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I'm a small business owner and I'm thinking about building a website to showcase all my products at one place (I have 200+ products). But I have 0 webdev knowledge.
I don't need payment gateway because most of my orders are sent through cash on delivery method. And I need this website to be very simple and straightforward. And I also want to show my products in google results too.
1) What kind of website do I need for this requirement?
2) Should I hire a wordpress developer for this? And a separate guy to do SEO?
You could use a service such as Wix. You can build a basic website without any dev knowledge with that. Also, you’ll need to register a domain and pay for webhosting yearly.
Go on upwork.com and find someone to build you a basic woocommerce website. You’ll find someone who will do it for as little as $50. Pay it and save yourself the time/hassle, just ask them to record you an editing video as part of the deliverable so you can easily refer back to it for managing the website.
1. I will suggest you WordPress with Woocommerce Plugin, as it’ll be cheap, fast and reliable.
2. If you have no knowledge about all this, I would recommend you to hire someone to do this professionally for you. You can contact me for this too, and I don’t charge alot either.
Depends how nice you want your site and how much time you want to invest.
Let’s separate you need is two part. Website and the Positioning
Website
what you need is:
Domain host (around 100 € per year)
Install WordPress (a decent host has a one click solution for wordpress)
Install Blocksy theme,
Install a starter theme from Blocksy
Populate the database with products
Modify the page with your content.
All the above is kinda easy if you have time, just time consuming for the number of products, but for it s not complex
now you have a website.
you need to add analytics, pixels, newsletters not complex in itself but a bit more than above.
SEO
I don’t know what do you offer and how rare it’s, but i would not expect to appear in any google results for the first months. Maybe finding a PRO, or thinking to invest the money in some ads to start pushing the website and nurture the pixel
If I were building a site like this, I would create what is called a custom post type within WordPress for all of your products, so you could have a URL like yoursite.com/product/product-slug, with each product having its own landing page.
I would then build a template for your product landing page that uses custom ACF blocks for you to add content, with you filling out fields for the various pieces of the product detail page, such as name, description, images, etc. In fact, custom ACF blocks would make editing all of the content on your site easy, not just products, as you simply have to fill out form fields. You can learn more about custom ACF blocks [here](https://yourrightwebsite.com/we-make-easy-to-use-wordpress-websites/).
Then I would build a products landing page and use WordPress’ built in categories to allow you to list products on the landing page by category, grouping like products together.
As others have mentioned, there’s many different ways to achieve this result, so you’re not locked into WordPress, however WordPress has the advantage that you own your data. If you choose other builders like Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, etc you are stuck on their platform, so you can never leave. With WordPress, however, you own your data and you can always move hosts or even re-use your data on another website or with another WordPress theme in the future.
Let me know if you have any more questions, I would be happy to help.