Blogging Add-On
Secure, fully customized blogging: a CMS with drafts, scheduling, and collaboration workflows on SOC2-compliant storage. Starter is a flat $300/mo. with unlimited posts.
How It Works
Blogging earns its keep. Companies that publish regularly see up to 55% more website visitors, according to HubSpot, and a blog is still the cheapest authority a small business can build.
The add-on is a ladder, and you start wherever fits. A blog is already a standard page-type on every tier: $25/month covers the layout and your first 25 posts, no add-on needed. When you want real editorial tooling, Starter is a flat $300 a month with unlimited posts, and it covers you all the way to 200K monthly visitors. If you'd rather hand off the writing too, Starter + Content adds four edited posts a month. Pro is the enterprise rung, with custom integrations and full compliance. The infrastructure is identical at every level, so upgrading later is a switch flip, not a rebuild.
Every post is hand-coded into your Astro site with a CMSContent Management System — software for creating and organizing web content for writing, editing, scheduling, and collaboration, plus JSON-LD Article schema and Cloudinary image optimization. Pairs perfectly with our SEO, Advanced Analytics, Digital Advertising, ROI Reporting, and Multi-Language Support add-ons.
What’s under the hood — and why it beats the alternatives
Every rung runs the same stack we'd pick for our own publication. The short version: your posts load fast, they rank, Siri can read them aloud, and they live in a database you own.
- Strapi v5 — a structured CMS in your own SOC2Security certification verifying compliance with data security standards-compliant PostgreSQL database. Real content types, reliable scheduling, multi-step review — and the data is yours forever.
- Astro delivery, hand-coded — posts ship as static HTML from Cloudflare’s edge (300+ PoPs): sub-second loads that rank and convert.
- Custom-built Cloudinary integrations — every image automatically optimized, responsive, and format-negotiated.
- Custom remark plugins & web components — rich interactivity that off-the-shelf editors simply cannot express.
- Native BigCommerce integration — product-aware posts and shoppable publishing on the same stack.
- AI- and voice-readable markup — JSON-LD Article schema on every post, eligible to be quoted by Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and AI search.
Most cheap “blog add-ons” are Git-file editors. There is no database behind them, scheduling is best-effort, and an approval workflow simply doesn't exist. Heavyweight WordPress builders have the opposite problem: our Lighthouse audits keep catching the Core Web Vitals weight they carry. We sell the third option, which is structured publishing, served from the edge, in accounts you own.
Blogging runs on a client-owned Strapi Cloud account as a Mandatory Minimum Vendor ConfigurationMandatory 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.. Starter runs on Strapi Cloud at a supported tier; Pro requires Strapi Cloud Pro or above for scheduled publishing, webhook reliability, and enterprise compliance.
Applicable Website Tiers
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Launch Required
1 – 25 pages · $25/page/mo.
Starting at $25/mo.
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Scale
26 – 79 pages · $25/page/mo.
Starting at $650/mo.
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Enterprise
80+ pages · $25/page/mo.
Starting at $2,000/mo.
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Custom
Tailored scope · Custom pricing
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Blogging Starter — launch your content engine
Available on every website tier, at one flat rate: $300 a month for unlimited posts. There are no traffic rungs inside Starter; it covers your blog up to 200K monthly visitors, which is where Pro begins. While Starter is active, your posts never bill per-page either; the blog page-type's 25-instance bucket is simply waived.
Starter Features
- Effortless Content Management: Editor and UI for writing, editing, saving, and scheduling drafts or publishing content. Real-time writer-editor comments, multi-step review and approval workflows, and content calendars.
- Advanced Customization: Full suite of custom Markdown interactivity features and advanced integrations with Cloudinary and third-party platforms.
- Dedicated Databases: SOC2Security certification verifying compliance with data security standards-compliant PostgreSQL database with data encryption at-rest and in-transit. GDPRGeneral Data Protection Regulation - EU privacy law protecting personal data, HIPAAHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - compliance for healthcare data (additional fees apply), and ISO-27001International standard for information security management compliance standards. Logging and audit trails included.Your blog content lives in YOUR database, not in someone else’s multi-tenant CMS. If a popular CMS gets hit by a vulnerability next quarter (which happens regularly), your content is unaffected — different platform, different database, different attack surface entirely.Your blog content lives in YOUR database, not in someone else’s multi-tenant CMS. If a popular CMS gets hit by a vulnerability next quarter (which happens regularly), your content is unaffected — different platform, different database, different attack surface entirely.
