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Alright. Looks like we've got just about everyone here with us today. Welcome.

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And by the way, happy new year, everyone. This is the first webinar

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of 2023.

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'20 '20 '2 was an awesome time and the new year's webinar was

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off the chain. It was fun. We had a lot of giveaways

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and it was just lots of good vibes and energy there.

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If this is your first time joining webinar Wednesday, welcome.

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I am Jason there on the left and we're lucky to be joined by David Rockland, the digital strategist and so much more here at Brilliant Directories.

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David, thanks for taking the time to join us here on the webinar.

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Hey, everybody. Happy New Year. Welcome to Webinar Wednesday, one forty nine.

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Only one more to go until the big 01:50. Looking forward to that and definitely looking forward to,

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today's webinar. We got a great new add on to, give you guys a little preview of here. Absolutely.

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And that's actually huge news.

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This is webinar one forty nine and we did promise an iPad giveaway and some goodies for webinar 150.

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That will be in two weeks. So if you're listening to this now, please make sure to join us.

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We'll have some more giveaways.

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We'll make sure to give away an iPad in that webinar and we'll have tons of fun as well.

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immediately after the webinar, we will have a replay video available and we will post it in the Facebook group.

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So if we covered something a little bit too quickly or you need to recap,

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Also about the Facebook group, it's a great way to keep in touch in between webinar Wednesdays.

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Lots of really constructive conversations are started there.

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People are working on their, Brilliant Directories websites,

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asking questions about setup and strategy and a lot more. I'm active in there myself,

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and I know a lot of, a lot of people in the webinar here as well.

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So we definitely recommend you join us there.

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And then lastly, before we get into all the goodies, if this is your first time joining us, welcome.

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So webinar Wednesday is a great way for us to keep you updated on some of the features we built into the platform

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week after week.

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There are some patches and fixes and things that aren't really worth mentioning, but there are a lot of features that can help you grow your community or manage your website a bit better.

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So we'll cover topics such as how to increase website traffic,

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convert visitors to members, increase engagement,

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improving navigation and a lot more. So if you have questions about any of these topics or anything

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related to your membership website, please save them and we'll do our best to get to as many questions in just a short bit.

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Alright and with that said we can segue first into a few BD lab updates to share.

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We got a few simple updates to share and we got a lot of irons in the fire coming soon down the line.

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We'll start here right at the top, just a very simple one.

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In the text editor now you can easily drag GIF images, those animated GIF images before actually there was a restriction,

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and it was only supporting JPEGs,

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PNGs and a couple other formats.

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But now if you wanted to simply drag or upload GIF images into your text editor, it will support them natively.

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So, that's good. Everyone loves those fun animated GIFs and memes.

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This next one here has been requested a few times.

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Your site comes with a default categories page and a default locations page.

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I'll show you that right now.

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The categories pages had a keyword filter at the top, and now we've added the same keyword filter to the top of the locations page.

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Let me quickly show you what I'm referring to.

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We can just go to our sample webinar site here.

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generally most BD sites start with these two default pages. Some people remove them or modify them.

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So just as a short example, the category pages, it would just simply list all your top sub and sub sub level categories.

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There was a quick keyword filter here, which really makes it useful if you have dozens and dozens of top and sub level categories,

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for visitors to find what they're looking for. So if we just put, I guess this has subcategory too.

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So if we type that, it would filter out for that.

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So now with this update, it is on the locations page.

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So if you have forward slash locations on your site or change that, all the states and countries or there is a setting for cities and states,

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they are listed here in alphabetical order.

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You can now search or we'll do Arizona

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and users can more quickly find states,

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cities and countries if they are looking for that.

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This next one also a small update but pretty useful.

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There is now a page setting in the web page builder for your static,

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web pages where you can click to enlarge images on your pages.

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We do have this available for posts in the design settings. Now it's available on

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static web pages. I can show you exactly what it does.

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If we head on over to the admin area, let's go to the web page builder.

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While we're there simultaneously, we'll go to, just a general page where we have, this is just a static how it works page, about page, about the site.

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we'll just edit this about page.

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So So we can see here we have an image on this page and if you go to page options, there's now this checkbox option,

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to enable click enlarge images, click and enlarge images,

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So what that does is when you're on this page, you you can not only see the image, but you can also click on it and enlarge it to get a closer look at it.

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This particular image is not that large in general, but if the image was larger, it would,

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pop up on the screen so the visitor can get a closer look at it.

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It is on a per page basis and, you probably don't need it on every page, but in some cases, you may wanna enable this and that's available for everyone.

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Alright. Just a small, speed test. We are deliver delivering more assets from the BDCDN.

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This is just an ongoing thing which is gonna help your site,

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perform a lot faster for visitors, especially for global visitors around your site.

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So we just like to mention that and I think, I'd say we got pretty much 90% of the assets being delivered from the CDN, and we'll probably find a few more over the next few months or as we continue,

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growing features into the platform.

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This next one here is related to the finance tab.

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We did cover a new search subscriptions page in the admin area, in the previous webinar.

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This is actually related to the transactions page. You can now also search subscriptions

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based on their active or ended status.

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Let me show you what I'm referring to there.

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In the finance tab, well, let me show you what I see a lot of new faces here.

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I would recommend this is the newer feature we covered in the previous webinar.

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This page is brand new in the admin search subscriptions.

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It'll give you an overview of all the active membership plan subscriptions or ended, memberships plan subscriptions and a lot of

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subscriptions or ended,

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memberships plan subscriptions and a lot of metadata here as well as total generated.

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There's some good filters here.

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This particular update is related to the transaction history tab.

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These are individual single transactions, not the entire subscriptions.

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And under billing cycles here, you can now search,

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transactions if they're monthly, quarterly, etcetera.

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And now you can search if they're, active or ended subscription.

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So if you wanna get a quick pulse on churn rate or to see how many subscriptions ended

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month after month, you can use these settings in combination with a date range in the past and get a a little bit of a gauge on the churn rate or how subscription activity is happening on your site.

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And then lastly, this is an import update.

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This one is pretty big and it's actually in its infant stages.

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I almost didn't even wanna mention it in the webinar yet, but it is pretty important and pretty exciting.

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The ability to import posts such as events,

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jobs, photo albums, property listings.

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We wanna make this available through the API so you can use tools like Zapier, Pabbly,

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and others to import them into your site.

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But the first step for this is being able to support like an Excel or CSV file import just like you would import members to your site.

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So we have the phase one complete of this, and some of you may see this if you go to my, content,

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manage posts

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and the the support team is just getting the documentation ready on this so that I was a little premature to even mention this.

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But it is working. You can import post files

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and you would choose either a single image post or multi image post.

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Multi image posts are things like photo albums, property listings, classifieds, things with that have photo galleries associated with them compared to, for example, a blog post, which is just an article with with a featured image

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connected to it.

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sample import template for this.

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And currently, again, in its infant stages, it doesn't support image importing yet with the post data, but they are working on that and we hope to have that released in the coming weeks.

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But this is gonna unlock a wealth of functionality with being able to populate and fill your site from CSV files and eventually from third party feeds and, like RSS feeds or other sources where you can pull this data from.

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And that actually falls into, some of the items coming soon. If we look down here,

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create posts from RSS feeds and other sources, events, articles, jobs.

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So these two are really closely tied to each other.

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And we hope probably by the February, we can have all that ready for you guys, including the ability to make sure you can include images when you're you're importing that data too, not just titles and descriptions.

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Also coming soon, this should be coming out in the next week or two.

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We've been mentioning it a few times.

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The ability to translate your site into French and German.

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We have, the ability to translate all your text labels into Spanish right now with just a click.

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French and German are next on the list and will

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include more in the future based on popularity.

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Also, there's a new add on being released next week.

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We're gonna preview it in the tip of the week, today. It's pretty exciting.

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The ability to have star ratings for posts.

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So users can currently leave comments on posts and we're marrying that with them with the ability for them to also leave a one through five star rating with their comments.

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What's great about that, it actually encouraged us to overhaul the settings

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for the comments area.

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And after this one is successfully pushed, it'll allow us to more rapidly add more features around the commenting functionality

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such as uploading,

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for replies on comments and more.

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So, definitely a lot of things to come related to comments, but today we'll show you the star ratings for posts.

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And as usual, tons more updates coming down the line, speed, security,

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quality of life features.

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And a lot of this stuff is based on your feedback, your support tickets, what you guys post in the Facebook group, what you're trying to accomplish.

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So shout out, to you guys there in the audience.

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And actually in the next slide,

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let's get everyone's attention and we'd like you guys to maybe raise your hand

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and share with us one thing you wanna focus on or one goal you have for this year in 2023

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or maybe just for next month,

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or something you've learned in the previous year of 2022 that you'd like to share with everyone?

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I see Brian b's got his hand up. Let me unmute your mic here. How's it going, Brian? Pretty good.

