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Top 7 Reasons To Use WordPress For Your Website!
[Video Transcript]
Hi everyone. I’m Katrina and in this video I want to go over the Top 7 Reasons To Use
WordPress.
If you are a small business owner and you’ve heard of WordPress but you’re still not convinced
WordPress is the right platform for you, this video is for you.
So , #1, the first reason to use WordPress is because it’s really easy to learn. This
is great for anyone who is not so technical, or even if you are technical, WordPress is
just a really easy platform to get started on. If you don’t know any code, no worries,
you can still use WordPress – it’s as easy as updating your Facebook status or sending
an email. It’s that easy. So you don’t need any web development experience with WordPress.
#2: The second reason to use WordPress is because it’s good for search engine rankings.
With WordPress, you can create new content fast, and search engines love fresh content.
Also, search engines are familiar with the internal link structure of WordPress because
so many other sites out there are using WordPress. And also with WordPress you have interactive
features like comments that come built-in with WordPress. All of these things help with
search engine rankings.
#3 Another reason to use WordPress is because with WordPress.org self-hosted websites, you
have the option of adding plugins to your website to increase site functionality. Right
at the moment there are well over 10,000 plugins to choose from, many of these plugins are
free. So the sky is really the limit when it comes to different features you many want
to add to your website.
So whether you want to add social sharing features, photo galleries, shopping carts,
email sign-up forms, or more, the list goes on and on. Pretty much any feature you are
looking to add to your website, you can add through the use of adding a plugin to your
website.
#4: Number four, with WordPress you can easily add a blog to your website. And as mentioned,
having a blog and fresh content is a great way to increase your search engine rankings,
not to mention a great way to interact with readers on your site.
So with WordPress, not only is it an amazing content management system, but it’s also one
of the most popular blogging systems out there today. With things like threaded comments,
spam control, and other blog features, WordPress provides a great way for you to have a blog
and have a content management system at the same time.
#5: Number five, you have a lot of community support with WordPress. With thousands of
developers around the world building themes and plugins, in addition to the tens of thousands
and millions of people out there who are using WordPress to power their website, most likely
if you have a question or issue that comes up related to your website most likely there’s
someone out there who can help you to fix the problem. So that’s a great benefit of
using WordPress – you have a lot of community support.
#6: You can easily change the design of your website with WordPress. So with WordPress
there are free themes out there you can choose from, and premium themes you can choose from,
or you can make your own. And again, the good news is that with one click you can change
the design from one design to the other. So that’s another great reason to use WordPress.
#7 Number seven, your WordPress website can grow with your business. Most likely as your
business grows you’ll need your website to do different things. So going back again to
the availability of plugins and the ease of being able to change the designs of your themes,
these two things make it really easy for your WordPress website to grow with your business.
One of the best places to check out to see what enterprise level businesses are doing
with WordPress is to visit the Showcase at WordPress.org. So for example when we visit
the Showcase on WordPress.org, we see all the well-known brands, award-winning journalists,
celebrities, sports teams, and businesses that are using WordPress to power their website.
So this is a great way to check out how others are using WordPress and how you may want to
use WordPress as your business grows.
Finally, the bonus reason to use WordPress is it’s free. It’s totally open-source, so
you can go to WordPress.org and you can download the software for free.
So those are my top reasons to use WordPress. In the next video let’s go over the differences
between WordPress.org and WordPress.com and talk about how to decide which version of
WordPress is best for you. Thanks for watching, I’ll see you in the next video.