My cousin wants a website for his home remodeling business. It's just a glorified business card, static site, to add legitimacy to his business and provide pictures of past work as well as contact information.

People always seem to recommend squarespace for this, but at $15/mo vs $10/mo for godaddy's website builder, I figured I'd ask if anyone had any experience with it.

Hi guys. I have a renovation business. I choose go daddy to buy the domain and website builder ( i pay domain and 160 $ / year for basic marketing ). After i read on reddit and saw many bad reviews and its really hit me. Is there any way we can stranfer domain to another hosting and that mean i lost the money i pay for Godaddy right ? Also i need some hosting good at SEO 👍🏻 because i dont really need complicated website. Tks guys

Hi-

What’s your experience using Godaddy to build your website and/or SEO ?

I need a website up asap.

I know SEO takes months…how does one really know they’re doing what you paid for with SEO back-links ?

I'm looking for godaddy website builder reviews because I have some doubts with which one use, I checked also Hostinger and Wix website builders.

My cousin's Carpet business needs a website. It's mostly just to show off his work and give people his contact information.

A lot of people say that Hostinger is good, but GoDaddy's website builder is less expensive. Hostinger costs $15 a month, but this costs only $10.

Would someone here like to try GoDaddy's builder? I want to know how simple it is to use, especially for people like us who are just starting out. How good is the help if you get stuck?

Thanks!

I’ll start off right now: web design is my least favorite kind of design. I don’t want to spend an arm and a leg to make a basic website.

I am starting the process of opening my own business, and I need a basic website. Currently won’t be selling anything on it, so it’s really just informational at the moment.

We purchased our domain through GoDaddy, and I’m unsure what to use to make the website itself. I do not want to use GoDaddy’s AI builder, and I was never comfortable using WordPress (which they collaborate with).

Here’s my question: those of you with website creating/hosting experience, what’s going to be the best way to go about this? Do you recommend just fighting with WordPress, or am I better off hiring someone to build it from scratch?

I built a website through GoDaddy website builder for my business with hopes of selling products online. My long term goal is to build my website to the point where it will eventually rank for search for certain keywords and drive organic traffic. I am learning that GoDaddy Website Builder has significant limitations or hinderances when it comes to crucial SEO things. My research leads me to believe the only way I can achieve my long term goals is to break free from GoDaddy Website Builder and switch to wordpress or some other platform with far more capabilities and control. If this is indeed the case I feel like I should make the switch before building out my website even further. I feel like the longer I wait the more of a nightmare it will be. My research tells me that it is not possible to migrate it and that I will have to rebuild it from scratch. With that in mind I have a few questions...

1. Am I correct in that I will need to rebuild it from scratch?

2. Is it worth making the switch?

3. Is there any reason to not use GoDaddy to host a Wordpress site?

4. If I should use a different host who do you recommend? Or, what should one consider when choosing a host?

5. Should I switch who I own my domain through as well or does that part of the equation not really matter?

6. Clearly I am a noob... is there any general advice you can offer about what I am facing?

I really don't want to go through this process a few times. I don't want to switch just to discover I have to switch more stuff up further down the road. I would like to do things a best as possible this time around to hopefully set me up for long term success and achieving my goals. I wanna go big, not go home. Any tips, advice, or guidance is appreciated! Thank you much!

So here on godaddy's site it says you can make a free website and keep it forever

https://www.godaddy.com/websites/website-builder

A plan for every plan.

Your free, mobile-friendly site comes with built-in marketing and 24/7 support. Keep it free forever, or upgrade to a paid plan for more business-building features.

But twice now I've had to rebuild my website because it started charging me for things and the only way they could refund it was to cancel my whole site. When ask the reps they just tell me I have to purchase a plan to keep my site up. It's like they have all been trained to hard sell but have no idea about the claims their own website makes.

So is it actually possible to have a free website forever or is that just something they are lying about?

My cousin is starting a business fixing things around the house. He needs a simple website to show off his work and give people a way to get in touch with him. It's been said that Squarespace is pretty good, but I see that GoDaddy's website builder is only $10 a month, while Squarespace's is $15 a month. A lot of people use both GoDaddy and Squarespace. What do you think? Is GoDaddy a good website builder, or should we go with Squarespace?

Hi all,

As title says, I’m not sure what I’ve purchased from GoDaddy. Im totally new to website building and have virtually no clue what to even do…

I intended to buy domain from GoDaddy and hosting+website builder from SquareSpace (those are the only things I need, right?!?), but then I see these items listen in my GoDaddy account. Did I also buy hosting and a website builder?

