Moogo office in 2009

Thursday 12/31/09 time 7:48 AM - Helena @Moogo

As our office is naturally the central point for all of us to make Moogo happen and have fun along the way, we have put together a collection of some of the nicest, funniest and perhaps also a bit ackward memories from the office.

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Website trends 2009

Tuesday 12/29/09 time 9:43 AM - Helena @Moogo

When the year is about to end, it is always great to look back to all the good things that have happened along the way. Now it is our time to bring out the top trends in making websites with Moogo in 2009. Input is gathered from different Moogo people in the office for making it as objective as possible, so thanks for all the contributors!

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SEO: Pay or Nay

Monday 12/28/09 - Heikki @Moogo

We've come across the positive and the negative when it comes down to hiring someone to do SEO for you, or being the self-employed SEO do-it-yourself-man. But let's be frank, the brass tacks on the matter are: whether or not you should pay for SEO is dependent on what your situation is and what your goals are.

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Ho ho ho!

Wednesday 12/23/09 time 5:18 AM - Helena @Moogo

Over the past month Moogo's office has been filled with more and more Christmas spirit. Also the weather man has started cooperating with us by bringing loads of snow (and in many cases also slippery roads and sneezing colleagues, but you can't win it all, can you?) In other words - we are ready for the holidays!

We want to thank all Moogo users for being together with us this year and giving us many nice memories to take along to the next year.

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See you in the clouds!

Tuesday 12/22/09 time 10:11 AM - Helena @Moogo

Have never heard of cloud computing? Alright, can you imagine that you don't have to worry if there's enough space on the servers for your website, if your documents get lost or who takes care of the maintenance of all of that? Ultimately, this is what cloud computing gives you.

In short - "cloud" is used as a synonym for the "Internet" and "cloud computing" means that you are able to have all your computing activities on the Internet without installing any software or program.

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Social Media in 2010

Monday 12/21/09 - Heikki @Moogo

According to Nielsen Online, over two-thirds (67%) of the online populace now frequent social networks and blogs. After search, portals and PC software, participation on these communities has become the fourth most popular category on the web. And here's something not-so-shocking to add: it's growing twice as fast as its counterparts and three times quicker than the Internet overall. With the changes brought about in 2009 – Facebook continuing to out space MySpace, Twitter's staggering 1,382% growth – the question is: what might social media look like in 2010?

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Project management at the Moogo office

Friday 12/18/09 time 9:33 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

Since we are all very eager to help our users and Moogo get ahead, it can be hard sometimes to divide the tasks at the office and satisfy everyone. It can happen that when trying to organize the projects of the upcoming month, after hours of negotiating, trying all the modern, well-researched and up-to-date project management techniques there is only one technique...

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Make a great personal website!

Friday 12/18/09 time 6:11 AM - Helena @Moogo

There are several ways for individuals to express their personal opinions and world views - starting with social networking sites and ending with their own blogs and websites. As Moogo provides an excellent platform for all the people out there who need a personal website, then it's only our reponsibility to observe and report what makes a good personal website.

Below you can see what we perceive as a good personal website. If you have anything to add, then don't hesitate to state your opinion in the comments!

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Trust Sells, But How To Get It?

Thursday 12/17/09 time 10:09 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

In ye olde days, businesses could easily get away with lying about the lowest price, or the best product. In fact, since there was no easy way to check whether it was true, the lie was almost accepted by consumers.

This all changed when ecommerce took off and price comparison sites appeared. Pretty soon an extensive price comparison was only a click away with websites like PriceGrabber.com. It forced business to be honest and transparent about their product's pricing and quality.

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Essentials of Link Building

Wednesday 12/16/09 - Heikki @Moogo

Now that we have covered the code, URLs and content and keywords, we can move on to building link power. In essence, this is a popularity contest. Each website that links to you is giving you slight praise, which results in your rank going up a tad bit. But this simple explanation is not the bottom of the barrel. Let us dive deeper into the rabbit hole.

