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depressed-chicken-man · 4 years

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Cooped Up

Shane x OC

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Summary:

After failing to start her dream in the city, the fashion designer turned farmer tries to cope with her new life in the last-ditch effort to make a happy home for herself. She has so many concerns for her new life. How much of her identity is stuck in the city? Will she even make a difference?

Even if she doesn’t think so, it’s undeniable that she will make a difference for a certain depressed coop keeper.

Chapter 3: Marnie’s Nephew

Chapter 3 on Ao3

A week passed since Jen had first met Haley and they had met up almost every day since. This was the first day that she had not managed to make an outing because this was a more special day on her farm.

She had so much fun with Haley and was reminded of a friend she had in college. The blonde photographer in practice was extremely supportive and told her what she knew about other townsfolks and Jen herself wondered how far it fell into gossip but most of what Haley had shared was truthful so far. Jen really enjoyed having lunch and tea with her and it was a welcome friendship. Not only was Haley an interesting and fun friend so far, but they also shared a common interest.

Makeup and fashion.

Haley had introduced her to her sister, Emily, who oftentimes was a worker in the Saloon. She also got to meet Alex, who seemed nice enough but there was one thing that irked Jennifer about him. His nickname for her, Farmer Girl . She hated it.

In the moments she could barely afford to spare outside of tending to her farm and trying to get her parsnips to flourish, she would go visit Haley, who always welcomed her in to chat. It was that or she would opt for some alone time to sit at the pier south of her farm. One thing she enjoyed without a doubt was the sounds of the forest, the birds and trees. She loved the lapping of the water at the water’s edge and against the pier. It was soothing and relaxing and welcome when she was beyond exhausted.

It was then when she was alone that she could think about her progress and wonder if she was doing everything right. She could reflect on her day and wonder if she could keep it up, if she would get better, or if it was all doomed.

Even if she had tea with Haley once in a while, she still missed her city cafe latte.

Today was the big milestone on her farm, and despite having poured her savings into it, a coop was sure to help her farm grow and make a profit. She was excited and relieved, yet there was still that fear she had yet to get over. She had tried to get over it by watching “cute chicken videos” but for every cute video, there was another one of a rooster chasing a kid or a hen flogging someone who dared to enter the coop.

Still, her pride and determination to eventually be able to sell fresh eggs were enough for her not to hesitate. She was gonna have eggs even if she had to run, screaming out of her coop every single day. With another satisfied look at her new coop and a small stock of feed while her silo was being constructed, she walked around her freshly watered crops and made her way to the ranch.

In no time, she had made it to the door of the ranch, the moos of the dairy cows welcomed her. She took the time to dust herself properly, looking dreadful and dirty but that was the price to pay for her hard work. She was taking showers nearly every day because she refused to walk into town looking so dreadful. She had her appearance to uphold and she stuck to it. The exception was of course that Marnie didn’t seem like she cared a bit and Jennifer knew she already trusted herself enough to look humble.

Having dusted herself enough, she stepped into the ranch door and Marnie called from a back room. Jen waited and perked up when she saw the woman appear from around a corner near the back of the house.

“Oh miss Jennifer, I know why you’re here today! Robin already told me, but I’m having a small issue.” She called out, looking back into the room she came from before making her way to the front.

“An issue? I could come back later if I need to?” Jennifer offered but Marnie shook her head in response.

“No need. It’s just that my niece is sick with a virus. Poor Jas has been in and out of the bathroom all morning, bless her heart. I can’t come to help you, but my nephew can. It’s actually his day off and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.” She gave and immediately set on her way. “He’s in our coop right now, I’ll go get him. Stay here.” She ordered and Jennifer stood in the lobby, if it could be called that being the foyer of a house.

She wondered what Marnie’s nephew was like. She knew that Marnie had told her his name but Jen couldn’t remember what it was. She wondered if he would be a good friend to her. She wished that was the case, as this ranch was essentially her neighbor. She came up with a quick mental image of what Marnie’s nephew was like. Kind like Marnie? Humble like Marnie? Surely he’d have red hair like Marnie?

In no time, Marnie returned, talking over her shoulder to her nephew, who followed her out the door and into the kitchen. It took her a moment to recognize him, but her sinking feeling set in as soon as she did.

That’s right… Marnie’s nephew’s name was Shane.

Jen closed her eyes and took a deep breath to prepare herself. Just be professional. He doesn’t want to talk to you any more than you want to be snapped at by him , she told herself. It was hard to not feel a little uneasy with the cold, apathetic stare he was giving her as he made his way to the lobby and leaned against the wall, looking as if he’d rather jump off a bridge than help her. He looked only slightly more put together today, but his clothing choice lacked taste. Khaki shorts and a baggy black shirt didn’t exactly speak fashionable, but the lack of a proper shave was the worst of it. She supposed she was being the slightest bit hypocritical, adorning a dirty set of overalls herself, but at least she had a reason. The redhead made her way to the front desk and opened up an invoice book.

“Okay, Miss Jennifer. How many chicks do you need?” She asked and clicked her pen. Jen had her mind made before she came, the most obvious choice for her to make.

“Twelve. A dozen chickens, a dozen eggs, right?” she half-joked but her humor wasn’t as helpful to her when she heard a barely audible groan from the dark-haired man. She was tempted to look at him but she kept her eyes on Marnie, ignoring him. Marnie gave her a smile and she nodded and hummed as she wrote it down.

“Twelve chicks it is. Shane, if you would…” She began but what she was asking was implied. Without a word, he pulled himself from the wall and disappeared into the house. Marnie sighed and gave her the amount owed. After she had paid and they waited on the grump to return, Marnie spoke up hesitantly.

“Miss Jennifer, I hope you don’t mind if my nephew is a little reluctant to talk. I would say he’s shy, but the truth is that he’s a little rough around the edges but I think he’d help you with anything if you ask.” she said and Jennifer nodded in acknowledgment. She didn’t know what to say and saying nothing was the best option for being genuine. Marnie changed the subject.

“How is your farm? Pierre has been saying that the exports are very solid for your first season. You’re doing well but what do you think?” She asked and Jennifer wondered for a moment if she should express her concerns for her farm. The decision was made quickly.

“Oh it’s wonderful. I feel like I’ve got the hang of it already. By this time next year, I’m sure I’ll have made it worthwhile. I couldn’t be more pleased.” She said, her optimistic words smeared her truth a bit but it was worth it to appear composed. She didn’t need to complain or show that she was struggling.

“Oh good! I’m so glad you think so! A farm is a lot of work but you’re handling it well.” she complimented. Any further conversation topic was stopped as a door creaked open and the brooding man stepped out with a box that peeped and squeaked. Jen was curious as to what the chicks looked like but she would find out later. She didn’t want to peer into the box now.

“Shane, if you would, could you give her a little rundown of how to take care of them when you get there. I’m sure it would help her a lot.” Marnie asked and the man rolled his eyes.

“No need. I think I’ve got it. I just need to have them brought over.” Jennifer stated, hoping that the less time spent with him meant the less likely chance of him being mean to her. Marnie still gave Shane a look as if to say that he should do it anyway but he didn’t seem to pay attention. Instead, he looked from the box to the door.

“Good idea, let’s get this over with.” he muttered, that same sharpness present in his voice. Jen gave Marnie a wary look before taking the hint. She rubbed her temples and set off towards the back of the house to where her niece was.

There goes the hope of her neighbor being her friend.

He couldn’t understand what was so difficult about carrying your own chicks home. The box wasn’t huge and the new girl was more than capable of doing it herself. No, it was his aunt’s idea of decent customer service, as if he didn’t have enough of that already.

His plan was to put the chickens in the coop for the city girl and get the hell out of there. He didn’t want to hang around and chit chat like old people. He was not in the mood at all today and on his day off he just wanted to stay home and be miserable, maybe check in on Jas too. He was silent as he followed the new farmer, grateful she hadn’t tried to strike up any conversation yet. Her braided dusty blonde hair hung and swayed behind her as she led the way, not that he needed directions. Everyone knew where everything was in this small town.

After a short walk, they came upon her farm and he was hasty to set the box of chicks in front of the coop door for Jennifer to deal with, his opposition to help her more than necessary out shadowed his concerns for the chicks. He doubted she knew how to take care of them and he didn’t want to see her at the ranch every time she had a question or issue. Still, without a word he turned to leave, his duty done before she called out to him.

“Hey, um....” She began and gave a suggestion more than asking a question “Could you open it for me? In the coop, preferably.” She asked, her brown eyes looking at him hopefully.

He stared at her for a moment. She can’t even open the box herself? She’ll fail here in no time. Without a word, he stepped into the coop and pulled the box in. He looked up at her to see that she was standing outside the coop, peering in from around the door frame. Whatever, it was none of his concern. He kneeled down onto the hay covered flooring, the cushion was at least done right but he wasn��t sure if it was the work of Jennifer or Robin, but he liked to think it was Robin.

He opened the box and a chorus of cheeps sounded as the chicks awaited their release from the cardboard cell. He reached in and scooped the fuzzy babies out one at a time, their calls felt grateful. He felt like he was doing them an injustice, putting them into the care of the most incapable farmer in town. Soon, all twelve were hopping around curiously, their marble-like eyes taking in their new home.

He looked back up to see that the woman was still peeking from behind the door. He gave her an incredulous look and her eyes followed the chicks as they bounced around.

Finally, she spoke.

“So… they don’t bite at this age, right? Do they like being petted or should I not do that?” she asked, her seriousness stark in her voice.

Bite? Was she for real? He scoffed and gave the most abridged version of his answer that he could as he stood.

“They don’t bite, they peck. If you don’t pet them, they won’t like you and they won’t come to you if they get loose.” He gave. She still stared from around the door. She almost looked… scared? No, it can’t be. She wasn’t scared of them, was she?

“Oh… cool. Does pecking hurt?” she asked, still eyeing the chicks.

“Why don’t you sit with them for a while. See if that will answer your questions.” he scoffed and took to his feet. She nodded and slowly crept into the coop, a small chick a few feet from her.

“Hey there… buddy? You’re cute.” She cooed at it and it cocked its head to the side. She offered her hand down to its level, and he could have sworn her hand trembled the tiniest bit. The chick decided to fluff up its feathers and rush over to her hand to greet her.

With a shriek that Shane was certain would give him a headache if he wasn’t over his hangover, she bolted from the coop faster than he could register. He was stunned for a moment and the humor and ridiculousness of the situation at hand caught up to him. He burst into laughter and took a few steps to see where the girl had run to. Maybe she would keep running and not stop.

His wish was denied but his chuckle still bubbled from him.

“That’s the most-” he laughed midsentence, interrupting himself. “-Pathetic thing I’ve seen. Why would you buy chickens if you’re scared of them?” he asked through his laughter. He watched as her pale-faced fright melted into a stern stare. She was catching her breath but she was still determined to answer him.

“I- huff - I don’t know! I just…” She trailed off. “It’ll be okay. I’m sure it won’t be a problem.” She gave and if he wasn’t so off out by her stupidity, he might admire her optimism. He let his laughter die out.

“This is ridiculous, you know. I don’t know why you’re trying to do this. It’s obvious that you don’t know what you’re doing.” he said and leaned against the coop doorframe.

She looked like she was going to argue but her words didn’t come. Instead, she brushed the loose strands from her braid back and looked down at the ground.

“You’re right. I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m a lousy farmer and it won’t be long until everyone else sees that.” she said in defeat before adding “Even so, I’m not going to stop. It doesn’t matter if I’m lousy or faking it, I’m still going to try my best.” she said. He shook his head.

“You won’t last long here. Why don’t you just leave? We don’t need you here and I’m surprised anyone thinks that this town does.” He suggested, his arms folded. He hoped it pissed her off, got under her skin. Instead, she gave a non-committed nod.

“I’m not going to leave, so you better get used to me. If I didn’t know any better, I would suspect you’re trying to run me off and it’s not going to work,” she said, her eyes meeting his, her warning sticking to him. He gave her a disappointed glare but she didn’t care. “Now, you can be mad about it but at least this can be our secret, that I’m so terrible. At least, until everyone else sees it too.” she said and looked over to her row of sprouts.

If he cared a tiny bit, he would almost feel bad for her.

He sighed and scratched the back of his neck. She was so out of her element that it wasn’t even funny. He looked back into the coop where the chick bounced around. It would be unfair to the chicks to let Jen loose on their poor lives. He straightened up and motioned over for her, grabbing her attention away from her crops. She followed him into the coop and he picked up the empty box and set it outside.

“So, the first thing you need to keep mind of when running a coop is how long your chicks had been cooped up…” he began and she gave him a wide-eyed look.

“You’re… helping me out? Giving me advice?” she piped up and he pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Not for long if you keep talking. And it’s not for you, it’s for the chicks,” he corrected and muttered something that he was hoping she hadn’t heard.

“...and for the beer.”

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junkyardlynx · 5 years

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You like scary stories? Good. I’ve got one. Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, or whatever. Who fucking knows. Honestly, I’m not entirely sure it wasn’t just one shared fever dream between seven stupid kids. Except the part where the dream was real. Has to be real now that I think about it. Anyway. I’m rambling. About all I can do, right now. Haha. How sad.

The year was 1998.

Good year.

Goldeneye came out in 1997, so it was really the year 0001 AG to me and my friends. We fucking loved Goldeneye.

I was seventeen and I lived alone in a small town in northwest Indiana. It’s farm country’s farm country. I’d been orphaned and bounced around since I was ten, but being nearly eighteen and relatively well-behaved was reason enough for the state to turn me loose with my inheritance. Quitters. You could stand at one edge of the town and spit to the other end. We had one bar, an elementary school, a post office, a vet, and a corner store. It sucked, but it was cheap and somewhat near the only living family I still had. I lived just above the post office and vet, which was probably the only really neat part of town, so I guess I had something going for me. Add a shitty 1988 Ford Probe bought at cost from a frustrated dealership into the mix and I was up street.

My uncle Mike lived alone too, a forty minute drive away out by the county line road. He had a pretty nice farm house to himself after my aunt Sherry filed for divorce due to her own extramarital affair. I guess when you’re surrounded by woods on all sides and the only things to keep you company are a host of chickens, a couple turkeys, a goat, a dog, and a...fucking peacock, you kinda get antsy for some excitement. I suppose a two story barn and a grain silo aren’t exciting enough. Anyway. They hadn’t taken me in after my parents died because they had their own problems and I understood. Couldn’t force a kid on someone who wasn’t going to take proper care of it.

Mike was headed into the city for the weekend to shack up with this girl he was into. He did this from time to time, too awkward to ask her to move in with him and too shy to accept her offer, so they just had their trysts. Wasn’t really my business. He called me after I got home on Friday from classes and immediately launched into his request.

“Hey killer, I’m going to see Mary this weekend. Can ya hold down the fort for me? Just feed the animals once a day and don’t let Garfield eat anything dumb.”

“Uh, sure.”

Garfield was the goat’s name.

I watched him eat the license plate off “Uncle” Van’s...van, once. His name was Van, he was a friend of Mike’s aaaaaand he owned a van. I guess life works like that sometimes, predictable and all. Anyway, Garfield would eat literally fucking anything near his big dumb idiot mouth, like most goats.

“And uh, I think there’s a bunch of beer in the fridge that’s gonna go bad. Could you do me a favor and get rid of it, bud?”

I could hear the wink through the receiver. I grinned as I pinned the receiver between my shoulder and ear, rummaging around through the cupboards to find my little book of phone numbers.

“Oh yeah, sure thing. Wouldn’t want to have bad beer hanging around in the fridge.”

“That’s what I’m talking about. It better all be gone when I get back. Love ya, kid.”

“Love you too, man. Have a good weekend.”

With an audible click, the other line hung up and I was already dialing people’s numbers. Robert was first, as he was my best and most radically tight brother-man.

“What’s up, Dingus Kong?”

Ever since he was twelve, he had the voice of a full-time, carton-a-day smoker. I was honestly a little jealous.

“There’s a beer leak at my uncle’s and we have to plug it up. Call Louis and Alex and make their dumb asses come out. You know the address?”

“Hell yeah, dude. Can I invite Jay?”

“What do I look like, a cop? Of course you can. Saves me the trouble.”

“Cool, later dickless.”

“Peace.”

It wasn’t long until I’d roped Robert, Louis and Jay into things, along with Alex, Laura and June. Alex and Louis had been dating forever and were pretty much attached at the hip, while I had a thing for June. A very quiet, subdued thing, because I operated under the assumption that no one was ever interested and that any thought to the contrary was pointless and asking for trouble.

We met up at my uncle’s house around 9. They’d pitched in and brought a shit ton of snacks but no one brought any actual food, so our diet that night was going to consist of...Natty Light, snack cakes and chips, pretty much. High school kids eat worse on a daily basis, so no one really cared. I remember being shocked at just how packed the fridge was with shitty Natty Light. Good thing I had good friends.

It was a pretty relaxed atmosphere - Louis and Alex were touchy in the corner of the living room, already a couple beers deep. Robert, Laura and Jay were playing Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 in the den. They had a penalty game where you had to drink when you died and if you were that fucking prick that picked Oddjob, you both had to take a drink at the start of the round and two when you died. It was fair, believe me. Fuck people who pick Oddjob.

That pretty much just left June and I. We relaxed in the kitchen, shooting the shit and laughing at each other’s bad jokes. Sometimes we’d look out over the kitchen counter and down into the den / living room - the farm house’s design was always kind of odd to me, but I liked it. The whole house was a one story with a basement. You could come in through the glass sliding door and be right in the living room / den area, then turn right and go up four or five stairs to reach the bedrooms and the turnoff into the kitchen / office area where the front door was. The kitchen had a very open structure, with the sink looking down on the den, and you kinda felt like a commander if sat there and just watched everyone. So I did.

“Hey, Charles?”

“What’s up?”

I turned back towards June, taking another sip from that honestly kinda shitty beer in my hand. Ah, the taste of youth - cheap alcohol obtained through immoral or subversive means, like a really cool uncle.

“We should go out to the barn.”

“Why the hell and fuck not?”

I put on some bravado, but honestly, my uncle’s farm creeped me out. I’d stayed here for the summer once and I swore I could hear things swaying in time with the tall grass as the sun started to die. An animal would go missing every now and then, but my uncle always shrugged it off as coyotes. Never really felt like coyotes, but who was I to disagree when he was the one that lived here all the time?

“Hey, everyone! We’re going outside, time to get up in the hayloft and be stupid.”

I heard a chorus of replies and the click-whrrr of a tube television being powered off, followed by a rowdy collection of feet stomping up carpeted steps. Everyone poured into the kitchen, grabbing things like twinkies and cold hot dogs and new beers. It wasn’t long before we took the party outside, flicking the floodlights on the house on for comfort as much as visibility. We ambled as a drunken mass, slowly making our way towards the faded red barn.

I have no idea why the barn was so fucking huge, given that less then ten animals lived there. The space was equipped for a sizable amount of large livestock like cows and horses, but all that it held was a collection of idiot birds with too much love and not enough sense. A ladder leading up to the hayloft poked through a square, and we began our inebriated ascent.

It wasn’t long before we settled into a circle, talking about nothing in particular on the warm wooden floor of the loft. June had taken a seat next to me, so of course, I overthought absolutely everything before determining there was no way she was into me because why would she be? She was way too cool and cute. It was obvious.

Somehow, we got onto the topic of scary stories. Spooky scary skeleton time. I made up some dumb thing about a cannibal cult in the woods, but it wasn’t very thought out, so everyone gave me shit. Robert just thrust his beer into the air and yelled “WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE, IT’S ALIENS”, which got a laugh out of all of us. It finally came around to June, who began to tell us about La Llarona, a crying ghost lady in Mexican folklore.

It was actually pretty spooky until you realized June was like, four foot fucking eight with the voice of an adorable church mouse, and then you were unable to take it seriously.

We swapped a few more before silence descended on us, slow and natural. The workman’s lamps that I’d lit with a long trigger lighter burned, casting shadows along the walls and illuminating our faces. I smiled as I realized June’s head had come to rest on my right shoulder, feeling not unlike someone blessed by the attention of a regal crow.

“Dude. I’m hungry.”

“You’re always hungry, Illberto.”

I waved him off with my left hand before looking around. Something was bothering me, but I couldn’t put my hands on it. Honestly speaking, it was kinda like someone had some bodacious body odor going on and tried to cover it up with some sort of perfume. I took as...well, as discreet a sniff as possible, trying to see if it was one of us.

I don’t think it was, because the more I smelled it, the more I realized it smelled less like body odor and more like that strange stench of death. Sickly sweet, putrefaction rendering the body of something no longer alive into components for bacteria to consume. I kinda wrote it off as dead mice somewhere since I was an idiot at 17. (I still am an idiot, but I was a bigger idiot. Harder head. More impressively stupid. Anyway.) The smell was bothering me though, so I gently pushed June’s head off my shoulder and stood up.

“Since Mr. Crunch and Munch wants some food, I’m gonna run back to the house and grab some chow and booze. Anyone want anything in particular?”

No one really had an idea of what they wanted, so the group just started chanting “FOOD AND BOOZE, FOOD AND BOOZE, FOOD AND BOOZE” at me. I laughed and nodded, giving a sort of half-wave to June who just smiled at me the whole time as I went to climb down the ladder.

Too bad the ladder was gone.

I groaned in annoyance, turning around to address everyone.

“Very cool, who fucked with the ladder?”

“What are you talking about, brother-man?”

Louis piped up, head resting on top of Alex’s. I gestured dramatically at the square hole in the floor, then pantomimed the act of climbing the ladder.

“There was a ladder here. It’s gone now.”

“It probably fell, Charlie.”

There went Laura, being the voice of reason. I shrugged in assent. Stop making sense, god damn it.

“I’ll just pull a Spidey-boy and jump down. It’s like, ten feet.”

Something in my head kept telling me that people can die from slipping and falling on ice, but I ignored it. I just had to brace myself, land on my feet and not hit my brain cage. Really simple.

I walked back over to the hole in the hayloft, sitting down and scooching to the edge. That fucking smell punched me right in the nose once again, pungent and sweet. I almost stop then, but I don’t really wanna look like a goon in front of June. Uh, June and everyone else, that is.

So I stuck my foot down into the oddly deep darkness of the barn below.

Something wet and hot smacked against it, nearly wrapping around my exposed ankle.

I yelped perhaps the most pathetic sound known to man and physically extricated myself from the hole by leaping up and jumping back. Everyone laughed of course.

“What’s up, penis pump?”

Fuck off, Robert.

“Either the turkeys have really long and slimy necks now, or something down there just grabbed my fucking ankle.”

“Very funny, Charles.” Alex fixed me with a stare, assuming I was taking the piss out of everybody. Holy fuck, I wished I was.

“I’m serious, you assholes.” I’d thrust my right leg out, showing everyone my ankle and foot. A reddish brown goop clung to it, thick and viscous. The smell was emanating from it, and everyone seemed to have taken notice to it. Unless they started retching for a different reason, like my ankle being particularly abhorrent.

“Brother-man, dude, what the fuck is that?”

You’re asking me, Louie Louie?

“Yeah, that’s a negative Ghost Rider, I have no idea. I’m gonna chill up here for a bit, if someone else feels like Rambo, they can go down.”

I took off my button up and used it to wipe the goo off of my ankle, but the smell seemed to have set in. I noticed a burning sensation on my skin that increased in intensity as I wiped, but it soon faded to a dull throbbing, becoming the least of my worries. In that time, Louis got up to check out the hole.

He returned to where Alex was, face pale and stiff.

That’s when we heard it.

“veerrrryfufufufu-”

The sound stopped, then started again. Almost like someone starting a sputtering car engine.

“Verrrrry cocococococo-cokkkkkkkkkhhssssh. Wshooo fufufufufuf. Wshoooo fufufufuckt wishlatter?”

You ever have someone come up to you and say “hey, we need to talk” and you feel your stomach drop out of your body and onto the floor?

Yeah, that. That’s the feeling I felt, but way worse. After all, someone wanted to know who fucked with the ladder. Someone who couldn’t string together two words if they wanted to, and they desperately wanted to.

We’d all crammed ourselves into the back of the hayloft, the seven of us together. Oppressive darkness clung to the places not illuminated by the lamps, and the long lighter lay a good ten feet away from us. No one moved to get it. We heard it again and again, some twisted mockery of a voice continually asking who fucked with the ladder. Then it asked again, in my voice.

“Very cool. Who fucked with the ladder?”

Everyone’s eyes were on me, and I shook my head wordlessly as it asked again, perfectly, matching my rhythm and cadence and tone.

“Hey, if this is a joke because you thought the Goosebumps books were high literature, we’re gonna string you up by your earlobes dude.”

“Fuck off. It’s not. You think I got bored and recorded me fucking around before you all got here? With the tape recorder I don’t fucking own?”

I was hostile.

We were all on edge.

“I don’t know, were you man?”

“Don’t start with me, Robert.”

“Yeah, whatever, you’re a lazy piece of shit. I know you wouldn’t do this.”

“I swear to god.”

