Jim Westergren

Annual report number 8: My Success

Jim Westergren — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:39:30 +0000

Back in December of 2004 I started a new life from zero. I was 22 years old without any money, education or connections. I borrowed my mothers computer and started to learn HTML and internet marketing. That is now 8 years ago and each year I publish an annual report. Earlier reports are linked from [...]

Guide: WordPress with Maximum Performance and Speed

Jim Westergren — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:32:30 +0000

This is a step by step guide in which I will show you how to setup WordPress with maximum speed and performance for just $15 per month utilizing Nginx + PHP-FPM + APC + Cloudflare + Redis. It is the same that this blog is using and I will show you how. No need for [...]

How to load WordPress in a few milliseconds using Redis

Jim Westergren — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:54:25 +0000

Redis is an advanced key-value store. Like memcached on steroids. Everything is in the RAM and you can theoretically reach 100 000 GET per second with Redis. My solution below will cache all the HTML output in Redis and display it without the need to load WordPress. A big thanks to Jeedo Aquino who have [...]

Maximize the Link Juice of your Infographic with the use of the Canonical HTTP Header

Jim Westergren — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:20:28 +0000

Since June 2011 Google is supporting to set the rel canonical via the Canonical HTTP Header. This is great for PDF files, but nobody seems to have mentioned images? Does it even work? Link building with your infographic A popular method nowadays, post penguin, is to use an infographic to attract links. But how do [...]

Why I recommend CloudFlare and why you should try it too

Jim Westergren — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:53:49 +0000

CloudFlare is a both a proxy and a CDN (content delivery network). It was recommended to me by Magnus Bråth. Quoted from them: On average, a website on CloudFlare loads twice as fast uses 60% less bandwidth has 65% fewer requests is way more secure All for free! Never heard of them? According this recent [...]

Annual report number 7: My Success

Jim Westergren — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:10:19 +0000

Back in december of 2004 I started a new life from zero. I was 22 years old without any money, education or connections. I borrowed my mothers computer and started to learn HTML and internet marketing. That is now 7 years ago and each year I publish an annual report. Main highlights from 2011 My [...]

Sixth Annual Report: My Success

Jim Westergren — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:27:35 +0000

I know that I publish this late, but better late than never. On the 5th of December 2004 when I was 22 years old I changed my life 180 degrees. I quit my earlier very special life and moved back to Sweden to change my life totally and start a new life. I can now [...]

Common CSS mistakes and their solutions

Jim Westergren — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:37:36 +0000

While adding new templates to my website system N.nu (see all templates here) I always have to correct mistakes in the CSS. I normally add templates from WordPress.org or popular CSS templates sites so I assume that the creators are experienced professionals. This article is based on the experience after correcting over 100 popular CSS [...]

How to use a WordPress theme or CSS template for your N.nu website

Jim Westergren — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:03:46 +0000

There are thousands of WordPress themes, CSS templates and other website templates available for free to download and use. Just make sure that you abide by the license which normally is to just keep the credit links in the footer. The existing templates already converted and ready to choose with a click can be seen [...]

SEO Features of N.nu

Jim Westergren — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:13:30 +0000

I learned PHP and built the free online website creator N.nu from scratch myself (examples). From the start up one of the principal focuses has been to make sure that the system has optimal SEO and it is my intention that N.nu is the free online website creator with the best SEO. Considering my professional [...]

A new approach to block web spam

Jim Westergren — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:46:06 +0000

This article updated on the august 11, 2010. Around half a year ago or so I had a unique idea (at least I had never heard or read about it before) on how to block web spam. It is very simple, yet very powerful. Normally comment spam, false registrations and other such spam are being [...]

Fifth Annual Report: My Success

Jim Westergren — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:07:29 +0000

On the 5th of December 2004 when I was 22 years old 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 highly doubted that I could get successful – personally [...]

Challenge In Building a CMS: Different Hosting Setups

Jim Westergren — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:58:05 +0000

This is the first article in a serie about the Clesto CMS – my first PHP project (I am still a kind of noob, feedback appreciated). There is a huge difference in building something for yourself and something that you release for a lot of people to download. The Clesto CMS has now been tested [...]

Fire Sale! 80+ Web Sites And Domains Must Go

Jim Westergren — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:22:37 +0000

Over the years I have bought a lot of domain names and web sites. I especially bought a lot of web sites in 2006 and 2007 to use for link building to clients but as I sold my link building services and 40 web sites in October 2007 I have had almost no use of [...]

Version 2 of my CMS, The Clesto CMS

Jim Westergren — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:38:06 +0000

After a lot of hard work and learning I have now finished making a complete new version of my Clesto CMS. It is still flat file based without a database and now it has both visual editor and HTML editor for making the pages – similar to that of WordPress. Focus has been to make [...]