All right. So once again, hello everyone and welcome to today's online workshop. Today's topic is what is SEO? SEO is short for search engine optimization. So I'm Ben. Nice to meet you all again. I recognize some people, but it looks like we have some new people here joining my session as well. So good to have you. I live in Japan. I've lived in Japan for over 30 years. I've been a WordPress user since 2014. So about eight years or so now. I initially started just building sites for myself and my church and like different community projects. But then a couple of years ago, I started working as customer support for WordPress. That's when I really got to dive into WordPress and understand how it works. And then this year I've joined the training team in the WordPress project. And I am here to create education resources like these online workshops and also to help other volunteers. So that they can create educational resources like this as well. So I enjoy helping people with WordPress. And if you're interested in hosting these workshops, do get in touch and I can tell you, I can share with you how you can get involved also. Anyway, just some ground rules about online workshops. These online workshops are intended as a space for us to learn together. So you can ask questions at any time. The Zoom chat, I have that open. I'll be monitoring that. And I don't have to be the one answering questions either. So if you know the answer to a question somebody else asked, go ahead and add that to the Zoom chat and hopefully we can all learn from each other through these sessions. Just as a reminder, the sessions are recorded and they will be uploaded to WordPress.tv so that people who couldn't make this session can also see the content. And once again, if you're interested in hosting these workshops, I can show you how you can get involved also. And yeah, hi Sue. Sue from Life in Secular Recovery. So thank you for joining us. Okay. So I have another question I want to ask people. How familiar are you with SEO? So one is I've never heard of it before. And today's the very first time I'm hearing about SEO. And then 10 is I'm an SEO specialist and I work with SEO every single day. Maybe you help client websites get better SEO. So in a 1 to 10, where would you say you are? Right, we have an eight, a three, a two, four or five, three, a three, six or seven, eight-ish. Wonderful. So a good spread of experiences here. Or five. No one had said one yet. So it seems like we've all heard of SEO before. But maybe we're not exactly sure how it applies to our own sites. And so I myself, I think I'm maybe a seven or so, six or seven. So it looks like there are people here who might even know more than me. So do join in the chat. And if you have information you can share or even information you can add to what's in my slides. I'd be happy for you to join. Which reminds me, I do have my slides and I usually share this with folks. So let me get the link for that. All right. So I'm going to go through these slides on the screen here. But if you want to go back a few slides to see what I said or and if you want to click on the links in the slides, I've just shared those in the zoom chat here. And they'll be available after the session as well. So if you just want to focus on the presentation, you can come back and check those slides later. Right. So generally, how do people find our blogs or websites? I say blog here, but the same thing applies to websites. How do people find us? And I think there are mainly two methods people find us by first one is through surgeons and results, like Google and being in Japan, we still have Yahoo. And then there's everything else. So word of mouth, maybe people see your website address on a flyer. Maybe they just subscribe so they don't even go through the search engines. So people come to our sites through two different doors. And today we're going to be talking about talking about people coming to our site through search engine results. If you're interested in all the other methods, people join our site or come to our site. I did do a online workshop recently. I've left the link there in the slides. Ideas for getting more views on your blog. So if you're interested in that aspect of getting more visitors, do check that presentation out also. But today, we're going to be looking at people who come through search engine results. So I've broken my talk down into four chapters. And the first one is how do search engines work exactly. So in able to optimize for search engines, we need to know how search engines work. The second is what is SEO and why is it important? Thirdly, what can I do to make sure my site is ready for search engines? This will be our biggest topic today. And I have, I think, almost 10 different things you can do to improve your SEO on your website. And finally, as a bonus, I'll be introducing just briefly a couple of other types of SEO which you can look into further after this session. So yeah, before we jump into the content, did anyone have any questions so far? They wanted to get off their chest before we start. Doesn't look like it. We're all ready to dive in. Cool. Okay. So how does search engines work exactly? So search engines stand bot to your site. And I have a little character here and pretend this is the search engine bot. And they don't actually look this cute. They're just programs. But search engines send these robots or send these bots to different websites to check out these websites. What is the content about? Where do they link to? Almost like a person looking at a website. Not exactly the same, but they do come to websites and crawl. So we use the word crawl here to say people look through your website and to pick out information from it. So bots come to your website. And the main thing is they click through links on your site. So that helps them navigate through your entire site. Look at all your pages and all your posts. So links are really important to help bots through your site. And as a bot looks through your site, it figures out keywords for your site. So in this example here, this site is looking at this pink site. And it goes, alright, so this site looks like it's a store filling clothing. And then it looks at the descriptions of the different products. And it says, okay, I've seen the word cute and modern appear a lot of times in these descriptions. And then it looks at the site footage and says, ah, the store said it's in Sydney, Australia. And so what the bot is doing is when it's looking at your site, it's trying to pick out the different keywords here. You can't say this is the keywords for this site. You can't really specify these are my keywords. So what's going to come look through your site and figure out what the keywords are on its own. But anyway, once it figures out what the keywords are for your site, it then records those in the search engine database. So in this example, this bot connects this pink site to the word store clothing cute modern Sydney in the database. So now, if anybody, so whenever somebody starts a search query, and they look up different words, Google and the search engines aren't exactly traveling all through the world looking at all the websites to find what's going to be a close match. What it's doing is it's just looking at its own database and all the data it already has stored there to figure out what might be the best result for this person's query. So in this case, if this woman here is searching for modern clothing stores in Sydney, the bot looks at the database, it goes, okay, I found the store that matches most of the words. This, this woman hasn't specifically searched for cute, which was also in the database, but that's okay. The bot's going to try and find results that are closest to what this person is looking for, and then recommend that in search results. So that is an overview of how search engines operate. One other thing I did want to point out is search engines keep look for keywords they travel through links they look for keywords that's one of the most important things they look at. But there are other aspects of your site search engines are looking at and they sort of give your site a score and sites with the highest score, they're going to rank higher in search engine results. So for example, different things as what we're looking to what other sites do you link to. So, what external sites is your website linking out to, and then also looks at who is linking back to your site. So, it can collect that information from your site directly, but as it travels through other websites in the world. It's keeping in note of how many people are linking back to your site, and if those sites out there are credible. So their score, those sites linking back to your their score, and your score is sort of interconnected here in a sense. Something else bots are looking at other images and videos on your site. What are these images about. It's also looking to see if your site loads quickly. So does the layout look good on mobile devices as well. So not just desktop but in in a vertical mobile screen is the site looking okay. Is the site secure does it have a secure certificate on the domain. These, these are just some of the other aspects a bot is looking at when it gives your site a score in its database. All right, so let me pause there. Does anybody have any questions so far about just generally how search engines work. I had one question about linking. How important like is HTML or like that type of tagging in that results when there's certain when the bot searching initially. Do you mean like HTML tags in your links specifically. Well just in the website itself, like how it's coded. Because I understand is SEO does like you know, h1 h2p tag button maybe. And it also has like an accessibility right so that you have something to do with ranking as well correct. My understanding is so you're talking about the structure of say pages and posts and the headings and the paragraph tags. And my understanding is yes it does look at that. So for example, headings should be in order so you should have one h1 tag, and then you have h2s under that, and then h3 should be nested inside the h2. If you had like multiple h1 tags or if these heading levels weren't nested correctly, then the search engine is going to say that's a miss like a badly formed site and give you a lower score. So what you're saying is important that the tags you use in the structure of your page is definitely important. And there's also another type of tag called meta tags, which we will talk about a bit further so I think there are two types of HTML tags to the content tags which as you say are important, and then meta tags which will look in a moment. But yeah great question thank you. So we have a few people drop things in the chat here. M says bots also try to navigate the overall page content to understand what it is about. So if the heading structure doesn't make sense that lowers your ranking are great so that's that's the same as what I just said here so it is looking at your structure. If it doesn't make sense, it lowers your ranking. Jean says 15 years ago, we were told to mutually exchange links with other sites. So our sites would have more link backs. All right, so that's talking about the second point here, which other sites link back to you. So search engines have evolved a lot since 15 years ago. There were at the time, different like companies, not companies out there, but you could pay money, and then they would put links to your site and a lot of places. And so you were sort of buying those link backs. Search engines are smart enough now to pretty much identify when you've purchased links like that. And so if you're if you're doing that, like paying for link backs. That's actually going to negatively affect your SEO rank. So what you want to do is build those link backs organically. And I'll talk a bit later about how you can actually do that. So like sharing your links with your friends and asking them to link back to you I think that's still a very good way to create link backs. Paying for those link backs or using dodgy services out there to say they can raise your SEO ranking if you pay them a certain amount. We should be avoiding those. We should be growing these links organically. All right, and you say credibility counts. Yes. All right, so now that we know the overall structure of how search engines work. Let's just take a moment to review what is SEO and why is it important. So I brought this over from Wikipedia. Wikipedia says search engine optimization SEO is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or web page from search engines. So it's improving the quality of people who come to your site through search engines. And it improves