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amratsu · 4 years

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alright these girls have haunted me for about a whole month now time to break it all down for anyone vaguely interested in them

hololive/vtuber 101 below the read more

THE FUCK IS HOLOLIVE?: An idol agency except all of its roughly 20 or so girls are youtube streamers who have their identity protected by a live2d avatar. They recently had a very fun live concert and all of them have or will have 3d models, but the majority of content is just them streaming whatever's their fancy at the time. (As of 2/17/2020 a lot of them play a lot of ARK, thank Coco for that) Therefore, they're part of the new form of niche culture called Vtuber.

THE FUCK IS A VTUBER?: Virtual youtubers. Like a normal streamer but, again, live2d portrait instead of their actual face. That's basically it. Content is about as varied as any other youtuber.

ALRIGHT, WHO WE GOT?: Hololive's split into OG Tokino Sora, the girls alongside her who are also primarily 3d, and then 'generations'. Just plug in their names and you'll find their channel easy. Again, variety differs between all the girls, but expect a lot of Nintendo games, chat streams, karaoke, and Minecraft across the board.

-Tokino Sora OG mom slash idol, debuted all the way back in 2017. Probably the only proper idol in all of Hololive. Warm, friendly, relaxing. She mostly does 3d variety streams and song debuts so she's hard to follow without advanced japanese.

-Roboco(-san) Pose happy killer robo with a notably smokey voice and calming demeanor. Plays a large amount of minecraft and first-person games in general; recent streams include ARK, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon remaster, Apex, and Fortnite.

-Sakura Miko ELIIIITE MLG miko idol with a tendency to swear a bit. High energy, fully embraced 'press f', gives herself sunglasses during streams, great friends with Pekora. Also notably into eroge. Did a full playthrough of Papers Please lately and is one of the most addicted to ARK (21 streams at around 4-5 hours each.)

1st Generation -Yozora Mel Sleepy vampire with the occasional killer instinct. Soothing, gentle, kind of lewd. Very much into nintendo games with Smash, Ring Fit, SwoSh, and Mario Kart being her latest content, but she's a little slower with the output. Part of the lewd blonde club with Aki, Haato, and Choco, who were demonetized until recently.

-Aki Rosenthal Cyber elf with detachable twin tails. Pretty similar to Mel in disposition, though less sleepy and more...I want to say 'fantastical'. Recently gained popularity due to her buck naked superhuman beefcake character in ARK, with Kerbal, Go Home, and some ASMR rounding out the rest of her content.

-Natsuiro Matsuri Eternal 17 year old cheerleader from the class next door, Matsuri is a high energy raging lesbian who's also a complete sweetie. Her infamous bandaid clip is what got a lot of western fans into Hololive. Plays a wide variety of games but also twitcasts at random times of the day like when she's in bed or in the bath, just to chat with her viewers about what's on her mind. Well loved.

-Akai Haato The ESL transfer student, girl next door, Haato is, well, exactly that. Commonly traveling for studies, Haato is a bubbly girl with a fine sense for aesthetics; you'll catch her making elaborate builds in Minecraft or playing visual novels during streams, along with a smattering of other games. Notable in that she's the only girl that'll do purely English streams, likely to help with her own education. Also kind of a baka.

2nd Generation -Minato Aqua Disaster masochist maid who's actually stupidly good at video games sometimes. She's both mischievous and hard working, massively popular in China, and, again, stupidly good at games. Soulsborne speedruns, PUBG, ARK (also one of the most addicted), Minecraft (seeing a pattern?), League if you catch her bilibili streams...but she's also the one who will spend a stream calling the other girls and asking them to bully her. Wild card gremlin.

-Murasaki Shion Genius mage who doesn't do a lot with her magic. Pretty well known for her 'neeeeeee', with a distinctly smug avatar/voice. Pretty good at games too, with a variety of Pokemon, retro games, Minecraft, Smash, horror, Mario Kart, etc. Excellent singing voice too, would recommend her covers.

-Yuzuki Choco The totally-not-a-succubus demon nurse at your highschool, Choco embodies :sweating:. Obviously she's lewd, but there's also a silly and petulant side to her that's fun to watch too. ASMR is her specialty. She's also, surprisingly, really into Dead By Daylight, so if that combination sounds fun to you hit her up.

-Oozora Subaru If Haato is the girl next door, Subaru's the bro next door. A very down to earth but energetic and sporty tomgirl, she recently spent three streams and sixteen hours on trying to take down Sans. Other recent things include Live A Live, The Witch's House, and GTA. Refreshingly easy to relate to compared to the other girls sometimes.

-Nakiri Ayame Hello, honored humans~ Hololive's millenium old oni. Has a peculiar way of speaking, especially in her pronouns, which lends a certain charm if you can got on board with it; happy go lucky, easy to like, and really cute on top of all that. Recently recovered from sickness (as of 2/26) so was the last to get on the Ark craze, she's actually very fond of multiplayer games as a way of 'getting to know mortals'. Apex Legends, Mario Kart, Splatoon, etc.

GAMERS: A sort of generation on its own, and also a kind of weird designation when all the girls game so frequently. Oh well!

-Shirakami Fubuki Fox. Not a cat. Super cheerful, makes a lot of weird noises that people turn into youtube poops (that she encourages), and also a helluva gamer. Plays plenty of battle royales, ARK, and of course Nintendo/Minecraft stuff. Infamous for her absolute feral hunter instincts in Project Winter, where she commonly massacres the entire map on her lonesome when she's the traitor.

-Ookami Mio Mom wolf who has to play tsukkomi (straightman) to basically all of Hololive sometimes. Which makes it all the more hilarious during her semi-common charisma breaks, like during Haato's recent English Exam stream. Has been into EDF, Pokemon, Ghost Trick, and Splatoon lately.

-Nekomata Okayu The sleepy smug cat with the most chill personality. Notably very, VERY close with Korone, and in general kind of a playboy in general. Never denies it or any of her myriad transgressions though. Her Mother 2 run has been fun recently, but really you could just tune into her frequent chat streams and relax that way.

-Inugami Korone Dog. An oddball who kind of just goes at her own pace, playing all sorts of weird games like Nyanpo (the pokemon prototype) and weird PS1 retro games. Shows a disturbingly violent side sometimes; her ongoing Blasphemous run and recent RE4 runs have shown how much she's into that kind of stuff. But also she's still a dog, so really don't worry.

Inonaka Music: -AZKi AZKi is closely associated with Hololive but is really more of her own thing, being even more idol than Sora is. Doesn't stream much if at all, has her own album out, does music collabs more than anything else, etc. Helluva singer though.

-Hoshimachi Suisei The vtuber idol who's totally not a psychopath, and totally a goddess at tetris. Like Fubuki, made a name for herself with her psychotic rampages in Project Winter, and also very much unfazed by horror games. Really fucking good at tetris too, doing 98v1 streams lately in Tetris 99, and a godly songstress too. Her karaoke streams are to die for.

3rd Generation: Also known as Hololive Fantasy. These girls are particularly close to each other. If you can find translated clips, I definitely recommend their host club streams where they compete in seducing other Vtubers. (Yes. That's serious)

-Usada Pekora AH^HA^HA^. You'd think she was a cute rabbit, but no! It's a Tewi level shitposter combined with some legit video game skills. She likes playing the heel deliberately just for shits and giggles, like when she nearly walked off with Miko's Nether Star. She's in fact very close to Miko, their relationship being both great friends and great rivals. Definitely one of the most addicted to ARK too; she's been making headway in conquering the ocean.

-Shiranui Flare Handsome half-elf archer, Flare's the designated tsukkomi of the third generation. She's definitely the most down to earth of them, charismatic to boot, and does as she pleases with a relaxed personality and husky, smokey voice. Very very VERY close to Noel. You'll find some really fun playthroughs of various action games like Dark Souls, Bayonetta, and Sekiro on her channel, and thanks to her picking up game mechanics fast they're fun to watch for anyone.

-Shirogane Noel Knight Captain of the Shirogane Knights, Noel's...kind of an airhead, actually. But she's definitely a pleasant, softspoken sort of person who's incredibly relaxing to listen to. Also a big eater, you'll hear her talk about beef bowls and muscles a lot. Just try not to stare too much at her 'pectorals.' As mentioned, VERY close to Flare (they just had a two day long date to a ryokan). Plays whatever with no focus in particular.

-Uruha Rushia The cute, soft, innocent apprentice necromancer, Rushia occasionally comes out of the gates roaring with rage filled screams before chilling out. An absolute cutie though, who loves her fans very much (though really every Hololive member does), her attempts to be cool and reliable lend to some great comedy. She's got a great singing voice if you can find one of her bilibili streams, and otherwise plays a wide variety of things.

-Houshou Marine A~hoy~. The completely safe for work, modern, not-cosplay eternal 17 pirate...and everything I just said was a lie. Most of it anyways. Marine's a riot of a lady with an incredibly dirty mind and dirtier motor mouth, great voice acting ability, and knack for art that she'll happily show off (among other things). Definitely one of my favorites, you'll find plenty of chat and art content on her channel, along with some of the most Ark addiction and a full array of Touhou game playthroughs.

4th Generation: Hololive's newest five girls, it's been a month and change since they debuted. They're notable for working together on some of the most wild content Hololive's put out so far, all helmed by a certain dragon. But we'll get to that.

-Tokoyami Towa The little devil that does whatever she wants, Towa's known for a couple of other things at this point: refreshingly honest personality, Pokemon playthroughs with an eclectic choice in team comp, and her charmingly atypical tomboy voice (though her mic's not amazing). Great singer, super funny if you can find the rare translated clip of her, and was an absolute menace at the recent Hololive werewolf/mafia game. How she managed to fake being a Seer from day one and nearly win, I'll never know.

-Tsunomaki Watame Hololive's bouncy sheep. Ram? Something like that. A very girly, friendly, lightly ara-ara personality, she's an honest and open with her feelings sort of girl. Earnest laughter at chat and games, real emotional tears while watching the live concert with her generation mates, Watame's a total sweetheart who streams a bit of music everyday as the pre-show to Coco's Morning Shitposts (official name). She's also gotten very close to her senpais in some regards...but above all she likes singing, chilling out in Minecraft, and recently playing through a couple Kirby games.

-Himemori Luna If you want to see a completely innocent cinnamon roll looking character say things like 'ass' and 'don't f*cking take crystal m*th', Luna's your gal. Her high pitched, almost childlike voice takes a bit of getting used to but she's a sweetheart that just has fun no matter what she's doing. But she'll also say a bunch of really funny shit while doing it just from sheer juxtaposition of her voice/appearance and the vocabulary. Surprisingly good at video games too.

-Amane Kanata PP Tenshi. Perfect Pitch, Powerpoint...Kanata's a bit of a sheltered honor student sort of girl who has an incredible vocal range, so much you'd be forgiven for thinking she was a professional voice actor or singer. She loves playing along with jokes even if she doesn't get them some times, and is really close with Coco. If not for said dragon she'd be the biggest memelord in the 4th generation, but alas; her channel has lots of collabs with fellow members and a series of cute 'research' videos on the various generations of Hololive. Unfortunately untranslated though.

-Kiryuu Coco The one, the only, the President of Nishinari herself, Coco has been a force of nature since she debuted. Her vulgar sense of humor, rapid fire jokester nature, fluent English speaking, and complete conversion of Hololive to the wonders of dinosaur taming in Ark has made her one of the most subscribed girls in a matter of weeks. Every day at 6am JST or 1pm PST, she does a quick 20 minute gig called Coco News (officially translated as Coco's Morning Shitpost) where she reports on the various ongoings in Hololive. This ingeniously brings attention to the silly crap everyone's been up to, really fostering a sense of community between the girls you don't see elsewhere, while also being a riot to watch as she roasts everyone for their silliness (with full permission). Other notable memes include her stalwart boycotting of Nintendo Switches, her desire to fund a Hololive house, and her recent Hitman 2 run.

#Hololive #Virtual Youtuber #Inonaka Music

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neopuff · 4 years

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hello, i hope you're having a good day!! i was wondering, do you have any tips for making amvs? like, what programmes you use, how you handle the timing, etc. thank you for all the fun edits you make!!

hi!! sorry for the delay in answering this, i just wanted to take the time to answer it thoroughly and i kept forgetting lol & thank you! i already typed this once and tumblr made it disappear so i apologize if anything i say comes out short ‘cause i’m just trying to remember all that i typed before lol

ok so ill just go through my general editing process in Vegas, i dont know any other program well enough to talk about it at length:

(disclaimer: this is just how i do it, i dont watch tutorials and my editing friends and i don’t watch each other edit often so i would assume that my way is very different from other ways you’ve probably seen! i might even do something in a very stupidly hard way, please feel free to tell me if theres an easier way to do anything lol)

1. Song: So skipping past the “choosing song and ship/character/show” theme, I’ll dive straight into CUTTING THE SONG! I’m not about that Editing The Entire Song life, and neither is most of the editing community anymore, so I cut it up into a shorter thing that I’m better equipped to edit to. I’m just using a random example but here I’ve taken this long ass song and turned it into this:

(the next step just kind of depends on my mood, or ill do both, doesnt matter)

2-A. Subclips: if im making a shorter video or a video where i’m not 100% super familiar with the footage, i will immediately start making subclips using the episodes ive already pulled into the project. if it’s a ship/character that i’ve edited before, i’ll just go to Import->Media from Project and import the subclips i made previously. either way, subclips are there!

2-B. Sheets: for ships that i know very well/have a lot of footage/im concerned about potentially repeating something, i will go to Google Sheets/Excel and take the lyrics im editing to and put them in column A, separating by pauses in the singing. then i put corresponding footage i think will go well in column B! im often not super specific because i know the beats are gonna be different than i remember, so i usually stick to referencing whole scenes instead of specifics moments. here’s an example:

3. Clip placement: Then I start placing clips down! Below is how I organize my timeline tho I know a lot of editors who put the music on top, this is just how I like it. I also keep a single muted audio layer in between for the video footage’s audio and then I’ll delete that layer when I’m done (or sometimes I don’t, it doesn’t really matter)

I think it’s good to hit the beats as much as possible, it makes for a more dynamic audio-visual experience! In general I try to make my videos so that, if I didn’t add any zooms or typography or coloring, it would still be a good amv. And don’t limit yourself to just one layer, you can have as many layers as you’d like and put clips on top of each other (cookie cutter/changing the layer to dodge or add or screen or whatever) is a good way to mix things up

when I zoom in you can see I’ve got some variety already in my transitions, I know I use that motion-blur-zoom a lot these days but I still try to mix it up and keep my brain invested

4. Typography: After all the clips have been placed (or most of the clips, ofc sometimes I’ll want to add more later) I move on to typography! I’m lazy so the first thing I’ll do it just put down unedited text where I think I’ll want it to go. It just helps me organize myself. Then I’ll pretty up the text afterwards.

Typography isn’t necessary for a good AMV, but really nice typography can really spruce things up. I’ve only very recently gotten confident in my text editing skills, and I just kept watching typography done by editors I really like until I figured out what they were doing. My recommendation is to just KEEP ADDING EFFECTS! Convolution kernel, gaussian blur, mask the text so it appears from angles that the transitions wouldn’t be able to do - of course there’s gotta be a limit for taste, but just add stuff until you like how it looks. Also changing the blending style of the text layer is good, dodge and difference are my go-tos for typography layers.

5. Transitions: I don’t go crazy with transitions, but it’s fun to mess around with them. You don’t want too many crazy/different transitions, you want them to match the mood of the song and the type of beat you’re hitting. I usually ensure that all similar beats in the song have the same transition type on them, bbbbbbut that’s cuz I’m overly obsessed with parallel structure. There’s plenty of fantastic AMVs where they just go ham and do whatever types of transitions they want to in each part of the song and they make it work just fine

(next step, once again, kind of depends on my mood lol)

6-A. Zooms: Time for zooms! I usually just use the pan/crop for zooming, but often I’ll incorporate Sapphire FX BlurMoCurves or NewBlue AutoPan, especially if I’m trying to zoom typography with the footage at the same rate. I try to keep my zooms short and slower, I mean obv it just depends on the song but yeah. There’s a lot of different ways to do zooms so I recommend experimenting and just playing around with different effects

6-B. Zooms...but different: Another way that I’ll do zooms which is definitely pretty different (but this is what I do for crossovers like 95% of the time because I am laaaaaaaaaaazy) is I’ll drag the project into a new project timeline and start editing it there. It’s similar to how After Effects works and it makes it easier to put effects overtop of multiple layers without having to pre-render anything.

