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10/11/2024

Theo: "I made this youtube channel, because no-one else has done it. If you make the things that you want to exist. If you make them so good, that you genuinely enjoy them, you will almost certainly eventually find a lot of success with that."

Quoted by Theo - t3.gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_D2bYFjY4

I got fed up with the crappy image transformation tools online for both SVG conversions and making images into squares, so I built my own solution.Thank you ...

07/11/2024

The time has come!! Dynamic SEO page generation for 360 Virtual Tours is online!! Free knowledge that I'm sharing here with you guys. Took me quite some effort to put it all together, but I feel it's sooo much worth it!! 🤩

Let's make sure our work creating 360 virtual tours gains passive attention by letting search engines know what's inside the tours. Include locations of your panoramas and other important keywords so that you gain visibility in the search results.

The tools we're using to put this together are open-source, both Webstudio and Baserow. They both can be fully self hosted on your own server if you want. No vendor lock-in. Even though you can self host it, I think it's very much worth it using their cloud environments to get started today!

Create a dynamic page for every panorama, hotspot or even 360Video from your 360 Virtual Tour. We'll be using 3DVista, but the same principles can be applied to any other virtual tour software that supports deeplinks or url-parameters such as Matterport, krpano or Marzipano.

🔸How much attention do your virtual tours receive?
As virtual tour creators, we're putting in a lot of our time and energy into creating beautiful and sometimes incredibly large 360 Virtual Tours. We then provide it to our client, it receives some attention on social media. Maybe it gets shared through a newsletter. For some reason not so many clients place their virtual tour prominently on their homepage, but maybe your clients do. After a few weeks time after delivery, there's not that much going on with most virtual tours anymore.

For some reason typically 80% of visitors only watch the first one, two or three panoramas and then leave.

Imagine creating virtual city tours with 100+ panoramas and the only thing that 80% of visitors might see are the first three panoramas...

I barely find any 360 Virtual Tours when I search for things on the internet. Using Brave Search, Google Search or any other search engine. That's because a lot of virtual tours, in this case 3DVista tours, have very little SEO information.

🔹Let's do something about that with programmatic SEO
That's about to change in this tutorial. Although I might consider myself a beginner at SEO, I think it makes sense. It's better than what most people have at this point. If you do have the experience in SEO, please let us know in the comments if you have any additional suggestions.

For this tutorial the programmatic SEO that we're going to create is based on panorama names. Although we could do the same based on hotspots, creating many more pages, this tutorial will be focussed on panoramas only.

🕒 Timestamps
0:00 Problem: Virtual Tours poorly indexed by search engines
0:20 Solution: Dynamic page with Meta titles and Meta descriptions for each panorama
1:33 What we need: front end (Webstudio) & back end (Baserow)
3:31 Creating static homepage in Webstudio
5:40 Setting meta title and meta description for static homepage
6:39 Creating dynamic panorama page in Webstudio
7:51 Baserow: Panorama Name
9:09 Baserow: Deeplink
12:09 Baserow: Social Sharing Image (optional)
13:32 Baserow: Slug formula
14:09 Baserow: Slug custom input (optional)
15:46 Connect Baserow with Webstudio: Baserow token
16:46 Connect Baserow with Webstudio: Resource on dynamic page
19:40 Webstudio binding: Dynamic iFrame
22:12 Webstudio binding: H1 title (optional)
23:46 Webstudio: SEO Meta Titles
26:42 Webstudio: SEO Meta Description
27:57 Webstudio: Social Sharing Image
30:00 Result of dynamic page
30:34 Webstudio: sitemap
37:48 Publish to custom (sub)domain
38:03 Webstudio pricing
39:58 Baserow pricing
41:15 It's only the beginning

Create a dynamic page for every panorama, hotspot or even 360Video from your 360 Virtual Tour. We'll be using 3DVista, but the same principles can be applied...

29/10/2024

Dynamic SEO virtual tour optimization

🔸 Each page has it's own iframe embed with different deeplink
🔸 Any virtual tour software can be used: 3DVista, Matterport, Pano2vr.
🔸 Each page generates dynamic title and meta description
🔸 Each page has its own social sharing title, description and image
🔸 Option to further add more dynamic info to each page such as h1 tags, call to action
🔸 Generate backlinks by sharing your pages with other stakeholders that are interested in having the 360 embedded on their site (clients of client, news reporters, investors)
🔸 Deployment to CDN with over 320 locations worldwide to make sure it loads super über mega fast
🔸 New pages automatically added to sitemap so that search engines know that something has changed
🔸 Easily managable in Airtable
🔸 Client fill out a simple form to add new pages

Tutorial coming soon 😎

27/10/2024

Change the text of the label anywhere in 3DVista where you can execute javascript. More flexible than a {{title}} or {{subtitle}} allthough more or less the same principles.