The tension was almost lifted until we heard that wet smacking again, like someone slapping a steak on pavement. It was hilarious until you realized it was probably either something dead being slammed around, or some part of the mysterious thing’s anatomy. The smacking persisted as it mercifully ceased it’s questioning, realizing it’s bait wasn’t working. Slowly, the wet squelching of flesh against concrete grew quiet and far away and the stench that pervaded the air began to thin.

I appraised everyone and jerked my head back at the hole in the hayloft.

“Okay. Okay. We’re gonna drop down and run to the house.”

“Is there any better option you have that isn’t ‘jump down and say hi to the crazy stinky murder rapist’ below us?”

“Not really, Alex. Sorry.”

“Alex and I can stay up here,” Louis offered, but she looked at him with her mouth agape.

“Are you dumb, Louis? I’m not staying in that barn alone with this thing. No, really, are you an idiot?”

I looked at Louis with a kind of knowing glance, knowing he was just trying to help out and allay her fears. Couldn’t really blame her, though.

“He’s just looking out for what you want to do. Anyway, we should all go. I’ll go down first and keep a look out while everyone comes down. C’mon.”

I honestly don’t know where I found the balls of steel I was now equipped with, but I was thankful. I think it was just this overwhelming sense of “we have to go now or something bad is going to happen.” Without giving anyone a chance to reply, I broke away from our little heard and took a running start at the hole, leaping down it before my rational mind could catch up.

I let my legs hit and then tucked myself into a roll to rob the fall of it’s momentum, coming up unscathed. I glanced around, greeted by deadly...nothing. Just silence. It wasn’t until I looked at the ground that I noticed it was covered in a thick layer of that reddish-brown goop, and it stunk horribly. I started to gag but I had the sense to bite it down. No point in putting more disgusting fluids on the floor.

“Jump down! C’mon!”

I shouted up and June practically leapt into my arms, so I caught her and set her down, giving her a tender smile. She was all of four foot eight and ninety pounds, so it wasn’t really a feat of athleticism. Of course, Robert came next, and my knees buckled as his six foot frame met mine with that peculiar rapport we had.

“No smile for me?”

“I swear, dude.”

I swore a lot, apparently.

The rest followed in suit until eight of us stood in the barn, devoid of animals as it was. I hoped they’d just run off or sought shelter, but another part of me said that wasn’t the case. I exhaled roughly and looked at our group before nodding.

“Okay, we gotta run. I don’t know when that thing’s coming back, but I can already smell that weird stink getting stronger. I think we’ll be safe in the house since we can look the doors and call the cops.”

“Wait, cops? Dude, we’re doing a little thing called underage drinking.”

Thank you for stating the obvious, Louis.

“Oh, yeah! Way better to get murdered and eaten. You’re right.”

“Point taken.”

We all murmured our assent before taking one last look around. The lamps burned, slowly dimming as their fuel began to run out. I think we left the lighter up there. Not that it mattered, I guess. I reached out and took June’s petite hand, tugging her gently towards the house.

“Let’s go.”

We began to do an awkward sort of power walk, too scared to run and draw it’s attention but not intent on going any slower than we had to. Our group of seven began to cut across the field, towards the shining lights of the farmhouse.

A horrific wet SMACK from behind us broke that fragile discipline that kept us calm. A plaintive sort of gurgling howl, like a tiger braying it’s dying cry inside of a charnel pit spurred us on, and I roughly pulled on June’s hand. Her fingers slipped from mine for a moment, but her strong and lengthy fingers found mine, slick with what I assumed was sweat. I didn’t bother looking back as the warm porch lights flooded my vision. I let go of the hand I was holding and turned around to regard our group of eight, making sure everyone was there.

Wait.

Eight?

June, Robert, Louis, Alex, Laura, Jay, and myself. Seven. I glanced at my hand, realizing it was slick with that peculiar fluid. I kept the gorge rising in my throat down, somehow.

Swallowing both vomit and my fear, I began to inspect everyone before herding them inside, one by one. There wasn’t a face I didn’t recognize, but there was an extra person here. I got June, Alex, Robert, Laura and Louis into the house before I realized it.

There were two Jays.

“Hey Jake, come inside.”

Jay kinda gave me a weird look, wondering if I was actually an idiot. The right Jay, anyway. The other one just slowly started to walk forward.

“Hey, I said Jake come inside man. Practice your manners dude.”

My stare was insistent on the real Jay’s, begging him to come in and not make a scene. He shrugged and stepped inside, and only a moment later I was behind him, slamming the sliding glass door so hard I thought I’d shatter.

The Jay that wasn’t Jay pressed it’s face to the glass and that fetid liquid began to pour from it’s nose as it’s now-malformed hand began to tap lightly on the glass. What looked like clothes began to slough off in thick puddles of what looked to be flesh, pooling on the patio.

“Come inside. Hey. Manners. Come inside. Hey. Come inside.”

Robert had noticed what was going on and yelled in what I’m sure he’d want me to report was a very manly and commanding shout. Basically, he screamed like a little bitch. Everyone else noticed and booked it up the sort little landing to the second tier of the house, not willing to look at what was happening anymore.

I couldn’t look away. It gently tapped at the glass, as a second figure approached from the darkness, eventually pressing it’s face to the glass.

My face.

I watched my own face melt away into nothing, forming a featureless expanse of skin with two unseeing and empty eye sockets. The me that wasn’t me tapped politely on the glass like a door-to-door salesman, asking to be let in.

That sure wasn’t fucking happening. In a haze, I waddled backwards, reaching for the phone that sat on the coffee table by the sofa in this 70′s decor mess of a living room.

It wasn’t there. The cord lay neatly on the table, but the entire phone was gone. It looked deliberate, which means that...well, it meant that my uncle took it with him.

Something clicked in my mind, but I buried it as I pedaled backwards slowly, approaching the display cabinet that held my grandmother’s prized compound bow. I heard from my uncle that she’d been an avid hunter into her 90′s and only passed due to the ravages of...well, a car wreck. I was never more thankful to have a badass relative I’d never met than when I pulled that compound bow out of the display cabinet and nocked an arrow.

Never mind the fact that the last time I went bow hunting was when I was like, twelve.

I stared down the two creatures, still begging to be let in in my voice. My hands trembled even as I began to draw back the heavy string. God damn, grandma, how strong were you? What the hell.

I strafed up the steps, muscles in my arms screaming for release, but I told myself that they couldn’t come in unless they were invited. It was just a glass door, and these things weren’t dumb, apparently. I don’t know what they were. I’d met strange things in the woods around the house, but never anything like this. Obviously. The surreality of it all made it seem absurd to even question what they were.

It wasn’t until I reached the kitchen with everyone else that I could slowly release the tension and lower the bow, though I kept the arrow nocked and ready. I gave everyone in the kitchen a wary nod as they huddled together, staying deathly quiet. Looking over the kitchen counter and down into the den, I could see one still tapping on the glass. The other was gone.

A soft knock at the door by the office let us know where the other had wandered off to. It repeated a broken string of words in my voice, asking to be let in, saying it was very cool. It’d be humorous if it wasn’t fucking terrifying.

Wordlessly, I huddled everyone back into the hallway and lead them to my uncle’s room, unlocking it with the key I had. It was the furthest bedroom away from everything else and had a clear line of sight to the hallway, so if they somehow broke their self-imposed rules, I could at least take a steady shot. The door creaked open and the bedroom lay before us as I flipped on the light.

My uncle’s room was surprisingly sparse and barren. No personal effects remained and you could tell where the furniture had been moved in a hurry, like someone was looking for something. It gave the feeling of someone that wasn’t coming back, and the discontent in my heart grew.

“Yeah, think he’s been moving stuff over to his girlfriend’s place.”

I said to no one in particular, placating questions before they could come out. A barren mattress lay on a box spring in the corner.

“Let’s stay in here tonight. It’s not gonna be comfortable, but a couple of people can take the bed and the rest of us can take the floor. I’ll keep watch.”

“Charles...”

Robert sounded concerned for once. I laughed. I glanced back and his face soured before he smiled.

“Nevermind, you’re still a penis pump.”

Everyone, still slightly drunk and nervous, began to occupy their own space in the empty room. I sat against the open doorframe, bow laying on my lap, trained down the hallway. Minutes slipped into hours, and everyone began to pass into a light sleep.

Everyone except me.

The sight of the flesh sloughing off their mutable frames was burned into my mind. Not much sleep to be found after that.

Throughout the night, I heard taps all around the house, like a diligent inspector checking for termites in wood. If I strained my sleepless ears, I could hear my own voice rattling through the walls. The deathly sweet stench of the barn had returned, permeating my brain and setting up residence there.

Once or twice, I thought I heard tapping and murmuring at the single window in my uncle’s bedroom, but surely that wasn’t possible. It was a good eight feet of the ground, as the room sat on the second “tier” of the house. I dozed for a moment and the tapping seemed to grow more and more furious, so I shook myself awake. I began to dig the bowstring into my finger, rubbing it up and down, fraying my own skin until it bled.

I felt like I was going to go insane.

A few long hours later and the sun began to rise, banishing the tapping noise with it and the scent after that. I rose, looking around at the sleeping faces of my friends, relieved. I looked around the empty room once more and went to close my eyes before I realized there was reddish goop smeared on the window of my uncle’s bedroom.

I’d been watched, all night.

All of us had.

How many had there been?

Enough to replace us?

Did it matter?

Adrenaline flooding my exhausted body, I crept around the house and checked every window, every door. They were all smeared with handprints, fingerprints, imprints of faces traced in that corpse-goo. My stomach roiled heavily, the beer and junk food of the night before threatening to come up.

We were supposed to be a sacrifice, weren’t we?

The copious amounts of beer. The lack of a phone. My uncle’s personal effects all gone from his room. I suppose the rest, even grandma’s bow, was replaceable to him. Including me.

I woke everyone up and told them we should leave. No one fought it, considering we’d survived the night by listening to me. It was a sort of hollow and empty accolade, but I’d take it.

As Robert and June piled in my Ford Probe outside, I snuck a peek at the barn. Dark red stains and the remnants of feathers, fur and flesh stained the outside of it’s semi-dilapidated structure, as if the animals had been killed by being thrown at the walls in anger. I swallowed dryly, realizing what those wet thuds and smacks had been.

We spent the rest of the weekend together, all seven of us. One night at Robert’s, the rest of the day at June’s. I tried several times to contact my uncle, but his girlfriend’s landline was disconnected and his emergency cell phone wasn’t picking up.

Abandoned twice by the family that wouldn’t even take me in, I guess.

I never found out what those things were. My uncle’s house was marked as abandoned and reclaimed by the bank, eventually being sold at auction for dirt cheap. I didn’t care. I’d stayed away from the forested areas and anywhere approaching natural, and even took to a vegetarian diet for a few months.

Eventually the memory faded, and years later I had almost forgotten about it. Life went on, and I remained in that cozy little apartment above the vet’s office and the post office.

Until tonight.

When I smelled something sticky-sweet, like what the insides of a pitcher plant must be.

Where something tapped at the door to my apartment, begging to be let in.

Where my own voice begged me to be let in.

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 310

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Announcement

There’s a search console because that’s my go to I don’t care what anything else says. And right when I’m looking at everything, I had a form submission come in. So I got it, I got it, I got the screen capture because I had to blur out some stuff. So I’m going to be sharing that as soon as we’re ready to go.

And we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts, Episode 310. While Bradley’s doing some stuff in the background here, we’re gonna get going. I’m gonna say hi to the guys real quick. We got some quick announcements. And then I’m just scrolling through here. It looks like we’ve got a good number of questions. So with that said, Marco, I’m going to loop back to you, man, how you doing today? Like, by the way, like your shirt, you’re looking good.

I’m good, man. I’m sorry. I took it away from from my window. Should I have done that? I got I got I got a mess in the office right now. But you guys, you see? Nothing but like, Man, this is how I do to do I do. I can’t help it again. Come get some come get some guys. Just Just a quick word, stop relying on on third party vanity metrics for what’s going on on your website, according to Google. So you go to somebody else to see what’s going on in Google. I it for the life of me, I can’t figure that out. So in a minute, when we get to that question or five, whenever we get to it, I’m going to be sharing something on screen, just so you guys can see why you can’t go with third party vanity and domain authority then, whatever the hell it is you’re relying on. you’re relying on the wrong thing. And I’ll show you some and let’s see, I’ll get I thought it was muted. Sorry, Chris. How’s it going?

Doing good here? Good. They can complain and yeah, I think we got something pretty sweet coming. Oh, really? I made a video about something today, so, huh?

All right. Well, now I’m curious. I don’t even know what you’re talking about.

Well check Facebook.

Ah, all right. I will check it out. Bradley, you got the tech stuff done. Are you available?

Well, it’s the fucking video still not on know that on the page. Click Funnels bullshit. I’m tired of it. And I really am.

It’s still not even there we go. Yeah, it’s updated now.

Well, it’s not for me.

Gotcha. Well, we’ll circle back around. I’m going to type something in while I ask her not How you doing today, man?

Great, man. I’m in Miami. Having fun. Everything’s good.

Well, you got to talk for a little bit longer. I gotta, I gotta touch.

Okay. I’m in Miami. It’s raining. I’m having a lot of fun. This is awesome. And I’m waiting for Adam to stop typing so that he can keep on doing the intro. But did I mention that I mean, Miami? And

I’ve heard that you’re in Miami. Is that true?

No, I don’t know what you got that from? Yeah, man. How? how weak Are you really in the gym right now after all these months of no workouts? I’m a pussy. I’m doing like a D load quote-unquote, D load week right now. And I’m like, so sore. And I did like, two squats on Monday.

Those are right now, but we still had it. So.

Gotcha. All right. Well, I got a little note there. So if you’re watching us on YouTube, let us know. Also, if you’re somehow seeing this on the page, just shoot us a message let us know you can see it. But in the meantime, we’re gonna keep rolling and maybe figure something else out. But Bradley, how are you doing man? Besides page refreshes and caches?

Yeah, I’m just I’m tired of Click Funnels in their stupid fucking. There are always issues with Click Funnels, it seems to be getting worse. So anyway, maybe we can move the webinar on to a page on our site instead. I think we should probably do that. Because we won’t have to deal with this every week. It seems to be getting worse. So anyway, that said I, everybody.

Everything is fine. Yeah, that’s cool. Um, I’ve actually been testing out group funnels, maybe that’ll grab the lifetime account. And that came out, maybe we can just toss it on there and see if that works. Or just put it on the website, like you said, or do like a direct YouTube type of thing. love to see. But anyway, with that said, we have a couple of announcements. First of all, if you’re on the email list, that’s great. You’ve gotten the announcements about the POFU Live recordings, you got access to the little special offer we had to go in there. But if you’ve missed out on that, first of all, go to semantic mastery or go to Hump Day Hangouts. Just Google that and go to our page, enter your email address, so you can get notified about stuff like this. We do give special deals, special offers, and some bonuses to subscribers, but I’m also going to put it on the page here today. The recordings are available. Along with the recordings, you have the option to get executive summaries we’ve gone through and we’ve taken and distilled every single talk that we had into a quick basically reference guides. So you’ve got links, you’ve got the main points, so you can go back or have that open as you’re watching the talk. Super, super handy. So that will be on the page in just a minute. Oh, man, I am just losing my place like crazy today. I’ve got a couple more announcements. And while I hunt these down, did you guys have anything we need to also cover? Before we dive into things?

What about POFU?

About It was a great event.

Oh my god, what about it?

The live of the recordings are available, right?

Should be right.

Yes, that what I was just talking about or not my losing my mind about POFU.

I don’t know, but well I’m gonna keep running on because I don’t know where we’re going and this is gonna get pretty weird for people watching. So anyway, I do want to talk about one other thing, if you go to the SEOshield.com, the SEOshield.com that’s a great place. If you’re new to Semantic Mastery and MGYB You can find out how to shield your site and never worry about algorithm updates. Again, it’s a free training, just head over to the SEOshield.com and grab that if you’re more on the agency owner kind of consultant side and you want to get more clients to grow your revenue scale your team, head over to 2xyouragency.com. And last but not least, if you’re ready to grow your digital marketing business, your agency then you can join our experienced community. With the mastermind You can find out more about that at mastermind dot semantic mastery.com I like to go through these every time because we don’t know you know, we have new people watching every week. And those are some pretty typical questions we get from people, you know, hey, I’m just starting to watch you guys where the hell do I start? Right? Good question. So finding out about the SEO shield is great. Then we got people are saying hey, I either want to start or kind of grow my agency, I’m not sure what to do that’s to x your agency COMM And then we’ve got people, of course, are like, Hey, I’m in it, I want to grow, I want to be around other people like me who have got their agencies going who’ve got their businesses going. And that’s where the mastermind comes in. So those are the big ones. Of course, we mentioned MGYB, if you’re not familiar with that it’s mgyb.co, save time and money with done for you services. This is all stuff that we’ve used, and either converted into a done for you process or stuff that we had done for us. And now we’re offering it as well. So you can get it done for you and save time. So this is a great place to be like white labeling, things like press releases link building the SEO shield, for example. Lots more over there, too, and lots more coming. So with that said, guys, that’s it for the quick announcement. Anything else we want to cover before we dive into questions? I’m waiting around to say something No, just kidding. Wait, good. All right, let’s do it is that we got a bunch of questions already. So let me get the page pulled up here. And I’ll grab the screen.

This has got me all screwed up. Because the format has changed in the last couple of weeks. And after years of having one particular startup format. It’s hard to hard to transition.

All right,

you guys are seeing my screen now. Correct. Good to go. Yes.

Yep. All right.

What Is The Name Of The Upcoming Buffer Site S3 Creator?

Let me expand this a little bit. There we go. So the first question up says, Hi, you mentioned something about an upcoming buffer site s3 creator from ABS right? Yeah. Abbess. Rathje. As I think I’m saying his name correctly, I always feel like I’m mispronouncing that. Or he says, Can you please give us some URL or spell the product or the name as I can’t find anything? Yes, buffersites.com. It’s not available yet. But I believe it says coming soon. And I think he’s working on something because I recently got an email from him about kind of a technology that he created for that works with Amazon s3, hosted web pages, as well as some other type of web 2.0 sites and things like that. So I think buffersites.com is in the pipeline, but it’s not available yet. So that’s what it is buffersites.com and the developer’s name is Abbess Abbess. ABB BB as Rathje. And I think I always butcher his name when I try to say it. But he’s, he’s got many different types of software products out there that are fairly good. Some of them are but got a little bit of a learning curve, but he’s got like video marketing Blitz was one of them, it was a good product that we use for quite some time. So he’s got several different kinds of products out that you know, software programs that do things so that’s the one I was talking about.

Should You Make A Separate Page For Each Location When Siloing A Local Service Business Site?

Next question is Tommy says when creating location pages for a local service business, would you make a location page for the location the business is located in the business already has the primary location in the footer about, etc, and ranks on page two for keywords in the primary location on a general service page? Would it be overkill to create a location for it to and be duplicate content would appreciate your advice? Thanks. Now, if it’s a single location site, you don’t need to you don’t need a location page for it. The only time that I would recommend having location pages is if you have if it’s a multi-location business right? Because then you can, you’d have one location is typically going to be like a headquarters, right? Like the main location or, you know, the primary location, the first location, whatever you want to call it. And so that would be like what I would, you know, a lot of So for example, if I were to build a lead gen site that was optimized for one location, but then I decided, because let’s say it was really successful, and I decided to start expanding locations for that brand, then what I would do is I would make that, you know, the primary location would be the first location, and I would take that as kind of like the name, address and phone number for the primary location would be like the organization, you know, essentially, the main location for that multi-location business, and then I would create separate location pages for each individual, or additional location, I should say, that’s how I would do it. But yeah, I wouldn’t recommend creating a location page on a site that is optimized for one location. Because you’re it that that’s kind of, you know, Department of redundancy department, you know what I mean? So I would recommend that you don’t do that, you don’t need to do that. But what you can do is you can split out like suburbs, or, you know, I’m not, I’m not sure what how you’ve got your site structured, but you can create geo posts, that’s what I call it, but they’re locally optimized posts for localities within your service area, if it’s a service area business, I’m just assuming that it is. But it could be a storefront business, in which case, you wouldn’t even really need to do that either. But for service area businesses, like contractors, which is what I do, then what I would do is have the one location, you know, is probably the only location but then I would start optimizing content in what’s called geo posts, or what I call geo posts, which would be optimizing content for like the suburbs, the adjacent areas, that and then I would, you know, kind of optimize cut, my blogger does all this, but she’ll go out and pull in like points of interest, historical, you know, references, things like that, that are relevant to each individual, you know, suburb or municipality or whatever that I’m trying to expand into, and then show, you know, produce some content, you know, included about whatever products or services the company offers. And you can start to blog that way, so that you can start really kind of expanding your service area footprint, so to speak. But you don’t need to have a separate location page for the location. If it’s a one-location business, it just doesn’t make sense to do that, in my opinion. Any other input on that guy just said, there’s no such thing as a duplicate content.

And we see this all the time, no such thing as that happening. Now, as far as would it be overkill? to us that perfectly? The advice is that when looking at content is whether you’ve given the content, proper attribution. That’s all that matters. Because if you haven’t, then let’s say if your G site is really strong, it might outrank your money site. That’s the only problem you’re going to run into. But if you have proper attribution, if if Google understands where the master copy of the content resides, and there is no problem, there are only problems if you’re running like duplicate titles, duplicate descriptions, and things like that. But we’ve literally only changed location on content and run the same, like 15,000. More than that pages have the same content except for the location and it works. It’s working. Right now. I’m about to show you how it’s working right now. And when we get to that question, there is no such thing as duplicate content, you got the master copy. And then you have copies of that content. proper attribution takes care of any duplicate content issues, and so does canonical. If you canonicalize. correctly, you’re fine. You’re good to go.

There you go. Let me unpause the screen for a minute if I can find it. Okay.

What Do You Recommend For A Self-Hosted URL Shortener?

So the next question is from Jr. My guess, says, Hey, guys, do you have any well-recommended URL shortener? Excuse me? Do you have any good recommendations for a self-hosted URL shortener looking to set up one for a client to be public-facing so users can create short links easily from their website? Open to using a hosted solution if it exists? Thanks. Also, is there any SEO value for the target site if users create short links? So, Marco, you would be the one to answer that because we set that up for MGYB.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, there eventually will be SEO value once you power it up. However, how long is it going to take you to power up that URL shortener on that website that has no power to start with? Which is what you need, which is the reason why Well, the reason why just say use a shortener To make the URL easier to handle, right, when you’re sharing it, you don’t want this long 50 character URL, you want something short and memorable. That’s why Bitly for a while was so good. And then we started realizing the SEO value in Bitly, until they decided that they were going to 302. At well, then we went to the Google goog l URL shortener until they took it away. So we decided rather than rely on others, why not create our own power that up, give everybody the SEO value and the added benefit that you could go in, and I think it’s only for like five or six, I don’t know, seven bucks a month, I don’t even know. Use your own use of our shortener which is powered up. And then you could have your own URLs, right, you can have your own URL extensions, you could have your own. If you want to call them vanity, whatever you want to call them. They’re yours, but they reside in MGYB. And they continue to get powered up by dedhia. So I will be there’s the SEO benefit, the SEO benefit that you get is the power that’s behind that. But right from the start when you go and install that whether you do it on a subdomain on your client site, whether you use pretty links, whatever it is that you’re going to use is not going to have any SEO value until you power it up.

All right, there we go on the resume share again.

Because doing some background stuff. Alright.

Can You Make Multiple GStacks On One Google Account That Are Interconnected?

So the next question would be Hey, guys, the question on G stacks. Can I make multiple G stacks on one g account that are not interconnected? Uh, yeah, I suppose you could. Now I’m not sure why you would want to we separate them. But you know, Marco, now that we’re not using the script. There’s not a limitation on that, though. Is there?

Let me see, of course, there is.

Why would you want to go and break up the well, not a limitation? But why would you want to put two things that are unrelated in the same dry stack?

We go for G stacks under one account. So different g stacks, but yes,

no? No. Okay.

Oh, unless they’re totally relevant if I mean, if you can, if all right, same niche, yes, it makes sense. If you’re going to break up the niche, if it’s going to be totally unrelated, then No, they’re not because now you’re putting all your eggs. First of all, you’re putting all your eggs in one basket, right? Everything is in a Google takes that away, you’re gonna lose everything that’s in there. That’s why we turn over we create our own Gmail accounts. And we turn them over to you so that you can use it. And if you order 1000 from it, you’re gonna have 1000 Gmail accounts, but you can manage a whole lot of them from one account, which is what we recommend, you can are we send a letter, we send an email when we deliver the drive stack, and we tell you what to do with it, make your main account the manager of that account, so you never again have to go back into that account. But this way, you won’t take any chances in eliminating the public-facing dry stack and decide you’re not going to run any into any problems or getting locked up or anything like that. Right. And then we tell you to change the phone number, change the recovery, make sure that you can get in there eventually. But only if you have to only have you must, once we turn it over, there is absolutely no reason for you to go back in there. Unless you want to go in there and Tinker and then you’re on your own. So please understand what it is that we’re doing. And what it is that we recommend for you putting like 50 I don’t know you could you get 15 What is it 15 gigabytes in that drive stack, excuse me in Google Drive to play with. So there’s plenty of space in there for you to get multiples in. But you’re putting everything in one basket you’d be put you putting all your eggs in there, and you drop that fucking basket and all your eggs break, you better know how to make scrambled eggs.