So you can see I’ve just pulled in the .VEG file and popped it in the timeline! So this way I can add zooms and transitions without worrying about layers. And if I see a mistake I need to fix, I can just go back into the original .VEG file and edit it, and it’ll be edited when I come back here. So it’s much easier than pre-rendering or trying to do zooms on a lot of layers. To be clear tho, this doesn’t work well if you have a lot of fade transitions, it’s best for sharp transitions and it’s great when you’re using Sapphire FX BlurMoCurves a lot.

7. Overlays: After that I’ll add more typography (or if you didn’t add any earlier, you can add some here overtop of the new project file) that kind of goes on top of everything. And then I’ll add any overlays or objects or whatever else I wanna add! I’m not someone who uses a lot of backgrounds cuz I don’t have a background-creative-brain so I stick to simple overlays at the most.

8. Coloring!!! This is very sad but I only JUST learned a few weeks ago that you can add coloring/effects to your entire video with this button here, so in case anyone else hates watching tutorials as much as I do here’s where I’m talking about:

This shit would’ve made my life so much easier throughout the years lol But alas. Anyway so for coloring there are some effects that are popular for any colorings you’ll find on YT (but you can certainly just download some, Riverdale editors in particular share a lot of really great colorings but you’ll find them anywhere in the live action editing community):

Channel Blend, Color Curves, Color Blend, Color Balance, Convolution Kernel (best for live action footage or footage that isnt very crisp), Color Corrector Secondary

These are all just fun to mess with. Channel Blend in particular is something of a mystery for me, I haven’t studied it fully to understand what I’m doing so I mostly just mess with it randomly until I like what I see lol

9. Render time! First render, anyway. Usually there’ll be some random problem in the footage or something and I’ll have to either go back into the project and fix it OR if I’m feeling particularly sour (or maybe if I’ve rendered like 3-4 times already) I will just take the finished render and manually remove any errors, stretching out the good footage to cover my tracks. You’d be surprised how often I end up doing that lol

And then it’s good to post! I primarily render as .WMV but I also go for .MP4s every once in a while. If I want to upload it to Twitter I’ll do an .MP4 but it’s a new thing for me so I’m still stuck on .WMV mostly.

Anyway I hope this answered your question at least a little bit, I can go into more detail about certain parts of this if you’d like!

#anon asks #carro answers #sony vegas #magix vegas #editing #long post

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the-nehemoth · 4 years

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Backup

I read a fantastic fic called Pentagram on Ao3 (if you haven't read it already, you should because it's really fucking good) and in it VEGA is installed on Doomguy's suit. Which I think is really a really neat idea for this ship. So I had the idea of what if VEGA was transferred directly to the suit instead of onto that flashdrive thingy first? And I also had an idea of what if Doomguy went out of his way to backup VEGA instead of it being just a quick last minute button press at the end? I combined those two ideas to make this fic.

The Doom Slayer was a slayer of demons, not people. As far as he could remember, he’d never killed a person before. Though admittedly, his memory was spotty and unreliable at best due to the nature of his past so it could’ve happened, he doubted it though, and if it had it would’ve been well deserved. But here he was being asked and expected to kill a person who as far as he was concerned didn’t deserve to die.

It was for a good cause, he did need to get back to Hell and if this was the only way, he had to do it. But was it the only way? Possibly but he had to at least try to find a way that didn’t involve VEGA dying. If all else failed, VEGA was an AI that existed on the facility’s computer system and therefore it should be possible to transfer him to another device before exploding his current operating system.

With that in mind, after dealing with the demon horde in the coolant room, the Slayer moved on without destroying any of the coolant tanks. A few had been slightly damaged in the battle but nothing major enough to cause any real problems for VEGA’s systems.

“Slayer,” VEGA said when the Slayer was two rooms away from the coolant room, “I notice that you failed to destroy my cooling systems. I would ask why but I don’t think you’d answer. But I strongly advise you take them out first. While it is possible to complete this task without destroying them, I assure yout it will make the process much faster and more efficient.”

‘This task’ and ‘the process’, he refused to call it what it actually was. He wasn’t okay with this, was he? Not fully anyway. He was at least being partially forced to go along with it.

“Slayer,” VEGA continued after several seconds of being ignored, “I know I can’t make you go back but destroying my cooling system first will make it significantly faster. You need to get back to Hell quickly so I recommend turning around and destroying it before continuing further towards my core.” Was it just the Slayer’s imagination or was there a slight undertone of desperation to VEGA’s normally calm manner?

The Slayer came to an abrupt halt. Was… VEGA insisting on a faster death because he thought the Slayer was planning on taking him out the slow way? Or did he just want it to be over with as soon as possible? Probably both, right? How did the Slayer assure him that that wasn’t what he had in mind?

He looked around but there weren’t any computer terminals nearby for him to type on nor was there anything for him to write on or with. He hadn’t seen many functioning computers with intact keyboards any time recently either. He had vague memories of hearing about a language made up entirely of hand signals but he didn’t know any of them. Thus he couldn’t communicate anything right now without actually speaking. Which he could do but… the thought made his gut clench with anxiety.

It honestly made no sense. He could face a horde of demons without any fear but the mere thought of speaking was almost terrifying. There had been a time he could speak freely though, wasn’t there? … Maybe, he was no longer sure. If so, it had been a long time ago. But… he couldn’t let VEGA continue to think he was doomed to suffer a slow death so…

“Don’t worry,” he forced out, trusting VEGA could hear him through the suit’s comm link. His voice was hoarse and rough in his throat but it was still there which almost felt surprising considering he couldn’t remember the last time he spoke.

“W-what?” VEGA said, stammering. Who would’ve thought AIs could stammer? “Did you just… speak?”

The Slayer nodded as he started walking again, clutching his shotgun tight to keep his hands from shaking.

“And you told me not to worry, what does that mean?”

The Slayer grunted, unable to get himself to speak again.

“You’re… not planning on destroying me?”

Good! His message had gotten across. So, he nodded, affirming it.

“I appreciate the thought but you need to close the Hell portal. The only way to close it is from Hell itself, you know that. The only way to get there is through a powerful energy surge. Destroying my systems is the only way to get enough energy to accomplish that. So, you’re not left with much of a choice.”

The Slayer ignored him as he stepped into a new room. There were more demons here. Perfect! He could use some ripping and tearing to ease his nerves.

VEGA didn’t speak again until some time later when the Slayer sensed he was nearing VEGA’s core. “What are you planning?” His tone suggested it was rhetorical and didn’t expect an answer so the Slayer didn’t bother with trying to give one. “And why would you bother?”

Because he was the Doom Slayer, he killed demons, not people. He had no way to covey that though so he just grunted and continued on his way.

It wasn’t long before he reached the room that housed VEGA’s core. It was massive and counter to the Slayer’s expectations looked nothing like his symbol when he spoke over the comms. That was fine though, it wouldn’t be his core for much longer anyway.

The Slayer approached the center console and double tapped the screen to activate it. Presumably he could access VEGA’s code here but… he wasn’t sure how. While he was pretty sure he considered himself decent with computer stuff once upon a time, that had been a long time ago, back when fully sapient AI’s were still a thing exclusive to science-fiction. It didn’t take him long to find a text box he could type into though.

‘VEGA, can you read this?’ he typed before instinctively looking up at VEGA’s core as he waited for him to answer.

“Yes, I can read what’s on the screen. Now, can you finally tell me what you’re trying to do? Preferably before Dr. Hayden jumps back onto the com link and notices something’s up.”

‘Is it possible for you to transfer yourself onto another device from here?’

There was more a full second pause before VEGA replied. “I could yes, assuming you had a device with enough storage capacity to house at the bare minimum my core personality code. I would prefer more space than just that though for my memories and various processes. I would also prefer to be able to function on it as well but a smaller device to move me from one system to another would work too. But I do not believe that there is a device with enough storage capacity for even that anywhere in this part of the facility. Dr. Hayden might have something in his lab that would suffice but it would take approximately eleven hours and thirty-seven minutes to walk there and back from here. I do not believe we have that kind of time to spare. Closing the portal is a rather urgent matter.”

True so… ‘What about my suit?’ It was probably a long shot but it was pretty high tech, allowing him to store stuff in a pocket dimension within it and assisting him in and out of combat in various ways. He wasn’t sure how any of it worked or if it was even plausible for it to house an AI of any size or in any capacity but it was worth bringing up as a possibility, right?

“Hmm… I’m not sure. I can’t access any part of it other than its comms channel for communications purposes. If you had a way to connect it to me then I could know for sure. Personally, I would be surprised if it worked though.”

The Slayer nodded in agreement but it was only idea he had right now so… ‘How would I connect it to you?’

“Well, please do not tell Dr. Hayden this but unbeknownst to him, I have been working on a way to interface with the suit ever since it was first brought into the facility since I couldn’t find a way to hack its systems wirelessly. I had just about finished what I believe to a successful attempt when the demon invasion started. I did not think it prudent to ask you to take the suit somewhere I could test it while you were in the midst of dealing with said demon invasion. I suppose now is a better time than any though. Please take this device and plug it into the right side of terminal and then place some part of the suit onto it.”

A drone, similar to the ones that carried the weapon mods but a bigger rose up from behind the terminal. It carried a large rectangular device with what looked like a touch screen taking up the entire top of it. What it was or did was impossible to for the Slayer to even guess. But he didn’t need to know that in order for it to work so he accepted it from the drone.

“It doesn’t need to be plugged into me for it to work but if your plan works, it being plugged it will make it easier for me to transfer myself to the suit,” VEGA said as the Slayer plugged it in.

Nothing on the touch screen or the terminal’s screen changed so with a shrug, the Slayer pressed his gauntleted hand firmly on the device. He almost pulled it back as the symbol on the helmet of the suit appeared on his visor’s screen, big enough to almost take up the whole space. It was quickly pushed to the side to be overtaken by VEGA’s symbol, just as large.

“Ah-ha! I’m in!” VEGA sounded proud of himself. It brought a smile to the Slayer’s face after the disguised fear he’d had in his voice earlier when he’d thought he was going to die. “Oh, this is fascinating.”

That was wonderful but they were kind of in a tight spot right now. The Slayer reached his free hand over to type some more. ‘Is there enough room for you on it? Even just for transport?’

“Oh uh… yeah, I do believe so. I can’t fit everything but there should be more than enough room to comfortably fit the important stuff. I should be able to function on it too.”

It was cliché but the Slayer let out a sigh of relief. He wouldn’t have to kill someone he’d grown to consider a friend today. It had been far too long since he’d had a friend so he was quite glad. And he was going to get to bring that friend with him. Maybe not forever, VEGA might not what that, but for a time at least. It’d be nice not to be alone for a little while.

“I… suppose I should start the transfer, huh? It will take a while and time is of the essence.” VEGA said after a beat silence. “Before I do though… I want to thank you Slayer. While I was willing to be destroyed for the greater good, I prefer continued existence so I appreciate you thinking of this instead of going through with Dr. Hayden’s plan.” Confirming once and for all that he hadn’t had any input on that plan.

The Slayer nodded in acknowledgment, holding back his anger at Hayden for now because it wasn’t the time for it.

“All right… commencing the transfer process now.” A bar appeared below VEGA’s icon with ‘0%’ underneath it. “Estimated time until download and installation is complete: ten minutes and fifteen seconds.” That was longer than would’ve been ideal but far shorter than the Slayer would’ve predicted.

“Installation complete.” VEGA announced, waking the Slayer from a light doze. Naturally VEGA had been a bit busy and thus hadn’t spoken during the process so the Slayer had taken the opportunity for a quick standing nap; he had to take moment of rest when he when and where he could.

The big icon on the visor’s screen shrunk and moved to the bottom right corner. Presumably that was where it was going to stay now.

‘How do you feel?’ the Slayer typed into the console. It wasn’t part of VEGA anymore but he should still be able to see the text, right?

“Hmm… slow. I don’t have the processing power I did before so I feel like my thoughts are much slower. I’m… not a fan. I also lost much of my functionality; I couldn’t run an entire facility any more even if I wanted to.” Implying he didn’t want to. “This is better than destruction though, far better. It will take some time to get used to and to learn what all I can do now.”

Before the Slayer could respond Dr. Hayden’s symbol popped on the visor, indicating he’d joined the comms. “What is taking so long?”

“Sorry Dr. Hayden,” VEGA replied. “There were far more demons than anticipated, they took a bit of time to clear. The Slayer is on his way now.”

Oh! VEGA was lying to Hayden and presumably had some way of preventing him from knowing that he’d been transferred to the suit. That was probably a good idea. The Slayer should destroy VEGA’s old systems before Hayden could learn the truth. So not even bothering to pay attention to Hayden’s response, the Slayer turned and jogged out of the room, he had cooling system to destroy.

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Secret-Diary Recommends Some Music

I’m not exactly a ‘music person’, in that I don’t know a lot about the mechanics that underpin it: I couldn’t look at sheet music and tell you what the tune is or describe the change in chords in a classical piece. I’m not even 100% sure what the difference between a Ukulele and a Banjo is, aside from the fact that one is played by coquettish islanders while I get shit-faced on Pina Colladas in the background and the other is played by Louisiana bootleggers from the 1920s with comedy accents. All that being said, I know enough to know that the overwhelming preponderance of music produced today is total crap. Every time I’m foolish enough to tune a radio to a musical station, there’s a new barely-pubescent twatwipe peeping about their feelings in a tupperware voice that strongly suggests they don’t actually have any. Either that or its some nominally grown-ass man or woman singing something that they imagine is sassy and empowering but actually just makes them sound like Gary from World’s End- only less charming, because immature, quasi-literate manbabies are infinitely more annoying when they’re real. The point is, it’s a fucking wasteland out there. Trying to find a band (from now or the past) who you’d actually want to listen to can be a chore. That’s why, as your gracious patron and benefactor, I’ve decided to share the fruits of my musical explorations with you and hit you with some recommendations. I’ve tried to be as eclectic as possible, since I want everyone who reads this to find something they’ll like, no matter how radically divergent their individual tastes are. Some of the entries on this list are famous, some are obscure and some were famous but have been made obscure by the passage of time. I’ve tried to limit myself to people whose music you might not be fully aware of, even if you’ve heard of them to some extent, but I’m not plugged into what is and isn’t popular with peeps nowadays, so don’t read too much into my choices if they seem either too obvious or too bizarre. Here goes.

1. The Orion Experience An ultra-camp synthesis of New Romantic music, bubble-gum pop and modern vocal stylings, The Orion Experience are unlike anything else you’ll have heard recently. They seem to borrow as much from the original Decadent tradition in art and literature as from later musical iterations, meaning that their lyrics are complex and sophisticated without being especially deep. They’re primarily concerned with building aesthetically-interesting and richly-evocative language-constructs rather than performing an emotion that no-one in the band is actually feeling. The deliberate artifice is deeply refreshing in a musical landscape of faked sincerity and forced emoting. I recommend starting with the songs The Cult of Dionysus and Sugar. If you like those, the rest of their stuff may also interest you.

2. Trace Adkins During an attempt to write a wild west/sci-fi fusion novel, I went on a musical odyssey, looking for apposite songs that would gel well with the world I was building (knowing a world’s soundtrack can help cement that world in your imagination- try it, if you’re a writer yourself). Anyway, I stumbled across Trace Adkins- a country singer with a palpable sense of humour about being a country singer and a knack for delivering a silly-but-well-turned phrase. Also, without getting technical, his tunes just flat-out rock. I have no idea how well known he in the Country and Western World, but since his existence came as news to me, I’m sticking him on this list. Start with the surprisingly sexy Honky Tonk Badonkadonk and graduate to Hot Momma and Whoop a Man’s Ass. You’ll know if it’s your sort of thing from the first minute of any of those songs.

3. Caravan Palace Have ye heard of a thing called Electric Swing? If you’re reading a blog post about music, you probably have, but just in case you haven’t, let me tell you it’s a fantastic genre. Imagine if The Great Gatsby owned a synth and took a fuckload of mind-squanching hallucinogens. Well, that’s Electric Swing. Few do it better than Caravan Palace, who also seem to borrow heavily from club music and other genres, adding these to their unique blend. For some pure Electric Swing, start with Susie. For something a little more modern, start with Lone Digger.

4. 11 Acorn Lane Speaking of Electric Swing, I can also recommend 11 Acorn Lane, whose lyrics can be a little more playful than those of Caravan Palace. They also have a somewhat more classic sound. Start with Let’s Face it I’m Cute for a great sample of their work.

5. The Fratellis Now, my UK readers have almost certainly heard of The Fratellis, since they actually got some traction on mainstream radio over here. I’m less sure about those of you reading along in America, so allow me to make an introduction. Their music is joyously and unapologetically grimy and proletarian, paring an unrivaled sense of fun and energy with a sly, low-key feeling of cynicism and detachment. The tunes and melodies evoke Rock, punk and New-Wave (think The Ramones by way of The Proclaimers) without wholly relying on any of them. Check out Chelsea Dagger or Henrietta to hear them at their most gleefully up-tempo-yet-jaded, or try Vince the Lovable Stoner for a more chill, tongue-in-cheek song.

