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

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It's great to be with everyone here today. I got the green light from David.

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He said let's rock and roll. If this is your first time joining us, welcome.

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

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David, thank you for taking the time to join us here in the webinar.

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Hey, everybody. So glad to be back with you for webinar

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one sixty, slowly making our way to that 200 mark.

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We got a great tip of the week coming up showcasing,

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a pretty cool update for a feature that I know a decent handful of us are using. Yeah.

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I'm excited about the tip of

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as well, and, we'll be diving into that shortly.

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streaming on YouTube live is we can post the replay

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It's a great way to keep in touch in between webinar Wednesdays.

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Lots of constructive questions and discussions are being,

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are being asked in there.

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I'm in there myself along with other BD team members. So if you have questions about your site, and,

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it could be strategy questions or how to questions about the platform,

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all are welcome, and we hope to see you guys there.

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And we do see a good handful of new names and faces there, so welcome to all of you.

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If this is your first time joining us, just a little bit about webinar Wednesday.

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As I mentioned, it's a great way to keep in touch,

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and,

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you know, week after week, we're pushing new updates into the platform.

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So it's a great opportunity for us to not only share with you some of those new features that are released, but how you can implement them and use them to help grow your community

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a bit quicker, more efficiently,

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

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converting visitors to members, identifying revenue opportunities,

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improving the website's navigation.

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The tip of the week, we'll we'll touch on that just a bit. So if you have questions,

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about your membership website on these topics, or anything else, please save them, we'll get to as many questions as we can in just a little bit.

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And moving right along, one of my favorite parts of the webinars are the BD lab updates.

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We have a nice, handful of updates to share with you today.

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I'll breeze right through these, and I'll start right at the top there.

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The first two actually are related to the homepage.

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There at the top there,

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for the home page, you can stream different types of content on your home page.

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You can stream your recent members,

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your recent blog articles, and there are slots for custom content on the home page using the text editor.

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Up until now, there was a limit of one through five custom content blocks that you can have on the homepage,

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we've increased that to 10 now, so you can have up to 10 custom content sections

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on your homepage. I think we're gonna cut the limit there,

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to 10. If you need more than that, you can go into the realm of,

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HTML widgets.

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But let me show you where you can find this. This would be in your settings and design settings.

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And once you're here, you can go to the home page tab,

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And this is it here, enable additional sections.

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So there are some premade ones, and you can have a custom content.

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So one, two, three, four, five, and now you'll see up to 10 here.

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What's nice about all the back all the streaming sections is you can have a background color, so you can kind of create a contrast between the sections as the user is streaming down the page.

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And then also, if you're not aware of this, you can also control the top and bottom spacing,

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within the section,

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which can create that nice negative space that looks good in modern design as well.

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Let's just quickly select one of these custom content sections if you're not familiar with it, you can select one, click on edit settings, and it will pop up a text editor that will be attributed to that specific,

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custom content section. And, of course, you can have the premade elements here as well.

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Also on the home page,

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it was been highly requested for a long time, having an alternate and separate

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for mobile display. So up until now, you can choose a background image for your home page,

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and it's nice, and and it can work very well, without having a separate one for mobile, but if you want a bit more granular control over that design on mobile devices,

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there is now a secondary image that you can add, and let me show you where that is, and also how it works.

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So this is also in the design settings.

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We're gonna stick in the home page tab, and it's the hero background image.

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And we can see here now toggle this closed,

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but you have your main background image. We're all used to this. We've all probably changed this.

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Let's actually visit the site here, and we can see here this is the image here.

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And if you'd like an alternate image to display when viewing the site on smaller screens, it's 700,

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67 pixels actually,

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you can choose to do so. Generally speaking on mobile, it would be a square image,

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or a tall rectangle rather rather than a horizontal rectangle,

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so you can then choose that.

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And let me just toggle, we've just selected a random image here, for this example, but if we toggle the mobile view on this browser,

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we can see now a different image is being,

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shown here, which is, I guess that's ceviche there.

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we'll see if we refresh it, it'll just be the individual,

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background image, which again works perfectly fine in many many use cases as well.

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Now that this updates pushed, we've done it for the home page.

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The second place we're going to do this, as a phase two is in the web page builder for the static web pages.

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So you'll have mobile image control there as well. Next up, this is a more specific

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setting now available in the advanced settings.

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If you're using the text editor for your blogs,

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and you're pasting content from maybe

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a Microsoft Word doc or a Google

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document,

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you'll notice that sometimes a lot of additional styles or other attributes are pasted in when you copy and paste, and that could be totally fine and the way that you want it.

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But if you want a more uniform look when you or your members are pasting in content,

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for their posts, for their blog posts, or whatever what it what have you, whatever it may be, you can now omit certain attributes.

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Attributes would be like the style tags, ID tags,

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data attribute tags.

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If you're not familiar with any of this, you don't need to worry about it, but just to show you, who are aware of this where that setting is, you may find it useful.

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If we go to advanced settings,

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and I'm actually gonna search for remove attributes

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here. Let me refresh the page here, just a moment.

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There we go. So we have this field here, for well remove attributes when pasting text,

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and you wanna create

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a comma separated list.

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It seems that you need quotes around the items, so if you wanted to omit and remove the style and the ID tags, you would do it like this with the quotes around it, and you can do other

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things as well, aria labels,

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and so on. So,

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this setting is now here, and again, you may wanna utilize this if you would like a more uniform

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look when if people are pasting content into their text editors. A class would be a good one too.

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And since we're on the subject, if you'd want a more uniform, I guess the best three to start with,

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would be style ID and class. That would be almost equivalent to pasting in plain text.

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Okay. This next one is a fun one.

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When if you're selling leads to your members, you're obviously generating revenue for the website, and you can see all those transactions

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in the main transaction history tab

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of your website.

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Now if you're on the manage leads page, you will see a total as well.

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Here's a little screenshot of it. If you're looking at the manage leads,

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you'll see, you know, how many accepted matches there were, how many total matches, and then you'll see a line for the total

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revenue.

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So if you're want a quick indicator of how much a lead has generated for you, that value is now there and available for you as well.

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Next up, if you have had Google Analytics for the last year, there's no doubt that they've been alerting you several times per month to update to Google Analytics

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four.

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Up until now, you could always add the Google Analytics four embed code into your Brilliant Directories website, but now in the general settings moving forward, you just need to copy your Google Analytics four ID number.

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If you've done the older method by copying and pasting the full embed code for Google Analytics four, You don't need to follow the steps or double, or paste the ID in your general settings.

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However, if you're doing this for the first time, let me show you where you can add this now.

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This will be in your settings,

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general settings.

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And if you go to integrations,

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over here it says Google Analytics ID, and you'll see now our suggestion is the new Google Analytics four IDs start with the letter g and a hyphen and then a set of numbers.

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The older universal analytics starts with a u a hyphen.

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So if you have that in here, it means you're using an outdated version of Google Analytics, and come July 1,

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tracking will stop working because Google is not supporting that product anymore.

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If you click on this learn more button here, if you're unsure of a few things,

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we do have some good documentation here with an easy method.

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It talks about if you have not yet installed Google Analytics four, we also provide instructions from Google on how to set up GA four.

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If you're still using Google Analytics three, we have Google's instructions for migrating from Google Analytics three to Google Analytics four.

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And if you've already manually added Google Analytics four code to your site, then really no further action is required, and you don't need to follow the steps in this article.

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Otherwise, Google Analytics four will double track,

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the traffic on your site if we put it in the general settings, and you've also manually put the code, somewhere on your site.

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Once you're here, there are some helpful instructions here, as well as these links to other help articles.

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Coming soon, coming down the line, we've been talking about this one, and is just on the cusp of being released,

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prorated

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support when members

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their accounts.

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You can choose if you want to enable this on your site because right now it doesn't exist.

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It's going to start in the disabled,

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setting in our advanced settings, and if you want to turn it on for your site once it's released,

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you can turn it on for your site, it does work hand in hand with the member credits add on, here is a sample of an order summary that is actually calculating

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a prorated discount, for an upgrade,

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We can see here that this person is receiving $99

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back,

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for a plan change.

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And then obviously there's credits that can be used, or applied, or saved to the member's account, and that is why it works with the credit system.

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So we're looking for that to be released,

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honestly, as soon as maybe the end of next week, and we'll be sure to announce it in the Facebook group.

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That's pretty big one there.

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We're also on the cusp of releasing

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the newer workflow for newsletters. I think realistically, this would be a mid July release.

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This is a pretty big overhaul to the newsletter sending system.

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I have one small screenshot of what this is going to look like.

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In a nutshell, you're going to see a better analytics for each send, so, and you'll be able to see the email addresses of,

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who it was delivered to, who it was failed, opened, and clicked,

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and even better you'll be able to create a smart list, a segmented list of the people who fall into any one of these categories.

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So you'll get,

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not only bet better analytics and be able to segment lists,

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but the workflow for scheduling newsletters will be improved as well.

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One thing we're looking to do is allow you to schedule a newsletter to be sent at a future time in the future.

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So if you'd like a newsletter to be sent next week on Monday at 1PM,

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you can set that time and rest assured it will be sent at that time.

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related to smart list separately,

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you can create smart list and sync them with webhooks,

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and the webhooks will then get all the members who are in that smart list, all the data of those members in that smart list.

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It's a quick way if you wanna send an entire list to, like, a Mailchimp account or Constant Contact or another CRM that you have, put them in a smart list and use the webhook to send all the data to that third party platform.

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Right now, you have to come back each time and manually send the smart list to, with the webhook,

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when you wanna do it.

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What we're going to release are scheduled times to sync smart list, I have a screenshot of what that will look like.

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So when you're creating a smart list, you can schedule the smart list to sync with the webhook daily,

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weekly, or monthly, or if you just quickly need to do it right now, you can do it now.

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This will allow you to keep,

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lists on your other platforms,

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updated as needed.

