We rebuild a lot of cheap websites. Not because the person who built them was dodgy, but because a price that low means whole chunks of the job get skipped.
Here is what usually goes missing.
No local SEO foundations
Cheap sites are often one page with no suburb content, no service pages and no Google Business Profile work. Google has nothing to rank you for.
You end up invisible for the exact searches your customers make.
Slow, bloated templates
A drag and drop template loaded with plugins can take six or seven seconds to load on a phone. Half your visitors will not wait.
No one to ring when something breaks
Sites need updates, hosting, backups and security patches. If nobody owns that, one day your site is down and you find out from a customer.
We have seen tradies locked out of their own domain because a mate set it all up under his email and moved on.
What it actually costs
If your average job is worth 800 dollars and a poor site costs you two jobs a month, that is 19,200 dollars a year. The website saving was a few hundred.
You do not need the most expensive site on the market. You need one built to bring in work and someone who answers the phone when you need a change.
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