Honest takes on WordPress, static sites, SEO, and everything else that decides whether your website helps your business or quietly holds it back.
WordPress sites get hacked more than any other kind, and the first hour decides how bad it gets. A plain-English checklist for a hacked WordPress site, and what proper repair includes.
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Red warning screen in Google? Strange pages on your site? Here is how to tell if your website was hacked, what to do right away, and how a hacked website actually gets fixed.
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Your web person disappeared, stopped answering, or wants money before they hand over the keys. Here is how to figure out what you own and get your website back.
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The malware's gone, the site's clean — and Google is still showing spam under your business's name. Here's why that happens after a hack, and how it actually gets fixed.
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"Website checkup" gets thrown around as a vague term. Here's exactly what we check, what we usually find, and why $149 is enough to make the picture clear.
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WordPress isn't bad software, but for a lot of small local businesses it's the wrong tool for the job, quietly costing them speed, rankings, security, and money. The honest list.
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Nobody budgets for WordPress maintenance when they launch. A year later, most owners are quietly paying for it anyway, in dollars, in hours, or in risk. Here's the real math.
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WordPress causes a wildly disproportionate share of hacked sites and slow load times. Here's why Black Rock Media Group defaults to static websites instead, and when WordPress still makes sense.
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