Wordpress Benefits

There are many benefits to powering your website using Wordpress. While it has been common practice in the past to consider Wordpress merely as a management system for bloggers, its power goes well beyond that.

Wordpress has revolutionized the way you can create websites and makes it easy enough for even the most novice to create a nice looking website. Below I have outlines what I believe to be some key benefits of having a Wordpress powered site.

List of benefits to powering your website with Wordpress:

  1. It is Free: Wordpress in itself is free and there are a huge amount of free themes, plugins, forums and other stuff available for free to use on your Wordpress site.
  2. It is Easy: You do not have to be a super programmer to set up a simple Wordpress site. If you are not that computer savvy there are thousands of free themes and plugins that you can use on your site.
  3. Easy installation: A lot of hosting sites provide a one click install for Wordpress on any domain. What else could be easier? And if not, there is a 5 minute Wordpress installation guide located on their site which you do not have to be very computer savvy to follow. Check out my list of The Best Wordpress Hosts.
  4. Wordpres is great for SEO: Wordpress makes it easy to optimize your site for search engines. Which means your site will be more likely to be found on the first page of google results.
  5. Themes: This is a huge asset of Wordpress. The ability to switch the looks and feel of your site with one click. For people that do not want to develop their own look for their site there are thousands of free Wordpress themes as well as paid themes. And for those that like to build their own themes or tweak the ones they have, Wordpress makes it really easy by incorporating the “theme editor”.
  6. Plugins: Everyone loves plugins. Plugins give you the ability to add so much to your site without having to program anything yourself.
  7. Comments: The ability for people to comment on your posts is a great way to engage your visitors, get people to come back to your site, and to build back-links and track-backs to your site.
  8. User Registrations: Wordpress has a built-in system to allow people to subscribe to your site, maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your site. This is another great feature for visitor loyalty and retention.
  9. Multiple Authors: Wordpress gives you the ability to allow up to ten different levels of authors. Why should you do all the work? Let people write for you and your site will GROW.
  10. Instant Changes: There is no re-building needed with Wordpress which is great, because as soon as you make a change to Wordpress the results are reflected immediately on your site.
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