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Alright, guys. Welcome to another edition of webinar

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Wednesday

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on our new format. We'll announce that a few more times. We're we're still very excited about this.

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If this is your first time joining us, welcome. I'm Jason there on the left.

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And as always, we're lucky to be joined by David Rocklin, who is the digital strategist and so much more here at Brilliant Directories.

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David, thank you for taking the time to join us today. Hey, everybody.

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So glad to be back with you for webinar Wednesday. I believe this is one ninety one now.

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Getting really close to that big, 200 mark. We won't quite hit it this year.

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I know that's what we were shooting for towards the beginning of the year, but we're getting close.

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And, it's always great to, to be with you all on on Wednesday here. Definitely.

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It's a great way to keep in touch,

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with your Brilliant Directories website. You could see recent members that are joining,

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new transactions

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that are coming in, and a few more delightful things.

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In addition to that, we'll be rolling out new updates. I believe coming in 2025,

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we're gonna be focusing on real time push notifications

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so you can get dinged and pinged as soon as you do have new members and revenue coming into your site.

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So that'll be lots of fun.

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And also in the Facebook group, right now, we have a free iPad giveaway contest going on for BDers.

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All are welcome to participate.

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You can join the BD Facebook group and just comment on the giveaway post.

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Let's go there together now, and I'll share a link here in the, the chat for everybody.

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So here it is.

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We posted it about five days ago, and we're going to announce winners on November 29.

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That's Black Friday.

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And also stay tuned for some Black Friday deals we'll be having here at Brilliant Directories.

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And good news here, if we hit a thousand unique comments, so individual commenters, not the same person commenting twice, we will double the prize and give away two iPads.

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We're more than halfway there, 513

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current comments. So let me share a link here in the post comments.

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Feel free to share this link.

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I'm getting here.

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Feel free to share this link with your friends.

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All are welcome to join the Brilliant Directories Facebook group and enter, into this contest. So,

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we hope that, one of you here in the webinar could be the winner.

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And we do see some new familiar names, and, we do see some some familiar names out there, but also some new ones.

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Debbie from, Loganville, Georgia. Welcome to the webinar.

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Just a little bit about webinar Wednesdays.

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It's a great way for us to share with you some of the updates newly released into the platform based on your suggestions and feedback and also your interactions with our support team.

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Week after week, we're pushing new updates into the platform, which only strengthen it and make it better for everyone.

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So thank you guys for all those suggestions.

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And in the webinars, we like to cover some of the features that you can take actionable steps on to do things such as increase your website traffic, convert visitors to member, revenue opportunities,

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and more. Today, we're gonna have plenty of time for a q and a session.

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So if you have questions or need help with your site or if you're stuck or if you're wondering how to do something or accomplish something, whether it's technical or,

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strategy, feel free to save your questions.

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We'll have plenty of time to address them in this webinar.

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Alright. First and foremost, my favorite part of the webinar, Wednesdays are the BD Lab updates.

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There were a ton of updates to share. I felt like these were the most notable.

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A few that have been released, pretty big ones here, and a few that are coming very, very soon.

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At the top of this list, the text editor, you can now drag and drop as well as clone content blocks within the editor.

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And I'll show you several examples. This is released for everyone and in all the text editors now.

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So let's head on over to,

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the admin area. We'll go to the web page builder first.

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I'll just do some quick examples of how this works. I'll just create a new web page here.

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Great. So, a lot of us are familiar with the content blocks that you can drag into the text editor,

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and they're super handy. But up until now, wherever you placed the content block,

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that's kinda where it lived.

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In the editor, there was no way to move it around or if you made a content block and wanted to copy it and and, you know, just change it just a bit,

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you weren't really able to do that in an easy way.

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Let me grab a few content blocks that are my favorite, these calls to action here.

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So let's say we're creating a landing page and, you know, we have some of these modules here

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So now when you click on the content block, you can see that it's designated,

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by these dotted border lines here. You know, that's a content block.

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You'll have these two new buttons here, these icons.

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One of them is clone content block and the other is move content block.

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They're very self explanatory. Let's use clone first.

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So we could see here now we have two of the exact same content blocks.

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And let's say we wanted to move this one up to the top. We'll just click into it again.

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Select the move content block icon.

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And then as you move up and down, your mouse up and down, you'll see that it's going to try to find empty spaces within the text editor that you have here.

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It's basically looking for spaces between paragraphs and whatnot.

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So we'll just move this to the top here

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and we've moved it to the top.

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Now I do wanna make an important and very helpful note about cloning and moving the content blocks.

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Every time you move or clone a content block, it will add an extra paragraph space, an empty one above and below

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wherever you cloned or moved that. And there's an important reason for that.

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If you need to get in here and to start typing,

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some text,

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you'll have that ability to do it this way as opposed to butting two content blocks directly next to each other, without any space between them.

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You can, of course, remove that space and butt them together if you want to stick them together.

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But that extra space is very helpful.

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So if you do move or clone them, you'll notice,

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that there is a space created at the top and the bottom. That is by design.

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And although the extra removing the space may seem like an extra step, it will actually create a little bit more convenience for you.

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So you can do this in the text editor here in the web page builder.

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Also, you can do it, anywhere there's a text editor when you're creating email templates.

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I'll just remove everything here. So,

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we can create an email template from scratch. We'll just grab,

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this content block here. So first, what we can do is we can clone this here,

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and then we can kinda move one down here.

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And then same thing, we can clone it. I mean, we can move it, right in between these two here.

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And we see those extra spaces are being created, but, again, they they are for the convenience, when you when you need to get some text in between them as opposed to,

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making those content blocks touch from right out of the gate.

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And one more bonus spot where you can use the draggable,

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content blocks and cloning

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is on the front end when you're creating a post. For example, a blog article.

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Will you just use this example here?

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So let's just throw some content blocks into this text editor here.

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We'll just do kind of the same ones that I like here. We'll drop this one here,

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and we can also put this one here.

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And we'll get rid of that. So we have two content blocks here.

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Let's say we wanted to clone this one.

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So now we have two of them. And then let's say we wanted to move this one,

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a little higher up in between those two. We can see that now we have this in between them.

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I'll just remove the extra space,

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and we are all good. So you can clone

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move content blocks within the text editors. Seems very simple,

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but it is super helpful,

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if you are creating landing pages and, posts, like, in this format.

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Also, quasi related to the text editor, related to the media manager and the stock photo libraries that we've, given everyone access to, there has always been an icon library.

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But up until now, the icons were always the black color, which is great, but sometimes you need contrast.

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Maybe the background is darker and you want a white icon color or you want the icons to match your branding on landing pages.

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Now you have the ability to choose icons from the free icon library, the image library, and also download them in whatever color that you want.

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So let's take a look at this. We can actually go back to our text editor here,

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and let's actually drag out. I like this one for icons,

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the feature list, if you're gonna list three features. So,

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when you're here, if you click on any of the images and wanna replace them, you have the library option,

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stock photo library.

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If you're not familiar with this, you have access to millions and millions of free stock photos,

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right here in your admin area.

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And one of them is an icon library.

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So this these are the different libraries here from the from the sources, Unsplash, Giphy, Pixabay, and Pexels, and there is an icon library.

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Let's just search city

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and the icon library.

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And you can see we have icons here. And what's really nice is

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your branding colors will be here.

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If you want to pre select one of your branding colors, these are the button colors in your design settings.

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There's, like, six of them,

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and this corresponds basically to your themes or your the color set that you've created for your site.

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So you can choose one of these or a custom color, obviously, from here.

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Millions of colors you could choose from. I will just choose this one, and we'll do another search.

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And we can see the icon color that it'll download is the is the color we selected.

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Let's choose something that has a little bit more it's a little more obvious.

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So the icon color that will be downloaded is this kind of this rent, this red hue.

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And we'll just go ahead and let's search for something better, like, review, like a member review or something.

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Let's see what happens.

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So let's download this icon here

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and we can see it's right there. Let's do another one in a different color.

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So we'll go ahead and choose the icon library and we'll say

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call, and we'll do a different color, this green here.

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So many icons here. I really love it.

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It's a really great way to animate, your pages, decorate your landing pages,

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especially if these icons are great when you're trying to connect text with a feature that you're trying to explain.

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Just choose this first one here.

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We can see there, and we'll do one more just in a different color for fun,

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And we'll do comment.

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We'll do the icon library.

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Great.

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And we can choose another color from the site, out of this pale color here, and we'll do a search.

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You can see here. So we have some

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comment icon here.

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So we can see here we have the icons, and you can choose the colors.

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Super helpful. Earlier today, actually, actually, I was using the hero divider on this site

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and the hero divider here. And I just chose some icons.

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And, again, they generally come in just solid black.

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And in this case, I selected white as the color, and we can see the contrast works very nicely here, in the hero divider, search members, review members, and contact members.

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So really nice icons here right at our fingertips.

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Alright. This next one here is shout out to the Facebook group.

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As you all know earlier this year, we we released the ability to import business data into your site to help populate your site, make it look seasoned.

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And there is some prospecting that you can use that data for.

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There are some emails and phone numbers included in that.

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And until now, you've been able to search by the preselected business categories.

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There's over 4,000 of them. Or now you can search by business name as well.

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Let's have a little bit of fun with this together under my members.

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If you haven't used this tool, it's super helpful.

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If you're a private group or organization, this isn't,

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this doesn't relate to you as much.

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It's more for local business directories you're trying to find different types of local businesses or venues to add to your site.

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If you're a private club or organization, probably not as applicable. But,

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nevertheless, the new section here is business name.

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So you need to, you gotta search by location, and then you can search by either business name or category,

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or you could do both.

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So let's do this together. Let's search by category,

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and we'll just search for fast food.