Yeah, I agree with that limit, you know, mitigate your risk that way. And so you know, as Marco said, we deliver it with its own Gmail account. And that’s you know, the primary owner of the drive stack which you can always add you know, your main Gmail account or G Suite account, whatever as a manager or share it with that so you can still manage the stack from within your own account, but it’s owned by the other account that way you’re limiting your risk like Marco said, if that you had one account that had all of your G stacks in it and then something happened in it got suspended or terminated, then you’d be screwed. So I totally agree with what he says there.

Is It Better To Have An Old Google Account Better Than A Gsuite Account When Creating Drive Stacks?

Okay, the next question was which is better and old g account or a new G Suite account? Well, I’m always gonna say G Suite account because you’re paying Google that way and I use G Suite for freaking everything now. So if it’s a brand or a project that I know I’m going to be working on for any amount of time Other than just for testing purposes, I always set up G Suite accounts for everything. Now, that’s just my own personal preference. One thing you can do is if you have old Gmail accounts, you can set up a G Suite account through the old Gmail account. And that, I don’t know if that actually adds any additional benefit or not. But I can’t imagine it wouldn’t. You know, I can’t imagine that hurts anything. And so like, if you’ve got some old Jeep, like, for example, I have a Gmail account that I’d set up for Tree Service stuff way back in, I think, 2012, that I just recently decided to turn that into a brand and I created a G Suite account with that. Email is like the, you know, the, when you set up a G Suite account, you need to have an email account anyways, and all that, you know, to add to the system, so I use that one. And I think and again, I don’t know this without testing, but it makes sense that it would have some inherent authority built-in because it was an age, an old account, something that I had set up in 2012, that I just now turned into a G Suite account. Now again, I don’t know that that’s true. But it makes sense to do. So do you have any input on that as part of the entity validation, isn’t it? I wrote that when I wrote the black book, I mean, we’ve been recommending go G Suite, go pay Google, or pay Google for extra drive space, get that credit card, on file, get your stuff in the database. So now you’re a real thing on the web. Rather than someone trying to gain Google, you’re still trying to gain Google, but you’re going the extra step, which most people won’t do. And you go pay for ads, ads for branding, Brandy put out a great course, ads, I run ads, for branding purposes. So again, you’re going a step further validating your entity. This is all talked about how old is the black book about four years old? It’s all in there. I don’t know, you guys, it’s all available to you. I think we also send it with that email with that recommendation email. For us, excuse me, the user’s guide, done for your users’ guide is what we send out. And it’s all in there how to add validation to your entity pay Google, get your credit card, and Google, they’ll tell you that it doesn’t have any effect in rankings. And they the way that they’re saying it is right, I would say okay, that in and of itself doesn’t. But when you’re validating the entity, that part of it has a big, big play in what the end results are going to be.

Unknown Speaker 22:33 Absolutely. All right. So next is Oh, by the way, a couple of things I wanted to briefly mention I was distracted from the start-up for the webinar being rough again. But a couple of things. One, I want to talk about this, this great post in our free group Facebook group from Max Lucey fam bam, we had we did a webinar on Monday with Mike Martin for Lead Simplify if you guys haven’t seen it yet, I would highly recommend that you check it out. I know most of our audiences into local SEO, local client work or lead generation. And it’s a fantastic application. It’s very inexpensive, and it works really, really well. The lead simplifies the app, I use it in my own business. In fact, I started using it eight or 10 weeks ago, probably closer to 10 weeks ago now. And I reached out to the developer Mike Martin, specifically after I had set the app up and integrated it into my own lead gen business. Because I saw the value of it, I decided to reach out to Mike and the developer and asked him if we could promote it to our audience specifically, because, guys, you know, we don’t promote other people’s stuff ever. Unless we, ourselves, you know, or somebody in our, my partners or one of us in my company use something and can vouch for it. And so we rarely promote other people’s stuff. And in this case, I reached out specifically to try to ask if we could promote it because I think it is such a valuable app. And so the webinar was great. We had some technical difficulties at the beginning of that part of the reason why I was frustrated this today for Hump Day Hangouts, but I got that cleaned up. So now the replay is just the content. And it’s really good content about what he calls the hybrid lead generation model. It’s fantastic content, as well as the app itself, is very inexpensive and very useful. And I use it in my business now. So we also throw in a couple of bonuses that I use specifically for generating lead buyers. So basically prospecting for lead buyers. And it works really, really well. I’ve been bringing multiple new lead buyers into my business over the last several weeks because of this app, as well as the prospecting systems that I have built, which I share all of that in our bonuses, so I would highly recommend that you guys go check out the lead simplify webinar that we did with Mike on Monday, and check it out.

Also, I just wanted to give a shout out to max Lu See fam bam, for this great post that they posted about watching that webinar and becoming inspired, because of some, you know, basically having some issues with clients, client work can be very frustrating guys in I’ve said that over the years, there’s certainly ups and downs with client work. But I really have decided that you know, I don’t want to work with any more take on any new clients, I just want to work on building my lead gen business and for several of the reasons that were mentioned in this post here, as well. So just wanted to kind of point that out, give a shout out to Max, Max Luci for posting such a thoughtful and thorough posting here. And, you know, we’re excited to see you, we’re excited to see you excited, and I think you’re on the right track, build your own assets instead of others. Now don’t get me wrong, guys, if you got to do client work, to make money do it, you know, but at the same time, instead of always building other people’s businesses budget some time and some money to start building your own assets to so that you can be gain more control over your revenue, right and your future. Clients can fire you at any moment, right? They can stop paying you to go find the bargain basement $99 a month SEO from you know, India or wherever and fire you in a heartbeat. And what are you going to do? You know, one of the things in our mastermind is we’ve had people that have come in that have had, you know, perhaps one or two clients that provide 90% of their income. Like for example, like a 4000 or $5,000 a month retainer client, what happens if that client drops you and your, your, your 90% of your revenue is based upon that one client, does that make sense or just a couple of clients and then you lose one of them. And now you’ve cut your revenue in half or a third or whatever my point is, you know, start thinking of ways to generate your own assets so that you have more control over your, your revenue and your future. And, and so again, I’ve got clients now, and I’ve still got a handful, I just took a client on about seven, six or seven weeks ago now a new client, but I don’t think I want to take on any more clients unless they’re going to give me you know, a much higher retainer value than what I typically asked for, because I really just want to focus on building my own business. So I thought this was a really thoughtful post and I just wanted to give a shout out to there and also encourage you guys to go check out the replay.

How Do We Use of Text Transcripts From Videos For Traffic And Link Building Purposes?

Alright, any comments on that before I move on guys? Nah, perfect. Okay, Franklin says, Hey, guys, given the rise of video integration in SERPs, and Google taking snippets of sentences, and focusing more on YouTube and looking to get a syndication ring and look into backlinking for videos, is there anything we can do with text transcripts from our videos for traffic, and link building purposes. Um, you know, the only thing that I, I don’t, what I’ve done in the past that works fairly well, like with client work, especially is I’ve had, I’ve trained some of them. Like, for example, I’ve got an outdoor pest control company that does like mosquito control, take control, that kind of stuff. It’s a very seasonal business. But I trained their technicians to, like I told the company owners to tell their technicians to just when they go out on job sites, which are just people’s yards, essentially, to just take their phone out and grab, record a short video, like literally like, Hey, this is John, for a company name, I’m out in, you know, Fairfax, Virginia, providing mosquito control services. And, you know, if you want your yard to be tick free ticket, mosquito, free, contact us, and then drop a phone number, whatever. So very, very short little video clips that then they send to me, I upload them to YouTube, optimize them, and then have that transcribed, which is, you know, literally, it’s usually about a minute long the video or less, so cost a buck or a buck 50 to have it transcribed, and then embed that into a blog post with the transcription underneath. And that syndicates out to the branded network that’s attached to the, to the website, as well as the YouTube channel can be attached to that too. So both can be syndicated to it, that’s what I’ve done. And it just it that tends to work because it adds some text without having to have you know, it’s, it’s all done with just a video, right? a short video can be turned into a video plus a blog post with the text with the transcription, the call to action, everything that you need for additional content, you know, to multi-purpose the content. So that’s what I’ve done. Maybe somebody else here has some other suggestions for how to use text. But that’s pretty much the extent of what I’ve done. And that works quite well actually.

Anybody else? Yeah, I mean, what you could do lots with the transcript, right? You can add it to your page and it becomes part of the blog post when you embed the video on your website. The transcript can actually become the content on your pay. I mean, we recommend that this time and again right then you syndicate it, then when you do your embed, right With the video, you could do the page I mean, not just the video, you can do an embed run of that page. Right? Because then that it’s an iframe, and that’s perfectly fine. You want you’re not going to run into any duplicate content issues. But people are still going to say, Okay, yeah, there are problems there are. So that’s another thing that you could take the audio from that video and start going to the audio distribution, I’d SoundCloud would be one podcast, and then you can create a syndication network for that. And there are so many different things that you could do with that, to get tons of value, rather than just think, Okay, what I do with this transcript, you could also convert it into a PDF, a downloadable PDF on your website. Right? That content, so I framed the video. And rather than just put the text on there as content, you could put additional content on it, then a link to a PDF that people can download, then you go and submit that to all these PDF directories that you have all over the web. And, I mean, that’s, that’s another thing that you can do, really, you’re only limited by, by, you know, your imagination. And what you can come up with the limit is the things that you can think of to do with this content. Not that you have multiples, but you have video, you have audio, and you have text, and then that text can become a PDF, it can become any other kind of download, it can become an image, the text itself can become an image, you can do the question and answer images of each. I mean, it becomes what you could do becomes ridiculous. The thing is, is it necessary? And why are you needing to do all of this a lot of times, all of that just simply isn’t necessary because the process that we use, requires you to do as little work as you can for as much benefit as you can saving the bullets. In case you need more.

There you go. Always keep some, some in reserve, right.

How Do You Properly Optimize The GMB And Website Of An Old Business?

Okay. The next question is a basic GMB question. I have a client who bought his dental practice from another dentist. The old dentist GMB is ranking Okay, three in some map packs around the office. And second, organically what is the best approach try to merge in the GMB market is closed and rank the new one with the new business name for the web for a website, the old one as a pop up directing to the new site, should I take that site down or leave it up just worried about the possum, but I think I could rank them both, I would be fine with that both businesses have exact same address. Okay, I’m going to give you what I would do in that situation. And then I’d love to hear Marco’s opinion on this as well. But what I would do is I would merge those two GM B’s the one that was shut down, I would contact Google My Business support and explain exactly what you just did to us without the SEO terminology, because you want to act dumb, or even, you know, you can act on behalf of the business owner. But I’ve done that in the past something similar where you know, there’s two GM B’s because of a tree service company bought another tree service company, for example. And so since they ended up sharing the same address, but it was different names and everything else, I don’t want to cause any PII issues, right where you can ambiguous ate the data for a particular business. So what I do is I contact Google My Business support and tell them, hey, this company bought this company there now. And you know, it’s now this name, but it’s in the same location, I want to merge the two and Google support Google, my business support will help you with that. I’ve had I’ve done that on multiple occasions. So that’s personally what I would do as far as the website. What I would do with the website is do a redirect. Right? If it’s ranking second, organically, I think you said yeah, second, organically, the website is got some authority, obviously. So if you’ve got the new website for the new brand, what I would do is do a redirect, I wouldn’t leave both of them up because it could cause some excuse me some NAEP issues and possibly some entity ambiguation. So I would like I said I would merge the two GM B’s you might have to contact you will likely have to contact GMB support to do that so that it can be done properly. For example, you know if you have I had another client that had a GMB where they had to they moved all they did was move locations so when they moved locations, they set up a new GMB instead of changing the original, like the information in the original GMB, they just set up a new one. And so when they came to me as when I, you know, brought them on as a client, they had a bunch of reviews for their old location, but they had their new location that had you know, just a hand a couple of reviews but they wanted to merge the two and so once again, I contacted GMB support and I had them merge the two. So they basically called and removed the old GMB from the old location, but merged all of the reviews into the new one under the new location. And so you can do those kinds of things as long as it’s 100%. legit, if it’s spam stuff, don’t even attempt it. But if it’s 100%, legit, then I would absolutely contact GMB support have the two merged. And then again, for the organic site, I would have that redirected to the new site so that you can push that authority over to the new site. Now that’s my method. Would anybody have a different opinion? merge and properly three? Oh, and I totally agree, is a having tool and maybe creating. Now, this is where duplicate matters, right? And, and the entity comes into play, and you create ambiguity, and then Google doesn’t Okay, so which dentist is which? And how does this all work? Because it’s a bot and it’s stupid. And if you don’t give it the information is not going to know. And you want to try to relate them to one to the other, and why what’s changed and all that you’re going to get into a whole lot of issues that you don’t want. Bradley told you exactly how to solve it, merge the GMB’s call and act really stupid with the owner as a matter lead to let the dentist’s quiet Look, I bought those dentists out and now he’s got a GMB and I got I let them work it out. And then you could properly 301 the old site to the new and gain from all that power that the old one has. And as a matter of fact, if you properly three or one, you could hammer the old website for a while and get the benefit into the new website.

Or you go so the next question. I’m not sure if well, I guess there is a question in there. It says guys, I’m looking both at land solutions and alpha land realty not typing these names for a reason. I don’t care. I know. I honestly don’t care that I’ve never tried to hide my homeland realty business. They’re public. Yeah, they’re public. I’ve always mentioned that and he said, anyway, I’ll finish the question then I’m going to comment and I’m sure Marco has some comments as well says I don’t see any good rankings there. In fact, I see a huge decline. I see a huge decline in something that was not very impressive anyway. Well, that’s okay. Because that not very impressive, impressive Alfa land realty site makes me between three and $15,000 a month and fucking month and has for a year and a half. So that’s not very impressive. They’re not you know, I’m sorry, I don’t know how to impress you. It works just fine for me. He says I know you do local use GM B’s ads, etc. You said, you said and you said it many times. It’s about calls and leads I get it but it looks more narrowed towards local map listing rather than a national campaign or global campaign. Mine is not a national or global campaign Alfa land realty is a Virginia based real estate acquisition company. All I target is Virginia. That’s all I’ve ever targeted since I set it up. And I use Google ads, direct mail and SEO, and I get all the damn leads that I want or can handle from those three methods. So and most of my traffic comes from direct mail I’m not gonna lie I do get leads from Google ads and from organic SEO, but those leads aren’t really the leads that I want. Those are typically not as good leads because I like to target specific land types in certain areas. And so with direct mail, I can do that. And so again, I’ve always I’ve never tried to hide the fact that I’ve not done a whole ton of SEO for Alfa land realty because I haven’t needed to most of the traffic that I generate is through direct mail. However, I do get probably eight to 12 leads per month from Google ads and or organic SEO but those they tend I bought several properties from you know, leads that have come in from either Google ads or from organic SEO, but most of them that come through aren’t those good they’re not that good leads because they’re not as targeted as I want them to be like I can do with direct mail. So again, I’ve never tried to hide that guys there’s no reason for me to I’m always honest with what’s going on in my business and it’s all been about Virginia land by land acquisitions in Virginia so I’ve been able to accomplish my goals with the methods that I’m using that solutions go ahead.

On the other hand is national and as a matter of fact we got we had a lead once from Bali so it’s it’s global. We did lead from somebody was selling land in Bali wanted us to do one to see if we would buy it I and I’ve prepared some some stuff that I that I want to share my skis Mind if I grabbed the screen shirt. Let me go here. And I can’t you got to give me permission or stop sharing your stop sharing mine. How about that? And I was Okay, here we go. Let me make sure I share the right one. Get rid of the porn. All right. So I saw this question and I came a look. Because I love the use of the turn of the phrase, I see a huge decline of something that was not very impressive anyway, wasn’t meant to be impressive was meant to get results. I’m not to impress anyone. I’ve never, I’ve never been it, I don’t want to impress you. All I want is the person here. If you can see my screen, when they come on here to fill out the fucking form. That’s all I want. Not to impress. So here we go. Are we seeing that position? I took a look. I don’t know how many top 10s I have. I but if I can scroll down? I don’t know. I can keep scrolling. Scrolling. Scrolling. Right. So you can see yes, it’s very local. It’s heavily local. How else would you target local real estate? Please, what are we talking about? Can we please define what we’re talking about first, because yes, even though this is National in nature, I have to target it locally. Or else, the person that’s looking to sell their land, in bumfuck, whatever, would never find me to sell me the land. So of course, I don’t know what it is you’re using you said hrs, I don’t use hrs. I don’t use sem rush, I don’t use any action. I use go, this is what I use. This is what tells me what it is that I’m doing. And whether what I’m doing works. Not only this, but while I was doing this, what’s so funny is let me pull this up in my G but look at the time 1:37pm I haven’t even opened because I was going through this, to show this during have to have a web web form fill came through. This is what I’m after man. Now, not you, you why user specific or targeted or whatever. But this is what I’m after I’m not after you. And I’m not after a dress to impress a dress and whatever the fuck it is they decide to give because I could give a shit about a trust and majestic. And and whoever else, you name it, I don’t care. I get my information from analytics, I get my information from the Search Console. That’s what tells me what to target. So I can get this because as Bradley said, Now these, what I do is I’ve been turning them over to the alpha land Realty, that you created Bradley. Yeah, the group, I’m sure you see me posting in there. And this is what I’ll do with this form. Because I have enough with what I’m doing with what I’m targeting in the states that I’m targeting. Or I’m good where I don’t know, four or five sales.

I wouldn’t say that much, let’s say three to four sales per month, three to four k average, well, that’s an extra 10 k in my pocket that I’m not expecting to see. I mean, and this is after expensives after expenses, after cost lawyers and everything else, it’s in my pocket is what I put in my pocket. That feels really nice. I don’t know about you, it may not be impressive to you. And I understand that. Okay, you may you probably make way more than I do, from something that just a side hustle, and a website that we haven’t done really anything to other than you know, we set up the SEO shield, some schema, some q&a, but not really giving it the love that it should not giving it all of the attention that we need to. Because since this is my main source of income, since this is just a playground, whatever I get here is perfect. I mean, this is fine for me, if I get I don’t know, 10 of these is what we’re getting per month, and I turn them over to the guys and and they can close a few. And they give me the commission. I mean that that’s an extra source of income in my pocket. So in addition to whatever it is that I’m closing and that I’m making every month, now this, this last solution network will also produce webform fills, where the guys who took Bradley’s training can go and they can get after these people make the offer and try to make that close and sell and put a couple of grand in their pocket. And they really didn’t have to do the effort other than to contact and try to close it. Because this person is hot. This person is hot to sell. They don’t go and find you organically unless they’re hard to sell this we know. So I’m sorry that you’re not impressed. But yeah, I mean, the other part of this what you said is so like calls and leads, because that’s the only way that you gonna make money. And I could be number one in everything and not making a penny and I could be selling it hot. Look, look, I’m number one. Number one. Number one, I’m not making a penny. And yet you’re going to fall for it. Because you see number one everywhere and is not really doing anything. So I mean, hopefully, this is the example you should be focusing on. We put everything through Google through analytics, and through search console. That’s what that personally, this is what I focus on. I don’t care about anything else. And I don’t care what anybody says about analytics and search console, because they’re generally wrong and they don’t know how to use it. And so they can’t see how it works. that’s their problem, not mine. All right, my hand a second, let me just finish my mastermind, people, my heavy hitter club and my mini mastermind. They know how to use this shit, because I’ve shown them how to use it. And how it is that you’re supposed to take a look at analytics and search console so that you can get the most benefit from it. And I’m done. Go ahead, man.

Yeah, no, I was just mentioning that, again. You know, I, I spent last year I’ve been running my alpha land realty business for about a year and a half now. And it’s, it only requires about eight to 10 hours a week now, because I’ve got personnel in place, and automations and systems and everything that I built took me months to build all of it. But now it just requires very little of my attention. Like I said, between eight to 10 hours a week on average. And for a period of time, I did spend more time on SEO and a lot of time in Google ads. But I’ve refined the Google Ads campaigns. And I realized, after starting to receive leads from just SEO and from Google ads, that those aren’t the best quality leads, because they’re often in random areas of the state that I’m not interested in, which ends up taking more time to research those markets to get to know those markets. I know which markets, I can flip properties in very quickly. And so those are the markets that I target and I target them more specifically with direct mail, because it’s a higher quality lead, and it works better for my business model. So again, it’s not I’ve never tried to, you know, sell people on the fact that my alpha land realty site was super optimized and all that shit. And everyone, it’s a single page landing page on Click Funnels, but still ranks. So what difference does it make, it generates me a very nice income with very little effort now, because I’ve built the systems and everything else. So anyways, if anybody’s interested in learning more about that specifically, reach out to support at Semantic Mastery, we’ve had a couple of people reach out in the last month or so and say that they’re interested in possibly joining a paid training group where you where I’ll teach how to flip land, it’s a great business guys, you can do it virtually from a computer at home, like out of I think I flipped. I don’t know, 28, maybe between 20 and 32 properties in the last year and a half. And I’ve only been to three of them. And it was only for very specific reasons that I went to three of them, I’ve been able to buy and sell land and make, like I said, on average, on my low end, in fact, this month, I only make 2300. But on my on my low months, it’s still a four figure profit. And on my good months, I’ve made five never made more than 16,000 in a month. But you know, that’s a really good income now for three to or excuse me for eight to 10 hours a week of effort. And so again, if anybody’s interested in that business, just reach out and say you’re interested in land flipping business. And once we get enough interest, I’ll put together another group and do some training on that it will be a paid training though, guys, so just keep that in mind. All right, we’ve got about 12 more minutes. I’m gonna grab the question. Question, though.

It was a good question. And we’re weren’t attacking you for your vote on another way. No, no. And and it’s good. I love this when people call you out. And it’s okay, so well, because the proof of a profit is and whether the prophecy comes true. If it doesn’t, then the profit is useless, right? So what we say is the results are what matter we need to be able to show results so that people who are in a dress and doubting I understand the doubt man, I understand the doubt. What I’m saying is your focus is wrong. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying the focus that you’re giving it is wrong, because we’re not interested in HS. And they can show whatever they want. And you could go ahead and share. It’s the land some land solutions network, you can share it, you can go look at it, reverse engineer it, because we did a lot of nasty stuff in there a lot of testing, and it’s still it’s ongoing. We’ll get back to it and give it some love man, because we can take over a lot of stuff with the way that it’s ranking right now. At any rate, yeah, it’s not anything done to you or set to you specifically. It’s just that when you when you focus on Ah, they’re going to show you what they want majestic what they want SEMrush what they want. I only care about Google. That’s all I care about.

Yeah, and just one other thing about that is what’s interesting is if you take a look at my site, somebody’s got positions here. Oh, look at that son of a bitch anyways. But you can see like sell land fast, Virginia. We buy land Virginia, there’s a few other keywords that work really well for ranking. But if you take a look at my site, guys, it’s a single page landing page on clickfunnels, which clickfunnels doesn’t even give you the ability to optimize the page much there. You can’t really optimize the elements and Click Funnels. It’s very difficult. But that’s it. I mean, it’s a very simple site on a wide Firefox has been so slow, but that’s it. It’s that I mean, there’s no content marketing going on there. I’ve had a syndication network built but I never I don’t I don’t blog. I don’t publish posts. I don’t have I’m not doing GMB posts or anything like that. I do a few a handful of press releases per year. And that’s it. And that’s all I’ve had to do because look, I’m ranking number one in Virginia for my primary keywords the keywords from because I’ve run Google ads for this for a year and a half, I know which keywords produce conversions generate leads, those are the only keywords I give a shit about all the other ones I could care less about. It’s not a it’s not a it’s not a you know, a test to see how how many rankings I can get. In this case, it’s producing like I said, on the low end, four figures and on the high end five figures per month consistently month in and month out. And it has been for a year and a half. So I’d say it’s a success. And I don’t spend a lot of time on it anymore. I did four months but it’s it’s where it is now to where it’s on. It’s almost on autopilot requires very little my attention. So

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I’m sorry. Somebody want to answer that?

