These programs are Inkscape, GIMP, Scribus font, Forge and Daiya, and each of these programs is completely free to download and use for both personal and commercial use. They are all open-source software and all of them work on Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems.
If you want to download these and try them out for yourself, you can find download links at my website. Tj free com. Let’s take a look at this first program Inkscape, which is a program very similar to Adobe Illustrator. So it will. Let you draw an edit art in there, that’s vector images, and so it gives you a lot of control over those vector images you can. You can actually with vector images if you’re not familiar with them, they can be scaled up into large sizes without becoming pixelated, and you can do all kinds of really cool stuff.
With this program, I’ll show you an example of some art ooh. This is the art of some art that can be created using Inkscape, here’s example of a guitar, and once it’s all drawn up, we can quickly change the coloring and that keeps the lighting and shading. Another example is of working with layers in Inkscape. We have these different layers of this tooth animation and we can toggle them on and off.
We can lock them or unlock them so that we don’t accidentally select them while we’re working with a different layer. So it’s a great tool, lots and lots of good features and tons of different applications. This next program, GIMP, is that bitmap image editor is similar to Adobe Photoshop, and it has a lot of the same functionality that you’d expect to have with in Photoshop. It can do some pretty cool stuff.
I’ve covered it in some of my other programs, so I’m not going to spend too much time on it, but you can apply different effects and layers and filters, and things like that. I won’t do one because it might take too long on the article, but it’s a good program. You can also just create art from scratch. Oh I’ll show you here too, you can work with transparent backgrounds, which is cool. You can remove the background like if you want to create a product product image, and then you can then just fill the background with a solid color, so good program GIMP this next one Scribus is similar to adobe, indesign or quarkxpress.
It’s a desktop publishing tool and you can use it to create books, calendars, business cards, anything that has printed text basically, and it gives you a lot of manipulation over that text. So we can come here. Let’s go to this one here. This is the cat’s in the cradle that picture that one of my images isn’t coming up. But if I go to edit text we can see it lets you have a you, can have different style sheets, so we have a mmm, always that is centered, but so the title has its own style, that the author has its own style and then, if we Change, I can then change the style and it will change it on every page you can so you can collectively edit the footers and the styles of multiple pages at once, without having to go through and physically change it on each page.
Just one of the many features you can do drop caps, it’s great for creating, like I said anything with printed text this next, one font Forbes for Buju is a program for editing and creating fonts. So, for example, here we have I’ll grab the toolbar over here. The letter R we can edit this font and do some different kind of things with it. You can also create fonts from scratch. It’s compatible with several different font formats and you can actually use it to convert fonts from one format to another.
So it’s a good tool: font Forge this last program. Daiya is a program for creating flow charts and diagrams. For example, we can just very quickly sketch up a diagram and then linked ideas together, and it gives you a lot of control and manipulation over how this diagram works, and you can put text we can. We could write text inside this, this box, if you wanted to so it’s great for expressing ideas, but also, if you’re, a designer or into architecture or things like that, it’s got all kinds of different presets like here’s electrical.
So if we want to put in some electrical symbols and create an electrical diagram, we can do that. We can import a background image and draw the these elements on top of it, and you can create your own, your own symbols too, but it’s got a lot of different a lot of different things that you’ve added Cisco Networking. You could do a Cisco network diagram, so good for network network diagrams, make these bigger and see what I’m doing here so cool program, lots of different features and applications for it as well and really quickly before we go.
I want to show you this program. G pic it’s a Windows and Linux only program I think, and it’s, but it’s also open source and it’s a color picker or a scheme jet color scheme generator. It will help you when you’re, creating art, help you find complementary colors. When you find them, you can just double click them and it’ll put them over here in this color lineup that you can then export and use with programs like GIMP and all these ones.
I’ve showed you today, I think, are compatible with these different palettes. You can also use them too. You can drag and drop. It’s not letting me do it because of this screen. I’m doing a screencast right now, but you can come over here and actually apply these colors to a sample webpage or a sample menu and figure out. You know which colors are going to be best for that, so it’s a color picker and scheme generation tool and that’s again, that’s G pick well, these are the programs I want to share with you today appreciate you reading um, if you’re interested I’d like you to Check out some of my other articles, where I do some web design tools, I also have 2d and 3d animation tools so check out my other articles go ahead and comment and subscribe if you’d like to – and I hope you have a wonderful day –
My guest is Brad, frost, web designer and author of atomic design and today we’re talking about Design Systems. Let’s get started so Brett thanks a lot for being here. Thanks for having me, I want to show off by asking you: has the metaphor of a web page exceeded its usefulness, yeah, it certainly has, as what designers we’ve been thinking about.
The web is in terms of pages for a long time right, it’s been with us since the web’s beginning right. We scope things out in terms of pages. If things don’t load in the browser says this web page hasn’t loaded and that’s had a really big impact on sort of how we structure our teams, how we scope our projects and how things are actually executed from from a web design and development standpoint. So, for instance, I work with a lot of large organizations and so they’ll have a team, that’s responsible for the home page and then they’ll have a team, that’s responsible for the product page and another team, that’s responsible for the checkout page and all of those teams Are doing things sort of independent of one another right, because they’re just focused on this notion of pages and as it happens, all of those pages are actually made of the same stuff right.
If we were to break things down, you have buttons, you have form fields. You have blocks and cards and heroes, and all these other things – and we end up with whenever you have these different teams working on different pages and thinking about things. In that way, you end up with you know one button looking similar but different than the next team, that’s working on the next page and so on and so forth, and you, you know, repeat that a number of times and span that out over a number of Years and you end up with a giant mess on your hands, it’s not to suggest that we should stop using the term.
It’s probably still useful for users. Yeah only see things as a flat page, but from a design and development perspective. It’s kind of updated yeah. Yeah, that’s right exactly it’s it’s! It still comes together as a cohesive whole and I think, that’s important, especially as people get into talking about design systems. A lot of people have a big misconception that oh design mean you just sort of isolate things at their component level and just designed the button and just design the sort of headings and just designed the card in isolation.
But that’s just not true. That’s you know. It’s important to sort of realize that yeah things do all of those components, do come together and form a cohesive page at the end of the day and that’s what the user sees and interacts with. So it’s important. It’s not an either-or thing, but we just have to be more considerate about how we make the parts of that page as the web and technology as a whole progresses forward.
How has that changed the way that web designers think about serving pages to users and the ways that the websites are accessed yeah? Well from like an access standpoint or from like a design and build process? The fact that a user could be I mean even these days like accessing the web from their refrigerator. You never know the form factor or anything about the user’s device. You can’t make any assumptions: yeah yeah, that’s right and again it’s gotten really complicated and that’s why I think design systems have become as popular as they’ve been because the devices haven’t slowed down right.
The device proliferation is still happening right. The number of contexts – and you know, screen sizes and form factors and, and you know, yeah native web embedded devices different screens. Different sort of you know. Mouse and keyboard touch inputs, and you know voice and, like all this. Other stuff is just the amount of things that users have or that that designers and developers have to consider as they’re, creating user interfaces and creating these experiences I’ve just sort of accelerated, and we can’t keep up right.
We can’t create bespoke pages, for you know: here’s our small screen view and here’s our tablet view and here’s our desktop view. It’s it’s so we’ve had to sort of pull back out a necessity just because we’re on the hook to deliver more features, more services to more users and more context using more devices in more ways than ever before, and it’s like unfortunate. Our budgets have been increased and our resources haven’t increased with that same sort of exponential curves.
So that’s what’s like sort of forced us to sort of step back and and reconsider how this all gets done, given that there are so many different viewport sizes and everything does that mean that the flat Photoshop file is no longer very useful as a means of Conveying the design, yeah, yeah and and still to this day, I’m working in if Photoshop might be a little long in the tooth when it comes to web design, but same thing happens in sketch in figma.
Just last week I got from the clients designers, you know a mobile version of the comp and a tablet version of a competent desktop version of a comp and and a lot of that’s just sort of wasted effort. Really because all three of those things in isolation are sort of one they’re already alive, because it’s a picture of a website not an actual website, but all those spaces in between is where things really fall down right.
You can sort of paint a picture, especially in a in a static design tool where there’s artboards and you could just sort of move things around in free space like that’s, not how things work in the actual browser right. There’s things like some order considerations and all that you can’t just sort of go on this side screen. I just want to move this from here to here, or this I’m just going to swap this around it’s it’s.
It’s really important to sort of make sure you’re. Considering the actual medium that this user interface is going to come alive and and do that much sooner in your process, I want to ask you about concept reviews before called design Det. What does that mean, and how do you avoid going design bankrupt? There’s no design debt and design bankruptcy. I’ve never actually heard design bankruptcy. Before I like that, I I think a lot of places could declare its design bankruptcy.
I think you know just when it comes to design debt. It’s you have. You know number of teams working on different things and just those we were saying you know working on different pages or different products right across a company and you sort of can can take a cross-section and sort of see a lot of discrepancies. Just in that. But that’s just one moment in time when you stretch out that process over time, especially products that have been around for a long time, the googles of the world or eBay or whatever it becomes like a little sort of Benjamin Button.
Like experience as you click through pages, you get further back in time in these older crustier user interfaces, you’re like how did I end up in 1999 and all of a sudden? So so I think that that’s sort of that sort of that visceral feeling of design debt where it’s like you have all of this sort of old stuff that was created. It’s you know once upon a time and that whenever that was launched, it was the new hotness and the new hotness becomes the old crusty experience.
