Comparison Tables — Questions & Answers

Basic (₱8,500 setup + ₱1,000/month, or ₱0-to-start at ₱1,699/month year one) is a complete custom website plus the core tools — review SMS funnel, Telegram update bot, booking, and a 24/7 chatbot free for four months. Business Pro (₱15,000 + ₱1,800/month, or ₱0-to-start at ₱3,175/month year one — and paying the ₱15,000 upfront saves the 10% promo premium, ₱1,500) keeps everything and adds the marketing engine: the chatbot forever, a weekly auto-blog, auto Google Business Profile posting, an auto-review responder, anniversary rebook SMS, multi-language toggle, and voice-to-content. Basic gets you online and found; Business Pro runs your marketing for you.

Web by Lods.AI gives you a custom site plus ongoing tools and support for ₱8,500 setup + ₱1,000/month (or ₱0 to start). A freelancer is usually cheaper up front but often one person with no maintenance, and gigs can stall or go quiet. A big agency delivers polish but frequently charges ₱25,000–₱60,000+ with slower timelines. We aim for the middle that matters: agency-level output, freelancer-friendly price, and a team that maintains it after launch.

A website alone gets you a professional, findable home base; adding SEO and AI visibility turns it into a customer engine. Website-only (from ₱1,000/month) is the foundation — built to be found, with review funnel and booking. The full funnel adds SEO Reports (₱500/month) or SEO Management Pro (₱1,500/month) to push you into the Google Maps top 3, plus the schema foundation that makes your business quotable by AI answer engines. The site is the base; SEO + AEO are how you climb.

A good website loads fast on mobile, uses your real photos, shows clear prices and hours, makes calling or booking one tap, appears on Google, and is maintained. A bad website is slow, generic with stock photos, hard to use on a phone, invisible in search, and abandoned after launch — so it quietly loses you customers. Web by Lods.AI builds only the first kind, and you can see yours free before deciding.

A Facebook Page is great for social reach and posting, but it's owned by Meta, buried in a feed, weak in Google search, and can't structure your prices, booking, or reviews the way buyers want. A website is your own space — found on Google, with prices, booking, reviews, and a chatbot, working 24/7. Web by Lods.AI makes them work together: your Page for discovery, your website to be found and to close.

For Basic, the first-year total is nearly identical either way — about ₱20,500 paying upfront (₱8,500 setup + ₱1,000 × 12) versus about ₱20,388 on the ₱0-to-start promo (₱1,699 × 12). The difference is cash flow and the long run: pay-upfront drops to ₱1,000/month from year two (cheaper long-term, break-even around month 12), while ₱0-to-start removes the upfront barrier. Same website, same support — you just pick how you pay.

They do different jobs, and it's not either/or. Paid Facebook ads are rented reach — they bring traffic while you pay and stop the moment you don't. A website is an asset you own that keeps working 24/7, gets you found on Google for free, and is where ad clicks should land to actually convert. Web by Lods.AI's advice: build the website foundation first (from ₱1,000/month), then any ads you run have somewhere to send people that closes the sale.

Most small businesses do great with a well-built one-page site — it loads fast, tells your whole story in one scroll (services, prices, reviews, booking), and is easy on mobile. You'd add pages when you have distinct services, a big before/after gallery, or multiple locations to detail. Web by Lods.AI builds your Basic site as one complete site, and extra pages are ₱2,500 each when you actually need them.

A Google Maps listing (your Business Profile) is a free pin showing your location, hours, reviews, and phone — it helps people find you, but you don't control its look and it can't structure services, booking, or a chatbot. A website is your own branded space that closes the booking. They work best together: Web by Lods.AI optimizes your Maps listing AND builds the website it links to, so discovery on Maps flows into a booking on your site.

Same site, same support — only the payment shape differs. With Web by Lods.AI's Basic standard path you pay ₱8,500 one-time setup plus ₱1,000/mo from month 1; with the free-website promo you pay ₱0 upfront and ₱1,699/mo for year 1, then it drops to ₱1,000/mo after 12 months. Standard is cheaper overall; the promo lets you start with zero cash out. Either way there's no lock-in — cancel anytime. See /pricing/ to compare side by side.

DIY builders like Wix, Squarespace, or WordPress hand you an empty editor — you do the design, the copy, the photos, the SEO setup, and the ongoing updates yourself. Web by Lods.AI delivers a finished, custom site built from your own Google and Facebook photos and reviews in about 5 days, plus a Telegram bot so you just text us to change prices or hours — no editor to learn. You also get the Google review SMS funnel, no-show reminders, and a live performance dashboard already wired in. You see the real preview before you pay a peso. Compare it at /pricing/.

