A guide for business owners in Ensenada and Baja California
How much does a website cost for a business in Ensenada?
What a website costs depends on how many pages it has and what it has to do: take messages, take bookings or sell online. At Cardon Digital a single page starts at $440 USD and an online store at $2,240 USD. The domain and hosting are paid on top, and both have to be renewed.
What drives the price of a website?
The price of a website mostly follows the hours it takes to build, and those hours come from the number of pages, what the site has to do and who writes the copy. A page that introduces your business takes less work than a site that takes bookings or card payments.
What moves the price of a website up or down
- How many pages: a single page, or separate pages for services, past work and contact.
- What it has to do: take messages, book appointments, sell products or take payments.
- Who writes the copy and finds the photos: you or the builder.
- Whether it runs in one language or two, common in Ensenada because of tourism.
- Whether the design is made for your business or comes from a template.
How much does each kind of website cost at Cardon Digital?
Cardon Digital publishes four website packages, from a single page to an online store. The smallest starts at $440 USD and the largest at $2,240 USD. Each price comes from the hours the package takes, and anything your site needs beyond its package is quoted separately.
| What it is for | From | Pages | Delivery | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One page | A full interactive page that brings in customers. | $440 USD | 1 page | 3 to 5 business days |
| Full site | The full site: your services, your work and your story, in depth. | $880 USD | Up to 6 pages | 7 to 10 business days |
| Site with bookings | So they book without calling you. | $1,530 USD | Up to 8 pages | 12 to 15 business days |
| Online store | To sell online. | $2,240 USD | 6 pages plus your product pages | 15 to 20 business days |
A booking site or a store takes longer than a one-page site because it does more, and every booking and every payment is tested before handover.
What comes with a Cardon Digital website at no extra cost?
Every Cardon Digital package, the one-page site included, carries the same base, and the published price already covers it. From one package to the next the pages and what the site does change, and the basics stay the same.
What any Cardon Digital website includes
- Design made for your business.
- Copy written with you.
- Contact button and a short form.
- Every message and call counted.
- Google and the map set up for your area.
- Ready for ChatGPT, Gemini and Google answers: structured data, answers at the top of each page, common questions, AI crawlers allowed and fast pages.
- The domain, the hosting and the logins in your name.
A site that is ready for ChatGPT, Gemini and Google has a better chance of turning up in their answers, but none of those engines promises to name a business. What can be checked is that your site lets them read it and answers clearly.
What does a website keep costing after it launches?
After launch a website keeps a few bills: the domain and the hosting renew, usually every year, and email at your own domain is paid separately if you want it. They are small, but if one lapses the site or the email can stop working.
The website bills owners tend to forget
- The domain, your site's address. A .mx domain is registered for one to ten years and has to be renewed; some registrars park it when the renewal charge fails, and getting it back can cost more than renewing on time.
- The hosting, the server the site lives on. Some providers publish one price for the first year and a higher one for the renewal, so ask for both.
- Email at your domain, like sales@yourbusiness.com. Services such as Google Workspace charge for it per user, every month.
- Changes after launch: new hours, a new price, a photo. If you do not make them yourself, they are billed separately or under a care plan.
At Cardon Digital monthly care is optional and costs $150 USD a month. It covers hosting, the domain, updates and two changes a month, and you can stop it whenever you like, because the domain and the site stay in your name.
What should you ask before paying for a website?
Before paying for a website, find out what the price includes, whose name the domain and the site are in, and what you will pay each year after launch. Two quotes at the same price can cover very different things.
Questions for comparing website quotes
- Are the domain, the hosting and the logins in my name?
- What does renewing the hosting and the domain cost in year two?
- Who writes the copy and who finds the photos?
- How many days does it take, and from when?
- What does a change cost after launch?
- Does my site let in the crawlers from Google and the AI engines?
To see what your site would cost, you can build your package on the Cardon Digital pricing page and send it with your enquiry. Build my package
Sources
Every outside fact in this guide links to the page it comes from, read on the date the guide was last updated.
- Sobre dominios .mx (opens in a new tab)GoDaddy Help Mexico (in Spanish)A .mx domain registers and renews for one to ten years, and what happens when a renewal charge fails.
- Servicio de web hosting (opens in a new tab)Akky (in Spanish)An example of hosting with one price for the first year and another for the renewal.
- Compare pricing plan options (opens in a new tab)Google WorkspaceEmail at your own domain is billed per user per month.
- In-depth guide to how Google Search works (opens in a new tab)Google Search CentralGoogle does not guarantee that it will crawl, index or serve a page.
Common questions about what a website costs
Whose name are the domain and the website in?
At Cardon Digital, yours from day one: the domain, the hosting and the logins. You can make changes yourself, switch providers or drop the monthly care whenever you like without losing your site.
Do I have to pay for monthly care?
No. At Cardon Digital care is optional and costs $150 USD a month, covering hosting, the domain, updates and two changes a month. Without it, you pay for the domain and the hosting directly to your providers.
What does it cost to change something on my site after launch?
With Cardon Digital's monthly care, two changes a month are included. Without it, the logins are yours and you can make changes yourself; every booking site includes a session to show you how.
Does a new website show up on Google from day one?
Not necessarily. Google first has to find the page and add it to its index, and it says it does not guarantee doing so. A well built site with an up to date Google Business Profile has a better chance of showing sooner.