You know pretty quickly these days right so so I think that the more sort of deliberate and the more sort of systematize you could sort of control and wrangle all of those those sort of user interfaces that are, you know out there in the wild. The better. Your chances are going to be as sort of like reducing that that sort of design debt and that’s again, I think, a big crux like that. The crux of design systems is to sort of help.
You know eliminate that debt to basically take those $ 19.99 designs and say: okay, we’re going to update them with a new design language, but we’re going to do it in a very sort of systematic way so that the next time we do a big redesign. We have actual hooks in there that we could actually sort of lift up the quality of in you know so to evolve that design language like flip the switch and roll that out to a bunch of places, sort of simultaneously or or in very short order.
Instead of like, oh, we have to do this big monolithic redesign, and we have to do that for each of our products again and again and again so the developer experience must be a lot better when you can have like a single source source of truth. For your design, but also the user experience as well, could you describe like what it might be like for a user to be on a site that has designed yet yeah? I mean it.
This happens all the time I mean so. The e-commerce example is a great one, just because I think that you know ecommerce sites, you know super sexy homepage or the super splashy super current right. It’s like it’s got the latest. You know shop fall trends, their shop Christmas like coming up or whatever. That’s like you look very campaign driven. So it’s often like a very modern experience. You sort of like click into like that.
Maybe a product detail page or a product category page that sort of feels modern ish. You know it’s like sort of a little bit more meat and potatoes like e-commerce stuff. So it’s like those templates sort of probably feel pretty good, but then, like you, might get to the shop card or if you like, actually log into your account, it’s like those things feel way different and and then you get to the checkout flow.
And then you know that might be sort of way long in the tooth or it might be sort of built by you know an external vendor or something because they’re processing, credit cards and stuff like that. So it might not actually be integrated with like the rest of the site at all. So what ends up happening for? Why that matters from a user experience standpoint? It’s not just about other things, look different like because who cares as long as that’s effective, then that consistency shouldn’t ever be like the number one goal of any of this, and I think that that’s when we talk about Design Systems, I think that’s another misconception as That, oh, we just want everything to look the same everywhere and that’s just really not true, because if your metrics are doing well and stuff – and you know the buttons look different on the checkout page then on the the product detail page, then that’s fine right! No harm no foul, but the problem is, is whenever you’re, a user and you encounter say a date picker or something – and this is a favorite one of mine just because those are hard to build so often times developers just sort of go and grab something.
You know a library they find on the internet somewhere and if you’re, you know say like at an airline or a hotel chain, and you have four different developers grabbing four different date – pickers across the site. Now, all of a sudden, every time the user needs to pick a date, they have to relearn that new library and that, even if it’s just fractions of a second or a second or two or the, where they’re like oh wait, I’m used to booking from the Homepage, but this is a different convention that slows down that process right and that has a negative hit on you know, certainly when you’re talking about you know booking flights or hotels or something that’s going to cause it dip.
So that’s sort of consistency from a user experience standpoint right that ability of like oh yeah. I’ve encountered this pattern before and I know how this works. So I could just sort of roll on and sort of fill things out a lot faster or interact with this thing faster like that’s. That’s what we’re after right, so that consistency for consistency sake not so much, but consistency from a you know, sort of mapping to what users are used to already like yeah.
That’s, that’s! That’s where it’s at one of the people, problems on a design and development team is not sharing the same vocabulary or calling the same components: yeah consistent yeah. So what are some of the problems of that? And how can designers and developers get on the same wavelength? Yeah, so that’s one of the biggest things that I encounter is as an one exercise that I like to do with design development teams whenever I’m working on design systems with them is right out of the gate, we conduct what I call an interface inventory, so we Basically go across their entire sort of suite of products, or you know, whatever user interfaces could be served by their design system and and sort of divvy things up is like okay, you go hunting for buttons, I’m going to go hunting for sort of.
You know input fields or whatever, and then we sort of do that as a group and then what we do is we get together and sort of present what we found to each other and that’s where it’s really fun, because, especially whenever you have designers in the Room developers in the room, QA engineers, business people in the room right like the product owners, like all these different disciplines and you actually sort of have to articulate what your UI is right.
So so somebody will get up and it’s like. Oh and here’s this admin bar and then somebody gets admin bar. We call that the utility bar right and then the developers are like. Oh, we we just mark that up as the gray bar right, and so it’s like. Okay, there we go right. You got everything out on the table right, these inconsistent names for the same thing, and of course that means you have to have again just like that sort of user experience you have to like slow down.
You have to have have a meeting to figure out what you’re going to call this thing like, and you know a lot – can get lost in translation in between design team or different disciplines, but also different teams in general right. If team one is calling it a certain name and team, two is calling it something else. That’s a big deal right, so so again, so bringing this all back to Design Systems. What that it, what a design system can do is sort of centralize your sort of UI patterns call them names right, give write guidelines around them, so that everyone is like, literally speaking, the same language right.
They know what you mean when you say utility bar, and you know how to use it where it’s useful, but also crucial. One of the other things that we found really valuable in in creating design systems for clients is here’s. What this thing is: here’s where it’s useful, but also maybe here’s some gotchas or here’s where it might not be useful, and maybe you want to use this other thing. Instead, what are some of the trade-offs of investing in a bespoke design system versus taking something off? The shelf, like a bootstrap yeah, that’s a big one and I’d say it’s tough, because tools like bootstrap and material design are already made.
They’re they’re, they’re well tested right, they’re in use by giant companies like this company called. Have you heard of Google before it’s like? It’s pretty big one. It sounds familiar yeah, so so a lot of these people right who are using tools like bootstrap and material design, they’re like oh, this has been tested by these. You know giant companies, so I could just sort of grab this and go and I don’t have to do all that work myself and that might be true and there are sort of instances of that um.
I think one of the big things that is important to sort of recognize and consider whenever you’re reaching for these tools is that it’s like you, don’t own it and it might be attractive from sort of you know, inefficiencies sake at first but as time goes on Right at the end of the day, your boss or your you know your product owners or your clients or whoever they are they’re going to say. Oh, we need to do this this way or we need to add this feature and all of a sudden, you’re you’re.
You have to learn and become sort of fluent in this other sort of system that you didn’t write, so so it can work and you can do things and extend things and customize things that works with the grain and these frameworks, but oftentimes. What I found is I work with clients that end up sort of working against the grain and they end up having to sort of undo a bunch of stuff and write a bunch of other custom stuff.
And then they end up in this sort of like weird messy middle ground, where it’s like. This is our sort of hacky stuff that we’ve done to sort of make things our own. But then also crucially, I’ll say that, from like a more of like a front-end architecture standpoint, I think that it’s sort of like safe, you know you got good bones to build upon, but like material design and boots actually offer a sort of anesthetic right.
They provide anesthetic and that could be helpful because again it’s like oh here’s, some good, looking buttons, here’s some good, looking form fields, here’s some good, looking components that I could use, but if Nike Adidas Puma, if you know Reebok whatever, they were all to use bootstrap For their redesigns, they would look frightening Lee similar right and that’s sort of not what they’re going for so there’s like there is this sort of branding aspect of it right this own ability that sort of gets lost whenever you’re sort of all using the same thing.
What are some of the challenges or unsolved problems of design of design? I mean I, I think, sort of specifically to design systems like a lot of there’s some things that are around sort of you know, tooling, and sort of figuring out how to keep design tools and tools, expanding quiff. You know what’s in code, that’s definitely one of the most. I feel like tangible sort of problems that but there’s a bunch of teams, doing a lot of work to try to solve that and startups and stuff that there are really exciting.
And so a lot of them look promising. And I don’t necessarily think that that’s you know far and away the biggest problem. That’s out there. I think so. Many of the problems with with design systems have to do with the sort of people have to do with communication and collaboration and sort of figuring out like how do we get this stuff adopted into our products right? How do we sort of communicate when things aren’t working as planned like? How do we sort of you know, establish solid processes for releasing new versions of the design system and letting everyone know like here’s one? You want to use the design system or here’s one.
It’s sort of safe to sort of you know, deviate from that system or build upon it or extend it, and how do you roll that back into the system? So a lot of that sort of coordinating a bunch of different people who are all suddenly relying on this, this design system product that stuff, I feel is – is still very tough to crack because it involves people and your you know the health of your your you Know design and development culture and like how well everyone sort of you know, collaborates together and like, of course, that’s that’s tricky right, so you could like you.
Could I could say things like here’s how I would create a governance plan for a design sister for a design system and here’s how I would you know, get these teams to work. You know and communicate more buts and you know easier said than done. Okay, so how much of a design systems success depends on the designers as opposed to the developers? What is their role in the success of it? I think, and – and this might be a little controversial design systems is sort of an unfortunate name because design systems are like.
Oh, this is about design, and it’s really not. The design system is, as I define a design system is, is how the official story of how an organization designs and builds tadaryl products and there’s a lot of ingredients to that story. And yes, like the design language, you know what what the brand colors are, and you know the the rounded corners or not of the buttons and stuff like that sure that that matters.
But that’s actually like a pretty tiny slice of what a design system entails, and so so when it comes to the success of a design system. So much hinges on that design system living in code and living as a thing that engineers and developers can sort of pull down into their application and sort of you know import a component and sort of see that design systems button or whatever show up on their Screen and then they’re able to sort of you know pipe in whatever sort of attributes and click handlers and whatever to sort of make it.
You know, breathe life into it, make it real, but you they sort of get that stuff for free right. If all you have is like a sketch library or some like Zeppelin file or some like like little, it’s a style guide thing where it’s like: here’s, our colors and here’s or whatever, like there’s so much that gets lost yeah if all the developers are doing is Like copying and pasting some hex codes in there, you know sort of crappy like development environments, and it’s just you end up with a bunch of spaghetti, even if they’re all using like the same color blue.
