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Alright, gang. Let's dive right into it.

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Welcome to webinar Wednesday, tips to grow your online community.

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It's great to be with you guys here today. We have an awesome presentation lined up for you,

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and, we'll dive right into it. If this is your first time joining us, welcome.

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I'm Jason Dayer on the left, and we're lucky to be joined by Rick Martinez,

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one of the support specialists here at Brilliant Directories.

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Rick, thanks for taking the time to join us in the webinar today.

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Happy to be here, Jason, and thank you for having

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me. Awesome. Yeah. I know we've got some great topics,

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to cover today.

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And I always like to mention, if you're not already a member, please go ahead and join our Facebook group.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook.

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It's a great way to keep in touch in between webinars.

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There's some really amazing discussions in there. I myself am active in there and learn a lot

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because people are asking how to questions, and then everyone jumps in with

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different ideas and methods that they're using to accomplish things on their website. So definitely,

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take a moment to join us there. You can go to brilliantdirectories.com

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forward / facebook and click on the blue join button. I'll see you there.

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And for those of you joining us for the first time, welcome. Welcome to Webinar Wednesday.

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I believe this is Webinar Wednesday sixty nine.

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We've had, Webinar Wednesdays going for about two and a half years now, and it's honestly my favorite time

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of the week.

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In webinar Wednesday, we like to cover topics related to marketing your website and growing your online community.

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Obviously, launching a website is very easy to say today.

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There's lots of of tools and and easy ways to accomplish that, but really growing and cultivating

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an engaged community does require

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time and effort. So we like to cover things such as increasing website traffic,

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converting visitors to members, identifying revenue

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opportunities, and one of my favorite is improving

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the visitors experience through a better navigation, making it nice and simple and clean

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to use regarding your website design.

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So if you have questions on these topics, please save them.

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We will get to them in just a moment, a little later in the webinar.

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Alright. And we have a few BD lab updates to share. I'll go through these relatively quick.

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Just last week we had about 16 to 20

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updates pushed, and here's a few fun ones that I thought would be noteworthy to share in the webinar today.

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The first one are is a new design setting.

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You can actually set the members profile photos to be a circle design, and I'll show you exactly how that works now.

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Alright, so you want us to go, let's go to the this website first. This is just a sample site.

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We'll go to the search results page.

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It's just a site we're playing around on here.

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And we can see that, just has the normal soft rounded corners here.

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And so what we'll do is go to the design settings.

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And under additional design settings which really this module is getting pretty full.

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I think we're gonna divvy these up into

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smaller sections here. But the new one here is profile photo style,

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and what you can do now is set this to circle corners.

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I'll go ahead and do that, and I'm gonna share a caveat regarding that as well.

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So let me just save the changes here.

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Great. And let's actually go to one of the profile pages.

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So we could see now that it's attempting to give and let me find someone that actually has a photo here.

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moment. So we can see here

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attempting to turn the profile photo into a circle. Now this photo

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was uploaded as a rectangle. So

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if members are uploading rectangular versions of their profile photos,

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you're gonna end up with a result like this.

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But I wanna show you guys something really cool that you can do moving forward on your site, if you want a truly circle,

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image for the profile photo.

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And what you can do is this, it's really cool.

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You can go to the developers tab, and go to image settings.

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And here, you don't really need to mess around with this too much. It's basically,

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helping to optimize the image sizes, the maximum image sizes for your site.

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So if someone uploads an image that's like 6,000 pixels

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wide, it's gonna shrink it down to the max width

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here. What you want to do is

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is the first one here profile photo, you can edit the group settings,

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and this basically supports either a rectangle

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or 1 x 1 which would make a square image.

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And I'll just set the max width and max height to 202

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just for fun here, and I'll save the changes.

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now that the profile photo is set to be a square, when we transform it using that circle setting,

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it's going to really make a perfect circle on the site. And we can actually

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test it. Let me download this rectangular image here. Let me save this image

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So let's log in as this member

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and I'll upload a new profile photo.

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Okay great. So now let's go to the profile page. You can already see here,

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I think it adds a nice modern aesthetic.

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Obviously the regular way is fine.

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It's been worked for a long time, and it works great, but this will just add another dimension

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to your site using the circle photo. So best way to use this is if you're using the square

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as the settings for the images, for the profile photo images, but either way it adds a nice effect here on your site.

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Alright. Next update.

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Now you have the ability, a lot of people say they want to moderate all the members that sign up to their site, and you can certainly do so

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based on the membership level. So I'll show you how you can

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automatically set any member sign up to an on hold status rather than an active

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And the way to do that is let's start at the dashboard here.

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Under your finance tab, go to manage products because this is a membership level setting.

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basic members that sign up to your site. It's a free account.

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the first option here, just a small note, we've moved the name of the membership level on the outside of these tabs, so when you're editing the tabs you'll always know which membership level you're you're in the process of editing.

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So this first tab here is you now have three options. Before there was just two.

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inactive account, and on hold.

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So you could set this to on hold.

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And what's and now anytime someone signs up to this membership level, this could be a paid membership level as well, for your paid it doesn't matter, but anytime someone signs up to this level,

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their account status will be on hold and only you, the admin of the site can manually change their status,

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in the search members area over here,

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change their status to an active status.

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share that information

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in the sign up email that's sent to those users.

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So, you might want to modify the welcome basic email or create a new custom welcome email that these members receive upon sign up, and just let them know what to expect now that they've registered or signed up, or what the next steps are.

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Perhaps you want them to,

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email you some more information, or make sure they complete their profile before you even consider,

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enabling their account. So it actually puts you in the driver's seat when it comes to

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moderating and activating valid members on your site. So

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that on hold option is there for you now, and I know a lot of people are gonna be using that.

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Alright. The next one, hide homepage hero divider on mobile. This one's pretty self explanatory.

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It's just a new design setting,

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and let's go to the homepage here. So this is the hero divider.

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A lot of people use it on their site, some people choose not to use it on your site,

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but it does take up a lot of real estate on a mobile view. So let me just toggle a mobile view here,

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and if you scroll down we can see it's still very nice in my opinion,

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but it does in fact,

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it does take up a lot of real estate on mobile and you may not want to show this on mobile devices.

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So let me just show you where you can hide this now, the setting to hide this on mobile.

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This one we're gonna toggle back on over to the design settings,

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and for this one we're gonna go to homepage layout because it's a homepage element, and because there's so many settings it has its own module here, the homepage divider

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settings. So we have all these fun settings,

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but you can add links. Now the last option here hide on mobile,

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yes or no. We're gonna set this to yes, hide on mobile devices. Go ahead and save the changes.

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Okay great, and we'll just do a hard refresh here on the home page.

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So now if we scroll down the home page, we'll see that it is gone and goes directly into the calls to action.

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So you have your search, and then any other elements that you want to have here

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So that setting is now available to everyone as well.

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And lastly, probably one of the most valuable updates here, if you're using the sell digital downloads add on which allows you to create essentially buy pages for tangible and intangible

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products and services,

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there is now an export

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buyer data

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button. So maybe you're creating one product maybe for an event ticket or

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whatever it may be, you can export all that member data. Let me show you,

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how you can do that.

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So, the first thing we want to do is log into a member's account who has sold digital products, and normally the digital products are reserved for the owner of the website, the website admin,

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because the payments that get collected are going to your payment gateway.

