Pretty permalinks for your WordPress site

Awhile back,  I posted about our support for “Almost Pretty”  permalinks for your WordPress site on our network.   Today,  I’m happy to announce that we now support “Pretty”  permalinks on your Word Press site.  When you host with PepperStation,  your website is supported by a number of servers behind the scenes.  Recent upgrades [...read more]

Making sure your email reaches the inbox

I’m happy to announce that we’ve made some improvements to our email system that will help your emails reach the inbox.

Did you know that on average 20% of legitimate emails never reach the inbox?  Frustrating,  I know.  Recently,  we partnered with an email sending service provider to help us make sure that your emails [...read more]

Updated PHP and MySQL services

Just a quick service update to let you know that we have updated our PHP and MySQL servers.

PHP version is now 5.3.6

MySQL version is now 5.1.52

Furthermore,  your MySQL databases are now kept on Amazon’s EBS,  which basically means that data durability is better and the chance of a single drive [...read more]

Gmail now reads your email to deliver better targeted ads

Google quietly rolled out an update to their Gmail service that now reads the content of your email in order to deliver more targeted ads. Over time,the system will get ‘smarter’and ads appearing in their service should become more relevant to the user’s interests and location.

The announcement was not made on the [...read more]

VRCopilot –A Vertical Response partner tool

We’re excited to add a new service to our line up designed for any business,franchise,or agency that needs to manage multiple Vertical Response “sub accounts”.

Do you currently spend several hours or even days creating and pushing email templates or credits to your sub accounts?

Do you need to create emails [...read more]

SEO features for your mobile website

We recently pushed up some features that will help maintain your SEO mojo. Search engines are always introducing new meta tags that help webmasters optimize their web sites’SEO. One problem facing many webmasters is coping with multiple copies of the same or very similar content across several sites,or on the same site. There [...read more]

Why build a mobile website?

Since the launch of CafePepper,we’ve had lots of conversations about what mobile websites are and why it is important to have a presence on the mobile web. According to Pew Internet Research,40% of adults are already searching the Internet for information via their mobile devices. When a site is not created to be [...read more]

“Web on the Go”

We had such a good time leading the training class “Web on the Go” for NAWBO Tucson yesterday! We discussed the mobile marketplace,consumer behavior,smart phone technology and building a mobile website. We look forward to our follow up workshop on October 12,2010. In the October workshop,we’ll be continuing our discussion on [...read more]

Welcome CafePepper!Welcome CafePepper!

This week we welcome an exciting new product to the PepperStation family:CafePepper!  CafePepper creates fantastic web sites for the iPhone and other mobile devices.  Powered by our trusty Spirit platform,CafePepper allows you to put your best site forward for the surging mobile phone market.

Why mobile?  Two reasons:First –Internet searches [...read more]

Top Ten Things you should know about social media

1. Social Media is the new “word of mouth” marketing. 2. Social Media is an opportunity for you to have two-way conversations with your customers. 3. You can find out what your customer thinks about your brand without the expensive focus groups and research –they’ll tell you…and each other! 4. While Facebook,[...read more]