Using WordPress as a Website
WordPress is an amazingly powerful content management system (CMS) that is well suited to website development. It has plenty of power under the hood for small or medium sized businesses 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 easy content editing and publishing. 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 three reasons to use WordPress for your small business website
- SEO – WordPress provides good search engine optimization (SEO) right out of the box.
- Content – it is easy to update the content on your website without knowing HTML. 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 themes and plug-ins – imagine free design themes, or the ability to extend your website with polls, contact forms, ratings or hundreds of other cool features.
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