A contact form only collects a message and makes the customer wait for you to reply — often hours later, sometimes never. Web by Lods.AI's 24/7 Taglish chatbot answers common questions instantly (hours, prices, services, location) even at 11pm, so a ready-to-book customer doesn't cool off or click to a competitor. It's included free for your first 4 months on Basic, then ₱500/mo or bundled free with Business Pro. See /features/ for how it works.

The free yourbiz.lods.ai subdomain is included with every Web by Lods.AI site and works perfectly — customers can find, share, and book on it from day one. A custom domain (like yourbiz.com) is an optional add-on at passthrough cost from ₱1,500/yr, and it's worth it if you want a fully branded web address on your tarps, cards, and Google listing. Start on the free subdomain and add the custom domain later anytime — it's transferable and you own it. See /pricing/ for add-on costs.

Business Pro is ₱1,800/mo (or ₱3,175/mo year 1 on the ₱0-upfront promo) — far less than a hired social media manager's monthly salary. It gives you a weekly auto-blog, weekly Google Business Profile posts, auto-replies to new Google reviews (you approve via Telegram), and a monthly performance report. One honest note: Business Pro does NOT run your full Facebook/Instagram posting — that's Marketing+, which is partner-delivered. If you want hands-off Google presence plus a real website, Business Pro is the value pick. Compare at /pricing/.

Paid ads stop the moment you stop paying — the leads vanish with the budget. Web by Lods.AI builds SEO into your site (Schema.org, sitemap auto-submitted to Google, and on Business Pro a weekly '{niche} {city}' blog) so you keep showing up in Google search over time without paying per click. We commit to a universal improvement floor on a market-based timeline, but to be honest we never promise a specific ranking or #1 spot. Best play: SEO as your long-term foundation, ads only for short bursts. Start with a free preview at /free-website-preview/.

Every Web by Lods.AI site is custom-built from your OWN Google and Facebook photos, reviews, and content — never a stock-photo template dropped over your name. Two businesses in the same niche and city get structurally different sites (different layout, palette, and hero), so you never look like a twin of your neighbor. You pick your look from our style options and see the finished preview before paying a peso. Browse the looks at /styles/.

Messenger only reaches people who already found your Page — it doesn't get you discovered by someone searching '{niche} {city}' on Google, and it can't show your hours, prices, map, and reviews at a glance. A Web by Lods.AI site does both: it ranks in Google search AND still keeps a Messenger chip (plus click-to-call, WhatsApp, and Viber) so buyers reach you however they like, 24/7 via the chatbot. Think of the website as the front door and Messenger as one of the doorbells. See a free preview at /free-website-preview/.

Business Pro is your website plus automated GOOGLE presence — weekly auto-blog, weekly Google Business Profile posts, auto-replies to Google reviews, and a monthly report, at ₱1,800/mo. Marketing+ is a separate, partner-delivered layer that handles full social media: auto-posted Facebook and Instagram content (6-14 posts/mo), transformation videos, directory submissions across 30-90+ sites, and cross-channel AI. In short: Business Pro owns your Google + website engine; Marketing+ runs your FB/IG/social. Many businesses start with Business Pro and add Marketing+ when they want the social push. See /pricing/.

A relative can build the page once — but who keeps it updated, submits your sitemap to Google, runs the review SMS funnel, sends no-show reminders, and answers customers 24/7 six months from now when they're busy or moved on? Web by Lods.AI is an ongoing system, not a one-time favor: you text our Telegram bot to change anything, and the automations keep running whether or not anyone's free. And you see the finished site before you pay — no awkward 'pa-follow-up' po. Compare what's actually included at /features/.

For a brand-new business, Web by Lods.AI's Basic is usually the right start: ₱8,500 setup + ₱1,000/mo (or ₱0 upfront on the promo) gets you a real custom site, the review SMS funnel, no-show reminders, a performance dashboard, and 24/7 chatbot free for 4 months. Move up to Business Pro (₱1,800/mo) once you're ready for weekly auto-blogs, Google Business Profile posts, and hands-off review replies to grow your search presence. Since there's no lock-in, you can start Basic and upgrade anytime. Compare both at /pricing/.

A tarp or flyer is cheap once, but it can't be updated, can't be searched on Google, and can't take a booking at midnight — and it's invisible the moment someone drives past. A Web by Lods.AI site works 24/7: it shows up when people search '{niche} {city}', takes bookings, answers via chatbot, and updates instantly when you text our Telegram bot. The best combo is actually both — put your QR poster (included free) on the tarp so it points straight to your live site. See a free preview at /free-website-preview/.

The monthly covers the parts that keep working after launch: hosting, SSL, the Telegram update bot, the review SMS funnel, no-show reminders, the performance dashboard, and Google search upkeep — living services, not a one-time file you download. A build-once-then-nothing site goes stale, drops offline, and never sends another reminder. Web by Lods.AI's ₱1,000/mo Basic keeps it all alive, and there's no lock-in — cancel anytime and the automations simply pause. See exactly what the monthly includes at /features/.