This article was originally published on December 24, 2024. It was completely updated on September 19, 2026, to reflect current website pricing and market conditions. If you are considering hiring a professional web designer to build a website for your local service business, one of your first questions will probably...

Back in 2012, I had a main blog and a few other ‘niche’ websites that were earning a little bit of money. A few years later, I started to realize my potential to earn substantial money on the internet with blogging and websites, and I decided that I needed to...