It’s not like systematize right. So what you want to get to is, you want to say like if we change our brand color blue – and this actually just happened on a project of ours – got a brand color blue and actually it wasn’t passing the accessibility level that we wanted, and so they Actually had to sort of you know: tweet the the color blue in order to make that sort of pass. You know because sort of cut the accessibility, mustard and with a design system like you literally, have you know a variables file or is these design tokens? You sort of tweak that value there and then that ripples out to the entire sort of design system right and then that gets packaged up in a new release of the design system in code.
And then you know next time the developers pull that down. Those sort of get and see those updates, so so, coming back to it’s like yeah, like the design language part of it, like the look in the feel of it that matters, I’m not going to say it doesn’t matter, but it’s almost just like you’ll, like do Your thing make it look good like I, you know. I trust you be systematic about it right. Thinking about motifs that are going to sort of like you know, translate well the different components, but, like so much hinges on like getting that stuff into a place where it’s consumable by the actual sort of you know, environments that users will be interacting with your products And that’s what we spend, probably the overwhelming majority of our time and effort on is actually like building out those libraries with components right, an HTML, CSS JavaScript.
You know bundling that stuff up and like sort of working with development teams to make sure that they have what they need in order to use the system successfully. So, to what extent should a design system anticipate the chaos of user-generated content like errors and long names? What is the actual like breaking point of a design system yeah? Well, I think that the breaking point of the design system has everything to do with how well you consider all of that stuff right.
So if, if it’s user-generated content that you need to account for and you’re in your UIs, then you have to you know, consider things like character limits and things like that. But you know there’s many other flavors of that as well. You know internationalization right, right-to-left languages or just you know, German will wrap onto multiple lines, and things like that – and this is where I think again – sort of designing and building components in isolation is a bad idea because you could sort of you surf fall into the Trap of saying like well, here’s this like perfect scenario where you know everything’s filled in and the card has this nice sort of you know image I found from unsplash and it’s like really nice.
Looking and you know, as it happens, the users name is Sarah Smith and Sarah doesn’t even have an H on it, so it just fits so nicely onto one line and of course, the reality of of our user interfaces is anything but that, and this sort of Also comes back to like the trap, was sort of relying on these sort of static design tools to sort of handle that they’re up until very very recently, there weren’t even conventions in place to sort of handle like dynamic data, so that’s sort of how we handle That this is where atomic design as a methodology – I think, really shines.
So what atomic design does is basically helps people consider the whole the pages, the actual product screens in various states and configurations, as well as the sort of parts of that hole right. So the underlying components that build up those screens and at the page level of atomic design, what we’re able to do is articulate here’s. What our homepage looks like with this. You know the fall campaign with the leaves – and you know this tagline and this call to action button that takes people to this and and whatever, but then you’re also able to say, okay and then here’s what this that same page looks like in German or here’s.
What that that same page looks like with you know the Christmas campaign and oh that’s, sort of image that we’re using that has a bunch of Christmas ornaments that actually is sort of you know, impacting the the readability of the text. That’s sitting over that image or something like that right, so you could start seeing where the UI starts falling down and then what you’re able to do is is sort of take that and learn from that and sort of go back to that hero component.
At a more atomic level and sort of say, okay, we’re going to maybe add a variation of the hero component that adds like a little gradient overlay so that the the legibility of the text always sort of you know pops over the the image a bit more. So how we sort of do things like in our own workflow, with that we sort of will create sort of you know, try to represent the whole bell curve. So it’s like what does a card? Look like what does sort of like a kitchen sink card? Look like with like the maximum character count that you might be able to sort of upload as a user or something or what happens if the user uploads the profile picture, what if they don’t right, and so all those various states and sort of you know, mutations Of the other component, so to get that sort of commonly used case down.
Of course, as like a starting point but like you really do have to represent like here’s, the extreme and here’s the empty and sort of everything in between as well and the only real way to test. If that actually works is by sort of plugging in real products and Aereo’s into your user interfaces and by sort of having that best sort of atomic design system wired up where, like the pages, informs and influences the underlying components, you’re able to sort of make changes To those components with which, then, you know, inform and influence that the actual page design, so it’s sort of like a virtuous cycle between like the design system and the pages and screens that that system builds.
Finally, what resources would you recommend for people eager to learn? More about design, Cisco there’s a lot I feel like. I have a hard time, keeping up with them anymore. There’s a there’s a number of really great resources, one that I help maintain is a resource called style guides i/o, which is a collection of, I think, we’re over like 200 50 examples of public design systems and style guides that are out there in the wild as Well, as sort of talks and books and resources and tools around a design system, so that’s just like an open source resource repository that people contribute to and sort of, submit poor requests to.
There is design dot systems which is maintained by Gina Ann who’s done so much work for the design systems community. She has a clarity conference, which is a conference dedicated to design systems. We have a podcast, which is a little bit in hiatus, but where we interview people that work at different organizations who have spun up their design systems and what they’ve learned and sort of you know struggled with as they’ve as they’ve done it.
Stu Robson has a really fantastic design systems newsletter. That’s part of the design, dot systems, sort of universe there and then there’s also a slack group all about design systems as well. So I’d save it like that sort of has me covered for sure and again there’s like a lot of activity there and new stuffs happening every day and people are learning from things you know from each other and plugging them in at their organisations and sharing what They’ve learned and like that’s really for me, the most exciting part of all of this is just sort of you know.
Here’s some concepts here are some things that we’ve found useful share. Those people take them, learn from them validate or invalidate them and sort of share. What they’ve learned and then everyone benefits from it, so your book is also available for free to read online right where it is yeah yeah, so you could read it at atomic design. Brad Frost, calm great breath. This has been great. Thank you so much for pyrite.
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What’s going on guys Eric Ellis jr. Here with Eric tellers, jr., calm and, as stated, we’re going to go ahead and cover the exact, step-by-step process on how I actually rank my YouTube articles and, more importantly, how I rank multiple articles number one for various amount of Keywords and, more importantly, how I leverage that article ranking to drive more traffic to my YouTube articles and how you can do the same thing, which is not only helping grow.
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So that way I can help you live a life of time, location and financial freedom. Now, let’s dive in we’re going to go ahead and jump behind the computer and get into the good stuff, alright guys. So, let’s get right into the business. Basically, I want to show you guys how I ranked number one within 24 hours, with two different keywords for my YouTube: article right and the importance of this. And if you stay till the end of this article right, I’m going to go ahead and give you access to my little secret hack that can literally make this process so much quicker.
Now, first and foremost, let’s take a look at the articles right and just to make sure that that this is real right: how to get free money on PayPal. Out of nine hundred and thirty seven thousand results. I’m number one number two: how to get free money? Look look at this how to get free money. Sixteen seventy million results and I’m ranked number one right and you wonder why within two weeks – and I only have four thousand subscribers, I me wonder why I have eighty two thousand views right and then just to show you that this isn’t just like a one-hit wonder For a long tail keyword how to create a Facebook ad for affiliate marketing right out of four hundred and eighty nine thousand results, I’m ranked number one here: Ariella jr, I’m also ranked number two here, I’m ranked number four and I’m ranked number five right for this.
One keyword I have would be one two three out four articles ranked so what that means said guys what I’m about to teach you works right so, and why is this even important because number one you want to build your subscribers and number two is going to Enjoy a drive, a whole bunch of traffic to your YouTube, blog and number three. If you learn the skill set up how to monetize it, it’s like what I do.
I do it for the up marketing. You notice here at the end of my article four minutes into my article. I have a call to action telling people to claim my ebook within a two-week period. Right I gain 6,000 or excuse me, 8,000 views. Imagine how many visitors I got to my website. So if you’re trying to do website traffic or if you’re, trying to do sales funnel traffic, it is crucial to learn how to do this.
Article ranking so the first step to ranking your articles is finding out a related keywords. So you want to figure out where you want to go ahead and create our excuse me where you want to go ahead and actually find or rank your article for what words. Because the thing is the reason where why people don’t rank their articles is because they just decide to create content and then distribute it, but they really don’t put any thought process behind the title, their ranking or anything of that nature.
So that way, when people actually search they’re not going to get access to your content right so example, when people search this out of 70 million, I’m number one, and when people search this out of nine hundred thirty seven thousand results. I’m number one. So when people search for ma – for that word those words that keyword you’re going to go ahead and get ranked right now, the tool I like to use for keyword research is called Google Keyword.
Planner you can go to google set up a Google AdWords account. It’s going to tell you to start a campaign. You can literally go ahead and cancel the campaign. If you notice it says new form of payment required. Your current payment methods can’t be charged yeah because I cancelled it right. I’m simply just trying to use this so that way I can use this tool for free right and you can do the same thing.
Google Keyword planner and what it does is it allows you to see search volumes right, so just to kind of give you guys an example for it. I’m going to give you guys an example for this exact article right. The article title is youtube article SEO ranking hack step-by-step. Now, if you notice it says YouTube article SEO right. So the first thing is in that title add article SEO right. So article SEO has 1k to 10k articles per month.
Right now, when you’re, just starting out with article ranking and you don’t you’re, not a large authority on YouTube, meaning you don’t have a hundred thousand subscribers. Fifty thousand subscribers right you’re not going to get that natural traction right away. So you want to compete for less competitive keywords. Now an example in this. I have YouTube article right, that’s in my title, but I wouldn’t try to compete for that because right now it’s at a hundred thousand to 1 million right the competition it says low here, but that’s a lie.
