SEO Optimisation

A professional website in Zimbabwe costs between $80 and $500 at Solz Designs. A portfolio website is $80 to $100, a full multi-page business website is $500, and an e-commerce store with cart and checkout is $500. Ongoing maintenance is $150 per month and is entirely optional. Every price is fixed and quoted in writing before work begins — there are no hourly charges, no hidden fees, and no change in price if the project takes us longer than we expected. Two costs sit outside the quote because you own them directly: a domain at roughly $20–$30 a year, and hosting, which for the way we build is usually free.

A portfolio or small business website takes 5–10 working days from the day we receive your content. E-commerce stores take 2–4 weeks depending on how many products and payment methods are involved. The timeline is agreed in writing before the project starts, and the main thing that delays a build is waiting on content from the client — so we help you prepare it up front.

Yes. Solz Designs is based in Harare but works remotely across all of Zimbabwe, including Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, Mutare, Gweru and Masvingo, as well as with clients abroad. The entire process runs over WhatsApp, email and video calls, so where you are makes no difference to the price or the timeline.

Yes, completely. You own the domain, the hosting account and the source code. Solz Designs registers everything in your name, not ours, and you receive the full codebase at handover. You are never locked into us — you can move the site to another developer at any time without asking permission or paying a release fee.

Hosting and the domain are billed separately because they are ongoing costs you own directly. A .co.zw domain costs roughly $20–$30 per year and hosting for the sites we build is typically $0–$20 per month, since our Next.js builds run on free or low-cost tiers that would cost far more on traditional WordPress hosting. We set both up for you at no extra charge.

Yes. Redesigns are a large part of our work. We audit what your current site earns in Search Console first, so that we keep the pages and URLs that already bring traffic and rebuild the rest. Preserving working URLs and redirecting old ones correctly is what stops a redesign from destroying rankings — it is the step most redesigns skip.

Three things, in order: pages that match what people actually search, a site fast enough to crawl and use on mobile data, and clear signals about where you operate. Most Zimbabwean business sites fail the first one — they have a single Home, About and Contact page and nothing targeting real search demand. Adding pages that answer specific questions your customers ask is usually worth more than any technical fix.

Yes. Standard terms are 50% to start and 50% on launch. For e-commerce projects over $500 we can split payment across three milestones. We accept EcoCash, bank transfer and USD cash, and every project is invoiced with a written scope so you know exactly what you are paying for.