How much does a website cost, how long does it take, and does local SEO actually work? Straight answers to what Los Angeles business owners ask most before they hire someone.
Custom websites are priced as flat-rate projects based on scope, not hourly. A 5-page starter site starts at $1,000. A Professional build with up to 10 pages, a blog, and full SEO starts at $2,500. Premium builds with e-commerce start at $5,000. You get one fixed price after a free discovery call, before any work begins. See the full breakdown on the small business website design page.
Redesigns are priced by the size and complexity of your current site. Most small business redesigns fall between $1,500 and $4,000, and a free consultation gives you an exact quote with no obligation.
Custom landing pages start at $750. Price depends on complexity, the number of sections, and whether form integrations or ad tracking are included.
Custom sites typically take 2 to 6 weeks depending on scope and how quickly content is provided. Template-based builds are completed in 2 to 4 weeks. The clock starts once you approve the design direction and submit your content.
It's priced based on scope, since a one-location service business and a multi-location retailer need very different amounts of work. It's available as a standalone monthly service or bundled into a website build. A free call gets you a custom quote rather than a generic package price.
Look for fixed, upfront pricing instead of open-ended hourly billing, direct access to the person actually building your site rather than an account manager relaying messages, and confirmation in writing that you'll own your files, domain, and content when it's done. A designer who won't commit to any of those is worth asking more questions before you sign anything.
Los Angeles businesses are the primary focus, but clients are taken on remotely anywhere in the US. The entire process, from the first call through launch, works online.
Yes. You own the files, the domain, and the content outright. There's no platform lock-in, so if you ever wanted to take the site elsewhere, it's yours to move.
Every project includes 30 to 90 days of post-launch support depending on the package. After that, a monthly care plan is available for ongoing updates, backups, and security monitoring, and hosting is included monthly on every site regardless.
Instagram is good at showing your work and building relationships in real time, but it can't do what a website does: rank in Google search, show pricing and hours in a structured way, or convert a visitor at 11pm without them waiting on a DM reply. Most businesses need both, working together. Read the full breakdown in this guide.
Yes. Every site is designed and tested on phones, tablets, and desktops, and mobile-first design is standard on every project, not an upgrade, because most web traffic comes from mobile devices.
Yes. Training and documentation are included with every project so you can make basic content updates yourself. A monthly care plan is also available if you'd rather hand off all maintenance.
No. Monthly hosting is included on every site that's built, so there's no separate hosting account to set up or manage on your own.
Local SEO is the process of optimizing your online presence so your business shows up in local search results, including the Google Maps 3-Pack. It covers your Google Business Profile, local citations, location-targeted pages on your site, and real customer reviews. If customers find you by searching your city or neighborhood plus what you do, this is what makes that happen.
Most businesses see movement in Google Maps rankings within 60 to 90 days. Reaching full, competitive rankings usually takes 4 to 6 months, depending on your market and how much competition you're up against.
Your Google Business Profile is the listing that shows up on Google Maps and in the local 3-Pack above the organic search results. A fully optimized profile, complete with photos, accurate details, and real reviews, is the single biggest factor in whether you show up in that local pack at all. See the complete GBP optimization guide.
Yes. A website by itself doesn't rank locally without proper optimization behind it. Local SEO is what tells Google exactly where your business is, what you do, and which area you serve, none of which a website communicates well on its own.
Run your site through Google PageSpeed Insights at pagespeed.web.dev. A mobile score below 70 means real speed problems that are affecting both your visitors' experience and your search rankings, and most unoptimized business sites score well below that.
Yes, directly. Page speed and Core Web Vitals have been confirmed Google ranking factors since 2021. A slow site is penalized in search results against faster competitors in the same market, regardless of how good the content on it is.
Not if it's handled correctly. That means preserving existing URLs wherever possible, setting up proper 301 redirects for anything that changes, and migrating existing SEO data before the new site goes live. Done right, a redesign should maintain or improve rankings, not reset them.
Yes. Content that's already working is migrated over to the new design rather than thrown out. Copy that needs updating can be refreshed as part of the project, or you can supply new content before launch.
Every project is different. Tell me what you're working with and I'll give you a straight answer, no generic sales pitch.
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