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The Bachelorette: NCT edition - Ep. 4

The season of love is finally here! An interactive series where you’ll get to choose who goes home each week and ultimately who Y/N chooses in the end!

pairing: nct(ot23) x fem!reader

summary: Warnings are given but egos still clash, meanwhile others are take their chances to get the bachelorette’s heart beating faster

episode guide

word count: 7,226

warnings: very light mentions of alcohol

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Last week on the Bachelorette:

Y/N met 23 bachelors ready to prove they can be the man of her dreams. Some managed to impress, others not so much and were sent back home.

With some many men fighting for the same goal, egos are bound to clash and threaten to ruin the mood. Will this be a deal breaker for our bachelorette?

11 men remain on the race to 1 woman’s heart, but tonight 2 more will lose their chance.

Who will she choose? Who will she reject?

Find out on the Bachelorette!

“Hy guys!” Everybody cheers as Chris Harrison enters the guest house. “Last week things got a little heated on the cocktail party.” Looks are exchanged between the men in the room. “I just want to remind you what you’re here for. You are here to win Y/N’s love and you won’t get that by bickering at each other.”

They nod, clearing their heads and focussing on the main goal, you.

“This week we’ll have our usual 2 one-on-one dates and a group date. Remember that if you don’t receive a rose by the end of the individual dates you will go straight home. As for the group date, there’s the possibility to earn that rose and be safe from the ceremony. This week two of you will be going home.”

Some faces get nervous, others get excited with the chance of finally scoring that one-on-one date with you.

“As for me, I’ll get going. See you at the rose ceremony. Good luck!”

As Chris leaves the room, the familiar siren is heard and all eyes focus on the TV.

Nothing feels better than the wind running through your hair as the sun makes your skin glow and the feeling of the world at your feet.

Eyes widen across the room wondering what could that possibly mean.

Jeno, I hope you like being outdoors, because we’re about to go on a chill ride.

The chosen bachelor smiles proudly at the opportunity to spend more alone time with you.

“Congratulations boy!” Jaemin pats Jeno’s back as the gang disperses.

“Thanks man.” The bright smile never leaves Jeno’s face. “I’m so excited for this I don’t even care what we’re doing!”

“It will definitely be something outside.” Taeyong mentions. “Maybe you’re going on a boat ride or something.”

“That would be dope!” Johnny adds.

“Whatever it is, I’m just glad it’s finally happening.” Jeno comments.

“Can’t wait for my turn…” Taeyong sighs.

The next day Jeno gets ready to meet you, wearing casual sporty clothes. He enters the car that’s waiting for him outside the guest house and heads off to the city. A lot of thoughts are going through his head along with the exhilarating feeling of getting to spend some time alone with you.

The vehicle comes to a stop in front of a park. A smile grows on his face as he sees you in a pair of biker shorts and an oversized shirt standing between two bikes.

"Hi Jeno.” You greet him matching the delighted expression on his face.

"Hey Y/N. Are we going somewhere?" He points to the bikes.

"It's such a sunny warm day I thought we could go for a ride, what do you think?"

"Sounds great to me!"

You smile handing him his helmet. He puts it on his head and then helps you with yours. The weather is already quite hot but your cheeks are now burning with his closeness.

"Ready?" You ask him as you get on top of your bike.

"Always." He winks and you chuckle as you two start your journey.

You ride through the park at a bland pace, side by side, taking in your surroundings. The lake sparkles as rays of sunshine hit the surface, the grass is as green as it can be swaying with the light breeze, the laughter of the children playing around filling the air and the warmth of the love shared by young couples all around putting a shy smile on your faces.

"Looks like this is a romantic destination." Jeno looks at you with a smirk.

"Why do you think I brought you here?" You wink and ride ahead.

"Wait for me!" He chuckles trying to catch up with you.

You take a few turns around the park and then you guide him to the street. He looks at you confused.

"Where are we going?" He asks from behind having to ride like this now as the bike lane is quite narrow.

"I have a surprise for us, do you trust me?" Your joyful face as you take a quick glance over your shoulder gives him all the reassurance he needs.

"I trust you."

You ride through the city streets heading to less busy roads. You start to go up the hill and even though he has to pedal extra hard Jeno's able to place himself back by your side where he's happy to be.

As you get to a viewpoint he stops admiring the city that seemed so small from up there. He was caught by the beautiful sight until his trance was broken by the sound of your voice.

"Are you just going to stand there or are you going to join me?"

He looks at you and gasps at the scenario. There's a blanket on the grass and a picnic basket where you already took out some drinks and food from. Your bike rests against a tree and you sit on the floor patting the spot next to you for him to take.

He places his bike next to yours and then sits down. You look at each other for a few seconds before you break eye contact biting your lip.

"You must be thirsty." You grab a bottle of water and turn to him.

"Very much." He says in a teasing tone as he grabs the bottle, hand lingering over yours before he opens it to drink.

You try to hide the smile that insists on showing in your face and prepare two plates of food for you. You eat and talk while watching the busy city that looked so small and meaningless at this very moment.

After the talk you had at the group date two weeks ago you've been eager to spend more time with Jeno. You loved his approach, the way he makes you laugh and how comfortable he feels when it's just the two of you because you sure notice how quiet he gets when everybody else is around. Talking to him today just confirms that his personality is as interesting as his looks that take your breath away.

Back at the guest house things are getting heated.

“You came to apologise?” Hendery asks.

“Apologise for what?” Renjun scoffs.

“You gotta be kidding me.” Hendery shakes his head in annoyance.

“Dude, I don’t know what you’re talking about, you made all that fuss for nothing!” Renjun continues in a mocking tone that only makes the other more upset.

“For nothing?” Hendery can’t believe what he’s hearing. “You saw me walking to her and got in the way!”

“What? I didn’t that on purpose, it just happened.” Renjun tries to excuse himself.

“Oh yeah? What about that first day when I was talking to her and you came out of nowhere and took her?” Hendery is starting to lose his patience. “And Jeno told me how you did the same thing to him at the group date after the soccer game. Don’t play the victim now!”

“I’m not playing the victim, I just take every opportunity I can get, maybe you should do the same.” Renjun winks and Hendery almost jumps on him before he’s stopped by Jaehyun.

“What are you guys doing, are you crazy?” He asks.

“Are you two still going at it?” Yuta rolls his eyes.

“I’m not about to go home because this idiot keeps cutting me off!” Hendery says glaring into Renjun’s eyes.

“Maybe you should both just leave because clearly you’re more interested in fighting each other than winning her love!” Haechan shouts getting annoyed with the whole situation.

Before anyone could say anything else the siren is heard and they head inside. The bachelors make sure that the two protagonists of the fight sit away from each other.

Last week you showed me your looks, but now my question is: do you have moves?

Eyebrows are raised in confused expressions.

If you don’t see your name on the screen don’t worry, you can show me what you got in two days.

Fingers cross anxiously waiting for the names to pop up on the screen.

See you tomorrow!

“Shotaro, that’s you!” Yuta congratulates the boy as he still can’t believe it will finally be his turn. This is finally his time to prove himself to you and step out of the background.

"So, a little bird told me you play the guitar?" You question Jeno as you finish eating.

"That little bird seems to be accurate." He chuckles.

"Would you play me something?" You raise your eyebrow.

"I would love to, if only I had a guitar with me..." His face drops feeling like he missed a great opportunity to impress you.

"By all means," Jeno's eyes follow your moves as you get up and reach behind the tree where the bikes are at. "look at what I found here."

His face brightens up as you hand him a guitar that you had hidden there from the beginning. While he checks if the guitar is in tune, placing the strap over his shoulder, you put away the rest of the food placing the basket on the side to free up the space on the blanket.

"Any special requests?" He asks as you sit settled down in front of him.

"Surprise me." You tell him with a smile.

"Ok, I got it."

He places his fingers on the strings and with the first chords you instantly recognise the song.

"I've tried playin' it cool

But when I'm lookin' at you

I can't ever be brave

'Cause you make my heart race"

You bite your lip as you listen carefully to his beautiful voice.

"Shot me out of the sky

You're my kryptonite

You keep making me weak

Yeah, frozen, and can't breathe"

A smile rests on his lips as he keeps playing.

"Something's gotta give now

'Cause I'm dying just to make you see

That I need you here with me now

'Cause you've got that one thing"

He lifts his gaze to you as he sings the chorus.

"So get out, get out, get out of my head

And fall into my arms instead

I don't, I don't, don't know what it is

But I need that one thing, and

You've got that one thing"

As the last note fades into the nature sounds you clap.

"That was beautiful, Jeno. Thank you."

"Thanks." He looks down embarrassed and puts the guitar away.

You shift on your sit facing the city view and he scoots over sitting next to you. You sit there in a comfortable silence, your legs lightly touching making your heart beat faster.

You move your gaze to his face. The orange sunlight enhances his handsome features and you forget about everything else around you.

Feeling your eyes on him he turn his head to look at you and you gulp at the proximity of your faces. His gaze drops to your lips and slowly he leans his head towards yours giving you time to stop him if you wan to. But you don't want to, so you close your eyes and let his lips touch yours. You lift your hand to his cheek silently tell him it's ok and he smiles into the lovely kiss you're sharing.

After a while he leans back and you hide you face on his shoulder. He caresses your hair and leans his head against yours making sure to register this moment on his mind.

As the sun sets you get up and pack everything returning to the park to catch your ride to go back.

In the car the mood is as romantic as before between giggles and caresses. It feels right to share this moment with Jeno, you almost forget there are 10 other guys trying to win your heart.

The vehicle comes to a stop between the guest house and the mansion and you hold his wrist before he opens the door.

"Before we go, there's something I want to ask you."

"Anything." He smiles.

"Do you accept this rose?"

"Oh," he lets out a relieved sigh, "of course I do."

You happily pin the rose to his shirt.

"There's something I want to ask you too." He says with a cheeky smile.

"What is that?" You question curiously.

"Can I kiss you again?" You chuckle.

"Yes you can."

He leans in taking your lips again. This was a more confident kiss, passionate but still soft. When you pull apart you exit the car and give a warm hug before you split.

The following day the men exit the house leaving Jeno and Shotaro behind. The mood still feels a bit off after the argument of the day before so there isn’t a lot of talking until the driver stops. As they get out of the vehicle some of them cheer being in front of a dance studio.

They get in and automatically their jaws drop as they see you inside one of the rooms dancing to a modern RnB in a pair of leggings and a loose cropped shirt. Their eyes followed your every move around the room impressed by your flow and technique.

Once the music ends and your movements stop at the final pose the bachelors clap and whistle. You bow with a smile, even though you’re breathing heavily, and signal them to gather around.

“Hi guys, what did you think of my performance?”

“Amazing!”

“Awesome!”

And some other supportive words are heard around.

“I’m glad you like it but now it’s your turn!” Surprised expressions are seen on their faces. “Music and dance are two things I could never leave without so I need my man to be able to know how to move their body.”

You wink and they chuckle.

“You’ll be split in 3 teams of 3. Each team will chose a song and come up with a choreography for it to present to me.”

You see some scared faces around.

“I will then choose my favorite routine and the lucky team will join me for dinner. How’s that for motivation?”

The guys cheer and it’s your time to chuckle.

“Alright so I have a bag with numbers. You’ll each pull out one to decide the teams.”

You walk to the first boy in line as he pulls out a number from the bag.

“3.” Hendery says checking the number on his hand.

You move along the line, everybody reaching for a number.

“3.” Yuta nods at the first guy knowing they will be on the same team.

“1.” Jaemin grabs a different number.

“2.” Taeyong starts a new team.

“1.” Johnny joins Jaemin.

“2.” Renjun says and everybody feels relieved he and Hendery didn’t end up on the same team.

“3.” Haechan joins the first two boys.

“2.” Jaehyun completes the second team.

“1.” They all laugh as Doyoung pulls out the number from the bag even though it was clear what team he was in.

“So to recap team 1 is Jaemin, Johnny and Doyoung, team 2 is Taeyong, Renjun and Jaehyun and team 3 is Hendery, Yuta and Haechan.” You announce. “I will give you some time to choose your songs and prepare a small choreography. Good luck!” You blow them a kiss and leave the room.

The teams gather around and start planning. Some opinions clash in terms of concept however they decide to compromise and ultimately just come up with something nice and easy that will be sure to impress you.

After a while you come into the room and ask the boys if they’re ready to present their choreographies. With positive replies team 1 gets in position and the other teams sit on the floor next to you.

“Whenever you’re ready.” You say and they signal you to press play.

Love Yourself by Justin Bieber starts playing and you are surprised they chose a calm song. They move softly at the rhythm of the music and your eyes are drawn to Jaemin, not that Johnny and Doyoung aren’t doing a great job following the beat but you can’t deny Jaemin just catches your attention wherever he is. He looks straight into your eyes as he moves and again you feel nervous and scare of how he’s able to make your heart flutter like this.

Before you know it the song is over and everybody claps. You clear your throat breaking the trance Jaemin had you under and praise them for a good performance.

“Alright, team 2, you’re up!”

The next team gets in position as the first one sits, Jaemin taking his place right next to you. You look at him and he give you one of his warm smiles that you quickly return before turning your head back to the boys in front of you mentally telling yourself to pay attention.

They signal you to press play and you hear Paris in the Rain by Lauv. The song is chill but with some soft sexy vibes that they definitely take advantage of. Taeyong takes centre leading the other two boys that move accordingly. You love the way he moves, it feels so natural, so smooth, it almost looks as if he didn’t have a choreography and was just following the beat as it came. As you look over to Jaehyun his moves match the other boy but they are more calculated, nevertheless he’s the one who takes more advantage of the sexy vibes of the song and you are living for it. Glancing at Renjun there’s a nice balance between flow and technique, out of the three he’s the one that looks more concentrated careful not to screw up a move.

You all clap as the song comes to his end and you congratulate them on the amazing show they pulled off.

“Last but not least, team 3 the floor is yours!”

You start the music once when they’re ready and Post Malone’s Wow plays. The last team went with a more hip song showcasing modern, cool and trendy moves. Even though Yuta takes the middle place leading the group with his smooth moves you can’t help but look over to Hendery who seems to be made for this sound. The way he moves absolutely catches everybody’s attention in the best way possible and you are very impressed with his skills. You look over at Haechan and are surprised at his focused face that contrasts with his usually bubbly expression.

As they wrap up everybody claps and cheers.

“That’s was great you guys, all of you.” You get up walking to the middle of the room. “But I think I’ve made my decision.”

You leave some suspense in the air amused with the nervous faces in front of you.

“The winners are…” They mimic a drum roll with their hands on the floor making you chuckle before you reveal your answer. “Team 2!”

Taeyong, Jaehyun and Renjun get up jumping and hugging each other in victory. You see a few annoyed faces around but this is a competition after all, they can’t all win.

“Congratulations you three! I’m gonna let you go back and change before we meet for dinner. As for the rest of you, I’ll see you at the cocktail party.” You wink and leave the room going back to the mansion to get changed as well.

In the guest house Jeno and Shotaro talk about the dates.

“How are you feeling after getting the rose yesterday?” Shotaro asks.

“Oh man it feels amazing.” Jeno lets out a satisfied breath.

“This is the second time you get a rose before the ceremony right?”

“Yes it is, I got the group one after the soccer game.” Jeno recalls with a smile. “I feel like we’re really connecting now.”

“I really hope I get a rose tomorrow.” Shotaro lowers his head. “I’m always left for the end in the ceremonies and I feel like we’re not bonding like we should you know?” The other bachelor nods. “I see all of you matching up with her and sometimes I think maybe…” He takes a deep breath before he continues. “Maybe I don’t belong here.”

“Oh c’mon don’t say that.” Jeno comforts him. “If she’s keeping you here there must be a reason. She even choose you for the date tomorrow! Don’t give up just yet.”

“I guess you’re right…”

The front door is heard and the boys greet the others as they get back from the group date. The winning team gets ready to meet you for dinner as Jeno and Shotaro hear all about the activity.

Taeyong, Jaehyun and Renjun arrive at the restaurant where you stand by a beautiful waterfall wall in a beautiful asymmetrical black dress.

“Hi boys.” You greet with a grin as they eye you up and down clearly enjoying the view. “Are you hungry?” They look up at your face with widen eyes. “I have a table for us, should we go sit?”

They clear their throats as they follow you inside. When you get to the table you order a few drinks and you propose a toast.

“To a great performance!” You clink glasses and take a sip. “In all honesty that was really good, did you all choose the song together?”

“I was actually Taeyong’s idea and we liked it so it we decided to go with it.” Jaehyun explains.

“Nice!” You turn to the mentioned boy. “And did you come up with the choreography as well?”

“We all pinched in on that.” Renjun speaks before Taeyong has a chance to open his mouth.

“Taeyong had a few ideas for it and we added a couple more things.” Jaehyun explains glaring at Renjun. The latter rolls his eyes sipping his drink.

“Regardless, you did a great job.” You look back at Taeyong and give him a reassuring smile.

The food then arrives and the conversation gladly takes a happier turn. You discuss music styles and your favorite songs and artists and you definitely get some good recommendations from the boys. Once the meal is over you all get up and go to the bar area but then you hold Taeyong’s arm leaving him startled.

“Why don’t you guys go ahead and we’ll join you?” You tell the other boys.

Renjun is about to complain but Jaehyun grabs his arm rolling his eyes and dragging him away as you and Taeyong settle at a booth on a corner.

“So should you be taking the credit for the challenge or not?” You ask him with a teasing smile.

“Well, I mean…” He scratches the back of his head in embarrassment. “They did pinch in with some ideas but I guess the foundation was all me.”

“You know Taeyong, you don’t have to be so modest all the time.” You grab his hand. “Don’t get me wrong, I love that about you, I have noticed it before, but sometimes owning your actions can be helpfully specially in a competition like this.”

“You’re right.” He looks at you with a smile. “After all I’m here for you.”

With your own smile you continue talking getting to know each other more. He tells you all about his dance passion and it all makes sense now, the way he danced earlier was just extraordinary.

Back at the guest house Shotaro expresses his feelings about the group challenge.

“This week that I have the one-on-one date you guys do a dance competition? Not fair!” He chuckles.

“If only I knew I would’ve swapped places with you in a heart beat!” Hendery comments with a laugh.

“Oh no thanks, I’m good.” Shotaro adds just before the siren is heard. “Speaking of!”

Everybody gathers in front of the TV.

Hi Shotaro, if you are feeling lonely at the house don’t worry because tomorrow we’ll have plenty of company!

The boy raises his eyebrow. Isn’t it supposed to be an individual date? What do you mean more company?

Hope you don’t mind getting a little wet!

“Wow!” Jaemin says with widen eyes.

“What does she mean getting wet?” Doyoung asks around the room as everybody looks surprised.

Shotaro can’t even say anything, too excited for what you have in store for the next day,

You and Taeyong rejoin the other boys and after ordering some drinks you decide to take Renjun aside to talk.

“How are you doing?” You ask him.

“Way better now that I’m alone with you.” He smiles coming closer to you.

Any other time you would’ve given his advances a chance but there’s something you need to clarify first, so you take a step back leaving him with a confused expression.

“I wanted to talk to you about the last cocktail party.”

“What do you mean?” He asks and you simply tilt your head signalling you’re not in the mood to play games, you just want to get this out of the way. “Ok, ok. Look Hendery is just jealous that I make an effort to talk to you as much as I can and he gets left behind, that’s it.”

“So you’re saying he’s exaggerating?”

“Of course he is, I don’t even know why we’re wasting time talking about him right now when we should be talking about us instead.”

“I just want you to be more cautious with your actions ok?” He rolls his eyes but you still continue. “I appreciate you making an effort to talk to me and get to know me better but you don’t need to step over the others to do it. I don’t want a bad environment.”

“I’ll try. For you.”

Even though you’re not sure you believe his words you decide to let go of the subject and talk about you two as he suggested. He tries persuading you to get that one-on-one date but you just chuckle and tell him to try harder. You might come to regret this though.

You two come back to the bar and Jaehyun looks at you with his lovely smile planted on his face, dimples showing on his cheeks.

“I’m starting to feel left out in the ‘group’ date.” He does air quotes and you chuckle.

“Let’s not let that be a problem.”

You link you arm with his and take him away to a more private area.

“Did you miss me that much?” You tease him.

“You have no idea.” He tugs a strand of hair behind you ear and you bite your lip.

“I did see you trying to seduce me with your dance earlier.” You playfully push his chest.

“Oh I see.” He smirks. “You were praising Taeyong for the choreography but the real reason we won was because of my sexy moves.”

“I’m not saying it was because of that.” You giggle.

“Well, you’re not saying it wasn’t either.” He winks and you almost melt on the spot.

The teasing mood carries on through the rest of the conversation no matter what subject you’re talking about. If he had come up to you with this smooth talk outside the competition you would’ve totally fell for it. Not the you aren’t right now.

“Maybe we should get back.” You say only now noticing how close you are.

“Do we have to? I could stay right here all night.” He leans in placing a kiss on your cheek dangerously close to your lips.

“Well I wanted to wait until we went back home but I guess I might just do it now.”

Jaehyun steps back looking at you in surprise not sure what you’re talking about. You giggle as you reach inside your purse.

“Do you accept this rose?”

“Oh that!” He lets out a shaky breath. “Of course I do Y/N.”

You pin the rose to his jacket.

“Ok now we can go back.” Jaehyun takes your hand kissing it before pulling you back to the bar.

“Bragging already?” You chuckle.

“Any chance I get.” He winks.

When you get to the bar, Taeyong and Renjun instantly notice the rose on Jaehyun’s chest and groan while the other stands there proud holding you by his side. You finish up your drinks and decide to go back home.

The next day Shotaro gets ready in a hurry excited for your date. A car takes him to town and stops in from of what looks like a pet store.

“Hey!” You greet him with a smile.

“Hi Y/N!”

“Ready to meet our company for today?” You ask him and he frowns.

“I’m not sure.”

“C’mon, you’ll love them.” You grab his hand and pull him inside.

You greet the staff and follow one of them through a door that says staff only. His face brightens up as he sees a few dogs barking and wiggling their tails running to you two.

“Aren’t they adorable?”

“So much!” He bends his knees getting to the animals level to pet their fur almost falling as they jump on him in excitement and you giggle.

“These dogs need some loving so I though we could help the girls giving them a bath. What do you think?”

“Yes! That sounds amazing!”

You two follow one of the workers and take two dogs with you. She explains what to do and then leaves you to get down to work.

You follow the girls instructions laughing as the dogs shake their bodies getting water and foam everywhere. You take advantage that you’re already wet to throw some water at Shotaro and he does the same at you getting his revenge.

