Website kaise banaye? 3 ways to get a business site online

Short answer: Website banane ke teen raaste hain. In plain words, you can build a business website yourself on a builder from your phone (typically ₹0 to ₹8,000 a year), set up WordPress with hosting and a theme (typically ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 a year plus your own time), or get it made by a developer (typically ₹10,000 to ₹40,000 one-time). Whichever route you choose, you need the same three things: a domain name in your own name, somewhere to host the pages, and five pages of plain, honest text with a WhatsApp button.

"Website kaise banaye" is one of the most searched how-to questions in India, and most of the answers are hour-long videos made for students learning web design. This guide is for an owner who runs a shop, clinic, salon, coaching class or service and wants a website that brings enquiries, not a career in coding. It explains what "google par website kaise banaye" really means, the three routes with their steps and typical costs, the seven steps that are the same on every route, and the mistakes that cost owners money later.

Website kaise banaye? (How do you make a website?)

A website is just a few pages of text and photos stored on a computer that is always switched on (the hosting), reached through a name people can type (the domain). Everything else is detail. When someone says "I made a website", they did three jobs: they rented a domain, they rented hosting or used a builder that includes it, and they filled the pages.

So the real question is "who does those three jobs": you, a tool, or a developer. Here are the three routes, cheapest first.

"Google par website kaise banaye": what people actually mean

A lot of owners search this because they want to be "on Google". Three honest points:

• There is no Google website for businesses any more. Google used to give each Business Profile a free one-page site, but that feature was retired. Today the free thing Google gives you is the Google Business Profile: the listing with your photos, timings, reviews, call button and directions that shows on Maps and in search. For many small shops, that profile does 80% of what a website would.
• Google Sites exists, but it is not for business sites. It is a free page-maker meant for school projects and internal team pages. It has no WhatsApp button, no enquiry form, no proper search settings, and it looks like what it is.
• A real website still needs a domain, hosting and pages. Google does not provide those. The routes below do.

If you have not done the free part yet, start with our guide to getting your shop on Google Maps.

Route 1: A builder from your phone (free or cheap)

Website builders like Wix, Zoho Sites and the Hostinger builder give you a ready template, hosting, and an editor where you replace their text and photos with yours. Most work from a phone.

1. Sign up with your email and pick a template made for your type of business.
2. Replace the headline, the about text and the services list. Delete pages you do not need.
3. Upload eight to ten real photos of your shop, work or team.
4. Add a WhatsApp button and a call button. Every builder has a block for this.
5. Connect a domain. The free plan gives you yourshop.builder.com; a paid plan lets you use yourshop.in.
6. Publish, then open it on a different phone and check every button.

Typical cost at the time of writing: free plans exist but show the builder's ads; paid business plans are usually ₹2,500 to ₹12,000 a year depending on the builder, plus ₹800 to ₹1,500 a year for the domain. We compare the builders honestly in website builders for small business.

What breaks: you cannot move the site to another company later, prices rise at renewal, and most owners never write the text, so the site stays half-finished with the template's wording.

Route 2: WordPress with hosting and a theme

WordPress is free software that runs on hosting you rent. It is more flexible than a builder and you can move it anywhere, but there are more steps and more things to maintain.

1. Buy hosting from an Indian or global host. Shared hosting suitable for a small site is typically ₹2,000 to ₹6,000 a year at the time of writing, often with a free domain for the first year.
2. Use the host's one-click WordPress installer.
3. Pick a theme. Free themes are fine for a small business; paid ones usually cost ₹3,000 to ₹6,000 one-time or per year.
4. Add pages: Home, Services, About, Gallery, Contact. Write the text yourself.
5. Install a WhatsApp chat plugin, a contact form plugin, and a basic SEO plugin. Do not install twenty plugins.
6. Turn on the free SSL (the padlock), set the site title, and submit the site in Google Search Console.
7. Update WordPress, the theme and the plugins every month, after taking a backup.

Typical cost at the time of writing: ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 a year for hosting, domain and a theme, plus two or three weekends of your time the first year.

What breaks: updates that conflict with each other, slow pages from heavy themes, hacked sites when updates are skipped for a year. If you like tinkering, WordPress is a good route. If you do not, it becomes a chore you avoid.

