Practical website guides
Make each website decision with evidence.
Use these checklists, examples and primary sources to prepare your business details, write useful pages, publish safely and improve local visibility.
11 guides
Start with the job in front of you.
Each guide answers one practical question. They are written and reviewed by the Pagely editorial team, with no invented customers, rankings or outcomes.
Local business guide
How to set up a Google Business Profile
A practical setup guide for Canadian storefront and service-area businesses, based on Google's current rules.
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Planning guide
Small business website checklist
Gather the facts customers need before choosing colours, templates or clever headlines.
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Cost guide
What does a small business website cost in Canada?
Compare the full first-year cost in Canadian dollars, including the work that pricing pages often leave out.
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Local visibility guide
Google Business Profile versus a website
They solve different parts of the same customer journey and work best when their facts agree.
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Search guide
Local SEO basics for small businesses
Make the business easy to understand, verify and contact before chasing tactics or rankings.
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Publishing guide
How to connect a custom domain to Pagely
Use the records generated for your site, keep the free address live during setup and wait for both DNS and SSL checks to finish.
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Content guide
How to write service page copy
Answer the customer's next questions with details the business can prove.
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Image guide
Choose and prepare website images
Use each image to prove, explain or orient, then make it fast and accessible.
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Publishing guide
Website launch checklist
Test the customer journey with real details and real devices before announcing the new address.
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Editorial guide
How to fact-check an AI-generated website
Fluent copy can still be wrong. Check every claim that could change a customer's decision.
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Buying guide
How to choose a Canadian website builder
Define what ‘Canadian’ means to your business, then verify product fit, data handling and exit terms separately.
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Build from facts
Bring a source sheet, not a slogan.
Write down the official name, services, location, hours, contact details and proof before drafting. A clear source sheet improves human and AI-written copy because every meaningful claim has somewhere to point.
Built by Canadians, for Canadians
Review before you publish.
Pagely can research the business sources you provide, create a working site and check drafted claims against its source brief. You make the final editorial decision.