The reason we do this is simple: it’s a great way for us to build connections with entrepreneurs who might hire us for larger paid projects as their businesses grow. 97% of the people for whom we’ve built website for free have been happy with the results and 10-20% go on to hire us for other paid projects down the line. They might hire us to build more complicated websites, an app, or do ongoing development work for them.

To put a website online – and to keep it online – you’ll need web hosting, which costs a few dollars per month. We cover our website development costs by asking you to sign up for web hosting with one of the most popular web hosting providers, Bluehost, using our affiliate link. (That affiliate link also has a special discounted rate that we’ve negotiated with Bluehost specifically for our clients.) 

When you use our link, we get a commission. This commission is paid to us by Bluehost. You pay nothing extra yourself. Bluehost has a Money-Back Guarantee so if you change your mind (for example, if you start with us and then decide you don’t actually want a website), you can always request a refund from them. 

That’s it! We simply recoup some of our costs by receiving the affiliate commission when you sign up for web hosting. 

The Free Website Guys is the top rated web development agency in the world.

We’re the #1 web agency on Clutch (of over 40,000 agencies), #1 on G2, #1 on GoodFirms, and #1 on Trustpilot. We’re also rated 4.9 stars on Facebook, and have been recommended by Hubspot, WP Mayor and even educational institutions like Texas State University. 

You’ll need to sign up for one of our preferred web hosting companies to get access to our free-website service.  With Bluehost, there’s a one-year plan for just $35 USD which you can access using our discount link. This means that you’ll be getting a full professional WordPress website for which other web agencies charge several thousand dollars for less than $40. (You can see some examples of our clients’ websites here.)

We also work with Nexcess, which has a great service as well. When you apply, just indicate that you’d prefer to sign up with Nexcess.

If you’re already paying for Bluehost or Nexcess, we can still work with you under certain circumstances. Go ahead and submit an application and indicate that you already have web hosting set up with one of these companies. We’ll reach out if we think we can still build you a website.

Bluehost is very affordable – just a few dollars per month for the first year – and they generally get great reviews. They’re also officially endorsed as the web host of choice by WordPress. If you change your mind on wanting a website, though, or wish to use a different hosting company, you can get a refund from BlueHost at any point within 30 days.

Since we finish most websites within 12-15 days, you’ll have plenty of time if you change your mind. 

To have a website online, you have to pay for web hosting. The only alternative to this is services like Wix. With Wix, however, your domain will look like yourdomain.wix.com (that is, it’ll have the word “wix” in it). If you want your own website (not a sub-domain of Wix), with an actual URL (yourdomain.com), web hosting is required.

You can learn more about how websites are set up here: https://websitesetup.org/ You’ll see that the first step is to get website hosting.

Nope. 

We won’t request your credit card. We won’t have you sign any kind of payment contracts with us. Nothing like that.

What you will need to do is to sign up for website hosting (which is what you’ll need to put any website on the internet, and a one-year plan is just $35). But the commission we receive from the hosting provider is paid by them, not you. 

If you want, you can also pay for a professional website template for us to build your website on. We usually recommend Divi for this. But you can also choose a free template, like one of the ones offered by WordPress. That’s 100% up to you. 

If you’ve already bought a domain name, that’s great. If you haven’t chosen one yet, that’s completely fine. We’ll show you how to do that.