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7 Benefits of Having a WordPress Website

 

About 25% of the websites on the Internet are WordPress sites (and the figure is rising).

This website is also made and run by WordPress and today I’m going to tell you 7 important benefits of having a WordPress website.

1.Easy to Create. You can build a very own website in under 30 seconds. It doesn’t require any former skills. Just make a few clicks and you have a new WordPress Website.

You can also get free WordPress hosting which means that you can start your website for completely free.

2.Easy to Use. Once you have made a WordPress site it’s very simple to use. Everything is made quite easy. If you don’t know how to do something you can always find help from Wealthy Affiliate, Google or Youtube.

If you are struggling with some issue, I’m sure that you will find help for that. Usually, the help is found in seconds. But the good thing is that many times you don’t even need help because WordPress sites really are so Easy to use.

3.Search Engines Love WordPress Sites. When you have a website, usually you want to get ranked in Google and in other search engines to get more traffic to your website. The code behind WordPress is simple and clean. To get ranked well in search engines. You need to offer valuable content but having a WordPress site is a great start.

The code behind WordPress is simple and clean. To get ranked well in search engines. You need to offer valuable content but having a WordPress site is a great start.

4.The Design of Your Website is 100% Customizable. There are countless different design themes for WordPresss sites. Themes are usually very adjustable and you can customize the page as you want.

Changing the theme is also very easy. For example, I changed the theme of my website and it took much less time that I had thought.

5.Applicable for Mobile Users. WordPress has mobile responsive coding which means that you can easily use sites via mobile devices. Actually, WordPress can detect when a user is on mobile, and the website will automatically adjust for mobile viewing. That’s great!

6.No HTML Editing or Other Special Skills Required. Many people think that if you want to create an own website you need to know about programming or other stuff. HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, PHP… You don’t need to know anything about that stuff!

If you have programming or other skills that’s, of course, great. Probably you will benefit from your knowledge but it isn’t required.

7.Wordpress Plugins Make Your Life Easy. Do you want to add a Twitter feed, Facebook fan box, contact form, or something more to your site? It’s easy with plugins.

Plugins extend the functionality of your site. They are easy to install (usually takes only some seconds) and most of them are totally free.

What Are You Waiting For?

Here I mentioned only 7 benefits of having a wordPress website but there are even more. The best thing with WordPress is that if you don’t know how to do something, you will certainly find help for that.

Do you want to have your own WordPress website?

Learn how to build a website in 30 seconds or less in my step-by-step instructions or click the image below to watch the video Create a Website in Under 30 Seconds.

Do you have a WordPress site already? What are the greatest benefits in your opinion?

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How to Speed Up a WordPress Website in 5 Simple Steps?

One of the factors of getting ranked well in Google is page speed. That’s why I am going to give you 5 simple steps how to speed up a website. Google’s business is to provide the best results for the people who are using their search engine. They want that people are satisfied with results and people find what they are looking for.

Let’s say that you are searching in Google for example “hotels in New York”. Then you click the first result and it starts to download. Then it keeps on dowloading… and downloading…. and downloading…. Would it be a good result? No.

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But if the page would open up immediately or after 2 seconds of downloading. Would you be more satisfied? Of course. That’s why page speed matters and you need to consider how fast is your website.

By using my 5 steps your website’s loading time will be shorter and your website will be faster. So read carefully and put all these steps into action in order to boost your Google rankings. Remember that there is no shortcut to success in Google rankings. You will need to put some efforts. But your work will pay off. Keep on sowing the seeds of success and one day you will reap.

Let’s Make a Test

First you can test your website’s speed in Tools.Pingdom.com. Write your URL and then click “START TEST”.

Then machines will scan your website and give your page speed results. You will see the summary how fast is your website. Below you can see an example of my site. Even my site could be faster but at least it’s much better than in the past. These 5 action steps will also boost your website’s speed no matter how fast it already is. (Remember that this is not 100% accurate. Make a few tests and you will notice that it can give a little bit different result. But it still shows more or less what is your page speed right now.)

1.Optimize Images

You should always make your images a good sized when you are adding them on your website. As a rule of a thumb, I would recommend that all of your images must be <100kB. The smaller the better.

First way You can make your images smaller by using paint.
Here in the picture you can see what do you
need to click (I have a Finnish Windows). Then just change those values which are 100 and 100 to something smaller like 50. You can test which size is good for the image and then save. Image’s size should drop a lot.