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match search.

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Category match, it means that that's their main category is fast food.

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So there's 200 2,335.

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So let's type,

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McDonald's.

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So there's a few things you can do. You can do a partial name match.

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So maybe if I just do McDon, right, not the full.

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If I do exact name match, there are probably no fast food restaurants with the exact name McDon.

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Let's just do a quick search, and we should see zero. There's zero.

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But if we do partial name match, so it just looks for any any fast food place that has McDonald's in the name of the business, the official name,

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we see there are 1,229.

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Now if I type in McDonald's exactly as it's supposed to be, and I do exact, I think it's with that apostrophe s.

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There we go. So McDonald's,

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12/23.

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So there there is that is how that works.

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in their name, if I do exact name match, I'm probably gonna get zero results because no exact name is just roofing for a business.

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Just just to give you guys enough. So there's 23.

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Let's actually download, 10 of these and see, what the what it comes out as.

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Great. And, yeah, we'll just assign a random category here. It doesn't matter too much.

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business name match. So let's just give this a moment to update,

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before it gets the logo images and, geocodes them. And let's see what we find here.

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Yeah. So we found these businesses with LLP in their name.

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And, again, I believe they're accounting attorneys. I could be wrong about that.

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But let's just see here. So now it's complete. We should have some profile logos too.

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Yep. Some of them came in with profile photos. Let's take a look at them, the profile here.

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And I love this tool. Now you have a beautiful profile and also a nice about section.

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Yeah, provides exceptional legal services. There we go. So, yeah, it's it's a lawyer thing.

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You can play with it. Just keep in mind, you can always do searches.

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fewer results, but just keep that in mind that you can search internationally

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here as well. Alright. These next ones coming down the line, I'll just, list these off here.

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Your login, the member login page will soon have a hide or show password feature.

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More and more people have complicated passwords, so this will allow them we're very familiar with it.

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Just the eyeball or lock where you can see show or hide, the password as you're typing it in to log in.

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And that will also be not only for your members, but also for you when you log in to the Brilliant Directories admin area.

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This next one here is pretty exciting. We're further developing the BD API.

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If you guys are using the API to fetch member data posts and do, you know, create or fetch data, there will be a new one that will allow you to search and fetch member results by any fields.

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So if you have another website and you can actually conduct a search for your Brilliant Directories members on a site that's outside of your Brilliant Directories website.

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You can put it in in an app that you're creating. You could do a lot of things with that.

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So that one is very exciting.

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And shout out to the developers, who had requested that feature from us.

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And, also, coming soon and, I mean, next week or just within, you know, seven to ten days, more text label options, being able to translate your site with one click into additional languages.

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Anything beyond that, you have to manually or you can manually translate your site, but that is a bit cumbersome.

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So those of you who need your site, the the primary language to start and begin with another language, you'll be able to do that in one click very soon.

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SEPA, Razorpay,

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So, those are just a few items coming soon. We're excited about them.

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And, again, big shout out to you guys for your suggestions.

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Keep them coming. We got big lists. We got long lists, and we will get to everything in due time.

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So thank you for all your suggestions.

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Alright. We can pass it over to you guys. David and I will be fielding some questions. Questions.

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You can type in your questions into the comments. We'll see who's got questions here.

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just type in all caps question into the comments chat, and then we'll invite you to the stage here is is what we're calling it.

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So we'll invite you to the stream, and you can ask your question verbally with your microphone if you want your mic unmuted.

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So let's go here and see if we have any starred posts or questions.

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Okay. Vicky's asking let me put this on the screen here. There we go.

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Vicky, can you provide examples

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for all the usages of the API? I actually can help you with that right now.

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If we go to I'll just type in, endpoint

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brilliant directory. So there it is right there. Oops.

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I'm gonna share this link.

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This is like more technical documentation.

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This shows you all the the ways you can tap into the Brilliant Directories API.

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You can even conduct some tests here. I'll share this here. It's in our support documentation.

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

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And, again, if this is perfect if you're a developer, and you're looking to tap into the Brilliant Directories API,

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this this is what you need. This is super helpful.

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It shows you all the different endpoints.

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And you can do a lot of things. Let's just quickly look at this. So,

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you can it's called CRUD, create, read, update, or delete,

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your member users from the database,

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leads you can create or update or search for,

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the different post types, and more recently,

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being able to update your unsubscribe list in your Brilliant Directories account.

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And then we'll we're always developing more along the way. So thank you for that question,

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Vicky. Alright. Theresa's got a great question here. Please explain the SEO section of a page.

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Great question. There are a few areas where you can update the SEO elements of your page.

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Let me go there. Just let me get my bearings here.

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Let's go to the Bruni directory site,

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and I'm gonna share this first. We did a video on SEO.

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Let's see here. There's a couple here I'm gonna share.

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If you come to our blog and search SEO, there are several, but let me find the specific ones,

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here we go. This is this is the one. Fast track your membership websites, SEO Google ranking.

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in the comments with everyone. And one more.

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This SEO one zero one, I high highly recommend everyone watching. David and I are both in this one.

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And we go we do a head to toe specifically on your home page on all the different areas where you can enhance

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the SEO value of your site. So shared both those links.

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You can totally or what your website name is.

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That's why the variables are here, the the values with the three percentage signs.

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However, if you're comfortable here, you can just go ahead and you can remove the variables and you could just put your website name, my website.

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That's kind of what shows in the search results when you're searching for something, the description and the keywords,

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as well as social media sharing. Now the home page is the only unique page in the web page builder,

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in California.

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What I would recommend doing is save the changes,

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website.

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what we do,

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why we're better

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than competitors.

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find the best wedding vendors in California.

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Say the site name is just,

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wedding vendors

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vendors.

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I'm just making it up. Ca.com.

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I would get some SEO content from Chat GPT

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Oops. We need to tell it to to give more.

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Let's see. Oh, there we go. It's giving more. Okay.

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So copy this.

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You can get even longer.

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And what what I would recommend doing let's bring this down now.

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and just paste that SEO content there

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and save your changes.

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Let's go back to the home page.

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Might not look pretty. You might not like it there. Have a blurb of content there.

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The longer, the better. The more keywords there, the better.

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It looks like it didn't pick up the emojis there. That's fine.

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And then the second thing is submit your site to Google.

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Google has the Google Search Console and the Bing Search Console. I think we covered in the video.

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So you have a good homepage with good SEO content right there on the home page. Again,

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there is something called the Google sandbox.

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So for those of you starting your site for the first time, it's gonna take Google several months to want to trust your newly established domain,

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and add them into their search results. They wanna make sure, you know, it's a valid site.

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It's not nefarious. You have good content.

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So, you know, it's a little touch and go in the beginning, but the sooner we can signal to Google that this site is online

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and exactly the keywords that you're trying to rank for, wedding vendors in California,

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the more we can sprinkle that, especially on the homepage as well as internal pages as well, the faster you're gonna see results,

445
00:30:35.645 --> 00:30:37.825
in Google, and you're gonna start ranking.

446
00:30:38.350 --> 00:30:46.929
Of course, SEO is one strategy, and it can take time depending on how how, how much competition there is in the market you're trying to go after.

447
00:30:47.149 --> 00:30:48.289
So I would recommend

448
00:30:48.750 --> 00:30:51.889
creating different marketing strategies. SEO is one.

449
00:30:52.645 --> 00:30:54.505
Social media is an important strategy.

450
00:30:55.205 --> 00:30:58.025
And in addition to that, you may wanna consider,

451
00:30:58.645 --> 00:31:01.065
pay per click Google Ads as well.

452
00:31:01.605 --> 00:31:06.345
With Google Ads or Bing Ads or Facebook Ads, always start with a small budget.

453
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.620
And the key, if you're doing Google Ads, is to

454
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:11.540
look at the search terms.

455
00:31:11.679 --> 00:31:15.380
Let's say you're you're targeting certain keywords like California wedding vendors,

456
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:31.065
and see what's people are searching for and start building your negative keyword list because that's a big thing with ads, especially Google and Bing, is having a no one really talks about this that much, is having strong negative keyword lists.

457
00:31:31.065 --> 00:31:32.765
So those of you that are doing PPC,

458
00:31:33.320 --> 00:31:41.179
you'll if you look at the search terms being searched, you might find things that are totally unrelated to your website and you wanna add those phrases

459
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.020
to your negative keyword list so you're not wasting your budget

460
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:45.960
on,

461
00:31:46.679 --> 00:31:47.825
on irrelevant

462
00:31:48.205 --> 00:31:52.125
search terms that you may be showing up for and paying for for those clicks.

463
00:31:52.125 --> 00:31:54.304
So so a little bit about everything,

464
00:31:54.765 --> 00:31:58.924
SEO, marketing, and Google Ads. That was a good question there.

465
00:31:59.245 --> 00:32:00.705
So thank you, Teresa.

466
00:32:01.300 --> 00:32:04.680
We do a whole lot. I told you we could speak about four hours on that stuff.

467
00:32:05.220 --> 00:32:09.400
Alright. We got some more questions here. Let's go put this slide up.

468
00:32:09.700 --> 00:32:13.560
Alright. Debbie is saying, how can you select United States

469
00:32:13.955 --> 00:32:15.495
only in the membership

470
00:32:15.795 --> 00:32:17.715
sign up? So that is related.

471
00:32:17.715 --> 00:32:25.635
When members are signing up, we only ask their country on the sign up page when they're putting their email and password, when it's a paid plan.

472
00:32:25.875 --> 00:32:28.535
So there is an option here, Debbie. Let me show you.

473
00:32:29.390 --> 00:32:32.130
Let's see if I can go to this site here.

