Frequently Asked Questions
SEO is essential for small businesses because it boosts your online visibility, attracts more organic traffic, and enhances your brand’s credibility. Embrace SEO to unlock your business’s full potential and connect with more customers!
Local SEO is vital for small businesses as it enhances visibility in local searches, making it easier for nearby customers to find you. By optimizing your online presence, you can boost both online engagement and foot traffic to your business.
SEO is a cost-effective marketing strategy because it primarily relies on time and effort rather than substantial financial investment, offering long-lasting benefits and a higher return on investment than paid ads. Embrace SEO to unlock sustainable growth for your brand!
SEO significantly improves user experience by ensuring your website loads quickly, is mobile-friendly, and offers fresh content that keeps visitors engaged. Embrace these strategies on your website to elevate both your site’s performance and user satisfaction!
Analytics is your key to SEO success, allowing you to track performance and fine-tune your strategies based on user engagement metrics. By leveraging tools like Google Analytics, and Google Search Console, you can make informed decisions that drive your online presence.
You need to download the ChatGPT, or use the web app to create your AI-generated action figure or doll. It’s super easy and fun!
For the best results with the AI-generated action figure, upload a full body photo, but a cropped headshot works too!
You’ll be happy to know it only takes about two to three minutes for the AI tool to whip up the doll! Super quick, right?
Make sure to include a prompt that asks for an action figure that captures the vibe of the person in the photo, plus personal touches like their favorite things. This will really make the AI doll special!
The author thinks creating the AI doll is silly, but they had a blast doing it.
As a business owner, your main priority should be running your business, not running your website. If your goal is to climb to the top of local search results, we can help!
Being ranked #1 on Google doesn’t happen overnight which is why we created managed web plans. We are constantly updating our client’s websites, staying in front of Google algorithm changes, web design trends, and search engine visibility updates.
Our goal is to get your website to the top of local search results for your industry’s main keywords. Once you’re there, we aim to keep you there! And with a 24-hour turnaround on web tickets, why would you fuss with any of it yourself?
Most sites are up and running in 3-6 weeks. Some sooner. Some longer. This is largely dependent on whether or not the content is ready, how many revisions are requested, and the complexity and size of the project.
Our recommendation is to go live as soon as you can and make changes later. The Unlimited Managed Website Subscriptions allow you to make an unlimited number of changes so you have plenty of time to get it right.
Although we can’t make guarantees, our clients often see a strong increase in organic and overall traffic after switching to Charley Grey. With the Unlimited Managed Website Subscription, we do this by improving your website’s on-page SEO and by adding Schema Markup to make it more visible to Google.
We have other premium add-on services including local business directory listings, blogging, and Search Engine Marketing (like Google Ads) – all designed to bring even more traffic to your website.
No. Similar to models like Wix and Square Space, you own and have complete rights to your account but not the website itself. Your website stays live as long as you are paying the monthly subscription. If you want to close your account you can simply let us know. If you have been with us for twelve consecutive months, we will package your images and copy (yes, even if we have written it) into a zip file and email it to you.
Your monthly subscription fee covers the following:
- Page Additions (up to plan limit)
- Page Content & Image Updates
- CRM Integration
- JavaScript/PHP Custom Coding
- Custom Contact Forms
- Competitor Research
- Keyword Research & Updating
- Strategy Development & Revisions
- Secure Web Hosting with 24×7 Uptime Monitoring
- Auto-Healing Technology
- Plugin Security Alerts
- SSL Certificate Management
- Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Faster Loading
- Nightly Backups
- WordPress Theme Monitoring and Updates
- Site Health Monitoring
- Disavowing Bad Backlinks
- Page Speed Optimization
- Code Error Review and Correction
- Site Maintenance
- Plugin Updates
- Broken Link Checks
- Sitemap Submissions to Search Engines
- Monthly Analytics Reporting
- Site-Wide On-page SEO Setup
- Title & Meta Descriptions
- Image Optimization
- Interpage Linking
- Google Webmaster Tool Setup & Management
- Google Console Setup & Management
- Google My Business Setup & Management
- Google Analytics Setup & Management
Why can’t you just close your account and take the website with you?
The websites we develop contain premium themes and plugins that are worth thousands of dollars. Most of these are paid for annually under our business account – which could run the risk of being abused if not managed by us. In addition, the websites we develop have customized code that enables our client’s to competitively rank on Google for specific search terms. This code could cause a conflict of interest if we were to acquire a client in your industry and have to try and outrank a website that was built by us but is no longer managed by us. In other words, our code is our business. If someone can package our code, they can reverse-engineer our model, and compete against us.
To look at it another way, if you go to a restaurant you can get a scrumptious meal as often as you’d like as long as you pay for it, but you’ll never get the recipe or the cook. The same goes for our websites. You can get a stellar website for as long as you pay for it, but our code or our developer? Nah, we keep a tight grip on them.
No. Although we use WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system, we don’t allow administrative access to the backend of your website. This is a managed website subscription and we will handle all of the editing and updating for you so you can focus on your business. We make it super easy to submit update tickets and handle all requests promptly. We are totally willing to work with outside vendors you may have chosen to work with no differently than if we were your employees in-house. Just send an introduction email giving us permission to work with them and we’ll take it from there.
It would be our pleasure. We will write any webpage content that you require, at no additional cost. When you want unique page copy, all you need to do is give us a short outline or point us to a reference website.
No. We recommend using Google for email and other business apps. It’s easy to use, fast, secure and comes with 24/7/365 support. We can help set this up during development. Google charges $6-$12/user/month.
Just a few things fall outside of the Managed Web Subscriptions such as graphic design for custom images or infographics, video production, custom photography, third-party subscription fees, email or social media marketing, or email boxes. We can help with any of these requests and will provide a quote as needed.