There’s a ridiculous amount of articles on YouTube for this title right, so what I did was just pretty tricky is I literally compressed a whole bunch of keywords within one title, so that way it increases my chance of ranking at three separate keywords. The first keyword is YouTube article. The second keyword is article SEO right article SEO and then the third keyword is SEO ranking right. So I literally have, I literally, have increased my chances of ranking for this article that you’re reading right now when people actually come up search.
These three keywords right: I’m trying to rank my my article for that actual ranking. Now that’s the first step right once you go ahead and create the actual YouTube article. The excuse me once you go ahead and create the keyword, the keywords that you’re going to be searching or the article title. The next step is actually creating the article right. That’s what I’m doing as we speak now what you, when you’re, actually creating the article content.
You want to go ahead and say the keywords a couple of times. That’s why I said YouTube article SEO ranking. I said article SEO, I said ranking you want to say it multiple times, because what happens is YouTube actually picks that up, so it picks up that your your content is congruent with your actual keywords. Number three: is you want to make sure that um you’re increasing the read time how you can actually increase the read time on your actual YouTube articles is by hooking people in the beginning of your actual article, which is what I did earlier right.
You simply go ahead and build people’s curiosity by the first few seconds. You have to hook them and if you hook them on the first few seconds of your article and that’s why I told you you’re going to go ahead and get access to a hack. If you read this full article, then, what’s going to happen, is literally they’re going to read till the end and it’s going to increase your read time. What YouTube shows is the larger your read time for a specific article, it’s going to show that it’s quality content because they can’t read the articles in the self, so they go based off of data, so they stop the data.
It shows that you have a large read time. That means that it’s a great article, so they’re going to go in and increase the article ranking meaning somebody goes to this. Let’s just say this article right here and only two minutes are readed, but over here five minutes are read over here. That’s why this one is ranking higher this one’s a five minute article as well, this one literally. You might only get the reason why mine might be ranked higher is because this one might only get two minutes read.
Mine’s might get five minutes read, so it’s showing that mine’s is more of a quality article and YouTube’s main objective is to literally keep people on their platform right. All these social media platforms understand that their objective is to get you addicted right now. Number two or excuse me, number four. I don’t even know stuff on one number. Five, maybe, let’s just say number five right. The step is the key tip ranking.
Your articles is within the first sentence, having your keyword right so how to get free money right. This is crucial, so many people like to put their link, I’m sorry what so many people like to put their link as the first thing at the top. No, you want to go the easiest way guys to put your keywords, is literally just by reposting the title in your description right. So if you notice here, if I go to edit article, that’s right there in this article you’ll learn how to get free money on PayPal 2018, how to get free money on PayPal 2018.
So it shows right literally when you’re searching for the keyword. I don’t know we’re just happen with YouTube, but when you’re searching for the keyword right, it’s going to show look how to get free money on PayPal, how to get free money on PayPal. So it shows you guys the keyword. It is crucial to have it within your first sentence. You can have your link within the first sentence, but you also want to make sure that in the first few lines, first, three words: you have your keyword right, that’s crucial.
Then next step is to actually have great quality content right now. A lot of these articles pertaining to free money on PayPal it’ll be bull. Crap right. If you notice they’ll, have a whole bunch of crappy engagement. I actually made sure that I really gave people 3 methods that they can get access to, so whatever your content is deliver the best content possible an example. This article that you’re reading right now I’m going to be giving you guys the best content possible, I’m showing you guys actionable steps so we’re not going to increase my read time.
It’s going to increase the actual quality of the content, which increases read time like you want to make sure that you’re producing quality content and not just throwing anything together and make sure you use. If you’re selling the YouTube article SEO ranking. You want to make sure that you’re using you’re, constantly saying those keywords right now, after you’ve done all that and you actually edit your article and everything that nature right.
The next step is the off the off of article stuff right. So when I go ahead and actually press this in our press edit article right, how would you guys to see this? So? The first thing is your actual description right. If you notice here in this article, you’ll, learn how to get free money on PayPal 2018. So I’m again I’m how to get free money and also how to get free money on PayPal. So, in my dish, my article description, I’m naming my keywords right and that’s that’s another thing.
If you notice right here how to get free money, how to get free money on PayPal, so look at how many times I had this or search for related keywords. I’ll put this at the bottom right search for related keywords: I have how to get free money. How to get free money on PayPal, and you wonder why you see: look how to get free money on PayPal, how to get free money, how to get free money on PayPal! We’re! Yet in this article, you’ll learn how to get free money, how to get free money on PayPal and then right here how to get free money, how to get free money on PayPal, how to get free money, how to get free money on PayPal and then free Paypal right, your thumbnail now.
The next step that I wanted to tell you guys is that your thumbnail should be like click Beatty as hell and what I mean by quick baby they’ll just have three thousand dollars and a free PayPal, and then I have money in my head right now to Capture people’s attention, if you look here you’re you see if it’s going to allow you or if it’s going to execute it again how to get free money on PayPal, see if you notice guys, I said my keyword: how to get free money on PayPal, but free Money PayPal now, if you notice guys, I literally said my keyword within the first few seconds of my actual articles, so the easiest way to capture people’s attention.
It’s just simply go ahead, and literally repeat your actual. Your keywords right so in this article learn how to get free money on PayPal. They say that and then you transition to my intro and then you transition to the content, and then I say it constantly within my article. So that’s how you do a YouTube article SEO ranking guys. You guys got to go ahead and follow these steps right now. The next step that I stated is that you want to make sure that your, if you look it’s click, maybe right out of all of these.
This is a very quick baby. This is very quickly and if you notice, he has eight hundred and fifty two thousand views, and only ten months. This is a very quick baby like the red arrow, the money you want yours to capture like this is a very click baby, all right, but yet it has a lot. This is very quick baby. This is very quick. Baby I’ll show you like. That’s another click. Maybe one so you want something: that’s going to capture people’s attention.
That’s going to stand out beyond your competition. So that’s the next step to ranking your articles now, the next step, and basically the final step is the article tags right. So we’re going to go ahead and go to article edit right and the long way and then again, as stated before, for youtube article ranking, I’m going to go in and give you guys a secret hack to rank your YouTube articles extremely fast in a second.
But I’m going to go ahead and show you guys the normal way of doing this right. So what you’re going to do is in your tags. Where are we so in your tags right here? If you notice guys here’s my tags, these are the tags, the article tags that I’m trying to rank my article for right how to make quick money, how to make money, how to get free money on PayPal, blah blah, blah blah blah right. The best way to find tags is by once you search for example, SEO ranking.
Then you find what else is related right, so I’ll do like, for example, for this article I would do YouTube ranking and I would get results and here’s a keyword, youtube article ranking or SEO ranking so YouTube ranking. Then I’m going to go out and find other tags related right. So an example I can do ranked YouTube, but these are extremely low. If you just starting out this would be great to start right, 10 to 100 or actually the best, if you’re, just starting as a hundred to a thousand, because you want a good search value volume.
So you might do s you might do like SEO ranking there. Might be better options so SEO ranking Google ranking? Basically you you search for ones that are congruent with your actual content and then the magic number is 100 to 1k right now. Let’s just say you have 10,000. 20,000. 30,000. 30,000. I’m just you want my batteries at 7 % futsal and reps up pretty quickly. So, let’s just say you have 30,000 subscribers.
Then you were an authority you’re going to get instant traction. You can go for like 1 to 10 K. I mean, if you have a large freaking following you, can go to 10 K to 100 km, + right. The big freaking keywords right, because you’re going to get immediate traction, then you’re going to rank pretty fast. So what you want to do is literally copy these copy and paste into your tags, and then once you go ahead and paste them, the next step is literally just going going ahead.
It and saving the article now make sure what I’ll recommend is, try to put the keyword in your thumbnail as well and just make sure it’s clicked baby. So what happens is just kind of show you from the psychology perspective somebody’s going to come across my article they’re, going to go ahead and see the actual thumbnails quick, vide they’re, going to click it once they click it. They’re going to notice that my content is congruent with the actual title, and once they read they’re, going to notice that its quality conscious living and a read to the end.
And then, what I’m looking to accomplish from this actual article is for them to actually read till the end. So that way I can market whatever I’m trying to sell. On the back of my youtube article and again this article right here, eight thousand six hundred and seventy nine views within a two-week period. I I posted it April 12th, it’s the 28th right now. So 14 is a little early two weeks ago, so literally averaging about 7,000 views a week.
So that’s about a thousand views per day. What would that do for your business if you were to be able to generate a thousand views per day on all of your YouTube articles? Right now, again, it’s not going to happen on every article, but it increases the chances of you ranking your YouTube articles. Using these SEO or these article SEO hacks, but let me go ahead and show you guys, the hack that I was talking about to rank your YouTube articles even faster.
So what I use right, which is even freaking quicker. It’s called to buddy right now, basically down below I’ll, go ahead and give you access to it. You literally click the link with to buddy. It just makes my job so much easier right now. If you look here, I’m literally logged in but buddy already and one thing that it does is it shows me if my if my articles are being ranked right, so it shows they’re ranked number one.
I didn’t know they were ranked number one until I actually be locked in to log in to the back office and then you can actually see which words are number one or which keywords are number one. And then I searched them, and I showed oh by golly. Gee, it is actually number one number two is at the bottom here. It shows you 491 out of 500, so, instead of just randomly guessing how many tags right or getting that annoying, you have too many tags.
You can literally track how much space you have left as far as tags that you need to go ahead and put in your actual, your actual articles right number two is: I want to show you guys something so in two buddy right. There’s this feature where you can literally go ahead based off of your title that you put in you, can literally go ahead and click the button look cells for most ages. I’ve you how to build a sales funnel.