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products, I'll go to manage posts.

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And let's look at the website digital products and I'm just going to go ahead and log in as this member here.

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So this is a member, see this doesn't look bad, the rectangle with the circle, even though it's not a perfect square.

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So this is a member who has published digital products and has had some sales.

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So to get to your sales page, you want to go

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to the sales history button here, which only the digital products

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post type has. So we'll click on sales history.

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So in this case, there have been five sales and there's different products.

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Dinner with David for charity, five hours of SEO consulting.

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So let's say we want to export just the people who had five hours of SEO consulting, or again this could be an event ticket, general admission, you wanna export the list and then print them onto like a clipboard.

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So at the event, you can check people off or make sure that they are indeed registered and whatnot.

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So you can use this product filter here and we'll just five hours of SEO consulting, and what you could do just export the results.

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It's just gonna ask you if you want to export it. It's gonna create the CSV file,

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and then there it is. You can save this to your computer.

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after you save it and export it, I have it open here.

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You have a few things.

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You have the invoice ID which will correspond

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to the invoice ID in your website's transaction history.

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the amount that was collected and paid,

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the buyer's name,

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the buyer's email address,

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the buyer's member ID.

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This corresponds to their member ID on your BD website because you do need to register in order to

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purchase a digital product through the website.

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The name of the product that was purchased,

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the product URL, the buy page

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where the transaction happened, And then if you're including a confirmation page or a confirmation email template that was associated

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after purchasing the product,

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that's also included here as well. So you really have everything you need

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as exporting a list of buyers and then you can use that list to verify them or or use it for whatever else you need in the future.

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So that should be super high value. I know a lot of people are using the digital downloads

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add on for event ticket sales.

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They're they're posting an event, and then in the description of the event, they're putting the links where they can purchase different event tickets,

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for that.

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So they just they can view the description of the event, and then right on the same site, they go to the the checkout page or the buy page for one of the event ticket options.

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in this manner here.

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Alright, so those are just a few of the BD lab updates.

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Hope there was some value in there for you guys, and we're always pushing you updates.

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One of the top places we get ideas for updates are in the Facebook group actually.

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People ask how to questions, a setting a setting may or may not exist for that request, and based on the popularity

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or the value that it might add, we do definitely take those into consideration.

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So we look forward to seeing you in the Facebook group.

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Alright, we got a great segment here in Rick's corner today.

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Rick is office obviously at the front lines

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of responding to support tickets, and providing phone training, and website setups.

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And Rick comes across a lot of common questions

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that a lot of users ask. So today we're going to talk about how to submit your website

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site map to the Google

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Search Console.

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And Rick, can you tell us a little bit about what the Google Search Console is actually?

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So hello.

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Yeah. You're right.

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The questions that we get asked frequently are regarding, like, the initial stages of setting up your website.

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Right? And this one comes in quite often, and it's how do I let Google know that my website is here.

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For those of you familiar with this, this is this was used,

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this was used to be called Google Webmaster Tools,

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and since it's changed its name to Google Search Console.

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The process in which you basically let Google know that you have an active website, that it consists of

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web pages.

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And and how you get that communication going is by setting this account up.

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So it is, it is, again, a question that comes up frequently, Jason.

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And and the process to set this up is super easy.

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I guess that's what we're gonna be doing right now. Awesome.

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And I think at least for beginners or for even for myself, the majority of the the main reasons I use the Google Search Console is two things.

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Is one, basically officially submit my site to Google saying, hey Google, my website exists.

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I'm raising my hand.

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And number two with the site map submission is you're basically handing Google a menu of all the the web pages that exist on your site, and then Google can decide how they wanna rank all those different pages or if they wanna include the all the pages or some of the pages in the Google search results.

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So that's how you're gonna let them know, like, this is what's currently building up my site.

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These are the Right.

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The queues of the web pages that are currently building up my site, so on and so forth.

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And we're gonna cover how to do that right now with, it was I believe it was an update that you went over.

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If it wasn't last week, it was a couple of weeks ago at the most.

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But it's, like, how to use the the sitemap tool and all this good stuff.

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So let's go ahead and jump to it, Jason, if that's okay with you. Yep. Let's do it.

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I wanna share the controls with you, Rick, and, you can get us started here with the Google Search Console.

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Okay. Perfect.

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So the first thing that you wanna do, and this is very important,

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even though the tool will work if you're using a stationary or temporary domain, it's important for your website to be hosted using your own domain.

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So that would be step number one.

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This is why this is associated with the initial stages of your site. Right?

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Because you need to do this first before even letting Google know about your domain and you wanna let them know beforehand.

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So so everyone gets a directory up domain name and basically Correct.

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You don't wanna do double work.

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So after you connect your live domain name, that's when you wanna probably follow these steps.

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Exactly. So we're gonna be using this website,

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just for this example, and we're gonna be using this domain. Right?

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So Google search console causes a property. Right? So what we're gonna be doing,

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this is the search console direct link.

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It's going to take you to a welcome page. I have already created my account, so it it it,

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already locks me in.

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If you guys don't have an account already, it's just a matter of setting it up. It's super easy.

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It's Google. So that's what they're good at doing, right, making stuff easy,

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and, yeah, once once you use this link that, again, we're gonna be sharing with everyone, you're gonna be taken to this specific page.

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So this would be, like, the registration

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Right? Since I already have,

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I won't be,

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I won't I won't need to take this additional step that I'm gonna show you guys, which is just add another property.

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It's just this this step that you see here. Add another property.

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When you click on that, add another property, you're gonna be taken to this page that we're currently on.

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Right? Basically.

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That's how it's going to work.

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Now the method that we're gonna be using is the one that's on the right. So URL prefix,

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that's the one that we're going to use to verify

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or to add the property.

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Adding a property basically is just verifying that you're the owner and that you have the ability to add the information that they're gonna share with you in order to demonstrate or to prove to Google, again, that you're the actual owner.

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So let me go ahead and add the URL here or the domain. Oh, nope. That's the one that I wanna use.

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I wanna use my own. So it's this one right here.

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I'm just gonna copy that. I'm gonna paste it here in the field.

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Now let's click continue.

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So it's just checking for the verification.

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Alright? So we have a few ways in which we can,

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in which we can verify again that we are the owners of this site.

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The one that we're gonna be using is the HTML tag.

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It's the easiest, and we have a whole field dedicated,

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to this type of setup. So it's super straightforward.

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Let's go ahead and click on this one.

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And what we're gonna do is just copy this simple line of code here.

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Right? So I highlight this,

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and I copy it, and then I'm gonna jump back to the brand director's website. Alright.

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So here I'm on the dashboard,

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and what I'm looking for is the design settings. So I'm gonna go to settings, design settings.

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Here to the right

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just a second. It's still loading.

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Right. So here we have

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this option called custom CSS

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hit. Right? So that's what we're looking for.

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We're actually looking for the for the hit section of your website.

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Here's where we're going to add the script that verifies that I'm the owner. Right?

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So I'm adding this

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to the site. I'm gonna save the changes.

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If I don't save the changes, there's no way to verify it yet. So just saving,

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saved alright. So that's already properly set up.

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and we can click here where it says verify.

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Right? So it's checking verification,

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and there you go. Ownership has been verified.

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Perfect. It's very straightforward.

