AgileSite Xpertblogs, a division of WTE Solutions, provides customers with semi-custom and custom blog templates, blog hosting, and blog content creation. Whether you are looking for a standalone blog or one to integrate with your existing site, our team of blog experts will work with you, exploring your options and assessing your needs, to help you find the solution that is best for you.
Why Blog?
All companies, from the smallest to the largest, can benefit from having a blog. Blogging can increase traffic flow to your site, grow your email lists for direct marketing, and help you build new relationships with people interested in your goods and services. It allows a merchant or service provider to share information about their brand, services, products, and even changes in the industry that might be of interest to customers. A blog is a more casual presentation of information than articles or white papers, and yet it is a highly effective way to keep the online community involved in your product line, branding, and ultimately what you are offering. The direct interaction with customers that was lost when brick-and-mortar store customers went online is now alive, well, and flourishing again through blogging.
Blog Benefits
- Drive traffic to Web site increasing sales
- Grow email lists for email marketing campaigns
- Generate user-created content for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) maximization
- Create brand awareness to position products as purchasing choice
- Increase brand exposure as blog is listed in applicable search results
- Enhance brand familiarity for recall when in brick-and-mortar stores
- Share ideas and information relevant and interesting to your readers so they return to your blog
- Communicate with readers between newsletter sends and entice blog readers to sign up for newsletters
- Reach new and different audiences from your blog postings, then direct them to your store or site
- Advertising alternative to announce promotions, discounts, specials, new services, and new products
- Establish yourself as an expert in your field so people think of you first when making a related purchase decision
Blog Solutions
AgileSite Xpertblog Templates
WTE Solutions provides a wide array of AgileSite Xpertblog templates for seamless incorporation of your blog into your current Web site. We can match the look and feel of your site, and will consider your logo and target demographic to make recommendations on blog templates which enhance your users overall site and blog experience. The templates can be clearly identified with your logo and branding to allow for seamless transition to and from your Web site.
AgileSite Xpertblogs Templates can include the following features:
- Text blocks - allows addition of text in the sidebar
- Links - allows you to create and show a list of links to sites you want to share with your readers
- Search - adds a search box
- Meta - shows a list of links such as Log In or Register
- Pages - shows a list of all pages in your blog, such as About Us
- Recent Posts - shows a list of your most recent posts
- Archives - shows a list of your archived blogs
- Tag Cloud - shows a list of links (or clouds) to tags used in your posts - the more often a tag is used the larger the text is
- About Us - page where you provide information about your company or blog author
- Images - put a logo or image on the blog home page and on blog posts
- Categories - shows a list of your categories
- Content Moderation - allows blog owner to review comments before they are posted
- Pre-Comment Registration and Log-In - requires pre-registration before user can add comments
- Akismet - blocks spam from your site
- Sociable - allows posting of linked social networking icons
- Stats - provides simple access to basic analytics for your blog
- Google Analytics - provides enhanced analytics information
AgileSite Xpertblogs Custom Design
Looking for very specific features for your blog site? Let the AgileSite xpertblogs design and development team create a blog which incorporates the added elements you need. Contact our xpertblogs staff for a personal consultation on options and pricing for a custom blog design.
In addition to the features listed above, AgileSite Xpertblogs Custom Templates can include the following enhancements and more:
- Ad Buttons - allows for display and easy change-out of four 125×125 ads on your sidebar
- Lightbox for Galleries - provides ease of gallery navigation and viewing
- Flickr Plugin - displays your flickr image feed in a variety of ways
- Video Widget - shows a video on the sidebar – embed the code from any YouTube Video
- Polls - creates and adds polls to your blog site with archived poll results
Blog Writing Services
Looking for the benefits of increasing user-generated content, and driving more traffic to your Web site from a blog, but don’t have the time to create, edit, and post new blogs? Blog sites are only as good as the timely amount of relevant and interesting content which is added, so let the xpertblogs staff compose and post blogs for you. Our college-educated content experts can create blog postings to keep your blog site current and interesting for your readers. They will study and mimic the “voice” of your Web site, products, customers or clients, and target demographics in the blog postings. You provide our writing staff with topics, special sales, new products, promotions and tidbits you would like discussed in the posts and our experts will handle the rest, ensuring you achieve the benefits of having a blog while still focusing on running your business.