the quantity of people who come to your site through search engines. Now, when you say quality, there are a few aspects to this. So first of all, there are bots out there who are just cabling the internet doing bad stuff. You don't want those to come to your site really. What you want are people who are interested. There are also people out there who click on the search engine result. Take two seconds to look at your page and decide it's not worth them staying so they go back to search engine results. And those people sort of don't stay very long. And so what you want to do is you want to improve your site so that people stay longer on your website. And that's another aspect of raising the quality of visitors, the quality of website traffic to your website. SEO is performed because a website will receive more visitors from a search engine when websites rank higher on the search engine results page. So even if you just look back to your experience using search engine results, you generally don't click into the fifth and the sixth and the seventh search engine result page. If you don't find something on the first page or maybe the second page, then you'll probably change your search query and look, try and figure out a better word to look for what you're, to find what you're looking for. And so it's important that our sites end up on the very first page of search engine results. Or like the top three results even on the higher we get in search engine results, the higher chance we have of people seeing our site and landing there. And so this is like important for business websites. If you have a business website or a store or a brand you're trying to promote working on SEO is definitely important. And even if you have a private blog, there are small, simple things you can do to improve your SEO score, even just a little. And if you continue to work on that, you don't have to spend tons of time. But if you can slowly improve your SEO, then gradually you should expect to see more people come and visit your site. So why is SEO important to me? If you rank high in search results, you will most likely get more visitors to your site and your story or your website or your business will reach more people. And that's really why we have websites on the internet because we want to reach people with our brand or with our products or with the story we post on our blog. And so SEO is important for every type of website, I think. That's all I wanted to say about SEO. Did anybody have anything else to add as to why SEO might be important or any thoughts you might have about that? Nope. All right. So now let's jump into the juicy part of today's workshop. What can I do to make sure my site is ready for search engines? And we're going to look through quite a few things here. I might pause after each point so we can ask questions and share information because we are going to go through a lot of stuff here. So visibility settings, blogging frequency, content quality, keywords, linking, metadata, site maps, excerpts versus full posts and other technical factors. So first of all, the most important thing you can do for SEO is make sure your site is visible to the internet. So often when we create a new site, we might turn on a construction in progress type page. So when people visit your domain, they don't see your website yet while you're still working on it. They see like a landing page. And so whenever you launch your website, just make sure you've turned that plugin setting off that your site is actually visible. WordPress also comes with a built in search engine visibility setting. So I've left a screenshot here. If you go to settings and then reading and then scroll to the bottom, there's a setting here called search engine visibility. If this is ticked, you are discouraging search engines from indexing your site. So if that is ticked, then it's most likely you're not going to show up in search engine results. So it's okay to take that while you're working on your site initially. But once you've launched your site, make sure this setting is off because we want your site to be visible. All right. That's all I had about this point. Did anybody have any questions or comments about this? You can also, I believe, enable that for single pages when working on those. Ah, you mean like the privacy setting within the page? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Oops, let me see if I can. There we go. Let me see if I can just launch a site quickly to show people what we're talking about there. Um, so it's, if you add a new page, once there's something showing at the top there, let's, let me just turn this plug in off. So it doesn't bother us. Yeah. All right. So what you were talking about there is if you make a new page over here under page settings on the status and visibility, we have public. If you click on that, you can change that to private. Um, and if you do that, only site admins and editors can see the page. So, so it's no way to box on index it, right? Correct. Correct. While it's private, um, they won't be able to see the content. Um, so, yeah, that's what you can do for individual pages and posts. If you're going to use this setting, though, make sure you turn it back to public because it can be easy to forget to change this setting again. So just always make sure it's public once you're ready for search engines to index it. Yep. Any other questions or points? All right. So that's, that's the very first point. Oh, okay. M has sent us a bit of information. Bots can still see a private page. They just want to include it in their search results. So M, are you saying they can see the existence of the page or they can, can they also see the content of the page? Depends on how. Okay. How the pages may private. Because now that you mention it, like people who aren't an admin can still access the URL of a page. If this is set to private, people can still access the URL and they'll say, this page is private. So people know that page exists. They just won't be able to see the content. Um, M says it depends on the theme. Okay. So private pages. So the good thing is, so what we want to remember is, um, bots can still still see private pages. They can still see they exist, but whether they'll include it in the search results. Um, but they just want to include it in search results. All right. Thank you for that information. The next one is blogging frequency. Um, and search engines generally like sites with fresh content. So if a site hasn't been updated for five years. Um, but there's another side with just as high an SEO score and it's always putting up new content. Then that new side that that side with new content is probably going to rank higher in search results rather than that side that's just being left alone for five years. Um, so there isn't like a magic number here. It's not like you need to blog every second day to make sure you get to the top of search results. It's important that you have a frequency that you stick to. So if it's a private blog, depending on what your frequency is, um, just trying just keep consistent with that. And the other reason why I bring up blogging frequency is if you have a business website, it's, it's easy to let your website just go stale. So like if your products don't change that often, or there might not be a need to update your homepage regularly. Even in those situations, it's still advised that you set up a blog page on your site so that your site consistently has new content. And that will help improve the SEO score. So you could blog maybe about your products. Every time you have a new product, maybe publish a post about that. Maybe the history behind your products or the history behind your brand. So you can find different topics like this. But yeah, what I wanted to say was even if you have a business website, it's still a good idea to have a blog where you have new content coming up regularly. All right, any questions about that point. And M said, the way you write content also matters. That is important. And that comes to our next point, content quality. When when search engines look at your site and look at your content, they are looking at the quality of content as well. So Google recently, I think the last year or two published a EAT guide by. And what this is, is it saying search engines look at the expertise of your site of your content, the authority of your content, and the trustworthiness of your content. So expertise means, are you an expert in whatever you're writing about. Authority is, do you have authority to be talking about what you're writing about. And then trustworthiness is, is the information you're sharing. True, like is it can people really believe what you're writing about. So the way to increase your expertise, I guess, is to really study about that field. Publish multiple posts about that content that people engage with and appreciate authority. So, for example, we all respect say university professors that talk about the field they're really knowledgeable about. And so generally university professors have authority in that sense. But you do your post have authority as well one one way a search engine. But look at that is, do other people link back to you to your content to base find authority in what you're writing and introduce your content on their sites. So, for example, when you link to other content as well, you want to make sure you're linking to content that has authority content written by people with expertise. Rather than just any old blog on the internet. We want to be looking at the EAT of the other content we link to, and because that will, in a sense, connect to our SEO ranking or so. And then trustworthiness is the information was sharing trustworthy. So like, are you just writing things or do you have references you're bringing information from. For example, in my slide before I had the link to Wikipedia and I said this for Wikipedia says and then I sort of talked about that. You can do the same thing with your content website content as well, link to some other resource to make sure your data is trustworthy, and then write more content about that adding your thoughts and your perspective and sharing that with people. Another thing is, when looking at the quality of your site is your content shareable. So if lots and lots of people are sharing your content and linking to your content, search engines will generally think that must be good quality. It's not the only thing that determines quality, but it is another aspect to other people share your content. And that's why, for example, viral YouTube videos come up higher in YouTube search results. Because the more people share it, the more people are watching it. Google thinks it must be good quality content and so they raise it in the search results. And the same thing can be said about your site. So when you write something is it, is it funny? Does it have good taste? Is it catchy? And what your audience is looking for is it's something they will then share on their social media or share on their sites. This is just another aspect to keep in mind to make sure you're always publishing good quality content. So Sean, you commented here, we encourage our clients to share new articles relating to their field on their blog page. For example, an insurance agent would add new information about changes in insurance to their blog page for their site. Yeah, so that's it. So that's sort of combining the blogging frequency we talked about a moment ago and content quality. So let's use talk here. An insurance agent would add new content about insurance because they're an insurance agent. If they started posting about homemade cookies, then you're like, but they're an insurance agent. Like, why, why do they have expertise in homemade cookies? So, so sticking to a field and publishing about that field helps you create quality content. On the other hand, if you're a chef or a cook, or you just have a food blog, you like to share food stuff on, then blogging about homemade cookies is definitely a good topic to go with on that site. And this is another reason why some people have multiple blogs or multiple sites. If they have expertise in multiple fields, rather than sort of jumbling them all into one site, some people just create different separate sites for each of those fields, which helps search engines understand what the expertise of each site is. Thank you for the example, Sean. MC's reading level also matters. If it's too complex, viewers drop. Readers stay longer on content written in plain language, search agents notice. Right, so that's probably like, if you write an academic paper on your blog, then only academic people are going to be able to read it and stay on it. Whereas if you write, whatever you're