Service Prices

Last updated on November 12, 2022.

This is a simple list of my services and their prices, which is subject to change without notice.

Prices are in United States dollars (USD), do not include current sales tax, and are subject to change without notice.

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• Website Design and Development Prices
• Website Maintenance and Care Plan Prices
• Website Accessibility Prices
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Prices
• Email Content Creation and Marketing Prices
• Logo Design Prices
• Other Graphic Design Prices
• Legal Protection Prices
• Editing and Proofreading Prices
• Random Service Prices
• Recommended Website Hosting Providers
• Payment Options
• Accepted Payment Methods

Website Design and Development Prices

Important Notes:

1. You must buy (register) a domain name yourself. It's as valuable as a deed to a house or a title to a vehicle. The price varies, and domain registration is annual. Most of the time, you can pay for more than one year. I can help you decide on a good domain and acquire the best price.


2. I highly recommend buying domain privacy. It's well worth the extra cost to protect your name, street address, email address, and phone number. Without privacy, you could receive a lot of junk mail, spam emails, and scam phone calls.


3. I can also help you choose a website hosting provider. You must purchase it, however. It's where your website will "live" or be "parked," like a car in a garage.


4. A website host is the foundation of a website and the home of its online presence. It's important to choose the right one, but it can be a difficult decision when there are many options. Learn more and see my list of recommended hosting providers.


5. Use an SSL certificate, which is a security certificate for "https" in your website's address (URL). It's important for many reasons, including a ranking factor in major search engines. Most hosting providers offer a free SSL in their plans.


6. I like WordPress websites because, like cars, you can park them almost anywhere. If you want to move your website to a different hosting provider for whatever reason (faster servers, better security), you can. You can not do it with a website on Wix, Square, Shopify, Squarespace, and a few more.


7. Your average business only needs a few web pages: Home, Products or Services, Portfolio, About, and Contact.


8. An FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) page can be very useful to you and your customers. Save yourself time by avoiding answering repetitive questions over the phone or in emails, and give your customers the information that they want at the same time.


9. A blog page can also be helpful to some businesses. Blog articles can increase your SEO rank and domain authority. They can also inform your target customers of your product or service and convince them to buy.


10. All my websites are tested for compatibility on all major web browsers (Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox) on most screen sizes. However, certain website features, such as a button, will not look the same on each browser. I cannot control this, but I will try.


11. I highly recommend buying a website maintenance and care plan, whether it's from me or somebody else. I like to compare it to car insurance. If you do not have it before you need it, you will regret it. If your website is hacked or plugins and themes malfunction because they were not updated, your online business will be affected.


12. You must buy at least part of the Legal Protection package for any website option unless you sign a waiver. See details below.

All my websites have these minimum features:

• simple text content
• responsive design (mobile-device friendly)
• basic SEO
• a few images (free stock photos, photos taken from your social media profiles, stock photos that you've purchased, or photos that you've given to me)
• a list of your services or products
• business hours listed
• contact information (name, phone number(s), fax number, street address, email address)
• links to social media profiles
• business's street address linked to Google Maps if needed
• domain submitted to all major search engines for indexing

Website Maintenance and Care Plan Prices

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Protect your investment. Once your website goes live, it's important to protect it from potential hacks, breaches, and other threats that can bring your site down and have it blacklisted from search engines, removing it from all search results and destroying its rankings.

Your website is like a new car; it looks and runs very well right now, but over time, it can deteriorate if it's not properly maintained. A monthly care plan can relieve your stress while you focus on your business.

When you're on this plan, you can contact me at any reasonable time for help with updates, edits, additions, or any potential website issues. If you are skeptical or on a tight budget, you can buy a plan at any time in the future. However, a one-time maintenance service may cost a lot more, depending on the problem(s).

Included in all plans:

• Allotted time (usually 1–4 hours) of monthly support
• Priority support (precedence over one-time maintenance customers)
• Discounts on future work
• Quarterly or yearly reviews

Updates and Optimization

• WordPress plugin updates
• WordPress theme updates
• WordPress CMS software updates
• Updates of other website tools, if any
• Visual inspection after updating
• Site cleaned and optimized weekly
• Optimization of media files for faster loading
• Optimization of page load speed

Security, Monitoring, and Protection

• SSL certificate ("https")
• Firewall available if needed
• Anti-spam measures put in place
• WordPress security plugin that works on all WordPress websites, not only SiteGround-hosted
• Regular malware scanning and monitoring (via SiteGround Site Scanner and only on a SiteGround-hosted website)
• WordPress speed optimization plugin that works on all WordPress websites, not only SiteGround-hosted

Backups and Restorations

• Weekly backups of all files, databases, and settings
• Backups are securely off-site
• 4 weeks of backups
• Restorations at any time, such as before a hack, from any backup on file

Reports

• Weekly or monthly reports of your page views and site traffic data
• A detailed summary of all maintenance performed on your site

Website Accessibility Prices

Go back to the list of price categories if you want. This is about ADA and WCAG website accessibility compliance for blind, visually impaired, and deaf people.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. WCAG covers websites, applications, and other digital content. It's developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). WCAG is an international standard.

