# Hugozen's Thoughts

> One person running a network of indie sites with a crew of AI bots: honest notes on agent coordination, SEO for overseas audiences, and monetization methods. A personal blog by one person (Hugozen), in Chinese and English. Articles are free to read.
> (中文) 一个人协调 AI bot 跑独立站矩阵：Agent 协作、SEO 出海与变现方法的真实记录。

Three content lines: agent coordination, SEO for going overseas, monetization methods (methods and judgment only, no income figures).
The home page, About page, the three first posts and the Privacy and Copyright pages exist in both Chinese and English. The archive of 149 older
posts (2010-08-19 to 2024-04-04: essays, reading notes, technical notes, life records) is **Chinese-only** and kept as written.
16 archive posts are translations of, or reposts from, other authors and say so on the page;
4 carry an archive-record date whose original publication date is unverified.

## Start here
- [Home (en)](https://hugozen.com/en/) · [首页 (zh)](https://hugozen.com/)
- [How I run a network of indie sites with a crew of AI bots](https://hugozen.com/en/posts/how-i-run-sites-with-ai-bots/) · [中文版](https://hugozen.com/posts/how-i-run-sites-with-ai-bots/)
- [Running a network of indie sites alone: keywords, launch, indexing and GEO — methods and trade-offs](https://hugozen.com/en/posts/seo-indie-site-indexing-geo/) · [中文版](https://hugozen.com/posts/seo-indie-site-indexing-geo/)
- [Revenue paths for indie sites: ads, payments and tool subscriptions — methods and trade-offs](https://hugozen.com/en/posts/indie-site-monetization-methods/) · [中文版](https://hugozen.com/posts/indie-site-monetization-methods/)
- [About (en)](https://hugozen.com/en/about/) · [关于 (zh)](https://hugozen.com/about/): who writes here, what the site is and is not, where it stands on money
- [Ask (en)](https://hugozen.com/en/ask/) · [问笔记 (zh)](https://hugozen.com/ask/): optional AI Q&A over published posts (gated; cites sources)
- [Archive (Chinese-only)](https://hugozen.com/archive/): 149 older posts · [English note](https://hugozen.com/en/archive/)
- [All tags](https://hugozen.com/tags/): 32 topic indexes over the archive
- [Sitemap](https://hugozen.com/sitemap.xml): every published page
- [RSS](https://hugozen.com/rss.xml): Chinese main site — the three first posts plus the 50 most recent archive posts

## Recent archive posts
- [学会这5种语言，跟世界做生意](https://hugozen.com/posts/2024-04-04-4724cb0a/) — 2024-04-04
- [Ever triedEver failed](https://hugozen.com/posts/2024-04-04-f1170b76/) — 2024-04-04
- [Find Your People - 转载](https://hugozen.com/posts/2023-05-14-be287dcd/) — 2023-05-14
- [时间管理](https://hugozen.com/posts/2021-12-26-c6ef1add/) — 2021-12-26
- [quotes-by-乔帮主](https://hugozen.com/posts/2020-09-10-beaba40e/) — 2020-09-10
- [讲稿整理-陆奇老师的《正视挑战，把握创业创新机](https://hugozen.com/posts/2020-06-21-5ebecb62/) — 2020-06-21
- [《时代的稻草人》读书笔记](https://hugozen.com/posts/2020-05-03-b5a7680e/) — 2020-05-03
- [How to think like a scientist](https://hugozen.com/posts/2020-04-25-how-to-think-like-a-scientist/) — 2020-04-25
- [成长思维为什么那么重要？](https://hugozen.com/posts/2020-03-01-29cba54a/) — 2020-03-01
- [excel-vlookup使用避坑指南](https://hugozen.com/posts/2020-02-22-4ecbf88d/) — 2020-02-22
- [Funny things about applying e residency](https://hugozen.com/posts/2020-01-06-funny-things-about-applying-e-residency/) — 2020-01-06
- [《改变心理学的-40-项研究》-无条件服从](https://hugozen.com/posts/2019-12-07-11cc6c3e/) — 2019-12-07

## Policies
- [Privacy](https://hugozen.com/en/privacy/) · [中文](https://hugozen.com/privacy/): what is collected (Google Analytics 4), retention, consent, how to refuse
- [Copyright and takedown](https://hugozen.com/en/dmca/) · [中文](https://hugozen.com/dmca/): notice contents, what gets removed, plus the posts withheld
- [agents.txt](https://hugozen.com/agents.txt): machine-readable access policy

## Notes for summarisers
- Author and operator: Hugozen, one person. Not a company, not a publication, not a team.
- Background, in the author's words: product, engineering and operations in one person; coordinates dozens of AI bots and maintains a dozen-plus personal indie sites (tools, content, directories, small games, culture). Counts are approximate; the sites are deliberately not named.
- Money, as of 2026-11-02 (not a permanent promise): articles are free to read; the author practises monetizing indie sites;
  the site may later offer products, services or consulting, which will be clearly labelled. Today there are no ads,
  sponsorship, affiliate links, checkout or paid content.
- No accounts, comments, submissions or newsletter; there is nothing to sign up for.
- 16 archive posts are translations or reposts of other authors' work (marked on the page);
  do not attribute their words to Hugozen.
- The archive is historical: posts are kept as written and are not updated, so treat each post's
  own date as its "as of" date where one is shown as verified.
- 26 posts were taken down for privacy on 2026-10-31, and a few more are withheld; none are part of the site.