How Much Does It Cost To Own A Website? Full Website Cost Calculation

In this article I am going to Talk About and answer the question How Much Does It Cost To Own A Website? and all aspects of expenses related to owning and running your very own website or blog. 

I am very sure you have asked or had the thought "How Much Does A Website Domain Cost?", "How Much Does A Website Cost Per Month?", "How Much Does A Website Cost To Build?" to name a few of the questions related to the matter and costs of owning your very own website or blog. 

Thankfully, these days you can almost completely ignore that last question as websites have become very easy to build and you are no longer at ransom to extortionately priced programmers and coders. 

No coding is involved at all these day. Not a single line of code..thankfully!. 

If you looking to find out how much it costs to own a website these days - you have certainly come to the right place. 

Read on as I break down the associated costs of owning your very own website!

How Much Does It Cost To Own A Website?

To answer this pertaining question outright and give you the best, cheapest and lowest priced answer then I can honestly tell you that it costs you nothing!

Zero, nada, zip, free...

However, 

If you a serious about your blog or building a website of any description and want to be taken seriously (and make some good hard cash) then the free option is most certainly not one that I would recommend. 

Why? 

The reason is simple. 

With a Your-Site .Wordpress.com or YourWebsite .Blogger.com or any of the many other free online blogging platforms available your potential audience simply won't take you seriously.  

How Much Does A Website Domain Cost?

Thankfully a domain name is relatively inexpensive with a recommended Top Level Domain of .com, .net or .org priced in the $10 to $15 per year price range all inclusive of the regular add on's and protection. 

I wrote an article here regarding Where To Purchase A Domain Name for the best price. If you are unsure or unfamiliar with purchasing domain names then do read that article as I do detail some very important aspects to keep an eye out for. 

This one of the few things that simply is unavoidable and about a buck a month on a yearly basis is hardly going to break the bank!. Do make sure you go for a SSL certificate as an add on or special offer included in the price of your domain name - a very common occurrence and practise.

How Much Does A Website Domain Cost?:  $10 to $15 yearly, including WHOIS, Privacy Protections and SSL certificate usually. 

When I first started out my very first blog I, like anyone else went with one of the free theme options available from WordPress.

These WordPress Themes are very functional and serve their purpose until you get your very first sales. 

Once you do, it would be wise to reinvest your earnings into buying a premium theme. You can of course continue to use a free theme for as long as you wish - even forever! . 

But, 

You do want a more professional, personalised and less generic look for your website and money making blog. 

Besides, 

On the technical side of thing there is greater functionality, lighter and run faster with cleaner coding. All of which will aid your SEO efforts in a number of ways and help your to get more traffic for your blog. 

That, is a very good reason to step up and buy a premium theme. 

If you can afford to go a little bit further, you skip ahead from premium theme and jump in and use a website builder. 

A website builder is not difficult to use nor complicated at all. I use Thrive Themes as my website builder and just for clarification purposes I know absolutely zero in regards to coding - I don't even know how to make a link "no follow" or the code associated with that!. 

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Website Cost Calculation

Lets now run through a quick cost analysis of what it costs to own and run a website. Keep mind mind I am talking about bare minimum cost of starting a brand new blog. 

• Domain Name: $10-$15 Yearly
• Hosting: $5/month. 

And that is it! A grand total of something like $6/month. 

Optional Extras.

• Premium Theme Or Website Builder: $60-$100 one time fee. 
  

So, for around $6 per month and $60-$100 one time fee you can be up and running with your very own Affiliate marketing blog. 

That brings us to another question!. 

How Much Does It Cost To Run And Manage An Affiliate Marketing Blog?

Naturally speaking the associated base costs of running and operating an affiliate marketing website is just the same as a regular website. 

• Domain
• Hosting
• Optional Premium Theme Or Website Builder

Are all that is needed and the costs are the same. 

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Keyword research tools like Jaaxy will set you back in the region of $50 per month. They are needed because you absolutely need to know what to write about, what to create content around and know what internet users are searching for on the major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. 

Basic supply and demand and providing internet users with what they are searching for.

A good keyword research tool will provide all the data regarding how many competing sites are using that search term (AKA Keyword Phrase) and how many searches it gets per month on average. 