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And you? Pretty good. Where are you calling in from, Brian? I'm in Arizona.

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Okay. Okay. Thanks for joining the webinar. Yeah. Thank you.

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So one thing I was, and I'm really glad that you guys finally got the, import for Boasties because

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I have, like, 16,000,

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like, drink recipes that I wanna put on my site. So that's gonna be really awesome for me.

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So that's gonna be one of my goals in 2023 is to

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get all of that stuff imported and, you know, make it complete.

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So That's super exciting that you have the bar and and club website. Right?

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Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. Awesome. Yeah.

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We'll definitely post updates out on the Facebook, and that's a fantastic goal, and we're we're even more reason for us to get it out more quickly for you.

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So thanks for sharing. Yep. Thank you. Alright. Good stuff there, Brian.

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There we go. We got Ryan here. Hey, Ryan. Hey. How are you doing? Same to you. Hey. I, I just wanna,

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say what we're gonna focus on. We're gonna try to focus on,

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we got the new,

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directory, courses,

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stuff.

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So we're gonna try to focus on getting people from the community there to to launch some courses,

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for their community and, try to get some extra monetization that way.

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And so we're gonna start, pushing out some of our own courses as well for the community,

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and for directories and businesses in general.

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So that's gonna be our focus for this year is get out some courses for the community.

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Fantastic. Yeah. You've shared some things in the in the Facebook group.

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They they all looks really exciting and really promising and and really high demand.

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So thank you for for all you contribute to the group, and, I hope you can reach those goals for 2023 as well.

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Alright. Good stuff there from Ryan.

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And, with that, we'll move on to the tip of the week, which is actually an add on release.

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It should be released,

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mid next week.

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Star ratings for post.

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David, you put together a few slides that can help us introduce this add on to the BD community.

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So if it's alright, I'll pass over the reins to you. Absolutely.

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Very much looking forward to this add on. I know a lot of you guys have been asking for this.

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But first, let's dive into,

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just a general overview of what it is. It is pretty simple at its core.

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It will allow users to review posts and leave star ratings one through five stars

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with their comments on the posts that have been published to your website.

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So this works hand in hand with the free community comments feature.

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So with that, you can select which post types on your website you want to allow members to be able to comment on.

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And then with this star ratings for posts add on, members can then be able to leave a star rating to go along with their comment.

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So the overall rating of an individual post,

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that will be calculated automatically based off of all the ratings that have been left on that post, and that overall rating will be displayed both on the post detail page itself,

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as well as in the search results page for the post.

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So this will be a great way when people are scrolling through your articles, your videos, your properties, they'll be able to quickly, at a glance, see the rating for all of those different posts.

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Let's actually take a look and see what these star ratings look like when they're enabled on a website.

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And the real secret sauce to these different use cases, it's really the title at the top of the comment section that's going to get people's attention.

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So let's dive right in here and look at some examples here.

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For an event, this is just on our sample demo site, the Lion King on Broadway.

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And we created a post here. This is a recurring event on Broadway.

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And if we scroll down, the title above the section, that's what's really cool about this add on and what we've done is for each post type, you can choose what the title will be above the the comments section.

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So if you're using the star ratings for a post type, you can say explicitly

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rate this event, share comments below.

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And let's just leave a five star comment

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and we'll go ahead and comment.

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And there's our our comment right there. Love the Lion King, watch it with the kids.

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So if anyone used goes there, the website owner is getting a little bit of coin there.

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So this one says rate this deal. Is the promo code working?

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I'll leave a one star review.

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We'll go ahead and comment. This one got a lot of comments we can see. So super cool there.

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Let's keep it moving with more examples.

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So this is a product review of a washer and dryer set, four star rating and it's got five total reviews.

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So this is more in line with what we would see on like an Amazon website or any type of product website, electronics website or even Best Buy's website.

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Here's an interesting one, you can grab movie previews

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if you're industry specific and have a section of not just movie previews but just tutorial videos and curate them yourself on your website.

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So this is the Avatar two movie trailer, The Way of the Water. I haven't seen it yet.

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It's only rating at 3.3, but James Cameron is doing just fine guys.

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So we can see again, we've augmented and modified the title here to match, the post type that we're looking on, and this person did not like the movie.

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Residences in Waikiki Beach. Join us there for the next Brilliant Directories event. This has a 3.6

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You can find a reason and a good titles

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for the section for people to leave a star ratings.

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And then this last one here is literally just a support documentation we copied from the Brilliant Directories support portal, how to connect a domain to a Brilliant Directories website.

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And if we scroll down, the question that we're asking people here is not if they like the article, is was the article helpful?

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you as the website owner can see the overall score.

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or informative for the people who are reading,

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that article. Let's also take a look at the search results pages. We could see this.

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There's also an option to include it, right here, right above the post section.

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So we can see the property listing for the Ritz Carlton beds, bath, square footage, and then we have the overall star rating here.

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We'll just look at a couple more and then we'll look at the settings in the admin area on how you can enable this when you have the add on.

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the star rating here on the right neatly tucked in.

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and when a comment has a star rating, it will be here.

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It looks kinda like the same as member review stars.

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and every enabling it and everything else.

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to work on to be enabled for. And when you do that, then then the tabs will be available here.

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display the comment count in the search results, display the comment count on the detail page.

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What's even cooler is there is a setting so you can limit users so they can only rate a post one time.

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for the same post. That's a setting that you can enable there.

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above the comments section, or above the post and the comments section.

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for visitors and the members and the authors of the post.

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So again, this is just the tip of the iceberg for more features that will be built into the comment section, but we can see a wealth of power just with this enable star rating

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for the post types.

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visitors. And with that, we'll take some questions and answers this time in the webinar.

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If you have questions about the lab updates, upcoming features, you need help with your website, or about the upcoming add on, feel free to raise your hand now, and we'll take a few questions.

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We got our good friend, Tim, here. I'll unmute your microphone, Tim. Here we go. Hello there, Jason.

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How's it going, Tim? Great to have you in the webinar with us. Yeah. Thanks so much.

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And, also just wanted to mention thanks for the, the end of the year,

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spectacular and wonderful as always.

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Great stuff you got going on here again.

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And I have a question for you.

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concentrated on countries outside of The United States.

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In The United States, we have wonderful,

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laws about freedom of speech, but some of the other countries around the world are

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open as we are.

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are so strict that people are afraid to do reviews of any kind.

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Like, they don't wanna put their name on anything because, like, they will literally get hauled into court.

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to have a situation where you could have

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no names attached to those star ratings?

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you can edit the

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you you would you can have access to that code and with some CSS or or with with a small snippet of, code to to kind of obfuscate

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the, author of of the post if if you wanted to.

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How in the world did I know you were gonna come up with an answer for that?

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Yeah. Anything on your site you can remove or or pretty much add. Some of it is points and clicks.

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Some of it you might just need a a line from our support team, and, some of it might be on a a full on customization, but you would have access to to the areas to make those changes if if you needed it.

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And hiding a name is is not the most difficult thing.

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Oh, wow. Brilliant once again. Thank you, Jason.

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Alright, Tim. Good stuff there, and good luck with your site there in those other countries.

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Alright. Good question there, from Tim, and we got our friend Brian Beback. How's it going, Brian?

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Hey. How's it going? Good. Good.

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I just had a question.

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You know how you guys re release that little search thing,

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that you can just type for the locations

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page? Right. Yeah. Right here. I was just wondering,

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yeah, I was wondering if you guys were able to do something like that for, say, like, the post type pages too.

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Is it, like, an easy fix to just, like, kinda rename something in the code real quick, or is that something that would be more difficult?

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You know what? I actually

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so there's a there's a thing with that. If so if you go to a post search result page,

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let me go there with you real quick. Here's here's the limitation. Right? So

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if there's multiple pages, like if there's pagination, like page one, two, three, four, five,

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those posts are technically not loaded on the page yet.

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just do the nine or 10 or even if you have whatever a hundred posts that you've displayed,

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in that moment on the page.

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Funny you say that because in the BD marketplace, which is also a Brilliant Directories website,

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we actually did this on the partner plugins page.

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it works here.

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Then I'll I can provide this to you. It is it is some custom code here, but,

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like if we type menu, we we're left with these two menu options.

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But the difference here is I'm loading all the part there's only about, I think, 80 partner plugins here.

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So I was okay with loading them all on the same page with no pagination.

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If you want, I can share this with you in the Facebook group if you wanna make a post, but just know that at least with what with this,

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you would want everything loaded on the page in order to dynamically filter it. Otherwise,

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you just wanna do a keyword search here. And,

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when you do that, you can I think it does auto suggest?

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There's if you have the, the the auto suggestion,

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add on, you can just from typing a few keywords, it'll find all the,

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the matches based on that. Okay. Cool. Yeah. That gives me some ideas at least.

