How much does it cost you to start up a website from scratch?

[ExecutiveCloser]

$10 for domain

 

[szhang]

like everyone says, it depends on niche and industry but my average is somewhat around $300 to get it profitable and make the initial investment back.

 

[aReJay]

lol, you make $50k/month?

That's consulting rates, you don't work at that for 37.5 * 4.2

Rand's guys used to charge $1000/hr and Sean @ SEO_Hacker charges $570 last time I checked. $300/hr is the low side for decent consultants.

-aReJay

 

[pompano]

10 bucks for domain and hosting like 10 bucks a month although it is used for all my sites.

 

[delbertvan]

domain : Free co.uk from gbbo.co.uk
hosting : free hosting
wordpress : free
theme : free magazine theme
article : free from wp robot
wp robot : get free from forum
so for new site, price is FREE

 

[tnhomestead]

Domain -- 9.00 us, I resell
hosting -- 0 i have a small hosting company
articles -- free -- write or rewrite myself
templates -- free can code my own, have a lot of them to use
pictures == 0 to 15, depending where I get them
seo right now manual, adding tools next 2 weeks

 

[Sacrilege]

Domain: $9
Hosting: $0 (just plop it on my dedicated server)
Links: $0 I'll either build a site that gets a ton of natural links or use SB on a site that only gets a few natural links. I don't build sites that no one wants to link to.
Articles: $0 I do it myself, and prefer interactive content to articles anyway.
Coding: $0 do it myself

Grand total $9

And my sites look like shit. I'm not an artist. After they make $500 I reinvest that to have the template professionally redone. If it can't make $500 with a shitty look, there's no point in having it.

 

[thedon23]

That's consulting rates, you don't work at that for 37.5 * 4.2

Rand's guys used to charge $1000/hr and Sean @ SEO_Hacker charges $570 last time I checked. $300/hr is the low side for decent consultants.

-aReJay

How the hell does he justify charging $570 per hour (Sean @ SEO_Hacker, just checked out his site).

Is he Matt Cutts boyfriend? Does he have some sort of insider information? Haha

 

[wgn_white]

My only cost is the articles.i spend $1 per article, each day 15-20 articles.

Perhaps you can share with us the place you can get $1 per article.
I guess this is written, but that's better if it's human.

 

[thedon23]

And lol @ $1 articles. Come on guys, use your brain. Do you really think you can get quality articles at $1. Not a chance. You get what you pay for.

 

[minimo88]

Thanks for everyone who has posted on the thread.

What I have learned is:
Most people create their own content
Most people spend little on seo - since the are not ranking for a difficult keyword
Time is important to people


On average, I think people spend around $40 - $80 per site.

 

[bennyb]

15$/vps hosting. Plus whatever for domains etc
Some say I could have gotten away with shared but I buy VPS because I rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it. Then again whats an extra 10$/mo in exchange for speed and uptime!

 

[aReJay]

How the hell does he justify charging $570 per hour (Sean @ SEO_Hacker, just checked out his site).

Is he Matt Cutts boyfriend? Does he have some sort of insider information? Haha

I'm not sure as to his justification or if he provides value for that price, but he does have a very strong (somewhat cult like) following at the bottom end of the scale on the social networks. He generates new content (although not new concepts) constantly and has a good engagement rate with his audience.

The guy lives in the Philippines, so you only need to work 10 hours a week to have a pretty comfy life.

-aReJay

 

[Expertpeon]

And lol @ $1 articles. Come on guys, use your brain. Do you really think you can get quality articles at $1. Not a chance. You get what you pay for.

$4-5 won't get you quality articles either.
At best they will sound like a 9 year old wrote it, from my experience.

 

[safex]

Well, it depends on what type of site you are starting..Like a Adsense Site may take up to 100$ maximum to start...and A Ecommerce can take up to like 10000$...So clear what type of site you want to start.

 

[gjxgs]

10 USD for a domain, and 42 usd for a host of ipae.

use free wordpress temple.

 

[BlackxHat]

Domain: $9
Hosting: $0 (just plop it on my dedicated server)
Links: $0 I'll either build a site that gets a ton of natural links or use SB on a site that only gets a few natural links. I don't build sites that no one wants to link to.
Articles: $0 I do it myself, and prefer interactive content to articles anyway.
Coding: $0 do it myself

Grand total $9

And my sites look like shit. I'm not an artist. After they make $500 I reinvest that to have the template professionally redone. If it can't make $500 with a shitty look, there's no point in having it.

what do you mean by interactive content?

 

[makinsales]

I lost 200$ reading this thread

 

[criticalmess]

depends on the type of website

if it's a product - design is the big mystery, it can go up to thousands of $$

creating a WP template is around $150-$200 and a simple mockup is as low as $50

 

[paulcarter97]

I got autoblog ranked on #1 without me costing any money. You can do most of the setup yourself, especially keyword research. It is very important.