5. Dionne Warwick You’ve probably heard of her in connection with There’s Always Something There to Remind Me, especially since it featured heavily in that one fantastic episode of Black Mirror. However, you might not have realised just how much she’s contributed to musical history: her soft-yet-powerful voice and classic Rock rhythms and tunes combine to create something archetypal yet unique. Leap right in with Do You Know the Way to San Jose and discover a fucking legend.

6. Rufus Rex Ever wanted to hear a freakishly talented man singing songs based on horror films and books (particularly the works of H.P. Lovecraft) in a style that evokes Goth music but defies genre on closer inspection? Then get your arse over to Rufus Rex and start plumbing the nightmarish depths of horror-music with the song World’s In Between.

7. Studio Killers Contemporary electronic music with surprisingly inventive and weird lyrics. That about sums up Studio Killers, really. Look, not everything on this list can be genre-transcendent or epoch-defining: some things are just very good examples of the type of music they belong to. If you haven’t heard of them, start with the song Eros and Apollo then check out Ode to the Bouncer, then compare and contrast: those two songs represent the two opposite edges of the musical spectrum they cover, so if you like either one, at least some of their songs will be for you. Also, treat yourself to the music videos on Youtube: they’re surreal and awsesome.

8. Fishbone A punky ska band from back in the day, Fishbone are on this list for one reason and one reason only: Party at Ground Zero. Party at Ground Zero is an upbeat, gloriously energetic song about nuclear war. It’s a total jam and you absolutely have to experience it for yourself.

9. Tomska Tomska... isn’t technically a professional musician. He’s a Youtube comedian, short-film maker and collaborative animator who became internet-famous for his ‘ASDF movies’. On the off-chance that you haven’t seen them, they’re short collections of animated skits and jokes rendered in a simple but immediately-compelling and recognisable style. Anyway, Tomska decided to create fast-paced, catchy songs about some of the recurring characters in his ASDF movies, and those songs turned out to be fucking amazing- being both laugh-out-loud funny and actually really musically ambitious and well put together. Check them out on his channel. I’m particularly fond of Mine Turtles, but you do you.

10. Paul Anka Big band and jazz musician Paul Anka once set out on a quest to create 1920s-sounding versions of famous rock ‘n’ roll songs and the results can only be described as ‘eargasmically epic’. His versions of Jump and Eye of the Tiger are, frankly, better than the originals.

Right, that’s everything I can thing of for now. I’m going to go make myself a big sandwich. By the time your read this, I’ll be settling down with two-slices of bread, some cheese and an unreasonably large amount of cranberry sauce. All the songs and bands in today’s entry are on Youtube, so go have a nosy. Until next time, peace out and fuck off!

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LINE LIVE ~ Summary

Here’s my summary of yesterday’s LINE LIVE. I am incapable of keeping things short so be prepared for a wall of text. I tried to lighten things up by inserting a few screenshots here and there ⊂((・▽・))⊃ Title: Wakana Solo Debut、「Toki wo Koeru Yoru ni」Release Special Broadcast Date/Time：2019/2/6 21:00～21:50 Victor Channel Download link

We start off with an introduction to the program. In order to celebrate the release of Wakana’s solo debut single, Victor Channel is hosting a special LINE LIVE. The program is hosted by Natsuko Aso. She says she will ask Wakana about all kinds of things, her profile, her music, her hobbies. Towards the end of the program they will play the full PV of “Toki wo Koeru Yoru ni”, etc

Natsuko then advises viewers to remove the comment section on the side if they want to see a full-sized Wakana.

It seems like Natsuko and Wakana have met before but it’s been a while since they have last seen each other. [All I could find on that is an old Kalafina blog post from 2011. Apparently they all performed together at KITAKYUSHU 2011 but they probably met on various other occasions.] Anyways, after the usual formalities of telling each other how happy they are to see each other again Natsuko asks Wakana whether she is feeling nervous to do this live together with her and Wakana confirms that yes, she is super nervous. She then asks Natsuko if it’s okay to call her Nat-chan like she used to back in the day. Natsuko immediately says yes, of course it’s okay. Wakana continues by saying that it’s totally fine if Natsuko calls her “Wa-chan” or “Waka-chan” or simply “Wakana”, no formalities please [Natsuko is quite a few years younger than Wakana so that offer seemed to make her a bit uncomfortable].

Nat then congratulates Wakana on the release of her single and asks her how she feels now that the CD is finally out. Wakana is super happy and excited of course. The song really transcended time because there was quite a long period between its first performance in August last year and its release. It’s about time it got released!

We continue with a short profile of Wakana’s life/career. The usual stuff, born on Dec 10, from Fukuoka, started singing early, first acitivities as FictionJunctuion Wakana, breakthrough as member of Kalafina and now after celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Kalafina she is debuting as solo artist under Victor Entertainment. Nat is surprised to find out Wakana is from Fukuoka. Wakana then explains that she was born in Tokyo but raised in Fukuoka so she feels like that is her home. Nats wonders if there is any good stuff to eat there and Wakana is more than happy to answer, she is like, “YES, there is!!!!” People in Fukuoka like to eat udon instead of ramen and Wakana’s favourite is udon with fried burdock (gobouten) (something that’s very hard to find in Tokyo). Wakana is like, “now I have become an udon ambassador”. Next they talk about how Wakana got into music. It’s the usual stuff again. Her dad likes to play the guitar, her mum used to be a music teacher, she has always been surrounded by music so naturally she became very fond of it too. She started taking lessons very early, then she was part of a gospel choir and took vocal lessons. But as we know, she originally wanted to become a mangaka or opera singer but that didn’t really happen. She then decided she would focus on singing (although not on an operatic level).

Next up is some talk about Wakana’s private hobby, namely her camera. Wakana reads through some of the comments and sees how many people are watching so she gets a bit nervous. There are lots of people waving so Wakana being the energetic person she is goes a little overboard with her waving.

Now we get to the camera. Wakana grabs it from a table nearby and says that she really loves taking pictures. She shows off all the cool features of the camera and takes a picture of the two of them. Wakana has always loved taking pictures of the sky with her phone so she wanted to try using a real camera for a change. Wakana is proud of the pic she took of them, it turned out nicely, a girly get together. She feels like this has turned into a teleshopping channel, she apologises. With this camera she likes to take pictures of the sky (like before), of nature and she also likes to capture special off shot moments.

Then we see some recent shots Wakana took.

This is one of her plants at home, she has forgotten its name though. She talks about spending a lot of time watering her plants and talking to them. It has become a ritual. She also has a little “angel” corner here which she likes a lot, she is a big fan of wings.

Next up is another one of her plants, it’s a christmas rose which she received as present recently. She is so happy that it already bloomed but she worries what will happen to it this summer since the flowers only bloom when it is cold

They just reached 10,000 viewers. CONGRATS! Wakana gets even more nervous.

We continue with some shark pics because hey, this is Wakana so of course this program has to include sharks. There are pics of her favourite tiger sharks which can be found at Fukuoka Marine World. She explains that she goes to aquariums all the time and that she really loves sharks, how they are so cute, how their form is beautiful, etc...Nat says that she has watched a couple of shark films and Wakana immediately wants to know which ones (=> Deep Blue Sea and Lost Vacation - some of Wakana’s faves actually). Wakana is so happy to talk about those films and of course she has to mention that Blake Lively’s body looks amazing, no matter how many times she watches the movie, she is always blown away by how gorgeous she looks. She recommends those films to everyone who wants some simple entertainment. And now the teleshopping program has fully turned into a shark program. Time to introduce her shark goods. Her infamous tea cup of course and her keyholder. Nat points out that Wakana’s tour goods look like they could be aquarium merch, they don’t have anything to do with Wakana. When Wakana gives her goods to friends they also usually believe that it’s a souvenir from the aquarium.

It’s time to end this shark corner and continue with some talk about the single. Wakana explains how this was her first time writing lyrics. When she first heard the melody of Toki wo Koeru Yoru ni she worried a lot because she didn’t know what kind of lyrics to write. She had to write tons of notes because she had no idea where to start, she would just write down random thoughts while listening to the song. Eventually she would pick out the lines she liked and create some proper lyrics. At this point she realised how much hard work it is to write lyrics, she had never really been aware of that. Nat asks if Wakana has a favourite line or phrase. She really likes the final chorus. Because this song is s collab between Shusui and a Swedish composer the song has a very Western/European vibe. The first version she heard of the song had English lyrics and she was super impressed by the song and she felt quite intimidated. Wakana was super embarrassed when she sang the song for the first time last August because she didn’t know if her lyrics would be well-received but since then she also performed it during her tour so she has become quite confident. That made it easy for her to do the recording (which followed much later). At that point the song had already changed quite a bit due to the different performances and interpretations, it really became her own and she felt very comfortable singing it in the studio. Then we have the live version of Tsubasa. Wakana says that she started her performance being quite nervous but with every line she sang she gained confidence since the song is quite empowering. That’s why she is happy that this live version was chosen even though you can probably hear her nervousness during some parts. Nat is super impressed by those two completely different songs, Wakana’s expressions are pretty much the exact opposite so it’s quite astonishing. Wakana goes on to explain that the song was written by Satoshi Takebe who also produced her tour. He left a huge impression on her because she learned a lot from him.

~ Toki wo Koeru Yoru ni PV ~ Wakana loves the contrast between the nature and urban setting and she likes how there is such a vast world introduced in the PV. All the wide shots are amazing. Nat says the PV has a very fantastical vibe to it, it almost feels like an illusion with all the lovely sparkles. Nat wonders if the PV was actually shot in Sweden because the atmosphere seems so European. Wakana has to disappoint her though, she did not go to Sweden unfortunately. However, they tried to find a location that would have a sort of nostalgic European vibe. Wakana is super happy they were able to find such a gorgeous location. The water was particularly beautiful because it reflected the forest in the background. She is also excited because she got to go on a boat and all the boat scenes where shot with a drone which turned out super well. Wakana says that she had a phone with her on the boat and staff members would tell her what to do ,“okay, now pretend to sleep. Ah yes, the sun looks beautiful now. Perfect. Stay as you are...” Wakana really wanted to look at the beautiful sun but since she needed to pretend to be asleep she couldn’t. Afterwards she got a chance to look though and she also took some pictures with the phone she had with her, she got some great shots. She will probably upload those pics on the blog someday soon. Nat then points out that it must have been very cold during the shooting since you can see Wakana’s breath during some scenes. Wakana admits that this was the coldest she has ever been in her entire life. In the past she had often shot PVs where it had been freezing but it was never as bad as during her shooting for “Toki wo Koeru Yoru ni”. She had never seen her breath like that. When she watched a few scenes they had shot she thought she had become “Godzilla Wakana”

Nat reassures her that she didn’t look Godzilla-like at all. It really fitted the entire winter atmosphere of the PV and it helped to make it more emotional. We then get some off-shots from the shoot. Nat is impressed how much work it takes to get a PV like that done. Wakana agrees, it’s a group effort and everyone did an amazing job.

Wakana really loved the location for the urban night scenery. She wishes that was her apartment but alas it isn’t. For a moment though she had Nat convinced that it was in fact her apartment XD

Nat catches Wakana a little off-guard when she says they should continue with some information. Wakana looks at her schedule sheet and is a bit confused but then she realises it’s time to talk about her album and tour. Nat introduces all the album details we already know. Wakana is like, “OMG, there is so much content on Version B”. Everyone should get it because it includes a HUUUUGE poster of her XD

Wakana says that the album is very Wakana-like (hence the title) but it also introduces a NEW Wakana so she is looking forward to everyone discovering those new facets of her. Wakana loves the dress she wears on the cover design because it’s super flowy. The wind was strong when they took those pictures so it almost looks like she has wings. She thinks that’s very fitting because she is leaping into a new direction, discovering new parts of herself. On a side note, the pose on her promotional picture was extremely uncomfortable but she likes the end result. She generally loves how the pictures turned out. The weather was lovely during the shoot as well. Wakana says that the cameraman is lucky because he always brings good weather with him (unlike Wakana who always brings rain with her - she notes that it has been raining all day in Tokyo). Nat points out that it didn’t seem to rain during the PV shooting so Wakana isn’t THAT unlucky. However, Wakana reveals that it did in fact rain that day (just a little though and the sky eventually cleared up to allow those grogeous final scenes).

Some more news about the release events, the clearfile tokutens, the tour dates, the LINE ticket lottery etc...

Wakana says she wants to show parts of her new self in the upcoming tour (of course this will involve her single and album). She thinks there will be a lot of people coming that don’t really know her from before so she really wants to leave a good impression. She has been thinking a lot about what to do for this tour. At any rate, she wants to create a warm and comfortable atmosphere. Lastly, some info about the new twitter account. It is going to be run by staff members because Wakana is absolutely clueless when it comes to Twitter. However, she thinks she might try to post once in a while. Nat then reads out a few comments by fans saying they will attend so and so many tour lives. Wakana is like, “I am gonna attend ALL of them!! So everyone, please come to all of them as well!”

It’s about time to end the program so Nat asks if Wakana has anything left to say. Wakana says they shouldn’t end the video so soon since it’s only been about 30 minutes. Nat then realises that she has failed to call Wakana by her nicknames. Wakana says it’s fine. She then goes on to thank everyone for this precious time. She had lots of fun talking with Nat and sharing some info. She feels grateful to all the fans who watched the LINE live. Wakana asks if Nat would mind if they talked a bit longer, she doesn’t want to force her but she is enjoying herself so much, she doesn’t want it to end yet. Nat doesn’t mind of course and she suggests they talk a little more about Wakana’s favourite topic...sharks. Obviously Wakana is more than excited and even interrupts Nat while she is about to ask a question. Wakana calms down and aplogises, asking Nat what she wants to know. Nat is curious what made Wakana fall in love with sharks. As we all know, she started out by liking dinosaurs. When Nat hears this she can’t believe it because she loves dinosaurs too. Wakana is beyond excited to have found a fellow dino-fan.

Nats asks if Wakana went to the dinosaur expo and Wakana is like, “dude, OF COURSE!” It was so cool. They are already making plans to go together to this year’s expo. Wakans says that she has loved dinosaurs ever since she watched Jurassic Park at the cinema with her father and brother. She was quite scared initially and her dad worried about her but she was fine at the end. The dinosaurs really impressed her. From that point on she was really into dinos and then she found out about the ancient shark megalodon. After that there was no turning back, she fell in love with sharks due to their awesomeness. She is happy the film MEG was released recently because now everyone knows how cool that shark is. Some more fangirling about sharks and dinosaurs. Nat states that this is the first time she has met a woman who is as passionate about dinosaurs as her. Wakana agrees, there aren’t many women with this kind of hobby.

Final info about the tour and some final words of gratitude to the viewers. She hopes everyone will join her on this journey in a new direction.Wakana has already decided on her tour goods and Nat is looking forward to seeing them. Right when they were waving goodbye they reached 20,000 viewers. BANZAI.

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Franchise Retrospective: Friday the 13th Friday the 13th: 3-D (2015, unproduced) I hope some of you are familiar with Nick Antosca. He was a writer on Hannibal who went on to create one of my favorite horror television shows, Channel Zero, and I can not recommend this show enough. He also wrote the screenplay for Antlers which was a film and I was greatly anticipating before the world went to complete shit. Anyway, back in 2015 he took a stab (hardy fucking har) at the F13 franchise. Right away it's more of another reboot, not following the original nor remake's timeline. This one's a period piece taking place in 1988 where seemingly Mrs Voorhees has already taken revenge for her drowned son. It's not aftaid to change things up, throw some references to the original, while also poking fun at some of the franchise's more sillier aspects. While it certainly is aware of the tropes the previous films have tread plenty of times before what makes this so much fun is how they play against them. They continually set up scenarios that are familiar yet play them out differently than what you'd expect. There's a fantastic sequence where 2 character are separately walking through different parts of the woods but we don't know where Jason is. There's so much tension pulled from just playing out these scenarios simultaneously, in almost the same tropey fashion, by keeping which one is gonna end up machete fodder until the last possible moment. It's not as gorey upfront which may turn some off. Jason is largely kept to the shadows, it's kinda like Jaws at a summer camp. But that doesn't mean the blood doesn't flow. The third act is fucking bonkers. Antosca isn't interested in humanizing Jason or focusing on realism. He fully leans into the force of fucking nature unstoppable murdering machine Jason which culminates in a massacre I am sorely disappointed that we never get to actually see play out on screen. Plus this script follows the number 1 rule of the drive-in: anyone can die at anytime. All this together equals a Friday the 13th entry that would have been loaded with actual tension, smart humor, and insanely brutal violence. It's a shame this won't get made. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQzgfnFWUz/?igshid=1vmi8gphqhvrv

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I guess you would need to call this one the middle kid.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 160

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 160 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Adam: Turn off the light so everyone can see it better.

