you’re trying to isolate keyword and I saw the power so that you can push from that drive stack to the G site inner page to the companion money site, inner page.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay, uh, Jim says he missed donating last month, you can donate at any time correct Marco.

Marco: You can donate at any time before after all of the replays will be available. We have a webinar coming up on Monday. So you’re still in time to be at the next live webinar. And I might do another one after because it depends on how confused people are. And I see that from the questions and from the comments and everything during the webinar, whether it needs another one, so that might be another one we already this one will be the sixth one, the one that we’ll be doing Monday. So there’s a lot of information. There are just so many things that we need to go into. Because of the way that we approach it is just as basic principles. But just because it’s basic principle doesn’t mean that it that it’s simple. And it doesn’t mean that it’s simple to explain. And it doesn’t mean that people will grasp all of these concepts during the first go around.

Yeah. That’s cool. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of content for an all it’s requested as a donation, no matter the amount, which Yes, people want to see the information like, what’s actually being given away. I posted the link in there.

Back to Yeah, you mean for the prize list and that kind of charity information so they can go and take a look? Right there.

Look at it. Look at that. And we keep adding to it.

Wow. Very cool. All right, moving on.

Will A Website’s Existing Schema Help Keep Rankings While Changes Are Made To Its Content And Images?

Next one looks like from Joey. He says, Hey guys, I have a client who’s ranked on page one for a few keywords, but his bounce rate is high. So now he wants to change the layout and content up on these pages. As he says rankings don’t matter if everyone just bounces will try and optimize the site for conversions by changing the images and unstructured data like so the content of the site basically, or the content of the page. Would that confuse Google and hurt our rankings? Well, yeah, I mean, it can’t. I don’t know that it will confuse Google and hurt your rankings. It will cause dancing, though. Structured Data is not enough to hold the ranking. I mean, I can’t say that for sure. But it’s very likely that it will start the dance if you significantly change the content or the layout the structure of a page, it’s going to typically dance almost 90, you know, almost 100% of the time, it’s going to dance that if all you’ve done is in, if you haven’t changed the theme of the page much, you know that it will probably it was still likely going to dance, but it will probably end up settling in the same location.

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Maybe give or take, you know, plus or minus a couple of positions. But it will likely end up in the same as long as the theme of you know, of the actual page hasn’t changed much. But that’s hard to tell and who can determine what you know how much how can you determine if it’s changed that much, right. So the thing is, if you made an improvement, it’s going to dance but then it should come back to the same location. if not better, like when it finally settles from the dance, it will likely end up settling even better if you’ve improved the content if whatever you’ve done is decreased the ranking score, so to speak, which is also possible, then it could end up settling lower than where it had originally been. So it’s likely that you’re going to see some changes and all that kind of stuff. But I agree that you should, you know, conversion optimization should be a focus, you know, keeping people on the site. But I do have a question before we get some other opinions in here on this. And that is, how do you know that the bounce rate is exactly is truly people landing on the page and bouncing back. And the reason I say that is because I know now it’s been a while since I’ve done I haven’t built a new website, except for my own, which is alpha land Realty. I haven’t built a new website in quite some time. So I know there used to be a known bug with Google Analytics that you would add just a snippet of code to the analytics, Universal Analytics tracking code that would change what they called, what was the event, event timing or something like that. It was a way to prevent people that landed on the page.

And click the back button within a certain amount of time from being counted as a back or a bounce because they they’ve stayed on the page for, you know, two seconds or something like that. I can’t remember exactly what it was, if I went back into my files, I could find the specific code and the parameters for what, of what it changed. But I know that there were some known bugs in that they’d like that may have very well been fixed because it’s been probably a year and a half, two years since I’ve had to actually install that. But I know that there had been some known issues from that. So, you know, I would just question first of all, are you validated that that is indeed true bounce traffic number one. And number two, if that is the case, then you know, I do agree that you should be working on trying to keep people on the site and there’s a lot of little things that you can do to make them dwell on the page or even scroll a bit, you know, those all of those things will actually prevent a bounce from triggering, right dwell time scroll depth, like those, are taking some sort of engagement, like a link click, or something like that. Those all will prevent from registering is about. Marco, do you have any comments for him or anybody else for that matter?

