How much does BETTER cost?
Three monthly packages. All prices exclude VAT, and every plan includes hosting, updates, daily backups and monitoring.
Better
Hosting, updates, backups and monitoring for your WordPress website.
£150 /month + VAT
For a business that needs its website kept fast, safe and up to date, and doesn't need changes every month.
Hosting and care
- High performance website hosting
- Fast content delivery network
- SSL website certificate
- Daily website backups, stored with a separate provider
- WordPress and plugin updates
- Brute force attack protection
- 24/7 security and uptime monitoring
- Email and contact form health check
- Performance monitoring
- Basic monthly health report
Better+
Most popular
Everything in Better, plus deeper monthly checks, SEO and time for improvements.
£500 /month + VAT
For a business that relies on its website for enquiries and wants it found on Google.
Hosting and care
- High performance website hosting
- Fast content delivery network
- SSL website certificate
- Daily website backups, stored with a separate provider
- WordPress and plugin updates
- Brute force attack protection
- 24/7 security and uptime monitoring
- Email and contact form health check
Monthly checks
- Performance monitoring: Search Console, GTmetrix, PageSpeed and Semrush
- Broken link, SSL and speed checks
- 301/302 redirect checks
- Meta content checks
- Screaming Frog crawl for everything else
- Contact form spam protection
- Advanced monthly health report
SEO
- SEO audit report
- SEO position report
- Tracking of 10 Google keywords
- Content edits to keep or improve rankings
- Content suggestions from the Better team
- 45 minutes a month of studio time for website improvements, with email and phone support
Better Marketing
Everything in Better+, plus a Google Ads campaign managed for you.
£2,000 /month + VAT
For a business that wants its website and its advertising looked after by the same team.
Hosting and care
- High performance website hosting
- Fast content delivery network
- SSL website certificate
- Daily website backups, stored with a separate provider
- WordPress and plugin updates
- Brute force attack protection
- 24/7 security and uptime monitoring
- Email and contact form health check
Monthly checks
- Performance monitoring: Search Console, GTmetrix, PageSpeed and Semrush
- Broken link, SSL and speed checks
- 301/302 redirect checks
- Meta content checks
- Screaming Frog crawl for everything else
- Contact form spam protection
- Advanced monthly health report
SEO
- SEO audit report
- SEO position report
- Tracking of 10 Google keywords
- Content edits to keep or improve rankings
- Content suggestions from a Genius Division strategist
- 45 minutes a month of studio time for website improvements, with email and phone support
Google Ads
- A calendar of Google Ads activity
- Keyword research: short, long-tail, positive and negative
- Set-up and management of one Google Ads campaign
- Ad extensions optimised
- Click-through and conversion rates tracked, with a monthly report
Monthly plan or pay as you go?
Most developers will fix your website when you ring them. The trouble is you only ring when something's already broken, and by then it's cost you enquiries. A monthly plan means someone's looking before that happens.
| Pay as you go | A Better plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Updates | When someone remembers | Every month, checked afterwards |
| Backups | Whatever your host does | Daily, stored with a separate provider |
| Problems | Found by your customers | Found by our monthly audit |
| Hosting | Separate bill, separate company | Included, and we look after it |
| What it costs | An hourly rate, every time | A fixed monthly fee + VAT |
| Proof anything happened | An invoice | A monthly report and your own dashboard |
Frequently asked questions
What do I get for my monthly fee?
We keep WordPress and your plugins up to date, including security patches. Every month we audit your website, check it works as it should and fix what we find. We back your website up every day to a separate location.
If something looks wrong, you can call or email us from 10:00 to 16:00, Monday to Friday. Better+ and Better Marketing include 45 minutes of studio time a month for questions, advice and small changes, like updating content you send us or changing contact details.
What if I need more than 45 minutes in a month?
Anything over your included time is charged at our standard hourly rate. Unused minutes don't roll over to the next month. If you need regular changes, we can add studio hours to your plan at any time.
What isn't included?
Support outside 10:00 to 16:00 on weekdays, including evenings and weekends. Building new, complex features. Writing the content for your website.
Can you look after a website someone else built?
Yes, as long as it runs on WordPress. We look at it first, tell you what we find, then move it onto our hosting for you.
How do I know you've actually done anything?
You get a report every month showing what we checked, what we fixed and how the website is doing. It comes with a link to your own dashboard, where you can see every report, compare months and combine them into one.
Who is behind Better?
Better is run by Genius Division, the web design agency in Barnsley. We've been building websites since 2010. Better is how we look after them once they're live.