http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog The Blog Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:12:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Matt Cutts gave a talk this spring at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 (which he just republished in his blog the other day), during which he gave some great insight into how to help your SEO for your blog--in particular, if you use WordPress (since he *was* at WordCamp) . ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2009/08/seo-tips-for-bloggers.html We're a little late in announcing this--mostly because we wanted to see if our customers felt our presence on Twitter was worthwhile--but here we are, tweeting away, with 454 followers strong! And you can follow us, too, at twitter.com/ipowerhosting. So What Is This Twitter Thing? Twitter is basically a free microblogging social ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2009/07/ipower-has-joined-the-twittersphere.html OK, so here's an interesting dilemma for many businesses out there, including us here at IPOWER.I just read this fascinating article from The Washington Post on "The Price-Placebo Effect." Most people understand the Placebo Effect as it pertains to medication studies: "control" participants are blindly administered a sugar pill ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2009/03/the-placebo-effect-on-pricing.html We've been soliciting feedback from customers, and we've been listening to your responses. Over the past couple of weeks, we've launched a couple key changes to our offerings, which we hope will improve your overall experience.1) The Activation Center: Activate Your Plan's Freebies in One Fell Swoop!We recently launched The ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2009/03/your-feedback-hard-at-work.html So the blog has been dormant for a little while, due to a myriad of reasons. First, we've been busy developing. Secondly, it's been the holidays (Happy New Year!). Third, we've been busy doing more development and fixing the mail issue, which for the majority of customers has fortunately been ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2009/01/new-installcentral-interface-more-apps-plus-its-now-free.html comScore released a report today indicating that up until Cyber Monday (which was this past Monday, Dec. 1st), e-commerce sales had been down by about 2% compared to November last year. However, probably due to holiday sale prices many online retailers tout during the post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy, Monday yielded a ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2008/12/online-sales-down-so-far-this-year-dont-fret.html If so, then good news for you! Looks like in the near future, MediaWiki, the free open source software used to create Wikipedia, will be bringing in some new software developers to determine some of the barriers to entry for first-time editors. The Wikimedia Foundation was been awarded a $890,000 ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2008/12/find-wikipedia-mediawiki-a-pain-to-edit.html If you use your website to get noticed--whether on a business-related or personal level--then chances are you're looking to increase your search engine visibility. I came across an article today in my Google Reader that outlines 15 solid tips for doing just that.Written by social media marketer Mike Fruchter, this ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2008/11/want-to-improve-search-engine-visibility-15-tips.html So I'm hoping that a few of you have had an opportunity to try out our QuickStart Wizard, which we launched a couple weeks ago. If not, I encourage you to log into your control panel and try it out. We want all the feedback we can get because it's ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2008/11/who-are-you-customers-we-want-to-know.html So we've got some shocking news here at IPOWERWEB.We've been informed that some of our customers get confused when landing in the control panel for the first time. Yeah, apparently it's not intuitive that when you click on "POP Mail," it's the same as clicking on "MailCentral." And who knew ... http://www.ipowerweb.com/blog/2008/10/improving-early-life-whats-your-take.html