The place is a mess by the time you’re done but at least the dogs look all fresh and clean after you dry them and brush their fur.

You laugh as you look at each others clothes, there’s no way you two can go anywhere looking like this all drenched.

“Good thing I have some backup clothing for us!” You tell him.

“You did?” Shotaro looks surprised. “Thank you.”

You hand him a bag with his clothes and you get changed in the staff changing room, one at a time of course.

You two head out laughing as he tells you how much fun he had with the dogs. You take him to a small rustic restaurant a few blocks away and sit down at a table by the window.

You continue talking and the conversation is happy and sweet as always with Shotaro but there’s a strange feeling inside you that you can’t seem to shake off. You know what you have to do but it’s one of the hardest things since the show started.

“Are you ok?” He asks you. “You seem kinda down right now. Did I do or say something wrong?”

“No, of course not!” You answer in a hurry. “It’s just…” You sigh, not sure how to say what you want to say.

“What? You can tell me.” He looks at you with a warm smile and that makes things even harder for you. You take a deep breath before you go ahead.

“I’m really enjoying getting to know you Shotaro.”

“Why do I feel there’s a but coming?”

“But…” He sighs waiting for you to continue. “I think we’re building a great friendship and I keep waiting for it to move past that. As the weeks go by I’ve been getting close to some of the guys and it gets harder and harder to send some of you home. But I don’t want to deceive you Shotaro.” You reach out to grab his hand but then pull back not sure this is the right thing to do at this moment. “I’m not sure we’ll ever click. So I guess it’s better to say goodbye for now before things get more complicated.”

You look down trying not to shed a tear.

“Hey.” He takes your hand with both of his and you look back up. “It’s ok. Thank you for being honest with me.”

“I’m sorry.” You bite your lip trying not to get to emotional.

“Don’t be sorry, I knew that sooner or later it would be my time to go. There’s some guys in that house I just can’t compete with, I see the connections you have with them and it’s ok. I’m surprised you let me get this far!” He chuckles which relaxes you a little bit.

“Thank you for being so understanding Shotaro.” You smile at him. “I would love to still be your friend out of this competition because I really think you’re a great guy.”

“I would love that.” He tells you with a smile.

You two walk outside and there’s a car waiting for him. He reaches out and pulls you into a hug before opening the door.

“Thank you for giving me a chance.” He says. “And choose wisely, I hope you find your true love in one of the others.”

“Thank you, I know you’ll find love someday too. You deserve it.”

He smiles and gets in the car and as it drives away a tear rolls down your cheek as a bittersweet smile lingers on your face.

The cocktail party starts with one less bachelor. The remaining guys are happy to see you join them but one seems to notice you look a little gloomy so he takes you outside.

“How are you?” Jaemin asks as you two sit down.

“I’m…” You want to keep a strong face to handle the night but all your vulnerabilities come out when you’re with him. “I’m a little sad…”

“Because of Shotaro?” He asks caressing your arm.

“Yes…” You almost whisper. “I know I made the right decision, he’s such a nice guy, I couldn’t keep leading him on knowing I didn’t see him in a romantic way. But it was so hard saying that to his face you know?” Tears build up in your eyes.

“I know Y/N.” His hands goes up to cup your cheek ready to catch any tear that dared to roll out. “But you followed your heart and did what you had to do. I’m sure he appreciated that.”

“He said he did. But it still hurt to do it.”

“This is one of the things I love about you. You always care about what other people are feeling and that’s really impressive. But don’t forget why you do what you do. And don’t be scared to put your feelings first every now and then ok?”

You nod as he stares into your soul. You really can’t explain the connection you have with him and in this moment all you want is for him to lean in and kiss you. His gaze drops to your lips and you feel like maybe he wants the same but instead he gently pulls you to his chest warming you up in his embrace.

After a while a leans back again and cleans your soaked cheeks with his thumbs. You talk a little bit and once you feel composed you head inside.

The next one to pull you aside is Haechan. You take the opportunity to praise his dance skills and how professional he looked compared to his usual relaxed and laid back self. He tells you how much he loves performing and you are delighted to get to know yet another side of this wonderful man that is securing his place on your heart.

You then decide to call Hendery to check in on him being the first time you actually talk alone since what happened last week.

“How are you feeling?”

“Honestly I’m not sure.” He decides it’s better just to let everything out. “I felt better after our talk last week. But then this week we lost the group challenge and again it just feels like I’m loosing all the opportunities to connect with you.”

You look into his eyes and see his struggle but you don’t really know what to say. Noticing your silence he drops his head in defeat.

“I feel like you’re sending me home tonight.”

“Don’t say that please.” You grab his chin making him face you. “I haven’t made my decision yet, this is harder than you know.”

“I’m sorry Y/N.” He starts saying. “Sometimes it’s easier to focus on our own struggles and forget this is hard for you too. But I trust whatever decision you make tonight.”

He gives you a warm smile and you smile back. You decide not to leave things like that and spend sometime getting to know each other more before joining the others.

You mingle with all the boys until Yuta asks for some time with you. You gladly take his hand as he leads to a couch on the side.

“Sorry to call you in like this but I can’t risk you forgetting all about me.” He chuckles.

“How could I ever forget about you after that amazing date last week?” You wink.

“I’m glad you enjoyed it because I sure can’t stop thinking about it.”

“Oh yeah?” You smirk. “Do you like amusement parks that much?”

“I do. But the company made it extra amazing.”

You two keep talking about your previous date and you can’t wait to go out again with him and feel what you felt that day. Yuta knows how to have fun and show you a good time and that’s a big part of what you look for in a man. This is really getting harder and harder, not only to send people home but feeling your self fall for more than one of them.

Before your head starts overthinking Chris steps in the room calling you for some decision making.

“This has been an interesting week. It was the first time you did not give out a rose after the one-on-one date. How did it feel to send someone home that way?” Chris asks you as you two sit down upstairs.

“It’s a bittersweet feeling actually. It felt horrible to sit there and tell him I don’t see him as the man for me, but it was also good to actually explain how I am feeling and understand how he felt about it too.”

“Due to that, tonight you’ll only have to send 1 more home. Does that make the decision easier for you?”

“You would think so right?” You both chuckle. “It’s still hard because I don’t want them to feel like I’m singling them out. Even though that’s exactly what I’ll be doing.”

“Do you have an idea of who that person might be?”

“I’m conflicted between 3 of them actually, the others I’m pretty sure I still want to keep around.”

“Well, I’ll leave you to think about it then and as always, trust yourself to make the right decision.”

“Thank you Chris.”

He leaves the room and you carefully stare at the pictures of those 3 you’re conflicted with. You have reasons for each of them to leave and also for them to stay, you just need to think which of them matter the most in choosing the man you want to spend the rest of your life with.

You and Chris walk down the stairs and stand in front of the bachelors. This evening Jeno and Jaehyun stay on the side have already earned their rose.

"Good evening everyone. As you know one of you has already left the competition this week as he did not receive the rose on his one-on-one date with Y/N. Jeno and Jaehyun have already secured their rose, therefore tonight 7 roses will be hand out leaving one of you out of the race. Remember that you are in your right to refuse the rose. Good luck."

With that Chris leaves the room.

"Yesterday I had to take one of the hardest decisions so far but it was still hard choosing one more of you today."

You grab the first rose.

"Jaemin."

He smiles brightly walking up to you.

"Thank you for comforting me tonight. Do you accept this rose."

"Absolutely." You pin the rose to his jacket. "I'll always be here for you. Thank you for trusting me."

You nod with a smile as he walks back.

"Yuta."

He looks surprised to be called so soon.

"Do you accept this rose?"

"Of course." He smiles as you pin it. "Thank you."

You grab the next rose.

"Taeyong."

He sighs in relief.

"Do you accept this rose?"

"Yes." You chuckle as you pin the rose. "Thank you so much."

You take one more.

"Haechan."

He does a little happy jump before coming forward.

"Do you accept this rose?"

"Definitely." You pin the it to his jacket. "Thank you."

Another rose is in your hands.

"Johnny."

His face brightens up hearing his name.

"Do you accept this rose?"

"You scared me there for a second. but yes I do." You both chuckle as you pin the rose. "Thank you."

The tension builds up in the room with only 3 man left. You look between all of them and gulp before you announce the next bachelor you choose.

"Hendery."

He lets go of a breath he was holding in.

"I'm not ready to let you go yet. Do you accept this rose?"

"A thousand times yes." You smile as you pin it. "Thank you so so much."

As he walks back Chris steps in the room and you know what that means.

"Last rose Y/N, have you made your choice?" He asks.

"I think so."

He hands it to you and you turn to face the guys again.

"Renjun."

He smiles walking to you.

"I'm giving you another chance, please don't waste it. Do you accept this rose?"

"I do, I promise I'll do better." You pin the last rose. "Thank you."

Chris walks in again.

"That's it for tonight. Doyoung this is not your chance for love. You can say your goodbyes."

The rest of the guys hug him and you stay behind nibbling your lip unsure if this was the right decision. He then walks up to you giving you a hug and whispering something in your ear before he leaves. You are left dumbfounded but decide to ignore the piece of information for now, joining the remaining guys to celebrate.

In the next episode:

Doyoung’s message before he left kept you up at night and you need to set things straight.

“I need to know if this is true or not, I think I deserve to know.”

“Do you think he might have made it up because he was upset you sent him home?”

And two more bachelors will loose their chance at love.

”I don’t know what else to do.”

“You seem to have made your mind already.”

“You’re breaking my heart.”

Stay tuned for next weeks episode premiering 11/07.

☽ ・・・・・ ☾

Episode 5

a/n: that Shotaro scene was the hardest thing I’ve ever written, I kept it short cause I was in the verge of balling my eyes out T_T do give me some feedback please! ❤

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themadauthorshatter · 3 years

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... This is going to be more triggering than my Sanders Sides Beetlejuice AU, and I deeply apologize.

This is a Happy Tree Friends story I've thought about and it got inspired by a scene in the Asylum season of American Horror Story.

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING FOR PTSD, AVERSION THERAPY, FORCED/DELIBERATE TRIGGERING OF PTSD AND HALLUCINATIONS, ISOLATION, BEING HELD CAPTIVE/HOSTAGE, ANIMAL DEATH, AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS!!!!

PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!

Additional note: I'm visualizing the characters as human, so don'tbe caught off guard when I bring up a character's hair or complexion. It makes this story easier for me to picture in my head, that's just how I work. And this is mostly TV perspective, so thought I'd tell you that, too.

We begin with the sun rising and a new day starting, how lovely. No one is fully awake, but two people are and they are having a race.

Who's against who?

Simple.

It's Flippy on his feet and Splendid in the air to see who's faster on which and they're neck and neck in this.

Flippy sees Splendid next to him and asks if he's holding back, because this is not the fastest Flippy can run.

Splendid jokes that maybe it is because this is the SLOWEST he's flown in a long time.

Flippy laughs and kicks it into maximum overdrive, full on sprinting as fast as he can, even faking a turn to throw Splendid off his flight. While he stays on his intended path, and shouts that Splendid fell for it, Splendid calls him a cheating bastard.

Flippy laughs and contunues sprinting until he stops on a sidewalk in the town.

How lovely because Splendid is sitting on the wood of one of the telephone poles and waves at him.

Flippy pants and asks how Splendid both beat him and got up there.

Splendid simply floats down and claims it's just a hop, skip, and leap of faith.

And no cheating, which he points out.

Flippy clarifies that he actually DID NOT cheat. He would've gotten some of kryptonut and put it in his pocket, if he really wanted to.

Splendid gasps that he wouldn't, but Flippy shrugs and says he knows a guy, so don't tempt him.

The two share a laugh, but Flippy freezes as he hears a nearby woodpecker.

Splendid spots it and comments on the lovely avian specimen.

That's when a knife is thrown and (TV perspective) off screen kills the bird.

Splendid sees Flippy threw it and has 'killer instinct' eyes.

Thank goodness it's just them and there's no one else around because just as Flippy readies another knife, Splendid grabs him and flies to a hill, fast enough to get there within a minute or so, but not so fast that Flippy dies from the velocity.

It snowed a little bit, but it's enough for Splendid to toss Flippy into.

The cold instantly snaps him out of it and Flippy quickly looks around and asks where they are.

Splendid shrugs and answers the hill, and the realization sets in as Flippy's face drops, groaning and putting his hands over his face.

Splendid sits next to him as Flippy asks if 'it' happened again.

It did, but there was no one outside, so at least it got stopped before anyone got hurt.

Flippy is still crestfallen and rests his head on his arms, which are on his knees.

Splendid asks if he really can't control when he flips out, and Flippy confirms that as much as he can, but he still can't, mainly because when he feels like there's nothing to worry about, he remembers how he got comfortable and confident before and it ruined everything.

And he can't control the world or what randomly happens.

If his instincts say he's in danger, he's using thise same instuncts to keep himself safe.

Splendid digests those words as Flippy takes a breath and stands up, thanking him for the race and apologizes for talking his ear off and snapping on him.

Splendid stands as well and asks if Flippy needs help getting home, to which Flippy politely declines, not wanting to beat Splendid in another race. Splendid narrows his eyes and dares Flippy to repeat that, but Flippy chuckles and says he'll see him around before leaving.

Splendid watches him go and gets to thinking. He and Flippy have been friends for a while, and this stuff with flipping out and all that has been bothering him for a long time. He'd also been informed that Flippy went to Lumpy for help, but it failed miserably, so he was left to deal with it using the medicine he'd been prescribed. Beyond that, nothing seems to have helped him.

He also remembers how he had once had a doctor friend that helped people with addiction and talked with him about how some people aren't addicted to substances, but to feelings or emotions, as a comfort thing.

We don't get any more thoughts because we return to Flippy as he lets himself inside and leans against the door, very much upset with the fact that he lost it in front of one of his friends, especially one loke Splendid, who he rarely flips out on.

And it doesn't help that he hasn't lost it in a very long time.

Because his instincts are going haywire and he just needs to know HOW bad his episodes get, Flippy gets up, grabs a couple party poppers that were left over from a party he was fashionably late to(he had to do a check-in/catch up call with one of his army higher ups so they knew he was okay), and goes down to a basement, one that has a hatch door in the floor rather than a regular door.

He locks it behind him and goes down to a fully concrete basement that has holes and scratches in the concrete, because he's strong.

Here's where that deliberate triggering of trauma and an additional blackout Trigger Warnings come in, because Flippy sets up a camera, that's recoeding, takes one of the party poppers, and squeezes his eyes shut as he pulls the string and sets it off.

Flippy instantly starts seeing that he's back on the battlefield and not in his own basement, and hyperventilates as he sees an enemy standing over him, smirking and gun ready.

Flippy stares up at this enemy, but that fear melts into anger and throws himself into his enemy, landing next to a gun, which he uses to take this enemy out.

No time to relax because he gets grazed by another enemy soldier.

He smiles and chuckles, readying the gun and a knife from his leg before he races forward.

We don't see anything happen, save for black, but we fade to see Flippy coming to on the floor, sweaty, bruised, and knuckles bloody.

He groans and pushes himself up, rubbing his head for a minute before he finally looks around the basement.

The walls and floor are worse than before, but at least the camera is still intake.

Flippy gets up and stops the camera, sitting down as he reminds it back until plays it.

There's no battlefield, no enemies, no threats at all. In the video, Flippy pops the party popper, and clutches his head as he curls into the ground.

He hyperventilates and looks up backing away from someone that isn't even there. At least before he throws himself into the wall a makes a small shelf of knives fall. He mimes shooting the person before grabbing numerous knives and racing toward and hitting the wall and stabbing the wall, even punching and kicking it.

That explains the busted knuckles and bruises.

We don't see the rest of the video, but we do see Flippy's face grow more distressed and upset as he keeps watching himself fight nothing and just beat himself instead.

It is not easy to watch at all.

The video eventually ends with Flippy passing out on the floor, where we caught up with him.

Flippy puts the camera away and leans against the wall.

Guess he's a lot worse than he thought.

He sighs and rests his head against his knees.

Guess he's not leaving the house today either.

Time jump to a week or so later!

It's bright and sunny, and we're checking in on Flaky now as she struggles with some groceries; it originally started as a trip for shampoo and a new toothbrush, but it became a food run as well because she got hungry. She can't really see where she's going, but is trying her best, okay?

Carrying five bags at once a was huge mistake because she trips on a rock and almost falls down.

Almost, because Flippy catches her and helps her back to her feet.

Flaky shrieks and asks who it is.

Flippy decides to mess with her and lowers his voice, asking for either a hello or her life.

Flaky gasps and says he'll get a shoe to his shin, if he doesn't watch himself.

Flippy chuckles and asks if she skipped breakfast again, seeing all the bags she has. Flaky, turning to look at him, corrects him: she DID eat breakfast, but lunch was calling and she couldn't leave it on voice-mail.

Flippy, following along with the analogy, takes a bag or two and advices she try to learn how to BLOCK those calls when they drain her wallet.

Flaky hums, but thanks him for helping, and for the wallet he got her; it's sleek, but holds a lot of money and cards. Or card, which Flippy mutters as they walk to Flaky's house.

Flaky kicks at him, but they half walk, half run to Flaky's house. Once they arrive, Flaky thanks him again for the help and says she'll have a potatoe, butcher beef, apple soup/curry waiting for him next time he comes over.

Flippy chuckles and agrees, countering he'll bring her a cake SMOTHERED in sugar, cubes, chunks, powered, candy, caramel, all that garbage so that her teeth fall out and he can help her get METAL teeth instead.

Flaky sets down her groceries and stamps her foot, saying Flippy is not her father.

They still hug each other and Flippy leaves, telling her to take care of herself.

He continues on his walk and pays attention to the birds that are singing and wind blowing through the trees.

No time to fully appreciate it because Splendid turns a corner and Flippy waves him over, much to the superhero's delight.

They quickly touch in and ask how the other has been before Flippy interests Splendid for another race, 'the only rule is win' edition.

Splendid has a better idea: coffee. He had just finished some errands and was on his way home when he and Flippy ran into each other.

The invite seems iffy, but Flippy accepts, not wanting to run off like last time.

They walk and Splendid's smile drops a little, which draws Flippy's attention, the ex-soldier asking if everything's okay.

Splendid nods, saying everything's fine. He's just had some stuff on his mind that he can talk about when they get to his house.

Flippy stops for a second and watches Splendid continue walking, following behind more cautiously.

Cut to Splendid's house as the superhero fixes himself and his guest some coffee, though Flippy is slow to drink his because it doesn't smell like black coffee.

When asked, Splendid explains that the grounds were a little stale. He'd bought some that was fresh, but didn't want the old stuff to go to waste.

It calms Flippy enough for him to take a drink of coffee. He also asks what's been eating at Splendid, even apologizing for leaving him hanging last week.

Splendid shakes his head. Water under the bridge, everyone has their moments.

Speaking of moments, Splanedid asks if Flippy's been better since their race.

He shrugs, admitting that he's had worse happen, but that still doesn't make it good or even okay.

Splendid asks if he's ever gotten help for his 'issues' and Flippy asks back if he thinks Lumpy is really as good at everything as he thinks. Splendid supposes not, all things considered.

Done with the interview, and taking a drink of more coffee, because he's tired, Flippy asks what Splendid's deal REALLY is, and why he's so interested in Flippy's personal issues.

Splendid gives it to him straight: he's noticed that Flippy's trauma is bothering him on a pretty big level, and it has him worried for his friend, not because he can hurt people, but because he's seeing how unhappy Flippy is, and how much it tolls on him. He's had SOME experience with people who've had similar problems to Flippy's and there's a sort of therapy that's helped them. Granted, he knows Flippy doesn't enjoy flipping out, but, in a sick sense, his mind and body do. And there's a way to trick his mind into pushing his instincts away and leaving him with a normal life.

Flippy keeps his head propped up on an arm and finishes his coffee, so tired that he's barely listening and is instead asking for a fresh mug, because he doesn't understand either.

Splendid only takes his empty mug and suggests he's probably had enough coffee; he'll be up all night, if he drinks more than one cup and, as he's already said, Lumpy is a terrible doctor and will say he's about to die and overlook that he's just high of caffeine.

Flippy laughs and shakes his head, asking if Splendid is a better doctor and scoffing that he can take Lumpy.

He stops laughing when he sees that Splendid is straight faced and looks a little apologetic.

Yeah. Heavily delayed, 'oh shit!' moment for Flippy, who now realizes that there was something IN his coffee; he knows what stale coffee tastes like because he once suffered through a month of the stuff.

And he can't flip out on Splendid because he's too tired, so he's left to try running for the door.

That fails, too, so he can only pull and push himself away from Splendid, who apologizes for lying and for making Flippy go into such a panic, all the same he's just trying to help him and hopes he both forgives him and understands where he's coming from.

Flippy only keeps trying to get away, weakly telling Splendid to stay away from him.

From Flippy's blurry and world-spinny eyes, Splendid is the General from the Tiger Bomb mission, said General kneeling in front of him and smirking as Flippy knocks out with a sigh/groan.

Flippy doesn't wake up until MUCH later. He's got a splitting headache and, upon seeing all of the white-ish walls around him, sighs that he really must've fucked himself up when he set off that party popper, rubbing his head as he does so.

That's when he notices the handcuff and chain on his wrist, one that keeps him chained to one of the walls. He checks his other hand and sees that there's an identical handcuff on his wrist, also connecting him to the wall.

Not a dream.

Before Flippy can lose it, he sees a door open and Splendid walk in, looking very sheepish despite being the stronger of the two at the moment.

Before he can get any words out, Flippy charges toward him, at least until he's stopped by the chains.

It still makes Splendid jump back; powers be damned, if Flippy's mad at you, your days are numbered.

Splendid, from his place against the opposite wall, asks quite stupidly if Flippy's mad.

No. He's not mad at all. He's having the best damn day of his life, thank you for asking.

Sarcasm. All sarcasm that Splendid misses and is relieved by.

That relief vanished when Flippy charges again, pulling the handcuffs enough to make himself bleed.

Flippy demands to know what the hell is going on and why he's handcuffed in a padded cell.

When Flippy starts pulling a little too hard, like he's pulling hard enough to dent the chain links out of place, Splendid acts fast and aims a spray bottle at Flippy, and sprays water on him.

When Flippy backs down, Splendid repeats what he said upstairs, especially apologizing for not explaining how he was going to help him.

Flippy banks up, stands down, and sits down criss-crossstyle, which makes Splendid let out a sigh of relief, following his friend so they're sitting across from each other.

Flippy asks what EXACTLY Splendid was thinking when he drugged Flippy's coffee and then took Flippy to a loaded cell in his basement.

