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Alright, BD family.

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It's great to be with everyone here for another edition of webinar Wednesday, tips to help grow your online

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community.

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We're reaching the end of the year. It's been a wonderful 2022. It's been even more enjoyable,

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with you guys here in the webinar and in the Facebook group.

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So big shout out to you guys and big thank you to the BD community,

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for not only staying positive, but for keeping us going here.

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We definitely appreciate you guys very much.

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If this is your first time joining webinar Wednesday,

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welcome. I am Jason there on the left, and we're always lucky to be joined by David Rocklin,

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the digital strategist and so much more here at Brilliant Directories.

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David, thanks so much for, helping us put this webinar together and for joining us today.

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Hey, everybody. Glad to be back with you for webinar one hundred and forty seven.

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Got a great tip of the week coming up.

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Should be useful for everybody along with, some updates as usual.

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Fantastic and awesome.

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Also important to know, we are streaming on YouTube live today.

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you can catch us live on YouTube right now.

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The best part about streaming on YouTube live means that the replay is instantly available after the webinar,

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encourage you guys to join and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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And also on the social side of things, we also encourage you to join our Facebook group.

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Every day there's more and more amazing discussions started in there, people working on their membership websites, asking questions or sharing ideas.

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I'm in there myself and I highly recommend everyone take a moment to join us there.

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You can go to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook

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and click on the blue join button. Of course, everyone

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is welcome.

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And just some news from the community,

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last month in November, we had an iPad

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giveaway contest. We also gave away some Amazon gift cards and a free lifetime website plan,

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but we had a grand pot grand prize winner located in Southern Australia, South Australia,

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Rick Nuske. I apologize if I say your last name incorrectly, but, Rick, congratulations

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on winning the iPad and, he joined in on the fun and sent us a photo,

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of the iPad that he received in the mail.

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We'll probably do one,

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well, we do them from time to time. I think this was the third time we did an iPad giveaway

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this week but all this happens in our Facebook group so all the more reason to join

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the BD Facebook group and the community in there. I think we're close to 10,000

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members in that group.

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Again, there's lots of buzz and activity in that group, lots of great discussions so we definitely encourage everyone and invite everyone to join us there.

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Congratulations Rick on your win.

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And we do see a few new names and faces here joining in on the webinar.

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Tom and Trisha, welcome. Tess, good to see you.

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Rich,

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a long time favorite here at BD, also Ryan and Sharon

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and from the BD team, Sherilyn

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and so many more. Good to see you here on the webinar. Agnes and Billy, I see some new names there.

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Webinar Wednesday is a great way for us to share some of the newer features we build into the platform week after week.

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Sometimes we do some, you know, small patches or updates or fixes. They're not really noteworthy,

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but within the webinars, we try to pull out the features that you can take actionable steps on to help you grow your community a bit quicker.

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So we cover topics such as how to increase traffic,

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convert visitors into

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free or paid members, improving your website's navigation,

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and a lot more. So, we're gonna try to get to as many questions as we can in this webinar.

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If you have questions or need help with your membership site, we'll take questions in just a bit.

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So just save them. It can be on these topics or anything else related to your membership website.

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Okay.

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And yeah, the last couple of weeks, there have been a lot of updates behind the scenes and again, these were smaller

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fixes or patches,

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to stability, security and speed.

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So we're just gonna focus on the lab updates on upcoming features, that are soon to come and being built into the BD platform.

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I'll go I'll breeze through this list before we get into the tip of the week.

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At the top here, we have some speed updates coming down the line.

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That's been a huge focus the last year. I wanna give a round of applause to the BD development team,

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for identifying and actually implementing updates that, improve the speed of all BD websites.

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We're now focusing on not only the front end of the websites, but the back end administration area where you manage your site.

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We're working on,

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creating a faster admin area,

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faster saves and things like that,

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as well as delivering more assets from BD's CDN. This is going to help our global users,

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just work on their websites a bit quicker on the front end and on the back end.

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Last month, we introduced,

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a language library,

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before you had, you could always translate your site into whatever language you wanted to but you'd have to go through about 1,500 text labels

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to change that language.

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We thank everyone who stuck with us during those times.

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Right now we have English and Spanish available.

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So with the click of a button, you can translate 99% of your site into Spanish or English by default.

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what's coming up are

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French and German are soon to be released, hopefully this month, before the end of twenty twenty two.

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And we'll continue adding more languages based on demand and popularity

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over time. But we now have a system in place for this.

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And, hopefully by the end of the year, we'll have four main languages, English, German, French, and Spanish available,

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and more moving into 2023.

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Also coming down the line,

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we're seeing more questions and discussions around integrations

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and using brilliant directories,

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API with Zapier or Pabbly,

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or with other third party solutions like ClickFunnels.

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Right now you can import members and you can import leads.

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And what's coming soon is the ability to import posts

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such as job listings, blog articles, events,

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Those types of posts, being able to directly import RSS feeds, or if you have another source,

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where the API can fetch that data and you can pull it right into your BD

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site.

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So what the future of BD actually looks is if you're gonna launch a new BD site, we're gonna ask you, you know, when you start your site, do you have a list of of, members that you want to import into your site?

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And hopefully with a few clicks, you can get that done. Do you wanna add content to your site?

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Job listings, okay. What categories?

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And if you have a feed available, you can quickly populate your site and get things going right off the bat.

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So that's kind of the future vision that we have for BD and how you can add content more quickly into your sites.

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Next on the list here, coupons, we've talked about this in a previous webinar and I have a screenshot I can show you.

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Right now with the easy coupon codes add on, you can create a promotional coupon codes that can encourage member signups

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or upgrades. However, you can't create coupon codes for one time payments such as digital products,

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when members are using the pay per post feature, or when members are purchasing leads.

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Part of the roadblock

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UI interface of how we were gonna handle that, but I do have a screenshot

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of what that's going to look like.

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So when you're creating a promo code, and hopefully we'll have this released just at the turn of the new year, probably January or February

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you're gonna be able to choose what can this promo code be used for,

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new sign ups, upgrades, digital products, pay per post, lead purchases.

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And as you check these off, this will be a checkbox options here.

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You'll have options here for what they can be applied to.

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What type of membership plan signups, upgrades, which digital products,

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what type of posts and which members can use them for leads.

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So this should allow you to provide

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kind of more perks to some of your existing members and when they make purchases on your site.

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The next one here also kind of related to finance.

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Right now in the finance tab, you can see all the itemized transactions

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listed in the transaction history tab. You can see successful

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refunded payments.

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We're gonna add a new search setting which will allow you to search by active or ended subscription.

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So if you have people on monthly cycles,

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you can see

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you can search probably like the previous month and see which ones of those subscriptions are active or ended.

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It can give you a better sense of your churn rate on your website and I also have a screenshot of what that's going to look like.

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This is a little close-up here but when you're searching,

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your transactions, you can search by billing cycle and what's going to be new here is the ability to search by the subscription status as well.

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So if you wanna search for all your monthly subscriptions

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that have ended,

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you can do that and see how many people you lost, for example, last month in November.

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You can see which ones are still active and that you expect to, collect on, as recurring,

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So this should give you a better sense of your churn and a better idea of the pulse of who's active and who's ended on your website from a financial standpoint.

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And lastly,

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members always have the ability to close their accounts

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themselves.

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Right now when they close their accounts, they go through their member dashboard, they click on the button that says I wanna close my account and the account is closed instantly.

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However, in the Facebook group, there were some suggestions.

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If somebody has paid for the month and they wanna close their account, we should give them the option to close the account immediately

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or close it at the end of the amount they've already paid for.

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So we're gonna update the UI here a bit.

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And when a member goes into their dashboard and they wanna close their account,

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if they have a paid subscription and they're already paid through, for example, December 15,

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they'll have two options,

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close the account immediately or close the account but close it,

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till the, through the, time that you've already paid for it. In this example, December,

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fifteenth.

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Also in the same vein here, we're gonna look at tackling prorated upgrades and downgrades

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at the beginning of twenty twenty three, and that should close the loop on people closing their account or changing their plans,

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with all that logic. So we'll be sure to keep you guys posted

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as those updates are available.

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And then lastly,

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tons more more than I can mention here. Speed, security and stability updates

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are definitely on the way and a big shout out to you guys in the BD community, your support tickets,

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Facebook group discussions,

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even complaints and issues and things like that help us make the platform better for everyone.

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We definitely want everyone to have a good experience on the platform and it's only a matter of time before we have all the features everyone has been asking for.

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So, definitely wanna say thank you to you guys. And with that,

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David, if it's all right with you, I will pass things over and we can go over this tip of the week, which is really good best practices,

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optimizing images to improve your website speed.

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Absolutely. You know, images play a huge role as I'm sure we all know in, the user experience

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on any website.

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But some thought does need to go into which images are being utilized on the website,

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both not only for, the visual experience of the member, but also in terms of,

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the image file sizes, dimensions, all that sort of stuff that really affects load times, SEO, as well as a few other things.

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So we'll dive into this. It's a pretty simple presentation,

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but definitely a lot of useful tips, to kind of keep in the back of your mind as you're building out and updating your website, adding images, all that sort of stuff.

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first things first, we know that images are important to any sort of experience,

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especially high quality ones.

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Images that, relate well, not only to the target audience, but also to the content that's on either the website or the individual web page.

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Those high quality images end up drawing attention. They can elicit some sort of emotion

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in the, visitor.

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We definitely wanna make sure we're using as high quality images as possible,

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and background images, for example, probably the most common one that we're all familiar with at least on BD sites, the main hero image on the homepage.

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That really creates an atmosphere, sets the stage

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almost for,

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the experience,

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that the website visitor will have on the website. It gives them a good idea,

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aside from the supporting text, what the website

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is about. So, we definitely wanna make sure we're using high quality,

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meaningful

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images on our sites and our pages.

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However,

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a lot of sites

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use images that are just way too large

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for the purpose that they're being used for.

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They might be high quality, but there's some things that we can do, to really optimize them.

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Even if an image is super high quality,

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if the dimensions of it, for example, or even just the file size,

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is too high,

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that can really affect the page load times, which ultimately leads to a poor user experience.

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And, we can see that, you know, ourselves just by visiting the site as we're building it or updating it.

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But also slow load times actually can affect your SEO.

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Google and other search engines,

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they have begun to favor websites

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that serve content rapidly to the visitor.

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Websites that load slow and images play a large role in that most of the time,

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typically end up getting pushed further down,

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in search results.

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Images, even though it's something we might not think about a whole lot with regards to SEO, it certainly does play a role.

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Just just to clarify a few things. High quality images, it doesn't mean like,

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pixel enormous image. Like the the the bigger the image size, the higher the quality it is.

