When it comes time to bring your offline business online, you will need to have a website developed for your business.

Whether you are choosing to design and implement the website yourself or have a professional do the work, WordPress is the best platform to choose.

WordPress is no longer just for blogs, it has evolved into a complete CMS (content management system) that can handle your entire website needs.

Now you may be asking, why use WordPress for your business website?

Here are just a few of the advantages of using WordPress:

Search engines love WordPress

On average, sites using this CMS will be indexed in the search engines much faster than traditional static websites. That means you have traffic coming to your site sooner rather than later.

There are an almost unlimited number of plug-ins or add-ons

These have been developed to perform everything from shopping carts to contact forms. These are updated and upgraded constantly so you always have the latest technology and innovations at your fingertips.

It is much less expensive

It is significantly cheaper to have a site developed with WordPress than to have any other CMS installed and customised or to have a static website developed.

The available plug-ins are generally one-click installations meaning you are not having to pay a web developer to do a lot of costly hard coding to develop the features you would like to include on your website.

Built in SEO

This platform has a great deal of SEO built right in. This means it will be very easy to include all of the page elements necessary to rank well in the search engines. A web designer does not generally do SEO very well or they do not do it at all.

Great for Beginners

The system is easy enough for anyone without coding skills to maintain on their own. This means you can add new content whenever you want without having to pay a web designer to do it for you.

Perfect for Blogs

Since all business websites today need a business blog, you have it already there built right in. You can now interact with your visitors.

More Options for Free Marketing

There are many, many more places to promote a WordPress website for free than a traditional website.

You not only can market it to all of the places you could any other website, you can also send it to all of the blog directories. This means you have the potential of reaching many more visitors than a standard HTML website.

Built in RSS Feeds

WordPress has a built in RSS feed. This means you have the ability to syndicate your content.

This is a very powerful traffic grabbing tool. To add RSS to a traditional website, you would have to pay your web designer to create the feed for you for additional fees.

Conclusion

These are just a few of the benefits of using WordPress for your business website.

There are many more, so don’t wait – build your business site on WordPress and get online.

Let us know what reasons drove you to use WordPress!

Or maybe, in which situations you should not use WordPress.

In either case, let us know in the comments below!