Small Business Website Cost: What You're Paying For
What goes into the cost of a small business website: planning, writing, design, speed, hosting and updates, plus the hidden costs and questions to ask first.
Websites that load fast, rank locally and bring in calls
We build lean, hand-coded websites for local businesses: no page-builder bloat, no plugins to patch, and every page written for something your customers actually search for.
Why an IT company builds websites
Because we kept getting called about broken ones. Hacked WordPress installs, contact forms that silently stopped sending leads months ago, sites that took eight seconds to load on a phone, domains registered to a designer nobody can reach. A website is a piece of business infrastructure, and we treat it like the rest of your IT: built properly, secured, monitored and owned by you.
What you get
Pages written for real searches
We start from what people in Hilton Head and Bluffton type into Google for your kind of business, and give each service its own page. That's where local SEO begins.
Fast on phones
Hand-built static pages, served through Cloudflare's network. No heavy themes, no slider plugins, no waiting.
Forms that deliver
Contact and quote forms wired to a real inbox or lead system and tested, so no lead disappears.
Security by design
No database or admin login on the public site means far less to attack and nothing to patch every week.
Search plumbing included
Titles, descriptions, structured data, sitemaps, Google Search Console and analytics set up from day one.
You own it
The domain, the hosting account and the code are yours. If you ever move on, you take all of it with you.
Rebuilding an existing site
If your current site already has some search history, we protect it. We map every old address to its new page with permanent redirects, keep what's ranking, and fix what Google has been tripping over. Moving a site without that map is the fastest way to lose the traffic you have.
How a project runs
Look at what you have
Your current site, your Google listing, and what people search for in your area.
Plan the pages
One page per service and place that matters, plus the basics: about, contact, reviews.
Build and review
You see a working preview early, on your own phone, and we refine it together.
Launch and look after it
Redirects, Search Console, analytics, then hosting, updates and changes as you need them.
See what your site could bring in
A free assessment looks at your website and your Google listing, and what's costing you calls.
Questions we get
How much does a website cost?
It depends on the number of pages and what the site needs to do. We quote a fixed price after a short conversation, and hosting and ongoing changes are a separate monthly line so there are no surprises.
Can I edit the site myself?
Most clients send us changes and we make them, usually the same week. If you need to update something often, like a menu or listings, we can set that part up so you can edit it.
Do you use WordPress?
Usually not. For most local businesses a static site is faster, safer and cheaper to keep running. If you truly need a CMS, we'll talk through the trade-offs.
Will my Google rankings drop when you rebuild?
Not if the move is done properly. We redirect every old URL to its new page and keep the content Google already values.
Related services
Local SEO
We work from your real Google data: which searches you already show up for, where you're losing the click, and which pages are missing.
Microsoft 365 & email
Email on your own domain, files in OneDrive and SharePoint, Teams that people actually use, and the security settings that should have been on from the start.
Managed IT services
We monitor, patch, secure and back up your computers and network, answer your team's questions, and fix things before they turn into a lost day.
Contact us
Call or send a note about what you need.
Related reading
Google Business Profile Checklist for Local Businesses
A practical Google Business Profile checklist for Hilton Head and Bluffton businesses: name, categories, hours, service areas, photos, reviews and more.
Why Your Website Isn't Showing Up on Google
Website not showing up on Google? How to check with Search Console, the common causes from noindex tags to missing redirects, and what to fix first.
Tell us what's going on.
Call, or send a few lines about your business or your computer. You'll hear back from a person who can actually fix it.