Splendid explains that he was just thinking and didn't regard what would have happened, even admitting that drugging the coffee wasn't his best or first plan; somehow sneaking up behind him with a nasty was, but that seemed insulting to Flippy's skills, so he thought about just working him out with races and exercise until Flippy passed out. That seemed like the most painful option, and the most tiring because wherever Flippy would fall would be unpredictable, so he just went south putting something in his coffee so he'd go unconscious for a little while.

Flippy takes all of this in and asks why Splendid didn't just ASK him to try this treatment he was babbling about earlier and Splendid admits that it's used for addicts to help them stop using whatever substance they're on. It's a pretty brutal technique, but it has worked.

The brutal part has Flippy concerned, so he asks what that means.

Splendid stops beating around the brush: aversion therapy. Using old war footage and medicine to make Flippy not want to go on a rampage whenever he gets triggeres.

Flippy stares at Splendid for a minute before taking off his boot and throwing it at him, asking if he's out of his damn mind.

That's not how his 'issues' work. Aversion therapy is meant to change another person so they AVERT away from something. Besides, what if they go through the therapy and Flippy's ordered backninto service, but ends up dead because he can't rely on his instincts?

Problem solved already because, as Splendid points out, Flippy's on a paid leave; his job is to stay OUT of the army now.

Flippy readies his other boot and Splendid backs down. Yes, he could've been more open about this to him. Yes, the whole chained to the wall in a basement thing is WAY too far. Yes, he should have told him as soon as he can, and he's sorry he didn't.

Flippy calms down and asks why he thinks it will work. No offense, but this is already working less than anythung Lumpy did, and the fool hypnotized himself into being a chicken.

Splendid admits he isn't sure, but he still wants to try to help.

Flippy asks what he'll do if he refuses to try this therapy. He's already on pills.

Splendid shrugs and says that while he'll be disappointed, he'll understand and won't be mad. Again, he just wants to help his friend and this is something that's worked for other people, not the chaining to the wall thing, but the aversion and sensory friendly environment, hence the padded room that isn't white, just a very light grey mixed with some blue, which is a calming color.

Flippy considers it for a minute before askung Splendid if he absolutely knows what he's doing.

Splendid nods. It took him a little freshing up and some review from a friend of his, yes. He knows what he's doing.

Flippy eyes him for a second before nodding, agreeing. Despite not saying it out loud, he wants to live life without worrying about killing everyone or snapping because his old instincts getting the better of him.

But stipulates that as soon as things get REALLY bad, they're calling this whole thing off and won't have anything to do with each other after that point.

Splendid rightfully agrees to those terms and tells Flippy to follow him to another room.

Flippy holds up his hands, reminding him of the handcuffs.

Those come off and the two leave the room, Flippy hoping Splendid was good on his word that he knew what he was doing.

Splendid shares a similar sentiment, instead hopi g that he can help his friend have a normal life.

#happy tree friends #htf flippy #htf splendid #htf au #fanfic #sort of an au and fanfic #i hope i portrayed Splendid as trying to do the right thing here #ptsd tw #hallucination tw #drugging tw #splendid is both a good friend and terrible friend #deliberate triggering tw

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authorgirl1111 · 3 years

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A/N New Chapter, lines taken from Buffy season 2 episode 1 When She Was Bad from both this chapter and the previous one. The episode ends next chapter - hopefully.

If you see anything wrong especially with how I portray Aisling's light Irish accent. (Though to be honest by this point it's probably a combination of Irish, English and American,) please let me know. Will probably edit once more tomorrow. I just really want this up today.

You see a bit of Action from Aisling this chapter.

More under cut.

Next Day

Morning

Leaning against a wall while pretending to read 'Wuthering heights' Aisling strained to listen to Cordelia while she spoke to Buffy and her two friends. Her brow furrowed as she picked up on the things they were saying.

Xander took Cordelia aside his voice lowered. Aisling had to strain her her ears to catch anything they were saying. "We can't mention that stuff in front of other people, Buffy being the Slayer and all."

Aisling bit her tongue to stop herself from making any kind of noise. I knew it.

"You haven't been talking about our little adventure all summer, have you?" Willow asked worriedly.

Cordelia shook her head. "Are you nuts? Do you think I would tell people that I spent the whole evening with you? Besides, it was all so creepy. That Master guy? And all the screaming? I don't even like to think about it." She turned to Buffy. "So, your secrets safe with me." Aisling frowned. The Master... her father had mentioned him on occasion - he was an old vampire and the progenitor of his line. He was apparently very old and very powerful with many followers. If he was gone that would mean there was a power vacuum left behind in Sunnydale. Though if the Master picked out an heir... Aisling mentally frowned. That would be something she'd have to ask her da' about... later.

Buffy smiled sarcastically. "Great, you won't tell people that I'm a slayer, and I won't tell people you're a moron." She said as she walked off. Aisling frowned at the sarcasm and anger rolling off her in waves.

After Buffy walked off Xander turned his head and saw Aisling leaning against a wall reading just as she had planned. "Hey, if it isn't our Ace in the hole," Xander said with a grin.

Aisling rolled her eyes and put her book away. "That's not how you pronounce my name."

Xander shrugged. "I know, but it seems to fit you well enough,"

Aisling rolled her eyes but decided not to comment on it further. The nickname was nice.

"So Cibo Matto is playing at the Bronze tonight," Xander said as he put an arm around Aisling. The Irish-born girl surreptitiously removed his arm. "You should come to check it out with Buffy, Willow and I."

"Cool," Aisling said as she nodded along before she frowned. "I don't know if I can make it tonight.

"Oh, come on," Xander said playfully shoving her "It'll be fun."

Aisling rolled her eyes. " I don't know Xander. I have a lot of responsibilities at home."

"You're 16, it's not like you…" Xander trailed off and shared a look with Willow that Aisling assumed she wasn't meant to see - or know how to interpret. "have a full-time job to worry about."

Aisling shook her head. "No, but that doesn't make my responsibilities any less important," Aisling said. "Class starts soon - we don't wanna be late," Aisling said before she walked off.

"Can I at least tell you where it is?" Xander called out to her. "In case you decide to show up?"

Aisling paused and thought about it. It couldn't hurt to have the address for after her dad got well again.

"Sure," Aisling said. "Just in case."

***

After School

"How was school?"

Aisling shrugged as she dumped her bookbag by her father's bed. "Found out who the Slayer was."

Spike raised an eyebrow. "Did you?"

"Yeah, heard a group of students talking about it. None of them realized that I was eavesdroppin' on their conversation."

"Who is it?"

"Buffy. The girl I told you about yesterday." Aisling said. "Do you know about the Master? Hear anything about a possible heir he might have had?"

"Oh yeah... heard through the grape vine in Prague that the Master Snuffed it. Some kid called the Anointed One was supposed to be his right hand. Guess that failed."

"Huh." Aisling said. "Heard the Slayer and her friends talkin' about it today. Kind of assumed he died considering they were... y'know, alive."

"Huh…" Spike said he paused for a moment and then spoke again changing the topic.

"Maybe you and this Buffy should get to know each other"

Ash tilted her head confused. "You want me to befriend her?"

"Maybe," Spike said. "Having the friendship of the Slayer could benefit you, especially on a Hellmouth."

Aisling's eyes widened. "That seems so… Machiavellian." She said as she shook her head. "I don't- I don't want to befriend someone solely because them being my friend would be beneficial. I want to befriend someone because… we like each other."

"You two might end up liking each other." Spike reasoned.

"Or we might end up not likin' each other. Especially if Buffy finds out about you."

Spike placed a hand on hers. "Just… just try," Spike said. "Don't turn down the idea just because it might be bad."

Aisling pursed her lips. "And if it doesn't happen?"

Spike smiled. "At least you tried, don't turn down the possibility of friendship over what-ifs. Don't force the friendship, but don't run away from the possibility either."

Aisling bit her lip for a moment before she sighed. "One of Buffy's friends, Xander, asked me to check out the Bronze tonight with Buffy, Willow and Him. Cibo Matto is playing; I told him I didn't know if I could make it."

There was a slight pause in which Spike seemed to heavily debate what he would say next. After a minute, he took a deep breath and turned to her. "Why don't you go?"

Aisling was surprised. She had been out at night plenty of times, but never while living on a HellMouth and never ever while her father was to weakened to get to her should something happen. "What?"

Spike nodded and took a deep breath. "You know how to defend yourself. You know how to avoid trouble, and the Slayer will be there… I think… so long as you stick close to your friends, be sure not to go off alone with anyone… and call me every hour. You'll be ok."

Aisling paused for a moment before she looked back at him her worried. "But… what about you?"

"I'll be fine." Spike said softly, but insistent.

Aisling shook her head. "I don't like leaving you alone…" She said.

Spike reached out and touched her cheek. "I know. But you can't put your entire life on hold for me."

"Yes, I can," Aisling insisted. "It's my life."

"You shouldn't have to." Spike insisted. "I want you to have fun."

"I can have fun right here." Aisling insisted. "I don't mind stayin' in, you know that."

"You need friends." Spike insisted.

"I have friends." Aisling insisted. " Speaking of… I should probably call them; it's been a week since I last…"

"Friends in Sunnydale," Spike corrected. "I don't want you to be alone. Goin' to the Bronze… it might help you guys bond."

Aisling's eyes widened and she shook head. "You are not goin' to die," Aisling said desperately. "Stop actin' like it."

"Ash-"

Aisling jumped off the bed, "I didn't risk everythin' gettin' you out o' Prague just to have you die in your bed in Sunny-hell." Aisling shook her head; Spike could see her starting to shake.

"You're not goin' to die." Aisling insisted her shaking hands grasped his arms in desperation.

Spike smiled a little. "Technically- "

Aisling groaned and lightly pushed him away. "Da', I swear you give me the 'I'm already dead' line I'll-" Aisling frowned in thought. "I don't know what I'll do, but you won't like it."

"Scary." Spike joked. Aisling glared at him, not for the first time Spike idly wondered if she got that glare from him, because if so, it was mildly unsettling.

"I wasn't referrin' to my possible death," Spike said. He watched as Aisling's glare melted slightly. "I just think having friends in Sunnydale would be good for you."

Aisling snorted. "You've said that with every city we've lived in."

"And you always end up happier when you do."

"I'm plenty happy," Aisling argued.

Spike raised an eyebrow. "Ash."

Aisling crossed her arms and looked away. "You know… Nightmares aside."

Spike raised his hands toward her. "C'mere."

Aisling hesitated for a moment before she crawled into her father's arms. Spike wrapped his arms around the young 16-year-old and smiled. "For the past couple of months, you have been runnin' on fear and adrenaline. Terrified that somethin' is goin' to happen, that's not healthy."

Aisling laughed bitterly. "And you would know what's healthy for me, wouldn't you?"

"I like to think after a good 9 years of knowin' you, I have a pretty good idea."

Aisling sighed. "Buffy, Willow and Xander did seem cool." She said with a sigh. "It would be nice to get to know them… outside of school."

"Yeah, it would," Spike said with a smile. "Go. Do one hour of homework, and then go have fun. Might help you loosen up."

Aisling tilted her head. "Are you… orderin' me to have fun?"

Spike had not thought he had been, but he smiled evilly as the thought came to him. "Yep. I don't want you back in here until you've had some fun with some potential friends. Go."

"Fine," Aisling said moodily. "But I'm gonna prepare your dinner first."

"Take my car," Spike said. "Don't loiter around, when you're done for the evenin' head straight to your car and come straight here. And don't forget to bring some weapons, alright? nothin' will bullocks up your evenin' faster than not having a weapon when you need one."

"Aye, Aye, stake, Holy Water, crosses. I got the drill." Aisling said with a roll of her eyes. "It's not like you haven't been drillin' this into my head since I was 8, Da'," Aisling said with a grin.

"Be safe," Spike said.

"I can stay home," Aisling said. "I don't have an issue not goin'," Aisling said.

"Nice try," Spike said, waving her away. "Go make friends."

***

As Xander had told her, the Bronze was in the part of Sunnydale that held the shipping docks and the railroad tracks.

She parked the DeSoto as close to the club as possible. Once she was parked, she grabbed the bag that held her stake and her Holy Water, a silver cross - that Spike had given her when she was 8 - hung from her neck.

She pulled out her cell and dialed the home phone number, and waited.

She heard Spike pick up. "Hey Da'" She said. "I'm here. Just gettin' out of my car now."

"Good, have fun," Spike said.

"Always," Aisling said before she hung up her phone and exited her car.

She had changed into something a bit better suited for a club. She still wore her waist-length leather jacket, but she was now wearing a black skirt and a dark blue halter top. Her hair was down and was still in its natural curls. She had decided to apply some light foundation, a touch of blush, and some pink lipstick.

For a moment, despite her promise that she would not loiter outside, she hesitated. Should she do this? Her dad was at home alone, and yeah, she had prepared his blood and stuff, but what if he needed more? What if demons attacked? The invitation-only barrier prevented vampires from entering the home. But what about the other Demons? Or... what if humans stormed the place? What if… what if her dad was kidnapped again?

The image of how she had found her dad in Prague assaulted her mind. The vile things she had had to do just to get her Da' free replayed themselves in her head. It had been over a month since it had happened, but it all still haunted her.

"Hey. You ok?"

Aisling looked up to see Willow and Xander staring at her in concern. Aisling straightened and smiled and shoved the images down by forcefully thinking about how good Willow and Xander looked that evening. Xander in a dark blue t-shirt and Willow wearing a striped long-sleeved shirt.

Aisling smiled. "I'm fine," She said. "You guys look good. We should head in."

Willow took her hand. "Great!" Willow said with a grin. "Come on, this'll be a lot of fun."

"I hope so," Aisling said softly, and the three of them headed into the pub together.

***

The Bronze looked good, with a stage, dance floor, pool table, balcony, and bar. Aisling was a little surprised of there being a bar in a place that served minors, but she decided against questioning it.

Buffy had already come by. Aisling had seen her having a conversation with an older guy before she had then turned around and grabbed Xander and started dancing with him.

"Glad you could make it today," Willow said eagerly. Almost too eagerly. Aisling had to wonder if Willow was trying to avoid looking at Xander and Buffy on the dance floor.

"Yeah, told my dad I was invited, and he was eager for me to come out, make friends," Aisling said.

Willow looked surprised. "You want to be our friend?"

Aisling shrugged. "Yeah. Maybe. If we uh… mesh? Well?" Aisling said then she paused and shook her head. "That probably came out wrong."

"No, no, I get it," Willow said. "You want to see if we can get along as friends."

"Yeah," Aisling said. "I hope we can."

Willow pouted in thought then linked arms with her. "Well, I already consider you a friend."

Aisling chuckled, "Thanks, Willow."

Aisling watched as Buffy danced provocatively with Xander. Watched as she danced around him, seemed to tease him about something that walked away, while Xander stood in the middle of the dance floor, alone and slightly bewildered and …hurt?

"She doesn't normally act like this," Willow said.

Aisling turned to Willow. "No?"

Willow shook her head. "Something's wrong."

Aisling watched as Buffy walked off. She debated for a moment if she should speak with Buffy or just let her walk off. It is not any of my business, not like we're friends… yet. She thought herself.

Yeah, it is not like you made a good chunk of your friends by taking the plunge and talked to the angry, sad, or jumpy loner sitting alone... Oh, wait. Her conscience retorted.

Aisling jumped off her stool. "I'm gonna go see if a talk with a stranger what is she needs." She said with a smile to Willow.

Willow looked at Aisling, confused. "Huh?"

"Never mind," Aisling said. "Watch my drink?" She asked before she took off.

She came outside just as she saw Cordelia and Buffy hashing it out.

"Get over it," Cordelia said. Aisling winced at the blunt tone Cordelia used, and even Buffy seemed surprised at the words coming out of Cordelia's mouth. "Whatever is causing the Joan Collins 'tude, deal with it. Embrace the pain, spank your inner moppet, whatever, but get over it. 'Cause, pretty soon, you're not even gonna have the loser friends you've got now."

That, unfortunately, was a lesson that Aisling had had to learn the hard way. Aisling would not have phrased it that way, she liked to think she would have used a bit more tact, but yeah, Buffy's pain did not give her the right to treat everyone around her like crap. Cordelia may have said that about as poorly as one could, but she did have an unfortunate point to it.

For a moment, Prague entered her mind, and she shook her head to rid herself of the things she saw and did.

Aisling stepped forward. "Cordelia has a point," She said as she made her presence known.

Buffy glared at her, and it would have been scary had she not grown up in the presence of demons and vampires. "Whatever your pain is, it doesn't give you the right to treat the people around you horribly." Aisling continued.

"I'm sorry, who are you? You don't know me; you don't know what I went through. So, mind your own damn business."

Aisling scoffed and crossed her arms. "I know PTSD when I see it."

"I don't have…"

Aisling cut her off. "You're spiralin' out of control and so mad at the world that you'll burn down every bridge you have. I don't know you? I was you."

Buffy rolled her eyes. "Oh, what happened? Someone steal your dollies?"

Aisling's eyes flashed, and, for a moment, she contemplated punching the Slayer in the face, then she took a deep breath and shook her head. "You know what? Forget it. I'm getting too frustrated, and you're too angry to listen to a thing anyone has to say. Just… be careful on your way home."

Buffy paused and stared at her. "Whatever," Buffy said before she turned and walked away, flipping up her hoody as she did so.

"You have PTSD?" Cordelia asked as Buffy walked away.

Aisling winced as she turned to Cordelia. "My childhood wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, but I'm fine." Aisling sighed. "I've… spanked my inner moppet, so to speak."

Cordelia chuckled. "You heard that, huh?" She asked.

"Yeah." Aisling turned her head; her eyes widened as she pulled Cordelia behind her and pulled a stake out of her purse as she did so. "Shoot."

"Wha…" Cordelia said before the vampire attacked.

Aisling kicked the first vampire that came close to them. When the second one ran right past her, desperate to get to Cordelia for some reason. She turned and staked him through the back. The other vampire – a female with shoulder-length hair regarded her first. "I just want the girl." The vampire said. "Let us have her, and I'll leave you alive."

"Run," Aisling told Cordelia. Aisling's hand went into her bag again. "Get Buffy, I'll try to buy you some time."

At that moment the vampire chose to attack her. Aisling pulled out a vial of Holy Water and smashed it hard into the vampire's face. The vial broke apart; the Holy Water trickled down the vampire's face causing it to sizzle and smoke. The vampire started to shriek and attempted to wipe the burning liquid off her face. Now that the vampire was distracted, Aisling shoved the stake into her chest. She watched as the vampire exploded into dust.

Buffy must not have gotten that far because when Aisling looked to her right she saw Buffy and Cordelia run towards her.

"What happened?" Buffy asked.

Aisling wiped the vampire dust off her. "Dusted some vampires," She said.

"By you?" Buffy asked before her eyes narrowed. "What are you?"

"Human, Irish by birth," Aisling said with a shrug. "You saw me in school, out in the sun, during the day."

"You know about Vampires," Buffy said. "H-how?"

Aisling hesitated as possible stories she could tell flashed through her mind before she decided to just tell as much as the truth as possible. "Remember when I told you my dad was a contractor?"

Buffy nodded though she looked confused. "Yeah…"

"A lot of those contracts involve getting rid of demons and vampires, who are causing problems. He trained me how to defend myself should I ever come across them." Aisling said with a shrug. She shoved the stake into her purse and turned back toward the Bronze. "I'm hungry." She said and hoped that that would be the end of the conversation.

Buffy refused to be deterred. "So, your dad's… what? A demon hunter? Suicidal? A suicidal demon hunter?"

Aisling rolled her eyes. "Demon hunter," Aisling said. "Well, not right now. He's recovering from an injury. But outside of that… yes."

"He'll get himself killed."

Aisling shrugged. "You don't know him. He's survived this long."

Buffy paused for a moment. "You knew I fought demons too. You told Cordelia to come to get me."

"Overheard you, telling Cordelia that you were the Slayer," Aisling said.

"And you know what the Slayer is?"

"You run around in the demon world long enough – that title pops up," Aisling came up with that explanation on the fly. It was true enough; Spike had been running around in the demon world for a long time – but it was only in the last 8 years or so that he was actively fighting against it. "Anyway, we should probably be more concerned over why the vampires wanted Cordelia."

"Probably as food." Buffy shrugged.

Aisling pointed at herself. "Then why ignore me?"

"You had the stake in hand and a silver cross at your neck. They were probably trying to avoid them."

"Cordelia was right beside me. To get past her, they'd have had to get close to me, which they did. One of them was so goal-oriented on Cordelia… they didn't even realize the stake in my hand; that allowed me to stake them from the back.

"Vampires are stupid," Buffy tried.

"Not all of them," Aisling said. "But still…" Aisling turned to Cordelia. "You should probably head straight home right now," Aisling said, sifting through her bag and pulling out a large cross. "Do not take any detours, get into your car, and drive as fast as you possibly can home. Lock the doors, and don't invite anyone into your house until dawn breaks. Understand?"

Cordelia straightened. "I don't follow anyone's orders… it just so happens that I was getting bored anyway."

Aisling bit back a smirk. "I know, you do what makes the most sense to you and to hell with what anyone else thinks."

Cordelia nodded. "Yeah! Exactly, I am Cordelia Chase, not some wanna-buffy; I say I want to go home because I'm bored."

Aisling had a feeling that was a dig at her, but the last thing she needed or wanted was another fight, especially when she had no idea if or when more vampires would show.

"Exactly, want a wanna-slayer to accompany you home?"

Cordelia turned to Buffy instead.

Buffy rolled her eyes. "Whatever, it is better to safe than sorry," Buffy said before turning to

Aisling. "Will you be alright?"

Aisling nodded. "Feeling a mite hungry gonna get somethin' to eat before I head on home."

"Are you going to tell your dad?" Buffy asked. "Not like you have a reason to hide it, given he knows about all this underworldliness stuff."

Aisling snorted. "He'd just worry unnecessarily," Aisling said. "Good luck, getting home; see you tomorrow."

***

"Buffy's escorting Cordelia home?" Willow asked.

Aisling nodded as she ate her ice cream. "Yeah, given the vampires seemed to be gunning for her, it seemed the safest option."

Willow shook her head. "And you know how to fight vampires?" Willow said. "That's just… wow. Are you sure you're not a slayer?"

Aisling shook her head as she scooped another spoonful of ice cream. Beside her was a bag of blooming onions she was planning on giving to her dad later. "Nah, no super strength. Just a regular girl, who just happened to have been heavily trained by her demon hunter dad."

"Thought you said he was a contractor."

"Oh yeah, like I'm gonna admit that he fights demons to people I barely met. Most people don't exactly believe in the supernatural." Aisling said with a sigh. "Besides, I didn't lie; he does take contracts; just the subject of those contracts typically involves him destroying demons."

