blog setup and blog management services

A company blog is a great way to share the latest news from your organisation, your industry or your local area. You can use your blog to build links to your products, to raise your organisation's profile, and to attract visitors to your website. And publishing relevant articles on your blog gives you a great way to encourage your social media followers to find out more about you and discuss with you the issues that matter most to them.

But finding time to set up and manage a blog can be tricky. If you're busy running your business and keeping your customers happy, managing your blog can quickly become something you know you should be doing, but never seem to get around to.

That's where debbidoo can help.

We can set up a new blog for you if you don't already have one, and we can take over or share the management of your existing blog - leaving you with more time to run your business.

WordPress.com blog setups

If you'd like a blog that's hosted on WordPress.com (or another blogging service, like Blogger) we'll deal with the blog setup for you, leaving you with a fully functioning blog that's ready for you to manage yourself or, if you prefer, you can hire debbidoo to manage the blog on your behalf.

For a one-off fee of £95, you get the following:

We'll register a blog for you at the blogging service of your choice
We’ll deal with all the privacy, spam and other account settings for you
We’ll create multiple user accounts, if you want them, so your colleagues can post articles too
We’ll create an ‘about us’ page (you’ll need to provide the content for this)
We’ll set up some categories and "blogroll" links for you, per your brief (more can be added at any time)
We’ll help you select a template from the free themes provided by your chosen blogging service, then we'll create a custom header image to fit your chosen blog template (if your template offers this feature - some don't). Depending on the template you choose, there may be space for other images - if so, we'll create/source/edit these for you, too.

adding a blog to your own website

If you want to host a blog on your existing website or on a new domain, we're very happy to recommend our preferred supplier for WordPress hosting and installation, Equiphase, whose services we've used for blogging projects of our own. Their prices are very reasonable and their customer service is outstanding.

Once your blog is set up, you can easily hand over to debbidoo to deal with any fine-tuning of your blog settings (for example, creating pages/categories, or adding banner ads/Google AdSense units to monetise your blog); we charge £35 per hour for these services. If you're interested in monetising your blog, please see our affiliate marketing management page to find out how debbidoo can help.

blog management services

Once your blog is up and running, it needs to be managed. You'll need to add articles to it (and publicise them), keep on top of spam, reply to comments left by visitors, and monitor your blog's visitor statistics to see who's linking to you and which links your visitors are clicking.

These are all blog management tasks that debbidoo can help with. How long we'll need to spend on this each month will depend on how many visitors your blog gets, and how often you want to post articles; for newer blogs with few visitors, less time will need to be spent, and for more established blogs or those attracting a high volume of visitors or posting articles very regularly, more management time will be needed. Since it's difficult to predict these things without knowing a bit about your blog, we don't offer any fixed-fee blog management packages; we assess each client's blog individually, and will provide a quote based on the number of hours we'll need to spend each month managing your blog, at an hourly fee of £35.

If you don't have time to write your own articles for debbidoo to post to your blog, don't worry - we can help with this, too. To find out more, please visit our ghost blogging page.

find out more

If you have a question about the blog setup and blog management services provided by debbidoo, or if you'd like to hire debbidoo to set up or manage your blog, please get in touch or request a callback. We're happy to talk to you about discounted rates if you'd like to combine our blog management and guest blogging services on an ongoing basis.

debbidoo's blogs

We have two blogs that we post to whenever we have time or important news to share.

Our main blog is chinwag, where we discuss marketing issues and share our latest news and special offers.

Our other blog is a blog named desire, where we talk about things we want. These things aren't necessarily materialistic; for example, in one post we simply wanted to introduce the smallest snail in the world. Occasionally, we'll use the blog to promote a client's products; but if we do, we're always very open about it, to avoid misleading anybody (our blog post on chinwag about the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations explains why this is something marketers and business owners need to be careful about).