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Call now on 01635 578 500to get started with your blog.

Find out now how to set up blog posts and read our blog here.

How to Set up Blogs for Your Business

Appletree can design and build a Wordpress blog for your business, created just for you and ready for you to use. Call us now on 01635 578 500 to find out how to set up blog posts to promote your business.

To get started we will:

Prepare a design brief, based on a full discussion with you about your blog's design and purpose
Provide two draft designs for you to choose from, from the design brief
Develop your chosen design, adding in links, widgets and graphics so your blog integrates with your other online marketing
Liaise with your webmaster to set up your blog and provide access via your website
Set up the background activities and add on all the applications needed to enhance your blog's performance
Provide a list of suggested keywords and topics to be used in the blog, for search engine optimisation.

This will provide you with a blog that looks exactly how you want it look and is ready for you to start using. The cost of this service is £400 + VAT.

If your blog can be hosted with your existing website, there should be no additional hosting charge. If your blog is stand alone and cannot be hosted with your website, there will be an additional hosting fee of £60 +VAT per year.

Call us right now on 01635 578 500 to get started!

There are extra services we can provide, to make your blog even better:

Set up an RSS feed URL for your blog plus subscription services, to engage people with your blog = £25 + VAT
Connect and feed your blog to appropriate social media, to more fully integrate your online marketing = £50 + VAT
Set up a Google Analytics account, so you can track visits to your website via your blog = £50 + VAT
Distribute your blog amongst suitable blogging directories, so it can be found by more people = £100 + VAT
Create up to four more pages on your blog, such as About and What We Do = £100 + VAT
Adding on extra contributors' profiles, to tell people about the people writing your blog = £50 + VAT
Set up a posting schedule or editorial diary to help you publish regularly = £50 + VAT
Telephone training session on how to use Wordpress effectively, to help you get the most from your blog = £100 + VAT

You can select and pay for any of these extras individually, or we can do all of it (including the start up package) for a combined cost of £800 + VAT.

What About Writing Your Blog?

Once your blog is up and running, we can offer you our writing service for your blog should you find updating it too much work – because your blog will work best if it is regularly updated. The service provides researched blog posts once, twice or three times a week.