474
00:32:33.390 --> 00:32:37.410
It is gonna ask me if I have a payment gateway connected. So let's just quickly,

475
00:32:38.110 --> 00:32:42.130
go to a sign up page here and see if if I get blocked here.

476
00:32:43.075 --> 00:32:45.335
Oh, I'm already logged in. Okay. That's one hurdle.

477
00:32:45.555 --> 00:32:48.695
Let's log out and see if we can get to a sign up page here.

478
00:32:51.955 --> 00:32:57.235
Okay. This one is set up as a free plan. Let's go to a paid plan here and see if it blocks us.

479
00:32:57.235 --> 00:33:01.510
There we go. Okay. So here's a paid membership sign up. So email password,

480
00:33:02.130 --> 00:33:02.790
and then

481
00:33:03.090 --> 00:33:05.510
it is asking you for the country here.

482
00:33:05.810 --> 00:33:08.470
There is actually a setting for this.

483
00:33:08.850 --> 00:33:13.670
Before we get into the setting, what you can do also is if you're not gonna allow

484
00:33:14.025 --> 00:33:22.525
people to sign up who are outside of The United States because maybe you're just the national directory of, you know, businesses within The US or whatever country it might be,

485
00:33:23.225 --> 00:33:28.845
what you can do is maybe update some of the text here that says United States, you know, members only,

486
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.920
other accounts will be removed, and this and that. Give them a little bit of context.

487
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:38.920
It doesn't have to be super scary, but just let them know that this is for United States member sign up only.

488
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:41.820
Again, if this is important to you, you might wanna add that text,

489
00:33:42.385 --> 00:33:48.785
and just give them, like, a little bit of caution that you will moderate and profiles that are not within The US will be removed.

490
00:33:48.785 --> 00:33:51.665
So just give them a little friendly heads up there. But,

491
00:33:51.985 --> 00:33:54.165
with regards to the billing here,

492
00:33:54.705 --> 00:33:56.885
what we can do is go to payment settings.

493
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:04.700
And once we're here under additional set settings, Debbie, there are billing address countries.

494
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:05.500
So,

495
00:34:06.520 --> 00:34:09.960
again, maybe your payment gateway is only set up for The US.

496
00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:12.699
You can't take payments from anyone outside of The US.

497
00:34:13.215 --> 00:34:16.275
What you could do is change all of them to active.

498
00:34:16.415 --> 00:34:22.575
You can also feature some so they bubble up at the top, but these are all the countries that are available to select on the billing page.

499
00:34:22.575 --> 00:34:24.835
But let's set all of them to not active,

500
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.500
Then let's search for United States

501
00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:32.920
in here in the filter. I typed in United, and we'll make this one featured or active.

502
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:34.460
It'll be the only one, so,

503
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:36.780
that's fine. And we'll save the changes.

504
00:34:38.555 --> 00:34:40.415
And if we refresh this page

505
00:34:42.075 --> 00:34:43.215
and cross our fingers,

506
00:34:44.315 --> 00:34:47.215
the only country here that's why I said cross our fingers.

507
00:34:47.275 --> 00:34:51.690
The only country here should be The United States. Let's see why that did not save.

508
00:34:53.609 --> 00:34:55.630
Let's close it and see if that saved properly.

509
00:34:59.290 --> 00:35:01.150
These are all saved to active. Let's

510
00:35:02.650 --> 00:35:05.505
okay. Select at least one country. Okay. Let's just do

511
00:35:05.984 --> 00:35:07.285
this one for a second.

512
00:35:09.105 --> 00:35:12.244
Didn't save proper. Let's see if that works. So I I saved Algeria.

513
00:35:12.944 --> 00:35:17.204
Didn't save properly. And let's refresh here. Should only see Algeria here now.

514
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:23.540
There we go. And now we'll do the same thing for United States. So we'll undo Algeria here.

515
00:35:24.720 --> 00:35:25.540
Not active.

516
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.140
Search for United States. That is active.

517
00:35:29.520 --> 00:35:31.620
Gonna remove the filter, save the changes.

518
00:35:32.925 --> 00:35:34.705
And there's just a little quirk there.

519
00:35:37.245 --> 00:35:40.785
There we go. United States is the only one here, and then,

520
00:35:41.085 --> 00:35:46.685
it's here. There is a way also to preselect this country. Let's let me just Google that for you.

521
00:35:46.685 --> 00:35:47.185
Preselect

522
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:50.140
country on sign up pages.

523
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:52.619
I think there is.

524
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:56.140
Now, now

525
00:35:56.920 --> 00:36:01.545
to one country, you how to limit sign ups to one country, UK examples. I'll share this.

526
00:36:01.545 --> 00:36:05.724
We've covered in the support documentation. There might not be a way to preselect it,

527
00:36:07.625 --> 00:36:14.204
but I'm just going to share this article anyways, which is it might provide a little more insight than what I just covered here for you.

528
00:36:14.600 --> 00:36:16.300
Good question, though, though, Debbie.

529
00:36:16.600 --> 00:36:17.900
Alright. Let's see.

530
00:36:18.600 --> 00:36:20.760
David, feel free to cherry pick any pic

531
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:25.320
questions here and cover them if you think they're high value. I'm also looking.

532
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:29.025
We've got a great question actually from Mark. He's asking to please explain

533
00:36:31.265 --> 00:36:34.545
gray icon stripe on the left hand side of the sites we're looking at.

534
00:36:34.545 --> 00:36:38.645
I believe he's talking about the admin bar when we're looking at the front end of a website.

535
00:36:39.025 --> 00:36:39.525
Yes.

536
00:36:39.904 --> 00:36:41.204
Let's go there together.

537
00:36:42.065 --> 00:36:42.565
So

538
00:36:43.184 --> 00:36:44.565
what we're looking at,

539
00:36:46.450 --> 00:36:48.230
is this magic bar here,

540
00:36:48.690 --> 00:36:54.390
which is only the website owner sees this admin bar. I'll go ahead and exit it.

541
00:36:55.970 --> 00:36:56.470
And

542
00:36:56.845 --> 00:37:02.305
now it's like I'm a regular user, and I can't get it back. I cannot get that special admin bar back.

543
00:37:02.445 --> 00:37:05.425
The only way to get to that admin bar is

544
00:37:05.805 --> 00:37:09.985
when the admin is logged in to the back end, and that will only be you or your staff.

545
00:37:10.270 --> 00:37:14.510
And then you visit the website from here. So you can do a few things.

546
00:37:14.510 --> 00:37:19.090
You can visit my website in the from the dashboard sidebar or this orange button here.

547
00:37:20.350 --> 00:37:22.850
And when you do that, you now get some magical

548
00:37:23.385 --> 00:37:26.685
special privileges because it knows that you are the owner of the website,

549
00:37:27.145 --> 00:37:29.065
visiting the front end of your website.

550
00:37:29.065 --> 00:37:33.005
So, there's a few things you can do here, such as show text labels.

551
00:37:33.705 --> 00:37:38.280
Let's do that together. So you can change things like like these yellow text labels here.

552
00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:42.680
It says, what do you need? Regular users won't be able to do this. So I'll just search for that.

553
00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:45.579
What do you need? And I'll just change that to what do you want,

554
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:47.175
and we'll save the changes.

555
00:37:50.695 --> 00:37:51.015
Great.

556
00:37:51.015 --> 00:37:55.335
So now it says what do you want, and the purple indicates that we've customized the default text.

557
00:37:55.335 --> 00:37:58.615
Yellow means that it's running off of our default language text.

558
00:37:58.615 --> 00:38:01.915
And, again, if I was mentioning, we are gonna have different languages later.

559
00:38:02.040 --> 00:38:03.180
We're gonna have the German,

560
00:38:03.720 --> 00:38:10.620
French, Spanish, we currently have, and other ones, but yellow indicates that it's what we call a master text label or the default text label.

561
00:38:11.560 --> 00:38:21.705
Other things you can do is if you if you're doing higher end edits here, you can show your widgets and actually access the source code for different modules and sections of your site.

562
00:38:21.705 --> 00:38:23.165
This is kinda higher level.

563
00:38:23.545 --> 00:38:26.045
So you can see here by the dashed lines,

564
00:38:26.585 --> 00:38:28.285
that this is the home page,

565
00:38:28.825 --> 00:38:31.085
hero section up here, the hero divider.

566
00:38:31.680 --> 00:38:33.780
Now in the design settings for,

567
00:38:35.040 --> 00:38:42.820
for beginner users or users who don't need code access, we've tried to create as many point and click settings so you don't have to get into the code view.

568
00:38:43.040 --> 00:38:45.060
But if you are working with a developer,

569
00:38:46.240 --> 00:38:48.155
they may need deeper access,

570
00:38:48.455 --> 00:38:53.195
and they can certainly access that stuff. You just customize the widget that you were looking at,

571
00:38:53.575 --> 00:38:59.190
and you get access to all the complicated code that you'd want, which would be a developer's dream.

572
00:38:59.910 --> 00:39:02.069
So you do have access to all that source code.

573
00:39:02.069 --> 00:39:11.510
But, again, beginner users or or users that are just using it on surface level, you guys can rely on the design settings and the other points and click settings we have around the admin.

574
00:39:11.510 --> 00:39:13.025
But in a nutshell,

575
00:39:13.405 --> 00:39:16.045
this is kinda like your Superman dashboard here.

576
00:39:16.285 --> 00:39:20.204
You get the admin dashboard, and you can remove it by clicking that exit there as well.

577
00:39:20.204 --> 00:39:23.665
It's a good question there. Alright. We have a great question here.

578
00:39:23.724 --> 00:39:28.500
Kurt is asking, I sent in a site map to Google. It fetched 4,000

579
00:39:28.640 --> 00:39:30.160
indexed, but 90,000

580
00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:34.400
not indexed with a lot of canonical tag errors. How can I correct those?

