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Alright, gang. Let's dive right into it. Welcome to another edition of webinar

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Wednesday. It's great to be with everyone here today.

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If this is your first time joining us, welcome. I am Jason

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there on the left, and we are lucky to be joined by David Rocklin,

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the digital strategist here at Brilliant Directories. David, how are you today? Doing well.

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It's been busy over here at BD today. Thanks everybody for joining us.

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Excited to share some of the great updates that we have with you.

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And if you're not already a member of our Facebook group, I do recommend joining.

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It's a great way to keep the conversations going in between

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webinar Wednesdays. You can head on over right now to brilliantdirectories.com/facebook.

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I'm in there myself. There's always great discussions

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created every single day in there by the group members.

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It's a fun place to hang out and see what everyone is doing,

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working on their websites.

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So take a minute and join us there, brilliantdirectories.com/facebook.

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And I do see some new names and faces, so if this is your first time joining us, welcome.

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A little bit about webinar Wednesdays, it's really a great channel for us to one, chat with each other and communicate, and also share some of the new features built into the platform.

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There are lots of features updated and added week after week.

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In webinar Wednesday, we try to focus on the features that can actually help you leverage and grow,

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your community a bit faster.

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We'll cover topics such as increasing traffic,

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converting some of your website visitors into actual subscribers or paying members,

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and new, new ways to improve navigation are some of the topics that, we'll cover here.

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If you have any questions on these topics or anything about your membership website, please save them.

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I will do our best to get to as many questions as we can today.

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Alright. And let's dive into

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some

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lab updates. Some of these were on the coming soon list below. They've now moved up as new features.

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The first one at the top of the list, the ability to create smart lists, and if you have the export member data add on, the ability to export your data for both your member reviews

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and the member leads that come through your site. So this is really helpful,

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if you're

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gathering leads, if people are contacting,

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your members and filling out that get matched form as we call it, you can now create a smart list of those,

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users or website visitors and choose to email them newsletters and and other things in the future.

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Also, the same for people who leave reviews for your members.

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So as you know, if you've enabled the functionality, your members can receive reviews

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or testimonials

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and star ratings on their profile pages.

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And now for those website visitors that are leaving the reviews, you can create smart lists and choose to email them,

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maybe company newsletters, website newsletters, or just stay in touch with them, in different ways.

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Let me show you where you guys can find those new settings for both reviews and leads.

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Alright. So this is the dashboard homepage in the admin area.

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So these are both gonna be under the interactions,

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the new interactions

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area.

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For member leads, we'll go ahead and just open this in a new tab.

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What you'll find here in the top right are the list actions,

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so you can export your current results, if you have the export add on, and everyone has the ability to create smart lists, from the results.

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So you can do filtering here, maybe, you want to,

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find out who contacted members regarding a certain top level category or sublevel category,

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and create a smart list from that. For member reviews, I'll just open this in a new tab as well.

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You're gonna find it in a similar location here in the top right.

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So these are people who have left reviews or star ratings for your members.

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You can now create smart lists based on the people who have left the reviews for your members,

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as well as export the reviews,

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so you can use that data and maybe port it somewhere else or just store it for, your records.

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So what's really cool is, you can search using these filters and then create the smart list based on the results that are remaining after you filter and search.

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Alright. This one, shout out to Colette. Let's see if Colette is in the webinar today.

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She is.

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The ability to select

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how you want your post types to display

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with regards to their search results view.

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So by default, there's list view, and I'll show you what that is, and then we have add ons for grid or map view.

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And up until now, in your design settings for all your post types, for example, events or coupons or jobs, you could choose if you wanted the search results pages to start in a map view

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or the grid view, or the list view.

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However, with this feature now,

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you can,

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select specific post types to start in different views for their search results pages, and I'll show you an example of it and

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where the setting is for you.

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So let's, first see what we're talking about here.

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So what we're talking about, are the search results for your different post types.

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So this is coupons.

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Let's look at jobs on the same site,

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And we can see jobs is set to list view to start in list view, and coupons is starting in this grid view.

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So up until now you would have to choose

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one view that would be applied to all your post types, and that would be in your design settings.

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Let's take a look at that first because that's the existing setting that's always been there.

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If you go to design settings

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and search result pages,

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I believe here it is.

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The post search results layout,

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start in list view or start in grid view or start in map view if you have it.

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The options would be here, and it would apply to all your post types.

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So, you can do this and just have it apply to all your post types, but maybe there's a specific post type like in like your events or your jobs or something that you want to start in a different view.

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Let me show you where you can set that now. So,

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here we wanna go to my content

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And since I edited the coupon one, I'll just show you what I did there.

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So I'll just filter for coupon and edit my coupon post type.

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And this setting is going to be right now it's in search results design,

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and we're gonna scroll down past the code stuff and additional settings.

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And right now it's the newest feature, so it's kind of at the bottom here.

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Start results view in, and you can see I've set it to a grid view here.

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The first option is use design settings rule.

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So if you just want it to fall back to what you've set in your main design settings, you can do that, or you can override that and select list view, grid view, or

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map view. So I'm sure that'll come in handy.

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I'll give you a little bit more granular control of, the,

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look and feel of your websites.

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Alright. This one's pretty cool.

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It should be available to all who have the easy coupon codes add on.

