One landing page for every artifact, fix, and report Claude generated for Paul on April 6, 2026. Bookmark this page — it's the index of today's work.
Today's headline: Google AdSense approved your account, unlocking monetization across all 116 sites. We responded with the full operational push needed to capitalize on that approval — canonical SEO fixes, AdSense verification meta tags, traffic dashboards, billing for Nancy, fixing 3 broken site headlines, and adding Google Analytics to 12 sites that were flying blind. Plus a Best of Austin 2025 hub on austinlifestyles.com (one of your top 10 traffic sites) and a draft to-do list synced across devices.
Use this page as your dashboard for today's work. Click any card to open the artifact.
28 items across 6 categories. Click rows to mark them done; state persists in your browser. Color-coded by urgency.
Add your sites to AdSense in this order. Top 10 first (36% of network traffic). Top 30 captures 54%. Each row links straight to AdSense's "Add site" page. Checkboxes save state.
First-ever per-site traffic data for all 115 sites. Sortable table showing visits, unique visitors, pages, hits. Daily cron set. Top sites: tvreviewer.com (545), firth.com (231), austen.com (164).
Print-ready invoice for the 3 delivered Bergeron sites. Click "Print / Save as PDF" in the top right to send to Nancy. Net 14, due April 20, 2026.
Internal record of every site built for Nancy. 3 delivered (the contract), 2 spec builds ready to upsell as $800 in additional revenue, 1 draft, plus the hsvrealestate.com mystery to verify.
11 HIGH priority domains queued for registration (~$165 total at $15/year). Plus the full 196-domain portfolio summary from your domains.csv.
Per the CLAUDE.md project rule, the "Last updated" line was bumped to April 6 with notes about the AdSense approval, the canonical fixes, and the AWStats launch.
Hub page on your top-10 traffic site for original commentary on the Austin Chronicle's 2025 Best of Austin awards. 17 placeholder category cards with bio-aware writing prompts. Copyright-clean, fully attributed, AdSense-ready, schema.org marked. Fill in your takes when you have time.
SEO placeholder for "best of austin 2026" search traffic. Tells visitors voting is open and points them to the Chronicle. Will become the 2026 commentary hub when winners announce later this year.
Build script copy-pasted "Austin Blogger" H1 across 3 sites by mistake. All 3 now show their correct site names. Plus 2 body-content "Austin bloggers" lines on austinlifestyles fixed, plus the "Lifestyless" typo. Plus the wider "Austin Blogger" contamination audit found no other broken H1s.
Patched 167 HTML files' canonical & og:url tags + 108 sitemap.xml files + 110 nginx server blocks to standardize on non-www URLs. Stops the Google Search Console "Duplicate without canonical" email firehose.
Inserted <meta name="google-adsense-account" content="ca-pub-7759195213529699"> in every HTML file's <head>. Required for AdSense site verification. Now any site you add in AdSense's UI will verify instantly.
379 HTML files patched. Even your flagship walhus.com and wholetech.com had no GA tracking — you were flying blind. Now G-MFQ0P2H8G8 is on every site in the network.
5 Bergeron sites whose DNS migrated to AWS/Citysnap (Nancy's other vendor) + 1 with broken DNS were cluttering the audit. Archived out of sites-enabled, files preserved for restoration if needed.
Every web source, profile, press hit, and biographical reference for the Paul Walhus biography. Includes the Trempealeau County Times Wisconsin Farm article (primary source), Slate's 2007 King of Twitter piece, BuzzFeed's 2013 retrospective, the Bob Nagy / KUHS-FM connections, Cliff Figallo obituary, the Bingham Photo Collection at U of Louisville, and dozens more.
Today added: Ch 30A (Texas year & repeated 2nd grade), Ch 60M (Barney as Coach — the spine chapter), Ch 56 (Wisconsin Farm rewrite with Trempealeau dates), plus 30+ other new chapters from this morning's stream-of-consciousness sessions. Paul to read and verify.
Every romantic relationship in chronological order: Sandy Knopf, Helen Huth, Sherry Simpson, Nanne Sue Wolmann, Maxine Brown, Amanda Boyer, Louise Craver, Cynthia, Gail Moss, Margaret Flynn, Joy Newcom, Dot. Updated with the Newcom typo fix and Joy's correct chronological position.
Four-pillar walhus.com structure (Book / Documentary / YouTube / Loves) modeled after barneyebsworth.com.
Documentary plan, treatment links, parallel-to-Barney framing.
YouTube channel categories (4 channels: @springnet, /user/walhus, @austincaster, @PaulTerryWalhus). Pending the YouTube Takeout for full inventory.
You need to do these — I can't:
1. Change your Gmail password (you shared it earlier)
2. Add your top 10 sites to AdSense (use the priority list above)
3. Read the Best of Austin 2025 list at calendar.austinchronicle.com/best-of/2025 and fill in the placeholder cards on your hub page
4. Send the Bergeron invoice to Nancy (open the invoice page, click Print/Save as PDF, email it to her)
5. Decide barneyebsworth.com public vs private
6. Verify the hsvrealestate.com mystery (check your local machine / GitHub)
7. Pitch Nancy on bnbhot.com + realhotsprings.com as 2 additional sites = $800 more
8. Start YouTube + Drive + Photos + Gemini Apps + Facebook Takeouts in browser tabs
9. Don't click your own ads ever — tell Dot