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Local SEO·2 September 2026·7 min read

How Island businesses actually get found on Google

Someone in Newport needs a plasterer, types four words into their phone and taps one of the first three results. Almost everything that decides whether you are one of those three happens somewhere other than your website. Read the piece

Small Business·19 August 2026·6 min read

A Facebook page is not a website

Plenty of good Island businesses run entirely on a Facebook page. It is free, it is where people already are, and it works — right up until the day it does not. Here is what a page cannot do, and when it is genuinely enough. Read the piece

Pricing·5 August 2026·8 min read

What a website should actually cost

Ask three people to quote for "a website for my business" and you will get £300, £2,000 and £12,000. All three can be quoting honestly. They are quoting for different things — and here is how to tell which one you are being sold. Read the piece

Web Development·22 July 2026·6 min read

Your site is slow where it matters most

It loads instantly — on office fibre, on a desktop, from cache. Now stand in a lane outside Brighstone with two bars and open it on a five-year-old Android. That is the load that decides whether you get the enquiry. Read the piece