Join us every week for FREE local SEO training, questions and answers with Bradley Benner and Semantic Mastery. When you're ready to get serious about local SEO, Google Business SEO, and growing a real business, join the MasterMIND here: https://smshort.link/mastermind In episode 449 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked about the team's thoughts on the Channel Jumpstart Program by Derral Eves. The exact question was: Several months ago, you spoke about implementing Derral Eves's Channel Jumpstart program on the SM channel. Can you offer a review of the program? Is it worth the $6k+? Get Bradley's Local SEO GMB Process Checklist for free here: https://gmbprocess.com Stay up to date with the latest videos and training by subscribing to the Semantic Mastery Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=semanticmastery ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of7Y9sZLL5I

In episode 248 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFIw2eJmQY), one participant asked how to rank a real estate GMB listing in suburb and city. The exact question was: Good day everyone! I'm from Syracuse and hoping to sign new clients. I have a questions about GMB (Google My Business). I've read over and over again strategies to get into the 3pk. I still have so many questions. Maybe someone can help. Two questions: my client is in real estate, in what is considered a suburb of a bigger city. I can rank her in the suburb, but it is so difficult with the city. There is much competition, and her office address is in the suburb, not the city. How can I have her rank in both? the realtors who are ranking in the city all have offices in the city, so this makes it difficult. Plus, it's crazy how some realtors don't even claim their business and they're higher ranked than my client. Some have unfinished profiles, hardly any photos, etc. We are posting regularly, adding new pics, and have a linking campaign for google maps, including content and blogging with a google map embedded. Frustrating to do all this work and not have her ranked well. #gmblisting #gmboptimization #localseo More videos about SEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20AURKe0smg&list=PL1oO3mUVEcfpUc753HsfSJpvv4bicf5_M More videos about Lead Generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSW-bwm-Lko&list=PL1oO3mUVEcfrS3wwtHTt6Ls24_8_ZAZJK More videos about Google My Business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u_nYzxH3Ps&list=PL1oO3mUVEcfrpP1E3l1UE-XaGuHys5sT- More videos about SEO Questions Answered on Hump Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYv44gXnC68&list=PL1oO3mUVEcfo33kNReI6LwcM3MfgGoVpm Start with the Battleplan - your "Art of War" Playbook that combines decades of distilled SEO Experience and Cutting Edge Practices: https://battleplan.semanticmastery.com Ready to start OR grow profitable local digital marketing agency? Join the Semantic Mastery MasterMIND: https://mastermind.semanticmastery.com Stay up to date with the latest videos and training by subscribing to the Semantic Mastery Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=semanticmastery Join the discussion live each week for FREE (or ask questions ahead of time): http://semanticmastery.com/hdquestions And, if you want to get notifications of upcoming weekly SEO Q&A webinars "Hump Day Hangouts" sign up here: http://semanticmastery.com/humpday Lastly, come join us in the Semantic Mastery Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SEOtutorials ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpmFU22Uok

For more SEO training, visit: http://semanticmastery.com 0:00 Intro & announcement Webinar with Dan Anton VPH opening for our students in December: http://semanticmastery.com/videopowerhouse VideoX opening on Friday - great YT ads training: http://goo.gl/ePJY4L 10:00 My site is 2 months old with around 20 backlinks that i have created. Can I now 301 a few expired domains to my site to help push PA/DA and # of backlinks? Oh, my site already has pretty good trust flow 15+ on most pages with close to a 1:1 ratio.. Also should I setup wordpress + a link juice keeper first on the expired domain before I 301 or should I just do it through the registrar or htaccess? Do you have any suggestions on whether I do this to my $ homepage or innerpage or how many 301 to how many innerpages? Oh and should the expired domain be exact same niche and subniche or just same main niche? 21:00 I know I am about to commit heresy here but if I DIDN'T want to use IFTTT to auto post an RSS feed to my facebook page what are some favorite strategies? 22:00 On webpages that I'm trying to rank, what is a good way to display affiliate links. Cloaking, nofollow or gateway page with an automatic redirect? 23:30 A lot of SEO strategies discussed are for wordpress sites (for good reason), but what if someone uses a a non-wordpress site like from Duda? Would you encourage a new site to be made or could it be just as good with the right tactics? 25:00 Twitter questions 1) Does embedding a twitter feed into your site help SEO? 1a) If yes, does it have to be on homepage? My homepage is static. 2) Did you ever look deeper in the WP Tweet plugin you mentioned a couple of weeks back? 29:00 IFTTT question: should we be using the IFTTT URL shortening feature to shorten links in syndicated posts? 30:00 Would you recommend firing spam at second-tier properties, or using a buffer? For example - a GSA blast at three personal Twitter profiles, which represent the second tier of my IFTTT network. Would that help increase the strength of the tweets within those second-tier accounts? 31:00 Could you give a short illustration of using CrowdsearchME for referral social traffic - Twitter #wineboxguy -- to a YT Video (watch) and click thru to money site. My confusion is which tweet would they locate with the hashtag... maybe random is ok but I don't have the YT link in some tweets.... ADVICE for going forward would be appreciated. Check out this blog post: http://semanticmastery.com/referral-traffic-for-higher-video-and-local-ranking/ 33:00 If i build links through link exchanges with other niche sites how do i get google to crawl the site that i just got the link from as i assume these sites dont get crawled very often? 36:00 Can you build a scenario where your initial Video doesn't rank once it's been syndicated two a full two tier network? What your steps would you take in order of priority to boost the videos rank in the SERPS? 42:00 Any ideas why google sites get suspended soon as we run any custom scripts on them? 44:00 Have you had the opportunity to use BrowSEO and its ability to avoid future use of having to switch IP, identities ETC 46:00 Have you found that having a Google+ Community for Semantic Mastery results in time well spent with sales coming in directly from the group? 48:00 Please speak about how having a team working with you on the same projects allows you to accomplish feats that you would not be able to do as a lone worker? Any helpful solutions for others to be able to set up a similar accountability team of workers as you? 53:00 What is the latest news on which browser to use for which vital tasks? 54:00 If I want to help some of my clients sites to bump up in rankings and I want to use CrowdSearchMe, does it make most sense to start by setting up both navigational and referring searches? Secondly, do you guys think the WP plug-in "Reduce Bounce Rate" truly helps bounce rate data? Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=semanticmastery Check out our weekly SEO Q&A webinars "Hump Day Hangouts": http://semanticmastery.com/humpday Join our G+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/118018692354282203719 We have a Facebook group, too: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SEOtutorials ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOvqkWrp7cc

In episode 194 of Semantic Mastery's weekly Hump Day Hangouts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEnpFW1Kb6s), one participant asked how effective an RYS Stack would be for promoting an entertainment-based non-local YouTube channel? The exact question was: Hey, gang. How effective would an RYS stack be for promoting a YouTube channel (entertainment based), when NOT for a local business? Would it be effective to use on a channel with 200-400 videos? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w74ljmqbvs4