WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.420 Alright, gang. Welcome to another edition of webinar Wednesday. 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:09.280 This is the second webinar we've had with, technical audio difficulty. 3 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.400 Great to be with everyone here today, and let's see if we can get this show on the road. Alright. 4 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.115 Evan and Eric, thank you. Akeen and Kathy, great to have you in the webinar. 5 00:00:19.415 --> 00:00:22.795 And Dudley, also great to have you here in the webinar. 6 00:00:23.175 --> 00:00:29.755 We're not quite sure why we're having the audio issues, but, it's making me call in from my phone rather than the computer audio. 7 00:00:29.900 --> 00:00:34.480 You guys don't need to worry about that right now, but we're gonna try to get that worked out in the next webinar. 8 00:00:35.180 --> 00:00:38.400 Neyman and Olga, good to see you guys here. 9 00:00:38.780 --> 00:00:43.760 And everyone's got their hands up now. Tim, Terry, Steven, and the entire BD family, 10 00:00:44.475 --> 00:00:50.254 welcome to webinar Wednesday. Let's get the show on the road here. I'll lower everyone's hands. 11 00:00:50.715 --> 00:00:56.894 If this is your first time joining us, I'm Jason there on the left and David on the right. 12 00:00:57.800 --> 00:00:59.420 Alright, gang. Let's dive, 13 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:03.340 right into it. First of all, we are streaming on YouTube, 14 00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:08.460 which means that the replay of this webinar will be, available immediately afterwards. 15 00:01:09.160 --> 00:01:15.385 We do invite you to subscribe to the YouTube channel. 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We're gonna post something, 22 00:01:42.725 --> 00:01:44.825 later this week about that milestone. 23 00:01:45.525 --> 00:01:47.065 Great discussions in there. 24 00:01:47.525 --> 00:01:52.905 Members are helping each other on their sites and and providing feedback, so we do invite you to join us there. 25 00:01:53.045 --> 00:01:57.290 You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook 26 00:01:57.350 --> 00:01:59.530 and click on that blue join button. 27 00:02:00.230 --> 00:02:05.210 And we have a really good turnout today for the webinar. I do see a lot of new names and faces. 28 00:02:05.510 --> 00:02:07.930 So welcome, everyone. Estee, welcome. 29 00:02:08.550 --> 00:02:10.650 Molly, welcome. Neyman, welcome. 30 00:02:11.175 --> 00:02:12.555 And James, welcome. 31 00:02:12.855 --> 00:02:15.194 So just a little bit about Webinar Wednesday. 32 00:02:15.655 --> 00:02:20.555 The team is pushing updates week after week, and it's a great way for us to kinda share, 33 00:02:21.015 --> 00:02:31.209 some of the the new features baked into the platform that can help you grow your community a bit quicker, setting up your site maybe, increasing traffic, converting visitors into members, 34 00:02:31.510 --> 00:02:32.230 and so on. 35 00:02:32.230 --> 00:02:42.825 So if you have any questions about your site related to these topics or anything else, we'll do our best to get to as many questions as possible in just a little bit, further down in the webinar. 36 00:02:43.364 --> 00:02:46.805 Alright. And we have a few fun lab updates, 37 00:02:47.125 --> 00:02:47.784 to share. 38 00:02:48.724 --> 00:02:53.705 In the last two weeks, there have have been several dozen updates, but here are just a small handful 39 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:54.520 handful, 40 00:02:54.920 --> 00:03:00.060 that can help you with your sites. We're gonna start at the top here with the text editor. 41 00:03:00.760 --> 00:03:06.440 We've just released something new, and we worked out a few kinks, that we we got that got reported after this. 42 00:03:06.440 --> 00:03:10.675 But you can now add ID tags to title headings. 43 00:03:11.455 --> 00:03:16.115 And the value of that is it can help you create, like, a table of contents 44 00:03:16.655 --> 00:03:20.515 at the top of a web page. So if you wanna create a link 45 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:24.959 that then links down to, like, another section of the page very quickly, 46 00:03:25.580 --> 00:03:28.800 you need ID tags to do that, and you can do that now, 47 00:03:29.180 --> 00:03:33.120 with the text editor in the admin editor, in the admin area. 48 00:03:33.495 --> 00:03:44.455 In a phase two, we're gonna allow and enable this for the text editors when you're creating a blog post or any other type of post on the front end of the website when you're logged in as a member. 49 00:03:44.455 --> 00:03:50.660 But let me show you how this is gonna work in the admin area, and then it would follow the same pattern once it's released, 50 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:54.180 in the blog area, when you're creating a blog and such. 51 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:56.420 So we'll go to, 52 00:03:56.720 --> 00:04:01.060 the admin dashboard area here, and we can go to web page builder. 53 00:04:03.615 --> 00:04:06.995 And what I'll do is I'll just create a new web page, 54 00:04:08.815 --> 00:04:11.475 and the URL will put ID test. 55 00:04:12.655 --> 00:04:15.955 And what we'll do at the top here, and we'll just say 56 00:04:17.310 --> 00:04:19.970 table of contents. Just a quick example here. 57 00:04:21.310 --> 00:04:25.790 Excuse me. Alright. So this needs to be a a heading, a title heading. 58 00:04:25.790 --> 00:04:32.130 So you can highlight this and this little paragraph format thing, you know, normally, it's gonna be a heading two. 59 00:04:32.865 --> 00:04:35.764 That's gonna be like a subheading in the page. Now once 60 00:04:36.224 --> 00:04:37.685 the text is a heading, 61 00:04:38.305 --> 00:04:44.784 you can right click it. Again, right click it, and you can add an ID tag to it. 62 00:04:45.025 --> 00:04:47.044 So let's call this, like, section 63 00:04:47.345 --> 00:04:47.845 one. 64 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.060 And I'll go ahead and save those changes. So 65 00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:55.700 let's say this is way down the page. I'll just put a bunch of spaces here, 66 00:04:56.080 --> 00:04:59.940 and let's get back up here and we have normal text. And we'll say, 67 00:05:01.235 --> 00:05:03.575 this is a link. This is a link. 68 00:05:04.755 --> 00:05:08.835 And we'll create a link, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna link to that section. 69 00:05:08.835 --> 00:05:10.135 So you use a hashtag 70 00:05:10.675 --> 00:05:15.870 and the same ID you gave the element. The ID shouldn't have any spaces in it. It should just be 71 00:05:16.350 --> 00:05:22.210 one one solid string. In this put case, I put a dash. That's perfectly fine. And I'll hit insert, 72 00:05:23.229 --> 00:05:25.090 and we'll go ahead oops. 73 00:05:25.630 --> 00:05:28.210 This is a link. Let me move this back up. 74 00:05:29.295 --> 00:05:32.035 And actually, we just need this to be regular heading. 75 00:05:33.055 --> 00:05:37.475 Okay. And here's our table of contents down here. If we right click on it, we can see that 76 00:05:38.015 --> 00:05:41.635 the title ID tag is section one, and I'll go ahead and save the changes. 77 00:05:43.470 --> 00:05:46.669 Now, obviously, if you had a longer page, you'll have more sections. 78 00:05:46.669 --> 00:05:51.410 The table of content links would be more extensive. But if we go to view this page now 79 00:05:53.389 --> 00:05:55.310 so we see this up here. This is a link. 80 00:05:55.310 --> 00:06:00.514 If I click on this, it takes me right down to this section here. I'll scroll back up. 81 00:06:01.215 --> 00:06:06.275 And that's how the ID tags work. So just a note when you're creating your links, 82 00:06:06.895 --> 00:06:08.675 you just have to do hashtag, 83 00:06:09.370 --> 00:06:15.070 and then the ID of the section, and it will link to that section on the same web page. 84 00:06:15.450 --> 00:06:19.210 So pretty cool there, and I think this is gonna have more value when you're creating blog posts. 85 00:06:19.210 --> 00:06:22.430 So we're excited for that phase two to be released soon as well. 86 00:06:23.014 --> 00:06:25.995 Alright. This next one we posted in the Facebook group. 87 00:06:26.375 --> 00:06:30.455 Members can always add links to their profile pages such as their, 88 00:06:30.935 --> 00:06:33.995 their website URL, their Facebook page, their Twitter. 89 00:06:34.615 --> 00:06:38.460 Because of popular demand, we've now, by default, included TikTok, 90 00:06:39.080 --> 00:06:43.260 Snapchat, and WhatsApp. So members can include the profile 91 00:06:43.880 --> 00:06:48.920 links for those three social platforms, and it will be included on their profile pages. 92 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.980 We could take a very quick look at what that looks like. 93 00:06:53.175 --> 00:06:56.315 And I believe I'm logged in as a sample member here. 94 00:06:59.415 --> 00:07:01.355 And we'll go to basic information. 95 00:07:03.735 --> 00:07:07.755 And if we scroll down here, we can see now there is TikTok, 96 00:07:08.530 --> 00:07:09.030 Snapchat, 97 00:07:09.650 --> 00:07:15.010 and WhatsApp. And what's really good is there's an example of the format it should be in. 98 00:07:15.010 --> 00:07:17.270 So with TikTok, it's at your username. 99 00:07:18.050 --> 00:07:25.995 So this should help people put the correct URL in, and WhatsApp as well, put the full phone number, and with the format here. 100 00:07:26.535 --> 00:07:32.075 So, yeah, they can add it there now, and let's take a look at what that looks like on the profile page. 101 00:07:35.290 --> 00:07:38.110 And we can see here this person is very social, 102 00:07:38.570 --> 00:07:43.070 on all the popular platforms, and we can see those three here, TikTok, Snapchat, 103 00:07:43.690 --> 00:07:44.590 and WhatsApp. 104 00:07:47.130 --> 00:07:50.030 Okay. This next one is related to the private 105 00:07:50.410 --> 00:07:50.910 member 106 00:07:51.505 --> 00:07:52.385 chat add on. 107 00:07:52.385 --> 00:08:02.485 So there's a an add on where you can enable it so members can send one on one chats to each other, and they can continuously chat to each other and send messages to each other 108 00:08:02.865 --> 00:08:03.825 back and forth. 109 00:08:04.385 --> 00:08:09.069 Up until now, you can include text and you can include images when you're chatting, 110 00:08:09.449 --> 00:08:16.189 but now members can share PDF files amongst each other when they're in the private member chat. 111 00:08:16.650 --> 00:08:20.349 So first, let me show you a link to what that add on is if you're curious. 112 00:08:21.935 --> 00:08:28.975 And this is a great way if, you know, designers are working with clients and they need to share information among, among each other. 113 00:08:28.975 --> 00:08:30.595 They could do it all through the site. 114 00:08:31.215 --> 00:08:33.570 So there are a lot of use cases for that. 115 00:08:33.650 --> 00:08:38.130 I'll just send a link to this add on, and there's also a cool video here as well. 116 00:08:38.130 --> 00:08:44.690 Not every site needs this, but in case you do. And, let me show you what that would look like. 117 00:08:44.690 --> 00:08:52.835 So, when members are chatting, there's an advanced setting to enable if you want them to allow them to share PDF files. 118 00:08:53.295 --> 00:09:00.515 When you enable the advanced setting, it will look like this when they're chatting amongst each other, and the image icon is right there. 119 00:09:01.079 --> 00:09:08.300 And if you do want to enable this, the sharing of PDF files in the private chat messages, there is an advanced setting to enable. 120 00:09:08.680 --> 00:09:11.420 Go to your settings, advanced settings, 121 00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:13.899 and search for for well upload 122 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:19.425 file for chat. Chat. You just search file for chat and toggle that to the on position. 123 00:09:20.765 --> 00:09:21.904 When you do that, 124 00:09:22.445 --> 00:09:25.825 members will have the ability to upload a file, a PDF file, 125 00:09:26.205 --> 00:09:28.785 when they're chatting among each other amongst each other. 126 00:09:29.550 --> 00:09:31.730 Alright. This one is small but 127 00:09:32.110 --> 00:09:33.410 pretty huge actually, 128 00:09:33.710 --> 00:09:35.550 also related to another add on. 129 00:09:35.550 --> 00:09:45.255 So there's an add on which allows members to select additional service areas, that they travel to or that they serve or want to be found in for location searches 130 00:09:45.975 --> 00:09:47.115 around the site. 131 00:09:47.415 --> 00:09:52.775 Let me show you a quick example of what that is and also a pop up link to the add on in the chat. 132 00:09:52.775 --> 00:09:55.035 So those of you who want are are curious, 133 00:09:56.135 --> 00:09:57.595 can look into that. 134 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.900 So it's called a multi location listings, and it allows a single listing to be found in multiple locations. 135 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.700 Obviously, it gives members more visibility who are listed in more locations. 136 00:10:12.560 --> 00:10:15.380 But let's stick with this sample member as an example. 137 00:10:16.214 --> 00:10:22.154 So this member is located in Los Angeles, but they have selected that they also serve Houston, 138 00:10:22.695 --> 00:10:25.435 Miami, and Paris, France as an example. 