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On the checkout pages, if the coupon code makes the total

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or a zero balance after the coupon code is applied,

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there is an option that you can set to hide the credit card input fields. So basically, you're not

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asking to collect the credit card information

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on the checkout page if the total

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Let me show you where that is and how it works.

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This one would be a personal preference

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if you're not collecting a credit card and it's a recurring payment or subscription,

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at some point in time, that user or that member is going to have to add a credit card on file.

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However, just depending on how you're doing your plans and and your pricing structure,

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you may wanna take, advantage of this new feature. So,

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let me first show you where it is, and then we can see how it works.

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So this would be under the finance tab, and it's when you're creating coupon codes that can be applied to your site for member sign ups.

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So let's go to coupon codes.

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And, I've done some tests here for showing and hiding the credit card input fields when the order summary is $0 after the code is applied.

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Let's go ahead and create a new coupon code.

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Alright. So we can enter what the coupon code is gonna be. So we could do, like, webinar Wednesday,

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and the percent discount,

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enter a numerical value. So this will be a % off. And here's the new option, require card

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when $0.

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So require credit card when checkout total,

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is $0 after code is applied.

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By default, generally right now, before this feature was available, it would still always ask you for the credit card, so it would require the credit card.

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However, the new setting is no hide credit card fields.

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Again, if the order total is $0 after

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a promo code is applied.

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So let's use one of the ones I've already created here. I think I did this one, hide three,

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and let's go to a membership plan sign up page and apply it.

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Here we go. Silver plan.

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Okay. Great. So here we go.

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We're gonna sign up for the silver plan, and we can see here it says enter billing information.

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I'm gonna pay $89.

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With that setting applied for the coupon code, it hides the, the billing information, the credit card fields, and I can just go ahead and sign up without adding a credit card on file.

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So again, depends on,

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your business model, your structure, how you're interacting with your members, the the member's journey,

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from signing up to becoming paid members and whatnot, how you would use this feature, but it is now here if you need it.

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Okay. And there's one more.

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We did touch on this in previous webinars, but I just wanted to highlight it again.

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You now have the ability when creating email templates or creating newsletters,

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similar to how we have it for the web page builder, those premade blocks, those premade elements,

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you can drag them into the editor and make easier changes

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to kind of stack and create a newsletter that that is attractive for your user.

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So kinda help you work a bit faster.

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And let me show you, where that is and also a direction we're going, and I do have a screenshot mock up, of a direction that that page is going to go in, design wise.

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So if you're going to edit an existing email template or you wanna create a new email template, maybe you're gonna send a May newsletter,

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you can go to a new email template here under email templates in the email section.

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And, so right now before this option, you would start with a blank slate and you'd create your

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email template,

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which is fine and dandy.

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However, now you'll notice here on the right hand side we have currently called draggable content blocks.

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Later we'll be calling them pre made elements.

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But what you can do here is, just drag these into

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the newsletter,

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the text editor for the newsletter here,

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and and then obviously you can just switch out the title, you can switch the the image if you're gonna have a link, you can you know have it there.

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So it's much easier to kinda create a newsletter, and there's one more here.

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feature something or a a three column,

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featuring something. It could be links to member profiles you're highlighting and things like that,

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but this is now available here, so it can help you work a bit faster when,

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creating new email templates or,

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editing the default email templates that come with the websites.

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Let me show you a mock up of what this page, is going to be looking like soon.

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This is just a rough mock up mock up, but, it's the direction we're going in.

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There's a lot of empty space on the current page,

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so we're thinking about moving, the draggable blocks to the the premade elements on the left side here and then, just taking advantage of the available space, that's currently unused

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and making it a bit easier to see and find the email variables that you can use like the first name or, you know, things like that.

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This is a direction we're going in with the, email templates, and we are gonna be spending the next couple months,

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improving.

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We've already started with the smart list, but improving some of the send newsletter functionality.

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The statistics

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after you send a newsletter, like who opened it,

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who didn't open it, who received it, who bounced, and things like that. Just to give you guys,

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a bit more information,

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and data, with regards to sending newsletters.

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Alright. So let's move down to the coming soon area.

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Just mention it, better design for newsletters and their statistics.

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I think that'll put more power in your hands.

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Something interesting is we are going to be creating an interface where you can create,

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manage, and apply to the support tickets that you're sending,

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to the support team directly from the admin area.

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So while you're working on your site, you don't have to go anywhere else.

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You'll be able to create a support ticket right from your admin area.

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And then when the team replies, you'll be able to see the replies and have a a back and forth communication,

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with the team.

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You know, we always wanna try our best to help answer questions or resolve any issues that you guys have.

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So that should help improve

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communication, speed of communication

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between you guys and the support team.

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As I mentioned before, we also are working on improving Google page speed,

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scores and just scores across all the different page speed tools out there.

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I foresee that we'll be completed with the first round of updates,

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mid June. We're gonna try to push for May, but more realistically probably the June.

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And from our simulations and what we've seen,

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the page scores are gonna improve,

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almost three x.

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Definitely double the page speed scores that you're currently seeing on your sites, and that'll be across the board for all BD websites.

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On the right there, coming soon top of the list, excluding smart list when sending newsletters.

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So right now, you can select which smart lists you want to include when you're sending newsletters.

