Why your website does not show up when people nearby search
A trade business in Craven does everything right and still loses local search to a competitor two towns over. The four things Google weighs, and which one is worth fixing first.
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Website problems, explained without the jargon.
The same handful of faults account for most of what goes wrong with a business website: hosting that queues, a plugin nobody updated since 2021, a contact form that stopped sending months before anyone spotted it.
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Six things people get wrong on their Google Business Profile
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How to check a WordPress plugin before you install it
Six checks that take four minutes: last updated date, installs against support threads, the changelog, whether the author answers, its vulnerability history, and what it asks permission for.
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Your WordPress contact form stopped sending and nobody told you
WordPress contact forms show a success message even when the email never arrives. Why PHP mail fails on shared hosting, how to test properly, and the fix that sticks.
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Should you click 'Update All' on your WordPress plugins?
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