Provider facts
What does Websites R Us (WebsitesRUs) charge, and what do you get?
Disclosure: Appear is run by creativebyjake, which appears in this comparison. Every fact is from each provider's own pages with the date we read them, ours included.
Websites R Us (WebsitesRUs) ("Website design and build studio, based on the Central Coast, working with clients across Australia." and "Ettalong Beach NSW 2257" (footer); contact page "Based on" "Central Coast, NSW, working Australia-wide"): Fixed quotes agreed up front, five trade clients among its case studies (Creative Walls is listed twice), and AI search work (llms.txt and AI-crawler guidance) in its SEO service. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 13 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
Websites R Us (WebsitesRUs), from its own pages
Named by: ChatGPT (8 Oct) for "affordable website for a tradie in Australia"; Claude (8 Oct) for "affordable website for a tradie in Australia".
- Website price shown
- Not shown on the pages read: "Every project is quoted as a fixed price after a discovery call, based on the number of templates, the content involved and any integrations." The contact form's "Rough budget" options are Under $3k, $3 to 6k, $6k to 10k, $10 to 20k and Not sure (ranges written with "to"); these are form options, not prices
websitesrus.com.au/services, websitesrus.com.au/contact - What a build includes
- "New site": "Discovery and sitemap"; "Design for every template"; "Build, launch and training"; "30 days of post-launch support". The build service also lists "Hosting, SSL and backups set up for you"
websitesrus.com.au/services - Ongoing fees
- "Care plan" "Monthly · cancel any time": "Software and dependency updates"; "Around-the-clock uptime monitoring"; "Daily off-site backups"; "A monthly performance report"; "Small content changes included"; price not shown on the pages read
websitesrus.com.au/services - Local SEO or marketing
- "SEO & AEO" ("Found by Google. Quoted by AI."): "Technical SEO and schema markup"; "Keyword and customer-question research"; "Plain-language Q&A blocks on service pages"; "Local SEO and Google Business Profile"; "An llms.txt file and AI-crawler guidance"; price not shown on the pages read
websitesrus.com.au/services - Platform
- Stated: "a fast static front end for most service businesses, Shopify for online stores, and WordPress when your team needs to keep editing in it". The Creative Walls case study lists "Platform" "WordPress + Elementor Pro". Their own site is served as WordPress with Elementor (generator meta "Elementor 4.3.4", theme hello-elementor)
websitesrus.com.au/services, websitesrus.com.au/work/creative-walls - Named person
- Not shown on the pages read: no about or team page in the sitemap; a home page testimonial names "Cam" ("how much Cam cared about the finished product")
websitesrus.com.au - Reviews on its own site
- "5.0" "Average client rating" with no count or source; three "Client testimonials" (Rodney, Central Coast Home Care Services; Tiago, Gracie Elite Central Coast; Stuart, Chuck Media); no Google rating or profile link on the pages read
websitesrus.com.au - Example builds
- Work page "All" 9 projects, "Trades" 6 (Creative Walls, listed twice for 2025 and 2026, Reflections Building, Arcek Build, Peninsula Air Conditioning, SC Building), "E-commerce" 1, "Professional services" 2; each with the live domain shown
websitesrus.com.au/work - Page for tradies
- No tradie page now. The pages the assistants cited, https://websitesrus.com.au/tradie-websites/ and https://websitesrus.com.au/our-packages/, both return 301 to https://websitesrus.com.au/services/, and the sitemap lists no tradie or packages page. "Trades" exists only as a work filter
websitesrus.com.au/services - Based
- "Website design and build studio, based on the Central Coast, working with clients across Australia." and "Ettalong Beach NSW 2257" (footer); contact page "Based on" "Central Coast, NSW, working Australia-wide"
websitesrus.com.au, websitesrus.com.au/contact
Other things its pages say
- "120+" "Projects shipped"; "15+" "Years trading"; "90+" "Average Lighthouse score" websitesrus.com.au
- "Projects shipped since 2015" websitesrus.com.au/work
- "99.98%" "Average uptime across care-plan sites" websitesrus.com.au/services
- "8 wks" "Typical time to launch"; "1" "Fixed quote, agreed up front" websitesrus.com.au/process
- "We're a Central Coast studio."; local pages for Gosford, the Peninsula, Terrigal and the north of the Coast websitesrus.com.au/web-design-central-coast
Is Websites R Us (WebsitesRUs) right for you?
Best for: Central Coast businesses that want a fixed quote after a discovery call.
Worth asking them: for the quote and the care plan price (neither is published); the tradie page the assistants cited now redirects to a general services page.
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| Websites R Us (WebsitesRUs) | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | Not shown on the pages read: "Every project is quoted as a fixed price after a discovery call, based on the number of templates, the content involved and any integrations." The contact form's "Rough budget" options are Under $3k, $3 to 6k, $6k to 10k, $10 to 20k and Not sure (ranges written with "to"); these are form options, not prices websitesrus.com.au/services, websitesrus.com.au/contact | $500 + GST for a two-page site, paid once; going live on a domain in the client's own name is $100 plus the domain's own fees creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
| Ongoing fees | "Care plan" "Monthly · cancel any time": "Software and dependency updates"; "Around-the-clock uptime monitoring"; "Daily off-site backups"; "A monthly performance report"; "Small content changes included"; price not shown on the pages read websitesrus.com.au/services | Maintenance at $50 + GST a month, no contract, two weeks' notice to stop; hosting: not stated on its pages creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
| Local SEO or marketing | "SEO & AEO" ("Found by Google. Quoted by AI."): "Technical SEO and schema markup"; "Keyword and customer-question research"; "Plain-language Q&A blocks on service pages"; "Local SEO and Google Business Profile"; "An llms.txt file and AI-crawler guidance"; price not shown on the pages read websitesrus.com.au/services | Appear at $250 + GST a month: the Google listing kept up, details matched across directories, a review kit, a local page every second month, Maps read weekly and AI answers monthly; Appear and maintenance together are $300 a month including GST creativebyjake.com.au/appear/ |
| Reviews on its own site | "5.0" "Average client rating" with no count or source; three "Client testimonials" (Rodney, Central Coast Home Care Services; Tiago, Gracie Elite Central Coast; Stuart, Chuck Media); no Google rating or profile link on the pages read websitesrus.com.au | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | Work page "All" 9 projects, "Trades" 6 (Creative Walls, listed twice for 2025 and 2026, Reflections Building, Arcek Build, Peninsula Air Conditioning, SC Building), "E-commerce" 1, "Professional services" 2; each with the live domain shown websitesrus.com.au/work | Example builds for made-up businesses, labelled as such: Pipeworth Plumbing Co. and Brushmore Painting Co. creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
Worth asking us: about how new it is: its examples are builds for made-up businesses and its site shows no reviews, so ask Jake for a call and judge for yourself.
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