Jim Westergren

SEO and Writer

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This is my site about search engine optimization (SEO), online marketing, web development and my other interests which are philosophy and writing. Hope you enjoy it and feel welcome to comment and give feedback.

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My company: Jim Westergren AB (Swedish web site)

Latest Blog Posts / Articles

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 [...]



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. I will give you some examples that [...]



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 (with permission). I have read it many times since then and I feel I just need to share it, it has [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



New PageRank Export
Posted in SEO News on February 2nd, 2007

Ok a new export on the April 28th 2007 with data taken from April 2nd 2007.
New count:
PR6 sites: 2
PR5 sites: 13
PR4 sites: 29
PR3 or less: 66
Conclusion: On average I lost a lot and think that generally most web sites on the internet went down in PR.

There has been a new PageRank export recently and I [...]



Why Do I Believe in the Human Spirit?
Posted in My Philosophical Essays on January 22nd, 2007

How come a rational guy like me believe in spirits (souls)? Actually I believe more in the fact that the human spirit exist than the sun rises tomorrow. I believe that you are your own spirit and you control your body like a tool and that you reincarnate when you need a new body.
Why?
Before I [...]



GlobalWarming Awareness2007
Posted in SEO Contests on January 17th, 2007

My Swedish friends Westberg and Jalmerot over at Eastpoint has started their own SEO Contest with the keywords GlobalWarming Awareness2007.
You can read all data about the contest on seoworldchampionship.com. It seems like they are going big with this one but I wonder if it will reach the magnitude of the V7N contest …
Will I [...]



Second Annual Report, My Success Online
Posted in My Plans, stories from the past on January 12th, 2007

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 [...]



Random Quote

“Life is not energy. Energy is the byproduct of life.”         -L. Ron Hubbard

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