- Full Data Ownership: If you cancel, keep all your data — fully exportable at no extra cost. Repurpose your PostgreSQL database for other business operations beyond blogging.
- Guaranteed 99.9% Uptime SLAService Level Agreement - 99.9% uptime means your blog is available 99.9% of the time, or 8.76 hours downtime per year: Get a 10% credit off your next invoice if your blog ever goes down.
- SEO Writing Assistance: Receive an expert cheat sheet for writing impactful SEO content.
- Available on All Tiers: Blogging Starter works on every website tier — Launch, Scale, Enterprise, and Custom. Start building your content engine from day one.
Starter Pricing
Starter + Content — we write, you approve
The request we hear most is “just handle my blog.” This is that tier. 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. We publish them schema-marked and internally linked. You are never left holding a folder of drafts.
Every post we write is reviewed by you and your team before it publishes. You approve the claims, the tone, and the facts, so each piece meets your standards and whatever compliance bar your industry sets — 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
How Starter Rolls Out
CMS Provisioning & Configuration
Blog Architecture & SEO
Editorial Workflow Handoff
Ongoing Publishing & Growth
This add-on, like every TechTailors add-on, begins billing once we start implementing this add-on into your website — see pricing FAQs for details on how billing and onboarding work.
Blogging Starter vs. Custom Platforms
Blogging Starter
- Flat $300/mo. — unlimited posts up to 200K monthly visitors, $0 upfront
- SOC2-compliant PostgreSQL with GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO-27001 standards
- CMS with drafts, scheduling, and content calendars
- Full data ownership — export everything at no extra cost
- 99.9% uptime SLA with 10% credit guarantee
- Seamless upgrade path to Pro — no rebuilding required
Custom Platforms
- Custom blog platforms cost $20K–$50K+ upfront to build
- Self-managed solutions require ongoing developer resources and hosting
- Compliance certifications (SOC2, HIPAA) add months and thousands in cost
- Most platforms lock you in — migrating data is painful and expensive
- No guaranteed uptime SLAs with most blogging providers
TechTailors
- Setup fee $0 upfront
- Monthly service From $300/mo
- 24/7 support & lifetime maintenance Included
- When billing starts When we start setup work
- Onboarding deposit $0
- Hidden fees $0
Traditional
- Custom blog platform (upfront) $20K–$50K
- Ongoing management & updates $500+/mo
- Hosting & tech costs $200+/mo
- Security & compliance Extra
Blogging Pro — enterprise publishing at scale
Everything in Starter, plus enterprise-grade publishing built to drive revenue — custom tool integrations, multi-account editorial workflows, and full GDPR/SOC2/HIPAA/ISO-27001 compliance for high-volume publications. Pricing mirrors SEO Pro on the same 7-tier ladder, so the two budget cleanly together.
Pro Features
- Everything in Blogging Starter, Plus: Enterprise-grade infrastructure built for high-volume, multi-team publications — where editorial workflows, integrations, and compliance do the heavy lifting.
- Effortless Content Management: Editor and UI for writing, editing, saving, and scheduling drafts or publishing content. Manage assets, content, and users with real-time writer–editor comments, multi-step review and approval workflows, and content calendars.
- Advanced Customization: Full suite of custom remark plugins and web components for rich interactivity, plus advanced integrations with hosting and third-party platforms like Cloudinary.
- Custom Tool Integrations: Sync your blog with powerful tools — connect alerts, AI writing assistants, SEO tools, and more directly into your publishing workflow.
- Full Collaboration: Multi-account editorial workflows with drafts, scheduling, content calendars, and multi-step review and approval. Scale your team as needed.
- Enterprise Storage: SOC2Security certification verifying compliance with data security standards-compliant PostgreSQL storage with data encryption at-rest and in-transit. Images stored in Cloudinary for optimization. Data is routinely backed up.
- Full Compliance: GDPRGeneral Data Protection Regulation - EU privacy law protecting personal data, SOC2, HIPAAHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - compliance for healthcare data, and ISO-27001International standard for information security management security and compliance standards. Includes logging and auditing features.
- Full Data Ownership: If you cancel, keep all your data — fully exportable at no extra cost. Repurpose your PostgreSQL database for other business operations beyond blogging.
