Street 2 of 8Squares G1–G54 guidesInside your radius
Websites
A plain, fast website that turns a visit into a call or a booking, for local owners building, fixing or paying for their own site.
A customer who finds a business on the map often taps through to its website to check prices, hours and the jobs it takes before calling. Here: choosing a builder, the pages a local business needs, speed on a phone, and what a site costs to build and keep running.
Places on this street
4 guidesPlace 6Square G4
Best website builder for a local business, compared
Squarespace, Wix, WordPress.com, GoDaddy, Square Online and Carrd compared on a call button, booking, your own domain and the price billed monthly.
Place 7Square G2
Pages a small business website needs: a checklist
The pages a local business website needs and what each must say to turn a visit from your map listing into a call or a booking, plus the pages that can wait.
Place 8Square G3
Website Has Expired: What Happens and How to Recover
If your website has expired, find the domain stage, restore your site and email, and learn how to renew or recover it before another outage.
Place 9Square G3
Website Buttons That Tell Visitors What to Do Next
Website buttons guide visitors to call, book, or get directions. Use clear labels, strong contrast, and smart placement to turn more clicks into action.
What this street covers
- Website builders compared: the best website builder for a local business
- Domains and business email
- Hosting and page speed
- The pages a local business needs: the pages a small business website needs, as a checklist
- Homepages that get calls
- Mobile-first layouts
- Contact and booking forms
- Accessibility basics
- What a website costs, DIY versus hiring
- Redesigns and moving builders
- Security, backups and upkeep