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Yeah. And essentially all you did was you're using the HTML tag,

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verification option, and then you're just copying and pasting

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that little piece of code and and then clicking the verify button.

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Correct.

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Correct. That's that's how so basically that's how we have already told Google. This is our website.

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They were Right. We're here. Right?

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Now it's from an SEO perspective, you've now just actually official by doing that one step, you just officially registered your site with Google, and said, hey Google, my site's online.

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Start putting me in in, in the search results,

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on a more official basis by doing this.

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Correct. Correct.

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So a few things that are important to note at this point, even though there might be some information about the website, there's still not really live information.

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So So it takes a while for Google to pick up this, like, the the activity and, like, what's going on, but that just takes a few days at the most.

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Other than that, like, you're seeing here on my screen, you're able to see, like, the information that, they have already presented here.

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So this is very useful.

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Again, like Jason stated at the beginning, it gives you, like, a good idea of how your website is doing, right, and and how it's gaining,

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organic SEO

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as time goes by.

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Now this is, like, half of this of the of the presentation at this point, Jason, because I also wanna go over how to submit the site map.

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So if that's okay with you, let's go ahead and jump to that section.

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Yeah. Let's let's do it. That's we've done one of two. Now let's finish two of two.

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Alright.

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So here on the left, still in the Google search console, there's this option called site maps.

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Alright.

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So what we're gonna be able to do here is to prove just add the site map that we could easily generate through brilliant directories.

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Right. So let's go ahead and get the site map so that we can add it here.

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I'm gonna jump back to the brilliant directories platform here.

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I go to the just a second because I was searching for that. It's on the if I go to the toolbox

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and I open up the site map generator here,

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what I'm going to be able to do now is that I can tell the platform

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how frequent I want the site map to be generated. Right?

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That means that I don't have to manually generate the site map. We can tell the system now. K.

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Go ahead and do it every seven days. Right? Which is basically what we recommend them doing.

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There's no really a point on overdoing this.

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Seven days is more than enough,

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and it's super easy. So you can go ahead and choose

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between seven days and every thirty days.

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So if there's if you're starting out, if you're gaining some traction still,

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you can leave it at 30. That's gonna be fine.

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Or you can go ahead and jump to the seven days if you know that you have already a lot of traffic,

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and a lot of a lot of people,

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registering on your site, creating new profiles. So that's when you wanna switch to the seven days.

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Once you select the option, very important to choose the save.

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So if I choose the thirty days, I need to click save.

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I'm gonna leave it at seven.

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I'm just gonna click save. I'm gonna do it's already there.

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Now what I'm gonna do is,

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generate the site map. So I can generate the site map. It's creating the site map.

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It takes a few minutes. It won't take long because the website itself doesn't have too much content.

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And what's really cool about the automatic

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that like every seven days your site map is automatically updated is

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with Brilliant Directories, all your search result pages, all the member profile pages, they're all dynamically

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created.

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but sometimes it's hard for Google to find all those new pages because they could be buried deep in the site.

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Like you only if you conduct a specific type of search, you're going to find a certain type of search results page.

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So with the site map generator, when it refreshes every seven days, it's basically gonna be telling Google, hey, we just added, you know, 500 new pages to our site.

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Please consider these and they'll figure out which ones that,

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warrant being added to Google search results or not. So it's a really,

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you just need to do this one time and then what Google what Rick is gonna show you now is how to submit

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this sitemap to Google and it's really a set it and forget it situation here.

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Mhmm. Exactly.

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Alright.

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So, yes, again, by creating the by creating the site map, you'd be you you're telling Google this is what the website is filled out of.

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And go ahead and check out the an index or start indexing these other web pages as well.

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Alright. So now let's go ahead and since the,

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site map has already been generated, we can copy that to the clipboard.

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It's just this

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URL pretty much.

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It's basically what has been copied to my clipboard, and we're gonna jump back to the console web page.

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As you can see here, the the the beginning of the URL is already graded out.

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I don't have to include that.

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Let me copy that one more time.

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Here. Okay. Let me copy that to a clipboard, and now let's add it here.

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So I can go ahead and get rid of all this

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initial information because that's basically all I need. And then I click here where it says submit

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Blue button.

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Alright. So it's submitting. There you go. The site map submitted was successful.

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Okay. Got it. So once again, there's there's this, like,

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they just and just put it.

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I said it and forget it because the, the site map is gonna be automatically generated depending on the, on the days that you set up there on the on the very useful tool that we have here.

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And that's basically it, Jason.

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Awesome, Rick. Just a note if you wanna go back to the Google Search Console.

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You know, your site might have,

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thousands of pages that that are part of the site map.

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Google might not choose to index or or show all the pages in their search results.

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Some pages might be cons what what Google considers thin content

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or very similar content,

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on your site, and they might just choose to show one of

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the more prevalent pages of your site and exclude

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other pages of your site. That's not necessarily a negative thing. Google's just trying to give

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their searchers and their users the best experience, so they just want to make sure that they're giving the most meaningful content to the visitors, and not all the pages on your site may include meaningful content.

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Some of it could be slightly repetitive,

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or what Google considers thin or light pages, which just have such maybe one sentence of information on it and that's not really enough to get, ranked,

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that page in Google.

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So just keep those things in in consideration there.

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Alright.

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So Jason, like the the last thing that you just mentioned, I guess that it it really depends on how you wanna take that type of news because if you see if you wanna see it as a problem,

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I mean, there's not much that you can do.

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But if you see it as an opportunity, right, where it actually tells you, like, these pages need a little bit of love.

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They need to be worked on.

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You can get even rid of them because they're not adding anything to your site.

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Like it does call you to work on your website, and I guess that keeping that up to date is always gonna be beneficial for you long run.

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I'll be honest with you.

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On the on the actual Brilliant Directories company website, about six to eight months ago,

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we actually deleted about 60%

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of our pages. We had FAQs on our BD site, and it was and,

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you know, I don't recommend doing this for everyone, but we we removed a bunch of what Google considers our thin pages, and that actually helped the rankings of our more important pages in the search engine.

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So yeah, definitely finding ways to eliminate thin pages or not worry that Google's not ranking your thin pages.

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You know that kind of alleviates some worry that you might have of how your site's ranking in Google.

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George here has a question. He's got his hand up. Alright George,

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let's see, typed in a question here.

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How does Google handle claim your listing profiles?

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That's a great question.

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So with claim listing profiles, you're probably uploading some business data.

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Google will attempt to index it. However,

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if the claim listing profiles that you uploaded are simply a company name, their address, and their phone number,

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there's nothing really meaningful or new, that Google cares about that profile, and they may simply choose to not include those claim listings,

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in their search results.

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The days of uploading a million business records and they start ranking in Google, those days are gone unless you actually have a strat an SEO strategy behind it on how to add more unique and more meaningful content to each and every one of those profile pages.

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If you are uploading George, if you are uploading thousands and thousands of

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business listings,

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for that membership level, Rick, I'm going to take the controls here.

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You may want to simply set them to,

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just a moment here. You might want to just set those membership levels to no index no follow.

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So I'll just go ahead and edit a membership level here real quick, George.

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And under search visibility,

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you might just want to hide those listings from search engines.

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Because chances are unless you're uploading them with truly unique content and they're very

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content rich

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profiles that that you're using the claim listing for then then of course give Google the opportunity to index them.

