Moving the blog

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Marcus Westberg

Ok all set. Everything is ready for me to transfer this blog to a new web host and on the way repairing this half broken WordPress installation. The web host that I am using now is just way to slow.

Before the summer I will be able to start bloging more frequently. I figured that this is actually a lot more fun when everything else is in order. I managed to fix a lot of things regarding my own company and my income. So now I will have more time for fun stuff. Like blogging and other more social (well social on the Internet) activities.

Monitor Twitter keywords

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Marcus Westberg

I found one really good site. It is called Monitter.com. It´s a site where you can monitor a bunch of Twitter keywords dynamically in real time.

Go there! I found the site via Chris Pirillo. Thanks Chris!

Btw, you can find my Twitter page here: Marcus on Twitter.

Good looking wordpress themes

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Marcus Westberg

I found a new great site that sells WordPress templates. Well, actually I rediscovered it. I bought a theme there a year ago. Even though it is not free I highly recommend you to take a look.

Check out Woo Themes WordPress templates. Yeah, they cost a little but if you are planning on bloging a lot it is worth it.

Fresh news theme is my favourite.

Thinking about relaunching this blog

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Marcus Westberg

I am considering to get this blog moving again. The idea with this blog in the start was to communicate with other webmasters. During that time I was very interested in SEO and still is. But now I am thinking about getting more stuff in here. There are other aspects to consider if you want to make it as a blogger or with any online business in general.

A lot has happened. I have started my own online marketing company in Sweden about a year ago: Svensk SEO. I have also worked for other Internet marketing companies before I started my own business. I make more money blogging etc now when I have learned and studied all the interesting concepts needed to make it online. It would be fun to share all these stories and also just to start writing in english again.

So.. next step would be to clean this blog from old stuff. I noticed that I don´t even have a PR showing for this domain which is not really a good sign. I think by removing some of the old links will fix this. I have to be more careful with external links. A lot of links points to 404 pages or empty domains.

Ok, that´s it for now.. Later!

11:11

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Marcus Westberg

Extreme synchronicity, does it exist? To me it sure does. It has been sneaking up on me like a snake. I have not seen it until now.

11:11 is a phenomenon already known by many people. What it does is that it reminds you of certain specific times during the day by making you pay attention. Most common is 11:11 where people report seeing 11:11 on digital clocks, street signs, receipts and such. There are of course other number combinations as well such as 2:22, 3:33, 4:44 and others that has specific meaning to you.

A lot of people claim that people are seeing numbers such as 11:11 just because their intention is to look for it. That is true to some degree but I myself have been experiencing this and have not been planning to look at the clock etc at specific times. It just happens.

I think that there must be some kind of meaning to this. If I would do it all subconsiously (which some claim) it just proves that the subconsious mind is very powerful and can be used as a tool by you.

I, however constantly have new ideas about why this 11:11 phenomenon is happening. It is nothing you really can define.

Another site about 11:11:

Steve Pavlina

Please spare me your Anaconda spam

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Marcus Westberg

You can never really avoid email spam…
This is what I got today in my mailbox:

I guess it pays to send out email spam otherwise they would not be doing it. How many people actually visits sites like this? Even if I would be interested in the topic I would not click, it´s agains all logic laws…. at least in my world.

I am going to Toronto (perhaps even SES)

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Marcus Westberg

So finally I upgraded this blog to WordPress version 2.5… I haven´t touched this site for quite a while so I´m currently doing some work on it.
I noticed that you need both Akismet and Bad Behavior anti spam plugins to actually stop spam, but even then some spam comments manage to sneak in.

So anyway, I am going to visit my brother in Toronto in middle of May sometime. I might even stay until June 18 but I´ll doubt it. The reason for that is that I noticed that there is a Search Engine Strategies event in Toronto June 16-18. I would love to go on one of those events. Here is a link to SES Toronto for anyone interested: SES returns to Toronto.

If you are in to Internet marketing, SEO, or related and live in Toronto I would love to grab a coffee with you or whatever. Apparently Starbucks is a no no and It´s all about Tim Hornton´s.

Emails from spammers

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Marcus Westberg

Many SEO´s frequently gets spammed by link exchange emails.

One of them (not me) reacted and sent them back this:

THIS IS RIDICULOUS, if anyone send me again, any site for LINKEXCHAGE… i will gonna kick his ass and gonna fuckoff that site ( now don’t ask me, how i gonna fuck off your site )

Once again, my humble request to all. Please remove me from your mail list.

Thanks for understand me.

Haha! well I can agree. Sometimes you get really tired of all these mails… Not to talk about spam comments sent to WordPress installations. I have left this site untouched for a while and man do I have a lot of cleaning to do now.