Guides
Guides for Portsmouth businesses: what the map, the results and the assistants actually reward
Six pieces, each answering one question a Portsmouth business owner asks us in the first call, written from what Search Console and the map show for businesses on the island and across the water. Read them in order, or start with the one that stings.
How Portsmouth businesses get found online: a city of small maps
Where enquiries come from in a city of small maps: the map pack by district, the results, the assistants.
8 min read
Google Business Profile for a Portsmouth business: the district version
The Portsmouth profile field by field: category, services, hours, the district as people type it, photos, reviews, and what gets a profile suspended.
5 min read
Why your Portsmouth website gets no enquiries, and what fixes each cause
A live but silent Portsmouth website usually has three of eight faults: nothing indexed, one page for everything, no district named, slow on a phone.
4 min read
Checkatrade, Bark or your own website: where Portsmouth work comes from
What Checkatrade, Bark, the Facebook groups and your own site each send a Portsmouth business, what each costs per enquiry.
4 min read
How much should a Portsmouth business spend on SEO and a website?
What SEO and a website cost for a Portsmouth business, what a fair quote contains, the four things a cheap deal hides.
4 min read
Getting Google reviews in Portsmouth without begging or breaking the rules
A routine that produces steady Google reviews for a Portsmouth business: the ask at the handover or the table, the district named, the one-tap link.
4 min read
See what is stopping your business ranking in Portsmouth
Send us your website and your trade. You get a plain-English audit of where you stand against the three Portsmouth businesses above you, and a fixed price. No meeting, no long contract.