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FIXED – Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress

So it was time to update my PHP. I’ve been putting it off for a while now, but the warning in my WordPress dashboard won’t go away and I can only bury my head in the sand for so long.

I head over to WordPress support for a bit of guidance which gives all the reasons to update my PHP. Makes sense I thought….but what’s this?? ……it says

“don’t be afraid!”

I’m not. How hard can it be?

“Updating your PHP version should not be a problem”

Good. It’s only the click of a button

“but we can’t guarantee that it’s not”

OK now i am afraid

I think we all know where this is going don’t we?

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Keyword Ranking – What Are Your Competitors Ranking For?

In the ongoing quest to find keywords that will bring more traffic to your website you can be forgiven for wanting to embark on a bit of keyword spying.

To quickly check keyword rankings of a competitor and use their most profitable keywords in your content would surely result in more traffic coming your way wouldn’t it?

To be honest it’s not as simple as that.

What if after checking the keyword ranking of a website all you end up with is a collection of keywords that are high in search volume but very difficult to compete for? Do you try and compete for these high competition keywords or carry on searching for alternatives?

Although the high search volume may be tempting you to compete for them, realistically you know you could be wasting your time and the best thing to do would be to carry on searching.

You could uncover keywords that are easy to rank for but have low search volume. Although it would be nice to hold the top spot on Google, there’s not much point if it’s not going to bring you any visitors…so it’s back to searching again.

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How to Get Indexed by Google Quickly Using Fetch as Google

When you launch a new website or add new content to an existing site, you could be waiting for what seems like an age before it is eventually indexed by Google.

To speed up the indexing process you can use a tool called Fetch as Google, sometimes referred to as Fetch as Googlebot. This tool will considerably reduce the time it takes for your new website or content to get indexed by Google.

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What’s Stopping You From Starting Your Blog?

Got an idea for a blog? That’s great – now all you have to do is take action to turn your idea into reality.

Taking action will give you fresh inspiration, more motivation, and a reason to keep going as you invest more time in your blogging enterprise. But what happens if you don’t take action?

Well, the chances are the exhilarating effects you initially felt after coming up with a new idea will gradually fade. You will then start to question if your idea is such a good one after all.

You see, ideas don’t last long. They’re thoughts, and thoughts simply remain intangible, unless you act upon them.

If you have already taken action – well done! If you haven’t…what’s holding you back?

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The Real Truth on the Cost of Starting and Running a Blog

It’s another Monday morning and you’ve hit the snooze button on your alarm. It’s time to start a whole new week in a job you don’t particularly like, but a job you need to pay your bills.

As you lay there you start to think of ways of how you could start your own business, a business you can run alongside your job, just to earn a little extra cash to take the pressure off your financial situation.

That’s when you are stopped in your tracks. Starting your own business needs cash, and spare cash is one thing that you don’t have a lot of.

So now you start thinking of low cost business ideas and come up with the answer of starting an online business, and you decide the perfect vehicle for your entrepreneurial zeal is a blog. You’ve often wondered if you could ever make money online. Other people do so why not you?

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