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By Jim Westergren

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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: Check this blog post for a better guide.
Quick Facts

There are 55 million blogs out there, if you don’t stand out you will have no chance.
The […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


Updating PR values of 1066 URLs in 30 minutes
Posted in Web Development Articles on February 11th, 2007

This article is written more for myself so I remember how I do it the next time but probably a few people will also benefit from this for different uses and purposes.
Today I updated all the PR values for the directories listed on my directory list. I had to update each listing in the MySQL […]


Worst Web Design Ever
Posted in Humor, Web Design on December 28th, 2006

Official site of a children’s hospital in Japan

Hey, your “logo” is not blinking!
MSY Technology Pty. Ltd.

Are you sure product X is HOT?
Personal site of Franz Magnus

Incredible that you got several awards for that site.
Angren.net, electronic shop

Can’t you squeeze in something more on the home page?
Official site of Northbridge Police Department

Still being updated in 2006. Perhaps […]


Fighting the War Against Web Site Spam Bots
Posted in Web Development Articles, vBulletin on December 9th, 2006

The last days I have been fighting in the war against the latest spam bot soldiers like a maniac.
I own and manage over 70 web sites. This includes different forums, directories, blogs, topsites, article submission sites and you name it.
Very recently there is a new wave of spam. The default captcha for vBulletin is now […]


Link to Me Textbox WordPress Plugin
Posted in Link Building, WordPress on November 6th, 2006

This is a WordPress plugin that will give you more links and higher rankings in the search engines.
Most bloggers knows the importance of getting links in order to get high rankings in search engines. But did you know that the best links are those that are natural recommendations? Additionally I experienced better rankings across all […]


Tutorial: Automatic Site Map for WordPress
Posted in WordPress on October 22nd, 2006

To improve the navigation of your users as well as search engine traffic and ranking to your WordPress blog I suggest making a good site map of your posts - a map of your site. A kind of user friendly archive of your posts. This is not “Google sitemap”!
The benefits:

The user can quickly find a […]


Rank bragging
Posted in My sites, SEO on October 8th, 2006

How I rank on different keywords and links to the different SE queries.


Historical Fiction Forum
Posted in My sites on September 27th, 2006

I have bought a new site and been working on it for a few days.
Historical Fiction .org
It has an active forum with almost 40 000 posts and a large number of book reviews written and submitted by it’s forum members. The site is almost 1 year old and my plan is to make it an […]


Release of my new Link Building Service!
Posted in Link Building, My sites, SEO News on September 20th, 2006

Finally after a lot of work my new link building service is ready and is here released.
This new service is totally unique for the SEO industry (challenge me if I am wrong) and is developed based on my recent article: Link Building Guide.
This new service provides links that:

Are one-way to your site.
Are permanent.
Are embedded in […]


Stop the Topsites Spam!
Posted in Web Development on September 14th, 2006

There is a site I have had a lot of problems with in regards to the hosting. That is my Directory TopSite.
I finally moved the site to another hosting I have in which I pay $150 monthly for (15 C-class IPs, unlimited accounts etc). But then I got an urgent mail from the hosting support. […]


Bought some new sites (again)
Posted in My sites on August 25th, 2006

I regularly invest in new sites and now I have done a new round.
Here are the new ones I got hold of:

Optical Illusions PR5, high traffic, dmoz listed etc.
Modern Pentathlon Unique content, nice domain. Got the site almost for free.
DotComPlay New Arcade site. I bought it for $20 and want to sell it for $2K […]


Bought some new sites
Posted in My sites on June 29th, 2006

I regularly invest in new sites and now I have done a new round.
Here are the new ones I got hold of:

Game Reign PR5 high trafficed flash game site
Wi-Fi-Hotspots Unique site
Find More Articles 3,2K articles, nice script
Mesothelioma Learning Nice high paying content
nishantonline.info PR4 domain for later use
turtlcafe.net PR4 domain for later use

I got them all […]


2 big redesigns and 2 new sites
Posted in My sites, Web Design on May 29th, 2006

Usually I just concentrate on SEO for myself and clients and don’t do so much web site designing but the last days was an exception. In fact I even don’t offer web design anylonger to clients so when I do it is mostly for my own sites.
This is the new web design updates from this […]


Where do I buy and sell web sites?
Posted in Online Marketing, Web Development on April 24th, 2006

Aaron Pratt asked in a comment where do I buy and sell so here comes the answer.
SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56
Serious place.
DigitalPoint: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52
Second best place. Sorting by thread start time here
NamePros: http://www.namepros.com/developed-sites-for-sale/
Good place to buy cheap web sites.
Whenever I have “too much” money I will go to those three places and place bids intensively. It is a lot […]


4 new web sites, 1 sold and 2 new for a client
Posted in My sites on April 16th, 2006

I have bought some new web sites the last months and recently completed one new.
ArticleHub.net, recently completed.
This one is coded from scratch by my partner Alkesh from my instructions, designed by my friend Praveen, script errors and additional features fixed by legend2, database bought from a guy on DP and touch ups done by myself.
MoralStories.net
When […]


I start to HATE Web Hosts
Posted in My sites on March 19th, 2006

I am not usually using MSN Instant Messenger but yesterday I signed in to talk to my brother. I spoke to him a bit and then I went to another room. When I came back to the computer 5 minutes later I see the following on the screen:
Stephen J says:
u owe me for hosting bro […]


Changing reputation image values for vBulletin
Posted in vBulletin on March 15th, 2006

This is my first post in a serie about vBulletin.
If you purchase vBulletin you will notice that the default reputation system does not fit good with a brand new board. 100 positive rep points for the next additional green is too much for a new board.
This post is about changing the image values and […]



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