581
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:38.420
So first of all, if you're seeing canonical tag errors, it's important to distinguish

582
00:39:38.720 --> 00:39:40.180
errors from warnings.

583
00:39:40.635 --> 00:39:49.455
If you set a page to not index, like, you don't want Google to index, one of your pages, index means to save it for into the or show it in their search results.

584
00:39:49.675 --> 00:39:58.990
You might do that intentionally, but they'll show you that as an error or what it really is is a warning just to alert you to the fact that that is happening on your site.

585
00:39:58.990 --> 00:40:01.250
So there are a lot of warnings or alerts.

586
00:40:01.310 --> 00:40:07.184
Not all of them require actions in the Google Search Console. 4,000 is actually quite a bit.

587
00:40:07.184 --> 00:40:11.904
You have to remember that a lot of brilliant directory sites do have redundant pages.

588
00:40:11.904 --> 00:40:14.805
Let's take a look at some of these redundant pages together.

589
00:40:15.505 --> 00:40:21.100
So we'll just look at this one one member profile. Right? So this one member profile

590
00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:23.820
also has a send message page,

591
00:40:24.600 --> 00:40:26.140
a write a review page.

592
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:30.200
Right? So it has, like, a write a review page.

593
00:40:30.200 --> 00:40:33.740
It has a send message page, and it has a profile page,

594
00:40:34.644 --> 00:40:39.785
as well as all the different combinations of search pages that it has such as

595
00:40:42.085 --> 00:40:45.065
United Kingdom England London Italian restaurant,

596
00:40:46.885 --> 00:40:48.904
United Kingdom England London,

597
00:40:51.470 --> 00:40:52.850
United Kingdom England.

598
00:40:52.990 --> 00:40:58.109
You know, these are all search pages that are created, you know, just even when one person joins.

599
00:40:58.109 --> 00:41:01.230
Let's say he wasn't in London. He was in his own city. Right?

600
00:41:01.230 --> 00:41:05.505
All those search results pages for that, you know, unique city would also be created.

601
00:41:05.965 --> 00:41:08.545
So even though we have 90,000

602
00:41:09.085 --> 00:41:09.665
in pages

603
00:41:10.125 --> 00:41:15.825
on the site, Google might choose to only index a small fraction of those that they deem are meaningful,

604
00:41:16.445 --> 00:41:22.400
useful, or valuable for the user. They might consider, for example, this contact page,

605
00:41:23.260 --> 00:41:28.480
thin content or low content because there really isn't anything on here except a form.

606
00:41:28.780 --> 00:41:31.760
Now this is great for the end user, but Google might choose

607
00:41:32.300 --> 00:41:33.675
to only index

608
00:41:33.995 --> 00:41:35.375
their profile page.

609
00:41:35.755 --> 00:41:38.095
And, also, if you've imported your site

610
00:41:38.715 --> 00:41:45.615
with profiles and it's the same name, phone number, and address that you find on a hundred other websites,

611
00:41:46.230 --> 00:41:48.470
Google might deem this duplicate content.

612
00:41:48.470 --> 00:41:55.850
So they might choose not to index this this page or anything related to this profile because there really is nothing meaningful.

613
00:41:55.990 --> 00:42:08.474
So you might again, this profile might spur, let's say, 10 pages that could be indexed, but Google is maybe only indexing one or even zero of them if it doesn't see that there's valuable content here.

614
00:42:09.015 --> 00:42:12.935
Now with regards to the canonical tag errors, I'd email the support team.

615
00:42:12.935 --> 00:42:17.160
They're happy, very happy to troubleshoot all of those for you.

616
00:42:17.319 --> 00:42:23.900
Just show them a screenshot of the warnings and the pages that are have just a couple of those pages that have those warnings,

617
00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:26.599
and they'll be able to kind of figure that out,

618
00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:28.700
for you and see what's going on.

619
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:33.975
Also, I do know coming down the line early twenty twenty five, we are making additional improvements.

620
00:42:34.755 --> 00:42:36.535
Canonical tags are very important.

621
00:42:37.555 --> 00:42:40.055
They basically if there are similar pages,

622
00:42:40.835 --> 00:42:43.335
it tells Google which is the parent page,

623
00:42:44.349 --> 00:42:49.170
to index and not the other pages that might have duplicate content on your site. So,

624
00:42:49.950 --> 00:42:53.410
those are a few reasons why some pages might not get indexed,

625
00:42:54.109 --> 00:42:58.849
and also the canonical tag. Please reach out to the support team, with the examples.

626
00:42:59.285 --> 00:43:07.145
And if there's something we can do on our end to remedy those, we certainly will assist with that because that's gonna benefit not only your site, Kurt, but all BD sites.

627
00:43:07.205 --> 00:43:08.805
So thank you for sharing that one.

628
00:43:08.805 --> 00:43:12.985
And we've got another question kind of along the same lines with SEO.

629
00:43:13.420 --> 00:43:17.200
A question from YouTube. Are you able to update URL or permalink

630
00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:18.000
structures

631
00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:19.120
for SEO?

632
00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:22.220
Absolutely. So that is a really great question.

633
00:43:22.220 --> 00:43:29.040
So when your members join your site, they're inputting information such as their name, their location, they're selecting a category.

634
00:43:29.395 --> 00:43:36.915
And when members are doing that hundreds of times over, you want the system to follow a template so that everything is organized properly.

635
00:43:36.915 --> 00:43:38.535
So let me show you a few places

636
00:43:38.995 --> 00:43:42.855
where you can update, as you're saying, URL and permalinks.

637
00:43:43.390 --> 00:43:46.050
Let's start with the basic one in the web page builder.

638
00:43:47.310 --> 00:43:49.250
So if you're creating a new web page,

639
00:43:50.750 --> 00:43:56.050
these are static pages, landing pages, just one offshoot pages that you'll be creating for yourself.

640
00:43:56.565 --> 00:43:57.545
You can definitely,

641
00:43:58.165 --> 00:44:01.545
update this. You can call this expert launch if you want.

642
00:44:02.325 --> 00:44:08.265
And you can even when you are creating this, you can do expert launch forward slash, you know, fun stuff.

643
00:44:08.619 --> 00:44:16.720
And then you can create a bunch of expert launch pages forward slash whatever you want and create these landing pages if you wanna do them manually.

644
00:44:16.780 --> 00:44:21.180
So right there, you can do it. The second thing, let's go to the post settings.

645
00:44:21.180 --> 00:44:22.880
So the posts are like your blogs,

646
00:44:25.205 --> 00:44:25.865
your your

647
00:44:26.245 --> 00:44:26.985
job openings,

648
00:44:27.445 --> 00:44:29.145
discussions, community articles.

649
00:44:29.685 --> 00:44:32.665
You can see here we created some called technology news.

650
00:44:33.445 --> 00:44:34.985
So let's go to

651
00:44:35.685 --> 00:44:37.830
let's go to discussions here. We can

652
00:44:38.390 --> 00:44:40.570
actually view the discussions page.

653
00:44:42.390 --> 00:44:45.110
So these are the discussion posts on our site.

654
00:44:45.110 --> 00:44:50.330
We've decided to call it discussions, but we can very easily edit this post type's URL.

655
00:44:51.030 --> 00:44:53.805
And it says the URL permalink for this post type.

656
00:44:54.204 --> 00:44:55.484
We can call this discussions,

657
00:44:56.525 --> 00:44:59.585
we call this expert discussions. Right? Discussions expert.

658
00:45:00.125 --> 00:45:01.724
We can also clone this post type.

659
00:45:01.724 --> 00:45:05.565
It can still be discussions, but we can call it, like, beginner discussions. Right?

660
00:45:05.565 --> 00:45:07.740
So we can actually have different content channels

661
00:45:08.220 --> 00:45:10.080
for our different post types.

662
00:45:10.780 --> 00:45:12.400
Now when it comes to members,

663
00:45:13.340 --> 00:45:17.680
like I said, they're gonna join your site by the hundreds or thousands or whatever it's is happening.

664
00:45:18.300 --> 00:45:20.000
You want the system to create

665
00:45:20.615 --> 00:45:25.515
a unified structure for their permalink. So if we just go to view live profile,

666
00:45:26.535 --> 00:45:28.875
this is these were from the import we did earlier.

667
00:45:29.255 --> 00:45:32.820
We can see here, it created this profile, did United States,

668
00:45:33.780 --> 00:45:34.280
Brownsville,

669
00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:39.320
after school program. That that was just the obscure category we chose for the import,

670
00:45:39.700 --> 00:45:42.200
and then their name, Esperanza Gaza LLP.

671
00:45:42.580 --> 00:45:44.440
So where is this created?

672
00:45:44.820 --> 00:45:46.280
Well, if we go to

673
00:45:47.015 --> 00:45:49.115
settings and advanced settings

674
00:45:52.135 --> 00:45:54.155
and we type in profile

675
00:45:54.615 --> 00:45:55.115
URL,

676
00:45:57.815 --> 00:45:59.035
here we can dictate

677
00:45:59.630 --> 00:46:03.650
the variables or or the how the structure of how we wanna build

678
00:46:04.110 --> 00:46:07.870
the member profile URL. So, in this case, it was country.

679
00:46:07.870 --> 00:46:11.410
We could include the state name, so we can add that and move it here.

680
00:46:11.915 --> 00:46:12.955
Country, state, city.

681
00:46:12.955 --> 00:46:18.015
Maybe we don't want the country because all our members are already United States or whatever country,

682
00:46:18.635 --> 00:46:22.635
you know, UK, Australia, and we don't need the country. We can just keep it.

