Website Design Price in Egypt, and What Google Needs from It

A business owner in New Cairo pays 12,000 EGP for a website. It looks great on the designer's laptop. Six months later it gets almost no visitors from Google, takes eight seconds to load on a phone, and the Arabic version is one page with a language button that Google never sees. We see some version of this every month.

The site wasn't cheap. It just wasn't built for search. So this article does two jobs: it gives you typical website design prices in Egypt for 2026, and it tells you what to ask for so the site works with Google from day one. That second part is where our SEO team usually gets called in, and it's much cheaper to get right before launch than to fix after.

Here's what this covers:

• Typical website prices in Egypt for 2026
• What moves the price
• The yearly costs nobody mentions
• What Google needs from your website
• Template, WordPress, Shopify or custom
• Questions to ask before you pay
• One page before any quote

Typical website prices in Egypt for 2026

These are market ranges drawn from published Egyptian price guides this year and quotes we see from clients. They're not fixed. Freelancers sit at the bottom of each range, established agencies at the top.

• Landing page for one service or campaign: roughly 5,000 to 30,000 EGP
• Simple company site on a ready template: roughly 5,000 to 15,000 EGP
• Company site with custom design: roughly 15,000 to 80,000 EGP
• Arabic and English site: usually starts around 20,000 EGP and climbs fast with page count
• Online store (WooCommerce, Shopify or similar): roughly 15,000 EGP for a basic setup, up to 150,000 EGP or more for a large catalog with integrations
• Custom platform, booking system or web app: often 50,000 to 250,000 EGP and up

If someone quotes 3,000 EGP for a "full company website", you'll probably get a template with your logo dropped in. That can be fine for a two-page placeholder. It's rarely enough for a business that wants to be found.

What moves the price

The number of pages and languages is the obvious one. But a few other things change the quote more than people expect.

Content. Who writes the text? If the designer expects you to send all the copy and you don't, the site launches with "Lorem ipsum" or one paragraph per page. Writing good service pages in Arabic and English is real work, and it's also the part that makes SEO possible.

Custom design versus template. A custom design takes more hours, but it can be lighter and faster than a template loaded with features you'll never use.

Integrations. Payment gateways that support Egyptian cards and wallets, shipping companies, a CRM, booking calendars, WhatsApp buttons. Each one adds time.

Photos and video. Stock images are cheap and look it. A proper product or team shoot costs extra, and you can see what that involves in our video production work.

The yearly costs nobody mentions

The design fee is a one-time cost. The site keeps costing money after that, and you should know the full picture before you sign.

• Domain renewal, every year
• Hosting, every year or month. Many hosts bill in dollars, so the EGP price moves when the exchange rate does.
• Theme and plugin licenses, if your developer used paid ones
• Maintenance: updates, backups, security, small changes. Published Egyptian ranges put monthly plans roughly between 3,000 and 15,000 EGP.
• For online stores, platform subscription fees and payment gateway fees per transaction

Ask for a written list of these with first-year and renewal prices. And make sure the domain and hosting accounts are registered in your company's name, not the developer's.

What Google needs from your website

This is where most Egyptian websites fall short. Google doesn't care how pretty the homepage animation is. It needs to be able to find, read and trust your pages. Put these in the brief.

1. One page per service or product category. If all your services are on one long page, you can only rank for one of them.
2. Clean, readable URLs. /services/teeth-whitening/ is better than /page?id=27.
3. A real title tag and meta description on every page, editable by you.
4. Proper headings: one H1 per page, then H2s for sections.
5. Fast on mobile. Most Egyptian visitors are on a phone, often on mobile data. Check your pages in PageSpeed Insights before launch and ask the developer to fix what's red.
6. Separate URLs for Arabic and English, connected with hreflang tags. A language switch that keeps the same URL usually means one language never gets indexed. We explain why in Arabic vs English SEO.
7. Text Google can read. Words baked into images or sliders don't count.
8. An XML sitemap and a robots.txt that don't block anything important.
9. HTTPS on every page.
10. Google Search Console and Analytics set up under your account on launch day.

If you're redesigning an existing site, add one more: a redirect plan. Every old URL that has traffic should point to its new equivalent. Skipping redirects is the quickest way to lose rankings you already had.

Template, WordPress, Shopify or custom

WordPress runs a huge share of business sites in Egypt, and for good reason. It's flexible, developers are easy to find, and it can be excellent for SEO when it's built cleanly. The problems come from heavy page builders, 40 plugins and the cheapest shared hosting.

Shopify and similar hosted platforms are a good choice for many online stores: payments, hosting and security are handled for you. You pay a monthly subscription, usually in dollars, and you have a bit less control over technical details.

A fully custom build makes sense for complex products, booking systems or platforms. It's also where SEO can go badly if the developers don't think about it, so involve someone who does.

Questions to ask before you pay

• Who writes the content, and how many words per page are included?
• Will each service have its own page and URL?
• Can I edit titles, descriptions and text myself after launch?
• How fast will the main pages load on mobile, and how will you test it?
• How are the Arabic and English versions set up?
• What are the yearly costs from year two?
• Who owns the domain, hosting and code when the project ends?

If a designer can't answer the SEO questions, that doesn't mean they're a bad designer. It means you should bring in someone who can, before the site is built. Our free SEO audit checklist is also useful for checking a site after it goes live.

One page before any quote

Write a one-page brief: your services, your areas, your languages, the pages you need, and three websites you like. Send the same brief to three providers and compare the scope, not just the price. And budget for content and the yearly costs, not just the design fee.

If you want the new site planned for Google from the start, or want to check an existing one before you rebuild it, see how our SEO services work alongside your developer. For how SEO fits your wider marketing budget, our guide to SEO cost in Egypt covers the monthly side.