139 00:10:26.295 --> 00:10:31.490 So this person will not only be found in Los Angeles, but also Houston, Miami, and Paris. 140 00:10:31.790 --> 00:10:35.810 Now before this update, if you did a search for Houston 141 00:10:36.910 --> 00:10:39.090 and this member does serve Houston, 142 00:10:40.030 --> 00:10:41.570 there was a small little hiccup. 143 00:10:42.670 --> 00:10:44.930 It would say that this member is, 144 00:10:45.845 --> 00:10:46.824 like, a thousand 145 00:10:47.125 --> 00:10:48.004 1,400 146 00:10:48.004 --> 00:10:50.345 miles away from what was searched, 147 00:10:50.725 --> 00:10:53.225 because their Los Angeles, which is their headquarters, 148 00:10:53.764 --> 00:10:56.745 is that is so much far further away from Houston. 149 00:10:57.125 --> 00:10:57.625 However, 150 00:10:57.940 --> 00:11:06.900 we've updated it, and because this member serves Houston, it will now say within one mile and the service area that triggered the match. 151 00:11:06.900 --> 00:11:09.720 So why is this member who's located in Los Angeles 152 00:11:10.305 --> 00:11:12.485 showing up for a Houston, Texas search? 153 00:11:12.785 --> 00:11:14.225 Now there is context here. 154 00:11:14.225 --> 00:11:22.165 So this should not only help the website visitor, but the website owner and our support team as well wondering why a certain member, 155 00:11:22.769 --> 00:11:27.509 who's headquartered in another city is showing up for a specific type of location, 156 00:11:28.209 --> 00:11:30.550 search that's outside of their main location. 157 00:11:31.250 --> 00:11:34.949 So we could do just another quick search here, Paris, France, 158 00:11:36.295 --> 00:11:38.395 and the same thing will happen. 159 00:11:39.335 --> 00:11:44.955 Because this is triggered by a service area match, additional service areas that this member, 160 00:11:45.415 --> 00:11:52.000 is listed in, we see this here serves Paris, France, and they're right in there, so it says within, 161 00:11:52.700 --> 00:11:53.440 one mile. 162 00:11:53.900 --> 00:11:58.160 So pretty big, should make a lot more sense, for, 163 00:11:59.100 --> 00:12:04.055 the visitors and the website owner, and you're not gonna see, like, 2,000 miles away, 164 00:12:04.375 --> 00:12:06.214 which those would be familiar with the add on. 165 00:12:06.214 --> 00:12:08.935 It was showing things like that, and it really didn't, 166 00:12:09.735 --> 00:12:13.754 provide the right context for, what the search results should display. 167 00:12:14.214 --> 00:12:17.370 Alright. So that is all all pushed and ready for you guys. 168 00:12:17.370 --> 00:12:19.530 And coming soon, we've mentioned it before, 169 00:12:20.090 --> 00:12:21.710 more API and Zapier, 170 00:12:23.050 --> 00:12:27.790 workflows and use cases, the ability to import member leads into the website, 171 00:12:28.514 --> 00:12:31.014 and also the ability to update members. 172 00:12:31.555 --> 00:12:38.375 So if you have member data on your site and you wanna just update existing records, you'll be able to do that very soon, 173 00:12:38.754 --> 00:12:39.975 directly through Zapier. 174 00:12:40.550 --> 00:12:46.250 Also, I've mentioned this before, the ability to translate your site into we're gonna start with Spanish. 175 00:12:46.629 --> 00:12:47.290 You can, 176 00:12:47.910 --> 00:12:49.050 tap into another 177 00:12:49.509 --> 00:12:53.509 language library for your text labels and quickly toggle to another language. 178 00:12:53.509 --> 00:13:01.365 We're gonna start with Spanish, and then we'll continue to follow based on popularity and requests such as French, German, etcetera, etcetera. 179 00:13:02.145 --> 00:13:05.845 And tons more speed updates. Big shout out to the BD community. 180 00:13:05.904 --> 00:13:07.845 Your suggestions, your support tickets, 181 00:13:08.470 --> 00:13:09.350 your Facebook, group, 182 00:13:10.790 --> 00:13:11.290 discussions. 183 00:13:11.830 --> 00:13:16.870 They really drive the software and the platform forward for everyone. So big shout out to you guys. 184 00:13:16.870 --> 00:13:21.350 Thank you so much. If you want to raise your hand and just make a comment on, 185 00:13:22.045 --> 00:13:27.345 any one of these new features, a quick question or comment, and then we'll go into the tip of the week. 186 00:13:27.565 --> 00:13:29.665 Let's see if we have any hands up here. 187 00:13:30.125 --> 00:13:31.745 Alright. We got Tim. 188 00:13:32.685 --> 00:13:34.785 Hello, Jason. How are you doing? 189 00:13:35.339 --> 00:13:36.560 Fantastic. Fantastic. 190 00:13:36.620 --> 00:13:41.200 Little audio difficulty with the webinar, but, hopefully, the sound is coming through loud and clear. 191 00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:42.560 Oh, okay. 192 00:13:43.660 --> 00:13:46.800 Once again, you guys are doing a just a fine job. 193 00:13:48.274 --> 00:13:51.654 I was wondering if I could ask a rookie question 194 00:13:52.115 --> 00:13:52.935 on the, 195 00:13:53.555 --> 00:13:54.055 location, 196 00:13:54.995 --> 00:13:57.415 triggering the additional service areas. 197 00:13:58.274 --> 00:14:01.735 I could never figure out how in the world do they 198 00:14:02.459 --> 00:14:05.279 choose which additional service areas. 199 00:14:05.980 --> 00:14:07.760 Perfect. That's a great question. 200 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:12.300 Let me show you, because it's a privilege to be listed in additional locations. Right? 201 00:14:12.300 --> 00:14:13.839 The member's gonna get more visibility. 202 00:14:14.615 --> 00:14:16.954 Their profile's gonna get more visibility. So 203 00:14:17.334 --> 00:14:18.714 when you have the add on, 204 00:14:19.175 --> 00:14:20.635 you can then assign 205 00:14:21.495 --> 00:14:25.115 which membership plans have the privilege of selecting 206 00:14:25.575 --> 00:14:26.795 additional member, 207 00:14:27.415 --> 00:14:32.620 additional service location, service area. So let's go ahead and edit a membership plan. 208 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:38.380 And when you're editing a membership plan, go to search visibility when you have this add on. 209 00:14:39.800 --> 00:14:40.300 And 210 00:14:40.680 --> 00:14:43.000 let me find where this is. 211 00:14:43.640 --> 00:14:44.140 Okay. 212 00:14:44.625 --> 00:14:50.405 So max location limit, how many additional locations can they select to be listed in? 213 00:14:50.625 --> 00:14:53.845 So in this case, this maybe you just wanna set it to three, 214 00:14:55.025 --> 00:14:56.405 or whatever it might be. 215 00:14:57.110 --> 00:14:58.390 In this case, it's 10. 216 00:14:58.390 --> 00:15:03.529 And then not only can you set the maximum number of additional locations they can select, 217 00:15:04.070 --> 00:15:05.130 but down here, 218 00:15:05.510 --> 00:15:09.930 you can select the location types. So, obviously, if you let them select 219 00:15:10.475 --> 00:15:15.295 states, they're gonna be found for any cities within a state. That's really broad, and you probably 220 00:15:15.755 --> 00:15:23.295 don't wanna give that type of visibility to your members, unless they're paying a premium like they wanna be listed for anything in California. 221 00:15:24.760 --> 00:15:28.620 But, generally, if you wanna keep it a little bit under control, allow them to select 222 00:15:28.920 --> 00:15:30.220 ZIP codes and cities. 223 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.240 You know, list an additional 10 ZIP codes. Right? 224 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:38.540 So you can say that on the membership plan sign up page. That's a perk of a higher tier plan. 225 00:15:38.705 --> 00:15:41.925 Select up to 10 ZIP codes to be found in. That seems reasonable, 226 00:15:42.465 --> 00:15:43.525 for for users. 227 00:15:43.985 --> 00:15:47.285 But, again, you can choose the type of regions they can select. 228 00:15:47.825 --> 00:15:51.525 Let's just stick with the county, city, and ZIP code. Let me save this. 229 00:15:52.465 --> 00:15:52.965 And 230 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.540 on the member side, when they're editing their profile, 231 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:02.860 they'll get an extra tab here if their membership plan has the service area additional locations available. 232 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:05.420 And they can start entering, 233 00:16:05.800 --> 00:16:10.125 any any address or location here. So I'll just do Houston, Texas again. 234 00:16:11.704 --> 00:16:18.824 And you can see here it says add add add because I can only add either the county, the city, or the postal code. 235 00:16:18.824 --> 00:16:24.420 So I didn't enter a postal code, so it's pretty the broadest or more most specific thing I answered was Houston. 236 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:26.320 If I do, like, 90210 237 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:32.000 for Beverly Hills, I can select postal code, the city, or the county that I wanna be found in. 238 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:33.060 And this corresponds 239 00:16:34.125 --> 00:16:37.345 to the location types that are available here. 240 00:16:38.045 --> 00:16:43.105 So again, a ZIP code or postal code would be the most the smallest or most specific, 241 00:16:43.725 --> 00:16:48.605 and then they would be able to add them, here. And let's just add 90210 242 00:16:48.605 --> 00:16:51.840 for this member. So there they are for this ZIP code. 243 00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:54.640 And if we search 90210, 244 00:16:56.700 --> 00:16:58.940 right away, this member should be found there here. 245 00:16:59.100 --> 00:17:02.775 Within one mile serves Beverly Hills, California 90210. 246 00:17:02.935 --> 00:17:05.915 So that's just a snapshot of how how this works. 247 00:17:06.455 --> 00:17:10.955 That's awesome. I'm not quite sure how I missed that after all this time. 248 00:17:11.415 --> 00:17:11.974 You know what? 249 00:17:11.974 --> 00:17:20.550 There's there's sometimes there's too many features built into the platform, but that's why we have the webinars to kinda, you know, like a refresher even if you've had your site on for a while. 250 00:17:21.010 --> 00:17:21.829 Thanks much. 251 00:17:22.450 --> 00:17:24.950 Alright. Great question. Thank you so much, Tim. 252 00:17:26.369 --> 00:17:29.830 Alright, guys. Yeah. Great updates. Again, thank you to the BD community. 253 00:17:30.130 --> 00:17:32.985 Always lots of fun to share the good news with you guys. 254 00:17:33.545 --> 00:17:37.865 And with that, we'll switch gears a bit. We'll switch on over to the tip of the week. 255 00:17:37.865 --> 00:17:40.045 And this question comes up from time, 256 00:17:40.505 --> 00:17:44.125 to time, especially if you're setting up your site for the first time. 257 00:17:44.265 --> 00:17:47.565 Why can't members select more than one top level category? 258 00:17:48.169 --> 00:17:51.610 It seems like it it should be able to, but we're gonna explain in this tip of the week. 259 00:17:51.610 --> 00:18:00.675 David, if it's okay with you, we can pass it over and you could take us, through some of the this logic and why things are set up this way and how to work around them. 260 00:18:01.075 --> 00:18:03.395 Absolutely. I think you introduced it perfectly here. 261 00:18:03.395 --> 00:18:07.655 So, if we dive right on into the first slide here starting kind of 262 00:18:07.955 --> 00:18:11.495 at ground level, just briefly covering what member categories 263 00:18:11.875 --> 00:18:12.375 are. 264 00:18:12.755 --> 00:18:17.059 Essentially, it's a hierarchy to organize your members within your directory. 265 00:18:17.520 --> 00:18:21.140 So members can be searched for and found within your directory 266 00:18:21.760 --> 00:18:22.820 based on the categories, 267 00:18:23.679 --> 00:18:28.580 that you've set up in the back end, and that they've selected from within their account. 268 00:18:29.075 --> 00:18:29.555 Members, 269 00:18:29.875 --> 00:18:37.255 can only be listed though in one top level category as Jason mentioned, but they can select multiple 270 00:18:37.875 --> 00:18:38.375 subcategories 271 00:18:38.995 --> 00:18:40.695 as well as sub subcategories. 272 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:46.260 We'll be talking about this last point primarily here in this presentation. 273 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:54.020 Why it's set up this way, how to kind of get around it, when you might encounter this sort of scenario, everything like that. 274 00:18:54.935 --> 00:18:56.395 Going right on into 275 00:18:56.775 --> 00:19:00.635 the primary question here. Members can only select one top level category. 276 00:19:01.095 --> 00:19:08.955 Again, this is the primary grouping or kind of the main bucket that a single member is listed within on your website. 277 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:11.179 So the most generic 278 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.179 top level categories would be things like general user, member, 279 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:16.140 business, 280 00:19:16.679 --> 00:19:17.580 things like that. 281 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:19.740 Now, if you're gonna have multiple 282 00:19:20.040 --> 00:19:21.100 top level categories, 283 00:19:21.745 --> 00:19:25.284 then they really should be broad and distinct from one another. 