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But if it's just

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standard business data that's duplicate content that can be found on tons of other websites, you may wanna just choose to omit them

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from from search engines finding them George. So good question there.

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Alright great.

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Thanks Rick. So we have a great segment here for the tip of the week,

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and this actually got

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started in the the Facebook group.

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A few discussions were started on people wanting to add additional

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social share buttons to their sites,

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beyond the the standard ones that come with BD. And there are a few good options out there.

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So for the tip of the week, we want to cover

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ways to engage visitors with enhanced

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social share buttons.

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And we've all been on websites where we see social share buttons for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.

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Sometimes there's so many of them it makes our heads turn.

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But the good news is with some of the enhanced social share button tools out there, you can pick and choose the solutions

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that work for the target market,

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that your website is in.

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So let's talk about social share buttons,

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for a little bit.

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Those are the things like when you're reading a blog post and it says share this page,

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or tweet this page,

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or you know email this page to a friend.

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Those are the social share buttons and there are some benefits

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of including them on your site.

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First of all, it improves the customer experience because it gives your website

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an opportunity to engage with them.

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It gives them another call to action, something to click on, something to do.

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They can see if a post, a blog post, or another piece of content has been shared because normally they have counters on them.

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So you can see if a blog post has been shared 10 or 20 or 30 times.

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And when they do share your content they're basically increasing your brand exposure because they're sharing

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your website with

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their friends and their followers on those social media platforms.

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So social share buttons are obviously a great way to increase your brand's visibility online.

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And chances are the person who's sharing your content has like minded

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friends and followers and therefore you're improving your reach potentially to your target market.

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So if they're sharing it, it's obviously something that they think their friends or followers might also be interested in.

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So you have a chance to maybe pick up some new potential subscribers

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or members of your website.

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And not only that,

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in recent years Google has been modifying their algorithms

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and

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social indicators such as Facebook likes and shares definitely influence

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your website's SEO. And there are

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SEO benefits

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to

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having your content shared. Not only does it drive more traffic to your site, but

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having good rich content reduces bounce rates.

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So if people are coming to your site and in droves, and staying on your site, and reading your articles, Google calculates all those

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little details and factors them into how they want to rank your site in their search engine.

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So there's definitely an SEO benefit

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when your content is being shared. And then lastly, it increases your site's trust and credibility.

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People

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can see other engagement on your site from other, from previous website visitors.

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And honestly it just it just decorates your site a little bit better because,

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people are used to seeing those on your site,

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on websites, and it just adds another level of professionalism on your site, especially if you're using enhanced social share buttons.

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00:33:44.945 --> 00:33:47.365
It looks like your site's a little bit more developed.

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So here's a snapshot of BD's default social share widget.

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Honestly, it does the job.

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If your site is just starting out, it's a great starting point and includes

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Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn,

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which are

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three of the top

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social media

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networks out there. There's no setup required. It's already included in the sidebar of your site.

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As I mentioned includes the basic share buttons, and if something's not working with these share buttons, BD will provide direct support

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for you guys. So it's great to start with these, it's great to use these,

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and and yeah again it's just a great starting point for 99%

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of the websites

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out there.

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So there are a lot of tools that help enhance

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social share button design and functionality

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on your site. There's two key companies out there.

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There's other ones, but these two offer one free solutions,

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and they have killer killer

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settings and ways to customize the social share buttons on your site, and we're going to cover that in just a second.

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00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.940
Actually show you how you can add this to your BD website

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as well. So the first one, it's share this. You can go to sharethis.com.

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It's free to register an account, and I'm going to show you how you can connect it to your site.

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00:35:05.315 --> 00:35:08.615
The other one is add this. It's addthis.com.

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You can go to their site register, and it's really easy to hook it up to your Brilliant Directories website.

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So

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for this presentation let's focus on the share this option.

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The add this is very similar, but we'll focus on setting up the share this account,

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00:35:26.710 --> 00:35:29.450
connecting it to our site, and actually getting

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the new social share buttons to render,

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on a sample site. We'll use that dog, the New York City dog walker website that Rick was on.

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So you know why go through the trouble of using a dedicated

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tool?

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You know why doesn't brilliant directory just build a tool that does what share this does or add this does?

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Those those are

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companies that have been around for ten plus years.

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They've really refined

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and fine tuned

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how the social share buttons work with all the settings.

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There really is no reason to reinvent the reel, and they're constantly making improvements and updates.

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So I do recommend

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when you're when you're ready to take your site to the next level and you have

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ample blog posts and you want to make sure they're being shared

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00:36:15.994 --> 00:36:16.494
nicely,

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then you want to probably opt for one of these enhanced tools. So

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they all include powerful and robust settings. We'll cover those in a second.

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00:36:25.050 --> 00:36:26.430
Super easy to customize

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00:36:26.810 --> 00:36:29.070
for your specific markets needs.

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And think about it, you know these share tools, we've all been on sites where ads slow down the loading of the page or the share buttons even slow down the actual loading of the page.

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00:36:39.805 --> 00:36:44.865
These dedicated solutions are designed to not slow down the load times of your page,

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00:36:45.325 --> 00:36:49.910
and they do allow you to include one share button or dozens of share buttons,

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and

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you know it's it's fully optimized rather than if you were to add go to the websites and add the different share buttons yourself,

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00:36:58.049 --> 00:37:01.185
it'll probably slow down the loading time of your site.

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00:37:01.745 --> 00:37:04.485
Another awesome thing is these tools provide reporting,

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00:37:05.185 --> 00:37:06.565
analytics, and insights

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00:37:07.425 --> 00:37:12.005
for the different types of content that has been shared using their share buttons.

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00:37:12.305 --> 00:37:14.625
And lastly, these guys do a killer job.

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It just makes your site look more professional because of the different style options that you can apply to these buttons.

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00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:23.940
And when we log into the share this panel, you'll see exactly

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what I'm talking about.

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Alright. So

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these are the basic steps you'll follow even if you're using the add this or another tool to basically get these share buttons added to your site.

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So you're gonna sign up and register for free.

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00:37:41.710 --> 00:37:49.730
Similar to how Rick added a website property in the Google search console, you're gonna add your website property to share this.

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Then we're gonna verify our website.

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Then the fun part starts.

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We can configure the share buttons, and then lastly we're going to embed the share buttons onto our Brilliant Directories website.

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And they really make it easy with just a simple copy and paste,

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with a line of code.

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So let's go to sharethis.com

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and let's

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actually get started

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with connecting this to a site. And I know Terry was in the Facebook group.

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After we go through this, we can use your site as an example and make sure we have everything configured if you're here in the webinar with us.

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So give me a second here and let me get a site set up for us.

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00:38:25.575 --> 00:38:27.994
Okay, great. So we're gonna work on

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this sample site dog groomer NYC,

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and we're on the share this website.

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So when you come here, what you wanna do is go ahead and you can click get get share buttons,

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and it's gonna ask you to kind of go through the sign up process,

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and and start designing your sites. I already have an account, so I'll go ahead and just log in

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with the sample account that I have.

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Alright. Great. So I'm logged in here,

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and

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what the first thing that I want to do is set up an account. I'm logged in.

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Now I want to add a property.

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So in the top here, I can set up new property,

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and it wants me to add the domain name for the property.

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So I'll just go ahead and copy this one dog groomer NYC,

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and hit okay.

