How to build a website that ranks on Google, gets named by AI assistants, and turns visitors into customers.
One morning the listing that has been there for six years is gone, and the phone goes quiet. Here is what a suspension means, the four causes we see most often, and the exact order in which to do things, because the order decides whether you get the profile back.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-09-18
A new category of service appeared almost overnight, and the marketing is running well ahead of the substance. Here are the seven questions that separate somebody who does this work from somebody who added two letters to their sales page.
Category: GEO & AI Search • Published: 2026-09-17
There is a green light in your dashboard and you assume somebody, somewhere, is handling search. Let me explain honestly what that plugin does, what it does not do, and why a green light is not a ranking.
Category: Technical SEO • Published: 2026-09-16
You put your address into a box and a score comes back. Sometimes it is genuinely useful. Sometimes it is a sales mechanism dressed as a diagnosis. Here is how to tell the difference, including an honest word about our own.
Category: Tools & Technology • Published: 2026-09-15
This is the loss that never appears in any report. You were there, you were visible, and they chose the other business. Here is how to work out what they saw that you cannot.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-09-14
Right now, somebody may be asking an assistant whether you are any good. The answer is being given without you in the room. Here are eight questions to ask yourself, and what to do with each kind of wrong answer.
Category: GEO & AI Search • Published: 2026-09-13
The advice online is written for companies with a marketing department. You have yourself, two people, and a phone that needs to ring. Here is the version of this question that applies to you.
Category: SEO Strategy • Published: 2026-09-12
Most winery websites are built for people who already know the estate. The visitors you want are the ones planning a weekend, looking for somewhere to taste, and they never arrive because nothing on the site was written for them.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-09-11
Squarespace makes the best looking small business websites on the internet. It also produces a very particular kind of failure: a site everyone compliments and nobody finds. Here is why, and what to do about it.
Category: SEO Strategy • Published: 2026-09-10
Three quotes, three wildly different prices, and none of them explain what is included. The problem is that the word covers four completely different products. Here is how to tell them apart before you pay.
Category: SEO Costs • Published: 2026-09-09
Nobody decides carefully any more. They glance, they compare, they tap. Here is the exact sequence a stranger goes through before dialling your number, and what makes them stop at each point.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-09-08
This is a service almost nobody knows they need until something goes wrong. That makes it harder to sell and much easier to own, because the few people searching are highly motivated and most of your competitors are invisible.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-09-07
There is a difference between ranking badly and not existing at all, and the second one is more common than owners realise. Six checks, ten minutes, no tools to buy, and you will know which situation you are in.
Category: Technical SEO • Published: 2026-09-06
You cannot write a page for everything, so the question is which ones. Here is how to choose, using profit rather than volume, and the six groups of searches that drivers actually type.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-09-05
The open ended monthly fee, with a report attached and no clear finish line, is losing its grip. Not because SEO stopped working, but because owners finally started asking what they were paying for each month.
Category: SEO Strategy • Published: 2026-09-04