talking about in plain language, then even the average person will find an interesting stay there. And I think search engines tend to like longer articles because people stay there. But if it gets too long, then I think that's a, that's a bad thing for search engine scores well SEO scores. Yeah. If somebody else knows a bit about that, you can write that. I think I've heard before. Longer articles are better. But if it's too long and takes an hour to read, then it will be better if it's sort of splitting to a couple of posts maybe so people can read it in shorter amounts of times. Ethan says TLDR TLDR is short for too long didn't read. And so Ethan, I think you're commenting having a TLDR at the top of the post saying this is what this post is about also helps. So people don't have to read through all the text to figure out what it's all about is that what you're meaning here. Well, we wait for Ethan M says it is good to create a summary section with a long article so people can scan if wanted or read entire article and you can say yes. All right, so we think you're both talking about a similar thing here. I think in the last few years we've noticed a lot more web pages have like a table of content at the top, which are linked to the different headings in the post. And me personally, I really like that because I can scan the headings and decide like what section I really want to read. And I've heard people with accessibility issues also use that they can scan an article and so rather than read like waiting to get through the whole article waiting for their screen reader to get through the whole article. They can skim through headings as well. And so yeah, longer articles are better for SEO score but also have a way for people to skim through it and jump to the section they really need to improve their experience. And says that is why headings are so important. Yep. And you can jump through headings using a screen reader or other assistive technology. Right. Okay. I'm glad we're all on the same page. We all have similar information. Before I move on, was there any other question people wanted to ask before we jump into other topics? All right. Next one is keywords. And keywords came up in how search engines view our site. So search engines scan through our site content to pick out keywords, which they then store in their database, which they use to present our sites in search results. And so what this means is when you write the content on your site, you want to figure out what your audience is going to be looking for. And for example, some parts of the world, they call tomato sauce, they say tomato sauce and another part of the world, they say ketchup. And so depending on your audience, you might want to write all your articles using tomato sauce, or you might want to say ketchup and everything you do. If you start to mix those in your site, then it search engines have a hard time deciding what the keyword is if you're using different words to say the same thing, then it sort of reduces the impact of the keywords in your site. So when you make your site, figure out who your audience is going to be, and what words do they use, what will they be typing into search engines to find your site. And then you want to use those words in your site content. You want to use it naturally. You don't want to. It's called keyword stuffing. You don't want to like put tomato sauce everywhere on your site. But where it comes naturally, you do want to add those keywords. So there are a couple of tools out there that help you figure out what keywords people might be searching for. Many of them have a paid plan. So I haven't been able to find a lot of good free tools, but WordStream is an example of a free keyword search tool. What you would do here is you would type in the domain of another site that has similar content to what you're presenting. So you would type the domain of a similar blog or a similar company or a rival company's website even. And then this would give you a hint of what words they use or what words people use to search for content on that site. So for example, Be Sun's blog, this is my personal blog. So for example, if you're going to start a new blog and you find my blog is similar to yours, you would type my blog domain in to see what keywords people use to search for my blog. So let's just see what happens here. So there are a few settings you can change here. I'll leave that as is for the moment. All right. So we have here. Let's see one of the most prominent keywords people use to search for my content is life work. Work community or work life. I do talk about work life balance on my side to this. And so this is probably why that sort of popped up as a keyword here. I'm also a community manager. And so that's why we have manage or manager or community come in the top here. So you start to see a trend here of what people use to search for my blog. And that gives you a hint. Do you want to use similar keywords on your site to compete with that site? Or are there other words you can use that aren't getting picked up here, which will give you like an advantage over that website. So there are two ways to think of it. Do you want to attack using the same keywords and so climb above the opposition or do you want to use separate keywords so that you find a unique niche to your audience and use those keywords to rise in search engine results. So. Keyword research. We could almost do an whole online workshop about that as well. So I'll leave that for the moment. I just want to say where would you use your keywords? So. Keywords. First of all, in your stuff. Google ads, right? They have kind of a keyword planner to you, which is free a free tool. Google ads. Did you say? Yeah, they have like a, you know, they'll have a keyword planner in there, I believe. Oh, okay. Before. There we go. My browser is in Japanese is why you're seeing that. That's it. Here we go. All right. So you're seeing it in Japanese because I'm in Japan, but this is the link. Let me drop that in the chat here for people. Everyone in the meeting. Like generating Google ads, but it will help you on some keywords. Okay. Well, that's great to know. I'll add that to my slides for future presentations as well. We have Google ads keyword planner. All right. So where would you use keywords? First of all, your site title. Choose whatever is going to be your main keyword. And if you can include in your site title, that'd be really good included in your tagline at least. So WordPress has a tagline sitting. You want to add your most prominent keyword in your tagline. And then you can add keywords to your page and post titles. Search engines will prioritize what your content is titled when they decide keywords. You can then use keywords in your excerpts in your content headings and then in the content itself. So this is generally the priority in which you want to use keywords. But whatever you do, don't don't keyword stuff. So like, don't put five and six and seven keywords all in your tagline. Because that will come across as unnatural. You want to find just natural places where you can use these keywords and then stick to the same keywords across your whole site. All right. I'm looking at the time here. There's a bit more I want to get through. So I might move on to the next slide. If you have questions, drop them in the zoom chat and we'll get to them a bit later. All right. So linking. We did talk about this a bit already. So I'll keep it brief. First of all, search engines travel through the links on your site to understand the structure of your site and to look at more content. So if you publish a post, try and think about how you can link back to similar posts already on your site. If you can create these internal links on your site that that helps search engines understand what content on your site is important. What posts or pages might have more authority, etc. And also when you link to external sites, try and choose sites that follow the EAT guidelines of quality content. So don't just link to any site. Have a quick look to see if it really is an authoritative site. Does it have trustworthy information and make sure it does come up with a good EAT score even in your own mind. And that will also give credibility to your links to them. So linking is important. We also briefly talked about HTML tags at the very beginning of this session. And I wanted to bring up metadata. Metadata is data on your website that generally people won't see, but search engines will see. So it's sort of hidden behind the scenes a bit, but it does give critical information about your site to search engines. And specifically, metadata descriptions is information shown in search results. So for example, if I search for homemade baking. Let's see. All right, so you'll see these search results have a bit of a description here about the content of the page of link. And so this is meta description. And this is what sites use to show in search result. So I've listed at the last point here. Metadata is automatically generated by WordPress in many instances. So it's not that easy to edit it directly. But all the major SEO plugins out there do give you a way to edit this to modify this metadata to gear it towards your site content more specifically. So I've listed a few links here about different SEO plugins. Some of them have paid plans as well. So what you can do on the free plan might be a bit different. But one thing you can do is WordPress generally uses the excerpts of your pages and posts to create the meta descriptions. So even without plugins, it's a good idea to handwrite your post excerpts. If you don't write a post excerpt, it just takes the top paragraph or something from your content. But if you can actually handwrite your post excerpts to include the keywords, then your keywords would show up here. And search engines would have a better idea of what your content is really about. So I have a question here. What is the best character length for meta descriptions? Does somebody have the answer to that? I do know if a meta description is too long, Google is just going to cut it. Oh, like this one here, this meta description here has dot dot dot at the end. It looks like Google has sort of chopped the description. So there is a length. I don't know the specific number, but I think if you use an SEO plugin, they can help. Okay, M says here. Did you say 70? Yeah, I think it's like 50 and 70. 50 is like green light and then over 70 is red light. You know what I mean? Like a Yoast plugin, for example. Yeah. All right. And M says, I think it cuts at 120 to 150. I think the number also depends on like desktop search results and mobile search results. But yeah, you don't want to make these too long. Generally just a sentence or two will help. I hope that helps you salad with your question. All right. Yeah, perfect. Another thing is a site map. So site maps don't do search rankings, but they do help search engines navigate the content on your site. They understand where your pages are, where your posts are. And lately, search engines are also looking for say image site maps or video site maps. And so they're trying to find the multimedia content on your website as well. Most SEO plugins will generate a site map for you automatically. So it's not something you have to code yourself. But I just wanted to note here that it is something search engines use. So if you ever come across settings in your plugin about site maps, this is what the site map is. It's like a map to help a search engine figure out where all your content is on your website. All right. Now, this is an easier setting folks can edit on the WordPress website. On WordPress, depending on your theme, your theme might give you the option to show an expert and sorry, excerpt of your post or the full content of your post. So for example, on your blog page, you could show the full content of all your posts on the blog page or you could limit it to just excerpts and then have a read more button. And I've seen some people like to put their whole posts on their blog page. But the short answer is it's best to just use excerpt. You should just use excerpts and leave the full content of your posts to the post page itself. And there are a few reasons for this. When a search engine looks through a site, if it finds identical content to another page on your site, it can sometimes demote that as duplicate content. It will definitely demote it if you've copied it. If you've copied somebody else's web page entirely, then they'll look at which is newer and then they'll demote your content as duplicate content. So it's a good idea to avoid having the exact same content in multiple locations on your website. And also you want people to travel through your