Let me just click the plus button marketing funnel stuff on the training, and it literally has the best marketing sales funnel. What does the sales funnel has the best tags for your article website funnels online marketing online marketing funnel right literally instead of you taking the time aside, tactic search through all these freaking tags, it literally makes cuz guys when it comes to online business.
It’s crucial to save I’m effort in energy right. You don’t want to spend hours upon hours. Doing this research and stuff talk a literally find a keyword that I want to rank my article for hop on to buddy, create the article content around and make sure I follow all the steps that I said in this article and then just add the tags. Really. Quick with two buddy and on the back end like I said you can actually monitor how many tags you have and you can go ahead and there’s a whole bunch of other features that I’m not going to go over.
You can once you go ahead and actually get access to it. You can kind of dive in right but lodge pad health report. You can literally look at all this stuff keyword ranked track and you can track track. Your actual, as as your article starts to climb the ranking you can actually track it right, there’s a whole bunch of stuff. In the software I mean it is extremely low price for the amount of time and money that I saved, and it was pretty cool.
If you don’t know – and you don’t have the skills of article ranking or you don’t think right, it does all the freaking work for you right so just makes it so much easier for you to wear literally. If you look here guys it does all it did. All this for me right, so it ranked two things for me and I get I literally this article right here has paid for the software for over a year, because literally yesterday, I made $ 1,300 in my affiliate marketing business, and it’s because I Drive free traffic To my sales funnels with articles like this and I generate sells right, I generate sales on freakin autopilot, so that’s the power guys um.
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So this is one of the questions that I get all the time from guys who are interested in getting into style blogging, but don’t really know where to start or how to do it or what the best practices are. Now I’ve been doing it for five years now and over that time I’ve learned a lot.
I’ve gained a lot of knowledge and experience and we’ve had a good amount of success throughout that time. You know there. There really was no blueprint for me of how to do it right. We were really sort of making it up as we went along and defining what this was going to look like what this was going to be and how it was going to be done. And you know things are always changing and you always have to adapt to a certain degree, but there are some fundamental things that I think are extremely important to think about to consider and to really know before you get into it.
If you want to be successful now, the first thing you need to ask yourself is: what do you want to achieve? Are you just extremely passionate about something and want to share it? Do you want to make money? Do you want to get free stuff? Do you want to be famous? There are no wrong answers here, and no one of those intentions is more or less noble than the other, but you really need to look inside and be honest with yourself about what it is exactly that you want to get out of this adventure, because having a Clear answer to those questions will define how you approach this and will guide everything that you do.
Next is possibly the biggest question you need to ask yourself, and that is what do you offer more and more. This is becoming an increasingly crowded space, and you really need to have something that differentiates you not only so that you stand out, but just something that gives people a reason to want to listen to you and to follow you. What makes you unique? What is your point of view? What do you have to contribute to the conversation so on our whiteboard in the studio? We have three questions written down, and these are questions that you should consider before you even start and that I think you should continue to revisit over and over again as you progress and start to have some success and continue to evolve.
And those questions are what is truly unique about you, what is truly ownable for you and what right do you have to play and win in this content space? It’s good to answer those questions again to help define what it is, exactly that you’re doing and hope to achieve, and that flows into what I think is one of the hardest questions to answer, and that is why are you doing what you’re doing now, if you Haven’t already, I really recommend reading Simon Synnex book start with why I’ll put a link to it below in the description, because this book and the concepts in the book will really get you thinking about some higher level stuff.
I find that even if people think they know the, why of what they’re doing it’s often hard to put into words now I always knew what I’d hope to achieve with. He spoke style, but it wasn’t until I read this book that I was truly able to articulate it and, and once I was able to once I had written it down, everything became so much clearer and there was so much more purpose behind everything that we were Doing you know if you’re really committed to being in it? You really need to have that kind of focus and to use your time wisely.
In addition, if you don’t have a clear vision that will come through and be confusing to people, they won’t know what you stand for or who you are or what you’re all about. If you haven’t answered that question for yourself and just saying that you want to inspire people is not enough, that’s what you’re doing or that’s what you want to do. It’s not why you’re doing it, so you can see that it’s really not that easy to define your why, but it is extremely important, in my opinion, if you really want to have a deep and meaningful impact on people now, once you’ve figured out the higher level Stuff, you need to sit down and make a plan.
Before I published a single post on he spoke style. I had made a year-long content calendar, it’s good to see the big picture, it’s good to see where you’re going and it’s good to have a schedule. You never want to get into a situation where you’re operating day to day or not sure, what’s coming up next now it does take a little bit of time to put something like this together, but if you really want to do it right, this is something that You need to do the time you invest in making a plan like this will pay huge dividends and will make every part of the process go that much smoother and having a plan like this will help you with the next part, which is to execute and be Consistent, I cannot stress enough the importance of consistency when it comes to publishing online, whether that’s a website, your Instagram Facebook YouTube blog.
It is so important to train your audience to give them something to expect and to look forward to on specific days at specific times, and not only that, but consistency is rewarded by the bigger powers-that-be, like Google and algorithms. These engines look for things like that, and if one of your goals is to reach as many people as possible, you really need to publish consistently next. I think it is so important to publish only high quality original content and again this is one of the things that will make you unique.
Now I started he spoke style because a lot of the websites I was reading about classic men’s style did not have original images of the stuff that I was reading about. Sometimes they were archival images. Sometimes they were sourced from other websites and that to me removed a lot of the personal connection that I wanted to feel and that I thought was very important to really getting behind a certain point of view.
Like don’t just tell me about something, show me how to do it show me how something should be worn. Show me how you would wear it, not a bunch of other people that I can find online myself now when it comes to original content and especially original artwork, I will tell you that great photography is absolutely non-negotiable. Get a decent camera set it up on a tripod work with a friend who has an interest in photography, and you can also pay someone to take photos for you.
The reason for that is because the level of production and quality of content being put out there. These days is extremely high and to establish yourself in that world you really need to be at or as close to the level of what’s already out there in the market. All right blogs do you need a website, Twitter or Facebook. Instagram YouTube, snapchat pinch a podcast! Now I have a very specific opinion on this and it comes from the nature of how I’ve set up my business and and grown my business.
Personally, I think a website is very important. I think Instagram is very important and I think YouTube is very important right now, a couple of years ago I would have told you that Facebook was very important now for me and for my business I really feel that it is extremely important to have multiple blogs. I like to have a wider portfolio of services available, just to be able to offer a variety of things and to be able to tailor our packages to best meet the needs of the brands that we work with now.
Can you have success with just one strong blog? Yes, you can, and there are plenty of examples out there – of people who have had a lot of success just on Instagram or just on YouTube. The problem is the media. Landscape is always changing and there is some risk associated with devoting your entire effort towards one specific blog. For example, when I was first getting started five years ago, I met someone who had a million followers on Pinterest, and this was her business.
She made money through affiliate links on her Pinterest content. Well, one year later, Pinterest came and said we’re not supporting affiliate links on our platform anymore and just like that, her entire revenue pipeline was shut off. So that’s just one example of the risk you’re taking on. If you decide to focus specifically on one blog now, the other thing is that, because the landscape is always evolving and there’s a shifting emphasis on different blogs, there are people who will jump from lily pad to lily pad, depending on which way the winds are blowing.
At the moment, and although I feel they might have some short-term success – they’re really trapping themself in this kind of endless loop of having to redefine who they are and what they’re about and who they’re serving that. I think it dilutes their brand and kind of calls into question their authenticity, so, if you’re an aspiring men’s style blogger, those are some things to think about that. I think are key to being successful, asking yourself what you want to get out of it.
What do you offer? What’s your point of view, why are you doing what you’re doing making a plan executing that plan consistently only posting original high quality content and deciding what blogs are the best fit for you based on your goals, so the business of blogging is a topic that I Plan to cover from time to time, and if you have questions or specific topics about that, you’d like me to talk about, go ahead and leave those in the comments, I’m very passionate about mens style.
But I’m also very passionate about the business side of what we do and I am happy to share everything that I’ve learned over the 5 years that we’ve been doing. He spoke style. If you like this article, please give it a thumbs up and do not forget to subscribe to the blog. That’s all for now guys thanks for reading and stay tailor.
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This month, it’s sold 17 thousand. Today, it’s Done 13 hundred bucks There’s an airplane coming In let me give you a tour And I’m going to share With you, four simple steps That you can get started: Making money online today Now you’re not going to start out making 700 thousand dollars a Month, like I’m doing It, took me a while to build up, But I’m telling you it’s easier to start now than it’s ever been Cause when I got started.
You didn’t have Shopify Amazon wasn’t easy to sell on. You didn’t, have Stripe. To collect credit card number, you know to collect And process payment, So if man, if you’re not in this game, I’m going to put a button Below you see over there, you see right there, I’m going to Be doing a little short talk on my website. You click this go over to my site and It’s absolutely free, you don’t have to put a credit card in I’m going to show you the Four ways to get started If you want within 24 Hours making money online Now, like I said it’s not A get rich, quick scheme, but trust me there’s Simple household items around your house: 700 thousand dollars in the last month, I’ve sold of books and book related things.
You know educational stuff More. This is just one Business, you could sell candle. I know people selling Candles making 100 grand – I know a guy selling candles. I think you’re going to make a couple million bucks Everywhere. You look so step number one to making money online. Find a household item – that’s interesting to you, My mom’s visiting, say hello. You know you could sell tortillas, You could sell food.
