How this stuff actually works.
Straight answers about local search, Google Business Profile, and what a small business website should cost around here. Written for owners, not for other marketers.
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Google Business Profile Management for Santa Rosa Businesses
What managing a Google Business Profile involves week to week in Santa Rosa, which parts an owner can handle alone, and when a handoff makes sense.
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How Much Does a Website Cost in Mendocino County?
Website pricing for Ukiah, Fort Bragg and the rest of Mendocino County, where towns are small and far apart and the list of local options is short.
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Leaving Wix or Squarespace: What Moves and What Gets Rebuilt
Moving off Wix or Squarespace, or between them? What transfers cleanly, what gets rebuilt, and a checklist to keep your domain, email and rankings intact.
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WordPress Maintenance in Sonoma County: What the Work Involves
Core, plugin and theme updates, backups with tested restores, PHP versions, uptime: what WordPress upkeep covers, and when a rebuild costs less.
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The Google Business Profile Checklist for North Bay Businesses
Your Google Business Profile is free, takes an afternoon to set up properly, and for most local businesses it brings in more customers than the website does. Here is the full checklist.
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How to Get Your Business Into the Google Map Pack
The three-business block at the top of local search results drives more calls than everything below it. Here is what actually determines who lands in it.
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How Much Does a Website Cost in Sonoma County?
Real numbers for what small business websites cost around here, why the range is so wide, and how to tell which end of it you actually need.
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How to Get More Google Reviews Without Being Annoying
Reviews are one of the few local ranking factors you control directly. The trick is asking at the right moment and making it take one tap.
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Why Your Ukiah Business Isn't Showing Up on Google
Mendocino County has some of the lightest local search competition in California. That cuts both ways, and it means the fixes tend to work faster here than almost anywhere else.
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