Marco: Yeah, the one thing here also is, is are you in a niche that naturally has a high bounce rate? I mean, your client, in essence, is right, what good is ranking if the people coming are bouncing, but that would be if you have 100% bounce rate the people that he is getting and it depends on what each person what each lead is worth. And what each close client is, is worth to this person. All of that needs to be taken into account before you make changes to a page that ranking number one for keywords. So there has to be a heat map on that website so that you can know what people are doing on your website and why they’re exiting. So it before you even think about making changes right for conversion rate optimization. You have to see what people are doing on your website. The only way that you can do that is through a heat map Yeah. Now the Analytics gives you entry and exit pages and you get some superficial information. But the only way is through those heat maps so that you know where it is that you need to place your CTA is maybe your phone number, maybe your form, maybe you need a form on the sidebar, there’s a whole bunch of things that are involved here this is this isn’t just a simple I’m going to chase it around and see what happens now because then once you do make the changes you could even increase the boss rate if you’re not sure what it is that people are doing on your website, so I’d be very careful.

Bradley: I think they would call it event tracking code or something like that I can’t remember. Anyways, for Analytics, it was a known bug but

Marco: yes, I still have it but there’s also a plugin reduce bounce rate.

Bradley: Well plugin that will do something exactly what automatically injects that code snippet, which supposed to fix that. But yeah, that’s right. Reduce the bounce rate is a plugin. They even have a premium version of it, I believe. Let’s see what schema see. Yeah, okay. Anyways, I was just trying to see if there’s something else.

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Can You Use The Same Syndication Network And RYS Stack For A Domain?

john says, Can you use the same syndication network and RYS stack for a subdomain? Sure, you can. I mean, think about if you have a, just assume that you’re going to put WordPress on a subdomain, it’s going to have its own RSS feed. Right? So you can use that I mean, again, you want to, if it’s going to be the same brand and everything, there’s no reason to have a separate syndication network, if it’s the same brand, you know, what I’ve talked about in the past is, for example, let’s say you’ve got a multi-location, local business that you’re working with. Then what I like to do for multi-location businesses is have the root domain. So the, you know, company name.com, for example, would be the root domain and that’s basically like generic info about the company their products and services, you know about them, that kind of stuff. But if they have multiple locations, then each location will get its own subdomain WordPress installation. And then each one of their individual sub domains, you know, or locations, which has its own subdomain site, you know, has its own RSS feed and all that kind of stuff. But we would I like to blog from the root domain or might, you know, have my my team blog from the root domain, and set up what we I always talked about having, you know, we talked about theme marrying, but you mirror the category structure to match the location. So in other words, you would create a category for each location. And then you can actually publish blog posts from the root domain that syndicate out to the syndication network, and you just make sure that they’re placed within the proper location based category that makes sense so that you can do all of your link building to your sub domain through the content that’s published to your root domain blog. That’s one way to do it.

You have all these different locations, but you’re feeding content from one source, which would be a root domain. However, you could do it the other way around where you have one syndication, branded syndication network, and you have each individual subdomain publishing content from their specific locations but into the brand, the branded syndication network. The reason why we do that is that there’s no reason to have multiple branded syndication networks out there that could actually get you in trouble for being a footprint unless you made them like location-specific, or you know, in this case, could be a topical specific subdomain, syndication networks. But all of that becomes more complicated and it’s unnecessary try to get results with the least amount of effort is always what we say. Right? So having one brand new syndication network that you syndicate all the content from that brand to is that is, in my opinion, the best route to go and then you would only add additional syndication networks, if needed. And as long as you know how to structure that properly to where you’re not going to cause any problems. So the short answer is yes, you can and you should be using the same if it’s for the same brand.

How Is The First Layer Of Breadcrumbs Determined On Google?

Okay. Now, Blake, I think you’ve asked this question for multiple weeks, and we’ve never gotten to it just because that always comes in as a late question. So he’s asking, how do you how does Google determine the breadcrumbs, the first layer of breadcrumbs? And as far as I know, that should be from the domain. In this case, it looks like I mean, yeah, I’m seeing as on a mobile level, and I’m used to looking at the desktop but I’m pretty sure that the first layer of breadcrumbs is determined by the domain name itself. And the association that the domain has, like in this case, that’s just showing what do they call it? The favicon image right? So it’s pulling the name brand from the name the entities name of the website, right? So the name, but it’s usually coming from the domain anyways, and then also that’s pulling in the fabric on but again, I’m not 100% sure that’s how I assume that it works market, or anybody. Does anybody have any other data for that? Yeah, I can tell him definitively that it’s according to the website heart hierarchy. But you can play a little bit with schema. Now don’t let Google catch you fucking with the schema that is outside the parameters allowed for structured data. But there is if you go to schema.org/breadcrumb list one word, then you’ll see how you can start or give the bot an indication of what your schema should be. And if you scroll down, you’ll have them the markup and microdata RDFa. And JSON LD you said was bread crumbs schema.