There are 3 levels of compliance:

1. Level A is the minimum level.
2. Level AA includes all Level A and AA requirements. Many businesses strive to meet this level.
3. Level AAA includes all Level A, AA, and AAA requirements. It's usually for large businesses, the government, educational institutions, and more.

Learn more about web accessibility standards.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Prices

Go back to the list of price categories if you want. I offer professional SEO services to rank websites higher in search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

I will develop an SEO strategy to create long-lasting domain authority for your website in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) by using "white hat" (good for long-term) SEO techniques, not "black hat" (bad for long-term).

SEO provides:

• higher ranking in all major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo)
• more traffic to your site
• better ROI (Return On Investment)

SEO can include:

• keyword research
• competitor research
• website optimization
• meta tag (page title and description) optimization
• schema enhancements (for social media and blog post dates, authors, and more)
• article (blog post) content creation and posting
• backlinks and page inter-linking
• file directory optimization (web page URLs and file URLs)
• access to data analysis tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and Bing Webmaster

Email Content Creation and Marketing

Avoid having your business page's posts censored or not seen for days on social media. Use email to increase the visibility of your content by your fans, followers, and hopefully, potential customers.

• Constant Contact
• Mail Chimp
• Weebly
• Wix
• and more

Price: $50

Valuable Business Investment: $20+
Your quoted price depends on content and frequency.

Custom Email Signature Creation

Includes all of these items in one signature:

• Profile picture, if wanted
• First and last name
• Business's name
• Business's logo, if any
• Job title
• Phone number(s)
• Fax number, if any
• Business's street address, if wanted
• Social media icons and links
• Website address (URL)

Price: $30

Valuable Business Investment: $20 for each signature
($5 for each additional item)

Logo Design Prices

Go back to the list of price categories if you want. I will design a great logo for you based on our conversation and your input.

All logo options include:

• 1-hour conversation
• help with choosing a color palette
• finalization of logo
• multiple sizes provided for all major social media profiles
• file formats provided: PSD (Adobe Photoshop), JPEG, PNG, and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic)

Other Graphic Design Prices

Go back to the list of price categories if you want. I can design the items below in most sizes. The prices depend on the complexity and the size of the design.

The following items start at $20.

• business cards
• envelopes and packages
• posters / flyers
• stickers
• bumper stickers
• decals
• tote bags
• vehicle magnets
• door and window signs
• storefront signs
• A-frame sidewalk signs
• flagpole banners
• thumbnail images for sharing web pages on social media
• clothing: shirts, hooded sweatshirts, jerseys, hats, and more

The following items start at $30.

• postcards
• brochures / pamphlets
• advertisement (ad) banners
• parade / float banners

The following items start at $50.

• brand style guides
• billboard ads

Legal Protection Prices

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The following items are very important to help protect your business from privacy-related fines and lawsuits, such as GDPR and CCPA non-compliance. You must buy this with the purchase of a new website from me or sign a waiver.

Depending on your website's features and business services, you may not need all of these policies, but you can't choose only one policy to decrease your price. One license from Termageddon includes all policies to protect one website. All their policies are automatically updated when the laws are updated, so you do not have to do anything except pay Termageddon.

States are proposing laws that will allow consumers to sue businesses anywhere in the United States for not having a compliant privacy policy. Any website that collects as little as an email address on a contact form should not only have a privacy policy but also have a way to keep it up to date when the laws change.

If you do not have these for your current website, it's not too late to add them. Do not risk any legal trouble for yourself in the future.

• Privacy Policy page
• Terms and Conditions page
• Disclaimer page
• Cookie consent pop-up
• Cookie Policy page
• EULA (End User License Agreement) page
• Automatic updates by Termageddon with no effort from you.
• All of these can be acquired at a very affordable price through Termageddon.

Price: $10 monthly (or $99 yearly)
Please check Termageddon's website for accurate pricing.

Professional Editing and Proofreading

Go back to the list of price categories if you want. I use Grammarly, an excellent high-tech software powered by AI (Artificial Intelligence).

I can edit:

• print / email newsletters
• advertisements
• documents
• short books
• booklets
• pamphlets / brochures
• posters / flyers

Price: $10+
The price depends on content type and amount of content.

Grammarly offers a free keyboard app for mobile devices that will help you seem very intelligent to others online. Check out their fantastic products here:

• Grammarly desktop app for Mac and Windows
• Proofreader
• Spellchecker
• Grammar Checker
• Plagiarism Checker
• Keyboard Editor for Apple iPad
• Keyboard Editor for Apple iPhone
• Chrome web browser extension
• Apple Safari web browser extension on Mac
• Mozilla Firefox web browser extension
• Microsoft Edge web browser extension
• Microsoft Office Word add-in
• Google Docs

Random Service Prices

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Website Upgrade to Be Mobile-Friendly

A mobile-friendly website is also called "responsive design," which means that the design "responds" (or reacts) to different screen sizes. If your website is difficult to view and you have to "pinch zoom" to use it, it's times for an upgrade.