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What we mean are,

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attractive images that have sharp photography,

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that are clean,

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it's easy to digest what's happening inside the image,

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whether it's to elicit an emotional reaction or if it's a navigation cue for the website.

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So when we say high quality, we don't necessarily mean like the biggest file size, that's actually the opposite.

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So, when we hear high quality, you just want images that are sharp, the pictures look good and clear,

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and it's adding to the website experience. Again, either eliciting emotion

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or helping with the navigation,

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the user with their navigation of the website. And that's a good segue into this slide here.

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Going along with those

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high quality images,

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we don't necessarily want them to be overly large both in terms of dimension and also file size.

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for images that would take up the entire width

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of the website,

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again, think of the hero image on the homepage of your BD site.

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we'll wanna shoot for a width dimension wise of about 2,000 pixels

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typically no need to have them any wider than 1,200 pixels, really even a thousand might be pushing it in many cases.

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below a hundred kilobytes.

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Also here on the homepage, as Jason is showing, we have some smaller images.

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both length and height. Again, depends on the placement.

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In terms of file size, 50 kilobytes for these, is kind of the the maximum we wanna shoot for.

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And all of these recommendations are certainly possible, and we'll share some, some tips and and free online tools if, you know, you're not familiar you don't know how to edit photos or you don't have any software for it.

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We'll show you how to do all of that here. And the reason we wanted to show these is normally,

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a lot of us are getting our images from stock photo websites. There's a million of them out there.

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right there, you can solve a lot of your problems with images if if you're downloading the right size or the right size range of images

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from these stock photo websites or anywhere else you're getting your images on, the Internet.

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You don't I know we're all we all feel like we need that the largest size that they make available, but again, we don't need that because it's it's just overly large,

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for the web page or even for what the user needs it needs it for as it's displayed on the actual website.

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going into some free online tools that we can use to optimize the images that we're using on our websites.

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The first one here that we've listed is a free tool that you can use to resize

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your photos or your images.

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typically the dimensions are extremely large, several thousand pixels in either direction,

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which we typically don't need. So, if we can make those images smaller dimension wise,

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then we certainly want to, and we can use

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this free resizetwiloveimage.com.

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reduce the dimensions of the photo, the length and width pixel wise, but it would reduce the actual file size, how much storage

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the, the image file itself takes up.

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short for imageoptimizer.

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This is something a lot of us don't really think about and aren't aware of, but there's several different types of files

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for images.

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I think we're all pretty familiar with JPEG and PNG

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file types for images,

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This has become much more prevalent. Google was really the one who spearheaded this file type

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the file size of the images without any loss to the quality.

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Again, no loss to quality and a dramatic

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reduction in file size, sometimes even up to, like, 75%.

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So it's certainly useful. Not only would that save

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in terms of, website storage and bandwidth usage,

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because that page is delivering a smaller file size image, that'll speed up the load time for your pages as well.

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So there's a few different free tools online that you can use to do this.

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And you don't need to use all of these and or any of them. If you have one image on a page,

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and the page is loading fine on your mobile device and your and your desktop,

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then you're all good.

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But if you're trying to edge your speed scores and things like that, then you'll probably wanna take one or all of these into consideration.

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And we're gonna show you how you can use these tools and the reason we're sharing these free tools

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is not everyone has Photoshop on their computer or Adobe Illustrator

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or any other high level image cropping or optimization tools.

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their images are not affecting their website speeds and actually helping,

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their website speeds. Also bonus, let me go to this next slide here.

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Yeah, we have this, I'll go through this slide here David. Important to note,

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the BD platform

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already optimizes

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that are uploaded by the members.

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You don't have to worry about those.

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size for the website.

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Also, these tips that we're talking about, they're mainly for when you're uploading images directly into your media manager.

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So you upload an image into your media manager and then you select to use it as like a hero background image or within the web page builder and things like that.

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And we're gonna cover that in just a moment. And then lastly, if you don't wanna do any of this,

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we did another webinar on a shortcut using a free tool called ImageKit.

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They have a great freemium plan,

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and this will optimize image delivery,

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and serve all your images in that format that David just mentioned, web p, automatically.

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And I think if I just search for speed

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in our blog here, you have five ways to rocket boost your website speed.

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This talks about some of the optimization settings built into the Brilliant Directories platform.

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But the last thing here at nineteen minutes, you can fast forward or excuse me.

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At ten minutes here, we talk about using ImageKit.

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It's a third party tool, but it serves your images in web p format automatically.

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You guys can check that out. I just put a link in the chat.

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This is only for images you're uploading into the media manager or anywhere else you're using.

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If you have a WordPress site or using other sites on the Internet, there's definitely plugins and things like that, but this is for novice users.

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If you're just doing things on your own, these are best practices for you guys to follow and just be aware

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and conscious of the fact that 8,000 pixel images are not appropriate,

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So what we have here now is we're gonna look at a live website example, a before and after of a website,

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just their homepage with four images on it,

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using overly large images and we're gonna optimize those images and see the difference in the speed scores, for the site.

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So let's take a look here.

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This is the example website, our webinar demo site.

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couple looking for a house, moving into their apartment and a couple walking by another house.

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this site, and it's because of the images, we're gonna fix that. We can see that the performance,

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sixty three and eighty six on GTmetrix.

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that images are contributing to about seven megabytes of load time.

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total or or even smaller if possible. And we can see here just four images are contributing to 35%

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of the memory or file size

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of this page.

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So let's reload this page real quick and we can see here I'm reloading and the background image took a while to download.

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for a minute. Let's take a look at this image for for a moment. So here's the image on its own.

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I can this is how big the image is we can see here

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and, I'm just gonna use all three of these so we all get an idea of how they each work.

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So there's a link there. So So I'm gonna select an image from my computer

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and let's go here. Here is that eight

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by 2,100,

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way too big. Let's just bring this down to 2,000

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and it should auto update. There we go. It just did the height on its own maintain aspect ratio

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and let's click resize image

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and it's gonna allow me to download the resized image. Okay, great.

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imageoptin.com/online.

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do all the optimization online.

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So what this is gonna do is if you ever take a picture on your iPhone, you'll notice that that image has metadata attributed to it.

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and it's got tons of other information associated with that photo and that information

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adds to the files overall file size of the image when you upload it to your website, any website.

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So what we're gonna do here is

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we're gonna go to ImageOpton. I know it's a JPEG.

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If you don't know, it doesn't matter and you can choose if you want the quality to be low, medium or high.

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Honestly, medium or high works fine. You know, even in this case, let's just keep it as high.

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So we're gonna click browse. We're gonna choose now that one megabyte

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house copy image and once you select it, you're done.

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savings right there. So we now we have the same image

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Now what we're gonna do, it's still a JPEG. I wanna convert it to a WebP format.

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I've made it 2,000 pixels.

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They have some kind of a limit. It's free.

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I'm gonna choose web p and we're gonna convert that.

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they throttle it a little bit and, it's already done. So now we're down to 61 kilobytes

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instead of 8,000 kilobytes, which is eight megabytes. I'll go ahead and download this.

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Eight megabytes, change the the dimensions to something appropriate, brought it down to one megabyte,

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here. So let's upload this to

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the design settings to the media manager and we're gonna run the speeds to test score one more time.

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And this is just the one hero image, which usually the hero background image, there's only one on a page.

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We're adding the 60 kilobyte image here and we're gonna select this, the images are the same as far as the way they look.

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We'll even do a before and after.

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We can see there was no delay now. I'm I'm I'm hard refreshing here.

451
00:30:01.065 --> 00:30:03.804
There's barely a delay in getting this image where before

452
00:30:04.105 --> 00:30:05.565
when it was the older image,

453
00:30:05.945 --> 00:30:10.125
we were seeing a gray space for a moment and it's even slower on mobile devices.

454
00:30:11.865 --> 00:30:13.890
Let me just right click here. Yep.

455
00:30:13.890 --> 00:30:19.910
We can see here it's loading the WebP image, and we can see the dimensions here, 2,000 by 656.

456
00:30:20.290 --> 00:30:22.390
And this one, the dimensions were

457
00:30:23.010 --> 00:30:24.050
6,700

458
00:30:24.050 --> 00:30:25.570
by 2,198.

459
00:30:25.570 --> 00:30:26.070
And

460
00:30:26.535 --> 00:30:29.835
I do see a small difference in image quality, to be honest,

461
00:30:30.295 --> 00:30:31.915
but not a tremendous amount.

462
00:30:32.375 --> 00:30:34.955
And again, it's we took it through three different tools.

463
00:30:36.135 --> 00:30:39.815
And again, you you don't have to use all of them. You could just use a few of them if you wanted to.

464
00:30:39.815 --> 00:30:42.990
But let's run this speed test again. Now there were still

465
00:30:43.530 --> 00:30:51.789
these three images down here that are not optimized, but just from updating the hero image, which was the largest one, let's see how that affects the speed score here.

466
00:30:51.929 --> 00:30:54.910
And this is a great website gtmetrix.com.

467
00:30:55.315 --> 00:30:59.255
There's a lot of speed testing tools out there. Are they all amazing?

468
00:30:59.795 --> 00:31:05.475
No. They all have their own biases towards what they favor as as good speed scores and different.

469
00:31:05.475 --> 00:31:11.409
Google has their testing tool, but it's a good idea to get just a pulse of an overall

470
00:31:11.710 --> 00:31:17.330
pulse if there's any major outliers on the web page or your website that should or could be improved.

471
00:31:17.710 --> 00:31:22.210
So we can see here and I can open the old one in another tab just from changing that image.

472
00:31:23.625 --> 00:31:26.265
We're we're back to performance 95.

473
00:31:26.265 --> 00:31:32.605
You know, these these are all good scores here, and we can even get higher scores by up updating those other three there.

474
00:31:33.705 --> 00:31:37.085
The fully loaded time went to one point three seconds.

475
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.299
So image load is now eight ninety five kilobytes

476
00:31:42.080 --> 00:31:43.860
compared to when it was

477
00:31:44.639 --> 00:31:46.000
7.35

478
00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:46.500
megabytes.

479
00:31:46.639 --> 00:31:52.100
That's gonna be hard on a mobile device to download that especially if you're not on five g or connected to WiFi.

480
00:31:53.575 --> 00:31:59.515
I don't think I need to go through the, this is already a good score here, through the other images but that is the basic idea,

481
00:32:00.295 --> 00:32:06.090
for optimizing large images and again, you only need to do this if you seem, if you don't know if you have a

482
00:32:06.809 --> 00:32:11.070
high file size. If you're unsure, you can go to your media manager

483
00:32:11.610 --> 00:32:16.250
and it should show you the size of the images. Let me see here if we go to list view. Yeah.

484
00:32:16.250 --> 00:32:20.909
If you so you can toggle grid view and list view, this is good to know. And it says the size.

