6 Reasons Why WordPress Websites Fail

What do you think about using WordPress for building a website? Is it a bad idea?

Did your mouth get burned when drinking milk and now you are eating your yogurt after blowing it? (It’s a Turkish proverb.)

Let’s dive in together on the reasons why WordPress websites fail and what we should do to avoid them.

1- Bad/Slow Hosting

For the sake of cutting costs, developers, unfortunately, tend to do this. Besides purchasing slow hosting services they also use one hosting for multiple high-traffic websites. Of course, this leads to the website opening slowly.

If you want to cut costs, we suggest to web builders find hosting companies that provide servers also have a free domain, free SSL, and WordPress applications that can be installed with one click.

2. Choosing the Wrong Plan

This is directly related to #1. If you don’t know or are uncertain about the whole scope of the project, you don’t have the option to choose the right plan. First, you should know the details of the project.

Then, do some research on the web to choose the correct one for the project. At first, you can consider options that don’t offer much traffic. But it definitely should have the feature to add an unlimited MySQL database, subdomains, and e-mail accounts. Also, it should be easier to change plans (high traffic and bandwidth) if the project took off.

3- Pre-Built Themes

We are not saying that pre-built themes are bad for your project. On the contrary, building WordPress websites with pre-built themes is one of the reasons why 40% of the web uses this CMS.

We are just saying that you should research a lot for the right theme. After choosing the right one for your project, it’s time to invest. Just pay them whatever they want. Don’t pirate it. It sounds intriguing, but don’t you even try. There are just too many downsides.

4- Using Theme Demos

There are demo installations inside most of the themes. If you are a beginner and don’t know your way around this can be seen as your only choice. But we don’t recommend it a lot.

These are easy to edit, yes, but it also installs a lot of unwanted files that you won’t need. This causes to increase in the bloat score on your website and slows down the site speed.

5- Not Performing SEO

SEO is an excellent weapon when it comes to getting organic traffic to your website. If you haven’t prepared an SEO strategy before building your website and you assume that once you launch it, organic traffic will follow. You are soo wrong.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one of the most important steps both while building and after building the website. The optimization you will perform can locate your site to the frontmost in your industry, or it can lower it to the bottom.

SEO has many stages, from a short title added to the site to the subtext of an image or from the no-follow code included in a redirect to selected keywords. That’s why it’s a good idea to first develop an SEO strategy. Identify the target audience and research accordingly.

Overall, as you have noticed by now we are not bad-mouthing or complaining about WordPress. In fact, we love it so much that we are using it even on our website and many of our brand’s websites. The aim of this blog was to underline the ways of using this content management system can be good or bad but that doesn’t mean that the system is bad altogether.

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