Now? I thought I thought it was something else. MF

Global campaign for y m y l niches? I’m not sure what that means. Okay. Um, are these methods suitable for current moments for something outside at the current moment? Excuse me for something outside local marketing? Yeah, of course. I mean, again, like if you I mean, Mark always talks about local is relative, right? Your local can be a neighborhood, a city, a county, a state, a country, or global, it really just depends you local is relative, you know, there, I’m just targeting on a statewide basis, because I found that it doesn’t make sense to target like, we buy land Culpepper, Virginia, we buy land, it doesn’t make sense to go through all of that additional effort for that particular project. Because again, like and here’s the other thing about that project. And tree services, people will go to Google because they got a tree that is overgrown or a dead tree that’s in danger of falling on their house or their car or something. So they need that service. So they go to Google, and they search tree service or tree removal, Tree Removal near me or tree removal and whatever their city is, right. But with the landowners and for again, for that business, it’s a lot of times these are people that own land that really doesn’t haven’t even considered selling it, they just pay taxes on it, you know, year in and year out. And so I all of a sudden send them a letter that says, hey, I’m interested in purchasing your vacant land parcel located at whatever, whatever. If you’re interested in receiving an all-cash offer, fill out this form at this website, or call this number, which goes to my call center. That’s it. And so again, you know, a lot of the times I’m targeting people that have land that doesn’t even know that they want to sell it, the ones that do think, well, I’ve got a piece of land I need to generate some money from there are the ones that go to Google and search for it. But I found again because those are in random areas throughout the state that I’m not specifically targeting and ends up requiring more research on my part. And then it’s a market that I’m unsure about whether I can flip it quickly and all that other kind of stuff. So it’s that uncertainty is the reason why I don’t like those leads as much Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still make offers on them. But I like the areas that I’m specifically targeting through direct mail those areas better So again, just to kind of explain.

it’s just a different model period. So why am while your money or your life. Okay? What is it your money or your life niche? Not sure what that means?

Is It Okay To Optimize Two YouTube Channels For One Money Site

Anyway, so we’re gonna move on fit says good agents, I have a client posting on two different YouTube channels, only one optimized, should they optimize both? And add the money to site to both thanks for all you do. Yeah, I guess you could, uh, I don’t see how that could hurt anything. As long as it’s the same brand. I mean, I guess it depends on what it is that you’re doing. What it is that they’re doing? If it’s the same brand, but like, perhaps two different topics, or for whatever reason, then then yeah, I don’t see why that would hurt anything. Um, that’s what I would do. I mean, obviously, I need some more details, Fitz, to be able to give you a better answer, then that but I mean, if it’s the same brand, I don’t see why you couldn’t, it wouldn’t cause any ambiguity as long as you’re not, you know, trying to create two different types of brands for the same company if that makes sense.

What’s The Drawback If A Google Drive Folder Is Shared To Anyone With The Link Vs Sharing It Publicly?

So Okay, the next question is a G Drive folder is shared to anyone with the link versus public on the web. What’s the drawback? Or is it completely useless to do it that way? Is it thoroughly tested? I’ve heard it’s still good for buffering if you share with anyone with the link, but don’t know about entity validation. What’s your take? Marco? That’s a question for you.

The link shared folder has no fucking use that has to be public on the web. Really? It has to be it won’t pass if you Uh, no. It has to be public on the web man. Hmm. Now, even if you try the iframe that anyone with the link, it has it if you don’t do it right, it has a frame breaker. So once you if it has a frame breaker then we were losing all the benefits from what we now know, as our ys Academy reloaded, right? Because that’s built upon the power of the iframes and how they work. Okay,

so you’re saying his shit has to be public on the web to provide the benefits public and if you can’t do it, don’t worry. Go to MGYB to order drive second t site from us because we can make it public.

What’s The Drawback If A Google Drive Folder Is Shared To Anyone With The Link?

There you go. Rob says thanks, guys. Baby’s up. What’s up, baby? I was wondering where the hell you are today. He says, Hey, guys, after I asked all the External links variations now it’s time for a new wave. So so we’re gonna go through several weeks Marco has some other topic but one topic.

Yeah. 1000 ways. Maybe I’m giving you shit, man, we appreciate you, man. There’s no there’s no question. He says, Does the organization schema have to be on each page or just the home page? What page or post should the organization schema on which should be an article scheme? Okay, that’s a great question. And I’ve recently because of POFU Live and some of the training I’ve received from there, I started digging into schema more and I only put organization schema as the only schema on the homepage now. But if you understand the connected schema, then you can, you’ll still can work organizations schema into like local business schema or into article schema because the organization can be the publisher, there’s it’s connected schema is like combining schema types, but it has to be done correctly, or else it will ambiguity of the page that multiple schemas are on. So in other words, you have to understand how to connect schema properly, it’s not something we’re going to cover here, you’d have to go to heavy hitter club, that’s you that’s the place to be if you want to learn how to do that stuff. I’ve been learning from Marco and Rob and also doing some research on my own. And I’ve just recently begun to understand the idea of the concept of connected schema. And so I was actually doing it wrong for a lot of my own local business sites for the last couple of years because I would put organization schema sitewide. And then on location pages, I would have local business schema also. But that actually ambiguous. It’s the main entity of that particular page unless you combine them into a connected schema. And then you designate the main entity of the page or you can ref local like for example, local business schema can be the primary schema for a location page, but it can reference the overall parent organization. The same thing for articles schema, Article schema is going the primary entity of the pages the article itself, right. But then you can reference the publisher as an organization, for example, or even the author could be an organization. And that can pull in all of your organization schema with your same as attributes and everything else. You have to learn how to put that together properly. And I didn’t know how to do that until after I went through POFU Live. And I got to watch some of our speakers, which by the way, you can buy POFU Live recordings right now. So if you want to get a really good bass training for what connected schema is, and how you can develop this kind of stuff out, go get the POFU Live recordings. And I just want to mention, as I said, I realized after the POFU Live event and hearing some of our guest speakers, that I really needed to step my schema game up. And so I’ve spent the last several weeks now actually really tightening up my schema on a lot of my lead gen properties. And I’m starting to see some significant results from that already. But as so organization schema can go on all the pages if it’s nested within the other schema properly. Otherwise, just put it on your homepage or your about page or both. It can be on both of those even. But for everything else that would have the main entity of the page have that only schema on that particular page only unless you’re using connected schemas. So essentially nested schema where it would reference organization schema, hopefully, that didn’t confuse a lot of people. Mark, do you want to comment on it before I move on?

parent, child-parent, you can have organization either on the homepage or on the about page don’t make both if you’re going to do that I prefer it on the own baby to that’s where the bot will generally come in and go through the rescue website. So that’s what I like. As far as everything else. I mean, no, yeah. Don’t ambiguity. You’re in big trouble, man. Yeah.

Yeah. And that’s the thing. Like if you have multiple schemas on a page, and they’re not, you can actually main entity of page that’s it. That’s an attribute that’s a type that you can designate so that you can specify which one it is but if you’re using connected schema, or like you said Parent-Child, nested schema is another term for it, then it should validate correctly. Anyway. But yeah, it’s an interesting man, I didn’t realize how much I was missing drugs and data world until we had the poker live event. Now, that was my main takeaway. And I’ve told that to everybody. I was like, my main takeaway was I need to step my schema game up. And so I spent and I’m still just scratching the surface, Robin, and Marco, and heavy hitter clubs where you want to go for all of that stuff. Guys, there’s no question. It’s what we’re teaching a heavy hitter, man.

Yep. All right.

Last thing, I’m just gonna answer the part two real quick. And then we’ve got to wrap it up. He says, What if the homepage is general info, the representation of the brand, sort of, and then there is long-form post, which is targeted for the main service, keyword example tree removal, how to place schemas there. Yeah. So again, that would be I would consider that article schema. And you can also nest within article schema services, right? You can mention service. You can even have like offer catalogs, all that kind of stuff. Again, it’s a, it can get very, very complex. So you have to understand what it is that you’re doing. But I would say like a main like service page where with an article that talks about services, you could create a service schema type, but I don’t think that’s as valuable. And I don’t know, maybe Marco can answer that. Or maybe this isn’t the proper place to answer that. But I’m testing right now with some of my Tree Service sites having the like Tree Removal page, for example, marked up as a service page. And then I’ve got others that are article pages with nested services in it. I think the article page with a nested service is the proper way to go but I don’t know and that’s why I’m kind of testing and comparing right now. Mark Oh, am I am I revealing too much or what?

Yeah. Because that’s stuff I mean, how we, how we create the relationships and and how we stack the schemas. What it’s what’s dealt with in the heavy hitter club.

There you go. So that was a tease, go go join heavy hitter club guys. It’s inexpensive, and it’s totally worth it if you want that kind of technical knowledge. So all right. Thanks, everybody for being here. We got to wrap it up. Everyone knows next week. Thanks, guys.

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 310

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 310 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.

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Doing good here? Good. They can complain and yeah, I think we got something pretty sweet coming. Oh, really? I made a video about something today, so, huh?

All right. Well, now I’m curious. I don’t even know what you’re talking about.

Well check Facebook.

Ah, all right. I will check it out. Bradley, you got the tech stuff done. Are you available?

Well, it’s the fucking video still not on know that on the page. Click Funnels bullshit. I’m tired of it. And I really am.

It’s still not even there we go. Yeah, it’s updated now.

Well, it’s not for me.

Gotcha. Well, we’ll circle back around. I’m going to type something in while I ask her not How you doing today, man?

Great, man. I’m in Miami. Having fun. Everything’s good.

Well, you got to talk for a little bit longer. I gotta, I gotta touch.

I’ve heard that you’re in Miami. Is that true?

Those are right now, but we still had it. So.

What about POFU?

About It was a great event.

Oh my god, what about it?

The live of the recordings are available, right?

Should be right.

Yes, that what I was just talking about or not my losing my mind about POFU.

This has got me all screwed up. Because the format has changed in the last couple of weeks. And after years of having one particular startup format. It’s hard to hard to transition.

All right,

you guys are seeing my screen now. Correct. Good to go. Yes.

Yep. All right.

What Is The Name Of The Upcoming Buffer Site S3 Creator?

Should You Make A Separate Page For Each Location When Siloing A Local Service Business Site?

There you go. Let me unpause the screen for a minute if I can find it. Okay.

What Do You Recommend For A Self-Hosted URL Shortener?

All right, there we go on the resume share again.

Because doing some background stuff. Alright.

Can You Make Multiple GStacks On One Google Account That Are Interconnected?

Let me see, of course, there is.

Why would you want to go and break up the well, not a limitation? But why would you want to put two things that are unrelated in the same dry stack?

We go for G stacks under one account. So different g stacks, but yes,

no? No. Okay.

Is It Better To Have An Old Google Account Better Than A Gsuite Account When Creating Drive Stacks?

How Do We Use of Text Transcripts From Videos For Traffic And Link Building Purposes?

There you go. Always keep some, some in reserve, right.

How Do You Properly Optimize The GMB And Website Of An Old Business?

I’m not sure what why am why Oh, niches What does that mean? Do you know what y m y l means?

Marco? You’re You’re muted

by the way.

What is okay?

Nevermind.

I’m sorry. Somebody want to answer that?

Now? I thought I thought it was something else. MF

it’s just a different model period. So why am while your money or your life. Okay? What is it your money or your life niche? Not sure what that means?

Is It Okay To Optimize Two YouTube Channels For One Money Site

What’s The Drawback If A Google Drive Folder Is Shared To Anyone With The Link Vs Sharing It Publicly?

What’s The Drawback If A Google Drive Folder Is Shared To Anyone With The Link?

Yep. All right.

Yeah. Because that’s stuff I mean, how we, how we create the relationships and and how we stack the schemas. What it’s what’s dealt with in the heavy hitter club.

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Stop Passing The Buck And Take Responsibility In Life

Today we’re going to talk about passing the buck and if you want to know it’s true definition click here. But if you want to learn how to stop passing the buck and take responsibility for your life then keep reading for the transcript, tops tips on how not to blame others and frequently asked questions on why people pass the blame to others. Then keep reading.

Take Responsibility For Your Life And Stop Passing The Buck Transcript

0 (1s): Hi there and welcome to changeyourlifeforever.co.uk. It’s Scott, your host talking. And today we’re going to talk about Stop Passing The Buck And Take Responsibility In Life because I think at some time or another, most of us through life have blamed someone else or blamed something, or kind of looked at a situation and went it wasn’t me, and I remember when I was a kid kinda anything that went wrong went wrong, my mom would in the room room and say to my brother, did you do that? And he’d say, no, it was Scott.

0 (32s): It was him mom, honestly. And he would refuse to admit or take responsibility for what he had done wrong. And he consistently blamed me all the way. It was always my fault. And it’s quite funny because the thing most people do that because excepting that you’ve done something wrong is really, really hard for people to, to do. Because you think that your gonna get scolded, or you think that you are going to be in trouble for something so people hide away from those problems?

0 (1m 4s): And it is quite easy if you stop passing the book, because when you take responsibility for what you’ve done, you can work out what went wrong. You can look inside yourself and say, yeah, I did that wrong. Oh my God. You know, I made a massive mistake, but I stick my hand up and I won’t ever do it again, and people will help you. And people would rather know the truth than they would if you to actually passing the buck and not taking responsibility for your life.

0 (1m 35s): And kinda there’s more examples. You know, I work with lots of big industries and kinda they bring out lots of different solutions for how to manage projects and programs like waterfall and agile and when it comes down to it, most of those individual teams work in silos. They work individually. They don’t work together as a team. So when you get them handing off from one team to another, there’s things that are wrong, dates that aren’t delivered, generally what happens is one group will blame another rather than working together.

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0 (2m 9s): And working out where the problem is where things went wrong they actually just blame each other. And that means that passing the buck somewhere else means that things don’t get done and things over run. And it just creates a massive horde of problems. Whereas if you get the team’s to gel together, working together, like you would in a football team or rugby team, you know, you chuck the ball to someone. If you throw a bad ball and they drop it, it’s not their fault for dropping it. It’s your fault for not passing the ball in the right way.

0 (2m 43s): So I think when you look at life, if you can look at it and you can say, yes, I will take responsibility for this. I own this. I own everything that I do. And when you make a mistake, when you do something wrong, you can put your hand up, you can admit it and you can feel safe knowing that the outcome will be a better outcome than it would be if you hide away or blame someone else. And we all do it. It’s like, in families, , we can blame each other for different things that happen.

0 (3m 15s): You know, someone’s smashed a dish or, something didn’t get done. And all of a sudden we’re blaming people within our household for stuff that is going to make them feel horrible. And if you have ever been blamed yourself, you will know how horrible that feeling is, you will know what it’s like when you’re waiting for somebody to find out what you’ve done. And then probably punish you for it. But, if you work on the other way and you put your hand up and you take responsibility for that, and you’ve don’t pass the buck, then things will work out better.

0 (3m 48s): Saying that, I remember when I was a kid, as well as I was playing football or in the house, bit stupid really, to be honest, and I kinda hit the ball and it hit the telly. And my mums statue on the top of the tele she’d saved up years for it was her most precious thing fell off the tele smashed on the floor. And when she come in I ran straight up to her and i was crying my eyes out. Mom mom, I’m really sorry. I’m really sorry. And she was like, wow, have you done? What have you done? And a one man. And she was angry because I admitted what I did.

0 (4m 19s): She didn’t punish me. She understood. She wasn’t very happy about me playing it football in the house, but you know she understood and she was grateful that I came forward and actually told her because I could have just glued the tail back on it and just left it and hope she didn’t notice, but that’s kind of deceitful. And when you take Responsibility the punishment, isn’t as bad as you think it will be. But if you pass the buck to somebody else and you blame that other person you’ve got the guilt of knowing that person.

0 (4m 53s): Actually hasn’t done anything wrong. Anyway, it wasn’t their fault and communally, whether we’re in a family, right? Whether were at work, we should all work together. We should help each other. Our job is to make our lives better to support each other. To big each other up, to make sure that we as a family or whatever work together. We understand each other where empathic to each other, there are no secrets. We kind guide each other in the right way, which means that when something does go wrong.

0 (5m 26s): You just need to learn to stop passing the buck, suck it up and take that courage inside to go, I’m really sorry. It was me and then later on you take responsibility for your actions, you make sure that you never do it again and you learn from your mistakes, but you really do have to make sure that you are taking that responsibility because that doesn’t sit with anyone else. It will make you become a better person by understanding what you are capable of, admitting things.

0 (6m 0s): You also don’t get that intrusive thought problem where your then going away thinking about it, Oh my God, I did this today and I blamed someone else. And what happens if someone finds out, because all those thoughts that you have in your head just coincide to an increase bad mental health issues, stress and anxiety and everything else, but its forced upon us when actually what we should do is keep hold of that book ourselves and go, yeah, it was me.

0 (6m 31s): I am so sorry. What can I do to make it better? What can I do to make sure that the outcome is a better one and that is by admitting it. And it is by sticking your hand up. And when you’re at school, as well the teacher would go, who did that and everyone will go It wasn’t me, but it was someone. And then everybody gets detention or whatever, just because somebody’s threw a book or made a noise or, or whatever, because no one likes to take responsibility when they’ve done something wrong.

0 (7m 2s): They may think it’s funny when they do it in the first place, but then they’ll pass the buck to someone else to say it wasn’t me miss. It was them. Or it wasn’t me mom. It was them. And that just leads to a pathway where you are avoiding taking responsibility yourself. And if you can learn to be told off, if you can learn that it’s okay to do things wrong, then you will avoid a load of stress and a load of anxiety. And I know my son he’s got great manners he’s a lovely lad.

0 (7m 34s): And I adore him and you know, the other week he kind of spoke out of turn to my wife and I was like, hold on a minute. That’s not you. And I took him upstairs and I said, do you think that was like you normally act, and he said NO it isn’t dad but I’m under a lot of stress. I’m having all these problems. And you know, I just took it out on Caren and kinda it made him realize and take responsibility for his actions.

0 (8m 6s): He apologized straight away because he knew that he was in the wrong, but he’s never liked being told off. So the way that I have to approach it with him is by having a conversation trying to understand emotionally why he did those things, what was it that made you pass that buck and take it out on my wife? You know, why did you do that? And not in an aggressive way, but in a way that he could simply understand why not taking responsibility for his actions would have worked out worse, because if he hadn’t of admitted it, then I probably would have said you’re being rude and I don’t want you to do it again.

0 (8m 43s): I am not happy and everything else. And when you are assertive to people like that, they do feel as if they are being cussed. They do feel as if they’ve done something wrong? So it’s about nurturing that out of people. So you can make them feel that they don’t need to pass the buck. That they can take responsibility because life is about growing and it’s about finding out more about ourselves. So it make sure that you’re not passing the buck on to anybody else, take responsibility for your own life.

How To Stop Blaming Others Top Tips

Admit it – This takes courage and balls to admit when you are wrong. But by taking responsbility and keeping the buck yourself, you will learn more about yourself. Being able to do this is a great skill but know that we all make mistakes, we all mess up, just put your hand up when you do and admit it.

Accept it – If you are going to admit to something and take accountability yourself, make sure you are also willing to accept the consequences. Some actions do unfortunately come with consequences, so no regretting it later. Just accept the position, learn and move forward.

Stopping blaming others – Rather than blaming someone, understand why they have done this in the first place. It might very well be that they meant to do it, or it could be a genuine mistake. Our job however is to move forward and help them move forward too. So be empathic, understand the why, then be a part of making things better.

Don’t lie – I say this to everyone, once you start telling porkies and blaming other people. This will form a nasty habit and you will forget the things that you lied about too. Then you will have a massive set of lies building up that you will eventually get caught out. So always tell the truth and put your hand up and admit your mistakes.

Do it now – If you have made a mistake or been blamed or passed the buck. Then raise it straight away so that a resolution can be made as quickly as possible. There is nothing worse than someone finding out what has been done as this will only make them mad.

Apologise – Some people no matter what you do with them, they just cannot apologise. Whilst apologies shouldn’t be done all the time, if it was you that caused the problem. Then learn to put your hand up and say sorry for what you had done and then never do it again.

Wrongly accused – If someone has wrongly accused you or blatently put the blame on you. Do not worry as people are not stupid and most of the time they know who did it. So the only person that they will eventually ridicule will be themselves. Stay true to yourself and do not let others suck you into a blame culture. If you take responsibility for your own actions and are a kind and caring person then people will see through the other persons buck passing persona.

Don’t worry about it – It doesn’t matter what it is. Once you have apologised or fixed the problem, do not pay it any more attention. Constantly replaying situations in your head will not change anything but will just make your anxiety worse. So follow all the tips by capturing blame early on and dealing with it and then move forward.

Moving on – Don’t hate the person for blaming you, just be proud that you know that you take responsibility for your own actions. Other people will do whatever they want to and acceptance of this is paramount to divorce yourself from other people’s issues and problems. If they have a problem with you so be it, try and sort it out with them. But if they have blamed you in the first place it is likely they will shy away from the truth. So accept the situation, bury it and move on as quickly as you can with another lesson learned under your belt.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Passing The Buck And Taking Responsbility

What does the phrase pass the buck mean? To me it means passing responsbility or blame to someone else rather than taking responsbility yourself. It can aslo mean that you see this as not your problem or fault and are willing to pass the consequences to someone else instead.

Who said the buck stops here and why? President Truman – the decision has to be made. Quite often this is used when someone does take responsibility for their actions and they know that their decision is final and the event stops with them. You could say today as a team we are going to win the premiere league but the buck stops with me to make this happen.

What is the buck stops with me? As above it means that there are no further actions and that the person is taking responsibility for the decision. Which also means that they accept the consequences of their actions and are will to to stick with that, rather than blame someone else at a later date.

What does it mean to take responsibility? It means accepting that the situation sits squarely in your hands. For instance if someone asked you to babysit because they were going out for the evening. The responsibilty sits with you to make sure that the baby is well looked after and cared for. If something happens then you take responsibility for it and own up to it.

How do you take responsibility for your own actions? You do your best with whatever life throws at you and be honest with your critique about yourself. We all fail and we all make mistakes. Some things we are good at and some things not so good at. So when something goes wrong just admit that you have done it and learn from and it move on. Be proud of the job you are doing and take the responsibility seriously.

What are some examples of responsibility? There are loads of examples here, Doctors, Nurses, Plane Drivers, Managers, Teachers, Brothers, Sisters. You name it everyone has responsibility for something, whether you think that is a small thing or a massive thing. We all have responsibility and it is our responsibilty to look after ourselves, be kind and be the best we can be in life too.

So that is everything I have to say today on passing the buck and taking responsibility for your own life. I hope you liked it and please do join me on the transformation program below for more interesting stuff about life, happiness and living a great lifestyle.

Catch you soon best wishes Scott

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brainsturmunddrang · 6 years

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Paper-cuts to the tongue which can’t speak its mind.

I…

I hate when something I want to say to you starts with the word “I.”

Look. No, just listen:

I have really been feeling the impulse to run. Just take flight. Just walk out the door and go somewhere…else.

Only grab some essential supplies, shut off my phone, cancel everything and delete the calendars, and kinda drop off the edge of the map…and just not have to think about work or the people there… follow some rivers or two-lane highways. Stopping at greasy-spoon diners to be an anonymous smile over the rim of a coffee mug at the lunch counter. …or maybe hole up in an old fallout shelter or abandoned missile silo with a shitload of books and a typewriter…but I’d probably get cooped up and lonely in a bunker… On the road would be far better. Going constantly toward wherever isn’t here. Sending love letters and hand written stories and printed-out snapshots to you with no return address on the envelope. Wondering if you read them, figuring at some point you’d just walk them from the mailbox to the trash can and throw them away without ever opening them — out of the need to move on and stop letting me get to you. And that would be a poetry all of its own. It would be cathartic for both of us.

Or maybe you’d have moved houses by then and I’d have no way to know. All my mail would just stack up, undeliverable, one by one, getting so immediately forgotten that no one would even remember to throw them away. That’d be a fitting pile of debris for future paleoanthropologists to sift and piece together the lives of a hominid who got stuck in unopened parcels at the back of a 21st century mail room. I don’t really wanna piece it back together myself anyway, so could I just hand you my thoughts catharted bits of mental litter and have you to throw them out for me?

And then the left brain cries out to the rational mind, the prefrontal cortex sends rejection letters to my right brain, and I am reminded again of obligations and money.

But I still can’t shake off that instinct to take flight and take to the road. It’s a delicious feeling to just go and be gone, wind ripping past the ears, drowning out the deafening thoughts of an occupied mind… putting landscape between one’s self and the banality of a routine life half-lived, half-sold-off in biweekly pay periods. Growing pale and translucent under the sickly green flicker of fluorescent office lighting.

It’s not mankind’s natural state. A couple thousand years of city-building and a couple generations of industrialization won’t shed the millions of years of ancestral nomadic hunter-gatherers at his shoulder; pausing only to sit and reflect in front of campfires and watering holes. Always taking stock of the position of the sun and color of the sky. Catching his breath at sunset. Drifting into sleep under a ceiling of stars splashed across its middle by a visible Milky Way uncorrupted by the relentless incandescence of city lights.

…And then pulling up stakes again in the sunrise to chase the shortening shadows westward— toward the shrinking outline of his own foreshortened physical form cast out in front of him by the sun at his back— as time flows unflinchingly overhead, never stopping long enough to tick off a second, never separating one moment from the next.

The subsurface crawling itch I feel when sitting still probably differs a bit from thrill-seeking wanderlust…I don’t want thrill. I want the scenery to change and wipe my mind of the cobwebs that I keep walking into here.