Willow winced. "He charges people for saving their lives?"

Aisling shrugged. "Puts food on the table." She finished her ice cream and stood. "Well, after fighting those vampires. I should probably head home," She said.

"Oh, but you just got here," Xander said. "Night's still young. You can't possibly leave now."

Aisling paused. "We have school tomorrow."

"Come on." Xander implored, "One dance… it'll be fun."

Aisling paused and stared out at the dance floor. Her dad did want her to have fun, and if she came home too early, it would cause him some concern…

She checked the time on her watch. "Need to call my dad at least; he told me to check in every hour or so."

"You're pretty close to your dad." Xander told her.

Aisling smiled as she pulled out her cell. "He's the best person I know."

After a quick phone call where both parties assured the other that they were perfectly alright and nothing terrible had happened, Aisling turned back to Xander.

"Everything alright?" Xander asked.

Aisling smiled and nodded.

Xander clapped his hands together and stood, taking her hand and leading her to the dancefloor. "Great, now I believe you agreed to give us a dance."

Aisling stared at the dancefloor and back at Xander and Willow. "Show me how a resident of Sunnydale dances." She said.

Xander looked her up and down. "Only if you show us how an Irish-girl dances."

For the first time in a long while, Aisling smiled a real smile2

A/N Hope you enjoyed this one. Might go through one more editing tomorrow. Might not. If you see any mistakes let me know where.

#Buffy The Vampire Slayer #Spike #Buffy Summers #Willow Rosenberg #Xander Harris #Original Character #Aisling Pratt #The Bronze #Sunnydale High #Sunnydale

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keyofjetwolf · 4 years

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Just when you thought it was safe to be a piece of shit

I jumped into Season 5 of BoJack this morning, fresh from my rewatch of the entire series, start to finish. I’d already seen all the previous seasons, but it was a couple years ago; S4 was just wrapping up, and I hadn’t touched it since. Not for lack of interest! Quite the contrary, I thought season 4 particularly was some incredibly strong storytelling all around, and I was completely blown away by its penultimate episode “Time’s Arrow”. But there was Life And Things, and I didn’t make the time for S5, so I also didn’t watch S6 when it aired, and by the time I thought about picking it back up, I knew I’d want to rewatch the whole thing to put it all in context, which meant MORE time, and anyway, you can see where @docholligay was finally “Fuck it, I’m sponsoring this.”

All the impetus I needed, clearly. That rewatch I did, and I’m glad for it, as I’d forgotten so many details, AND how fucking good this show is. It’s funny and dark and incredibly uncomfortable in ways that aren’t always flattering, and I love it. I didn’t RE-rewatch “Time’s Arrow” before starting today, but I had to wrestle myself out of it, that’s how much I wanted to.

So it was with some surprise that I found myself not really enjoying Season 5 as much as was expecting.

I SHOULDN’T have expected to. That was my first mistake. We left BoJack in a really good place, with a smile and a hope and the opportunity to maybe maybe maybe finally crawl out of the pit he’s constantly trying to bury himself in. He didn’t have the responsibility of fatherhood, but the promise of brotherhood. Hollyhock is a pretty alright kid, fundamentally fucked up juuuust enough to remind him of himself, and with the kind of love and support he’s always craved. If she can be okay, then maybe he can be okay, too.

Or, from another angle, if she can be okay, then he’ll have the proof he’s always wanted that every bad thing he’s ever done wasn’t REALLY his fault.

OH BOJACK YOU ABSOLUTELY SHIT WILL YOU NEVER LEARN

Maybe at the end of the series you finally will, I don’t know. But certainly not right now. You can’t learn. You never learning is the point.

One of the strengths of the show, though, is how BoJack gets opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to NOT be a piece of shit. To be a better person, to not be so selfish and self-centered and lazy and spiteful and BAD. We know it’s in there! We get these incredible little flashes of the sort of person he could be, if he’d just try a little harder, if he’d just put in the effort to be better today than he was yesterday.

That was my mistake, coming in: BoJack ended Season 4 with the high, and like any good roller coaster, it’s the slow tip at the top that makes the plummet to the bottom so heady.

That’s these beginning episodes of Season 5. Setting the stage(s), arranging the pieces back on the board, getting everything in motion for the drop to come.

WHICH I THINK WE JUST HIT HARD

First, yay Ana Spanakopita! Second: OOO

I love SO hard how this is NOT GOING AWAY. Both in how the show has never played any of this as remotely okay, but also in how it haunts BoJack. It’s his lowest moment, and he’s using it as a finely crafted weapon to bludgeon himself. But WHILE ALSO taking a perverse sort of ... pride isn’t the right word, but desire to have MATTERED in some way, even if it was a truly awful way. His insistence that he’s ruined Penny’s life, despite all apparent evidence to the contrary (see also the incredible “That’s Too Much, Man!”, ps what is with this show and penultimate season enders??), carries a perverse need to have impacted her life, even if that impact was traumatizing for her. The idea that BoJack could have mattered so little is MORE abhorrent to him than the actions themselves.

THAT IS INDEED TOO MUCH MAN I SEE YOU SHOW

So now we have what I think is the last tip before we go into free fall. BoJack is trying (kinda) to drink less and be sober more. He’s trying (kinda) to be a good friend to Princess Carolyn and Diane. HE ACTUALLY CONNECTED SOME DOTS ALL ON HIS OWN ABOUT FEMINISM. That I put that in caps, by the way, further makes the show’s point about how low our bar is for men on this, and well fucking done, by the way, kudos.

Will all that ACTUALLY mean BoJack is going to do better? Well, that’s the question, isn’t it? He’s about to be tested again, another opportunity is approaching. What he’ll do with that is the entire show premise. But whichever path he takes this time would mean so much less without these slower episodes establishing for us where he, and everyone else, are standing. It’s a thing I dearly love about Bojack Horseman: it takes the time it needs to give you insight into where the characters are and what’s around them.

It gives the characters enough rope to hang themselves.

SPEAKING OF HOW’S THAT GOING FOR YOU DIANE

Diane is such an interesting character, in a show pretty much overflowing with interesting characters. She makes such a good compare/contrast with BoJack, in that it’s easy to look at Diane and say “What a good person!” She’s smart and funny, if awkward and plain (by Hollywoo standards). She’s socially and politically aware and cares about important issues. She wants to make the world better!

Only, does she? Much like BoJack, Diane is given opportunity after opportunity to Do Good, both personally and professionally. And she tries! (Most times, sort of.) It often blows up in her face, or isn’t what she expected, or it gets really hard, but she tries! Until she doesn’t. Until she runs back home, and can’t face her husband and the reality of her giving up, so she hides at BoJack’s house and stays drunk for months. Until she gets what she wants, and keeps getting what she wants, and then ruining it all because she never actually wanted it. and doesn’t know what to do once she has it anyway.

Like I said, she and BoJack can be frighteningly alike.

If I had to pick an overall favourite character, though, it’d probably be Princess Carolyn.

Oh she’s fucked up too, but in a much more together sort of way. She’s as much the voice of reason as is anyone in this show, and I want her to get her little family SO MUCH. (Jesus wept, I forgot all about “Ruthie” until my rewatch and it PUNCHED ME IN THE FUCKING GUT.) These first few episodes though didn’t really do a hell of a lot for PC though, save for basically having her ONE AGAIN wound up in BoJack’s terrible, terrible orbit.

If that sounds like a complaint, it isn’t. I love the way the show explores the push and the pull, how it’s one thing to want to leave someone, to know you SHOULD leave someone, and yet how hard that can be. How even when you make that break, the potential to fall back into bad habits never really leaves you. EVERYTHING about this show is difficult, for everybody, all the time, and nothing good happens without effort.

Unless, of course, you’re Mr. Peanutbutter.

If you thought I’d love Mr. Peanutbutter, well, YOU’RE RIGHT I DO. And I’m DEEPLY interested in where ultimately his character is going to go. Of all the main characters, I feel he’s the one with the least depth to him, but then I think that’s the point, too. Every protagonist needs a foil, and for BoJack, that would be Mr. Peanutbutter, the guy who life has basically handed everything, including being generally too stupid to feel bad about anything, especially himself.

But that’s not entirely true. For all that he’s BoJack’s bright, sunny, charisma-filled opposite, no matter what he tried to do for Diane, it wasn’t enough. And as his third wife, it’s probably safe to say he tried hard with his previous wives too, with equal success. The show plays up the dog element of Mr. Peanutbutter a bit harder than it does many of the other animal people on the show, and included in that is how “his person” is the true center of Mr. PB’s world. But he can’t hold them, he can’t keep them wanting to be around him, and while it’s quickly undercut with a laugh, he more than once expressed genuine fear that Diane would leave him. Now she has, and while we’ve not yet seen any fallout from that (focusing instead on how he’s immediately found a new girlfriend), I strongly suspect we will.

I’m not sure if this “tough guy role” situation is going to go further than the episode in which it featured, but I DO think it has long-term potential as the latest in a string of things Mr. PB has wanted, but couldn’t make happen for himself, and how unusual that is for him. He’s the cheerful optimistic one, sure, but what does that mean when he’’s also never really felt any of life’s pressures to be otherwise?

Then there was Todd.

Todd, I pretty much never know what the fuck they’re going to do with you, and after these four episodes, I see we’re not going to change that now. I did some thinking on Todd though, on his place in what I feel are the show’s overarching themes, and I THINK Todd is by and large an example of what we should strive for. He’s kind and generous, he loves to help and is always there when people need him, and perhaps embodying what I think is the show’s greatest message, even when Todd fucks up, he keeps trying.

Of all the main characters, I think Todd has grown the most, to the point where he pretty much doesn’t even INTERACT with BoJack any more. (NOR SHOULD HE.) Todd is getting really good about setting (and enforcing!) his boundaries, to the point where he’s developing his own circle of characters outside of the show. They even make a fucking JOKE about it.

Every season, Todd is feeling like he fits in less with this show, but I don’t think that’s the show not knowing what to do with him, I think it’s by design. Todd is outgrowing this story, he’s moving on, and it’s hard not to be happy for him for that.

We’ll see, of course. We’re only four episodes in, and if we stick with my roller coaster analogy, there’s a whole lot of track left ahead of us. Wherever we’re set to go, the one thing I feel pretty confident in is that it won’t be a smooth ride for anyone.

#jet wolf watches bojack #a novel by jet wolf

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 Episode 4 Review: Gilead Doesn’t Have the Monopoly on Abuse

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With all the emphasis on escape in The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s easy to forget that assholes are by no means a Gilead-exclusive. From the fake clinic attempting to scare Janine into keeping an unwanted pregnancy, to the fake rescue by a guerrilla leader who demanded sex in exchange for food, ‘Milk’ reminded us that misogyny and exploitation weren’t invented by the Sons of Jacob. They just ran the most successful marketing campaign.

It was a heart-heavy message for another harrowing hour. After last episode’s literal torture, watching a shaking and traumatised June kneel down for yet more abuse felt unacceptably bleak. Then it was difficult to know what was worse, June’s trauma or Janine – a multiple rape survivor – brightly normalising the abusive transaction she’d endured in June’s stead by telling her it wasn’t so bad, “he thinks my eye patch is cool.”

Madeline Brewer is a rare actor able to match Elisabeth Moss for on-screen magnetism. If you’d been told right at the start of this show that out of that red sea of Handmaids, only June and one other would still be around in season four, thanks to Brewer’s charisma, all your money would have gone on Janine. The arduousness of their characters’ journey might have been suffocating this week, but the performances and the dramatically weird milk tanker setting (exploited for maximum strangeness by The Twilight Zone director Christine Choe), kept their scenes compelling.

Also compelling was the reversal in their dynamic. June has always acted as Janine’s protector, the hard-nosed sibling looking out for the fey innocent. June has shushed and reprimanded and comforted Janine, given her orders and promised to take care of her. When Janine was understandably reluctant to – in her words – “go to the front of a war in a refrigerator,” June said she wouldn’t let anything happen to her. That was good enough to convince Janine to jump into a vat of cold milk and almost drown – a death that would have seemed artily symbolic, though it’s difficult to parse exactly how, for two mothers who’d been used like cattle.

When the guerrilla leader had asked which one of the women was staying with him, June’s answer was “Not her”. Feeling responsible, being responsible, for their situation, June volunteered herself to keep Janine from harm. And then, when June was unable to submit to more abuse, Janine made a pragmatic choice and switched the roles. She was the protector now. All the way through the episode, June had repeatedly told Janine that things would be okay. It ended with the reversal of Janine mothering and reassuring June. “It’s okay. Eat.”

The Handmaid’s Tale: What Happened to Janine’s Son Caleb?

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‘Milk’ gave us our first real glimpse at Janine’s life pre-Gilead, to her as a mother. The flashback was largely there to make the political point that though the ‘pro-life’ clinic targeting Janine felt like an in-world pre-cursor to Gilead, they’re a very real part of life today, and use those exact tactics to try to manipulate women into forgoing their reproductive rights.

The flashback also served as a reminder of Caleb, the young son taken from Janine who was killed in a car accident one year into Gilead’s regime. June had previously protected Janine by lying to her about Caleb’s fate. She told her that he was growing up on the sunny beaches of California, a lie that may well come back to hurt them both.

From one pregnancy to another, the episode’s other main thread involved Rita and the Waterfords. Though some of us might have been rooting for more fireworks from Rita’s reunion with the couple who once considered her their property, it was kind of perfect. Amanda Brugal has always played Rita with a controlled wisdom and solid emotional instincts and that’s exactly how she approached this confrontation. Rita was genuinely moved by Serena’s pregnancy. She didn’t rage against the Waterfords or curse their unborn child. She quietly sabotaged Serena’s plan and exploded a bomb in Fred’s life by telling him about the baby.

Rita’s composure in the face of their patronising appeals to her as family was a victory, for her and episode writer Jacey Heldrich. “You deal with your family,” Rita told Fred, “it’s not my job anymore and I thank God for that every day.” The sun-streaming contentment of her solo sushi dinner made me beam. She must have dreamt of such a moment, of such freedom, and now it’s hers.

There’s no sunny sushi dinner for June and Janine, not yet. They’re back in America but, to quote that heartless Chicago fighter, it’s a fucking disaster. They’ve walked out of The Handmaid’s Tale and straight into The Walking Dead. Even out of Gilead, there’s still an exhaustingly long way to go.

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The Handmaid’s Tale season four, episodes one to four are streaming now on Hulu in the US. The new episodes will air on Channel 4 in the UK at a later date.

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 312

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Announcement

All right, and we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day hangouts number 312. For those of you who have a calculator in front of you, or your smartphone, you can take 320 divided by 52. And you get the number six. This is six year anniversary of Hump Day Hangouts. So technically, it’s a little bit over six years going strong, because there’s been some very rare exceptions to this. But we’re calling this the six Year Anniversary Show. We have got a lot of good stuff. I’m going to go into some of the fun stuff we’re going to do today on top of answering the questions which I can see a bunch more coming in. So we want to leave enough time for that as well. But real quick, say hi to the guys and yeah, guys, if you have anything to add about the six year anniversary and your experiences through it, by all means have a have a go at it. So I’ll just kind of go around here on my screen and Marco your first man up.

Am I I’m usually laugh. Well, here I am. What’s up everybody? Six years, six years. And I know I missed last week. But I posted a picture. So you guys can see it’s sunny and warm. And I was at the beach and I had lots of fun. And in the middle of the rainy season, we only had rain one day really bad weather wet rain, most of the morning and it was the morning that I left. Other than that the mornings were fantastic. A couple hours of rain in the afternoon, then back in the pool. So I’m you can’t beat it.

Sorry about that. Get some? What’s up? Come get some or not. How about you? I guess you’re headed into some nice warm weather nowadays, aren’t you? Yeah, man. It’s actually pretty nice out there. And it’s getting nice and warm and sunny, shining. So everything is great. And being in Miami for two weeks, that was pretty cool to actually break, break up a little bit with a routine that a lot of networking and super excited to be here and got one of these as well, which is you know what’s waiting for me in Miami. So that was pretty awesome. And yeah, man, life’s good. Excited to be here. Six years ago, I wouldn’t have imagined that we will be keep on doing this thing that always call him the hang up. And it’s been, it’s been quite a ride. And it’s you know, and it’s also been the number one source of I, you know, I’m inclined to say the number one source of awareness and leads and everything that Semantic Mastery has to offer. So this stuff works. That’s why we keep on doing it because it works to bring leads and if you put your best content out there, people will come and respect you and buy your stuff so that we’re kind of a testimonial that this type of approach works. So I’m really excited to be here. Good stuff. All right, Chris, about you, man. thing. Good. Glad to be here today.

Six years of Hump Day. Unbelievable. Wow. Yeah. How are you doing today? Ah, not bad. I’m doing really good. I was excited about this. I was like, man, I wished at the last minute I forgot. I wish I had like the birthday kind of hat like the cone. But I didn’t have anything. I was like looking in the closet. The last minute I was like, I’ll do something fun for we’ll do some fun stuff for the holidays over Christmas. But yeah, I’m going backpacking after this that has nothing to do with Hump Day Hangouts. But I generally go out for a run. And then I was like, You know what, we’re gonna go and answer the door, there might be a wine delivery. So Bradley wants to tell everyone how you’re doing. And I’m going to go get that real quick. Right on. Because the birthday cake, six year anniversary episode, 312 52 weeks per year times 312. That’s fucking insane. And we’ve only, like I’ve missed two Hump Day Hangouts, I think in six years, and they were basically scheduled, like time off. So that’s pretty consistent. I’m proud of that, guys. And I know we say this often, we probably don’t say it often enough, you know, we truly enjoy doing this every week, or else we wouldn’t have done it for six years for free. It’s a it’s been a lot of fun. And, you know, I really do enjoy coming here and doing this every single week. So thank you all for making this, you know, possible for us to do this for six years. And here’s to another six, I hope.

Outstanding. I couldn’t agree more. I was gonna say the same thing. So I’ll just pile on what Bradley said. It’s fun seeing the questions and the ton of just the wide variety of stuff we cover. So I did want to touch before we dive into it. We got a few things going on. And I’m pulling up our notes. We wanted to do some fun giveaway. So Marco, do you want to tell them about yours first?

Yeah, best question today and you have to be live for this. Be here at the end. I will select the best question today. And I will give away 30 minutes of my time for consultation. Or you can ask me anything. I mean it literally you can come on for half an hour and just ask away and I’ll answer what I can’t guys.

Charge 1500 dollars per hour, or any part thereof. So that’s what I’m giving away because you’re here to celebrate our sixth anniversary because we’re here to help people, right? We’re here to help people. That’s why we decided to do Hump Day Hangouts, it was our way of giving back. It wasn’t really, I mean, we didn’t think we would generate, like this kind of buzz and as many people as we’ve gotten into the mastermind over the years, nobody could have expected this six years ago, but we wanted to have a way of giving back. So there it is, I’m giving someone 1500 bucks on me outstanding. And to follow up on that I’m keeping an eye on the live viewers and on our YouTube channel. If we get over 100 Live, what we’re going to do is we’re going to give a 50% SEO shield discount based on a random drawing. And then we’re, the rest of us are going to pick a couple of questions that we like, based just on the question itself, and we’re going to give away two or access for two people into two x your agency. You can find out more about that on the sidebar, or go to two x your agency.com. So go tell your friends go tell your friends who lives and we get to 100 that’s gonna be pretty, pretty cool. That’s right. That’s right. That’s right. All right, all we got to do is see that number 200. So get your friends and family to come jump on Hump Day hangouts briefly, but yeah, subscribe. I’m saying your YouTube channel to help us stay free help us stay live. subscribe to that channel. push that button. Yeah, that said that’s for sure. And guys, we have several people here it looks like that from the just came off the webinar we did for Mike Martin, Mike Martin and his mastermind group and Marco and I just spent two hours a little over two hours with those guys. It was great. It was a lot of fun. We were talking about the SEO shield. So welcome to all of you. This happens every single week. Again, this is 312 episodes and running. So please feel free to join us every week and post your questions and by the way you subscribe to our YouTube channel so you get notified of updates also, uh you know you can post questions ahead of time and we’ll get to them and you don’t have to attend live you can always it’s certainly great if you do attend live but if you can’t we understand but we can still answer your questions if you post them at a time you can always watch the replay.

Awesome well just want to say real quick before we get into the questions which we’re going to dive into. If you are new like Bradley was saying welcome is one of the best places you can get started is to check out the free training available at the SEO shield.com that’s th e the SEO shield calm you can find out more about shielding your site and never worrying about algorithm updates again we also highly recommend grabbing the battle plan we used to sell that for $100 we cut that down a lot you can check that out a battle plan dot semantic mastery comm we wanted everyone to have easy access to that it alone is a high value in within that area we included a membership area with ton of additional video training if you want to dive deeper into some areas we’ve got all of that so you can either get exactly what you want, or you can get way more than that for pay and nothing more so head over to battle plan dot semantic mastery comm to grab that and for those of you who already have a digital marketing business, the mastermind may be the place for you to network with others like you to get firsthand access to us as well as other members who are growing their agencies consultancies or their online businesses. You can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com And last but not least mg y be head over there it’s mg y v.co that’s done for you services whether it’s the SEO field syndication networks our way s drives decks link building press releases and a lot more stuff head over there check it out it’s what we preach because it’s what we do save time white label get this heavy lifting stuff done some by someone else us so that you can then get the good results with it and spend time growing your business not working in it all the time. or non space just popped on here. I wonder if he had something you want to say are you just wanting to be here man?

All right, well, I’ll wrap up my spiel I just want to make sure because I know every week we have you know people joining us who don’t know where they should start exactly where to go. So again, just a quick rundown the SEO Battle Plan, battleplan.semanticmastery.com, Mastermind, mastermind.semanticmastery.com and mgyb.co.

