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    <title>Website tips for UK businesses · James Hoy</title>
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    <description>Short, practical guides on keeping a UK business website accurate, fast and ready for enquiries. New sites from £500, monthly care from £30.</description>
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      <title>When a website refresh is enough</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Refresh or rebuild</category>
      <description>Not every tired website needs replacing. Use these checks to see whether a refresh, monthly care or a new build is the right next step.</description>
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      <title>Is your contact form actually working?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Enquiries</category>
      <description>A contact form can look fine while messages never arrive. Run these checks on your UK business website before you lose another enquiry.</description>
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      <title>5 signs your website needs looking after</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Website health</category>
      <description>Old content, broken forms or awkward mobile pages? Check five signs your website needs care, with UK monthly plans from £30 and no rebuild required.</description>
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      <title>Why your website feels slow on a phone</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Mobile</category>
      <description>Slow mobile pages cost enquiries, but speed problems have different causes. What to check on your UK business site before you assume you need a rebuild.</description>
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      <title>What monthly website care actually includes</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Monthly care</category>
      <description>Clear scope for UK monthly website care: checks, content updates, testing and summaries — and what is not included without a separate quote.</description>
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      <title>Been featured? Update your website now</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>After a feature</category>
      <description>After a feature, review or local shout-out, people look you up. Update the pages they land on before the attention fades.</description>
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      <title>Keep prices and opening hours in one place</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Prices and hours</category>
      <description>Wrong prices and hours lose visits even when the rest of the site looks current. Keep one approved list and update every place customers look.</description>
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      <title>Google Business Profile vs your website</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Google</category>
      <description>Your Google Business Profile gets you found on Maps. Your website gets you chosen. How to keep the two in step so customers get one answer, not two.</description>
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      <title>Local SEO checklist for UK tradespeople</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Local SEO</category>
      <description>A practical local SEO checklist for electricians, plumbers, tree surgeons and other trades: Google Business Profile, area pages, reviews and mobile speed.</description>
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      <title>Do you need a website if you have Instagram?</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Social media</category>
      <description>Instagram and Facebook bring attention. A website turns it into bookings and enquiries you control. What a small business needs from each, and why.</description>
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      <title>What to do when your web designer disappears</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Ownership</category>
      <description>Lost contact with the person who built your website? How to recover your domain, hosting and site access, and keep the site running without a rebuild.</description>
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      <title>Website maintenance cost in the UK</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Costs</category>
      <description>What website maintenance should cost a UK small business, what a fair monthly plan includes, and the signs you are paying for nothing. From £30 a month.</description>
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      <title>How much does a website cost in the UK?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Costs</category>
      <description>What a small business website costs in the UK, what moves the price, and how to avoid paying twice. New sites from £500, monthly care from £30.</description>
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