Guides

Straight answers about websites and search.

Written to be useful whether or not you ever hire anyone. Each one answers the question in the first two sentences, then explains it — so you can stop reading as soon as you have what you came for.

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Is my website actually findable?

Start with a site:yourdomain.com search, then confirm individual pages in Search Console. Search results are a useful spot check, but they are not a complete inventory of indexed pages.

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Why city pages usually backfire

A city page should answer a real local need with useful, distinct information. Near-duplicate pages can compete for the same intent, and pages made mainly to funnel similar searches can violate Google's doorway-abuse policy.

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Why your website loads slowly

In most cases it's images — full-size photos sent to phone screens. It's also usually the cheapest thing on the site to fix, and it's the most common reason a page fails Google's speed thresholds on mobile.

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What a small business website costs

At Nimbus, a single-page website costs $300. A starter website costs $650 for up to three pages, and a larger business website costs $1,250 for up to five. These are one-time build prices with optional monthly help and separately agreed third-party costs.

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What a contractor's website needs

A useful contractor website explains the work you do, where you work, shows real project evidence and makes requesting an estimate easy. Check those basics before paying for more pages or advertising.

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Why your Wix site isn't showing on Google

Nine times in ten it is one of six settings rather than anything structural: the site was never published to the real domain, a page is switched to hidden from search, every page shares one title, the sitemap was never submitted, the content only appears once scripts run, or the site is simply too new. All six are checkable in about fifteen minutes.

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Why your Squarespace site isn't showing on Google

Squarespace usually gets the basics right, so when a Squarespace site cannot be found the cause is normally different: a site-wide title format that makes every page look alike, automatically generated tag and category pages splitting your content, page weight on mobile, or the whole site still sitting behind a password.

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Want to know where you actually stand?

Send over your domain and you'll get back a specific list of what's working and what isn't — including when the honest answer is that nothing needs replacing.