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There'll be an option to also exclude people who fall under different smart lists.

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So, you can get a lot more granular on who you wanna email when you're sending newsletters,

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and get more specific with that.

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And then we're also gonna be focusing on improving the workflow and the the UI, the design when matching and viewing your leads.

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The leads that are being matched with members, I do have a screenshot

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of what those are going to look like.

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When you're on the manage leads page, you're gonna have a bit more data here.

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You're gonna have some badges that show you how many pending matches,

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there are for a lead.

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So if you've matched the lead with 20 members, but 20 of them are still pending to either accept or purchase or decline the lead, you'll see that here.

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You'll be able to see who has declined the lead and didn't want the lead.

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And then you can see how many members out of your max acceptances

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have been complete matches with the lead.

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So in this case, it's three out of five members have accepted the lead, and then also you'll be able to see the revenue that that lead has generated for you.

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you'll be able to see the total revenue that a single lead has generated for you right here as well.

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It's going to be a pop up, and it's gonna be a little bit more intuitive.

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So definitely looking forward to that as well.

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Other than that, I have seen the list.

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The dev team is working on lots of, smaller fixes and things that are being reported.

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Overall, everything's in a great and stable place.

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So, onward and upward is the only direction we can go here as a team, with all your great suggestions and feedback.

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What I do wanna do is if you guys have any questions about these updates, feel free to raise your hands, or if you have any comments,

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we'd love to hear some, and, yeah, get your feedback.

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Well, we have our good friend, Colette, here with her hand up. How are you, Colette? Hey, Jason.

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Good. How are you? Excellent.

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So we got your

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view for the post types, the start in views per post types. So thank you for that suggestion.

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Oh, very excited about that and also very excited about all the coming soon

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options that you guys are bringing in. So thanks for that. You're welcome. Thank you.

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I had one question about the newsletters.

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I send a community newsletter out and I like to copy and paste,

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the latest offer and the latest,

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product, etcetera.

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In terms of importing the images

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into that newsletter,

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does one have to download it from the website,

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save it, and then upload it into pictures, or is there a way that we can just

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That's a good question. Let's try it together right now.

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I'm not a % sure. Let me try a couple things. First, let's try this.

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I'm gonna copy image link. That's the URL of the image. Let me see if we have an option to

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replace the image with a URL, and we do. It says by URL,

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and I can just paste that URL here,

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So Fantastic. Getting the URL.

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Let's see about let me move this to its own tab, about dragging an image in. I haven't

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Okay. Let's drag this image just into here as an example.

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It doesn't look like it's supporting dragging the image, but it sounds like you wanna use images that are on your website,

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already. Yes.

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you use the replace by URL.

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Awesome. Now that's good enough. That's much easier than having to save it and upload it. So

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Another thing you might wanna try, Jason, is if you right click copy on the image, maybe maybe you might be able to paste it into the Let's let's let's try

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that. Copy image, and

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let's paste

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it. Yep. There we go. That works too. I I use my keyboard.

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I did control c or well, I I did control v to paste it. So I right click to copy the image

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and then Yeah. Control v it wherever I wanna put it. So

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looks like chicken fingers are what's for dinner tonight. Lovely. That makes it very easy.

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Thank you. Alright, Collette. Thank you for your question.

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So, that is all the questions on the lab updates. I don't see any more hands up.

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We don't have a tip of the week,

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this week,

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but what we do wanna do is field any questions, maybe help you with your BD website.

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So we do have extra time this webinar without that tip of the week.

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I do see Jeanette has her hand up. Jeanette did type in her question.

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She basically wanted to know if we had any plans for page analytics

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on the website.

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She wanted to know where visitors were coming from, basically their navigation on her site, all the things like that.

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The best tool for that and,

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for a lot of companies, but the company that specializes in in membership software, the best tool for that would be Google Analytics.

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and it is what they specialize in.

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I would highly recommend

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anyone with any website,

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connect Google Analytics,

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to your website. They give,

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an immense amount of data. Everything she just mentioned like the devices that are visiting,

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the country, the region, even the city,

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the number of pages they visited, how long they spent on a page.

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There's another tool. I think they have a freemium model. It's called Hotjar.

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I'll go to their website. I'll go to both websites,

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and I'll share the links. Google

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Analytics.

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Did I spell that correctly?

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Okay. I'm gonna share this link. It's free.

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As long as you have a you just need a Google account or a Gmail account and sign up for Google Analytics.

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I'm gonna put this in the chat for everyone. And

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there is another solution, which is a

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paid solution. It's a private company. I think it's called hotjar.com.

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This this even gets crazier. This actually shows you like,

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of where users are clicking on your website. So if you wanna see like what the behavior is

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of people on your website, are they clicking on the on the main menu links?

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Are they clicking in the footer links? Are they clicking on links in the middle of the content?

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This hot jar actually gives you a heat map, and it's really good to improve navigation.

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You can see where you're wasting people's time on your site.

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Maybe they're not responding to some things you've put on your site.

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You put a call to action somewhere, but it's not getting any clicks, so you need to change your messaging, or move it higher up or lower on the page.

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Let's actually I haven't been to the site in a while, but they I know they always had a free plan.

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Here, person we can do personal. Right? It's a personal website. That's a good place to start.

