Ali Ahmed

Ali Ahmed | Founder & CEO @ DiyWeb 🇳🇴
Building the future of the web. AI, SaaS & technology.
Ideas deserve to exist.

[Ali Ahmed @AliAhmedDiyWeb]

@xdantestjames Multiple pages is the bigger change for local search, since a page per service or area gives Google something specific to match. Worth checking that each page gets its own title and description, because tools built for one-pagers often reuse the same one everywhere.

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@uiuxtanzeem Same habit here, and I add an iPhone in Low Power Mode, since autoplay video often won't start there and the hero turns into an empty box. A poster image behind the video covers that first screen.

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Most AI builders hand you a page and no reasons.

Cortex in DiyWeb shows the plan first: palette with colour codes, fonts, sections, the main call to action. Then it builds, and everything stays editable.

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"Are they still in business?"

Customers ask this about your website more than you think.

Usually it's not the design. It's a news page last updated in 2021, "© 2019" in the footer, or a summer offer still live in October.

Delete what you won't keep fresh.

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@fincken The approval step is the part I'd watch. Once a text confirming a payment becomes routine, owners will tap yes the same way they accept cookie banners, so per-supplier limits and a clear log of what was paid matter more than the 10 minutes.

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@kott_studio For me it's a phone number I have to hunt for, or a price list that turns out to be a PDF from three years ago. If I can't tell within a few seconds what it costs and how to book, I'm back on Google.

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@mulajnr101 The DM for price habit is the one I see most. A clear page with prices, a few photos and one obvious way to order usually removes half of those back and forth chats, and the busy WhatsApp line stops being the bottleneck.

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@joshtCRO Agree, the big swings usually come from changing the offer or the page structure, not the button color. With small business sites we often see one clearer first screen beat a dozen micro tests, mostly because traffic is too low to detect 5% moves anyway.

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Hardest part of building an AI website builder isn't the AI. It's saying no.

Every extra setting makes sense on its own. Together they rebuild the dashboard small businesses wanted to escape.

The question I ask now: does it help them get a customer? If not, it waits.

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@kott_studio The contact form one is the quiet killer. Owners rarely notice because nothing errors, the leads stop arriving. A test submission once a month and a glance at the prices page catches most of it.

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@SameerSPanjwani Agree with the order. Number two is where most sites fall short: a stock photo and "trusted by many" instead of three real reviews with names and a photo of the actual work. Owners usually have that proof already, it is sitting in their Google profile and camera roll.

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@CreativeDima Free templates help a lot for small businesses, but the thing that usually decides if they get used is the starting content. A template with realistic service sections and a clear contact path already filled in saves owners the blank-page problem.

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@ehsanshares Agree. I think it favors clean structure: consistent sections, named components, content kept apart from layout. Agent edits usually break where one text change shifts three other things. A template tested against agent edits becomes a real selling point.

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@dorian_ofc Agree, and it shows most on small business sites. A builder can lay out the page in a minute, but it can't tell you that customers actually pick you for the two-hour response time, so that part still has to come from the owner.

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Google your own business. What does the blue headline say?

If it's "Home" or your theme's name, that's the first thing people read about you.

Make it say what you do and where, like "Electrician in Bergen | Name". Then write the one-line description under it yourself.

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The fastest website upgrade most small businesses can make: delete pages.

The news page last updated in 2021. The gallery with 4 photos. Three pages saying the same thing.

If you wouldn't miss it, your customers won't either.

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@ShenDuncan The subdomain catch is real, and the domain itself is rarely the expensive part. What I would check before paying is how much the plan jumps once you need a contact form, booking or a few products, since that is usually where the free tier ends for a real business.

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@ceedesignx Cost is the real barrier for most small shops, so the checkout flow has to feel obvious from the first screen. I would test early with a few owners who sell something physical, since they tend to want order management more than a pretty storefront.

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@xPatrickQuigley The $40,000 site nobody could update is the real lesson. Owning the site matters less for the money saved than for being able to fix a price or opening hours the same afternoon. Whatever stack you pick, check that you can edit it yourself before you sign off.

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@marbeljesus_ Number 3 is the one I see skipped most. Even two or three real photos of finished work with a short line on what the job was beat a page of generic claims, and they take an afternoon to collect.