Route 3: Get it made by a developer or a small company

You share your details, photos and prices, and someone else does all the jobs above and hands you the logins.

1. Shortlist two or three developers. Ask to see three sites they built for businesses like yours, on your phone.
2. Ask for a written list of what is included: pages, who writes the text, WhatsApp and call buttons, Google search setup, number of change rounds, yearly costs.
3. Insist that the domain and hosting are registered in your name, or that you are given the logins.
4. Send your photos, services, prices and timings within two days; most delays are on the owner's side.
5. Review the site on your phone, ask for changes, then make the final payment.
6. Get the logins for the domain, hosting, Search Console and the site itself, and store them somewhere safe.

Typical cost at the time of writing: ₹10,000 to ₹40,000 one-time for a professional small business site, plus ₹3,000 to ₹8,000 a year for the domain and hosting. Our post on website development cost in India breaks down every price band and the yearly costs quotes leave out.

What breaks: usually nothing technical. The risk is people: a developer who disappears, a domain you do not own, or a "₹999 website" where every change costs extra.

The three routes side by side

The 7 steps that are the same on every route

Whichever route you take, these seven steps decide whether the website brings customers. (If the website is one part of a bigger move online, our guide to online business kaise kare puts it in order with Google Maps, WhatsApp and reviews.)

1. Pick a domain name

Keep it short, easy to say on the phone, and close to your shop's name. .in is usually a little cheaper and signals India; .com is what people type by habit. At the time of writing, either typically costs ₹800 to ₹1,500 a year. Register it yourself, with your own email and mobile number.

2. Decide your five pages

Home, Services (or Menu, or Treatments), About, Gallery, and Contact. A one-page site with these as sections is fine for most shops. Add one page per main service only if people search for those services separately, because Google ranks pages, not sites.

3. Write the text in plain words

Say what you do, where you are, who it is for, what it costs (or "from ₹X"), and how to reach you. Write the way you would explain to a customer at the counter. Do not copy text from another business's site; Google notices and customers do too.

4. Collect photos

Ten real photos beat one hundred stock photos: the front of the shop, the inside, the team, the work, before-and-after if that applies. Take them in daylight.

5. Add WhatsApp and call buttons

Most Indian visitors are on a phone and want to message, not fill a form. Put a WhatsApp button and a call button on every page, and make sure the number rings during your working hours.

6. Connect your Google Business Profile

Add the website link to your Google profile, and add your Google Maps location to the website. The two together tell Google you are a real business at a real place.

7. Test on a phone

Open the site on someone else's phone on mobile data. Tap every button, and check the timings and prices.

Common mistakes that cost owners money

• Buying the domain in the developer's name. You cannot leave, renew or move. Ask for the registrar login on day one.
• Never checking on a phone. A site that looks fine on a laptop can hide the call button on a phone.
• No contact button on the page. A "Contact us" page three taps away loses most enquiries.
• Copying text from another site. It gives Google no reason to show you instead of them.

What we charge

If you would rather have the third route done for you, these are our fixed packages. Prices are one-time, exclude GST, and everything (domain, hosting, site files, Search Console) stays in your name.

• Starter, ₹9,999 one-time. A one-page, mobile-first website with WhatsApp and call buttons and your Google Maps location, live in about five working days.
• Business, ₹24,999 one-time. Up to six pages, we write all the text, a gallery and services list, an enquiry form plus WhatsApp, and basic Google search setup, in about ten working days.
• Growth, ₹49,999 one-time. Up to twelve pages, a blog section, full SEO setup, speed tuning, and three months of free small changes.

Full details are on the business websites page, and all our services are side by side on the pricing page. We work across India over WhatsApp, phone and video call.

The short version

To make a website for your business you need a domain, hosting and five pages of honest text, and you can get those three things from a phone builder (typically ₹0 to ₹12,000 a year), from WordPress on rented hosting (typically ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 a year plus your time), or from a developer (typically ₹10,000 to ₹40,000 one-time). There is no "Google website" any more, but the free Google Business Profile is the right first step on every route. Whatever you choose, register the domain in your own name, add WhatsApp and call buttons, connect the Google profile, and test it on a phone before you tell anyone the address.