Second way You can also use picture optimizers on the Internet. Upload your image for example to jpeg-optimizer.com and it will become smaller. Sometimes the value of the picture decreases too much when using this so you need to be careful that you wouldn’t publish too low quality pictures.

Third way I recommend to do this even though you have done 1 and 2. Download a picture optimizer -plugin to your website. I would recommend for example EWWW image optimizer. It’s easy to use because you just click, click and then it will automatically reduce the size of all your images on your website. It takes a little while to reduce the size but meanwhile you can have a cup of coffee or continue reading of this article.

2.Go Through Your Plugins – Delete and Replace!

Plugins can be a very powerful tool in a WordPress website but at the same time you need to consider how much load they are putting to your site. When somebody opens a site, plugins need to open over and over again. And when several people are scrolling your website, it will make even a bigger load. By reducing or optimizing your plugins you can sometimes dramatically increase your page speed and reduce loading time.

Go to your plugins. Ask yourself, “Are you using all of them? Does each one of them have an important purpose on your website? Could some of them be replace with a faster plugin?”

Sometimes you may notice that you have added some plugins because you just wanted to test how they work and you never end up using them. Or you may be using a social media plugin that puts a lot of load to your website. When I wrote this article I checked my own plugins and realized that there are two plugins that I am not using at all.

You can also download a P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) -plugin which will show you how much load each of your plugin is putting to your website. Then you can analyze if there would a way to delete or replace some plugins. You can ask me below if you have some questions about plugins. After testing plugins with P3 you can of course delete it because you don’t need it usually if you have just checked all your plugins.

3.Delete Unused Themes

Go to your WordPress dashboard. Then go to”Appearance” and click “Themes”.

There you can see all default themes and themes that you have downloaded yourself. How many of them you are using? Probably one. So what are you doing with all of those other themes? Nothing.

Well, maybe you want to use them in the future but you can then just download it again in 10 seconds and start using it. You don’t need to have all of them in reserve. Just delete those that you are not using.

Another thing that you would like to do is using a lightweight WordPress theme/framework. Tung Tran talks about this also on his WordPress speed optimization post.

4.Check Your Sidebar

You maybe didn’t know how to optimize images when you were adding banners on your sidebar. I recommend you to go through your sidebar and check how large images you have there. If there are some too large images it can slow down your website a lot. So get rid of them and replace them with faster ones.

Are you using Google Adsense? It may be a nice way to earn some extra dollars but you may want to consider how much it’s slowing down your website. It always takes some time to load which doesn’t give the best user experience. Sometimes it can be okay to have it but sometimes not. You need to decide it yourself.

Wealthy Affiliate’s trainer Jay was once reviewing WA members’ websites. He gave a rule of a thumb that if Google Adsense is not making you at least +$50/month, then it would be better to get rid of it.

5.Check Google’s PageSpeed Insights

Google has a free service called PageSpeed Insights. Go to developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights then write your URL and click “Analyze”. It will give you some insights how fast is your website and how you could make it faster.

But READ THIS CAREFULLY. Don’t panic if your result wouldn’t be as good as you expected. I searched what are the results for some very famous websites and for example Facebook got 49/100 for mobile users. So Google PageSpeed Insights doesn’t tell you the whole truth.

If you don’t understand something that you see on PageSpeed Insights, don’t worry. Do the tasks that you understand. I know that some of those PageSpeed Insights’ tips are so advanced that even I don’t know what all of them mean. So, if you don’t understand something there just let it be. With these 5 tips you are already doing well.

After doing all these 5 steps you can check your page speed from Tools.Pingdom.com and see how much it has improved.

Want More Tips to Getting Ranked Better on Google?

By using these 5 steps your website will become faster and your rankings should become better in the long run. If you want more tips how to speed up your WordPress website I recommend reading more tips by this Internet marketer, Marcus. Check his training here!

If you think that these 5 steps are enough for your website speed (I think they are) and you want to learn other ways to boost your Google rankings, I recommend heading to Wealthy Affiliate. They provide step by step training which shows you everything you need to know in order to get ranked in Google.

In Wealthy Affiliate you will learn:

• What kind of keywords you should use to get ranked
• How to find those keywords
• How to boost your organic traffic
• How to write articles that get ranked
• How to convert traffic from Google to customers
• and much more.