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00:39:22.235 --> 00:39:25.535
Alright so it says we're unable to verify dog groomer NYC.

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00:39:25.995 --> 00:39:29.775
Put this code into your site. So I'm gonna click get the code.

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00:39:30.875 --> 00:39:33.055
Okay and I'll just copy this here.

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00:39:34.235 --> 00:39:36.895
So that's what I need to do, copy the code.

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00:39:37.435 --> 00:39:37.935
Great.

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00:39:38.510 --> 00:39:41.710
Now what I want to do is go to settings and design settings.

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I'm just gonna paste this code in the custom head section here.

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So I'm gonna go to custom CSS slash head tab

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and I'll just

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paste the code

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down here

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00:39:54.755 --> 00:39:56.055
and save my changes.

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So that's basically everything I need to do to sync up my site with ShareThis,

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and I'll go back here and I'll click on verify.

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All systems go, we verified

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the account.

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00:40:11.970 --> 00:40:14.049
So now the fun fun part starts.

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So they do offer a few solutions like reaction buttons, follow buttons, like if you want them to follow

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00:40:20.145 --> 00:40:22.965
your Facebook page. In this case, we want share buttons

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where people can share specific web pages on our site. So I'm gonna toggle the share button open,

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and I actually wanna start with the sticky share buttons for the first example that I want to show you guys.

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So this is the one where it sticks on the side of the page. So even when you scroll it sticks.

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00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.540
So here's what's cool about these tools like share this and add this.

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You can choose what platforms you want to include as your social media share buttons, and it even includes

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things like

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emailing that page

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to somebody.

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So if you click that, your email application will open up and you can go ahead and just email that page.

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If you're on mobile,

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you can send SMS. You can share via SMS with this button.

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And then this last one, this green one here, it'll basically if you click it, it'll toggle all these other options

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00:41:12.200 --> 00:41:15.180
for you like this if you want to include that.

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00:41:15.785 --> 00:41:18.925
Now what's cool is you can just click these and they start going away.

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00:41:20.025 --> 00:41:24.525
So you can have as little or as many share buttons as you like.

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00:41:24.985 --> 00:41:28.205
In this case let's just stick with a few basic ones here,

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and we'll also include LinkedIn.

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00:41:31.210 --> 00:41:34.890
And here's the fun part where you can start designing how you want this to look.

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You can choose the alignment left or right,

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how far from the top it's fixed. I think it's pretty good where it's at.

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And then you can show

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the the calls to action.

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00:41:45.734 --> 00:41:50.234
I guess in this case because it's on the sidebar there there really aren't any oh I see here.

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If you toggle it open it says how many times it's been shared,

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00:41:54.055 --> 00:41:57.435
or you can do call to action where it tells you like what you're doing,

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00:41:57.770 --> 00:42:00.030
sharing, tweeting, pinning, etcetera.

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00:42:01.450 --> 00:42:05.609
And then the total count, this number here, this is just a sample 4,700,000

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shares. You can actually turn that off so you have a nice streamline option here.

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00:42:10.445 --> 00:42:14.145
Another fun thing with this, you can choose the corners if you want them rounded,

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or if you want a perfect square.

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And then what's really nice depending on the design of your site,

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00:42:20.125 --> 00:42:21.585
you can invert the colors

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so it has a white background as opposed to their solid color

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and with the white

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icons.

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Furthermore, you can choose the language,

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00:42:30.770 --> 00:42:32.369
you can choose to hide on mobile.

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00:42:32.369 --> 00:42:38.390
I think that's a good idea usually because you don't want to clutter people's mobile screens, and I'll just click on update.

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00:42:40.425 --> 00:42:44.285
Okay. Great. And I of course have to enable sticky share buttons.

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00:42:47.065 --> 00:42:48.125
Okay. Awesome.

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00:42:49.385 --> 00:42:55.250
So now the last thing we need to do is just copy the code, and let me just see here what this is.

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00:42:55.950 --> 00:42:58.770
I know I can get it if I go to inline. This is what we need.

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00:42:59.230 --> 00:43:00.290
This is the code.

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00:43:00.750 --> 00:43:05.630
I don't know why they make me go to inline share buttons, but basically what I wanna do is,

644
00:43:06.190 --> 00:43:09.455
so I'm just gonna copy this and click the copy button.

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00:43:10.155 --> 00:43:18.975
And in our design settings, the same place, if I want those share buttons to show on every page of my site, just paste that in the additional footer code.

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00:43:19.515 --> 00:43:22.575
This little div here that I copied and save the changes.

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00:43:24.950 --> 00:43:25.930
And I'm done.

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00:43:28.390 --> 00:43:31.849
So I configured my share buttons, in this case the sticky ones,

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00:43:32.390 --> 00:43:34.490
and I copied the code that I need,

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00:43:35.205 --> 00:43:36.825
and I pasted it. The

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00:43:37.525 --> 00:43:43.365
the head code that they asked me to verify is up here, and then the additional footer code I put this other code here.

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00:43:43.365 --> 00:43:46.665
Now let's save the page. Oh, you know what? I didn't need it to put it there.

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00:43:46.725 --> 00:43:49.385
Here is the, the share buttons now.

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00:43:52.410 --> 00:43:52.910
Perfect.

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00:43:53.530 --> 00:43:55.710
So now if I want I can share this page.

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00:43:59.050 --> 00:43:59.950
There we go.

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00:44:01.050 --> 00:44:01.905
And it's there.

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00:44:01.905 --> 00:44:06.965
So this will be on every page of my site because I put it in the design settings which essentially renders

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00:44:07.265 --> 00:44:08.565
on every single page

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00:44:08.945 --> 00:44:09.925
of my site.

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00:44:10.465 --> 00:44:12.885
Now let's take this a bit further. Let me

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00:44:13.585 --> 00:44:14.805
go back to the presentation.

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00:44:14.865 --> 00:44:18.970
So we've done all this one through five here, and we could we could stop there.

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00:44:19.110 --> 00:44:27.350
But what I wanted to do is give you guys five embed code placement options because probably you don't want that on every single page of your site.

665
00:44:27.350 --> 00:44:34.135
You may want it, but I think it makes more sense on specific blog posts, or on coupon pages, or on member profiles and whatnot.

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00:44:34.194 --> 00:44:37.095
Don't think it needs to be on every single page of

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00:44:37.395 --> 00:44:38.295
of your site.

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00:44:38.914 --> 00:44:42.595
So the first one it was in the design settings and the additional footer code.

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00:44:42.595 --> 00:44:45.890
So that'll put the the code everyone on your site.

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00:44:46.510 --> 00:44:49.410
The second one is in the detail page design,

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00:44:49.950 --> 00:44:51.970
and putting it in the comments code.

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00:44:52.670 --> 00:44:54.690
So let me remove this from here,

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and save the changes,

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00:44:57.725 --> 00:44:59.985
and let's go to a blog page.

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00:45:02.045 --> 00:45:06.605
So here's a blog page. Now let's say we wanted it on every blog page.

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00:45:06.605 --> 00:45:08.865
Now I just removed it, so let's just refresh.

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00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:15.140
Let's go here. So if we want it on the blog page,

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00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:16.680
let's see if this

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00:45:17.120 --> 00:45:19.540
I think it knows my website, that's why.

