HOW TO: Market Your Blog

Friday 1/29/10 - Heikki @Moogo

Many bloggers seem to have taken a quote – if you build it, they will come – from a late 80's Kevin Costner flick far too literally. Unfortunately, this mentality isn't applicable towards about 99% of the blogosphere. What we modern day scribes write about is up to us of course. Some splash their e-ink to air their own opinions, some write about what they're passionate about and some write as a job or about their business. Their themes are not necessarily connected, but what binds us all together is the following question: how do you get people to your blog and keep them coming back?

1 comment . Keywords: Marketing, Tips, SEO, Social Media

Moogo: Website of the Month competition is taking off!

Thursday 1/28/10 time 8:59 AM - Helena @Moogo

On February 1st, Moogo is going to kick off Moogo Website of the Month competition, which is a great opportunity for all of Moogo's users to strut their website to others and win great prizes.

There are many great Moogo websites out there and many Moogo users are continuously improving and developing their websites. The competition aims to recognize not only good design, but also usability, content, clever usage of different features and other opportunities that Moogo's website builder offers to its users.

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Google Local Explained: Free Advertising for Small Businesses

Monday 1/25/10 time 10:05 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

With Google dumping so many innovations on the market which sometimes only seem to interest the geekiest of the geekiest, it might be hard for a small business owner to filter out what is useful for them.

Let me draw your attention to Google Local. This is a fairly new service by Google that allows you to add information to the way you show up in Google Maps. Google Maps is a mapping service that can be used for getting directions from point A to point B, but more importantly for business users, potential customers use it to find services in their neighbourhood.

No comments. Keywords: Business, Marketing, Tips

Monetizing Social Media

Friday 1/22/10 - Heikki @Moogo

Social media is and continues to be the hot potato of the Internet and its getting passed around more than a bowl of popcorn at an Oscar movie screening. And one topic that continues to stir up conversation frequently is how to monetize it. Naturally most – if not all – are still at a point where they're figuring what the best way is, but I wanted to explore and explain some options that are out there for private users and social networks as a whole.

No comments. Keywords: Marketing, Facebook, Twitter, Social Media

Be aware of the murderer!

Thursday 1/21/10 time 10:27 AM - Helena @Moogo

Lately everyone is extra careful at the office, being afraid of getting murdered by a brutal, yet mysterious killer. Wonder what's happening? Moogo's murder game is happening!

So... what's really happening?!

1 comment . Keywords: Moogo, Random, Office

Found a suspicious Moogo website? Report it!

Tuesday 1/19/10 time 10:21 AM - Helena @Moogo

As there are tens of websites created every day with Moogo, there is a lot of variety in the websites - how they look like, what they communicate and who they are created by. Moogo is not responsible for any content that has been published on websites created with Moogo website builder. However, we want to keep the Internet clean and ensure that Moogo website builder is used for what it's supposed to be used for - creating professional websites.

Therefore we have created a form where you can report websites that have a suspicious content on it, as well as we actively search for potentially fraud and scam websites ourselves.

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HOW TO: Get Indexed

Monday 1/18/10 - Heikki @Moogo

Moogo is a service. And like every service, it has users. And these users are naturally entitled to customer service – and customer service has to be both reactive and proactive.

Moogo provides its valued users a number of different platforms – Email, Forum, FAQ – how to resolve issues they are experiencing. Regardless of the fact that we try to provide an answer to every anticipated or reoccurring question, there are always new and consistent issues that our users face to which they can't find an answer to on our website. One such issue is how can you get your Moogo website to appear in search engine results?

No comments. Keywords: SEO, Tips, Moogo, Marketing, Business

In Love and Foosball, Anything is Allowed

Friday 1/15/10 time 9:23 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

Popular belief has it that people who work in the internet field, or the computer field in general, are not very good at sports. We are supposedly very bad at sports and worst of all, we don't like sports. This blog post will prove that, as very often, popular belief has it wrong! For months we have been running an extensive and serious Foosball competition, one of the most underestimated and beautiful sports that this planet is rich. Every employee participated with his/her own team.

No comments. Keywords: Moogo, Random, Office

HOW TO: Get Most Out of Your Advanced Forms

Thursday 1/14/10 time 11:09 AM - Helena @Moogo

Moogo's business users get an access to advanced forms that can be used for different kinds of questionnaires, surveys, inquires and many other purposes. Hereby we show you how you can use the forms and get the most out of it.

No comments. Keywords: Business, Tips

HOW TO: Add Text and Images over the Top Bar Image.