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So they do have a basic plan that's free forever. This might be a good place to start.

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But if Google and if you want something beyond the free Google Analytics, which is awesome on its own,

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Hotjar would be the next option that I I've seen and I'd recommend as a paid option for your site.

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Probably once you reach a certain threshold of traffic where it would warrant and make sense for,

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an investment in this even at $39 per month as they have here as their first paid option here.

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Probably you want to have a substantial amount of traffic before opting for, one of the paid plans here.

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But, Jeanette, those are two options,

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for traffic, and they'll they'll do a better job than any other company out there because this is all they do is page,

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traffic, analytics.

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With that said though, we've just had a conversation today.

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We are going to at the end of twenty twenty one, you know, the features in BD are so rich.

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One thing we wanna start doing is providing more graphs and charts and reports

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for places where showing data would make sense.

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Simple stats like page counts and things like that,

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could be something that we'll be looking at.

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Leads per month, you know, just seeing that in a graph rather than just in the list view on manage leads,

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that can be helpful and provide better indicators on the pulse and health of a website.

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So at the end of twenty twenty one, we think we're gonna have time, to begin working on that, and that I think,

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will make the platform a lot more well rounded,

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with everything else that's already built in. Alright. Let's see, who else has their hands up here.

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Oh, we got a few hands up here. Let's go to,

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Sean or Shan. I, how am I pronouncing that? Hi. It's Shan. Hey, Shan. Thanks for joining.

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Thank you. And how'd you like the, updates so far?

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I love them. I am so so excited I found you guys years ago, and,

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I'm just so grateful that you guys continue to add to your platform

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more than what I can expect. So thank you so much. Awesome.

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Great to hear that. What's your question for us? Can we help you with anything today?

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Yes. So I'm interested in,

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soon being able to get,

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paid ads for my website.

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And,

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the actual people that will be paying are attorneys, and they are specific to state.

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like, for instance, Florida for personal injury attorneys, they really are not interested in other states.

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Is there a way to do that with ads that only show

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ads in certain areas or to certain members?

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Absolutely.

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Let me show you. It does require a few clicks.

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You can definitely do something like that. Let me show you a quick way that that everyone can do,

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and we can go from there, okay?

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You said Florida as an example?

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Yes.

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Alright, let's do something for Florida real quick, let's see if this site has any members in Florida.

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Alright. Just searching here.

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Oh, I guess I actually could just do forward slash Florida, and let's see what comes up.

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This is a a demo site we use for the webinars.

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It has some sample member data and stuff. Okay. So there's 349

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in Florida or who are part of, Florida area.

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So what we can do is this. Okay?

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But, essentially, what you can do is, you wanna click on view websites to get this admin bar area here.

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Okay? So let me refresh this page now.

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It knows that I'm an admin of the website viewing the front end of the website.

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So I'll click on create static page

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and what you can do is this.

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So it's asking the URL, so I'll put Florida,

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I'll just say, Florida members.

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So it knows that this is a member search results page for Florida, and I'm just gonna put a title.

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This is

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Florida.

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Oh, Florida

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members

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for Shan.

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Alright. I'm just gonna quickly save the changes so we can see this page.

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because there's an infinite number of like,

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location plus category searches you can do. You can do like a city plus a category.

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you're turning that dynamically created page, and you're giving yourself some control for that page, turning it into what we call a static page or almost like a standalone page.

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So if you view the page now,

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we can see here the the title says this is Florida, Florida members for Shan.

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So now this individual page for Florida, I have some control over it. You have some control over it.

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So what you can do is the next step in this is go to your sidebar manager

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because I'm assuming in general we wanna put the banner ads in the in the sidebar of the page and we're gonna create a new sidebar.

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And we'll give it a nickname, we'll just call it Florida search results

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and we'll save the sidebar.

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Okay. Just a moment here.

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Okay. So now I have this sidebar called Florida search results. I'll go ahead and edit it edit

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it. By default, there's nothing in this sidebar.

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So what we can do is in your design settings,

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under banner ads, we have all these extra banner ads here.

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you can create a banner ad. Well, we have one here for our Facebook group.

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Let's say you wanted to link to this guy, Sugarman

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candy example.

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Let's download his image.

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this is not gonna be a pretty ad, but I'm just gonna kinda show you what you can do.

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You probably wanna make an ad on banner on Canva or something,

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pretty. Sure. But,

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let's copy the link

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okay.

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I'll just use this image. I'll put this link here. So now this is linking to this guys.

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So the widget name here, this is kinda overlooked sometimes,

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So look for the widget name that you're adding these extra banner ads into.

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Because when you have this widget name here that's what you wanna search in this in the in the,

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snown back on the sidebar page. This is what you wanna drag into your sidebar here.

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So let's save this

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and let's save the design settings for extra banner ad one. So I've created a sidebar,

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I'm putting a banner ad into that sidebar.

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The last thing I need to do is that that static page that I created for this is Florida,

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under page options here, I wanna go ahead and select that sidebar.

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show sidebar,

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and I'm going to I gotta reload the page because I made the sidebar afterwards.

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K.

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So show sidebar

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Florida search results,

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position, I'll I'll have it on the right side,

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slim,

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and what's also cool when you do a page like this as well, you can add some custom content into here.