Alright, guys, if that isn’t yet last thing before we get into the questions, uh, are we allowed to talk about syndication Academy at all? No, no, no. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Should we talk about bringing on our, our cohort with all that and like just kind of teased a little bit, okay. So So what it is is Syndication Academy’s process being updated guys. It’s going to be awesome. We’re going to be version three that we’re going to be launching or 3.0 or whatever, whatever we decide to call it. But essentially, it’s the third iteration of Syndication Academy. It’s in progress. Now. We will be launching that soon. I don’t know when exactly but soon, and it’s going to be way better than it has been in the past for various reasons, but we’re going to have continual updates on a regular basis.

got somebody that is going to be doing, taking over kind of the training aspect of it, as you know, under our guidance, but it’s going to be great. I think most of our audience will appreciate the new member of the team. And we’re excited to bring, bring her in to introduce her to you guys in the coming weeks. And she’ll be joining us on Hump Day hangouts once or twice a month also, just to kind of help answer questions and things like that she’s going to be very active in the Facebook group. And it’s, it’s going to be a lot of fun. And I think it’s going to be really great. You know, syndication Academy was what was our like, flagship product, it’s really what put us on the map of Semantic Mastery. And it’s, you know, it hasn’t changed a lot. The interfaces of the web to Dotto properties have changed. But the the foundation, the fundamental principle of how why it works hasn’t changed at all. And we launched that product, and I think 2013. So think about that, or 2014, one of the two, so it’s six or seven years old, but it hasn’t changed. But we’re going to update the training. It’s in progress now to where everything will be new and current. And then we’re going to be doing continue updates on a regular basis. So we encourage you guys to check out syndication Academy, and be on the lookout for the updates that are coming. Well, we wanted to give people extra value, right? more value for their buck. So she’s gonna be there in the Facebook group answer questions. She’s gonna be there comments, concerns, if you have a particular website, maybe you find a great website, you don’t know how to really go into that website. You tell her she go and look at it, do the update, she’s going to be doing update webinars, she’s gonna be doing everything. She’s really cool. She’s fantastic. And I think I think that this is gonna be really good when it launches, then.

Yeah, me too. So I’m excited about it. Alright, guys, let’s go ahead and get into questions. I’m gonna grab the screen and make sure I’ve got all my not safe for work, tabs closed.

Alright, I’m kidding. All right, real quick. I have a funny story about that. So I do the productivity stuff on the side. And I had a video. And I’m getting better as I go. I it’s funny looking back videos I did for Semantic Mastery, for productivity for this other stuff. And like years ago, like I remember the first one I did for Semantic Mastery. I was like, I didn’t show my face was just screenshare. I’m like, Hey, this is this is Adam moody. You should look at this. And like it’s really cringe worthy. But like that’s, you know, you got to go through that stuff to get better, right? And somebody commented on one of my videos is just vicious, right? It’s YouTube. And I was doing a review on a mind mapping tool. They’re like, yeah, maybe you should use the tool to organize your thoughts. So you don’t just Bumble your way through this.

Yeah, like, you know what I thought about it. I was like, Aaron, thank you like,

So anyways, please, please continue. Yeah, if you want to see some embarrassing stuff, go back and look at the first few episodes of Hump Day Hangouts. And like how awful that I was. I was approaching 300 pounds at that time. So like, I was a lot different. I’m a, you know, two thirds the man I used to be.

Yeah, we it was it was pretty awful. I mean, don’t get me wrong, like it was it was fine, even back then. But we’ve certainly got a lot a lot more comfortable on webinars. I think so.

All right. I’m finally on camera after six years. Yeah. Groundhog Day. All right. Let me grab the screen.

What Are Your Thoughts On Map Geo Networks From An SEO And GMB Standpoint?

Okay, we should see it. So you guys are seeing my screen, correct? Yes. All right. Let’s see where we’re at. Looks like we’re starting with Jonah says hi guys. A term that I’ve heard a lot about recently and local SEO is map geo networks. What exactly are they are based on your experience? Do they offer much value from an SEO and GMB standpoint? Thank you. I don’t know what a map geo network is. Does anybody else have any idea what that is? No, no, that’s something that that we do. We do what’s in local GMB Pro. Right that that is? Yeah, well, but in conjunction if we if needed. Some people just like to work from the GMB but obvious as you look for more targets of course, you need that SEO power shield to complement it add more power and everything else that we have to offer. But I’m sorry, I need you guys know that that map geo network, Adam Hernandez, Chris, anybody? Not am I and no, that’s about it. Nope. Yeah. Yeah, I’m interested. I mean, I’m curious as to what that specifically means. Now I know. You know, we’ve experimented with and used like driving directions creating driving directions maps, that works for adding relevancy for oftentimes, it’s more for In my opinion, it works better for storefront businesses. So point of sale business businesses where the customers come to the business instead of the service area businesses where the business goes to the customers because when you do a service area business, you could create like driving directions maps to kind of help optimize for locations but you know, your if you have a service area business, you unpublish your street address, right. So, you guess you can use like center for wherever your business is physically located. Come on guys, a lot of the lead gen stuff that we do are spammed GMB listing. So we hide the address anyways, you know what I mean? But my point is like, you know, driving directions, if that’s what you mean. Also, like in RYS Academy, we use my maps. And there’s a lot of really cool ninja stuff that you can do with my maps too. But as far as what a map geo network is, I’m not familiar with that. So I’m sorry, I can’t really comment on it. No,

How Do You Fill Out The MGYB Info Form If You Want To Setup The SEO Shield For A Multi-Location Project?

Noel says, I bought the SEO shield. And I want to set it up for a local multilocation project in the state of New Jersey, how shall I fill out the info form for that? So I provide the info about the main location NAP anyways? Or shall I leave these fields blank? Yeah, okay, that’s great question. If you have, you know, a multi location business and one of your locations is your primary location, or headquarters or main office, or whatever you want to call it, which typically there is one that’s going to be the main location, then yeah, you can set up your original SEO shield order with that being the NAP, the brand, and then you know, the NA p listed on that. And then for each subsequent location, you want to use an ri s expansion stack, right. So use the ry s expansion service, and then you add your na p details, your keyword specific to those look that location into those orders. So essentially, you’ll have your main brand, with its current na p if it’s got, you know, if it’s associated with one, there’s another way that you could do it is to create like your main drive stack g site, where it’s just brand and keyword but no location. And then you could have subject, you know, our ys expansions for each location thereafter. But if you have one location, that is like considered a primary location or the headquarters, then you can make that as you know, associate dnap, or that specific location with the primary drive stack and G site like that. Because Because again, it’s kind of like your, your first location, your primary location, that’s perfectly acceptable as well. So you can do it one of either ways, just keep in mind that what you want to do after you’ve built that initial stack, or, you know, had it built for you is to do the ROI expansions for each additional location. Does that make sense? Anybody want to comment on that? I was perfect.

How Do You Deliver Stagnant Results To A Client?

Moving on, Mohammed. Mohammed has been with us for a long, long time. And we’re always glad to have you, Mohamed, thank you for being here. He says, Hey, guys, more of a communication question here. How do you deliver worst, unexpected or even stagnant results to a client? What I mean is, what do you do when something isn’t going your way during your service for the client? And they asked for an explanation, I just tell them, you know, I think honestly, the best policy guys always have when it comes to client work, even if it’s a bitter pill to swallow, so to speak, it might be difficult sometimes to have conversations when things don’t work out. But um, I just, you know, I think honesty goes a long way. Because sometimes you can salvage a relationship by just being honest, because people aren’t used to that I found, especially in our industry. So, you know, you can always say, look, we’ve tried this, and I can understand why I’m not being able to get results. Here’s what I proposed as an alternative or something like that. Oftentimes, you will end up losing that client. That’s, that’s been my experience. But sometimes you can, you know, they’re they’re willing, because of the honesty, and the communication is good, they’re willing to attempt to something else. You know, that that happens. I’ll give you a current example, I took on a client about seven or eight weeks ago now in a landscaping and Tree Service Company. And I, you know, I try to just stick with Tree Service stuff, especially now after taking on this newer client that does, they also do landscaping, landscape design, lawn care services, outdoor pest control, which I’ve got another client in that industry anyways, and irrigation stuff like lawn sprinkler systems and stuff. So there was like multiple other like service categories that I am not familiar with, because I’ve not done SEO for those types of services. And so they hired me to do SEO as well as manage their Google Ads campaign. And so for the outside of the tree services, like I’ve got those Google ads, you know, narrow, I’ve got those on point, don’t I mean, like, I understand those, because I’ve been doing it for so long. When it comes to like landscaping, lawn care, irrigation services, and all that kind of stuff. It’s taking longer to dial that those ads campaigns in than I expected, and the conversion rates are terrible. And I’m not 100% sure why. And so that’s, and that’s a newer client, too. And I’ve already had to have that conversation with them as to why you know, why we’re not seeing conversions for the ad spend. And so I’m actually shifting strategies away from doing search PPC, and doing some more branding type stuff such as YouTube ads, Google Display Network ads, and things like that, which are a lot less expensive. And since we weren’t getting conversions on the PPC, the search PPC campaigns anyways, it’s like you know, we’re spending money and not getting results. So why not spend money on more of a branding approach which is keeping that brand in front of people.

so that when they are ready to make that purchase decision, so anyways, my point in telling you that Muhammad was that, you know, that’s a newer client. And so that’s a tough conversation to have with a new client say, Look, I don’t know why this ads campaigns not producing results. But you’re right, we, you know, you spent, you know, however much money on ad spend in the last month, and it’s not really produced. So let’s try a different approach. This is what I suggest. And they were on board with that. So in my opinion, or they may, excuse me, in my experience, that’s, you know, always be honest with the client, if something is baffling you, you know, just explain that. And hopefully, you can salvage a relationship. If not, they might cut you loose, and that very well may happen, Mohamad. But that’s kind of, you know, learn from it and move on. That’s all I can say. Anybody else? Yeah, before I can give him any advice on how to deal with this, I need more information. Because it this is this is very, it’s wide open to speculation. How did you deliver worse than expected? First of all, over what period of time has this been? Has it always been worse than expected? Or have you been delivering results? When you say stagnant results? What do you mean by stagnant results? you’re producing results. And and they they haven’t peaked? That you you kind of hit a plateau, but you’re consistently delivering results, or you’re just not delivering results? If you are delivering results, maybe you need to reframe the, the conversation, if you’re not delivering the results, then my question to you would be why haven’t you delivered the result? So that needs to be looked into? But before any of this can be answered? At least from my point of view correctly? I need to know like over what period of time, Has it always been worse than expected results or stagnant results? Or did you deliver results at some point? And then now you’re not? Right. There’s a lot of things here that are not explained. That would require a different answer.

Hernan Yeah, I agree, I agree with what you guys said, like, I think it’s a matter of managing expectations, right?

It all comes down to that like, and it’s something that I’m trying to become better add as well like managing expectations from the get go telling the clients Hey, listen, you know, we’re going to be working together, you’re going to be a partnership, we’re going to be working together for a couple months, 3456 months, like, however long it takes, this is a partnership. And if this doesn’t work, then you try something else. And if that doesn’t work, then you try something else. And then if that doesn’t work, then you try something else. I think that totally being upfront with the client as to how things are going, things are not going and whatnot. I think that that’s pretty cool. Like we, as entrepreneurs tend to, you know, be really optimistic, and we tend to overestimate what we can do for the client. Because, you know, you’re excited about about getting a new client and all of that, I think that having an upfront conversation, it’s a good idea. But also, I think it’s it’s our responsibility as agency owners, or business owners to be surrounded with people that can help out, right, it is our responsibility. Like, I’m part of masterminds. I’m part of groups, I’m part of communities that I pay for every single month. So I can go in and say, Hey, guys, this is the scenario that I’m going through with this client, what do you guys recommend, right, and then I will get a lot of input and a lot of, you know, good ideas as to what to try with the client. So it is I think it is my responsibility as a business owner, to be part of those communities and have those resources ready, in case, you know, shit hits the fan, which it will for one client or the next and whatnot. So I think that i think that that’s, that’s, that’s the position that you need to be in and invest some of your money to actually be in that position. But other than that, I’m, you know, I’m straightforward with the clients, I would rather not take a client, like, for instance, right now, I get a lot of people searching me or coming my way for Facebook ads, right. And there’s a lot of hype, a lot of hype, when it comes to Facebook ads, like people promising the word people promising that or, you know, and it happens with SEO as well, like people saying, Yeah, we’re gonna rank in one month for 50 keywords for $500 a month. And that’s Bs, you know, that’s Bs, for the most part, like it is right. And so I tend to be conservative when I’m talking to a client like really, really conservative and rent really over deliver, right. So that’s the position that you want to be in because with the stuff that Marco is showing, with the stuff that Bradley’s showing, you can get those type of results. When you don’t want to tell the client right? You wanna, you want to surprise them in a good way you want to tell them, hey, listen, this is gonna take time, but then you know that you have, you know, the tool in your toolbox to actually go ahead and give them results in a faster than anyone else way. So that’s my approach to this. I think that that, that you need to be upfront with the client and just just do it, you know? Totally.

Yeah, totally agree with what they’ve said and I, the thing I tried to do and the words I’ve used before and still do you know, things happen. Manage expectations, but say, you know, if you were in their spot, what would you want to hear? And and, you know, that just helps you maintain the course of Yes, transparency and let them know, hey, if something went wrong, that’s what’s going to happen, you work towards letting that not happen and you hope to manage expectations, but things go wrong. And you know, you can turn a client who feels burned to a client who, hey, this didn’t work out well, but maybe those still refer people to you, because they understood that you know, something went wrong, you are honest about it, you know, you talked through it, you didn’t work through it, or they decided not to continue, but they were, you know, I would respect someone who says, Hey, I tried, here’s what happened, things didn’t work out. You know, what do you want to do from here? You know, we can either try these things, or, you know, I understand if you don’t want to continue working, and that type of person, I’d be like, well, I would certainly consider, you know, talking to them. If I understood their process, maybe and, you know, they change things. And we did things differently. But the person who tries to say, Oh, well, this is actually Okay, and is trying to blow smoke up my ass. I’m not going to work with them again. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that’s really good. Like I said, I think honesty goes a long way in this in this industry. And sometimes, I mean, you’re gonna sometimes you still lose the, the client, and that’s fine, but you’ll still be able to sleep better at night, knowing that you were honest, you know, at least I do.

What Is The Best Way To Use SEO Shield And Press Release To Rank Client’s GMB And Money Site Quickly?

So, alright, so the next question is general dentist in the metro region of 1 million population with a dozen competing dentists within one mile. So what’s the best way to use the SEO shield and press releases to get the clients GMB and money site to rank quickly and get the phone ringing? Um, well, with press releases, you know, you can get results with press releases. rather quickly. If you do the press release silo like PR silo stacking, right, we did a free webinar on that. You can see that mg y b.co. The webinars tab, you can also go to Semantic Mastery YouTube channel. So youtube.com slash Semantic Mastery, use the channel search features search for press release SEO or PR silo stalking or any one of those terms. And you’ll see the webinar that we did Marco and I, that works really, really well. What we found over cuz it’s like the local PR pro method, right? That’s one of the courses that we have is local PR Pro.

And it changed slightly from the original training. And that’s part of the reason we did that webinar about the press release silo stacking, because you can silo press releases together and mirror sites. silo architecture from your money site. Just like you know, it’s when we talk about theme mirroring all the time, right. And again, that was network Empire taught me about theme mirroring many years ago, and is more relevant today than it was then in my opinion. And so you know, you can mirror the silo structure from like blog posts within a silo using press releases, and that works incredibly well. Same thing with GMB posts by the way. So and you can use those in conjunction if you’re trying to rank the GMB right you can publish GMB posts that are siloed together, daisy chained together, right and then you can use press releases to promote the GMB posts which ultimately promotes the Google My Business profile. So, you know, those work really well. The key with the press release silos that I found, especially for something like what you’re talking about here, with a general dentist in a metro region with a dozen competing dentists within a one mile radius is it it’s probably going to take multiple press releases within that stack or that silo, in order for you to get results. Press Releases will work great for that. But you might need to do half a dozen or more to get any results and in quick succession to so you know, that’s a great option. Like you know, somebody that has a press advantage account their own account and has a lot of credits, or maybe picked up one of the subscription offers when we had those available for 12 done for you or 10 done for you on a month like then you could use scheduled or published press releases in quick succession. And you’ll get results from that rather quickly. But to to outside of press releases when using the SEO shield. Remember, it’s about on page First of all, haven’t good on page structure. And then second of all, it’s just how much how aggressive Can you be with your off page to the SEO showed? Now let Marco pick up there because, you know, in certain cases where you don’t have a lot of control over the on page, which happens, you can still brute force it using the SEO shield. It just requires a lot more off page a lot more aggressive off page strategy. So Margot, what would you say? Alright, from this, if he’s looking to do is that three pack? Right GMB? didn’t look local GMB Pro, local GMB pro to start, get those posts going on a regular basis, see how many you need to do per day or per week, per month, whatever it is to trigger the phone calls to start getting into that three pack to maybe take over some knowledge panels, but that’s going to require stacked post silo post. Once you have that in place, and you should be mimicking right ready to set or theme mirroring what you’re doing on the website. So this is a specific service that you want to push General Dentistry for just as an example. You should have a general dentistry stack

In your GMB’s, and once you have that, then you push that press release back to that, which is going over to your website, but your website has to be siloed correctly also so that everything flows properly. Once you hit that with the press of these, then you hit those when link building the press release the post, and your drive second G site to all push power over to your money site where you’re going to have that Google Google My Business map embedded iframe so that everything flows back into the GMB. That’s how you’re going to pop that into into that three pack lots of local images and I can for a dentist, I’ve been racking my brain about this question, because what images can you show like outside of the dentist’s office other than a dentist’s office to show the services about the desk? Well, you might want to just show geolocation near the desk, right one mile radius from the dentist, where you might be at at a competitor’s office, but you’re talking about the other dentist that the image that you’re uploading is to the other dentist, you’ll you’ll have people who come to the dentist upload images and say, Oh, thanks, Doc for a great smile, just whatever you can reviews also work. Link building to the reviews, and I’m not going to give something away that that’s fantastic. Right now, that’s going to be an update to local GMB Pro. But guys, local GMB Pro, then local PR Pro, then you start hammering, then you do the iframes plus the link building, everything is a madness, a reason to the madness, there’s a reason for everything, everything works in conjunction, if your money site isn’t siloed correctly for those silos, then it’s not going to work correctly. Because you’re not going to push the power back the way that you’re supposed to, you’re not gonna start building that power the way that you’re supposed to, you’re not gonna pop the three pack the way that you’re supposed to, or the knowledge panel, everything works in conjunction. So thinking that you’re just going to do it with with the with the SEO power shield, which you can, it’s kind of missing the point of all of the power you should be pushing, right? If you only do the SEO power shield, the amount of power that you have to push is exponential. Right? So it’s going to require a whole lot more than just an SEO shield. And it’s going to require a whole lot more than probably one link building order. Or one press release stack is going to take multiples, and it’s going to take multiple images. And it’s going to take consistency over time. And then link building consistently over time.

Yeah, and just expand on that briefly. You know, Marga just hit the nail on the head, like, you know, I’m not in the dentist industries at all. So I don’t know if these would be proper silos, but because I don’t even know if General Dentistry would have I guess it would have, you know, could be a silo. And then there could be like cosmetic dentistry, for example, I don’t know that you’re, all I’m saying is create a silo on the site, right? Exactly like what Marco said, then once you have that, right, you can create the same mirror that same type of silo structure with GMB posts, just as Marco said, then you can also do the press release. PR silo stack the same way, right. So it’s mirrored exactly the same way interlinked, the same way that you did the blog posts on the money site, then the G site, you can mirror all of those, right, each one of the pieces of content you publish on your blog, you can create a page or sub page within that silo on the G site, and embed the blog post embed the G bet GMB post, and embed the PR press release. Right, you don’t even need any new content for the G site, right, you just add you embed those pieces of content that you produce that are all interlinked. And the perfect silo structure, you know, the internal linking the the link wheel that we create with our silos, now you’ve got a G site page with those properties embedded and you can just hammer those with link build link building gigs. And that’s that’s how you get results. And not again, some additional power you can pull in, we just talked about this on the mike Martin webinar earlier today. But the blog posts that you were publishing for that silo that are interlinked correctly, also going to syndicate out to your syndication network, right. It’s part of the SEO shield, go grab those post URLs, put those in or embed them into the pages on the G site. So you understand now you’re taking the theme mirroring of each one of the silo from your main money site, that’s your point of origin. And you’re mirroring that into all of the other properties in the SEO and then the G site ultimately, and that that becomes your link building target, right. So you can power up every single one of those pieces of content, they were all mirrored correctly and interlinked properly, so that all the juice flows exactly where you want it to, to the top level page that you want to rank for, in this case, your GMB profile for general dentistry and whatever location you’re in. So again, you can get really creative and that’s the beautiful thing I love about we just talked about this, like I said with the mike Martin crew that I love about the SEO shield is that you don’t have to go that deep into mirroring all of your assets like that. You only do that if needed. You know what I mean? So my point is I always start with top level mirroring. And then as I determine what level of competition is and how much it’s going to take, I can go deeper into the mirroring process as needed. And get to all the way down to that really granular point that I was just talking about where you can take all of the different pieces of content for that particular silo and mirror that onto the G site and just embed all of those iframe all those different pieces of content into their corresponding one to one ratio pages on the G site, right, and then just hammer their way with that if needed. Again, I don’t do that on. That would be an enormous amount of work if you had to do that for every keyword, every post everything else. So I don’t do that. I only do that when absolutely necessary. But you’ve got a lot of options available, right? A lot of tricks up your sleeve that you can pull out when needed.

Last but not least, I forget that the schema on the website on the pages on the service all have to be correct. Because if you’re messing up the schema of the schema isn’t right. If there’s any ambiguity between him and another dentist, you’re in a whole lot of trouble. If you want to learn more about entity and technical SEO and how to put this all together, join the heavy hitter club. We’ll be happy to help you out. Man. that’s a that’s a really good question. Yeah, fantastic question. Might be a winner. Maybe.

What Is The Best Way To Push Footprint To Get Into The Client Into The GMB Local Pack Further From His Location?

Next question. Tom Yeah, let’s roll through it. Guys. If we have time for a second question. Once we get him to rank in the GMB immediately around his location, what is the best way to push that footprint to get him to the GMB to get him in the GMB local pack further and further from his location? Local GMB pro does I mean the methods that we teach in there is specifically for that very reason that you just asked about. It’s about expanding the footprint and part of the reason we did that was because local GMB Pro is about expanding the footprint for a GMB location. Right. Whereas, you know, we’ve done other training, we don’t sell this anymore, but we we call it local lease Pro, which was about getting multiple GM B’s. But you know, when when Google’s gone through in phases, like they have in cycles where they go on a rampage of suspending gmds which right now is one of those times I wouldn’t recommend making edits in GM B’s at all. I’ve experienced the suspension in the last two weeks or so myself. So you know, if you can’t secure new GM B’s, which is an easier way in my opinion when it’s available when that method is available to us, then you can with work with the local GMB pro method you can expand that footprint from so that your maps profile your GMB profile can rank in maps packs outside of your immediate physical location, if that makes sense. And again, there’s the specific methods are tied in local GMB Pro. It takes consistency though, and and it does take some time for you to build that authority to where you can rank in adjacent areas because the way that the maps results are being displayed now as a proximity filter or proximity.