website and look at new content. So if you put all your posts on your website, they'll only ever visit that one page and they won't go exploring to other areas of your site. So keeping post content to excerpts in different pages and asking people to come visit your post page is a better way to get engagement. It's better for SEO. And it also helps pages load quicker, like a page that's not just on your website, but also on your website. And it also helps pages load quicker, like a page that has to load 100 posts and all the post content is going to take a while to load. So yeah, whenever possible, keep it to excerpts and just keep the full post content on the post itself. So I have a question here. Will there be a recording available after this session? Yes, there will be. And I'll let you know in the meetup group when that is published. All right. And I think I did have one more point now. Other technical factors that relate to SEO. So first of all, site speed is important and Google in particular has become they're viewing site speed more and more important when ranking pages in search results. And it's sometimes difficult. So if you live in a area with high internet speed, then even complicated websites tend to load very quickly. But what you want to consider is that there are people in the world who don't have as good an internet speed as you do. People in developing countries might still have very slow broadband and you want your site to be able to load quickly, even for people like that. So some aspect of site speed is determined by the host you use. So looking to your host, there are different external sites out there that compare hosting speeds. So see where your host ranks in those. Does your host have caching enabled? You can enable caching on a plugin with a plugin, but if your host enables it on the hosting platform, caching can be a bit quicker that way. So we won't go into details, but that's something you can look at. Another thing you can look at is WordPress themes can sometimes change your loading speed drastically. So some really snazzy themes might use like 10 plugins and it looks really nice, but on a slow internet connection it takes ages to load. So try around with a few things. The visual representation is also always good, but also consider the speed of site loads when using that thing. And another thing to keep in mind is sometimes the theme on its own is fine or a plugin on its own is fine, but once you combine three plugins, it could change the loading speed of your site, but if you combine a particular plugin with your theme, that can make your site load slower. So if you're finding your site is sort of loading a bit slowly, try to figure out when that started to happen. Was it after you installed the new plugin, or was it after you changed themes, or what that might be the cause there. So Ethan here in the chat has been dropping us a few links about testing your site's loading speed. We have pagespeed.web.dev and also gtmetrics.com. I've used both of those in the past, and this will also give you what on your site. It's causing it to load slowly, which will give you a hint as to why give you a plugin. Is it a theme? Is it content? Is it your server? Those will give you hints there. Em says images are usually the bandwidth hog. So compressing those help a lot with load speed. Yes, and that is the second point on my slide here. Images should be optimized. Images like especially with the modern camera and the phones even where you can take really high quality images. So good that even people with the best monitors still don't need that high quality. Like people who are looking at your site on their phone can very well make do with a very compressed version of your image. It doesn't have to be that good. So optimizing images is important. And this last one isn't really much of an issue anymore. I think most posts make sure your domain is secure. Oh, you think I was like this? Okay, well maybe not all hosts. But you'll notice a lot of websites now at the top here start with HTTPS. You can see my Google slides that with HTTPS. Make sure your site starts with HTTPS. With the S, the S for secure. If your site doesn't have the S there, then you'll want to look into issuing an SSL certificate for your domain to make sure your site is secure. And another thing about security is if your site has multiple admins, make sure everybody has a strong password to log into the WordPress dashboard. You can have the best security system on your site, but if your WordPress login password isn't strong, then people can easily log into your site that way or hack into your site that way and mess things up. So make sure your WordPress login password is extremely good. All right, and we have a few more points in the chat. E-W-W-W plugin is my go-to for WebP. So that's an image type, I believe. And then let's encrypt is a free SSL. So if you don't have SSL issued on your site, let's encrypt would help you get that for free. And then 2FA, so two factor authentication. So when you log into your WordPress account, if you have 2FA enabled, it means after you enter your password, it asks for like a login code or a message sent to your SMS or something, just that second point of authentication before somebody can actually get into your site. Yeah, that's a lot. Now, I do have a few more slides I want to get through. So this session is going to run 10, 15 minutes late. If you have to cut out here, that's okay. The recording will be posted afterwards, but I just did want to let people know we are going to run a bit late because I think this is a really important topic and there's a bit more I want to share here. Let me pause. Any questions or anything you want me to explain once more before we move on? Sally, thank you for sharing your tips, favorite resources, very much appreciated. And those extra links, Ethan and Amy, you've shared. I'm going to add those into my slides. So when I publish my slides later, you'll all have it in the slides then as well. So yeah, thank you for sharing. All right. So finally, we've been talking about SEO, search engine optimization. And I just wanted to conclude with other types of SEO as well. And what I mean by other types of SEO is that we've been talking about general SEO and more specifically, there's also something called image SEO, video SEO, local SEO, and multilingual SEO. And there might be more as well. But I just want to briefly touch on what these other types of SEO are. So yeah. So first of all, image SEO is optimizing images so that they rank higher in search engine results. And what I mean by that is, for example, with Google, you can click on images and that takes your search query here and gives you image results. And so image SEO is setting up your images so that they rank higher in search results.   And we talked about optimizing images before. So images should be optimized. Image file name should be descriptive. Images should have alternative text set on them. There's a lot more we can go into here. So what I wanted to mention was I've actually scheduled an upcoming workshop just about image SEO. So if you're interested in finding out more about SEO, I'll be running the same session twice. At different time zones on December 2nd and December 8th. So do come and join us there and we'll talk all about optimizing your images for search engines. Finally, I have a question here. When naming an image, is it better to use dashes in between words or underlines? I would have to look into that. I don't think they are that different. But other people might know that. Let me take that back as a question to look into. For this image SEO workshop. Ethan said alt text, ALT, which is alternative text. Description is more what the search engine would see. All right. But I will look into that. Do dashes and underscores really have an impact? That's an interesting question. Tell me, you've seen both ways where you've been told dashes. Okay. Let's see. Leave that with me. All right. Similarly, you have image SEO. You also have video SEO. Video SEO is to help optimize your videos so that they rank higher in search engines.  And you can have YouTube video SEO which is like specifically YouTube to get your videos ranked high in YouTube. But sometimes when you search for something Google will also like just in general search results show videos here. And so there are different things you can do to make sure your videos are highlighted higher in search results. Again, we won't go into a lot of details here but choosing a good video host including a transcript. So videos as both can look at transcripts, which is easier than they can decide for what's actually being said in the video. So including a transcript always helps with SEO purposes because bots can understand what the content is about better. Use an engaging thumbnail image and use keywords. Again, keywords what people are going to be searching for in the title and meta description. So why do we see videos in search results? And so that's because Google on YouTube. Yes. But in other parts of the world, Google isn't the main search engine. So for places like that you may want to consider what your main search engine is and how they show results, etc. But anyway, like, okay, if I am targeting a Japanese audience then you know, because in the United States we go well 80% of all searches are Google. Like how would you think about that in SEO term for Japanese audience? Yeah, it's a good question. In Japan, yeah, like in Japan we have Yahoo search but what I've heard is the Japanese Yahoo actually draws on Google search. So Japan might not be a good example. Like places like Russia they have their own search engine and China they have their own search engine. So there are a couple of countries like that. But yeah, that is another point to look into. Sally also says transcripts help with accessibility as people consume information in various ways. That is definitely right. A lot of these SEO practices do overlap with accessibility practices. So if you do SEO right, you're doing accessibility right as well probably. But accessibility is another interesting topic and it's on my list to get to someday in the near future. So maybe in the new year we can have a whole session just about accessibility. All right. Local SEO is optimizing your site to show higher in local search results. So nowadays when you do a search result sometimes your search engine will ask you to use your current location. And what that is saying is it wants to look at where you are to give you search to give you results about say shops right near you, physically near you or destinations physically near you. And so some people don't like sharing their information, their location information. That's okay. But some people do share their information. I am a person who doesn't mind sharing my location with search engines. So I would share my location in my local search results about places near me. And so this is something to keep in mind. If you have like a physical store like a bread store or a flour store then people on the other end of the world finding you in search results might not really help your business. You want to target people in your neighborhood or in your community. And so there are a couple of things you can do to make sure you rank higher in those local search results. One simple thing you can do is make sure your content information is in your footer or your widgets or your contact page. And when I say contact information I mean your address, your physical address. Make sure that is there because search engines will pick up on that and say oh okay this is a local store so I want to give it in local search results. Another thing you can do is post localized content. So when you publish posts post about events in your community or in your neighborhood or different maybe outreach activities you've done in that neighborhood and if you have localized a local content like that search engines will pick up and give you a better local SEO ranking and then also getting local backlinks so having your neighborhood store link back to you or having another community next door link back to you if you can have local sites link back to you as well all right and then multi-lingual SEO so local SEO is talking about geographic location like right near you multi-lingual is targeting different languages so if you have a website that is targeting like two or three or multiple languages then you want to set up each section of your website to rank high in that community or that languages search results so this really plays out in say keywords so the keywords for this language might not be the best keywords in this second language so you want to do keyword research keyword research each language