Index 06 / Notes From the floor, not a content mill
Notes.
Straight answers on recording, websites, search, and ads, written by the team that does the work. No filler, no invented statistics.
- Does ChatGPT recommend your business? How to check in five minutes A five-minute manual check across ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, and Perplexity shows whether your business is named, cited, or absent from AI search answers today. / aeo / seo / chicago
- One blog post took 62 percent of a remodeler's search clicks One post pulled 62.5 percent of a North Shore remodeling client's blog clicks in 90 days, and it was a style question, not a cost page. / seo / data / chicago
- How to redesign a website without losing your Google rankings A step-by-step redesign checklist built from a real June 2026 site migration: inventory every URL, map one-to-one redirects, avoid the 307 trap, and validate before launch. / redesign / seo / websites
- The schema markup a remodeler actually needs Most remodeling sites either skip schema entirely or bolt on FAQPage and HowTo markup that Google stopped rewarding years ago. / schema / contractors / seo
- Should a Chicagoland business have city pages? One or a few earned town pages beat a farm of them. GSC data from 36 Chicago-suburb pages shows what happens when a page has nothing but a swapped name. / seo / contractors / chicago
- We rendered 30 web design agency homepages. Here's what shows up We rendered 30 web design agency homepages in Chicago, Miami and California, and counted eight patterns worth asking any agency about. / websites / pricing / chicago
- What a remodeler website costs in the Chicago suburbs in 2026 Three Chicago agencies publish a web design price, from $999 flat to $7,500, while the national field runs as high as a $50,000 floor for enterprise-tier work. / pricing / chicago / contractors
- SEO Gets You Ranked. AEO Gets You Quoted. Ranking on Google and getting quoted by AI are two different jobs, and the difference starts with the same technical groundwork most sites skip.
- Your Website's Speed Is a Revenue Number, Not a Tech Spec Your site's load time isn't a tech detail, it's quietly taxing your ad spend, your search ranking, and every sale that almost happened.