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Okay. Yeah. Where are you looking to use that?

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Well, like, you know, under blogs and, you know, just the different post types.

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So Right. Okay.

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In that case in that way, there's, like, a few different ways to skin the cat depending on on how fast you want it to be and and things like that,

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But, yeah, there's definitely there's definitely options out there for you. Thank you.

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You're welcome. Good question there.

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We do have a question

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on, on YouTube from Rick, asking about the new add on here.

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He's asking, if a post gets a certain number of five star ratings, can that post

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automatically become featured to drive further engagement?

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garner high ratings and then you know periodically maybe once a week at the start of every week or something you can kind of go through your content and curate it and pick the highest rated content

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to to feature that. Yeah so here's here's a good point right now for posts

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what we're missing

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to, our demo page. We can So this is demo bootstrap. Here's a post type for job listings.

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and let me go there. This is a member search results page.

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The ability to sort like we have for members, most reviews,

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For post types, you can also do like expiration date, what what other other things that make sense.

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if somebody wanted to sort by most reviews or best reviews or or best overall reviews

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that if if a visitor came and use this sort when it's available,

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then those posts would automatically,

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get more visibility because most people are gonna wanna sort by, you know, what the best post is.

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that only have a certain level of rating and most people are gonna search for a post with,

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top top ratings and numbers and things like that.

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So the right now it's we we have this for member search results and we're lacking it on the post search results,

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but once that is available, you have posts with more ratings would definitely get more visibility inherently because that's what visitors would sort and and filter for.

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It's a good question there, Rick. Alright. She our really good friend, Sheila, here.

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Let me unmute your mic, Sheila. Can you hear me now? Yes. We can. Hi, Sheila. Okay. Good. Hi.

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Happy New Year.

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I know I haven't spoken to you in a long time, and happy New Year to everyone on the webinar.

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Quick question. You were sharing during the demo, you were sharing,

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the coupons or the, the deals.

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Did you have to

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upload each of those

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1 x 1, or did you do

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yeah. Like, for all of these deals, how did you get those up?

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no. Good question.

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So generally, the it is the members you know, brilliant directory sites are are,

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UGCs, you user generated content sites, very much like a social platform.

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So generally, it is the members who are,

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adding the posts.

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Right, and as we mentioned, maybe you you caught us a little late in the b b BD Lab updates.

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We are creating coming soon the ability to import

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So when that's available

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to answer your question, yeah, you could bulk import,

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posts such as coupons and deals to your site and then they'll they'll be published live without any more work.

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In this case, we did manually create these these sample posts 1 x 1. Okay. Great. Thank you so much.

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I'm so excited for that. Yay. Yeah. It seems like thank you so much too. So it's yeah.

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It does seem like we're on the brink and a and a and a big turning point of, you know, being able to populate your site more quickly and and run a lot quicker.

426
00:30:43.685 --> 00:30:56.160
So you can have a site that looks more established, more credible, and you can focus more on your marketing, letting your knowing that your website looks, you know, seasoned and and established, which is really the most important thing when you're starting out.

427
00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:58.640
Alright. We got Ryan here again. Hey, Ryan.

428
00:30:59.580 --> 00:31:01.760
Hey. Real quick question on the,

429
00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:04.299
the filtered search for the,

430
00:31:05.284 --> 00:31:08.885
the location page, or I it's actually a question on the, the old,

431
00:31:09.365 --> 00:31:10.505
categories page.

432
00:31:10.965 --> 00:31:14.024
If you could go there, there there you you guys added a new

433
00:31:14.565 --> 00:31:15.065
category,

434
00:31:15.845 --> 00:31:18.325
view on there for that widget instead of having

435
00:31:18.919 --> 00:31:21.419
yeah. The browse category. Instead of having top level,

436
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:25.580
and sublevel, you guys had the version where it was sub and sub sub

437
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:26.860
level instead,

438
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.460
but that one did not have the filter categories

439
00:31:30.840 --> 00:31:35.235
on that category. Was it did you guys add it to that one, or is that something you guys can do,

440
00:31:35.695 --> 00:31:36.195
to

441
00:31:36.495 --> 00:31:39.294
to do the same thing only for the other categories? Yeah.

442
00:31:39.294 --> 00:31:42.755
If you're I I know Colette was asking about that in previous webinar.

443
00:31:43.615 --> 00:31:47.870
If you're not seeing it, we didn't add it yet, but we definitely want to. The sub

444
00:31:48.250 --> 00:31:52.730
and sub I haven't looked at it in the last month since we talked about that on the webinar.

445
00:31:52.730 --> 00:31:55.250
I just it it was never there when I did that. I haven't looked at it in a while.

446
00:31:55.250 --> 00:31:59.055
I just didn't know if you guys did that while you were doing the other one since it's the same

447
00:31:59.375 --> 00:32:03.315
same type of thing, but just on the other categories one. Or No. No. Yeah. Thank

448
00:32:03.615 --> 00:32:04.495
you for bringing that up.

449
00:32:04.495 --> 00:32:07.535
I'll I'll, I'll check with the team, and if it's not, we'll make a card for it.

450
00:32:07.775 --> 00:32:12.195
It is pretty straightforward to to make that as part of the default widget. Alright. Cool. Thanks.

451
00:32:12.335 --> 00:32:16.100
Thank you, Ryan. Alright. We got a couple more hands up here.

452
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:18.500
We got our good friend Robert here.

453
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:20.820
Gets you here, Robert. How are you doing, Robert?

454
00:32:21.120 --> 00:32:22.580
Hi, Jason. Thanks.

455
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:31.455
And thanks for your tips last night about I was on the chat on the Facebook here about the, the I was the one that asked about the Yeah.

456
00:32:31.575 --> 00:32:34.615
Results. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I did the math. Yeah. Hey.

457
00:32:34.615 --> 00:32:39.835
I could do a little better, but this pertains to a different one, a different the, when you get the results,

458
00:32:40.375 --> 00:32:44.850
if you do a search, you know, like the lazy search, And at the top, it has the three,

459
00:32:45.150 --> 00:32:46.530
you know, map view,

460
00:32:47.310 --> 00:32:50.370
grid view. I think I have my set at grid view at the moment.

461
00:32:50.590 --> 00:32:54.030
But it just has the and then the list view. It just has the icon. Right?

462
00:32:54.030 --> 00:32:59.715
And I'm wondering if there's a way to place words, you know, text there. So because I've had people

463
00:33:00.155 --> 00:33:01.375
I think that's a I

464
00:33:01.755 --> 00:33:05.675
think that's a fantastic idea. Yeah. We can put some title tag text text there.

465
00:33:05.675 --> 00:33:07.675
So when you hover over it,

466
00:33:08.390 --> 00:33:11.910
it kinda just it flashes some text. Yeah. So let me

467
00:33:12.870 --> 00:33:15.050
that's a that's a great set for the,

468
00:33:15.750 --> 00:33:16.650
view icons,

469
00:33:16.950 --> 00:33:17.450
add,

470
00:33:18.070 --> 00:33:19.850
title tag text. Okay.

471
00:33:20.710 --> 00:33:23.770
So it would look something like this. Let me show you over here.

472
00:33:24.985 --> 00:33:27.485
So what we would do is put title equals,

473
00:33:28.345 --> 00:33:31.065
so when you hover over it let's see. Did that work? Yeah.

474
00:33:31.065 --> 00:33:34.265
So when you hover over it, you see it says list view like that in that little text.

475
00:33:34.265 --> 00:33:36.525
You get something that at least something. Right.

476
00:33:36.929 --> 00:33:38.929
Did did you can I do that? Can we do that?

477
00:33:38.929 --> 00:33:42.850
Or is that something you're gonna have to You can do it, but we'll take care of that.

478
00:33:42.850 --> 00:33:43.909
That's a great suggestion.

479
00:33:44.049 --> 00:33:48.825
It it should be there because, yeah, someone who's unassuming might not know what these icons are for.

480
00:33:49.304 --> 00:33:49.784
Yeah.

481
00:33:49.784 --> 00:33:56.904
Because one of the one of the categories I have that I currently really want at map view because they're looking for certain locations, but other ones, it doesn't matter.

482
00:33:56.904 --> 00:34:03.270
You know, the tech the grid or the the grid or the list view is just fine. Right. And, yeah. Good.

483
00:34:03.270 --> 00:34:09.770
The other question I wanna know is, one time I asked if it was possible to put a map, a location map.

484
00:34:10.070 --> 00:34:12.389
There's already one on a form. You know?

485
00:34:12.389 --> 00:34:17.914
Is there a way to put two so that you, like, have a, say, a a a origin and a destination

486
00:34:18.295 --> 00:34:19.114
if you were,

487
00:34:19.574 --> 00:34:22.154
say, looking at somebody doing a trip or whatever?

