GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 39 - November 2017

ones that are regulated already will put in more rules. What do your family and friends think of your work as an affiliate? They are amazed at what I do. It all started so small, and now I travel around to conferences all over the world. I work wherever I want and moved to Barcelona. How do you manage your to-do lists? Do you use any special software to help you out? Asana is a good tool for this. It has my to-do lists, but the tasks for my regular freelancers are also on there. Howmuch time do you devote to social networking for your site? Not so much. Social networks are hard on gambling. I also have the feeling that it is taboo to profile yourself as a gambler on social media. People don’t like or share a post about gambling so easily. What’s the most difficult thing about running your site? Fighting Google in the SEO battle. What’s the best thing about running your site? Freedom. I earn goodmoney and can work as long as I have an internet connec- tion. I really like traveling to conferences, meeting newpeople and seeing new cities. What do you do to stay in shape – both physically and mentally? Physically, when I am home in Barcelona I go to the gym. When I am at a conference, it is more difficult – usually, you go to the conference and hang out with the people of the confer- ence afterwards. If I have the time, I like to walk through the city the conference is in. Mentally, I keep learning new things, like new techniques in web development and SEO. What do you do with your spare time? Go to the beach, spend time with friends and travel. If someone from out of town were vis- iting you, what’s the one place you’d definitely take them to see? It depends on who comes to visit. Barcelona has so many great things: culture, beach, clubs, great restaurants, sports . . . When you need to get as far away from work as possible, where do you go? I can’t; it’s always in my head. A good workout at the gym can help. What’s your all-time favorite movie? Difficult to say – there are so many. As a kid, the first big movie I really liked was The Lord of the Rings . I had posters of it in my room, and it was my first DVD. Name three things that people reading this magazine don’t know about you. 1. I live in Barcelona, but travel to Belgium almost every month, both for business and to visit friends and family. 2. Besides going to affiliate conferences, I go to a lot of SEO conferences. 3. I am one of the attendees of SEOkto- berfest, an exclusive SEO conference in Munich with only experts in the SEO industry. As the name says, it is during Oktoberfest. Christiaan Bollen - Christiaan 59 W W W . G P W A T I M E S . O R G