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Your Website Lists Your Hours. Are They Still Right?

October 4, 2026 by Jeff

Wrong hours cost you more than missing ones. Here's where to put your hours, how to handle holidays without redoing your site, and why your website and your Google listing need to agree.

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Should You Put Prices on Your Website? Mostly Yes, Even If It's Just "Starting At."

October 3, 2026 by Jeff

"Contact us for a quote" feels safe. It also sends a lot of people straight back to Google. Here's how to decide what to show, and what to do when your prices really do vary.

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Your Phone Photos Beat Stock Photos. Even the Slightly Crooked Ones.

October 2, 2026 by Jeff

Nobody believes the smiling team in matching polos. Here's why a decent photo of your actual work does more for a small business site than a polished stock shot, and how to take a few good ones this week.

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Put Your Phone Number at the Top of Every Page. Yes, Really.

October 1, 2026 by Jeff

Contact forms are fine. But plenty of people searching on their phone just want to call you. Here's why a tappable phone number belongs everywhere, and how to make sure it actually works.

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Does Your Small Business Website Need a Blog? Probably Not Yet.

September 30, 2026 by Jeff

Every "grow your business" article tells you to start a blog. Here's an honest way to decide whether yours would earn its keep, and what to do with the time if it wouldn't.

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Your About Page Is Where a Stranger Decides You're a Real Business

September 29, 2026 by Jeff

Most small business About pages are a mission statement nobody asked for. Here's what a visitor is actually looking for when they click it, and what to put there instead.

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Cantrip's Business Starter Kit Writes Three Real Service Posts. Your Services Page Never Shows Them.

September 28, 2026 by Jeff

Pick the Business starter kit and Cantrip builds three real, AI-written service posts behind the scenes. Here's why the Services link already in your nav will never show you a single one of them.

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Cantrip's Nonprofit Starter Kit Promises a Donation Call-to-Action It Never Builds

September 27, 2026 by Jeff

Pick the Nonprofit starter kit and its own description promises mission pages, real programs, impact stories, and a donation call-to-action. Three of those show up in the code. The fourth one doesn't exist anywhere in the site the kit builds.

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Cantrip's Podcaster Starter Kit Has a Listen on Spotify Button. It Doesn't Link to Spotify.

September 26, 2026 by Jeff

Pick the Podcaster starter kit and Cantrip builds four real pages, a real AI-written Episodes collection, and a homepage row of Listen & Subscribe buttons. Here's which of those actually works before you launch, and which ones are still pointing at nothing.

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Rename Your Tags to Categories in Settings. Your Blog Posts Keep Calling Them Tags.

September 25, 2026 by Jeff

Cantrip lets you relabel tags as Categories, Topics, or anything else, and the editor picks it up everywhere you write. Here's the one page that never got the memo, and the bigger reason not to expect visitors to click through a tag yet.

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