The best thing is that you can start totally for free like I did. So put your credit card away and start training today!

If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to leave them below and I will be more than happy to give a personal response.

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What is the Best Domain Hosting Site? Do You Want the Straight Answer?

There are hundreds of different service providers for domain hosting. So the relevant question is, “what is the best domain hosting site?”

The best domain hosting site is Wealthy Affiliate.

Straight question, straight answer. 😉

Okay, I’m going to explain to you why Wealthy Affiliate is superior to other services.

Price

For most of the people, the price is one of the most decisive factors when buying any product.

In Wealthy Affiliate, the yearly premium membership is $349/year = $29/month.

With the yearly membership, one can get hosting for hosting services for 25 sites. 

Let’s see how much the same service costs in the other websites. One big provider is WPEngine which has over 45,000 customers worldwide. Here is the image how much their hosting costs.

25 websites cost $249/month which makes almost $3,000/year! The price is almost ten times higher than in Wealthy Affiliate.

“What If I’m Looking for the Hosting for Only One Website?”

Probably you don’t have 25 websites and you are just looking for hosting for your blog or Internet store.

“Where to get the hosting for only one website?”

Answer: from Wealthy Affiliate.

If you search the Internet you can find several services that provide hosting for less than $29/month. GoDaddy, GoDaddy, Hostgator or Webs.com for just to mention some of these low-quality services.

Sometimes you can see their offers, “CHEAP HOSTING!! $5/month!!” but you get what you pay for. First of all, some of those platforms that ARE NOT specific to WordPress

There are several reasons why Wealthy Affiliate beats cheap services like 6-0.

Here are listed a couple of reasons

• A highly optimized, simplified and continually improving hosting platform
• The ability to MOVE your websites easily from one domain to another IN SECONDS.
• The access to unlimited FREE websites
• The latest and greatest hosting technology (your websites are always hosted on the highest powered servers available)
• Totally automated recovery processes
• Personal website maintenance
• Removal of bad (scam) plugins and themes
• Well functioning spam management

Those reasons are only talking about the quality of the service.

Tons of “Bonuses” Included

When you get your domain hosting from most of the providers you will get ONLY THE DOMAIN HOSTING but nothing more.

The things are quite different in Wealthy Affiliate.

There are several “bonuses” that make WA superior to the other providers and here are listed 10 of them.

1. 24/7/365 The Community and the Live Help
2. Access to Successful Online Entrepreneurs and Industry Experts
3. Weekly Webinars
4. World Class Training on How to Make Money Online (1,000’s of resources)
5. Personal Access to the Owners (This you won’t find in many places!)
6. Unlimited Access to the Website Builder
7. Awesomely Simple and Practical Keyword Tool
8. One of the Most Lucrative Affiliate Programs in the World
9. Incentive Programs
10. Business Productivity Tools (Link Tracking and Stats)

The list is quite convincing.

If You Succeed and Want to Increase a Number of Your Websites…

Let’s say that you end up buying the domain hosting from GoDaddy. The price for 1 website is $6,99/month. Then, for any reason, you want to have another website and you need hosting for that.

If you continue in GoDaddy the price goes up and you pay already $11.99/month.

For the third website, you start to pay $20.99/month. Just compare that in Wealthy Affiliate you pay $29/month for 25 websites and you get the access to all the tools and services mentioned before.

The Main Reason Why Wealthy Affiliate is the Winner

In my honest opinion, Wealthy Affiliate is the winner not only because of their magnificent domain hosting but for their training, community, support, and motivation.

GoDaddy or WPEngine don’t teach you how to earn money online but Wealthy Affiliate teaches you everything right from the start and provides a very motivating and encouraging community.

I tend to think that I mainly pay for their training and all of the other things come as a wonderful extra.

If you need more perspective on domain hosting and comparisons I recommend reading this article.

Conclusion

The best domain hosting site is Wealthy Affiliate. There are other cheaper services that can work somehow but if you are serious about earning money online Wealthy Affiliate beats other services easily.

I have never had any kind of technical problems with WA so I can say from the experience that their service really works.

PS.Are you still thinking if you should get the own domain name and where to get it? Check my instructions on how to get a cheap and high-quality domain name.

I hope you find this article useful and it helps you decide where to get the domain hosting for your websites.

What domain hosting sites have you used? What are your experiences? Drop a comment below.