My Blog
Has Your WordPress Site Got Malware? What It Is, How It Happens, and How to Remove It
This week I was on a call with a business owner who couldn't work out why her website kept redirecting visitors to a pharmacy site in another language. Nothing in the WordPress dashboard looked wrong. No warning banner, no obvious broken page, just a handful of...
How Long Does SEO Really Take? Setting Realistic Expectations
A client rang me three weeks after we'd started their SEO work, checking their Google ranking every second day. "It's not moving," she said. "Should we be worried?" She wasn't wrong to ask. She was wrong about the timeline. Three weeks is nothing in SEO terms, but...
Why Is My Website So Slow? 7 Hidden Causes (And How to Fix Them)
We're in an age where nobody waits for anything anymore. Food arrives before you've finished picking a film. Messages get read in seconds. So when a website takes its time loading, people don't wait either. They just leave. That's the real cost of a slow website. It's...
Why Can’t I Find My Business on Google? Common Local SEO Mistakes
This week I had a call with a business owner asking, quite reasonably, when he'd finally show up on Google. He wanted a date. A number of weeks. Something he could put in his diary. I couldn't give him one. Not because I was dodging the question, but because that's...
How to Become Super Productive Analysing Your Business with ChatGPT & Gmail
8 Expert-Level Prompts That Actually Change How You Work Most people ask ChatGPT to summarise emails. That’s a waste. What you want is for ChatGPT to: analyse behaviour over time surface patterns you can’t see day-to-day turn invisible effort into systems These...
Why I Built a Master Prompt and How It Can Help Any Business Owner
Over the last while, a lot of business owners have started using AI tools like ChatGPT. Some get value quickly. Others find the results inconsistent or frustrating. In my experience, the difference usually is not the tool. It is clarity. AI is very good at responding....
WordPress Website Recovery
Lost, Damaged or Corrupt Site? I Can Get You Back Online – Fast. If you’re reading this, chances are your website has suddenly gone down, is showing a critical error, a white screen, or has been hacked or corrupted.You’re probably stressed, losing enquiries, and just...
“But I Haven’t Changed Anything” – Why Websites Break Anyway
This week I had one of those conversations that anyone who looks after websites will recognise instantly. A client’s site had started misbehaving. The contact form wasn’t sending emails, parts of the site felt unreliable, and from their point of view it all seemed to...
11 Content Updates to Make on Your Website Before 31 December
As the year winds down and clients drift into christmas holiday mode, your website should not. A quick tidy up now can avoid headaches in January, improve customer experience, and help search engines see you as current and active. Below are 11 smart updates that do...
Why the Internet Is/Was Down Today – A Simple Explainer
When huge parts of the internet wobble, slow to a crawl, or fall over completely, it can feel like the whole digital world has hit pause. Today’s disruption was caused by a major Cloudflare outage and because Cloudflare sits quietly behind the scenes powering a...