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Written for people who have to decide.

Articles on web design, SEO, social and the things that actually move revenue for South African businesses. Pick a topic, or scroll for the latest.

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What do you write about?

Most of it sits in two of them: web design and development, and SEO and digital marketing. Each topic opens its own archive, newest first.

Web design and development

Building sites that convert, what they cost, how to choose an agency, and what to fix on the one you have. Read the topic

SEO and digital marketing

Getting found, keyword research, Google Ads, AI search, and where a marketing budget is actually worth spending. Read the topic

Social media marketing

What works on social for South African businesses, paid versus organic, and the trends worth ignoring. Read the topic

Branding and identity

Logos, graphic design and building a site that actually reflects what the business stands for. Read the topic

Website security

Why maintenance matters, what goes wrong when a site is left alone, and what it costs to put right. Read the topic

Conversion optimisation

Turning the visitors you already have into enquiries, rather than paying for more of them. Read the topic

Start here

Which article should I read first?

Depends what you are trying to decide. These four answer the questions we get asked most often, and none of them need you to hire anybody to be useful.

"What should a website cost?"

Real South African price ranges and what changes them. Website design costs

"SEO or Google Ads?"

Which one suits your margin, your patience and your market. SEO or Google Ads

"Is my site fast enough?"

The three speed metrics most businesses never look at. Website speed test

"Why am I not on the map?"

Google Business Profile, and why it beats most paid advertising. Google Business Profile

Everything

The latest, newest first.

All61Web Design and Development26SEO and Digital Marketing25Social Media Marketing12Branding and Identity Design3Website Security2Conversion Optimization2
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Questions, answered

Questions about the blog.

No. Every article is open, there is no newsletter wall, and nothing asks for an email before it tells you something useful. Same principle as the free tools — something people can actually read is worth more than a list of reluctant subscribers.

We do, from work we have actually done. The pricing figures come from our own published rates, the speed advice comes from sites we have had to fix, and where something is a general industry rule rather than our own experience, the article says so.

Depends on the subject. Structural advice about conversion, trust and site structure ages well. Anything about a specific platform, algorithm or price ages badly, so check the date on those. Where an older piece still gets read, we update it rather than leaving it wrong.

That is largely the point. Plenty of what we write is aimed at someone doing it themselves or briefing an in-house person. If it saves you from hiring anybody, the article did its job — and you will know where to find us if that changes.

Ask. Most of these started as a question a client asked twice, and the ones that get asked three times get written up. Send it through and if it is a question other South African businesses share, it will probably end up here.

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