Day 43

Log: 4:30p - 7:15p -- 2.75 hours -- too much...

HowToCureInsomnia.com installed on server.

Wordpress plugins installed:

-Aki one installed (anti-spam)
-not installed: membership site ability "BuddyPress" makes social network on your blog.  SUPER cool. #membership
-Yoast SEO installed -- warning -- do not update when available, brand new updates are known to break functionality.
-not installed: Yoast Google Analytics -- prob the way to go on this?  Maybe just input into Salient, dunno.
-not activated (but is installed) TablePress -- makes tables!


Goals Achieved:

-Create wordpress on site (on actual URL, not IP) & install SEO plugin RIGHT AWAY before salient.

The URL is done, so I can actually do this now, this can get done this week.  This can all be done in 15 minutes or less.  Installing Salient will be done immediately after, again, this will only take a few minutes

-Get the main salient blog established and get the video and opt-in on the front page.

This is where the goals change...

Also I did a little work on implementing the core design and changing some things.  For the final video I'm going to want to use a custom player with a thumbnail image that interfaces nicely with the header background -- otherwise having a floating video on the page looks super awkward.  Hence Ed Dale using a simple white page on his stuff.

I'd love to keep it youtube for the views but that just doesn't work, it's not professional and will hurt conversion, it'll redirect people, and it won't interface with the "solution" 20 minute video -- That one can't be youtube, after all, or it'll piss people off that they gave their email just to get access to a free youtube video.

The next step options are:

-Get a video player

or

-Port over aweber forms and etc

or

-Find old video editing files, folders, raw video-editing-format files from Magix, etc.

-Install Magix Video editor

-Remake the video to say "fill in your information on the opt-in box you see on this page"