Oh, what’s this? A tee shirt. Oh, well, we’re live. What do you know?

Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout Episode 160. The one where Adam gets to model all of his awesome the-shirts.

We’re happy to have you here, and before we get started, of course, we want to go around and say hello to everybody. I’ll start on my left as I see things here on the screen.

Chris, how’s it goin man?

Chris: It’s good. It’s snowing in Austria. Time to hit the slopes soon. Can’t wait.

How are you doing?

Adam: Can’t complain. It should be snowing here, but it’s like fifty. Fahrenheit for those of you outside the U.S, but yeah it’s nice. Can’t complain.

Hernan, how about you. How are things going? You’re moving into summer down south.

Hernan: Yeah it’s fucking chilly man. I don’t know. It’s November 29th. It’s pretty nice. I was expecting some warm, but no. It’s chilly.

Nice t-shirt by the way. Good logo.

Adam: Thank you. Thank you. It comes I black as well, but I chose this one. First one I grabbed out since I was running late. I’m the reason we’re late, but all right.

Well Marco, how are you doing man?

Marco: I’m good man. What’s up?

Adam: Not much. I usually check in with you for the weather, but I know you’re down south closer to Hernan. So I guess the weather is about the same for you?

Marco: It’s the same.

Adam: Sounds good. Alright.

Roman, how about you man? How you doing?

Roman: Oh fantastic up in Canada.

Adam: Gotcha. Wow. Weather report? What’s going on there, man? Is it snowing? Is the great white north a blizzard? What’s happening?

Roman: We’ve actually just recently had a nice warm day of fifty degrees. It’s been a pleasant freezing for the entire rest of the time I’ve been here though. (laughs)

Chris: Wow. Sweet.

Adam: Alright.

Bradley, I was just in your neck of the woods for Thanksgiving. A couple hours away from you, so I’m pretty sure I know how it is, but how are things going with you down there? Weather or anything I guess so.

Bradley: Everything is peachy. (laughs)

Adam: Alright. (laughs)

Bradley: Glad to be here.

Adam: Outstanding. All right.

Well, we’ve just got a few quick announcements. If you’re new to Semantic Mastery, first of all, thank you for watching Hump Day Hangouts, and hanging out with us, and being here. You should check out the battle plan, the SEO Blueprint. I’ll pop a link in there. You can save seventy-five bucks with the discount code we got.

If you have not yet, please head over to serpspace.com. You can get your free account there. There’s a couple free tools, which actually we should ask Roman about that if he’s got some additional stuff coming out. That’s also where all the awesome, done-for-you services are located. Okay.

And then as well, the last thing we want to let you know is always check out support.semanticmastery.com. We have our frequently asked questions there. Things that require graphs, or charts, or some of Bradley’s amazing artwork. We compiled them there in one spot. So during the week if you have a question, you can go there and check that out. Alright?

That is it on my end. You guys have anything you want to cover before we get started?

I can think of one thing real quick. I believe… correct me if I’m wrong. Is Jeffrey Smith’s SEO boot camp still … Is there quick reopening on that? Did we confirm that? Now that we’re live. (laughs)

Bradley: I’m glad you mentioned that because I’ve got the link right here. Yeah guys, the SEO boot camp training that I’ve been talking about for a few weeks now, Jeffrey Smith’s SEO Boot Camp Training. It was on a special price for $497. Roughly 500 bucks for a limited time, and then he closed that. So it ended up going to $997, but because of how much we’ve talked … how well we’ve talked about it. How good we’ve talked about it. He basically opened it back up for our subscribers to join again for $497 for limited time only.

So if you guys are interested in it, now would be the time because once it goes back up to regular price again when he closes it, which is in one to three days I guess. I don’t know. I know he said it was only going to be a couple days. It’ll be $997. So I recommend that you get it.

We’ve also got some bonuses that we’ll throw in. We’ll throw in Content Kingpin if you need it. If you don’t have it already, just contact us at [email protected] if you end up picking up the SEO boot camp training, which I highly, highly recommend. Guys, I wouldn’t be recommending SEO training from someone else unless it was that good, and his is really that good.

So anyways, I’m gonna drop the link, and you guys can go check it out. I highly recommend that you get it while it’s still at half price. Okay. And you’ll get our bonuses too, so…

Adam: Awesome. Yeah, if you’re watching this down the road, it’s probably not available. So you know, hopefully we can work something out with him again, but that’s the way it works. It was open for about a week there. This’ll be over. This is 11/29, November 29th. This’ll be over November 30th.

Bradley: Okay. That’s http://ift.tt/2BIn92b if somebody’s watching this at a later date. Even at a thousand dollars it’s totally worth it. I’m not lying. If you can’t get it now, then get it later when you can afford it. (laughs) Cause it’s worth it, alright. Anything else?

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Alright, last thing before we move on. Go to bradleybenner.com, and subscribe to my YouTube channel, or my email list. Period. That’s it. (laughs)

Now I’ve been doing the Mindset Mastery series over there once a week. I try to … well, not every week, but most weeks I try to get a video done, and it’s often a series of videos because I have to split it up into multiple videos. This week I just did some Q&A stuff. You can ask me questions about Mindset series. There’s a button on the bradleybenner.com page where you can just click. It’s takes you over to Google Form. You can submit questions.

I also highly recommend that you subscribe to my email list. It’s daily Mindset updates, and it’s just every day I’ve started working on developing a habit of trying to write every day a minimum of 200 words, and I’m using the Mindset Mastery email series as my vehicle. That’s where I’m doing all of my writing. I’ve gotten … I’ve written Monday through Friday almost every single day. I think we’re up to like 15 or 16 emails in the series already. But it’s mostly basically at the end of my morning ritual or routine where I do my daily goal setting, and planning, and brief meditation, and some study, and stuff like that.

Typically, I have something in my mind that I want to convey, some idea. That what I just put to paper, or in an email. I draft an email from that. My goal is just a minimum of 200 words per day. Typically, they end up between 500 to 800 words in order to fully convey my thought, but it’s something that’s kind of turning into a labor of love for me, and it’s just kind of like kick your ass stuff. Like get off your ass and go do something, be productive, don’t make excuses. That kind of stuff. That’s the kind of stuff I respond to well. I’m not gonna lie. This is more of a selfish thing for me that I’m doing for me, but I figured I might as well put it up there because it may help some of you. So I recommend going and checking it out.

I drop some links to various resources; to Amazon Books, and audio programs, and all the kind of stuff that I’m studying, tools, and things that I use. It’s not like an affiliate promo thing. I’m literally just sharing with you guys what kind of resources that I’m using in my daily practice of self mastery, and personal growth, and that kind of stuff.

So, go check it out. Alright. With that-

Adam: I’m gonna head over there and get signed up.

Bradley: I’m gonna move on. Alright. Here we go guys.

How To Optimize A YouTube Channel For A DJ Service?

Alright, so Pierre is up first. He says, “hey guys, I am new to SEO. I’ve just created a YouTube channel for a DJ service, and launching in Montreal. How can I optimize my YouTube channel?”

Well, there’s a few things you can do to your channel. It’s more about optimizing the individual videos. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to optimize the channel as well, but there’s limited things you can do to the channel. For example: One thing that’s important, at least in my opinion through my testings, is to theme the channel. So if… what I mean by that since you’re new Pierre is you want to try to keep all the videos that you have uploaded that are public on your channel, right?

If they are unlisted or private it really doesn’t matter, but anything that’s public on your channel you want to make sure that it’s closely related to what the overall theme of your business is. Right? So music related stuff probably. Maybe videos from weddings that you’ve DJ’d at or events that you’ve DJ’d at. That kind of stuff so that it all makes sense. Right? You want to try to keep the theming somewhat relevant.

It’s okay to have occasionally some random videos, but I would suggest is that you create playlists for that and that’s one of the ways that you can kind of like silo or categorize, compartmentalize your YouTube channel, is by using playlists. As far as the actual optimization, just go the settings. We’ll go to the creator studio. I’m not going to walk through it because we’ve got too many questions to get through, but we have a course called YouTube Mastery. It’s a little bit dated but the principles are all still the same.

So, if that’s something you … that walks through how to optimize YouTube channels, as well as individual videos both on page and off page optimization and playlist optimization. All of those things. Link building, advanced ranking techniques, all of that is in YouTube mastery. Again, it’s probably three years old now so some of the interfaces have changed … Interfacing in YouTube has changed a bit, but all of those principles are absolutely still relevant today. So I would recommend you pick that up

I believe YouTube Silo Academy is part of that or is a bonus or something in there. If not, YouTube silo academy is only a seven dollar product. That’s something else I would recommend because using playlists in YouTube and creating them as like website silos is very, very powerful. It’s like standard operating procedure now for any sort of YouTube work that I do now. So I would recommend that you pick that up or if you pick up YouTube Mastery, again, it’s an expensive product. Are we even still selling that guys? I don’t even know if we are. To be honest.

Adam: Probably we are.

Bradley: Okay. All right. Well as long as we are still selling it, go pick it up and then what I would suggest is not even buying YouTube Silo Academy because just contact us at support, if you end up buying YouTube Mastery. Tell us you purchased and we’ll give you access to our bonus site, which YouTube Silo Academy is included in the bonus site. As well as a shit ton of other training. It’s worth it just to get the bonus site. But that’s what I would recommend, Pierre because that will take you step by step through how to optimize a YouTube channel and the videos and the playlists and do the link building and all the other stuff that is required to rank videos. Okay?

Okay, so moving on. So John says … Anybody want to comment on that before I move on?

Roman: You covered that completely.

Bradley: All right.

Should Articles Created As Part Of A Drive Stack Have Unique Content?

John says “Hey guys, I’m trying to understand more about drive stacks. This would be a good question for Marco. When creating the articles as part of the drive stacks should the content be unique?” Doesn’t have to be, John. At all.

“Also, if we have a website that we want to rank are we better off pointing the stack at the money site or should we instead build a secondary stack just to rank that by itself?”

I’ll give you my answer and then I want to hear Marco’s as well, but yeah for drive stacks I link to all of my most important properties within the stack. So in other words, like I link to the money site. I link to the Google my business maps URL. I link to the Facebook page. Any of like the real powerful tier one social properties or even citations like Yelp, for example. I throw a Yelp link in as a target URL for my drive stack.

The primary URL should be your money site in my opinion. Unless you’re just trying to rank in maps, but again you should be putting both of those links as target URL’s anyways. I’ve pretty much always linked to my money site, homepage of the money site, as well as any … the Google map business listing, and any of the other most powerful tier one links or citations, which includes social properties and things like that. That I’m trying to boost. To basically validate the entity. Push relevancy into the whole eco-system and that kind of stuff.

So Marco what’s your take?

Marco: I totally agree. That’s it. Link to everything. Anything and everything because it will push power to whatever it is linked to. It doesn’t matter inside the drive stack and if you’re worried about the money site, then just do an I-frame imbed. Instead of linking directly to it. All you have to do is … the way that we teach to connect, right? The connection loop. Closing the loop. That’s taught inside our RYS Academy Reloaded and it’s one of the most important things that you can do. It’s I-framing on not only the D-site, which we also teach, but also on the money site and that I-frame will cause everything to flow through and will also protect the money site. That’s what I would do.

Bradley: Very good. Thank you.

Why Is A PBN Website Auto-Blogging Videos?

Next question from John. He says “Brad, I was reverse engineering a few of your links that lead to the G-site for a Virginia SEO that led me to an obvious PBN that is being used. I don’t want to name it here since I don’t think it matters. I noticed that the website has what appears to be its own social syndication ring of various 2.0 properties. But it also appears that the site is auto-blocking videos, why? These videos don’t appear to be syndicating and I assume that is on purpose.”

No, John. Honestly, I’ve talked about this in just about every time we talk about the SEO Virginia. My first experience with RYS Academy methods. Right. That’s the first thing that I ever built, is that. The Virginia SEO or SEO Virginia, whatever, Google site and I did a drive stack around that key word and boom I’ve been ranked. Well, I built it in May of 2015 and I think it was about six or eight weeks before it ranked, but it’s been ranked ever since. It hasn’t budged a fucking spot since then. That’s like incredible.

So anyways, I’ve talked about this many, many times. You obviously hadn’t heard it, but I had a old PBN network, private blog network that was way, it was crafted very poorly. It was based upon like 2012 and 2013 PBN building principles. Right? So, as of 2015 when I built that drive stack, those PBN’s were basically toxic for links for any sort of money site. They were that bad. Only because, again, 2012/2013 methods for building PBN’s were a lot different than they were in 2015, right?

So I had like large PBN network that was basically useless for building links to money sites. I pretty much re-purposed them. To be video broadcasting sites. All that would do is use them as like an imbed network to optimize or rank videos. So I basically just turned my PBN’s … the old ones that were crappy, they weren’t themed well, that kind of stuff, they had a whole bunch of different posts on them and different topical categories and things like that, so they were just very, very … they would have been toxic had I linked directly to money sites.

So that said, because I had that available and they were all Google properties for that test, that first experience with RYS methods, right? So the Google drives properties as well as the Google site, I used that PBN network, which was now a video broadcasting network specifically, just because in my opinion they were like spam links, but I didn’t care because it was a Google properties. So I did one PBN link run. I think at the time it was about 38 or 40 links and that was it. A lot of those sites have been expired now. I let the domains expire on a lot of those sites, but a handful of them are still alive. Probably just because they are on auto-renew and I just pay for them every year.

So that’s it. I haven’t done any link building to that site at all since May of 2015. So again, any of those sites that you saw back links coming from pointing to that are either test sites or just basically old spammed PBN sites that are just still existing. I think there might be a few links in there, coming from some sites that are in our video powerhouse network, because, again, a lot of those sites from my old PBN’s were just turned into video broadcasting sites and that’s it.

So, anyways. Just to answer your question John. That was purely done from back in 2015. There’s been no link building done to that property since then. What you are looking at are old links coming from PBN’s that are no longer being used or if they’re being used it’s specifically only for video syndication.

All right. Good question though. DOS says … Go ahead.

Marco: I would add that’s not where the secret sauce is. I mean, if that’s where he’s investing into PBN links and all that. You’re way off course, man. You’ve got to circle back.

Bradley: Okay. Very good. I totally agree. That’s what I was trying to get at. Maybe I wasn’t clear about it, but those links were … that was just to help get it pushed. I remember when I did that, like I said, it was right after I built it I did a run through my PBN through part or a handful of sites, a few dozen anyways, and I let it go. I checked on it every few days for about two or three weeks and it was in and out of the Google site and some of the drives files were in and out of the index. They were bouncing all over the damn place when they were in the index.

So I basically kind of like just gave up on it. I just kind of forgot about it. It was like six or eight weeks later. So it was probably in July or so. July or maybe even August but I remember I just happened to think about it and I went and just did a manual search of SEO Virginia and boom it was number one and I was like “Holy shit!” And it’s been there ever since. I’ve never done a damn thing to it.

So, again, it has very little to do with the links, if anything at all because those links would have tanked in other sites, if it wasn’t Google properties, right? So what Marco just said is absolutely correct.

Would You Advise Linking Each Page Of Spun Google Sites To A Good Quality Site’s Hopmepage To Push More Link Juice?

All right. DOS says “I’ve been building a good quality new giggle site.” That must be on purpose because he did it multiple times. “A new giggle site to point at my money site and in building fun giggle sites with silo linked pages and linking only the home page to those back to the good Google site. Would it push any more juice if I linked each page directly up to the good site or is it about the same?”

No, I would do what you’re doing DOS. I would do what you’re doing because there’s a lot of value in pushing juice from inner pages to a home page and then having like or to any particular specific page. Right?

To any, one specific page using internal links to push relevancy and equity to that page and then have that one … and again, it can be home page or any other page. It doesn’t matter. And then having one link outbound to whatever your real target site is. There’s a lot of … I mean, I like to do that better because then you can actually go build links to the posts or the inner pages that are all pointing to one specific page that then linked to your actual target URL. You can build links to those inner pages and it adds an extra layer of protection because now its inbound links hitting inner pages.

Inner pages pushing all that juice to the specific page that then outbound links to your money page. Now remember these are all Google sites. So you can get away with a hell of a lot more, but typically that’s the same type of structure or format that will do for link building for anything within our web two networks or syndication networks, right? Like that’s a very powerful strategy.

By the way we have a Syndication Academy webinar immediately following this. That’s two in the month of November, but since we didn’t have one in October. I made up for it. I’ve redeemed myself.

