Can WordPress Help You With Your New Business?

Are you considering starting a WordPress website for your business, but are not sure if it’s a good idea?

Today, WordPress powers millions of sites on the Internet, and everyone from bloggers to large corporations is using it. That means millions of people are visiting WP websites every day – and they might want to visit your new site as well!

Still not convinced? Here are several ways WordPress can help with your new business:

1. It’s Easy to Install

If millions of people managed to install WordPress before you, surely it won’t be a problem for you either.

You don’t have to be a programmer, a coder, or have a lot of graphic design experience (there are plenty of free tools for that online) to know how to install and use WordPress, though those skills certainly won’t go to waste.

WP was designed to help bloggers easily start their own websites in a few clicks and then customize them as they wish. Today, installation is even easier since most hosting providers will make it even easier to automatically install WP for you.

2. It’s Easy to Manage

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It’s not just easy to install WordPress, it’s also easy to manage it via its Admin Dashboard.

Again, if you have some coding knowledge, you can play around with the WordPress core code and edit it, or hire a developer for that. If not, WP offers plenty of options for customization and management for non-coding-savvy people through thousands of themes, plugins, and visual editors.

3. It Can Improve Turnaround Time

Since you can create websites on WP with no coding, web development is generally much faster, which in turn improves turnaround time.

In certain fast industries or markets, where there’s a lot of competition or where even 24 hours make a huge difference between a contract and a no-contract, this can be a game-changer.

4. WordPress Can Meet Any Business Need

There are WP sites for any type of business, from mom-and-pop shops to big industries. You can create one that matches your specific business needs as well with the help of WP themes and plenty of plugins.

But that doesn’t just go for when you start a website.

With WordPress, your website can scale with your business. Need to add a store? No problem, just add a plugin for that. Can’t manage your mailing lists effectively? There’s a plugin for that as well.

With more than 50,000 plugins available on WordPress, you are sure to find a few that will boost your online business as well.

5. Works on Desktop and on Mobile Devices Alike

Today, it’s not just enough to have a website online. You also need to have a website that works on mobile devices.

Your potential customers are going to spend a lot of time on their smartphones and if your website isn’t responsive, meaning your pages don’t work on mobile, you will be missing a whole lot of opportunities that someone else will be taking.

Luckily, there are hundreds of mobile-responsive WP themes out there and you can pick any of them to have your website on your customer’s mobile and desktop devices.

6. Creating and Publishing New Content is Simple

Of course, you will need a lot of content to make your website interesting to your visitors.

Luckily, creating content is easy enough with WP and you can create pages and posts fast with just a click of your mouse.

All you need to do is click on the Add New Page or Add New Post, type a title for your page or post, add some content, and click Publish.

Also, if you are already familiar with Word, Google Documents, or other similar text editors, you’ll have no problem picking up the WordPress text editor since all the rules apply here as well.

You have H1-H6 headings, bold, and italic text. You can add links and quotations, add media like images and videos and then edit them using one of the many tools available online.

7. WordPress is SEO-Friendly and Search Engines Love It

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is probably the most important thing to master if you want your website to be visible to your target audience.

Fortunately, WordPress is SEO-friendly and offers a ton of options to help increase your SEO from custom domain, SEO-friendly URLs, focused keyword assignment, link anchor texts, custom CSS, social sharing buttons to a schema, and structured data, just to name a few.

Google loves content and as we said already, adding new content is easy with WordPress.

What does this mean?

It means that Google loves WordPress and your website will have a much better chance, as a result, to rank high on Google search results pages (which, let’s be honest, are the only SERPs that you should seriously care about).

8. Stuck? There’s Help Everywhere

From time to time, you’ll encounter a problem with WordPress that you won’t know how to solve.

Perhaps a plugin is acting out on you, you can’t upload any images, or your WP site got stuck in maintenance mode. Don’t worry, you don’t have to abandon everything.

The WordPress online community is huge and very helpful. If you have a problem, someone has the answer to it. You just need to ask.

Conclusion

Today there are almost 25 million live WordPress websites and over 400 million people view 15.5 billion pages each month.

Creating and managing a WP website is easy to do and as you can see, there are tons of ways that WordPress can help your new business grow as well.