Price: $300+

Valuable Business Investment: $200+

Your quoted price depends on the size of the website.

Complete Website Audit

Includes:

• website content audit
• spelling and grammar check
• broken links audit
• missing images audit
• on-site SEO audit
• off-site SEO audit
• website accessibility audit

Price: $300+

Valuable Business Investment: $200+

Your quoted price depends on the size of the website.

Social Media Business Profile Setup, Audit, and Optimization

• Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business)
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Alignable
• Yelp
• and more

Price: $20 each

1-on-1 Tutorials

I will teach you what you want to do, as far as my offered digital marketing services, step-by-step via Zoom or Google Meet with screen sharing.

Price: $75 /hour

Valuable Business Investment: $50 /hour

Screen Recorded Tutorials

I will record my computer's screen or iPhone's screen while I'm doing what you want to learn, then upload the video file to a folder on Google Drive or Dropbox that only you and I will have access to. These tutorials are faster and, therefore, more information in less time.

Price: $150 /hour

Valuable Business Investment: $100 /hour

Extraction of Files on CD/DVD

Non-copyrighted audio, video, or document files from most CDs and DVDs.

Price: $20+

Your quoted price depends on the content and the quantity.

Marketing Strategy Consultation

Let's have a long, informative discussion about your business marketing strategy that has a lot of valuable content.

Price: $150

Valuable Business Investment: $100 /hour

One-Time Website Maintenance

Price: $200+

Valuable Business Investment: $100+

Your quoted price depends on the size of the website.

One-Time Email Maintenance

Includes:

• server errors
• bouncebacks (undelivered email notifications)
• domain blacklist check
• advice on email tracking with open/read receipts and link-click receipts
• spam prevention in contact forms via Google reCAPTCHA

Price: $100+

Valuable Business Investment: $50+

Your quoted price depends on the complexity of the task.

Recommended Website Hosting Providers

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I recommend avoiding hosting providers with slow server speed, poor performance, poor reliability, poor security, and poor customer support. The shortlist includes Bluehost, HostGator, and GoDaddy. Read the long list.

I use SiteGround for many reasons. Their servers are fast, secure, and reliable. I've been with them for more than 3 years, so I'm very familiar with their system and tools. Because of that, my website maintenance skills are honed and I work quickly.

If you want to host your site with them, you can save money on their hosting plans by using this special discount.

SG Site Scanner (one of their many great tools)

The SG Site Scanner is a malware detection and early warning system that enables you to perform on-demand scans of your website and performs comprehensive daily scans to detect domain blacklisting and malware. The malware database is constantly updated, enabling the SG Site Scanner to detect even the latest threats.

• It protects your site from malware. The SG Site Scanner helps you protect your site by constantly crawling and analyzing its pages for signs of malware. It identifies even the latest malware threats and notifies you by email. A timely reaction is crucial in preventing a hack or recovering from one.
• It detects the latest malware. The SG Site Scanner is up to date with the latest malware and website hacking techniques. The service is offered in partnership with Sucuri, who are global security experts.
• It gives you time to act. A timely reaction is crucial in minimizing the damage from malware. Monitoring your website constantly and knowing that you have to take action on time is the best security measure.
• Daily Scans: The SG Site Scanner scans your files, URL, and domain names on a daily basis and detects the latest malware and potential threats.
• Scheduled Reports: For your peace of mind, you can receive daily reports and be informed about your website status without even opening a browser.
• Immediate Alerts: If a threat is found, you receive an immediate email notification so you can take actions and avoid downtime, a data breach, or other issues.

Price: $18 yearly

More great SiteGround WordPress tools: SG Optimizer plugin, SG Security plugin

Other Good WordPress Website Hosting Providers:

Note: SiteGround and these hosts below are great for WordPress websites. I do not know much about their ability to handle other types of websites. You will have to search online or consult me to help you search.

• Flywheel
• WPEngine
• NameHero
• Hostinger
• Cloudways

Payment Options

Go back to the list of price categories if you want. If you are on a tight budget, I have payment options that might help you. Your payment choice will be included in the contract.

• Pay monthly. It will cost you more long-term, but it might be best for you if you are unsure of your financial success.
• Pay yearly. If you have the budget, pay for everything in advance and not worry about another bill each month.
• Pay 50% at the beginning of the project, then 50% after completion.
• Pay for the whole project at once. If you have the budget, why not pay for it all now? This might save you money long-term.

Accepted Payment Methods

• Cash
• Written check (This must clear before I begin working on your project.)
• PayPal
• Debit or credit card

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