485
00:32:21.135 --> 00:32:26.595
So we can see here eight megabytes, that would be a red flag as opposed to 62 kilobytes,

486
00:32:27.615 --> 00:32:31.235
and so on and so forth. So if we're looking at our

487
00:32:31.855 --> 00:32:37.520
standards here, if we have it just in the back of our mind of this this the file size is the important thing.

488
00:32:37.520 --> 00:32:41.680
Dimensions are helpful in achieving a good file size. That's the most important.

489
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:46.820
But, you know, for for background images, hero background images, we want 50 to 200 kilobytes.

490
00:32:47.644 --> 00:32:51.585
And we see that here in the in the background image here. It's 62

491
00:32:51.885 --> 00:32:52.385
kilobytes.

492
00:32:53.644 --> 00:32:55.585
And we could even turn on ImageKit

493
00:32:56.205 --> 00:32:59.105
to, further improve the, load times.

494
00:32:59.580 --> 00:33:01.440
Yeah. So as as we were mentioning,

495
00:33:01.820 --> 00:33:04.059
you can use ImageKit on a site.

496
00:33:04.059 --> 00:33:09.360
I I did share the link to the blog article, but let me I have a quick let me see here.

497
00:33:09.419 --> 00:33:10.240
Just a moment.

498
00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:15.465
I'm not gonna go through the whole setup for ImageKit, but when you enable it, let's see how this,

499
00:33:16.245 --> 00:33:17.865
enhances the image delivery.

500
00:33:18.245 --> 00:33:21.605
You would go to your you would set up an ImageKit account, and then,

501
00:33:22.485 --> 00:33:28.184
you would just paste the, the link for the optimized images here in your advanced settings.

502
00:33:28.750 --> 00:33:32.529
Alright. And let me just go to the website and make sure that that's enabled.

503
00:33:32.669 --> 00:33:35.730
If we go here now, these should be loaded from ImageKit,

504
00:33:36.429 --> 00:33:42.270
and they are and, they are see, these are really large images. They're 2,007

505
00:33:42.270 --> 00:33:44.210
pixels wide. That's not necessary.

506
00:33:44.804 --> 00:33:48.184
However, let's run the speed test tool one more time here,

507
00:33:48.565 --> 00:33:49.065
and,

508
00:33:49.365 --> 00:33:50.985
we'll give that a second.

509
00:33:51.445 --> 00:33:53.065
And did I share a link

510
00:33:53.445 --> 00:33:57.445
to no. I did not. Let me share a link to convertt0.

511
00:33:57.684 --> 00:33:59.225
Convertio.c0

512
00:33:59.610 --> 00:34:01.610
as well as convertcloud.com.

513
00:34:01.610 --> 00:34:04.510
They kinda do the same thing as far as converting

514
00:34:05.130 --> 00:34:08.030
your PNG and JPEG images to a WebP format.

515
00:34:08.730 --> 00:34:10.750
Okay. Great. Let me I can go back here.

516
00:34:11.210 --> 00:34:14.750
So we had a c score before any optimization.

517
00:34:15.635 --> 00:34:16.594
Then we had

518
00:34:17.234 --> 00:34:21.974
did I mess this up here? I wanted to go I think I did mess this up here.

519
00:34:22.114 --> 00:34:24.775
Trying to find the order of pages that I had.

520
00:34:24.915 --> 00:34:29.060
Well, anyways, nonetheless, now we've reached a % structure,

521
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:31.140
with that most recent,

522
00:34:31.600 --> 00:34:33.300
with using ImageKit here.

523
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:45.415
This is good you know anything in the high eighties or in the nineties is definitely a good sign that the website is at least doesn't have any major offenders with regard to its speed,

524
00:34:46.915 --> 00:34:48.375
or anything that's causing

525
00:34:48.755 --> 00:34:49.895
page load lag

526
00:34:50.355 --> 00:34:51.335
on the site.

527
00:34:51.875 --> 00:34:52.375
So,

528
00:34:53.555 --> 00:34:57.830
that's basically it. Just to be a little aware of image sizes on your site.

529
00:34:57.830 --> 00:35:06.170
It's a good best practices especially I know not all of us are web designers but we're managing our websites so it's important to keep that in mind.

530
00:35:06.470 --> 00:35:09.930
And with that, we have plenty of time in the webinar today.

531
00:35:10.310 --> 00:35:17.095
We can take any questions about the tip of the week, any of the updates that we mentioned, or if you need help with your,

532
00:35:17.555 --> 00:35:23.895
membership website, we can definitely dive in and see if we can, spend a couple minutes to help you help you out there.

533
00:35:24.200 --> 00:35:28.360
Alright. Looks like Teresa has her hand up. Let me, unmute your mic there.

534
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:29.420
How are you doing, Teresa?

535
00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:34.060
Jason, is it? Yes. It is. Hey. Hi. Hi. Thank you. Thank you.

536
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.780
So I had my site suspended by Google for whatever reason.

537
00:35:39.115 --> 00:35:44.095
So I was able to research it and get it back up to par, and it's now been, back on Google.

538
00:35:44.475 --> 00:35:47.915
So I'm wondering if you can take a look at my site and let's,

539
00:35:48.795 --> 00:35:49.535
take a look.

540
00:35:49.995 --> 00:35:52.015
Absolutely. What is their website name?

541
00:35:52.795 --> 00:35:54.575
Notarytoday.pro.

542
00:35:55.539 --> 00:35:56.039
Notary

543
00:35:56.579 --> 00:35:59.720
no. Sorry. Notarytoday.pro?

544
00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:00.440
Yes.

545
00:36:00.740 --> 00:36:05.880
And what was the reason they gave you for for taking it out of or for deindexing it, basically?

546
00:36:06.740 --> 00:36:11.155
They said it was a it went against the, the policies, and I don't know why.

547
00:36:11.615 --> 00:36:13.795
What was wrong with that? Okay.

548
00:36:14.175 --> 00:36:18.675
I had to give him, like, copies of my lease and, with this registration.

549
00:36:19.615 --> 00:36:20.115
Okay.

550
00:36:20.495 --> 00:36:24.670
Let's see here. Everything looks looks good here. I'm noticing something here.

551
00:36:24.670 --> 00:36:26.610
I'm gonna make a note of this.

552
00:36:27.710 --> 00:36:29.090
I know why that's happening.

553
00:36:29.550 --> 00:36:30.910
We're gonna I'm gonna fix that.

554
00:36:30.910 --> 00:36:36.030
That's because you're using circle buttons, but the circle buttons don't work so good in in that situation.

555
00:36:36.030 --> 00:36:40.215
Let me Oh, okay. That's not your fault. That's something BD should fix.

556
00:36:40.515 --> 00:36:42.135
Okay. Click social

557
00:36:42.435 --> 00:36:44.295
login buttons, blend

558
00:36:44.675 --> 00:36:45.175
circle.

559
00:36:46.595 --> 00:36:47.875
Its site looks great.

560
00:36:48.675 --> 00:36:51.335
Let's see from an SEO perspective real quick.

561
00:36:51.950 --> 00:36:52.450
Your

562
00:36:52.829 --> 00:36:56.690
notary public professionals network computer find it notary public professionals

563
00:36:57.309 --> 00:36:57.809
network.

564
00:36:58.990 --> 00:37:05.329
Networks is good you may want to use the word a directory in there or local those are those are also good keywords.

565
00:37:06.695 --> 00:37:08.795
I would recommend if visually,

566
00:37:09.975 --> 00:37:12.155
your main menu items if you

567
00:37:12.615 --> 00:37:13.115
could

568
00:37:13.415 --> 00:37:20.490
because some of them are one one line and some of them are two lines maybe try to find words that that can get them all on one

569
00:37:20.869 --> 00:37:21.349
line. Okay.

570
00:37:21.829 --> 00:37:28.470
Because the main one, it adds height to the main menu, which which can be avoided and and it's taking up some real estate on the page.

571
00:37:28.470 --> 00:37:31.464
And two, it'll just be a little bit more uniform. Okay.

572
00:37:31.625 --> 00:37:34.685
So maybe this could just say, like, notary or just conferences.

573
00:37:35.385 --> 00:37:35.885
Okay.

574
00:37:36.185 --> 00:37:39.085
I like the SEO of what you did, conference for notaries,

575
00:37:39.785 --> 00:37:41.805
things like that or notary events,

576
00:37:42.984 --> 00:37:45.405
things like that. So, yes, single line there.

577
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.500
You may wanna center this. It looks like it's right aligned.

578
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:49.700
Oh, okay.

579
00:37:50.160 --> 00:37:53.060
We can which can we do that together real quick? Absolutely.

580
00:37:53.520 --> 00:37:54.420
Yes, please.

581
00:37:54.720 --> 00:37:59.204
Just a moment here. We can maybe do a couple things. I'm a little bit sad.

582
00:37:59.345 --> 00:38:03.365
When did, how how has your site been received by the notary community?

583
00:38:04.545 --> 00:38:08.724
Received well. I had we had our first conference this year in November.

584
00:38:09.265 --> 00:38:13.105
Very good. And how are you recruiting? Are you using any strategies to

585
00:38:13.809 --> 00:38:19.270
specific strategies to recruit new members or to make I'm learning as I go along.

586
00:38:19.730 --> 00:38:26.369
Okay. Very good. So if we go to the home page here, yes. Right align. We can center align now. Okay.

587
00:38:26.369 --> 00:38:26.869
Gotcha.

588
00:38:27.734 --> 00:38:32.214
It this is good. I like I like this. Are you a member of notary today?

589
00:38:32.214 --> 00:38:34.394
Join notary you're giving them three

590
00:38:34.694 --> 00:38:35.194
calls

591
00:38:35.494 --> 00:38:36.234
to action.

592
00:38:37.095 --> 00:38:41.355
But would join now and become a notary. What is the difference between these two?

593
00:38:41.930 --> 00:38:47.950
Join now is to join the, join join our community and become a notary is to become an actual notary public.

594
00:38:48.490 --> 00:38:52.990
Ah, okay. Okay. So this is for someone who's interested in become In becoming a notary. To start

595
00:38:53.370 --> 00:38:57.685
a not a career, but at least to get become a notary. Yes. Yeah. Mhmm.

596
00:38:58.225 --> 00:39:00.145
Okay. Okay. Those are good.

597
00:39:00.305 --> 00:39:08.005
Maybe a little bit more clarity between join now and become a notary, because they're both asking you to kind of, you know,

598
00:39:08.625 --> 00:39:09.525
start something.

599
00:39:09.984 --> 00:39:10.885
Yeah. Okay.

600
00:39:11.230 --> 00:39:17.310
Or may and instead of request a notary, you could personalize it to I need a notary now. Okay.

