What I have learned building sites for local businesses, written without the jargon and without trying to sell you anything.
Being online and being in Google's index are two different things. Here is how to find out in ten minutes whether your site is actually there, and what to do if it is not.
Most advice about site speed is guesswork. Here is what genuinely makes a page slow, in the order it usually matters, from someone who works in infrastructure for a living.
Nobody publishes prices, so nobody knows what is reasonable. Here is what drives the cost of a website, what the ongoing bills actually are, and where the money genuinely goes.
Ranking nationally is hard. Ranking for people three miles away who are searching right now is a different and far more winnable problem. Here is what moves the needle.
I build in Webflow, so treat this with appropriate suspicion. Here is the honest comparison anyway, including the cases where WordPress is genuinely the better answer.