Question for those of you with websites.

[41haikuwarriors]

I am thinking about starting a website for e-waste and kind of want a rough estimate of what you guys paid for initial design, monthly costs, and basically if it really helped bring in the e-waste. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Mick]

I can't help with costs because a friend designed/maintains mine. But I will give you a big tip. HAVING a website isn't the important issue. Anybody can design a website. Getting it on the first page of the search engines using keywords that people will actually use is the trick. It may cost you a little and you may have to pay attention to your website but if your site is on page 20, you may as well not have one.

Remember - you usually get what you pay for.

[Enoch43]

I went with 1&1 and couldn't be happier. I shopped around a bit before I found them. Cheap! Decent website building tools. I have no web design experience and still managed to craft a pretty decent multipage site. Follow my link and check them out!

https://www.1and1.com/?kwk=175783070

[41haikuwarriors]

Thanks for the quick responses guys. I have searched locally through Google for electronics recyclers and the first 5 listings are all national, even changed my wording a few times with the same results, so I know for sure I will have to get it done by someone who knows how to put me on the first page, I just don't want to have to pay through the nose for it.

[Kochy]

Wix is a really nice website builder, its very easy if and the free url is "Example.wix.com" so it wouldn't be that long of a URL.

[drozenski]

i used wordpress. WordPress.com - Get a Free Blog Here

it's $100 per year. More space than i will ever use, lots and lots of pre built templates. No coding experience needed but helps if you want some custom menu's. Also comes with reports and user tracking so you know where your clicks are coming from and they submit your webpage to search engines for free.

We Pay You To Recycle. | Recycling Electronic Waste.

[tski72]

I agree with mick. Mine is through google business, but I do all the marketing of the site also. Get it in manta for starters and your state web directory and then any other directory that you can get listed in. Website easy, marketing never ending. Good luck too you.

[GeorgeB]

Hostgator.com hands down for hosting. I use their basekit program to design all of my websites. Easy to use and maintain.

I use netfirms.com for all my domain registrations.

[cummins]

Ive been playing with ideas for a Web site as well but its just another bill at the end of the month, guess its a tax right off

[tski72]

Check out google for business. Under ten users is small business and I don't pay any monthly fees. Godaddy only cost me 12 bucks to register the domain and all website building is through google. Sure I have restrictions, but I have a free, live website that I have full control over.

[directrecycle]

sometimes having two website addresses can help. your business name as well and make one with your local town in the name. For example if you live in Miami you could have miamicomputerrecycling and have it directed to your main page. This helps with local people who will type in their town and computer recycling on google

[Enoch43]

Ive been playing with ideas for a Web site as well but its just another bill at the end of the month, guess its a tax right off

My web presence costs about as much as a fast food lunch every month. Just the email address is worth that to me!

[cummins]

My web presence costs about as much as a fast food lunch every month. Just the email address is worth that to me!

just checked out go dady and i think that might work... one washing machine half full of water pays for the web site lol

[telecomguy]

Yeah, GoDaddy has a free single page site and you can setup a free email address. Pretty good deal for the small guy. I definitely recommend some kind of web presence. That's about the only way I find places these days. And it frustrates the heck out of me if I can't find out anything more than an address and phone number on the internet. I need a little more detail usually.

[cummins]

I find single pages tacky, most of the time its just a scanned flyer with a domain name.

[drozenski]

Yeah, GoDaddy has a free single page site and you can setup a free email address. Pretty good deal for the small guy. I definitely recommend some kind of web presence. That's about the only way I find places these days. And it frustrates the heck out of me if I can't find out anything more than an address and phone number on the internet. I need a little more detail usually.

WARNING WITH GODADDY!

If you are going to register a domain with GoDaddy make sure you do it that day. Dont use GoDaddy to search for domain names that you like or might want use http://www.checkdomain.com/ GoDaddy has built into their domain search an automated process that registers domain names that it feels are resealable at a higher rate. So if your searching for a domain and find that www.superawesomerecyclers.com is available but dont register it right away you run the risk of GoDaddy registering the domain for themselves and you will then find the domain for sale as a premium domain for 100's or 1000's of bucks.

Also Godaddy will take your domain if your email address is wrong or you let it expire and do the same thing.

Godaddy grabs a valuable domain name from their customer because of invalid email and profits from it. | Threadwatch.org

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If you want top quality service and none of the BS. Use network solutions. The cost is a bit higher but doesn't come with any of the bull.

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[tski72]

Yikes, make sure you don't expire that's for sure.