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Reviews10 min read

Your Star Rating Predicts Nothing About Your Website. We Measured 156 Local Businesses to Check.

Everyone treats the Google star rating as the scoreboard. We tested it against real mobile load times across 156 businesses in Bristol County and nearby Rhode Island, then ran the twenty restaurants Google shows for New Bedford. The correlation is 0.11. Here is what to measure instead.

Aug 1, 2026Read article

Website Strategy10 min read

Everything a New Bedford Florist Needs for Email, in Order, and Most of It Is Free

Professional email on your own domain, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, a newsletter, and order confirmations for a florist in New Bedford, MA. The whole stack costs $0 until you cross 250 subscribers. Every price verified on the vendor's own page this week.

Jul 26, 2026Read article

E-commerce7 min read

We Priced Five Ways a New Bedford Print Shop Can Sell Online. Here's the One to Pick.

Square, Shopify, Wix, GoDaddy, or WooCommerce? We priced all five at 2026 rates and judged them on what a print shop actually needs, then measured 13 real New Bedford print shop sites to set the bar. The median takes 16.1 seconds to load and 10 of 13 can't take an order online.

Jul 24, 2026Read article

AI8 min read

We showed three AI crawlers the top 7 electricians in New Bedford. The most-reviewed one is invisible — and the cheapest website won.

People now ask ChatGPT and Google's AI who to call when the panel starts buzzing. So we fetched the top New Bedford electrician sites exactly the way the AI crawlers do — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, no JavaScript, robots.txt respected — and checked whether the facts a 9pm emergency caller needs are actually readable. Zero sites publish hours a machine can read. Zero publish a license number. And the #2 result's own website builder tells every crawler to stay out. Here's the method, every number, and the free ten-minute fix.

Jul 17, 2026Read article

AI9 min read

We pointed three AI crawlers at 13 Southeastern Massachusetts pharmacies. The best-built site was the only one ChatGPT couldn't read.

Everyone is selling small businesses an AI strategy. So we ran the test: GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot against 13 real pharmacy websites from Fall River to Taunton. Nobody was blocking the bots. Nobody needed an llms.txt file. But two sites don't load at all, and the one independent that did everything right is invisible to ChatGPT — because of its own security layer. Here's every number, the method, and the free 60-second test you can run today.

Jul 14, 2026Read article

Automation8 min read

Google says its AI will start calling businesses to book appointments this summer. Beauty is on the list.

At I/O in May, Google said that for 'select categories like home repair, beauty or pet care,' customers can ask Google to call the business on their behalf — rolling out across the U.S. this summer. For a New Bedford barbershop, that means the next voice on your phone might not be a person. Here's what Google actually published, what it doesn't say, and what to do about it Monday.

Jul 13, 2026Read article