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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mark_roberts on January 26, 2008, 07:23:05 pm

Title: How much for a website
Post by: mark_roberts on January 26, 2008, 07:23:05 pm
A customer runs a print business and does website design etc.  Im cleaning his carpets so might do a swap.

Im looking for a website probably under 10 pages with no e-commerce.  Just pics and text.

What all should the price include and how much ballpark so i dont get burnt.

thanks
Mark
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: maxcarpets on January 26, 2008, 07:26:23 pm
£100 - £200
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: PaulKing on January 26, 2008, 08:09:55 pm
think thats a bit cheap  unless it just a template
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: spencer davies on January 26, 2008, 09:17:01 pm
£500 - £750 for a quality site, well worth going the extra mile imo.

Regards


S
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on January 26, 2008, 10:20:07 pm
Cheap websites are like cheap business cards looking the part is the bit you need to get into the home.

Shaun
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Art on January 26, 2008, 10:24:15 pm
Cheap websites are like cheap business cards looking the part is the bit you need to get into the home.

Shaun

Shaun, i did mine myself and it has paid  me back ten fold and it does fine on the search engines aswell
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on January 26, 2008, 10:27:53 pm
Sorry Art didn't mean to dis your site I think you've made an excellent job of it but the question at the top prompted my answer.

Shaun
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Art on January 26, 2008, 10:30:40 pm
Sorry Art didn't mean to dis your site I think you've made an excellent job of it but the question at the top prompted my answer.

Shaun

I know you weren't slating it mate. I  just  posted the reply to give others an option, if money was tight and they couldn't afford to have one done
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Ian Rochester on January 26, 2008, 10:55:51 pm
www.urbanmice.co.uk (http://www.urbanmice.co.uk) he came and stopped at one of our holiday cottages a few years ago, since then he has done all our sites, see below and they have returned many times over.
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Mark Roberts on January 27, 2008, 02:56:19 am
As you know i design em, my questions would be-

how much per year or is it a one off fee?

how much much for up-dates

send me at least 5 sites that you have got onto page 1 of google for a keyword phase (carpet cleaning your area etc)

speak to the owners of websites he has done and see what they think


Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: spindle on January 27, 2008, 09:12:05 am
i think that a realistic price is between £50-100 per page depending on your content.....videos/pics/etc

inho..its the same as carpet cleaners..........you get what you pay for ;D ;D

Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: mark shannon on January 27, 2008, 09:16:42 am
I paid £200+vat for mine had to choose pics and wright text and they put it together for me. Does it look cheap?
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Art on January 27, 2008, 09:43:07 am
I paid £200+vat for mine had to choose pics and wright text and they put it together for me. Does it look cheap?

It looks ok to me.

Have you had many enquires through your site?
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: spencer davies on January 27, 2008, 09:43:34 am
Nice looking site Mark, I think you did well.  ;)


S
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Art on January 27, 2008, 09:51:59 am
Nice looking site Mark, I think you did well.  ;)


S

Hi Spencer, sorry to be a pain mate, but you've repeated office cleaning in my site description on your links page  ;D

Arthur
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Karl Wheeler on January 27, 2008, 09:56:37 am
Hi Art
I like your website but in my opinion it would be greatly improved with some better quality picture. You can by pictures of the web as cheap as one pound or take someof your own, this is only my view of course and just a suggestion.

thanks
karl
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Art on January 27, 2008, 10:01:16 am
Hi Art
I like your website but in my opinion it would be greatly improved with some better quality picture. You can by pictures of the web as cheap as one pound or take someof your own, this is only my view of course and just a suggestion.

thanks
karl
Thanks Karl, all comments welcome mate and it's something that's been mentioned before.
Were you meaning all the pictures or just some of them?

Arthur
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Karl Wheeler on January 27, 2008, 10:11:07 am
Hi Art
All them look quite pixelated were they smaller pictures you enlarged? Please don't take photos from other sites as someone did for me and now i have to pay £2000 for copyright infringement.

