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Notes from someone who builds small business websites.
The decisions every small site has to make, in plain English: what the law asks for, what actually costs money, and what is just a sales line.
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23 posts
How to test your website speed, and which numbers matter
Service area pages: how trades rank in the next town
Monthly SEO packages: what you should get for it
Local SEO for small businesses, explained
Does a small business website need a privacy policy?
Is Checkatrade worth it? The cost, and the maths per won job
Should you put prices on your website?
Website monthly fee: what it should cover, and what is fair
Website not getting enquiries? Nine things to check
Can you get a free business website in the UK?
How much does a website cost in the UK in 2026?
How to set up a Google Business Profile and get on Maps
Business email: Google Workspace or Microsoft 365?
.com or .co.uk: which should a UK business use?
How long until my new website shows up on Google?
How to get more Google reviews, and how to answer bad ones
Website for tradesmen: what it actually needs
Web designer disappeared? How to get your website back
Do I need a website if I have a Facebook page?
Wix vs Squarespace vs a web designer: which one is yours?
How to read a website quote
Do you need a cookie banner on your website?
What you are actually getting when you buy a website
How this blog is written.
Drafted with AI help from official sources, and always read by a person before it goes live.
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Official sources
Each post is drafted with the help of AI from official sources: legislation, regulators' guidance and the platforms' own help pages. Where a post has them, the sources are listed at the bottom of it.
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Read and approved by Daniel
Daniel Leite reads each post the day before it goes live, puts it into his own way of writing and approves it. It is published under his name because it is his business and his blog.
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Dates in view
Every post shows when it was last updated. It says "last checked" instead only when a person has read it against its sources, which has not been done for every post yet. Rules change, so look at the date and the linked source before you rely on a post for a decision.
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