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paul alan

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My yell website has ended and I'm looking for someone who can do me a pay monthly website and who can actually advise me and help me with it all. Yell said they would help then when the designing took place they said it was all up to me to decide and I dont know about all this kind of stuff.

Who is the got to people for window cleaning websites?

I dont have a budget for a new build payment up front.

 
I could easily recommend the guy I use but out of respect for Gav who builds websites including him being the top guy who built this forum I won't message Gav

County Durham Lad

 
That's what yell do, I have yet to see a decent site built by yell

County Durham Lad
 
Don't know about yell. But the preview Google gives me for my business page is decent. Shows the latest updates I've done on Google, a area where you can get a quote and write about your business. Not like a fully fledged site sure, but it looks decent and gets the point across.

If I hadn't already built a site myself a couple of years back, I'd have just used Google my business now. So much simpler. And that comes from a person who's been working in web and networking for years.

 
My yell website has ended and I'm looking for someone who can do me a pay monthly website and who can actually advise me and help me with it all. Yell said they would help then when the designing took place they said it was all up to me to decide and I dont know about all this kind of stuff.

Who is the got to people for window cleaning websites?

I dont have a budget for a new build payment up front.


I ended up weighing up the costs of paying someone + hosting etc, and decided to build my own with an online tool system.  Think it looks great, works perfectly and I can do any updates myself.  Took a few revisions to get it right and to learn all the tools I needed to build one, but it costs about £13 a month which I chuck through the business.

Have a look and compare it to any you've seen:

www.crosecleaningservices.com

I used www.websitebuilder.com to make it.

Obviously you need to have some idea of what you want, the images you need and a creative eye to get it looking half decent, but literally running an entire self built site with built in contact and linked to my GoCardless site for £150 a year.  

 
 
I ended up weighing up the costs of paying someone + hosting etc, and decided to build my own with an online tool system.  Think it looks great, works perfectly and I can do any updates myself.  Took a few revisions to get it right and to learn all the tools I needed to build one, but it costs about £13 a month which I chuck through the business.
 
Have a look and compare it to any you've seen:
 
www.crosecleaningservices.com
 
I used www.websitebuilder.com to make it.
 
Obviously you need to have some idea of what you want, the images you need and a creative eye to get it looking half decent, but literally running an entire self built site with built in contact and linked to my GoCardless site for £150 a year.  
Site looks really good, but a £150 a year each year. 5 years ago I paid £350 for a brand new website build, last month I paid £350 for a rebuild for a WordPress site and I only pay £14.99 a year for hosting.

County Durham Lad

 
I built my own Wordpress site, four quid a month, tenner a year domain and got K in Kent to do the SEO on some of the pages. He did a great job of getting my rank onto page one quickly. 

 
I built my own Wordpress site, four quid a month, tenner a year domain and got K in Kent to do the SEO on some of the pages. He did a great job of getting my rank onto page one quickly. 
Us old boys might be able to give advice to the younger generation on pricing and running professional business's but by Christ they show us up on this Internet witchcraft  :delusional:

 
My yell website has ended and I'm looking for someone who can do me a pay monthly website and who can actually advise me and help me with it all. Yell said they would help then when the designing took place they said it was all up to me to decide and I dont know about all this kind of stuff.

Who is the got to people for window cleaning websites?

I dont have a budget for a new build payment up front.
I built my own. @K in Kent can help you work on your SEO to get yourself to the top of the Google listings as thats the technical part but building a site is probably a weekends worth of work if you're computer literate. Have a look at this vid. He updates it a few times a year to keep it up to speed with the latest changes and you don't need to use the hosting service he recommends you can just get your own. I use 123-Reg. They currently have a sale on and hosting is about £15 for the year.




 
I use https://azehosting.net/ and built myself a neat little site with CMS from https://www.concrete5.org/ . I also have a small webshop using https://www.prestashop.com/ under the same hosting but with a different domain. No extra charge for that, I can just point it to a different folder.

The hosting cost me £37.68 paying three years in advance. (It's £1.63 a month now). The CMS and shop is open source and free.

 
I did have a sitebuilder.com site but the problem with it is the SEO.. Their support staff don't know how to improve SEO so its up to the site builder you to work it out, plus trying to find a SEO specialist to fix it is easy said than done, most prefer Wordpress sites.

 
8 hours ago, P4dstar said:

I built my own. @K in Kent can help you work on your SEO to get yourself to the top of the Google listings as thats the technical part but building a site is probably a weekends worth of work if you're computer literate. Have a look at this vid. He updates it a few times a year to keep it up to speed with the latest changes and you don't need to use the hosting service he recommends you can just get your own. I use 123-Reg. They currently have a sale on and hosting is about £15 for the year.


Even making some small changes to my site is like rocket science to me it has to be glaringly obvious. I use http://tsohost.com for hosting they are highly ranked as they have their support team in the same building as the servers so any issues they are straight on it.

 But I have never had any issues in over 4 years and I have managed to contact support in the early hours of the morning if I have had any questions over the years. A UK based company not some were else in the world in a different timezone with no hope of speaking to someone on the phone if needed. 

 
I'm too busy building my round and staying on top of the work I already have.

Last week I worked 7 days and some of them I didn't finish till 9pm ringing around doing quotes etc.