Karl
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Art on January 27, 2008, 10:19:43 am
Hi Art
All them look quite pixelated were they smaller pictures you enlarged? Please don't take photos from other sites as someone did for me and now i have to pay £2000 for copyright infringement.

Karl

Yes mate some i had to stretch some a little. I've no intention of taking them from other sites but thanks for the warning.

Could you suggest some sites that sell them?

Arthur
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Karl Wheeler on January 27, 2008, 10:24:38 am
Hi
www.flickr.com is a site worth looking at

Karl
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: mark shannon on January 27, 2008, 10:28:12 am
Go to www.istockphoto.com to access the royalty free stock image
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Karl Wheeler on January 27, 2008, 10:32:10 am
Hi
www.dreamstime.com is another
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: mark_roberts on January 27, 2008, 05:03:52 pm
Thanks lads.



Mark Roberts

Could you tell me or send info to me of cleaning sites you have created with details of how you get them to the first page of google.

mk.roberts@ntlworld.com

thanks
Mark
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: mark shannon on January 27, 2008, 05:22:01 pm
me to Mark

mpshannon26@aol.com

but i am sure you will require a fee for that sort of info email anyway to discuss
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: martin19842 on January 27, 2008, 05:31:20 pm
hi there

website costs vary a lot, there are more and more people offering web and search optimisation services,

the weird thing is they all seem to be able to guarantee top 10 slot on google, well surely they can only sell that to 10 companies.

noboy can guarantee a top 10 listing.

we did our site ourselves, which mean that we can add to it very easily, and whilst i use google adwords, we have a reasonable natural listing, and our line of business does very well, if indeed i had spent say £2k it still would have been money well spent.

you need to decide your busget on a website, which in the end wil come out of your advertsing spend, and then you are in a position to go ahead

regards

martin
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: mark shannon on January 27, 2008, 05:57:44 pm
True Martin but Mark seems to work miracles on the sites he optimizes i wish i had known about him before i had my site designed.
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Mark Roberts on January 28, 2008, 12:11:03 am
Very true Martin, guaranteeing something you have no control over can be a road to failure, I look at the competition, the keywords that the website wants to aim for and you can quite easily see if the first page is possible. 

Btw the way you cant read some of the text on your website in Firefox, that could be 20% of your readers...

What works offline will work online with marketing so there are very few secrets, make sure its clear, well written and easy to use. Most important make sure its in your name so its yours forever.
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Jason Hedges on January 28, 2008, 12:35:05 am
Hi Mark,

Please email me with your email address, changed computers and lost your details.

jasonhedges73@aol.com

All the best,
Jason.

Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: supernova77 on January 28, 2008, 08:26:34 am
I recently designed this site:

http://www.titanium-uk.co.uk

For the website + business card, letterhead and compliment slip design I charged them £690.

Andy
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: martin19842 on January 28, 2008, 11:48:43 am
hi there

mark,

yes ive always had a dislke for our the fruit based products.

it is something i need to look at.,

regards

martin
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: spencer davies on January 28, 2008, 12:01:43 pm
Getting up in the listings requires a lot of work, I would recommend Mark, our sites can usually be found at the top of page 1 in searches relating to us in this area.


Regards

S
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: *Chris Browne on January 28, 2008, 02:24:05 pm
How much do you want to pay? its possible to get a 5 page site , with emails, hosting, domain name, plus extras for a fiver....yes its templated and there are adds above (no pop ups), but you can also alter the meta tags and title etc.....    www.starternet.co.uk  (alter the pricing to GBP)

Chris
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: Mark Roberts on January 28, 2008, 06:26:39 pm
Martin, fruit based products? You lost me on that.  ???

Will email you later Jason or use markroberts1973@gmail.com
Title: Re: How much for a website
Post by: martin19842 on January 28, 2008, 08:26:15 pm
hi there

mark,

fruit based Apple Mac

its a standing joke amongst friends that love them and me a pc based user.

regards

martin