Guides
Guides for people who run client sites
Practical, step-by-step answers to what freelancers and indie founders ask about monitoring, renewals and search visibility.
- How-to8 min readExpired domain: how to recover itWhat to do in the first hour after a domain expires, how grace and redemption periods work, what recovery costs and how to prevent a repeat.Read
- How-to7 min readHow to monitor a website for freeFour free ways to monitor a website, from hosted free tiers to a simple script, and the limits that matter, including use on client sites.Read
- How-to9 min readSet up uptime monitoring for client websitesChoose the right checks, set sensible intervals, avoid false alarms and send alerts to the right place, with a setup you can repeat for every client.Read
- Templates6 min readTell a client their site is down: templatesWhat to say, how fast and in what order when a client's website goes down, with copy-and-paste messages for the first notice, updates and the final summary.Read
- How-to9 min readTrack domain and SSL expiry dates for clientsWhy domains and SSL certificates lapse, how to check any expiry date in one command, and a repeatable process for tracking every client's renewals in time.Read
- How-to8 min readSee all Search Console sites in one viewSearch Console shows one property at a time. Four ways to compare clicks, impressions and position across all your client sites, and what to check weekly.Read
- How-to8 min readSSL certificate expired? How to fix itVisitors see a full-page browser warning. Confirm the certificate expired, renew it for your kind of hosting, verify the fix and stop it happening again.Read
- How-to9 min readTrack costs per client or projectWhich costs to count, how to turn yearly and quarterly bills into a monthly figure, how to share costs between projects and how to see which ones actually pay.Read
- How-to8 min readTrack Lighthouse scores over timeA single Lighthouse run is noisy. Learn how to run it consistently, store the results, compare them with your deploys and tell a real regression from variance.Read
- Guide9 min readWebsite maintenance plan: what to includeWhat a website maintenance plan should cover, what to promise and exclude, and a monthly report template that shows clients the work they are paying for.Read
- Checklist8 min readWebsite monitoring checklist for freelancersA practical checklist of what to monitor on every client website, from uptime and SSL to domains, deploys and search, and how often to check each.Read
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