GODADDY MAKES BUILDING WORDPRESS WEBSITES EASIER WITH NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

Singapore, 06 December 2016 – GoDaddy (NYSE:
GDDY), the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent
ventures, today announced WordPress Websites – the easiest way for those
looking to build a WordPress website to get up and running quickly. The new
offering features an exclusive WordPress Quick Start Wizard that simplifies the
website creation process to get people started quickly, plus free, high-quality
images for virtually any industry. It also includes professionally built
premium themes, and a Visual Page Editor for easy drag and drop customization.
A key benefit of using WordPress, the world’s most popular tool for creating
websites, is that businesses have the ability to add new site features using
the tens of thousands of free WordPress plugins that are available.

GoDaddy developed WordPress
Websites for small business owners, and any looking to put their ideas online,
who want a professional-looking WordPress website, but may not have experience
with website development.

With the Quick Start Wizard, users can quickly get started with a choice of
premium quality themes and layouts that include essential pages and features
(e.g. blog, photo gallery, contact form, social integration with Facebook,
Twitter and more) and access to a library of thousands of free images. From
here, the Visual Page Editor allows you to edit text, drag and drop columns and
rows, and insert images directly onto your page.

Small businesses are already seeing the
benefits of this faster, more intuitive experience with new professionally
designed themes. During the beta release, more than three times as many
customers have been successful in publishing a website and the average time to
publish a site has decreased by 73%. For additional data about how GoDaddy has
made WordPress easier to use, see our blog post on the GoDaddy Garage
at https://www.godaddy.com/garage/webpro/wordpress/wordpress-websites.

As their business needs grow, a small
business’ GoDaddy WordPress website can also expand in functionality,
via the installation of free feature plugins on WordPress.org. 45,000+ feature
plugins are available to extend website capabilities to include the likes of
online reservations, ticket sales and discussion forums. In the past nine
months alone, GoDaddy has seen website builder plugins grow in usage
by 60% across millions of GoDaddy-hosted WordPress websites.

Powered by an optimized WordPress
hosting platform, technical hosting tasks are also taken care of by GoDaddy including
WordPress installation, server-side site load optimization, a multi-clustered
server platform so websites are ready to scale for high traffic, and secured
with automated software updates and free daily site backups. Customers also
have access to GoDaddy’s free 24/7 expert support.

“WordPress is a massive ecosystem,
powering over 25% of the top 10 million websites worldwide. At GoDaddy over
50% of our Hosting customers use WordPress. It’s an incredibly popular
platform, but it can be technically complex for business owners who want to
create their own website,” said Jeff King, senior vice president of Hosting at GoDaddy.
“Adding WordPress Websites to our portfolio helps provide a full range of site
building solutions for our small business customers. With them in mind,
WordPress Websites is designed to be the easiest way to create a powerful,
scalable WordPress website.”

Roger Chen, Vice President of GoDaddy Asia,
added, “We believe WordPress Websites will be a great help to the modern
business owner in Singapore. In this day and age, a website is essential for
businesses hoping to increase their customer base and stay relevant to
consumers. GoDaddy aims to simplify building a digital presence, and
offers online tools to help every small business build a website and grow their
business online.”

Email signup form integrated with GoDaddy Email
Marketing: Users can create mailing lists with a built-in email signup form,
then send promotional campaigns and newsletters to help drive sales and build
influence. Additionally, GoDaddy provides the first 50 sends free,
and on GoDaddy’s Up & Running and GoDaddy Pro plans,
users can directly convert WordPress blog posts into email newsletters.

SEO Wizard: GoDaddy’s Search
Engine Visibility is included with the Deluxe and Ultimate plans. This fully
integrated, step-by-step SEO instruction prepares your site to get found on
major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.

WP 101 Lessons: The videos
allow users to learn the basics of WordPress website building.

 Includes a free Domain* and Microsoft Office 365 Business Class*
email.
(*First year free, renews at list price.)