You know, they the GMB wants to return businesses that are physically located in close proximity to where the searcher is at the time that they perform the search. It can be overpowered, but it does take consistent effort and time to to make that happen.

Especially Yeah, this is especially important in dentistry. If you’re an emergency dentist, you’re never going to go too far out from from your radius, because nobody wants to be an hour away from the dentist when when you have that today. But if you have a cosmetic dentist, now you’ll go out of your way to find a really good or cosmetic surgeon for that matter, right?

When they have to whatever do a bone graft in your mouth or whatever, you will go out of your way to find the best one, not not that one not a good one close by. So you really have to pay attention to what you’re doing general will probably include a an emergency dentist somewhere in there. And I’d be careful when you’re trying to extend it too much where it won’t make sense to the person that’s getting that display because then you will be displayed to people who will not take action and that can be a negative negative signal.

Adam, if you guys are done with the question, I got something but I wanted to let you wrap that up. Sure. All right. So we wanted to interrupt this important broadcast to let you guys know we mentioned that we were going to give away to or access to two people for two x your agency and you guys can see that on the sidebar there you can go to 2xyouragency.com. Let’s see I this is a pretty clear cut case of the squeaky wheel sometimes gets the grease. So let me find the name here. I think it was our Vorhees. So I’m gonna direct message you and we’re going to get you access you were just asking you have an agency what’s the best course to get you started? And so this is going to be the place to get you started go through to x your agency we’re going to give you free access and then you should definitely come join the mastermind after that. All right. So I’ll dm you in a minute and then Hernan you have you pick someone else for the second one right? Yeah, green Rhino. We got green Rhino somewhere around

So do you want to miss it? Do you want to? Yeah, I’ll shoot him a message to both you and then what we’re going to do is have you guys contact support and we will get you access right away. So Marco is going to be doing an announcement here towards the end picking his best question. And with that, let’s get back to the questions. Awesome. It’s like Christmas in. Well, November. Whoo. Yay.

What Is The Best Course To Get Help With Running An SMM/Traffic Agency?

Our Vorhees was just on our I recognize that more, I think is Robert. Anyways, he was just on the mike Martin webinar. So again, welcome, by the way, that’s pretty cool that you joined and got something free join Hump Day Hangouts and got got picked a winner. That’s pretty cool. Anyways, uh, so he says, I have an agency what is the best course or should get me to help me running with SSM traffic agency? Well, two extra agencies more about growing your agency, prospecting and such. I mean, don’t get me wrong, we talked about the pipeline, there’s three parts to extra agency pipeline results and scaling like essentially, you know, filling your pipeline with prospects, then getting results, which is just using, you know, depending on what what it is that you’re offering, if SEO and traffic generation is part of what you do, I don’t do social media marketing for any of my clients other than we post you know, from we publish blog posts to their blog, which syndicates out to the syndication network properties. So that’s, that’s about the extent of what I do for social media marketing for, for my, my clients. But I do you know, SEO, and traffic generation, well, if you’re, if you’re doing good at SEO, you’re gonna generate traffic and other methods too. But um, but SEO is certainly a great way to generate traffic. So you know, to x, your agency will be good for you. But as as Adam said, you know, mastermind is where you get access, it’s about business building. It’s if you want strictly SEO, stuff, go to heavy hitter club. If you want more about business building and more general knowledge, where we get into SEO, as well as pretty much anything else you want to cover. That’s what the mastermind is for our semantic mastery. Um, I’m going to recommend, he’s already getting to X ray agency. So you guys giving him a flying, start, rather than a head start. I’m going to say, the semantic mastery mastermind and the heavy hitter club, because he has an agency, and he should have people helping him he shouldn’t you shouldn’t be a one man band. Right, you should have a VA or more that I help you run your agency because if not, you are a bottleneck. Because you have to take care of everything. You don’t have processes in place, or you do have processes, but you can’t implement them fast enough for you to cover all of the clients that you need to cover, especially if you’re good and you’re already getting results for your clients. So I’m going to say mastermind mastermind comm and let us help you build your agency and to the heavy hitter club, where you are your VA, if you should choose your VA can go and learn the technical SEO aspects aspects that you need to get results. And not only that, if you join the mastermind, you get a deep discount for the heavy hitter club. And it’s better than if you were not to join the mastermind and only joined the heavy hitter club, you get a better discount by joining the mastermind.

Yeah, and you get a lot of our products that, you know, included in mastermind our significant discounts on some of those that we collaborated with others. So there’s a lot of benefits for that.

How Important Is It To Protect An IP Address Or Footprint When Logging Into Different GMB Accounts?

So Okay, moving on. Next one is from Robert says, How important is it to protect IP address or footprint when logging into different GMB accounts? Does Google care? should we care? You know, it’s not it’s not the IP, it’s the browser, right? It’s no longer an IP issue. It’s it’s the the browser that creates the issue. For example, you should be using ghost browser or some sort of, you know, cache keeper or or, you know, profile keeper ghost browser is the one that we recommend right now.

We used to recommend something else, but it’s been, you know, not been supported for quite some time. So anyways, Ghost browser, go check it out. semantic mastery, comm slash ghost browser. It’s inexpensive, but that’s great. And here’s here’s the thing, because of public Wi Fi being so prevalent, right? There’s, you know, dozens and sometimes hundreds or even thousands of devices logging into the same IP, right, from a public Wi Fi or whatever. So it’s not that it’s not the IP that triggers like it used to years ago, right? We used to we used to always have to use proxies and all that kind of stuff where else it would trigger just from logging in like this, like from different accounts through the same IP, it could trigger you know, IP locks or re verification issues and all that kind of stuff. I don’t experience any of that now at all. I use a the old the old profile keeper, it’s called browse eo that’s what I’m still using. I’m still waiting for the fucking update to come through. That’s supposed to been a year ago now. Anyways, it’s outdated. It’s the only reason I’m still using it because I got so many damn profiles in there that all have their own search history, and everything else built up the ideas and Ghostbrowser will do that. And that’s updated regularly. So ghost browser is what we recommend. Now, I don’t use a ghost browser just because like I said, I got so much of my business already integrated into the browser to platform that I wish I wasn’t. So married to. Anyway, my point is, I’m logged in. And same I don’t use proxies at all. And I’ve got dozens and dozens, if not over 100 different profiles that I log into fairly regularly from the same IP. But each each time I log in that session is the previous session is restored. In other words, my browsing history, cookies, cache form history, you know, form fills, all of that stuff is kept for each separate profile. You can do that in Firefox, there are some Firefox profiles, which is I guess, native to Firefox, you can do it that way, it’s a little bit more manual. There are also some Firefox extensions that will do stuff like that I’ve not used any of them. I know that ghost browser is a really good tool for what it is that you’re talking about, I recommend you use stuff like that, guys, because here’s the thing, it’s unnatural to do like what we used to do with like syndication Academy, years ago, when when I first developed that, like, it was about either using proxies or we even if we weren’t using proxies, we would go like I would always use Firefox, a clean installation of Firefox, and I’m clear cache and cookies between logging into the next set of profile accounts. That makes sense. But if you think about that, every time you clear your browser history, you’re you know, clear, clear cache and cookies. And you’re logging into an account with like, zero, history, zero, you know, cookies cache, all that stuff like zero browsing history, that looks unnatural. But it doesn’t, it doesn’t look unnatural now to log in using the same IP, but every time you log in, you’ve got you know, your previous recession is restored, or it’s kept your, your your excuse me, your previous session is restored so that it keeps all of like what your previous history was, and everything else. So you can literally build the profile, just like, you know, normal people.

Obviously, with mobile and everything else, there are still some tricky things that you know, can occur. But my opinion is you should be using something like ghost browser doesn’t have to be ghost browser, but something that does that same sort of function.

We have to do, right? We have, I can’t, because even even the TV and the fridge are smart. So we have like 12 devices connecting to the internet through the same IP because I have a static IP. So I have multiple multiple laptops, multiple phones, I have 12 Android, and I have iOS. We have three other iPhones and three other Android devices. No, it’s it’s over. It’s about 15 devices, from the same IP going through the same router through the same modem. So all of this shit about a footprint and all that that’s like way in the path. But we understand that people are still worried and they want to separate things. Great thing about the new syndication Academy is that the the the person doing the training is going to be showing you guys how to save those Firefox profiles and how to use it. She uses that rather than go ghost browser. She’ll talk about that, or browse Yo, I think she’ll talk about browser too. She went directly through Firefox and it’s showing how to do that. Yep. So cool thing about the new training.

There’s a lot of cool things about the new training looks. I’m excited about it. Um, Tom, Tom says congrats on six years, guys, I’m still here lurking every Wednesday. And that’s awesome. I think if I remember correctly, Thomas, or at least used to be somewhat local to me. And he’s been lurking in the background, and he very rarely even comments, but it seems like every year on our anniversary, he does let us know that he’s still here. So that’s awesome. Thank you. Appreciate that.

Do You Think The SEO Shield Will Lose Its Power Slightly When Google Finishes The New Passage Indexing Update?

Alright, moving on. Ah, let’s see BB. What’s up, baby. We knew you’d be here somewhere. He says Hey, guys, number one. Do you think when Google finishes the new passage indexing update, the SEO shield will lose slightly its power. Honestly, I hate saying this again, guys, because I don’t keep up with all the fucking I’m not all the updates and stuff all the time. What is the passage indexing update?

I’m not familiar with that.

Yeah, man, I have no idea. Okay, um, do I think it will slightly loses power? i? Well, I don’t know. Because I don’t know what that indexing update is that you referring to?

So I can’t you know, I don’t know. But we will find out. I can tell you that. And here’s the thing. That’s, you know, part of the reason why I don’t keep up with all the different updates and stuff is because the SEO showed our methods tend to stick and be a fake proof. And again, knock on wood. I mean, again, I’m grateful that our methods have continued to work even update after update. Oftentimes, I’m not even aware that an update is occurred until other people bring it to our attention like in a hump day hangout or in one of the groups

And it’s just because most of the time, I don’t see a lot of fluctuations. Occasionally, I’ll see maps fluctuations for stuff because they’re always tweaking the maps algorithm. But, uh, you know, typically I don’t know. So the idea with the updates are, wait and see. If it does if it does significantly affect anything that we’ve done. Well, fortunately, we’ve got the SEO Mad Hatter’s, the mad scientist, Marco and Rob, behind the scenes that will figure this shit out, and will tell you once we figure it out, that’s typically what happens. But fortunately, we haven’t really had to do any major like scrambling to update anything. And the last several years, we’ve been very fortunate in that respect. Any comment? Oh, I’ll worry when Google updates its ranking score algorithm.

Because that’s what we’re targeting through everything that we do.

indirectly, like, we’re also directly targeting PageRank. That’s, that’s our doorway, into the ranking score algorithm. If whoever is talking about this update, passage, indexing isn’t talking about how it affects PageRank and ranking score. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Because that’s what we’re worried about. And if we’re worried about the artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence is being targeted through everything else that we do. And so we’re targeting the major aspects of what Google is looking for. When it comes to rankings. We don’t we don’t really worry about it, let them update, and then we’ll see what happened. If something happens to our properties. We’ll go We’ll take a look. And we’ll figure out another way to push them up. We always do. Yeah, I remember when BERT first was implemented, you know, there was on a bunch of SEO, you know, blogs and stuff, people were saying you can’t optimize for BERT.

Alright, well, I guess we didn’t know when we did it. So. And again, it’s a semantic web guys. Yeah, you can mark it just he said this just earlier today. But you know, if it’s a bot, a machine learning a bot that you know, you if it’s a machine learning, but you can train it, what you want it to do. And that’s what essentially what we’re doing. So you said it much more eloquently than I did though, Marco, how did you say it? Show me a bot that’s coded to learn? And I’ll show you about that I can teach and train. There you go. Much more eloquent than what I said.

What Do You Mean By Supporting Article?

So, Alright, number two is what do you mean when you say supporting article or an article within the site to match a keyword or something? Yeah, supporting article again, maybe by now you should have already read this article. And if you haven’t, I want to immediately upon the end of today’s Hump Day hangout to go read this. And this goes for everybody else on here to go to look for Bruce clay SEO, right, look at or what a silent website silo architecture. That’s what I’m looking for a website.

Let me spell correctly. siloing. There we go.

All right, go take a look at this. This is an article that he published. This looks like maybe an updated version of it. But I mean, it’s Oh, how old is this article with the marbles and stuff? He’s got quite a few. He’s got this one right here, SEO. So Bruce claim.com, slash SEO slash silo, it’s the the page itself has changed slightly like the interface or the look. But I’m sure the article is the same. And I think this article was written in 2011. I don’t know if it’s, I think I think before that, maybe even before that, I might have been introduced to it around that time, but 2011. But this is like, this is like the foundation of what silo architecture is all is. This is a fantastic article. And so I would go through and read about this, this should answer your question. I mean, I’ll answer your question now. But I would recommend all everybody go read through this article. This is like foundational stuff that like all websites, silo architecture has been built upon this basically, this method, it’s really, really fabulous. Okay, so as far as what is the supporting article? Well, if you know what your top level keyword is, that you’re trying to promote, right, so usually, that’s a commercial intent type keyword.

And, well, there’s gonna be longer tail versions, or variations of the keyword that are more specific, or, you know, again, variate variants of the original keyword, that kind of stuff. Well, those can you can optimize content targeting those other search queries or keywords, right synonymous terms, LSI keywords like Latent Semantic Indexing, keywords, co occurring, co occurring keywords, there’s a number of different terms that you can target that are basically describing the same thing. And so supporting articles is just publishing content that would fall within that silo within that category, that topical category that makes sense, and yes, it can be published. When I talk about publishing sporting articles, remember I’m primarily talking about publishing content on the blog, because that’s your, your point of origin, right your Epicenter like ground zero, right? That’s the golden frame. It’s, that’s where your money site is. It should be your content distribution engine, so to speak. So I typically mean publishing supporting articles in your blog, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Right? You don’t, you don’t even really need to have a blog. Right. You can have a GMB website and just a GMB asset and you can use the GMB posts to publish supporting articles and create a silo structure in your GMB just like you would on a money site. Even if you don’t have a money site, right. My point is like you can create your top level keyword post publish a post in GMB specifically targeting and optimized for your top level commercial intent keyword. And then you publish GMB posts underneath that that interlink are linked back up to that. And daisy chained together, we talked about internal linking inside the mastermind, a lot of you hit her club a lot. But again, if you interlink those correctly, so you’re publishing posts that are whether it’s a blog post a GMB post or press releases that can work to put your publishing content that supports that top level term. Does that make sense? And so again, it’s about interlinking. That’s called adding depth to a silo, right, adding breath, right, or width to a silo would be adding like subcategories, and then adding content to that. But adding depth to a content silo is, is adding more terms more supporting content, to add depth to that topic, right. And that that’s where it’s almost like and I learned this from network Empire many years ago, when I got went through their certification program and all that stuff, I think that was in 2014, when I did that, is that you know, if you understand silo architecture, and you have your keyword set, right, your keyword theme for that particular silo very, very tight, it’s very relevant, then by just adding enough depth to that silo and proper internal linking, you’ll be able to rank that term. And we’ve seen that proven time and again, through our own testing, but also like Jeffrey Smith, for example, SEO bootcamp SEO ultimate pro plugin, he’s freaking amazing at on page and doing an adding breadth and depth to topical silos and getting results with very little off page work. Sometimes even no off page work just because of how good he is at interlinking and setting up silo structure and creating topical relevancy between supporting posts and all that it’s just fucking amazing what he can do. And so again, it’s very very important guys, this we always talk about you know, starting with on page silo architecture is incredibly important. Then you start mirroring that stuff into your external or your your entity assets. Anyways, you want to add on to that Marco? Not perfect. Okay, keep moving. We’re almost Oh shit, we’re out of time. Guys. Can you believe that?

A shit. Do you update to how we use the battle plan video to be newer than 2017 video in there. Now, I had mentioned this in the Facebook group also. Um, yeah, I think we’re going to be updating the battle plan again, Shawn, I got him covered. He’s gonna reach out to me. We’re gonna look into that. Okay, and we’re gonna, we’re gonna be doing another version of the battle plan here in a couple of months. So it’s coming. All right now. Now the most important question that was after this. So what’s Marcos secret to a beautiful tan? Oh, Chase, your kids are on the beach for a week or so a newsie.

Awesome. Man. We got a lot more questions.

How To Clear Google Cache?

I can hang out for about 10 minutes. I’ll go I got a call. Yeah, I can’t though. So if if last thing I want to do is I want to answer pavlos question, guys. If that’s we got enough time for that. And I’ve got to wrap it up, guys. I’m sorry, but I didn’t Marco’s got to make his announcement for one the best question so he’ll be after FDA answer this question, brother. Okay. So Pamela is asking about Google cache. He says How to Clear Google cache. I have an old GMB that was used for two types of services. Now when I’m doing a search Google shows my GMB for old keywords. need your advice on how to clear keywords that Google’s associate with the GMB listing? Thanks a million? That’s a really good question. Um, I don’t know how to force Google to clear cache other than the habit re crawled. And again, even even if they recrawl, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to refresh the index essentially. I’ve experienced that with YouTube videos, believe it or not, like had a YouTube video that I was did a live stream like a live like it was a pre recorded video, but I was streaming it. And when I went to go set up the stream, it just used like the generic term or whatever that was in there. And for whatever reason, it indexed with that term, even though I had edited it, and my video stayed ranked for like this generic like it was it was like it was weird. The I can’t even explain it, like the title tag, never updated, even though like it was weeks before Google finally updated the title tag in the search results from like, whatever the, you know, my live stream or whatever it said to the actual keyword that the title was that I had updated within minutes of Google indexing that that that original stream, so I don’t know how to force that. That’s a really good question. Margo, do you know how to force that? No, Google will take its sweet old time and get to it. The only thing I could mention would be, you know, you can’t use the request indexing function inside a search console right now.

So if it’s a GMB and it doesn’t have like its own website associated with it, then I don’t you know, you search console is kind of useless for that anyways. But you could try to resubmit through search console, although, like I said, requesting indexing is turned off right now, I talked about this last week, let me just show you very quickly, if you do have a self hosted website, this is something that you can do.

It’s called the instant indexing plugin. And it’s by rankmath. Instant indexing plugin right here. If you go and install this on a WordPress site, it, let’s see, where’s the that’s fine, whatever, you can download this for free. And you connect it to the Google Indexing API. So you have to go into developers.google.com. And set up the Indexing API. They’ve got help files, it’s real easy, it takes about 10 minutes to set it up. And then you can submit through a WordPress site. There’s a you know, you can submit URLs directly to search console. So you know, that’s that’s what I’m using right now, since the request indexing feature has been turned off inside of search console for now. So I’ve got this installed on multiple sites right now. And so it’s great because if it’s, if you’re updating a page or a post or a media file, you can you can, you can change the options. But if you’re updating a page or a post or publishing it for the first time, it will instantly submit it to the Google Indexing API. And you can also there’s a in the in the instant indexing plugin settings, there’s a tab where there’s a box that you can submit URLs directly to indexer. There, you can also like, you know, call it to see what the indexing status is, and stuff like that. So again, very, very cool. It’s free rankmath and instant indexing plugin, check it out.

Alright, guys, do what you’re going to do.

As far as like picking a winner, or whatever you’re going to do is somebody somebody helped me out because I know that we picked two people already. And we got some really good questions. So I’m typing one of them. So yeah, you guys help Marco out? If you guys see a good question.

Someone that didn’t win already, we can pick the same person to win multiple times makes no difference to me.

We said green miners question was really good. Yeah. But they just wanted to extra agency in the neck.

Yeah, but they’re in the mastermind. They said so we can pick them. I told them we’d pick something else. So. So yeah, that’s who it is. Oh, there you go. We’re at it. privately, send me a private message on Facebook.

Your 30 minute consultation? Perfect. I’m gonna also send them something else. So cool. I also just sent you instructions just to make sure shoot us an email, get in touch with Marco and we’ll get that set up. Yeah, really quickly. Also a green Rhino. If you’re in the mastermind, keep in mind, listen up the Hangouts remember, is a free forum. So we can only talk about things on a conceptual level. Don’t don’t not use the webinars in the mastermind. That’s what they’re available for. So that we can deep dive into anything you want to talk about get is as specific as you want. We can audit your out your properties or look at what you’re doing for marketing. If you want, we can do that. So the mastermind again, remember, if you want to ask in depth questions and get really thorough answers, and like we’ll we’ll go into screen shares and do all kinds of cool stuff. That’s what the mastermind is for us the masterminds submit questions form, and also ask questions in the Facebook group, and we’re happy to you know, answer them in the Facebook threads. But also, if it requires a longer answer, then we can cover those in our mastermind webinars, and each one of us do our own mastermind webinars. So don’t forget, use that instead of saving your questions for Hump Day hangouts where we can only talk about them on a conceptual level. I just want to make that clear, so that you get the most out of it.

Okay, that’s awesome. All right. Happy sixth guys. onwards.

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 312

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Announcement

Yeah, me too. So I’m excited about it. Alright, guys, let’s go ahead and get into questions. I’m gonna grab the screen and make sure I’ve got all my not safe for work, tabs closed.

Yeah, like, you know what I thought about it. I was like, Aaron, thank you like,

Yeah, we it was it was pretty awful. I mean, don’t get me wrong, like it was it was fine, even back then. But we’ve certainly got a lot a lot more comfortable on webinars. I think so.

All right. I’m finally on camera after six years. Yeah. Groundhog Day. All right. Let me grab the screen.

What Are Your Thoughts On Map Geo Networks From An SEO And GMB Standpoint?

How Do You Fill Out The MGYB Info Form If You Want To Setup The SEO Shield For A Multi-Location Project?

How Do You Deliver Stagnant Results To A Client?

Hernan Yeah, I agree, I agree with what you guys said, like, I think it’s a matter of managing expectations, right?

What Is The Best Way To Use SEO Shield And Press Release To Rank Client’s GMB And Money Site Quickly?

What Is The Best Way To Push Footprint To Get Into The Client Into The GMB Local Pack Further From His Location?

What Is The Best Course To Get Help With Running An SMM/Traffic Agency?

Yeah, and you get a lot of our products that, you know, included in mastermind our significant discounts on some of those that we collaborated with others. So there’s a lot of benefits for that.

How Important Is It To Protect An IP Address Or Footprint When Logging Into Different GMB Accounts?

Do You Think The SEO Shield Will Lose Its Power Slightly When Google Finishes The New Passage Indexing Update?

I’m not familiar with that.

Yeah, man, I have no idea. Okay, um, do I think it will slightly loses power? i? Well, I don’t know. Because I don’t know what that indexing update is that you referring to?