601
00:39:17.550 --> 00:39:22.370
Something like like that. That's something that speaks a bit more to the website visitor.

602
00:39:22.750 --> 00:39:23.250
Gotcha.

603
00:39:24.905 --> 00:39:28.985
Welcome to our space. I understand what's going there. You might wanna take it.

604
00:39:28.985 --> 00:39:33.005
You have a really good name. You might wanna say welcome to notary today here.

605
00:39:33.305 --> 00:39:33.805
Okay.

606
00:39:34.425 --> 00:39:35.625
I understand what you were saying.

607
00:39:35.625 --> 00:39:38.845
You know, this welcome to the notary space is what you're going to.

608
00:39:40.140 --> 00:39:42.240
Also, I see the the homepage

609
00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:45.819
is focused on the on that you're helping notaries here.

610
00:39:45.819 --> 00:39:52.619
So this website is more for helping it's a b to b helping notaries, not only for the consumers to find notaries.

611
00:39:52.619 --> 00:39:53.599
Is that correct? Correct.

612
00:39:54.405 --> 00:39:58.425
I see. Upcoming event. These are upcoming notary events. Correct? Correct.

613
00:39:58.965 --> 00:40:05.225
Okay. This is a good place to put a keyword. You might wanna say, upcoming notary events here. Okay.

614
00:40:05.365 --> 00:40:06.105
That's good.

615
00:40:06.405 --> 00:40:07.945
Latest notary news

616
00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:12.400
instead of industry news. Gotcha. Good way to sprinkle some

617
00:40:12.859 --> 00:40:14.480
some more long tail keywords,

618
00:40:15.099 --> 00:40:20.160
on the home page. And here instead of members directory, you could say notary directory.

619
00:40:20.694 --> 00:40:21.194
Gotcha.

620
00:40:22.214 --> 00:40:23.194
Research and connect

621
00:40:23.494 --> 00:40:23.994
with,

622
00:40:24.454 --> 00:40:27.914
our professional notary or whatever the word is for them. Okay.

623
00:40:28.375 --> 00:40:33.530
This is great spotlight notary. You're doing a showcase on a specific member here. I love that.

624
00:40:33.530 --> 00:40:37.550
Are you are you at, offering this as a boost or complimentary

625
00:40:38.010 --> 00:40:39.390
or hand selected?

626
00:40:40.090 --> 00:40:42.750
Offering that at both, boost and hand selected.

627
00:40:43.290 --> 00:40:43.790
Wonderful.

628
00:40:44.170 --> 00:40:48.675
And you've wrote and you've written, like, a spotlight article on on this person here. Yeah.

629
00:40:48.675 --> 00:40:54.295
I'm I'm sure they love it and I'm sure they share it on their social media when they're focused on your website.

630
00:40:54.675 --> 00:40:57.335
Very smart. We've spoken about that in previous webinars.

631
00:40:58.835 --> 00:41:03.335
Here also instead of newest members, another good place to use the word notary.

632
00:41:04.619 --> 00:41:11.359
But now we have members there who are not notary public, but within the notary public field, like attorneys,

633
00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:16.640
professional providers of maybe business offices.

634
00:41:17.295 --> 00:41:23.535
And I like So relate okay. But and notaries themselves. So I see here. Notary Notary Public. Yes.

635
00:41:23.535 --> 00:41:24.035
Mhmm.

636
00:41:24.494 --> 00:41:24.994
Okay.

637
00:41:25.454 --> 00:41:28.674
So maybe just some more context of of newest members.

638
00:41:30.050 --> 00:41:35.349
Like, I have I have a question, Jason. Is there a way to only feature Notary Publics here?

639
00:41:35.810 --> 00:41:38.390
How how can I do that in the back end?

640
00:41:38.690 --> 00:41:43.215
Yes. There in the back end, you do have one option to limit there.

641
00:41:43.535 --> 00:41:47.235
Let me show you a couple, but let me show you. So you have the streaming members.

642
00:41:48.255 --> 00:41:53.235
What you can do is if you have, you should have a membership plan just for

643
00:41:53.535 --> 00:41:55.075
the notaries if you want.

644
00:41:55.455 --> 00:41:58.675
Oh, okay. I don't have that now. Okay. Okay.

645
00:41:59.070 --> 00:42:01.890
Yeah. There's a there's that way,

646
00:42:02.990 --> 00:42:08.910
or you can hand select people to the but that then it's not dynamic. Let me figure out a better way.

647
00:42:08.910 --> 00:42:10.370
I think that's a great suggestion,

648
00:42:10.925 --> 00:42:15.825
because you can limit by membership plan, but if you could also limit by category here, that would

649
00:42:16.205 --> 00:42:20.205
that would make that a little bit more use Go back go back there. Tell me what,

650
00:42:20.685 --> 00:42:21.585
this level,

651
00:42:22.445 --> 00:42:26.280
behind that. One one, let me just make a note here for that.

652
00:42:27.140 --> 00:42:28.359
Streaming members,

653
00:42:29.619 --> 00:42:33.720
filter by category as well. That's that's actually a good suggestion.

654
00:42:33.940 --> 00:42:35.480
And then what were you saying here?

655
00:42:36.420 --> 00:42:36.660
If,

656
00:42:38.065 --> 00:42:43.345
display additional information? Display top level category? Okay. No. That wasn't it. Okay. Yeah.

657
00:42:43.345 --> 00:42:47.045
This just decides what to show in that area. Okay. Gotcha. Okay.

658
00:42:47.425 --> 00:42:49.365
Overall, Theresa, I think your website's

659
00:42:49.665 --> 00:42:53.720
looking great. The home page is the most important. I think you're you're 90%

660
00:42:53.720 --> 00:42:54.220
there.

661
00:42:55.160 --> 00:42:58.940
Just with a little bit more uniform and uniformity and focus.

662
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:05.819
And then just as long as the internal pages that you click on make sense as well, you should be in a good place.

663
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:06.619
Okay.

664
00:43:07.135 --> 00:43:08.495
Alright. And you can watch this replay.

665
00:43:08.495 --> 00:43:13.295
I know I mentioned a lot of suggestions, but you can slow it down in the in the webinar replay if you need to.

666
00:43:13.295 --> 00:43:14.595
Okay. I have notes.

667
00:43:14.975 --> 00:43:19.295
Okay. Cheers, Theresa. Great work. Thank you. You're welcome. Alright.

668
00:43:19.295 --> 00:43:20.835
Good stuff there from Theresa.

669
00:43:21.350 --> 00:43:24.810
Alright. Let's see who else has, their hands here. Our good friend, Colette.

670
00:43:25.350 --> 00:43:26.490
How are you doing, Colette?

671
00:43:27.030 --> 00:43:32.330
Oh, you're self muted there. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. How are you? Long time no chat.

672
00:43:32.630 --> 00:43:37.015
Yeah. Yeah. Doing well. How are you doing? We're good here. Thank you. Great.

673
00:43:37.475 --> 00:43:41.015
Good. Jason, just a question about page speed.

674
00:43:42.195 --> 00:43:47.415
I've been optimizing a number of pages, but there's one particular page I just cannot seem to

675
00:43:47.795 --> 00:43:48.535
get dry.

676
00:43:49.770 --> 00:43:52.110
Shall I paste it in the chat there?

677
00:43:52.410 --> 00:43:56.430
Yeah. Put it put it put it in your chat here and I should be able to copy and paste it.

678
00:43:56.970 --> 00:43:59.870
Okay. We can find out who the culprit might be.

679
00:44:00.410 --> 00:44:01.950
Yeah. It seems to be a JavaScript

680
00:44:02.250 --> 00:44:02.750
issue.

681
00:44:04.255 --> 00:44:04.654
And,

682
00:44:05.055 --> 00:44:10.015
I just can't seem to get it right. So I'd really like your help there. Let's take a look here.

683
00:44:10.015 --> 00:44:11.715
Let's go to the page first together.

684
00:44:12.415 --> 00:44:14.595
Okay. This is a profile page

685
00:44:14.974 --> 00:44:15.474
and

686
00:44:16.255 --> 00:44:18.115
I have a few things loading here.

687
00:44:19.250 --> 00:44:21.190
Events map is is

688
00:44:21.730 --> 00:44:25.030
we're working on optimizing this. I would recommend removing this,

689
00:44:25.730 --> 00:44:32.875
from the member's profile page sidebar and maybe just putting a link saying, like, check out upcoming events,

690
00:44:33.655 --> 00:44:34.955
just right off the bat.

691
00:44:35.575 --> 00:44:37.755
I think we've optimized this recently.

692
00:44:38.615 --> 00:44:42.714
I have to check. But let's let's go to the page speed here, GTmetrix.

693
00:44:43.820 --> 00:44:47.200
I like this one because it gives a waterfall breakdown of, like, what's contributing,

694
00:44:47.580 --> 00:44:51.680
like, based on file size or the order things are loading. Gets a little more granular.

695
00:44:52.460 --> 00:44:54.380
Yeah. I get about 45

696
00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:58.320
there, but on the the Google page speed, I only get, like, 11.

697
00:44:58.935 --> 00:45:04.075
Okay. We can maybe dissect here, and then we can maybe use a trial a trial and error thing.

698
00:45:04.615 --> 00:45:09.195
This ad thing that you're using, I've seen it on your site. I don't like it too much,

699
00:45:10.615 --> 00:45:11.435
because it

700
00:45:11.750 --> 00:45:17.290
you see how it delays the load and then it pops in like this. We need to set a width and height,

701
00:45:18.710 --> 00:45:21.349
for the outer div that it's inside of.

702
00:45:21.670 --> 00:45:29.185
Then then it then it won't move because when it after it loads, it pushes everything down, and that's called like a cumulative cumulative

703
00:45:30.045 --> 00:45:34.785
layout shift. The the layout of the page gets shifted after load.

704
00:45:35.405 --> 00:45:37.485
But let's see here. Yeah. 46%.

705
00:45:37.485 --> 00:45:38.925
This, let's see here in

706
00:45:39.680 --> 00:45:43.440
let's see what it is. So JavaScript is the main contributor here.

707
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:47.360
So we can go to the waterfall and we can look at your JavaScript and see what

708
00:45:48.640 --> 00:45:51.140
can we try by removing that calendar first?

709
00:45:51.520 --> 00:45:54.500
Yeah. Sure. Okay. Let's let's do that together.

710
00:45:54.905 --> 00:45:55.724
Just a moment.

711
00:45:56.585 --> 00:45:57.724
Okay. Here we go.

712
00:45:58.025 --> 00:46:01.244
So, let's go to your sidebar manager.

713
00:46:01.785 --> 00:46:08.045
And, this person here, do you have multiple member profile options? Be on the activities one.

