Second Annual Report, My Success Online
This was supposed to be published on the 5th of December but the work in my company has been overwhelming, so I give it to you now instead.
This is the second annual report on how a young person in Sweden with absolutely no money, knowledge or connections could sit down and learn, observe and start an online company by will power alone and not only make a living for himself but for half of his family as well.
On the 5th of December 2004 I changed my life 180 degrees. I quit my job and philosophical studies and moved back to Sweden to change my life totally. Here is my first annual report of 2005
Statistics of today
- Employers in Sweden: 1 full time and 1 part time
- Business partners: 20+
- Google mentions of “Jim Westergren”: 150 000+
- Number of active web sites owned: 70+ and 220 domain names.
- Annual gross income: $100K+
- Positive newspaper mentions: 10+
Highlights of Web Sites
- JimWestergren.com now gets an average of 1K unique visitors a day and has over 94K backlinks according to Yahoo.
- The manual edited directory AddURL-Free.com has now over 36K active listings.
- Of my web sites 5 have PR6 and 18 has PR5.
- More than 100 clients serviced on our manual directory submission service.
- My Swedish SEO forum has over 9K posts.
- Some keyword rankings.
Some Special Highlights of 2006
January
The V7N SEO contest started.
I bought SEO Fusion.
February
I went to work together with my employee and we established the company, services and many other things.
I did my research on the Google RK parameter and published it as an article.
Swedish SEO forum created.
March
I outed an unethical activity conducted by a Swedish SEO company and ranked for their own name. The CEO threated to sue me but I handled it quite well.
April
ArticleHub.net completed, code and design from scratch.
May
I almost won the biggest SEO contest ever. I got broadcasted in Swedish radio and about 7 newspapers wrote about me including the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
June
I wrote and published my “famous” Link Building Guide.
July
“Vacation”
August
My fathers house was sold. I got a new flat.
September
Smart Link Building was launched.
October
I launched the Swedish national SEO contest, more info. This was mentioned by 2 newspapers and by a bunch of bloggers.
I made a very important business decision. I changed my company from a SEO company to a link building company and do no longer offer optimization sercvices, more info.
In a meeting with Peter, my employee, the idea of the “bättre” network was born and 43 swedish .se domain names were registered.
November
Highest ever client sign ups and income.
December
I was part of the panel and spoke about SEO on the IMC 2006 and we had our Swedish SEO meeting after that, more info.
I signed contract with a friend who made a investment in my company.
Redesign and added features of Addurl-free.com.
The Future
Another 70 web sites are planned and the domains are registered. The most of these are Swedish and a few of them will be major projects. There are already almost 100 pages materials written for these web sites and I want to have all these sites up before the summer.
On the 30th March I go to India to meet business partners and friends and have some vacation, more info.
I will continue training link baiting and continue to release major articles on this blog.
During the summer or maybe a bit later we will start the “Aktiebolag” (Limited corporation in english).
After the summer I will concentrate on a more passive income and get back on my fiction writing. I want to have my first novel in print within 2008. I will also write a book on SEO in Swedish.
Jim Westergren is a company owner from Sweden who lives together with his wife and son. Some of his interests are SEO, web development, writing and
Congrats on your achievement in 2006. You’re a real inspiration to me seeing that we’re really around the same age.
When I’m all tired out and weary of managing my various websites, I occasionally go “If Jim Westergren could do .. so can I!” =)
All the best for 2007!
It is nice to read about your great success. Keep up the good work and good luck in the future!
Hey Jim keep up the great work
I hope you will grow many times over this year and will reach the top
My best wishes are always with you.
Cya soon in India
Congrats Jim! Really nice work . . .
You are a true inspiration for young entrepreneurs world wide.
Keep up the good work!
// Andreas Bard
Nice Job Jim! You’ll find there’s never a dull moment! Keep up the great work.
Hi Jim, love addurl-free.com, I’ve used the features on the login pages several times. Wanted you to know I’ve got your link on my links page here:
http://www.oldschoolband.com/linkpage.htm
Keep up the good work!
Bill Nesbitt
The Old School Bluegrass band
Little Rock, Ark. USA
Congratz Jim!
Hope you’ll also write a bestseller fiction
So, we can read its translated edition 
Good to see that you dare to be honest in your roundup. Not everyone dares to be as honest as you have been all the time while I have “known” you.
I believe we all do mistakes, but letting others know about them shows true grandness.
You will of course sucseed as much with your novel as you have shown capable of on the web. Why shouldn’t you?
What can I say. Great work Jim.
And we are all looking forward to a very exciting 2007.
If you ask me, I think 2007 will be THE year for SEM in the Swedish market.
Thanks a lot all!
Wow! A truly inspirational piece.
Looking forward to your review of 2007!
congrats, 70 sites is a ton
Congratz!
It is nice to read about your great success
What can I say. Great work Jim.
And we are all looking forward to a very exciting 2007.
If you ask me, I think 2007 will be THE year for SEM in the Swedish market.
Really nice to see your success story Jim.