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So if you wanted to do more SEO value,

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you can write about lawyers in Florida,

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and have this you know, Google loves unique content.

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So you can write a little blurb,

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that's gonna help with your Google rankings for this individual page,

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and you can actually choose where you want this,

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to show Florida lawyers. I'll just make it real big here so we can see the,

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what it looks like.

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And the position, you can choose where you want this above member results, above body content.

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I'll just do that above body content.

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And I'm putting lawyer in Florida here as content. However,

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you could put a picture or another Canva banner ad here as well,

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00:29:41.625 --> 00:29:45.885
and it could link to another member's profile. So I'm gonna cross my fingers here.

455
00:29:47.465 --> 00:29:53.279
So here is that image that Sugarman if I click on this banner here, it'll go to that Sugarman candy guys,

456
00:29:54.059 --> 00:29:54.559
page.

457
00:29:55.500 --> 00:30:00.240
And you can hear this is that content lawyer in Florida that I put here in the text editor.

458
00:30:00.860 --> 00:30:03.600
So if we wanted to, we could add an image here.

459
00:30:04.195 --> 00:30:05.095
Let's do that.

460
00:30:08.835 --> 00:30:13.735
So I'm just gonna put this happy face here and we can link this image as well

461
00:30:14.675 --> 00:30:16.535
to Sugarman candy guy,

462
00:30:16.835 --> 00:30:17.495
you know.

463
00:30:17.840 --> 00:30:22.080
I'm just doing really poor examples here, but well, it's a smiley face. And let's save the changes.

464
00:30:22.080 --> 00:30:26.420
This is more just for demonstration purposes, but let me refresh the page now.

465
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:28.180
And

466
00:30:29.855 --> 00:30:34.115
so here's here's more content. So you could, like, do a super feature on someone,

467
00:30:34.415 --> 00:30:36.415
you know, for for the Florida search.

468
00:30:36.415 --> 00:30:39.715
So if you're linking to Florida results directly from your homepage,

469
00:30:40.815 --> 00:30:50.850
you know, that's a great way to to then give that person exposure because, you know, it's a homepage link and people will be clicking on it, exclusively to get to, in this example, Florida,

470
00:30:51.630 --> 00:30:52.130
results.

471
00:30:52.830 --> 00:30:56.930
So these are just one ways you can turn what's called the dynamic search results page

472
00:30:57.255 --> 00:30:59.415
into a static search results page.

473
00:30:59.415 --> 00:31:03.015
And when you do this, you don't need this again, there's infinitecomcom,

474
00:31:03.495 --> 00:31:06.555
combinations of of these dynamic pages that are created.

475
00:31:06.855 --> 00:31:09.595
But if you search Google Analytics, for example,

476
00:31:09.975 --> 00:31:12.635
and you look for some of your most popular pages,

477
00:31:13.150 --> 00:31:21.970
you know, the search results pages, you may want to spend time adding more unique content to those search results pages to help them even more in their rankings,

478
00:31:22.830 --> 00:31:26.370
and you can do that over time. You don't need to do all of them at once.

479
00:31:26.905 --> 00:31:31.325
So that's that that would be the way to to do it, Sean. That is extraordinary.

480
00:31:31.945 --> 00:31:32.845
Like, I am

481
00:31:33.145 --> 00:31:36.425
really, really excited about the possibilities with this. Thank you so much.

482
00:31:36.425 --> 00:31:38.365
You're you're very welcome. So

483
00:31:38.665 --> 00:31:42.670
what we did is we basically created a static page, created a custom sidebar,

484
00:31:43.370 --> 00:31:49.370
dropped in the custom thing we wanted in that sidebar, and we're showing that sidebar on our page.

485
00:31:49.370 --> 00:31:49.870
So

486
00:31:50.170 --> 00:31:54.255
little extra steps there, but, so you can customize your site with that. Alright.

487
00:31:54.255 --> 00:31:55.555
Let's go to Steven.

488
00:31:55.935 --> 00:31:59.695
Steven, how are you today? Looks like you're self muted on your end. How are you today?

489
00:31:59.695 --> 00:32:05.135
Well, I have a great question she had, you know, and I I was gonna go about the SEO and so right.

490
00:32:05.135 --> 00:32:09.020
Hey. That was why it's worth listening to you every two weeks. You know?

491
00:32:09.020 --> 00:32:13.920
You always it's gonna be great. Hey, Val. This is a little complicated, but it has a point. Right?

492
00:32:13.980 --> 00:32:21.100
Now if you have five guys joining your site and they're all Bob's fruit market, the first guy's URL is gonna be Bob's fruit market.

493
00:32:21.100 --> 00:32:26.025
The next guy is gonna be negative 99, negative two thirteen, exact etcetera. Right?

494
00:32:26.025 --> 00:32:27.405
That's how it works. Correct?

495
00:32:27.705 --> 00:32:31.405
Correct. If if members with the exact same name are signing up,

496
00:32:31.705 --> 00:32:33.785
the URL will be whatever it is.

497
00:32:34.185 --> 00:32:35.245
So it'll be Bob's,

498
00:32:36.345 --> 00:32:36.665
fruit

499
00:32:37.340 --> 00:32:42.560
You you got the idea. Fruit market. And then the the next two people, it will be their member ID.

