Do you know…?

There are only 53% of small businesses own a website. A staggering 18% of small and medium businesses admit that they avoid building a website due to the unaffordable cost of designing it.

But most of these businesses are not aware of the fact that it takes only or less than $100 to build as well as launch a website.

You heard it right! With the world’s most used content management system, WordPress, you can get your business online in the most convenient way. You can set up your own website with a proper domain name and website hosting within a few minutes.

Are you ready to set up a stunning looking WordPress website in just $100 or still thinking it as a lot of investment?

Now, you might be confused with the continuous appearing term: WordPress and wondering why the web development companies don’t mention it. Well, find all your questions and doubts addressed here.

First of all, what is WordPress?

According to Wikipedia, “WordPress (WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.”

This robust content management system allows businesses to easily create, manage, edit, and publish content on the websites without any need to have expertise in programming.

According to Venture Beat, “WordPress now powers more than 25% of the Web”

Contrary to the assumption, WordPress isn’t just a blogging platform, you can leverage it for multiple purposes such as eCommerce sites, business websites, and set up professional portfolios.

Here are some of the best reasons why you should build your website with WordPress. Let’s have a quick glance.

  1. Solves Biggest Problem: Money

If you are in no mood of spending $2000 to $25000 on a website by hiring a web developer then WordPress is for you. You can build an eye-catching website or just a blog section for your business without any prior web design knowledge. WordPress doesn’t charge extra if your business starts getting more traffic through the website.

  1. Build a Website You Always Wanted

With WordPress’ amazing customized theme, you can make your website look the way you want. You can use any one of the many themes freely available or buy a premium one such as astra theme. You can also use plugins to add certain features to make your website function the way you expect.

  1. No Designer/ Middleman Required

It requires a lot of efforts in maintaining a website. From keeping your website updated to optimizing it for multiple devices to implementing robust security in it, there is continuous work involved. In order to build a custom website, you need to hire an expert web developer who can handle all tasks, but this option is a bit costly.

On the other hand, building your website with WordPress doesn’t have such challenges. You can update your website, install plugins, and manage content on the webpages, everything on your own. It will help you save time and money.

  1. Scale your Website with Plugins

WordPress plugins enable you to add functionality to your website. With the help of these plugins, you can add a checkout system, create a contact page for your website, improve SEO, create landing pages, and add an extra security layer, in just a few clicks.

There are more than 40,000 plugins available on the WordPress plugins database to help you scale your website.

  1. Continuous Updates and Support

Being an open-source platform, WordPress delivers high-quality, premium user experience. Along with that, millions of users support WordPress across the world. In case you come across any issue, these experts are there to help you.

WordPress get at least 3 major updates in its software every year and your system will be automatically updated along with other minor updates for free. Isn’t it a big enough reason to choose WordPress for your website.

  1. Easy SEO Implementations

Optimizing your website and content for every search engine has become the crucial thing today. It requires a lot of resources, time, and efforts. Doing proper SEO on every web page can be a tedious task. WordPress has not only addressed but also solved this challenge with its plugin. Yes, there is a plugin that can take care of your SEO tasks: Yoast.

Yoast SEO plugin enables you to implement meta titles, description, and even optimize your content for keywords in a convenient and time-saving way.

  1. Easy Content Management

With WordPress dashboard, you get to experiment with a lot of functions. Such as creating image galleries, uploading multimedia content with drag and drop interface, schedule posts for a fixed time, adding widgets, and customize sidebar. All can be achieved without having experience in coding.

To Sum Up,

WordPress is an easy-to-use, powerful website-building platform that allows everyone to create a responsive and wonderful website. It is changing and adapting continuously as per users’ requirements and expectations. This is one of the biggest reason to choose WordPress over other alternatives.

Interested in building your own website with WordPress? We help you with a wide range of shared web hosting plans that are optimized for reliability and speed when using WordPress.

Good luck. Hope you have a great website experience.

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Author's Bio:

Ritesh Patil is the co-founder of Mobisoft Infotech that helps startups and enterprises in mobile technology. He loves technology, especially mobile technology. He’s an avid blogger and writes on mobile application. He works in a leading mobile app development company with skilled iOS & Android app developers that has developed innovative mobile applications across various fields such as Finance, Insurance, Health, Entertainment, Productivity, Social Causes, Education and many more and has bagged numerous awards for the same.

Email – ritesh.patil732@gmail.com

Website – https://www.mobisoftinfotech.com

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