Insights · Pricing & scoping
What you are actually paying for.
Website and SEO quotes vary enormously because the work behind them varies enormously. These articles explain the variables that move a price, so a proposal can be read on its merits instead of compared on a headline number.
Articles
They support how Webbify scopes and prices projects, where published ranges tell you the shape and a proposal names the number.
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How to read this cluster
Quotes differ because scopes differ.
Two quotes for what sounds like the same website can differ by an order of magnitude, and the reason is usually not that one provider is overcharging. "A website" describes an outcome, not a scope. One quote may include the writing, the structural work, the migration of an existing site, and the search foundation. The other may include a template and an expectation that you supply the words.
The variables that move a price are knowable: how many distinct pages have to be written and structured, whether usable content already exists, whether there is an existing site whose search equity has to survive the move, what has to integrate with what, and how much of the thinking is yours versus the builder’s. These articles walk through each of them so a proposal can be read on its merits.
Webbify publishes ranges rather than a price list. A range tells you whether a conversation is worth having; a fixed number attached to a scope nobody has defined does not. What you should expect after that is a proposal naming what is included, what is not, and what happens if the scope changes partway through.
Where this fits
What these articles connect to in the pricing & scoping work itself.
Questions
What people ask before reading further.
Why ranges rather than a fixed price?
Because every published package price quietly assumes a scope you have not agreed to. Ranges give you enough to budget with and to decide whether a conversation is worth having. Every project is then scoped around the business, website, content, technical requirements, and long-term goals, and the proposal names the figure.
Is a cheaper website automatically a worse one?
No. Cheaper usually means a narrower scope, and a narrow scope is the right answer for plenty of businesses. The failure mode is not paying too little; it is paying for a scope that does not match what the business needed the site to do.
What should a website proposal actually tell me?
What is being built, what is explicitly not included, who supplies the content, what happens to the existing site and its URLs, what you own at the end, and how a change in scope is handled. A proposal that only gives a number and a timeline is leaving the expensive questions for later.
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