Finally, I’ve brought all of these tools together into a single resource page that I’ve made available on this blog.  You can access it either by using the “Resources” link on the navigation menu above, or by going there directly to http://www.JohnLandells.com/resources/.

Please let me know what you think – particularly what you think is missing!

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However, there is one thing that absolutely makes my blood boil. It winds me up so much that I get uncharacteristically angry.  In fact, I get furious!

That thing is “incompetence”.

The thing is, in my experience, incompetence stems from one of two grounds:

1. Being lazy
2. Being an idiot

Clearly, if the person you’re dealing with is an idiot, then there’s little you can do about it other than feel sorry for them.  However, by far the most common cause of incompetence is being too lazy to do a job properly.  The “it’ll do” attitude is insinuating itself into our society like a cancer, and the visible symptom is incompetence.

“What’s this got to do with Internet Marketing?”, you might ask…

I’ve been working with a few clients lately where I’ve had cause to look up their domain registration records.  In every case, the web designer who setup the domain on behalf of my client didn’t bother to setup the registrant records correctly.  Specifically, the “owner” should be the person who’s receiving the website – even if you, as the designer, will be the technical contact and are billing the client annually for ongoing service.  If I pay you for a domain, I should be able to stop paying for maintenance, but still own the domain that I’ve paid for!

I sincerely hope that in each case there’s nothing malicious related to this.  It’s not that (as in one instance that comes to mind) the designer wants to be difficult and assert their own ownership over a domain that clearly has nothing to do with them.  Since I prefer to think more positively about people, I can only put it down to incompetence.  Which annoys me!

I’d love to hear what aspects of Internet Marketing annoy you.  Please share your stories in the comments.

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Unfortunately, it didn’t work.

It never worked.

It didn’t matter what I tried, I still had to do upgrades manually!

As far as I was concerned, this was just how it had to be and there was clearly a bug or a conflict or something in WordPress.  One day, I even went through the process of uninstalling all my plugins just to see if the WordPress upgrade would run.  It didn’t.

So I’d resigned myself to a life of manual upgrades and decided that I’d only upgrade once every few months.  Then I started running some sites on HostGator.

Imagine my surprise when “just for fun”, I tried to run an automatic upgrade for one of my plugins on this new Hostgator hosted blog, AND IT WORKED!  I hastily went through all of the automatic upgrades that were available and EVERY SINGLE ONE WORKED!!!

Hmmmmm…….

Clearly, the problem was with 1&1.  I validated this by testing a number of other blogs hosted on the same platform and sure enough, the problem only ever manifested on 1&1.  When I finally reached the point of helping a friend with their blog which was also hosted on 1&1 (thanks to MY recommendation!) I decided it was time to find a fix.

It turns out that the fix is really easy, once you understand the problem.

Inside the WordPress admin interface, the upgrade processes take quite a bit of memory.  On Hostgator, the defaults for PHP are set high enough that you shouldn’t encounter a problem, but on 1&1 they’re set too low for our needs.  To fix this, all we need to do is to set a higher memory limit, which we do by creating a php.ini file.  This file needs only one line:

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Once you’ve created the file, upload it to your wp-admin directory and you should find that the problem’s been fixed!

Hope this helps!

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