You Could sell dishes pots pans? That’s step number one find A simple household item: that’s related to what you Do on a day to day basis, Like I said, I sold what did I sell in glasses 13 hundred today, And then this is just not showing Amazon. Amazon did about three Or four thousand today So about five thousand dollars a day, And I also do stuff Related to sleeping well cause everybody’s got A bed and got ta sleep, So here’s some cars.
I Bring these down from L.A., Where I my main place is: This is a Rolls Royce, Dawn. Convertible got the top up. This is a convertible Aventador, So I’ll show you out here. One thing cool about this house: you could throw a huge parties, Cause you got ta front yard and then there’s two floors I’ll show you So step number two, so step number one find a simple household. Item that you use everyday that interests you could Be really simple: go simple, Step number two decide if you wan na sell using a website that you can build on Shopify ClickFunnels Or you can just use Amazon, You need to decide between those three There’s the upstairs there’s Two bedrooms up there, This place has five Bedrooms and six bath Step number three: okay, You got ta, connect them and you got ta get a way to collect money, So you can either use Stripe Braintree or if you sell on Amazon.
They have built in you can process through them. I don’t recommend PayPal, as your only source sometimes depends Step number four. Let Me show you downstairs by the way click the button below go, read the full presentation, I’m just giving you a quick tour. You need the full presentation, it’s absolutely free! It’s on my website The button’s, either here or here Click it go. Read I’m going to Do an in depth talk on this Got my books like, I said these books selling making 700 thousand A month, thank you, books, Simple household items, You could make money selling art pieces, this tables chairs, You didn’t realize your whole life full of money, making opportunities if You know how to sell online So step number four after you.
This is a crazy looking bathroom In here I don’t know why they made it so gold But gold finger bathroom Step number four: once you got those is you need to white label the products, So you don’t wan na have to create like if you wan na, sell Glasses or if you wan na, sell cosmetics or if you wan na Sell tables you don’t wan na actually manufacture. Them at least not to start So there’s a simple way that you can use.
What’s called white Labeling or drop shipping To take products that people have and put your own label and brand on it. With that said, you can be up and going with those four steps. Literally, if you start early enough today, you can do It today be up and running Now, like I said, you got, ta get sales, But that comes if you know how to do it. Amazon literally, has I Forget how many sales a day, 80 million sales a day, Different items sold, So if you do well in the Amazon ecosystem, people will find you Especially if you know how to rank there, it’s the master bedroom Guys know.
I like shoes, Can make money shoes you can be an affiliate, But I’m specifically, I wan na tell you these are some new ones. I got 13 retros, Specifically wan na show you How to make money online in a simple, realistic way, Like I said you know for some of you, you might be intimidated. By trying to make you know, 715 thousand Dollars a day by the way we’ve been making money, While we were on this walk while we’re on this walk, Made a couple hundred bucks in the last couple: Minutes, that’s the beauty by the way of selling online.
I call it robotic income Like robot never gets tired, it just does the work if you Build a website correctly using Shopify or ClickFunnels or Amazon. They never get tired. Those servers run as long as there’s Electricity they’re running And one of the cool Things if you wan na make 100 grand a year. A lot of people think it’s hard to make a 100 grand a year. It is if you have a nine to five job cause you’re only working Eight hours a day But a robot never gets tired, robotic income.
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Welcome back to my blog! What’s up! Thank you! So much for being here, they were going to call you guys up. This is the asteroid show where I answered your deepest darkest questions on social media. First caller is Charlotte and I’m getting ready as were chatting.
I wanted to be, as, like you know, real as possible, I’m a busy Cal and I’m just doing my ostracion as I’m putting my makeup on. So it’s like a multi, I’m some multi-level tasking entrepreneur, so we’re going to go with the first caller. Thank you. So much reading it we’re going to jump right. I think I have a microphone hello, hello, hello, hi. This is Jade girl to ask Jade, show hey Charlotte. How are you we’re doing amazing? So we got the we got the viewers here.
So, just let us know who you are what you do where were you from? I am from Scotland, I yeah. What do you do? What’s your? What’s your profession, I guess, what’s your, what are you currently doing on social media? Have a kind of like type thing? Oh I’m, taking at your account beautiful, foodie bloggers. What do you think is? What’s your current problem, how can I help you um? I just kind of wondered how to like insert more of myself into X.
Obviously, right now that’s kind of just like a lot of like food pictures but yeah, I kind of want to strengthen like personal side of it. So I got, I guess so. Maybe are you feeling, like you, get a lot more interaction and people find more value from food pictures? Not you. So you feel like if you post a picture. It’s like no one gives a shit. Okay, okay! I that’s what that’s a real problem, so how you do it like props to you.
Thank you. Well, let me let me take a look, so is YouTube something you’re currently working Harden or not as much you haven’t, sat down and filmed a YouTube article at all. I do Instagram lives or have you done anything with like face to face story? Interaction? Maybe you know what I think you should do. I think my biggest ever like tip for just starting to be like you know, trying to get comfortable with a camera, is really hard.
I’m telling you it’s like not like. I love the camera. It’s actually really weird, because no one’s fucking there, and sometimes if you go online right, if you ever like the do live, have you? Okay? If you have you done alive before? Okay, it’s just really awkward, but no one talks back and you’re just like looking for questions and no one’s asking anything. So how do you make it less awkward? So my biggest thing – I think I want you to try – is the key of being less awkward is called preparation.
So let me make it a little more less raw raw. I think what I would do for you is going on your DMS and whether you answer every single one or don’t for the next like leave it up for 24 hours to make people ask you, questions start the first couple articles slash you want to like segment Yourself inside just make it a Q & A do heavy Q & A because, what’s going to happen, is the reason why people don’t are not as interesting as Charlotte the person and more Charlotte the food? It’s because you don’t haven’t given them a reason to really care about you as a person.
For example, if you say give me a Q & A let me answer your questions and you do face to face interaction. They’re going to want to read your YouTube article. What I would do is, if you don’t know what to say, make people ask you. The second thing is you should try something called. It’s called like the 60 60 minute challenge. I think it might help you so basically a little bit. Okay, are you ready? So I actually I do this for so many Oh kind of like my artist friends like people who make music cuz some people just don’t wan na fucking.
I don’t know why they’re an artist but they don’t wan na make a song. So I try to help them with how to be more comfortable, putting stuff down on paper. So for you, I would say: set a timer 60 minutes, whatever you film in that 60 minutes, you have to post it, whether it’s stupid or whether it’s good you have to so. This really gets your mind to kind of be okay. With imperfection good luck, charlie, I hope you crush it by the way.
Send me a DM after you crush it, and I love to know how it goes hey. This is JT on the ask Jay. True hey what is up girl toss? What’s your name where you from my name is dope peace? That’s a beautiful name of what the heck! I love it. What do you? What are you clearly which would pretty clearly up I’m about to uploading article? What do you do on social media? Okay, that’s a great question because right now I’m not really sure I am trying, but I feel like they don’t try to become influenced it just happen.
So I’m just trying to figure out and navigate do like being youtuber in if I’m even a youtuber. Yet because I have what do you think makes someone an influencer an influencer? Basically, I want to change this like later on, as I become an experiencer myself, but I either right now I feel like an influencer or someone who can equation can carry on and it’s their word or like what they say about certain things.
It gets carried on. A lot of people are reading them, they have envy or they have just people have their eye on them. Okay, people these piece weeks. How about this? How do you measure an influencer? That’s a better question. I feel like you’re like no, like you know. How would you measure someone like, for example, like how would you measure how influential someone is there you go, it’s a hard one think about it.
Well, I’m thinking right now is like oh, okay, tell me more. What does that explain it to like a five-year-old saying, peace? How do you measure influence go wow? You might do something great right now, but not everyone can see it well. How would you measure your success if someone is okay, honey, mm-hmm? I know a lot of youtubers action, don’t make money, so those are the stupid utility you’re supposed to make money for, of course, I think about it like this there’s nothing wrong with money.
It’s just about how much time you’re dedicated. If you have all your money made from YouTube, your hashtag dedicated that’s your job, so I feel like people who are half-assing YouTube and don’t make money it’s because they don’t know they’re, not actually 100 % committed, which is not evil. I think people kind of tie grounds to hardly with money, so I mean like. Let me know: do you really want to quit your job and do you two full-time one, do if you’re starting small and you haven’t, made any money yet and like he’s being consistent or you’re trying to rescue like? Where did that? Please you what’s your goal to make money right in what yeah time it’s time holding you Matt’s, not enough time, not enough money to do what you want or not enough self-confidence.
/! It’s yourself holding back! This is what I would do. Peace, I’m going to help you out with your YouTube career when you’re, when you’re small, you do the following things: you just test a lot of shit you’re just going to try something and you’re trying to do what people want to do, which is make content. So what you first of all the first thing, this first step to be YouTube famous, is you need a frickin be like through the roof? Confident, if you like, talking to camera, make that like become just best friends, what’s going to happen? Is people only follow people that have what they want if you’re not confident enough, if you don’t show them that you are in love with this more than they aren’t they’re not going to follow you, I think too many people realize they’re scared about posting.
You literally, if you can’t, if you’re scared of posting a article, no one wants a fucking, follow you, because everyone in their own home just are is insecure. The reason why youtubers or success will succeed is because either they’re extremely confidant, camera and people kind of want that in you know kind of embedded in them. So they read you more. I think that’s what you need to start with start with a little bit of confidence.
This might mean taking a trip to the park and just kind of being real with yourself doing, a really full beat look to make you feel better whatever you start with yourself. First and then what I would do next is don’t give a shit and do my favorite technique called top ten of top ten. So this is something I haven’t cinema youtube yet, but what you can do right now? Peace go to your top ten favorite youtubers.