488
00:34:22.855 --> 00:34:27.034
You know, I haven't seen somebody put the the two maps,

489
00:34:27.590 --> 00:34:32.810
like the enter two addresses on a form, but I I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.

490
00:34:33.909 --> 00:34:37.449
Basically what basically, when when, you have those map views,

491
00:34:37.750 --> 00:34:41.255
what's getting saved in the form is the longitude and latitude of

492
00:34:41.554 --> 00:34:42.054
the

493
00:34:42.355 --> 00:34:43.734
locations entered. That's that's why it's connected

494
00:34:44.194 --> 00:34:45.574
to Google Maps so it has a precise,

495
00:34:46.275 --> 00:34:46.775
coordinates.

496
00:34:47.714 --> 00:34:51.894
But, yeah, I think that would be a good question for for the support team. Maybe show them

497
00:34:52.275 --> 00:34:56.134
the form that you're trying to edit and just tell them, I'd like to add a second

498
00:34:56.600 --> 00:34:57.720
map input view,

499
00:34:58.040 --> 00:34:59.340
to the form field.

500
00:35:00.120 --> 00:35:08.940
If I were to do the fields myself, would it where well, could I try it, or is that kind of out of the realm of somebody who's not a real you know?

501
00:35:10.135 --> 00:35:13.735
Who doesn't know a lot about what they're doing when it come I I don't wanna screw other things up.

502
00:35:13.735 --> 00:35:18.775
That's why. Well, you're you're piquing my interest. I'd let me check something real quick.

503
00:35:18.775 --> 00:35:20.135
I don't think we have

504
00:35:20.695 --> 00:35:23.655
and it would make sense to have just give me one moment.

505
00:35:23.655 --> 00:35:25.410
You always ask the good questions here, Rob.

506
00:35:26.369 --> 00:35:28.069
I just wanna check something.

507
00:35:28.690 --> 00:35:30.369
We have a lot of form field types.

508
00:35:30.369 --> 00:35:38.230
And and the last year, we actually turned a lot of, like, weird custom form field types into, like, calendar is now, like, a standard file upload.

509
00:35:38.930 --> 00:35:44.085
Let me see. Yeah. Well, are we able to add widgets anywhere in there? You can't.

510
00:35:44.085 --> 00:35:46.665
You you can, you can add custom HTML

511
00:35:47.205 --> 00:35:49.145
widgets which will render anything

512
00:35:49.525 --> 00:35:51.865
as that form fields value. But

513
00:35:52.325 --> 00:35:56.990
I don't see we have one. I'm going to make a suggestion. This is a no promises one,

514
00:35:57.930 --> 00:36:00.910
but see if we can add a,

515
00:36:01.770 --> 00:36:03.150
I guess, like a live

516
00:36:03.610 --> 00:36:04.430
map input,

517
00:36:05.290 --> 00:36:09.465
as a form field. I know I know what you're referring to. I'll ask the team about that. That that

518
00:36:11.385 --> 00:36:14.105
could I I I can see that for moving companies and where there's That's exactly what I'm talking about.

519
00:36:14.105 --> 00:36:16.445
Moving. Okay. Yeah. Moving moving

520
00:36:16.825 --> 00:36:18.445
whether it's moving or just moving,

521
00:36:18.825 --> 00:36:24.040
loads very period. So because we wanted to you know, it's kind of a load load board here, but,

522
00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:25.960
for the trucks. Yeah.

523
00:36:26.820 --> 00:36:31.220
Okay. Well, okay. Yeah. That'd be great. Sure thing. Thank you, Robert, for your questions. Thanks.

524
00:36:31.220 --> 00:36:33.960
You bet. Alright. Good stuff there from Robert.

525
00:36:34.340 --> 00:36:39.585
And, let's see if we got anyone else's hands up here. I do see one more hand up. Two more hands up.

526
00:36:39.585 --> 00:36:41.525
Lisa. Let's go with Lisa here.

527
00:36:41.825 --> 00:36:45.525
Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah. How are you doing? Where are you calling in from? Great.

528
00:36:45.825 --> 00:36:46.565
From Michigan.

529
00:36:46.945 --> 00:36:47.445
Okay.

530
00:36:48.065 --> 00:36:52.165
Alright. So I am super excited about your, post reviews,

531
00:36:52.520 --> 00:36:52.960
and,

532
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:55.099
I just have a quick question.

533
00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:57.900
When the user fills it out,

534
00:36:58.359 --> 00:37:02.140
is it required for them to do both the comment and the star?

535
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:06.300
So or can they just leave the star with no comment? Or

536
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:08.175
how does that work?

537
00:37:08.575 --> 00:37:09.875
Good question. Yeah.

538
00:37:10.415 --> 00:37:20.255
With the I can see people getting excited about putting a comment and then forgetting to leave a star or there's some people that just don't want to write a comment and want to read it easily.

539
00:37:20.255 --> 00:37:21.315
I was just curious.

540
00:37:21.690 --> 00:37:23.950
Yeah. You can just leave a comment

541
00:37:24.329 --> 00:37:25.630
without the star rating.

542
00:37:26.250 --> 00:37:32.030
So here's one without selecting the stars, and it's just a regular comment here. Oh, okay.

543
00:37:32.250 --> 00:37:33.470
So it's not it's,

544
00:37:33.849 --> 00:37:34.589
not compulsory

545
00:37:34.890 --> 00:37:37.555
to to to leave a star rating.

546
00:37:37.775 --> 00:37:45.714
And that will affect the the overall star rating at the top then if somebody, like, says, oh, they're great, and then forgets to leave the star?

547
00:37:45.934 --> 00:37:46.674
Well, let's,

548
00:37:47.055 --> 00:37:51.140
let's see this. Let's refresh the page here. This was a 4.3. Let's see. Yeah. No.

549
00:37:51.140 --> 00:37:54.020
It doesn't have that. A regular comments don't affect the star rating.

550
00:37:54.020 --> 00:37:57.940
Only if it's a one through five rating. Okay. That's great. Yeah.

551
00:37:57.940 --> 00:38:01.319
Let's leave, another one just with no star rating. Another

552
00:38:01.780 --> 00:38:06.495
another no star. Just double check. Again, this stuff is so fresh. Let's see here.

553
00:38:06.495 --> 00:38:10.355
I'm sure there's stuff to work out. So here's another no star. Let's refresh the page.

554
00:38:10.495 --> 00:38:15.715
So let me just open a new tab actually, duplicate tab. So it was a 4.3

555
00:38:16.015 --> 00:38:18.195
out of five with three total star reviews.

556
00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:22.460
And here, it's still a 4.3 out of five with three star reviews.

557
00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:27.920
So, no, the comments that are not star rated do not affect the overall rating. It's not a zero star.

558
00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:28.620
Alright.

559
00:38:28.620 --> 00:38:33.520
And if somebody doesn't wanna leave a comment and just a star rating, they can go ahead and do that if they want?

560
00:38:33.665 --> 00:38:37.365
Let's see. I don't think so. I think they gotta leave. Nope. They,

561
00:38:37.984 --> 00:38:40.865
oh, it added that star. See these are things to check. Let's,

562
00:38:41.505 --> 00:38:43.605
let's play with this a little bit.

563
00:38:44.705 --> 00:38:46.724
Looks like it wants you to leave

564
00:38:47.430 --> 00:38:50.250
comment with it. Are these settings that would be important?

565
00:38:50.869 --> 00:38:52.170
The option to

566
00:38:52.470 --> 00:38:53.609
to, like, requires

567
00:38:54.310 --> 00:38:58.890
require star, require comment, or only, like, one or the other?

568
00:38:59.030 --> 00:39:03.214
That'd be kinda nice to have that option, but I don't think it's, you know, that important.

569
00:39:03.275 --> 00:39:12.654
But it would be nice that if somebody's like, well, I don't wanna type out anything, but I wanna leave my star rating, and at least something pops up that tells them that they have to make a comment

570
00:39:13.115 --> 00:39:17.550
in order to submit the review. So they're not like, I'm trying to, but I can't do it.

571
00:39:18.030 --> 00:39:20.750
You know, they need to leave a post. You know, this just reminds me.

572
00:39:20.750 --> 00:39:25.550
I read reviews on Yelp sometimes because you have to choose a star rating and you have to write something.

573
00:39:25.550 --> 00:39:27.950
They're like, if I could leave less than one star, I would.

574
00:39:27.950 --> 00:39:30.370
Well, with brilliant directories, you can.

575
00:39:30.945 --> 00:39:31.685
No stars.

576
00:39:31.985 --> 00:39:32.965
There you go.

577
00:39:34.545 --> 00:39:35.365
So okay.

578
00:39:36.145 --> 00:39:36.465
Yeah.

579
00:39:36.465 --> 00:39:45.180
I think, you know, part of this will be just, evolution and just getting your feedback and and feedback from your users and what they're asking for and then just to improve it over time.