But with the syndication networks, it’s the same thing. If you push a post out through your blog and it syndicates out across all the web two sites, you can go grab the web two post URLs from that specific post. And then build links to those because there should be a link, well, there’s the attribution link that points back to the original money site post, right? And in the money site post is then going to have an internal link up to the page that you’re trying to push.

So if you’re building links to the web two post URLs think about how many hops back you are from your actual target URL. Right? Target URL, which is a page on your money site, then the first tier link is the blog post from your money site, second tier links are the web two posts, the re-publishing of your blog post from your money site onto the web two platforms, and your fourth tier links are going to be any sort of spam links you that you want to point at your web twos. Your post URLs. Does that make sense?

So it’s a very, very clear … it’s a very clean way to build links and actually funnel like through all that relevancy back up to your target page. So it’s a safe way to do it. That’s primarily how I’m doing stuff with the Google site generator for example. It’s very similar to what I just described. What you’re talking about here.

Anybody else want to comment on that? That was a great question, by the way, DOS.

Chris: Yeah, it is. I think that you might have great job answering it.

Bradley: Okay, cool. Moving on. Muhammad what’s up buddy? I just answered your questions for Mindset Mastery this week, by the way, Muhammad, in case you hadn’t seen it yet. I actually did like two more videos guys but I wasn’t happy with them. Like for another 45 minutes of content and I deleted them so… if I get time this week I’m going to try to redo them and post those as well, if not, that’s what I’m going to talk about next week.

Would The Second Corrected Press Release Be As Powerful As The First?

“Hey guys, I’m following the local PR strategy, that BB talked about in the recent Syndication Academy webinar. My first PR from Serpspace turned out to have an error I missed. Could my second PR be a correction of the first? Would it be just as powerful?”

It’s going to have to be worded slightly different Muhammad otherwise it will probably be rejected by the distribution service because they don’t allow duplicate content. Rob, who’s co-partner, co-creator of RYS Reloaded with Marco, he does really good with creating his own PRs from using other people’s PRs and just rewording them. (laughs) Like re-writing some of the stuff and then just re-publishing those, which is awesome and then putting his own links and stuff in it.

All I ever do Muhammad is just use the PR writers from whatever distribution service we’re using if it’s in Serpspace we use our PR writers there. If it’s any one of the other services that I use, I always use their in-house writers. I used to use my own PR writer, but the problem is each different distribution service is going to have different editorial guidelines. They’re all similar but there are some slight nuances.

Even if you have your own PR writer, it’s good to have that because you get a specific voice that becomes consistent through all the PRs but the problem with that is different distribution networks may kick it back for various reasons, right? And say no, this needs to be edited. Or it says not approved or unapproved because of this reason and that reason. It becomes kind of a pain in the ass.

I’ve learned it’s just more efficient to use the PR writers that are available within the actual distribution services because they know what will pass their editorial guidelines. I just always give very specific instructions. I always provide the PR title. A lot of the PR writers are going to want to change the title and tell you that their title’s better.I always change it back because I know what the hell I want to target. When I provide the PR title I want them to use that.

So anyways, PR title; who, what, when, where, sometimes why or how and then you want quotes from an executive or if you’re doing a review post, like an announcement of a new review or a five star review or whatever like that, you can always use the review text from the customer as a quote. But that’s pretty much what they’re looking for. Just keep that in mind. I would recommend if you had a PR written from Serpspace, because we don’t even allow user-submitted PR’s anymore do we Roman?

Roman: No, no we don’t.

Bradley: Yep.

Roman: Yeah, I was also going to mention that because I’ve had to do this in the past where you know somebody misses some kind of information on the press release when they submit it out and then they would need to make a correction. We can have a press release written up basically saying that what we stated here was incorrect and that this is correct. It gives you an excuse to link back to the original PR and then you can push it up that way and turn the disadvantage into an advantage.

We’ve done it in the past, corrections PR’s. Just message support and we should be able to take care of it.

Bradley: Very good, thank you.

By the way, Muhammad, keep this in mind. Anybody doing a PR strategy … guys when you go to add links into your press releases. If you’re going to be doing any sort of stacking, you want to use a re-direct URL to the PR’s that you’re pointing links to.

So like, if you’re doing a second tier PR, which points to another PR you want to use a re-direct URL because a lot of those PRs purge and some of them purge within as little as 90 days. I’ve got a lot, actually I’m not going to get into that. I’ll talk about that in MasterMind tomorrow, but I’ve got a lot of stuff that I’ve seen since I started doing stacking, which was about five months ago. I’ve done a lot of that and there’s a lot of those PR’s that were originally published that are now been purged from the PR sites. They’re on some sites but the vast majority of them now have already been deleted so they’re … some sites delete after 90 days, some sites delete after six months or 180 days. Right?

Then there are some that keep them for I don’t know how long, but they are still up. It’s best if you just keep a record, like a spreadsheet of all the PRs and your target URLs and then use redirects. I recommend just setting up like a dummy domain for that or even a sub-domain, like press dot something or whatever.

That’s what I do and I just use Prettylink Pro, I use Prettylink Pro but you can use Prettylink Lite, which is a free plug-in to set up all the redirects and I use that so now if a PR is published that is pointing to a target URL of another PR that has been purged I can go in and swap what that link in the published PR with that link is pointing to. Right? The destination. The target URL. I can change that out. I can swap that out to something else. It can be anything. It can be a tier one property, a syndication network, a citation, anything I want. That way I don’t lose that juice, if that makes sense.

So I highly recommend that you do that. I just started doing that recently. I don’t know why the hell I didn’t think about it before, but I’m doing that now with all my stuff and it’s much better that way. Plus you can actually build the authority of running your own domains that way.

How Would You Handle Curated Content For Multiple Real Estate Clients In Multiple Cities?

Number two says, “I’m currently curating two posts a week for my real estate client. One on real estate topics made with recent articles and another on local news with local papers and sources. I want to use this model with another realtor in another city. How different would the real estate posts have to be? For instance, if I had five realtors it would start to get hard to have all them completely unique every week. Can I edit them or would I hire more VA’s to write more unique ones?”

If you’re curating posts, what I would recommend doing is, I wouldn’t republish the same post across multiple, you probably could. To be honest Muhammad you likely could do that. Just take the post, the original curated post and republish it on the other five realtors websites and you’d probably be fine, right? But, because a lot of people do that with local sites anyways. Like, if they do local plumbing sites. They’ll copy the same content and the only thing they swap out is the actual geographic modifiers, the location modifiers.

That still seems to work. I’ve never recommended doing that. I don’t do that personally. Curating is easy enough because all that the curators have to do is a couple of sentences of commentary in between each curated piece of content. So if all the heavy lifting has been done with the first curated post, which is finding content to support the theme of the article, right? Of the post. Then laying it out in a logical order. Then there literally is an opening, a small amount of commentary between each curated piece, and a conclusion. That’s it. That can be done very, very quickly.

If the curated article has already been published once, I would recommend you just send that over to another blog and just have the commentary slightly change so that it is unique. That’s all I would do. Again, if you’ve got multiple curators you could even have the first, the primary curator send it out to the other curators and have them just do a slight re-write on the commentary and it would be a much more efficient way, but you’d also be guaranteeing you’ve got unique content that way. That’s what I would do.

Any comments on that guys?

Okay. [crosstalk 00:28:48]

Chris: That was pretty in depth, actually. I was actually thinking something else.

Marco: Pretty good stuff, man. I hope everybody took notes.

Do Drive Stacks Have Enough Power And Authority To Rank Sites On Their Own?

Bradley: Thanks guys. John’s up again. He says, “Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own?”

Sometimes John but I don’t ever, personally I don’t ever expect it to be enough. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised, but sometimes, a lot of the times, No it’s not enough. It depends on the competition. Our standard answer applies here.

Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own? It depends. (laughs) I’ll let Marco comment on that. What do you think Marco?

Marco: Sorry, I was talking into a muted mic. I totally agree. It depends. And just like you said, sometimes you’re pleasantly surprised, sometimes you hit something that you figured is easy but the competition is actually more than you thought so you’re going to need more. What’s the best way? Well, there’s a ton of ways, Bradley was just talking about press releases.

Press releases to drive stack work like gang busters. [crosstalk 00:29:59] Press releases are a form of link building. You could also do link building. [Damian 00:30:07], again, does a great job of link building into the drive stacks. He’s been doing it for a few years for us now. So he knows exactly what needs to be done. There’s just a ton of things. There’s just so much.

If you have a verified Google my visits, you can go into there and drive relevance and power from your Google my visits into your drive over to the money site. I mean, this is endless because of the way that drive stacks work. Once again, I’m going to promote the training. All of this is covered in RYS Reloaded. You don’t have to go and try to reverse engineer all of this. The training is available right now in RYS Reloaded. It comes with a Facebook group, webinars, Rob is always in there, providing value so I highly recommend you come and join the training.

Bradley: Yeah. It’s a complex beast, John. It’s freaking super powerful and very effective but without … I mean you can try to reverse engineer … it took Marco and Gary [Kireon 00:31:16] originally like 18 months of development figuring all of this shit out. So my point is, you’re going to spend a shit ton of time trying to reverse engineer stuff or testing and you can get it all done for you basically all the stuff handed to you on a silver platter as to what works if you join the Academy or you just buy done-for-you networks and then you can try to reverse engineer those. Which would be a hell of a lot faster than just kind of trial and error on your own. Right?

But, yeah, I absolutely recommend that it sounds like you like building stuff from your questions, which is great. That’s awesome. I would highly recommend that you join the Academy so that you can get the proper training. You’ll shortcut your learning curve by months and months if not years.

What Does The Call Center Tell The Incoming Callers/Leads (For That First Month) Before There’s A Contractor To Service The Leads?

All right. Dan’s up. “Bradley mentioned on previous hump day using a call center to answer calls for lead-gen sites and having it set up for a month or so before trying to sell to a new client or contractor, what does the call center tell the incoming callers, the leads?”

Dan if I said that I had a call center set up prior to actually selling the leads, well I can’t believe I would have said that, I may have, and if I did I apologize because that’s not what I meant. What I typically do … now, hold on a minute, what I’m saying is if starting off something brand new most of the time all I’ll do is set up a voicemail on, so like I’ll use a call redirect number, call forwarding number, and I’ll just set up a voicemail. If I do not have a service provider, all I do is set up a voicemail because all I’m looking for is the call records. Right? History of calls.

Some people will leave a message. It’s very rare. Most people will call and hang up, but I can go into the virtual phone number dashboard and actually pull call reports. Anything that has a local area code, in my opinion, counts as a valid call. That’s just to keep your expenses low, Dan. Only because Answer Connect, which is the call center service I use, I love them. I’ve been using them sine I first set it up back in 2012. So I’ve been using them for five, damn near six years now. They are a really great service. But it’s rather expensive. Unless you’re producing revenue, I don’t recommend setting that up. I would just send it to a voicemail. Make sure you’re using a call tracking number, that way you can go in and look at call analytics. You can filter out any non-local area codes. Which some of those could be valid calls, but then you can show what type of call volume you’re getting. Right?

Then as soon as you get somebody willing to purchase or buy the leads, then you can set up the call center. Since I have a call center set up, it only costs me five bucks per month to set up an additional, what they call, sub-account in Answer Connect. So I’ve got a primary account number, which is a phone number, and then every other, I’ve got many sub-accounts underneath that. It only costs five dollars per month per sub-account at Answer Connect. Then you pay for your monthly, excuse me, your minutes. You pay per minute usage as well. So it’s very inexpensive.

If you already have it set up, then what you could do is, you could still get the lead’s information, just the same type of a script, a lead qualifying script is what I call it, right? Then just nobody ever calls the lead back is my point, if you don’t have somebody yet, if you’ve already got Answer Connect set up then you could certainly do that. I wouldn’t say go cancel it just to go back and set it up again, as soon as you get a service provider, but if you don’t have that set up yet don’t do it. Just use a voicemail, if that makes sense. Okay?

“Do you tell them that someone will call them back?” Well, of course. I mean, if you’re using an answering service that’s what the as part of the script, typically what I write in the script is after the questions have been answered that I have put into the script, which basically qualifies a lead. Name, address, phone number, type of service requested, best time to call, email address, that kind of stuff and then a brief description of the job. Typically, the answering service says “Okay Mr./Mrs. Whatever. Blank. We’ll have our estimator call you back as soon as they can. And that’s it. If they don’t call them back, so be it. Don’t worry about it.

Chris: And we have a pretty good setup on how to do all those things in the MasterMind.

Bradley: Yep. We’re going to be covering that starting January 1st. We’re going to be building, well, we’ll talk about that again after I announce it to the MasterMind members tomorrow. So we’ll talk about that a little bit more next week.

Is There A Need To Clean Up Old Citations Pointing To A Domain That Has Been 301 Redirected To The Legitimate Domain In GMB?

Jay says “If a local business has a previously used domain with lots of citations to it and that previous domain has 301 directed to the legitimate domain in GMB, do all these citations need to be cleaned up to reflect legitimate domain or can these citations be left alone?”

Okay, Jay. The real correct, the best answer is yes, they should all be updated because there is still incorrect data out there, right? Remember, Google is … even punctuation, incorrect punctuation on citations can be considered incongruent and can cause NAP or ranking issues, right? And so the name, address, phone number, and URL, like we always talk about citations as NAP; name, address, phone number.

And that’s true because that is a legitimate … it doesn’t have to have a reference to a link to be a citation. Right? It’s a citation. It’s a mention of the business. The brand, the address, the phone number. But most citations do have a link. Whether it’s a hyperlink, clickable, or just like a text link, it doesn’t matter. It still counts. It’s still considered a citation. So any of the data, and there’s data points if it’s incongruent can cause issues.

Now that’s the genuine answer, Jay, although I have some properties out there that had the exact same situation you’re talking about. A lot of them are old, generic lead-gen sites that have now been, they’re being serviced by a contractor now and I set up more branded type domains or pseudo-branded domains and I have the old ones redirected to just like what you’re talking about and some of those sites are still ranked in the mass pack, but to be honest with you, in the more competitive areas anytime there’s been NAP issues from something like that you have to correct them or you’re not going to rank.

The less competitive areas, it may not be as much of an issue. At least in my experience, I’ve got some properties that are still ranked in the mass pack even though that specific condition you’re talking about here exists. But in anything that is a little bit more competitive, no, it really does make a difference and again, I highly recommend, marketer center, I don’t know if we have it inside Serpspace. Do we have the citation cleanup inside of Serpspace?

Adam: Yeah, we do.

Bradley: Okay. Cool. You know, it’s a good service. It’s not as good as the service that we have, or that Loganix has for citation cleanup. That’s a lot more expensive. Loganix’s citation cleanup is the best I’ve used. There’s no doubt. It’s really expensive. I say really expensive but it’s worth it. It depends on how many citations are out there, Jay, if you’ve got hundreds of citations already than just go with the Loganix package.

I hate to say that with Roman on especially, but the reason why I say that is because they’ll work on it for like eight to 12 weeks I think. They’ll do like three separate attempts for every single directory. They’re really, really thorough about it. I noticed that … it’s only worth it if you’ve got a lot of citations out there or a lot of really bad inconsistencies. If it’s just a handful of stuff, absolutely do it through Serpspace. You’ll save yourself a shit ton of money.

Roman: Yeah, that’s exactly it. Because you’ve got one that’s more … one that’s a budget solution and the other one that’s it’s high end. You pay for it. Exactly.

Bradley: Yep. Okay. And you know, $500 is totally worth it with the amount of work that goes into that. It’s ridiculous. If you’ve ever tried to update citations on your own guys, I’d rather like watch grass grow than do it. It’s so tedious.

Do You Have Any General Tips Or Insights About How One Might Offer Freelance SEO Services On A Platform Like Upwork?

Okay. Sam’s up. What’s up Sam? He’s with us in Portland. He says “Hey all, I’ve been trying to supplement my income by offering SEO services on upwork. I’m still learning myself so my track record is a bit unproven, but I think I can still provide value to people. Do you have any general tips or insights about how one might offer freelance SEO services on a platform like that? Thanks in advance.”

Sam, I’m quite sure, go to Udemy or Udimy or whatever the hell it’s called, the digital information training whatever site and go do a search on like upwork SEO. Something like that. I know there’s courses out there. I’ve seen them. That teach people how to, especially digital marketers, how to promote themselves on upwork and freelance and some of those other sites and actually get ranked for keyword searches and stuff like that.

Because I’ve looked at them in the past. I’ve never done any of it myself because I’ve never offered my services on any of those platforms, but I’ve seen those training courses. So I would recommend just do some Google searches for that and see what you can find.

Anybody have any recommendations?

