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Using WordPress as a Website

WordPress is an amazingly powerful content management system and it has a lot of power under the hood for a small or medium business looking for an easy way to manage their web site.

WordPress was designed as a platform for blogging, but you don’t have to use it as a blogging tool. With a few tweaks it can be used to run your website, with or without a “blog.” The fact that WordPress was designed as a blogging platform gives it some compelling advantages.

It is optimized for easily publishing and changing content. And getting good search engine rankings requires fresh, unique content. You need a system that does not get in your way when you want to update your website with a new article or newsletter.

So why is WordPress a good choice?

Top Five Reasons to Use WordPress for Your Small Business Website

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

WordPress provides good search engine optimization techniques right out of the box. There are a few tweaks you need to make, but there are many benefits that WordPress provides for free.

Content

It is easy to update content on your website without knowing HTML. Do you hate the idea of having to learn to use a complex HTML editor tool like Dreamweaver? Do you have to “ask” your webmaster every time you want to make a small change to your website? Well no longer – once WordPress is set up for you, you can easily create new pages or edit existing pages using a simple rich text editor.

Extensions

There is a thriving ecosystem of developers creating themes and plug-ins (scripts that extend the functionality of the WordPress core features) – imagine free design themes, or the ability to extend your website with polls, contact forms, ratings or hundreds of other cool features. Tell me what you want your website to do and I’ll find the plugin for you!

Support

If you do have problems, or want to add very custom features, it is easy to find support and developers who can help you. Of course you can contact me, and there are literally thousands of WordPress developers out there. There are so many people writing about WordPress that help is only a Google search away!