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  Updating our out-of-date static site with a WordPress driven blog based site.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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