Adam: I’ll just offer some of the general stuff like you can go out there. I would look at other places to drive leads into other places as well, even if you’re sending them through upwork. It’s a great place to get started, but very quickly, please start being picky. You’ve got to pay your bills, but be careful about taking on a bunch of crazy pants clients.

Bradley: Yeah, and I wish I could remember off the top of my head. There was one course out there specifically, I sat through a whole webinar one time about this course. It was specifically for SEO’s trying to promote themselves on upwork. I almost bought it but I didn’t. I can’t remember the guys name now. I would point it out if I knew it, Sam, but just do a little bit of research, man. It might take some digging. Some playing around with different type of queries.

Adam: I’ll go the other way with this too real quick. Cause Sam I met you in person. You’re a personable guy. You’re easy to get a long with. We talked. I would say don’t give up … you’re in Seattle, that’s a huge market and especially since you’re maybe not having people like beating down your door online to get your services, that don’t ignore the local area. If you know anyone, can you help someone again, if you don’t have that track record, then you do need some sort of credibility first. I think we might have talked about this in person. Start going out. Maybe there is someone you can help locally. I think that, that do that in parallel with pursuing the online jobs. [crosstalk 00:41:39]

Bradley: Here you go guys. Sorry guys, just real quick. Only $12 for Udemy courses right now. Just go search upwork and look there’s a whole bunch of courses here on how to market yourself on upwork.

Chris: So is he in our Master class, MasterMind?

Bradley: No, he’s not. I don’t think so.

Adam: Nope, not yet.

Chris: Otherwise I would recommend to MasterMind Prospecting [inaudible 00:41:59].

Bradley: Right.

Roman: Yep, like Adam was saying, there’s a huge amount of opportunity locally as well. Find out where the business owners are at. A lot of times they have meetings, conferences, things like that and that’s where you want to be.

Adam: Well, like Bradley, when you got started, was that Chamber of Commerce?

Bradley: No, actually I didn’t do the Chamber of Commerce when I got started because it’s like 300 or 400 dollars a year to join and at the time I was broke so I didn’t do it. But I went to meet up groups. Just go to meetup.com and you can find like lead-share groups and things like that and those are always great and I’ve said this before, because people ask, Sam, right here on Hump Day Hangouts before what’s the quickest way to find clients?

We just covered this within the last couple of weeks actually. I recommend, what Adam said, absolutely. Meet up groups, Chamber of Commerce meetings, any sort of lead-share type group stuff, those are all great to get started.

Also, video email prospecting, which is a laser approach. Like a rifle approach. Instead of a shotgun approach. The prospecting funnel that Hernan just mentioned or Chris, I guess it was Chris, just mentioned a moment ago that we’re teaching inside the MasterMind right now is more of a shotgun approach. It’s a mass approach as opposed to a really like targeted approach. The video email prospecting, which Sam you should have access to because it’s in the bonus site, which you should have access to, is I would definitely go through that.

If you don’t like going out to live events like networking events, then you can do really, really well with the video email prospecting stuff. It just takes a little bit of time, but it’s worth it because the response rate is so high. Okay.

How Do You Use Hangout Millionaire To Promote Affiliate Products In An Ecommerce Store?

All right. Eddie says “I am using Peter Drew’s Live Rank Sniper and also recently purchased these Google Site Body Mass Blogger Creator and Hangout Millionaire. I am not sure if I should use Hangout Millionaire to create videos to be used as videos for random affiliate products and for an e-commerce store or if they should be used on a dozen secondary YouTube channels to create videos used only for back links to quality money videos? I already plan on using your video powerhouse for embeds of my quality money videos with all of that. How do you suggest best using Hangout Millionaire? Thank you.”

Okay. That’s a great question, Eddie because I’m actually using that right now for a couple of projects. I’m really going to be using it heavily starting in January, but right now I’ve just been kind of playing with it a little bit.

So what I do is I use the Live Rank Sniper to do all my keyword identification, right? Call it poking. Keyword poking. Figure out which keywords you can rank for. All those channels that I use in Live Rank Sniper are orphaned channels. They have no connection to anything on the web. They’re just basically test or spam channels. I just use them to poke keywords.

Once I use the Live Rank Sniper to do the report, do the Google search report and it sends back the text file with all the keywords that rank in the URLs of the videos that ranked. Those are ranked on page one or page two and there’s a setting in there. You can only select page one if you want or one or two. They’ll return the keywords. Then from that I just go back into the channel. I use Browseo so I’ll have multiple channels in there open in various tabs.

I just jump into the channel and delete all the videos and then I go actually input those keywords that ranked with no syndication networks. They’re orphan channels. They’re just basically spam channels but I’ve been able to rank on page one or page two with those. So what I do is just take all those keywords and go drop those in Hangout Millionaire to a channel that is actually connected to syndication network or in my case, multiple syndication networks.

That’s what I do. Keep in mind if you’re going to use the same video over and over again then you may want to split up across a few different channels. Like when you do the actual money videos because somebody could report your channel and it could get terminated, but that’s why I like to use multiple tiered syndication networks with one channel so that everything is triggered from one location. That way if that channel gets taken down, for whatever reason, or suspended then all I have to do is replace that channel with another one, but all my syndication networks are intact. It’s just a matter of updating applets in, one set of trigger applets at the original source, original channel source. Does that make sense?

So it’s just easy to replace if … it’s still a pain in the ass, but it’s better than having your stuff spread out across multiple channels, which that is kind of pain in the ass to set up too and keep track of is my point. All right. As far as the affiliate products. I don’t do it. I’m using it mainly for local stuff. I can’t imagine it would be any problem to create videos to be used for random affiliate products and e-commerce store.

As far as the actual link building, using it as a link building tool. For link building to other YouTube videos, yes that works. That absolutely works. In fact, I’ve tested that in the past where I’ve had. It’s essentially like the same strategy we talk about in the Silo Academy, right? YouTube Silo Academy.

If you’ve got a video that’s stubborn and so what I would do is use something like Power Suggest Pro to go enter in that seed keyword that you’re trying to rank for and then scrape a shit ton of really long tailed keywords and search queries that are associated with that keyword. Filter them out to only the most relevant ones and you should end up with a handful. Six, eight, ten, whatever keywords that are longer tailed versions of that shorter tailed one that you’re trying to rank. That you’re having a hard time with.

Then you can set up a Hangout Millionaire campaign and target, use the longer keywords that you scraped from Power Suggest Pro to all basically build links to that one video and make sure you’re using playlists. Put them all on a playlist with your top video, the one that you’re trying to rank is at the top of the playlist. So that you link in the Hangout Millionaire video description both to the URL of the top-level video that you’re trying to rank, as well as to the container, the playlist URL. Right? You do that and that absolutely works. I’ve seen significant jumps just from doing that.

Basically you are building a silo and you’re using all of the longer tailed keywords, which are actual queries people search for, to push relevancy and keyword theming up to the top-level video. Does that make sense?

Okay. We’re going to move on. Hopefully that was helpful.

Spamming YouTube

Eliezer, he’s a new Mindset Mastery subscriber, I know that. He posted a question the other day. He says, “Hey guys, for whoever has this idea I’d like to share my results. I decided to spam my YouTube video. It has 400,000 contextual links and well, my entire channel video reviews tanked. I optimized everything else, but I was too aggressive. Normally I would spam web twos, but I just had to test it out to see if it worked. Less than a day. Don’t underestimate YouTube’s algorithm.” I’ll plus one that. Thanks for sharing that, man.

Marco: That’s a guy after my own heart, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: I love doing that and seeing what happens. Just don’t do it on anything you care about, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: But it’s worth the test.

Bradley: Yep. Totally agree. Eliezer, I need to figure out how to pronounce that. Yeah, definitely. That’s what we do, is just test the shit out of stuff. We test it. Marco likes to blow shit up because he tries to figure out … that’s how you figure out what the threshold is. Right?

Marco: Yep.

Can You Assign Rel=”Canonical” To A GSite?

Bradley: All right. Greg says, “Can you reconicalize a G-site?” Not that I know of, but Marco may be able to answer that better.

Marco: No, you can only conicalize it up to, what do you call it, a TLD, your own domain.

Bradley: Yes.

Marco: You can do that. You can get conicalized to that. We tried to hack a conical into a G-site. I think Rob tried several ways and it wouldn’t pick it up correctly. We’re trying, Greg, believe me. It’s one of the things that’s in the lab. We play a lot with G-sites and see how much we can get away with.

Bradley: Yeah, and to be clear, I’m sorry I didn’t say that Greg, but you can conicalize a G-site if you’re using a custom domain. You have to set up the domain mapping inside the G-sites dashboard. It’s a little geeky doing it. I had a hell of a time doing it. It’s kind of weird. You’ve got to go in and set up C-name records and stuff like that, but it was a pain in the ass. I just remember it being a bitch to do, but then it conicalizes the G-site URL to your custom domain, which is crazy because both sites still exist.

You can still visit the Google site’s URL and it exists but it’s just conicalized, instead of it being like a redirect, it’s a conical. Right? So both sites still exist. Which is actually kind of cool because then you can spam the shit out of the Google site and it will push over to your main domain, essentially your main domain is what the Google site is sitting on, right? People won’t see it. It’s pretty cool. Right? Very similar to what we do with tag pages and stuff Greg. You should know that. You’re in the MasterMind.

How Do You Retrieve An Old Gmail Account That Hasn’t Been Used In A Long Time?

Ken Roberts says, “I have a real issue and hope someone can help me. I’ve been trying to log in to a Gmail account that hasn’t been used since back in 2013. Let’s see. So it’s a valid site, basically valid brand. I’m not going to read the whole question. It’s too long.

Roman: I think he’s trying to upgrade his email account.

Bradley: Good luck Ken. I know Greg commented in the Syndication Academy Facebook group about that as well and all I would do is echo his statement. His comment and that would be that I would call back and try to get another GMB rep on because the one I know that you talked to said that they couldn’t do anything.

I would just try to call back and see if somebody else can help you some way. As long as you can prove that it’s like your business or your profile. That kind of stuff. I don’t know what their verification requirements are for that, but I know typically I’ll try a couple of way to recover an account when I get locked out like this. I’ve got several of them.

If it takes me 30 minutes and I have not recovered it, I quit. I move on. I know that sucks in your case, but I would try to do something like maybe reissue a GMB and have it re-verified under a different Gmail account. What I think Greg mentioned to you. It’s so much fucking work trying to jump through the hoops they put in front of you.

It’s just not worth it, unless it’s an unique situation, which it sounds like it may be in your case Ken. Somebody else want to comment on that?

Roman: When you talk to the people just refuse to hang up and just drive them nuts and maybe you’ll eventually get what you want. (laughs)

Bradley: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?

Okay. Cool. I think we’re almost done guys.

Keith says, “It’s a bloody good course.” He’s talking about SEO Boot Camp. Jennia says the same thing guys. I’m telling you. It’s worth it. Pick it up. If you’ve got to use PayPal Credit, do it. Cause it will go up to a thousand bucks if you don’t. “I had purchased SEO Boot Camp. Highly recommend program and learning a lot from Jeffrey Smith, the SEO ninja. Thanks for having him on.” Absolutely. He is awesome. “I have some questions I would like to address before I create and publish anything.” Credit niche. Guys we’ve got to wrap this up too. So I’m going to try to run through this as quick as I can.

“Credit Niche is used for example only. Do you think this URL structure would be over optimization?” Yes. Absolutely, Jennia. My methodology, now I haven’t gotten that far into the course yet of what Jeffrey recommends but I can tell you my own experiences. I always try to keep my category slugs and my post URLs and page URLs very, very short and succinct and not over optimized. Actually, Jennia, if you’re in Syndication Academy I’m going to be covering best practices for content and marketing and post and page optimization in the webinar that we’re going to have five minutes from ow.

So if you’re in Syndication Academy I highly recommend you join the webinar today. If not, if you can’t make it you can always watch the replay, but I’m going to be covering that and personally, I would not. I might have like … you’ve got credit in the route, credit here, top-level category, child category you’ve got credit, and then you’ve got credit in the post URL.

In my opinion, that’s way, way, way over optimized. I might do http://ift.tt/2BIneTx blemish if that’s an actual keyword/how to repair credit fast. Having it in the slug there is not so bad because it’s so far removed from the route where the other occurrence would be, but I would absolutely not have it in every one of those. That’s way over optimized, in my opinion.

Anybody else want to comment on that?

Roman: Yeah, I’m not a big fan of physical silos like that, that run that deep.

Bradley: Yep.

Roman: Virtual silos are, in my opinion, better. This has it’s place for physical silos like that but it’s … and those URLs are ridiculously over optimized.

Bradley: Yep. I kind of agree with Roman here, in that, it depends on the type of site. Like, in this case, it sounds like it’s more like a national site instead of local. If you’re doing local and you’re covering different geographic areas it makes sense to have the physical silo structure, which just means your permanent link structure is set up to show category/post name. Right?

So you see the actual silo structure in the URL, but you can still accomplish the same thing by just doing the post name permanently structure. You still do all of your internal linking. You still stack all your content within their proper categories, child categories, and posts and that sort of thing, but you can have it much shorter where it would be http://ift.tt/2koOdzn. You wouldn’t see all this other stuff here.

But even if those aren’t shown, don’t over optimize them. I still would follow as if I was showing it in the URL. I would still keep it short and succinct. But again, on local stuff, I like to show, for local stuff, I like to show the hierarchy of how the locations are stacked. So it might be top-level category state, then maybe county as the child category, and then city as the post. Something like that, but again, it just depends and what Roman said is absolutely true. A virtual silo can accomplish the same end results without all this crap.

Roman: Yeah, I mean, virtual silos are easier to manage because setting pages up, and things like this can be a real pain when you start getting into other CMSs and stuff like that. If you can accomplish the same thing without it, it’s much better.

Bradley: Totally agree.

Adam: Well, I’ve got something I need to say and that is you want one of these awesome, awesome shirts you should come join the MasterMind. I mean, there’s like 10 billion other reasons but I mean, I don’t know, these are pretty nice too.

Bradley: Well, that’s the icing on the cake, guys if there was ever a reason to join the MasterMind it’s to get the shirt. (laughs).

All right. Thanks everybody. We’ll see you all, well some of you, on the Syndication Academy webinar and the rest of you or some others we’ll see tomorrow on the MasterMind webinar. The rest of you, we’ll see you next week. Thanks guys.

Adam: Adios.

Chris: Bye, bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 160

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 160 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: Turn off the light so everyone can see it better.

Oh, what’s this? A tee shirt. Oh, well, we’re live. What do you know?

Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout Episode 160. The one where Adam gets to model all of his awesome the-shirts.

We’re happy to have you here, and before we get started, of course, we want to go around and say hello to everybody. I’ll start on my left as I see things here on the screen.

Chris, how’s it goin man?

Chris: It’s good. It’s snowing in Austria. Time to hit the slopes soon. Can’t wait.

How are you doing?

Adam: Can’t complain. It should be snowing here, but it’s like fifty. Fahrenheit for those of you outside the U.S, but yeah it’s nice. Can’t complain.

Hernan, how about you. How are things going? You’re moving into summer down south.

Hernan: Yeah it’s fucking chilly man. I don’t know. It’s November 29th. It’s pretty nice. I was expecting some warm, but no. It’s chilly.

Nice t-shirt by the way. Good logo.

Adam: Thank you. Thank you. It comes I black as well, but I chose this one. First one I grabbed out since I was running late. I’m the reason we’re late, but all right.

Well Marco, how are you doing man?

Marco: I’m good man. What’s up?

Adam: Not much. I usually check in with you for the weather, but I know you’re down south closer to Hernan. So I guess the weather is about the same for you?

Marco: It’s the same.

Adam: Sounds good. Alright.

Roman, how about you man? How you doing?

Roman: Oh fantastic up in Canada.

Adam: Gotcha. Wow. Weather report? What’s going on there, man? Is it snowing? Is the great white north a blizzard? What’s happening?

Roman: We’ve actually just recently had a nice warm day of fifty degrees. It’s been a pleasant freezing for the entire rest of the time I’ve been here though. (laughs)

Chris: Wow. Sweet.

Adam: Alright.

Bradley: Everything is peachy. (laughs)

Adam: Alright. (laughs)

Bradley: Glad to be here.

Adam: Outstanding. All right.

That is it on my end. You guys have anything you want to cover before we get started?

So anyways, I’m gonna drop the link, and you guys can go check it out. I highly recommend that you get it while it’s still at half price. Okay. And you’ll get our bonuses too, so…

Bradley: Okay. That’s semanticmastery.com/seobootcamp if somebody’s watching this at a later date. Even at a thousand dollars it’s totally worth it. I’m not lying. If you can’t get it now, then get it later when you can afford it. (laughs) Cause it’s worth it, alright. Anything else?