500
00:32:42.860 --> 00:32:45.920
Oh oh, their member ID. Okay. Their member ID. Yeah.

501
00:32:46.300 --> 00:32:47.600
Now with the product,

502
00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:52.905
if, say, there's, you know, your your directory is about food markets and

503
00:32:53.525 --> 00:32:54.804
400 people have,

504
00:32:56.085 --> 00:32:57.225
apple jelly.

505
00:32:57.684 --> 00:33:02.664
Right. Now is it gonna be product apple jelly, product apple jelly number 99,

506
00:33:02.870 --> 00:33:07.290
product apple Jelly 2 13 Executor? Yes. The Or is it No. No. You're you're correct.

507
00:33:07.510 --> 00:33:14.010
The first one is gonna be apple jelly by itself, and as as additional posts with the exact same name are created,

508
00:33:14.870 --> 00:33:17.530
it's going to add the ID at the end of it.

509
00:33:17.955 --> 00:33:21.575
Also, the number is just the ID, so that's okay. Great. Great. Great.

510
00:33:21.715 --> 00:33:27.315
Now my question is is, the other day, I have I'm testing and doing a live thing.

511
00:33:27.315 --> 00:33:31.174
So I have my company and another company, and I'm doing airport transportation.

512
00:33:31.810 --> 00:33:33.910
And my friend's is airport transportation

513
00:33:34.290 --> 00:33:36.150
dash serving the Northwest Suburbs.

514
00:33:36.450 --> 00:33:38.550
Now I did both of these on my computer.

515
00:33:38.930 --> 00:33:43.430
And when I was clicked on my airport transportation as a customer,

516
00:33:43.810 --> 00:33:45.510
it went to my friend's

517
00:33:46.675 --> 00:33:47.655
airport transportation,

518
00:33:48.035 --> 00:33:53.255
serving the Northwest Suburbs, his page. His product. His his profile page.

519
00:33:53.715 --> 00:33:56.035
Yeah. So something happens. So let's say

520
00:33:56.915 --> 00:33:58.375
you said. Yeah. So

521
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:03.420
if if someone creates apple jelly, so now and then that that

522
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:06.360
post, they update it to,

523
00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:08.220
apple jelly

524
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:09.820
honey, whatever.

525
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:13.560
The system is is actually intelligent that it does this in this case.

526
00:34:13.560 --> 00:34:16.905
It will create a redirect from the original post

527
00:34:17.364 --> 00:34:20.905
to go to whatever the new one, was changed to,

528
00:34:21.205 --> 00:34:28.585
so that any, link juice or traffic from the original one doesn't get lost, and it'll direct people to the new one.

529
00:34:29.040 --> 00:34:35.219
It sounds like and, again, you might wanna do some slower tests, but you might have been doing some things quickly and,

530
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:40.020
some three zero one redirects for the same thing got set up simultaneously

531
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:45.085
almost, not exactly simultaneously, but you can check your three zero one redirect rules.

532
00:34:45.085 --> 00:34:46.545
And if you're noticing things,

533
00:34:47.085 --> 00:34:47.904
like that,

534
00:34:48.204 --> 00:35:01.880
because sometimes you can create rules that conflict with each other, it's it's rare, but if you're doing some rapid testing with all the same names and you're deleting and then adding back and things like that, it can confuse the system sometimes.

535
00:35:02.340 --> 00:35:04.040
But if you're experiencing that,

536
00:35:04.740 --> 00:35:08.360
what you can do is, under your developer tools,

537
00:35:08.845 --> 00:35:12.785
and it sounds like you're already familiar with this, under your three zero one redirect rules,

538
00:35:13.325 --> 00:35:16.065
you know, you can search for the conflicting

539
00:35:16.685 --> 00:35:20.465
or incorrect redirects, like in this case, I would search for apple jelly,

540
00:35:21.085 --> 00:35:23.585
and just delete those rules if they're no longer,

541
00:35:24.055 --> 00:35:24.555
needed.

542
00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:28.740
So thank you for that question there. Alright. Let's keep on moving here.

543
00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:33.380
I'm gonna get to you, Olga. It looks like you're self muted there. Yeah. Hi. How are you? Good.

544
00:35:33.380 --> 00:35:33.880
Good.

545
00:35:34.660 --> 00:35:35.319
It's just

546
00:35:35.739 --> 00:35:36.239
a

547
00:35:36.660 --> 00:35:40.474
a simple question. The The thing that you were showing, earlier today,

548
00:35:40.775 --> 00:35:42.234
creating a static page,

549
00:35:42.615 --> 00:35:44.075
and calling a dynamic

550
00:35:44.454 --> 00:35:47.434
page there. Yes. Doesn't doesn't matter,

551
00:35:48.055 --> 00:35:51.190
how the link would look like. So the static page.

552
00:35:51.190 --> 00:35:56.390
Can I can I create any type of link or it should should correspond with the one that is on the dynamic page?

553
00:35:56.390 --> 00:35:56.950
Good question.

554
00:35:56.950 --> 00:36:04.055
It needs to correspond to what's on the dynamic page, and that's also why we select the page type for member search results.

555
00:36:04.275 --> 00:36:09.494
And that's how it makes the connection between the URL and that it should correspond to the,

556
00:36:09.875 --> 00:36:12.055
to the member search results page.

