--- title: "Blogging Add-On — TechTailors" description: "Blogging on a full editorial CMS, with drafts, scheduling, and collaboration on SOC 2-audited hosting. Starter is flat $300/mo with unlimited posts up to 200K visitors; +Content adds 4 edited posts/mo; Pro adds custom integrations and a compliance-ready setup." canonical: https://techtailors.agency/services/blogging/ --- # Blogging Add-On You write in a real CMS with drafts, scheduling and review, and each post publishes into your hand-coded site from a database you own. Starter is a flat $300 a month with unlimited posts. [Price Your Build](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/calculator/) From $100 a month ## Four rungs. One stack. A blog still earns its keep: *50% of marketers saw higher ROI from blogging in 2024 than in 2023*, according to *[HubSpot’s 2025 State of Blogging Report](https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/state-of-blogging)*. It’s the cheapest authority a small business can build. 1. Blog on your plan From $100 a month Your overview page and posts page-type, with your first 25 posts, billed with your site. - Twice your plan's page rate - Post 26 on at your page rate 2. [Starter](https://techtailors.agency/services/blogging/#starter) $300 a month, flat Unlimited posts and a full editorial CMS. - Up to 200K monthly visitors - Any plan 3. [Starter + Content](https://techtailors.agency/services/blogging/#content) $800 a month, flat Starter, plus four edited posts a month written for you. - Up to 1,200 words each - You approve every post 4. [Pro](https://techtailors.agency/services/blogging/#pro) From $2,500 a month Custom integrations and a compliance-ready setup for large publications. - 200K to 1.2M+ monthly visitors - Black Tie plan and up Every rung runs on the same stack, so moving up flips a switch instead of starting a rebuild. Pair it with [SEO](https://techtailors.agency/services/seo/), [Analytics & Tracking](https://techtailors.agency/services/analytics/), [Digital Advertising](https://techtailors.agency/services/digital-advertising/), [ROI Reporting](https://techtailors.agency/services/roi-strategy/) or [Multi-Language Support](https://techtailors.agency/services/multi-language/). Your database, your accounts ## The stack we’d pick for our own publication Your posts load fast, and Siri can read them aloud. They live in a database you own. TechTailors Blog stack care label - **EmDash CMS** Real content types, drafts, scheduling and revisions, in a database in your own Cloudflare account, on SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2: an independent audit of how a service provider protects data)-audited infrastructure. your database - **Hand-coded Astro, served from the edge** Posts ship as static HTML from Cloudflare’s 300+ locations and load in under a second. your account - **Custom Cloudinary pipeline** Every image is compressed, resized and served in the right format, automatically. your account - **Custom remark plugins and web components** Post interactivity that off-the-shelf editors can’t express. - **Native BigCommerce integration** Product-aware posts and shoppable publishing on the same stack. your store - **Markup AI and voice assistants can read** JSON-LD Article schema on every post, quotable by Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant and AI search. Cheap blog add-ons are often Git-file editors with no database behind them. Heavy WordPress builds carry the Core Web Vitals weight our [Lighthouse audits](https://techtailors.agency/performance/) keep catching. This is the third option: a real database behind every post, on accounts you own. **Vendor configuration required** Your blog's editor, **EmDash**, runs in your own Cloudflare account on the Workers Paid plan (from $5 a month, billed to you by Cloudflare), a Mandatory Minimum Vendor Configuration (Mandatory Minimum Vendor Configuration: the minimum vendor plan required for TechTailors to deliver the advertised SLA and feature set. SLA guarantees are conditional on maintaining this configuration.). **Pro also needs Supabase Pro**, where its PostgreSQL database lives. Find your rung in ten seconds [Fine-tune it in the pricing calculator](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/) A guide to fit, not a quote. For your exact price, use the calculator: both read the same price list. *Starter and Pro at a glance, one row per decision factor* | Factor | Starter | Pro | | --- | --- | --- | | Monthly price | $300 flat; $800 with Content | $2,500 to $12,500 by traffic | | Built for | Up to 200K monthly visitors | 200K to 1.2M+ monthly visitors | | Posts | Unlimited, written by your team; Content adds four edited posts a month | Enterprise publishing with custom integrations | | Website plan | Any plan, Smart Casual and up | Black Tie and above | | Security and privacy | A database in your own Cloudflare account, on SOC 2-audited infrastructure | Aligned with GDPR, HIPAA and ISO 27001 | | | | | Website plans ## Starter fits every plan. Pro needs Black Tie or above, and choosing it moves your plan up with it. 1. Smart Casual, Minimum plan $50 per page, per month Best fit when you run