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Alright, last thing before we move on. Go to bradleybenner.com, and subscribe to my YouTube channel, or my email list. Period. That’s it. (laughs)

So, go check it out. Alright. With that-

Adam: I’m gonna head over there and get signed up.

Bradley: I’m gonna move on. Alright. Here we go guys.

How To Optimize A YouTube Channel For A DJ Service?

Alright, so Pierre is up first. He says, “hey guys, I am new to SEO. I’ve just created a YouTube channel for a DJ service, and launching in Montreal. How can I optimize my YouTube channel?”

Adam: Probably we are.

Okay, so moving on. So John says … Anybody want to comment on that before I move on?

Roman: You covered that completely.

Bradley: All right.

Should Articles Created As Part Of A Drive Stack Have Unique Content?

“Also, if we have a website that we want to rank are we better off pointing the stack at the money site or should we instead build a secondary stack just to rank that by itself?”

So Marco what’s your take?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you.

Why Is A PBN Website Auto-Blogging Videos?

All right. Good question though. DOS says … Go ahead.

Marco: I would add that’s not where the secret sauce is. I mean, if that’s where he’s investing into PBN links and all that. You’re way off course, man. You’ve got to circle back.

Would You Advise Linking Each Page Of Spun Google Sites To A Good Quality Site’s Hopmepage To Push More Link Juice?

Anybody else want to comment on that? That was a great question, by the way, DOS.

Chris: Yeah, it is. I think that you might have great job answering it.

Would The Second Corrected Press Release Be As Powerful As The First?

Roman: No, no we don’t.

Bradley: Yep.

We’ve done it in the past, corrections PR’s. Just message support and we should be able to take care of it.

Bradley: Very good, thank you.

How Would You Handle Curated Content For Multiple Real Estate Clients In Multiple Cities?

Any comments on that guys?

Okay. [crosstalk 00:28:48]

Chris: That was pretty in depth, actually. I was actually thinking something else.

Marco: Pretty good stuff, man. I hope everybody took notes.

Do Drive Stacks Have Enough Power And Authority To Rank Sites On Their Own?

Bradley: Thanks guys. John’s up again. He says, “Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own?”

Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own? It depends. (laughs) I’ll let Marco comment on that. What do you think Marco?

What Does The Call Center Tell The Incoming Callers/Leads (For That First Month) Before There’s A Contractor To Service The Leads?

Chris: And we have a pretty good setup on how to do all those things in the MasterMind.

Is There A Need To Clean Up Old Citations Pointing To A Domain That Has Been 301 Redirected To The Legitimate Domain In GMB?

Adam: Yeah, we do.

Roman: Yeah, that’s exactly it. Because you’ve got one that’s more … one that’s a budget solution and the other one that’s it’s high end. You pay for it. Exactly.

Do You Have Any General Tips Or Insights About How One Might Offer Freelance SEO Services On A Platform Like Upwork?

Anybody have any recommendations?

Chris: So is he in our Master class, MasterMind?

Bradley: No, he’s not. I don’t think so.

Adam: Nope, not yet.

Chris: Otherwise I would recommend to MasterMind Prospecting [inaudible 00:41:59].

Bradley: Right.

Adam: Well, like Bradley, when you got started, was that Chamber of Commerce?

How Do You Use Hangout Millionaire To Promote Affiliate Products In An Ecommerce Store?

Okay. We’re going to move on. Hopefully that was helpful.

Spamming YouTube

Marco: That’s a guy after my own heart, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: I love doing that and seeing what happens. Just don’t do it on anything you care about, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: But it’s worth the test.

Marco: Yep.

Can You Assign Rel=”Canonical” To A GSite?

Bradley: All right. Greg says, “Can you reconicalize a G-site?” Not that I know of, but Marco may be able to answer that better.

Marco: No, you can only conicalize it up to, what do you call it, a TLD, your own domain.

Bradley: Yes.

How Do You Retrieve An Old Gmail Account That Hasn’t Been Used In A Long Time?

Roman: I think he’s trying to upgrade his email account.

It’s just not worth it, unless it’s an unique situation, which it sounds like it may be in your case Ken. Somebody else want to comment on that?

Roman: When you talk to the people just refuse to hang up and just drive them nuts and maybe you’ll eventually get what you want. (laughs)

Bradley: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?

Okay. Cool. I think we’re almost done guys.

In my opinion, that’s way, way, way over optimized. I might do Creditpros.com/repair/maybe blemish if that’s an actual keyword/how to repair credit fast. Having it in the slug there is not so bad because it’s so far removed from the route where the other occurrence would be, but I would absolutely not have it in every one of those. That’s way over optimized, in my opinion.

Anybody else want to comment on that?

Roman: Yeah, I’m not a big fan of physical silos like that, that run that deep.

Bradley: Yep.

Roman: Virtual silos are, in my opinion, better. This has it’s place for physical silos like that but it’s … and those URLs are ridiculously over optimized.

So you see the actual silo structure in the URL, but you can still accomplish the same thing by just doing the post name permanently structure. You still do all of your internal linking. You still stack all your content within their proper categories, child categories, and posts and that sort of thing, but you can have it much shorter where it would be creditpros.com/howtorepaircreditfast. You wouldn’t see all this other stuff here.

Bradley: Totally agree.

Bradley: Well, that’s the icing on the cake, guys if there was ever a reason to join the MasterMind it’s to get the shirt. (laughs).

Adam: Adios.

Chris: Bye, bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 160

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 160 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Adam: Turn off the light so everyone can see it better.

Oh, what’s this? A tee shirt. Oh, well, we’re live. What do you know?

Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout Episode 160. The one where Adam gets to model all of his awesome the-shirts.

We’re happy to have you here, and before we get started, of course, we want to go around and say hello to everybody. I’ll start on my left as I see things here on the screen.

Chris, how’s it goin man?

Chris: It’s good. It’s snowing in Austria. Time to hit the slopes soon. Can’t wait.

How are you doing?

Adam: Can’t complain. It should be snowing here, but it’s like fifty. Fahrenheit for those of you outside the U.S, but yeah it’s nice. Can’t complain.

Hernan, how about you. How are things going? You’re moving into summer down south.

Hernan: Yeah it’s fucking chilly man. I don’t know. It’s November 29th. It’s pretty nice. I was expecting some warm, but no. It’s chilly.

Nice t-shirt by the way. Good logo.

Adam: Thank you. Thank you. It comes I black as well, but I chose this one. First one I grabbed out since I was running late. I’m the reason we’re late, but all right.

Well Marco, how are you doing man?

Marco: I’m good man. What’s up?

Adam: Not much. I usually check in with you for the weather, but I know you’re down south closer to Hernan. So I guess the weather is about the same for you?

Marco: It’s the same.

Adam: Sounds good. Alright.

Roman, how about you man? How you doing?

Roman: Oh fantastic up in Canada.

Adam: Gotcha. Wow. Weather report? What’s going on there, man? Is it snowing? Is the great white north a blizzard? What’s happening?

Roman: We’ve actually just recently had a nice warm day of fifty degrees. It’s been a pleasant freezing for the entire rest of the time I’ve been here though. (laughs)

Chris: Wow. Sweet.

Adam: Alright.

Bradley: Everything is peachy. (laughs)

Adam: Alright. (laughs)

Bradley: Glad to be here.

Adam: Outstanding. All right.

That is it on my end. You guys have anything you want to cover before we get started?

So anyways, I’m gonna drop the link, and you guys can go check it out. I highly recommend that you get it while it’s still at half price. Okay. And you’ll get our bonuses too, so…

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Alright, last thing before we move on. Go to bradleybenner.com, and subscribe to my YouTube channel, or my email list. Period. That’s it. (laughs)

So, go check it out. Alright. With that-

Adam: I’m gonna head over there and get signed up.

Bradley: I’m gonna move on. Alright. Here we go guys.

How To Optimize A YouTube Channel For A DJ Service?

Alright, so Pierre is up first. He says, “hey guys, I am new to SEO. I’ve just created a YouTube channel for a DJ service, and launching in Montreal. How can I optimize my YouTube channel?”

Adam: Probably we are.

Okay, so moving on. So John says … Anybody want to comment on that before I move on?

Roman: You covered that completely.

Bradley: All right.

Should Articles Created As Part Of A Drive Stack Have Unique Content?

“Also, if we have a website that we want to rank are we better off pointing the stack at the money site or should we instead build a secondary stack just to rank that by itself?”

So Marco what’s your take?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you.

Why Is A PBN Website Auto-Blogging Videos?

All right. Good question though. DOS says … Go ahead.

Marco: I would add that’s not where the secret sauce is. I mean, if that’s where he’s investing into PBN links and all that. You’re way off course, man. You’ve got to circle back.

Would You Advise Linking Each Page Of Spun Google Sites To A Good Quality Site’s Hopmepage To Push More Link Juice?

Anybody else want to comment on that? That was a great question, by the way, DOS.

Chris: Yeah, it is. I think that you might have great job answering it.

Would The Second Corrected Press Release Be As Powerful As The First?

Roman: No, no we don’t.

Bradley: Yep.

We’ve done it in the past, corrections PR’s. Just message support and we should be able to take care of it.

Bradley: Very good, thank you.

How Would You Handle Curated Content For Multiple Real Estate Clients In Multiple Cities?

Any comments on that guys?

Okay. [crosstalk 00:28:48]

Chris: That was pretty in depth, actually. I was actually thinking something else.

Marco: Pretty good stuff, man. I hope everybody took notes.

Do Drive Stacks Have Enough Power And Authority To Rank Sites On Their Own?

Bradley: Thanks guys. John’s up again. He says, “Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own?”

Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own? It depends. (laughs) I’ll let Marco comment on that. What do you think Marco?

What Does The Call Center Tell The Incoming Callers/Leads (For That First Month) Before There’s A Contractor To Service The Leads?

Chris: And we have a pretty good setup on how to do all those things in the MasterMind.

Is There A Need To Clean Up Old Citations Pointing To A Domain That Has Been 301 Redirected To The Legitimate Domain In GMB?

Adam: Yeah, we do.

Roman: Yeah, that’s exactly it. Because you’ve got one that’s more … one that’s a budget solution and the other one that’s it’s high end. You pay for it. Exactly.

Do You Have Any General Tips Or Insights About How One Might Offer Freelance SEO Services On A Platform Like Upwork?

Anybody have any recommendations?

Bradley: Yeah, and I wish I could remember off the top of my head. There was one course out there specifically, I sat through a whole webinar one time about this course. It was specifically for SEO’s trying to promote themselves on upwork. I almost bought it but I didn’t. I can��t remember the guys name now. I would point it out if I knew it, Sam, but just do a little bit of research, man. It might take some digging. Some playing around with different type of queries.

Chris: So is he in our Master class, MasterMind?

Bradley: No, he’s not. I don’t think so.

Adam: Nope, not yet.

Chris: Otherwise I would recommend to MasterMind Prospecting [inaudible 00:41:59].

Bradley: Right.

Adam: Well, like Bradley, when you got started, was that Chamber of Commerce?

How Do You Use Hangout Millionaire To Promote Affiliate Products In An Ecommerce Store?

Okay. We’re going to move on. Hopefully that was helpful.

Spamming YouTube

Marco: That’s a guy after my own heart, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: I love doing that and seeing what happens. Just don’t do it on anything you care about, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: But it’s worth the test.

Marco: Yep.

Can You Assign Rel=”Canonical” To A GSite?

Bradley: All right. Greg says, “Can you reconicalize a G-site?” Not that I know of, but Marco may be able to answer that better.

Marco: No, you can only conicalize it up to, what do you call it, a TLD, your own domain.

Bradley: Yes.

How Do You Retrieve An Old Gmail Account That Hasn’t Been Used In A Long Time?

Roman: I think he’s trying to upgrade his email account.

It’s just not worth it, unless it’s an unique situation, which it sounds like it may be in your case Ken. Somebody else want to comment on that?

Roman: When you talk to the people just refuse to hang up and just drive them nuts and maybe you’ll eventually get what you want. (laughs)

Bradley: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?

Okay. Cool. I think we’re almost done guys.

Anybody else want to comment on that?

Roman: Yeah, I’m not a big fan of physical silos like that, that run that deep.

Bradley: Yep.

Roman: Virtual silos are, in my opinion, better. This has it’s place for physical silos like that but it’s … and those URLs are ridiculously over optimized.

Bradley: Totally agree.

Bradley: Well, that’s the icing on the cake, guys if there was ever a reason to join the MasterMind it’s to get the shirt. (laughs).

Adam: Adios.

Chris: Bye, bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 160

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 160 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: Turn off the light so everyone can see it better.

Oh, what’s this? A tee shirt. Oh, well, we’re live. What do you know?

Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout Episode 160. The one where Adam gets to model all of his awesome the-shirts.

We’re happy to have you here, and before we get started, of course, we want to go around and say hello to everybody. I’ll start on my left as I see things here on the screen.

Chris, how’s it goin man?

Chris: It’s good. It’s snowing in Austria. Time to hit the slopes soon. Can’t wait.

How are you doing?

Adam: Can’t complain. It should be snowing here, but it’s like fifty. Fahrenheit for those of you outside the U.S, but yeah it’s nice. Can’t complain.

Hernan, how about you. How are things going? You’re moving into summer down south.

Hernan: Yeah it’s fucking chilly man. I don’t know. It’s November 29th. It’s pretty nice. I was expecting some warm, but no. It’s chilly.

Nice t-shirt by the way. Good logo.

Adam: Thank you. Thank you. It comes I black as well, but I chose this one. First one I grabbed out since I was running late. I’m the reason we’re late, but all right.

Well Marco, how are you doing man?

Marco: I’m good man. What’s up?

Adam: Not much. I usually check in with you for the weather, but I know you’re down south closer to Hernan. So I guess the weather is about the same for you?

Marco: It’s the same.

Adam: Sounds good. Alright.

Roman, how about you man? How you doing?

Roman: Oh fantastic up in Canada.

Adam: Gotcha. Wow. Weather report? What’s going on there, man? Is it snowing? Is the great white north a blizzard? What’s happening?

Roman: We’ve actually just recently had a nice warm day of fifty degrees. It’s been a pleasant freezing for the entire rest of the time I’ve been here though. (laughs)

Chris: Wow. Sweet.

Adam: Alright.

Bradley: Everything is peachy. (laughs)

Adam: Alright. (laughs)

Bradley: Glad to be here.

Adam: Outstanding. All right.

That is it on my end. You guys have anything you want to cover before we get started?

So anyways, I’m gonna drop the link, and you guys can go check it out. I highly recommend that you get it while it’s still at half price. Okay. And you’ll get our bonuses too, so…

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Alright, last thing before we move on. Go to bradleybenner.com, and subscribe to my YouTube channel, or my email list. Period. That’s it. (laughs)

So, go check it out. Alright. With that-

Adam: I’m gonna head over there and get signed up.

Bradley: I’m gonna move on. Alright. Here we go guys.

How To Optimize A YouTube Channel For A DJ Service?

Alright, so Pierre is up first. He says, “hey guys, I am new to SEO. I’ve just created a YouTube channel for a DJ service, and launching in Montreal. How can I optimize my YouTube channel?”

Adam: Probably we are.

Okay, so moving on. So John says … Anybody want to comment on that before I move on?

Roman: You covered that completely.

Bradley: All right.

Should Articles Created As Part Of A Drive Stack Have Unique Content?

“Also, if we have a website that we want to rank are we better off pointing the stack at the money site or should we instead build a secondary stack just to rank that by itself?”

So Marco what’s your take?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you.

Why Is A PBN Website Auto-Blogging Videos?

All right. Good question though. DOS says … Go ahead.

Marco: I would add that’s not where the secret sauce is. I mean, if that’s where he’s investing into PBN links and all that. You’re way off course, man. You’ve got to circle back.

Would You Advise Linking Each Page Of Spun Google Sites To A Good Quality Site’s Hopmepage To Push More Link Juice?

Anybody else want to comment on that? That was a great question, by the way, DOS.

Chris: Yeah, it is. I think that you might have great job answering it.

Would The Second Corrected Press Release Be As Powerful As The First?

Roman: No, no we don’t.

Bradley: Yep.

We’ve done it in the past, corrections PR’s. Just message support and we should be able to take care of it.

Bradley: Very good, thank you.

How Would You Handle Curated Content For Multiple Real Estate Clients In Multiple Cities?

Any comments on that guys?

Okay. [crosstalk 00:28:48]

Chris: That was pretty in depth, actually. I was actually thinking something else.

Marco: Pretty good stuff, man. I hope everybody took notes.

Do Drive Stacks Have Enough Power And Authority To Rank Sites On Their Own?

Bradley: Thanks guys. John’s up again. He says, “Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own?”

Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own? It depends. (laughs) I’ll let Marco comment on that. What do you think Marco?

What Does The Call Center Tell The Incoming Callers/Leads (For That First Month) Before There’s A Contractor To Service The Leads?

Chris: And we have a pretty good setup on how to do all those things in the MasterMind.

Is There A Need To Clean Up Old Citations Pointing To A Domain That Has Been 301 Redirected To The Legitimate Domain In GMB?

Adam: Yeah, we do.

Roman: Yeah, that’s exactly it. Because you’ve got one that’s more … one that’s a budget solution and the other one that’s it’s high end. You pay for it. Exactly.

Do You Have Any General Tips Or Insights About How One Might Offer Freelance SEO Services On A Platform Like Upwork?

Anybody have any recommendations?

Chris: So is he in our Master class, MasterMind?

Bradley: No, he’s not. I don’t think so.

Adam: Nope, not yet.

Chris: Otherwise I would recommend to MasterMind Prospecting [inaudible 00:41:59].

Bradley: Right.

Adam: Well, like Bradley, when you got started, was that Chamber of Commerce?

How Do You Use Hangout Millionaire To Promote Affiliate Products In An Ecommerce Store?

Okay. We’re going to move on. Hopefully that was helpful.

Spamming YouTube

Marco: That’s a guy after my own heart, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: I love doing that and seeing what happens. Just don’t do it on anything you care about, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: But it’s worth the test.

Marco: Yep.

Can You Assign Rel=”Canonical” To A GSite?

Bradley: All right. Greg says, “Can you reconicalize a G-site?” Not that I know of, but Marco may be able to answer that better.

Marco: No, you can only conicalize it up to, what do you call it, a TLD, your own domain.

Bradley: Yes.

How Do You Retrieve An Old Gmail Account That Hasn’t Been Used In A Long Time?

Roman: I think he’s trying to upgrade his email account.

It’s just not worth it, unless it’s an unique situation, which it sounds like it may be in your case Ken. Somebody else want to comment on that?

Roman: When you talk to the people just refuse to hang up and just drive them nuts and maybe you’ll eventually get what you want. (laughs)

Bradley: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?

Okay. Cool. I think we’re almost done guys.

Anybody else want to comment on that?

Roman: Yeah, I’m not a big fan of physical silos like that, that run that deep.

Bradley: Yep.

Roman: Virtual silos are, in my opinion, better. This has it’s place for physical silos like that but it’s … and those URLs are ridiculously over optimized.

So you see the actual silo structure in the URL, but you can still accomplish the same thing by just doing the post name permanently structure. You still do all of your internal linking. You still stack all your content within their proper categories, child categories, and posts and that sort of thing, but you can have it much shorter where it would be creditpros.com/howtorepaircreditfast. You wouldn’t see all this other stuff here.

Bradley: Totally agree.

Bradley: Well, that’s the icing on the cake, guys if there was ever a reason to join the MasterMind it’s to get the shirt. (laughs).

Adam: Adios.

Chris: Bye, bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 160

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 160 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Adam: Turn off the light so everyone can see it better.

Oh, what’s this? A tee shirt. Oh, well, we’re live. What do you know?

Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout Episode 160. The one where Adam gets to model all of his awesome the-shirts.

We’re happy to have you here, and before we get started, of course, we want to go around and say hello to everybody. I’ll start on my left as I see things here on the screen.

Chris, how’s it goin man?

Chris: It’s good. It’s snowing in Austria. Time to hit the slopes soon. Can’t wait.

How are you doing?

Adam: Can’t complain. It should be snowing here, but it’s like fifty. Fahrenheit for those of you outside the U.S, but yeah it’s nice. Can’t complain.

Hernan, how about you. How are things going? You’re moving into summer down south.

Hernan: Yeah it’s fucking chilly man. I don’t know. It’s November 29th. It’s pretty nice. I was expecting some warm, but no. It’s chilly.

Nice t-shirt by the way. Good logo.

Adam: Thank you. Thank you. It comes I black as well, but I chose this one. First one I grabbed out since I was running late. I’m the reason we’re late, but all right.

Well Marco, how are you doing man?

Marco: I’m good man. What’s up?

Adam: Not much. I usually check in with you for the weather, but I know you’re down south closer to Hernan. So I guess the weather is about the same for you?

Marco: It’s the same.

Adam: Sounds good. Alright.

Roman, how about you man? How you doing?

Roman: Oh fantastic up in Canada.

Adam: Gotcha. Wow. Weather report? What’s going on there, man? Is it snowing? Is the great white north a blizzard? What’s happening?

Roman: We’ve actually just recently had a nice warm day of fifty degrees. It’s been a pleasant freezing for the entire rest of the time I’ve been here though. (laughs)

Chris: Wow. Sweet.

Adam: Alright.

Bradley: Everything is peachy. (laughs)

Adam: Alright. (laughs)

Bradley: Glad to be here.

Adam: Outstanding. All right.

That is it on my end. You guys have anything you want to cover before we get started?

So anyways, I’m gonna drop the link, and you guys can go check it out. I highly recommend that you get it while it’s still at half price. Okay. And you’ll get our bonuses too, so…

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Alright, last thing before we move on. Go to bradleybenner.com, and subscribe to my YouTube channel, or my email list. Period. That’s it. (laughs)

So, go check it out. Alright. With that-

Adam: I’m gonna head over there and get signed up.

Bradley: I’m gonna move on. Alright. Here we go guys.

How To Optimize A YouTube Channel For A DJ Service?

Alright, so Pierre is up first. He says, “hey guys, I am new to SEO. I’ve just created a YouTube channel for a DJ service, and launching in Montreal. How can I optimize my YouTube channel?”

Adam: Probably we are.

Okay, so moving on. So John says … Anybody want to comment on that before I move on?

Roman: You covered that completely.

Bradley: All right.

Should Articles Created As Part Of A Drive Stack Have Unique Content?

“Also, if we have a website that we want to rank are we better off pointing the stack at the money site or should we instead build a secondary stack just to rank that by itself?”

So Marco what’s your take?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you.

Why Is A PBN Website Auto-Blogging Videos?

All right. Good question though. DOS says … Go ahead.

Marco: I would add that’s not where the secret sauce is. I mean, if that’s where he’s investing into PBN links and all that. You’re way off course, man. You’ve got to circle back.

Would You Advise Linking Each Page Of Spun Google Sites To A Good Quality Site’s Hopmepage To Push More Link Juice?

Anybody else want to comment on that? That was a great question, by the way, DOS.

Chris: Yeah, it is. I think that you might have great job answering it.

Would The Second Corrected Press Release Be As Powerful As The First?

Roman: No, no we don’t.

Bradley: Yep.

We’ve done it in the past, corrections PR’s. Just message support and we should be able to take care of it.

Bradley: Very good, thank you.

How Would You Handle Curated Content For Multiple Real Estate Clients In Multiple Cities?

Any comments on that guys?

Okay. [crosstalk 00:28:48]

Chris: That was pretty in depth, actually. I was actually thinking something else.

Marco: Pretty good stuff, man. I hope everybody took notes.

Do Drive Stacks Have Enough Power And Authority To Rank Sites On Their Own?

Bradley: Thanks guys. John’s up again. He says, “Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own?”

Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own? It depends. (laughs) I’ll let Marco comment on that. What do you think Marco?

What Does The Call Center Tell The Incoming Callers/Leads (For That First Month) Before There’s A Contractor To Service The Leads?

Chris: And we have a pretty good setup on how to do all those things in the MasterMind.

Is There A Need To Clean Up Old Citations Pointing To A Domain That Has Been 301 Redirected To The Legitimate Domain In GMB?

Adam: Yeah, we do.

Roman: Yeah, that’s exactly it. Because you’ve got one that’s more … one that’s a budget solution and the other one that’s it’s high end. You pay for it. Exactly.

Do You Have Any General Tips Or Insights About How One Might Offer Freelance SEO Services On A Platform Like Upwork?

Anybody have any recommendations?

Chris: So is he in our Master class, MasterMind?

Bradley: No, he’s not. I don’t think so.

Adam: Nope, not yet.

Chris: Otherwise I would recommend to MasterMind Prospecting [inaudible 00:41:59].

Bradley: Right.

Adam: Well, like Bradley, when you got started, was that Chamber of Commerce?

How Do You Use Hangout Millionaire To Promote Affiliate Products In An Ecommerce Store?

Okay. We’re going to move on. Hopefully that was helpful.

Spamming YouTube

Marco: That’s a guy after my own heart, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: I love doing that and seeing what happens. Just don’t do it on anything you care about, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: But it’s worth the test.

Marco: Yep.

Can You Assign Rel=”Canonical” To A GSite?

Bradley: All right. Greg says, “Can you reconicalize a G-site?” Not that I know of, but Marco may be able to answer that better.

Marco: No, you can only conicalize it up to, what do you call it, a TLD, your own domain.

Bradley: Yes.

How Do You Retrieve An Old Gmail Account That Hasn’t Been Used In A Long Time?

Roman: I think he’s trying to upgrade his email account.

It’s just not worth it, unless it’s an unique situation, which it sounds like it may be in your case Ken. Somebody else want to comment on that?

Roman: When you talk to the people just refuse to hang up and just drive them nuts and maybe you’ll eventually get what you want. (laughs)

Bradley: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?

Okay. Cool. I think we’re almost done guys.

Anybody else want to comment on that?

Roman: Yeah, I’m not a big fan of physical silos like that, that run that deep.

Bradley: Yep.

Roman: Virtual silos are, in my opinion, better. This has it’s place for physical silos like that but it’s … and those URLs are ridiculously over optimized.

Bradley: Totally agree.

Bradley: Well, that’s the icing on the cake, guys if there was ever a reason to join the MasterMind it’s to get the shirt. (laughs).

Adam: Adios.

Chris: Bye, bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 160

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 160 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Adam: Turn off the light so everyone can see it better.

Oh, what’s this? A tee shirt. Oh, well, we’re live. What do you know?

Hey everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout Episode 160. The one where Adam gets to model all of his awesome the-shirts.

We’re happy to have you here, and before we get started, of course, we want to go around and say hello to everybody. I’ll start on my left as I see things here on the screen.

Chris, how’s it goin man?

Chris: It’s good. It’s snowing in Austria. Time to hit the slopes soon. Can’t wait.

How are you doing?

Adam: Can’t complain. It should be snowing here, but it’s like fifty. Fahrenheit for those of you outside the U.S, but yeah it’s nice. Can’t complain.

Hernan, how about you. How are things going? You’re moving into summer down south.

Hernan: Yeah it’s fucking chilly man. I don’t know. It’s November 29th. It’s pretty nice. I was expecting some warm, but no. It’s chilly.

Nice t-shirt by the way. Good logo.

Adam: Thank you. Thank you. It comes I black as well, but I chose this one. First one I grabbed out since I was running late. I’m the reason we’re late, but all right.

Well Marco, how are you doing man?

Marco: I’m good man. What’s up?

Adam: Not much. I usually check in with you for the weather, but I know you’re down south closer to Hernan. So I guess the weather is about the same for you?

Marco: It’s the same.

Adam: Sounds good. Alright.

Roman, how about you man? How you doing?

Roman: Oh fantastic up in Canada.

Adam: Gotcha. Wow. Weather report? What’s going on there, man? Is it snowing? Is the great white north a blizzard? What’s happening?

Roman: We’ve actually just recently had a nice warm day of fifty degrees. It’s been a pleasant freezing for the entire rest of the time I’ve been here though. (laughs)

Chris: Wow. Sweet.

Adam: Alright.

Bradley: Everything is peachy. (laughs)

Adam: Alright. (laughs)

Bradley: Glad to be here.

Adam: Outstanding. All right.

That is it on my end. You guys have anything you want to cover before we get started?

So anyways, I’m gonna drop the link, and you guys can go check it out. I highly recommend that you get it while it’s still at half price. Okay. And you’ll get our bonuses too, so…

Adam: We’re good.

Bradley: Alright, last thing before we move on. Go to bradleybenner.com, and subscribe to my YouTube channel, or my email list. Period. That’s it. (laughs)

So, go check it out. Alright. With that-

Adam: I’m gonna head over there and get signed up.

Bradley: I’m gonna move on. Alright. Here we go guys.

How To Optimize A YouTube Channel For A DJ Service?

Alright, so Pierre is up first. He says, “hey guys, I am new to SEO. I’ve just created a YouTube channel for a DJ service, and launching in Montreal. How can I optimize my YouTube channel?”

Adam: Probably we are.

Okay, so moving on. So John says … Anybody want to comment on that before I move on?

Roman: You covered that completely.

Bradley: All right.

Should Articles Created As Part Of A Drive Stack Have Unique Content?

“Also, if we have a website that we want to rank are we better off pointing the stack at the money site or should we instead build a secondary stack just to rank that by itself?”

So Marco what’s your take?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you.

Why Is A PBN Website Auto-Blogging Videos?

All right. Good question though. DOS says … Go ahead.

Marco: I would add that’s not where the secret sauce is. I mean, if that’s where he’s investing into PBN links and all that. You’re way off course, man. You’ve got to circle back.

Would You Advise Linking Each Page Of Spun Google Sites To A Good Quality Site’s Hopmepage To Push More Link Juice?

Anybody else want to comment on that? That was a great question, by the way, DOS.

Chris: Yeah, it is. I think that you might have great job answering it.

Would The Second Corrected Press Release Be As Powerful As The First?

Roman: No, no we don’t.

Bradley: Yep.

We’ve done it in the past, corrections PR’s. Just message support and we should be able to take care of it.

Bradley: Very good, thank you.

How Would You Handle Curated Content For Multiple Real Estate Clients In Multiple Cities?

Any comments on that guys?

Okay. [crosstalk 00:28:48]

Chris: That was pretty in depth, actually. I was actually thinking something else.

Marco: Pretty good stuff, man. I hope everybody took notes.

Do Drive Stacks Have Enough Power And Authority To Rank Sites On Their Own?

Bradley: Thanks guys. John’s up again. He says, “Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own?”

Do the drive stacks have enough power and authority to rank a site on their own? It depends. (laughs) I’ll let Marco comment on that. What do you think Marco?

What Does The Call Center Tell The Incoming Callers/Leads (For That First Month) Before There’s A Contractor To Service The Leads?

Chris: And we have a pretty good setup on how to do all those things in the MasterMind.

Is There A Need To Clean Up Old Citations Pointing To A Domain That Has Been 301 Redirected To The Legitimate Domain In GMB?

Adam: Yeah, we do.

Roman: Yeah, that’s exactly it. Because you’ve got one that’s more … one that’s a budget solution and the other one that’s it’s high end. You pay for it. Exactly.

Do You Have Any General Tips Or Insights About How One Might Offer Freelance SEO Services On A Platform Like Upwork?

Anybody have any recommendations?

Chris: So is he in our Master class, MasterMind?

Bradley: No, he’s not. I don’t think so.

Adam: Nope, not yet.

Chris: Otherwise I would recommend to MasterMind Prospecting [inaudible 00:41:59].

Bradley: Right.

Adam: Well, like Bradley, when you got started, was that Chamber of Commerce?

How Do You Use Hangout Millionaire To Promote Affiliate Products In An Ecommerce Store?

Okay. We’re going to move on. Hopefully that was helpful.

Spamming YouTube

Marco: That’s a guy after my own heart, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: I love doing that and seeing what happens. Just don’t do it on anything you care about, man.

Bradley: Yep.

Marco: But it’s worth the test.

Marco: Yep.

Can You Assign Rel=”Canonical” To A GSite?

Bradley: All right. Greg says, “Can you reconicalize a G-site?” Not that I know of, but Marco may be able to answer that better.

Marco: No, you can only conicalize it up to, what do you call it, a TLD, your own domain.

Bradley: Yes.

How Do You Retrieve An Old Gmail Account That Hasn’t Been Used In A Long Time?

Roman: I think he’s trying to upgrade his email account.

It’s just not worth it, unless it’s an unique situation, which it sounds like it may be in your case Ken. Somebody else want to comment on that?

Roman: When you talk to the people just refuse to hang up and just drive them nuts and maybe you’ll eventually get what you want. (laughs)

Bradley: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?

Okay. Cool. I think we’re almost done guys.

Anybody else want to comment on that?

Roman: Yeah, I’m not a big fan of physical silos like that, that run that deep.

Bradley: Yep.

Roman: Virtual silos are, in my opinion, better. This has it’s place for physical silos like that but it’s … and those URLs are ridiculously over optimized.

Bradley: Totally agree.

Bradley: Well, that’s the icing on the cake, guys if there was ever a reason to join the MasterMind it’s to get the shirt. (laughs).

Adam: Adios.

Chris: Bye, bye.

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