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And lastly here, actually, a few of these have already been released related to billing a better credit card workflows when members purchase additional products and leads.

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Recently, we released the ability to have coupon codes

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for a one time purchases such as leads, digital products, and so on, and we found a few ways to improve the workflow.

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For example, if someone doesn't have a credit card on file, and they're going to purchase a digital product, and they use a coupon code that makes that digital product go from $100

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to $0,

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it's not going to ask them to input a credit card because at that point effectively

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that purchase is technically free.

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The way it was working was reversed if a card wasn't on file first, it would ask them to put a card on file, and then show them the order summary.

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those should all be released, within the by

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well, we're already going into July.

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So early July, a lot of those billing updates should be released, and they will apply to all BD websites.

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In addition to that, as always, tons of speed security and quality of life features, as always,

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thank you guys for your suggestions, your support tickets, your Facebook posts,

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everything helps make the platform better for everyone, so it's really a crowd sourced,

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a crowd sourced event all these updates that are being added to the platform.

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Before we move into the tip of the week,

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feel free to raise your hand. I put everyone's hands down right now. Raise your hand.

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If you have any questions or comments

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or feedback about the new features or what's coming soon, we can take one or two.

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Here, we got Scott. He's got his hand up. Alright, Scott. Looks like you're self muted there, Scott.

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Alright. Can you hear me? Yep. How you doing there? Awesome. Good. Hey. Really quick question.

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For the email workflow, love the more stats and everything.

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But do you ever envision a time where we will be able to create a newsletter directly from a smart list instead of having to go and create a template and then go to the newsletter and then create the newsletter there and choose the template?

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Yes. So, yes. So when you're scheduling the newsletter,

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the ultimate goal is to do what you're saying is it says create a news newsletter, and then it'll ask you if you wanna start from a template or start from scratch.

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But you'll be able to work on the newsletter,

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during the workflow, not just in the email template section is, I think, is what you're asking.

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Right?

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Well, no. Because I know how to do both of those.

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But when you start from scratch, you can only enter, I think, five email addresses, and you can't enter a smart list into who you wanna send it to.

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Oh, when you're composing a single email to somebody. Yeah.

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I think In other words in other words, rather than creating a whole new template

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and then going back and then scheduling the newsletter and choosing the template and choosing the smart list, it would be great to be able to just compose an email

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and have my smart lists

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be choosable as the recipient.

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I see. Let me just let's just that's an interest actually. I've I never thought about that.

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I always thought as newsletters as as, you know, something that you're gonna send to bulk members.

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here. Is that what and selecting the template. Oh, well, yeah.

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that we wanna just send a really quick, hey. Really quick. Here's an update.

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Boom. Boom. Boom. And it only send it to, you know, level one or level two or level three. Gotcha.

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So, like, you can send it here and then choose the template in that, like, in that same pop up.

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Is that not? No. No.

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That that that's just the extra step of I'd have to go and create the template first, and then I have to come back here, and then I have to choose a news, like, do this whole thing.

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Gotcha. Okay. I I think I see what you're saying. Yeah.

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I think as as it evolves, that feedback is gonna be helpful, and and we'll keep it in mind as we as we move forward with it.

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Thank you, Scott. Awesome.

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Glad to hear you're using the newsletter functionality. Looking forward to making it better for you.

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And we got Rich here. Let me unmute your mic, Rich. Here we go. Hey, Jason. How's it going?

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Pretty good. Pretty good. How are you doing? Cool.

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Just two questions on the new features, the editor and the Google Analytics.

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But on the editor, we coach a lot of our members,

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in their onboarding to copy and paste in the about me section, like, from their website or LinkedIn profile.

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if we made these changes in here, would it automatically

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the copy and paste that's in different fonts and all that configuration

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and format it correctly in their about me section? Or

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to my knowledge, it's during when the pasting is happening. So if they retroactively,

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I don't think it will remove the style tags,

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or or the tags that you've the the, attribute tags.

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So I don't think it you can test that I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it won't retroactively remove the attributes.

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But moving forward, maybe I'm misunderstanding that feature, the editor, but is there a way we can set up when,

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like, a a brand new person tomorrow would,

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copy and paste in the about me. Can it be automatically formatted,

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in a more user friendly,

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you know, font?

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Or is that not part of that feature? Or

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excessive attributes that are being pasted. It wouldn't add anything.

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It the benefit of doing removing it, the one benefit is that it keeps,

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it keeps all the styles uniform based on your website design settings, and it doesn't allow someone to, for example

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example, paste a style tag that uses Times New Roman font in their in their about section because they're Yeah.

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Because it's copying that from Word or something.

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They've already created their content on their website or, you know, what have you, but it's in a whole different font.

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we'd have to isolate what those fonts are and then add them in the removal feature.

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You would just not allow style the style tags altogether, which would eliminate fonts, different font sizes, different font colors, because if someone paint, if someone paints, paste, paints,

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font is black, and it says black in the Right.

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Word doc, then there's no contrast for that font, it's gonna appear like it's invisible, just as a quick example.

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the the uniform look even if users are painting pasting content into the text editor.

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But if they paste it, because that's an example where they have a dark background,

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eliminate that dark background and then create it in a more user friendly font, or it wouldn't allow it It would it would just use the font that's of the website.

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It would remove any custom fonts that are being pasted in from the Yeah. That that's that's paste.

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That that's awesome. And the last question is Google Analytics.

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We installed that kinda from day one, but, I don't know if this is a dumb question, but,

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could you give a cup like, one or two or three quick maybe, use case scenarios of how because we've never really kinda gone in and, you know, looked at our Google Analytics.

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But what what's the most, you know, useful application in terms of the directory,

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you know, helpful,

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extraction from Google Analytics?

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You wanna see maybe how many daily's tough cause it's just such a small sample site, but when you have a good amount of data, you can look at your site week by week by week, and you can see how many unique visitors.

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or from direct traffic from another source.

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Maybe there's another website that's linking heavily to you, and you can identify that website.

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but what's really helpful is seeing what page two, three, and four are.

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And if you have a certain workflow or navigation map that you want to direct people to, like your sign up page or your search results page, but for some reason, everyone is going to your contact us page, which is cool, but not correct.

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Maybe there maybe there's a, imbalance design on your site where the the links are not in the right places for people, and they're just clicking in the wrong place.

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So it gives you the and so last point on that, would it tell you, like, how long they've been on the site or on certain pages?

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yeah, it it lets you know how long they spend on a certain web page.

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then they wouldn't spend more than a minute on a page.

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the information and then figure out where you're gonna go next.

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many people are going to your home page,

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and then leaving your site, perhaps you need better calls to action on your home page, either it's unclear or it's confusing,

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what the user should do next, and those are ways to improve,

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the navigation is using that data. Okay. Cool. Yeah. These are great features. And,

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again, thanks. And, that concludes my line of questioning. No. No. No worries.

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But but, again, just just the pasting in a nutshell, if you if you wanna ensure that you have a more uniform look,

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for the post descriptions, then you might wanna

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do the style, class, and,

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attributes. I think we're definitely gonna explore that because right now we kinda have to manually,

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look at everybody's about me and figure out and kinda,

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you know, reformat it so it's more user friendly.

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So anything we can automate, that's that's spectacular. Gotcha. Yeah.

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That should definitely help with that. Thank you, Rich. Cool. Thanks again. Cheers.

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Alright. Alright. No more hands up. Good questions there.

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And with that, we'll move on to the tip of the week.

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David and I were chatting.

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We've actually been trying to launch this one for several weeks, and we did find, some bugs in it that we have now resolved, which was it's always good to stress test these things.

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But David I'll pass it over to you, we could talk a little bit about the dynamic category filtering add on and how you can use it on your site.

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So the dynamic category filtering add on, it's been around for a while, It's used on a lot of websites,

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but there was a recent update which kind of brought it back to light and made us want to highlight that recent update a little bit more.

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It expands the functionality a bit. So

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first, we'll go over what the dynamic category filtering add on actually is. So it's

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a different search module

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for members, specifically member categories,

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that you can place in the sidebar,

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say, on your member search results page.

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So users of the website will be able to check off multiple

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member categories

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that they want to filter through rather than like using the default sidebar search module where if they're going to select a category they only select one category at a time from a drop down list.

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So the recent update with this

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was the addition of the location search field.

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to search members through,

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users can now also

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add a location to their search.

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Overall, this does create a little bit more of an interactive search experience allowing users to dynamically filter and check off specific categories that they want to see members within

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rather than using the default

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sidebar search module where if they're going to be selecting a member category, they only select one category at a time from a drop down list.

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It also allows users to better set their search criteria

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and more finely tune the search that they're conducting

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on their website and again with the recent update they can also now enter a location as well so if they only want to see

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specific members meeting certain criteria

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in a certain location.

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They can now do that through the search module, the dynamic category filtering search module.

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the match setting. So you can choose to use a broad match

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auto repair shops and they select the brake inspection category

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with members who are listed in any of the categories that they selected.

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kind of better visualize how this would work, it's pretty similar to the search filter that you would find on websites like Amazon

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and Yelp. On Amazon, you know, when you search for a product on there, on the left hand sidebar,

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there'll always be some sort of filtering option.

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So in this example, I think we were searching for power drills and so there were some options if we, depending on the drills material,

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the power source, things like that. So in both Amazon and Yelp, they kind of follow that more

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strict match setting. So if you're searching for a power drill and you choose

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metal and the power source battery,

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If you select the cheapest price option and you're looking for a Mexican restaurant,

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they'll only show you the cheapest Mexican restaurants.

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restaurants and all of the Mexican restaurants, so both of those examples kind of follow that more strict match setting.

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That was the recent update that went along with this. And then below

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So in this example, the price, I think these were all subcategories,

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price, amenities, and cuisine.