714
00:46:08.520 --> 00:46:14.520
Activities one. Okay. Yeah. Let's see. That's seventh done. It looks like this oh, there we go.

715
00:46:14.520 --> 00:46:15.900
Activity side okay.

716
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:19.500
I'm just curious that it might be this events calendar.

717
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:21.580
And then what is this Facebook?

718
00:46:21.954 --> 00:46:22.615
I see,

719
00:46:23.234 --> 00:46:27.655
the member Facebook feed and then this SC Facebook. This is your Facebook.

720
00:46:28.194 --> 00:46:30.934
That can stay. The member Facebook feed can go.

721
00:46:31.315 --> 00:46:34.915
Okay. Because that I don't have an activities. Yeah. Let's just leave it.

722
00:46:34.915 --> 00:46:36.615
Let's just try those two things

723
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:40.040
and see how that works. And let me check out,

724
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:46.940
I also before I run this this speed test one more time, I wanna see what Google page speed is telling us as well.

725
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:47.500
And

726
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:50.760
using both of them together can give us a sense of,

727
00:46:51.365 --> 00:46:53.464
what's probably going on on the page.

728
00:46:53.845 --> 00:46:57.065
The Share This tool also takes up a lot of resources.

729
00:46:58.805 --> 00:46:59.765
I think we,

730
00:47:00.325 --> 00:47:01.525
we optimize the,

731
00:47:02.885 --> 00:47:04.105
the loading of this.

732
00:47:04.839 --> 00:47:05.339
Yeah.

733
00:47:05.720 --> 00:47:09.400
It doesn't seem to affect many other pages, and I've got it on all my pages.

734
00:47:11.240 --> 00:47:16.455
Something specific to these pages. Perfect. That's a little bit This is what I wanna see.

735
00:47:16.535 --> 00:47:17.595
There's something affecting

736
00:47:18.135 --> 00:47:21.915
the block there's something blocking, and it's gonna let us know what that is.

737
00:47:22.215 --> 00:47:23.995
Okay. See the ad plug images

738
00:47:24.775 --> 00:47:25.915
doesn't like those.

739
00:47:26.775 --> 00:47:29.435
But I've got that on every side. So why particularly

740
00:47:29.815 --> 00:47:35.100
this page does it seem to work? We're gonna find out right now.

741
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:36.540
Let's see here.

742
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:37.420
Okay.

743
00:47:38.120 --> 00:47:39.740
Okay. That's fine. I understand.

744
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:41.340
Just a moment.

745
00:47:42.040 --> 00:47:43.260
These are from,

746
00:47:43.935 --> 00:47:45.875
okay, let's run this GTmetrix

747
00:47:46.255 --> 00:47:48.035
again now as well.

748
00:47:48.495 --> 00:47:53.715
Can you also share this page in the Facebook group, Colette? I'll spend another couple minutes here

749
00:47:54.095 --> 00:47:59.460
and then, I think I think we I can see what the culprit is. It's either gonna be this ad plug,

750
00:47:59.780 --> 00:48:01.720
which we can do a delayed load on,

751
00:48:02.900 --> 00:48:07.960
or it's some it's something related to the JavaScript loading on the page, not necessarily the images.

752
00:48:08.180 --> 00:48:14.119
So the JavaScript ad plug is on on all pages, and it's I know it does do that, delay,

753
00:48:14.495 --> 00:48:16.415
which I'd love to sort out. But,

754
00:48:17.055 --> 00:48:18.675
So if we see here,

755
00:48:18.975 --> 00:48:26.275
the performance already jumped up double here from forty six and eighty eight to eighty five and ninety from removing the events calendar.

756
00:48:26.940 --> 00:48:29.820
Yeah. Yeah. That might be it. So that's an improvement.

757
00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:35.520
The JavaScript went from five to five eighty from so not a big deal, but it didn't get hung.

758
00:48:35.900 --> 00:48:39.119
And if we look at the waterfall here in the JavaScript,

759
00:48:39.805 --> 00:48:44.285
Okay. So the share this. I have a way to optimize the share this loading.

760
00:48:44.285 --> 00:48:47.985
If you can share a link in the Facebook group, I'll dive in there later.

761
00:48:48.125 --> 00:48:50.785
And what we do is we lazy load the share buttons

762
00:48:51.245 --> 00:48:51.985
other than,

763
00:48:52.670 --> 00:48:54.850
requiring them to load right away on the page.

764
00:48:55.230 --> 00:48:55.970
And then

765
00:48:56.510 --> 00:49:00.450
let me see. Are you using can I check one more thing for you

766
00:49:00.830 --> 00:49:06.855
on your op your optimization settings on this site? Yeah. Everything looks good here. Yeah.

767
00:49:06.935 --> 00:49:12.315
Share a link. Let's get those to 90 plus. I think we can do that, Colette. Great.

768
00:49:12.615 --> 00:49:17.575
Thanks, guys. You're welcome. That'll be fantastic. Thank you. You're very welcome. Alright.

769
00:49:17.575 --> 00:49:21.915
Good stuff there. Alright. We got Graham. Let me unmute your mic. Graham?

770
00:49:22.310 --> 00:49:25.369
Hello. Can you hear me? Yes. How are you doing? Where are you calling from, Graham?

771
00:49:25.670 --> 00:49:27.850
Hi. I'm calling from Canada.

772
00:49:29.350 --> 00:49:31.930
Yeah. Calling from Canada. In the Yukon.

773
00:49:32.310 --> 00:49:36.170
Oh, okay. The Yukon. Far away. Okay. Over the

774
00:49:36.630 --> 00:49:37.350
over the,

775
00:49:38.445 --> 00:49:41.805
well, I'm gonna say over the years, actually. I've I've seen you use the,

776
00:49:43.565 --> 00:49:46.225
source code option when you right click on a page,

777
00:49:46.685 --> 00:49:47.745
view source code.

778
00:49:48.125 --> 00:49:48.625
Yes.

779
00:49:49.085 --> 00:49:52.145
Yeah. Is there a have you done a webinar on

780
00:49:52.650 --> 00:49:53.390
how to

781
00:49:54.170 --> 00:50:00.990
to optimize the use of that in design of the our sites, or is that something that you could maybe do?

782
00:50:02.089 --> 00:50:02.589
Well,

783
00:50:03.690 --> 00:50:05.789
I usually just use it to see,

784
00:50:07.305 --> 00:50:11.305
well, I do a control u is what I do. You're talking about this here? Yeah.

785
00:50:11.305 --> 00:50:15.725
Because you can also can you not right click and then view source code? I mean, is that not

786
00:50:16.345 --> 00:50:17.645
the same thing or not?

787
00:50:18.585 --> 00:50:23.460
Yeah. Yeah. View source page. Yeah. Every public web page, has the source code.

788
00:50:23.620 --> 00:50:26.760
That's basically what the browser is reading to print the page.

789
00:50:28.100 --> 00:50:28.340
Yeah.

790
00:50:28.340 --> 00:50:33.080
I usually use this just as a quick way if I wanna see the meta titles and descriptions for SEO.

791
00:50:33.220 --> 00:50:37.295
See, we we can see the title of the page and the description and the keywords.

792
00:50:37.515 --> 00:50:41.215
Also, the social media metadata, that's mainly what I use it for.

793
00:50:41.355 --> 00:50:45.855
The only other reason I'd I would go here is if I need to search for a specific element,

794
00:50:46.474 --> 00:50:50.970
like in Colette's example, if I wanted to see if maybe a JavaScript was being loaded multiple

795
00:50:51.849 --> 00:50:58.670
times, I do a I I would do a control f for it and then see if I I find it multiple times in the source code.

796
00:50:58.890 --> 00:51:00.109
Control f. Okay.

797
00:51:00.410 --> 00:51:03.470
Okay. Cool. Because I'd I've I've been aware that that's

798
00:51:04.885 --> 00:51:07.065
available, but I've never known how to

799
00:51:07.445 --> 00:51:08.985
how to use it. And,

800
00:51:09.365 --> 00:51:09.865
I

801
00:51:10.165 --> 00:51:10.645
have

802
00:51:11.065 --> 00:51:16.245
What was it? Yeah. Again, everything I just mentioned is basically, the the three thing.

803
00:51:16.245 --> 00:51:20.345
I just check if I need to check that the social fields are filled out, the title, description, and keywords

804
00:51:20.700 --> 00:51:24.400
description, and keywords very quickly on a page, or the social share information,

805
00:51:25.339 --> 00:51:32.800
or if I'm looking for some specific element on the page that I wouldn't normally find by looking at the the user friendly version of the source code like this.

806
00:51:33.095 --> 00:51:37.835
Okay. So it's not an extra tool that would be of any more use than what we already have?

807
00:51:38.454 --> 00:51:38.934
Correct.

808
00:51:38.934 --> 00:51:43.515
It would mainly be for troubleshooting if something's wrong or if you need to do a quick check.

809
00:51:44.295 --> 00:51:44.795
Okay.

810
00:51:45.095 --> 00:51:45.595
Yeah.

811
00:51:46.220 --> 00:51:49.039
Every page has that even if I went here to the GTmetrix

812
00:51:49.420 --> 00:51:51.520
website and I went to view page source,

813
00:51:52.299 --> 00:51:57.599
unless I was trying to extract or scrape something from here, not much use coming out of here.

814
00:51:57.819 --> 00:52:01.915
Scrape with that's the copy. Right? That would be the copy. Yes.

815
00:52:02.295 --> 00:52:02.795
Alright.

816
00:52:03.175 --> 00:52:05.975
Yeah. That's all. Thanks. Yep. Alright. Cheers. Alright.

817
00:52:05.975 --> 00:52:08.775
Stay warm there in the Yukon Forest, Graham. Alright.

818
00:52:09.095 --> 00:52:13.195
Good questions here. We got our good friend, Rich Casanova. How you doing, Rich?

819
00:52:13.710 --> 00:52:17.010
Hey, Jason. How's it going? Pretty good. Pretty good. Thanks for joining the webinar.

820
00:52:17.310 --> 00:52:19.630
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I love the upcoming features.

821
00:52:20.190 --> 00:52:22.369
Those are really cool, especially on the,

822
00:52:23.150 --> 00:52:24.349
you know, closing account.

823
00:52:24.349 --> 00:52:31.165
So we definitely wanna make sure, you know, the the members get the benefit of, you know, their already, you know, paid subscription.

824
00:52:31.865 --> 00:52:34.625
And, so I like that delayed feature and the,

825
00:52:35.065 --> 00:52:35.965
coupon codes.

826
00:52:36.425 --> 00:52:39.725
Yeah. So those are all coming up in the New Year for the most part?

827
00:52:40.185 --> 00:52:40.585
Yeah.

