Website advice

Straight answers before you spend on a website.

Compare costs, check claims and learn which website work can help your business earn trust, search visibility and enquiries.

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Can Claude Find and Recommend Your Business in South Africa?

Anthropic runs three crawlers and refuses to publish IP ranges for any of them. A verified guide for South African B2B firms covering robots.txt, what powers Claude's search, and why Claude's small share matters more than it looks.

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Can Meta AI Recommend Your Business on WhatsApp in South Africa?

WhatsApp reaches almost every South African online, and Meta AI now sits inside it. A verified guide to Meta's five crawlers, the business directory South Africa does not have, and why Meta AI traffic cannot be measured.

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Gemini and AI Overviews: What South African Businesses Control

Blocking Google-Extended does not remove you from AI Overviews, whatever your agency told you. A verified guide to the three separate Google surfaces, the new Search Console control that does govern AI features, and what South Africa cannot yet measure.

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How to Get Found on Perplexity in South Africa

Perplexity runs two crawlers, and blocking one does not remove you from its answers. A verified guide for South African businesses covering robots.txt, what the evidence says earns citations, and the tactics that do nothing.

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Referral Income in South Africa: What It Pays

Youth unemployment sits at 45.8 percent. Referral commission is one honest way to earn without capital, and here are the real rand figures, the work involved, and how to tell a real programme from a pyramid scheme.

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ai search

Should South African Businesses Care About Grok?

xAI publishes no crawler documentation, two independent tests caught Grok fetching blocked pages behind faked browser user-agents, and X reaches few South Africans. What that means, and the one free action worth taking.

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First-Year Website Costs in South Africa: What to Budget

Plan the first-year cost of owning a small business website in South Africa, including the build, domain, hosting, email, updates and support.

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website planning

How to Brief a Website Project Before You Ask for Quotes

Use this practical website project brief to explain your audience, goals, pages, proof, content and enquiry path before requesting quotes.