680
00:45:20.160 --> 00:45:23.780
Yeah, I guess you don't need code for the sticky sidebar,

681
00:45:24.915 --> 00:45:25.415
Rick.

682
00:45:26.355 --> 00:45:27.795
It just knows to to do that.

683
00:45:27.795 --> 00:45:30.675
So you actually don't even need to do the footer code thing that I mentioned.

684
00:45:30.675 --> 00:45:32.375
You just need to enable the

685
00:45:32.755 --> 00:45:33.335
the sticky

686
00:45:33.635 --> 00:45:35.895
share buttons. That's why there's no code here.

687
00:45:36.515 --> 00:45:37.015
Easier.

688
00:45:37.490 --> 00:45:40.930
Much easier. Yeah. It just it just shows it, everywhere on your site.

689
00:45:40.930 --> 00:45:43.349
So let's actually turn the sticky ones off,

690
00:45:43.890 --> 00:45:48.930
and let's talk about the inline share because this is the one that needs the, the embed code here.

691
00:45:48.930 --> 00:45:50.055
So let's turn on

692
00:45:50.535 --> 00:45:51.035
inline,

693
00:45:52.454 --> 00:45:56.395
and, let's adjust the settings. So let's talk about inline design for a second.

694
00:45:56.535 --> 00:46:01.675
So you can go left, center, right, or I like justified because it'll fit the full width of whatever

695
00:46:02.230 --> 00:46:03.850
area that you're placing it in.

696
00:46:04.230 --> 00:46:09.290
You can also choose the button size, small, medium, or large. Again, depending on your style.

697
00:46:09.430 --> 00:46:13.290
And then you can show the count or none. I like the call to action.

698
00:46:13.350 --> 00:46:15.130
I don't like to show the count total.

699
00:46:15.305 --> 00:46:19.065
And then here's really cool, you can have circle corners or square corners.

700
00:46:19.065 --> 00:46:20.845
Let's put rounded corners here.

701
00:46:21.385 --> 00:46:24.285
And then you can add spacing or not. Let's update this.

702
00:46:25.625 --> 00:46:26.765
Fantastic. So

703
00:46:27.305 --> 00:46:30.765
let's say we wanted to put this in the sidebar here.

704
00:46:32.980 --> 00:46:34.760
Let's turn off the sticky one.

705
00:46:36.660 --> 00:46:39.859
Okay great. So this is the one that comes with the site, right Rick?

706
00:46:39.859 --> 00:46:43.779
So let's say we want to get rid of this one and we want to put our own,

707
00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:45.585
this share this button.

708
00:46:47.025 --> 00:46:51.045
So this one actually does require you to create your own custom widget.

709
00:46:51.105 --> 00:46:54.165
So we're gonna go to the widget manager and click on new widget.

710
00:46:55.265 --> 00:46:58.625
I'm just gonna pop that code in that they gave me, the one line of code.

711
00:46:58.625 --> 00:47:00.484
I'm gonna call it share this code.

712
00:47:02.680 --> 00:47:04.620
Okay. Save the changes there.

713
00:47:05.240 --> 00:47:09.020
So now we have this widget, and now we can just pop this widget in the sidebar.

714
00:47:09.080 --> 00:47:11.180
So that's the post single page sidebar.

715
00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:13.500
I'm gonna go ahead and remove

716
00:47:13.925 --> 00:47:16.744
the social share module that we have there by default.

717
00:47:17.365 --> 00:47:21.785
That's Brilliant Directories default one. I'm gonna look for share this, which I just created,

718
00:47:22.085 --> 00:47:25.705
and I'm gonna place that at the top there and save the changes.

719
00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:31.700
And I'll go ahead and refresh the page.

720
00:47:32.799 --> 00:47:35.140
So now we have the social share

721
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:36.099
icons

722
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:36.900
here.

723
00:47:37.680 --> 00:47:40.020
Now let's actually do something in that widget.

724
00:47:40.494 --> 00:47:45.855
Let's let's style it a little better because we can see here that it's touching the other element below it.

725
00:47:45.855 --> 00:47:46.755
There really isn't

726
00:47:47.135 --> 00:47:50.355
a title for this, so we can add those things ourselves.

727
00:47:50.494 --> 00:47:56.370
Let's edit this custom widget, and I don't want to get too complicated with code, but this is the code that

728
00:47:56.750 --> 00:47:57.410
the ShareThis,

729
00:47:57.870 --> 00:48:01.170
gave us. Under it I'm just gonna put something that's called

730
00:48:01.630 --> 00:48:08.045
the HR, so open bracket HR, and at the top I'm gonna put an h three and it's gonna say

731
00:48:09.065 --> 00:48:09.565
share

732
00:48:10.025 --> 00:48:10.925
this page.

733
00:48:13.865 --> 00:48:17.325
So that's it. So, and I'll just go ahead and save this widget.

734
00:48:18.110 --> 00:48:20.050
And now that's added a title

735
00:48:20.590 --> 00:48:21.090
here,

736
00:48:22.190 --> 00:48:24.610
and it should add a little space between the buttons

737
00:48:25.150 --> 00:48:26.690
and the element below it.

738
00:48:27.150 --> 00:48:29.250
Let's refresh one more time, here we go.

739
00:48:30.845 --> 00:48:35.885
So it says share this page, and it adds a little space with that HR below it.

740
00:48:35.885 --> 00:48:41.184
So it really adds a lot better styling. Again, these buttons are made to look super professional,

741
00:48:42.125 --> 00:48:42.780
and nice.

742
00:48:43.340 --> 00:48:47.280
And that's how you can add it to your different pages in the sidebar.

743
00:48:48.620 --> 00:48:50.080
Now if you wanted to

744
00:48:50.540 --> 00:48:54.060
take it a bit further, you could add that into your page layout.

745
00:48:54.060 --> 00:48:57.600
So can I take it to another another level here, Rick?

746
00:49:00.095 --> 00:49:02.595
Let's say you wanted This is the place to do. Alright.

747
00:49:02.735 --> 00:49:05.875
So here's a site we can use as an example here.

748
00:49:06.335 --> 00:49:07.375
So here's a BD site.

749
00:49:07.375 --> 00:49:13.530
It's more like a magazine blog that they're using it for and they've added the share this button underneath the main image here.

750
00:49:13.530 --> 00:49:16.089
So if you scroll down, you got these nice buttons here.

751
00:49:16.089 --> 00:49:22.190
They've chosen these four social share buttons and it just really adds, again, it makes the site look a little bit more developed.

752
00:49:22.965 --> 00:49:27.465
So let's say we wanted to add it at the top because that's probably the easiest thing to do. So,

753
00:49:27.845 --> 00:49:30.745
what we want to do is go to our post type for blog.

754
00:49:30.805 --> 00:49:36.485
So let's go to the dashboard, and again there'll be a replay for this guys, so don't worry if you're not catching all of it.

755
00:49:36.485 --> 00:49:38.105
I'm just trying to save time here.

756
00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:40.400
You want to go to edit post settings,

757
00:49:41.980 --> 00:49:44.240
and go to your your blog,

758
00:49:45.500 --> 00:49:47.599
website blog, and we're going to go to

759
00:49:48.060 --> 00:49:49.440
detail page design.

760
00:49:50.060 --> 00:49:50.560
Now,

761
00:49:51.535 --> 00:49:56.415
what you can do is you want to put it in line with the code. So this looks pretty confusing.