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has been collapsed or minimized, but amenities and cuisine are expanded so we can see the sub subcategories

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within those. So somebody could be searching for a restaurant in a certain location

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and they can narrow it down by cuisine

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and if they're gonna be going with their kids maybe they only want to see restaurants in that location that serve that cuisine

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that have, specifically

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that it's a good environment to bring kids. So it allows for more specific filtering

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rather than just utilizing the default member search module in the sidebar.

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Also with this, and David, we actually didn't talk about this, but if you're gonna be utilizing this type of search on the sidebar of the member search results page,

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actually limiting these subcategories

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your members can select

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will guide them and and

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create better context for them to really select the categories that they belong in and want to be found in.

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And, obviously, we can give members limit, like, you can only select 10 subcategories or whatever makes sense for your industry and your and your website, but this puts better context and value on the subcategories that the members are choosing to be listed in because we can actually see in the sidebar

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what the options are there. We just wanted to to show the different

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variations that are available with the dynamic category filtering sidebar

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search module. So you can choose if you only want to allow users to, select multiple

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there would be no real purpose to

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require a user to select that when they're conducting their search if all the members are going to be in that top category anyway.

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So in that case, you might only want to allow users to select

434
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sub level categories and sub sub level categories

435
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to search within. And then with the recent update, there's now options

436
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or variations

437
00:31:02.410 --> 00:31:06.030
of this search module that include that location field.

438
00:31:06.365 --> 00:31:09.665
And so here are the use cases. There definitely are

439
00:31:09.965 --> 00:31:12.145
specific use cases where this would certainly

440
00:31:12.445 --> 00:31:19.105
be helpful and valuable to use, but there are others where it might actually not be worth it to use.

441
00:31:19.410 --> 00:31:19.910
Typically,

442
00:31:20.370 --> 00:31:23.910
in most cases, you may want to use the dynamic category filtering,

443
00:31:24.690 --> 00:31:28.230
search module in the sidebar of the member search results page

444
00:31:28.690 --> 00:31:29.830
if the overall

445
00:31:30.450 --> 00:31:35.115
experience for users when they're searching for members on your site is relatively simple.

446
00:31:35.115 --> 00:31:41.775
So if you have a pretty limited member category structure, you don't have that many categories to display,

447
00:31:42.155 --> 00:31:48.255
because we don't want to have a whole long list of categories taking up, you know, the entire height of the sidebar.

448
00:31:48.929 --> 00:31:57.669
That might be a little overwhelming when visitors come to that page and they're trying to figure out exactly what they want to select, what criteria to select to filter through the members.

449
00:31:58.130 --> 00:32:03.055
And the real purpose of this would be if you want to allow your visitors

450
00:32:03.355 --> 00:32:05.215
to be able to search multiple

451
00:32:05.675 --> 00:32:07.275
member categories at once.

452
00:32:07.275 --> 00:32:16.070
So like in that example we showed and we'll show you a demo kind of in practice of how this would work as well, but like if you have local businesses

453
00:32:16.610 --> 00:32:21.110
restaurants say for example and you want to allow your users to kind of have more of that like Yelp

454
00:32:21.410 --> 00:32:32.014
type search experience where they can select different criteria and filters to really narrow down their search that's when the dynamic category filtering search would really come in handy.

455
00:32:32.075 --> 00:32:36.174
When you may not want to use it is if you do have more of a complex

456
00:32:36.554 --> 00:32:41.215
member search experience. So if you're going to be wanting to have users

457
00:32:41.820 --> 00:32:45.200
enter in a keyword, select top categories, subcategories,

458
00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:46.880
also locations,

459
00:32:47.419 --> 00:32:51.519
at that point you may be better off using just one of the default search modules

460
00:32:51.820 --> 00:32:52.799
in the sidebar

461
00:32:53.100 --> 00:32:54.880
of the member search results page.

462
00:32:55.205 --> 00:33:00.105
Also, like I mentioned, if you've got dozens and dozens or maybe hundreds of member categories,

463
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in that case, if it's not necessary for users to select multiple categories at once to search within,

464
00:33:07.370 --> 00:33:17.470
Again, you might be better off just using one of the default search modules where instead of presenting all the categories in a long checkbox list, it's more of a

465
00:33:17.930 --> 00:33:18.990
drop down selection

466
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that they can just pick from. Then you might want to use it in that case.

467
00:33:23.585 --> 00:33:25.765
And then also if you're just not utilizing,

468
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the member search results page at all on your website, you know, maybe you're using the website kind of more as a corporate site or a website just to publish content on, then in that case, you wouldn't have a need for the dynamic category filtering add on because again, it's only for searching members.

469
00:33:43.820 --> 00:33:54.054
Also in that last note, if you're if you are just searching members by their name, it's a directory lookup based on name, then you don't really need the, the category filtering there either.

470
00:33:54.195 --> 00:33:58.674
So those are some good examples there of when to use it and maybe when you don't want to use it.

471
00:33:58.674 --> 00:34:02.215
And I think with that said, we do have a site setup which kind of demos,

472
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how this works.

473
00:34:04.419 --> 00:34:08.820
And I guess, David, now would be a good time to kinda dive into this here. Yeah. Definitely.

474
00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:14.839
This should be, kind of one of the more common use cases for utilizing this this search module.

475
00:34:15.174 --> 00:34:16.135
Perfect. Yep.

476
00:34:16.135 --> 00:34:28.394
And in this case, actually, we're just have very simple category structure set up, but in this example, it's built kind of for like a local localized business directory like a yellow pages, but we're just focusing on two different categories here,

477
00:34:28.694 --> 00:34:29.194
and

478
00:34:29.510 --> 00:34:36.730
where we'll start is let's go to the dashboard area, let's first show you guys how we've set up our mini example of our categories.

479
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So we'll go to my members and go to member categories,

480
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And in this case, we just have two top level categories, but, of course, you could have more for the broader industries that a business might be a part of.

481
00:34:49.555 --> 00:34:51.975
We have restaurants and auto services.

482
00:34:52.675 --> 00:34:55.095
From here, we have sublevel categories,

483
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and I'm gonna go ahead and filter the parent category so we can see what we have for restaurants.

484
00:35:00.600 --> 00:35:02.220
So for restaurants, we have

485
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a meal served,

486
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type of cuisine,

487
00:35:05.560 --> 00:35:07.815
and the type of amenities they have.

488
00:35:08.135 --> 00:35:09.355
For auto services,

489
00:35:10.214 --> 00:35:12.155
we have the vehicle make,

490
00:35:12.615 --> 00:35:13.595
type of repairs,

491
00:35:13.895 --> 00:35:16.795
and type of detailing services they may offer.

492
00:35:17.095 --> 00:35:21.515
And when we move to the sub sub level categories, this is where it gets more granular.

493
00:35:22.310 --> 00:35:23.910
And let's go to,

494
00:35:24.310 --> 00:35:26.570
cuisine for example, cuisine was a subcategory

495
00:35:26.870 --> 00:35:31.050
of restaurant. So here now we have our different cuisines which is barbecue, Italian,

496
00:35:31.590 --> 00:35:32.090
vegetarian,

497
00:35:33.270 --> 00:35:33.770
amenities,

498
00:35:34.515 --> 00:35:35.734
the restaurant amenities,

499
00:35:36.355 --> 00:35:37.494
so, amenities,

500
00:35:37.954 --> 00:35:44.855
was a sublevel category of restaurants, and it has sub sublevel categories good for kids, outdoor seating, reservations,

501
00:35:45.234 --> 00:35:47.494
Wi Fi would be another one as an example.

502
00:35:47.910 --> 00:35:49.450
And if we look at the,

503
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the auto

504
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repair,

505
00:35:53.270 --> 00:35:58.809
so under repairs, so for we had automotive as the top level category, repairs a sublevel category,

506
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and the type of repairs, general repairs,

507
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diagnosis and inspection,

508
00:36:03.805 --> 00:36:04.305
maintenance,

509
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and it can be more.

510
00:36:06.525 --> 00:36:12.465
So you can see how we've kind of set this up, broader categories, auto services, restaurants, sublevel categories,

511
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and it's meant to be that the sub sub levels are nested nicely under the sublevel categories.

512
00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:19.460
So when we go to the website,

513
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we are on the home page,

514
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and we've actually done a couple things.

515
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We have basically just the the the broad categories here, auto services

516
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and restaurants.

517
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We also have it here as the, the search module here.

518
00:36:33.445 --> 00:36:40.505
If you wanna just search auto services or restaurants, you could have more filtering here if you want, but let's go ahead and click on restaurants,

519
00:36:41.285 --> 00:36:43.213
and we can see here we're using the dynamic category filtering here in the sidebar.

520
00:36:43.213 --> 00:36:44.040
Now if this was a

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sidebar. Now if this was a website of, for example,

522
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:52.860
of a very small region like Chattanooga, Tennessee,

523
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:54.540
and I click on restaurants,

524
00:36:55.080 --> 00:37:03.175
really there may not be a reason to add the location search in addition to this because we already know that we're searching for example, Chattanooga, Tennessee,

525
00:37:03.635 --> 00:37:12.810
but if your website has a focus in multiple cities and states, it would make sense to have the location search, the search field there, and we'll add it there in just a moment.

526
00:37:13.370 --> 00:37:16.510
So we can see here we have, just three sample restaurants

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here, barbecue restaurant,

528
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cafe, and an Italian restaurant.

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So if we select,

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an option here such as outdoor seating,

531
00:37:26.964 --> 00:37:30.905
we can see here all three of these still have the outdoor seating.

532
00:37:30.964 --> 00:37:36.825
And we have strict search turned on for this, so the the results are gonna have to meet all the criteria.

533
00:37:37.365 --> 00:37:39.305
Now let's switch to Italian here,

534
00:37:39.609 --> 00:37:42.109
and we can see now there is only one result.