a small business or a brick-and-mortar store with simple needs. - From $250/mo - 48-hour support 2. Professional $75 per page, per month Best fit when your site handles sensitive data or your profession holds you to strict regulations. - From $375/mo - 24-hour support 3. Black Tie $100 per page, per month Suits online businesses or ones that serve a whole region or country. - From $500/mo - 16-hour support 4. White Tie Typically from $125 + per page, per month Best fit when your project needs go beyond our standard plans and add-ons. - Custom scope - 16-hour support 1. Smart Casual $50 per page, per month Best fit when you run a small business or a brick-and-mortar store with simple needs. Requires Black Tie or above. Adding it moves your plan up and leaves your page count alone. - From $250/mo - 48-hour support 2. Professional $75 per page, per month Best fit when your site handles sensitive data or your profession holds you to strict regulations. Requires Black Tie or above. Adding it moves your plan up and leaves your page count alone. - From $375/mo - 24-hour support 3. Black Tie, Minimum plan $100 per page, per month Suits online businesses or ones that serve a whole region or country. - From $500/mo - 16-hour support 4. White Tie Typically from $125 + per page, per month Best fit when your project needs go beyond our standard plans and add-ons. - Custom scope - 16-hour support **Both** is the whole ladder: Starter's flat $300 a month beside the Pro rungs at $2,500 to $12,500 by traffic. **Starter** is the launch rung: a flat $300 a month, unlimited posts, yours to 200K monthly visitors. ## Starter: unlimited posts for a flat $300 Starter works on every plan, Smart Casual included. One flat rate covers unlimited posts up to 200K monthly visitors, where Pro begins, and while it’s active your blog never bills per page, author and category pages included. ### What Starter ships #### Publishing - **A real editorial CMS:** Write, edit, save, schedule and publish, with live writer-editor comments, multi-step review and approval, and content calendars. - **Author and category pages, included:** Every writer gets a byline page and every topic gets an archive that readers and search engines can browse, and none of them adds to your monthly bill. - **Custom post features:** Custom Markdown interactivity, plus integrations with Cloudinary and third-party platforms. - **An SEO writing cheat sheet:** Our guide to writing SEO content. #### Data and uptime - **A dedicated database:** Cloudflare D1, in your own Cloudflare account, on SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2: an independent audit of how a service provider protects data)-audited infrastructure, encrypted at rest and in transit, configured for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation - EU privacy law protecting personal data) with controls aligned to ISO 27001 (International standard for information security management), and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - US rules for protecting health information) on Pro (additional fees apply), plus logging and audit trails. (Your posts live in your own database, not a shared multi-tenant CMS. When a popular CMS gets hit by a vulnerability (which happens regularly), your content is unaffected: a different platform, a different database, a different attack surface.) - **Your data, always:** Cancel and keep all of it, exportable at no extra cost. You can reuse the database for other parts of your business. - **A 99.9% uptime SLA (Service Level Agreement - 99.9% uptime means your blog is available 99.9% of the time, or 8.76 hours downtime per year):** If we miss it, you get 10% off your next invoice. **A blog from $100 a month, before any add-on** Your blog is a [page-type](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/), the posts, plus its overview page. **Twice your plan’s page rate covers both, with your first 25 posts**: $100 a month on Smart Casual, $150 on Professional, $200 on Black Tie. Author and category pages are optional page-types of their own, each **one page at your plan’s rate** (they need no overview page of their own). Every post after 25 bills at your plan’s page rate until Blogging Starter or above takes over the math. Then the whole blog stops billing per page, author and category pages included. (Starter’s flat $300 absorbs the blog base too, so it pays for itself at 30 posts on Smart Casual, 28 on Professional and 27 on Black Tie, sooner if you have author or category pages.) Starter is the upgrade when you want the full editorial toolkit and no caps. Before any add-on, the blog builds like any page-type: $250 for its overview page, $750 for the posts, $250 for each post past 25 and $750 for each set of author or category pages. On Starter and up, its pages carry no build fee. ### Starter pricing Flat rate $300 a month Unlimited posts up to 200K monthly visitors. While Starter is active, your posts never bill per page. **When Starter becomes Pro** Starter becomes Pro when one of three things happens: you need a custom integration beyond our standard stack (ones we already provide, like Cloudinary and BigCommerce, never count), your industry requires a compliance regime such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - US rules for protecting health information), or your blog sustains **200,000+ monthly visitors on a three-month weighted average**. One strong month never converts you, and nothing changes on your invoice before we’ve talked it through. ### Starter + Content: we write, you approve The request we hear most is *“just handle my blog.”