Maybe this sentimental yearning is a just lot of early midlife crisis from an aging young man who had always wanted his progeny to be his thoughts or his written words living on in the minds of other people’s grandchildren….But a man who hasn’t found any unshakable truths nor written any observations he feels worthy of reproducing. And there’s really no way for us to have kids now. Only doubts and hypotheticals. Your scars precluded the conception; Your scars would preclude a healthy full term. Maybe parts were true. Sure. You were in pain. More of that to come. I wish we’d given the little unlikelihood-against-all-odds a fighting chance. I was suddenly unsure. I was in pain. More of that to come. Surely never would have made it. Only would have been more painful. It only would have hurt more, would’ve have felt that pain itself. Maybe it would have kicked. That would’ve been hell for you. So many fibroids and suture lines and your tender heart would have burst. Is that what I wanted? No, Sure, I said sure. I mean…I was sure.

I had no idea you would put it in my palm and I would count 15 fingers on one hand.

I never made up my mind, but it sure was changed. Kept going back to work each day with a torn-down mind. Couldn’t talk to anyone. My tongue can’t swallow any more. It’s too dry to lick all these envelopes. I’ve just kept sealing them with blood. Doesn’t really hurt. Just kinda numb. I guess it’s the glue they use.

I wish I had objected more when you asked if I was sure I was okay when you wanted that hysterectomy. It was sure painful. Everything was scar tissue. Sure. Sure. Of course, I mean… Sure. Anything to ease your pain. I’ll be there for you. At least it isn’t cancer. At least you haven’t died. At least you already had a son. At least he’s alive. At least one of your 3 children survived. At least the cancer was benign. At least we thought so.

At least I finally quit drinking just to fall asleep. Now I stay up all night and sleepwalk through the paces. 400 days and counting. I guess it doesn’t get better, just smaller in the rear-view.

It’s late again and I should go to bed to stare blankly at the ceiling, have no good thoughts, be unable to recall good dreams.

But I can’t divest myself of the feeling that the only truly happy people are the ones who are utterly unaware of what’s actually going on. —The ones incapable of comprehending the sheer insignificance and perhaps even meaninglessness of their existence in the vast expanse of everything around them. —The ones who can’t remember a current event about which they would care passionately if it only were reposted on Facebook within the past 2 weeks. —Those to whom all time preceding them and all the unknowable, indifferent future after them is too large and unwieldy a thought to wrap their heads around…So, bored, they click a like button in hopes someone will click theirs, and they keep popping out children and send them skidding into a future for which their consideration is re-abandoned every time a viral video begins to autoplay.

But I guess we’re probably all the same, fundamentally. Just different expressions of the same anxieties and suppressed urges. All avoiding one thought or another, trying to just make it through our days without hurting too much or coming to a violent end. …Trying to maybe find someone we can connect with and share the little shards of beauty and who won’t think we’re crazy if we give them a taste of our own little cooked-up flavor of anxious Weltschmerz.

Well, thanks for listening to mine.

I don’t think you’re crazy. Not at all.

I love you.

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Hell and Silence || Chapter Four

MASTERLIST

Warnings: Swearing, Drinking

Word Count: 5,327

A/N: The Silos in this chapter are based off what we have in my hometown of Chicago, the Damen Silos. It’s a pretty cool place for photography and just all around awesomeness. If you want to know what they look like, google them- they got partially blown up for one of the transformers movies though.

Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three

CHAPTER FOUR

VANESSA

The next day back at school, I was (noticeably to my best friends) shaken up. Allison brought me home early yesterday in hopes of relieving some of my recent stress, but it just made it a thousand times worse. I don’t know how I managed to tear myself away from Derek’s kiss, because as soon as we disconnected, I wanted to dive right back in. My entire being melted into those glimmering green eyes of his, and just the mere touch of his hand had me shaking. Even when Isaac came home at the end of the school day, I couldn’t get my mind away from Derek.

“Babe, you alright? Ally told me she brought you home early. And you...” He started to say, taking a big whiff of the air in my room. “You smell weird.” I sat up, propping myself on my elbow and tried to play off the scent I knew was Derek’s. I must have reeked of it.

“Must be the new soap I got. Something with beeswax in it, I think- and I was just feeling a little sick at school.” I smiled, running my hand down his arm affectionately, not feeling even the slightest spark. I quickly pulled my hand away, plastering a fake smile across my face. I’ve become very good at keeping my heartbeat steady when it came to lying- especially with Isaac. What’s a relationship if you don’t tell a few white lies here and there? I certainly appreciate the fact that he has also learned to keep his heartbeat steady when I ask him how I look in a dress, because if I found out he was lying about me looking good, he’d have his throat taken out.

“I would imagine so- that full moon took a lot out of you.” He said, sliding off his bag and laying down next to me. I smiled down at him, running my fingers through his mess of dirty blonde curls- something I normally loved to do but now felt nothing towards. God, I hate this.

Back at school the next day, Isaac kissed me goodbye on his way to first period per the usual, dropping me off with Allison and Lydia. The second I came into their eyesight, I could tell they knew something was wrong. Once Isaac was lost in the mob of students, the interrogation began.

“Is it just me, or do you look sad?” Lydia questioned, tilting her head. “Well, more than usual.” I just groaned, turning to lean against the lockers. Allison hit Lydia’s arm, silently scolding her. Ally knew the kind of stress I was under right now, and Lydia didn’t. I couldn’t keep her in the dark forever, but I can until I know myself what the hell is going on.

“Not sad, just stressed.” I sighed, looking at the two of them. “Anything new going on?”

Allison took a deep breath, looking down at her hands. “Lacey Moore’s official autopsy was released… including the part about her brain being sucked out of her skull- people are spooked.”

Lydia, nodding and pursing her lips. “There’s even another police issued curfew going into effect- like that’ll work.” She said, an amused tone in her voice.

“It’s police issued, so why wouldn’t it?”

“Because there’s going to be a giant party down at the Silos.” Lydia said matter-of-factly, rolling her eyes- almost like she was waiting for Allison and I to have an epiphanic realization. “Last weekend everyone was too shaken to throw a party, but the boys are going to the championships for the first time since we’ve been at Beacon Hills. The entire school is going to the Silos for some professionally-thrown party- how didn’t you hear about this? Your boyfriends,” She gestured to the both of us. “Are on the team, and your brother, Vanessa. Have you fallen that far off the radar?”

Oh, god. A party at the Silos with a killer on the loose- sounds like the beginning to every cheesy horror movie.

On the outskirts of Beacon Hills, there are a few abandoned Silos that most kids use as hangouts and spray paint tag murals. Every now and then, you get the occasional party, but not often. How the hell didn’t I know about it, is the real question.

“We’re going to keep an eye out, right?” Allison asked, earning an eye roll from Lydia.

“No, Snow White- we’re going because it’s going to be the biggest party of the year. Not everything is about saving the world, you know? Plus, if someone’s going to die, I’ll feel it.” She said, tapping her temple with her index finger.

“Not if it gets you first, you won’t.” A chilling voice came from behind me, making me nearly jump out of my skin. God, I hate not being as strong as the rest of the pack. I’m practically human, except for the glowing eyes and going out of control on full moons. I whipped my head around and saw Erica and Boyd standing behind me, arms crossed. The sight of Boyd alone was enough to make me cower to the far corners of the world, especially when he has that menacing look on his face- like the one he has right now. Lydia huffed, stepping in front of me.

“Oh, cool it Erica. We all know if you were actually a threat, you would come out from behind that mountainous hunk of yours and live out of his shadow for once in your life. But you don’t, do you?” She spat at Erica, who seemed to shrink back behind Boyd with every word Lydia shot her way. Lydia knows no fear, and that big mouth is going to get her into serious trouble one day- add it to the already towering list, I guess.

“Fuckin’ banshee bitch… Let’s go Boyd.” Erica huffed, linking her arm with the giant in front of her, leading him back down the other end of the hall. Lydia flipped her hair over her shoulder, and turned back around to face Allison and I who stood stunned.

“What?” She crossed her arms, adjusting the bag on her shoulder before walking in between Allison and I, down the hall. “She had it coming.” As her heels clicked down the hall, Allison and I chased after her.

“Erica’s gonna claw your eyes out one of these days, Lyds.” Ally warned, linking their arms. She just scoffed, rolling her eyes.

“I’d like to see the bitch try.”

DEREK

“A party?” Peter set down his Sports Illustrated, raising his eyebrow at me. “At the Silos? Derek, I may look youthful, but my body isn’t what it used to be; and frankly, neither is yours. So remind me again, why the hell are we going to a high school rager?”

I rolled my eyes. “Scott says he needs our help keeping everyone safe. Not that you’ll be much help at all…” I said, grabbing my old leather jacket from behind my arm chair- my favorite arm chair that I never get to sit in anymore because Peter hogs it- pulling it on.

“You sure it’s not just an excuse for you to go seduce your beta’s girlfriend?” Peter said under his breath, making me turn my head so fast, it felt like I got whiplash. I only took one step before I was in front of him, hand wrapped around his throat.

“If you ever say shit about that to anyone, I’ll personally assure that you’re never able to say anything ever again.”

Peter quivered under my grasp, his once cocky eyes filled with terror. I let him go, watching him fall to his knees onto the wooden floors. Peter’s always making idiotic comments, always threatening to release some of my dark secrets to the world but he never does- not if he knows what’s good for him. Especially with this Vanessa thing going around, there’s no way he’d ever have the balls to say shit about it.

I walked out of the loft, not bothering to wait for Peter. He didn’t want to come, so he would just whining the whole time, and I can’t deal with his childish antics right now. He was right about one thing, though. I kind of was using this an excuse to seamlessly get close to Vanessa. She may not know I’m her Alpha, but I can tell from the minute I meet up with Scott’s pack at the Silos that her eyes are glued to me, waiting for my command. She doesn’t even have to say anything for me to know- when you’re an Alpha for a while, it’s just a feeling you pick up.

“Earth to Vanessa? You still with us?” Stiles waved at his sister midway through explaining the plan for tonight, snapping her eyes away from me. She nodded her head, giving a reassuring smile.

“I’m here, I’m paying attention.”

“Good.” Stiles said, shifting his focus back to the plan. “So we’ll spread out around the Silos- werewolves, if you smell anything funny, go after it. We aren’t taking any chances with this thing, alright? We don’t know how it works and how quick it strikes.”

“Well we all know the little forgotten beta won’t be much help in that department…” Erica chimed in, interrupting Stiles and making him shoot an annoyed glare at her. How could Vanessa not help with that? She’s a werewolf- one of my beta’s. She should be strong, maybe even stronger because I didn’t train her. God knows that I’m a shitty Alpha...

“Shut up, Erica.” Vanessa hissed, flashing her glowing yellow iris’.

“Wait, what does she mean by ‘not much help’?” I asked, directing my question at Scott who I knew would be the most willing to answer. He just sighed, glancing at Vanessa whose head was down.

“Vinny’s Alpha abandoned her after she was turned. I had to train her, so she’s not nearly as strong as the rest of us. She’s-”

“She’s practically human.” Erica interrupted once again, earning her a hushed symphony of shushes and “shut up’s” from the rest of the pack, but I just felt my blood go cold.

“Alright, can we get back to the plan now?” Stiles said rather loud, grabbing everyone’s attention but mine. That’s not what was supposed to happen when I left her on Scott’s doorstep- she was supposed to thrive with a different Alpha. Then again, maybe I should have asked the emissary about what would happen before I got the hell out of dodge. I guess I just didn’t think it would be this bad… But practically human?

Stiles finished explaining the plan that I only vaguely understood, just in time before people started arriving at the Silos. First, there was a few kids- each of them rolling in a keg of beer with a few packages of solo cups on top. Scott, Stiles, and Isaac went off to talk with their teammates as they arrived, Erica and Boyd were off together doing god-knows-what, and Vanessa, Lydia, and Allison were nowhere to be seen. More and more people arrived, causing more and more whispers to erupt from people as they saw me. It’s not everyday teenagers see one of the sole survivors of their towns arson horror story. I didn’t even have to do anything to draw attention to myself, so I probably wasn’t the best choice to go undercover with tonight.

Just as the sky started to get dark, Vanessa, Lydia, and Allison came back to the party, going to find their boyfriends (or in Lydia and Stiles case, couple-in-denial). I watched as Vanessa ran her hands down Isaac’s chest, leaning into him as their eyes locked. He was grinning down at her, wrapping his arms around her neck because she’s too short for him to reach her waist without bending down. Within seconds Vanessa was pushing herself onto her toes, bringing her lips up and attaching them to Isaac’s.

I shook my head, looking away from the two, trying to suppress any jealousy I was feeling. They’re a couple- they have been for almost two years. Plus, it’s not like she’s just anyone's girlfriend; she’s Isaac’s. Isaac is the closest thing I’ve ever had to a brother and he’d be livid if he so much caught a glimpse of the thoughts I’ve been having. I mentally hit myself for thinking it, but I couldn’t help letting my thoughts travel back to the night I kissed her. The way her lips fit perfectly with mine, hips rolling in a slow motion. Ever since then my body has been screaming for her- but she’s still just a kid. The sheriff's daughter, nonetheless. So for now, I fantasize. Something with her could never work; especially because I’m poison to women. I kill those who get close to me, or worse. I abandon them- though it seems I’m already very good at that.

VANESSA

I could feel Derek’s eyes on me from miles away- he’s not exactly good at being stealthy. I tried my best to keep my focus on Isaac whose hands were slowly working their way south of the equator, and it took all my will power not to squirm away. Luckily the music and talking teenagers was loud- loud enough to keep Isaac from hearing my heartbeat skyrocket when I glanced at Derek.

The music changed, and Allison let out a fit of giggles. “This is my favorite song! Let’s dance.” She said, grabbing her boyfriends hand and dragging him out into the mob of teenagers. I’m not sure how Allison could recognize this as any type of song, considering it’s just a mash-up of different techno noises, but that’s her business. Lydia grabbed Stiles hand, and Stiles grabbed mine. Before I knew it the six of us were breathing heavily, swaying our hips to the beat of some EDM song. I still couldn’t believe someone hired an actual DJ to work at this thing- it’s just a party. Then again, some people just need to be so damn extra, don’t they? I couldn’t see the other four that got dragged onto the floor anymore- they’d somehow lost themselves in the mob. Isaac’s hands were on my waist, pulling me as close to him and his crotch as he possibly could, which only made me slightly uncomfortable. I could feel a growing hard on press against my back as we continued to dance.

“Babe!” I heard Isaac shout into my ear as he turned me around to face him. His eyes were glowing yellow, now holding me closer to him than I thought was possible. I think I may have let him have one too many beers from the keg, because this wasn’t very Isaac at all. Then again, I had to deal with it if I wanted any shot at trying to restore my attraction towards this mop-haired mess. That said, I got onto my tippy toes, pushing myself up to kiss Isaac in hopes to get him to calm down. Of course, that only made the problem worse.

His hand went to massage my boob, gripping it roughly and causing me to let out an involuntary moan into his mouth. Isaac slipped his tongue past my lips, massaging my tongue with his. Now I knew he was somewhat tipsy because I could taste the booze on his mouth. I continued to let him kiss and grope at me, but when he started to slide his hand down my waist and undo the button of my jeans, I pushed him back a little.

“Isaac, what the hell?” I growled at him, making his once warm features turn to panic.

“Relax, Vanessa- nobody will see.” He cooed at me, reaching for my arm and pulling me back against him. Before I could even push myself off again, his hands were back fumbling with my zipper, fingers slipping past the hem of my panties. I pushed him away, making sure to flash my angry yellow eyes at him before making myself disappear into the crowd. I wove my way through the mass of people dancing and grinding on each other, finally making it out the other end and into the clearing.

There were a few other people talking and making out on the outskirts of the mob, but not many. I started to make my way to one of the many kegs spread out around the Silos. Taking a red solo cup off the top, I filled it up and took a sip, almost spitting the drink out as soon as it hit my tongue. All the alcohol consumption I do is basically just sweet Pinot Noir from Lydia’s mom's stash in their cellar or cheap drugstore wine coolers; I’ll never get used to how bitter and disgusting keg beer is, but I need something to help take the edge off- and that’s just what the beer seemed to do. One gulp of the foul liquid down, and I could already feel my body start to buzz. Maybe it’s because I’m a lightweight, but damn, that shit works fast. Good thing I’ve already made my way through enough drinks tonight to feel somewhat numb to the taste, because it truly is awful. I took another sip of the drink before looking around for anyone I know. Allison, Scott, Lydia, and Stiles were probably still in the crowd, and I didn’t need Isaac to try and shove his hands down my pants again. Over in the corner, I spotted a familiar distressed leather jacket covering a pair of broad shoulders- Derek.

Of course, the one person I was trying to avoid tonight is the only option I have for some sort of entertainment. I’m supposed to be trying to rekindle my love for Isaac, but that’s unimaginably hard when I can feel the Alpha’s eyes tearing into me. I looked around once more to see if their was any other people that I could go to instead of Derek, but the only people on the outskirts were people I didn’t know, and me being the socially awkward spaz I am, had no interest in introducing myself. I’d even be willing to hang out with Erica if it meant avoiding Derek, but she was nowhere to be seen either; actually, she and Boyd had been MIA all night. So I groaned, rolling my eyes and accepting my fate.

“Derek!” I called out, waving my cup in the air. His head jerked in my direction, features going hard as he saw me. As I trotted up to him, I could hear his heartbeat faintly in my ear starting to rise. He crossed his arms as I stepped in front of him, cheesy grin stretched across my face. God, the beer is starting to get to my head.

“How drunk are you?” He said coldly, but I kept smiling.

“Not enough. Can’t I just want to hang out with my favorite Beacon Hills alpha without being drunk?”

He paused for a minute, eyebrows turning to a deep furrow. “You can’t find your friends, can you?” My smiled faded as I watched him raise his eyebrow accusingly. Shit, I’ve been caught. He must have seen the look on my face fall because I was about to say something to defend myself when Derek held out his hand. “Save it, I don’t care. I’m going to go check the perimeter, you’re welcome join me.” He started to walk away, taking long strides that my tipsy ass had a hard time keeping up with. I felt kind of pathetic following him like this, but I honestly couldn’t stop myself. He’s honey and I’m a tiny, weak-willed bee.

Something I’ve noticed about Derek that hasn’t changed since I first met him at the beginning of sophomore year to now, is that he’s not much of a talker. He tends to use the least amount of words possible when speaking, if he says anything at all- sometimes he’ll just communicate through various grunts.

We walked in silence for a little while, me taking occasional drinks from the cup in my hand only adding to my buzz, him quietly surveying the land around us. Well, I pretended like I was. All I could really do was look around and hope I didn’t miss anything and make myself look like an idiot. To my surprise though, Derek was the first to break our unending silence.

“So… How’ve you been?” I was not only shocked that he was speaking, but that he was asking a personal question. “Last time I saw you, it was… uh…”

“Was a mistake...” I slurred, knowing perfectly well I didn’t mean it and taking down another gulp up beer. God, the alcohol is really getting to me. “I was havin’ a bad day, and things’ve been weird with Isaac… But I’m working on fixing it. Rekindling the romance, you know?” I looked down at a rock in front of my feet, kicking it around in effort to avoid eye contact with Derek and taking another drink.

“Rekindling’s a funny word for him having his hands down your pants in the middle of a party…” Derek said, slamming his hand onto the conveniently placed pole in front of us, trapping me and my buzzed mind between his broad shoulders.

“Whoooa there, Sourwolf- don’t get pissy with me.” I wagged my finger right in his face, causing him to look at me with his hungry, glowing, red eyes. A low growl coming from his throat was enough to make me lose any confidence I had and shrink back into the wall. Then again, those glowing eyes made me want to melt back into him… before I could even fathom my movements, my hand had snaked its way around his waist and our faces were mere inches apart. Now it was Derek who had lost his confidence and face turned from dark to confused. “Whas up with you, Mr. dark and moody?”

He looked me in the eye, then looked down to the red solo cup in my hand. “Vanessa, what are you drinking?”

I shrugged, looking down into my cup. “Dunno; think it’s just keg beer but-” When I began to lift the cup back to my lips and take another drink, Derek’s hand came up faster than my mind could register and knocked it out of my hands, letting the disgusting drink clash and splatter against the cement ground. “What the fuck?” I said after a few seconds of staring at my now involuntarily discarded drink.

“You’re not drunk, Vanessa- you’ve been poisoned.” Derek said before throwing himself into the crowd of sweaty teenagers- my dumb, half drunk (poisoned, rather) ass following him.

“Hold on, did you say poisoned?” I tried to shout, but I couldn’t even hear my own voice anymore. The loud music and bass was vibrating in my chest, my wolf ears feeling like they were going to implode on themselves. I quickly reached for his arm, grabbing it to keep myself from getting lost in the sea of people, though it didn’t do much. I was still being tossed left and right by flying hands and sweaty bodies. I’m not sure what Derek’s trying to accomplish by threatening both our lives in this living, breathing, pit of people- maybe he’s hoping he’ll find part of the pack? He seemed surprised when we emerged at the other end of the mob without any pack members in hand, though I could have told them that was going to happen.

“You’re not going to find them!” I tried to shout again, but in a very Derek-like fashion, he ignored me and continued to pace around the Silos. It wasn’t until he started to yank me around with him that I realized my grip was still tight around his arm, feeling a sort of emptiness when I pulled myself away. Derek must have felt it too because as soon as our touch disconnected, he stopped pacing, eyes glazing over at mine.

“I have an idea.” He said, pace picking up again, this time charging right for the DJ booth, shouting back at me before he reached out of earshot. “Stay there!”

Of course, me, with “poison” running through my veins, decided not to listen to Derek and followed him. God, I really wish I had listened because I hadn’t even gotten halfway to where Derek was and I felt like my ears were bleeding. The excruciating music and base was enough to make me want to scream, and Derek just kept getting closer to it. I reached up to touch my ears, holding my hands out to see that now my ears were not just metaphorically bleeding, but actually breathing- and my fingernails had turned into claws. A heat was building in my head as my eyes started to glow, canines digging into my bottom lip as I tried to suppress them, but even then, I still tried to follow Derek. Eventually the loud noise just turned into a high-pitched ringing through my skull and I couldn’t take it anymore. My knees buckled out from under me, causing me to fall face first onto the dirty cement covered ground. The pain in my head- all over my body really- was so immense, so much worse than when I turned the last full moon. At least for that I had managed to knock myself out, but now I’m completely lucid, even with poison in my system.

My hands went to cover my ears, trying to block out any and all sound, but before I knew what was happening, the sound was gone. I opened my eyes and the colored lights had been replaced by blinding white ones- but before I could process anything else, my vision went spotty, then black, leaving my limp body vulnerable to the darkness.

DEREK

I could feel Vanessa following me, even after I specifically told her not to. You’d think that even though she doesn’t know I’m her Alpha, she would still know how to follow orders from one. When I rushed the DJ booth, the sound almost killed my ears; I tried to focus on drowning it out with the noise of my own thoughts, but that didn’t work nearly as well as I wished it would. Once I got to the front- much to the discontent and resistance of a few raving kids- I had to deal with the DJ. He tried tirelessly to push me off his makeshift stage as I searched for some sort of master power switch to turn the damn stuff off.

“Bro, what the hell’re you doing?” He yelled, pushing me back a bit. I just looked at him for a second, raising my eyebrow; It’s clear he has no idea who the hell he just touched. I shoved him off his stage and into the crowd with little to no effort at all- it was like moving a pillow to me. Ignoring the screaming, bouncing teenagers, I continued my search for the power button. Searching the DJ grid was like trying to solve the world’s hardest puzzle, with buttons and switches everywhere. My eyes trailed to a thick orange extension cord sticking out the bottom of the setup. I followed it under my feet, across and off the stage to a rather large humming generator a few yards from the stage.

Well, I thought to myself, It’s better than nothing, as I leaped off the stage, my ears still practically bleeding, rushing to the generator. Fortunately, unlike the DJ setup, the generator had a bold red switch clearly labeled power- obvious enough. I pressed the red button, and within a matter of mere milliseconds, everything shut down, relieving me from the personal hell of unbearable sensory overload, plunging the room into darkness. After a few seconds of that pure, blissful darkness, white lights- emergency lights, I guess- came on, blinding the crowd and making the teenage mob groan. Slowly but surely, the intoxicated party started to disperse out of the lights and into the shadows, getting into their cars and driving away- probably not the best idea, so I hope all of them had designated drivers. (PSA: DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE YALL IT’S BAD VERY BAD VERY ILLEGAL VERY DANGEROUS) Even the DJ didn’t bother coming back for his stuff after I threw him off his own stage. Whatever, the patrol deputies will find it eventually, and it’ll probably just get donated somewhere. My alpha instincts kicked in fairly quickly as I scanned what was left of the people for Scott’s undoubtedly, highly intoxicated pack. Allison, Lydia, and Stiles were helping keep Isaac and Scott afloat while Boyd- who had remained sober- held Erica bridal style in his arms. At least the wolfsbane mixed with booze isn’t fatal- just gives the werewolves an extra kick. I did a quick mental check in my head to see if everyone was accounted for, but there was still one person missing- Vanessa. A little panic flushed over me as I didn’t see her long, dark hair floating along with the pack somewhere, so I quickly averted my eyes and scanned the venue for any sign of her. Then there she was- curled into a little ball just behind where the light reached, hidden in the shadows. Hair was strewn over her face, and what is that- blood pooling around her head?