762
00:49:56.415 --> 00:49:58.035
Just move everything down,

763
00:49:58.895 --> 00:50:01.695
pop it in here with the HR, and you're done.

764
00:50:01.695 --> 00:50:05.795
So you have the share this code with an HR, and you can save the changes.

765
00:50:09.089 --> 00:50:14.390
And we're probably going to see share button overload here because it's also in the sidebar, but let's refresh the page.

766
00:50:16.210 --> 00:50:16.710
Great.

767
00:50:17.410 --> 00:50:20.310
So you can have the share buttons here at the top,

768
00:50:22.055 --> 00:50:23.194
or in the sidebar.

769
00:50:24.694 --> 00:50:30.315
What probably would make sense is maybe you want to move the share code further down in the sidebar.

770
00:50:31.575 --> 00:50:36.155
This is the sidebar manager, so if we refresh it they won't be if you wanted

771
00:50:36.510 --> 00:50:39.490
to render twice on your site you can certainly do that. So

772
00:50:39.950 --> 00:50:41.410
you can have it like this,

773
00:50:42.990 --> 00:50:45.310
and again it just really adds a nice element here.

774
00:50:45.310 --> 00:50:50.530
And if we click on this one you get all the social options here because we've chosen to have that one.

775
00:50:51.515 --> 00:50:52.415
And let's take

776
00:50:52.795 --> 00:50:56.175
it one more thing. Let's actually re enable the sticky ones,

777
00:50:57.995 --> 00:51:02.095
and we should now see overkill of social share buttons here.

778
00:51:02.235 --> 00:51:06.880
We should see it on the side of the page, at the top here, and in the sidebar.

779
00:51:07.660 --> 00:51:08.140
Alright. Yeah.

780
00:51:08.140 --> 00:51:12.380
Let me just try it says it takes, please allow five minutes for the changes to take effect.

781
00:51:12.380 --> 00:51:14.380
It actually does it a little quicker than that, so let's just

782
00:51:15.714 --> 00:51:16.994
well I don't want to wait five minutes.

783
00:51:16.994 --> 00:51:21.395
But this is a good example of where you can put it in line if you want to get into the code.

784
00:51:21.395 --> 00:51:29.255
If you simply want to add it to the side bar which is creating that custom widget, popping in their code, and then putting that widget in the side bar.

785
00:51:30.609 --> 00:51:32.470
And then the last one would be

786
00:51:33.410 --> 00:51:38.070
advanced is place it in existing widgets. So customizing existing widgets

787
00:51:38.450 --> 00:51:40.450
and then put embedding it in the code there.

788
00:51:40.450 --> 00:51:44.710
That would be the most advanced method, but you really can place the social share buttons

789
00:51:45.265 --> 00:51:49.525
basically anywhere you want on your site, and really create that enhanced experience.

790
00:51:51.505 --> 00:51:56.145
So what we wanted to do now is pass it over to you guys for Q and A.

791
00:51:56.145 --> 00:52:01.710
If you want to talk about adding the social share links to your site, or if you have any questions in general,

792
00:52:03.290 --> 00:52:05.870
about improving your Brilliant Directories website,

793
00:52:06.170 --> 00:52:10.670
you can go ahead and use the raise your hand feature. We'll be happy to unmute your microphone

794
00:52:11.210 --> 00:52:12.910
and take some questions here.

795
00:52:13.484 --> 00:52:17.664
So, Jason, I'm sorry to interrupt there. We I know that Lindsay had a great question.

796
00:52:17.964 --> 00:52:18.704
She asked

797
00:52:19.085 --> 00:52:19.585
how,

798
00:52:20.204 --> 00:52:22.065
how do you how can you remove

799
00:52:22.365 --> 00:52:23.105
the default

800
00:52:23.565 --> 00:52:24.365
share this,

801
00:52:24.765 --> 00:52:26.950
page from the that comes with the

802
00:52:27.569 --> 00:52:30.630
default module from the meeting? Fantastic question Lindsey.

803
00:52:30.930 --> 00:52:35.670
So I just did an example of that here and you basically want to follow this model.

804
00:52:35.970 --> 00:52:37.510
Go to your sidebar manager,

805
00:52:39.265 --> 00:52:41.505
find the sidebar where you're seeing that.

806
00:52:41.505 --> 00:52:45.765
Generally you'll see it in the post single page, or the member profile page sidebar.

807
00:52:46.145 --> 00:52:47.845
Go ahead and edit that Lindsey,

808
00:52:48.465 --> 00:52:52.645
and then you'll see it here. It'll be called like the social share

809
00:52:52.980 --> 00:52:55.240
widget, and you could just click the x button,

810
00:52:55.700 --> 00:52:57.960
and it will remove it from the sidebar.

811
00:52:58.020 --> 00:53:01.240
I'll go ahead and remove our share this one, and then just click save changes.

812
00:53:02.020 --> 00:53:03.880
And you'll see here if I refresh,

813
00:53:05.175 --> 00:53:08.935
this is the share this one that I added, but that will be gone from the sidebar.

814
00:53:08.935 --> 00:53:10.555
So just follow the same steps

815
00:53:11.335 --> 00:53:14.795
for the for the default one that comes with your BD website.

816
00:53:16.055 --> 00:53:19.675
Alright Rick, I also see, I think Vijay had his hand up here.

817
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:22.099
Hey, Vijay. How are you today?

818
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.700
Hey, Jason. How are you? Good. Good. Thanks. How'd you like the webinar today?

819
00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:27.680
Yeah. Really good. Really good.

820
00:53:27.839 --> 00:53:31.920
I just added the, share buttons to my site while we're on the training call.

821
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:33.619
Do you mind if we take a look at them?

822
00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:35.460
Yeah. Sure. What's your state?

823
00:53:36.125 --> 00:53:38.704
It's nzbride.co.nz.

824
00:53:40.045 --> 00:53:41.744
Alright. I got it right here.

825
00:53:42.045 --> 00:53:44.464
And what page did you put that on, your entire site?

826
00:53:45.325 --> 00:53:48.464
No. I just put it on the blogs, under wedding ideas.

827
00:53:48.765 --> 00:53:51.265
Wedding ideas. Okay. I like how you did it. And which,

828
00:53:52.160 --> 00:53:53.780
let's see here. Let's click here.

829
00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:55.540
I put it at the bottom.

830
00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:02.420
Okay. Great. Great. Oh, this is a it's loading videos here.

831
00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:03.460
Okay.

832
00:54:05.045 --> 00:54:07.945
It's a long one. Oh, these are songs for weddings.

833
00:54:08.565 --> 00:54:09.705
Okay. Okay.

834
00:54:10.485 --> 00:54:11.305
There we go.

835
00:54:12.325 --> 00:54:13.365
I love what you did.

836
00:54:13.365 --> 00:54:18.825
So in the blog post, you're asking these questions at the end and then you're asking them to share

837
00:54:20.420 --> 00:54:23.220
here. Very nice. That was actually that's for the comment thing.

838
00:54:23.220 --> 00:54:27.859
I haven't plugged in yet, so I've got to put a comment plug in. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah.

839
00:54:27.859 --> 00:54:31.960
It looks professional. You may want to considering putting at the top and the bottom.