828
00:52:41.305 --> 00:52:42.045
I'd say

829
00:52:42.540 --> 00:52:48.700
some of these might be a little further out, like January, February, and some of these are gonna be towards the turn of the New Year,

830
00:52:49.340 --> 00:52:50.000
as well.

831
00:52:50.140 --> 00:52:57.200
But these are on the these are on the radar, and I wanted to mention them here because they seem to be more popular in the Facebook group and in support tickets.

832
00:52:57.420 --> 00:52:57.920
Yeah.

833
00:52:58.565 --> 00:53:03.045
I did have a question on one of the features and then a question on our events listing on the site.

834
00:53:03.045 --> 00:53:04.664
But this import post,

835
00:53:06.085 --> 00:53:06.904
and articles,

836
00:53:07.525 --> 00:53:11.384
what's a use case for that, like importing events? I mean, how can we import?

837
00:53:11.750 --> 00:53:15.750
So let's say that sure. Let's say there's another source that has events.

838
00:53:15.750 --> 00:53:18.470
I don't I don't know what, like Eventbrite or Google events.

839
00:53:18.470 --> 00:53:23.369
And then let's say they have an RSS feed. Okay. Right? Or some type of an XML

840
00:53:23.910 --> 00:53:24.410
feed.

841
00:53:24.785 --> 00:53:28.725
You could use that feed to auto populate your site,

842
00:53:30.065 --> 00:53:32.965
with from their feed. So it'll extract the title,

843
00:53:33.665 --> 00:53:34.805
a date, a description,

844
00:53:35.745 --> 00:53:40.630
any, like, maybe a feature photo that's associated with it. So you could basically,

845
00:53:41.330 --> 00:53:43.190
in theory, populate your site

846
00:53:43.730 --> 00:53:46.130
dynamically over time from these feeds.

847
00:53:46.130 --> 00:53:52.310
And if you have several feeds, yours your website can become a beacon or hub of information for the entire industry.

848
00:53:53.315 --> 00:53:56.295
I mean, you don't wanna load your site with trash, but Right.

849
00:53:58.035 --> 00:54:01.414
You know, the the only thing the only thing about that is,

850
00:54:01.714 --> 00:54:05.174
you know, Google doesn't like duplicate content on the Internet.

851
00:54:05.950 --> 00:54:11.090
However, if if that was a concern, you could set those those pages to no index

852
00:54:11.470 --> 00:54:18.370
so they might not rank, but for a visitor searching your site in which your site would be an immense resource for them.

853
00:54:19.325 --> 00:54:22.305
And there's other ways to add unique content to those pages,

854
00:54:23.325 --> 00:54:25.425
you know, even if you're pulling from a feed,

855
00:54:26.125 --> 00:54:27.985
and and things like that. So,

856
00:54:29.005 --> 00:54:33.530
there's lots of use cases for that, but but in effect, or it could be a feed that you own.

857
00:54:33.530 --> 00:54:41.450
Maybe you have a blog somewhere else and you wanna feed that into your BD site as a one time import as you're migrating from, say, WordPress to brilliant directories.

858
00:54:41.450 --> 00:54:42.650
You can you you don't know.

859
00:54:42.650 --> 00:54:52.025
It's not about maybe taking other people's content or feeds, but you can take your own feed and and load it into your BD site if you're if you're migrating from another platform.

860
00:54:52.644 --> 00:54:54.404
Well, yeah, because the events,

861
00:54:54.884 --> 00:54:55.384
import

862
00:54:55.765 --> 00:55:01.460
would be way cool because we have, actually, one of our resource members of our site, they, created a very robust active,

863
00:55:03.140 --> 00:55:04.920
events listing. And it's so,

864
00:55:05.220 --> 00:55:06.099
you know, long,

865
00:55:07.380 --> 00:55:10.900
and we've talked to them about, you know, kind of partnering, and and they're open to that idea.

866
00:55:10.900 --> 00:55:16.525
But if we can just feed in there so the the dumb question is, so is that going, well, two two part.

867
00:55:16.525 --> 00:55:19.825
It doesn't require Zapier then. Right? It's just the API import?

868
00:55:20.365 --> 00:55:26.305
So you can use the b d API is, like, free to use, and it's basically what a developer would wanna use.

869
00:55:26.525 --> 00:55:27.025
Okay.

870
00:55:27.165 --> 00:55:40.400
If you're a novice or a beginner and you just need to point and click, that's why Zapier and Pabbly exist is is for the novice user to do the point and click and their tech takes care of all the marrying the data together.

871
00:55:41.180 --> 00:55:44.320
But if you're a developer and you have the know how, then

872
00:55:44.655 --> 00:55:46.995
you you never even need to use Zapier for anything.

873
00:55:47.375 --> 00:55:48.515
Yeah. Because we use

874
00:55:48.895 --> 00:55:49.715
Ryan from,

875
00:55:50.015 --> 00:55:53.315
you know, directory toolkit, so he can probably help with the API

876
00:55:53.775 --> 00:55:57.775
on for the events. Yeah. That answered it. The other question on this was,

877
00:55:58.370 --> 00:56:05.010
the dumb question was, so as they update their events list, it'll automatically update because it's an RSS feed onto the site.

878
00:56:05.010 --> 00:56:08.150
Right? So the old events will drop off based on their listing?

879
00:56:08.690 --> 00:56:09.010
Correct.

880
00:56:09.010 --> 00:56:13.505
So if an event generally, the lot we've talked about this in previous webinars how we want the logic to work.

881
00:56:13.505 --> 00:56:18.005
But currently, if an event has reached its end date, it's not gonna be searchable,

882
00:56:18.305 --> 00:56:20.325
in the directory. Only upcoming events

883
00:56:20.625 --> 00:56:24.724
will be searchable in the directory at that point. But we've talked about making it

884
00:56:25.140 --> 00:56:27.720
expired event searchable as well. I think we're still exploring

885
00:56:28.180 --> 00:56:30.599
that. Well, I was talking about just the API import.

886
00:56:30.980 --> 00:56:32.599
So if it's coming from their source.

887
00:56:33.140 --> 00:56:35.160
Yeah. So so you can set filters.

888
00:56:35.220 --> 00:56:43.395
So if it's coming from their their source and the end date has our is, like, less than the current date, then, like, you can skip that.

889
00:56:43.395 --> 00:56:47.875
And you can do a lot of if statements within Zapier or or with the API and stuff like that.

890
00:56:47.875 --> 00:56:51.575
Very like, conditional things, like, don't import it if it doesn't have an image.

891
00:56:52.355 --> 00:56:58.069
Or don't import it if the the end date is past, you know, the current date, for for example.

892
00:56:58.690 --> 00:56:59.190
So

893
00:56:59.650 --> 00:57:02.529
so that's great on on the features. Yeah. Definitely look forward to that.

894
00:57:02.930 --> 00:57:06.150
So my question was also tied into events on our site.

895
00:57:06.450 --> 00:57:12.185
So, I can put the link in the chat if you want to if you want. Sure. Sure. That's helpful here.

896
00:57:12.964 --> 00:57:14.505
Yeah. So the question is,

897
00:57:15.845 --> 00:57:18.484
it's the chronological order of the event.

898
00:57:18.484 --> 00:57:22.905
So, like, on our this events page, like, on our events tab,

899
00:57:23.260 --> 00:57:26.060
they're not they're not in order of, you know, of date.

900
00:57:26.060 --> 00:57:32.400
And yet you could go to our home page, or when you go to view them all, they do appear in biological order.

901
00:57:32.540 --> 00:57:33.440
That makes sense.

902
00:57:34.140 --> 00:57:36.000
So that would be controlled

903
00:57:36.795 --> 00:57:39.295
here. This might be what you're looking for.

904
00:57:39.915 --> 00:57:44.255
I could be wrong. You're saying on the search results page, they're not in chronological order?

905
00:57:45.194 --> 00:57:47.694
Or or No. I think in the search phase, they are.

906
00:57:48.155 --> 00:57:50.590
But, like, we have a dedicated page,

907
00:57:51.930 --> 00:57:52.990
just for events,

908
00:57:54.570 --> 00:57:55.710
you know, called events.

909
00:57:56.170 --> 00:57:59.290
And then the link that was the link that I sent you.

910
00:57:59.290 --> 00:58:02.330
You know, that link I didn't I didn't get the link, by the way.

911
00:58:02.330 --> 00:58:10.305
I'm putting it in chat in the webinar chat, not the you know, I can put it in the so if you notice, if you hover over those three events well, those below this, we just manually post those.

912
00:58:10.305 --> 00:58:11.845
But the ones that, you know,

913
00:58:12.545 --> 00:58:17.430
auto populate, if you put if you hover over the first one, the podcast movement, that's March 7.

914
00:58:17.430 --> 00:58:18.970
The next one is January.

915
00:58:19.510 --> 00:58:23.609
And then our events is a reoccurring event. Right. And the next one is?

916
00:58:23.990 --> 00:58:25.369
Well, that's every two weeks.

917
00:58:26.790 --> 00:58:31.290
I'm not that concerned about our event because maybe that's changed with the reoccurring.

918
00:58:31.510 --> 00:58:34.085
But for these are two podcasting events,

919
00:58:34.625 --> 00:58:39.045
and the first one should come up, you know, January and then again then March.

920
00:58:39.105 --> 00:58:43.425
If you hit the view all while you're there, if you hit the view all, you'll notice,

921
00:58:44.145 --> 00:58:47.365
the view all the events, they come up in the right in the correct order.

922
00:58:47.700 --> 00:58:50.520
Okay. Let's check something out together. One moment.

923
00:58:50.740 --> 00:58:53.240
Because that's one of the home page streaming widgets,

924
00:58:54.260 --> 00:58:58.660
but you're you're putting it on a on, like, a landing page or here in the events page. Okay.

925
00:58:58.660 --> 00:59:00.599
So let's take a look at something here.

926
00:59:00.975 --> 00:59:04.835
If we go to your home page, normally, that's for the home page.

927
00:59:05.215 --> 00:59:09.935
And do you have the events listed here? Near the bottom number 11 as it goes. Yeah.

928
00:59:09.935 --> 00:59:12.975
I've tried to manipulate that. You know, first, you know

929
00:59:13.750 --> 00:59:19.930
I think You have it from date posted earliest date. No. So what we want is

930
00:59:20.310 --> 00:59:24.410
start date earliest first. Yeah. I've I've tried. Let's see. So,

931
00:59:24.950 --> 00:59:26.410
a combination of all those.

932
00:59:26.765 --> 00:59:30.145
Okay. Let's see if that affects I'm gonna open this in a duplicate tab.

933
00:59:30.285 --> 00:59:32.225
Well, look what why that happened now.