Its bread crumb list is there in life. Yeah, forward slash schema.org/breadcrumblist one word. Okay. schema.org/breadcrumblist. Why is this not working for me? I have no idea. Let me drop it in the chat in Slack. Oh, it because it’s capitalization sensitive capital B and a capital L. okay.

That’s like one of those Bitly links. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay, cool. So there you go. You can read through this and see if there’s anything that you can manipulate. I don’t, I don’t usually do it. But see, look at this right there is JSON-LD for breadcrumb. Yeah. Look at the use of @ type and @ID and that sets up your breadcrumbs you telling the but what your breadcrumb list is, and then what that breadcrumb is referencing, that’s the ID page. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So that’s kind of cool. I’ve never looked at that before.

I’ve been diving deep into all this shit, man. I’ve never looked at that before. Something else you could probably do. I don’t know if this is what you’re going after. But let’s see favicon generator this one I believe it is. Yeah, I’m pretty sure this is it. One of these does a really good job. I’m pretty sure it’s that one. It’s the only purple link here right? I think so. Yeah. So this is the only one I think that I visited just recently. Maybe this.

Anyways, there’s one of these will do. It’s not this one. I think it’s this one anyways, one of these, you know, if you, even if you’ve already got a favicon on your site, I would take the same file that you use and upload it here. And then what happens is once it generates of avocado, it creates an HTML, a list of HTML commands that you put into the header of your site that will have the fabric on display on different systems like iOS, you know, and the Android or the you know, the Google Play Store, you know, all that different kind of stuff. And so it’s just a snippet of code that tells different it created, it takes your image and creates a whole bunch of different from formats or versions of it, you upload that zip file and then extract it into the root folder of your domain. And then there’s the HTML directives that will tell the browser which to go to which version of the fabric on image in the root folder of your domain to go to and to display and that might actually you might be able to do something like that to get it to show up in to show something specific if that’s what you’re trying to do. And I don’t know that that is but like these images over here, I don’t know if that was what you’re asking either, but I know that there’s something that you probably do there too.

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Okay, cool. Well, let’s wrap it up than guys. Thanks, everybody. Oops. Let’s try that again.

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I do have something we could talk about very briefly. About, I know that there’s apparently like another update has occurred. Do you have any insights on that yet, because I hadn’t even noticed until, as always, somebody posted in one of the groups? Has anybody noticed any dancing or jumping or bouncing? I have I’m seeing an upward trend. And because we’re working it, I’m calling an entity based, worry less SEO.

Because we work on the entity we present it right with them at the unstructured data level. We make sure that the entity is also represented Well, in the unstructured data so that when the bucket and then we just spam the shit out of the bot with all of the information, tracing our entity so that it has no choice but to say, this is the best entity on earth. And then lo and behold, here we go, and it just starts giving you love left and right. So all of these people saying that Yeah, they’ve had the negative results they did it trapped in the tank thing, whatever. Come on over to the dark side. Come on over and take some of this medicine, because we got the cure for its ailing you. I’m telling you.

I’m looking at all of our stuff and all of our stuff that has an entity, a well, well-defined entity, an ambiguous entity, it’s just moving up, I mean that the traffic that it gets us is just crazy and the way that it’s reacting. It’s crazy what but it may be a little bit too early to tell you right? It might settle because Google, do a hard push. This is supposed to be a big update. And then just when they start affecting some of the big sites, they start rolling it back, right. And they collect all of the data from all over the web to see what happened with it with the update. That’s usually with every Google update, but ever since we came out with RYS Academy syndication Academy, we package it all up. And you know, I call it the SEO shield. Of course, we have the SEO shield packages at MGYB to ever since we started doing that, dude, I don’t worry, like, all of these people are in there, they’re freaking out and they’re losing traffic and, and they’re losing their lives. And it’s like, oh, my God, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.

I’m not seeing it. I’m sorry. Now, if I were to go and test and see Yep, I could probably put something out that would get penalized. But why do that? If I don’t have to if I can just shield myself from everything that’s happening. And you know, my clients and whatever it is that we’re working on, keep getting low. That’s how I see it.

Cool. All right. Thanks, everybody, for being here. We will see you guys next week. Thanks, guys.

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