Jim Westergren

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 experience [...]

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 submitted by [...]

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 I [...]

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 in [...]

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 it [...]

Make Firefox run up to 4 times faster

Jim Westergren — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:26:43 +0000

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 [...]

Redesign of JimWestergren.com

Jim Westergren — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:32:53 +0000

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 [...]

Display Links to Latest Items of a RSS Feed

Jim Westergren — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:10:05 +0000

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 [...]

Hacks to boost your WordPress 2.7 blog

Jim Westergren — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:21:49 +0000

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 [...]

Fourth Annual Report: My Success

Jim Westergren — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:06:50 +0000

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 [...]

Latest news of 2008 so far

Jim Westergren — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:11:41 +0000

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!

Jim Westergren — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:35:33 +0000

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 [...]

24 Qualities That Geniuses Have in Common

Jim Westergren — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:24:49 +0000

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

Life As a Game of Chess

Jim Westergren — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:08:56 +0000

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 [...]