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HOW TO: Display videos on your Moogo website

Tuesday 12/15/09 time 10:41 AM - Helena @Moogo

Picture tells more than thousand words and video tell more than million pictures. That's why we will hereby show you what's the best way to have great looking videos on your website.

The best way to display videos on your website is first to host it on a video sharing site like YouTube or Vimeo.

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Presenting...our new Organization package!

Monday 12/14/09 - Sjoerd @Moogo

We are extremely proud and happy to present the newest addition to our service: the Organization package!

Until now, a Moogo user could choose between two high quality low-cost packages: Business, and Personal. And although they both provide a high quality service for a low fee, there was always a group of users that didn't exactly fit into either package.
They needed more features than the Personal package provides, but didn't need all the features that come with the Business package.

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Moogo is back and better than ever!

Friday 12/11/09 - Heikki @Moogo

We have been keeping this somewhat to ourselves, but we didn't wish to build up any unnecessary hype, or display an unfinished product. But atlast, after months of hard determined work, we are able to share with all of you the new and improved Moogo.

So, what's new you ask? Plenty to be honest, so I just want to point out the most significant changes.

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Make your communication work

Thursday 12/10/09 time 10:58 AM - Helena @Moogo

Having a website is a great way to start communication with your customers – you provide information on what you do, what kind of products/services your provide and how you can help your customers. When the first step – creating your own website – is done, you might want to start thinking about additional ways for reaching your customers.

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Images, Copyright And the Internet

Wednesday 12/9/09 time 10:49 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

Let me start off this post by repeating the motto "content is king!" Your site can look great and flashy, but if visitors can't find the information they need, they will leave immediately and no animated interactive flash banner is going to stop them. Having said this, and trusting that you have done the best you can in providing content for your website, let's talk about layout, and more specifically, images.

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Website Design Do's And Dont's

Tuesday 12/8/09 - Heikki @Moogo

This blog post is more-or-less a continuation or in some cases a more in-depth follow up to the post 5 Tips on How Not to Scare Your Customer

Here you can find some fairly basic, but essential tips when it comes to designing your web page. This is extremely important because it's all too easy to create pages that frustrate your visitors even though that's not what you intended at all. Visitors who are annoyed are likely to click off quickly without seeing what you have to offer. And the best thing to remember is this: the most common website mistakes are very easy to prevent or fix.

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HOW TO: Get Most Out of Your Visitor Statistics

Monday 12/7/09 time 10:46 AM - Helena @Moogo

Moogo online website builder gives you a great opportunity to check your visitors statistics. It is especially useful for companies, as gives more information about the potential customers, but can be also very useful and interesting information to personal website owners. Hereby we're going to let you know more about how to read your visitors statistics and what the stats could potential mean.

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HOW TO: Add Your Own Logo to the Top Bar

Friday 12/4/09 time 4:32 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

For a lot of users one of the most important reasons for having a website is promoting your business/organisation/product. This means that your website needs to look professional. You might have noticed that most if not all professional websites always have their logo and/or name on the top of their page. You can have that professional look with Moogo!

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SEO 101: Content and Keywords

Thursday 12/3/09 - Heikki @Moogo

The content and keywords of your website are things you have control over, and they are also parts of SEO that you can implement by yourself. Content can be almost anything. On the wonderful World Wide Web, it's audio, images, text or video that you put on your site and these are the types of content that matter. The focus in this blog post is on text, since it is the essential way Google understands your site. The other types of content I mentioned have to be described with text in order for Google to read them.

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Do Online Website Builders Make Running a Small Business Easier?

Wednesday 12/2/09 time 7:28 AM - Helena @Moogo

Fresh business owners have to decide on many issues concerning their new company and creating their website is one of them. While for some of the entrepreneurs the decision is quite clear, many are wondering if they should use an Online Website Builder or use an Internet Service Provider (ISP). While an ISP might be a good option for many, we have seen that an Online Website Builder is actually more and more the preferred choice for many small business and organization owners. So which one should you choose?

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