After years of working on designing, creating, and improving small business and individual websites, we’ve decided it is time to take ours to the next level! Updating our out-of-date static site with a WordPress driven blog based site.
We feel that this will be a great improvement for us in continuing to communicate with our customers and to help offer exciting information about web design, search engine optimization, and specials that we are offering.
Is a blog the next step for your website? It just might be! Take a look at some of the statistics found by MoveableType.org on blogging…
Source: PRWeek and Burson-Masteller, 2005; Pew Internet & American Life Project 2005
- 6 million Americans get their news and information from RSS aggregators
- 59% of CEOs say they find blogs useful for internal communications
Source: JupiterResearch consumer survey, June 2005
- 47% of CEOs find blogs useful for external communications
- 11% of the US population as a whole read blogs
Source: Backbone Media Business Blogging Survey, 2005
- 83% of corporate bloggers saw a traffic increase to their site
- 51% took less than 1-2 months from initial concept to launch of blog
- 88% saw a boost in search engine ranking within 3 months of launch
- 62% saw an increase in sales within 3 months of launch
Source: comScore Media Metrix, August 2005
- 50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. That is roughly 30% of all U.S. Internet users and 1 in 6 of the total U.S. population
- Compared to the average Internet user, blog readers are significantly more likely to live in wealthier households, be younger and connect to the Web on high-speed connections
- Blog readers also visit nearly twice as many web pages as the Internet average, and they are much more likely to shop online
Source: Yahoo/Ipsos Report, October 2005
- 27% of Internet users consume RSS syndicated content on personalized start pages (e.g., My Yahoo!, My MSN) without knowing that it’s RSS
… And the influence of blogging and RSS feeds continue to grow at an incredible rate!
Need help setting up a blog to promote your business? Contact Us now and we can help!
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