535
00:37:42.570 --> 00:37:46.030
And if we search to now if we also select barbecue,

536
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we do not have any results.

537
00:37:48.410 --> 00:37:53.470
But if we now remove Italian with outdoor seating, we have the other result, blood sows barbecue.

538
00:37:54.924 --> 00:37:58.845
Now if we go back to the home page, you can see how that works, pretty self explanatory.

539
00:37:58.845 --> 00:38:03.184
We'll actually use the search here. Let's do auto services and search that from the home page.

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You can see here we're presented with the subcategories

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and their sub subcategories here.

542
00:38:08.130 --> 00:38:12.950
We're not repeating the top level category on this page, that was a choice. Let me go back here.

543
00:38:13.329 --> 00:38:21.589
As David mentioned here, the category filtering options in this example, we're using the sublevel category and the sub sublevel category

544
00:38:21.935 --> 00:38:23.715
just to create a more specific,

545
00:38:24.815 --> 00:38:25.715
search experience.

546
00:38:26.415 --> 00:38:35.234
What we could do alternately is have a list of all our categories on another page, and it brings you to the specific search page of that top level category,

547
00:38:35.589 --> 00:38:40.569
But again, we we are seeing the sub level and their respected sub sub level categories here.

548
00:38:40.950 --> 00:38:45.450
So the same logic would work here. So let's say we are just looking for Audi's,

549
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and it looks like all three of these

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00:38:48.635 --> 00:38:49.135
automotive,

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00:38:49.595 --> 00:38:50.095
auto,

552
00:38:50.555 --> 00:38:53.295
repair shops do that. Let's look at paint protection.

553
00:38:53.994 --> 00:38:57.055
Only Lucy's Auto Center offers paint protection

554
00:38:57.595 --> 00:38:58.095
and

555
00:38:58.714 --> 00:38:59.214
Audi.

556
00:38:59.435 --> 00:39:06.579
Now let's change that strict match to a broad match and see what happens as we select, some options here.

557
00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:12.319
So let's go to I believe it might be an advanced setting if you search dynamic category filter.

558
00:39:12.319 --> 00:39:15.855
It is an advanced setting. You are correct. Thank you.

559
00:39:16.095 --> 00:39:19.535
Dynamic category filtering, turning on broad match or not.

560
00:39:19.535 --> 00:39:21.955
Also here so while we're here, dynamic category,

561
00:39:22.734 --> 00:39:23.635
have the accordions

562
00:39:24.175 --> 00:39:28.515
toggled opened or closed. Let's actually close them in this case so we can see both.

563
00:39:28.655 --> 00:39:33.070
Thank you for that, David. So let's go back to the site here and refresh the page.

564
00:39:33.690 --> 00:39:37.790
There we go. So now it's anyone who does Audi and paint protection.

565
00:39:38.090 --> 00:39:41.230
If we get rid of the and we can see now these are toggled,

566
00:39:41.610 --> 00:39:42.670
open or closed.

567
00:39:43.065 --> 00:39:46.125
They should start toggled close. But if we remove Audi now,

568
00:39:46.425 --> 00:39:49.484
let's see here. This one has something selected, so it remains open.

569
00:39:49.785 --> 00:39:52.845
Only Lucy's Auto Center does paint protection.

570
00:39:53.305 --> 00:39:55.805
But if we want someone who does Cadillacs

571
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as well,

572
00:39:57.770 --> 00:39:58.270
JNE

573
00:39:58.570 --> 00:40:00.910
also does it, and let's remove paint protection.

574
00:40:01.450 --> 00:40:05.550
And Lucy's and JNE do Cadillac, and let's also do Audi,

575
00:40:06.010 --> 00:40:08.590
and all three of them do Audi and Cadillac.

576
00:40:09.204 --> 00:40:13.145
Thank you. So just so you guys know, yeah, go to your advanced settings. There's two settings,

577
00:40:13.684 --> 00:40:18.805
around this, dynamic category, so you can search that. So this is an add on by BD.

578
00:40:18.805 --> 00:40:21.204
If you have the VIP add ons clip, you have it.

579
00:40:21.204 --> 00:40:25.870
And if you want to add this to your sidebar, let me show you how you can do that.

580
00:40:25.870 --> 00:40:29.010
We can go to the admin area. I'll start from the dashboard.

581
00:40:29.630 --> 00:40:34.770
And how you can choose the search module used on member search results pages is pretty simple.

582
00:40:35.325 --> 00:40:36.065
If you go

583
00:40:36.845 --> 00:40:39.105
to my content and edit post settings,

584
00:40:39.645 --> 00:40:43.665
we want to search for the, the member listing one. I'll search for listing.

585
00:40:44.045 --> 00:40:47.905
Member listing right there. And if we go to search results design

586
00:40:48.540 --> 00:40:49.840
and additional settings,

587
00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:53.280
it's a little granular here, but if we scroll down,

588
00:40:53.660 --> 00:40:56.060
it says sidebar search module to use.

589
00:40:56.060 --> 00:41:01.785
And you can see what we've selected is the sub plus sub sub level category filtering.

590
00:41:01.785 --> 00:41:05.805
The dynamic category filter that is sub and sub sub level category.

591
00:41:06.585 --> 00:41:11.565
And if you want to use just regular search modules, there's keyword only, keyword and location,

592
00:41:12.185 --> 00:41:13.325
top level category,

593
00:41:13.625 --> 00:41:14.925
so on and so forth.

594
00:41:15.385 --> 00:41:21.460
You can even show you know, coupon searches on the member results page if you wanted to, but you'll see here if you scroll down,

595
00:41:22.240 --> 00:41:25.380
the Bootstrap theme dynamic category filtering options,

596
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:26.260
here,

597
00:41:26.640 --> 00:41:29.280
and each one has a corresponding one with location.

598
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:35.685
So now let's look at the sub and sub sub level with location, we'll change that and swap it out, save the changes,

599
00:41:36.305 --> 00:41:39.125
and we should see a location search field here now,

600
00:41:39.505 --> 00:41:40.705
and there it is there.

601
00:41:40.705 --> 00:41:44.645
So it looks pretty nice there, it looks nice, but you could see if you have too many categories,

602
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.100
this may become too cumbersome for users. It it just depends.

603
00:41:49.640 --> 00:41:55.260
I've seen sites with longs, you know, airline booking sites and things like that that have kind of long sidebars there.

604
00:41:55.480 --> 00:42:02.465
The solution for that, if it is necessary for users to select multiple categories at once, you could always choose,

605
00:42:02.785 --> 00:42:07.125
to enable that advanced setting so that these categories start collapsed by default.

606
00:42:07.505 --> 00:42:08.885
Very good point. And

607
00:42:09.185 --> 00:42:13.585
they will remain open if they have, something selected in them.

608
00:42:13.585 --> 00:42:18.960
Otherwise, they will if you have that setting turned off, then they will start closed as opposed to opened.

609
00:42:19.260 --> 00:42:22.960
So actually that's a very good point there. So let's see here. Let's search for

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00:42:23.820 --> 00:42:24.320
Austin,

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00:42:24.940 --> 00:42:26.800
Austin, Texas. We do a search.

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00:42:27.275 --> 00:42:27.775
So

613
00:42:28.155 --> 00:42:29.455
JNE is there. And

614
00:42:29.915 --> 00:42:33.755
if we want to do paint protection, which they don't offer, we can see here.

615
00:42:33.755 --> 00:42:34.895
We listed their subcategories,

616
00:42:35.755 --> 00:42:37.375
and we have to hit search now.

617
00:42:37.835 --> 00:42:40.955
We see that it is not there. Let's remove the,

618
00:42:41.870 --> 00:42:45.090
the location. We see Lucy has that there, and let's do Audi,

619
00:42:45.550 --> 00:42:46.530
and let's search.

620
00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:51.490
And let's do Audi. We see all three of them in Austin, Los Angeles.

621
00:42:52.030 --> 00:42:57.090
You see a map here of them all. And let's actually just search Los Angeles now.

622
00:42:57.525 --> 00:43:00.664
And we just have two people who offer Audi auto services

623
00:43:00.964 --> 00:43:02.905
in Los Angeles here. And,

624
00:43:03.444 --> 00:43:06.345
this is with the example of having the search by location.

625
00:43:06.484 --> 00:43:17.820
When you have the search by location, you're gonna wanna click on the search now button, because it wants to make sure that you're done inputting the location that you want to search as well as the options that you wanna select here.

626
00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:21.360
I think that pretty much covers it. David, did we leave anything out here?

627
00:43:21.660 --> 00:43:24.945
I think that's it. Again, the main use case for this would be,

628
00:43:25.345 --> 00:43:29.125
if your users need to be selecting multiple member categories

629
00:43:29.585 --> 00:43:31.825
to search through at one time. That's right.

630
00:43:31.825 --> 00:43:36.145
So what we can do right now, guys, is we can move on to the questions and answers.

631
00:43:36.145 --> 00:43:40.359
David, thank you for putting together those slide and that demo site. Super helpful.

632
00:43:40.980 --> 00:43:42.019
Let's see some hands up.

633
00:43:42.019 --> 00:43:46.920
If you guys have questions about anything we covered today, any help you need on your site,

634
00:43:47.380 --> 00:43:52.205
we'll do our best to assist you. Do see some hands going up right now. I see Terry's hand.

635
00:43:52.205 --> 00:43:57.345
Let me unmute you, Terry. Hi, Jason. How's that? Fantastic. Good to hear from you. How are you?

636
00:43:57.485 --> 00:43:58.545
Good, mate. Good.

637
00:43:59.325 --> 00:44:00.545
Just a quick question.

638
00:44:02.100 --> 00:44:06.840
On the member profile page, we have the location map displayed.

639
00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:11.000
Is it possible to have that default to street view?

640
00:44:11.540 --> 00:44:14.660
Default, I believe with a customization, it cannot.

