May 23, 2012

How to get an article published on Wikipedia

The curious, the college student, the lazy, the fun seekers and the purveyors of anything find Wikipedia valuable. Ignore the naysayers who think Wikipedia isn’t credible. Why? Because they have vigilant editors. Editors that take their powers to remove, correct and hack apart pages very, very seriously.

Have a lot of typos? FLAGGED.

Don’t cite sources? FLAGGED.

Article written like an advertisement? FLAGGED.

False edits? FLAGGED.

We can go on…we won’t.

The value of a Wikipedia article is immense from both an informational aspect and search engine optimization aspect. Look up something online and you’ll notice a Wikipedia article almost always appears on the first page. That’s powerful. It adds legitimacy to a company, person or organization. Plus, a Wikipedia article like Mojo Motors contains links back to our website which improves SEO. In other words, improving our SEO means we will appear higher in searches. This is drastically over simplified, but the most important thing to remember is Wikipedia articles are extremely beneficial and useful. So how do you get a Wikipedia article published? It’s not easy.

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May 8, 2012

Mojo Motors gets $3 million in funding

In the world of the interwebs there exists a brand. The name of this brand is MojoMotors.com and the goal is help shoppers buy used cars. They take this very seriously. So seriously, in fact, they have not only signed up over 25,000 shoppers for their website, but closed $3 million in funding. The funding will allow the web-based startup to expand and help even more used car shoppers find discounts at local dealers and receive alerts when prices drop on the cars they like.

Learn more how Mojo can help you or send them a Tweet @MojoMotors. You can also check out their article on TechCrunch too.

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May 3, 2012

Findings on Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a treasure trove of great information for brands. It is also chock full of borderline useless information. Not as useless as knowing a hubcap was stolen from three separate cars in Methuen, Massachusetts, but close. Actually, depending on your love of interesting factoids, Google Analytics is an excellent source of data. It’s a way to feel the pulse of your user base, where visitors are coming from and what kind of software they’re using. It’s like Facebook creepery for nerds. Keep reading to see what we found.

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Apr 24, 2012

The Profanity Filter

To view prices of used cars on MojoMotors.com, see dealership contact info and additional vehicle details, users have to sign up for a free account. Why? Because we have discount prices on cars, that’s why. Problem is, some people don’t care and they’re mean and nasty and heartless. These clown jockeys fill out the sign up form using words that get television and radio networks fined thousands of bucks by the FCC. These are also known as vulgarities or cuss/curse/swear words

Signing up for a website doesn’t require FCC oversight, but something can be done. Enter the Mojo Motors profanity filter. Handcrafted by the wonderful tech team at MojoMotors.com, each time a user tries to join the website with a bogus email address or name, they’ll see an error message. Take a look below for an example of how the error message will appear on our website and keep reading to see other profanity filter messages. Our favorites are bolded.

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