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Updated March 1, 2025

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When Not Hosting Your Website Makes Sense

As you probably know, we love WordPress. We love self-hosted (WordPress.org) websites. Yet, there are some circumstances when using WordPress.com to host a business website makes sense.

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1. No Fuss, No Muss

If your business is just getting off the ground, you might have the time, patience or money to create a fully customized website. WordPress.com can get you started very quickly. There’s even a WordPress.com Business forum to help users figure stuff out, including a direct line to Happiness Engineers who offer amazing support.

2. When You Don’t Care About SEO Equity

Gasp! Why would someone ever not care about building SEO equity? Kidding aside, there are some old-school businesses out there who just want a simple website that provides the equivalent of an online brochure. If their revenue model works, than WordPress.com provides a low-cost solution that can meet their website needs. And it does it very well.

3. Rich WordPress.com Community

While a WordPress.com website doesn’t amass SEO juice, WordPress.com is building a community that’s kinda like social media. You can create a Gravatar and participate in forums. While searching for content is limited to the WordPress.com ecosystem, you can still find some interesting stuff.

About Alyson Harrold

Alyson is Co-CEO and Chief Storyteller. Prior to forming the agency, her career spanned media (NBC-TV affiliates and city magazine, international ad agency) and positions like C-Suite financial services marketer and digital marketing consultant. Alyson learned how the right medium with the right message can attract the right audience. With her team, Alyson helps brands have meaningful customer interactions. Now she teaches those lessons—among others—as a UC Berkeley Extension instructor in her SEO and Digital Marketing courses since 2014. Alyson shares her knowledge as a speaker at preeminent digital marketing conferences around the country like Digital Growth Unleashed and more.

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