- SEO Writing Assistance: Receive an expert cheat sheet for writing impactful SEO content that ranks. And every post you publish is 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 directly. That structured-data lift happens automatically; you write, we mark it up.And every post you publish is 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 directly. That structured-data lift happens automatically; you write, we mark it up.
- Guaranteed 99.9% Uptime SLAService Level Agreement - 99.9% uptime means your blog is available 99.9% of the time, or 8.76 hours downtime per year: Get a 10% credit off your next invoice if your blog ever goes down.
Pro Pricing
- Pro Base $2,500/mo. 200K–300K monthly visitors
- Growing SMB $3,500/mo. 300K–450K monthly visitors
- Established SMB $4,500/mo. 450K–600K monthly visitors
- Mid-Market $6,000/mo. 600K–800K monthly visitors
- Large Mid-Market $7,500/mo. 800K–1M monthly visitors
- Pre-Enterprise $10,000/mo. 1M–1.2M monthly visitors
- Pro Enterprise $12,500/mo. 1.2M+ monthly visitors
How Pro Rolls Out
Migration & Setup
CMS Configuration
Launch & QA
Ongoing Optimization
This add-on, like every TechTailors add-on, begins billing once we start implementing this add-on into your website — see pricing FAQs for details on how billing and onboarding work.
Blogging Pro vs. Alternatives
Blogging Pro
- Enterprise-grade publishing from $2,500/mo — $0 upfront
- Full compliance (GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA, ISO-27001) included
- Dedicated PostgreSQL database — you own your data
- Seamless scaling from 200K to 1.2M+ monthly visitors across 7 tiers
- Custom tool integrations (AI, alerts, SEO) built into your workflow
- 99.9% uptime SLA with 10% credit guarantee
Alternatives
- Custom blog platforms cost $20K–$50K+ upfront to build
- Self-managed solutions require ongoing developer resources
- Compliance certifications (SOC2, HIPAA) add months and $$$
- Scaling infrastructure independently is complex and expensive
- No guaranteed uptime SLAs with most agencies
TechTailors
- Setup fee $0 upfront
- Monthly service (Pro Base) From $2,500/mo
- Editorial workflows, SLAs & support Included
- When billing starts When we start setup work
- Onboarding deposit $0
- Hidden fees $0
Traditional
- B2B content marketing agency retainer (Clutch) $3K–$15K/mo
- Avg B2B content retainer (Column Five 2026) $5K–$10K/mo
- Higher-end B2B SaaS / health / biotech $15K+/mo
- Project-based content engagement $10K–$200K+ one-time
- Compliance certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA) $10K–$50K+
Industry Benchmarks
Blogging Starter plays in the SMB content market, where most small-business publishing budgets live. This is the get-started tier — a secure CMS with drafts, scheduling, and collaboration on the same infrastructure as Pro, one flat $300/month with unlimited posts, serving up to 200K monthly visitors.
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Clutch Content marketing agency retainers typically run $3,000–$15,000/mo for 4–12 pieces of content. Lower-end production rates: $0.25–$1.00 per word (freelance). These rates bundle content production with infrastructure.
Subset of Clutch's 106,043-firm marketplace dataset.
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Column Five Media
Column Five Content Marketing Agency Pricing 2026 — opens in a new tab2026 buyer-side survey (350+ businesses) plus Databox data: 38% of agencies charge $1,001–$2,500/mo retainer; project-based content engagements run $10,000–$200,000+ for full brand system builds.
Blogging Pro plays in the agency and enterprise content market, where publishing becomes a real budget line. This is where Starter scales up — enterprise-grade infrastructure, custom tool integrations, and full compliance for 200K–1.2M+ monthly visitors.
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Clutch Content marketing agency retainers typically run $3,000–$15,000/mo for 4–12 pieces of content. Higher-end B2B SaaS, health, and biotech retainers run $15,000+/mo. These rates bundle content production with infrastructure.
Verified-buyer ratings from Clutch's 106,043-firm marketplace dataset.
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Column Five Media (updated May 2026)
Column Five Content Marketing Agency Pricing 2026 — opens in a new tab2026 buyer-side survey of 350+ businesses found average B2B content retainer is $5,000–$15,000/mo. Project-based content engagements run $10,000–$200,000+ for full brand system builds.
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