641
00:44:14.660 --> 00:44:17.145
We'd removed it on the demo site just for a moment.

642
00:44:18.105 --> 00:44:19.485
I believe with a customization,

643
00:44:20.265 --> 00:44:21.245
you can modify,

644
00:44:22.505 --> 00:44:23.245
that map,

645
00:44:23.865 --> 00:44:24.685
to include

646
00:44:25.385 --> 00:44:28.365
other things, even satellite view, street view,

647
00:44:28.905 --> 00:44:33.200
and more. Let's get a map. Let me get you a map here so we can look at it together.

648
00:44:33.580 --> 00:44:38.560
Okay. So, yeah, what we've done by default is kept the options here very limited.

649
00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:40.540
You can customize this widget.

650
00:44:40.940 --> 00:44:43.440
There are a lot of settings with Google Maps,

651
00:44:44.315 --> 00:44:48.735
three d view, map view, I mean, satellite view, terrain view.

652
00:44:48.955 --> 00:44:52.815
Our objective was just to keep it neat and clean for the majority of site owners,

653
00:44:53.195 --> 00:44:55.615
but you do have access to this widget, and

654
00:44:55.915 --> 00:45:03.950
if you want to toggle things on or off, I believe it would be very easy with a customization to get it looking the way that you want to look, Terry.

655
00:45:03.950 --> 00:45:07.390
So in a nutshell, yes, you can do it, but there are no settings for it.

656
00:45:07.390 --> 00:45:10.690
So you'd have to dive a bit, into this widget here, and,

657
00:45:11.234 --> 00:45:17.255
I think it's just a matter of selecting true or false for some of the map attributes that Google offers.

658
00:45:17.634 --> 00:45:18.134
Alright.

659
00:45:18.674 --> 00:45:22.275
Sorry, we're getting some background noise there Terry, so I muted you. Let's move on.

660
00:45:22.275 --> 00:45:25.174
We got Steven here. Let me unmute your microphone, Steven.

661
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:28.099
Okay. Oh, sorry about that. Yeah. No problem.

662
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:30.900
So regarding the the dynamic,

663
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:33.300
filtering and the location,

664
00:45:33.680 --> 00:45:38.180
what what first question is is there anything we need to do, like, to turn it on whatever enhancements

665
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:40.180
you just made, or is it automatic?

666
00:45:40.674 --> 00:45:41.494
That's automatic.

667
00:45:42.115 --> 00:45:51.494
All you would need to do is come to your edit post settings when you have the add on, and it'll be available as one of the sidebar search module options.

668
00:45:52.194 --> 00:45:57.470
And, again, this is in the search results design tab, additional settings, and then that setting here.

669
00:45:57.850 --> 00:45:58.350
Okay.

670
00:45:58.810 --> 00:46:00.510
And the other question I have is regarding,

671
00:46:00.810 --> 00:46:02.030
using it with locations.

672
00:46:02.410 --> 00:46:03.150
For example,

673
00:46:04.090 --> 00:46:06.910
let's just say that I don't know. I'm searching for,

674
00:46:08.010 --> 00:46:10.030
supermarkets, let's say, and,

675
00:46:10.810 --> 00:46:12.110
in Los Angeles.

676
00:46:12.705 --> 00:46:13.205
So

677
00:46:13.585 --> 00:46:14.865
is the way it works

678
00:46:15.265 --> 00:46:19.845
this is a question, but the way it works is I'm first gonna search by location.

679
00:46:19.905 --> 00:46:21.525
So all of the supermarkets

680
00:46:21.985 --> 00:46:23.285
in Los Angeles,

681
00:46:23.985 --> 00:46:28.790
and that will be on the screen. And then if it's, the broad search approach,

682
00:46:29.330 --> 00:46:33.170
then I'm searching the different categories for all of it all of them in Los Angeles.

683
00:46:33.170 --> 00:46:35.110
Is that correct? Is that how it sort of conceptualized?

684
00:46:36.290 --> 00:46:37.570
What was the actual change?

685
00:46:37.570 --> 00:46:43.505
I mean, what how did it interface previously and what has changed with what's now? Let let

686
00:46:43.885 --> 00:46:46.705
me show you exactly what's changed. Couple of things were fixed.

687
00:46:47.244 --> 00:46:51.265
One is now you have the option to include the location as part of it. So

688
00:46:51.565 --> 00:46:53.825
that that didn't exist, and it wasn't supported.

689
00:46:54.290 --> 00:47:01.910
Also what didn't exist, there was the bug with it was, if you selected a sub level category here, these are only subs

690
00:47:02.290 --> 00:47:07.349
and subs subs for restaurants, right? Amenities, cuisine, meal serve. If we clicked on one,

691
00:47:07.745 --> 00:47:13.285
it was then also showing the sub and sub sub for other all the other top level categories as well.

692
00:47:13.345 --> 00:47:15.745
So it kind of didn't create a good experience.

693
00:47:15.745 --> 00:47:18.325
And that was, as I mentioned, the patch that was fixed,

694
00:47:18.865 --> 00:47:19.685
most recently.

695
00:47:20.049 --> 00:47:25.750
So that you can have these dedicated sidebar searches based on the top level category that you're within.

696
00:47:26.130 --> 00:47:26.630
Okay.

697
00:47:27.089 --> 00:47:30.849
Are you and and one last Sure. One one last quest one last question.

698
00:47:30.849 --> 00:47:33.974
Is there a general school of thought as to whether it's

699
00:47:34.355 --> 00:47:37.474
better to use the, broad approach versus the script approach?

700
00:47:37.474 --> 00:47:42.375
Because, you know, when I'm on Amazon.com, for example, yes, the script approach and I drill down.

701
00:47:42.675 --> 00:47:43.474
But for the,

702
00:47:44.035 --> 00:47:46.200
there's some people wanna have an additive approach.

703
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.480
Is is there sort of a general school of thought, or is it just really based on your site?

704
00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:52.440
It's based on the site. I'd say do you want us to take a look at your site?

705
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.820
You want my personal opinion, what I would think on your site?

706
00:47:56.680 --> 00:48:00.755
Or Mine's a little more complicated because you have to first log in. Gotcha.

707
00:48:00.755 --> 00:48:02.675
I guess it's not necessary, but Okay.

708
00:48:02.675 --> 00:48:06.035
Well, what industry are you what are you what are people searching if you wanna share that?

709
00:48:06.035 --> 00:48:07.575
They're they're searching for internships.

710
00:48:08.195 --> 00:48:08.695
Internships?

711
00:48:09.475 --> 00:48:11.015
Yeah. Like, Facebook sites.

712
00:48:11.395 --> 00:48:11.715
Yeah.

713
00:48:11.715 --> 00:48:16.880
I I could say how the broad approach would be be good in there because you kinda wanna see the maximum pool.

714
00:48:17.980 --> 00:48:20.140
But I also see how the strict triggered.

715
00:48:20.140 --> 00:48:24.800
I I my default would be moved to strict because people are used to, like, filtering down

716
00:48:25.100 --> 00:48:28.320
rather than opening up and seeing all the results. So,

717
00:48:29.075 --> 00:48:33.474
in in my personal opinion, I I'd go with strict search, in that case.

718
00:48:33.474 --> 00:48:37.154
And I think it'll help people find what they're looking for quicker. Okay. Yeah. Alright.

719
00:48:37.154 --> 00:48:40.035
Thank glad to hear you're using it. Any good questions there, Steven. Thank you.

720
00:48:40.035 --> 00:48:44.130
But we got our good friend, Brian here. Brian, how you doing today? Pretty good. And you?

721
00:48:44.130 --> 00:48:46.549
Pretty good. What's your question for us today?

722
00:48:47.170 --> 00:48:51.170
I had, like, a, I just wanted to get your opinion on something. Sure.

723
00:48:51.730 --> 00:48:57.145
It has to do with, the tip of the week. Okay. So on my main home page,

724
00:48:57.625 --> 00:49:00.204
I don't know. It's, barandclub.com.

725
00:49:00.424 --> 00:49:02.045
Okay. Let's check it out together.

726
00:49:02.585 --> 00:49:03.964
I got that saved there.

727
00:49:04.345 --> 00:49:04.845
Okay.

728
00:49:05.385 --> 00:49:07.645
So on here, I just have it searching,

729
00:49:08.665 --> 00:49:09.885
by location. Right?

730
00:49:10.190 --> 00:49:13.810
But then when you go to the location, you can just click on search.

731
00:49:14.350 --> 00:49:16.130
Oh, just click on search. Okay.

732
00:49:16.430 --> 00:49:17.430
Yeah. And then

733
00:49:17.870 --> 00:49:18.370
so

734
00:49:18.910 --> 00:49:20.190
I switched this over,

735
00:49:21.070 --> 00:49:25.964
to this because I had, like, so many categories. Right? And it was just picking

736
00:49:26.345 --> 00:49:26.845
up.

737
00:49:27.305 --> 00:49:29.724
But do you recommend I leave it like this

738
00:49:30.425 --> 00:49:30.984
or like

739
00:49:31.625 --> 00:49:32.925
Part of it is aesthetics.

740
00:49:33.305 --> 00:49:35.885
If it if it kinda feels good,

741
00:49:36.425 --> 00:49:45.340
I actually got excited to come to your site here, click on a location like Las Vegas, and then if the dynamic filtering was there, then I can choose

742
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:52.545
kinda like what I what I want, like a comedy club or I guess is this to find venues, like, things to do,

743
00:49:53.105 --> 00:49:54.325
for whatever it is.

744
00:49:55.984 --> 00:49:56.484
Transportation,

745
00:49:57.424 --> 00:49:58.085
I think

746
00:49:58.385 --> 00:50:03.204
the dynamic category filtering might be great for this, but let's see what you have for sub sub level categories.

