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What it costs

How much does a website rebuild cost with Socializemy?

Rebuilds start at $3,500, paid half at kickoff and half at launch. After launch, hosting and security is $200 a month, or $500 a month with the answer engine, which includes hosting. If you need SOC 2 compliance, an SLA, a WAF and advanced security, that's a custom quote starting at $5,500. You get a written quote after I look at your current site.

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What does the $200 a month hosted and secured plan include?

Netlify Pro hosting, managed TLS certificates, security headers, spam-filtered forms, uptime monitoring, dependency updates, and up to one hour of content changes a month. The plan has a 90-day initial term, then runs month to month with 30 days' notice, and the rate is locked for 12 months after the initial term.

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The rebuild

How long does a website rebuild take?

About a week for a typical site of up to about seven pages, especially when the design already exists. You get a private preview link within the first few days, a review round, and then we switch the DNS together. Larger sites with many templates, a blog to move or custom integrations take longer, and the quote says how long.

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Will I lose my Google rankings if I move off WordPress?

Not if the move is done right. Every address Google already has either keeps working on the new site or gets a permanent 301 redirect to its new page, titles and descriptions carry over, and the sitemap goes back to Google after launch. On Horizon Home Buyers, all 12 blog posts kept their old addresses.

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Can I still edit my website without WordPress?

Yes. Send changes to me by email, and up to an hour of edits a month is included in the hosted plan. If your team wants to edit pages directly, a simple web editor can be connected to the site's repository. Either way, there's no admin login on the live site to attack.

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Will my email keep working when the website moves?

Yes. Only the DNS records for the website change. Your email records, like MX, stay exactly as they are, and your domain stays at your registrar. The old website records are noted before the switch so a rollback takes minutes if anything looks wrong.

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What happens to my contact forms and leads?

Forms run on Netlify Forms with spam filtering. Every submission is emailed to you and kept in the dashboard, and it can also be sent on to your CRM, like GoHighLevel. File uploads, like résumés on a careers form, are supported.

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Security and ownership

What is a static website, and why is it more secure than WordPress?

A static website is built ahead of time into plain HTML, CSS and image files and served from a global network. There's no PHP running, no database, no plugins and no admin login on the public site. Most WordPress break-ins come through a plugin that wasn't patched fast enough, so a static site removes that whole category of risk instead of managing it.

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Who owns the website, the code and the domain?

You do, from day one. You own the domain, the code, the content, the brand assets and the lead data. The domain stays at your registrar in your name. If we ever part ways, the site keeps running and you receive the full repository.

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What will my IT team need to review?

Usually four things: the hosting platform and its security attestations, the security headers, where form submissions go, and who owns the accounts. I send a written setup summary for their file and join the review call. An engineering client's IT and security lead approved the static setup on that call.

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Can you meet SOC 2, SLA and WAF requirements?

Yes, on the advanced security tier. If your IT or compliance team needs SOC 2 compliance, an uptime SLA, a web application firewall and advanced security, you get a custom quote starting at $5,500, scoped to what they require. The standard $200 a month plan runs on Netlify Pro, which has no uptime SLA and no WAF, so it fits only when those aren't required.

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ChatGPT and the answer engine

What is the answer engine, and what does the $500 a month plan add?

The answer engine is a monthly service that makes your site easier for ChatGPT and Google's AI answers to quote. Each month I draft one answer page from a question your buyers actually ask, you approve it, and it goes live with schema. The plan also covers schema upkeep, crawler and citation checks, a quarterly technical review and a monthly proof report. It's $500 a month and includes hosting.

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Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?

No, and nobody honestly can. ChatGPT's answers change with the question, the location and the sources it finds. What works is pages that say plainly what you do, marked up so a machine can read them, answering a real question, and backed up elsewhere on the web. The answer engine builds those and reports each month which target questions name you.

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How does ChatGPT decide which company to recommend?

When it searches, ChatGPT pulls answers from pages it can read cleanly and trust, then cites them. In five buyer questions asked on September 25, 2026, it favored companies with a published price, a clear page for the exact service asked about, and a Google profile. Asked about a company by name, it wanted to see recent work, a written scope, references and who owns the site.

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Working with Socializemy

Do you work with companies outside Spokane?

Yes. Socializemy is based in Spokane, Washington, and works with companies anywhere in the US by video call, email and a shared preview link. An electrical engineering and commissioning firm in Florida is a recent example.

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What's the difference between Socializemy and Spokane Biz Doctors?

Both are run by Cory James. Socializemy.com is the build studio: website rebuilds, hosting and the answer engine, for companies anywhere in the US. Spokane Biz Doctors is Cory's Spokane practice for local businesses that want to show up when Spokane asks Google or ChatGPT who to call.

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Does Socializemy still do social media management?

Not as a standalone service. Socializemy started with social media, branding and web design, and the work narrowed to what moved the needle most: a fast, secure website with answers a machine can quote. The answer pages it publishes each month give you something worth posting.

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Tell me where your website is now. You'll get a written quote within one business day, and I read every one myself.

Written quote within one business day. Prefer the phone? (323) 600-4763 · cory@socializemy.com