individually to figure out how you're going to improve in that language so a few tips about multi-lingual SEO include only one language in each of your web pages if you start adding adding different languages in the same pages easy to create but from an SEO perspective it's not the best method so if you're really going to target SEO in different languages you want to split out your web pages so that each page only has one language in it translate metadata as well so we talked about that in data hidden behind the scenes that search engine see you want to translate that to select the out text on images you want to translate that information as well for each language multi-lingual SEO yes so on this multi-lingual like let's say you have a bilingual website in French, Spanish and English so you're saying include only one language in each page do you agree should you translate like manually with someone who speaks that language or are plugins like pretty accurate right so you'll see how I've listed a few plugins at the end there plugins attack multi-lingual sites oh no sorry attack isn't the right word plugins help you create multi-lingual sites in many different ways so some plugins generate an automatic translation of your content other plugins just give you the framework and then you have to actually translate the content there are other plugins that send your content out to translators and the translators manually translate your content and send it back so depending on the plugin you'll use the method of translation is different I think the best is if you're fluent in that language if you can actually translate the content yourself that's going to be the cheapest and the best quality but not everybody can speak different languages fluently so then you'll want to look at the cost of these different translation services and what's going to be the best for your particular setup okay so you're saying that then for SEO searches you're going to use a different page with a different language and then you'll rank in that language for those pages yeah so yeah so we talked about metadata a bit one piece of information that's in the metadata is what language is used on that page so if the metadata says English but your page has Spanish and French and English all in the one page and that's going to confuse a separate page and each page in the metadata says this page is French this page is Spanish this page is English then search engines will be able to pick up on that easier and target it for each language's search results and these multilingual plugins will help you set up the metadata pretty much automatically yeah is that hell yes thank you we have multiple languages so this is very interesting thank you I can do a google search about multilingual SEO if you search for multilingual SEO you'll find a lot of other people who write content about this and they'll give you hints as to what might be the best method for you I don't think there's like one answer that fits everybody there are different ways of setting up a multilingual site so just coming into the zoom chat here to see if I've missed anything alright so Sally says there's an entire WordPress make accessibility team that can help when I do that presentation on accessibility so yes thank you very much for the information Em says the key is to use plain language in your content so that it translates easier but you can also declare the language for sections or phrases oh okay so and what you're talking about there's probably the metadata and usually in the top it says what the whole page is but there is a way to specify what the language is for each section I'm guessing plugins will help set that metadata up Jean says great session thanks Ben and everyone else yes that's been well 75 minutes I hope you've learned new things from there, thank you to everyone who contributed or the links and information you shared I learned new stuff as well so if you want to connect with me even after the session is over if you're part of the WordPress Slack group then you can click on this link you'll find me as Beaton Evans I am also on Twitter so if you want to connect with me there we can do that as well and finally the training team recently created an individual learner survey and what this is is we're trying to survey what everybody wants to learn about how best you learn what sort of resources what sort of learning types work best for you so if you have a moment do fill out this individual learner survey for us and we'll be happy to enjoy it alright so thank you once again thank you Ethan for turning your video on and giving me feedback as well thank you Em for the information you sent and just thank you everyone for your engagement in this session once the recording is up I'll let everybody know but yeah that's all for today so have a great day or great evening bye


What's good? George will Ross back again with another video. So I'm gonna check out the meteoric rise of live Morgan now Just off the top alone. I know some people but like, oh Why would you check out this video? You don't like live Morgan?  No, no, no, no No guys, it's not do this. It's not that I'm always hating on live Morgan, but at the end of the day Gotta call a spade a spade Let's be honest here. It's hard to buy in to live Morgan as a credible threat in situations a lot of situations only because She doesn't come off as someone that in my personal opinion And especially in certain things that I have seen in the way that she's been booked She doesn't come off as somebody that You should be I guess worried about in the ring. I Know she loves WWE, you know I'm saying about the same time We also know why she's there. She's really the best in the ring. She's okay at best But once again, it's still kind of hard for me personally to buy in to live Morgan Oh live Morgan.  I Can't buy into it as much as maybe like a Raquel I can buy into her I can buy in more to Oscar. Yeah, I can buy into a little bit more with Bailey. You know I'm saying But with her not so much that's to say she's awful No, I don't think she's just the worst in the ring, but at the same time it's just We know why she's there man.  Not so much. You can have a decent match depending on the opponent, but you're not about to get no five-star classic out of her That's just what it is. So you can say I'm hating I'm this is just my personal opinion on it I think she's cool probably a cool person, you know, I'm saying solid okay in the ring But she's not someone I think instant women's champion. I just don't see that But we're gonna check this out. I have to put that caveat out there because I already know I'm gonna get some hate for it But whatever to get into this live Morgan is your new women's tag team champion and one of the top stars in WWE today five years ago, though She was just a member of a job of faction. So what happened today? We're gonna be discussing the meteoric rise of live Morgan subscribe to the channel. You have until three count Hope you beat the count and let's get into the video This should be an interesting one man Gianna Dario was signed to the WWE in October Having been a longtime fan of professional wrestling She signed a developmental deal and reported down to NXT and the performance center And at first would make a couple appearances on TV only and here's the thing like I said, she is a fan So that's something I can credit her on I would never take that she does love Wrestling in WWE, you know, so that's not something, you know there's some people that not fans and they just tried it just to try it in WWE saw pre-faces and I we're gonna hire you She did you know, she loves the business.  I got with Rhea and Charlotte from her at WrestleMania That's what I'm saying as a plant in the audience or just playing extra roles And she was wrestling on the NXT house show scene originally using her real name of Gianna Dario But on the November 4th 2015 episode of NXT She would debut on TV in ring under the ring name of Marley Losing to Eva Marie and she was only working as a job She would then continue again on the house show circuit under the name of Marley But on her next appearance on NXT on the December 2nd episode just less than a month later She would take on her new ring name another new ring name once again of live Morgan Once again losing to Emma and this was more or less the story of live Morgan for a couple of years in NXT You know just losing live Morgan for most of her time in NXT wasn't necessarily a job But she was more or less just a lower card wrestler on NXT She was in a good spot getting regular TV time and being on TV regularly But she was never involved in title programs or wrestling takeovers So it was surprising when on the November 21st 2017 episode of Smackdown Live Liv Morgan would make her main roster debut alongside Ruby Riot and Sarah Logan Establishing themselves as the riot squad Next week Liv Morgan and the rest of the riot squad would make their main roster debut Actually defeating Charlotte Flair Naomi and Natalya a big win to start things off for them Then next week they beat Carmella Natalya and Tamina in a six-person tag match And then two weeks later they beat Becky Lynch Charlotte Flair and Naomi in a six-person tag team match The riot squad were on a roll and it looked as though they were a threat to the Smackdown Live women's roster But it went downhill Literally right from here the next week Liv Morgan suffered her first loss on the main roster to Naomi in just three minutes And then five days later. She was a part of the first ever women's Royal Rumble She lasted five minutes scored zero eliminations and got eliminated by Michelle McCool The riot squad would pick up things again as Charlotte Flair would engage in the feud with them and Ruby Riot specifically As Charlotte Flair would defeat Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan and then Ruby Riot for the title in consecutive matches Damn Occasional win when it was them teaming in a six-person tag But if it was any combination of them and a two-on-two tag match or a singles match It was over for them. They were part of the WrestleMania 34 women's pre-show battle royal where once again They didn't really do anything in it I think they teased like Sarah Logan firing up and looking like she could win But then she just didn't they were drafted to raw in the superstar shake-up and then from here They were just cemented as jobbers pretty much for a long while while they were on TV every week They were usually losing other than the occasional win They were part of feuds, but they would never really wrestle on pay-per-views apart from Ruby Who would get the occasional pay-per-view match being the leader of the group? But Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan were more or less just jobbers and side pieces of the riot squad They would actually get their first pay-per-view match in 2018 though on the super showdown show in 2018 That show that happened in Australia It was a six-person tag and I didn't want to Ronda Rousey and the Bella twins But they got another pay-per-view match that same month as they got to be a part of the evolution pay-per-view once again A six-person tag well, they were losing this time. It's a Bailey Natalia and Sasha Banks This was a really good match though and from here once again Liv Morgan and the riot squad just continued in their stride as jobbers They were all in the Royal Rumble 2019 which Liv Morgan got eliminated from in about two seconds or something What was it again? It was eight seconds not two so a little longer But it's still the shortest time spent in the women's rumble match a record that Liv Morgan holds The right now would be split up in that year's superstar shake-up when Liv Morgan was moved to Smackdown Whereas Ruby riot and Sarah Logan remained on Raw and this was a bit of a shock However, it was also really exciting because Liv Morgan had improved a lot as a wrestler And it was really exciting to see what she could possibly do as a singles wrestler now on the Smackdown brand But um, she didn't really end up doing anything She was drafted to Smackdown in April 2019, but she wouldn't wrestle until the 16th of July 2019 And in fact, I think that was like her first appearance on Smackdown was three months later She turned babyface when she confronted the Smackdown Live Women's champion Charlotte Flair This was just a week after Kevin Owens had endorsed her in his work shoot promo saying she should be on TV more She would lose to Charlotte in a two-minute match by submission But it was an all-out two-minute match and Liv Morgan actually looked pretty good in that two minutes somehow But then she would not appear for Smackdown or on the Smackdown brand again A draft took place again that