Work Update – August/September 2018

  • Reviewed latest Trello activity, comments etc
  • Reviewed onboarding board Trello cards
  • Reviewed Nicole’s validation board to get an idea of validation summaries
  • Posted a job on Upwork
  • Shortlisted/interviewed/hired a candidate
  • Looked into the Adsense issue
  • Cleaned up and published some C2 submissions on DUYP
  • Prepared the instructions and the first batch of videos to summarize
  • Regarding the Adsense issue, where you have some click on PPG, there were a lot of pages/posts where Adsense units were placed manually. I have checked and removed Adsense units from all pages.
  • Sergio (the newly hired virtual assistant for video summaries) has submitted the first batch of the summaries, but that was not up to the mark, I have reworked on the first summary and asked him to make changes to the rest of the videos.Update: Didn’t receive any update from Sergio, I guess he won’t reply. I will wait til Monday else hire a new person.
  • Received a couple of warning emails from Google webmaster, some of the pages have warnings i.e indexed, though not blocked by the robot.txt. I have researched to figure out this issue and find out that this is not critical. We can ignore the warnings unless the pages are blocked by the robot.txt completely
  • Checked and fixed broken links on all sites
  • Worked on some more C2 submissions. Cleaned up and posted new submissions.
  • Prepared instructions for the first test batch, set up Dropbox etc and assigned the batch to both freelancers.
  • Reviewed Work submitted by both freelancers and finalized one of them. Didn’t ended the contract of the second freelancer as we need to wait until the second batch is submitted.
  • Prepared the instructions, finalized videos etc for the 2nd batch and assigned to Adalyn (finalized freelancer)
  • Cleaned up/reviewed and published pending C2 submissions on DUYP
  • Prepared a document for the whole hiring process and uploaded to the relevant Trello card.
  • Trello: Create Membership pages Important WP Plugins that correspond to SBI functions – I have created all possible pages, but still there are a few SBI functions that I cannot find doable with WordPress.
  • I have checked done summaries from Aidalyn, so far she has done a great job. However, I made some minor changes and asked her to review those changes.
  • Prepared the next batch of videos for Aidalyn. This is around 165 minutes of video and $25
  • Put links to Done Summaries in Workflowy
  • Researched SBI articles, signed up to a new Adsense account and tried to re-verify the account. More details are provided with this Trello Card.
  • Adsense has declined my application. I have researched their policy guidelines to check what’s wrong but didn’t get any clear reason. Please see the Trello card for more details.
  • Reviewed some of the SBI articles for Adsense alternatives and applied to media.net based on the guidelines provided by SBI.
  • Media.net has also declined my application.
  • Validated some more C2 comment and submissions on DUYP
  • Reviewed Trello List ‘Done Summaries from Nicole’ in the Validation department.
  • Move IH diary to WP – I have merged and uploaded three work update posts, one is still in process. Please review Trello card for more details.
  • I have created a new Trello Card for video summaries validation. Please review Analytics Overview I have done the validation based on one of the summaries submitted by Aidalyn. I need your feedback on this.
  • Read and reviewed the latest Gdocs comments and responded to those
  • Communicated with Aidalyn
  • Reviewed some of the latest Trello Conversion and cards that you suggested to look into
  • Worked on the Validation
  • Skype call with you
  • Summarized a video as discussed during the Skype call, I have shared a link to the summary with you, please review and let me know your feedback.
  • Checked and fixed broken links on all sites

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