26/09/2024

Learn how to do hover effects on hotspots. Keeping positions the same, using tags to make sure you don't have to think about show/hiding everything correctly to preview or publish it and some special hover effect that draws the attention to the specific object even more in a very subtle way.

Learn how to do rollover and rollout effects in 3DVista effectefly with the right types of tags to it so you an do it on a larger scale.Hover icons with affi...

25/09/2024

New video 📺

Let's see what we can do to get as close as possible to an ikea-style hotspot rollover.Best case scenario would be to have this directly as a dynamic hotspot...

24/09/2024

Can't embed? Refused to connect? No problem, let's find that workaround you've been waiting for.

Can't embed? Refused to connect? No problem, let's find that workaround you've been waiting for.

20/09/2024

skincms in 46 seconds • now available for €24,90!

We've created a lot of improvement on Skin CMS and now we're ready to launch smaller mappings.
Before we only offered mappings at €69 per 100 records.
Now we also offer mappings at €24,90 per 25 records.

More info on skincms .com

19/09/2024

The famous left side menu template reorganized!
Categorize, menus with submenus. Submenus that close when you click another submenu. Smooth details such as + and - icons that show that a submenu is open.

Easy generic colors that can be customized to your own liking without needing to open up an image editing software to change a color of a button. That you can do directly inside 3DVista itself. Links to download other icons in the same style commercially free are included in the project.

🔸 Only one dropdown expands at a time
🔸 Dropdowns with + and - icons to indicate which one is open
🔸 Easily replace logo
🔸 Easily change background color
🔸 Single menu item links
🔸 Call to action
🔸 Footer icons including functional as well as social icons
🔸 Desktop & Mobile

Buy link:
360creators.com/simple-left-side-menu

Video tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKLwJecU14Y

18/09/2024

Learn a few things about why icon buttons are not such a great choice to deal with. And why I always choose buttons instead.
Having the flexibility to change background colors within 3DVista itself, turning buttons into circles, adding an outline to it and having the hover effects managed more easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p3XKkqOQwQ

Book a 3DVista training hour with me: https://360creators.com/training

Book a 3DVista training hour with me: https://360creators.com/trainingLearn a few things about why icon buttons are not such a great choice to deal with. And...

11/09/2024

Let's get into 3D models in 3DVista. Adding in objects, replacing the images, updating the GLTF file with new changes, creating new views and combining vario...

11/09/2024

New tutorial! 3D in 3DVista 😎

Let's get into 3D models in 3DVista. Adding in objects, replacing the images, updating the GLTF file with new changes, creating new views and combining vario...

10/09/2024

With your own redirect urls you can change provider at any point in the future. Bring that power to yourself, so you're not holding on to some old provider for the reason that you've overshared urls in the past online. The sooner you get used to redirect urls, the better.

With your own redirect urls you can change provider at any point in the future. Bring that power to yourself, so you're not holding on to some old provider for…

07/09/2024

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Tired of being trapped in a subscription-based world? In this video we explore how to save money, reclaim control of your digital life, push towards financia...

06/09/2024

How clients respond when they see they can just add hotspots themselves (with Simple Notes + Skin CMS) right from the virtual tour itself 😎

04/09/2024

Clients buy Simple Notes for 3DVista for various reasons. One of them being for archaeological tours, so that other curious minds can ask questions about the historical monuments. It makes the virtual tour more than just viewing it, users start to engage more with it.

03/09/2024

I'm so excited!! Simple Notes allows your clients to add feedback inside your exported 3DVista virtual tours right on point. The note will keep track exactly where it was taken and on what time. Including the exact camera angle with zoom level.

Use cases
- Gain feedback from your client for who you're creating the virtual tour for.
- Let your client add all the hotspot information right on the spot, so you don't have to guess that. Combined with Skin CMS, you can easily connect those into 3DVista.
- Attract leads. People can ask any question about what they're actually seeing. There's no need to describe where you are textually over chat or email, the person only needs to add the note to the visual point and that's it. Adding an email field gives you the ability to followup on your leads.
- Add To-Do tasks from the Virtual Tour

Want to learn more? Check out the video! 🤩 👇

Simple Notes allows your clients to add feedback inside your exported 3DVista virtual tours right on point. No matter if your tour has 10 or 1.000 panoramas, the note will keep track exactly where it was taken and on what time. Including the exact camera angle with zoom level.

30/08/2024

This happened today and I thought: let's make a video about it.
It can happen to anyone at anytime. So let's stay aware of these things happening and move more towards open source solutions.

I sent a message to the wrong phone number, that person very likely marked me as spam. And now I just got locked out. No warning, no communication, nothing. ...