year on the October 14th episode of Raw where Liv Morgan was the final overall pick of the year's draft Drafted back to the Raw brand and a couple months later Vignette would begin to air which would see the return of Liv Morgan And these were the vignettes showing her in the bath and hyping up her return and she would return on the December 30th Episode of Raw during Bobby Lashley and Lana's wedding. Yes, we all remember this This is when she professed her love for Lana Liv Morgan would get mixed up in the Lana Lashley and Rusev storyline Feuding with Lana. She was in love with Lana, but then they just scrapped the being in love thing It was a dreadful storyline that went absolutely nowhere But Liv Morgan would come out on top on the feud and she was stride on as a baby face single-star on the Raw roster She was part of the Elimination Chamber match that year where Shayna Baszler just absolutely squashed everyone in the match Included and she was a part of the WrestleMania 36 pre-show where she defeated Natalia getting a win at WrestleMania So pretty big for her and obviously this was now the pandemic era of WWE where it was empty arena and Raw and Smackdown and all the shows just had a completely different vibe and a lot of people getting pushed more and Liv Morgan Was on TV quite often at this point Her and Ruby Riot would actually reunite on the June 22nd episode of Raw and the Riot Squad was now back And they would be in pursuit of the women's tag team titles She was drafted back to Smackdown in October 2020 along with Ruby Riot as the Riot Squad They were a part of the Survivor Series brand warfare match Which they lost and throughout the time that Ruby and Liv were teaming again They had various shots and chances at the women's tag team championships They wrestled on night one of WrestleMania 37 in the women's tag team gauntlet match a match that they had a great Showing in eliminating two teams and then they ended up losing to Natalia and Tamina God, they should have won that match why did the Riot Squad not win that match Ruby Riot was suddenly released from the company in the May 2021 budget cut releases and was out of WWE So Liv Morgan had to become a single star once again But Liv Morgan for the last couple years teaming with Ruby Riot again had shown so much improvement And now a singles run felt completely right a baby face Liv Morgan Everything was in place and this should be good. She wrestled at the money the bank 2021 pay-per-view in a match. I was convinced she was gonna win But unfortunately didn't as Nikki as H1, but Liv Morgan was really showing up as a singles wrestler You could see the improvement then this is when the fans started getting behind her Especially when Becky was the champ. I remember this Becky was the champ. She was more of a heel now People started getting behind Liv and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I was like, okay people are starting to get behind this Okay, people were she she kept getting so close to getting and I think people love that underdog story and then He's gonna talk about it. Obviously when she won money in the bank and how it happened and how quick it was I don't think they really built that crescendo up. They just put the title on her cool and then Not even that long she lost it, you know I'm saying and now we're supposed to buy into her still and it's like, uh, I Don't know how much I can buy in, you know, I'm saying it's y'all kind of put it up there and then put her right back down How am I supposed to buy into it? So I don't know in every match and when she was drafted back to the role brand She started to get a pretty good singles push She was wrestling with the likes of Becky Lynch for the role women's championship They had a very good match on the WWE day one pay-per-view in 2022 and she was mixing it up with the likes of Bianca Belair Do drop and many others on the roster and she was one of the top dogs for the role women's roster She competed on night two of WrestleMania 38 teaming up with Rhea Ripley in the women's tag team title four way the match won by Sasha and Naomi where they held the titles for so long afterwards and had a really long reign Following Rhea turning on Liv Morgan and joining the judgment day Liv Morgan and Rhea would begin feuding and Liv Morgan would also begin teaming up with AJ Styles and Finn Balor to take on the judgment day They wrestled out the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view in a 3v3 mixed tag match won by the judgment day Liv Morgan would be a part of the money in the bank of the match and money in the bank 2022 Which she would win and this was massive and completely deserved Something people wanted to see yeah, and at that point. I was like, you know what I'm okay with it I was one of those people like all right. This is good. I didn't think she was gonna cash it in that same damn night I don't have a it's like it's cool if you want to get the successful cash in but Build up to it. I thought she was gonna build up now. She boom And I was excited to see her have a long time with the briefcase You know tease the cash-ins But I wasn't really too unhappy when she would cash in the same night to defeat Ronda Rousey for the smackdown women's title A crazy moment that to be honest came out of nowhere I was expecting her to do at the same night, but it was a great moment And I'll tell you what a lot of people like to shit on Liv Morgan's title reign I think she had a great showing as champion. She was on tv every week She carried the belt like a star and hey, she had a couple successful defenses She defeated Ronda Rousey at SummerSlam in a bit of a weird match I will say a weirdly good match, but she defeated Shayna Baszler at Clash of the Castle in a pretty good match I thought however, she would lose the title to Ronda Rousey in an extreme rules match at extreme Here's the problem And I have to address it is how they booked it once again We're talking about Ronda here We're talking about Shayna here. You gotta make me believe that Liv Morgan No matter how much he loves wrestling and WWE you gotta make me believe Liv Morgan Can competently take these women out and if you saw the match She tapped Which is why the crowd turned on her The crowd legitimately turned on her saying you tapped out because she technically did it with the way they booked that Was not good Yes, she got a noticeable win off of Shayna, but at the same time that match was it was okay It was just once she had tapped Like once you have your baby, she should have passed out before she tapped out whatever the case should have been You don't have your baby face champ who just won the title Tap out that would have been a cool moment for her. Like, oh, she got some guts It she passed out. You know something like that That's how you build character upon this person because you already got to suspend this belief that Liv Morgan Can go toe to toe with ronda You got to do that with a lot of people on the roster But the character the character helps that and to me Liv has just come off as this pretty girl that loves wrestling She has some cool moves here and there but at the same time I just don't get oh, she's about to kick the crap out of you And that's where things kind of for me start to fall off with her because of how they were booking her and her character realization Towards you know, like her character development in these matches and feuds rules 2022 ending the reign prematurely at 98 days But from here Liv Morgan was absolutely cemented She was now a main eventer in the women's division and that can be seen by how she did in the royal rumble match in 2023 She starts that at number two alongside Rhea Ripley who was number one and them two ended up being the final two Which is great rumble Liv Morgan obviously did not win But what a great showing her and Rhea both had from one and two and that's more or less where we find ourselves today Liv Morgan began teaming up with Raquel Rodriguez recently because the w3 women's tag team division Every team is just a thrown together team pretty much and on the 10th of april 2023 edition of monday night Raw Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez defeated Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus to win the women's tag team title Liv Morgan pinning Trish Stratus the first pin for loss for Trish Stratus in 16 years The first time she got pinned and it was by Liv Morgan And now here's the thing Here's the thing It is cool where she started from where she's at now. I will never take that away from her And if maybe this tag team situation could work out for a while we'll see I don't know It's just the thing about Liv and I'm gonna continue to say this and you know if they can book her Strong where you can keep buying into her Cool, I'm all for it. I don't want people to think I just hate Liv to hate Liv No, that's not what it is. It's just a lot of the matches that I've seen. I was like, oh, well, she's losing this match, right? You know I'm saying like off rip.  So I will never take that away from her. It's just me personally When I think about her in the tier of all these women wrestlers that wwe has on the main roster I'm gonna be honest with you She's not at the top She's like in the middle right now Anything can happen. Anything can happen. It just depends on how they continue to book her So I know there's a lot of Liv Morgan fans out there. Please don't hate me. I'm just giving my opinion I think she's cool and we will see what they do with the tag team Championships, not sure what they're gonna do with them. Hopefully they they get some good use out of them Maybe get some more great matches from them or whatnot and we see where it goes But comment down below. Let me know man How much of a fan of you guys or some of you guys of Liv Morgan are you guys big fans of her?  Let me know down below, but I appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel Road to 150k and I am still here to speak to you to the rest of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next time. Peace


I remind members of the Covid-related measures that are in place and that face coverings that should be worn when moving around the chamber and across the Holyrood campus. The first item of business this afternoon is time for reflection. Our time for reflection leader today is Reverend Sheila Moyer, Minister at Dribara District Church's Scottish Borders. Members of the Scottish Parliament thank you for the opportunity and privilege to share this time of reflection with you this afternoon. There is a hymn that I count as one of my favourites in the Church of Scotland's hymnbook called the Servants' Home. The second verse is especially relevant for where I live and serve my parishes in the Borders. In that it talks about being pilgrims on a journey, let me read it to you. We are pilgrims on a journey and companions on the road. We are here to help each other, walk the mile and share the load. Living beside St Cuthbert's Way means that we see pilgrims almost on a daily basis as they walk the familiar paths that have been walked for hundreds of years. On the 20th of March is the day each year St Cuthbert is celebrated as a Celtic Saint. Cuthbert, who initially spent time tending sheep in the hills in the Borders, is said to have seen a vision of angels in the night sky and a light descending from heaven, and he is well known for prophecy and visions. Then he went to Old Melrose, where he was guided and mentored by St Boyzel, the prior at Old Melrose, who is less well known, and the pair became good friends. Cuthbert went to Lindisfarne to continue his ministry of preaching as well as spending time in reflection. That is also the season of Lent in their Christian churches. A time of preparation and reflection has we journey towards the cross and Easter, celebrating our risen Lord. I am aware too, as we all are, that it is a difficult time for the people of Ukraine and the countries around Ukraine who are taking in the many refugees and tending to their needs. The servant Songhim offers some hope and is a prayer for all who are finding life difficult at this time, along with the journeys they make daily. I will hold the Christ light for you in the night time of your fear. I will hold my hand out to you. Speak the peace you long to hear. I will weep when you are weeping. When you laugh, I will laugh with you. I will share your joy and sorrow till we have seen this journey through. The words resonate for me as I watch and reflect on what is happening in Ukraine. We live in a world that is very much in need of peace, hope and love. May we all seek to do whatever we can at this time, for all who are in need, as well as showing kindness to one another. Thank you for listening.