Go to their most popular articles, take ten of their most popular articles and recreate it in your own words. So then you have a hundred unlimited. You have a hundred unlimited articles that you know is proven and works. Okay, and what’s the problem with that? What’s going to help you’re going to you’re going to get sued, so something more like what are you afraid of with someone getting upset? No, no one gives a shit like no one.
You have to understand you’re, not copying, there’s a difference between okay, I think imitation is horrible, like copying their words or style, it’s horrible. What you can do is steal, there’s a book. Actually I want you to read it search steal like an artist. What it’s basically saying this book is saying: you want to steal like an artist which means you don’t take from one creator, you take from ten different creators and you just take the ones that you really like the pieces that works.
You don’t want to imitate anyone. Imitation is all flattery. I do agree with that. Just don’t take from one person take from multiple sources. That’s not stealing! That’s called interpretation, alright got it! Thank you love. Your piece have a good day. Hello, hey. This is JD on the a street show. What’s up? Okay, tell everybody what’s your name and where are you from I’m from LA cool? What’s up, how can I help you today? No, I had a quick question for you.
I am a sports journalist, particularly for the NBA. I wanted to know because a lot of my content and access piece – and it’s a lot of stuff like that games or events or practices and stuff and with the season over, feel like I’ve kind of hit a little bit of a wall, creating content, because there Just hasn’t been as much stuff to post. How do you keep that fresh when it’s kind of a drag ball right now with that with, like that’d, be a season over in LA on it, so you’re on 5,000 followers? What’s the outcome you really want to see from this like fucked off my head: I’d love to eventually be at like 50,000 200,000.
What do you think’s holding you back from getting to you? 50 100,000. I’m sure, like I think I posted contact cuz right now. A lot of your work is less it’s either you or the player. Have you had a piece of kana that to you guys together yeah, I posted some stuff, it’s a little further down, but like like an interview, because so this is what I think for you. I think you don’t have necessarily like OJ and I don’t know what to post like you do know what to post.
You know what gets likes. You know what people want to see. It sounds like to me: you just have a distribution problem. Do you think I’m onto something for apps yeah? No, you go. You go first over think I tend to overthink in general, but especially now it was posting. It has I’ve gotten more followers because I was around, like I probably had 700 like last summer, so I’ve gotten more followers. I got started overtake my captions and like when I ask a question.
I’ve noticed that I get pretty good engagement and results of questions, but I don’t know if I should be asking a question on every post or like some post. I can’t really think of a question that would go with the photo, the one where I’m like, posing with the basketball yeah that couldn’t really think of a question for that. But I think for me, if it’s a distribution and on top of that, like oh, I mean what I what I think about when I put yourself maybe, but if I’m myself in your shoes, maybe it’s like oh shit, I’m the shit now and I got ta.
Look cool so like for that, when you feel like you’ve made it somewhere, I would just do the complete opposite and just tell yourself you did to help you have it on shit, a lot of people when they get too big or, like I don’t even fake When you just experience fast growth, it can ultimately kill you, because in your head, you’re getting complacent and a little bit less oh, I think you actually know what to ask and what people want to hear it’s more of a fact of how vulnerable are you test? Testing a lot of things because you have to realize you’re still in the very beginning stages right now, you can’t overthink.
You really can’t afford that, but your dreams are bigger, I’m assuming so maybe you need actually think about like this, like you’re, just starting who gives a fuck. If you don’t know what to caption it, you have a lot more to go. That’s the first thing. Second thing is once you get over yourself and you’re like okay, I haven’t done shit. This is just only the beginning and I don’t need to worry so much about what people think.
I would actually take some of your best work. You did the spreadsheet thing, which is fucking cool, and this kind of like do this like smart, to take a photo with someone that has your audience. For example, amigos! That’s huge! What I would do is just take that freaking photo of a really meaningful caption and describes you and what you do put that as a Facebook or Instagram ad and show it to only migos followers.
People who are fans of me goes, I am Telling You they are going to come by on your page, a big host shit, I’m also like, because I’m I know a lot of guys if you target lot of guys, they listen to me, goes they’re, probably also Into basketball, so you know what I mean like, I feel like what you should do is distribution is simple ads. It’s it’s literally. What five dollars a day you can app at in just take your best content that you think people would be super interested in which is probably a photo and then insert yourself into it and then get that distribution down, because you already know what to post.
I feel like if you just want more followers triads, it’s the most targeted and fastest way: okay, okay and then one last question yeah a lot of photos of myself. I don’t want it to just become all about me, like I kind of want to invite value. To my see my followers, how would you say going about balancing like inserting myself into to my posts versus I know providing that most of people come for the other stuff? I assume.
Let me give you example. There’s a reason. Why Will Smith Will Smith? The page like Will Smith’s Instagram is better than a Will Smith’s Instagram like there’s a reason, my quote: Instagram pages, don’t do as well as maybe the personal page. I don’t think, there’s anything wrong with incident yourself in it, and why do you think it’s wrong? I feel like personal touches. People want to see face-to-face interaction, just because you put a selfie in it, doesn’t make it invaluable the values in the caption, the photos, just entertainment.
I don’t think you should worry about that. Okay, okay, so you think it’s fine to post more photos of myself as long as I’m providing value in the caption, I think that’s, what’s best people kind of want to see you kind of in the mix. I think that’s what makes you if you wanted to start just a. I don’t know editor page without you that would that be different story, but this is your page. This is like your page right, so you need to add yourself into it.
Alright, I’m going to go ahead over the next call. Let me know if you ever need anything have a great day. Oh, this is the completed. Look, it’s actually currently. 4 p.M. I have an event at 6 p.M. It’s actually with my marketing agency client. Through this article, a like, if you’re enjoying my content so far and just subscribe to this blog just for more that’s all – I love you guys. It’s all my best shit is free and if you’re wondering, if you want to be on the next acts, Jade show, I will link below how you can get involved.
It’s very limited, but I would highly recommend if you actually want one-on-one coaching. Whenever you see here is ten times more exclusive and deeper in my coaching calls, so I’m not trying to sell you guys anything, but I just know something these guys really do truly need that you can change the trajectory of your followers. Trust me it’s not for everybody, but I thought throw it in here. I will also link below how you can get involved with my coaching, it’s very, very selective, so I’m just letting you know the dog, it’s not for everybody, but I thought I’d.
Let you know that I’m doing those if you’re interested to that cause with comment the supposed to be be to the next at fist. You have a bit of my vlogs in a fat minute. It’s do lots. How are you guys stopping? Can I tell this: that’s how we mingle two seconds guys literally, we lasted there in two minutes front of it as a social interaction, the crack at it. I’m only like like a little bit, I only like just like yeah, I’m not really into the injecting.
You know I’m like okay, I know it’s friends are too. You know, that’s why I’m youtuber friends that we talked to that to get the mom. Did you guys do drugs in high school really Bob no way what Celine I’m ready? I already beat you guys. Guys did you drink, you would definitely drink in high school mom high school, my family, no family. We only got a wasted day on the weekends, so funny think I’m a story.
So I was my first day when I went to LA alone, which is like last month, I text my text, my dad’s saying goodnight and my dad thought it was not me and he called me in the middle night. Who is this? This is not Jade. This is no Selleck Jade can’t believe you don’t have faith in me: hey music, Jason, a party like what guys come down below if your parents caught you or you’d have a guy caught. Yet I’m back home.
Thank you so much for reading it. I want to close off this article by saying I love you I’ll catch you guys in the next one
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2 Zuko shows us that he can make these daggers out of fire and they’re super cool. I wanted some fire daggers when I was kid for sure, but instead of fire daggers. Well, I’m going to be doing today is a review of this kunai dagger that you can get links in the description, but definitely stick around and see how good this is for you now guys if you go out and buy this knife, kunai dagger, whatever you want To call it, I’ve got to come any case just like this, with a little pair of cord at the end and your belt loops that you can scrap your belt through there now you can choose to you, know, strap it to your belt and have it on Your hip or you can strap it around your neck and have it underneath your shirt.
Now here’s the thing it doesn’t come with straps that hard long enough this, since this is just paracord, that’s not a super big issue. Paracord super cheap, and you can just you know, buy some more paracord to make yourself a necklace, but just know that this doesn’t come necklace ready, even though it would work because holding it upside down doesn’t really come out like that, like I can shake it around Running around doesn’t really come out until you pull it out.
Just like that. Now, what we’re going to do is we’re going to talk about the knife. This knife is meant for throwing. Hence why it’s solid on the front, and it’s got these holes that are actually meant for weight. It reduces the weight that it this knife will have wouldn’t blowing through the air that way it can spin it a lot better. It can throw a lot easier to fly through the air nicely all that fun stuff.
Now I kind of suck at drawing knives relatively I’m not the greatest, but I was able to find my pattern and be able to get this to stick relatively often compared to some of the other knives I’ve thrown. So, in my opinion, this is great for throwing. You are also able to use this as a weapon or self defense weapon being able to hold it in your hand, either up right side up for that stabbing motion or how I would choose this way down.
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This is your first time, Here, welcome to the community. My name is Luc Durand, the founder of rankingacademy.Co.Uk, which I created to help local business owners like you, thrive, Online and run successful businesses If you want to join the thousands of people, Who are already part of this growing family? It’s simple and free. Just click. On the subscribe button and the Bell notification – and you will automatically Be alerted when I publish a new article If you’re ready, let’s jump in Google, my Business listing audit: Do you have a Google my business listing? I know this Sounds obvious for many of you, but they are tons of businesses out there who Have yet to claim their Google listing Like this one face: painting fairies, Google, my business is crucial to your online success and will have a major Influence on your overall online visibility, If you haven’t claimed your Listing yet do it now, if you don’t know how read my article, how to set up Google My business for best results.
