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Google said an online shop had 31,900 pages. It has about 4,200 products. Where the extra 27,000 came from, why blocking them made things worse, and the one number that showed the clean-up was working.

Google's AI answers are built from real websites, and a new free report shows whether yours is ever one of them. Here's the ten-minute check, what the numbers mean, and what we found when we ran it on our own site.

There is a free Google product that decides whether you appear when someone nearby searches for what you sell. Most local businesses set it up once, badly, and have not looked at it since.

A few weeks ago I wrote about the four names an AI assistant gave me, and the client it left out. The more I think about it, the more the list was the wrong thing to focus on. The real decision happens earlier, in a conversation you never get to see.

More people are asking ChatGPT and Perplexity to recommend a business instead of scrolling Google, and most owners have no idea whether they show up. Here's the shift in plain terms, a way to actually check where you stand, and why it's built into Motley CMS rather than bolted on like it would be on WordPress.

People rave about WordPress – but it’s not always the magic answer. Sometimes it’s brilliant. Sometimes it’s a bit of a headache. What’s Best for Your Website?...

Running a successful small business before the 1990s was tough! Without easy access to the internet, people relied heavily on traditional marketing methods such...

You probably think that Jamie has a face for radio, and you wouldn't be wrong, but that didn't deter Sandra Marshall and Lex McKee from braving it into the wild...

OnPage SEO Note: This guide isn't in any specific order, and there isn't a set priority queue for what OnPage needs doing first, so just read and extract/use wh...

In business terms, the definition of 'bootstrapping' is of "carrying out a task with the minimum of resources or advantages". When starting out in business, or...

Right, to get started, hands up who thinks that Google is a search engine? Well you're partly right - first and foremost Google is an advertising company who us...

You may be aware that over 90% of Britons will use a search engine first and foremost to research new products and services. If you didn't know that you do now...