What's going on everybody? Got Kyle and Sean here with Layton Sports Cars. We've been six boxes for Mr. Neil B This is going to be all six 2023 Bowman Draft Jumbos. Good luck, Mr. Neil. Let's see what we got Again after this guys, this should take about 30 minutes or so after this I have Justin with two Leaf Art of Sports solos and Jonathan with a Bowman Chrome Delight So only about 45 minutes or so on the queue. Anybody wants to get something going? Looks like check volg also got one so still about the same another leaf art of sport So it should be about the same queue about 45 minutes or so if anybody wants to order one now Order a box Yeah, I got you Shane. Yeah. Yeah, we have those we had those just for the group breaks so far I don't know if we have more plans to put those in for personals, but You have those just as group breaks at the moment start us off. We have a Max Clark on the SP That's a good way to start Mr. Max Clark third pick in the draft. Oh boy Harrison Okay, I'll take a look at that. Take a look at that. It's a Jackson Meryl Andrew Hakenberg nice SP on the Max Clark a way to start I'll take a look at that Harrison. I like I like both those guys. I'm in on that card That's definitely a cow. That is a very cow card right there for sure There's a greats and hit and a hunter hollow. I Don't have any throwback and doll. I have a couple of a couple Federer throwback autos from like 07 2010 Couple of Federer's but I don't have any Nadal yet Wouldn't mind getting some Nadal is Rock Rizio to 199 on the fuchsia fuchsia crater Parada and Spencer Nivens Come on Neil Let's do what Timmy said. Let's get a Brady. Hey guys if you are enjoying the stream Please do hit that like button if you're on twitch. Give us a follow Always appreciate that hunter. Oh one on the light blue first The Paula and Homer Bush first also check out the 40 box Sunday fund a mixer guys Sean just dropped it is baseball mixer this Sunday. We have the Super Bowl mixer coming next Saturday So no football mixer this weekend There is Colton led better than 250 for the race First Tanner Hall and Cole Emerson 40 box baseball mixer. It'd be a good time Yeah, let's check that out Harrison nine hours to go. Yeah, I'll check that out when I get home See what uh, see what it's looking like a little closer There's a lunar glow gonna be Maui a Huna Delgado and Mike Bovee. I Figured they had the dual auto because they had both of their autos. I figured they had to put one together the two Spanish legends. I Guess out guys not a legend yet, but he's well on his way Well on his way. There's a first refractor to 499 Grant Taylor auto for the White Sox And why Langford Yeah, exactly Shane like you're not gonna find an alcaraz Nadal auto and any other set. That's for sure. That's for sure to 499 brandy winnaker and if like Things don't comp quite as strongly as you wanted that could be working your advantage if you're a collector and you want to collect that person It's a cheaper option to collect that so you can work in your advantage that way There's a mood ring. No one's gonna be like Mitchell mood ring for the Royals for shown letter and Maui a Huna Yeah, exactly Shane exactly make some more more accessible for the bigger names for sure And there's a first K cooler for the brakes K cooler on the auto Jaden ham and winnaker So I watched a little bit of that Tennessee.  He's he's legit Like 31 points the last six games. I was like geez man. That is insane Dylan head on the Bowman glass for Samaritan Boyd and Brock rodent. Oh, yeah, Nathan. He's the best shooter of all time I think that gets him near that conversation. I don't know like Overalls like everything going on But I think that being the best shooter of all time has to at least get you in the conversation There's a Sabin Savio's first yeah, he has the rings. I mean he's done he's done everything he needs to do He's drawn walks around game Yeah, he changed the game for sure kids are kids are jacking shots from half court all the time now. Yeah Yeah, I think you get some of the conversation I don't like I'm not trying to make an argument for him being the goat or anything But Christian Camel of 99 green paper. I think he gets him in the conversation First Menachi and Tommy Troy We already are famous Harrison. He put up 60 last night. That was crazy Curry put up 60 it. Troy Young doesn't play the best defense though. Those Hawks don't play the best defense I've seen a few people put up some numbers against the Hawks. I think Luca put up the 73 against them So yeah, the Hawks defense isn't isn't the hottest right now Yeah, exactly Shane. Like I'm not not saying he's better at basketball everything the Jordan and LeBron and all that but he is the best shooter of all time there Not much question there. I don't think oh nice one there Now I'm gonna Bryce Eldridge first green auto. I don't work the two-way player for San Frant two-way player First Clark and Carlson Reed Yeah, like I don't think he wins the conversation, but I think he gets in it Green to 99 we got a Maui Ahuna green paper. First is Connor Burns and Nelson Errata Good luck here. Come on. Come on. Let's see a big one. Let's see a big one for Neil Oh, is he and let's go shite. There's a nice Jacob Wilson there as well the first pick for the ace On the Aqua to 125 eat Donald and case that Sean's Ian again starting to start to grow back Northern VA represent. Let's go shite shite There's a light blue first max Anderson Tommy Hawk Munoz It really is getting it's gotten worse and worse over time for sure. Can there it's not great It's not great for sure There's a first alien Soto for the Nationals. I mean Wilson and early trade trade has been good for them. He's gotten him a good good play spots in the playoffs, but I mean it's Obviously, obviously Lucas would have been the better the better pick. I don't think there's much question there But yes It will go down as as a tough one for sure. Hey, what's up, Brett? How we doing sir? Afternoon afternoon What is going on? I had to check the time. It is afternoon. It is afternoon. There's a Brady Smith and TJ Nichols Yeah Yeah, it's a curtains would be put clothes at this time. Oh hell, yeah There's a blue to 150 William Burgoy up for the Phillies First cold foster Jacob Barry. Come on Brady first four bath. How you leap? I'm good to 199 Gutierrez and First is Maui Ahuna. Maui Ahuna on the first for the Giants Soto and Montero Yeah, LeBron LeBron when he was in Cleveland He was he was doing a lot to get them to the finals man. He was grinding That dude was grinding to get them there. I'm not necessarily Brent. It's pretty much It's mostly the same stuff in the storefront as we have for sale. Yeah for the most part There's maybe a couple different things, but nothing nothing really crazy, Brent There's a first person Waldrop and Juanita if you are looking for something specific Brent You can send us an email and Rich may have some stuff laying around that maybe we don't have for personals and stuff I know you were saying like some 20-20 year NBA stuff like that You can send us an email. We can maybe see if we have anything that you're looking for But the storefront is not much different not much different to 75 Jonah Cox for the eights On the crater first Blake Mitchell and Emmett Olson. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of the thing Shipe It's like they still got a great player. It's not like they got a bus for Luca, but He's certainly not Luca light blue Castro and Emanuel Bonilla Rios and Drew Jokes might not go down as the worst because there might be worse just straight bus for a non-bus, but Yeah, I would uh, I would take train if I had to had to have trailing team we could use a point guard in Orlando I'd be down for trade Tom Brady. I'm working on a simmy. Let's go Let's go Yeah, they're pretty hard. Uh, they're pretty hard all the Brady's in general pretty hard to hit We've only hit a few. Um, we've hit one auto. It was gold to 50 and then we've hit probably Between five and 10 of the base and numbered and we ripped a lot a lot of omen drafts So it's a lot. It is not it is not as easy as it is. It's definitely short printed. Most definitely short printed Here's a journal Cox for a space auto for the eights First uh, Jacob Wilson and Hunter Owen. I'm just toking in It's a hook Come on. It's a hook. What up, man? Oh man. Here's a first Marcus Brown Levi Wells Yeah, I don't know if LeBron's gonna go anywhere. It's good. It's I don't know. I think he's kind of waiting to see what see what happens with brawny There's a green skeins paul's skeins there on the draft prospects of 99 Green scheme Another cold no There's a cave morris and sabacool Make some chicken noodle soup going or something Yeah, that does stink toke That should help how always does there's a light blue. We're gonna be true Gilbert First of cutting ham and jet the met Jet the met Yeah, we hit the yeah, it was yeah, it was it was close. It was close Single digits off. We're there right there Say grades in 99 camp alderman for miami first knapsick Colson montgomery Yeah, it was close. It was close I finally got the invite from franatics live android beta Let's go. Let's go paul. That's huge. That is huge. We're waiting for that Waiting for that. Yeah, candy. We haven't seen it yet. I'd have to imagine it even I would have to imagine it is Let's go paul Paul getting the fanatics beta going. Let's go There's a cave cooler only first for the breaks Surprise, it's taken this long to be honest. There's a first batonsi and a cunea I'm surprised. Just cleaned out walmart the last four stating couple last ones. Let's go canlar. Let's go canlar Let's know what you hit What's up candy? You might make me go uh go find a walmart real quick let better and marcelo mine No, I think i'm gonna go buy some of that new pokemon. Oh, yeah. Yeah nice What is it paladine uh The ball there's something. No, that's an old one. I don't know man I don't know. There's a first auto. It's gonna be jacob gonzala. It's a nice one there neil First pick for the white socks in the draft First smooth and wooper It's etb that it's the Blaster no blaster the uh booster booster box. Yeah, those are fire. Yeah, those are fun a lot of packs in there Those are my move. I'm trying to get that's what I'm talking about. There's a jonah cox the 499 first light bloop Yeah, I'm gonna go get some of that today probably bowman glass Blake mitchell Oh paradox. That's right. That's right. Since I just smashed the head and orange city That's right Taking names at the poker room. Yeah If you were in orange city yesterday, you remember me you remember me God you're on a flight.  