840
00:54:32.260 --> 00:54:35.315
Again it's not going to necessarily slow down the load of your site,

841
00:54:36.035 --> 00:54:36.915
but it might,

842
00:54:38.595 --> 00:54:40.695
it might add to the aesthetic at the top.

843
00:54:41.875 --> 00:54:46.135
Alright. Good stuff. I don't see too many hands up today. I think it was a good, presentation.

844
00:54:46.195 --> 00:54:48.135
It looks like Colette has her hand up.

845
00:54:48.830 --> 00:54:50.530
Hey, Colette. How are you doing today?

846
00:54:51.470 --> 00:54:54.610
Very well. And you? Good. Good. How'd you like the presentation today?

847
00:54:55.310 --> 00:55:00.430
Awesome. I always learn new things. And I was trying to share this code yesterday and failed.

848
00:55:00.430 --> 00:55:03.204
So now I have succeeded. So thank you for that. Awesome.

849
00:55:03.204 --> 00:55:06.665
Do you mind if we take a look at it on your site just out of curiosity? Yes, sure.

850
00:55:06.805 --> 00:55:09.785
And did you add it site wide or just on specific pages?

851
00:55:10.085 --> 00:55:12.085
I've added it on most pages.

852
00:55:12.085 --> 00:55:17.385
I'm still going through all my sidebars but it's on sidebars for first search results and

853
00:55:18.060 --> 00:55:18.560
first

854
00:55:19.020 --> 00:55:21.520
single pages at this stage. Okay.

855
00:55:22.620 --> 00:55:24.320
Great. So here it is.

856
00:55:24.700 --> 00:55:26.640
So share this will automatically

857
00:55:27.100 --> 00:55:29.440
let's see. Okay. So you've added it here.

858
00:55:30.505 --> 00:55:34.105
So you're noticing it's giving a little dominance to Facebook here.

859
00:55:34.105 --> 00:55:37.705
It's just trying to fill in all the spaces. It can't make all of them wide here.

860
00:55:37.705 --> 00:55:42.365
But if maybe if you added one more, then they would all be even. But I I think this looks fantastic.

861
00:55:44.260 --> 00:55:46.599
Great. And do you have a question for us today?

862
00:55:47.140 --> 00:55:47.640
Yes.

863
00:55:48.660 --> 00:55:51.160
Regarding the the sizes of logos,

864
00:55:52.579 --> 00:55:58.645
I like mine all to be square because it just looks better. It shares better on Facebook. Yes. I

865
00:56:00.485 --> 00:56:03.385
And I'm battling to get people to upload

866
00:56:04.005 --> 00:56:05.305
one that looks reasonable.

867
00:56:07.205 --> 00:56:11.450
So how how can we force them to upload a square logo?

868
00:56:14.310 --> 00:56:15.450
So as we mentioned

869
00:56:15.990 --> 00:56:18.890
these are minimums and maximums.

870
00:56:19.590 --> 00:56:21.210
The profile photo

871
00:56:22.150 --> 00:56:26.795
will force it to be a square. That's the one where it will force it to be square.

872
00:56:28.855 --> 00:56:31.915
I don't use that. I use the logo only.

873
00:56:32.375 --> 00:56:34.155
You use the logo only.

874
00:56:37.415 --> 00:56:38.475
In that case

875
00:56:39.110 --> 00:56:39.770
I would

876
00:56:40.589 --> 00:56:41.089
recommend

877
00:56:41.910 --> 00:56:44.730
making everyone use a profile photo, to be honest.

878
00:56:47.510 --> 00:56:51.050
I would I would recommend using profile photo and omit

879
00:56:51.350 --> 00:56:52.570
the the logo.

880
00:56:54.185 --> 00:56:56.525
That way you can ensure that's a square because

881
00:56:56.905 --> 00:57:00.685
the logo doesn't have the the restrict the ratio restriction.

882
00:57:01.065 --> 00:57:03.805
Only the only the profile photo

883
00:57:04.265 --> 00:57:04.765
does.

884
00:57:05.545 --> 00:57:06.825
Now with that said

885
00:57:08.060 --> 00:57:11.280
okay, so what you want to do is go to your

886
00:57:12.380 --> 00:57:13.520
MySQL here.

887
00:57:19.835 --> 00:57:21.214
And so as to not

888
00:57:21.515 --> 00:57:25.535
disrupt the existing work that's been done on your site for your members

889
00:57:26.474 --> 00:57:28.015
is under your directory.

890
00:57:30.154 --> 00:57:31.375
Let me just go here.

891
00:57:33.755 --> 00:57:35.134
It's called users,

892
00:57:36.130 --> 00:57:40.390
photo. And these are all the either the profile photo or the logo

893
00:57:41.170 --> 00:57:46.390
that's been added to the user's account. So basically what we we just need to do is

894
00:57:46.770 --> 00:57:51.030
we just need to do a bulk update to change all the types that are logo

895
00:57:51.684 --> 00:57:52.505
to photo.

896
00:57:52.885 --> 00:57:55.305
And then in the membership level settings, Colette,

897
00:57:55.605 --> 00:57:59.305
just turn off everyone's logo and switch them to profile photo

898
00:57:59.924 --> 00:58:02.744
and and set it to a one to one ratio. Therefore,

899
00:58:03.125 --> 00:58:04.025
moving forward,

900
00:58:04.619 --> 00:58:07.599
people will just be adding profile photos that are square.

901
00:58:08.299 --> 00:58:15.019
The existing photos will still be in whatever proportions they've uploaded, but if people go to update they'll be forced to update.

902
00:58:15.019 --> 00:58:16.559
It's in a square format.

903
00:58:20.125 --> 00:58:22.045
Okay. Alright. That sounds great.

904
00:58:22.365 --> 00:58:23.345
Thanks for that.

905
00:58:23.485 --> 00:58:32.865
So just a little bit of work to backtrack but I would recommend moving forward switching everyone to a profile photo if you want if you wanted to respect the one to one ratio for squares.

906
00:58:35.460 --> 00:58:39.000
Alright. I appreciate that. Thanks, Jason. Alright. Thank you, Colette.

907
00:58:40.020 --> 00:58:42.020
It's a little bit of extra work there for Colette.

908
00:58:42.020 --> 00:58:46.740
We we could do it, within the Facebook group if you want to start a discussion, give you a little helping hand there.

909
00:58:46.740 --> 00:58:52.365
But that's basically the steps you take to switch everyone from using the logo to the profile photo.

910
00:58:53.305 --> 00:58:56.925
Alright guys, thanks for joining us for another edition of webinar

911
00:58:57.225 --> 00:58:59.405
Wednesday. Let's just recap a bit.

912
00:58:59.705 --> 00:59:02.000
So you can go to sharethis.com

913
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:03.440
or addthis.com.

914
00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:06.420
It's really easy to sign up and create some enhanced

915
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:08.740
share buttons for your website.

916
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:11.520
Rick, special shout out and thank you to you.

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I know in the replays that adding your site map to the Google Search Console is gonna come in really handy, especially we're just setting up their site.

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And then yeah, more BD Lab updates underway.

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If you haven't joined us already you can go to brilliantdirectories.com

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forward /facebook

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and join us in our Facebook group.

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So on behalf of myself, Rick, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, thanks so much for joining guys, and we'll catch you in two weeks for the next webinar Wednesday.

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Have a great day and a productive week. Bye guys.