284 00:19:25.664 --> 00:19:27.205 They should be so broad and 285 00:19:27.505 --> 00:19:31.684 distinct that it would be unlikely for a member to end up needing to select 286 00:19:31.985 --> 00:19:37.840 multiple top level categories to be listed within because again they can only select one top level category 287 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:38.720 anyway. 288 00:19:39.419 --> 00:19:42.559 So, some quick examples of broad and distinct 289 00:19:43.020 --> 00:19:46.080 top level categories would be things like doctor, lawyer, 290 00:19:46.380 --> 00:19:46.880 construction, 291 00:19:47.595 --> 00:19:53.215 pets. It would be unlikely that a doctor would need to be listed in the doctor 292 00:19:53.515 --> 00:19:54.015 category 293 00:19:54.395 --> 00:19:57.135 as well as construction and pets. 294 00:19:57.595 --> 00:19:58.095 So, 295 00:19:58.395 --> 00:20:03.450 by making the top level categories broad and distinct in this way, we eliminate 296 00:20:04.150 --> 00:20:05.770 or at least reduce the likelihood 297 00:20:06.150 --> 00:20:10.570 that members would actually end up needing to select multiple top level categories. 298 00:20:11.430 --> 00:20:14.170 So, with a correct category structure, 299 00:20:14.725 --> 00:20:18.985 a member should never need to select multiple top level categories, and if they do 300 00:20:19.365 --> 00:20:20.985 then your top level categories 301 00:20:21.605 --> 00:20:22.985 should actually be 302 00:20:23.445 --> 00:20:23.945 subcategories, 303 00:20:24.404 --> 00:20:25.225 more specialized 304 00:20:25.924 --> 00:20:26.424 within 305 00:20:26.725 --> 00:20:28.585 broader top level categories. 306 00:20:28.820 --> 00:20:42.040 I know we're going to be throwing the word category and categories around a lot in this webinar, so we do have some examples and screenshots thrown in as well to hopefully help clarify some points if you get a little confused as we go through this. 307 00:20:42.715 --> 00:20:44.975 So, most directory websites 308 00:20:45.595 --> 00:20:57.430 do have multiple broad and unique top level categories set up in their site, and members can select then just a single top level category that they would best fit into. 309 00:20:57.430 --> 00:20:59.130 For example, doctor or 310 00:20:59.670 --> 00:21:00.170 construction. 311 00:21:01.030 --> 00:21:06.090 Visitors, on the other hand, can then search for members with just a basic 312 00:21:06.390 --> 00:21:07.610 top level category 313 00:21:08.150 --> 00:21:09.050 search module. 314 00:21:09.645 --> 00:21:20.285 Most BD sites, I think, start off with the top level category or it might be keyword and location based search modules, but there is one just for top level category. 315 00:21:20.285 --> 00:21:25.185 This is what it looks like where the website visitor would only be able to select 316 00:21:25.860 --> 00:21:29.720 one top level category, and then they would be presented with all of the members 317 00:21:30.020 --> 00:21:32.840 who are within that single category. 318 00:21:33.380 --> 00:21:33.620 Right. 319 00:21:33.620 --> 00:21:40.914 Or they'll or they'll start their their search filtering with the top level category and then some of the sub filters for the subcategories 320 00:21:41.294 --> 00:21:42.434 and additional specialties, 321 00:21:42.894 --> 00:21:45.394 that fall within that top level category. 322 00:21:46.335 --> 00:21:46.835 Correct. 323 00:21:47.375 --> 00:21:49.315 So when should you use 324 00:21:49.695 --> 00:21:52.274 only one top level category though? 325 00:21:52.870 --> 00:22:01.690 Well, when you think to yourself that my members they will need to select more than one top level category, I know the logic in that sounds a little backwards, but again 326 00:22:02.150 --> 00:22:06.650 if members are gonna need to select multiple categories then they're gonna be needing to select 327 00:22:07.024 --> 00:22:10.404 subcategories because they can only select one top level category. 328 00:22:11.024 --> 00:22:14.965 So, again if you have a website that's focused on one specific industry, 329 00:22:15.345 --> 00:22:19.445 then it's likely that members will have multiple different specialties 330 00:22:19.904 --> 00:22:21.125 within that industry 331 00:22:21.580 --> 00:22:22.400 that they'll want 332 00:22:23.260 --> 00:22:25.760 to select to be listed and found within. 333 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:28.720 And again, these specialties should be subcategories 334 00:22:29.580 --> 00:22:32.480 not top level categories, and we have an example 335 00:22:33.420 --> 00:22:35.280 to help clarify this point here. 336 00:22:36.275 --> 00:22:39.015 So, for a lawyer or attorney directory, 337 00:22:39.794 --> 00:22:43.335 it's all the website is for to find lawyers or attorneys. 338 00:22:43.875 --> 00:22:47.655 Lawyers can specialize though in multiple fields. So, the website 339 00:22:48.270 --> 00:22:53.170 it would only have one top level category called lawyer, attorney, 340 00:22:53.550 --> 00:22:56.290 legal professional, something like that really broad, 341 00:22:56.910 --> 00:22:58.210 and then the subcategories 342 00:22:59.310 --> 00:23:01.170 would then be the legal specialties 343 00:23:01.710 --> 00:23:03.410 that the members actually practice. 344 00:23:03.945 --> 00:23:05.565 So, in this example here, 345 00:23:06.105 --> 00:23:07.245 this search module 346 00:23:07.784 --> 00:23:09.804 is only showing the subcategory 347 00:23:10.345 --> 00:23:16.205 drop down. That's one, what lawyer do you need, and then it's also showing sub subcategories. 348 00:23:17.290 --> 00:23:20.270 That's the second drop down there, select a specialty. 349 00:23:20.970 --> 00:23:22.270 So, it's totally 350 00:23:22.730 --> 00:23:23.230 excluding 351 00:23:23.930 --> 00:23:30.030 the selection for top level category because there's no need for a website visitor to select 352 00:23:30.615 --> 00:23:33.995 the only top level category that exists on the website. 353 00:23:34.295 --> 00:23:36.075 It would be just an unnecessary 354 00:23:36.375 --> 00:23:36.875 step. 355 00:23:37.255 --> 00:23:40.635 So, selecting a top level category in this case has been excluded, 356 00:23:41.335 --> 00:23:45.940 and so then they can just get right on into selecting one of the subcategories. 357 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:47.700 In this case, 358 00:23:48.320 --> 00:23:51.220 the field of law that a lawyer might be practicing. 359 00:23:51.600 --> 00:23:53.460 And then, if they further want to 360 00:23:54.159 --> 00:23:54.659 clarify 361 00:23:55.120 --> 00:23:56.100 what type of 362 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:01.065 lawyer they're looking for, they can then select a specialty which would be a sub 363 00:24:01.445 --> 00:24:01.945 subcategory. 364 00:24:03.045 --> 00:24:15.250 So, we'll show you now some tips and tricks to kind of get all of this set up working well, get the user experience on point for both the members as well as the website visitors or the general users. 365 00:24:15.870 --> 00:24:28.130 And, I think as we go through some of these, if you're still a little bit confused on the setup of the category structure here, I think as we go through these, again it'll help to clarify some points. 366 00:24:28.635 --> 00:24:31.115 Awesome. So I think we can just start again. 367 00:24:31.115 --> 00:24:35.595 For those of you that have your site set up, this might not be, relatable for you right now. 368 00:24:35.595 --> 00:24:40.735 But in case you have another site idea in the future, these are good concepts to grasp, in general. 369 00:24:41.115 --> 00:24:44.175 So the first thing is if you're only gonna have one top level category, 370 00:24:44.530 --> 00:24:47.330 set up your site with just one top level category. 371 00:24:47.330 --> 00:24:50.790 And then, also, we wanna use the search modules that exclude 372 00:24:51.250 --> 00:24:52.230 having to select 373 00:24:52.690 --> 00:24:57.170 the top level category because it's redundant because all the members would fall under that in the first place. 374 00:24:57.170 --> 00:25:02.035 So let's take a look at the admin area here, and we'll start at the dashboard. 375 00:25:02.495 --> 00:25:09.075 So the first place you're you're gonna spend most of your time when you're setting up your site is under my members and member categories. 376 00:25:10.175 --> 00:25:15.320 And all the sites start up with just a few, you know, three or four sample dummy categories. 377 00:25:15.940 --> 00:25:26.360 But in this case, the first tab is top level category, and you're gonna wanna make sure that if you're going this route, at least when you're initially setting up, make sure you just have one top level category, 378 00:25:27.275 --> 00:25:28.895 and then all the subcategories 379 00:25:30.235 --> 00:25:34.635 and the sub sublevel categories will be pinned to that top level category. 380 00:25:34.635 --> 00:25:36.975 In this case, we've called the top level category 381 00:25:37.515 --> 00:25:38.015 member. 382 00:25:38.554 --> 00:25:43.190 As David mentioned, you could have it called lawyer if you're just a lawyer directory. 383 00:25:44.050 --> 00:25:48.230 But pro tip here, and it's one of the tips down the line, is maybe you wanna give this a short 384 00:25:48.530 --> 00:25:54.855 SEO keyword friendly name as the top level category because this is sometimes sprinkled around the site, 385 00:25:55.174 --> 00:25:56.855 in in the code and things like that. 386 00:25:56.855 --> 00:26:01.115 So, we could take advantage of this and, you know, it could be Boston Lawyer, 387 00:26:01.495 --> 00:26:04.955 or a city lawyer or some other focus that your website has. 388 00:26:05.095 --> 00:26:08.794 Or if you wanna go super generic, you could just use the word user, 389 00:26:09.540 --> 00:26:12.200 or whatever you think, is the most generic, 390 00:26:13.060 --> 00:26:14.120 word you can use. 391 00:26:15.060 --> 00:26:20.100 And then all the subs and sub subcategories will be pinned under that top level category. 392 00:26:20.100 --> 00:26:27.195 So, in this case, this category was called member, and all our subsets are pinned to the top level category member 393 00:26:27.735 --> 00:26:31.195 as well as the subsets pinned under member and then, 394 00:26:31.575 --> 00:26:33.275 the sublevel category here. 395 00:26:33.975 --> 00:26:35.575 And so that's one and two. 396 00:26:35.575 --> 00:26:44.120 And there are some advanced settings that we can take advantage of to hide the top level category from displaying around the site as it does by default. 397 00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:48.580 The first one would be in the member profile URL format. 398 00:26:48.580 --> 00:26:54.759 So when a member signs up, what's really cool about BD is it creates a really keyword friendly and SEO friendly 399 00:26:55.355 --> 00:27:01.055 URL for the member's profile page. Let's take a look at that together with our sample member here. 400 00:27:01.275 --> 00:27:03.135 Let me get out of this mode here. 401 00:27:05.195 --> 00:27:10.880 Okay. So what we can see here is this member, Lisa Jones, it's using the state, 402 00:27:11.580 --> 00:27:12.400 the city, 403 00:27:12.780 --> 00:27:15.680 and the member's name as their URL. 404 00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:20.480 Now we can we have a few settings to modify this, and let me show you where those are. 405 00:27:20.985 --> 00:27:23.165 If we go to the advanced settings, 406 00:27:25.865 --> 00:27:28.125 and I think we can search for profile 407 00:27:28.425 --> 00:27:28.925 URL. 408 00:27:30.505 --> 00:27:33.565 Here we go. Member profile URL structure. 409 00:27:34.290 --> 00:27:36.630 So, we have available elements 410 00:27:37.010 --> 00:27:39.010 and we have the current URL order. 411 00:27:39.010 --> 00:27:43.110 So in this case, it's just set up for state, city, and member name. 412 00:27:43.330 --> 00:27:47.750 We can add the top level category. In fact, I think that this is how it starts by default. 413 00:27:48.554 --> 00:27:52.174 You can even add the postal code and the country name, and you can even, 414 00:27:52.875 --> 00:27:53.855 move them around, 415 00:27:54.635 --> 00:27:58.815 to be the to make a longer URL if you wanted to, and so forth. 416 00:27:59.115 --> 00:28:03.695 But what we can do in this case is we can x out and remove the top level category, 417 00:28:04.370 --> 00:28:07.270 so that it is not part of the member's profile 418 00:28:07.570 --> 00:28:10.630 URL. It won't be part of the URL here. 419 00:28:10.930 --> 00:28:11.430 And 420 00:28:11.730 --> 00:28:14.950 if we save this and we'll go ahead and just save this. 421 00:28:18.210 --> 00:28:19.010 And let's 422 00:28:19.975 --> 00:28:25.195 if this number comes back and saves their changes again to their basic information, it will automatically 423 00:28:25.495 --> 00:28:30.934 update their profile URL to what the website owner has set, and it creates a three zero one redirect. 424 00:28:30.934 --> 00:28:35.960 So the old URL will now redirect to this new URL, so you won't lose any traffic. 425 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:37.740 Let's go to visit public profile. 426 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:43.960 And we can see here we have well, this person didn't enter a ZIP code. That's why it's not here. 427 00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:45.900 But we see United States, California, 428 00:28:46.725 --> 00:28:47.465 Los Angeles. 