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Video Powerhouse Launch - some awesome opportunities and bonuses during launch week https://serpspace.clickfunnels.com/launch 7:00 Vmail exclusive with video powerhouse https://serpspace.clickfunnels.com/launch 9:00 I've seen a strategy where you create say 300 unique videos, optimize them and create a playlist. In the description of each video there is a link to the previous video and unique Google shortened link all pointing to a Google Doc. In the Doc there is one anchor text link pointing to a website. 5 videos are uploaded each day until the end of the campaign. Would this be a good strategy to increase the rankings for a website and also could this be used to point the Link in the Doc to a video playlist to rank videos? 17:00 There was a 1st page domination technique where you point lots of GSA links to a high Domain Authority social media property like Facebook or Foursquare, to rank for a targeted keyword. Does this technique still work? What can I do to achieve this result? 22:00 1.I have a branded ifttt network for a company, is it ok to use a drive stack in the same drive account that's running the network in a separate folder, as a legitimate company would have this kept all in one drive anyway? 2.Can staff members for the business essentially become additional persona's with their own ifttt network that shares the content from The branded t1 but set as contributors to the t1 branded network when the interlinking process is done? 26:00 I have a single keyword branded term a video used to rank for.It completely dropped off but the video still ranks for the branded term + location or the branded terms +apartments. I added some video seo and the 2+ word terms ranked higher. Added 5 high authority SAPE links and those keywords ranked even higher. Still not ranking for the single word term. Just purchased 20 expired high DA tumblrs and daily I am adding either embeds or Images and anchor text for the branded phrase. I also bought 22 Serp Space links in the Real estate niche. Still not ranking for the main term.For YEARS the main term was ranking and I need to get it to rank again Next steps: update the content (hasn't been updated in years), add a hashtag, add the NAP and run a press release with the NAP in it, and modify the video date. I think noticed that old rankings of websites with embeds were capturing old dates and tanking rankings. It wasn't until he re-embedded the video with the new embed code or changed the date that the rankings resumes Any recommendations or HAIL NAW...Don't do Thats? The channel is well aged with plenty of videos too. 31:00 1)SSL Cert...should I always use one on my site? 34:00 2)If I have two full two tier networks...what would be the best starter package for GSA/FCA link package from serp space? Id like to start with the smallest package...but I am unsure of which network ring or properties I submit to you guys 36:00 3)Protecting yourself from clients who chose not to continue to pay. I have read that this is unethical..and some seo's are against it. Your clients domain is xyzbuilding.com...is it as easy as setting up xyzbuilding.info and using a redirecting plug in to point to their site. All links will be built to xyzbuilding.info? Do you use the pretty links WP plug in to accomplish this? Does it have any negative SEO consequences? 43:00 4)I just acquired my first client and would like to be able to expand his site into surrounding town and cities. Should I accomplish this by building on subdomains like masterclass teaches...or would this be better to silo with cities/services/posts. As he is just one brand name 5) what would you do differently with client sites vs lead gen properties as far as link building? You said you are very aggressive with lead gen sites, so what would be some of those things you do differently 46:00 i setup an expired domain over a month ago and posted some articles from other sites on it with a link back to them, at a later date someone told me it was not indexed in google so i manually submitted it via googles submit url feature thinking that would be enough but no. Signed it up to webmaster tools to see if there was any messages/penalties and submit a sitemap (it was pending for 3 days then zero indexed pages) submitted sitemap again not indexed again and after 2.5 weeks there has been no messages show up in the console for penalties - why it wont index or how to index it? 49:00 1) What is the name of the microphone you are using? 2) How do you drive traffic to your affiliate link using youtube ads as affiliate link is prohibited to use as landing page 52:00 Should I optimize all photos that will go onto Instagram or IMGUR? 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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 482 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked about Bradley's experience with using GBP verification vendors to create and verify GBP listings. The exact question was: Hey Bradley! Lately we've been approached by gbp listing vendors offering to create and verify gbp listings for us. We've been struggling to verify new gbp listings for a while now so we're actually considering using some of these verification vendors. However, from our experience in the past, we've never actually had lasting results with the gbp listings created and verified by these vendors. The longest lasting gbp listing verified by these vendors lasted for a month and got suspended. One way we've been thinking of going about this is that we'll have a vendor create and verify a gbp listing. And if a listing gets suspended down the road, then we'll have one of those gbp reinstatement specialists on Fiverr reinstate the gbp listing for us. But this is something we've never tried so we don't know if it'll work or not. What's your experience with and opinion on using gbp verification vendors to create and verify new gbp listings? Would you recommend using them at all? If not, how would you recommend we go about creating and verifying new gbp listings these days? Try to push through with video verification for example? Or would you say the end of the gbp lead gen days is near and we should just focus on running ads instead? Please advise. Thank you so much! 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=f2KhnR171IA