747
00:50:03.825 --> 00:50:04.405
You know,

748
00:50:04.720 --> 00:50:11.540
all this comes down to I know a little bit of I said is subjective and what you think looks and feels good, but going back to Google Analytics,

749
00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:16.340
what you wanna do is see what what improves your bounce rate, what in what improves

750
00:50:16.640 --> 00:50:19.940
the number of pages viewed on your site within a certain month.

751
00:50:20.295 --> 00:50:25.734
So we might think of it what might think one thing is good, but that's where AB testing comes in.

752
00:50:25.734 --> 00:50:26.555
You can just

753
00:50:26.855 --> 00:50:30.555
do it differently for a month and and then compare it to the previous month's traffic

754
00:50:30.855 --> 00:50:31.595
and see

755
00:50:31.895 --> 00:50:34.075
definitely, the dynamic category filtering

756
00:50:34.380 --> 00:50:39.119
makes people wanna click more because there's check boxes there, and it's always fun to click on check boxes.

757
00:50:40.220 --> 00:50:40.720
So

758
00:50:41.260 --> 00:50:43.519
you might see that more page views,

759
00:50:44.299 --> 00:50:48.559
less bounce rate. And, actually, if you have a Google Analytics account, they are secretly

760
00:50:48.895 --> 00:50:56.435
using that in their algorithm to know if your website is useful to people or not, and then that helps improve your search engine ranking positions.

761
00:50:56.975 --> 00:50:57.475
So,

762
00:50:58.415 --> 00:51:01.710
you might the short answer, you might wanna just test it out for a month.

763
00:51:01.950 --> 00:51:08.349
I I really love that you took advantage of the quick links here, and you put some popular sitting cities here because Mhmm.

764
00:51:08.430 --> 00:51:09.650
It's it's just, again,

765
00:51:09.950 --> 00:51:14.210
people likes easy things to click on, and you've put these quick links here.

766
00:51:15.265 --> 00:51:20.325
So, yeah, the next thing the next thing would might just be the the dynamic category filtering.

767
00:51:20.705 --> 00:51:22.465
Yeah. I had it on there, but,

768
00:51:23.265 --> 00:51:24.005
so, like,

769
00:51:24.385 --> 00:51:27.685
my site is geared towards, like so say a

770
00:51:28.869 --> 00:51:33.290
a bar is looking for a promoter. Right? They'll go here. They'll find a promoter.

771
00:51:33.349 --> 00:51:36.710
Or if they want a DJ to play, they'll go here to find a DJ. Right?

772
00:51:36.710 --> 00:51:42.170
So is it more b to b in that sense as opposed to the consumer coming for for places to go party?

773
00:51:42.455 --> 00:51:46.795
Or is it It is a b to b, but it's also a to b because if,

774
00:51:47.815 --> 00:51:49.815
say, like, you wanna go out and drink. Right?

775
00:51:49.815 --> 00:51:53.035
You're you're gonna come here and you're gonna find a nightlife location.

776
00:51:53.735 --> 00:51:55.755
Right. So and then once

777
00:51:56.135 --> 00:51:57.015
when I have that,

778
00:51:57.970 --> 00:52:02.070
nightlife location show up, then that's where I have a lot of my categories.

779
00:52:02.130 --> 00:52:05.250
Like, I have the Asian fusion places. I have,

780
00:52:06.050 --> 00:52:07.990
bars. I have nightclubs. I have,

781
00:52:08.370 --> 00:52:09.750
like, you know,

782
00:52:10.105 --> 00:52:11.325
all kinds of different

783
00:52:11.625 --> 00:52:12.125
categories.

784
00:52:12.825 --> 00:52:15.405
I'm seeing not a lot have sub subcategories.

785
00:52:16.025 --> 00:52:17.325
Is I'm I'm clicking

786
00:52:18.105 --> 00:52:23.005
Yeah. None of those none of those under the, nightlife locations have sub sub.

787
00:52:24.185 --> 00:52:28.300
Maybe I should try to switch that. I don't know. Yeah. I'm looking

788
00:52:28.860 --> 00:52:31.340
I mean, I haven't done any that have triggered a sub sub.

789
00:52:31.340 --> 00:52:33.760
You might wanna you might wanna switch to the dynamic.

790
00:52:34.380 --> 00:52:35.440
And then also,

791
00:52:35.900 --> 00:52:41.985
I know your site's more established, but you may want to figure out some kind of logical path

792
00:52:42.445 --> 00:52:44.765
to have two different parts of your site.

793
00:52:44.765 --> 00:52:49.245
One for the consumer facing and one for the b to b nightclub.

794
00:52:49.245 --> 00:52:54.030
Because someone who's who's looking for, you know, nightclubs to get bottle service in Miami

795
00:52:54.650 --> 00:52:59.630
don't really need to know the video I mean, the the music band, like hiring a music band.

796
00:53:00.410 --> 00:53:03.310
Other but I don't know if it's working for you, it's working for you. But,

797
00:53:04.010 --> 00:53:10.075
those could be two different directories that you you manage, or do two different parts within the same website that you manage.

798
00:53:10.375 --> 00:53:11.835
Yeah. I've I've been slowly

799
00:53:12.215 --> 00:53:13.755
working on that situation.

800
00:53:14.295 --> 00:53:15.195
Okay. But,

801
00:53:16.055 --> 00:53:20.150
but, yeah. I mean, overall, the site looks look good. The home page is good.

802
00:53:20.390 --> 00:53:27.049
You might wanna try the dynamic category filtering and and see how the analytics analytics look after a month or so.

803
00:53:27.109 --> 00:53:32.234
Alright. Thank you. You're welcome. Always good to hear from you, Brian. We do have Carolyn,

804
00:53:32.855 --> 00:53:36.635
who typed in a message also going with the dynamic category filtering,

805
00:53:36.935 --> 00:53:39.035
search module. She just wanted to make sure

806
00:53:39.335 --> 00:53:41.275
that the location field

807
00:53:41.575 --> 00:53:44.875
would be compatible with, service areas from the multilocation

808
00:53:45.255 --> 00:53:47.470
listings add on. Yes. It is.

809
00:53:48.010 --> 00:53:50.430
So any location member location search,

810
00:53:50.809 --> 00:53:56.270
by default, takes into account the additional service areas members want to be found in as well.

811
00:53:56.809 --> 00:54:14.165
Side note, we've done a lot of updates around the service areas logic, so, the results are actually more accurate and better for those members who have selected service areas, as well as listing the name of the service area a member was found because they they have that match of the location search.

812
00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:17.180
So in a short answer, Carolyn, yes.

813
00:54:17.420 --> 00:54:21.020
It does take into account the service areas the members have selected. Alright.

814
00:54:21.020 --> 00:54:24.960
Moving on, we got, Rich, you got your hand up here again, I think. How you doing?

815
00:54:25.420 --> 00:54:27.740
Great. Yeah. Just a follow-up on a previous,

816
00:54:28.625 --> 00:54:30.244
member that was asking about locations.

817
00:54:30.464 --> 00:54:33.845
I don't know if you can take a look at my site real quick because I'm a little confused on,

818
00:54:34.305 --> 00:54:39.204
the search, you know, the topic for today as podcastersdirectory.com.

819
00:54:39.265 --> 00:54:39.765
Yeah.

820
00:54:40.385 --> 00:54:42.085
So Here we go. Yep.

821
00:54:42.385 --> 00:54:42.944
And so,

822
00:54:43.900 --> 00:54:45.200
from the user experience,

823
00:54:46.380 --> 00:54:51.200
like, you can just click the search bar or the search the the red search all

824
00:54:51.500 --> 00:54:54.320
up top there. Yeah. Just click that, and then it'll populate.

825
00:54:55.180 --> 00:54:57.040
Oh, this looks great. Bar. Yeah.

826
00:54:58.525 --> 00:55:03.025
So it's pretty cool, but what I'm trying to, do is that the guy was calling about earlier is,

827
00:55:03.485 --> 00:55:07.185
say I wanna, you know, search guests but by location at the same time.

828
00:55:07.405 --> 00:55:09.905
And it seems like it only does one or the other. So,

829
00:55:10.445 --> 00:55:15.859
like, if you do the drop down for show guests and just pick a do we, you know, pick a random category?

830
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:21.380
So it's gonna pull pull up everybody in that category. Right? So there's five members.

831
00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:22.820
But now what if you search

832
00:55:23.520 --> 00:55:26.655
by California or something like that? This this was the fix that we did.

833
00:55:27.215 --> 00:55:29.315
When Okay. This is this is a separate

834
00:55:29.615 --> 00:55:30.595
search module

835
00:55:30.895 --> 00:55:33.875
on the sidebar, so it's not connected to this one.

836
00:55:34.175 --> 00:55:39.055
So the update we Yeah. So can I do it for you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright.

837
00:55:39.055 --> 00:55:42.790
Give me a second here. Let's let's put that there. Just a moment.

838
00:55:43.490 --> 00:55:44.950
This was the change here.

839
00:55:45.330 --> 00:55:47.270
So just one quick moment here.

840
00:55:47.570 --> 00:55:52.690
Okay. Great. So let's go to your, excuse me, my content, edit post settings.

841
00:55:52.690 --> 00:56:02.744
And it's so great to hear that a lot of people are are using this one because again, it does in it is little clicky click if people wanna click on it so, they're definitely good there.

842
00:56:02.744 --> 00:56:05.325
So let's look for the, the my listings here

843
00:56:05.785 --> 00:56:06.924
and click on

844
00:56:07.224 --> 00:56:10.870
edit. That's your search results page right? Yep. Okay. Alright.

845
00:56:10.870 --> 00:56:13.690
And search results sign, additional settings,

846
00:56:14.070 --> 00:56:14.570
and,

847
00:56:16.150 --> 00:56:21.530
okay. So, yeah, you've manually added it in there. Let me switch this out for the dynamic,

848
00:56:22.685 --> 00:56:27.965
and you're doing the dynamic with the sub and the sub sub. So the whole enchilada here. Yeah.