683
00:46:22.635 --> 00:46:26.974
Like, that state is also province if you're in Canada or in Australia.

684
00:46:27.900 --> 00:46:29.200
But, again, you can

685
00:46:29.980 --> 00:46:34.059
order the structure here, and then all your members will have the similar structure.

686
00:46:34.059 --> 00:46:35.839
And as you saw me do earlier,

687
00:46:36.540 --> 00:46:40.720
you can remove you know, this is what's great about BD. All these pages are automatically

688
00:46:41.180 --> 00:46:43.795
created. So we can remove these slugs

689
00:46:44.494 --> 00:46:45.474
one after another,

690
00:46:45.934 --> 00:46:49.535
and we're going to hit the search results page. This was a bad example here.

691
00:46:49.535 --> 00:46:53.555
I think we were doing some tests on this demo site. But you can go 1 x 1,

692
00:46:53.855 --> 00:46:58.300
and you'll get to the I remember this was the four zero four page, but you can get to,

693
00:46:59.080 --> 00:47:01.260
the page like I was doing here,

694
00:47:01.640 --> 00:47:07.580
United Kingdom, England. If I go back, United Kingdom, England, London. If we go back one more,

695
00:47:10.184 --> 00:47:14.505
Italian restaurants, London, England, United Kingdom, all these pages are already created for you.

696
00:47:14.505 --> 00:47:15.785
And this goes back to indexing.

697
00:47:15.785 --> 00:47:23.724
Google is gonna index the page or the combination that they think is the most value, and they might choose to not index other pages.

698
00:47:24.150 --> 00:47:27.450
Now let's kick it up a notch. There is something else you can do,

699
00:47:27.829 --> 00:47:32.089
and you can even sell this as a a service to your members.

700
00:47:32.549 --> 00:47:34.970
So he's got this long profile

701
00:47:35.270 --> 00:47:39.369
URL, which is perfectly fine. It's good for SEO. It includes slugs.

702
00:47:39.655 --> 00:47:45.275
But let's say they just wanted to pay and have forward slash Esperanza Garza LLP

703
00:47:45.575 --> 00:47:49.195
or like what we do on our Facebook page, we wanted, like, Brilliant Directories

704
00:47:50.055 --> 00:47:55.579
as our, you know, for our Facebook company page. What you can do is under the quick edit

705
00:47:56.440 --> 00:47:57.900
for an individual member,

706
00:47:58.200 --> 00:48:00.460
there are advanced options here.

707
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:03.980
And this is only this is a one off. The admin has to do it themselves.

708
00:48:04.359 --> 00:48:08.059
What you can do is you can actually customize the listing URL,

709
00:48:08.895 --> 00:48:09.555
to be,

710
00:48:10.095 --> 00:48:11.295
whatever you want it to be.

711
00:48:11.295 --> 00:48:17.375
So you can actually remove what the default template was and just do Esperanza Garza LLP.

712
00:48:17.375 --> 00:48:18.435
I'll save the changes.

713
00:48:20.335 --> 00:48:22.995
Great. And I'll just refresh this search page.

714
00:48:27.310 --> 00:48:30.850
And if we go to view the profile, we see now

715
00:48:31.310 --> 00:48:33.790
we have a much shorter URL for his profile.

716
00:48:33.790 --> 00:48:37.710
We've customized it, and I think an automatic redirect is created when we do that.

717
00:48:37.710 --> 00:48:39.765
This was the longer one. Let's see if it yep.

718
00:48:39.765 --> 00:48:47.704
It automatic redirect is set up when you do the when you do the quick edit, so you don't have to worry about link juice or traffic from the old URL coming to the new one.

719
00:48:47.924 --> 00:48:52.025
But now in effect, you've given the user a shorter name, a shorter handle.

720
00:48:52.650 --> 00:48:53.150
Again,

721
00:48:53.930 --> 00:48:57.609
something you possibly could sell as a boost because it's just easier to get here.

722
00:48:57.609 --> 00:49:06.109
So if you have a a a really popular domain and it's important for people to have links to, like, their direct handle, it shows priority or status,

723
00:49:07.295 --> 00:49:10.275
That is something that you can, sell as a boost to members.

724
00:49:10.735 --> 00:49:12.355
And then very, very lastly,

725
00:49:13.135 --> 00:49:17.395
when you're managing your posts, so, like, blog posts and things like that,

726
00:49:18.990 --> 00:49:21.410
We under manage posts, you can,

727
00:49:22.350 --> 00:49:24.750
also customize the URL here further.

728
00:49:24.750 --> 00:49:30.130
You can use the default post, same advanced settings like we see, or you can give it a custom,

729
00:49:30.510 --> 00:49:31.810
custom post URL.

730
00:49:32.265 --> 00:49:35.865
And you can shorten that up or add any custom keywords here.

731
00:49:35.865 --> 00:49:38.505
It does need to be slugged in the post type that it is.

732
00:49:38.505 --> 00:49:45.360
That's just part of the hierarchy of the website, but you can further enhance the, URL of a specific post

733
00:49:46.080 --> 00:49:48.660
as well. There are some other things also,

734
00:49:49.680 --> 00:49:52.720
but those are just some of the surface level things to cover there for you.

735
00:49:52.720 --> 00:49:54.980
So thank you for that question there.

736
00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:00.275
Lots of great stuff there. We got a question from Facebook, actually, from Anna.

737
00:50:00.335 --> 00:50:05.154
She's asking, can you have more than one get matched page for different categories

738
00:50:05.454 --> 00:50:10.115
for different lead purposes? I'm wanting to match sponsors with businesses. Do you have use cases?

739
00:50:10.335 --> 00:50:12.095
We need to create documentation on this.

740
00:50:12.095 --> 00:50:17.640
Brian asked it in the last webinar, and after we got off, I figured out how to do it.

741
00:50:17.640 --> 00:50:21.240
I was working with the team. I'll show you in a nutshell what you would do.

742
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:23.900
We should just do a webinar on this, but,

743
00:50:25.560 --> 00:50:26.780
you can have different

744
00:50:27.125 --> 00:50:28.025
landing pages.

745
00:50:28.724 --> 00:50:32.565
So by default, you can have get matched. That's kinda what comes it.

746
00:50:32.565 --> 00:50:37.625
But you can say, like, I don't know. I was gonna say plumber match. Right?

747
00:50:37.845 --> 00:50:41.545
And let's say that takes you to a landing page that says connect with the best plumbers,

748
00:50:42.410 --> 00:50:45.550
and you want the lead form to be, you know, for plumbers.

749
00:50:45.850 --> 00:50:48.570
All we need to do is add a hidden field. You'd

750
00:50:49.370 --> 00:50:52.970
I wish I could show you quickly, but, again, I'm stuck with the, oh, no. No.

751
00:50:52.970 --> 00:50:54.405
I didn't remember how to do it.

752
00:50:55.205 --> 00:51:00.105
Basically, we would add a hidden field so the user doesn't have to select the plumber category.

753
00:51:00.485 --> 00:51:04.265
It will be a hidden field in this form. So when this form is selected,

754
00:51:04.805 --> 00:51:06.105
plumber is preselected

755
00:51:06.405 --> 00:51:09.865
and submitted as the, quote, unquote, selected category

756
00:51:10.290 --> 00:51:12.310
or service that the person

757
00:51:12.690 --> 00:51:13.190
needs.

758
00:51:13.730 --> 00:51:15.910
Let me just do something real quick.

759
00:51:16.450 --> 00:51:21.830
I'm gonna go to Brian did say he got his working on his side if we wanna show that. Oh, perfect.

760
00:51:22.450 --> 00:51:27.205
Yeah. Brian, can can we bring you to the stage, and we could just quickly,

761
00:51:28.145 --> 00:51:30.805
see the variable you used in the lead form?

762
00:51:31.425 --> 00:51:34.725
Let's see here. You wanna invite him to the stage, David,

763
00:51:35.105 --> 00:51:38.405
perhaps? But let me do one more thing while while we're getting him

764
00:51:38.865 --> 00:51:39.685
lined up.

765
00:51:41.310 --> 00:51:44.350
Well, I lost my train of thought here for a moment. There we go.

766
00:51:44.350 --> 00:51:46.110
We're going into MySQL database here.

767
00:51:46.110 --> 00:51:49.470
I'm just gonna look at something on a higher level just so I can get rid of it.

768
00:51:49.470 --> 00:51:54.270
The short answer, Anna, is yes. We just have to add a hidden field into the form.

769
00:51:54.270 --> 00:51:57.244
You just clone that get matched form, and we define

770
00:51:57.545 --> 00:52:01.005
the category or or sub and top level categories,

771
00:52:01.625 --> 00:52:05.325
for that. And I'm just going to I wanna see something in the database here

772
00:52:05.785 --> 00:52:06.685
for leads.

773
00:52:07.740 --> 00:52:12.700
There should be a field for the category here, and this would tell us what yeah. Here it is.

774
00:52:12.700 --> 00:52:14.640
The top ID and the sub ID.

775
00:52:15.260 --> 00:52:15.760
Perfect.

776
00:52:16.540 --> 00:52:18.640
So what we would do in a nutshell

777
00:52:19.994 --> 00:52:20.974
is this.

778
00:52:21.835 --> 00:52:23.515
I'm just gonna do it so we can,

779
00:52:24.234 --> 00:52:28.494
cement it in one of the webinars here. I'm gonna search for the get matched form.

780
00:52:30.875 --> 00:52:31.960
Let's see here.

781
00:52:33.619 --> 00:52:36.519
Okay. So website get matched form and let's,

782
00:52:37.539 --> 00:52:38.839
clone this one here.

783
00:52:40.339 --> 00:52:41.880
This one right here. Okay.