Besides I hate computers when trying to do anything other than the norm, little things like resizing a picture can take me hours to work out. So frustrating and time consuming.

I just want someone to do it for me. I have been spending £80 pm with yell so I'm happy to pay for it to be done for me.

 
I'm too busy building my round and staying on top of the work I already have.

Last week I worked 7 days and some of them I didn't finish till 9pm ringing around doing quotes etc.

Besides I hate computers when trying to do anything other than the norm, little things like resizing a picture can take me hours to work out. So frustrating and time consuming.

I just want someone to do it for me. I have been spending £80 pm with yell so I'm happy to pay for it to be done for me.
Yeah to be fair mate it’s not for everyone. I used to work for a web hosting company which gave me a bit of an advantage. There are loads of little freelancers out there who do what Yell do at a fraction of the cost. As the boys have said it might be worth talking to @Gav and see if he can do something for you? If you’re paying them £80 at the minute it would be worth spending out a few hundred just to get it up and then lowering that monthly outlay! They’re con merchants though man, literally 2 hours work to build a website for a web developer and then very very little maintenance involved from there so they’re taking over £400 an hour!!! And people say window cleaners are a rip off haha

 
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I'm too busy building my round and staying on top of the work I already have.

Last week I worked 7 days and some of them I didn't finish till 9pm ringing around doing quotes etc.

Besides I hate computers when trying to do anything other than the norm, little things like resizing a picture can take me hours to work out. So frustrating and time consuming.

I just want someone to do it for me. I have been spending £80 pm with yell so I'm happy to pay for it to be done for me.
Get in touch with Gav. he'll sort get u up and running for what you're already paying.

Yell are a waste of time and yes they probably do knock out a basic site in a couple of hours cos they couldn't give a flying **** how u actually rank.

However, to get the content right, well written and optimised plus the other SEO stuff will take more than a couple of hours if u offer addons or target a number of areas and need multiple pages.

One thing to bear in mind for everyone who thinks once a site is up and running it's a breeze is mistaken. They're like anything else - great as long as they're working ok but if u get a problem of any sort it's a different proposition.

What would u do if u got hacked? Do u backup? Would u know how to reinstall a backup? Are u registered on Google Search Console, analytics etc. Do u know how to add and where to add the code and how to use these tools and understand what they can do?

If u do then great but it's not just a case of getting online and job done if u want to do things properly and deal with problems that will probably come along sooner or later.

 
Get in touch with Gav. he'll sort get u up and running for what you're already paying.

Yell are a waste of time and yes they probably do knock out a basic site in a couple of hours cos they couldn't give a flying **** how u actually rank.

However, to get the content right, well written and optimised plus the other SEO stuff will take more than a couple of hours if u offer addons or target a number of areas and need multiple pages.

One thing to bear in mind for everyone who thinks once a site is up and running it's a breeze is mistaken. They're like anything else - great as long as they're working ok but if u get a problem of any sort it's a different proposition.

What would u do if u got hacked? Do u backup? Would u know how to reinstall a backup? Are u registered on Google Search Console, analytics etc. Do u know how to add and where to add the code and how to use these tools and understand what they can do?

If u do then great but it's not just a case of getting online and job done if u want to do things properly and deal with problems that will probably come along sooner or later.
Just reminded me to back up my site haha.

Web hosting is a minefield. The industry is full of crooks so it’s worth speaking to Gav and K as they have been recommended by many people on here. Case in point, a couple of days ago I had a call from a company try a sell me a domain name.... really simple, their pitch is “we have acquired www.windowcleanerin(your town).co.uk and we can do invisible links that will take people to your page and we want £300”... I kept them on the phone for ages, mainly because I was bored. I know that isn’t a good domain name and I also know I can buy it from my current supplier for 99p but while I had a 20 minute drive I can waste their time and they won’t have as much opportunity to rip some other poor sod off. It’s always fun at the end of the call when you call them out on it too  :1f602:

almost forgot to mention... they told me although I’m on page one of Google people are clicking on other sites instead. Even when I told them I’m a trained web developer and built my own site they kept going haha  :1f602:

 
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Just reminded me to back up my site haha.

Web hosting is a minefield. The industry is full of crooks so it’s worth speaking to Gav and K as they have been recommended by many people on here. Case in point, a couple of days ago I had a call from a company try a sell me a domain name.... really simple, their pitch is “we have acquired www.windowcleanerin(your town).co.uk and we can do invisible links that will take people to your page and we want £300”... I kept them on the phone for ages, mainly because I was bored. I know that isn’t a good domain name and I also know I can buy it from my current supplier for 99p but while I had a 20 minute drive I can waste their time and they won’t have as much opportunity to rip some other poor sod off. It’s always fun at the end of the call when you call them out on it too  :1f602:

almost forgot to mention... they told me although I’m on page one of Google people are clicking on other sites instead. Even when I told them I’m a trained web developer and built my own site they kept going haha  :1f602:
haha yeah they're right cheeky so and so's arent they and what a sales technique...we use black hat cloaking techniques that can incur a Google penalty for u and send people who aren't looking for a window cleaner in your area to your site just to p*** them off.

Then they will immediately click back off your site, thus greatly increasing your  bounce rate and in turn this will affect and harm your rankings.....yeah tempting

 
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