WordPress for Small Business – Why It’s An Excellent Choice!

If you are a small business owner who either owns an existing website or is contemplating getting one – you need to read this article before moving forward with your website changes or design.

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) used to build blogs, a website, or both. We will cover in this article the reasons why WordPress is a good choice for small business websites.
 

Building a Small Business Website Using WordPress

WordPress is a powerful content management system that is totally FREE! As a small or medium business, you want to be using this powerful tool as it is an easy way to manage your web site. In the past, WordPress used to be solely used as a blogging platform, but with a few tweaks it can be transformed into a website and a blog together – or just a website. This is where WordPress has some advantages over other blogging software.

If you are familiar with the traditional website, you not only needed a web designer to create the site layout, and graphics but you also needed a webmaster to place your content on the site or change it when needed. This cost you money each time you needed a content or graphic change! No more of that nonsense. WordPress to the rescue!
 

Five Reasons Why WordPress for Your Small Business Is a Good Choice

1. Built-In SEO Benefits – Out of the box WordPress gives you SEO benefits that far outweigh traditional built websites.

2. Adding content is easy – WordPress allows you to add content to your site without knowing HTML. If you are not one to learn complex software such as Dreamweaver, you are in for a big surprise! No longer do you have to ask your webmaster to make a small change for you – you can easily create new pages or edit them using the built-in editor.

3. Plug-Ins – The WordPress community has a plethora of programmers who create FREE themes and plug-ins. Plug-ins gives you the ability to extend the functionality of your website with contact forms, social media and other cool features without a programmer.

4. Fantastic Support – You can find easily accessible help and support from the WordPress community as well as the hundreds and thousands of developers out there if you have a problem, or you want to have something customized. At the very least, you can do a google search to find them when needed.

5. Installation is quick – WordPress is easily installed (They call it one-click installation) by many hosting companies such as Hostgator, GoDaddy, Site5 and 1and1. As long as your hosting company has cPanel, you will be able to install WordPress quickly. Once caveat though, I don't recommend the one-click quick install as this put's your website at risk of being hacked, hi-jacked or prone to spammers. Having your WordPres installed securely should be a priority!

We will be sharing more tips and tricks on how to best utilize WordPress for your small to medium business.