When I click the manage link next to “websites + marketing”, it takes me to a freebie version of a website builder that is incredibly simple (doesn’t have lot of templates, add ons etc) and it prompts be to buy a monthly subscription to a “plan for your site”.

So, what did I buy?

Explain everything to me as if I was 5.

Thanks Reddit!!

My cousin's Carpet business needs a website. It's mostly just to show off his work and give people his contact information. A lot of people say that Hostinger is good, but GoDaddy's website builder is less expensive. Hostinger costs $15 a month, but this costs only $10. Would someone here like to try GoDaddy's builder? I want to know how simple it is to use, especially for people like us who are just starting out. How good is the help if you get stuck? Any advice or thoughts from your experience would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I own a small apothecary business. I was naive when I started it in 2021. I chose Godaddy not knowing better. After way more money than I ever should have spent and countless hours of work...They completely deleted my website! Now, I know that they have a policy where you have a set amount of time to renew your domain before they do this, but I never received an email, text, phone call etc. that it was time to renew my domain. In fact, I paid over $400 last year thinking that I had renewed it..Well..I went in and paid for another 3 years...but my website is completely gone. Countless hours eradicated. I'm furious. They luckily refunded me my measly $180, but I have to completely rebuild a new one asap as I have multiple customers on standby right now. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!! Thank you!

Edit: it will also need to have a somewhat simple website builder as I am "self-taught" one time on how to build a website and by no means tech savvy! 😬

I've just started my own woodworking business, filed with the state and now onto website ideas. I bought the domain name and need to create a simple web page. I'm not looking thinking of e-commerce or online payments. Would you use godaddy or wix to build the pages and why?

What do you guys think about using something like this as a tool to create a modern looking website to gauge market interest as compared to something like building your own site, using Wordpress, or something else?

At just $1.00/month, with monthly subscription plans available, it seems like a great deal to get a (practically) free domain name.

I was asked by a friend of mine to help put the website for their new business together. I’ve done some very basic HTML, but my job uses Squarespace and their site-builder, so I’m far more accustomed to that. My friend is using GoDaddy, and doesn’t seem interested in paying extra for their site-builder or any other if they can help it.

How would I go about doing that - building a website on its own and then getting on to GoDaddy’s servers?

I’m considering using GoDaddy Website Builder for a new project and wanted to get some feedback from people who have used it. It looks like a solid option with features like mobile-responsive templates, SSL security, and SEO tools, but I’m curious if it lives up to the hype.

How easy is it to use for beginners with no web development experience? Would love to hear your experiences and thoughts! Thanks!

I bought my domain and now I need to work on building out my site to advertise my career coaching services. GoDaddy seems to have all the services I need to get started, but I am a bit overwhelmed with deciding on if it’ll be sufficient to launch it, or if there’s a better path to building it cost-effectively. Any advice and I’m assuming it would be easy to change services if I need to eventually scale? TIA!

I've been using them for about 6 months for my store and everything seems fine and working (Word Press site). Their 24 customer service has been helpful. But everyone says they suck, horrible, avoid them etc. Is there a good hosting site that you guys can recommend? Or reasons why GoDaddy sucks even though I haven't had any issues?

When I first signed up with Godaddy, I didn't know the first thing about website building, SEO , etc. It seems the more I have been learning, the more I think I made a bad choice. I recently found out that Godaddy Website builder doesn't have an option to submit my sitemap to Google Webmaster. So I called Godaddy and they said "Well the good news is we do it for you". This has me worried as that sounds like a load of crap. Is there anyway to manually submit a site map and what do you guys think about Godaddy? Alternatives?

To give context: I have more or less zero experience with website development or design, and I’ve avoided anything related to computers and design most of my life. I’ve done minimal editing with divi editor in wordpress, and that’s about it.

My girlfriend is a dancer, and I wanted to create a website portfolio for her. I made a nice website on square space in the free trial, but here’s where I get confused.

So I can have access to the square space editor plus the domain for $16 a month if I pay annually. However, if I do GoDaddy and start over, I can get the domain for $47 for 3 years and a website editor for free. I really don’t want to be paying $16 per month. For GoDaddy, are there going to be other things that I will need to purchase after this $47 for 3 years? I worry that I will need to buy additional services that in effect will be like the SquareSpace $16 per month. If that’s the case, I’d rather just use square space bc it was super easy and I already did it.

Does anybody have any additional information that can clarify this for me? I want it to be budget friendly, as the website isn’t really generating cash it’s a supplement to a resume. Thanks