784
00:52:45.085 --> 00:52:48.145
And what we wanna do is the the top ID.

785
00:52:49.165 --> 00:52:53.505
Basically, we wanna add I'm not gonna go through all the details, but we're gonna add a new field,

786
00:52:54.365 --> 00:52:57.480
and we're gonna search for hidden we're gonna add a hidden field.

787
00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:00.460
Database variable is top ID.

788
00:53:04.040 --> 00:53:11.000
And then we just go to our categories page and we get the category ID that we want this to be matched with.

789
00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:11.980
So, like, chiropractor

790
00:53:12.359 --> 00:53:13.100
is three.

791
00:53:14.945 --> 00:53:17.605
So we make it a hidden field, and the value

792
00:53:18.145 --> 00:53:18.965
is three.

793
00:53:19.505 --> 00:53:24.645
And then when this form gets submitted, this get matched form, this this value would get

794
00:53:25.025 --> 00:53:28.565
sent with the lead, and it'll only match it in this example with chiropractors.

795
00:53:28.950 --> 00:53:37.130
And you can do that over and over again, is clone your get matched form, have a hidden field with the top ID of the ID of the top level category,

796
00:53:37.829 --> 00:53:44.244
and then that lead will be for that category without the user having to the visitor having to select that category.

797
00:53:44.244 --> 00:53:46.985
So a little bit higher level, actually, not that complicated.

798
00:53:47.365 --> 00:53:51.465
I think that would be a good tip of the week, David, is just basically how to

799
00:53:51.845 --> 00:53:57.290
create landing pages with the with the get matched form, the lead form with preselected categories,

800
00:53:57.830 --> 00:54:00.170
on there so the user doesn't have to do it.

801
00:54:00.710 --> 00:54:04.330
Yeah. And we do have, Brian, on the line now. Hey, Brian.

802
00:54:05.350 --> 00:54:07.450
How are you? Oh, super. Hey, Brian.

803
00:54:07.845 --> 00:54:09.125
Yeah. I I figured it out.

804
00:54:09.925 --> 00:54:11.625
You basically have to go in.

805
00:54:12.965 --> 00:54:18.185
I was having a problem because it was actually duplicating because those actually already exist.

806
00:54:18.405 --> 00:54:22.105
So you'd have to remove the old ones for top underscore ID,

807
00:54:22.500 --> 00:54:27.720
and then you basically pick those numbers like you were saying for the top ID. And then

808
00:54:28.020 --> 00:54:31.560
there's a sub underscore ID that you would use.

809
00:54:32.100 --> 00:54:34.440
And then there's also sub underscore

810
00:54:34.740 --> 00:54:37.400
sub underscore ID that you can also use.

811
00:54:37.935 --> 00:54:43.235
Perfect. I see I came to your site here. I see you created three get match forms, one for careers,

812
00:54:43.775 --> 00:54:46.835
guest list, and party buses, which was your intention. Right?

813
00:54:47.295 --> 00:54:50.960
The bottle service, guest list, and party bus. Yes. The okay.

814
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:53.940
The let's let's take a look at this bottle service one,

815
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.339
and we'll search for just hidden here.

816
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:02.559
Perfect. And, right, you put it in the deep see, I was incorrect there.

817
00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:06.079
You do hidden field, and you do default value. The default value will,

818
00:55:06.744 --> 00:55:11.785
correspond to the ID of the membership plan, and you have a sub sublevel category here.

819
00:55:11.785 --> 00:55:13.325
The sub ID is 70.

820
00:55:13.625 --> 00:55:20.365
So whatever the sublevel category that has ID 70 and top level category 10, so that is your bottle service category.

821
00:55:20.720 --> 00:55:21.859
So this will match,

822
00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:24.579
this will match those leads

823
00:55:25.039 --> 00:55:27.539
with members who provide bottle service services.

824
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:28.579
Yes.

825
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:29.380
Perfect.

826
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:33.855
Awesome. Thank you for sharing that, Brian. Thank you. Gotta give a shout shout out to Brian.

827
00:55:33.855 --> 00:55:39.135
Always comes with great questions, and he's actually suggested a lot of good updates for the platform.

828
00:55:39.135 --> 00:55:43.375
So thank you, Brian, for all those. Alright. Yeah. We do have a ton of questions here. Let's see.

829
00:55:43.375 --> 00:55:46.200
We do have some still have have some time left.

830
00:55:46.680 --> 00:55:50.680
Okay. Here's a good question. Debbie's saying, I see some Google Ads on this website.

831
00:55:50.680 --> 00:55:54.859
Is there a benefit to having Google Ads added to your website for SEO?

832
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:56.300
Yes and

833
00:55:57.079 --> 00:55:57.579
no.

834
00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:03.015
Let's go here to this site. So she's talking about seeing some ads here.

835
00:56:03.555 --> 00:56:05.495
I think, in my opinion,

836
00:56:06.515 --> 00:56:15.569
if your site is just starting out and, again, if you're a small community, like, you know, a a private club or community, you probably don't need ads around your site.

837
00:56:15.569 --> 00:56:23.510
But if you're serving the general public or a larger region and you're inviting the public to browse your site and you're just starting out, sometimes

838
00:56:23.970 --> 00:56:28.565
having the Google Ads and Google Ads is getting harder to get approved for,

839
00:56:28.865 --> 00:56:31.205
but you can even add your own ads,

840
00:56:31.585 --> 00:56:33.265
if you want just to show something.

841
00:56:33.265 --> 00:56:37.825
It could even be, like, join our site banner ad, like, like, for internal promotion that you're doing.

842
00:56:37.825 --> 00:56:42.085
You don't have to rely on Google Ads. But I do think it adds a level of,

843
00:56:42.680 --> 00:56:43.180
credibility.

844
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.460
It makes the site sometimes appear more established.

845
00:56:47.640 --> 00:56:56.200
You know, you don't wanna overdo the ads where the site becomes like, you're impaired from using the site because there's just too many pop ups flying, you know, on the top and bottom, left and right.

846
00:56:56.200 --> 00:57:06.555
But strategically and tastefully done, having some Google Ads show around the site may help it appear more established and credible and looks like a larger company almost.

847
00:57:06.694 --> 00:57:10.560
And from an SEO perspective, if it does result in that outcome,

848
00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:17.380
making you appear more established and credible, you do stand a chance for people to trust your site a bit more and use your site a bit more,

849
00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:21.920
and Google does reward when your visitors stay on your site longer.

850
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:25.454
So if tastefully done and it helps enhance the credibility

851
00:57:25.755 --> 00:57:35.194
of your site and makes it look more official, from that standpoint, it can help with SEO helping encouraging visitors to stay and trust on your trust your site a bit more.

852
00:57:35.194 --> 00:57:38.575
So I don't think it has, like, a direct SEO value itself,

853
00:57:39.140 --> 00:57:39.640
but

854
00:57:39.940 --> 00:57:40.600
the intangible

855
00:57:41.060 --> 00:57:49.460
benefits of, again, visitors lingering on your site longer, trusting, clicking around your site more, it can definitely add SEO value in that sense.

856
00:57:49.460 --> 00:57:50.840
It's a great question there.

857
00:57:51.460 --> 00:57:52.600
Let's see here.

858
00:57:53.115 --> 00:57:55.035
Derek's asking a long question here. Let's see.

859
00:57:55.035 --> 00:58:01.035
My question is, I'd like to import business data through BD, but is there a way to make it may have it make sense with a coupon site?

860
00:58:01.195 --> 00:58:04.715
As a coupon site, I don't belong to any business categories in particular.

861
00:58:04.715 --> 00:58:12.520
Well, what you can do is if you're a coupon site, there probably are more businesses that lend themselves to offering coupons.

862
00:58:12.980 --> 00:58:17.755
I don't know what, you know, like, there's, like, kids eat free restaurants or certain chains and things like that?

863
00:58:17.955 --> 00:58:21.735
So you might wanna add them to your site and use the claim listing.

864
00:58:21.795 --> 00:58:25.635
Some of them might include the email addresses or phone numbers with the import.

865
00:58:25.635 --> 00:58:27.495
So then you can do some outreach,

866
00:58:28.115 --> 00:58:28.515
to them.

867
00:58:28.515 --> 00:58:33.300
You can send them emails, you know, cold outreach emails to see if they're interested to add their coupons.

868
00:58:33.680 --> 00:58:40.020
So while you won't find coupons with the business data import tool, you can probably find a subset of businesses

869
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:42.880
that may want to add their coupons to the site.

870
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:45.845
Just thinking off the top of my head, there are a lot of franchise

871
00:58:46.145 --> 00:58:49.025
businesses that are basically owned by mom and pops.

872
00:58:49.025 --> 00:58:52.225
They're just running the franchise, and you may wanna reach out to them.

873
00:58:52.225 --> 00:58:57.605
I don't know if Subway is I believe they are franchise owners, and I think I don't think Subway has coupons.

874
00:58:57.665 --> 00:59:01.640
But but, basically, what I'm suggesting is you might be able to

875
00:59:02.020 --> 00:59:04.840
search for and let's do it together here.

876
00:59:05.700 --> 00:59:06.920
Let's just search Subway,

877
00:59:09.940 --> 00:59:11.560
and we'll just search Subway.

878
00:59:11.940 --> 00:59:14.795
I guess exact match. That's the name of the business.

879
00:59:17.015 --> 00:59:19.275
Yeah. Okay. So there's 66 subways

880
00:59:19.734 --> 00:59:21.355
that have the preferred attributes,

881
00:59:21.815 --> 00:59:25.494
email address, phone number, URL, and update in the last thirty days.

882
00:59:25.494 --> 00:59:27.815
Let's get rid of the update in the last thirty days.

