Add a blog to your business website and use it to post product specials, informational articles and customer comments & recommendations. b2Evolution is one of the most powerful blog engines available and it is included for free with our shared website hosting plans. You control everything – blogger accessibility, posts and even RSS feeds. Interact with your visitors with a b2Evolution blog. PostNuke, an open source content management system is included with our powerful VPS hosting plans. PostNuke can do anything from traditional blog websites, to a community members’ only website with hundreds of users. We offer Blog Hosting at an affordable price. Even our entry level All-in-One hosting plan includes free blogging tools so you can get started right away. Call now to sign up.

10 Reasons Your Site Needs A Blog

• Blogs are a great way to introduce new products and services to visitors without recoding.
• Blogs are a great way to generate repeat traffic – pure gold.
• Blogs tell you what customers like and don’t like – first-hand market research.
• A blog is a great way to keep product reviews in front of your buyers.
• A blog entry can be easily syndicated to other sites – all pointing back to your site.
• A blog is easy to set up, easy to maintain.
• Search engines love blogs. Tips for gaining traffic are included in our article “SEO Your Blog“.
• A blog keeps your site fresh.
• A blog has become part of visitors’ expectations.
• A blog is lots of fun.

Blogs: a Web 2.0 Tool

If you haven’t heard of Web 2.0, wait five minutes.

Web 2.0, a term popularized by ecommerce professional, Tim O’Reilly, describes a more connected, interactive www – a ‘place’ where customer-generated content is routine. Examples? Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia being written by global sources, is a good one. In the world of ecommerce, visit Amazon. On every product page, you’ll find reviews written by consumers – even the slams. That’s gutsy, but it’s also very Web 2.0. So are site blogs. That’s why so many sites, both commercial and non-commercial, have added blogs.

b2evolution and PostNuke are some of the many application tools offered by Website Source to help you not only improve site traffic, but to keep visitors coming back. Again & again. These revolutionary software tools make it easy to set up and maintain a site blog. Both tools contain every feature you’d expect from a blog tool, they offer total design control and are even able to accommodate third party plug-ins.

Not too familiar with the expanding blogosphere? Not sure how it will help your bottom line? Well, b2evolution and PostNuke provide all of the answers to your blogging questions.

b2evolution: A Feature-Rich Blog Engine

You get a lot of features and functions with b2evolution. Ease of use and screen-driven set-up are only the beginning.

WordPress: Dozens of Gorgeous Themes

You can change the look of your blog with over 60 attractive themes and switch themes instantly with just a click of a button.

Check out these critical features:

• Instant Blog Uploads – Type in your latest blog entry, click on ‘Blog This’ and your message is posted on your site blog – instantly! Introduce new products. New uses for products. Share recipes for product success. Start threads to learn more about what your visitors like about your site and what changes they’d like to see made. Keep in contact with regular visitors in a very personal, one-to-one fashion – a lot like chatting around the wood stove at the old general store.
• RSS – RSS stands for ‘Remote Site Syndication’. With b2evolution, RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. RSS enables you to broadcast your content to other sites via RSS feeds. Other site owners gather these feeds using an RSS aggregator, which then delivers this content to that site’s clientele. The point? Your blog content will appear on many different, related sites with big arrows pointing customers right back to your URL. No more link begging! You can also gather your own collection of RSS feeds from other sites to provide the kind of useful information that benefits your own buyers. RSS is a core component of the Web 2.0 revolution and b2evolution makes RSS Really Simple Syndication.
• Blog Skins – Change the look and feel of your blog’s presentation layer quickly using any one of the templates included with b2evolution. No graphic skills required to produce an enticing, open forum tied to your site.
• Spam Fighter – AntiSpam Deluxe blocks referrer and comment spam with a blog-community-maintained database. Let’s your customers decide what’s spam and what’s not.

Think Globally; Blog Locally

b2evolution supports Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Japanese and close to a dozen other languages, enabling you to localize your blogs to any regional demographic.

Multi-Blogging

Whether you maintain a single blog, or hundreds, b2evolution simplifies the entire process of blog management and oversight. Blogs can be displayed on their own pages, in combination or linked. You can create a main blog with links to sub-blogs like a linkblog, a photoblog or even a blogroll so contributors know who’s making those great posts.

Multiple Users; Multiple Authors

You maintain complete control of your blog – who can read it, who can syndicate content, and who can make posts (and who can’t).

Simple Content Cataloging

As your blog grows, you’re going to need some means to organize posts, news stories, product listings and other information. b2evolution makes it easy to classify blog entries so you can locate relevant content quickly. And so can your growing family of bloggers.

Website Source customer care representatives will show you just how easy it is to start growing your blogging community and your bottom line.