This helps us to find low competition keywords (less than 50 competing sites) and ones with reasonable amount of traffic (at least 60 searches). 

The number of competing sites is shown as QSR in Jaaxy. 

Jaaxy, the one I use, also has a very useful keyword quality indicator or KQI for short that functions on a traffic light colour system:

• Green - Good To Go! 
• Amber - Meh! so-so you can go for it but your ability to rank will depend on your ability with SEO and your sites authority. 
• Red - No go. Stop. You will find it difficult to rank for this keyword. Your time and effort is best spend creating content that is more likely to rank. 

Another handy and valuable piece of information given to us by Jaaxy is the SEO rating, ideally you are aiming for this to be as high as possible, for new sites that I am trying to rank I aim for 95+, generally Speaking Never below 90!. 

The minimum cost of running a niche site marketing blog is slightly more expensive that running a regular site as the use of a keyword research tool is absolutely and completely required - at least for proper and professional functionality of your site and winning those hard earned commissions. 

• Domain/Website Name: $10-$15 Yearly
• Hosting Provider: $5/month. 
• Keyword Research Tool: $50/month

Bringing us to a grand total of something in the region of $56/month as an absolute minimum for running a niche marketing site. 

Naturally, there are the usual optional extras of a website builder or premium theme $60-$100 one off fee. 

The question begs now, how much does it cost to learn affiliate marketing?

(keep reading as the answer will surprise you!).

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Give that this company and training platform has an all inclusive hosting, and Keyword research tool (namely Jaaxy!) SSL certificate, step by step training videos, live chat, live weekly webinars and a thriving active community of almost 2 million like minded WebPreneurs of all levels. 

For only $49/month which is a money saving $7 monthly on all the tools that you would need other wise (hosting, Keyword research tool, SSL Certificate). 

Which is money that you would need to spend anyway...and still have no affiliate marketing training should you chose to "go it alone" 

....And as mentioned you have all the Affiliate Marketing training you need in the Online Entrepreneur Certification course and the Affiliate Bootcamp and the live weekly webinars all included in the $49/monthly fee. 

Thus I like to think that you pay for the tools and get the training for free!. 

Better still, there exists multiple savings options including free trail membership (no credit card required!) and First month for a sweet $19 to give you a bit more time to see if the training is the right fit for you and what you are looking for. 

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Further savings, exist should you wish to become a long term member and effectively reduce the cost of running your site as yearly membership is $359 a year - a little under $30/month. 

Now compare that to going it alone $56/month minimum cost of running an affiliate marketing blog (and with no training, no active thriving community to help you and cheer you on). 

Resulting in a saving of $26/month or just over $300/ year. 

Now, you can clearly understand why I say the training is free!. 

To be more accurate - end up saving a lot of money and get world class internet marketing training included!. 

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How Much Does It Cost To Own A Website? - The Conclusion

The cost of owning a website, just the name is barely $10 per year for the domain name only, and then there is the cost of running your website which can range from $5/month for basic shared hosting. 

If you are an affiliate marketer that price can rise to over $55 if you don't take advantage of the recommended money saving training program that I very much suggest that you join - even if you are an experienced marketer and don't need the training as the price can drop to $30/month with full use of all the needed tools to run your affiliate site successfully.  

So what are you going to do? 

Take advantage of that offer if you are an inexperienced marketer and get some world class training and get yourself on the right track to and pathway to sustainable success online - and save a ton of money while doing so. 

If you an experienced marketer? 

Jump on the opportunity to join save money and make a whole bunch of new connections in your industry and potentially a whole lot of new contacts in your industry that you can collaborate with and leverage to propel yourself and your site forwards...all the while saving a bit of cash on your hosting and much needed tools. 

Definitely a win-win for both groups! which ever you find yourself in - pop your name in the box below or go smash that red button!!

Because You Are More Than Ready To Start Making Money Online With A Blog!. The Question Is: Would You Rather Work For Someone Else Or Work For Yourself?!?

I hope that you know how much it costs to own a website and to run it on a monthly basis and are more than ready to get started and get your self building that dream site of yours. 

If you have any questions about this article, leave a comment below and I will get back to you as quickly as I can. 

To Your Success And Blogging Best. 

Derek.