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Articles on search, AI and automation, with the data and the dates left in.

  1. Can AI replace a receptionist?

    AI can answer the calls nobody is free to take, but it does not replace the person who knows your customers. Where I draw the line, from two real projects.

  2. Conversion rate optimisation: what it is and how to improve it

    What conversion rate optimisation is, how to improve a website's conversion rate, and how it differs from SEO, with a real before and after.

  3. How to create a customer journey map from real data

    How to create a customer journey map from what visitors actually do, the steps and stages, and what a map built from analytics can and cannot show.

  4. How to create a marketing strategy for a small business

    How to create a marketing strategy a small business can actually run: the steps, how to choose channels, and why fewer channels usually beats more.

  5. What is business automation? Three real examples from small businesses

    What business automation means for a small business, with three real examples: enquiries into a job system, missed calls answered, job photos into posts.

  6. Is there a Google Analytics alternative without a cookie banner?

    What cookieless analytics actually measures, what it can't, and what it showed one client that a consent-based tool was hiding.

  7. What AI agents can actually do for a small business

    AI agents are software that takes on one defined job and acts on it. What that looks like in a small business, where it works, and where it doesn't.

  8. An AI strategy for a small business starts with one job

    Most AI strategy advice is written for governments and enterprises. For a small business it starts smaller: one job, one decision, then the next.

  9. How to map a business process, and what not to automate

    How to map a business process in an afternoon, with a real example, then use the map to decide what to automate and what to leave with a person.

  10. Is GEO replacing SEO? What the search results actually show

    What Google actually shows for GEO and SEO searches, checked in September 2026. GEO is not replacing SEO. It adds one more results page to watch.

  11. One page or two? How I decide from the search results

    Keyword lists suggest dozens of pages. The search results decide how many you need. The method, with real examples from September 2026.

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