849
00:56:27.965 --> 00:56:28.925
And I'll save that.

850
00:56:28.925 --> 00:56:32.605
And then I have to go to your sidebar, and you've manually added this in your sidebar.

851
00:56:32.605 --> 00:56:35.090
So I'm just gonna remove this, from the sidebar

852
00:56:35.550 --> 00:56:36.630
here. Yeah. Because

853
00:56:37.070 --> 00:56:41.230
Go ahead. Oh, go ahead. No. Please, please. Go ahead. Okay. I was gonna say, like,

854
00:56:42.350 --> 00:56:42.850
because

855
00:56:43.150 --> 00:56:45.170
from the get go, we were just focusing on,

856
00:56:45.470 --> 00:56:53.675
you know, not by location necessarily, but now we're, you know, traveling, and we wanna host events in those cities and connect with those members,

857
00:56:54.615 --> 00:56:56.295
and allow them to do kind of the same.

858
00:56:56.295 --> 00:57:00.619
So this will be a cool feature to make it more user friendly with this update.

859
00:57:01.160 --> 00:57:02.220
Yeah. I think so.

860
00:57:03.160 --> 00:57:07.900
Let's see here. So there we go. So now we have the location here and

861
00:57:08.279 --> 00:57:10.140
the category filtering. So,

862
00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:14.700
here we it it saved our previous search. Right? We were looking for,

863
00:57:15.885 --> 00:57:19.585
let's do that and hit search. It's gonna search for arts.

864
00:57:20.125 --> 00:57:24.065
And then let's search for where is this gentleman located? Do we know?

865
00:57:25.245 --> 00:57:30.145
Not on Pan, but Let's let's click and see if we can get a location on one of these guys.

866
00:57:30.530 --> 00:57:33.810
Or they might not it might be they're just nationwide maybe. Yeah.

867
00:57:33.810 --> 00:57:41.030
We generally don't display their location at this point, but, So who would have a what would be an example of a location search here?

868
00:57:42.130 --> 00:57:42.450
Try

869
00:57:43.089 --> 00:57:44.230
do the business category

870
00:57:44.685 --> 00:57:46.685
and try Atlanta because I know we have,

871
00:57:47.325 --> 00:57:51.405
people in there. So uncheck that one, I guess, whatever, and then go to,

872
00:57:52.685 --> 00:57:53.585
out of arts

873
00:57:54.045 --> 00:57:56.945
Business. And pick that. Yeah. And just pick general

874
00:57:57.245 --> 00:58:00.145
General. Or a couple of them. Okay. Yeah. Business general.

875
00:58:00.510 --> 00:58:04.430
There's a under b for business general. Oh, I see. So, yeah. Alright.

876
00:58:04.430 --> 00:58:08.910
And then a couple of and then and then we do real estate while you're there maybe because I know,

877
00:58:10.430 --> 00:58:12.525
but that should be enough. Yeah. That that guy's from Atlanta.

878
00:58:12.525 --> 00:58:17.025
So if you type in Atlanta now for the, location or Georgia, even Georgia would be better. Yeah.

879
00:58:17.085 --> 00:58:20.944
So it went from, what, I think 39 or something. Yeah. Down to 10. Down to 10.

880
00:58:21.484 --> 00:58:25.470
That's great. Okay. So there you go. Yes. It looks a little nice nice there too.

881
00:58:25.950 --> 00:58:28.930
Do you wanna see what it looks like with it toggled open to start?

882
00:58:29.310 --> 00:58:32.050
Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Let's see. But I think there's too many,

883
00:58:32.990 --> 00:58:33.490
listings,

884
00:58:33.950 --> 00:58:35.869
but yeah. But let's take a look at it. Yeah. Right.

885
00:58:35.869 --> 00:58:43.695
That's where it would make sense to kinda do what we did on our on our demo site, which is kinda just link people to the to the top level categories directly.

886
00:58:43.755 --> 00:58:44.255
Okay.

887
00:58:44.875 --> 00:58:48.895
Let's see. So search for just to show people as in, we could switch it back here.

888
00:58:49.115 --> 00:58:51.775
And do you want it as broad match or strict match?

889
00:58:52.130 --> 00:58:57.190
The strict match would be as as they keep clicking, it will filter smaller and smaller the results.

890
00:58:57.410 --> 00:58:59.690
Broad match will just open up more often.

891
00:58:59.890 --> 00:59:03.750
Strict strict is a good way to go or whatever you you think is best.

892
00:59:03.970 --> 00:59:08.105
See, in your case, I think broad match would make sense because people are looking for a wide variety.

893
00:59:08.405 --> 00:59:10.825
No one because your your categories are,

894
00:59:11.125 --> 00:59:12.745
you know, so broad,

895
00:59:13.765 --> 00:59:14.725
you might wanna do broad.

896
00:59:14.725 --> 00:59:18.745
But let's just see what it looks like with the strict match here and with the accordions open.

897
00:59:18.965 --> 00:59:22.425
And, we'll just refresh this page here with the Atlanta search.

898
00:59:22.869 --> 00:59:24.470
Yeah. It might be too much with the,

899
00:59:25.190 --> 00:59:26.250
yeah. It's a lot.

900
00:59:26.630 --> 00:59:28.970
So we'll keep it we'll keep it closed here.

901
00:59:29.270 --> 00:59:30.950
Alright. No worries. You could play around with it.

902
00:59:30.950 --> 00:59:34.150
But, yeah, since you have so many, actually, the strict match might be better.

903
00:59:34.150 --> 00:59:37.050
So people because you have so many categories there.

904
00:59:37.494 --> 00:59:38.935
But you could play around with that there.

905
00:59:39.095 --> 00:59:43.675
Just come to the advanced settings and type in dynamic, and you have these two settings there.

906
00:59:44.055 --> 00:59:47.915
Okay. So what is it set what does it set at now? So Now it's closed,

907
00:59:48.215 --> 00:59:49.835
and it has the location

908
00:59:51.300 --> 00:59:51.800
search.

909
00:59:53.380 --> 00:59:53.620
Okay.

910
00:59:53.620 --> 00:59:58.200
And then again, you might wanna play around with it again the way we had it on the demo site where

911
00:59:58.660 --> 01:00:02.520
you kinda guide people towards selecting one of the top level categories,

912
01:00:02.980 --> 01:00:08.345
and then in the sidebar, you just have the subs and subs subs for that top level category.

913
01:00:08.485 --> 01:00:09.625
You could create

914
01:00:10.005 --> 01:00:17.865
a tag cloud so people can toggle between your top level categories, but once they're there, they'll just see the subs and subs subs in the sidebar.

915
01:00:18.730 --> 01:00:22.090
Right. So just some just some options for you to think of. Yeah. That update is great.

916
01:00:22.090 --> 01:00:24.590
Appreciate it. You're very welcome. Site's looking good.

917
01:00:25.130 --> 01:00:27.850
A simple question that, Don wrote in.

918
01:00:27.850 --> 01:00:31.230
He wanna know how to move all members from one category to another.

919
01:00:31.815 --> 01:00:33.595
Great question as well.

920
01:00:34.214 --> 01:00:36.234
So I think right now

921
01:00:36.535 --> 01:00:38.234
in the my members page,

922
01:00:38.695 --> 01:00:41.275
you can change people's top level category.

923
01:00:41.335 --> 01:00:47.390
So if they're in a broad top level category like restaurants, you wanna switch them to auto services for whatever reason,

924
01:00:48.010 --> 01:00:52.109
you would select first search your top level category like auto services.

925
01:00:52.650 --> 01:00:55.070
So we'll search we have three members in auto services.

926
01:00:55.130 --> 01:01:00.045
Oh, let me get rid of the sub let's see here. What's happened here? Something's gone awry.

927
01:01:00.045 --> 01:01:01.745
Just a moment. There we

928
01:01:02.125 --> 01:01:05.345
go. Okay. So, top level category auto services.

929
01:01:05.805 --> 01:01:07.905
What we would do is select all these members,

930
01:01:09.005 --> 01:01:11.185
and then what we wanna do is,

931
01:01:11.725 --> 01:01:13.185
update top level category,

932
01:01:13.560 --> 01:01:14.060
and

933
01:01:14.520 --> 01:01:15.580
we'll click apply,

934
01:01:16.040 --> 01:01:17.180
and we would choose,

935
01:01:18.040 --> 01:01:21.900
the top level category we wanna move them to. In this case, it would be restaurants.

936
01:01:23.160 --> 01:01:26.780
There's a little workaround if you wanna do sublevel categories, but not

937
01:01:27.080 --> 01:01:27.580
exactly.

938
01:01:28.125 --> 01:01:30.225
If you go to member categories,

939
01:01:31.085 --> 01:01:33.905
and we'll go to sub sublevel categories as an example.

940
01:01:34.445 --> 01:01:37.885
If you want to delete this category, let me just click it.

941
01:01:37.885 --> 01:01:40.385
So we wanna delete the Audi sublevel category.

942
01:01:40.990 --> 01:01:46.130
It can't it does ask you if you want to assign the existing members to another sublevel category.

943
01:01:48.030 --> 01:01:53.090
Yes or no. And then you can choose where you wanna move them to, and then you can go ahead

944
01:01:53.605 --> 01:01:57.545
and either add back Audi if you need to or just keep it deleted.

945
01:01:58.005 --> 01:01:59.465
So those are a couple ways,

946
01:01:59.765 --> 01:02:04.885
you can move members around between categories. Any anything else from Don, or does that cover it?

947
01:02:04.885 --> 01:02:09.990
I think that covered it. Okay. Good questions there. Thank you, Don. And we got, our friend, Kathy.

948
01:02:09.990 --> 01:02:13.609
We see your hand up there. Let me unmute you. Looks like you're self muted.

949
01:02:14.150 --> 01:02:16.410
What's up? Hey. Good to have you here.

