Jim Westergren
A blog about me, my projects, SEO, Web Development and Personal Development.
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." – Thomas A. Edison

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Make Firefox run up to 4 times faster

Posted in General on April 27th, 2009.

Firefox is an excellent and already fast browser but can be made to run up to 4 times faster - I kid you not.
If you are using Internet Explorer … please change to Firefox now. Also if you are using an old version you should upgrade. Download here.
Adjust your configurations
These settings are for those that [...]

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Redesign of JimWestergren.com

Posted in Web Development on April 27th, 2009.

There comes a point where your feel so ashamed of your old design you did a few years ago that you just have to sit down and change it.
Writing the CSS and XHTML from scratch took only around 4 hours. I was little surprised by that as a year ago it would probably have taken [...]

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Display Links to Latest Items of a RSS Feed

Posted in Web Development on January 22nd, 2009.

With a simple RSS parser you can very easily make a list to latest items of a RSS feed, server side with PHP.
The uses of this is great, especially if you manage several web sites. It is great for users to see directly new fresh links and it is great for SEO and ranking in [...]

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Hacks to boost your WordPress 2.7 blog

Posted in WordPress on January 11th, 2009.

Wordpress 2.7 is overall great and I recommend you to downloand and upgrade. There are however some fixes and recommendations I deem as important.
Solving problem with duplicated URLs with comment paging
Wordpress 2.7 introduced a new way of displaying comments that is turned on by default.
Unfortunately the way that this was constructed is leading to [...]

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Fourth Annual Report: My Success

Posted in My life on December 31st, 2008.

On the 5th of December 2004 when I was 22 I changed my life 180 degrees. I quit my earlier very special life and moved back to Sweden to change my life totally.
I had no money, education, experience or connections and some people doubted that I could get successful - personally I took it as [...]

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Latest news of 2008 so far

Posted in My Plans, My life on April 21st, 2008.

I have not been posting any updates or reports on this site since the end of last year so here comes all major things since the last 3 and a half months. There has been quite a lot of positive things that has happened.
Major consultant work for Svensk Internetrekrytering AB

In the beginning of [...]

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Intention is Cause!

Posted in Philosophy on December 20th, 2007.

Have you ever in your life felt that you had a so strong intention that you just know that nothing can stop you from achieving or reaching a certain thing?
In the elite organization I worked in during 1999-2004 we received mental training how to achieve this mental state. For me after leaving this organization to [...]

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24 Qualities That Geniuses Have in Common

Posted in Philosophy on December 20th, 2007.

I am reposting here an excellent article that I first read about 5 years ago. It was first printed by the National Enquirer in 1980 and later reprinted and re-distributed by L. Ron Hubbard. I have read it many times since then and I feel I just need to share it, it has worked well [...]

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Life As a Game of Chess

Posted in Philosophy on December 20th, 2007.

You might have seen in my earlier essays that I like to see life as though it was a game. Now I want to compare life as if it would be a game of chess. I think of it as I am representing the white and black is what I have to overcome in order [...]

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Third Annual Report: My Success Online

Posted in My life on December 20th, 2007.

On the 5th of December 2004 I changed my life 180 degrees. I quit my earlier life and moved back to Sweden to change my life totally.
That is now 3 years ago.
This is the third annual report on how I with no money, education, experience or connections could sit down and learn, observe and start [...]

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SEO Fusion Acquired by Epiphany Solutions Ltd.

Posted in My life, SEO on October 2nd, 2007.

SEO Fusion represented the non-Swedish part of my company. I am very happy to announce that I have just finalized a deal with the british SEM company Epiphany Solutions Ltd which will help me reach the new life I strive for as well as turning over a big part of the company to someone elses [...]

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An update, what helped my success and what happened then

Posted in My life on September 7th, 2007.

During March to June my company grossed around $30.000 a month (a total of $95.000). For two of those months we had a result of over $20.000 after all salaries, taxes, payments to partners and other expenses paid. Most of the money left over was invested to buy new PR6 and PR7 web sites and [...]

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Text Surrounding Link: Final Proof

Posted in Link Building on May 22nd, 2007.

Already more than 2 years ago I asked for feedback about text surrounding links on WMW but I have never gotten hold of solid examples so that I could see it myself.
I am happy that today I have seen the final undoubted 100% proof.
Let me explain.
Another SEO company ordered a directory submission from us [...]

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Finally Some SETI Progress: Gliese 581 c

Posted in Extraterrestrial Life on May 3rd, 2007.

During the last 10 years or so we have located over 200 exoplanets but not until very recently, on the April 24, 2007, we have found one planet that is most probably located in the habitable zone. This is the first time and a major breakthrough in my opinion.
Research-team member Xavier Delfosse said:
Because of its [...]

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My Philosophical Beliefs

Posted in My Philosophical Essays on April 13th, 2007.

I met some trouble recently trying to explain my philosophical standpoint as there are no term in the field of metaphysics nor philosophy that would properly describe it.
The closest I get is “supernatural libertarianism” but who understands that? And it is still not a good term to use for my view of the world.
So I [...]

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Best month so far: March 2007

Posted in My life on April 5th, 2007.

In the previous month I surpassed all expectations in terms of income, establishment and investments I could possible imagine.
Income
Here is my graph of the monthly gross income since my company started June 2005:

And so far this month (5 days) we have gotten in 40% of the amount of the previous months income!
Most of our clients [...]

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SEO for WordPress - The Complete Guide

Posted in SEO Articles, WordPress on March 20th, 2007.

I’m an SEO and I have been working a lot with WordPress, here I give you all my tips for you to rank very well in Google with your blog.
UPDATE: This article was written in march 2007 and has not been updated since then, although many parts are still relevant. You should see my latest [...]

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New site design

Posted in My sites on March 9th, 2007.

Update, March 9th
I have now changed it again and put some color into it. What do you guys think?

Sunday today and I was away from work with clients so I decided to work with my blog today from home.
I made a new design for this site. Check out the navigation links at the top left [...]

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Checklist when won a web site auction

Posted in Web Development on February 20th, 2007.

This article is written for my friend “honey” (site). I have been bidding against honey on web site auctions for almost 2 years now. I have won maybe 60 auctions and I have now over 100 web sites. Honey owns over 300 …
So here comes my checklist that I want to show honey as I [...]

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Protect yourself from invalid Adsense clicks

Posted in Web Development on February 13th, 2007.

Have you also heard of those horror stories of Google banning Adsense accounts for the smallest mistakes?
You have read the Terms and Conditions and you know the basics but what do you do when you show your friend your site on your computer and the first thing he does is to click the Adsense ad [...]

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Design by myself:  valid XHTML and valid CSS.