Wednesday 1/13/10 time 6:55 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

In a previous blog post we have shown how to add your own image to the top bar (header). But as we are constantly improving and updating the Moogo service, our esteemed and brilliant colleagues (read: geeks) at the tech department have developed another feature to customize the top bar. Instead of replacing the entire image, you can now also add an image over the top bar image, and add text on top of the top bar image.

No comments. Keywords: Tutorial, Tips, Moogo

The Long Tail of SEO

Tuesday 1/12/10 - Heikki @Moogo

The long tail: an oft-forgotten part of the search engine optimization process. Why? Because it's occasionally difficult to get excited about ranking for a phrase which brings in 3 people per month. However, long tail SEO can bring in up to 90% of your traffic, and it's easier than beating the established players in a bidding war for the big phrases. This highly focused and targeted approach is the reason why long tail is important. But what is this oh-so-important long tail SEO then exactly?

No comments. Keywords: SEO, Business, Tips

3 Ways How Online Website Builders Have Changed the Web

Monday 1/11/10 time 10:27 AM - Helena @Moogo

While thousands of people are creating their websites with an online website builder every day, it is difficult not to notice the influence that it has had to the web in general. Here are the top 3 ways how website builders have changed the Internet.

No comments. Keywords: Business, Random, Personal

E-store: Paypal explained

Friday 1/8/10 time 10:09 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

Some of you might know that we have recently added our E-store feature to the Business package. You can use it to display, promote and sell your products and services. It allows you to manage virtually every component: product images, discounts, categories, etc. It is an essential tool for any business who want to sell their product online.

When selling things on the World Wide Web, World Wide might mean that your customer is in a different country than your business. In that case it is unlikely that your customer is using the same bank as you, or even has a bank account in the same country as your business. That is why Moogo has chosen PayPal as the method of payment for the store.

Paypal is the number one payment service on the internet. It allows payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet and serves as an electronic alternative for traditional paper methods such as cheques and money orders. It has many times been proven and awarded as the safest way to pay on the internet.

If you set up your Moogo E-store and want to implement the PayPal option, you need to create an account with PayPal. Check out this great tutorial video on how to sign up for a new PayPal account.

Once you get your account set up, you will have a PayPal ID. This is the e-mail address with which you have signed in into PayPal. When setting up the payment option in the Moogo E-store, you will need to inform the Moogo Support team of your PayPal ID. (Just your PayPal ID / e-mail, not your password!) The Support will then connect your E-store to your PayPal account and all payments done for your E-store will then automatically be deposited on your PayPal account.

Your customers can then pay with all major creditcards, which is important as more than 80% of all internet buyers prefer credit cards. Additionally PayPal also allows a lot of countries to pay with their local net banking services. PayPal takes care of all the rest: security, handling, and of course transferring the income on your PayPal account back to your business account.

Of course this service is not completely free of charge. PayPal charges a small fee on all transactions, depending on various things: the currency used, the payment option used, the country of the sender, the country of the recipient, the amount sent and the recipient's account type.

For more information on PayPal, check out their website and their Help Center.

If this has interested you in our Business Package, then get started now or read more here.

5 comments . Keywords: Business, Moogo, Tutorial

Budgeting Social Media

Thursday 1/7/10 - Heikki @Moogo

bag of money “The money never sleeps”

Aphrase once proclaimed by the fictional movie character Gordon “greed-is-good” Gekko in the Oscar-winning flick “Wall Street”. I have no idea, if our federal reserve notes do dream of greener pastures, but according to a recent survey by Econsultancy, a whopping 86% of companies are going to beef up their social media budget this year. To top it off, a further 13% are planning to keep the same level of budget. The almighty dollar is definitely not catching any shut-eye.

No comments. Keywords: Marketing, Business, Social Media

The One

Tuesday 1/5/10 time 10:23 AM - Helena @Moogo

You need a website? You need it fast and without any extra hassle? You're at the right place! It's very easy to get started with Moogo and there are several packages that you can choose from. If you, however, are not sure of which package is the right one for you, we hereby bring you couple of suggestions for making your decision-making process easier.

No comments. Keywords: Moogo, Business, Personal, Organization

5 New Year's (Re)Solutions for your Business

Monday 1/4/10 time 11:02 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

Sorry, no more champagne...the season to be merry is over, time to get back to business. But not before we have given you some New Year's Resolutions to improve your online business!

1. Take Down The Christmas Decorations
As mentioned before one of the most important keys to a successful website is content that is up to date. So don't forget to take down the Christmas decorations, Christmas specials and all other irrelevant and outdated content. Get rid of pages that you no longer use, promotions and offers that are no longer valid, and double-check if all your contact information is still correct.