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The Complete Guides

Every article below belongs to one of these. If you are at the beginning of a question rather than the end of one, start with the guide.

The Small Business Website Guide

What a website costs, how long it takes, what pages you need, how to brief it, and how to avoid the mistakes that make one fail. Written in plain English.

10 articles

The Small Business SEO Guide

How search actually works for a small business: local rankings, technical foundations, content, links, and whether an agency is earning its fee.

11 articles

The Small Business Social Media Guide

What to post, how often, which platforms are worth your time, and an honest account of what social media does and does not do for a small business.

5 articles

Hosting, Security and Keeping a Site Alive

Choosing hosting, backups that actually restore, what to do when a site is hacked, downtime, and the email settings that decide if mail arrives.

7 articles

Selling Online: The E-commerce Guide

Platform choices, product pages that convert, photography, shipping, payments and the reasons carts get abandoned, for shops with hundreds of products.

4 articles

How to Buy Web Work Without Overpaying

Projects, retainers and subscriptions compared; how to brief work, read a quote, spot the red flags, and make sure you own what you paid for.

7 articles

Custom Software and Automation for Small Business

When off-the-shelf stops being enough, what custom software really costs, how to scope it, and the automations that pay for themselves in a small business.

3 articles

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Social MediaOctober 12, 20264 min read

How to Ask for Reviews Without Feeling Awkward About It

Reviews are the highest-return marketing a local business has, and most owners hate asking. When to ask, what to say, and the rules people break by accident.

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SEOOctober 9, 20265 min

Internal Linking: The Free SEO Almost Every Site Skips

You control every link on your own site, they cost nothing, and most businesses have never placed one deliberately. How to find and fix your orphan pages.

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HostingOctober 8, 20264 min

Website Downtime: What It Costs and How to Find Out Before Your Customers Do

Most owners learn their site is down from a customer, hours later. What an hour costs, what uptime percentages mean, and how to be told first, for free.

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Web DevelopmentOctober 7, 20264 min

Website Copy That Sells Without Sounding Like Marketing

The words on most small business sites could belong to any competitor. How to write pages that sound like you and answer the real objection.

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SEOOctober 6, 20264 min

Google Search Console: The Five Reports That Actually Matter

It is free, it is the only place you see what Google really thinks of your site, and most owners have never opened it. The five screens worth your time.

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Buying Web WorkOctober 5, 20265 min

Your Web Developer Has Disappeared. Here Is How to Get Your Site Back.

Emails unanswered, nobody has the passwords, the site on somebody else's account. A calm, ordered recovery, and when you actually need a lawyer.

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E-commerceOctober 2, 20264 min

Shipping and Delivery: What Small Online Shops Get Wrong

Delivery loses more sales than anything else in a small shop, and it is rarely the courier. Pricing models, returns, and what to say when a parcel is lost.

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Buying Web WorkOctober 1, 20265 min

Who Actually Owns Your Website? Domain, Code, Content and Accounts

Businesses find out at the worst possible moment. The five things that can be owned separately, how to check each today, and how to get them back.

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SoftwareSeptember 30, 20264 min

Choosing Business Software You Will Not Regret in Two Years

The demo always looks good. What to test instead, the questions vendors avoid, and the three things that decide how you feel about it in two years.

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Social MediaSeptember 29, 20264 min

Short-Form Video for Businesses That Hate Being on Camera

You do not have to talk to a phone to make video work. Eight formats where nobody appears on screen, and an honest view of whether it is worth doing.

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SEOSeptember 28, 20264 min

Technical SEO for People Who Are Not Technical

Seven things that decide whether Google can read your site at all, explained without jargon, each with a way to check it yourself.

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HostingSeptember 27, 20264 min

SSL Certificates and HTTPS, Explained Without the Jargon

What the padlock actually means, why you should never pay much for one, and the renewal failure that takes sites down every year.

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