Key facts
- Proposal date 2026-09-24, currency USD, sent by email the same day at the owner's instruction; the center's name, owner and city are withheld, and the prices are what was quoted on that date, not an offer.
- Starting fee $1,000 a month with a 12-page website included, $0 setup, $0 upfront, a 30-day guarantee and no contract term; the ladder steps to $2,000 and $3,000 at new-enrollment targets agreed together in writing.
- The center's own web address now served a gambling page; a Lighthouse run against it measured that page, not the center, so the cover quoted no speed score and said why, and the only trace of the real site was a snapshot of its home page.
- The first job in the included rows was recovering the domain with the owner and her hosting company, and the SEO row included asking Google to drop the spam pages that had accumulated under the address.
- The owner had received an estimate from another provider of $747, and the cover's first FAQ answered that figure verbatim at the SearchPod owner's instruction rather than ignoring it.
The business behind this proposal
The client runs a licensed child care center with rooms for two-year-olds, three-year-olds, four-year-old preschool and pre-kindergarten. Its web address had been taken over: visiting it served a gambling page, and the only remaining record of the center's real site was an archived snapshot of the home page. There were no reviews, no rating and no licensing details online, and no way for a parent to request a tour.
A hijacked domain is the worst version of a common problem. Parents who search the center's name reach a page that has nothing to do with children, and every link the center ever earned now points at it. The proposal treated recovery as the first task, before any marketing.
What we measured before pricing it
A mobile Lighthouse run against the address scored 70 for performance and 85 for SEO, and the cover discarded those numbers with an explanation: they measured the gambling page, not the center. That honesty mattered, because quoting a score for a site that no longer exists would have been fiction.
The findings were the hijack itself, the single surviving snapshot of the real home page, and the absence of reviews, rating or licensing details anywhere online. From the snapshot and the owner's own description came the program list and the tone of the demo.
The offer, exactly as quoted
The house pattern for a daycare: $1,000 a month to start with the new site included, $0 upfront, a 30-day guarantee, month to month, stepping to $2,000 and $3,000 at new-enrollment targets agreed together in writing. Ad spend separate.
Included rows: Google Ads, a tour form on every page, follow-up, the new 12-page website with the first job being to recover the domain with the owner and her hosting company, SEO including a request to Google to drop the spam pages, AI search visibility, Google Business Profile and reviews, and analytics. The first FAQ answered the $747 estimate the owner had received elsewhere, in the owner's own words. The demo was a 12-page site in the center's logo colours with a page per room and program, curriculum, the center, about, an enroll page with a tour form and how-to-enroll steps, FAQ and contact.
What moved the price, and what was excluded
Nothing moved the fee above the standard starting point, although the domain recovery is work most proposals never include; it sat inside the website row because a new site on a hijacked address is pointless.
Excluded: ad spend; the registrar and hosting fees involved in recovering or replacing the domain, which are the owner's; any licensing or rating claim, since none could be verified; and photography, with the demo using licensed stock until the center's own rooms were photographed. If the domain could not be recovered, the plan was a new address with the old one disowned, which the proposal said plainly.
What happened, and what a center can take from it
The proposal was sent on 2026-09-24 at the owner's instruction, with a follow-up scheduled for five days later. The record stops at the send; no result is claimed.
For any small business, the transferable lesson is the domain: keep the registrar login, the renewal card and the contact email under the business's own control, set renewals to automatic, and check once a year that the address still serves your site. The rest of the proposal is the standard daycare pattern: a tour form on every page, a page per program, reviews and a current profile. SearchPod's public prices are on the pricing page, and a proposal for your center takes one business day.
Related questions
No. This is an anonymized record of a real proposal, priced in USD on 2026-09-24. A proposal for your own center is built from your situation and starts from the public prices at /pricing.
Because the address served a gambling page, and the Lighthouse run measured that page rather than the center's site. The cover said so instead of quoting a number that described someone else's page.
Yes, as the first job inside the website row, done with the owner and her hosting company. Registrar and hosting fees stayed with the owner, and the fallback of a new address with the old one disowned was stated on the cover.
The first FAQ answered it directly, at the SearchPod owner's instruction, comparing what that figure covered with the monthly fee, the included site and the month-to-month terms.
What can be reported is the send date, 2026-09-24, and nothing after it. There is no outcome to report yet.
a real proposal, anonymized; prices as quoted on that date, not an offer; no client name, person or address is given; SearchPod wrote and sent the proposal described.
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