429 00:28:47.845 --> 00:28:50.424 Here we see the top level category member 430 00:28:51.125 --> 00:28:52.745 and person's name. 431 00:28:54.005 --> 00:28:55.065 Let me remove 432 00:28:55.765 --> 00:28:57.865 let me just remove a couple of things here. 433 00:28:59.970 --> 00:29:01.990 Okay. And let's go back here 434 00:29:03.890 --> 00:29:08.290 and let's remove the country. Let's just do it with the person's name. Let's play around with it. 435 00:29:08.290 --> 00:29:10.470 It'll be a good little test here for us. 436 00:29:11.890 --> 00:29:13.750 Okay. Let's refresh this page 437 00:29:14.985 --> 00:29:16.445 and we'll save the changes. 438 00:29:16.825 --> 00:29:19.005 Just hitting enter here on one of the fields. 439 00:29:20.505 --> 00:29:21.965 Okay. And view listing. 440 00:29:22.985 --> 00:29:27.245 So we can see here now we have a URL. It's just the person's name. 441 00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:30.270 And if you set it up like this, the system is actually smart enough. 442 00:29:30.270 --> 00:29:32.370 If there's two members with the same name, 443 00:29:32.830 --> 00:29:35.090 it will add, like, a hyphen one 444 00:29:35.390 --> 00:29:36.610 or a hyphen two 445 00:29:36.990 --> 00:29:39.810 so that they do have their own unique URLs. 446 00:29:40.265 --> 00:29:46.585 Just like on Twitter, you wanna be the first one with your name, but it's usually taken and you have to add some things, to the end of it. 447 00:29:46.585 --> 00:29:52.920 But, in this case, we can now see that it's just Lisa Jones, and we've hidden the top level category here. 448 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:54.360 So this is pretty good. 449 00:29:54.360 --> 00:30:02.620 If if you're hyper focused on your SEO, you may wanna play around with this and see what is best, for your for your SEO planning and model. 450 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:08.145 The next one is to hide the top level category on the member profile page. 451 00:30:08.545 --> 00:30:10.485 So on the member's profile page, 452 00:30:11.025 --> 00:30:16.245 generally, right up here in this top area, it will list the top level category. 453 00:30:16.385 --> 00:30:18.645 So that is also an advanced setting. 454 00:30:19.265 --> 00:30:22.165 And let me search for hide top. 455 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:28.800 And here is the setting, hide top level category on member profile page. This is on. 456 00:30:29.100 --> 00:30:33.040 Let's turn it off for a moment. And remember, the top level category, 457 00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:39.225 on this website is named member. So if we refresh the page, we'll see the word member here now. 458 00:30:39.765 --> 00:30:40.585 Here it is. 459 00:30:41.285 --> 00:30:42.905 So if we wanna hide this, 460 00:30:43.285 --> 00:30:49.465 we just come to the advanced setting and enable this to hide top level category on member profile page. 461 00:30:51.330 --> 00:30:55.990 Perfect. So now we've hidden it from the URL. We've hidden it right here at the top, 462 00:30:56.610 --> 00:30:58.150 and that is good. 463 00:30:58.610 --> 00:31:02.070 More advanced settings and, a good way to take advantage 464 00:31:02.370 --> 00:31:04.230 of highlighting some of the subcategories, 465 00:31:05.090 --> 00:31:08.445 that the member has selected. We can actually show the subcategories 466 00:31:08.985 --> 00:31:13.065 on the member's profile page as well as in the search results. 467 00:31:13.065 --> 00:31:17.325 Let's go to a search results page here. We'll click on Los Angeles in the breadcrumbs. 468 00:31:18.025 --> 00:31:22.740 We turn this into a static page. Cool. So we can see here it says category member. 469 00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:24.920 And if we're hiding the top level category, 470 00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:26.280 this is undesired. 471 00:31:26.740 --> 00:31:29.000 Let me show you how you can hide this, 472 00:31:29.620 --> 00:31:31.000 from the search results. 473 00:31:32.355 --> 00:31:36.375 Let me search for top level. And you guys can take note of what I'm typing in here. 474 00:31:36.435 --> 00:31:39.255 If we I did type top hyphen level. 475 00:31:39.875 --> 00:31:44.135 And if we scroll down, let me find the right setting. 476 00:31:45.860 --> 00:31:50.019 Okay. Let's make note of this. We might have to update the name so it's easier to find. Yes. 477 00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:53.720 Here it is. Show top category in member search results. 478 00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:57.299 This is enabled by default, so we wanna turn this off. 479 00:31:57.299 --> 00:32:01.284 So we do not wanna show the top level category in the member search results. 480 00:32:01.284 --> 00:32:02.904 And I'll just save those changes. 481 00:32:04.965 --> 00:32:06.664 And we'll refresh this page. 482 00:32:08.085 --> 00:32:12.024 And we can see now it does not say category member. 483 00:32:12.310 --> 00:32:14.570 Now, actually, let's select some some subcategories. 484 00:32:14.950 --> 00:32:16.490 We haven't done that for this member. 485 00:32:17.030 --> 00:32:18.710 We've let's just select, 486 00:32:19.030 --> 00:32:24.570 some we just did a sample sub and sub sub level. Sub level one and their sub level categories. 487 00:32:24.790 --> 00:32:27.290 We'll just do a bunch of these and save the changes. 488 00:32:30.285 --> 00:32:33.725 Okay. So now this person definitely has subcategories selected. 489 00:32:33.725 --> 00:32:37.345 Let me refresh here and see if they're showing. So great. So the specialties, 490 00:32:37.645 --> 00:32:38.605 we can now see. 491 00:32:38.605 --> 00:32:42.605 It's limited to just a certain number because members can select whatever you allow them to. 492 00:32:42.605 --> 00:32:44.730 It could be a hundred, and we don't wanna cannibalize 493 00:32:45.030 --> 00:32:50.070 the search results page. But we can get a small preview of the member's specialties here. 494 00:32:50.070 --> 00:32:52.150 And this is also an advanced setting. 495 00:32:52.150 --> 00:32:56.625 So you wanna make sure this might be enabled on your site as opposed to the, 496 00:32:57.024 --> 00:32:59.684 the show top categories in member search results. 497 00:33:00.225 --> 00:33:02.804 So now let me search for show sub, 498 00:33:03.585 --> 00:33:06.085 and that should get us the setting we're looking for. 499 00:33:06.784 --> 00:33:08.280 Here it is. Show subcategories 500 00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:12.040 in member search results. I'll turn it off just as a quick test 501 00:33:13.780 --> 00:33:15.480 and we'll refresh the page. 502 00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:18.340 So we see it's not there now. 503 00:33:18.580 --> 00:33:23.240 But if if your choice is the website owner, it's probably good for SEO too. 504 00:33:23.595 --> 00:33:24.975 You can enable this 505 00:33:25.515 --> 00:33:26.975 and hit save changes. 506 00:33:27.995 --> 00:33:30.815 And now we see a small preview of the subcategories, 507 00:33:31.755 --> 00:33:33.215 the specialties or subcategory 508 00:33:33.595 --> 00:33:37.934 this member is a part of. And, also, now that this member has selected a subcategory, 509 00:33:38.700 --> 00:33:40.240 we can see their specialties 510 00:33:40.779 --> 00:33:42.700 on their profile page as well. 511 00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:48.159 We can see sublevel one, and this is slightly indented, so we can see a list of the sub subcategories 512 00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:50.080 and then another subcategory 513 00:33:50.539 --> 00:33:51.919 and the sub subcategories. 514 00:33:53.475 --> 00:33:55.735 So this is how to better highlight the subcategories 515 00:33:56.035 --> 00:33:58.535 and not so much the top level category. 516 00:34:00.115 --> 00:34:05.395 This next one here, letter d, pre selecting the top level category when the member signs up. 517 00:34:05.395 --> 00:34:07.895 So if we're only gonna have one top level category, 518 00:34:08.380 --> 00:34:12.699 we don't want the member to have to select that when they're filling out their profile. 519 00:34:12.699 --> 00:34:14.719 That is the best describes you field, 520 00:34:15.099 --> 00:34:18.560 when they're filling out their profile. Let's go there together real quick. 521 00:34:19.739 --> 00:34:24.045 So this is their basic information, and we can see here best describes you. 522 00:34:24.045 --> 00:34:29.005 Basically, they're choosing their top level category. There is only one top level category here. 523 00:34:29.005 --> 00:34:32.304 So we really don't need the member to select this on their own, 524 00:34:32.685 --> 00:34:36.464 and there is a setting. So when the member signs up, they'll automatically 525 00:34:36.764 --> 00:34:37.425 be pinned 526 00:34:38.070 --> 00:34:39.610 to this top level 527 00:34:39.989 --> 00:34:40.489 category. 528 00:34:40.950 --> 00:34:45.610 Let me show you where that is, and I'm also gonna share another video that we did from a previous webinar. 529 00:34:46.150 --> 00:34:47.930 If we go to membership plans 530 00:34:49.670 --> 00:34:52.570 and we'll just edit, any membership plan. 531 00:34:54.304 --> 00:34:59.285 So you might wanna do this for all your membership plans if you only have one top level category. 532 00:34:59.744 --> 00:35:03.605 And we can use the search filter here. Let me search for preselect. 533 00:35:05.740 --> 00:35:08.240 There we go. Search for preselect here, 534 00:35:08.700 --> 00:35:11.340 and you can preselect the top level category. 535 00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:19.040 So the member will never see this, but when they sign up to this membership plan, so you might wanna do this for all your membership plans with one top level category, 536 00:35:19.375 --> 00:35:20.195 They'll automatically 537 00:35:20.495 --> 00:35:21.235 be pinned 538 00:35:21.535 --> 00:35:23.075 to the top level category, 539 00:35:23.615 --> 00:35:28.175 that you've set here. Now if you have multiple top level categories, this is also awesome. 540 00:35:28.175 --> 00:35:32.275 You might have a membership plan for doctors, a membership plan for lawyers, 541 00:35:32.600 --> 00:35:37.260 or whatever it might be, and you can pin the top category automatically 542 00:35:37.640 --> 00:35:39.320 to a membership plan. 543 00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:44.860 So that's also a great way to kind of sync up membership plans with top level categories. 544 00:35:45.160 --> 00:35:47.740 There might be different price points, different features, 545 00:35:48.195 --> 00:35:50.995 different, the search visibility that they might have. 546 00:35:50.995 --> 00:35:56.115 So there are a lot of use cases for wanting to preselect the top level category with the membership plan. 547 00:35:56.115 --> 00:35:58.295 But, in this example with, 548 00:35:58.835 --> 00:36:04.410 only one top category on the site, why don't we go ahead and preselect that so the member does not need, 549 00:36:04.730 --> 00:36:09.310 to worry about that. And let me share a video we did on in a previous webinar, 550 00:36:09.930 --> 00:36:12.670 which covers this in more detail about preselecting. 551 00:36:14.535 --> 00:36:18.795 Here we go. How to pre select categories, also company versus individual 552 00:36:19.175 --> 00:36:20.714 when a member signs up. 553 00:36:21.015 --> 00:36:25.494 Not the most elegant title there, but it does explain what this article is about. 554 00:36:25.494 --> 00:36:28.875 So there's a quick video on this page and it goes into more detail. 555 00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:33.880 So that was d, pre selecting the top level category when a member signs up. 556 00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:41.400 And then e, we just saw this, they also don't need to see the best describes you field in their basic information section. 557 00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:45.285 We've already preselected their top level category. They're not going to change it. 558 00:36:45.845 --> 00:36:48.105 They and there is nothing else to select. 559 00:36:48.405 --> 00:36:51.865 So let me quickly show you how to hide the best describes you field, 560 00:36:52.244 --> 00:36:54.005 in the basic information form. 561 00:36:54.005 --> 00:37:00.510 So, this is the form here, basic information, and we can certainly edit this and add or remove whatever we want. 562 00:37:00.510 --> 00:37:07.410 In this case, we want to hide or not include the best describes you field because they don't need to select the top level category now. 563 00:37:07.790 --> 00:37:12.450 So to do this, we'll go to form manager, and we're almost done with this list. I promise you guys. 564 00:37:13.404 --> 00:37:17.585 And we'll go to form manager, and what we wanna look for is the, listing. 565 00:37:18.444 --> 00:37:23.025 I think it's called, contact details member right here. Listing contact details 566 00:37:23.325 --> 00:37:23.825 member. 567 00:37:24.700 --> 00:37:29.840 You can see here member contact details is the short code name. We can go ahead and customize this. 568 00:37:33.580 --> 00:37:35.580 And when we're customizing it, 569 00:37:36.060 --> 00:37:38.220 what we can search for is the, 570 00:37:38.620 --> 00:37:39.520 top category, 571 00:37:40.060 --> 00:37:40.515 list. 572 00:37:41.474 --> 00:37:43.875 And what we can do is just hide this. 573 00:37:43.875 --> 00:37:49.414 You can delete it if you want, or in case you might bring it back, you might wanna just click on the cog. 574 00:37:49.635 --> 00:37:52.674 And under display settings, turn off input view. 575 00:37:52.674 --> 00:37:56.375 So input view is when you're filling out a form and inputting data. 576 00:37:56.570 --> 00:38:00.270 We don't want this field to show. So I'll go ahead and save those changes, 577 00:38:01.050 --> 00:38:03.070 and this should work now 578 00:38:03.450 --> 00:38:06.270 where it will not show on the input field. 