Personal Website or Blog
Your personal website is good for you, your data, and your career. You can influence people and add value to them by sharing your knowledge.
- Monetization opportunities
- Engage with readers
- Build credibility
- Monetization opportunities
- Engage with readers
- Build credibility
What is a Personal Website or Blog?
A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web, where one or more authors share their opinions on various subjects.
A group of posts usually containing hyperlinks to each other and made available online by an individual or more authors who share their opinions on various subjects. A blog is a type of website where the content is presented in reverse chronological order (newer content appear first).
Typical blog posts also have a comments section where users can respond to the article.
Why you need a Personal Website or Blog?
There are more than enough reasons why!
- Keep your audience updated about your business
- Easy way to monetize through affiliate marketing or ads
- Great for building long tail and driving traffic
- Can help improve internal linking
- Get feedback from your customers
- Helps you build your email database
- Share your opinion about products or places
- It’s easy to get social exposure
- Build credibility by writing useful content which shows your audience and customers that you are a trusted source and it shows them that you care about spreading useful information in your industry
- It helps drive traffic to your money-making website
- Share the latest news
How are we building blogs?
We take care of all of the complicated technical stuff, so that you can focus on what you know best.
- By using WordPress, one of the most popular Content Management Systems in use on the web today
- With a focus on crafting beautiful and user-friendly websites
- We build WordPress websites so that they perform well across all metrics; our sites load fast, are secure, rank well in search engines and convert well
- Building them in-house so we have complete control over the quality of the work
- We work mostly with open source technologies meaning there are never any hidden vendor lock ins
- Enthusiastic technologists
- Digital Octapus is a team of developers and designers here for the long-haul, unlike random freelancers who can disappear without notice
- Working closely with each client to ensure we develop the best possible website for their needs
How much a Personal Website or Blog costs?
It takes time and expertise to build beautiful, user-friendly, secure and fast websites that convert well.
The calculation of the price for a tailor-made personal website or blog is not easy since it takes in account a lot of variables, such as the costs for:
- Domain name
- Website hosting
- Website development
- Website design
- Site maintenance
- Content development
- Photograph rights
- Plugins
- Security
- Website marketing
Personal Website or Blog Pricelist
Small blog
from €250 (+VAT)
- Up to 2 pages
- In-house pre-built wireframes you can choose from
- 1 Revision allowed
- Responsive
- Performance optimization
- Free SSL certificate (https & green lock)
- Global fonts, color palette, images and content provided by you
- SEO - Basic meta information setup
- Google Analytics 4 tracking code + Facebook pixel setup
Amateur blog
from €350 (+VAT)
- Everything in small blog +
- Up to 5 pages
- Newsletter form
- Posts grid
- Related articles to read section
Professional blog
from €700 (+VAT)
- Everything in amateur blog +
- More pages
- Small adjustments on in-house pre-built wireframe
- 2 Revisions allowed
- Posts filters
- Dynamic sidebars
- Integrate form with 1 newsletter platform (ex. mailchimp, activecampaign or moosend)
Extra paid add-ons
- Tailor-made blog template
- Setup multilingual version
- Translations
- Landing pages
- Image editing
- SEO content creation
- Integrate newsletter form with multiple mailing platforms
- Paywall restricted members area
Features of Personal Blogs
Features
- Advanced security and performance
- Cloud hosting
- Maintenance plans
- Responsive
- Conversion rate optimized
- Search engine optimized
- Staging & Production environments
- +99.99% uptime SLA
- WordPress multisite option
Security
- WordPress hardening (files edit)
- Multi-factor password authentication (2FA)
- DNS firewall
- Server firewall
- WordPress firewall
- Malware scan
- Security headers
- Centralized DDoS Protection
- Rate-Limiting
- Free SSL certificate
- Daily local backups
- Daily backups off-site on a different data center
- Optional tertiary backups in different data center
Performance
- Enterprise-grade hardware
- Advanced WordPress speed optimization
- Clean code
- Nginx or OpenLitespeed
- Extremely low TTFB
- Server cache
- Object cache (Memcache or Redis)
- Page cache
- Browser cache
- CDN
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