Questions San Diego business owners ask before hiring a web developer

Yes. The build is free: no deposit, no balance at launch, no build fee later. You pay for hosting at $50 a month, billed $600 for the first year and month to month after that. It is a hand-coded site of 5 to 10 pages, built to rank on Google and be recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews, live 1–2 days after payment and your assets (logo, photos, your services and prices, and your own text or a 30-minute interview we write from). Your domain, your content and your leads are yours from day one; we run the site for you. The full terms are at velourweb.com/free-website.

When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Google's AI Overviews for a plumber in Escondido or a florist in La Jolla, the answer is assembled from websites the AI can read and trust. We build every page to be quotable: a plain answer in the first paragraph, an FAQ, structured data that names your business, services and service area, and a robots file that welcomes AI crawlers. That is the difference between a site AI can recommend and a brochure it skips.

Three times the money in year one on Growth, counting hosting, and five times from year two. The check is simple: one lead is worth average job × gross margin × close rate. Divide the monthly tier price by that and you have the calls per month that break even. A remodeler with a $900 lead value on Metro at $1,500 a month breaks even at under two calls a month and hits 3x at five.

Hosting, $50 a month, is the website: built, hosted, kept fast and secure, with small text edits included. It is the floor, not marketing. Growth, from $549 a month on top of hosting, set by the cities you cover, adds new service and city pages every month, edits, Business Profile posts, a review routine, AI-answer monitoring and a monthly lead report, and from the Area tier up it includes exclusivity in your industry and area.

The tier comes from the cities and offices you cover, capped at three typical jobs from our industry table. The ten-minute competition check on the search results for your service in your city decides whether we sell Growth at all: green results, mostly small local businesses, mean Growth at the tier your cities set; yellow, a few agencies or chains with 100+ reviews, means one tier up and a nine to twelve month horizon; red, national aggregators and 500-review businesses everywhere, means the website on Hosting and no Growth from anyone.

No. Nobody honest does, and Google and the FTC both punish the ones who claim to. We guarantee the pages, the speed and the monthly report, not indexing or rankings, and Growth bills only once your tracked leads pass the baseline from your first 30 days after launch; if that has not happened by day 180, you owe nothing for Growth.

From the Area tier up we will not build or run a growth plan for your direct competitor in your area. Areas are clusters like North County coastal or the Westside of Los Angeles, not whole counties. It holds while your plan is active.

For the website, nothing: it is included with hosting at $50 a month. Extra pages beyond ten and a Spanish or Russian version are fixed-price add-ons. For Growth it is the cities and offices you cover, one tier up in yellow markets such as Los Angeles core categories and city-core practices, and never more than three typical jobs on our table. For Custom it is scope, set in the discovery sprint.

Hosting is $600 a year, paid by card through the secure Stripe checkout on the pricing page and renewed yearly until you cancel; bank transfer works too, ask on the call. Growth is billed monthly at your tier, on top of hosting, once your leads pass the trigger. Custom work has a deposit and milestones.

Hosting at $50 a month, which includes the website and small edits. Growth is optional, from $549 a month on top of hosting. There are no plugin licenses or theme fees, and from the second year hosting is month to month.

The website has no build fee, so there is nothing to finance; hosting is $600 for the first year. For Custom work we split payments into milestones tied to deliverables. Ask on the call and we will put it in the quote.

A business website goes live 1–2 days after payment and your assets: your logo, photos, your services and prices, and either your own text or a 30-minute interview we write from. On Growth, the website launches in 1–2 days after payment and assets, and new pages follow every month. Inside those two days you see a preview on desktop and phone and approve it before launch, and you get a launch date at the start of the project.

A site built to rank for the searches your customers type: one page per service, one page per city you serve, cost guides and FAQs with structured data, plus tracking for calls and forms. It is the right choice for service businesses that want leads from more than one city.

Not when it is done properly. We map every existing URL to its new page or redirect, keep your titles and content that already rank, and submit the new sitemap to Google on launch day. Most clients see rankings improve because the new site is faster.

Yes. We handle redesigns, speed fixes, mobile problems and migrations from WordPress, Wix and Squarespace. We keep every URL that ranks or redirect it properly, so you keep your Google history.