579 00:38:06.650 --> 00:38:08.270 So I'll refresh this page, 580 00:38:09.744 --> 00:38:13.185 and there we go. We do not see the best describes you anymore. 581 00:38:13.185 --> 00:38:19.365 We've preselected it when the member signs up. So top level category is out of mind, out of sight 582 00:38:19.665 --> 00:38:21.365 for this member now. 583 00:38:23.550 --> 00:38:26.690 And the last thing is what I've mentioned earlier, s, 584 00:38:27.150 --> 00:38:30.930 is you may wanna take advantage of this. The top level category may be sprinkled, 585 00:38:31.470 --> 00:38:35.470 in other parts of the site or some search results pages here and there. 586 00:38:35.790 --> 00:38:40.645 You might stumble upon it. So you might wanna choose something that's actually keyword friendly, 587 00:38:41.265 --> 00:38:45.765 for your site that probably matches your industry or location that you're serving. 588 00:38:46.465 --> 00:38:49.905 For example, we'll stick with the the lawyer directory in Boston. 589 00:38:49.905 --> 00:38:54.245 You might want the top level category to be Boston Lawyer or Boston Lawyers 590 00:38:55.160 --> 00:38:56.700 or Boston legal. So, 591 00:38:57.080 --> 00:39:01.100 something's still short, but if somebody stumbled upon that or, 592 00:39:01.560 --> 00:39:03.240 search engines crawl that, 593 00:39:03.560 --> 00:39:05.260 it will help your SEO, 594 00:39:05.560 --> 00:39:09.100 not hurt your SEO, or it can add value, in some 595 00:39:09.625 --> 00:39:10.765 shape, way, or form. 596 00:39:11.705 --> 00:39:13.965 So those are just a few tips and tricks. 597 00:39:14.345 --> 00:39:16.685 And I think the last thing I forgot was 598 00:39:17.545 --> 00:39:22.200 the the searches on the home page and the sidebars. Let me cover that real quick. 599 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:25.740 So in David's example let me go back a couple slides. 600 00:39:26.520 --> 00:39:30.380 He showed this example that dives right into the subcategory 601 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:31.820 and sub sub 602 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:33.339 selection options. 603 00:39:33.720 --> 00:39:42.535 Let me show you where you can find that for your home page and your sidebar when you're searching for members in the search results page, the sidebar search module there. 604 00:39:43.555 --> 00:39:46.215 So on the home page, if you're going to have, 605 00:39:46.595 --> 00:39:52.350 a search filter there, some people are choosing to have buttons now, as opposed to having to search right on the home page. 606 00:39:52.670 --> 00:39:55.490 But in design settings, under the home page section, 607 00:39:56.430 --> 00:39:59.970 go to the second box here. It's called search box call to action. 608 00:40:00.830 --> 00:40:06.450 And we can see here I've selected a search module that includes the sub and sub sub search. 609 00:40:07.325 --> 00:40:16.704 There are ones that include top, sub, and sub sub search, but because we only have one top level category, it is redundant to ask the visitor to select the top level category. 610 00:40:16.924 --> 00:40:20.305 So we wanna skip all of the search modules that include 611 00:40:20.684 --> 00:40:21.744 top in them. 612 00:40:22.150 --> 00:40:25.050 So there are several that we might wanna take advantage of. 613 00:40:25.990 --> 00:40:26.490 Subcategory 614 00:40:26.790 --> 00:40:29.690 and sub sub filter, and that's what we have here. 615 00:40:30.150 --> 00:40:31.369 The subcategory 616 00:40:32.230 --> 00:40:33.930 and then the sub subcategory. 617 00:40:35.265 --> 00:40:36.325 You can do subcategory 618 00:40:36.704 --> 00:40:39.525 and location, so it will not include sub subcategory. 619 00:40:39.744 --> 00:40:44.724 It will just be the subcategory and a location field. You can also do only a subcategory, 620 00:40:45.345 --> 00:40:51.619 or you can go for the whole enchilada and do sub, sub sub, and location search. So, 621 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.680 lots of basically every combination you can have, is listed here. 622 00:40:55.680 --> 00:40:59.060 And let's do this one here, sub, sub sub, and location. 623 00:41:01.395 --> 00:41:05.175 And we'll refresh just as soon as this saves. We'll refresh this here. 624 00:41:06.675 --> 00:41:10.615 And we can see here now we also have the search by location field. 625 00:41:10.755 --> 00:41:14.775 Quick tip when you do this, don't forget you can update the text labels. 626 00:41:14.915 --> 00:41:16.600 So this starts with specializing 627 00:41:16.900 --> 00:41:21.300 in. You can see here you can change the text labels. We'll do it directly from the admin. 628 00:41:21.300 --> 00:41:22.360 You can click on it, 629 00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:26.200 and we can change specializing in to, what, 630 00:41:26.980 --> 00:41:28.200 type of lawyer 631 00:41:28.740 --> 00:41:29.480 do you, 632 00:41:30.765 --> 00:41:31.744 do you need? 633 00:41:32.765 --> 00:41:36.464 And we'll go ahead and save that those changes. So they would select 634 00:41:37.164 --> 00:41:43.410 the subcategory that that David kinda had in his example, corporate law, employment law, securities, tax law. 635 00:41:43.970 --> 00:41:47.510 And under instead of more options, which is just a very generic, 636 00:41:48.130 --> 00:41:49.349 subheading for that, 637 00:41:49.809 --> 00:41:51.910 we can put specializing in here 638 00:41:53.170 --> 00:41:54.710 and save those changes. 639 00:41:56.515 --> 00:41:57.815 And we'll get rid of 640 00:41:58.435 --> 00:42:03.494 the text label changes. So you come to the site and it says, what type of lawyer do you need, 641 00:42:04.115 --> 00:42:09.555 specializing in, and also search by location. So now there's more context. It makes more sense. 642 00:42:09.555 --> 00:42:13.230 And guess what? We're not selecting a top level category at all. 643 00:42:13.470 --> 00:42:18.770 It's hidden, and the user and your members won't even know what's happening behind the scenes. 644 00:42:19.950 --> 00:42:22.755 David, did I miss anything? I tried to be as good as possible. 645 00:42:23.394 --> 00:42:23.634 Yeah. 646 00:42:23.634 --> 00:42:32.615 The last thing to show would be how to change the search filter in sidebars, like on the, member profile pages or search results page. 647 00:42:33.795 --> 00:42:34.934 Perfect. Okay. 648 00:42:35.180 --> 00:42:41.980 So, we can see here when when you're on a member search page, there is a search module here, and there is a way to, 649 00:42:42.380 --> 00:42:45.520 edit this and change this just like you do on your home page. 650 00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:51.635 Just a few more clicks to get to this. So here you wanna go to my content and edit post settings. 651 00:42:52.655 --> 00:42:55.075 The member listings are technically a post 652 00:42:55.455 --> 00:42:59.055 type, and it should be, your first post type. I'm gonna scroll down. 653 00:42:59.055 --> 00:43:02.835 So you can see here these are your, videos, properties, job listings. 654 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:08.580 You should see listings or member listings. I'll go ahead and click edit under member listings. 655 00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:16.340 And as David mentioned, this is the sidebar search module on the search results pages. 656 00:43:16.815 --> 00:43:19.155 So this will be under search results design. 657 00:43:20.815 --> 00:43:27.315 And if we scroll down here, there is a a blue toggle button here, additional settings, lots of good settings in here. 658 00:43:27.535 --> 00:43:30.115 If we scroll down just a little bit, 659 00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:33.840 we can here see here sidebar search module, 660 00:43:34.220 --> 00:43:39.500 to use, and it's kind of listed the same way. We see, top just look at the end here. 661 00:43:39.500 --> 00:43:42.720 You see top category only, top category and location, 662 00:43:43.145 --> 00:43:46.125 and then we see the subcategory only, subcategory 663 00:43:46.425 --> 00:43:47.085 and location, 664 00:43:47.865 --> 00:43:49.165 sub sub sub location. 665 00:43:49.625 --> 00:43:52.605 Let's switch to just sub, just subcategory 666 00:43:52.984 --> 00:43:57.724 only and save the changes. And let's see it change on the search results page. 667 00:44:00.470 --> 00:44:00.970 Okay. 668 00:44:03.670 --> 00:44:06.330 And we can see here just the subcategory 669 00:44:06.710 --> 00:44:07.030 search. 670 00:44:07.030 --> 00:44:12.970 So you really have control over what search module you wanna use on the home page and in the sidebar, 671 00:44:13.430 --> 00:44:14.415 here as well. 672 00:44:15.375 --> 00:44:16.355 And I think 673 00:44:16.975 --> 00:44:19.955 I'm sure there's more, but I think that covers 90% 674 00:44:20.095 --> 00:44:20.915 of the workaround 675 00:44:21.295 --> 00:44:24.835 to use your site when you only have one top level category. 676 00:44:25.295 --> 00:44:27.570 So with that, we'll pass it over to you guys. 677 00:44:27.570 --> 00:44:31.430 You can ask questions about any of the new features coming down the line. 678 00:44:31.490 --> 00:44:33.590 If you need some assistance with your site, 679 00:44:33.890 --> 00:44:38.610 we'll be happy to help you guys the best we can. And let's switch on over to Michelle. 680 00:44:38.610 --> 00:44:40.790 I see your hand is up there. How you doing, Michelle? 681 00:44:41.395 --> 00:44:43.735 Hey. Doing well, Jason. How are you? 682 00:44:44.435 --> 00:44:49.335 Good. How'd you like the webinar so far today? Oh my gosh. When I saw that this was on categories, 683 00:44:49.795 --> 00:44:52.935 I was so happy because I've been struggling, 684 00:44:53.795 --> 00:44:55.335 and I have plenty of questions. 685 00:44:56.390 --> 00:44:58.090 Okay. Shoot. Fire away. 686 00:44:58.390 --> 00:45:00.810 Okay. So are we able to combine 687 00:45:01.430 --> 00:45:05.210 sub and sub sub, for example, in one search bar? 688 00:45:09.135 --> 00:45:15.135 Can we combine them in one search bar? You mean keyword search, like, up here where you just type in 689 00:45:17.615 --> 00:45:19.555 yes. You should be able to. 690 00:45:20.495 --> 00:45:24.700 So we can here see sub see, I just type the word sub and we see subcategories 691 00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:29.559 and also the sub sub level. So these are sub and sub. 692 00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:34.140 So we see this the these are subs and sub sub levels listed here. So, yes, 693 00:45:34.520 --> 00:45:38.940 you can use the keyword search. Let me show you where you can control that actually. 694 00:45:39.575 --> 00:45:43.355 So that actually is an add on. Let me show you, 695 00:45:44.375 --> 00:45:49.255 what that is. If you have the VIP add ons club, you do have it on your site. Here it is. 696 00:45:49.255 --> 00:45:51.575 It is the predictive keyword search add on. 697 00:45:51.575 --> 00:45:54.714 That's why it's kinda showing me suggestions as I'm typing. 698 00:45:55.240 --> 00:45:57.740 And if you scroll down here, there is documentation 699 00:45:58.040 --> 00:46:01.100 on it. So the documentation with the link I just shared. 700 00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:05.980 But let me show you where some of the settings are in general. So if you go to developer hub 701 00:46:07.365 --> 00:46:08.805 when you have this add on, 702 00:46:09.285 --> 00:46:13.785 it's called auto suggestion. It's basically auto suggesting results as you type. 703 00:46:14.485 --> 00:46:14.985 And 704 00:46:15.605 --> 00:46:17.525 in this case, it's for the member search. 705 00:46:17.525 --> 00:46:22.849 So you can have an auto suggestion pre predictive keyword search classifieds coupons, 706 00:46:23.390 --> 00:46:26.769 in this case, member search. And if I click edit 707 00:46:30.349 --> 00:46:32.829 so you don't need to worry about the stuff at the top. 708 00:46:32.829 --> 00:46:39.615 Like, when do you want the, the predictive to to trigger in, like, after how many characters, like, if someone types in two or three characters, 709 00:46:39.915 --> 00:46:45.295 the maximum auto suggestion limit. So, like, you don't wanna show a thousand suggestions to people. 710 00:46:45.515 --> 00:46:46.650 And here's the thing. 711 00:46:47.130 --> 00:46:48.829 You can choose what is suggested. 712 00:46:49.770 --> 00:46:52.910 Like, do you want to suggest actual member listings? 713 00:46:53.450 --> 00:46:54.670 Do you want to suggest 714 00:46:54.970 --> 00:46:57.150 main categories or top level categories? 715 00:46:57.210 --> 00:47:02.010 Or and or do you also wanna suggest sub this is sub and sub sub level categories. 716 00:47:02.010 --> 00:47:05.235 So you can hide this is good, actually. You mentioned it. 717 00:47:05.295 --> 00:47:10.355 Hide the main category one because that would just be one top level category. You don't need that. 718 00:47:10.415 --> 00:47:12.355 And now you can just enable subcategories. 719 00:47:12.975 --> 00:47:15.955 So and there's some other the documentation has what these 720 00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:19.900 settings are, like, if you wanna show the location, additional details, and such. 721 00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:21.660 I'll just go ahead and save the changes. 