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Notes from building websites for Alaska businesses. What ranks, what converts, and what we'd skip next time. Written by the people doing the work.

Strategy

What a seasonal Alaska business should do in the off-season

Alaska took 2,702,900 visitors between May and September and 376,300 across the entire winter. Rankings take months to move. So the work that decides your summer happens in February.

July 21, 2026

Performance

Your website is slower than you think, especially in Alaska

You loaded it on Anchorage fiber and it felt instant. Alaska's own broadband office classes 171 of the state's 389 communities as unserved. Somebody in one of them is trying to book you right now.

May 6, 2026

Process

What to have ready before your website project starts

Gather these seven things and a two-week project takes two weeks. Skip the first one and you will find out about it on launch day, which is the worst possible day.

February 17, 2026

Process

How long does it actually take to build a website?

One to three weeks for most small business sites. The reason other quotes say three months is not that the work takes three months.

December 2, 2025

Insights

Using AI-generated photos on your business website without it backfiring

AI-generated images can cut privacy risk and photo admin. What to capture now so future website imagery is easier to approve.

September 30, 2025

Local SEO

Why your Anchorage business is not showing up on Google Maps

Most of the time the answer is not that you dropped. It is that you were never visible more than a couple of miles from your own front door, and you have only just noticed.

July 8, 2025

Local SEO

Google Business Profile mistakes Alaska businesses keep making

Two of these can get your profile suspended, which is a worse position than never having claimed it. The other five just quietly cost you the map pack.

April 22, 2025

Local SEO

A local SEO checklist for Anchorage businesses

Nine things, in the order they should be done. The ordering is the whole point: most agencies sell you items six through nine and skip the three that do the work.

February 11, 2025

Insights

Wix, Squarespace, or custom: which one your business actually needs

We build custom sites for a living and we still tell some people to stay on Squarespace. Here is the line, and how to work out which side of it you are on.

November 19, 2024

Pricing

How much does a website cost in Alaska?

Between $1,500 and $40,000, and the spread is not padding. Here is what sits behind each band, what actually moves the number, and the cost most quotes leave out entirely.

September 17, 2024

Insights

Make your key website pages easier to choose from

A simple way to review high-value website pages so visitors can understand, trust and take the next step faster.

June 4, 2024

Insights

Website governance: the missing system behind better digital performance

Governance turns design, content, SEO, accessibility and analytics into a repeatable system, so your site keeps improving after launch.

March 12, 2024

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