950
01:02:17.349 --> 01:02:21.625
Okay. So I'm back in the directory world. We just launched our directory.

951
01:02:21.625 --> 01:02:24.204
It's going public, all the good fun stuff.

952
01:02:24.664 --> 01:02:27.164
It does not have locations.

953
01:02:27.625 --> 01:02:29.005
It is a software.

954
01:02:29.785 --> 01:02:30.285
Basically,

955
01:02:30.585 --> 01:02:33.404
you'll see, you know, all kinds of crazy stuff in there.

956
01:02:33.740 --> 01:02:40.079
I turned all the locations off, so I wanna make sure that I'm good. We are searching by software

957
01:02:40.540 --> 01:02:44.400
or services, so they could be worldwide, local wide, whatever.

958
01:02:45.020 --> 01:02:46.319
So we've got freelancers,

959
01:02:46.619 --> 01:02:47.500
things like that.

960
01:02:47.500 --> 01:02:53.285
I just need to make sure that I'm good and it's still gonna be searchable without location.

961
01:02:53.985 --> 01:02:58.645
Let's take a look. I'm sure I'm sure some it's a sassprotools.com.

962
01:02:58.785 --> 01:03:03.080
Okay. Yeah. You're gonna see all my affiliate stuff in there and all kinds of fun stuff. K.

963
01:03:03.080 --> 01:03:07.580
Let's see. A little bit bragging on what's about to happen with me and Congratulations.

964
01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:08.780
Yeah.

965
01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:11.320
Now let's take a look at your site first.

966
01:03:11.560 --> 01:03:15.420
So I understand we're just searching software by category, not location.

967
01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:18.300
That's correct. Okay. So,

968
01:03:18.835 --> 01:03:22.215
let me actually do something real quick. Let's go to your search members

969
01:03:22.835 --> 01:03:24.215
and a couple things.

970
01:03:24.675 --> 01:03:29.075
Now are you having them enter their locations at all or you have you removed that file?

971
01:03:29.075 --> 01:03:34.135
I I removed all of it. Okay. So there's no locations. It's just phone number, email.

972
01:03:34.809 --> 01:03:36.030
Okay. Yeah.

973
01:03:37.530 --> 01:03:39.289
Search by keyword. Yeah. You should be good.

974
01:03:39.289 --> 01:03:43.069
Where would you like me to go on your site to kinda check it out? So far, it looks good.

975
01:03:43.210 --> 01:03:48.585
Well, I feel like I got everything covered, but on the back end, Google's like you know, it's like saying, hey.

976
01:03:48.585 --> 01:03:53.405
What about this location? Or I'm getting errors, but there's nothing showing here.

977
01:03:53.785 --> 01:03:58.045
So I did all the sub you know, I did all the sidebars and all that stuff.

978
01:03:58.425 --> 01:04:00.210
I understand. So what you can do

979
01:04:00.510 --> 01:04:04.690
talking about. I just wanna make sure. I did submit the site map yesterday.

980
01:04:05.150 --> 01:04:10.370
Okay. So one one additional thing you can do, this is actually a a good topic you brought up.

981
01:04:10.750 --> 01:04:13.730
If you go to my content, go to SEO templates.

982
01:04:14.605 --> 01:04:15.105
Mhmm.

983
01:04:15.805 --> 01:04:17.585
And what we wanna do

984
01:04:18.765 --> 01:04:19.665
is search

985
01:04:19.965 --> 01:04:25.265
go to all the location based SEO templates. So you'll see they have, like, country,

986
01:04:25.725 --> 01:04:28.225
state, or city. What you wanna do is

987
01:04:28.710 --> 01:04:30.410
quickly open up all of these.

988
01:04:30.790 --> 01:04:32.090
Mhmm. Country, country,

989
01:04:32.550 --> 01:04:33.130
country, country,

990
01:04:34.230 --> 01:04:39.210
country. There's, like, about 20 of them. Mhmm. And come here and go to page options

991
01:04:39.910 --> 01:04:42.570
and do the no index, no follow.

992
01:04:43.355 --> 01:04:45.115
Because you don't something. Right.

993
01:04:45.115 --> 01:04:49.855
So what it's gonna tell Google is all these location based search results pages

994
01:04:50.474 --> 01:04:51.295
don't bother,

995
01:04:51.994 --> 01:04:55.295
indexing them because, anyways, you don't have anyone in locations.

996
01:04:56.589 --> 01:04:57.089
So

997
01:04:57.470 --> 01:05:00.609
the the SEO templates for those are kind of benign.

998
01:05:01.069 --> 01:05:06.609
So just come and set them to go to page options No. Apply no index, no follow.

999
01:05:06.750 --> 01:05:08.770
Now also when you do that,

1000
01:05:09.315 --> 01:05:18.375
if you're going to create your site map, because these are set as no index no follow, it will also update your site map accordingly to be no index no follow as well.

1001
01:05:18.835 --> 01:05:20.775
The whole site map or just these?

1002
01:05:20.915 --> 01:05:28.270
These pages in the site map will be no index to follow, so it's kind of preemptively also letting Google know, like, hey, bud.

1003
01:05:28.270 --> 01:05:29.570
Don't worry about these pages.

1004
01:05:30.270 --> 01:05:34.530
Okay. So go ahead and just mark the mark all these pages and then just refresh

1005
01:05:34.845 --> 01:05:40.225
my site map and resubmit it is really probably what I need to do because I think I submitted the whole site map.

1006
01:05:40.525 --> 01:05:43.984
Yeah. That would be my first step. And again, just the ones that have

1007
01:05:44.365 --> 01:05:44.865
country,

1008
01:05:45.725 --> 01:05:48.970
state, or city in them. Okay. Gotcha.

1009
01:05:49.589 --> 01:05:54.549
Is there any ZIP code or There's no city. I see. It just said okay. Got it. Got it. Got it.

1010
01:05:54.549 --> 01:05:58.730
The city, state, or country one. And then this was the only other thing

1011
01:06:00.005 --> 01:06:02.425
that that you can think of that I could be missing?

1012
01:06:02.805 --> 01:06:04.185
From an SEO perspective?

1013
01:06:05.205 --> 01:06:08.345
Yes. Yeah. Because your categories are gonna rank for the SaaS,

1014
01:06:08.725 --> 01:06:09.865
for the SaaS categories.

1015
01:06:10.565 --> 01:06:15.590
The members profile listings are gonna rank. There's internal linking happening on the site,

1016
01:06:16.230 --> 01:06:16.670
on

1017
01:06:17.110 --> 01:06:17.610
so

1018
01:06:18.070 --> 01:06:19.350
I think you should be good.

1019
01:06:20.070 --> 01:06:24.090
The only other thing that you could do that Capterra does as an example,

1020
01:06:25.695 --> 01:06:28.115
Let me show you let me share an article with you.

1021
01:06:28.495 --> 01:06:31.075
Especially if you're SaaS, like, you have really good categories.

1022
01:06:31.615 --> 01:06:33.635
I'm gonna share this article with you,

1023
01:06:33.935 --> 01:06:39.075
and it is adding custom content and SEO value to your search results pages.

1024
01:06:39.615 --> 01:06:40.115
So

1025
01:06:40.450 --> 01:06:41.330
it's a video here.

1026
01:06:41.330 --> 01:06:47.510
It basically shows you how to add, like, so if you're gonna talk about our membership software or whatever it might be CRM software solutions,

1027
01:06:48.130 --> 01:06:51.590
how to add a blurb of custom content to that search results page,

1028
01:06:52.050 --> 01:06:53.625
and just make it a little more

1029
01:06:54.025 --> 01:06:56.425
SEO friendly and create a better user experience.

1030
01:06:56.425 --> 01:07:00.825
And you can add, like, more internal linking quick links like we saw on the bar and club site.

1031
01:07:00.825 --> 01:07:03.645
They did it on their home page. You can do it on,

1032
01:07:04.345 --> 01:07:09.309
your search results pages just to get even more granular. I'm gonna put this in the chat here. Okay.

1033
01:07:09.309 --> 01:07:10.930
Let me make sure I have my chat.

1034
01:07:11.230 --> 01:07:11.730
Okay.

1035
01:07:12.670 --> 01:07:14.210
And then just give it some time,

1036
01:07:14.670 --> 01:07:21.890
monitor your Google Analytics, make sure that, you know, it's passing the the friends and family test, you know, give this site to your friends and family.

1037
01:07:21.945 --> 01:07:25.705
What I used to do is I used to Oh, yeah. We just I just gave it to about 40,000

1038
01:07:25.705 --> 01:07:28.925
communities. So, yeah, we're all excited. Everybody's loving it.

1039
01:07:29.225 --> 01:07:31.805
So yeah. Well, it's gonna be good. Congratulations

1040
01:07:32.585 --> 01:07:36.510
on that. And then the Facebook group is there for you too, Kathy, if you if you need.

1041
01:07:36.590 --> 01:07:38.210
Cut you off there, Kathy. Apologize.

1042
01:07:38.590 --> 01:07:43.470
But we are out of time, guys. Amazing webinar. Thank you guys so much. Great tip of the week.

1043
01:07:43.470 --> 01:07:49.330
David, big shout out to you. Great update on the dynamic category filtering add on.

1044
01:07:49.605 --> 01:08:01.785
The next webinar will be in two weeks, if you'd like to catch the replay, we'll post it in the Facebook group in about fifteen or twenty minutes, and of course, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, you can go to brilliantdirectories.com/

1045
01:08:01.845 --> 01:08:03.785
youtube on behalf of myself,

1046
01:08:04.232 --> 01:08:08.072
David, and the entire Brilliant Directories family. We love you guys. It's been great.

1047
01:08:08.072 --> 01:08:12.786
We'll catch you in two weeks. Have a great day and a brilliant week. Cheers, guys. Bye bye.