722 00:47:21.720 --> 00:47:26.780 But to answer your question, yes, you can have a keyword field that will suggest 723 00:47:27.080 --> 00:47:29.420 subs and sub subs as people type. 724 00:47:30.040 --> 00:47:30.540 Brilliant. 725 00:47:31.215 --> 00:47:34.035 That is really cool. Thank you so much. 726 00:47:34.575 --> 00:47:35.715 Thank you. One more question. 727 00:47:36.175 --> 00:47:38.035 That was a good one. Thanks. 728 00:47:39.055 --> 00:47:40.915 So my next question is 729 00:47:41.775 --> 00:47:46.035 if you wouldn't mind going over to doctor.webmd.com. 730 00:47:47.420 --> 00:47:55.280 Okay. Let's go doctordoctor.webmd.com. 731 00:47:55.740 --> 00:47:56.720 Yes. K. 732 00:47:57.180 --> 00:47:59.920 And then if you scroll down, they basically list 733 00:48:00.585 --> 00:48:01.085 specialties. 734 00:48:01.705 --> 00:48:03.805 So you can browse by specialty, condition, 735 00:48:04.105 --> 00:48:04.845 and procedure. 736 00:48:05.465 --> 00:48:07.325 I'm trying to emulate this, 737 00:48:07.785 --> 00:48:08.285 but 738 00:48:08.744 --> 00:48:11.005 I I don't understand how to 739 00:48:11.625 --> 00:48:14.285 structure my subs and my subsubs 740 00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:23.100 Because I've I've tried to list all conditions and subcategories and then all procedures and sub subs, but they end up getting nested under 741 00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:25.740 one of the subs. 742 00:48:26.040 --> 00:48:30.460 Is there a way to do it without them being nested, or am I just going about this all wrong? 743 00:48:31.185 --> 00:48:31.925 Yes. There 744 00:48:32.625 --> 00:48:34.245 there there is a 745 00:48:34.545 --> 00:48:36.405 there's another way that I'm thinking. 746 00:48:36.465 --> 00:48:40.705 Basically, you you're saying you've you've run you've run out of sub subs. Right? 747 00:48:40.705 --> 00:48:42.865 And it would or it would be too tedious to go 748 00:48:43.680 --> 00:48:47.619 you know, acid reflux could be a symptom of of many, 749 00:48:48.640 --> 00:48:53.119 many issues. I see. I'm not a doctor, so I'm trying to wrap my head about it. You can do this. 750 00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:55.140 I'll I'll show you something quick you can do. 751 00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:58.565 Let me just copy let me just copy these here 752 00:48:59.265 --> 00:49:00.005 real quick. 753 00:49:01.425 --> 00:49:04.085 Let's go back to that the form manager. 754 00:49:04.625 --> 00:49:06.725 And you can create a checkbox field, 755 00:49:07.985 --> 00:49:08.485 and 756 00:49:09.390 --> 00:49:13.650 you can you can kinda just create something that that members can select 757 00:49:13.950 --> 00:49:17.730 so I'll just do it here under I'll just do add a field here. 758 00:49:18.030 --> 00:49:21.170 And what we'll do is we'll create a checkbox field 759 00:49:22.645 --> 00:49:25.465 and we'll call it what are these? These are 760 00:49:25.765 --> 00:49:26.265 conditions. 761 00:49:31.525 --> 00:49:34.745 Okay. And let me just quickly save the changes. 762 00:49:36.260 --> 00:49:39.319 And then we should, after this, see options to add 763 00:49:40.099 --> 00:49:42.760 condition condition options. Let me see. 764 00:49:44.260 --> 00:49:48.520 Yes. Here we can add an option. So I'll just add a few of them here. 765 00:49:48.819 --> 00:49:51.079 And I'll I'll show you how they can be searched. 766 00:49:52.065 --> 00:49:53.285 K. Acid grief, 767 00:49:53.665 --> 00:49:54.165 anxiety, 768 00:49:56.145 --> 00:49:57.045 and depression. 769 00:50:00.945 --> 00:50:02.484 And I'll save the changes. 770 00:50:05.590 --> 00:50:09.290 And let's go back to Lisa Jones, this example that we have, 771 00:50:11.109 --> 00:50:13.450 and let's select some of these. 772 00:50:14.710 --> 00:50:19.485 So condition you can say, like, what conditions do you you you know, you can make it a question here. 773 00:50:19.945 --> 00:50:20.685 What conditions 774 00:50:21.465 --> 00:50:23.325 do you fix or whatever it is? 775 00:50:23.625 --> 00:50:27.325 So we'll go ahead and save the changes. Oops. Scrolling save. 776 00:50:29.545 --> 00:50:33.005 Let me make sure I save that properly. Yep. Okay. So there's save. 777 00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:34.340 And 778 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:35.860 with this one 779 00:50:36.160 --> 00:50:36.660 and 780 00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:38.340 there is a settings. 781 00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:42.240 Let me show you this one. We go back to and I know I'm flying around. 782 00:50:42.240 --> 00:50:48.785 So, basically, what we did right now is we went to the form manager and we added some additional check boxes the member can select of of for options. 783 00:50:50.525 --> 00:50:52.865 So if you go to edit post setting 784 00:50:53.805 --> 00:51:00.925 under member listings, I just wanna make sure this setting is enabled because when you do a keyword search, by default, it just searches the, 785 00:51:02.150 --> 00:51:06.230 the member's name, their company name, and their categories they're part of. 786 00:51:06.230 --> 00:51:11.050 It doesn't, like, search every piece of data of their profile. But there is a setting 787 00:51:11.670 --> 00:51:13.050 wanted to allow that. 788 00:51:14.255 --> 00:51:15.775 So here, this is the one. 789 00:51:16.095 --> 00:51:22.035 So just search the default fields, which is like the name and company or default fields and custom fields. 790 00:51:22.415 --> 00:51:24.035 So this is enabled here. 791 00:51:24.735 --> 00:51:26.915 So if we go to her profile, 792 00:51:30.910 --> 00:51:35.810 okay, we can see conditions are served. So if I search depression now, she should show 793 00:51:37.510 --> 00:51:38.010 up. 794 00:51:39.710 --> 00:51:44.565 And there we go. She she showed up for a depression search because it's part of her profile now. 795 00:51:44.724 --> 00:51:46.345 That keyword is in her profile. 796 00:51:46.885 --> 00:51:49.685 So you could create quick links. We can see the link here. Right? 797 00:51:49.685 --> 00:51:51.944 Search results q equals depression. 798 00:51:52.405 --> 00:51:55.065 So if you wanted to add something to your home page, 799 00:51:55.365 --> 00:51:58.505 you can get the the URL of what the link should be 800 00:51:59.020 --> 00:52:01.580 by just doing a quick search yourself for that. 801 00:52:01.580 --> 00:52:04.720 And then you can add this to your home page as the link, 802 00:52:05.100 --> 00:52:06.320 that we're seeing here. 803 00:52:07.580 --> 00:52:08.080 Yeah. 804 00:52:08.620 --> 00:52:09.360 Got it. 805 00:52:09.900 --> 00:52:14.625 So those three steps. It's add it to the form so the member can select it, 806 00:52:15.085 --> 00:52:16.285 select it as the member. 807 00:52:16.285 --> 00:52:21.105 You can do some tests, and then at here's the link for that keyword search depression. 808 00:52:22.204 --> 00:52:22.944 Got it. 809 00:52:23.325 --> 00:52:25.184 I was trying to do that with, like, 810 00:52:25.484 --> 00:52:25.984 streaming 811 00:52:26.990 --> 00:52:29.089 subcategories and streaming sub subcategories, 812 00:52:29.549 --> 00:52:32.530 but I can see where I just need to build it more or less custom. 813 00:52:33.549 --> 00:52:34.450 Yes. Exactly. 814 00:52:34.910 --> 00:52:39.069 Yes. So get the mindset out of the streaming because we're only gonna list, like, 10 there. 815 00:52:39.069 --> 00:52:47.075 So it'll just take you a moment to kind of choose the most popular ones there, yourself, and then you can that's a good starting point in my opinion. 816 00:52:47.694 --> 00:52:50.194 Make so, basically, the solution is, 817 00:52:50.734 --> 00:52:51.474 in short, 818 00:52:51.934 --> 00:52:54.275 don't make the conditions or the procedures 819 00:52:55.055 --> 00:52:55.555 categories, 820 00:52:56.090 --> 00:52:57.790 but make them custom fields 821 00:52:58.250 --> 00:52:59.070 custom values. 822 00:52:59.450 --> 00:53:01.230 I think that's a good place to start. 823 00:53:01.610 --> 00:53:07.070 Okay. Because when you specialize in something, then you offer procedures. That makes total sense. 824 00:53:07.290 --> 00:53:10.830 And the conditions that you treat can really be infinite, to be honest. 825 00:53:12.225 --> 00:53:12.725 So 826 00:53:13.025 --> 00:53:17.505 based on your based on your specialty. So I think this would be a good place to start. 827 00:53:17.505 --> 00:53:21.125 You can also have the members add a comma separated list of their 828 00:53:21.505 --> 00:53:22.405 of their conditions. 829 00:53:22.465 --> 00:53:28.849 There's there's a lot of different ways to go about it, but I think that the most straightforward way would would just be like like I mentioned. 830 00:53:29.390 --> 00:53:31.490 I'm definitely gonna do that. Mhmm. 831 00:53:32.030 --> 00:53:37.410 If these specialties are unique enough and broad enough, these could be your top level categories. 832 00:53:38.109 --> 00:53:41.645 And then you can have the procedures and the conditions as sub and sub subcategories. 833 00:53:41.945 --> 00:53:43.405 But they seem like they would 834 00:53:43.705 --> 00:53:47.785 I I don't know I don't know how to classify condition because that's kinda like how someone's feeling. 835 00:53:47.785 --> 00:53:50.905 Again, that could be infinite, somebody's can what what a condition is. 836 00:53:50.905 --> 00:53:53.405 So you probably wanna just do the most popular ones. 837 00:53:54.105 --> 00:53:54.605 Mhmm. 838 00:53:55.670 --> 00:53:56.890 Will there be any 839 00:53:57.190 --> 00:54:00.570 issues with SEO if I use custom values instead of categories? 840 00:54:01.430 --> 00:54:02.550 No. Because you can 841 00:54:03.430 --> 00:54:04.730 one, you could later, 842 00:54:05.910 --> 00:54:08.650 you know, inject the the custom values, 843 00:54:09.055 --> 00:54:13.395 sprinkle them into the metadata and title titles if they're that high value 844 00:54:13.855 --> 00:54:17.315 to be part of of different areas of your SEO. So, 845 00:54:17.855 --> 00:54:21.450 once it's part of the member's profile, there are methods to add those, 846 00:54:21.849 --> 00:54:26.030 to sprinkle them around the site or more specifically on the member's profile 847 00:54:26.410 --> 00:54:28.270 to help enhance the SEO further. 848 00:54:28.890 --> 00:54:29.950 K. And 849 00:54:30.410 --> 00:54:31.710 helps add more custom 850 00:54:32.089 --> 00:54:35.465 value more unique content to the member's profile page as well. 851 00:54:35.465 --> 00:54:40.365 So that also helps with SEO because now they're adding more content just by checking a few boxes, 852 00:54:40.665 --> 00:54:42.125 when they're setting up their profile. 853 00:54:42.825 --> 00:54:46.925 Great. And then with that search results question mark q equals, 854 00:54:48.309 --> 00:54:57.530 then I can say in a at the end of an article or a blog post, I can say, looking for practitioners who specialize with or who help with depression, click here. 855 00:54:58.309 --> 00:54:58.809 Exactly. 856 00:54:59.109 --> 00:55:02.730 Now your internal link right, and that is definitely good for SEO. 857 00:55:03.234 --> 00:55:04.295 Heck, yeah. Okay. 858 00:55:04.435 --> 00:55:08.615 I do have one more question, but if you wanna move on to someone else, you can totally do that. 859 00:55:08.994 --> 00:55:12.115 Yeah. Let's move I appreciate the questions. Let's move on to someone else, though. 860 00:55:12.115 --> 00:55:16.110 Thank you for those. Those are really good questions. Alright. Good stuff there. Alright. 861 00:55:16.110 --> 00:55:18.130 We do see a few hands up here. 862 00:55:18.830 --> 00:55:20.350 We'll see. I see a new name here. 863 00:55:21.150 --> 00:55:23.010 I'm gonna mispronounce this. I apologize. 864 00:55:23.310 --> 00:55:23.810 Saje. 865 00:55:24.430 --> 00:55:27.410 There we go. Saje. Can you hear me? Saje. 866 00:55:27.950 --> 00:55:30.450 Saje. Okay. Sorry about that. I apologize. 867 00:55:30.845 --> 00:55:33.244 How are you today? Oh, no. You're welcome. I'm good. 868 00:55:33.964 --> 00:55:35.984 So my directory is 869 00:55:36.684 --> 00:55:39.025 seniorsindex.com, 870 00:55:39.964 --> 00:55:40.464 and 871 00:55:41.085 --> 00:55:41.565 I've got 872 00:55:42.525 --> 00:55:44.144 so I'm trying to do a specific, 873 00:55:44.910 --> 00:55:48.049 like, just for the state of Alabama seniors index 874 00:55:48.589 --> 00:55:49.890 where we list 875 00:55:50.589 --> 00:55:51.089 basically 876 00:55:51.390 --> 00:55:52.290 all the, 877 00:55:53.230 --> 00:55:54.130 like, caregivers, 878 00:55:54.910 --> 00:55:57.809 the assisted livings, nursing homes. So I've loaded, 879 00:55:58.655 --> 00:55:59.555 and I've got 880 00:55:59.935 --> 00:56:01.315 over 800 something, 881 00:56:01.935 --> 00:56:02.435 members 882 00:56:02.815 --> 00:56:05.234 where they could come in and claim their file. 883 00:56:05.775 --> 00:56:07.075 And I'm doing it 884 00:56:07.615 --> 00:56:08.994 with a board 885 00:56:09.295 --> 00:56:11.315 of marketers in that industry, 886 00:56:12.200 --> 00:56:14.220 and they each little 887 00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:15.099 category 888 00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:19.420 has a form that they would like for people to fill out. 889 00:56:19.720 --> 00:56:21.660 So my question is, like, 890 00:56:22.200 --> 00:56:26.220 how do you like, if someone wants to send a message or something 891 00:56:26.755 --> 00:56:30.695 to an assisted living versus if they wanna send a message to 892 00:56:31.155 --> 00:56:31.655 a 893 00:56:32.515 --> 00:56:33.655 home health person, 894 00:56:34.115 --> 00:56:35.734 how can you make that form 895 00:56:36.994 --> 00:56:38.135 different for each 896 00:56:38.680 --> 00:56:39.180 category? 