* For **$800 a month** you get everything in Starter plus **four edited posts a month**, up to 1,200 words each, planned against your keyword strategy and published with schema and internal links. You’re never left holding a folder of drafts. **You sign off on every post** **You and your team** review every post before it publishes. You approve the claims, the tone and the facts, so each piece meets your standards and your industry’s compliance bar: medical, financial, legal or otherwise. The bundled “content included” plans you’ll see elsewhere skip that review entirely. We built it in on purpose. #### Content pricing Flat rate $800 a month Everything in Starter (unlimited posts, full workflows, schema and the SLA) plus four edited posts a month, aligned to your keyword plan. ### How Starter rolls out Step 1 #### Set up your CMS We set up EmDash in your own Cloudflare account, build the content models (posts, authors, categories and tags) and set up accounts and editorial roles for your team. Step 2 #### Build the blog We hand-code the blog home, post layouts, RSS feed, JSON-LD Article schema, sitemap entries, Open Graph defaults and Cloudinary image handling into your Astro site. Step 3 #### Hand off the workflow We train your team on drafts, scheduling and collaboration, hand over the SEO writing cheat sheet and walk your editors through publishing and revising. Step 4 #### Publish and grow We keep the pipeline healthy as you publish, with no post caps or traffic rungs inside Starter. Content adds four edited posts a month when you want the writing handled. When you outgrow Starter (a sustained 200K-visitor average) or need Pro's workflows, you move up without a rebuild. This add-on, like every TechTailors add-on, begins billing once we start implementing this add-on into your website: see [pricing FAQs](https://techtailors.agency/faqs/#pricing) for details on how billing and onboarding work. ### Blogging Starter vs. custom platforms #### Blogging Starter - Flat $300 a month: unlimited posts up to 200K monthly visitors, no setup fee - A database in your own Cloudflare account, on SOC 2-audited infrastructure, configured for GDPR - A CMS with drafts, scheduling and content calendars - Full data ownership: export everything at no extra cost - 99.9% uptime SLA with a 10% credit - Move up to Pro without rebuilding #### Custom platforms - Custom blog platforms cost $20K–$50K+ upfront to build - Self-managed setups need ongoing developer time and hosting - Compliance audits (SOC 2, HIPAA) add months and thousands in cost - Many platforms lock you in: moving your data out is painful and expensive - Many blogging providers offer no uptime guarantee #### TechTailors - Setup fee $0 - Monthly service From $300/mo - 24/7 support & ongoing maintenance Included - When billing starts When we start setup work - Blueprint and build fee $0, blog pages included - Hidden fees $0 Year 1 Total Starting at $3,600/yr #### Traditional - Custom blog platform (upfront) $20K–$50K - Ongoing management & updates $500+/mo - Hosting & tech costs $200+/mo - Security & compliance Extra Year 1 Total $28,400–$58,400+ Year 1 **Pro** is the enterprise rung: Black Tie plans and up, laddered $2,500 to $12,500 a month for 200K to 1.2M+ visitors. ## Pro: publishing for 200K to 1.2M+ readers a month Everything in Starter, plus custom tool integrations, multi-account editorial workflows and a setup aligned with GDPR, HIPAA and ISO 27001, for high-volume publications. ### What Pro adds #### Publishing - **Collaboration at team scale:** Multi-account workflows with drafts, scheduling, content calendars and multi-step review and approval. Add editors as you grow. - **Custom tool integrations:** Connect alerts, AI writing assistants and [SEO tools](https://techtailors.agency/services/seo/#pro) to your publishing workflow. - **Advanced customization:** Custom remark plugins and web components for rich interactivity, plus integrations with hosting and platforms like Cloudinary. - **An SEO writing cheat sheet:** Our guide to writing SEO content. (**Every post you publish is also marked up so voice assistants can read it aloud.