https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/ Daily articles on websites, hosting, maintenance, and growing a business online. en-us Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/what-to-send-your-web-team-so-a-fix-takes-minutes/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/what-to-send-your-web-team-so-a-fix-takes-minutes/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Support Most support delays are not technical. They are round trips spent establishing what you saw, where you saw it, and what you expected instead. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/stock-photos-versus-real-photos-on-a-business-website/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/stock-photos-versus-real-photos-on-a-business-website/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Design Stock photography is not the enemy. 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Here is how renewal actually works and why it silently fails. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/internal-links-are-the-cheapest-seo-you-are-not-doing/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/internal-links-are-the-cheapest-seo-you-are-not-doing/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT SEO You control every internal link on your site, they cost nothing, and most small business sites have almost none outside the navigation. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-first-monday-website-review-ritual/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-first-monday-website-review-ritual/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Business A website only improves when someone looks at it on purpose. Here is a 30-minute monthly review that fits between other work and actually changes decisions. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-mid-year-website-chores-nobody-does/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-mid-year-website-chores-nobody-does/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Maintenance Half the year is gone. These are the maintenance items that never make it onto a to-do list and cause the most trouble in the back half. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/migrating-platforms-without-losing-your-rankings/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/migrating-platforms-without-losing-your-rankings/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Platforms Most traffic lost in a redesign is lost to broken URLs, not to design. The mapping work is unglamorous and it is the entire job. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/how-to-hand-off-a-website-when-an-employee-leaves/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/how-to-hand-off-a-website-when-an-employee-leaves/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Business The person who ran your website is leaving. Here is the checklist that keeps the site, the domain, and the email working after their last day. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/make-your-phone-number-the-easiest-thing-on-the-page/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/make-your-phone-number-the-easiest-thing-on-the-page/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conversion For service businesses, the phone is still the highest-intent conversion. Most sites bury it, break it on mobile, or never measure it. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/turn-one-customer-question-into-a-month-of-content/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/turn-one-customer-question-into-a-month-of-content/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Content The best content ideas are already in your inbox and your call log. Here is the process for turning a single real question into four weeks of posts. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/your-site-went-down-and-the-host-says-everything-is-fine/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/your-site-went-down-and-the-host-says-everything-is-fine/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hosting When a site is unreachable and the server is healthy, the fault is almost always in one of four places. Here is how to narrow it down fast. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/title-tags-and-meta-descriptions-rules-that-still-hold/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/title-tags-and-meta-descriptions-rules-that-still-hold/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT SEO Search engines rewrite them more often than they used to, which is exactly why writing them deliberately still pays off. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/accessibility-fixes-you-can-ship-in-an-hour/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/accessibility-fixes-you-can-ship-in-an-hour/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accessibility Full WCAG conformance is a project. These specific fixes take an hour, help real visitors immediately, and remove the most common complaints. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/a-backup-you-have-never-restored-is-not-a-backup/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/a-backup-you-have-never-restored-is-not-a-backup/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Security Backup plugins report success far more often than backups actually work. The only proof is a restore you have performed yourself. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/your-google-business-profile-outworks-your-homepage/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/your-google-business-profile-outworks-your-homepage/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Marketing For most local businesses, more people see the Google listing than the website. It gets a fraction of the attention and almost none of the budget. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/a-twenty-minute-monthly-website-checkup-you-can-do-yourself/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/a-twenty-minute-monthly-website-checkup-you-can-do-yourself/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Maintenance You do not need technical skills to catch the most common website failures. You need twenty minutes and a list of things to click. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/squarespace-versus-wordpress-the-honest-split-in-2026/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/squarespace-versus-wordpress-the-honest-split-in-2026/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Platforms Both platforms are good. They fail in different directions, and the right choice depends on how much you plan to change over the next five years. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-four-website-numbers-a-small-business-actually-needs/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-four-website-numbers-a-small-business-actually-needs/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Analytics Analytics dashboards offer hundreds of metrics. Four of them will tell you whether your website is doing its job, and the rest are context. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/who-owns-your-domain-name-find-out-today/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/who-owns-your-domain-name-find-out-today/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Business The most damaging website problem we see has nothing to do with the website. It is a business that cannot prove it controls its own domain name. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/above-the-fold-is-still-real-and-what-belongs-there/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/above-the-fold-is-still-real-and-what-belongs-there/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Design People do scroll, but they decide before they scroll. The top of your homepage has one job and most homepages give it three. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/abandoned-cart-basics-before-you-buy-another-app/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/abandoned-cart-basics-before-you-buy-another-app/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ecommerce Recovery emails are the last step, not the first. 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The right cadence is the fastest one you can hold for a year without lowering quality. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/what-a-slow-website-actually-costs-you/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/what-a-slow-website-actually-costs-you/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Performance Instead of quoting somebody else's study about speed and revenue, measure the cost on your own site with numbers you already have. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-contact-form-fields-that-quietly-kill-submissions/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-contact-form-fields-that-quietly-kill-submissions/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conversion Every field you add to a form costs you submissions. 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Pull your ten highest-traffic pages and run the same six checks on each one. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/shared-vps-and-managed-hosting-what-you-are-paying-for/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/shared-vps-and-managed-hosting-what-you-are-paying-for/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hosting Hosting tiers are marketed on specs, but what separates a $4 plan from a $40 plan is mostly isolation, support, and who gets paged when something breaks. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-plugin-habits-most-likely-to-get-you-hacked/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-plugin-habits-most-likely-to-get-you-hacked/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Security Most site compromises we clean up trace back to a handful of ordinary habits around plugins, not to sophisticated attacks or targeted hacking. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/what-happens-to-a-website-nobody-is-watching/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/what-happens-to-a-website-nobody-is-watching/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Maintenance A neglected website does not fail all at once. It decays on a predictable schedule, and most owners only notice at the point where the repair is expensive. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/website-management-in-2026-half-year-trends-were-seeing-everywhere/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/website-management-in-2026-half-year-trends-were-seeing-everywhere/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI Six months into 2026, clear patterns have emerged in how businesses build and run websites, from AI-first creation to the growing premium on human upkeep. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/preparing-your-website-for-the-2026-holiday-season-yes-already/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/preparing-your-website-for-the-2026-holiday-season-yes-already/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Business Holiday season website prep in June sounds premature until you understand SEO lead times, which is exactly why the winners start their prep now. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/your-websites-mid-year-report-card-10-metrics-to-grade/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/your-websites-mid-year-report-card-10-metrics-to-grade/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Business Halfway through 2026 is the perfect moment to grade your website on ten concrete metrics and find out whether it's earning its keep. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/agency-care-plan-or-freelancer-who-should-run-your-website/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/agency-care-plan-or-freelancer-who-should-run-your-website/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Business Agencies, freelancers, and care plans each fit different website needs, and matching the model to your situation matters more than picking the best provider. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/password-hygiene-2fa-and-your-websites-weakest-link/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/password-hygiene-2fa-and-your-websites-weakest-link/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hosting Most website compromises start with a stolen or reused password rather than sophisticated hacking, which means your login habits 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12:00:00 GMT Business Unlimited support is one of the most-used phrases in website services, so here's how to tell the real thing from the fine print, and what to demand. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/website-redesigns-with-zero-downtime-how-the-pros-cut-over/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/website-redesigns-with-zero-downtime-how-the-pros-cut-over/ Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hosting A website redesign should launch without a minute of downtime, and the professional cutover process that makes it possible is simpler than you'd think. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/multi-location-businesses-one-website-or-many/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/multi-location-businesses-one-website-or-many/ Mon, 04 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Business Businesses with multiple locations face a classic web dilemma, and in most cases one strong site with dedicated location pages beats a fleet of separate sites. 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Wix remain the two big DIY builders, and in 2026 the real differences lie in design philosophy, flexibility, and what leaving costs you. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/connecting-a-custom-domain-the-20-minute-guide/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/connecting-a-custom-domain-the-20-minute-guide/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hosting Pointing your custom domain at your website takes about twenty minutes when you know the steps, and this guide walks through each one plainly. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-hosting-questions-to-ask-before-you-launch-an-ai-built-site/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/the-hosting-questions-to-ask-before-you-launch-an-ai-built-site/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hosting AI builders make launching easy, but the hosting underneath your new site deserves five pointed questions before you point your domain at it. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/wordpress-vs-ai-builders-vs-webflow-an-honest-decision-guide/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/wordpress-vs-ai-builders-vs-webflow-an-honest-decision-guide/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Platforms WordPress, AI builders, and Webflow each win in different situations, and choosing well comes down to your budget, timeline, and appetite for maintenance. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/who-maintains-an-ai-built-website-someone-has-to/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/who-maintains-an-ai-built-website-someone-has-to/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI AI can generate a website in minutes, but generation is a one-time event while maintenance is forever, and that gap catches many owners off guard. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/from-prompt-to-homepage-writing-a-brief-an-ai-builder-can-nail/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/from-prompt-to-homepage-writing-a-brief-an-ai-builder-can-nail/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI The quality of an AI-generated website depends almost entirely on the brief you feed it, and a few specific details make all the difference. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/ai-website-builders-in-2026-what-they-do-well-and-where-they-stop/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/ai-website-builders-in-2026-what-they-do-well-and-where-they-stop/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI AI website builders have become genuinely useful tools, but knowing exactly where their capabilities end will save you frustration, money, and a few late-night rebuilds. https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/how-heatmaps-reveal-what-your-visitors-ignore/ https://awesomewebsiteguys.com/blog/how-heatmaps-reveal-what-your-visitors-ignore/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Conversion Heatmaps show where visitors click, scroll, and stall, exposing the buttons nobody presses and the content nobody sees on pages you thought worked.