897 00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:45.500 I got you. So in this case, you're gonna wanna take advantage of what we mentioned before. 898 00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:47.420 And when people sign up, 899 00:56:48.040 --> 00:56:49.820 you're gonna want to pin 900 00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:55.085 or at least have a set of member plans that are pinned to a top level category. 901 00:56:56.185 --> 00:56:57.885 Did you catch that part of the webinar? 902 00:56:59.225 --> 00:57:02.605 No. I I kinda got in late because I'm driving back doing a presentation 903 00:57:03.705 --> 00:57:05.785 on the website, so about the website. So 904 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:15.100 So so in short, what you wanna do is you can preselect the top level category when someone signs up to a specific membership plan. 905 00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:16.920 Okay. So that's number one. 906 00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:21.580 Now we know that that category is is kind of for a set of membership plans. 907 00:57:21.855 --> 00:57:23.235 Let's say you have three membership 908 00:57:23.695 --> 00:57:24.675 for assisted living, 909 00:57:25.855 --> 00:57:28.915 and they're gonna be they're reflecting the top level category. 910 00:57:29.535 --> 00:57:30.835 Also, in the member 911 00:57:31.135 --> 00:57:31.635 settings, 912 00:57:32.015 --> 00:57:33.075 you can choose 913 00:57:34.015 --> 00:57:34.755 the sidebar, 914 00:57:35.375 --> 00:57:36.675 say, on their profile. 915 00:57:37.020 --> 00:57:42.320 So the what you'll do is you'll fill you'll create alternate sidebars for the different membership 916 00:57:42.620 --> 00:57:46.160 levels. So you wanna clone you wanna go to, toolbox, 917 00:57:47.260 --> 00:57:48.400 sidebar manager, 918 00:57:50.015 --> 00:57:51.475 and you're gonna wanna clone 919 00:57:52.175 --> 00:57:56.495 your member profile page. Where do we have it here? Member profile page. 920 00:57:56.495 --> 00:58:03.555 You wanna customize it and then clone it, like, two times or however many categories you're gonna have you need a different sidebar for. 921 00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:05.380 So assisted living, 922 00:58:06.240 --> 00:58:06.740 nurses. 923 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:13.760 And the last part is now that you have different sidebars, you need different forms to drop in to the different sidebars. 924 00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:15.620 So you're gonna go to your form manager, 925 00:58:16.145 --> 00:58:19.105 and you're gonna clone the lead form to get matched form. 926 00:58:19.105 --> 00:58:22.085 And you're gonna clone it however many times that you need, 927 00:58:23.025 --> 00:58:25.204 you need it. Let me show you here. So, 928 00:58:25.744 --> 00:58:28.565 this is the website get matched form. 929 00:58:29.210 --> 00:58:32.589 Excuse me. It's the website lead form get matched. There's some 930 00:58:32.890 --> 00:58:36.589 extras here we don't really use anymore. It's website lead form get matched. 931 00:58:36.890 --> 00:58:40.965 Go ahead and customize this. Clone it however many times you need to, 932 00:58:41.365 --> 00:58:48.485 and and then add the the different fields for the different categories for assisted living or nurses to each of those forms. 933 00:58:48.485 --> 00:58:52.025 And then drop the custom forms into the the respective sidebars. 934 00:58:52.485 --> 00:58:53.705 So clone the forms, 935 00:58:54.010 --> 00:58:54.830 clone the sidebars, 936 00:58:55.290 --> 00:58:57.550 and then assign the different membership plans 937 00:58:57.850 --> 00:59:01.550 the sidebar that they should have with the form that should be in that sidebar. 938 00:59:01.610 --> 00:59:03.450 So it's kind of a three step process. 939 00:59:03.450 --> 00:59:06.750 It's just a lot of pointing and clicking, and you're basically cloning, 940 00:59:08.045 --> 00:59:14.625 cloning the sidebars and cloning the the get matched form and then modifying that form based on the category, 941 00:59:14.925 --> 00:59:18.385 that you're gonna serve. So it's a few steps in that process, but, 942 00:59:18.685 --> 00:59:21.025 it's it's still very straightforward there. 943 00:59:21.720 --> 00:59:23.340 So it's a good question there. 944 00:59:24.600 --> 00:59:27.660 Alright. Let's move on, to our good friend Ryan. 945 00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:31.420 Ryan's always got good news for us and good things to say. How are you doing, Ryan? 946 00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:32.520 Hey. Good. 947 00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:37.855 I just wanna give a quick, alternate, thing for that last, question about putting stuff on the home page. 948 00:59:38.635 --> 00:59:41.615 We've done it before where we did use it as categories, 949 00:59:42.234 --> 00:59:44.415 and the way to do that is to put the, 950 00:59:45.035 --> 00:59:45.775 the specialty, 951 00:59:46.395 --> 00:59:49.855 the condition, and the procedure as the subcategory question, basically, 952 00:59:50.319 --> 00:59:53.700 and then have the the actual ones underneath that as the subcategory. 953 00:59:54.240 --> 00:59:56.819 And then the the reason that usually works good is, 954 00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:03.220 if if it's all one directory and they're all clinicians or doctors anyway, the the other it's more descriptor. 955 01:00:03.839 --> 01:00:09.195 The reason the category says descriptors as opposed to, you know, actual categories because they're all they're all doctors. 956 01:00:09.975 --> 01:00:10.635 And so 957 01:00:11.015 --> 01:00:16.795 what you can do is use the the sidebar filter and the search with the, you know, the sub and sub subcategory, 958 01:00:17.655 --> 01:00:19.435 search filters, and it works good. 959 01:00:19.580 --> 01:00:28.700 But they can just select multiple things like which procedure do you want, which condition, and which specialty, and then it'll filter out based on all three of those settings, if that makes sense. 960 01:00:28.700 --> 01:00:29.200 So, 961 01:00:29.900 --> 01:00:33.855 we we did that for one client. If you wanna pull it up just as a demo, 962 01:00:34.255 --> 01:00:36.275 it's on myneedsnetwork.com. 963 01:00:36.895 --> 01:00:39.795 But it kinda shows that process of using the, 964 01:00:40.655 --> 01:00:44.815 that example of the the questions as the categories, if that makes sense. 965 01:00:44.815 --> 01:00:49.810 And then you can kinda output them on the main page, kinda like what she was looking for. 966 01:00:50.430 --> 01:00:52.930 But you can also use the cyber filters as well. 967 01:00:53.870 --> 01:00:54.370 Yes. 968 01:00:54.910 --> 01:00:57.250 Actually, you you bring up a really good point there. 969 01:00:57.870 --> 01:01:03.325 I shared Ryan's website. Ryan is is a a partner in the Brilliant Directories mark marketplace, 970 01:01:04.185 --> 01:01:09.385 with and he's with Directory Toolkit. So I shared a link to, to directorytoolkit.com 971 01:01:09.385 --> 01:01:10.345 if you want to. 972 01:01:10.345 --> 01:01:14.605 Michelle was asking, basically, if you wanna get in touch with Ryan about about that method. 973 01:01:15.700 --> 01:01:17.320 Anything else you wanna share, Ryan? 974 01:01:17.860 --> 01:01:18.660 Nope. That was it. 975 01:01:18.660 --> 01:01:23.700 I was just saying she you know, the what she was going down the route for categories does work, and we've used it before. 976 01:01:23.700 --> 01:01:24.200 So 977 01:01:24.900 --> 01:01:26.660 just a different pick one after the other. 978 01:01:26.660 --> 01:01:29.860 It just depends on, you know, if you wanna use the categories for something else. So 979 01:01:31.194 --> 01:01:31.694 Absolutely. 980 01:01:32.075 --> 01:01:35.135 Alright. Well, thank you for sharing, Brian. Always good to hear from you as well too. 981 01:01:36.075 --> 01:01:37.615 Alright. Actually, Brian, 982 01:01:38.635 --> 01:01:42.954 give me a couple more ideas, for you, Michelle, and, actually, this this is good for everyone. 983 01:01:42.954 --> 01:01:45.454 There is another brilliant directory add on, 984 01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:47.400 and this one is pretty cool. 985 01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:51.180 It might work in this case for those conditions or just just in general. 986 01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:52.700 It's called, 987 01:01:55.640 --> 01:01:57.099 keywords for categories. 988 01:01:57.480 --> 01:01:59.180 So if you have a category 989 01:01:59.815 --> 01:02:01.755 such as and let me go to, 990 01:02:03.255 --> 01:02:04.475 if you have a category 991 01:02:04.935 --> 01:02:05.435 called, 992 01:02:06.055 --> 01:02:06.555 acupuncture, 993 01:02:07.655 --> 01:02:08.475 you could 994 01:02:08.775 --> 01:02:10.315 assign additional keywords. 995 01:02:10.695 --> 01:02:13.195 So those the keywords could be the conditions, 996 01:02:14.310 --> 01:02:16.970 that would warrant the procedure or the specialty. 997 01:02:17.430 --> 01:02:23.130 So if someone so if you added acid reflux as a condition for 998 01:02:23.590 --> 01:02:24.090 whatever, 999 01:02:25.190 --> 01:02:26.010 let's see, 1000 01:02:26.825 --> 01:02:28.744 for an and and and the and endo 1001 01:02:29.224 --> 01:02:31.325 I can't even pronounce it. A gastroenterologist, 1002 01:02:32.105 --> 01:02:34.365 then if someone searched acid reflux, 1003 01:02:34.744 --> 01:02:36.204 they would find all the gastroenterologists. 1004 01:02:36.825 --> 01:02:38.605 So let me show you where that is. 1005 01:02:39.390 --> 01:02:41.710 When you have this add on, it's really cool, actually. 1006 01:02:41.710 --> 01:02:46.369 Basically, alternate keywords for finding that category. So, here's the word member, 1007 01:02:46.829 --> 01:02:48.849 and here's related keywords. 1008 01:02:49.150 --> 01:02:49.950 Let's put, 1009 01:02:50.349 --> 01:02:52.450 let's put something like asthma, 1010 01:02:54.265 --> 01:02:56.125 and let's actually do it for a subcategory 1011 01:02:56.505 --> 01:03:03.085 here. So, for sublevel category one, we're gonna put asthma. Let me remove it. Save it there. 1012 01:03:04.265 --> 01:03:05.085 So now, 1013 01:03:07.550 --> 01:03:08.050 k, 1014 01:03:08.430 --> 01:03:13.790 if we search for asthma, we're gonna find all the members who are part of sublevel category one. 1015 01:03:13.790 --> 01:03:17.490 We're gonna cross our fingers and hope so. So let's do that together. 1016 01:03:19.805 --> 01:03:22.224 So we'll search asthma and we'll do a search, 1017 01:03:23.484 --> 01:03:25.744 and it didn't work the way that I wanted it 1018 01:03:27.244 --> 01:03:28.224 to. Okay. Well, 1019 01:03:29.005 --> 01:03:32.845 I have to see why that is. Maybe it was some of the the auto suggest settings and whatnot. 1020 01:03:32.845 --> 01:03:34.720 Let me, search here asthma. 1021 01:03:35.500 --> 01:03:38.460 Yeah. It should it should work, but we're on a webinar and it's not. 1022 01:03:38.460 --> 01:03:47.119 But this might be another workaround for you for related keywords, and you can pin them to your subs, subsubs, and even top level categories. 1023 01:03:47.595 --> 01:03:49.055 This is also good for misspellings. 1024 01:03:49.355 --> 01:03:51.775 So if you have a category called doctor 1025 01:03:52.395 --> 01:03:58.335 and you can put common misspellings, maybe someone puts an a r or, you know, whatever. 1026 01:03:58.395 --> 01:04:00.415 You know, that way if people misspell 1027 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:07.740 something very close to your category name or they put an s at the end, it will still find that category's results. 1028 01:04:07.880 --> 01:04:13.980 Again, not sure why it's not working on the site, probably because we're in a webinar, but related keywords are really cool, for categories. 1029 01:04:14.120 --> 01:04:16.965 I will drop this, link in here as well. 1030 01:04:18.145 --> 01:04:22.965 Alright. Let's move on. We got some few more hands up here. We got Brian b. 1031 01:04:23.665 --> 01:04:24.805 How you doing, Brian? 1032 01:04:25.185 --> 01:04:26.484 Good. Can you hear me? 1033 01:04:27.025 --> 01:04:29.285 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Where are you calling in from, Brian? 1034 01:04:29.930 --> 01:04:32.030 Right now, I'm up in the White Mountains in Arizona. 1035 01:04:32.530 --> 01:04:33.030 Okay. 1036 01:04:33.530 --> 01:04:37.610 Thanks. So what about a question for us? Is there a way that, 1037 01:04:38.410 --> 01:04:40.910 filter by category and search by location 1038 01:04:41.690 --> 01:04:42.670 can work together? 1039 01:04:43.050 --> 01:04:46.904 Do you guys have, like, a some kind of a, widget that does that? Or 1040 01:04:48.105 --> 01:04:53.325 Yes. By by default, there should be, let's just look at the home page as an example. 1041 01:04:54.345 --> 01:04:55.404 There should be 1042 01:04:55.944 --> 01:04:56.444 a 1043 01:04:57.300 --> 01:04:58.280 location option 1044 01:04:58.740 --> 01:05:00.200 with all of the 1045 01:05:01.060 --> 01:05:04.200 you see here top category plus a location filter. 1046 01:05:04.660 --> 01:05:06.200 Oh, I meant, like, in the sidebar. 1047 01:05:07.540 --> 01:05:11.560 Yes. Sidebar as well. So let's let's go to there. 