934
00:59:32.605 --> 00:59:33.665
Yeah. Then

935
00:59:33.965 --> 00:59:36.305
it didn't post any of them. That's interesting.

936
00:59:36.845 --> 00:59:40.065
Yeah. That that happened as well. And then if you switch it to because there's

937
00:59:41.030 --> 00:59:44.170
kind of a little bit redundant. Like, you have date earliest.

938
00:59:44.790 --> 00:59:48.410
Yeah. You don't want date posted. That just means when it was created.

939
00:59:48.790 --> 00:59:53.109
But I'm curious why it disappeared all of a sudden. Let me just refresh this here.

940
00:59:53.109 --> 00:59:54.329
So now these are back.

941
00:59:54.635 --> 00:59:56.095
Yes. You now have it.

942
00:59:56.954 --> 01:00:00.415
So our event comes up, December 15, then the January.

943
01:00:01.275 --> 01:00:05.135
Yeah. I would I would email the support team about that one. So what you want

944
01:00:05.515 --> 01:00:06.895
what you want is this,

945
01:00:08.010 --> 01:00:09.630
start date earliest first.

946
01:00:10.170 --> 01:00:14.910
And Yeah. It shouldn't it shouldn't make this widget disappear because they all have

947
01:00:15.210 --> 01:00:18.030
upcoming start dates. So they're all valid events.

948
01:00:18.250 --> 01:00:23.550
I would email the support team and let them know that when you switch these, this thing goes away, and it shouldn't.

949
01:00:23.825 --> 01:00:29.125
And that should will fix your problem with this. Okay. Seems like a small technical issue here.

950
01:00:29.345 --> 01:00:32.465
Okay. Cool. Alright. Well, appreciate it. Thanks again. Alright. Yeah.

951
01:00:32.465 --> 01:00:36.960
But, just but, yeah, just tell them, like, when you switch this to start date first,

952
01:00:37.520 --> 01:00:41.780
the widget disappears and it shouldn't. That just to give them some context of what's happening.

953
01:00:41.839 --> 01:00:45.700
Okay. Cool. Alright. Good luck there. Thanks for sharing. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you.

954
01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:49.540
K. Alright. We got some hands up as well. Let's see.

955
01:00:50.675 --> 01:00:52.135
We got a Selva here.

956
01:00:52.435 --> 01:00:53.575
How you doing, Selva?

957
01:00:53.875 --> 01:00:55.575
There we go. Okay. Here I am. Okay.

958
01:00:55.955 --> 01:00:58.215
Yeah. I'm sorry. Google Maps don't work in the directory.

959
01:00:58.755 --> 01:01:02.855
How do I how do I make them work? Did did you address that just before I started?

960
01:01:03.180 --> 01:01:07.280
When I started, my, audio wasn't working. So No worries.

961
01:01:07.740 --> 01:01:09.680
What's your website? Let's take a look together.

962
01:01:10.140 --> 01:01:13.599
Desiconnect.ca,desi.

963
01:01:14.140 --> 01:01:18.095
Okay. Great. Thank you for sharing that. Give me a moment. Let's see if we can pull that up.

964
01:01:18.095 --> 01:01:21.155
Yes, please. You're in Canada as well? Yes.

965
01:01:21.615 --> 01:01:22.515
Okay. Great.

966
01:01:22.975 --> 01:01:26.415
I always love that we get a second question there too. Sure.

967
01:01:26.415 --> 01:01:28.835
Is there a template to email claim listings?

968
01:01:29.369 --> 01:01:31.390
So right now, all I have is claim listings.

969
01:01:31.769 --> 01:01:35.869
Sure. The website is about five years old, but then I just let it sit for a while.

970
01:01:36.329 --> 01:01:37.849
Okay. So here,

971
01:01:38.170 --> 01:01:39.789
just a quick thing. In the

972
01:01:40.329 --> 01:01:45.005
the dashboard when you log in, there is a a quick Google Maps API status.

973
01:01:45.005 --> 01:01:49.744
It does show that it's working here. Yeah. But, yeah, the maps don't show.

974
01:01:50.525 --> 01:01:54.444
So, for example, let's see. If we go to a profile page

975
01:01:55.085 --> 01:01:55.585
Mhmm.

976
01:01:56.790 --> 01:01:59.450
Okay. So this person is in Brampton, Ontario.

977
01:01:59.910 --> 01:02:05.110
Yeah. And, also, you said you imported claim listings. Let's see if you've geocoded these members.

978
01:02:05.110 --> 01:02:09.290
They do need a longitude and latitude. So you have geocoded them. Okay.

979
01:02:09.605 --> 01:02:10.724
You have 1,800,

980
01:02:10.724 --> 01:02:12.664
only 40 need geocode. That's fine.

981
01:02:13.525 --> 01:02:17.385
Okay. You need to you need to go to your Google Maps API,

982
01:02:18.005 --> 01:02:20.424
and you need you need to add this

983
01:02:21.045 --> 01:02:22.325
this domain name,

984
01:02:22.850 --> 01:02:25.930
to there, and I can show you how to do that real quick. I don't wanna leave you Please.

985
01:02:26.130 --> 01:02:30.230
Leave you hanging here. So I'll just search, Google Maps API,

986
01:02:31.090 --> 01:02:32.150
brilliant directories.

987
01:02:32.770 --> 01:02:36.550
Okay. It's gonna take us Sky 10, how to enable Google Maps API.

988
01:02:37.615 --> 01:02:41.955
It'll basically show you where you need to go. So we'll go to the Maps platform,

989
01:02:42.895 --> 01:02:44.915
and I'll just click get started.

990
01:02:45.455 --> 01:02:48.255
Okay. Great. So this is, our account here.

991
01:02:48.255 --> 01:02:51.395
Basically, what you wanna do is you wanna go to, I think, APIs.

992
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:53.420
Mhmm. Just a moment.

993
01:02:53.880 --> 01:02:55.420
Let this load for a moment.

994
01:02:55.880 --> 01:02:59.900
Actually, no, that's not where we wanna we wanna go to credentials, excuse me, credentials.

995
01:03:00.839 --> 01:03:01.339
And

996
01:03:01.880 --> 01:03:04.940
then you want to you can go ahead and click on it

997
01:03:05.795 --> 01:03:09.415
and you can follow the directions, but see here the list of websites?

998
01:03:09.955 --> 01:03:13.095
Yeah. I think you've added manage my directory,

999
01:03:13.475 --> 01:03:19.790
but you need to add star. So if you wanna add a new one, you would add star Is it gonna dot c? A?

1000
01:03:19.790 --> 01:03:23.330
Dot, yeah, not two dots. Yeah. If you add that to your

1001
01:03:23.869 --> 01:03:30.369
to the credentials, click on it and add as a HTTP refer to this. So you do star.this,

1002
01:03:30.510 --> 01:03:32.609
it should work right away. Okay.

1003
01:03:33.085 --> 01:03:36.125
And then make sure it's don't restrict key and save.

1004
01:03:36.125 --> 01:03:38.545
So go to your Google Maps, click on credentials,

1005
01:03:39.485 --> 01:03:41.745
click on the API, and then add

1006
01:03:42.125 --> 01:03:42.925
star.

1007
01:03:42.925 --> 01:03:48.220
Your domain name. And it should Star. Domain name? Okay. Yeah. Are you doing it now? No.

1008
01:03:48.220 --> 01:03:50.320
I'm writing it down. Ah, okay. Okay.

1009
01:03:50.780 --> 01:03:57.120
And then you can email the support team or if you wanna ask in the Facebook group, we can follow-up if it's still not working after that.

1010
01:03:57.260 --> 01:04:00.204
Okay. I'll try this first and only if it doesn't. Okay.

1011
01:04:00.204 --> 01:04:03.565
And I have a second question there just to follow-up. Sure. Please go ahead.

1012
01:04:03.565 --> 01:04:06.065
Is there a is there a template to email claim listings?

1013
01:04:06.365 --> 01:04:08.944
Like, how how am I gonna make them aware that

1014
01:04:09.325 --> 01:04:15.180
we exist and they they have a listing with us? I I got a I think we have an email in our blog.

1015
01:04:15.560 --> 01:04:16.380
Let me check.

1016
01:04:18.840 --> 01:04:19.980
We have an email.

1017
01:04:20.520 --> 01:04:21.660
Let's see here.

1018
01:04:22.120 --> 01:04:27.015
I have an email to share. If you can ask this in the Facebook group, I can also share this.

1019
01:04:27.015 --> 01:04:29.355
We do have an email template somewhere in our

1020
01:04:29.655 --> 01:04:32.075
in our blog. I did ask the question yesterday.

1021
01:04:32.375 --> 01:04:34.315
Ah, okay. Okay. I'll see if you if

1022
01:04:34.615 --> 01:04:38.795
you can if you can at me in the question, I'll check it out. It basically says,

1023
01:04:39.255 --> 01:04:40.555
to the effect of,

1024
01:04:41.450 --> 01:04:49.310
you know, hey, we've added you to our you've been requested to be added to our directory or you recommend it and, we invite you to,

1025
01:04:50.090 --> 01:04:51.150
update your information,

1026
01:04:51.850 --> 01:04:54.585
and so you can receive the leads coming from this page.

1027
01:04:54.905 --> 01:04:58.845
It's a it's a nice email. I'll share it with you. I think it's somewhere in the Facebook group too.

1028
01:04:59.224 --> 01:05:03.964
Okay. Just at me in that post and I'll get that information to you and to everyone else.

1029
01:05:04.345 --> 01:05:05.244
Jason. Right?

1030
01:05:05.545 --> 01:05:08.925
Jace at jason. Yeah. Okay. Jason Alusin. Okay.

1031
01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:14.480
Alright. Good questions there. Thank you so much. Thank you too. Okay. Great questions from Selva.

1032
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:16.980
Yeah. The Google Maps issue should be an easy fix.

1033
01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:20.020
Okay. We got our good friend Robert here.

1034
01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:25.565
Hey. How's it how's it going, Robert? Hey. Hey. Hi, Jason. How are you? Pretty good. Good. Good.

1035
01:05:25.565 --> 01:05:30.285
Good. Yeah. That I was I know. I'm glad she asked about that, the email.

1036
01:05:30.285 --> 01:05:33.585
I and I because, I was wondering the same thing.

1037
01:05:34.765 --> 01:05:35.585
And so

1038
01:05:35.885 --> 01:05:40.520
now, while I was waiting online waiting on hold here, I did run that GTmetrix,

1039
01:05:40.820 --> 01:05:43.620
and my site is at a 88%

1040
01:05:43.620 --> 01:05:44.760
and a 90%,

1041
01:05:45.300 --> 01:05:47.480
which I'm happy with. Nice.

1042
01:05:48.020 --> 01:05:51.480
Yeah. That's good. But it says test server location in Vancouver, Canada.

