I'll like to set up a website for my business. Does anyone know what's the costs involved? It seems that there's hosting costs, web designer fees, SEO fees. How expensive is it to maintain a website annually? Please help, I'm totally new to this.
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What are the costs involved in setting up a business website?
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Domain name roughly USD 10
Hosting costs depending on the package available
If you are new to this, I would suggest you try free word press blog before getting on for your real deal.
Hosting costs depending on the package available
If you are new to this, I would suggest you try free word press blog before getting on for your real deal.
Why can't you set it up on facebook? Is there a specific reason why you need a domain name and a custom designed site.
If you're selling items and collecting payment over the net, you can use www.shopify.com The only costs involved would be in getting your CC processor and/or Paypal integration up and running. http://www.shopify.com/payment-gateways/singapore
Web designers are starving to death nowadays because it is so easy to get a website going that anyone can do it. I should know I used to be one.
If your website traffic is low, you can probably get by with a USD9.95 per month hosting package.
If traffic is high and you need a dedicated server, costs start at around USD100 per month.
@ Leongsam, you mean FB Fanpage?
My purpose of the website is to advertise a service and I want the website to be easily found online. No selling online.
Is it wordpress.com or wordpress.org? Could my website be easily found online if my service doesn't have much competition?
In that case just a cheap webhosting package at bluehost or hostgator or godaddy and install Wordpress. You should be able to do it from within fantastico which should be part of your hosting suite.
There are thousands of wordpress themes that you can download fro free. Google "wordpress themes".
If you want a professional look and feel, you may have to hire someone with experience in graphic design to do the job for you. Check out sites like elance.com. There are loads of freelancers who will quote you a turnkey job or an hourly rate.
If you do everything yourself using free templates, you won't have to spend more than your monthly hosting fee. If you need professional help, it can cost anything from $100 to $2000 or more. It all depends upon the reputation and the quality of the work of the designer you hire.
Wordpress.com is a hosting site. Wordpress.org is the home of Wordpress.
If your service is unique and the world already knows of the existence of such a service, they'll be able to find you via search engines when they enter the keywords that are related to your service.
If your service is unique and nobody has heard of it, then they won't be searching for it so you'll need to set aside a budget for advertising.
IMO, wordpress.com for you to register.
Keywords are the most important issue in domain name as keywords determine website effectiveness.
The higher you rank in the search engine, the more FREE traffic you will have. TRAFFIC is the life-blood of any website.
How about SEO? What do you know about improving the 'visibility' of a website?
I have done a couple for friends foc (because my graphics skills sucks LOL) and used http://on.sg for all. Used the $200 for 2 yrs hosting package which was good enough for them including forum functionality. A wordpress site can be set up in 5 minutes but to make it look nice it's best to get some professional template(s).
No know nothing beyond the basics. Never did anything to improve the visibility of my sites. I just allowed nature to take its course.
There are plenty of SEO "experts" out there but most of them sell Koyok.
Thanks all for the advice given, i've decided to engage a designer to do it as it's crucial for me to get the service well advertised and easily found online. I'll experiment with Wordpress for other ideas 
Cost wise, I'll compare a few and I guess the maximum cost may be incurred from SEO
Cost wise, I'll compare a few and I guess the maximum cost may be incurred from SEO
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wordpress is rather powerful and useful tool to set up websites, even e-commerce ones.
There's some grant available for SME's better claim as its your money afterall.Thanks all for the advice given, i've decided to engage a designer to do it as it's crucial for me to get the service well advertised and easily found online. I'll experiment with Wordpress for other ideas
Cost wise, I'll compare a few and I guess the maximum cost may be incurred from SEO
You're late to the party. He was asking for help in 2013. It's now almost April 2015.
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