Let's go I like it get more audience. I'm always in on that. Oh, yeah more accessibility. There's a jacob gonzala's first lunar glow brayden taylor and salas All right halfway there mr. Neal Halfway there. Good luck, sir moment jumbo number four Yeah, well a couple things back in the day being three to ten gold my house wrong I pulled a uh So she the times it was a james wiseman green pulsar to 25 so it's like 200 bucks James wiseman. Uh, it was a prism draft too. It wasn't even prism, uh Prism hobby it was prism drafts to 25 so like 20 something bucks. I was like, okay I sold a lot of those Kyle trash 500 let's go Kyle trash man. I was not buying Kyle trash. Oh this dude did There's a jasper rofen that'll be going way to 50 first for the blue jays And nolla mclean first refractor Yeah, shite out of blaster I got you brent. Yes, sir appreciate that man Yeah, that uh, those one-on-ones the other night. We're we're killer man killer The palo timeless moments and then the uh job downtown For some killer boxes first refractor is dylan campbell One time ago was a couple grand I sold it for Say greenson on yon hackenburg for the brakes First cooper angle and I got your order brent. Thank you, sir So it should be like 45 minutes or so on the queue guys nothing crazy in the queue Still got a good bit of those um Those leaf coming up so those will be pretty quick Like five more of those coming up Very nice appreciate that guys didn't have fun with those man. I'm I'm all in on those I like them first refractors gonna be pink me We got some brakes of those coming up as well guys. You guys are interested in the uh leaf got the random hit style You should have a trash list today, shame Yeah You know I whip something up. You can take a something there at 125. We got jackson holiday And first kindle george Yeah, shame you have to close it out when you're not on the uh, when you're not on the fanatics app You got to close it out or else sometimes it'll stay running in the background I've noticed that light blue first marcus brown knows that a few times. I'll be shone slowly I'll be like cooking something. I like I just closed and I'll hear lane out of my phone. I'm like What's going on and I'll hear it. I'll be like, oh, I didn't fully close in it's still running for whatever reason That's a red That's a red neil. Come on That's a red It is a homer bush jr. On the first red auto for the podge rice Auto work five out of five You know mag on that very nice one there for you. That is a clean auto man. He's got a nice signature Homer bush jr. On the auto this time very nice red there five out of five. We'll get a mag on that Let's go, uh, let's go neil five out of five True red homer bush. He's a very clean auto man. Very clean first is brand new winnaker Thank you. I appreciate you. Hold enough for everybody. Yeah, I appreciate you Respect Yeah, speaking of bad autos. That's a good one. There's a typhoid first He still has some uh some respect in the auto there Harry Kane here dropping it from germany. Well, hello, Harry Kane. What's up? How we doing? 2499 jr. Jones And it's right behind on the blue to 150 is max clark. Damn. Oh, there we go neil now. We're talking That one is 58 to 150. We'll get a mag on that as well Mr. Max Clark third pick in the draft That will work very nice one there back to back really nice hits First Picard and k cooler Doing good harry doing good. How you doing sir? Can not complain You got a luka luka shimmer auto out of a contender's blaster. Hey, that ain't bad. That ain't bad. Obviously the uh redemption part not as good not as good but Let's take a luka got a bowman glass of typhi. Is that windy out there? Lindsay and ewing. Was it the wind? I don't know what that was. There's a ghost in here dude. I don't know what that is Here in munich. Well, appreciate that. We have another uh Another roost was uh, what's saying? What's up from germany as well? Uh, what's up? There is jackson merrill 125 on the aqua germany in the house. What's up germany in the house today and ricket brachiover frack That's all i got for you. Yeah and close enough to we'll take it. We'll take a give the effort to 199 brandy winnaker First lead by wells and a jackson merrill first red louder All righty two more for you neo really nice box there red homer bush and blue on the max clark Let's keep it going here box number five. Yeah, luka has been redemption for a while So hopefully he gets through and signs everything. He's been a redemption on a couple different products for sure I'd have to imagine they give you a pretty good replacement though. Like i'm not hoping for that But i'm actually they would from luka Definitely hoping you get the card. There's a nice gold papers white langford All right, keeping it going here very nice on the paper that time White langford and first refractors jake cunningham to 499 499 Justin rhymer first refractor true retail red. We got a 10 really. I didn't know you got a retail red party Let's go paul The reds and blues are tough to hit man tough to hit out of retail The first refractor is joe patrona Yeah, they're sp. Shack the reds and the blues are sp There's a yellow to 75 clemmie It's only like 20 blues and first redfield Be a good one to have They got the uh Two detroit boys got the the cj strab blue. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's a first of 499 k morris How many packets of cars do we have a lot harry? We got a lot of cards first cars and rocker for And garret forster. We got a lot. You got a lot. These are all personal. So these are for other people We're buying them Oh, let's go kyle Daughter said the brady of the fifties in this one. Okay. Come on I believe To 250 first geron watts brown In on that balmin and maratus And dr. Kyle's daughter knows what's up. Let's go. Come on brady. What's her name? We give her a shout out Come on brady This one's six. This one's six bowman jumbos trosser and wiggins This one is six jumbos. We got a lot of um leaf uh leaf art of sport solos after It's mainly what's in the cube Isla Or isla Like isla Isla oh nice. Well there's 250 got a calling hulk. There we go meds first pick in the draft Well on the uh first round picks Shout out to isla. There's 250 calling hulk Call brady. And johnny farmello Isla got you gotcha What did you say? Well, thank you isla. Isla Thanks for watching. Uh, there's something like that. Let me see. They're pretty close to that These ones are 550. Yeah, 559 Inky tom taking a spot or two spots in the uh sunday funda mixer tonight 40 box sunday funda baseball guys Gonna be in place of the usual sunday funda um football got the sun uh the um superbowl mixer coming next saturday So we got a baseball one this sunday jace davis would be 40 boxes 40 boxes Coming up later today Kyle's alter ego in the chat. That's actually just me. I'm typing over here.  He'll have jumbo coming. Oh Who's that first uh alien soto for the nationals on the base auto First crowl and key for lord chromo tani and a member's choice. Okay Okay, canlar. Let's keep it going. Sayang shame member's choice. Okay. Now we're talking canlar now we're talking Sayang shame on the member's choice. I like that. I like that Yeah, definitely Kyle definitely Appreciate you stopping by There's a colt emerson on the boomer glass first k10 and rock regio Yeah, I don't work the shop front anymore. So I don't see you guys as much uh guys that do come by. I don't see you guys as much anymore Definitely come by uh, say what's up There's a speckle first act or nobody knows who jake is and a first noble mire That's true Jumbo doesn't know who jumbo is This happy cool standard shield out. It's just sold immediately. Yeah, probably but he might I don't know I don't know what the new coach. Maybe he'll uh, maybe we'll get a shot. I know they're gonna try to trap somebody I'm sure but loop case. She'll on the uh glow first honeyman and alex remeereth Doesn't mean he won't get a shot though. Yeah, a couple uh psa timet jones jenesis ricky It's gonna hold on to him. Oh Last one here box six. Good luck. Neil has a nice one so far Come on I dk who jake is At this point canlar is same At this point same right last box here. Neil At the insta vision. Hey, let's go. Those are case hits Take that in a blaster. See now.  See what you did Canlar see what you did to me Let me go to walmart now There's a cold karak best of 2023 auto there for the rockies cold karak First of christian cambell and louis on hella kunya Yes, slums had a red homer bush and then um a blue max clark auto Blue max clark to 150 We also pulled the skeins the black skeins. Yeah black skeins earlier Ronaldo patch auto from leaf um leaf art of sport some cool stuff To matt shaw on the mood ring and ty floyd to 199 For zack leavenson and cheerio and been a nice start today Had the black skeins in 75.  Really really nice There's a green grass of louis on hella kunya cox and cliford Yeah, no, it's uh, it is a risk for sure. There's a saltobon 199 first on the below Got a light blue brooks leak first grant taylor and huddlepole and purple the 250 gonna be joe matrona for the dodgers It doesn't hit that like button make the stash grow joe whitman patch agrily Might be sure just a bit my mood just a bit per like Oh my glass far mellow first keener and sax horton purple the 250 quid mcdaniel First walton and mayhia first of saltobon and burgoya and the last stack here First auto is jack mahoney for the rockies Rockies on the base First rock of fort and brooks lee The shirt says company first zonatello drew gilbert Yeah, those are fun shite. Those are a lot of fun, man If you get a one of the top three four set pretty well Finally early to 499 and we've had cases where even lower than that gets set pretty well in those two 125 die in a whorehead aqua weight First max anderson and ario castro light blue zonatello and lunar glow alfredo dunham mattshaw and felon salisthen on the back All righty there mr. Neal that'll do it for your six boxes a bowman draft jumbo Appreciate you my man as always we'll get those right out to you And I sit on the max clerk and I sit on the red Homer bush as well. Appreciate you my man


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