883
00:59:27.815 --> 00:59:31.920
That's that's a high ask for a lot of businesses. Now we're up to 446.

884
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:33.860
So just as an example, Subway,

885
00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:37.220
if you find franchises where they do have coupons

886
00:59:37.600 --> 00:59:40.080
and they're owned by mom and pops, like, it's not the corporate.

887
00:59:40.080 --> 00:59:43.545
You're not reaching out to their headquarters, which would probably be harder to break through.

888
00:59:43.625 --> 00:59:50.525
You might be able to make some headway with those mom and pops for, let's say, restaurants as you wrote or other types of businesses,

889
00:59:51.385 --> 00:59:58.345
that are owned by by individual franchise owners that might be motivated to post their coupons on your coupon site.

890
00:59:58.345 --> 01:00:01.140
So, just some food for thought for you.

891
01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:07.140
And another way great use case, actually, for using the, the business data importer.

892
01:00:07.680 --> 01:00:08.180
Okay.

893
01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:14.135
Okay. Vicky's asking a great question. Where can we add male or female to the profile?

894
01:00:14.195 --> 01:00:15.335
That is a fantastic

895
01:00:15.955 --> 01:00:19.095
question. You can actually add any type of criteria,

896
01:00:20.035 --> 01:00:21.815
to the member profiles,

897
01:00:22.435 --> 01:00:24.835
or actually data you want to collect from them.

898
01:00:24.835 --> 01:00:29.240
I'll just do the the quick, way to show you, and we do have a video also

899
01:00:29.540 --> 01:00:34.760
showing how to achieve this. Let's edit membership plan two. It all starts with the membership plan.

900
01:00:35.540 --> 01:00:36.600
Let's go to edit.

901
01:00:36.660 --> 01:00:43.255
And by default, all the membership plans are asking the same data from your members, but you can ask different information

902
01:00:44.115 --> 01:00:45.734
from different membership plans.

903
01:00:46.194 --> 01:00:49.575
What we wanna do when we're editing the membership plan is go to the dashboard,

904
01:00:50.115 --> 01:00:53.255
and it tells us which form is being used

905
01:00:53.600 --> 01:00:58.500
for specific data we're collecting. So we're we have the contact details form, the additional,

906
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:04.900
and the about me. We can enable or disable this for any membership plan, and we can also change it.

907
01:01:05.120 --> 01:01:09.275
In this case, let's just edit the contact details that we're collecting for all the members.

908
01:01:09.275 --> 01:01:10.734
We can go to edit form,

909
01:01:11.595 --> 01:01:14.234
and let's do this together. We actually have it edit,

910
01:01:14.555 --> 01:01:16.815
edited already. Just add a field

911
01:01:17.275 --> 01:01:19.830
called male or female as you're asking here.

912
01:01:20.310 --> 01:01:25.930
So I'll just put it, right here under company or organization. I'll actually clone this field.

913
01:01:26.790 --> 01:01:28.250
Let's see. Clone field.

914
01:01:31.430 --> 01:01:34.155
Okay. It's right there. And I'm just gonna say,

915
01:01:34.475 --> 01:01:36.175
male underscore female.

916
01:01:36.475 --> 01:01:40.815
And the options will delete these, and we'll add two options. We'll just do

917
01:01:41.515 --> 01:01:42.735
male and

918
01:01:43.035 --> 01:01:43.535
female.

919
01:01:44.555 --> 01:01:45.055
And

920
01:01:46.670 --> 01:01:48.370
I'll just say select an option.

921
01:01:49.870 --> 01:01:52.370
It's a drop down list. You can do radio buttons.

922
01:01:53.070 --> 01:01:56.050
You can make it required or not required. And then,

923
01:01:56.670 --> 01:02:03.235
we wanna show what you wanna do is when you add the new field is make sure you select I toggle this little cog icon here.

924
01:02:03.695 --> 01:02:05.395
Make sure you select on display

925
01:02:05.855 --> 01:02:07.395
view, set this to on.

926
01:02:07.615 --> 01:02:14.515
Input view on means that when they're trying to fill out the information, this field is gonna show up as an option to fill out that data.

927
01:02:14.940 --> 01:02:20.940
Display view is if they do fill out that data, it's going to display on their profile page somewhere.

928
01:02:20.940 --> 01:02:22.960
So let's go ahead and save this.

929
01:02:25.500 --> 01:02:26.000
Perfect.

930
01:02:26.540 --> 01:02:27.040
And

931
01:02:27.675 --> 01:02:32.175
should be, for any profile. So let's actually log in to this member here,

932
01:02:34.315 --> 01:02:36.335
and we'll go to basic information.

933
01:02:38.795 --> 01:02:41.600
And we do see select an option here, male or female.

934
01:02:41.600 --> 01:02:45.360
You can add a placeholder so that it's not preset on male or female.

935
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:49.220
Let's actually do that together. That's fun to see. Let's save this.

936
01:02:51.120 --> 01:02:52.900
And I think I can just type,

937
01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:56.420
placeholder text. If I toggle this open,

938
01:02:56.744 --> 01:02:59.005
placeholder test, select an option

939
01:03:00.184 --> 01:03:03.005
and it should add the placeholder text there. So it's not

940
01:03:03.464 --> 01:03:03.964
automatically

941
01:03:04.505 --> 01:03:05.005
on,

942
01:03:05.865 --> 01:03:08.765
where was I? Here we go. Let's see what that shows now.

943
01:03:09.144 --> 01:03:13.410
There we go. Select so that you can say here, select your gender, whatever you want it to be.

944
01:03:13.410 --> 01:03:16.130
So we'll just choose male here, and,

945
01:03:16.690 --> 01:03:18.710
I'll just put put my name here,

946
01:03:19.250 --> 01:03:20.790
and we'll save the changes.

947
01:03:23.570 --> 01:03:24.310
Phone number.

948
01:03:29.325 --> 01:03:32.285
Oh, I remember what I was doing. I was playing around with,

949
01:03:33.164 --> 01:03:36.384
phone number fields. But anyways, now if we look at the profile field,

950
01:03:36.684 --> 01:03:39.105
it should say in my overview tab here,

951
01:03:41.970 --> 01:03:45.970
and it's not, which is great because that's not fun when it doesn't do that.

952
01:03:45.970 --> 01:03:47.990
Let me see why that's happening.

953
01:03:49.890 --> 01:03:52.710
But that is basically how you would do it in a nutshell.

954
01:03:53.925 --> 01:03:57.845
Oh, the display view didn't save. That's why. There we go. That's perfect example.

955
01:03:57.845 --> 01:04:01.785
So I didn't save it with the display view on. Let's save the changes.

956
01:04:03.605 --> 01:04:05.865
Go back to the profile, cross our fingers,

957
01:04:06.950 --> 01:04:10.789
and there we go. So this was the select your gender, basically, and I chose male.

958
01:04:10.789 --> 01:04:14.490
So now we've added it there. You can do what's your hair color, how what's your height,

959
01:04:15.270 --> 01:04:20.309
whatever however you wanna connect people, so you can gather whatever information you want from them.

960
01:04:20.309 --> 01:04:20.809
So,

961
01:04:21.395 --> 01:04:25.635
hope that helps you there, Vicky. Alright. We got time for just a couple more questions here.

962
01:04:25.635 --> 01:04:29.494
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985
01:05:59.750 --> 01:06:01.910
David, let's take one more question here.

986
01:06:01.910 --> 01:06:04.790
I see I see so many questions here, but we've run out of time.

987
01:06:04.790 --> 01:06:07.590
I'll let you choose the last and final question here, David.

988
01:06:07.590 --> 01:06:13.035
And if we didn't get to your questions, we'll post the replay in the Facebook group, and you guys can ask your questions there.

989
01:06:13.035 --> 01:06:15.675
We'll try to get to as many as we can. You know what?

990
01:06:15.675 --> 01:06:22.155
We'll take another question from Expert Launch on YouTube only because this is such a great and kinda general question here.

991
01:06:22.155 --> 01:06:28.400
Is BD compatible with third party custom integrations like Hotjar, HubSpot, chatbots, opt in tools, etcetera?

992
01:06:28.700 --> 01:06:31.980
Yeah. So short answer is a thousand percent yes.

993
01:06:31.980 --> 01:06:38.460
All those tools, Hotjar, HubSpot, chatbots, AI chatbots, they're all gonna give you a little piece of embed code.

994
01:06:38.460 --> 01:06:43.515
And what you're gonna do is go to your admin area. Let's go there together.

995
01:06:43.975 --> 01:06:45.195
And if you want

996
01:06:46.135 --> 01:06:47.115
the Hotjar

997
01:06:47.975 --> 01:06:55.675
or the track just like your Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager, whatever you want, if you want it to be loaded and and tracking site wide,

998
01:06:56.049 --> 01:06:57.430
go to your design settings,

999
01:06:57.809 --> 01:06:59.269
custom CSS head.

1000
01:06:59.650 --> 01:07:06.309
They're gonna tell you to drop it in your head code, but I don't recommend that because that's what loads first on your site, and that's going to

1001
01:07:07.329 --> 01:07:10.305
substantially lower your page speed scores in Google.

1002
01:07:10.305 --> 01:07:15.684
They just want they just recommend to go in the head so their application or tool can load first.

1003
01:07:16.145 --> 01:07:19.125
I would recommend putting it in the footer code down here.

1004
01:07:19.265 --> 01:07:23.310
It's gonna work just the same for 99% of these embed codes that they give you.

1005
01:07:23.310 --> 01:07:27.950
There's no reason a chatbot needs to load in the head ahead of your regular website content.

1006
01:07:27.950 --> 01:07:31.010
It can load at the end, which would be at the footer content.

