I forgot to write about a Christmas party I attended to back in December 2007.
The event included dinner, show, games and even gambling. All employees working for Bodog and some Bodog clients were invited to the party. (more…)
I have been building search engines for a couple of years now. The reason I started doing this is because I figured that if I want to be better at SEO, I should understand exactly how search engines work, what kind of challenges search engine engineers have to deal with on a day-to-day basis, how to keep up with the changing world of the Internet etc.
Soon I realized that the top search engine operators are in it for the money, so I started making money with my own search engines as well. First, just to cover the server operating costs, later to cover my mortgage payments and in better months even earn a good living. I remember a time when I was operating over 30 search engines and my total gross income was as high as $1300 per day. (more…)
When your site moves to a new domain or a page moves to a new location or the file name changes for whatever reason, search engine crawlers will keep trying to find the moved file(s).
The web server will handle the situation by either giving back a 404 Not Found HTTP response which tells the search engine spiders and web browsers a note that sorry but the page cannot be found on the server. Search engine spider will eventually remove these pages from their indexes. (more…)
Today my daughters and I became citizens of Canada.
Finally, after nine long years living in Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada decided to give us citizenship, which I was told today by the citizenship judge, means that I am married to 33 million other Canadians. It’s because we made promises to the Canada including all of its citizens. So here I am, 33 years old and married again after two failed divorces. But this time not another women sucked me into a deal, but about 18 million women. (more…)
With the new year I decided to setup a new blog. I got tired of my old boring blog engine I designed over a year ago, so here I am blogging again now using WordPress.
I guess the reason is that though I slowed down blogging at the end of the year in 2007, I somehow still managed to outgrow my little blog engine. I needed something more powerful, more SEO friendly and I was lazy to redesign the whole thing. I just didn’t want to reinvent something that already out there and being developed regularly and what’s even better: it’s free! (more…)