557
00:36:12.755 --> 00:36:16.610
So they it does need to match what the dynamic would be, for that. Okay.

558
00:36:16.610 --> 00:36:19.270
I think I have a easy method for you actually.

559
00:36:19.970 --> 00:36:26.150
So if you click on the breadcrumb of a member, for example, this guy is United States California Beverly Hills Local Services.

560
00:36:26.610 --> 00:36:27.910
If you wanted to turn

561
00:36:28.625 --> 00:36:29.525
this into

562
00:36:29.825 --> 00:36:30.805
a static page,

563
00:36:31.665 --> 00:36:36.484
basically take everything after the forward slash. So united this this would be the URL.

564
00:36:37.505 --> 00:36:40.065
Okay. If you're doing a search, I'll show you another.

565
00:36:40.065 --> 00:36:42.484
If you're doing a dynamic search, for example,

566
00:36:42.865 --> 00:36:45.790
active life in I'll just do Los Angeles,

567
00:36:47.210 --> 00:36:53.530
and you're gonna get the non pretty URL like this. Right? I know you're what I meant. So okay.

568
00:36:53.530 --> 00:36:54.910
Look at the source code,

569
00:36:55.290 --> 00:36:58.750
like this. I Olga, I know you're worse, and look for the canonical link,

570
00:36:59.265 --> 00:37:03.285
here. Canonical link will always show you the pretty URL of

571
00:37:03.664 --> 00:37:05.285
that dynamic page

572
00:37:06.065 --> 00:37:06.565
here.

573
00:37:07.664 --> 00:37:12.085
So you would take this is the pretty URL for this dynamic URL here.

574
00:37:12.860 --> 00:37:21.200
So look for And then how how do I how do how do I get to a page that that do I right click on the well, on my Firefox browser, I press control u.

575
00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:25.360
Control u takes me to this, source view.

576
00:37:25.775 --> 00:37:29.075
Another thing is, in my Firefox, it's view source,

577
00:37:29.855 --> 00:37:31.635
like this and then the URL.

578
00:37:32.415 --> 00:37:37.475
And what we're after is the canonical link, and this is what's telling search engines like Google

579
00:37:37.930 --> 00:37:39.049
that this is the,

580
00:37:39.450 --> 00:37:44.430
the corresponding page to this dynamically created page. And also for your site map generator,

581
00:37:44.890 --> 00:37:49.785
this is what it does. It takes all those dynamic pages, they all have a corresponding pretty URL,

582
00:37:50.265 --> 00:37:55.565
And this pretty URL is what you would wanna use if you're turning a dynamic page into a static page.

583
00:37:56.585 --> 00:38:00.345
Oh, thank you so much. It still didn't make any sense to me, but now it does.

584
00:38:00.345 --> 00:38:05.164
You're bringing up a very good point here. We should show the pretty URL here

585
00:38:05.500 --> 00:38:10.080
for dynamic searches in the admin at least in the admin sidebar so you know

586
00:38:10.700 --> 00:38:15.600
what the pretty URL of a of a dynamic page search results page would be.

587
00:38:15.820 --> 00:38:19.964
I'm gonna make a note for that. Alright. We have a little bit more time here.

588
00:38:20.125 --> 00:38:22.704
Let's see if we can get to Pauline now.

589
00:38:23.085 --> 00:38:28.065
How are you, Pauline? Looks like yourself muted there. Hi there. Alright. How are you today?

590
00:38:28.444 --> 00:38:32.599
Great. How are you? Good. Good. Alright. Thank you so much. Yeah. You're welcome.

591
00:38:33.140 --> 00:38:38.920
I have one that's just kind of a follow-up tag to what you did earlier for the the lawyers in Florida.

592
00:38:39.140 --> 00:38:41.000
So if I have an empty

593
00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:43.640
search results video that I'm customizing,

594
00:38:44.295 --> 00:38:48.795
is is that where I would place it for a specific search results page,

595
00:38:49.494 --> 00:38:52.234
similar to where you put the smiley face, for example?

596
00:38:53.015 --> 00:38:56.795
Ask that question again. If you have an empty search results video, you said?

597
00:38:57.280 --> 00:39:01.140
Yeah. So what we'll be doing is is looking at putting in video,

598
00:39:01.520 --> 00:39:03.380
saying we have, you know, there's

599
00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:06.660
no one yet in this category. You want to be the first,

600
00:39:07.200 --> 00:39:10.640
but we're gonna plunk it in on that specific search results page.

601
00:39:10.640 --> 00:39:14.205
So I have a better sense now of how I can make that dynamic

602
00:39:14.665 --> 00:39:17.005
page a static one and customize it.

603
00:39:17.385 --> 00:39:19.405
But is that where I would put in a video?

604
00:39:19.865 --> 00:39:23.565
Okay. So first of all, that's the first time I heard that one.

605
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:26.540
Let's test let's test it out together.

606
00:39:27.640 --> 00:39:31.500
Let's go to let's go to a page that has no no members,

607
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:33.500
where it's empty search results.

608
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:36.060
Give me a second. Let's find

609
00:39:36.520 --> 00:39:37.020
something.