1048 01:05:12.115 --> 01:05:14.295 And what combination are you looking for? 1049 01:05:14.995 --> 01:05:17.735 If you if you wanna can I show you my site? 1050 01:05:18.355 --> 01:05:22.935 Yeah. What's your site? It's a barandclub.com. 1051 01:05:23.875 --> 01:05:26.215 My g yeah. Love that site. 1052 01:05:27.500 --> 01:05:32.480 And then if you just do forward slash search, you could see what I'm trying to set up on the right. 1053 01:05:33.500 --> 01:05:35.200 Okay. Let's go there together. 1054 01:05:42.785 --> 01:05:46.224 So you see here I have the, search by category and top filter. 1055 01:05:46.224 --> 01:05:51.445 Those are two separate ones, but I was trying to see if if they could do it, like, together. 1056 01:05:53.780 --> 01:05:56.440 I see. So if this is selected, 1057 01:05:56.740 --> 01:05:58.040 like, bed and breakfast 1058 01:05:59.700 --> 01:06:01.300 Yeah. There there's nothing in there. 1059 01:06:01.300 --> 01:06:06.600 A good option to do, like, say you type in the ZIP code, like, 85224. 1060 01:06:08.055 --> 01:06:10.875 Okay. Just a moment. Let's, do that together. 1061 01:06:15.255 --> 01:06:17.675 And then select that and then hit search. 1062 01:06:18.935 --> 01:06:23.595 It'll bring up, like, a hundred and four results. And then if you go scroll down, 1063 01:06:24.869 --> 01:06:25.670 underneath the, 1064 01:06:26.950 --> 01:06:28.170 the nightlife locations. 1065 01:06:29.190 --> 01:06:32.809 Yeah. Nightlife I see here. Because it's nightlife and wine and bar. 1066 01:06:33.109 --> 01:06:37.035 Yeah. So then go down to, like, bar and grill or something like that. 1067 01:06:37.755 --> 01:06:40.655 Okay. Because I have a lot of bar and grills. 1068 01:06:41.914 --> 01:06:46.174 Alright. You're saying it's gonna lose the location when I click this? Yeah. 1069 01:06:49.035 --> 01:06:50.795 Okay. Now it has 320 1070 01:06:50.795 --> 01:06:52.655 results instead of one zero four. 1071 01:06:54.050 --> 01:06:57.110 Right. Let me try one I wanna try one thing 1072 01:06:57.570 --> 01:06:58.470 on your site. 1073 01:06:59.330 --> 01:07:01.110 And if not, I'll it's 1074 01:07:01.490 --> 01:07:04.310 way that we're expecting, like you're like you're expecting. 1075 01:07:05.555 --> 01:07:08.535 Let me go to your sidebar here. 1076 01:07:12.435 --> 01:07:16.295 And I wanna just try a different location module here. 1077 01:07:16.675 --> 01:07:17.175 Okay. 1078 01:07:18.320 --> 01:07:20.340 This is the dynamic one. Okay. 1079 01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:27.140 Oops. Sorry. Let me go to edit post settings. 1080 01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:32.180 Yeah. I wasn't sure if I'm you just using the wrong widgets. Or 1081 01:07:33.435 --> 01:07:34.895 Yeah. Let's just do a quick 1082 01:07:35.195 --> 01:07:36.255 test here together 1083 01:07:36.555 --> 01:07:37.055 and, 1084 01:07:38.395 --> 01:07:40.815 and then we'll see here. So this is the 1085 01:07:41.755 --> 01:07:46.815 the location plus radius. I wanna do just the location 1086 01:07:47.195 --> 01:07:48.175 only one. 1087 01:07:48.690 --> 01:07:49.190 Okay. 1088 01:07:50.450 --> 01:07:52.790 That is there should be one 1089 01:07:53.970 --> 01:07:56.790 there should be one for just the location searched, 1090 01:07:57.410 --> 01:07:58.550 keyword only, 1091 01:07:59.170 --> 01:07:59.990 top category 1092 01:08:00.369 --> 01:08:04.435 only. Are my eyes missing it? Do we not have a location only, subcategory 1093 01:08:04.815 --> 01:08:05.315 only? 1094 01:08:08.095 --> 01:08:12.195 We do not. I'm just gonna switch it to keyword and location just quickly. 1095 01:08:12.575 --> 01:08:13.075 Okay. 1096 01:08:13.935 --> 01:08:14.435 And 1097 01:08:15.415 --> 01:08:17.955 I don't care that we need a location only. 1098 01:08:21.040 --> 01:08:21.939 Search field. 1099 01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:24.819 Okay. Sidebar for search. 1100 01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:25.859 Okay. 1101 01:08:26.399 --> 01:08:27.779 That's pretty straightforward. 1102 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.979 Alright. Let's go back to your site real quick. 1103 01:08:33.915 --> 01:08:35.694 Okay. What was that ZIP code again? 1104 01:08:36.074 --> 01:08:37.614 85224. 1105 01:08:40.074 --> 01:08:40.574 K. 1106 01:08:43.514 --> 01:08:46.094 And let me quickly go to, 1107 01:08:46.635 --> 01:08:47.135 locations. 1108 01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:50.380 And then bar and grill. Yeah. 1109 01:08:52.520 --> 01:08:53.020 Okay. 1110 01:08:53.960 --> 01:08:58.859 Yeah. If you can do me a favor, and if you can show this to the support team, they should 1111 01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:03.020 they'll make a project card and update the logic so that 1112 01:09:03.875 --> 01:09:04.535 if additional 1113 01:09:04.915 --> 01:09:10.055 category filters are selected, it will add it to the search, not override the previous 1114 01:09:11.635 --> 01:09:13.015 search. Yeah. It will it will 1115 01:09:13.395 --> 01:09:18.720 keep the location even if it would keep the keyword, the location, and then also do the category stuff. 1116 01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:23.939 So that way you could have a location plus these filter by category options. 1117 01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:26.819 Yeah. And then I had another quick question. 1118 01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:30.100 You see how, like, you have all the filter by categories? 1119 01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:32.660 It would be nice if you could, like, 1120 01:09:33.085 --> 01:09:39.425 you know, hide one because I don't wanna show members, but, like, I actually have members on there, but I don't wanna show them. 1121 01:09:39.965 --> 01:09:42.704 I you know what I'm saying? Like, be able to 1122 01:09:43.085 --> 01:09:45.264 choose to hide or show certain 1123 01:09:45.564 --> 01:09:47.104 categories would be nice. 1124 01:09:48.500 --> 01:09:50.760 Got it. Like, you have this one here that says members? 1125 01:09:51.220 --> 01:09:53.620 Yeah. Because those are I basically have, 1126 01:09:54.580 --> 01:10:00.420 people that sign up, and then they can, like, favorite their favorite places and all that stuff. 1127 01:10:00.420 --> 01:10:03.335 Right? But I don't I don't want them visible to the public. 1128 01:10:03.335 --> 01:10:07.835 So I've tried to hide everybody I can or hide everything I can, 1129 01:10:08.535 --> 01:10:09.035 but 1130 01:10:09.815 --> 01:10:11.515 you can't hide certain things. 1131 01:10:13.335 --> 01:10:15.195 Yeah. I'm thinking a good place 1132 01:10:15.660 --> 01:10:17.020 for this would be in 1133 01:10:17.660 --> 01:10:22.400 let me switch this back for you, by the way. Okay. Back to the location radius. 1134 01:10:24.620 --> 01:10:27.440 I'm thinking a good place for that would be under member categories. 1135 01:10:28.140 --> 01:10:29.360 And when you have the 1136 01:10:29.805 --> 01:10:30.545 ring add 1137 01:10:31.085 --> 01:10:33.025 on, it's having a checkbox here 1138 01:10:33.645 --> 01:10:38.065 to hide from the dynamic filtering. So that way, you're gonna select 1139 01:10:38.765 --> 01:10:39.425 to hide 1140 01:10:39.965 --> 01:10:41.344 from the dynamic filtering. 1141 01:10:42.199 --> 01:10:43.580 Would that be what 1142 01:10:44.040 --> 01:10:45.260 Yeah. That would be great. 1143 01:10:46.760 --> 01:10:47.980 Yeah. Okay. 1144 01:10:49.320 --> 01:10:49.820 Okay. 1145 01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:53.400 Yeah. So the current logic, it's just set up when you click on it. 1146 01:10:53.400 --> 01:10:56.280 It just focuses on the dynamic categories you're selecting. 1147 01:10:56.280 --> 01:11:03.095 So it kind of, if you have an alternate search module, it's not kinda respecting what was previously entered, but it should, in my opinion. 1148 01:11:03.095 --> 01:11:11.195 So that way, you can have multiple search modules and the dynamic filter will just continue with with the expand on the search that was already conducted. 1149 01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:12.540 Right. Exactly. 1150 01:11:13.640 --> 01:11:16.460 Okay. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah. Thank you. 1151 01:11:18.280 --> 01:11:18.780 And 1152 01:11:19.080 --> 01:11:23.800 site is amazing. Always got good tips as well. How we doing on time here? 1153 01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:25.659 I'm just a little over time. 1154 01:11:26.605 --> 01:11:28.864 See here. We got Evan with his hand up. 1155 01:11:29.165 --> 01:11:30.545 Evan, how are you doing today? 1156 01:11:30.925 --> 01:11:32.284 Hey. Good, Jason. Hey. 1157 01:11:33.244 --> 01:11:35.185 Silly question maybe. I have a, 1158 01:11:35.804 --> 01:11:39.005 Colorado based site called colorado.net, 1159 01:11:39.005 --> 01:11:39.505 and 1160 01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:42.020 I am giving getting, several 1161 01:11:42.719 --> 01:11:43.460 for free, 1162 01:11:44.719 --> 01:11:45.460 sign ups 1163 01:11:46.400 --> 01:11:50.420 that are coming through that I need to just delete. So is there a way to restrict, 1164 01:11:51.360 --> 01:11:53.940 the for free sign ups to a specific geography? 1165 01:11:56.645 --> 01:11:59.305 Okay. So this is this comes up a lot. 1166 01:12:02.085 --> 01:12:07.065 Let me let me throw it to you this way. Let's say I live in Colorado, but I'm in vacation in France. 1167 01:12:07.700 --> 01:12:10.120 What are you gonna you're gonna block me from signing up? 1168 01:12:10.500 --> 01:12:11.880 If I you know, so 1169 01:12:12.340 --> 01:12:14.500 so when you have free sign ups, 1170 01:12:14.820 --> 01:12:19.080 and your site gains even a little bit of traction, we've covered this in previous webinars. 1171 01:12:19.220 --> 01:12:20.360 There's, like, SEO 1172 01:12:20.935 --> 01:12:26.075 They're looking for free places to list their clients on the net to create profiles for them. 1173 01:12:27.335 --> 01:12:28.555 You have a few options. 1174 01:12:29.335 --> 01:12:32.315 You can moderate and set the profiles to moderate. 1175 01:12:32.615 --> 01:12:33.835 So you can, 1176 01:12:35.010 --> 01:12:38.630 like, you can encourage them to sign up for free and just let them know that, 1177 01:12:39.489 --> 01:12:43.090 your every profile is gonna be moderated, that it matches this criteria. 1178 01:12:43.090 --> 01:12:46.469 So don't even waste your time if if you don't meet this. 1179 01:12:47.215 --> 01:12:56.435 That's also good because then your visitor you can advertise it as, like, some verification process you do for your visitor's safety that you've you've taken an extra step. 1180 01:12:56.655 --> 01:12:58.415 And also some of the members might like it. 1181 01:12:58.415 --> 01:13:08.840 The Colorado like, your actual Colorado members might appreciate that that that you're actually putting up some some red tape so that not anyone can join and and take over the site. 1182 01:13:09.940 --> 01:13:12.520 The other option is to have, like, a $1 option 1183 01:13:12.980 --> 01:13:17.925 where anyone who legitimately wants to join your site, they will certainly do so. 1184 01:13:18.545 --> 01:13:19.425 Those are the two things. 1185 01:13:19.425 --> 01:13:28.565 It's it's either moderating the sign ups, and then when they're accepted to the site, have to send a special email, you know, with confetti and everything that lets them know 1186 01:13:29.380 --> 01:13:30.360 that they're accepted, 1187 01:13:31.380 --> 01:13:33.240 or charge a charge a buck. 1188 01:13:33.700 --> 01:13:34.200 Yeah. 1189 01:13:34.660 --> 01:13:36.540 A nominal fee. Yeah. That makes sense, Jason. 1190 01:13:36.540 --> 01:13:39.800 I appreciate that that the both of those sound reasonable. 1191 01:13:40.500 --> 01:13:44.295 Yeah. We charge a dollar to keep the riffraff out. You could say that in the nicest way possible. 1192 01:13:46.535 --> 01:13:48.795 Okay. Thank you. I appreciate you guys. 1193 01:13:49.255 --> 01:13:51.515 Other than the way Alright. Thank you, Evan. 1194 01:13:52.054 --> 01:13:52.935 Yeah. Good stuff there. 1195 01:13:52.935 --> 01:13:57.675 Unwanted sign ups are pretty common when you have a site with a a free listing option. 1196 01:13:59.380 --> 01:14:11.220 You can edit your HT access area where you don't allow traffic to your site from certain regions, but, again, like, people are all around the world world doing different things and using VPNs and who knows what. 1197 01:14:11.220 --> 01:14:11.720 But, 1198 01:14:12.455 --> 01:14:21.435 I think moderation or charging a nominal fee is is some people actually like the the free sign up to their site if they're if they're serving all business categories in all locations. 1199 01:14:22.055 --> 01:14:26.635 They welcome it. But if you're a this is a really nice site. It's serving the Colorado area, 1200 01:14:27.050 --> 01:14:30.110 and you wanna keep it nice and tidy for your visitors and your members. 1201 01:14:30.730 --> 01:14:32.190 It's a good question there, Evan. 1202 01:14:32.890 --> 01:14:33.710 Alright, guys. 1203 01:14:34.890 --> 01:14:37.210 Let's see here. We are a little bit over time. 1204 01:14:37.210 --> 01:14:41.465 If I didn't get to your question today, please ask it in the Facebook group. 1205 01:14:41.465 --> 01:14:44.665 We'll backtrack a little bit here. David, amazing job with these slides. 1206 01:14:44.665 --> 01:14:48.685 We now know how to set up a site with one top level category. 1207 01:14:49.545 --> 01:14:50.764 Amazing lab updates, 1208 01:14:51.304 --> 01:14:53.370 coming soon. 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