The blog · Central Kentucky Straight answers, in plain English.
Every article here comes out of work I've actually done — a site I
built, a listing I fixed, a count I ran myself in Clark County. None of it is AI churn or a
rewrite of somebody else's post, and where I'm quoting a number, I'll tell you where I got it.
11 articles · written and published by Jeff Becraft
The five real reasons a local business is invisible on Google, in plain English. Most are free to fix — and only one of them is “you need a website.” From Winchester, KY.
Two Clark County restaurants' old web addresses now run somebody else's ads. How domains get lost, how to check yours in two minutes, and why every domain I set up is registered in the client's name.
The free Google listing with your map, hours and reviews — what it is, why it often gets seen more than your website, how to claim it, and the phone scam to hang up on.
I checked 38 locally-run restaurants in Winchester and Clark County by hand. Half have no working website. The real numbers, how I counted, and what to do if this might be you.
Step by step, free, from your phone: claim your Google Business Profile, fix your hours, set holiday hours, and stop the listings you never made from contradicting you.
Real 2026 numbers from a Winchester web designer: $850 for a single-page site, $2,600 for a five-page business site — plus why quotes swing so wildly and the 6% KY sales tax nobody mentions.
Almost always no — and here's what people actually mean when they ask for one, plus the cheaper thing that does the same job.
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