10 Reasons Why You Should Use WordPress To Run Your Business Website

by Shatela Hamza / Sunday, 12 November 2017 / Published in WordPress

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS). A CMS is a publishing platform that anyone can use to publish a website online, and is the main CMS behind millions of websites that we all use today. Whether you’re already using WordPress or looking to start doing so, here are ten reasons of why WordPress is the best platform to use as the foundation of online presence and why I prefer using it to create a website.

WordPress doesn’t Require Knowledge of Advanced Coding Language

WordPress is easy to setup and manage, and you don’t need advanced coding skills to use it. Whether you’re running a simple blog, a small business site, or even a network of blogs, WordPress is the easiest to build websites. To provide a better user experience, WordPress has featured automatic updates since version 3.7, which means that this platform will handle your website upgrade every time a new version of it is released.

WordPress powers 29% of the internet.

Believe it or not, major corporations use WordPress to power their websites. These include ASA, CNN, Forbes, The New York Times, TechCrunch, IZOD, Best Buy, GM and even E-Bay. See the updated records yourself on w3techs content management over view.

WordPress is seamless for both your websites and blogs

Using WordPress gives you the freedom to modify your website or blog anywhere you want. You can move your WordPress site to a new hosting provider, change your domain name, or even move your site to other content management systems. With all that in mind, here are some pros and cons for using word press.

Pros

WordPress gives you control over every aspect of your website or blog.
You can Start your website and add a blog, online store, and membership options to it, extra features like more than 45,000 free plugins and themes can be implemented easily.
WordPress is SEO friendly.

Cons

Managing your own website takes time and involves learning
You will have to manage your own backups and security measures

Free and Paid Themes

WordPress has more than enough pre-design themes, pre-developed plugins/add-ons to help you customize your site or blog to fit your business needs and your online business goals.

WordPress is SEO friendly.

What makes WordPress a search engine friendly platform? Given that On-page optimization requires the completion of over a hundred functions to achieve the standards required by search engines, WordPress provides all of these elements embedded within the WP platform.

WordPress has a Community

WordPress is a community-driven open source project. Thousands of people from around the world contribute to the project from Web designers, developers, bloggers, and non-coding experienced individuals. From large company websites to personal blogs, and everything in between, everyone can publish with WordPress. You can find and share solutions with users around the globe by using this platform.

WordPress is ready for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Accelerated mobile pages (or AMP, for short) provides higher performance and engagements, flexibility and better results. This technology is a project from Google and Twitter designed to make really fast mobile pages and was build by thousands of developers, publishers and websites, distribution platforms and tech companies. Using the AMP format will make it far more compelling for people to consume and engage with more content. Additionally. Amp enhance distribution so that publishers and advertisers can take advantage of the open web’s potential for their content to appear everywhere quickly — across platforms and apps — which can lead to increase in conversion rate.

WordPress has Existed for Over a Decade

Thanks to its open-source platform and its consistent drive to make the experience user-friendly and effective for users, WordPress has continued to grow for thirteen years and isn’t showing signs of slowing down. It’s trusted by millions of users all over the world, and for good reason.

Open Source

Another important feature that WordPress enjoys is its open-source status. This is the main reason why WordPress is such a powerful CMS. Open source means that any developer and designer around the world can contribute to building themes, plugins, add-ons and can submit them to WordPress platform for other people to use.

High Security

WordPress security is comprised of three domains: People, Process, and Technology. WordPress take security seriously, and that’s why they have upgraded their platform 51 times from May 2005 to October 2017. The latest major security update was WordPress Now on Hacker one, to learn more about word-press security measures and updates visit Word-press security category archive.

Businesses that use WordPress

TechCrunch
The New Yorker
BBC America
Bloomberg professional
The official Start-wars blog
E-bay
Variety
Sony Music
Vogue India
Katy Perry
Reuters Blogs

SAP News Center
Will Wheaton
Snoop Dogg
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog
The Mozilla Blog
The Rolling Stones
Rotary Means Business
Inside BlackBerry
The Official Rackspace Blog
Express Jet Blog
The New York Times Company

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About Shatela Hamza

Hamza Shatela is a web designer and online business developer. With ten years of experience in the digital marketing field. As the founder of Slide Sigma, he has worked with a series of professionals from the medical, financial, nonprofit, and entertainment industries.

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