610
00:39:38.200 --> 00:39:39.340
Okay. So

611
00:39:40.365 --> 00:39:46.125
in general, universally, when there are no member results, there is this message here.

612
00:39:46.125 --> 00:39:48.305
Are you familiar? You've seen this. Right?

613
00:39:48.605 --> 00:39:49.105
Okay.

614
00:39:49.805 --> 00:39:50.625
You can,

615
00:39:51.725 --> 00:39:56.520
edit this message. I understand that you want it to be unique to the search that was conducted.

616
00:39:57.380 --> 00:39:59.320
Let me so this is a text label.

617
00:39:59.940 --> 00:40:02.680
First, so let's see let's see if we just put

618
00:40:03.780 --> 00:40:05.140
a a video in here.

619
00:40:06.180 --> 00:40:07.880
Let's go to YouTube real quick.

620
00:40:09.325 --> 00:40:11.825
You can actually put a video in there in the text label.

621
00:40:12.525 --> 00:40:15.105
Let's let's you can you can do a lot of things.

622
00:40:15.405 --> 00:40:20.225
Let's see if we embed the, the iframe code. So just copy that

623
00:40:20.605 --> 00:40:21.825
and put this here.

624
00:40:22.285 --> 00:40:23.905
Blowing my mind at the moment.

625
00:40:24.220 --> 00:40:29.440
Okay. You can you can also put widgets here like widget equals. So you know in widgets you can put

626
00:40:29.740 --> 00:40:33.420
like if you're working with a developer they could really put anything. So okay.

627
00:40:33.420 --> 00:40:38.720
So you can you can see here the video is is here now. Now your question is can I do

628
00:40:39.465 --> 00:40:39.965
custom,

629
00:40:40.905 --> 00:40:45.945
message if I make it a static page? Let's see what the canonical URL is. Just what I was telling,

630
00:40:46.825 --> 00:40:48.445
Olga. So here's the canonical

631
00:40:48.905 --> 00:40:49.405
URL.

632
00:40:50.025 --> 00:40:55.440
Don't know why it's it's showing that there, but, let's just copy this and turn this into a static page.

633
00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:56.900
I've never done this before,

634
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.980
creating see what would what would show, but let's see here.

635
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:04.740
That will be the URL for what we copied from the canonical.

636
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.619
Make the page type a member search results page.

637
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:10.020
This is a no results

638
00:41:11.555 --> 00:41:13.815
message. The problem is if there are

639
00:41:14.434 --> 00:41:17.575
if their results come, what what you put here,

640
00:41:19.154 --> 00:41:23.154
will You have will always show on the page is what I'm I'm thinking.

641
00:41:23.154 --> 00:41:25.770
So let's just put this here, insert.

642
00:41:27.190 --> 00:41:29.450
Oops. Oh, embed code. That's fine. Okay.

643
00:41:29.990 --> 00:41:35.450
So here's the video, and we're gonna put this above the member results. Let's just see what happens,

644
00:41:36.069 --> 00:41:37.049
if this works.

645
00:41:44.035 --> 00:41:44.535
So

646
00:41:45.315 --> 00:41:48.775
if you know there are no results, yeah, see it's showing this video here,

647
00:41:49.075 --> 00:41:51.980
and then this is the one in the the message here. So,

648
00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:56.060
there there is a way you can create a static page, and if there are no results,

649
00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:58.280
you probably just need to work with a developer.

650
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:02.700
They put, like, a what's called, like, an if statement, like, if no results, then show

651
00:42:03.080 --> 00:42:04.780
the message for that thing.

652
00:42:05.095 --> 00:42:08.155
But you to answer your question in short, yes, you can create

653
00:42:08.615 --> 00:42:13.835
the static search results page and then if you create that if statement, if there's no results,

654
00:42:15.335 --> 00:42:18.075
then you can have this this custom video there.

655
00:42:19.029 --> 00:42:22.650
But if we did a a video that spoke directly to that specific

656
00:42:23.589 --> 00:42:26.170
industry, for example, we would wanna keep it.

657
00:42:26.630 --> 00:42:28.470
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

658
00:42:28.470 --> 00:42:31.244
Like, you it could be like a haven't found what you're looking for video.

659
00:42:31.244 --> 00:42:33.565
Like, even if there are results, just show it there.

660
00:42:33.565 --> 00:42:38.224
Like, haven't found what still haven't found what you're looking for, you know, for lawyers or whatever.

661
00:42:39.404 --> 00:42:40.785
Just something more universal.

662
00:42:41.805 --> 00:42:46.545
But yeah. Thank you, Jason. You're very welcome, Paulie. Have a wonderful day. You too. Cheers.

663
00:42:47.540 --> 00:42:48.260
Alright, guys.

664
00:42:48.660 --> 00:42:52.280
With that said, we didn't have a tip of the week, but we had amazing questions.

665
00:42:52.820 --> 00:42:54.420
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666
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667
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668
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669
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670
00:43:07.375 --> 00:43:11.295
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671
00:43:11.295 --> 00:43:12.335
What a fun webinar.

672
00:43:12.335 --> 00:43:16.993
Thank you so much, for your time today and joining us, and we will see you in two weeks.

673
00:43:16.993 --> 00:43:21.733
Have a brilliant day, a great week, and mask up. See you soon. Bye bye.