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For years I considered WordPress to be a great program for publishing blogs. It never crossed my mind to use it for making websites. For regular websites, you use HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and/or CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Right? Not necessarily. After doing some research, I found that WordPress is a amazing platform to build great looking websites fast, easy and cheap!

Why would you use WordPress to build a website? Well, I can think of three good reasons:

• Ease of Use - WordPress is one of the simplest and most user friendly programs available today. You don’t need expert knowledge, such as HTML or CSS, to build a website with WordPress.
• Built-in Tools - All the tools you need to build your website are included with the software. Tools such as page editor, Search Engine Optimization, embedded video and audio, e-commerce, and an incredible array of tools available via plug-ins make this program a very formidable one.
• Search Engine Friendliness – Search engines such as Google love blogs because of the “freshness” of the information. With all the available plugins for SEO, you can optimize your website without any knowledge of SEO.

If your knowledge of HTML/CSS is partial, or if you are annoyed with having to spend endless hours lining up text and pictures, you may want to consider using WordPress for building your next website.

You can have a WordPress website installed, optimized and running in about a day. Yes, a day. And I am not talking about a one page site, I am talking about a 10 page website.

In addition to the ease of installation and setup, you can add a lot of extra functionality to your website through the use of plugins. Plugins are small scripts (most of them free) that add specific functionality to your website. Functionality such as SEO optimization, form creation, automatic backup of the website, automatic updates, e-commerce (shopping carts for products and services), etc. The list is endless.

A website’s ranking can be helped when you add a blog. When you build a website using WordPress, you have your blog “built-in.” All you have to do is include a tab on your website and you are ready to go. Start adding good and relevant articles to your blog, and with the help of pinging and SEO plugins, you will have your site indexed and ranking in no time.

Next time you are in a hurry to put up a website, you may want to consider using WordPress. You will love it. If you want to get more information, check out my WordPress website building tips. Good Luck.

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