1043
01:05:51.540 --> 01:05:53.985
That that doesn't have anything to do with me, does it?

1044
01:05:54.865 --> 01:05:59.765
No. I mean, I think they have, like, a paid tool where you can test, like, from Japan

1045
01:06:00.305 --> 01:06:02.325
or or, like, global locations.

1046
01:06:02.785 --> 01:06:04.225
Oh, I got it. Yeah.

1047
01:06:04.225 --> 01:06:09.039
But if it's in The Americas and that's the majority of where your users are, that's a pretty good test look.

1048
01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:13.920
Right. Correct. Well, mine is this. I had a pretty good I had a,

1049
01:06:14.799 --> 01:06:15.619
question about

1050
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.500
the media manager and pictures and photos.

1051
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:26.685
And and if you remember, we talked a few weeks ago, I was still there I had a a problem with I guess it was a widget for the the voice,

1052
01:06:27.405 --> 01:06:30.145
for the voice demos that were on my site,

1053
01:06:30.605 --> 01:06:31.105
and

1054
01:06:31.484 --> 01:06:35.760
I never did get that solved. I deleted all the widgets I created.

1055
01:06:35.900 --> 01:06:41.280
I kinda took everything back to the beginning, and I still can't get a widget to load

1056
01:06:41.740 --> 01:06:42.480
on there.

1057
01:06:44.220 --> 01:06:49.735
And I'm wondering, can you look at, do you want me to give you my site and you can look at my issues?

1058
01:06:50.115 --> 01:06:51.175
I I had another

1059
01:06:51.555 --> 01:06:55.875
theory, and I don't know if it's a good idea or not. I wanna ask you. So, yeah, voicerim.com,

1060
01:06:55.875 --> 01:06:58.855
v 0 I c e r I m Com. Okay.

1061
01:06:59.235 --> 01:07:02.595
Yeah. You see up at the top, it has this picture and everything.

1062
01:07:02.595 --> 01:07:05.610
And then I, where it says demos, and then it has these three

1063
01:07:06.070 --> 01:07:08.330
image players. Right? Those brown,

1064
01:07:09.990 --> 01:07:10.810
you know, photos.

1065
01:07:11.190 --> 01:07:15.830
You see those? Yep. Yeah. I I added that. I just did that myself.

1066
01:07:15.830 --> 01:07:20.815
And if you click on one, it takes it it takes you to a separate page, which is fine. That's

1067
01:07:21.295 --> 01:07:25.634
because to me, it seems like that loads faster if you do it that way. Is that correct?

1068
01:07:26.015 --> 01:07:28.994
Yeah. These are these are just the image links, it seems.

1069
01:07:29.934 --> 01:07:32.119
This is just an image. It's not an actual,

1070
01:07:32.500 --> 01:07:35.799
embedded player. So, yeah, this is an image that's linking to,

1071
01:07:37.140 --> 01:07:38.119
this web page.

1072
01:07:38.740 --> 01:07:39.240
Yeah.

1073
01:07:39.380 --> 01:07:43.940
Now the thing is when you click on that, that's a file that was if you click on that, I can't do that.

1074
01:07:43.940 --> 01:07:45.140
It'll play and you'll hear it.

1075
01:07:45.140 --> 01:07:52.355
But that that file itself was was off of my own computer, but it still plays because I tested it on different computers and everything.

1076
01:07:52.355 --> 01:07:57.714
Is that is that does that get something that's gonna go away as computer time. Right.

1077
01:07:57.795 --> 01:07:59.095
Go away at some point?

1078
01:07:59.990 --> 01:08:02.410
Does does that make it make sense what I'm asking?

1079
01:08:02.869 --> 01:08:05.430
It it looks like it's coming from a Ning.com

1080
01:08:05.430 --> 01:08:09.130
site. That's right. It is. Ning was the other platform I was using,

1081
01:08:09.510 --> 01:08:11.829
and I still have a lot of stuff over there.

1082
01:08:12.695 --> 01:08:17.575
What is the goal here? So visitors can hear a snippet of this person's sound? That's correct.

1083
01:08:17.575 --> 01:08:18.314
That's correct.

1084
01:08:18.615 --> 01:08:21.115
So what you should do is this. You need to standardize

1085
01:08:21.814 --> 01:08:27.194
what you're instead of trying to solve the problem for your members, you need to let your members

1086
01:08:27.570 --> 01:08:28.470
solve the problem

1087
01:08:29.090 --> 01:08:29.590
themselves.

1088
01:08:30.130 --> 01:08:33.590
And what I would recommend doing is especially with the embedly

1089
01:08:34.290 --> 01:08:36.950
toolbar that you can now add to the text editors,

1090
01:08:37.330 --> 01:08:41.270
I would provide a how to video on five solutions

1091
01:08:41.845 --> 01:08:45.465
that five audio solutions that your members can utilize,

1092
01:08:46.325 --> 01:08:46.984
to add

1093
01:08:47.444 --> 01:08:48.085
to add,

1094
01:08:49.205 --> 01:08:53.625
files to their their files to the site and choose the most,

1095
01:08:54.085 --> 01:08:56.505
popular ones. Let me go here to providers.

1096
01:08:57.550 --> 01:09:01.149
Yeah. The people who are do this stuff, they're they're very much into this.

1097
01:09:01.149 --> 01:09:03.010
They know what they're doing. So Exactly.

1098
01:09:03.550 --> 01:09:05.570
Yeah. So let me let me get the embedly,

1099
01:09:05.950 --> 01:09:09.570
when we talked about embedly just a moment here. I'm gonna show you. Yeah.

1100
01:09:09.745 --> 01:09:14.965
Because this is a free tool for your website, and it's just gonna empower your members to

1101
01:09:15.665 --> 01:09:18.944
embed content from many different sources. I'm gonna show you in one second.

1102
01:09:18.944 --> 01:09:22.050
I'm gonna share this link in the chat here for everyone. Okay. Okay.

1103
01:09:22.210 --> 01:09:25.909
I don't wanna go through the entire tutorial here, so I'll just share the link.

1104
01:09:26.210 --> 01:09:26.710
However,

1105
01:09:27.170 --> 01:09:27.670
Embedly

1106
01:09:28.210 --> 01:09:30.309
specializes in embedding video

1107
01:09:30.929 --> 01:09:35.409
or audio from different platform sources, and let's just take a quick look at their audio ones.

1108
01:09:35.409 --> 01:09:37.604
Hold on. This thing is a little slow when it's,

1109
01:09:38.484 --> 01:09:38.885
Okay.

1110
01:09:39.285 --> 01:09:41.405
Filtering it. Just give me a second here. So Yep.

1111
01:09:41.604 --> 01:09:46.265
Look your members can embed they just have to do it in the text editor from SoundCloud,

1112
01:09:46.805 --> 01:09:48.265
Spotify, Last FM,

1113
01:09:48.965 --> 01:09:50.165
and a ton more.

1114
01:09:50.965 --> 01:09:51.465
So

1115
01:09:51.970 --> 01:09:54.950
if you wanna choose the top five or or

1116
01:09:56.370 --> 01:10:01.910
make a video showing them how to, yeah, embed from the top five but provide this entire list.

1117
01:10:02.130 --> 01:10:12.015
You can just copy and paste this list on a on a on a how to page on your site since it's very audio centric and let them know that you can these are the top five recommended ones.

1118
01:10:12.015 --> 01:10:15.155
However, we support audio inserts or embeds,

1119
01:10:15.775 --> 01:10:20.070
from these solutions. Maybe you wanna pick and choose some of these. I don't think they're gonna

1120
01:10:20.630 --> 01:10:24.650
embed NPR because that's not a sample of their voice over stuff. But Sure.

1121
01:10:25.349 --> 01:10:29.349
But the ones where people upload their own audio, you might want to do that.

1122
01:10:29.349 --> 01:10:33.750
And then just put it in put put it in their court to to figure it out on their profile.

1123
01:10:33.750 --> 01:10:37.085
But make a few instructional videos for them. Okay. Okay.

1124
01:10:37.085 --> 01:10:40.685
And the reason I had them up here before is I wanted to just build a few.

1125
01:10:40.685 --> 01:10:47.804
These are some of them are customers I haven't talked to in a number of years, and I just wanted to have a profile there just to populate my site.

1126
01:10:48.200 --> 01:10:51.180
You know, complete nice looking profiles to populate my site.

1127
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My recommendation would be because you're gonna have voice over artists coming from all over the world and they probably have their demos on probably one of these websites.

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If not, they should get it on one of these websites because

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apparently,

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sites.

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If not, they should get it on one of these websites because apparently a solution like this is using the most popular websites where people are either streaming or uploading their own audio content to.

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In in addition to YouTube

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and Vimeo and Wistia and other video video platforms, their their voice over might be through video.

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Right? They There's a lot of them are. A lot of them are.

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So you can also encourage them to to just share their YouTube,

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video embed as well. And rather than trying to

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figure out one way to get all the audio, why don't you support a hundred different ways for your voice over artist?

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Okay. I got it. Yeah.

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And like I say, these people are like they they know more about doing that than I even do.

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So Listen. And I I always say this.

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Craigslist is not the prettiest website, but when people are compelled to sell a mattress, they're gonna figure out how to get it listed on Craigslist.

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Okay?

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So if you compel people to use your website and you just show them a few how to's, they'll get the gist of it and also make contacting you for support easy.

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Need help adding your audio?

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Email our team. So make reaching out to you your second priority

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after educating your members.

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And that that goes for everyone's directory sites is making it easy for people to reach out to you so if they are stuck they don't abandon,

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their profile or what they're doing they they reach out to you proactively.

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01:12:21.610 --> 01:12:26.090
Okay. Alright? Great. I thank you. Alright. You're very welcome, Robert.

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We definitely appreciate you. You bet. Thank you.

1151
01:12:29.295 --> 01:12:35.075
Alright, guys. Thank you for another amazing webinar Wednesday. We're just about out of time here.

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David, thank you so much for putting the slides together for the best practices, optimize images to improve your website speeds.

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Do not upload high file size images to your sites, guys. Reduce the file sizes.

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01:12:48.830 --> 01:12:52.530
Lots of BD Lab updates on the way. If we didn't get to your question,

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please join us in the Facebook group. Shout out to Rick for winning that, last iPad giveaway.

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You can head on over to brilliantdirectories.com/Facebook.

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I'll be more active in there myself,

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tomorrow and through the coming weeks to the end of the year.

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So I look forward to seeing your post there, and the replay will be immediately available in the Facebook group thanks to us streaming on YouTube live.

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On behalf of myself, David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, we love you guys so much.

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Have a great day and a brilliant week. The next webinar will be in two weeks. Catch you guys then.

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Bye bye.