I jumped off the stage, running quickly and crouching down at her side, lifting her head up. It looked like the blood was coming from her ears- poor girl probably couldn’t handle the sound.

“Vanessa?” I said, gently patting her on the cheek- no response. “Hey kid, wake up- the party's over, nobody died.” I said, a silent ‘Yet’ popping into my train of thought, but I decided to keep that to myself. After a few more gentle pats, her eyes slowly started to flutter open, revealing her bloodshot eyes and popping amber irises. I tried to suppress a small grin as relief washed over me after knowing she wasn’t seriously injured in the madness of this party.

“Bed…” She managed to groan out, her eyes quickly rolling back into her head as she threw her arms around my neck and leaned into my chest. Feeling her arms around me made my breath hitch and heart stop. In my arms, she was so small and light as a feather- so fragile, so sensitive. I’m scared to even lift her up for fear of damaging her dumb, drunk ass- but not scared enough to let her lay here. I slid my arm under her legs, lifting her into the air as I stood up and started to walk over to the rest of the pack. Allison was barely keeping Scott standing, while Lydia and Stiles still struggled to keep Isaac’s tree-like body from going face first into the ground. Thankfully, the humans seemed unaffected by the cheap beer laced with werewolf poison, so they were almost totally lucid.

“What’s up with her?” Lydia asked, almost dropping Isaac as his body tilted towards one side.

“Holy shit, is she bleeding from her ears?” Stiles butted in before I had the chance to answer Lydia, earning a low growl to be aimed at him. He quickly shrunk back, readjusting the position of Isaac’s arm around his shoulder.

“She’s just out of it like the rest of them- but that’s your problem now.”

“Nuh uh, Sourwolf.” Stiles shook his head, starting to walk away with Lydia and Isaac by his side, back towards the direction of the Jeep. “I barely have enough room in the car to get these five home safely. You’ve already got her and you know where the house is- just take her home!”

I looked down at the half-conscious girl dangling in my arms, small and helpless after being unknowingly poisoned. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to put her down, so reluctantly, I looked up and nodded my head.

“Yeah, I’ve got her- Oh hey, Stiles!” I called after him, getting a quick stop and turn around from him. “Try not to kill anyone.”

Stiles smiled, shaking his head and continuing to walk. “You know I can never promise that!”

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20/04/04 | JH American Tour Diary Pt2

Step once more into the psyche of Jon Harper, with the middle section of his US tour diary. Read on, it's worth it...

I decided to pack lite on this tour, which means that I have absolutely no fresh clothes to wear. Hey I meant well... There will always be time to find a launderette. How wrong I was. Should have spent the day off in Arkansas dealing with the dirt but the locals were impeccable, the beer was cheap. Fine Southern ladies who promised to show us where the best late night drinking spots were. However we ended up in T.G.I Fridays. There is a bunch of guys at the bar drinking car bombs, (shooting pints of Guinness with a shot of Baileys in the top), and the whole place smells of onion rings and burgers. One guy told me that he was of English descent, many generations ago. I told him that I was of Middle Eastern descent, many, many generations ago. He asked me how I stood on the war. I was very careful. People have guns and trucks and boats and opinions out here and not much else.

It’s been a week or so now but I can’t stop thinking about New York. Hopefully tonight and LA will live up to those early gigs. New York, Toronto, Texas, Hoboken... Shit! Where else? I can't even remember what Chicago was like or Boston for that matter. Ok, it’s slowly coming back. Randy, our record company representative for Chicago took us out for Chinese food where they refused to sell me beer as I didn't have any ID on me and they thought that I looked under 25. Thanks! I didn’t really need a beer anyway as I had consumed enough to kill a horse the day before. The Chicago gig was at the same place that John Cusack DJ's at in High Fidelity and just across the road is a boarded up shop that they used as the set for the record store. Chicago is cool and I am beginning to like the place. We went for a ride in Randy's car downtown to the Virgin Megastore He had arranged for us to do an in store DJ and signing session. Randy is a cool guy but has slipped into saying everything in a faux English accent and things are getting very Spinal Tap. A guy called Madrid was interviewing us as we put on various records we like. My choice of Chikinki's ‘Fucking with our clothes on’ didn't go down to well with the general public. It is only 11am. Detroit was a really good as well. The place looks like a shit-hole. I liked it straight away. It’s one of the places that they warned us about venturing too far. So far all the places that people say are dangerous have been the best nights out and Detroit is crazy. Crazy girls, shooters and Bowling! Sex, Drugs, Rock and Bowl! The gig isn't very busy but we are well received. Sundays are a strange night it seems. I think we did ok. I had fun and that's what counts.

Right, gotta play this gig then stay awake for the Rockies. Not going to miss the view like I did in Norway just because I drank too much. The pictures of the Fjords that the guys took looked amazing. Maybe one day I will get back. This beer is going to my head. Keep forgetting that we are a mile up. Maybe the gig will be harder like Fuji. Altitude gig sickness! It was the heat that got you in Japan. It's just cold here. I feel a bit paranoid now. Starting to think that all the photos that I have taken this tour won't come out. I’ve taken some beautiful shots. Mainly desolation. Mainly just things that I feel don't fit with how I view the world. Like the mission of hope out in the Washington ghetto that was all boarded up and fenced in. I really hope I get that one.

I’m not sure what part of town we are in but there are hardly any lampposts. It looks like this tiny bar in the middle of a crazy Industrial estate, just outside the glass high-rise of downtown Denver. I stood in the middle of the road for a long time today and not one car came. It is Sunday but it's like a ghost town around here. The Barman says it gets busy after eleven but who would come out this far? Maybe people don't come out until it is truly dark and cold. Like Vampires! Paul told me I looked like a vampire. "You were looking great at the start of the tour now you look like death. Crazy when guys gotta go into rehab at the end of a tour". Rehab?

The main street last night was theme bar central. Every bar was either Hollywood inspired or authentic Irish. Some private cops told us to move along because we were loitering so we went to one of the more Hollywood inspired places. Everyone just wanted to play pool and chill out. The burgers are great but I should have tried the Buffalo instead of the beef. Millions roamed wild and they just slaughtered them on the plains and left them to rot. Either that or herded them up and pushed them off the cliffs to save bullets. Cut their pelts off for the money and took their tongues for what was thought to be aphrodisiac qualities. Just so they had room to raise Beef herds and to cut off the American Indians food supply. They could have lived forever on Buffalo. Great Mozzarella as well! Here in the land of the free, just not free from fear.

I fear the click not working. Makes things hard when you can't hear anything and you have to play by sight. Watching a little red LED buzz along a keyboard. Dallas was shocking for me. Ben seemed to like it but I had the worst time at a gig ever. Got so pissed off I busted up my hands punching the Hi Hat. Blood everywhere. Sometimes it feels good to lose a little blood. Like a pressure release! After the show we all got drunk on the bus with some promoter women who were in Texas. Well, I got drunk. I don't think that they took to kindly to my bleeding and slurring. I went to bed to lick my wounds. It was a great venue. Sonic Youth are playing it very soon, which surprised me a lot. I would love to be there to see Sonic Youth playing in a tiny venue.

Surprisingly I felt fine the next day as we drove to Denver. Took about 14 hours with nothing out the windows. Nothing for miles and miles but golden grass matted by the wind into thick clumps of cropped hair along side the railroad tracks. Wooden shacks and rusted cars parked forever outside white washed farms with corrugated iron roofs and grain silos. Every so often we pass a huge sign by the road that reads "XXX girly bar next junction".

It happened again. That’s two nights in a row. Soundcheck was fine but when I came to the gig my electrics completely stopped working. Even all the backup plans I made failed. Worst gig ever! Plus to make matters worse I forgot my sunglasses so had nothing to hide behind. Hit the Jack pretty hard after the show and played pinball with the bar owner. Fell asleep and missed the Rockies.

Highway 70 cuts straight through Utah towards Vegas. This place looks like the surface of the moon, all canyons and rockslides. People are just starting to get up and Paul decides to stop for coffee at a place called the Sleepy Hollow motel. He has been driving for probably five hours now and there is still a long way to go. Again there is nothing for miles and miles. I’m starting to worry that a rock is going to come bouncing down the cliff and in through the window like the start of that sexy beast movie. You never see the one that gets you! Best close the window. It's hot today. Really hot! But there's still snow on the hills and this place is beautiful. I think maybe the most beautiful place I have ever seen. I recently watched Once upon a time in the West to get in the mood for the American tour. There is a how it was then how it is now photo gallery on the DVD and nothing has changed. The roads are bad though and trying to sleep on the bus is like how I imagine riding a rodeo bull to be. Or being a rodeo clown that didn't get out of the way. Trying to type this is proving to be one of the hardest things I have ever done. Roberto informs us that it will be another four more hours to Vegas! Keep thinking about movies like Casino. Lots of people buried out in the desert. At least Vegas is a day off. Must clean my clothes. It's very important now, as it seems like the Jimmy Kimmel show in LA has been confirmed which will be our first ever US TV show.

Right so the Vegas plan is a little Roulette or Black Jack, win a fist full of dollars and buy lots of tasty vintage drums to ship back to the UK. Depending on how much I win maybe even a nice restored '66 mustang coupe. I need to replace my car that street punks dismantled in North London last time we went on tour. Not only did they steal the engine, wheels, doors and lights. They also took my windscreen wipers and my RUN DMC tapes. What do people need to steal used windscreen wipers for? More people who need to lose their hands. The landscape has changed again and the fear of death by falling rock has passed. It's turned now into little house dwarfed by the giant fucking prairie next to the massive mountains. It's the kind of landscape you expect to find dinosaur bones bleached white in the sun. This is Tornado country and I just saw my first one. The hills are red like blood again. I should have brought my red leather shoes if we are going to meet the Wizard. I read the book so know how to deal with that evil witch if the tornado strikes. This place reminds me of the original Star Trek. Star Trek and Bill and Ted.

The sign reads ‘Exit 26 Joseph’. We are still heading west on 70 and it feels like I have seasickness. Paul doesn't slow down for anything or anybody and the only thing to do is look out the window. The view is amazing so it’s worth it. I love the mountains. I get excited like a kid. I just want to climb things.

It’s about time I brushed my teeth but doing that means looking in the mirror, which I have been avoiding over the last few days. Worried that I am falling apart. Not getting any sleep or having anything decent to eat. Playing with all manner of different chemicals to enhance the day. Today its mainly coffee. Truck stops do such a wide range of exotics. French bean vanilla cream roast! All I just want is some normal coffee and a little skimmed milk. Our pizza and burgers diet is driving me insane. I dream about salad. All I want is fresh green Italian leaf salad, fresh prawns and feta cheese. They just fry things out here. Actually my dreams have been pretty bad over the last few weeks. Keep dreaming about pulling people from plane crashes, and my grandma who is really unwell.

Paul keeps talking to truck drivers on the CB radio. They have their own language. Chat mainly consists of police radar traps and what’s wrong with your bus or truck. "You’re about to lose yer load buddy, whole back of yer trailer's wide open". He's driving standing up now. The landscape's changed again which draws my attention back to aimlessly starring out of the window. There's nothing out here on highway 70 but pylons and it feels like the Romans built this road. I would lose my mind, forever driving along a road with no corners. The others are watching "Caddyshack" in the back lounge. We bought a whole wealth of 80's movies to pass the time. 15 hours driving gets pretty boring especially at nighttime so we have been hitting the Bill Murray classics and drinking beer. It gets pretty hard when the only choice you have is to go back to bed. Weird Science is my favorite so far. Kelly LeBrock is amazing but she's probably about 43 now.

Peter Malkin just phoned and said that the Carson Daly show is confirmed. Fucking hell. That's great! “He didn't make it to the New York show but his boys came down and had good things to say”. This means we will play a New York Brooklyn show, the Carson Daly show then fly to LA for Coachella if all goes to plan. God bless America. I'm starting to love this place. There is a sign in the opposite direction saying Salt Lake City. I wish we had had more time to see these places but I suppose we have a long way to go and a short time to get there. Just passed another huge sign advertising a whorehouse. "Memories last a lifetime". Paul says there's a great one in Vegas he has heard about. He says he will take me there if I want. No thanks; I think I would rather get a steak and some salad. "24 Hour Steak and Lobster, $14.99, next exit". Sounds good but we stop when we get to Vegas.

TV shows in New York, that's really good. I love New York. I think maybe it's the best city ever. Moving to east London was fun but New York just kicks you in the head. It's gritty and I like gritty. The week I spent with Kieran living in a hostel on Times Square was one of the best weeks of my life. Just walking the city everyday. Guggenheim. Central Park. Wall Street. Watching people play chess outside in the park in East Village. That Park is amazing. Skateboarders. Chess players. Punk bands. Yoga. Wild horses. Not in New York, out here in the desert. We just passed them. Exit 36. 150 miles to go! I don't know how Paul does it. The man is a machine. Never gets tired. Some guys in a pick up just passed us and they have taken a real interest in who may be onboard. They slowed right down to have a look. The windows are tinted so you can never tell. We parked next to another tour bus in Dallas. That one was driving Joan Baez. I thought that it was a guy but Didz informed me that she used to be Bob Dylan’s Girlfriend in The 60's. I suppose with a name like Joan it makes sense. Something's wrong. I can feel it. The hills are red again. Like those pictures they sent back from Mars.

There’s nothing out here in the desert except hundreds and hundreds of trucks, a huge Wal-Mart distribution center and a bus full of foreigners. They also have golf courses in the desert. Neatly manicured paradise running alongside the trailer parks. I’m starting to think that everything is too big. In Arkansas it took me an hour on foot to cross the interstate just because wanted to see what was on the other side. You really need a truck to go anywhere fast around here. People are scared as well. I remember the taxi journey on the first day from Washington airport to downtown DC. The driver thought that we wouldn't last an hour. He said, “Don't go out after dark cos it’s a strange place! People will kill you for five dollars around here”. We did go out and it was a strange place. I’ve never seen so many churches and so many booze stores.

Must have taken a lot of dynamite to build this road. We just drove through a huge mountain range and my fear of death by falling rocks just hit me again. Must find out the percentage of fatalities by loose stones. This bus is a big target and they don't have nets like in the Alps. Still is a net going to do much to stop a half-ton boulder? There are lights twinkling out in the desert and we are coming up fast on the Virgin River Casino. This is the first of what will be hundreds and I’m really not sure what to expect now apart from palm trees, green grass, neon, and miniature versions of European tourist spots.

That pretty much sums it up. The food was crap and the air was heavy and hot. Trying to find just a bar on the strip where you can drink and not part with your cash gambling is proving to be the hard. They even have slot machines sunk into the bar. Our hotel is on the strip next door to Circus Circus. We asked for double rooms, which was a mistake, as we should have said twins. Now Fish and myself have a double bed to share. I can live with that though as he keeps himself to himself. It's nine pm and I’m feeling sexual, tonight is going to be a good night. Andy P and the six of us head out into the Vegas night. By some crazy coincidence it seems that we have all dressed in exactly the same clothes. Circus Circus is our first call and I manage to lose three dollars in a slot machine but I am still feeling lucky. There is a live circus going on upstairs with a guy standing on another guy’s shoulders with another guy on his shoulders and they are jumping a skipping rope. I would hate to be the guy on the bottom. It must be murder on your back. I think this is the casino that they shot fear and Loathing in. I remember the revolving slot machine carousel. We leave there pretty soon and I think that we are all starting to realize that this town is full of lost dreams. Sell out city. The stardust is our next point of call. Just a little further up the strip. I am drawn to a machine with Marilyn Monroe on the front. I was sat under her in the Hollywood restaurant in Denver. It was a massive ten-foot high print of her skirt blowing up. Made me feel like I was looking up her skirt all night. Anyway I stuck in my mind and I was drawn to the machine. Really not sure what the game was or how to play it but I put a five dollar note in and chose 10 lines at 3 per line and hit spin. It's a winner $83.75c. Oh yeah! Las Vegas is looking up! I found the others in the bar and they couldn't believe it. Andy had won $7 and Kieran $0.40c. $75 dollars up so far. Not bad for 10 minutes work and having no idea how to work the machine. Our table was ready and I was ready to eat. The menu is filled with fried food again. Bad meal. The restaurant is filled with huge people who are not talking to each other. Whole families sat around tables in silence just eating ribs and barbecue sauce, and we are attracting a lot of attention as we laugh. The strip is very busy. All the twinkling lights are very exciting but there are no bars. We head over to the Belagio which is a paragon of wealth and massively over the top with it's indoor fountains and rose gardens. Got to get out of this place. Ben suggests the Hard Rock Hotel. As we are leaving a huge guy turns to his friends as we walk past and says, "Hey did you see those faggoty looking guys, fuck"!

The cab driver to the Hard Rock hotel is from Bulgaria. Kieran asks if he is from Sofia? He replies that he supports Chelsea and do we think that they will beat Arsenal on Wednesday? The cab costs $10. The Hard Rock is not a bar. Well it is a bar but it is mainly a casino. The waitresses are all wearing open fronted t-shirts showing all of their black bras and leather hells angel’s caps. There are also many professional girls wandering around searching for guys who have money and pay for their rides. This place is really pissing me off. At the entrance to the Hotel there is a glass case with a 1974 Gibson Les Paul owned by Pete Townsend. Guitar number 9, (he used to number his stage guitars for ease during gigs.) with an extra pickup and switch fitted. These things should not be put in cases for fat gamblers to stare at. It's like rich people who buy sports cars and keep them in garages or galleries that store paintings. These things should be used to their full potential. There is also a 70's Sparkle Ludwig used in the shop to store Hard Rock hats and bandanas and the light shades in the casino are made from 22" Zildjian Ks. Fuck This Place! We are here now though so I am going to play some black jack and drink some tequila shots. Andy and me sit down at a free table and the croupier shows us that we have to signal everything that we want in order for the army of people and cameras that are watching every move to understand what we are betting. I change up $20 dollars into chips. The minimum bet is $10 per hand and a hand takes about a minute to play. This could get messy quickly! The first two hands are winners. $20 up! Over the next two hours Andy and myself are up $100 then down to nothing and back up again repeatedly. Most hands are winners but a run of bad luck wipes you out in five minutes. It's a lot of fun and if you are gambling drinks are free. Andy manages to pull himself away $65 dollars up. However I'm not so lucky but walk away, with my original $80 winnings, after two hours have neither lost nor won anything. To the bar! Fisher has fallen asleep at the table, as he was one of the only people to stay up and see the Rockies. The waitress thinks it's very funny. Ben, Andy, Kieran and myself stay to have a few more beers while the others head off back to the hotel. We have to leave at 10am so a little sleep could be good. Sell out city. Full of wankers, arseholes, pimps, plastic people, tourists and prostitutes. Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to die there.

The bus is broken! We are just outside Las Vegas at Whiskey Pete's and the power generator is not starting so we have no power and no air conditioning, which isn’t so good on a long drive in a crowded tin can through the desert to LA. We stop and an hour later find out we have to go back to Vegas to get the bus fixed. This is starting to be torture, as it seems we will never escape from Las Vegas. Paul turns the bus around and we begin the drive back into the city. Suddenly he hits the brakes and we are all thrown around the bus. Kennedy is running around shouting that the trailer is on fire and everybody has to get off. Great the trailer has all our instruments in. Shit! It turns out that a wheel has blown out and set on fire, the trailer is fine and we are all fine. There is just a little smoke and the smell of burning rubber but it will take sometime to fit a replacement. I wander of into the desert to look for rattlesnakes and take some pictures while they change the wheel. Nothing out here but sand and dead bodies!

The final part of the diary will be posted later this week.

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We should be live. Hey, we are welcome to Episode 298 of Hump Day Hangouts. Just got done throwing a little video post on Facebook but we are here to answer your digital marketing questions. And if we can’t, we will definitely point you in the right direction. So with that said, we’re gonna say hi to everyone real quick. We got a couple of quick announcements and then we’re gonna get into the questions. So we’ll start with the last person to show up. Hernan How you doing man?

I’m good, man. You put me on the spot. Oh yeah. Oh, man solid took me a solid like 3045 seconds to jump on the call for some reason. So I apologize for that. Really excited to be here. Thank you, guys. 298 Wow, it’s been a ride. So excited to be here. Yep. Chris, how you doing? Good here. It’s quite a storm yesterday. So I’m glad this is over. And yeah, today it was packed sunny. So yeah. All right. Cool. Well, Marco, do you

You have like a fake lamp on in the background or what’s going on there? Doesn’t it seem that way, man?

Oh, look. Can you send me one to the same? It’s like the exact same lighting every time it says every week if time is it luck as I said before, don’t hate the player. Hate the game you play. That’s it. Play it right.

And look I fade often into the light, often to heaven don’t go light. There’s light at the end of Markos tunnel. Fake no fake backgrounds. I know fake backgrounds look. No fake back it. Have you guys noticed, like on the news and stuff. There’s a lot to everybody’s got the green screen in the back and often times like you see bubbles were not the simulated it’s funny. It’s like why bother?

No simulator here, man. It’s Groundhog Day. COMM gets home. Go killing it. Make your money and come get some as to how this works. Oh, foo

speaking of POFU before I ask Bradley how he’s doing. I’m going to talk about this in a minute. But we had a couple of people take advantage of the early bird special on a pony live tickets that hopefully live calm. It may still be up, although I think I had them take that down. So if you guys want to somebody wants to sneak over there and try to snag last minute tickets, or just go ahead and grab them at the discount. But either way, we got some great bonuses going on with that. We’ll get into that in a minute. But Bradley, I was gonna say your background looks remarkably the same to you. How are you doing now? Yeah, it’s always I used to guys go. I’m good, by the way. But if you guys go way, way back to the beginning of Hump Day Hangouts, there was always a black curtain-like right behind me and I’m still in the same office space. But I just, I got tired of setting that shit up all the time. So uh, you know, I don’t care this is, but it’s funny if you go back and look at the old Hump Day Hangouts. My face was like this much bigger.

Anyways, I’m good. I’m glad to be here. Sorry, I wasn’t here last week, guys, but I took the week off. It was a wonderful vacation. And now back and Laurie. I mean, I know people want to know, like, I would think some people might be interested, what are you up to? I went down to the state in Kentucky, but I’ve got friends that live down in that area of southwestern Virginia, which is kind of like Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky all in one spot. And just took the whole week off and went riding ATVs and just hanging out and drinking a lot of beer. And it was fine. It was good, hotter than hell. But it was good. It was good to get away for a weekend seriously unplug, which is what I did. So nice. Very good. Well, cool. We’ve got a couple of quick announcements and then we’ll jump into it. Just wanted to say as I mentioned a minute ago, POFU Live, just want to let people know about that. Now. We don’t know. I lost my train of thought. So I’m just going to start over with POFU Live since it’s virtual this year. I don’t know where I was going in that first sentence, you know, we understand that you don’t have to, you know, figure out plane tickets, you don’t have to get a hotel room, it’s a lot simpler. But I do want to tell people to make sure that it is a conference, it’s gathering, and there’s a lot to be learned and the more you’re able to kind of input, the more you’re going to get out of it. So part of that is making sure that you know, you block that time out, you know, treating it just like you were going to a conference and saying, you know, maybe could you get someone to watch the kids or make sure that you know, they’re not running around in the office. You don’t have a call scheduled for things like that so that you get the most out of it. Because we got ourselves which I value my time highly I value these guys, time highly. We got some amazing guest speakers who are coming in and going to be dropping some bombs. We’re going to have some case studies we got a lot of great stuff. So if you do decide to sign up I just want to say that you know, the value is most definitely there and it’s so high that I don’t want you to sign up, and then realize, Oh, I’m kind of busy this weekend and this other stuff happened like, don’t do that, make sure that you treat it like a real conference so that you can come in and get just an extreme amount of value out of that. So I won’t read you the sales page, you can go check it out, find out all about it, head over to pofulive.com. And if you have any questions about any of the details or anything like that, you can always email us at support at Semantic mastery.com cool All right, guys. Other than that, I just want to say Bradley’s got a question or he’s clapping What’s going on here? I was clapping because you did such a good job recovering from the misstep when you first started. Oh, yeah, just like I have no idea what I’m talking about. Where did this sentence go? Anyways? Yeah. So the last thing I did want to say too, with MGYB.co. I know a lot of people listening to us and watching already know what it is. But I want for the people who don’t know head over to MGYB.co done for you services, whether you’re looking for link building, if you’ve heard about the SEO shield, that’s where you can get it.

If you haven’t that’s where you can find out more about it. We’ve got some really good free resources over there as well. There are some best practice webinars about everything from syndication networks, to just so much more. And you can find that when you go to mg y v.co. There’s a little clickable link called webinars, go over there a bunch of really good free training. So head over there. And if you got questions about MGYB stuff, you can ask us here and we’ll definitely point you in the right direction. So with that said, Guys, anything else we need to cover before we get into it?

Nope. All right. Let’s do it. Okay, I’m gonna grab the screen and I’ll cover something very briefly. Chris is very excited. I like this. Yeah.