580
00:39:45.180 --> 00:39:48.400
Okay. Good to know. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you for the questions.

581
00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:53.920
Good questions there. Alright. We have, Carly here. Let me unmute your microphone, Carly.

582
00:39:54.300 --> 00:39:55.599
There we go. How you doing?

583
00:39:56.060 --> 00:40:00.125
Hello. I'm well. Thank you. Thank you for Brilliant Software.

584
00:40:00.665 --> 00:40:05.245
Now Yeah. I've just got a question about SEO. Sorry to jump over to that.

585
00:40:06.025 --> 00:40:07.565
I subscribe to different

586
00:40:08.345 --> 00:40:09.965
SEO tools like SiteGuru,

587
00:40:10.745 --> 00:40:12.365
DIV, etcetera, etcetera.

588
00:40:12.750 --> 00:40:17.730
And I keep getting emails saying that they can't find a site map

589
00:40:18.190 --> 00:40:18.690
on

590
00:40:19.150 --> 00:40:19.650
my

591
00:40:19.950 --> 00:40:20.450
website,

592
00:40:21.550 --> 00:40:22.530
and it's affecting

593
00:40:22.990 --> 00:40:24.450
it's affecting my SEO.

594
00:40:24.830 --> 00:40:25.570
High impact,

595
00:40:25.950 --> 00:40:27.970
statewide issue. High impact.

596
00:40:28.565 --> 00:40:29.765
They are, h,

597
00:40:30.325 --> 00:40:30.825
Ahrefs,

598
00:40:31.765 --> 00:40:32.665
SEO gurus.

599
00:40:33.205 --> 00:40:36.825
They're great tools. They also stay in business by sending alarmist,

600
00:40:37.205 --> 00:40:38.425
messages. However,

601
00:40:39.365 --> 00:40:40.185
your site,

602
00:40:40.565 --> 00:40:41.945
can have a site map.

603
00:40:42.970 --> 00:40:45.710
Let me show you where, that would be. So

604
00:40:46.010 --> 00:40:47.230
with Brilliant Directories,

605
00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:52.170
and we do recommend submitting your site map to Google and to Bing.

606
00:40:52.170 --> 00:40:54.510
We we have a documentation on that.

607
00:40:54.970 --> 00:41:00.415
You can use other, you you okay. Sounds like you have created the site map. Correct? Yes.

608
00:41:00.875 --> 00:41:01.375
Okay.

609
00:41:01.755 --> 00:41:02.155
Great.

610
00:41:02.875 --> 00:41:03.375
So

611
00:41:03.675 --> 00:41:07.535
when you have a site map, I think what they're looking for is

612
00:41:08.330 --> 00:41:12.570
your your site map isn't doesn't need to be right after the root domain.

613
00:41:12.570 --> 00:41:17.310
I think what they're looking for is like your domain and then like sitemap.XML,

614
00:41:17.450 --> 00:41:18.430
like that specific,

615
00:41:19.930 --> 00:41:20.430
page.

616
00:41:20.970 --> 00:41:23.790
But the site maps, one, don't need to be like that.

617
00:41:24.225 --> 00:41:27.685
And let me see. This site has a site map generator here I can show.

618
00:41:28.065 --> 00:41:29.745
And I think they're looking for that.

619
00:41:29.745 --> 00:41:35.025
In this case, the site map URL is like file data cache, and a site map URL can be anything.

620
00:41:35.025 --> 00:41:38.005
Google doesn't care. Bing doesn't care. But these,

621
00:41:38.820 --> 00:41:41.320
these SEO tools might be looking for

622
00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:44.280
just specifically sitemap.XML.

623
00:41:44.580 --> 00:41:48.280
And they'll tell you is if are they telling you that that's the file that's missing?

624
00:41:49.140 --> 00:41:49.640
No.

625
00:41:50.020 --> 00:41:52.200
Okay. No. They're saying, yes.

626
00:41:52.580 --> 00:41:54.075
Having it correctly yes.

627
00:41:54.555 --> 00:41:55.375
Pardon me.

628
00:41:55.915 --> 00:41:56.415
XML

629
00:41:57.195 --> 00:41:57.695
sitemap.

630
00:41:58.315 --> 00:42:01.615
That's what they're saying. Yeah. They're looking for a specific URL.

631
00:42:01.835 --> 00:42:07.535
It was best practices in the early two thousands, but now, like a lot of things, that that kind of stuff doesn't matter.

632
00:42:07.830 --> 00:42:11.130
So you can choose to ignore it or if you wanna satisfy

633
00:42:11.910 --> 00:42:14.570
it just for those tools, if you really wanted to,

634
00:42:15.590 --> 00:42:22.170
what you can do, go to your developer hub and let's do this. Let's create a new redirect rule

635
00:42:22.625 --> 00:42:25.204
for sitemap XML going

636
00:42:26.224 --> 00:42:30.565
to my real sitemap page here and we'll do a test actually together.

637
00:42:31.425 --> 00:42:37.265
So we're gonna redirect. If if anyone goes to sitemap. Xml, we're gonna redirect them to here.

638
00:42:37.265 --> 00:42:38.680
Let's save that redirect.

639
00:42:39.060 --> 00:42:42.260
And again, your site does have a site map like, you know, it exists.

640
00:42:42.260 --> 00:42:47.060
They they're just looking for a specific URL. So if we go here oh, it didn't get that.

641
00:42:47.060 --> 00:42:49.560
Let's see why. That was a bad talk about.

642
00:42:50.955 --> 00:42:54.155
Let's see why that's not let's see if this link is working here on this site.

643
00:42:54.155 --> 00:42:59.055
Maybe I need to regenerate the site map on this site. Yeah. Let's regenerate the site map.

644
00:42:59.275 --> 00:43:01.055
It's been a while. This is our demo.

645
00:43:01.115 --> 00:43:04.555
This is our testing site for the for the webinar, so it might have some quirks.

646
00:43:04.555 --> 00:43:06.255
But in theory, what you can do

647
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.620
is if you do have the site map URL working on your site

648
00:43:11.080 --> 00:43:14.360
is redirect the source URL sitemap..XML

649
00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:18.300
and redirect it to the site map URL that you have created in your site map generated.

650
00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:20.665
That would be the logic there. Okay.

651
00:43:21.125 --> 00:43:21.625
Okay.

652
00:43:22.965 --> 00:43:26.005
Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah. Those yeah. I've seen so many warnings from those tools.

653
00:43:26.005 --> 00:43:28.505
And again, they're just doing their job. They're nitpicking.

654
00:43:28.724 --> 00:43:35.220
And and some of them are legitimate and some of them are are really just that, just nitpicking at at things that, are older practices.

655
00:43:35.220 --> 00:43:35.720
But,

656
00:43:36.740 --> 00:43:39.300
if you ever have questions, you know, post it in the Facebook group.

657
00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:42.099
I helped a gentleman last night who had an issue and,

658
00:43:42.740 --> 00:43:46.180
from one of these third party programs, and we were able to sort it out and clear it.

659
00:43:46.180 --> 00:43:51.535
But it wasn't affecting his SEO in reality. Okay. Brilliant. Thanks so much. You're welcome, Carly.

660
00:43:51.535 --> 00:43:52.435
Thanks for the question.

661
00:43:52.735 --> 00:43:53.215
Alright.

662
00:43:53.535 --> 00:43:56.835
While we're there, let's see what's going on. Sitemap created. Okay.

663
00:43:57.215 --> 00:43:59.395
Well, let's copy this here

664
00:43:59.855 --> 00:44:04.450
real quick. Let's just do some testing here. There's the sitemap. Okay. So let's update this.

665
00:44:04.450 --> 00:44:07.029
That was just probably outdated. All right.

666
00:44:07.490 --> 00:44:07.990
And

667
00:44:08.529 --> 00:44:09.750
let's save the changes.

668
00:44:10.529 --> 00:44:14.710
Okay. Great. So now if we re refresh this page here

669
00:44:15.010 --> 00:44:16.869
and we go to sitemap. Xml,

670
00:44:17.490 --> 00:44:21.945
there we go. It's redirecting here. So it was just the old old sitemap link on this, demo site.

671
00:44:21.945 --> 00:44:30.765
But, yeah, this little redirect should satisfy them because this is resolving and instead of giving a four zero four error, which is probably what those third party tools are,

672
00:44:31.145 --> 00:44:34.700
finding by going there. Alright. We got a few more questions here. We're not gonna stop.

673
00:44:34.700 --> 00:44:39.500
It's the first webinar of the new year. We got Jim Hunter here. Jim, how are you doing? Good.

674
00:44:39.500 --> 00:44:40.859
Thank you. Good. Thank you.