Because that’s what we’re targeting through everything that we do.

What Do You Mean By Supporting Article?

Let me spell correctly. siloing. There we go.

Awesome. Man. We got a lot more questions.

How To Clear Google Cache?

Alright, guys, do what you’re going to do.

Someone that didn’t win already, we can pick the same person to win multiple times makes no difference to me.

We said green miners question was really good. Yeah. But they just wanted to extra agency in the neck.

Okay, that’s awesome. All right. Happy sixth guys. onwards.

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Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 276

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Announcement

Adam: Let’s do this. We are live. Welcome to Episode 276 of Hump Day Hangouts. Got the whole Semantic Mastery team here. We’re going to do some introductions, let everybody know how it’s going, who everyone is, in case you’re new to Hump Day Hangouts. And for some reason, you haven’t been watching us for the previous 275 episode. So we’ll get into that and then we’ll get some quick announcements for you. And then we’re going to jump in and start answering questions. So start at the top of my screen and work my way down. So Bradley, how are you doing today?

Bradley: I’m well happy to be here. I’m having issues with my Google Drive though. It’s not sinking with my computer like it’s supposed to. And it’s driving me nuts. But other than that, things are good. How are you?

Adam: Yeah, not bad. Just enjoying some warmer weather something in 70s. So looking forward to getting outside and enjoying that after this. Good. What was that? Anyways? Hernan How’s it going? I like your shirt by the way.

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Marco: I am muted and now I’m not. Look for yourself. Let me know how I’m doing man. Bright, sunny. I told you coasteering it’s Groundhog Day, man. You guys go back to the other episodes where I’ve been on cam and a hump day Hangout. It’s always like this. during the dry season. Of course. When the rain comes at this time, we’ll get an electrical storm that will get a nice rain shower, but then it’ll go away about 6pm and then wake up and it’s bright and sunny and beautiful and get to POFU motherfucking. So you can be the same shit. That’s it. And we paved the way and we help you every step of the way. I mean, what could be better than that? You guys are doing it. And I said it before. If you’re not, if you’re failing, if you’re not taking action, don’t push it off on us. Because you’re the one who has to take that first step and say, Okay, let me get going. And that first step will take you to the next one, and the next one will get you to where you’re going. But I’m good, man, I’m living the life, man.

Adam: Outstanding! Well, I gotta ask you you know and I’m not joking around. Do you ever get tired of the same weather like day? I mean, I know it changes between the seasons but like Does that ever get here? Are you just happy with it being nice like that?

Marco: This is what I want. If I wanted something up like I go somewhere else, but But why? Like I’ve lived in Argentina. I went with my wife a couple of times. And I just don’t want to live the cold again. I don’t like it and so I know what I like I know what I want. This is what I want.

The next step is a beach house you know that has to be like on the side of a mountain so we can overlook the ocean. You guys will be getting pictures from there too. Yeah. Or video. Yeah, that’s in the work. So

Adam: Very good. Very good. All right. And last but not least, Chris. How are you doing? Man? I’m glad you’re hanging in there that you haven’t been quarantined yet. I know things in Europe. Some parts of Europe are getting a little scary with the coronavirus.

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Adam: Cool. Cool. All right. Well, we got a few things we wanted to mention. One of those. We’ve got a really cool special going on. We had a webinar with Jeffrey Smith on Monday and that coincided with a great special we have grown. We’ve got a Mardi Gras special going right now for SEO shield, which combines the power of several of the components not only of our training but of the done for you components that are available at MGYB. I’m going to post the details on the page. If you’re watching live, you can definitely still grab that it’s 20% off, you can save a bundle but that’s not all we got going on. And Marco had an update with some cool stuff that has just come out. So, Marco, do you mind tell me about that.

Marco: Yeah, and I mean, it This isn’t scarcity or anything like that. We don’t play that game. Right. And we don’t play that we will be raising prices in 30 minutes and there are only this many lefts. The problem with what we’re doing is that Google will eventually catch on and kill it. But we’re currently verifying GMBs for those of you who are interested. And not only that they come with a 30-month guarantee of replacement. If something happens if it gets suspended. After those 30 days, what you can do is buy insurance, which means that if it does get suspended, we’ll go and lift the suspension and so we put this package in this package together, which allows you to do both. It allows you to get your GMB’s, and then get some insurance in case it gets suspended. And I will post the links on the page, so you guys can head on over there and get it while it’s hot. And if you wait too long and it gets closed off. Again, don’t blame it on us. It’s you. You didn’t take action. We get a ton of those emails. As a matter of fact, don’t you because you’re the email guy, Adam, and I see them coming through. I’m sorry, I missed the special. Can you guys do it? No. No, we can’t. We had the launch. That was the price. Then it goes up because it’s worth that much anymore. And that’s it. So don’t come whining later. Oh, look, I missed it. I couldn’t watch whatever, your granny died, you shut your door. Whatever happened. We don’t care. You gotta go get it while it’s hot. And I’m gonna go drop the mic. Thank you.

Adam: All right. And real quick. I wanted Hernan. You released some training for double your agency. I believe you had that last week. Bradley. I know you just dropped a new update for double your agency, right?

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Adam: Outstanding! So if you’re an agency owner or a consultant, if you want to get more clients, if you want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team, so that you can literally work less and earn more, right? That’s it’s kind of a tagline. It sounds like the four-hour workweek or something. I mean, you got to do work. Nobody said, you know, yeah, there was no work. But there are ways to do it so that you work less and earn more and that’s what this is about. Okay, I said it before, but I’ll say it again, get more clients, grow your revenue scale your team. You want to go check this out, just head over to 2xyouragency.com. I’ll put the link on the page as well and then for those of you who are looking for more repeatable results with SEO, you know we’ve updated Battle Plan it’s been going for years we update it yearly and you can still get it it’s a battleplan.semantic mastery.com and we’ve been talking as well about MGYB. You know if you’re just watching us for the first time if you want done for you services, like syndication networks, RYS drive stacks, link building, press releases, what Marco was just talking about with the GMBs, all sorts of good stuff head over there. It’s MGYB.co. And last but certainly not least, we’ve been talking about I think some emails went out. Being the email guy I should certainly know when they went out but it was either last week or the week before and talking about POFU Live. This year, it’s going to be it’s our third year in a row. We’re going to be in Boston, Massachusetts. It’s the last weekend in September. We’re cooking up something fun for the VIP day. And I just wanted to speak on that real quick if you go and get tickets, we’ve priced this competitively so that you can get the VIP ticket. That’s where we really want people to go. We want to have a good time we want to spend the time getting to know you and for everyone else to get to know each other before we dive into the main event, you know it’s not it is about having fun, but also getting to know each other so that when you show up, you get the most value out of it. So when you see the pricing on that you can see that reflected we really, you know, we don’t want to charge you thousands of dollars to come to the VIP event. We just want to cover the cost you could show up have a great time last year we went go-karting. It was a blast, one of the guest speakers at the event kicked all of our butts and walked away with first place and then went on and gave a great presentation. So anyway, looking forward to seeing as many of you is can fit into the 25 person limit event that we have. And I believe actually we’re down to 21. So right now if you want to grab your ticket, it’s a great time. It’s the lowest price you’re going to see it and that’s in September, so now’s a good time to snag it start planning for it.

So what did Dadea name his racing persona. God, what’s that banner? Yeah, yeah, he’s right. It showed up on the screen up there. So yeah, that was awesome. I forgot about that. Awesome. So we’ll have some more information about that. Of course, as we get closer, we’re locking in some stuff about the VIP event, exact locations, but it’s going to be in Boston’s gonna be last weekend in September. So now is the time to do that. Other than that, guys, we’ve got anything else we need to cover before we jump into it.

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Adam: Real quick. I see Mohammed asking you did battle plan version four released No. But maybe keep your eyes and ears peeled for that. We do update it yearly. So that’s all I’ll say for now. It’s coming.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Great. Yes. Where were we? a great first one is hi how to rank a keyword and longtail version of it. Which time we have guys? Um, I would like to do it with long-form content, but it doesn’t help. Even though it’s supposed to be in the same post. I’m not sure maybe does it help even though it’s in this? I’m not sure I’m understanding the question. Hold on a minute do a branded syndication network and RYS stack will rank videos okay. Or is it better to do tiered syndication?

Alright, so for the first question, how to rank a keyword and a longtail version of it. Go look at silo architecture that’s pretty much industry standard for how to rank a keyword. And a longtail version of it would be, you know, so one of the things go look for Google at Bruce clay silo architecture website silo architecture, read through that article. And that’s will teach you how to set up silo structure we also have on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/semanticmastery, use the channel search feature and look up silo structure complex or simple silo structure, you’ll be able to find videos where we talk about how to set up silos, your broad keywords would be like a top of a silo and then having adding supporting keywords or supporting articles for long that are optimized for long-tail versions of the keyword is a great way to rank for a keyword. Now that’s not the only thing that you need to do, but that is one of many, but that’s typically where we would start is creating some sort of silo for the broadest or most competitive of keywords and then adding depth to that side low using supporting keywords and that’s how you build topical relevance for that particular keyword, which creates buoyancy throughout the entire silo. What I mean by that, I mean, if you have a silo structure set up properly, and your internal linking done correctly, and your keyword theme is, is tight. In other words, it’s you have very similar and related type keywords right all within the same theme. Then anywhere that you inject link building or adding content, adding depth to that silo is going to create buoyancy throughout the entire silo, meaning all of the keywords that the silo has been optimized for will start to surface higher in the search engine results pages. Now that’s, that’s in theory, how it’s all supposed to work, but there’s also off-page issues and everything else. So that’s a loaded question. There’s way too much to cover and a hump day hangout on how to rank a keyword. It’s way too broad. But that’s where I would start is developing a content strategy for how you’re going to attack those particular keywords. They may want to comment on that before I go to part two.

Yeah, the SEO shield, right? Must have if he wants to really push I mean once he has his siloing together and then and the on-page is tight, you push with the SEO shield and that’s going to start pushing, even more, ranking power into all of the silos that he’s working with. Then he starts the isolation process we have everything covered. I mean, we’ve done it all for free. Go to our YouTube channel and search for these things go to our free Facebook group and do a group search for many of these things have already been covered silo-like Bradley said we have two videos on there on simple silos and complex silo structure. Jeffrey did an awesome job on Monday on covering some of these things and how he approaches it my approaches is a bit different because I like to work top-down rather than bottom-up, but it all has the same effect. It gets your stuff moving ranking it brings in people traffic is what you want at the end of everything.

Alright, so hopefully you are watching what I was just dead I just went to semantic or youtube.com/semanticmastery, use the channel search feature. And typed in the silo structure. There’s a complex silo, there’s simple silo structure. I would just click through watch those start with simple silo structure and then develop your content strategy. And as Marco said, Yeah, I mean, I was talking about strictly on-page, that’s where I would start. But absolutely, there’s no doubt, our off-page methods or how we push power into everything that we do. So when I talked about creating a silo and in creating buoyancy throughout that entire silo that’s perfect for what the SEO shield does because it’s basically pushing relevancy into that silo as well as all the so that entire category, that entire silo would get powered up. So absolutely, I agree with that. All right, we’re going to keep moving as soon as I can.

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

Next question was does a branded syndication network without second-tier and RYS stack? Will it rank videos? Yes, it will. I mean, that’s again, it’s one of many things that can be done. But that is certainly something that can help a branded syndication network with YouTube though, I would recommend multiple syndication networks. So tier two syndication networks are great. You can also add additional for tier-one syndication networks not branded persona-based or topically like themed but not branded. Right. So there’s you can add as many syndication networks to YouTube channels you as you want, there’s there are no footprint issues as long as you keep the applets the way that we set them up, there are no footprint issues whatsoever, so you can stack as many as you want. I always prefer for YouTube SEO but an RYS always have two-tier networks built that I attached to the channel.

But you know, again, you can do several tier one, you can do multiple tier twos, whatever you want. I just recommend with YouTube videos add more syndication networks to the channel. Okay. As far as RYS, yeah, because you can. For example, if you have a branded syndication network, for your channel, and then you have a drive stack built and a G site that’s going to power up your syndication network, which will ultimately power up every video that you ups upload or live stream to your channel that gets that syndicates out. So absolutely, it will help.

Again, I recommend a tiered syndication network for YouTube’s SEO, but RYS stack. Absolutely. That’s without question. It’s going to power up your syndication network or your two-tier network if you have one of those. That makes sense. Okay. Any other comments on that guys?

Marco: Yep. embedsm link buildingm and trickle some traffic in there. Yeah. paid you traffic, just trickle it in it. You don’t have to pay a whole lot of money to give it a boost to get Google. And then what you have is an audience, right? You have to have a targeted audience for your videos, which can convert so you’re accomplishing several things all at once.

Bradley: Yeah, I mean, I didn’t mention the traffic side of it. But there’s no question that I don’t do YouTube SEO without buying relevant traffic directly from Google ads for the video. I mean, that it there. I don’t do SEO for YouTube videos anymore without traffic. And in fact, the only thing I do to SEO YouTube videos anymore is just uploads them or live stream them to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, syndication networks have all been powered up via link building. But that’s it. That’s the only thing I do SEO wise is I upload them to the YouTube channel that goes out through my syndication networks that are aged and they’ve been powered up with link building. And then I set up a traffic campaign through Google ads to buy cheap views directly from Google, which is perfectly legit. It’s encouraged, in fact, from a relevant audience, if it’s for local then I buy it within a specific geographic area. So they’re all local IP clicks or views, but also from a relevant targeted audience. So using stuff like in-market audiences, or life event audiences, those types of things that Google knows that those views are weighted views, because or Google weights those views more because they’re from my relevant audience and audience that is interested in that. And we know they’re interested because we’re buying that interest from Google if that makes sense. So there’s, again, I do not do any YouTube SEO campaigns anymore without that being part of it. They’re two sides of the same coin. If that makes sense. There’s the SEO and you can push some of that with embeds and link building as well, as Marco mentioned from MGYB. But setting up the engagement campaign using Google Ads is absolutely critical and that’s how I maintain it. Once the video has been ranked that’s all I do is just that I have a YouTube ads set up for it that continually drives relevant views to that video, which keeps it ranked. And that’s it and I’ve got videos have been ranked for years and that’s the only thing that I do to them is just keep I’ve got campaigns I’ve shown them in the mastermind and in some other training too. I’ve got campaigns that I literally run on 40 cents a day for in YouTube ads, that’s $12 a month in ad spend. And it keeps those videos ranked because of the relevant traffic. That makes sense. So it’s a very, very powerful way to boost any SEO effort is to buy relevant traffic.

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Okay, next question is from Dustin he says, hey all great shows always I wanted to ask if you heard of Magic PR. I’ve heard good things in Facebook groups and some of the Skype groups I just wanted to hear your opinion of their service and if you have used them I have not but I know that Marco had. I know the guy, MAG is his name. I know the guy that I’ve chatted with the guy that runs it I know Marcos had some communication with the two but I’ve actually never tested it what do you market. Do you remember talking with MAG?

Marco: I’ve been meaning to get back to him because it because I’ve been wanting to run a test with his press release service and with some of the GMBs that I have to see how it works right as he says that he can get a local push or, or greater so I really want to test it out. I can’t say what it does other than what Mag and the people that he’s around with what they have to say and I have heard really good things about having said that our press release or the one that we use press advantage works really really well. I mean when you combine it with our methods right with that SEO shield, and pushing all of that relevance and pushing traffic and those links into that SEO shield and then link building behind that and then you running the embed gigs doing

Everything that we recommend. It has, I mean, it’s just fantastic for what we do. And we can show I mean, people say, well press releases that they’re they get, they fall off the index and whatever, we don’t care, we don’t care. They don’t drive traffic. That’s not true. We can show where they do drive relevant traffic, we can show it. And especially if you get into them because there’s a premium that you can pay and get into Yahoo Finance and I forget what other Sir, I don’t want to say anything other than I know that we can get into Yahoo. It really, really has a great effect, especially on the traffic that you get its relevant traffic into whatever it is that you’re doing. And it’s all of those signals that we’re looking for. So we have that I’ll talk to Matt and as sometimes as you and if you’re listening to me Mag sorry that I haven’t gotten back to you, because I’ve been snowed under with a hope. Excuse me, under just stuff and I will get to you.

Yeah, it’s interesting but it’d be nice if I’m if I pause my screen I could do it I could show you that Press Advantage you know does produce quite a lot of referral traffic my real estate business I get a lot of referral traffic from Press Advantage so it’s you know if I and I guess it shows it as a referral source and analytics, so it’s there’s absolutely good traffic there.

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Anyways, we’re going to keep on moving. Next is, I ordered your link building starter package for the new business domain. I’m new to link building I just ordered it following the battle plan is every video that shows us how to submit our info for our order. I’ve seen your video that says not to include money sites so can you give examples of all the links I should be giving you also do I wait until the SEO Power Shield was finished? Yeah. Okay, so our link building service. Anything I can point you to but um, as far as like training but you know one of the things that are on our list to do is to add a simple video for each page like order page that essentially will walk you through what you need in order to place the order that will get done eventually guys I don’t know when it’s on the to-do list I promise. But in the meantime it’s very very simple, don’t we none of our link building campaigns are designed for direct to money sites, they’re all built all of the link building campaigns are developed specifically for powering up tier one entity assets or you know anything beyond your money site essentially. So we use them for powering up the power shield, the SEO shields, syndication networks, Id pages, press advantage organization pages can be used for citations, social media, web 2.0s, all of that. Anything that’s really tiered one, branded type assets can be powered up with our link building packages. So with that said, when it comes to ordering everything that you can collect to add to your link building order, I think it’s up to 100 URLs that you can submit with your order, you want to add to your target URL list because you want to power up all of those tier one assets, right, all of your branded assets everywhere that you can get your new business, your new projects, your new company, new brand name published online. And with a branded profile, you want to try to get as many of those as you possibly can and add those into your list. Now that said, the ones that should you wait for the power the SEO shield to be complete? Yes, because those can be added into your link building order. And essentially, you can take all the files and folder URLs and put them into that text file that you upload when you order links, which will do will power up all of the files and folders within your RYS stack in your G site.

So if you have a senate if you got a power shield then I’m assuming I can’t remember which different levels they are but a syndication network to against adding your syndication network profile URLs into the link building order. If you have a GMB map, add the map URL, Google My Business website adds that it just not a money site. Right, because it’s not designed our link building campaigns are developed for that. But that’s pretty much all you need to do. It should be fairly simple. Just gather up your tier one entity as is branded profile URLs, add them to a text file, save it and then upload that as your target URL list. As far as keywords you want to add market-level keywords, not keywords with location modifiers. What are market-level keywords or top-level keywords product and or service keywords without location? modifiers Okay, and when you’re ordering link building, you should try to submit a minimum of 200 keywords, more is better, but 200 is the minimum and just submit those via text file as well. Does anybody want to comment on that?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Just so people know, we develop the package is the link building packages with the idea that people would already have the syndication network, right the tier one branded, the are the drive second t site and the @ID page and their media page, which is in the @ID. So our thought is always the people will go and complete these other steps before ordering our link building package. Because our link building packages are meant to power all that up. It’s not intended for the money site is intended to hit everything that’s protecting the money site so that the power transfers over without or I’m not gonna say without the chance of a penalty, but with minimized risk, because of the way that we’re doing. If you were to hit the money site directly, then that there are other parts of the algorithm that you might trigger that you don’t want to get into. And so I would recommend if you haven’t done those steps that you go back and you do those steps first so they can gather up all of the URLs that we target for link building and submit those.

Bradley: There you go. Can you still hear me? I had stopped share. So we here okayLet me see if I can bring that back up now. Alright, so here’s a pulled open, you can see that this is just referral traffic sources for Alpha Land Realty. I’m just bringing back up the previous question about press advantage. Look at that. So besides Facebook, the second most referral traffic that I’ve had in the last 30 days from my real estate businesses from Press Advantage, so there’s no doubt and that’s just the last 30 days. So you can see this no doubt that there’s traffic coming from Press Advantage. I want to point that out.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

Marco: Yeah, it is. But I mean it. It took two days for me to or two webinars for me to cover iframes and entities during the charity webinars. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to post the charity webinar page, and I’m not there’s no minimum to order the there’s no max, I always say you, your heart will tell you whether to donate and your wallet will tell you how much. So I’m going to drop the URL so that you can go and donate and you’re going to get access to not only this year’s webinars or the past webinar series, but the one before that. So there’s like 10 videos that talk all about the entity and how to power it up talks about RYS Academy, it talks about iframes. And what iframes are, what they do, and why they’re so different from everything else. So I’ll just leave it at that because it’s too much to cover in. But what do we have in that? 31 minutes? I probably didn’t get all up.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

All right. Mohammad’s got a couple of questions. What’s up, buddy? He says, Hey, guys, my car dealer client has been encouraging me to make use of his staff to help me rank him. That’s awesome. It’s rare that you get real help from the staff from businesses, I find it really difficult to get people to cooperate with me. Anyways, he says I took him up on his offering got the staff to regularly send geotagged phone images for GMB posts and even have them uploading showroom pictures to GMB directly through the app. I make sure they send me responses to reviews they get to my question is what else can I have them do to help me rank whether in GMB or elsewhere?, I usually have trouble getting this kind of cooperation. So I want to make the most of it. Yeah, I mean, I don’t know what else you could get them to do because that seems like they’re doing a lot already as far as like, you know, more than most of my clients are willing to do, which is great. So, yeah, if you can get them to upload images directly to GMB through GMB map on there, or excuse me, GMB app on their phone, that’s great. So that’s uploading photos that are geotagged. Something else they can do is actually create posts from the GMB app if that’s something that they’re, you know, willing to do or if you’re even comfortable with them doing it. The reason I say, I don’t think it’s any issue whatsoever. But if you were to have them actually create posts to a lot of them probably won’t want to do that, because that would require them to add some tax call to action, all that kind of stuff. So it’s likely that they’re probably going to give you resistance and just want to upload photos, which is fine.

So the alternative would be also to have those images that the photos that they took also shared, added to a shared Google Photos album. That’s how my team does it. So any of my clients that do provide photos, which isn’t a lot of them, but the ones that do, all they do is they have their technicians in the field or whatever, actually, take photos, and then they get copied into a Google shared photos album, that my VA my bloggers have access to, so that they can go just pluck an image from that shared photos album, and use that as a GMB post. And it contains the same metadata from when it was uploaded. So you can still get the geo relevancy and my VA is doing the blogging, create the GMB posts essentially, so that the client doesn’t have to do that all the client has to do is take photos, and they’ll automatically be added to the Google Photos album. So that’s, that’s all I typically do. As far as what you’ve got them doing now, it seems like you’re doing you know, quite a bit. So yeah, I mean, I would just do more posts if possible using geotagged images, targeting the keywords and or locations that you’re trying to optimize for. As far as additional things that can be done while you already know the Muhamad, right, all the SEO shield stuff, link building, embeds and that kind of stuff. Marco, do you have any?