All right. You guys are seeing my screen, correct? Yeah. Okay. Real quick. For those of you that aren’t aware of this. Two weeks ago, I mentioned that I had created a process street process doc for our methods to make it easier for you guys. So if you want to you can, if you don’t have, if you don’t know what process street is, it’s processed .st. And that’s an app that I use for creating process docs for, you know, pretty much everything that I do in my business. That way I can train others and just have a record of how to do things in case it’s something that I don’t do very often. So I put a created a process docx, which you guys can get at semantic mastery comm slash process. It’s not 100% complete, because I was on vacation last week, there’s one section that I still need to do, which I’m going to try to get done before next Wednesday, guys, but I’m just going to open this up. So you can take a look at this. If you have your own process st account, you can import that template in your account and then run checklists from it if you wanted to, or you can just take a look at it and go through what’s there. In the actual, you know, the process training and everything. But essentially, it just talks about what our methods are, and it puts it in the proper sequential order. And it goes into detail as to why we do the things that we do and the way that we do them. It doesn’t give you the how to do them right because that’s if you want the how there are resources linked to in the process doc that you can go purchase our training courses or join one of our groups where we can discuss it you know, you can learn the actual how but this does give you the foundation for what our processes are and why we do them the way that we do them. And then it directs you to go to MGYB to purchase the done for you services or go to purchase the training programs if you want to learn how to do it yourself. So again, I just wanted to point this out guys, there’s a lot of training in here the website training is the one that I still got to complete because I’m going to update the silo architecture training that I recorded videos for, I think like way back in like 2014 or 15. But the SEO power shields here content marketing, which is rather an in-depth module and in the link building and embeds and all that so again, just go through there guys, there’s actual training videos in here, step by step processes and that kind of stuff. Okay? So again, if you want to download that or import it into your own process st account. It’s right there semantic mastery comm slash process. Okay.

Are Content Kingpin And Local Kingpin Outdated Semantic Mastery Courses?

All right, moving on. So it looks like the first question came from the user. I was interested in Content Kingpin, and I saw that on this page here, which is our knowledge base. You don’t let content outsource or local kingpin or these courses older and or unmaintained and or replaced by things and heavy hitter club or mastermind? Well, that’s a good question. Now, the reason why they’re not on there is that we had a separate organization called mastery PR that we had launched those products under that brand name. And so they weren’t on that knowledge base page, which could be updated. I don’t know, by the way, Adam, if you want to update that page or something because it’s not on here. But anyway, those courses were still produced by us they were just under a different brand. That is no longer we don’t maintain that brand any longer, but the courses are still good. Yes, like Content Kingpin nuts don’t need to be updated that those principles are absolutely still valid today. That’s all how my bloggers all produce content is through content curation, the same exact method that was taught in content kingpin. So you can check that out there. outsource kingpin, the same thing, nothing needs to be updated there. It’s the same process that we still use to this very day, every time we need to hire new virtual assistants or employees of any sort.

Local kingpin, it’s a bit outdated. But because the interface has changed so much in Google ads, it used to be AdWords. Now it’s Google ads and the interface has changed. And now Google Ads has got a lot of automated bidding strategies that are a lot better and local kingpin, I say don’t use those at all because it was older and at the time, the bidding strategy sucked the automated bidding strategies really were terrible at the time, but they’re a lot better now. But as far as the principles behind the alpha, beta campaign structure and how to target for local lead gen for Google ads and get incredibly good results. That still is the same, the concept is still the same. But yes, that course could be updated at some point, although that’s not on our priority list. Okay, so just to give you guys a quick heads up, that was a good question. But yes, Content Kingpin, Outsource Kingpin still 100% valid. So as Local Kingpin, except the Google Ads interface, has changed and automated bidding strategies are actually encouraged now, I would encourage you to use them, because they, they tend to get better results than manual campaign management. So anybody wants to comment on that?

Is There A Way To Hide GSite In SERPs But Can Still Benefit From The Power Of A Stack?

okay. Kevin g says, Is there a way to hide a G site in SERPs but still benefit from the power of a stack or shield? From MGYB? Um, is there an option to not an index a Gsite? I can’t remember. And if so, I don’t know why you wouldn’t want it to be in the SERPs. Anyways.

Those kinds of questions confused me. Like, why wouldn’t you want to take up the real estate space when that g site ranked? I don’t understand. And if the client has a problem with it, then this is that this is how I get results. And why wouldn’t you ask the client the same question why wouldn’t you want to take up extra real estate space in your funneling any leads that come through the G site to the client anyway? I mean, I just to me that there’s no reason for it. Why would you want to hide it unless you want to hide it from the client? And then if you are, then you’re not having the right conversation with the client? Yeah, I agree. I mean, I don’t see. You know, I’ve had, we’ve had a lot of people come in and ask, you know, like, Is there a way to still benefit by not having but not have them show up in the SERPs and the way I look at it is, every page, or asset or whatever that you can get ranked for a keyword is one less competitor that a Google user is going to see when they do that perform that search. So I don’t understand why you would want to do that. But there may be a way to do it, we don’t suggest it. But if there is, I would just go check the Google Site Settings, the Manage, so go to Google site, click Manage settings or manage site from the Settings menu. And I think there’s an option on there to not have its appearance. But I don’t know I don’t can’t remember off the top my head because I always just have it index. So in fact, I always submit it to search console, right after I receive it back from MGYB. So that it will index quickly. Search Console and analytics. Yeah, you want both of that on there. And this way, if it’s a client issue, you can show the client just how powerful these things are, the link across that it has, and the power that you’re pushing over to their website or the link or equity that you’re pushing. I’d need a little bit more information because I want to know why you want to be able to hide that g site or the stack. I want to know why what’s the reason for doing that.

Can You Put An Exact Match Keyword As Anchor Text To The Money Site In A Press Release?

Okay, BB has got a wall of questions here.

Okay, we’ll try to get through. Maybe we’ll get through a few of these but you’ve got way more questions than what we recommend. And you know this man, we tell you this, you know, this man who tell you this every week, and yet you still come in and squeeze in dozens of questions. We love you though. Buddy. BB says Hey, guys, number one. I understood not putting exact match keywords as anchor text to our money site. Well, it’s not necessarily the case. I mean, you just you’re not to do it strategically, then there’s, I do it from time to time.

So yes, we don’t recommend link building with exact match anchor text unless you know what you’re doing. Let’s preface it that way, okay, because it can help to have some exact match keywords and some variations. And so, you know, I wouldn’t say never do it. But anyway, since we teach you guys to build links to your tier one assets anyways, it’s not as much of an issue, to begin with. Okay. So anyways to carry on I understood not putting exact match keyword as anchor text to our money site. But what if the link came from a press release? Can we put Virginia SEO in a press release, we are eventually claiming the claiming that the page created by us.

I mean, again, you got to be careful and remember what the press release if you use an exact match anchor, it’s not the same as if you’re doing like a guest post, for example, right, which would be one article out there with one link with an exact match keyword. If you submit a press release with an exact match keyword. It’s going to get picked up by hundreds read and republished on hundreds of locations.

So now you’ve got hundreds of backlinks with exact match anchor text pointing directly back to your money site page. That’s I wouldn’t recommend that. Now that doesn’t mean and let’s see if he’s gonna call if this is gonna work before you go on. Go ahead I what I want to tell BB is when we recommend or when we don’t recommend exact match anchor is for a reason it’s because if we do, somebody somewhere is going to misinterpret what we say. And the very first link building gig that they create will be exact match anchor and it’ll kill everything that they’re doing. That’s what happens and that’s why we will wait and wait wait wait wait a minute. So the suggestion is which is why daddy is so fantastic. You pillow It is called was a Becker didn’t he come up with pillowing your link so that they can you can hit it with that exact match anchor and your link profile would be so diversified that it could stand, that exact match anchor hit. But if you don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t pillow correctly, and you hit it with that exact match. And you hit it not only with a press release, but with a gig from dedhia with multiple links with the, with the exact match anchor, now you’re talking about thousands of exact match anchor links going to the website somehow, and you just killed yourself. I mean, that’s so easy to pick out. It’s so easy for the bot to say, Yeah, he’s trying to influence rankings for this keyword. No, it’s not going to happen. Let’s deindex this and we don’t have to worry about it anymore. So in order to avoid that, what we say is don’t be using your brand, brand brand brand because when you use the brand, then you can include keywords along with the brand. And if you do it, one tear off the site, although we call it to tier one, it’s actually tiered two through the G site and drive stack then what happens is it amplifies and protect. That’s why we said we call it the SEO, power shield. It shields you from the bad stuff. And it powers up the good stuff so that when it gets to your website, you don’t have to worry about exact match anchors. You don’t have to worry about link profile diversity. You don’t have to worry about anything because we tested just about everything that you can as far as link building to these and they taste it like a champ. They just do. So there’s a reason for it. Now if you’re conversant with all of the link building tools, you know how to run GSA, you know how to run rank or X, you know how to run money robot and all of the other tools that are out there, then, by all means, have at it, build that that exact match anchor in the right proportions, and you’re good to go. Otherwise, don’t bother. Talk to dedhia come to us and go to MGYB to get a link building gig and you’re going to go much further with that then you probably could yourself not only that your time is worth much more than trying to learn all of these link building tools as well. We don’t we don’t do it because we have other shit to do that makes us much more money. We have a dedhia. That is fantastic that he has a team that he has a company, why would we do anything else? But there? Yeah. I mean, that’s what always comes to my head. No, I hope that helped me. Go question. Yeah. And so just to follow, just to point this out, like, for example, and the reason I’m showing this is that he mentioned it in his question, but also, this is the G site that I built-in 2015. It’s horrid.

But when I first learned the drive stack, like how to build Google Drive stacks. And it wasn’t even built to our specifications today, not even close because it was my first attempt at one and I did it manually in five hours. So it’s not anything like what we teach, or we produce an MGB anymore. However, after five years because it was it was in May of 2015, that that was published that site. And after five years of it being a number one position for multiple variations of Virginia, SEO, SEO, Virginia, Virginia SEO agency, multiple keywords like that, it finally started to slip but this was probably I don’t know, maybe three months ago, I happened to notice it that it was down from number one position and where I had moved for, I mean, for five damn years it hadn’t moved. And I don’t do any link building to it or anything. But it started to slip and I mentioned it to Marco I said, Hey, I noticed my, you know, Virginia SEO, the Google site and slipped and so Marco said yeah, hit it with a press release. And I said it and I said yeah, I’ll probably hit it with a link building gig from dedhia to push it back up again. And what was funny was, I was too lazy and too cheap to order a link building gig from dedhia. So I just submitted one press release. Through my press advantage account, which is the same service we use an MGB and I targeted to G site with an exact match anchor, a link the link within the press release with the exact match anchor with the anchor text being Virginia SEO agency. And so I published one press release, this was probably about two or three weeks after I had noticed that it had slipped. So we’re talking about maybe 10 weeks ago. And you can see that Virginia SEO but remember, this is a Google site, guys, that’s different. It’s not the same as a money site. So you can see that it’s for Virginia SEO agency, it’s number one for SEO Virginia looks like it’s number two. When I’m talking guys it was back then it was like that around five, six, like five-position five to eight, when I noticed it had finally slipped, and in the back for Virginia SEO, it’s back to number one. And that was from one press release with an exact match anchor, but consider what the target was it was a Google site. That’s why we keep telling you guys to use the SEO shield and use the G site and those tier-one entity assets as your link building targets because you can do stuff like that and get really really good results without running the risk. Sending over-optimized anchor text ratios to your direct to your money site. Google Sites will take it money sites, you have to know what you’re doing in order for me to advise even attempting it.

Can You Replicate Dedhia’s Link Building Magic?

Okay, that’s a good question though. All right, you say that Dedhia is responsible. We’ll read a couple more of these guys are and we’ll run through the rest of the questions we can come back maybe if we have time. Okay. So as you say that is responsible for the linking and embed and indexing packages. You also say that he does his magic and has a lot of experience but what if that he won’t be here tomorrow? Do you have any backup? Can you replicate his method by yourself? Now he has a team. He’s trained a team of people. He owns his own company with multiple link builders now and daddy manages all of them. So, you know, don’t worry about that.

We will still be able to provide those services if God forbid something were to happen to our one and only Dedhia.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

In the MGYB, there should be a video or course for each package if someone can go and do it by themselves DIY, what to teach you how to do all the link building, it takes years of experience, which is why we recommend using dedhia. And I can tell you right now none of us are going to create a training course on how to run link building tools because none of us run link building tools. And dedhia isn’t going to create a course to compete with him. Right? That’s right, that that’d be silly. Now, he has shared his methods in our mastermind. So if you want if you’re interested in knowing more, if you’re interested in talking to Dan, how he does things, He’s really good. And he is open and really honest with people in the Semantic Mastery mastermind and in the heavy hitter club. So if you’re interested in learning more about how he does his thing, then I recommend that you come to one of our groups. In the meantime, you’re going to have to learn to you know, you have to pay for those tools, and you have to learn them on your own because that’s how you learn them. And I think we all went through that phase of trying to learn those, those LinkedIn building tools

As far as what if you’re in 2000, August of 2015. And I never forget this guy he’s ever one of Google closes the loophole tomorrow and my response is always well, what if the world ended tomorrow? Who the fuck is worried about the world ending tomorrow? I got too much to do today. Let tomorrow take care of itself. And that’s my answer to that. Will we have a backup? Well, we can reach out to the team that that’s working with dedhia that that that’d be my backup, we can reach to another link builder, that that might be as good as dedhia that or that could get as good as they do. Wait, well, we’ll just pay someone to train. I mean, come on. It’s just not something that we’re contemplating right now. And dedhia You better not? Because it gets you guys. If something happens. I’ll kill you myself.

Yeah, right. Don’t you die or I’ll kill you myself.

Alright, I’m going to answer three and four right here because they’re basically the same question and the repost from last weekend.

Does Breadcrumb Schema Help In Ranking A Money Site?

We’re moving on we can come back if we need to. Okay, repost from last week, should we include breadcrumbs in the pages of the money site? Is the breadcrumbs schema helps to rank? Does it help to rank? Um, I don’t know. I mean, I like schema. I mean, I like using structured data and breadcrumbs, especially if you’re using silo architecture and your site because it helps to really show that hierarchy of you know, how you have your content stacked within the category of the taxonomy structure, however, you’re doing it, so I prefer to use them. But, you know, a lot of themes and stuff now will actually, it’s just automatic. But, you know, as far as can you use breadcrumb schema without having actual breadcrumbs in the pages? I don’t know. Can you do that? Marco? I’ve not tested that. Typically, my themes will show the breadcrumbs and then they will appear in search as well. So I don’t know, can you just add breadcrumbs schema without there being like, it actually coded into the theme itself? Yeah, I don’t see why you can’t do that bread crumbs, but I don’t know why you would. And I don’t I mean, the effect is probably negligible. I don’t see how effective it could be you have other things that will help your entity weigh more, and will give the bot better, better data better information about your entity than breadcrumbs. But since it’s code, right, since we’re talking about code can be added to any part of your website. It’s JSO LD is what’s recommended. As a matter of fact, in breadcrumbs. I know that Google did away with data vocabulary, org markup, and now the one that they want, the one that they’ll look at is schema.org markup when it comes to breadcrumbs, so they recommend it, why not use it? But I mean, as you say, in the theme, it shows up, marks it up and yeah, you’re good to go. I don’t understand why you would want to not have these questions perplexed me. Why would you want to have breadcrumbs in your schema and not have them?

Your website. I mean, they show up in search as breadcrumbs. Yeah.

Yeah. And that’s what I like about them because it shows the hierarchy like the relationship of where the content is basically silo structure right within the search engine results. And that’s, you know, I think that’s, that’s helpful. So anyway,

What Is The Difference Between General Embeds Service And Map Embeds In MGYB?

okay, Aaron’s up, Aaron Kay says, Can you explain the difference between MGYB.co general Embeds service and map embeds? It’s the same, Aaron, the difference is the general embeds is just so you can embed anything, anything that you can iframe you can embed, okay. The reason that we have the maps heavy hitter, the video-heavy hitter, what is it the idx page heavy hitter, is just because some people didn’t understand that. So we just created separate products for each one of those but they’re all it’s all basically the same whenever you provide your iframes or you submit your order details. It’s going to ask you for what the niche or the industry is. And so you provide that and that’s it.

The type of content that will be written, you know, produced that the embeds will be embedded within. Right. So in other words, it goes out on link building network, which Daddy has been building that link building network for years. So there’s probably well over a million problems. In fact, I know there are over a million properties now. And so he has network sec, like sectors, right? So link building networks that are themed for different general themes, and even some more specific themes. And so when you put your industry in there when you submit your order details, that’s the type of content that will get produced, then your embeds get embedded within that content. So there’s relevancy. Does that make sense? And so the difference between the map embeds the video embeds, and all that is no different. It’s the same link building networks that get but it’s just so that it made it less confusing for customers. When they say Well, which one do I do? You just pick which one is the most relevant to you, it really doesn’t matter if you’re going to be embedding multiple things which you can do by the way, like for example, you can embed it, you can order an embed gig and use the general embed gig service and MGYB, for example, and embed in MGYB. Excuse me, an ID page, g site page, if you want your GMB map if you want and a YouTube video or YouTube playlist, right, you can embed all of those things because you cannot put up to five iframes in the order. So my point is, it really doesn’t matter. And we try not to confuse people. So video, embed gigs are for videos, map embed gigs are for maps, and the general is multipurpose for everything else. This is just, I don’t want people confused. I don’t want them to have to go and say, Okay, now what I do, if you have a video, use the video embed. If you have a map, whether it’s a mind map, a GMB map, or any other type of map that you can embed, then use that network to use the general. Yeah. So everything is specified right there. And the ad ID page. Sorry.

Yeah, and like I said, I typically just ordered the general because I know they’re all basically the same anyways and because I generally have more than just one in bed so I just started the general that’s just the way I do it. So but yeah, it was strict. It was purely to make it less confusing because we get that cut types of questions and unfortunately it still has it still hasn’t been very clear.

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Any Tricks On How To Rank YouTube Videos Faster?

Any new tricks you can share to Rank YouTube videos faster? I can tell you You missed a shout out you missed the shout up so much about MGYB. Dwayne right after weighing. Oh, Roxy, I’m sorry, I totally missed it. MGYB packages are the best. Again MGYB packages the best. You know it you know it.

Thank you Roxy one more time with some wisdom meeting MGYB set.

Very, very good. I guess would you ever recorded great.

Alright, so Roxy asks another question. Any new tricks you can share to Rank YouTube videos faster? Okay. The same tricks that I’ve been using now for like the last three years. I really stopped doing video SEO. Other than I live stream video. Not always but most of the time I will take even a pre-recorded video or run it through OBS Studio so that I can live stream it into the channel a pre-recorded video, right? So and I always have all of my YouTube channels where I attempt Well, I really like I really don’t even care about doing YouTube SEO anymore Just because I use YouTube ads primarily for driving traffic for you with YouTube stuff. But that’s the trick that I was getting at all of the channels that I would use for SEO purposes. For YouTube SEO purposes, are going to have a multi-tiered syndication network at least once but it usually many so years ago when I was doing a ton of YouTube SEO stuff. If I was going to start a new channel that I was going to be aggressive with for marketing purposes, whether it was affiliate stuff, which I don’t do anymore, or local stuff, which I did still do today. And that’s pretty much all I do. I would always start with three two-tier networks so full two-tier networks attached to the channel.

Right, so there’d be one branded ring. And then the rest of them can all be persona-based rings or theme-based rings. But that’s just what I would always do what I would also have a total of remembering this for syndication network rings, or essentially within each two-tiered networks, so I would always do three, right? So that would be a total of 12 networks. And then I would do link building to the network’s not all at once, because that would be super, super expensive. But I would do it over time, and I would basically build up, build the authority of those networks. And that worked really, really well. But YouTube has shifted more towards engagement signals as being a ranking factor. Don’t get me wrong. I know other people are gonna say, well, you can still rank video with SEO, of course, you can. But what I’m saying is if you can do a combination of SEO tactics, as well as engagement tactics, that’s how you can make videos and that’s all I do now. So I have aged channels out there that I still use for video stuff that has syndication networks that have been operating for years. So they’re well themed, they’re older and established. They’ve been authority built to then from link building over you over the years and everything else. And I’ll still push a video out through that let it cascade through the syndication networks. But then I immediately set up a YouTube ads campaign. And it’s just for views, guys, you can buy views directly from Google ads. It’s the only legit way to buy views. If you’re buying spam views, by the way, that can get your account terminated, they typically don’t work. I don’t ever recommend doing that. But you can buy YouTube views directly from Google ads. And it’s very, very inexpensive. And it’s very, very effective, especially if you set your audience targeting correctly. For example, if it’s a local video, you set your geographic targeting to where the video is only showing to people within a specific radius or within a specific county or whatever. So like, let’s say it’s a 20-mile radius from wherever the business is located. That means all of the views that you’re going to be buying from Google are going to be coming from local eyepiece local to where the business is located locally to that search term. Does that make sense? So those are really really good engagement signals and if you’re buying audience if you’re buying views from a specific audience, what I always recommend is looking at in-market audiences, or life event audiences, or what’s called custom intent audiences. So if you can’t find a premade audience and in-market audiences or life event audiences and Google ads for video, then you can create what’s called a custom intent audience. And you can create your own custom intent audience. So a bucket of people, essentially Google users that meet specific criteria. So again, geographic targeting and audience targeting that work incredibly well. However, I do want to say one other thing. One of my tree care projects that I’ve been sharing in the mastermind, I created a kind of case study for trying to rank a single page website that was not part of the entity. I was trying to rank it specifically with just google ads, limited SEO, and just traffic from Google ads. And so it was a good click funnel landing page. But I had a video created for that Click Funnels landing page. And so I was running YouTube ads to that video, I didn’t do any SEO to the video. In fact, it was on a new channel that didn’t have syndication networks at all. So there was no link building under the video or anything else. But I’ve been running ads to it for, I don’t know, six or eight weeks, something like that. So it had I think over 4000 views from a local geographic area again from an audience, custom intent audience that I created for people looking for tree services, landscaping services, so highly related services. But over the course of those like eight to 10 weeks, I’ve been running ads to it for like roughly eight weeks. It got I don’t know like I said 4000 views, maybe 6000 views, whatever it is, but the video wasn’t ranking and it was okay because I was really doing the test was for it was really to try to rank the Click Funnels page with just traffic. But long story short, I use that same video in a press release the same press releases

We sell it at MGYB. So through press advantage. And I added the video to a press release so that it would become an embed, and did one pre-press release with it. And now that video is ranking on page one for the brand search, which it hadn’t been for all that time. So press releases are also a good way. But like we just talked about over at MGYB embeds, you can go to embeds or great link building to the pages that it’s embedded on. So if you buy an embed gig, that’s the same as going through a syndication network, because it will get embedded in themed content, then you can buy the upgrade or the in would you know as part of the order if on the next page, once you complete the order, you can buy link building for a discount, right, and link building to the embeds that adds relevancy. And then, like I said, all up, you’re going to put a video link and into a press release, and it will get picked up and republished across all the press. Not all of them, but a significant portion of the press release distribution sites. And then also Lastly, as I said, I’d set up traffic gigs from Google Ads very, very inexpensive guys, you can get away with it for I always start with $1 a day, that’s $30 a month in Google ads. But once I start getting traffic to the video, then I start peeling it back. And I got campaigns out there that I’ve been running for clients that their videos are still ranked today a number, you know, on the first page of Google, for whatever their keywords are, that I’m running on 40 cents a day. Think about that as $12 per month and I charge that particular client $100 a month to rank videos for every keyword is $100 per month, and I maintain it with 40 cents per day in Google AdSense. Right which is $12 a month. So that’s really good. return on investment if I say so. So anyway, anybody has any other tricks? Yes. So I got a really good testimonial in the Royal Academy reloaded group and Facebook is from Keith Mallinson. He’s been around us

Quite a while, both, I think in our Semantic Mastery mastermind, and in RYS Academy Reloaded, and I’m gonna read it, just so you guys know what the power that you guys have in your hands is I never doubted Marco when he said that embeds work to get you traffic. But I must admit, I was surprised that results. I purchased some stack embeds. So he went and embedded his properties, right. He purchased that through MGYB. And it was about a month ago. Then he went to Fiverr, which I don’t recommend, I highly recommend dedhia but I mean, if you’re on a strict budget, you do what you got to do because it’s protected by the power shield anyway. So he is so listening, he went and got a GSA gig from fiber and threw it at the embeds. Then he checked it.

Just recently, I got this three days ago. He checked it and the traffic had jumped 89% over a 30 day period. Wow. Compared to the previous 30 days, he is now buying more embeds from MGYB. There you go. If you want this post on me, I can take a screenshot with Keith. I mentioned the same sorry, with Keith’s permission and post it in the free site, so you can have a look at it BB or I’m sorry, whoever was asking this question, Roxy, Roxy, this shit works. I keep telling you guys, my shit works. And it works the way that Bradley says, By engagement and as a matter of fact, totally recommended method, because you’re sending Google signals from Google, with people that Google is sending. So those signals are fantastic, especially if you can get the person to convert on any of your goals. If they follow through and go to go to your website. And they happen to give you the information that’s gold on your website is golden on your video. You’re also showing signals on the video as far as how long you can keep them because watch time is really important. But that’s your relevance, right that the person clicks on your ad, they go to the video, they watch the video they stay through to the end or almost the end. Those are great signals for the video. And a person who’s interested in this to start with is likely to watch your entire video but that’s up to you. And whether your video is engaging enough to keep that person interested all the way through. So it really has to do with the video the length of time, you know, how many people see it? And how many people follow through with with whatever there’s a ton of signals or you can just brute force the fucker as Keith did. And these both of these methods work and they work like crazy.