675
00:44:41.420 --> 00:44:44.640
Pretty new to Brilliant Directories. I love it so far,

676
00:44:45.565 --> 00:44:49.665
and I'm still learning it. So this question may sound stupid to most of you, but

677
00:44:49.965 --> 00:44:52.385
say one of the members wants to create a coupon

678
00:44:52.765 --> 00:44:55.185
for 50% off their products for their users.

679
00:44:55.725 --> 00:44:59.250
Where does that get exposed on the front end,

680
00:44:59.730 --> 00:45:02.770
for for a visitor to see? Perfect.

681
00:45:02.770 --> 00:45:10.390
So if we go to demo bootstrap, which is basically a it's a demo directory filled with sample data and and posts.

682
00:45:11.410 --> 00:45:11.910
So

683
00:45:12.234 --> 00:45:17.775
if a visitor comes to your site, first of all, I do not recommend enabling all the post types,

684
00:45:18.315 --> 00:45:21.135
if you're starting your website for a few reasons.

685
00:45:21.595 --> 00:45:26.579
One, you have to fill all those post types with listings. Right? Coupons, jobs, events.

686
00:45:26.579 --> 00:45:29.400
You're you're every time you add a post type, you're exponentially,

687
00:45:30.180 --> 00:45:31.319
increasing your workload.

688
00:45:32.339 --> 00:45:32.839
Two,

689
00:45:33.140 --> 00:45:39.795
if you're trying to explain to your members the benefit of your website, it's better to hone their focus on a couple things, like

690
00:45:40.115 --> 00:45:45.895
maybe just coupons and events, to promote their business or or maybe even just one of them, just list their business.

691
00:45:47.234 --> 00:45:50.355
So you're asking how a visitor would find coupons.

692
00:45:50.355 --> 00:45:54.420
Well, you as the website owner will choose how the visitor finds the coupons.

693
00:45:54.420 --> 00:45:56.200
You can make it available in

694
00:45:56.740 --> 00:45:59.220
the main menu, and what you would do is link

695
00:45:59.940 --> 00:46:03.140
you can edit your main menu, of course. That's that that's without a given.

696
00:46:03.140 --> 00:46:05.700
You would link to the post type's search results page.

697
00:46:05.700 --> 00:46:11.175
So every post type has a search results page that's automatically created and automatically populated,

698
00:46:11.955 --> 00:46:17.175
as members create posts or you as the website owner create posts. So we can see here coupons.

699
00:46:17.475 --> 00:46:19.255
So we can see here that the coupons,

700
00:46:20.035 --> 00:46:20.775
are listed.

701
00:46:21.339 --> 00:46:25.200
People can search for coupons. So if I wanna search for massage coupons,

702
00:46:26.540 --> 00:46:30.560
I'll just do a search. So there's one coupon for massage therapy.

703
00:46:30.859 --> 00:46:33.599
And, of course, you can search by category,

704
00:46:33.900 --> 00:46:36.915
keyword, and location for many of the post types.

705
00:46:38.195 --> 00:46:41.415
This works really well if you're in a smaller area. If you're nationwide

706
00:46:41.715 --> 00:46:45.815
I mean, if random people are coming to your site from all across the country or the world,

707
00:46:46.195 --> 00:46:53.230
and they search for a coupon in their area and and your site isn't that, you know, that busy, you're probably not gonna have content for them.

708
00:46:53.230 --> 00:46:59.410
But if you're regional and you're doing this for, I'm assuming, a a local city or town or region,

709
00:46:59.950 --> 00:47:05.170
it's really easy to rally businesses around the focus of your site because you're helping the the local area.

710
00:47:05.915 --> 00:47:08.015
So this is one place is the search results.

711
00:47:08.635 --> 00:47:12.875
Let's go to this coupon page. Anna, you can showcase deals on your home page as well.

712
00:47:12.875 --> 00:47:15.135
You can handpick them or you can use the streaming,

713
00:47:15.595 --> 00:47:16.095
widgets.

714
00:47:16.395 --> 00:47:17.135
But, also,

715
00:47:17.435 --> 00:47:23.750
we can see who the member who published a post. So here is a the 50% off massage therapy.

716
00:47:23.890 --> 00:47:25.830
If we go to John Smith's profile,

717
00:47:26.770 --> 00:47:36.050
not only do we see information about this business or this member in this case, it's a person in in this case, but we can see all the different content they've published to the site.

718
00:47:36.050 --> 00:47:39.085
So we can see all the coupons this business has,

719
00:47:39.545 --> 00:47:40.765
published to the site.

720
00:47:41.625 --> 00:47:43.145
Now, again, this is just a demo.

721
00:47:43.145 --> 00:47:46.424
So we created a guy called John Smith, and he posted all these coupons.

722
00:47:46.424 --> 00:47:54.310
But, this could be a pizza place, and maybe they have four different coupons, for a small pizza, a family pack, and weekend deal, things like that.

723
00:47:54.530 --> 00:47:58.150
So this is another place where those those coupons can be found.

724
00:47:58.690 --> 00:48:01.590
And then also you as the website owner can self promote,

725
00:48:02.130 --> 00:48:05.670
some of this content. So, you can post on your social media.

726
00:48:06.025 --> 00:48:10.365
You know, we have Corey Barnes who's who's a who's a BDE er, and he has,

727
00:48:11.145 --> 00:48:14.605
a Facebook group in with for Chattanooga, Tennessee,

728
00:48:15.305 --> 00:48:20.985
and he uses his Brilliant Directories site to feed content into his Facebook group and vice versa.

729
00:48:20.985 --> 00:48:25.320
So, he brings people from his Facebook group to his Brilliant Directories website,

730
00:48:26.100 --> 00:48:30.840
and he shares content from his BD website into his Facebook group. So, he helps,

731
00:48:31.380 --> 00:48:34.600
stimulate interest and cross promote, on those two platforms.

732
00:48:35.445 --> 00:48:40.985
So those are just a few ways people can find the post and and content on your site and off your site as well.

733
00:48:41.205 --> 00:48:43.205
And I noticed you have lots of little tabs there.

734
00:48:43.205 --> 00:48:47.445
And since I haven't I probably haven't turned any of those on, I don't see any of those tabs.

735
00:48:47.445 --> 00:48:48.839
So that might explain things.

736
00:48:49.700 --> 00:48:51.619
Yeah. So also on a profile page,

737
00:48:52.099 --> 00:48:58.760
based on the the member's membership plan, you decide who has the privilege of, for example, being able to publish a coupon.

738
00:48:59.140 --> 00:49:08.655
So say John Smith had the ability to publish coupons but has not done so yet, the coupon tab would not display here until he published his first coupon on the site.

739
00:49:09.355 --> 00:49:12.735
Until then, this there would there would be no tab here saying coupons.

740
00:49:13.355 --> 00:49:16.095
I I I turned it on for I I have a test

741
00:49:16.470 --> 00:49:19.190
vendor that I'm working on, and I created a coupon.

742
00:49:19.190 --> 00:49:22.410
And that's why I couldn't find it, and that's why I was wondering where it was.

743
00:49:22.710 --> 00:49:25.430
So let me But I don't see the tab on his on his

744
00:49:25.990 --> 00:49:30.410
So one thing page. Yeah. You might wanna check. Let me show you one more thing.

745
00:49:30.790 --> 00:49:34.755
So if we, let me just edit a coupon here. Edit post.

746
00:49:35.055 --> 00:49:36.595
Make sure it's set to published.

747
00:49:37.215 --> 00:49:41.615
And also also make sure that the coupon end date hasn't passed yet.

748
00:49:41.855 --> 00:49:46.150
I think when it expires, it's no longer I believe it's it might be gone there. Yeah.

749
00:49:46.150 --> 00:49:49.770
That was the first thing I did notice. It had an old date, so I put it set it to tomorrow.

750
00:49:49.990 --> 00:49:53.270
So Perfect. Yeah. Just check the end date and the publish status.

751
00:49:53.270 --> 00:49:56.550
If you're having issues beyond that, you might wanna email the support team.

752
00:49:56.550 --> 00:50:00.170
It should be showing it back. I just went in and it was not published.

753
00:50:00.735 --> 00:50:01.235
Okay.

754
00:50:01.535 --> 00:50:04.835
Users can publish and unpublish their their posts and deals.

755
00:50:05.295 --> 00:50:11.155
And coupon shows up. Okay. Perfect. That that answers that question. Okay. Thank you very much.

756
00:50:11.215 --> 00:50:11.695
You're welcome.

757
00:50:11.695 --> 00:50:16.080
If you have more questions, you know, hit us up in the Facebook group or you can email the support team.

758
00:50:16.160 --> 00:50:20.560
Thanks. Cheers. You're welcome. Alright. Good question there. Welcome, Jim, to the BD family.

759
00:50:20.560 --> 00:50:21.300
And Jerome,

760
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:26.420
I recognize that name. Jerome, how you doing? Yeah. There we go. Okay. Here we go.