1007
01:07:31.550 --> 01:07:37.250
That is ideal. That's my personal opinion, and I've done the AB testing on that. But there are some

1008
01:07:37.745 --> 01:07:42.865
some very few that do require to be in the head of the website, so go ahead and do it there.

1009
01:07:42.865 --> 01:07:43.605
But, yeah,

1010
01:07:43.905 --> 01:07:46.645
you can drop in any code you want here.

1011
01:07:47.105 --> 01:07:50.485
And then, of course, BD is in the Zapier,

1012
01:07:51.490 --> 01:07:54.070
Pabbly, Integrately, and actually a lot more,

1013
01:07:54.610 --> 01:07:55.750
integration marketplaces.

1014
01:07:56.130 --> 01:07:56.630
So,

1015
01:07:57.250 --> 01:07:59.970
you can integrate data between your BD site and other platforms.

1016
01:07:59.970 --> 01:08:06.635
But I think what Expert Launch here is asking is if you can drop in third party code onto your site, and you certainly can.

1017
01:08:06.635 --> 01:08:09.775
You can have chat modules just like this that we have in the admin,

1018
01:08:10.315 --> 01:08:11.615
and so on. So,

1019
01:08:11.995 --> 01:08:17.615
you can do that site wide. If you want it on a specific page, go to your web page builder

1020
01:08:18.649 --> 01:08:21.310
and just click edit any specific web page.

1021
01:08:22.330 --> 01:08:23.630
And under advanced,

1022
01:08:24.810 --> 01:08:30.569
same thing. You have your head or your footer, and you can drop in the code in either one.

1023
01:08:30.569 --> 01:08:36.665
My preference is in the footer, and it'll just render that on this specific web page.

1024
01:08:37.525 --> 01:08:40.565
Let's take one more question because Expert Launch did get two chances.

1025
01:08:40.565 --> 01:08:42.005
That was a good question, though.

1026
01:08:42.245 --> 01:08:45.639
But let's take a question from someone who hasn't asked a question here yet.

1027
01:08:46.099 --> 01:08:47.319
I like this one here.

1028
01:08:47.380 --> 01:08:53.380
Michael's asking, I am working on creating articles with deep links to all of the subcategories in the directory.

1029
01:08:53.380 --> 01:08:56.020
First of all, I wanna give you a clap and a shout out, Michael.

1030
01:08:56.020 --> 01:08:58.035
You are doing the hard work that needs

1031
01:08:58.755 --> 01:08:59.895
to be done. Those internal linking,

1032
01:09:00.195 --> 01:09:01.495
1000%

1033
01:09:01.635 --> 01:09:10.800
help with SEO, and it helps Google discover more pages and also show Google what the most important pages are on your site that you are internally linking to.

1034
01:09:10.800 --> 01:09:18.079
So what he's talking about is he has a blog article, there's some text in there, and then he selects some text, then he's linking to something, another page of his site.

1035
01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:24.979
He's saying, is it possible to export a complete list of all the category page URLs and category names for all the subcategories?

1036
01:09:25.505 --> 01:09:32.484
The good news is I think the answer is yes. If you go to my members and member categories, Michael,

1037
01:09:33.505 --> 01:09:37.125
what you can do is under member category actions,

1038
01:09:37.920 --> 01:09:38.739
click on

1039
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:39.779
export

1040
01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:40.819
categories.

1041
01:09:41.120 --> 01:09:44.239
Now I think you wanna do this for each tab that you're on.

1042
01:09:44.239 --> 01:09:49.060
I think you'll get a different export with each tab. I'm not sure. Actually, no. I take it back.

1043
01:09:49.755 --> 01:09:50.975
You would get it,

1044
01:09:51.675 --> 01:09:55.695
you would just get the category names here. So let me show you what to do here.

1045
01:09:56.155 --> 01:09:57.935
Go to developer hub, Michael.

1046
01:09:58.795 --> 01:10:02.735
That's just gonna give you an export of the pretty the the category names, not the URLs.

1047
01:10:03.190 --> 01:10:06.889
Let me show you where to go for the URLs. One level higher, not too complicated.

1048
01:10:07.030 --> 01:10:09.770
Watch this replay to follow step by step.

1049
01:10:09.829 --> 01:10:13.210
I'll remove your question here, Michael, just so the screen is a bit clearer.

1050
01:10:13.590 --> 01:10:17.050
Go to your developer hub. Click on MySQL database.

1051
01:10:18.264 --> 01:10:21.405
This is basically the database of your entire site.

1052
01:10:22.184 --> 01:10:25.144
So once you get there, look for the one that says directory.

1053
01:10:25.144 --> 01:10:27.244
You don't need to worry about these other ones.

1054
01:10:28.905 --> 01:10:32.480
And when we get here, your top level categories

1055
01:10:32.860 --> 01:10:34.800
are under the list professions,

1056
01:10:36.699 --> 01:10:39.599
database, the table here. If we go to list professions,

1057
01:10:41.020 --> 01:10:42.159
we can see here

1058
01:10:43.065 --> 01:10:45.465
the name, and this is the URL actually.

1059
01:10:45.465 --> 01:10:50.685
It would be your website forward slash top level category, your website forward slash chiropractor.

1060
01:10:50.905 --> 01:10:53.485
We can see there's no spaces. These all have hyphens.

1061
01:10:54.105 --> 01:10:57.645
And what you can do here is export it. Use the export button,

1062
01:10:58.340 --> 01:10:58.840
choose,

1063
01:10:59.380 --> 01:10:59.880
CSV,

1064
01:11:00.820 --> 01:11:05.159
and just go ahead and export it. And you have your export of your top level categories.

1065
01:11:05.940 --> 01:11:07.800
Now for your sublevel categories,

1066
01:11:09.300 --> 01:11:10.519
it's a different table.

1067
01:11:10.995 --> 01:11:13.495
That one is going to be under list services.

1068
01:11:14.675 --> 01:11:15.574
So we have,

1069
01:11:16.915 --> 01:11:17.655
list professions.

1070
01:11:18.435 --> 01:11:21.735
Right? Those are your top level categories and list services.

1071
01:11:21.875 --> 01:11:24.375
These are your sub and sub sublevel categories.

1072
01:11:25.099 --> 01:11:28.639
The profession ID is your top the corresponding top level category.

1073
01:11:28.940 --> 01:11:34.800
However, we have the file name here, the URL. So to get to this subcategory, it's your website

1074
01:11:35.260 --> 01:11:36.719
forward slash subcategory

1075
01:11:37.575 --> 01:11:42.795
one. Let's actually go there together. I'll just copy this and go to our donation site here

1076
01:11:43.335 --> 01:11:45.355
forward slash subcategory one.

1077
01:11:46.775 --> 01:11:48.475
And here we are on subcategory

1078
01:11:49.094 --> 01:11:49.835
one results.

1079
01:11:50.180 --> 01:11:53.000
So the same thing, you can export this

1080
01:11:53.620 --> 01:11:54.440
as a CSV.

1081
01:11:55.940 --> 01:11:58.020
They have other formats too, XML, whatever.

1082
01:11:58.020 --> 01:12:02.115
I think CSV is what you wanna put in Microsoft Excel, or Google Sheets.

1083
01:12:02.755 --> 01:12:05.175
So just do CSV and export it.

1084
01:12:05.955 --> 01:12:12.935
So that was Michael's question here, which is, basically, is it possible to export a complete list of all the category page URLs?

1085
01:12:13.155 --> 01:12:16.020
Category names is easy. That was the easy one that I showed,

1086
01:12:16.420 --> 01:12:16.920
here,

1087
01:12:18.260 --> 01:12:20.280
which was under member categories

1088
01:12:22.020 --> 01:12:26.280
and export. That's just gonna give you the names. But if you want the URLs,

1089
01:12:26.740 --> 01:12:27.540
go to,

1090
01:12:28.420 --> 01:12:33.395
watch the replay and do exactly as I just did, Michael. So good question there.

1091
01:12:33.935 --> 01:12:37.614
Guys, we see a ton more questions here. I wish we had time to get to all of them.

1092
01:12:37.614 --> 01:12:42.974
We're about twenty minutes overtime still, but the next webinar will be in two weeks.

1093
01:12:42.974 --> 01:12:46.060
We might have a pop up webinar next week. Still debatable.

1094
01:12:46.060 --> 01:12:48.220
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1096
01:12:53.820 --> 01:12:58.800
Get yourself a mouse pad. Get yourself a Bluetooth speaker. You'll love it. We'll end things there.

1097
01:12:58.940 --> 01:13:03.995
Fantastic updates. Super webinar. Great questions, guys. I wish we had time to get to all of them.

1098
01:13:03.995 --> 01:13:08.795
Also, the free iPad giveaway. Do yourself a favor, and let's go to the Facebook group.

1099
01:13:08.795 --> 01:13:13.860
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01:13:16.179 --> 01:13:19.940
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1107
01:13:37.645 --> 01:13:42.765
We'll post a replay in the Facebook group shortly after, brilliantdirectories.com/facebook.

1108
01:13:42.765 --> 01:13:47.720
To our friends that joined us on YouTube, it was great to have you in the comments as well.

1109
01:13:47.860 --> 01:13:49.000
On behalf of myself,

1110
01:13:49.380 --> 01:13:53.460
David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family, these webinars are always fun.

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01:13:53.460 --> 01:13:57.780
We love you guys so much. Greatly appreciate it for you guys. Next webinar is in two weeks.

1112
01:13:57.780 --> 01:14:02.555
Maybe a pop up webinar next week, but we're also doing the iPad giveaway on Black Friday.

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That'll be Friday next week. So lots of action, lots of excitement.

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Have a great day and a brilliant week, guys. It's been awesome. Take care.