Adam, I don’t know if you’re still lurking in the background, but do we? Do we sell the YouTube ads for local video ranking courses separately?

I forget exactly how we did that. But yeah, if they want to email [email protected]. I think Chris g can hook them up. There’s backdoor access. Yeah. Well, there you go Roxy, if you want to, I created a training course specifically for what I was talking about for using Google ads to, to augment any SEO that you’re doing for ranking videos, especially local videos. And there’s a course that I created for that we typically use that as a part of a funnel or an order bump or something like that. But if you contact [email protected] and ask for it, well you know, we’ll give you an option to purchase it there. And it’s not an expensive course guy, but it’s really really effective. Okay.

What Is The New Wiki Link Package About?

Okay, bb’s up again. Wow, who still got questions to get back to them? What is the new wiki link package all about? Is it a single link only? Yes. As far as I’m aware, I actually haven’t even tested that yet. I’ve been meaning to but I haven’t marked it. Can you talk a little bit about that? Is a single link relevant? I don’t know. How much Yeah, yeah, yeah.

from Wikipedia, yeah. So that’s that he says is it as a wiki link harder than building an IFTTT branded network? Yeah. The problem with wiki links is it’s highly moderate. So wiki Wikipedia is highly moderated. So if you go on and try to make an edit or something like that, it will typically get removed. Um, and there’s, so this is a service where we can actually get you a Wikipedia link from Wikipedia. So it’s Apple, it’s apples and oranges that he’s comparing. Yeah, one thing is building a syndication network that takes a VA a certain amount of time, they have to create all of the profiles, fill them out, whatever. The wiki link, someone actually has to go in and get it to stick. Yeah, have you tried recently to get a wiki? wiki like to me just an edit these people guard their pages like they’re better than a Rottweiler man. These people they take, they take their stuff seriously. So if you don’t know what you’re doing, if you haven’t been in there long enough to know what you’re doing. Or if you mess in somebody’s backyard, it doesn’t stick. We can for the most part, and we’ll even guarantee it for 30 days, we can get them to stick. So you’re talking to the way different things and why the cost? It’s not a good comparison. And Is that a fair comparison? Because they both have their complexities and their difficulties. And we’ve priced it at a level where we think we’re competitive and where we think it won’t hurt people’s pockets. So we take all that into consideration.

Sweet so let’s see how much of effect is that for that one? Like? It’s gonna vary, maybe it’s gonna vary, but it’s a powerful link. that’s for damn sure. So okay, Ricky, Bobby. Love that. Hello. I love the process. st file, can’t wait to dig through it. I just got my keyword research back and was told that I need to filter it and send the filtered set back to have it submitted to the system. What exactly should I be filtering keywords that don’t yet filter out any nonrelevant keywords? Because remember the keyword research, it’s like a big wide net that gets cast. And then so there’s going to be terms in there that aren’t going to be specific that they’re, they’re related to the theme, but they may not be relevant to your project. Does that make sense? So go through it and you want, you know, you have to, there’s still a little bit of a manual process. But I mean, it literally takes three working days to develop those keyword research files, guys. So when you get it back, if you have to spend an hour going through it to eliminate or delete the keywords that are not relevant to your project, then, you know, you’ve saved yourself three days worth of work for just having to put in an hour so that that’s I think what it was referring to was, is that right, Marco? Yeah, but having said that, don’t eliminate too many keywords that you think may not be relevant to the project. Because these are still they’re noncommercial. And they’re related. They’re so so somehow they’re being seen as well.

So whether it there’s a semantic relevance, we’re in the Semantic Web. And it doesn’t matter if it’s two or three hops out where the where that relevance takes place. Or man, I always forget what that’s called with the two words, where you find the CO occurrence of these two words, somewhere on the web does a co-occurrence, which is why that word was brought back with your main keyword. You don’t want to get rid of all of that, because that’s important for the bot. That’s important for all of that semantic relevance that you’re trying to create, which you define at the entity level through the schema on your website. That’s what you want. That’s those strict definitions. But outside of that for link building, and for everything else that you’re doing embeds the @ID page, the drive second G site, you want as many keywords that are relevant, as you can get. Yeah, agreed.

Okay, um, let’s see. keywords that I purchased the keyword research basic SEO showed and then link building. Yeah, and I agree I’m glad Marco clarified that because like for example for link building, I take the 200 minimum of 200 most relevant keywords to my project but like Marco said it’s still good to have those other keywords because they’re related to that keyword theme anyways right to that set that topical theme is what I’m saying. So it is good to have them now when it comes to link building or for like the drive stack for when you order the drive stack, I always put my top primary keywords at the top of the keyword list that gets submitted because those are the ones that are going to get used for the drive stack built. Right. So anyway, just kind of want to clarify that.

Ricky says I sort of spoke about this last week but I think it’s a good idea and potentially a service for you to capitalize on would be to have a survey or one on 130 minutes constant to discuss what someone should be doing should do based on the client I have, I’d be willing to pay someone to know exactly what to buy and what to do in order, the process you have now, what the process you have now might do the trick, but I haven’t gone through it yet. Yeah, I mean, the process is the same, it really doesn’t matter.

I may or may not be 100% clear on this, but the process is in the sequence in which you order things are going to be the same, obviously, the keywords are going to be different. But that’s up to you to determine, you know, how you’re going, you know, what, what the most relevant keywords are for your project and everything else, but it doesn’t matter whether it’s a local, national or global affiliate, the process is going to be the same, right, and the sequence in which you put the pieces together, which is explained or described in the process street doc that I just shared with you guys here, right? Again, I still got to cover the website stuff.

And obviously there’s, it’s there are intricacies to all of that. But the process is going to be the same no matter what type of project you’re on. And pretty much the sequence of putting those pieces together is the same as well. Do you want to comment on that? Yeah, we all have a private consultation. We all do it. We give them our mastermind members, our new mastermind members, a 30-minute consultation, to get them in. What I like to do is get them on the right track, make sure that they’re going the right way. If they have any questions initially, a lot of times it turns out okay, what should I do? And can I do this that you give them a quick process on how to start up but that that’s, I mean, we give them those 30 minutes that one on 130-minute consultation they get that as a new mastermind member? Otherwise, I’d be I don’t know how you guys set it up. I’ve set it up through my Facebook page. But I mean, unless you have the budget for it. Don’t contact me, because I’m expensive. When it comes to one on one consultation. You can catch there’s also a way to contact us through the Semantic Mastery pages. And there is Chris being out at support for one on one consultation. Our prices vary, guys. I mean, each one of us charges differently, simply because we have different levels of expertise experience, different places where we’re experts that So it varies.

That’s a good point. Marco, thank you because Ricky Yeah, I mean, just come join the mastermind. And, you know, you can ask us questions directly inside the mastermind. we each do our own mastermind webinars now. we each do two webinars per month. My mastermind webinars are usually an hour and a half to two hours long and every other Thursday, Marco’s are on the other Thursdays. You can ask us questions directly in the mastermind webinars. You can ask us questions on your 30-minute onboarding call when you first join. So that it’s actually cheaper to join the mastermind for a month than it is to order 30 minutes of content salting on the side, if that makes sense, and you get access to all of us that way, for the amount of time that you’re in the mastermind, so that might be your best bet Ricky was to jump in. And my mastermind webinars literally asked me anything. Yep. So if you come in and you ask me questions about what you should do, I’m going to answer the questions that you have about what you should do it but we reserve that I’m sorry, for our pain members. Why? Because membership has its privileges. Amen. Ask our members, man. Yeah, we’ve got a couple of guys, newer guys into the mastermind that have been asking a bunch of questions recently in the mastermind on my mastermind webinars, that I’ve been happy to go through, you know, bunches of questions that they have and that’s, that’s what we’re here for. I mean, that’s what we’re there for in the mastermind. That’s what it’s for, like, you can ask us anything in there. And I mean, we’ll go balls deep, so to speak. And just about any, any question that you want, we’ll you know, analyze your site, we’ll provide audits and all that kind of stuff. So

Should I iFrame All City Pages To Gsite And Order Link Building To Push Power To The Money Site?

anyway, moving on. The next question was from pavlo. He says, Hey, guys, thanks for all you’re doing. I have a couple of questions. One, I need to push power to the money site, city pages, better to iframe all posts to G site and then order link building to G site or build links to some other properties. My goal is to cover all city pages on the money site. Okay, I talked about this a lot recently. I’ll try to go through this very quickly. And if you go back to the previous masterminds not last week, I wasn’t here but either the week but probably the week before that, and the one before that as well because I know I’ve covered this multiple times in the last month or two. But what I like to do it again, yes, you want to theme your pages from your money site onto your G site. So if you have individual city pages or posts it can be either one it doesn’t matter that are optimized for the keyword plus city. Then put those in your G site as well. What I recommend though is if you got proper silo article texture on your money site, which you should, then you create that same, you mirror that same architecture on the G site. So if you have posted, a city, you know, optimized for keyword plus city, and they’re within a specific category, for example, then I would have the category page mirrored on the G site. And then you create child pages on the G site where you would embed and eat and a one to one ratio one to one ratio of page, from the money site page to G site, or post from the money site page on the G site because there are no posts on the G site. That makes sense. But you can create the silo structure by creating the child pages within the G site. That makes sense, right? And you so you, you would create the additional pages on G site, you just embed it in there, you don’t need to create any additional content guys, you just I find the site page, your money site right into the G site page. Okay, and then yes, you can order link building gigs to that. Something else you can do is if you’re blogging, from your syndication network, or from your money site to your syndication network, you can extract the post URL from the syndication network, right, so those posts that you’re using to optimize a particular silo or keyword or whatever, you can go out and extract those URLs from your web two Dotto properties, even if you just did the three blog properties, so blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, now you’ve got those URLs that you can also build links directly to write that are if you know how to build links from within your blog post to your money site pages are the pages that you’re trying to rank on your site. That’s what the blogging is for targeting long tails, right of whatever keyword is that you’re trying to rank for within the blog post, and you link from within the blog post to that money site page that you’re trying to rank. So you do that consistently over time with as many keywords as many posts supporting posts as you need to, to get the results that you want when now you’ve got all those posts that you can extract and post URLs you can extract from your web to properties and you can build links directly to you can also embed those in the same g site, the mirrored pages on the G site so that you have all that relevancy. And all those properties, right? We talked about iframe stacking all the time. So that’s a number of ways that you can do it. Again, press releases are also another great way. I love using press releases to promote blog posts. So I like to publish blog posts, and then have press releases written to announce or to highlight, to spotlight the blog post. Now you’ve got additional content and as long-form content, I love the press releases from press advantage and MGYB. Because there’s, you know, seven to 800 words ish, that are, you know, it’s really relevant and you can use those you can iframe those now and so that’s additional content. By the way, you can also grab the RSS feed from the organization in press advantage for whatever the company is. And you can use that to also trigger your syndication network, which I highly recommend because those are very, very powerful.

Those press releases can now get syndicated and they appear beautifully across the syndication network by just creating an additional set of applets in your syndication network with your press advantage organization feed. Does that make sense? So that’s I mean, that’s what I do. That’s specifically how I do it is everything through the G site. And then also you can order the drive stack expansion from MGYB, which will also mirror that same silo structure for whatever category it is that you’re trying to rank in a, your drive stack, and they’ll create the actual g site page on your G site if you want. So that’s how I do it. Any you want to comment on that, Marco?

Should You Direct The Links Of Your Money Site Blog Post To One Silo?

No, I was good. Okay. When I’m doing a blog post on any site that links from the post should be directed to one silo. Yeah, well, whatever silo the post is within, right, so the post is always going to be placed in a category, that’s the silo, whatever silo it’s in, you want to make sure that you’re linking from within the post back up to you know, the top of silo page or the previous post within that silo, whatever, but you just don’t want to cross-link outside of that silo to other silos on the site. You can do it it makes sense for the reader. So basically for user interface but do it with a nofollow link. In other words, if you’re going to be linking outside of the silo itself, it’s okay to do that for navigational purposes. But nofollow that link within the post, but any link that you’re going to do within the content body of that post should be going to another post within that same silo or the top level. The top of the silo page, for example, a silo landing page. Does that make sense? So you always want to think about pushing relevancy through it, right? Because that’s what network Empire created, just coined the term called buoyancy, right? They applied that term. So if you have your silo built correctly, your keywords, your content stacked correctly within the silo, then and you do your internal linking properly, then you’re going to create buoyancy for that entire silo and all of the keywords within that silo will start to rise in the SERP search results. Okay, great question, by the way.

All right. We’re almost out of time. Ricky Bobby says I wasn’t necessarily saying it needed to be you guys doing that consultation for what the budget. I am new to you guys and obviously don’t mind spending money. But I’m a little confused about everything that you guys sell and when to use them. Oh, I see what you’re saying to perhaps. And we’ve talked about actually having in the coming months or hiring somebody that can literally do one on one consultations, it was primarily for mastermind members. But that might be something that if we implement that, that could be done on a consultation basis for MGYB as well. That’s not a bad idea, actually, Ricky. So thank you.

Ricky says, Thanks, guys. always appreciate your time. You’re welcome.

Is There A Way To Set Up RSS Feed From A Gsite?

Aaron says, Is there any way to set up RSS feed from a G site? Is it possible to use an RSS from a G site to IFTTT? I’ve not done that. But Marco, is there an RSS site from or an RSS feed site? Of course, there’s Okay, of course, announcement pages. It’s in the training. Okay. Well, I’ve not actually used that to trigger. The reason why I wouldn’t want to do that is that the script that we run rebuilds that announcement page. A time, which could you could overpopulate your network very quickly that way. Am I right? Yep. Yeah.

Yeah. So that’s that. Aaron, if that doesn’t make sense to you the announcement page. So when you buy drives back from us, it’s going to come back with the announcement page, which is it’s run by a Google script that will essentially rebuild.

The announcement page with all the files and everything, it will do it, rebuild it on a schedule, whatever that interval is, it will rebuild it at that interval consistently. And the problem with us and that’s probably why I’ve never done it is because if you were to use that RSS feed, and have that script running, then every time the script would run, it would spit out a whole bunch of posts on your syndication network, which could trigger suspensions for syndication network properties for over posting high frequency of posting, and they’re going to be a lot of you know, rebuild post is great for the G site. Don’t get me wrong. The announcement pages are part of the reason why they rank so well because it’s constantly bringing the bots back to crawl it. But I don’t know that that’s why I have not used them is because whenever that script runs and it rebuilds all of those pages, it can end up overpopulating your syndication network and getting them terminated. Okay? That’s not a good thing. Five o'clock on the money. You guys are awesome. Thanks for sticking around, guys. We will see you all next week. Bye, everybody.

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 298 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://semanticmastery.com/humpday.

Announcement

You have like a fake lamp on in the background or what’s going on there? Doesn’t it seem that way, man?

No simulator here, man. It’s Groundhog Day. COMM gets home. Go killing it. Make your money and come get some as to how this works. Oh, foo

Nope. All right. Let’s do it. Okay, I’m gonna grab the screen and I’ll cover something very briefly. Chris is very excited. I like this. Yeah.

Are Content Kingpin And Local Kingpin Outdated Semantic Mastery Courses?

Is There A Way To Hide GSite In SERPs But Can Still Benefit From The Power Of A Stack?

Can You Put An Exact Match Keyword As Anchor Text To The Money Site In A Press Release?

Okay, BB has got a wall of questions here.

Can You Replicate Dedhia’s Link Building Magic?

We will still be able to provide those services if God forbid something were to happen to our one and only Dedhia.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, right. Don’t you die or I’ll kill you myself.

Alright, I’m going to answer three and four right here because they’re basically the same question and the repost from last weekend.

Does Breadcrumb Schema Help In Ranking A Money Site?

Your website. I mean, they show up in search as breadcrumbs. Yeah.

What Is The Difference Between General Embeds Service And Map Embeds In MGYB?

Would you like to

be kidding? That would be awful. Especially outside. How hard is that going to be to get that thought out of your head today?

Ready, fat sweating nude is riding on

an ATV. Thanks.

That’s funny. Okay, next.

Any Tricks On How To Rank YouTube Videos Faster?

Thank you Roxy one more time with some wisdom meeting MGYB set.

Very, very good. I guess would you ever recorded great.

Adam, I don’t know if you’re still lurking in the background, but do we? Do we sell the YouTube ads for local video ranking courses separately?

What Is The New Wiki Link Package About?

Should I iFrame All City Pages To Gsite And Order Link Building To Push Power To The Money Site?

Should You Direct The Links Of Your Money Site Blog Post To One Silo?

Ricky says, Thanks, guys. always appreciate your time. You’re welcome.

Is There A Way To Set Up RSS Feed From A Gsite?

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 298 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://semanticmastery.com/humpday.

Announcement

You have like a fake lamp on in the background or what’s going on there? Doesn’t it seem that way, man?

No simulator here, man. It’s Groundhog Day. COMM gets home. Go killing it. Make your money and come get some as to how this works. Oh, foo

Nope. All right. Let’s do it. Okay, I’m gonna grab the screen and I’ll cover something very briefly. Chris is very excited. I like this. Yeah.

Are Content Kingpin And Local Kingpin Outdated Semantic Mastery Courses?

Is There A Way To Hide GSite In SERPs But Can Still Benefit From The Power Of A Stack?

Can You Put An Exact Match Keyword As Anchor Text To The Money Site In A Press Release?

Okay, BB has got a wall of questions here.

Can You Replicate Dedhia’s Link Building Magic?

We will still be able to provide those services if God forbid something were to happen to our one and only Dedhia.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, right. Don’t you die or I’ll kill you myself.

Alright, I’m going to answer three and four right here because they’re basically the same question and the repost from last weekend.

Does Breadcrumb Schema Help In Ranking A Money Site?

Your website. I mean, they show up in search as breadcrumbs. Yeah.

What Is The Difference Between General Embeds Service And Map Embeds In MGYB?

Would you like to

be kidding? That would be awful. Especially outside. How hard is that going to be to get that thought out of your head today?

Ready, fat sweating nude is riding on

an ATV. Thanks.

That’s funny. Okay, next.

Any Tricks On How To Rank YouTube Videos Faster?

Thank you Roxy one more time with some wisdom meeting MGYB set.

Very, very good. I guess would you ever recorded great.

Adam, I don’t know if you’re still lurking in the background, but do we? Do we sell the YouTube ads for local video ranking courses separately?

What Is The New Wiki Link Package About?

Should I iFrame All City Pages To Gsite And Order Link Building To Push Power To The Money Site?

Should You Direct The Links Of Your Money Site Blog Post To One Silo?

Ricky says, Thanks, guys. always appreciate your time. You’re welcome.

Is There A Way To Set Up RSS Feed From A Gsite?

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 298 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://semanticmastery.com/humpday.

Announcement

You have like a fake lamp on in the background or what’s going on there? Doesn’t it seem that way, man?

No simulator here, man. It’s Groundhog Day. COMM gets home. Go killing it. Make your money and come get some as to how this works. Oh, foo

Nope. All right. Let’s do it. Okay, I’m gonna grab the screen and I’ll cover something very briefly. Chris is very excited. I like this. Yeah.

Are Content Kingpin And Local Kingpin Outdated Semantic Mastery Courses?

Is There A Way To Hide GSite In SERPs But Can Still Benefit From The Power Of A Stack?

Can You Put An Exact Match Keyword As Anchor Text To The Money Site In A Press Release?

Okay, BB has got a wall of questions here.

Can You Replicate Dedhia’s Link Building Magic?

We will still be able to provide those services if God forbid something were to happen to our one and only Dedhia.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, right. Don’t you die or I’ll kill you myself.

Alright, I’m going to answer three and four right here because they’re basically the same question and the repost from last weekend.

Does Breadcrumb Schema Help In Ranking A Money Site?

Your website. I mean, they show up in search as breadcrumbs. Yeah.

What Is The Difference Between General Embeds Service And Map Embeds In MGYB?

Would you like to

be kidding? That would be awful. Especially outside. How hard is that going to be to get that thought out of your head today?

Ready, fat sweating nude is riding on

an ATV. Thanks.

That’s funny. Okay, next.

Any Tricks On How To Rank YouTube Videos Faster?

Thank you Roxy one more time with some wisdom meeting MGYB set.

Very, very good. I guess would you ever recorded great.

Adam, I don’t know if you’re still lurking in the background, but do we? Do we sell the YouTube ads for local video ranking courses separately?

What Is The New Wiki Link Package About?

Should I iFrame All City Pages To Gsite And Order Link Building To Push Power To The Money Site?

Should You Direct The Links Of Your Money Site Blog Post To One Silo?

Ricky says, Thanks, guys. always appreciate your time. You’re welcome.

Is There A Way To Set Up RSS Feed From A Gsite?

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 298 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

You have like a fake lamp on in the background or what’s going on there? Doesn’t it seem that way, man?

No simulator here, man. It’s Groundhog Day. COMM gets home. Go killing it. Make your money and come get some as to how this works. Oh, foo

Nope. All right. Let’s do it. Okay, I’m gonna grab the screen and I’ll cover something very briefly. Chris is very excited. I like this. Yeah.

Are Content Kingpin And Local Kingpin Outdated Semantic Mastery Courses?

Is There A Way To Hide GSite In SERPs But Can Still Benefit From The Power Of A Stack?

Can You Put An Exact Match Keyword As Anchor Text To The Money Site In A Press Release?

Okay, BB has got a wall of questions here.

Can You Replicate Dedhia’s Link Building Magic?

We will still be able to provide those services if God forbid something were to happen to our one and only Dedhia.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, right. Don’t you die or I’ll kill you myself.

Alright, I’m going to answer three and four right here because they’re basically the same question and the repost from last weekend.

Does Breadcrumb Schema Help In Ranking A Money Site?

Your website. I mean, they show up in search as breadcrumbs. Yeah.

What Is The Difference Between General Embeds Service And Map Embeds In MGYB?

Would you like to

be kidding? That would be awful. Especially outside. How hard is that going to be to get that thought out of your head today?

Ready, fat sweating nude is riding on

an ATV. Thanks.

That’s funny. Okay, next.

Any Tricks On How To Rank YouTube Videos Faster?

Thank you Roxy one more time with some wisdom meeting MGYB set.

Very, very good. I guess would you ever recorded great.

Adam, I don’t know if you’re still lurking in the background, but do we? Do we sell the YouTube ads for local video ranking courses separately?

What Is The New Wiki Link Package About?

Should I iFrame All City Pages To Gsite And Order Link Building To Push Power To The Money Site?

Should You Direct The Links Of Your Money Site Blog Post To One Silo?

Ricky says, Thanks, guys. always appreciate your time. You’re welcome.

Is There A Way To Set Up RSS Feed From A Gsite?

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 298

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 298 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

You have like a fake lamp on in the background or what’s going on there? Doesn’t it seem that way, man?

No simulator here, man. It’s Groundhog Day. COMM gets home. Go killing it. Make your money and come get some as to how this works. Oh, foo

Nope. All right. Let’s do it. Okay, I’m gonna grab the screen and I’ll cover something very briefly. Chris is very excited. I like this. Yeah.

Are Content Kingpin And Local Kingpin Outdated Semantic Mastery Courses?

Is There A Way To Hide GSite In SERPs But Can Still Benefit From The Power Of A Stack?

Can You Put An Exact Match Keyword As Anchor Text To The Money Site In A Press Release?

Okay, BB has got a wall of questions here.

Can You Replicate Dedhia’s Link Building Magic?

We will still be able to provide those services if God forbid something were to happen to our one and only Dedhia.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, right. Don’t you die or I’ll kill you myself.

Alright, I’m going to answer three and four right here because they’re basically the same question and the repost from last weekend.

Does Breadcrumb Schema Help In Ranking A Money Site?

Your website. I mean, they show up in search as breadcrumbs. Yeah.

What Is The Difference Between General Embeds Service And Map Embeds In MGYB?

Would you like to

be kidding? That would be awful. Especially outside. How hard is that going to be to get that thought out of your head today?

Ready, fat sweating nude is riding on

an ATV. Thanks.

That’s funny. Okay, next.

Any Tricks On How To Rank YouTube Videos Faster?

Thank you Roxy one more time with some wisdom meeting MGYB set.

Very, very good. I guess would you ever recorded great.

Adam, I don’t know if you’re still lurking in the background, but do we? Do we sell the YouTube ads for local video ranking courses separately?

What Is The New Wiki Link Package About?

Should I iFrame All City Pages To Gsite And Order Link Building To Push Power To The Money Site?

Should You Direct The Links Of Your Money Site Blog Post To One Silo?

Ricky says, Thanks, guys. always appreciate your time. You’re welcome.

Is There A Way To Set Up RSS Feed From A Gsite?

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