** When a customer asks Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant a question your post answers, your blog is one of the answers eligible to be quoted. That structured-data lift is automatic: you write, we mark it up.) #### Data and compliance - **Storage and backups:** PostgreSQL on SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2: an independent audit of how a service provider protects data)-audited infrastructure, encrypted at rest and in transit and routinely backed up. Images live in Cloudinary. - **A compliance-ready setup:** Configured for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation - EU privacy law protecting personal data), with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - US rules for protecting health information)-aligned setups (additional fees apply) and controls aligned to ISO 27001 (International standard for information security management), plus logging and audit features. ### Pro pricing Starting at $2,500 a month Your tier follows your monthly visitors on a three-month rolling average. Blogging Pro uses the same seven tiers and prices as SEO Pro, so the two budget cleanly together. - Pro Base: 200K–300K monthly visitors $2,500 a month - Growing SMB: 300K–450K monthly visitors $3,500 a month - Established SMB: 450K–600K monthly visitors $4,500 a month - Mid-Market: 600K–800K monthly visitors $6,000 a month - Large Mid-Market: 800K–1M monthly visitors $7,500 a month - Pre-Enterprise: 1M–1.2M monthly visitors $10,000 a month - Pro Enterprise: 1.2M+ monthly visitors $12,500 a month [See the SEO Pro ladder](https://techtailors.agency/services/seo/#pro) ### How Pro rolls out Step 1 #### Migrate and set up We move your existing content over (if you have any) and set up the infrastructure: EmDash on a dedicated PostgreSQL database on Supabase, in your name, and Cloudinary for images. Step 2 #### Configure the CMS We set up your editor, accounts, review workflows, content calendars and any custom tool integrations (AI, alerts, SEO). Step 3 #### Launch and test Your blog goes live with every feature tested end to end and its GDPR, HIPAA and ISO 27001 settings checked. Step 4 #### Optimize We watch performance, scale the infrastructure as traffic grows and refine your publishing workflow around how your team uses it. This add-on, like every TechTailors add-on, begins billing once we start implementing this add-on into your website: see [pricing FAQs](https://techtailors.agency/faqs/#pricing) for details on how billing and onboarding work. ### Blogging Pro vs. alternatives #### Blogging Pro - Enterprise publishing from $2,500 a month, no setup fee - Aligned with GDPR, HIPAA and ISO 27001, on SOC 2-audited infrastructure - A dedicated PostgreSQL database: your data stays yours - Scales from 200K to 1.2M+ monthly visitors across seven tiers - Custom tool integrations (AI, alerts, SEO) in your workflow - 99.9% uptime SLA with a 10% credit #### Alternatives - Custom blog platforms cost $20K–$50K+ upfront to build - Self-managed setups need ongoing developer time - Compliance audits (SOC 2, HIPAA) add months and thousands in cost - Scaling infrastructure yourself is complex and expensive - Many agencies offer no uptime guarantee #### TechTailors - Setup fee $0 - Monthly service (Pro Base) From $2,500/mo - Editorial workflows, SLAs & support Included - When billing starts When we start setup work - Blueprint and build fee $0, blog pages included - Hidden fees $0 Year 1 Total Starting at $30,000/yr #### Traditional - B2B content marketing retainer (Column Five 2026) $3K–$15K/mo - Avg B2B content retainer (2026 survey of 350+ businesses) $5K–$10K/mo - One-time project instead (Column Five 2026) $10K–$200K+ - SOC 2 audit, all-in with prep (Bright Defense 2026) $10K–$80K+ Year 1 Total $46,000–$260,000+ Year 1 For comparison ## What blogging costs elsewhere 1. $100–$149 An hour, the average content marketing agency rate [*Clutch* 2026](https://clutch.co/agencies/content-marketing/pricing) 2. 38% of agencies charge a $1,001–$2,500 monthly retainer [*Column Five Media* 2026](https://www.columnfivemedia.com/content-marketing-agency-pricing/) 3. $5,000–$15,000 A month, what most B2B content agencies charge for ongoing work [*Column Five Media* 2026](https://www.columnfivemedia.com/content-marketing-agency-pricing/) Agency retainers bundle the writing with the platform. Starter is the platform itself, a flat $300 a month; Content adds four edited posts for $800; Pro runs $2,500 to $12,500. That puts Starter and Content below typical retainers, and your content stays yours. ## Explore more ### Related services - [**SEO Add-On** Smart Casual · Professional · Black Tie · White Tie](https://techtailors.agency/services/seo/) - [**SEO On-Page Add-On** Smart Casual · Professional · Black Tie · White Tie](https://techtailors.agency/services/seo-on-page/) - [**Analytics & Tracking Add-On** Smart Casual · Professional · Black Tie · White Tie](https://techtailors.agency/services/analytics/) ### From the blog Aug 28, 2026 5 min read #### [How Our Pricing Changed in 2026](https://techtailors.agency/blog/how-our-pricing-changed-in-2026/) In 2026 TechTailors moved from one flat page rate to four self-selected service plans, and raised the rate under all of them. Here is what changed, why, and what it means if you're already a client: nothing. ## Price your blog before you talk to anyone. See your exact monthly price, then talk to us when you’re ready. [Price Your Build](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/calculator/) [30-day guarantee on every new plan](https://techtailors.agency/policies/offboarding/#guarantee): an exit, not a refund. --- Prices as data: https://techtailors.agency/pricing.json · Site guide for agents: https://techtailors.agency/llms.txt