761
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:28.080
Hey. Good to hear,

762
00:50:28.655 --> 00:50:29.615
Good to see you guys,

763
00:50:30.015 --> 00:50:32.355
really improving this site. This is, amazing.

764
00:50:32.415 --> 00:50:37.635
I've been with you for a while as you know, and this is really a great way to start 2023. Thank you.

765
00:50:37.935 --> 00:50:38.435
Absolutely.

766
00:50:39.055 --> 00:50:40.195
Thank you. Yeah.

767
00:50:40.575 --> 00:50:41.615
Yeah. I have a couple,

768
00:50:41.935 --> 00:50:44.609
just couple quick questions, and it is related,

769
00:50:45.310 --> 00:50:48.849
being able to import data. Are you gonna, at some point, allow,

770
00:50:49.710 --> 00:50:51.250
us to be able to export

771
00:50:51.710 --> 00:50:57.285
posts, like events and things like that? Is that something you guys are also working on? Think

772
00:50:57.825 --> 00:51:00.865
I know we can export, like, the business listings. You know? Okay.

773
00:51:00.865 --> 00:51:04.965
But I was just curious if you're gonna be able to export the the data from the post.

774
00:51:05.665 --> 00:51:09.605
So let me show you that's a good suggestion, first of all. Like,

775
00:51:10.410 --> 00:51:12.030
let me add that to this list.

776
00:51:12.730 --> 00:51:15.309
Export posts as CSV.

777
00:51:16.329 --> 00:51:20.270
Okay. That's a good suggestion. Let me show you what you can do right now in the meantime.

778
00:51:20.410 --> 00:51:22.190
If you go to your developer hub

779
00:51:22.650 --> 00:51:23.869
and go to webhooks

780
00:51:24.650 --> 00:51:25.125
Okay.

781
00:51:25.525 --> 00:51:31.065
And this is not exactly what you need or want, but it might work as a as a workaround for now.

782
00:51:31.205 --> 00:51:33.545
You can create a webhook so that anytime

783
00:51:33.845 --> 00:51:34.345
a

784
00:51:34.805 --> 00:51:39.065
a standard post or a photo album post, those are the, those are the two post types,

785
00:51:39.685 --> 00:51:40.505
are created,

786
00:51:41.040 --> 00:51:45.700
You can send that data out out of your website, export it via a webhook.

787
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:51.220
And in your case, because you want it in a CSV is save it in a Google Sheet,

788
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:53.460
using Zapier. So

789
00:51:54.414 --> 00:51:56.654
are you familiar with any of that in the previous webinars?

790
00:51:56.654 --> 00:51:59.315
We've we've I know it's new territory for sure, but,

791
00:52:00.335 --> 00:52:03.795
have you seen us talk about the webhooks before or anything like that?

792
00:52:04.174 --> 00:52:08.035
I have to research that a little bit more with Let me in your previous videos.

793
00:52:08.210 --> 00:52:10.390
Let me share let me share with you

794
00:52:10.849 --> 00:52:13.509
a webinar, a tip of the week we did on

795
00:52:13.970 --> 00:52:15.509
so when a post is created,

796
00:52:15.890 --> 00:52:17.670
it sends it to your social media.

797
00:52:18.049 --> 00:52:23.795
So in this case, when a post is created or updated, you can send it to a goo you would send it to a Google Sheet.

798
00:52:23.795 --> 00:52:24.775
So just change

799
00:52:25.234 --> 00:52:28.855
the the it's like posting to Facebook to sending it to a Google Sheet.

800
00:52:29.155 --> 00:52:33.015
Give me a minute. Yeah. It's hard to do videos on every use case. So,

801
00:52:33.490 --> 00:52:37.570
auto share content on social media. In this case, it it does exactly what I said.

802
00:52:37.570 --> 00:52:38.710
It uses the webhooks,

803
00:52:39.170 --> 00:52:41.030
sends the data out from your website.

804
00:52:41.090 --> 00:52:48.710
In this video, it it shows how to send it to Facebook and Twitter, but instead, you could send it to a Google Sheet and thereby you have it in a CSV file.

805
00:52:48.855 --> 00:52:54.775
I'm gonna put this in this chat here. Okay. Got it. And then and then, yeah, I think,

806
00:52:55.655 --> 00:52:57.275
an export post to CSV,

807
00:52:58.135 --> 00:52:58.775
would be nice.

808
00:52:58.775 --> 00:53:05.680
I think now that we're creating the ability to import the post as CSV, it would be easy to reverse engineer that and and have an export option as well.

809
00:53:05.680 --> 00:53:10.079
So I'll I'll suggest that to the team. Okay. I I have one more question if you don't mind. Sure.

810
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:10.400
Yeah.

811
00:53:11.200 --> 00:53:13.140
When we import business listings,

812
00:53:14.045 --> 00:53:15.345
we're using the template,

813
00:53:15.725 --> 00:53:17.425
that you provide that we downloaded,

814
00:53:17.725 --> 00:53:21.745
and we add the content to that. And then we can import right into a membership,

815
00:53:22.525 --> 00:53:25.345
that we want those businesses to be attached to.

816
00:53:25.740 --> 00:53:30.560
And, it's a awesome feature. We love it. One of the challenges we sometimes have

817
00:53:30.860 --> 00:53:35.200
is getting it to attach the actual address on the Google Map.

818
00:53:35.340 --> 00:53:47.935
And I know if it doesn't have that attached, sometimes it won't even show up on your website yet until you actually log in to each one and, you know, do a Google search for that address and attach it to the to that business listing.

819
00:53:48.475 --> 00:53:51.515
Is there a workaround for that that we can actually

820
00:53:52.235 --> 00:53:57.290
the address is in there. It just it never kinda attached itself to the Google map?

821
00:53:59.030 --> 00:54:01.370
Addresses are finicky. I know in

822
00:54:01.910 --> 00:54:02.470
in the,

823
00:54:03.430 --> 00:54:10.650
in the import file you can have like the street address field, the city field, the state, and the country as separate fields.

824
00:54:11.105 --> 00:54:14.885
What I'm assuming maybe is happening is that the full address,

825
00:54:15.345 --> 00:54:16.484
the street address,

826
00:54:16.785 --> 00:54:21.444
city, state, and country might be in the main address field,

827
00:54:21.825 --> 00:54:23.204
and that might be,

828
00:54:24.385 --> 00:54:25.920
messing it up a bit.

829
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:31.540
Like like, it's confusing the system as to what the what the address for that person might be.

830
00:54:32.240 --> 00:54:39.780
You're probably dealing with a lot of records, so it'd be hard to go record by record and see which who has the correct format for their address.

831
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:40.820
Right.

832
00:54:41.625 --> 00:54:47.565
What you can do is this, the person that you imported whose address didn't get correctly added,

833
00:54:47.945 --> 00:54:55.020
go back into your Excel file and see how the address is for that record and see if it's what I see the whole address is in.

834
00:54:55.020 --> 00:54:58.720
If the if the, like, the city, state, and country are all in the street address.

835
00:54:59.180 --> 00:55:00.720
You know, with post types,

836
00:55:01.180 --> 00:55:05.760
you can with the Google Maps thing, you can literally just put like a neighborhood or a landmark

837
00:55:06.380 --> 00:55:11.475
sometimes, and it'll kinda get that as it'll try to use that to find the coordinates.

838
00:55:12.175 --> 00:55:15.635
I'm wondering if you just if there was like full address

839
00:55:16.415 --> 00:55:18.595
field and then it uses that

840
00:55:19.055 --> 00:55:20.835
to then geocode the member

841
00:55:21.160 --> 00:55:25.100
based on the full because there is no full address field in the import file. It's all

842
00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:28.140
parsed street address, city, state, country.

843
00:55:29.080 --> 00:55:33.640
Mhmm. That would just be forgetting the longitude and latitude if okay. Yeah.

844
00:55:33.640 --> 00:55:34.600
I would do what I said.

845
00:55:34.600 --> 00:55:38.335
Check the record that was broken and see how the address is in your CSV file.

846
00:55:38.335 --> 00:55:43.055
How many records are you talking about? Like, if you did a second or hundreds. Yeah. Yeah.

847
00:55:43.055 --> 00:55:45.535
Like this one, it was, like, 356,

848
00:55:45.535 --> 00:55:50.270
you know, records. Now now we do have 42,334

849
00:55:50.270 --> 00:55:52.750
out of our, you know, approximately 300,000

850
00:55:52.750 --> 00:55:53.250
members

851
00:55:53.550 --> 00:55:54.369
on our platform

852
00:55:54.910 --> 00:55:57.790
don't have a geocode, but I'm not worried about that.

853
00:55:58.350 --> 00:56:05.845
Sometimes when we just import a list that we know is a good list, like, it was verified through, like, say, a city that we work with or whatever,

854
00:56:06.145 --> 00:56:09.585
you know, some of them won't actually geocode right, when we import it.