If you have a listing and it is verified, it’s Important to get it right Here is what you need to look out for Business name Use the same business name that you would use in real life and that Is printed on any of your legal documentation or business cards? Do not Add any additional keywords in a hope: you will rank higher It’s against Google’s policy and you may get suspended, Address and phone number Make sure your address and phone number are accurate, get this wrong and you will Be in a world of pain, you will mislead Google and your customers too.
Business Categories Ensure you’ve selected the right primary category for your business. As it will influence your rankings enormously, This can sometimes be a Tough choice, dentist cosmetic dentist and dental clinic are three different. Categories so make sure you choose wisely Once you’re done with your Primary category, you can add secondary categories that apply to your business. Business hours Have you entered your business hours? If not make sure you do.
People look at this stuff, Don’t cheat and pretend you’re open when you’re not To avoid frustration and potential bad reviews, which leads me to my next point: Reviews Reviews are a major influence when it comes to rankings. It could make The difference between your competitors ranking and not you, How many do you have? How positive are they have you responded to all of them? You can encourage Customers to leave you more reviews with this nice little tool that will generate A link which will automatically trigger a Google my business review pop up and Ease the review process For more info on this just check my article on how to Collect reviews Website Link your Google, my business listing to your website.
If You haven’t done it yet FAQs. Have you added frequently asked Questions to your profile, FAQ will help people make informed decision about your Business People also use the FAQ option to ask about services you provide, which Can often generate fresh leads, so there are not to be ignored If you’re stuck About what to write in there here is a tool that might help answerthepublic.Com Throw a keyword in there and it will spit out a list of common questions.
You can use Photos. Photos are probably the best way of showcasing your Business and capturing attention so add some photos regularly. You can also add Articles and 360 panoramic views for better engagement. Google posts. Do you Publish any post, You can increase your visibility with Google posts Posts can Be used to provide an update about your business, promote a product, a service or An event They increase your listing prominence in search results, especially On mobile and are used automatically to answer FAQs in the FAQ section, Although they expire every 7 days, it’s a great feature, not Many businesses are using so make the most of it.
Business description. Have you Added a business description: if you haven’t time to start typing, You can add A description to tell customers a bit more about your business in up to 750 Characters: Google, my business, has more options available. Some of them industry specific, but if you can nail these down for now, you will Have a solid profile Time to move on to citations audit, If you don’t know what A citation is, it is a mention of your business in major directories and social Media platforms, which generally includes your business name, your business, address your business phone number and sometimes a link to your site like in this example.
On yell.Com, which is a major directory in the UK Having your business listed in These is the foundation of any local SEO strategy and is important for two Reasons these directories very often rank at the top of search engine results. For local searches, which may include your business and drive traffic to your Site but more importantly, it helps create trust and legitimacy with Google Who will be discovering your business across all these platforms, But for Google, to establish trust your business information needs to be accurate and Consistent everywhere your business is mentioned.
You could check the Consistency and accuracy of your business information across the web, Manually, but to be honest with you, it is a very tedious exercise and can still Lead to errors Instead use a tool that will do the legwork for you in my Opinion bright, local is one of the best tools to just do that. You can create a free account for 14 days without using a credit card which Is more than enough time to check if your business is mentioned in all the Right places, and if there are any errors, You can even download a full citation.
Report and will also have access to tons of additional information once you’ve. Set up your profile, The next thing we’re going to check is: if your website is Responsive Checking, if your website is responsive, is just ensuring that your Website works on all types of devices and, more specifically, on mobile phones. When it comes to local search, most of your visitors will come across your site. Via a mobile phone, so if your website is not compatible, your business is really Going to suffer To quickly check if your website is adapted to multiple devices, Download this free, resizer app in Google Chrome then simulate your website view.
On the various devices available, The next thing we’re going to look at is Your home page Since the home page of your site is your most important page. It Deserves to be analyzed separately, as there are many things to take into Consideration To really maximize your SEO opportunities: this is what you Should check Is your title tag optimized and includes the keywords and the city Name, you are targeting.
Have you added a Meta Description to your page, compelling Enough, so that people will want to click on your listing in Google when they come Across your business is there a main title, also known as h1, which stands for Header, which also includes your main keyword and city name, Is there an Obvious call to action on the page, such as a phone number that is visible Without scrolling down Is the call to action visible on the mobile version of Your site, without scrolling down, is there enough content on your page? Think Of including your services and products, and whatever else you think, is relevant Are you linking to important sub pages from your home page, which you’d like Visitors to click to and Google to discover Do all your images have an alt Tag Are you talking about your location where your business operates? Have you embedded a Google map related to your business, so visitors can check Directions straight to you from your homepage: Does your page include your Name address and phone number, which is consistent with your Google, my business Listing Once you’ve completed all of the above, it’s time to analyze the rest of Your pages For this we’re going to use a tool which is going to speed up the Process enormously Go to ubersuggest.
Com And in the search box add your domain name. I am going to use the example of This dentist located in tampa florida Click on search. This will initially give You an overview of your website, which includes the number of organic keywords: You’re ranking for the estimated organic traffic and the number of links pointing To your site, On the left hand, side choose site audit at the bottom of the Menu and click on search to trigger an automatic scan of your site, which should Take up to three minutes Once completed, you should see a breakdown of errors.
Warnings and recommendations Click on the first box to bring up the full list. In there you will be able to uncover issues with your pages, such as duplicate, Meta title low word count and missing headers across your site and fix them If You are unfamiliar with the errors, highlighted just click on the. What is This and how do I fix it, which is very helpful Since this is an automated scan? It doesn’t include every recommendation so once you’ve fixed the highlighted issues, I recommend you also check the following items for all your pages: Include the main, targeted keywords you are trying to rank for with your page And the city name in your main title tag Include the main targeted keywords: you Are trying to rank for with your page and the city name in your main header? Make sure the keywords is different from the home page and unique for each page.
Ensure your content is well structured and includes subheadings Add keywords in your subheadings, which are related to the main keywords you are Targeting for these pages Look at this example, One heading includes fuse box. And the other consumer unit, which are closely related. Finally, don’t forget to Add alt tags to your images Time to now. Look at how well your business is ranking in Google When it comes to local search.
Your business is likely to show in two distinctive areas within Google, The First, one is in Google Maps with your Google, my business listing, which will Also include the map pack, The second one is what I call the more traditional Results which sit below the map pack, which is where your business website Will be listed, It’s important to know how well your business ranks and for What keywords so you can monitor if any of the improvements that you have Implemented have made a difference to your ranking Head back to ubersuggest And re-enter your domain name, if needed On the main screen, click on the organic Keywords tab: This will show you all the keywords your website is ranking for in the Traditional results, you can even export the results in Excel, save the data and Recheck a few weeks later, so you can compare rankings and check if you have Gained any positions, If you are not ranking for any keywords between Position 1 and 10: it means you’re not on the first page of Google for any Keywords, so there is a lot of work to do To make things simpler, moving forward.
I suggest you create a profile in ubersuggest for your website, which will Track your progress automatically, so you don’t have to keep downloading Excel. Spreadsheets and see in seconds, if your doing well or not Unfortunately, ubersuggest doesn’t track rankings for Google. My business listings In Google Maps, so it only gives you half of the picture To do this head over to a Site called localFalcon.
Com Local Falcon is a software that allows you to Track how well your Google, my business listings, ranks directly on Google Maps For a given keyword, I love this tool as it is very visual and you can instantly Get a feel of how well or badly your business is doing. Local Falcon is not a Free tool, however, you can create an account and run one free scan, which will Give you a good idea of how powerful this can be for your business.
Let me run Through an example with another dentist, called Denton dental located in Nashville USA, Once you’ve created an account click on scan on the main menu Start typing your business name in the business field. It should come up. Automatically, Please note that if you have decided to hide Your business address in your Google, my business listing you won’t be able to Run the scan Add the keyword you want to target.
In this instance, we’re going to use “ dentist Nashville” Choose the radius you want to target and then the distance Either in miles or in kilometers, Then select the grid size, Click on run, search, You will see dots showing where your business ranks and in what position. Based on your criterias, Any position beyond three means: your business is not Featured in the map pack, which really is where you want to be Clicking on the Dots will give you access to more details and check which businesses Rank above you and how far down you are on the list, Local Falcon stores all your scans, so you can easily compare them and Understand if you are making any progress over time Time to move on to our last item external links, External links, pointing To your site are one of the most important factors that will influence Your online visibility, In summary, the more quality links you have pointing to Your website, the more relevant it will appear to Google, who will reward you With higher rankings, But how strong is your link profile? To check this go back to ubersuggest.
Com once more and search for your Domain On the main screen check what your domain score is. This score is Calculated on the basis of external links pointing to your site, The lower the score, the weaker the site Run the same scan for your competitor’s Site and look at their domain scores If your score is lower than theirs is Because they have more valuable links pointing to their site than you do This Means there is a great chance you will be ranking lower than they are for the Keywords, you are targeting.
The solution. Try getting more web sites to link to Yours, If you don’t know where to start, you can spy on your competitors, links by Clicking on their domain score, This will show all the links pointing to their Site Just try to get the same links as they do. That’s it for today now it’s Your turn Download the SEO audit checklist and run through each item. One By one, I’ve made this very simple to use just put a cross in Yes or no box and it will change color automatically Once completed.
You will See how well or badly you’re doing just by looking at the overall color scheme, And which item you need to address based on priority Hope you liked the article if You have any comments or questions post them below and until next time, happy Marketing
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