Marco: Yeah, I got a word of caution because if you ask them to do too much, they’re going to start wondering why they need you and you don’t want to get into that. They’re doing everything you need for relevance, location relevance, and this would be a product relevance, right? Since it’s an automobile is a product, it’s not a service. This is cars and you’re getting all the different makes and models and you can start, you know, you have Local GMB Pro. And so you know what to do with all of the all of these different categories that you’re getting, you know exactly what you need to do, what the next steps are. And as Bradley said to them, post them, create posts with these automobiles you know how to relate everything one to the other, and then push power and that’s Local GMB Pro. You have that, follow the training and you’re gonna get great results.

Bradley: Yeah. I agree with that. That’s one of them, you know, if a client of mine wanted to do GMB posts, I wouldn’t mind them doing it. But typically, I actually one of my pest control company, they started having their technicians do that. But they very quickly decided they didn’t want to do it, which was okay because they were shitty posts anyways, they weren’t up to my standards. So, you know, through trial and error, we learned the best thing to do is just have them add photos to a shared Google Photos album and let my blogger handle the GMB posts because then they’re set up their siloed, they’re well worded, proper target linking, you know, target URL linking all of that, so.

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Fitz is up. He says good agents, thank you for this platform to give real-world answers that work. I have a client whose business name includes the word and some expressions of their name, then use the ampersand is this huge problem? Well, it’s not as big of a problem as some of the other discrepancies I’ve seen. But it is still an issue, it can create NAP issues. I’ve got several clients that have done that in the past as well, where they’ll have ampersand and some other brand names and others it will be and Andy, as all you know, it, is it a huge problem. Is it causing a huge problem that would be the question I have for you fits. If it’s not really creating much of an issue, I wouldn’t worry about it? If you are having a hard time, you know, getting your desired result for a particular you know, maps pack ranking. For example, let’s just use that as an example. Then Yes, that would be something I would address would be a cleanup, citation cleanup.

So I would either whatever it is, and the GMB, I would leave it that way, if that’s the correct format, how is their name legally registered? That’s how I would have it. Right, that makes sense. So in other words, however, they’ve incorporated their corporation or LLC or whatever it is that. However, it’s registered with that with their state, is how I would list it in the GMB and then many discrepancies out there I would have edited, cleaned up, corrected to be the new the right the proper format. But that again, I wouldn’t tell you to just do that just because if you’re getting the results that you want, anyways, just leave it. It’s what I’m saying. Don’t do it just because it could create a problem in the future. If it’s not creating a problem. Now, I wouldn’t worry about it. But if you need that, if you’re having trouble getting the desired result that you want, that is absolutely one thing that I would address, citation clean up.

And depending on how many there are out there, if it’s a lot then I would recommend paying Loganix to do it because they have a really, really good successful citation cleanup service. If you go to semanticmastery.com/loganix, you can see their citation cleanup service. There are other services out there that are less expensive, but I found their success rate isn’t as great or as high as Loganix’s. And so even though Loganix is expensive when I whenever I have a new project that has a bunch of NAP errors on the web, that’s who I use because they get the vast majority of them over the course of like, I think it’s an eight or a 10-week process. So anybody wants to comment on that?

Marco: Yeah, you probably know this already. But Pearl Trees has a problem with the ampersand. Right and pulling in the embeds or the iframe. It has a really big problem with an ampersand. And there are other times when it can cause an issue with some embeds and some other websites.

It’s just that ampersand so I prefer the end although I am percent in a business name is the recommended way to go. Yeah, so go figure, right. I know it’s code and so we don’t know how pro-Jesus is doing and how it’s pulling it in and why the ampersand creates conflict, but it does. So maybe it’s not an IP issue but if he had it and he submitted it to us for us to go and create the @ID or if he were to submit it to Dadiea for an embed run, there might be issues

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Okay, Muhammad’s up again he says Hey guys, I’m using no um to build social accounts for clients now has tons of sites covering a wide swath of the internet, is there any risk in getting all accounts for a particular client, even if a particular website isn’t necessarily related to that client industry, I wouldn’t put a cinema on Angie’s list for example, am I mixing up citations with social accounts? Yes and no. I mean, remember, a lot of times just having a profile on on these web platforms, it’s not necessarily something that you’re going to be pasting or publishing content to. So even if it’s not really relevant, it’s about having an additional presence. It’s another publishing point for your NAP.

You know, I don’t think it’s harmful. I don’t know how helpful it is. Maybe Marco would have a better answer to be to even have a profile on like kind of an unrelated site, but the way I look at it is if you’re just setting up a presence there, then I don’t see there being any harm and having like, for example, I’m trying to think of there’s there’s some of these like art sites out there right there like web to auto blog platforms for people that are artsy. Like the art projects and stuff, yet I’ve used them quite a bit for another semantic cover social hub right as a way to kind of just build another presence and you can interlink sometimes to some of the other social media profiles and that kind of stuff. And even though none of the projects I work on have anything to do with art, it’s still just another profile point. So I don’t think that causes any problems. I don’t know how beneficial they are. But I know that having an NAP published in more locations typically helps market and comments on that. I look at it from a standpoint of protecting the brand.

So it’s totally acceptable, and I think very natural for you as you would, and I’m referring to the client, right, of course, for you to protect the brand. And to go to these websites and lock in that profile. You know, you just have to put the basic information then you don’t have to go too far out, get that NAP in there. And that’s what you need so that if Google comes crawling in there and it sees it, it’s going to not I mean, it’s just more places for your entity to exist more places for Google to pull up to pull in entity information, and all things being equal. They never on the web, we understand that but all things being equal when two entities are being compared against what’s happening in Google’s database and the relational database, the one that has the best entity, as far as things go right now, that’s the winner. And if you’ve taken care of that, and if you’ve gone and locked in all of these profiles, and you’re showing it as part of the entire brand, there I don’t I see absolutely no problem with that.

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Alright, so moving on. The next one was, what is the best way to make a drive stack for a translated website. Do we make a syndication network for each language? I can’t even answer that because I just don’t do anything outside of the US English base us projects but any any any advice there I know Hernan and Marco both have done a lot of foreign language stuff over the years.

Marco: Yeah, I mean, we, we don’t generally do it in another language, although we have, it’s not something that we want to do because we want our builders to focus on whatever it is that they’re doing. It requires a whole lot of information. We did one for gurgi, by the way, I think it was Hungarian. So we can do it but you have to supply all of the information, all of the content, the images and everything that you want it. You can write to [email protected], and say that you’re looking to do a drive stack in a different language. As far as do you make a syndication network for each language? You could since each one it’s either on a subdomain or in a folder inside the root domain. So each one of those will have its own feed. That’s a whole lot of work, man. That’s a whole lot of work. I mean, I could guide you a little bit more. The only thing that I tell you to go take a look at apple.com and how they handle their languages. So you’re gonna have to look at the source code, but I think you’re gonna get a really good idea on how to approach this and how Apple approaches it. And I mean, that’s as far as I’m willing to go with this and in a free forum.

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Alright, cool. Alright, next is does the RYS must have a GMB listing? No, it doesn’t have to what if the site is not local related? Again, it doesn’t have to. Doesn’t need an NAP name, address, phone number and a GMB listing type if it’s not for a local business, but drive stacks can push relevancy into any type of project. So, can I give an address outside the USA and still ranked for a place inside the USA? Where are you trying to rank for a place or for a keyword? Because you’re asking about not having a GMB listing? Do you need one or can you get away with not having one and then you’re asking about ranking for a place in here which is typically location based ranking which is maps and a GMB type stuff. So I’m not sure if I’m understanding the question, but as far as can you have an address outside of the US safe and use the GMB stack or excuse me in our iOS stack to rank for keywords in the USA? Yes, of course you can. And I’m not sure I’m fully interpreting or comprehending that question, Marco Do you have any?

Marco: Nah man because I need to know whether whether it’s local In which case, you need a GMB to local. Well, you don’t. You can rank in organic. Right, you can still do an organic push, but if it’s triggering a map path, then you’re going to need a GMB lesson to go in there with the rest of the map and try to hit that top three. So this is very confusing. I don’t know which way you’re going because this is the one time where local doesn’t matter. We need to know whether you’re targeting location or whether you’re targeting USA overall.

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Okay, I guys I just received my first single-tier syndication network from your store. I have no idea what to do with the empty Bitly account suggestions gratefully accepted. Nothing whenever you syndicate content, whenever you publish content if it’s whatever your publishing, whatever your content publishing engine is, right, whether it’s your blog, if it was an RSS drive syndication network or YouTube channel, or both, whenever you publish content, it will automatically create a bit link. The only reason why we because bit link used to have public profile pages for Bitly. But they did away with that a couple of years ago, but you can still siphon some domain authority, not that we give a shit about domain authority metrics, because we don’t, but you can still siphon some domain authority from Bitly just by auto shortening links, which that’s all that does. The applet, whenever you publish content, will create a bit link just a bit the short link inside your Bitly account. That’s all that that’s for.

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Alright, the next question is from Jay. He says after winning my service area business client of the consequences for two years one of his GMB was suspended for using a mailbox service the address. I highly doubt we can get the GMB back. My concern is with the suspended GMB and his Google account, or his other mailbox GMB’s at higher risk for being in the same account as the suspended one. He is now motivated to handle this risk so far as to seek now to rent office space. So yeah, I can understand that. I’m concerned. In the meantime, though, his account will be hit very hard. Any suggestions? Yeah. Okay. Let me give you my experience with that because I don’t know the answer. Jay, I don’t know if it’s going to be any more of a risk or not. I know that I have some accounts that have I’ve had a couple over the last maybe six months suspended. And, like some locations, one off locations. I’ve had a couple too. So I’ve had two locations suspended in the last six months or so that are were suspended within an account that has more than one location. And so far it hasn’t affected any of the other locations. I’m a bit gun shy or nervous to go in and do any changes to any or make any edits or anything to any of the other listings in that same account. But one of the things I would suggest possibly doing to pot to perhaps avoid that issue would be to go in and maybe move add a different Gmail account for each location that you have. So go in and create new G or by Gmail accounts, preferably by some aged accounts if you can, and go in and add a user. So the new Gmail account per location, so each location gets a new Gmail account added as a user and then maybe transfer ownership to that new Gmail account.

So that and make everything standalone. If that makes sense. The reason I say that is because I know that one of the big things that happened in the last few weeks with another big GMB suspension, a, you know, a Google one on a raft and suspended a whole bunch of GMB’s is that manager accounts were hit. We know because some big names got hit with some big manager accounts that were managers of, you know, dozens and dozens if not hundreds, and hundreds of GMBs, and all of them they all got taken down. So if a manager account got hit got caught up in this suspension nightmare, then all of the GMB’s within that manager account got suspended and that’s what can be huge. Imagine that right? Imagine if you lost all of them at one time, that could really suck. So that’s why it makes sense to be safe right to play it safe and to have each GMB its own standalone Google account, without a common manager connecting all of them that way, especially if their spam accounts. That’s my point, guys. They’re all legit businesses, I don’t see why there’s any reason why you would have to worry about having a manager attached to all locations, that doesn’t seem to be a problem. But if they’re against the terms of service type listings, PO boxes, UPS stores, you know, that kind of stuff or just, you know, nonexistent addresses, then if you have a manager account connected to all of them, that’s going to make all of them susceptible to being suspended, which is why it would be better to have each one of them in their own standalone Google account with no manager connecting them together, so that if one gets suspended, it’s isolated to that. Does that make sense? So that’s what I would do is I would start going through that process of, I would buy some aged Gmail accounts, go through adding the user, add a user, once the users accepted the invitation, then you can change them as opposed to the primary owner and didn’t go back in and remove. And in fact, you can do that through the new Gmail account. Once the private mary owner has been named in the new Gmail account, you can use that account to actually remove the managers and owners or previous owners. And that way now you’ve got it compartmentalized into one Gmail account.

Also, we do have a listing suspension lifting service. I don’t know that that would help. But you could always try that. And, of course, it would help it’s suspended in the special can be lifted, doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter how it got suspended. As long as they haven’t gone through the process of notifying Google of the suspended trying to get it lifted that way, then total, we can totally get it back for you. And anything else that happens to that manager account world where this other stuff is we can lift the suspension and guarantee it for six months. So that if anything happens to it, during that time say get suspended again, for whatever reason, as long as you don’t notify anybody of the suspension we go in there and lift the suspension again. So you get it so it’s peace of mind for for for six months until you find an alternate. That’s why this service was developed along with the GMB verification because we know what’s going on. And by the way, I have a bunch of stuff and manager accounts, but I kept myself like I don’t I didn’t have hundreds in one manager account. Yeah, I spoke here how I was doing it. I was dividing it up and I was never putting like, let’s say 150 plumber GMB in one account, that’s the tell that to tell I wanted to I wanted it to look like an agency managing several accounts across different niches. And so far so good, man. I’m gonna knock on wood.

Yeah.

Mohammed, yeah, the next Battle Plan. We’re working on that. It’s coming out soon. We can’t give you time yet. Um, alright, so it looks like he clarified some of the questions about the drive stack with the location. She said to ask for just in case you need an address. Now you don’t need one if it’s not a local project and you don’t need an address at all, just your top-level keyword, the brand name, that’s how you start to build that association. And then you know, add your keyword list and the primary target URL that you want to push relevancy to, which would be your website, you don’t need an address then. Okay.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

If time left is splitting a keyword with multiple words as a chain of anchors as each anchor text is one of the words so I got a little bit of a headache from that question. This putting a keyword with multiple words as a chain of anchors. As each anchor text is one of the words that will add SEO values or just for hiding backlink voting.

Adam: I don’t understand the question. I’m sorry. One is the same as taking something like this tree service company and making one anchor text best one tree one service, one company or you know, no, I, I was just for hiding backlink building. I don’t know why you would do that at all period, honestly. Yeah, I mean, I understand what you’re saying now because Adam did a good job of explaining what it is that you’re asking. I can’t imagine why you would do that. Especially if it’s all going to the same link. And in fact, that that actually devalues the link, doesn’t it Marco? When you have multiple links to the same target URL from the same page?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

Bradley: So no, I don’t know why you would even do that. Yeah, I don’t know why you do that. I don’t know who gave you that advice, but I don’t think that’s good advice, but I haven’t tested any of it. So to be honest with you, I can’t really tell. I don’t know why you would do that though.

What Is Tunneling?

So last part is he says Vasquez, I’m assuming he’s talking about Hernan mentioned in one of the videos, something about tunneling. Can he explain what he meant about that? What is for and how to use it and how. He must be talking about iframe, what we call iframe,

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Bradley: But yeah, I think I think as far as there was a similar question up here about how to iframes pass power. Right? Do iframes counters backlinks? What’s really the advantage of making use of these iframes? It seems to me like it’s a very similar question to what this one is about tunneling. So the answer would be if you want to learn about all the all that Marco was talking about go make a donation to this charity right here. And you’ll get access to all the webinars that Marco have done for two years now about iframes and you know, pushing power into the entity and all that kind of stuff.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Lastly, Mohammed says, Hey guys, there’s still time. Would it be weird to use the MGYB link shortener for clients use? I guess I’m thinking it would be odd to have mgyb.co around their properties, but I want to use it. Yeah. Okay. That’s, that’s huge. In case you guys aren’t aware, mgyb.co now has a link shortener available, which is super powerful because we’ve been building it for two years authority to and I’m not talking about Moz’s domain authority metrics I’m just talking about we’ve been building authority to the mgyb domain over the last two years because of all the drive stacks that we build for customers, and all the link building campaigns and everything. Although the shortened URLs have been coming to MGYB. So we’ve pushed a lot of damn power into probably still logged in. Anyways, let me click on upgrade and there are different plans. If you go to mgyb.co/s, for shortener, you can sign up and then there’s a free plan and then there are paid plans. And you just saw the dashboard. Right? So this is the dashboard and it’s super, super powerful. I get what you’re saying though Muhamed on it because I just actually did content marketing training for the two extra agency. Today, I just finished it today. And I was talking about that because one of the things that I do or my team does for my clients is we silo GMB posts right? But we don’t use the long ugly and we use when we silo GMB posts. We link to the previous GMB posts within the same silo. We do a text-based link in the GMB post Text body not the call to action button. The call to action button is usually read for either linking directly to a blog post URL, just called a deep link right, or linking to any tier one entity asset. But the way that we daisy chain the GMB post together is to link to the previous GMB post URL within the same silo but we do that as a text link within the text body of the post the GMB post. But because the URLs are stupid, ugly, a lot like stupid long and ugly for GMB posts and GMB post text-only allows up to 1500 characters, we don’t post that really stupid, ugly long URL in there, it would be ugly. So what we do is shorten it. And I was just talking about this in the 2xyouragency training today I was saying MGYB is a great shortener for that because it’s super powerful. However, for clients, I’ll be 100% honest with you guys, for clients, I use the Pretty Link Pro plugin on their domain, and I shortened the URLs that we use in the GMB post with their own branded domain. And I do that because it’s prettier that way, and it makes sense. So its third domain in the text of the post body as opposed to mgyb, although, like I said, probably wouldn’t care.

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Bradley: Sure, you know what I’m saying? Good. Yeah, you could not a bad idea because there’s a lot of cool things you can do with MGYB shortened to like, you can add retargeting pixels into the link so that when somebody clicks the link, they get added to the retargeting list. So there’s just a lot of really cool things you can do with here. So yeah, as Hernando said, that’s something that is possible. You could do an MGYB short URL and then shorten that or pretty it up with a domain redirect. You know, like Pretty Links redirect that makes sense.

Marco: I have a few things because there’s really no problem using a link shortener that nobody had a problem using goo.gl. Nobody has a problem using Bitly or anything else that’s out there for clients or for whomever. I mean, it’s common practice to use a shortener, and most websites don’t have their own URL shortener. And so they go and use a third-party URL shortener, which is what you’d be doing in the first place, Muhammad. However, having said that, we do have the capability of creating your own custom shortener inside the MGYB shortner, Muhammad. So I would suggest that you contact [email protected], and ask about having your own domain inside. You’d receive the same power, but you’d have your own domain inside the short nuts fucking awesome, then, I know the stuff that we could I mean, we have to test it out. It’s an idea that Rob and I just just threw back and forth in Slack while this was going on. I’m pretty sure that it can be done. And you know, we just have to see what the cost would be and if it’s financially feasible for you, Muhammad and if it isn’t, then just use the MGYB shortner. Nothing wrong with that. It’s a shortener among a bunch of other shorteners that are out there in a shortened URL land.

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 276 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

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Yeah.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

What Is Tunneling?

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 276 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

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Yeah.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

What Is Tunneling?

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 276 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

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Yeah.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

What Is Tunneling?

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 276 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

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Yeah.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

What Is Tunneling?

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 276 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

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Yeah.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

What Is Tunneling?

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 276

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 276 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

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Yeah.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

What Is Tunneling?

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 276

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 276 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

Hernan: Doing great. Look at this. And then good, really good. Really excited to be here.

Excited to for the questions today so good and that we were totally not sending gifts before hopping live so that’s not what’s happening on the Slack channel for some of you know,

Adam: so when Bradley shares his screen that was not us posting all those gifts on us. Marco How you doing today?

Chris: Yeah, like I’m doing good. Let’s go that way. No sore throats or anything no cold Yeah, like I’m still alive, kicking, things are good.

Bradley: Yeah, today was week six. I just completed the training for week six. Today was about the content or this week’s training about content marketing. So yeah,

Marco: Yeah, I’m gonna turn off my camera because too much sun isn’t good for you.

Bradley: It’s not good for us. You mean.

Marco: Good for you guys. So too much sun for us is not good. Yeah.

Bradley: Coming. Okay, can we get any questions? Do it? Let’s go. You guys should be seeing this correctly.

How To Rank A Long Tail Keyword?

Come on, get back to the tab. There we go. All right.

Does Having A Branded Syndication Network & RYS Stack Help In Ranking Videos?

What Are Your Thoughts On Magic PR?

Do You Have A Video That Shows How To Submit Order Info In MGYB?

Hernan: Yeah, that’s our training for link building right there. We’re gonna cut it and then we’re going to put it on the sales page for MGYB.

Marco: Yeah, Nuff said. There you go. If you can’t believe your eyes and then I don’t know what but believe.

Bradley: Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Do iFrames Count As Backlinks?

Alright, next one is do iframes count as backlinks? What’s really the advantage and making use of iframes? Marco that is absolutely your question.

So there you go.

What SEO Strategy Do You Recommend Apart From Using Geotagged Phone Images And Reviews?

Would It Cause A Ranking Problem If The Business Name Use Words And Symbols Interchangeably?

Yeah.

Would It Be Okay To Create Social Media Accounts That Are Not Necessarily Related To A Client’s Industry?

Yeah, I mean, as I said, I’ve never been concerned with it is being an issue. We just build them out as we go. So and

What Is The Best Way To Make A Drive Stack For A Translated Website?

Bradley: Hernan, did you want to comment?

Hernan: No, I do agree with Marco. I was about to say what he said. Okay.

Bradley: Hernan’s at a bar or something.

Hernan: I might or might not be early drinking. Yeah.

It’s damn near five o'clock here too. So why

Does The RYS Require A GMB Listing?

Bradley: Yeah. Yes, if you can clarify if we still have time we’ll we’ll try to answer with a better answer.

How Do You Use The Bit.ly Account Included In The Single Tier Syndication Network From MGYB?

Does Having A Suspended GMB Page Affect Other Listings Within Same Account?

Yeah.

Does Splitting A Keyword With Multiple Words As Chain Of Anchor Texts Add SEO Value?

Marco: Yeah, Yeah, it does.

What Is Tunneling?

Hernan: I did that. Yeah, I did that or sleep strange. Remember when we were pushing each other one of the two. So yeah.

Marco: He’s getting the Latinos confused. We all look alike.

Hernan: Yeah, man. Come on now. Get your Latinos. Right.

Adam: Yeah, we can get some clarification on that. Maybe we can help them out. We got a couple of minutes here.

Okay.

Is It Okay To Use MGYB Link Shortener For Client’s Use?

Hernan: Real quick. Can you do like a double thing where you shorten the MGYB shortner?

Very well. Alright guys, five o'clock. We’re wrapping it up. Thanks, everybody, for being here. guys next week. Thanks, guys. Bye, everyone. Yep,

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