855
00:56:09.585 --> 00:56:14.310
And so we have to go in 1 x 1 and kinda get them to attach to the map. You know?

856
00:56:14.470 --> 00:56:17.350
And they generally, the address is correct. You know?

857
00:56:17.350 --> 00:56:21.750
So I'm wondering if there's maybe a little work around where we can, you know, scrub it.

858
00:56:21.750 --> 00:56:22.950
If not, you know,

859
00:56:23.430 --> 00:56:26.870
You're you're giving me another idea. You know, you can search members here.

860
00:56:26.870 --> 00:56:29.530
We see in this example, 22 need to be geocoded.

861
00:56:30.335 --> 00:56:35.635
But Mhmm. There's if if there was a way for you to export those 22 or or view them here,

862
00:56:37.135 --> 00:56:39.714
so I think a drop down here of,

863
00:56:40.414 --> 00:56:40.914
geocoded

864
00:56:41.214 --> 00:56:42.194
or not geocoded

865
00:56:42.819 --> 00:56:43.640
would be helpful,

866
00:56:44.099 --> 00:56:49.319
because then you can export the non geocoded one and and work and just work on it in a separate Excel.

867
00:56:50.099 --> 00:56:52.920
Yeah. Okay. That's not a bad idea, actually.

868
00:56:53.460 --> 00:56:54.280
Search members,

869
00:56:55.605 --> 00:56:56.105
geocoded.

870
00:56:56.405 --> 00:57:00.165
Thank you for allowing me to go a little, you know, more stuff through a little bit. But Yeah.

871
00:57:00.325 --> 00:57:03.145
At the end of the day, it it could come in handy, obviously,

872
00:57:03.765 --> 00:57:08.485
as we continue to import more data. Right? Just to make sure everything's syncing up right.

873
00:57:08.485 --> 00:57:13.110
That'd be awesome. Of of course. I mean yeah. I mean, just 300 out of 42,000

874
00:57:13.110 --> 00:57:19.050
is not a bad import, but we if it's I mean, all of them got imported. 300 didn't get geocoded. So,

875
00:57:19.510 --> 00:57:26.815
yeah, this would be this would help you act a bit quicker on on, fixing those if you can just have them in a in another Excel if you can export them.

876
00:57:26.815 --> 00:57:31.954
So good suggestion there. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. And then have you guys seen anything interesting,

877
00:57:32.494 --> 00:57:35.375
with the way Google's handling some of the site maps lately?

878
00:57:35.375 --> 00:57:41.140
Because, like, one of the things we've noticed is, like okay. So we have, like, say, 425,000,

879
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pages that are not indexed with Google

880
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and, say, 22,000

881
00:57:46.160 --> 00:57:49.234
are. Have you noticed that Google sometimes

882
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because it's a business listing

883
00:57:52.575 --> 00:57:59.954
that might be similar to a Google already has a business listing on there or maybe something else similar from that business's website

884
00:58:00.414 --> 00:58:05.410
that's on there that Google might not index that for some reason? Absolutely. Something like that?

885
00:58:05.410 --> 00:58:06.930
Okay. I I 100%

886
00:58:06.930 --> 00:58:10.930
know they do. So what that's called is is duplicate content or thin content pages.

887
00:58:10.930 --> 00:58:14.790
You can Google it, thin content Google. Okay. And and, basically,

888
00:58:15.490 --> 00:58:18.855
there the page itself, just because you've imported 42,000

889
00:58:18.855 --> 00:58:25.115
listings doesn't mean that Google's gonna index all of them because, again, you that data is probably found somewhere else on the Internet first.

890
00:58:25.575 --> 00:58:33.450
And a lot of Google's algorithm updates have been to not rank not to penalize you just because it's they're not penalizing you.

891
00:58:33.450 --> 00:58:39.770
It just has no value for a user to rank pages that have exactly the same content on them. So Right.

892
00:58:39.850 --> 00:58:44.410
If you're gonna yeah. What what you should do is import 42,000

893
00:58:44.410 --> 00:58:47.130
listings. Some of them are gonna get indexed by Google.

894
00:58:47.130 --> 00:58:50.805
The vast majority probably won't because they're duplicate or thin content pages.

895
00:58:51.185 --> 00:58:59.765
However, what you should do is figure out a system of, you know, this month we're gonna target everyone in California who's a doctor or whatever

896
00:59:00.065 --> 00:59:00.565
and

897
00:59:00.945 --> 00:59:02.005
segment out

898
00:59:02.410 --> 00:59:07.950
enriching those profile pages in some capacity and do them in chunks of similar batches.

899
00:59:08.410 --> 00:59:13.130
That way it helps you stay a bit organized and you're kinda like a divide and conquer situation.

900
00:59:13.130 --> 00:59:16.170
So again, in that example, you can have all your con,

901
00:59:16.795 --> 00:59:19.535
California doctors taken care of, you know, in February,

902
00:59:19.915 --> 00:59:26.335
then go New York doctors or you know, that 42,000 is a lot of listings and pages to add rich content to,

903
00:59:26.715 --> 00:59:28.635
but that's gonna help those pages rank.

904
00:59:28.635 --> 00:59:33.329
Google is looking for unique content on those pages at the end of the day. Okay. Excellent.

905
00:59:33.710 --> 00:59:38.450
Alright. Great suggestion. Thank you, guys. Alright. Cheers. Thank you, Jerome. Good questions.

906
00:59:38.990 --> 00:59:42.530
Alright. And all the way from Australia, the man himself,

907
00:59:43.230 --> 00:59:44.690
Jeff. How you doing, Jeff?

908
00:59:45.345 --> 00:59:50.165
Hi. How are you? Pretty good. Good to hear you. To you all. Thank you. Thank you. You too.

909
00:59:50.705 --> 00:59:52.065
This is a question. It's not,

910
00:59:53.744 --> 00:59:57.750
it's probably a modification that you could possibly do. It's

911
00:59:58.310 --> 01:00:00.790
add a description field to all your,

912
01:00:01.510 --> 01:00:02.010
categories.

913
01:00:02.710 --> 01:00:09.610
So then that information in that description field could be used at the top of the category when someone searches a particular

914
01:00:10.494 --> 01:00:14.435
category and gets information. So it's at the top above all the,

915
01:00:15.135 --> 01:00:15.635
members.

916
01:00:16.255 --> 01:00:17.234
Add a description

917
01:00:17.615 --> 01:00:18.515
meta field,

918
01:00:19.455 --> 01:00:22.230
to, member categories. Is that what you're saying?

919
01:00:22.630 --> 01:00:25.850
Yes. So you can then personalize each category.

920
01:00:26.390 --> 01:00:26.890
Right.

921
01:00:27.190 --> 01:00:32.890
And then render that description in various places of your site. Or when that category is called,

922
01:00:33.510 --> 01:00:35.609
it could render it at the top of the page,

923
01:00:36.265 --> 01:00:36.765
like,

924
01:00:37.065 --> 01:00:38.765
as a description of what's

925
01:00:39.305 --> 01:00:42.765
say, you could talk about plumbers, you could talk about a generalization

926
01:00:43.065 --> 01:00:48.685
of, the plumbing trades, what they do, and stuff like that. So it can personalize your

927
01:00:49.145 --> 01:00:50.285
overall directory

928
01:00:50.710 --> 01:00:51.930
I By category.

929
01:00:52.310 --> 01:00:54.890
Yep. I I love I love that idea,

930
01:00:56.070 --> 01:00:58.010
without having to create a custom

931
01:00:58.310 --> 01:01:00.090
with static page for each category.

932
01:01:00.710 --> 01:01:05.450
That's right. Exactly that. You have to pay daily pages at the moment.

933
01:01:05.750 --> 01:01:06.195
Right.

934
01:01:06.995 --> 01:01:10.355
I think that's a wonderful suggestion. I'll look. We got a ton of suggestions here today.

935
01:01:10.355 --> 01:01:12.915
It's great. So I'll I'll definitely pass that over to the team.

936
01:01:12.915 --> 01:01:17.015
I I don't think that'll be terribly difficult to do, and I think it's it's great for SEO as well.

937
01:01:17.235 --> 01:01:22.170
Yes. Thank you very much. Is that all you got for us, Jeff? What are your goals for 2023?

938
01:01:22.410 --> 01:01:25.790
Yeah. Gotta get something out of here. Thank you. Okay.

939
01:01:26.329 --> 01:01:27.869
Cheers. No worries. Thank you.

940
01:01:28.170 --> 01:01:30.910
We love Jeff. He's been a long time BDR there.

941
01:01:31.369 --> 01:01:34.650
Just cranking his chain a little bit there. Alright. I don't see any more hands up.

942
01:01:34.650 --> 01:01:39.125
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