5 Common WordPress Mistakes to Avoid for Small Businesses


While creating and developing the website most of the small businesses will prefer WordPress to get an amazing and hassle-free online appearance for their businesses.

In fact, as per the W3Techs, from, 1/3rd of pinnacle almost 10 million sites are powered on WordPress. And over the few last years, the market share of WordPress is just growing every year from 29.9% to 33.4%.

To enhance your business and increase more leads WordPress plays an important role. Most of the people come from a non-technical background thus they face issues while creating a website due to a lack of WordPress knowledge.

But in this article, you will find some most common errors of WordPress that should be avoided while creating a website for small businesses.

1. Ignoring updates
For any business website avoiding all updates can be harmful. To enhance the efficiency and speed of the website, the developers of WordPress make ensure they make new updated regularly.

If you are avoiding the WordPress updates that means you and your business website are missing so many things. Thus you will not be able to improve your website thus it will make your online business more vulnerable to cyber-attacks and other security breaches.

The new updates are actually for
* Security enhancement
* Additional features
* Bug fixes
* Performance upgrades.

There is no reason that why you should not make updates on your website. This is because the new updates are actually meant to benefit you and your business in the best possible way.

2. Not using analytics
With their separate version of analytics, the WordPress comes which is also known as WordPress dashboard which also offers some pre-build widgets along with

* Activity
* At a glance
* Welcome
* Quick draft
* Event & news

With the help of these widgets, you will be able to watch posts and comments as well as updated information from WordPress.

To know how your website is working and what are factors or aspects should be improved and related details will be provided by Google analytics.

3. Excessive use of plugins
To your website, the plugins can add some of the best features and functionalities. But excessive use of plugins on your website can actually slow down your site performance which can result in incompatibility issues.

It is always better to use plugins that are popular and are essential for your online business. While adding plugins check if they are compatible with the best WordPress templates.

To ensure the plugin you choose is the right for your website you can view stats on plugins as well as you can check on some user's comments. Also do not forget to check the last date of update of that particular plugin and check if the plugin is compatible with the latest WordPress version.

4. Ignoring mobile
The biggest benefit of using WordPress is that most of the themes are designed in such a way that they perform well on mobile and other handheld devices.

Every year the number of users of mobile web is increasing. In the past 7 years, the total mobile web traffic is about 222 percent and it is assumed that this number will increase in coming years too.

You can say that some best WordPress templates are the ones that are totally optimized and made mobile-friendly.

5. Badly optimized
The loading images will speed up by doing website optimization as well as it will make the website more efficient which will lead to generating more website traffic.

To permit your website to get shown in desired Google search rankings you should make use of some search engine optimization tools.

Along with designing and website and recognizing the suitable content for your website it is also important that which tools you have chosen.

Conclusion:
You should always consider all the points mentioned in this article while designing your business website.

The only way to connect with most of the consumers, the website is the only source as it will also help you to promote your products and services.

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