Guides on local SEO, AI search, and website performance — written for the questions local business owners actually ask, not to pad a word count.
Most guides on this are American, or written for Ontario, or name the wrong law. Here is what a BC business actually has to do, with the sections of the Act, and the two things nearly everyone gets wrong.
Read the guideMost answers to this question are a guess dressed up as advice. So I measured it. Here is what Google actually did with a brand-new website, week by week, including the numbers that look like failure and are not.
Read the guidePeople are finding local businesses through ChatGPT now. Most owners have no idea whether it is happening to them. Here is how to check, in about ten minutes, using free tools you already have.
Read the guideMost local businesses leave their prices off. Here is what that costs you, the one Canadian law you need to know if you do publish a price, and a new reason that only started to matter recently.
Read the guideYour listing vanished from Google Maps and you do not know why. Here is what suspension actually means, the three things that usually cause it, and the appeal process that works — including the 60-minute rule nobody mentions.
Read the guideYour web designer may be the legal owner of your domain, your Google listing and your hosting. Here is how to check all seven in twenty minutes — and the CIRA rules that put .ca owners back in control.
Read the guideRegister a domain and within days you will find dozens of links from sites you have never heard of. It looks like an attack. It almost never is. Here is what is actually happening, with a worked example.
Read the guideMost Google searches now end without a click. That's real, and it's worth understanding — but it doesn't mean SEO stopped working. Here's what changed and what to do about it.
Read the guideA full rebuild isn't always the right call, and it isn't always the wrong one either. Here's how to decide with numbers rather than a feeling — and what a redesign should never cost you.
Read the guideAI answer engines like ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews don't crawl and rank pages the way traditional search does. Here's what actually gets a business cited — and the robots.txt mistake that makes you invisible to them.
Read the guideThe real reasons a legitimate business doesn't appear in Google's local map results — how to tell which one you have in two minutes, and what actually fixes each.
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