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Articles on SEO, AI search visibility, site speed, and web development, written from GrowMint's own client projects.
Notes on performance, search, and the decisions that actually change how a site performs. Written from projects we shipped, with the numbers attached.
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September 21, 2026 · 10 min read
How to Get Google Reviews, and What to Do When a Bad One Lands
Reviews are the highest-leverage free thing a local business owns, and a lot of the usual advice about getting them will quietly get them filtered. What to ask, when, and what's actually removable.
Read articleSeptember 21, 2026 · 10 min read
Your Website Gets Traffic and Nobody Calls: Where the Leads Leak
Visits with no enquiries is six different problems wearing the same shirt. The arithmetic that tells you whether it's a conversion problem at all, then the leaks in the order we find them.
Read articleSeptember 19, 2026 · 11 min read
Why Your Website Isn't Showing Up on Google, and How to Check in Ten Minutes
A page has to pass four gates before it can rank: found, crawled, indexed, ranked. How to check which one yours is stuck at, with our own site's numbers as the example.
Read articleSeptember 18, 2026 · 9 min read
How Long a Business Website Takes to Build, and What Slows It Down
Realistic timelines for a template site, a custom build, a store and a web app, which phase waits on whom, and the delays that stretch all of them.
Read articleSeptember 17, 2026 · 11 min read
How to Choose a Digital Marketing Agency in the GTA
Twelve questions to ask any agency, what good and bad answers sound like, how to check proof, the contract terms that matter, and when not to hire one.
Read articleSeptember 16, 2026 · 11 min read
Agency, Freelancer or DIY: Who Should Build Your Business Website
Three ways to get a business website, and each is the right call for somebody. Cost, speed, risk, ownership, and what year two looks like for each.
Read articleSeptember 16, 2026 · 11 min read
What Google Ads Management Costs in Ontario
Percent of spend, flat fee or hybrid: what each costs in the GTA, the minimum budget worth starting with by business type, and what free management is.
Read articleSeptember 15, 2026 · 11 min read
What SEO Actually Costs in Mississauga and the GTA
Monthly SEO in the GTA runs from $300 to $10,000. What each band buys, why quotes differ, what the price leaves out, and when you shouldn't buy it yet.
Read articleSeptember 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Who Owns the Order Button on Your Google Listing
A third-party provider can put its ordering link on your Business Profile automatically. On a customer who searched your restaurant by name, that's a 20 to 30 percent introduction fee.
Read articleSeptember 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Does ChatGPT Recommend Your Clinic? Check in Twenty Minutes
Ten prompts, two settings, one spreadsheet. How we find out whether an AI assistant names a local business, and which of two very different problems it has.
Read articleSeptember 9, 2026 · 5 min read
What You Can and Can't Put on a Sold Listings Page in Ontario
Sold listings are the one thing on an agent's site no portal can syndicate. They're also governed by a written-consent rule most templates were never built to handle.
Read articleSeptember 8, 2026 · 7 min read
Why Your Law Firm Only Ranks for Its Own Name
Nobody searches for a law firm. They search the problem. Why one practice-areas page can't rank for twelve matters, and what the Law Society lets you say.
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