https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog.html Plain-language writing on using AI safely in a small business, and on getting found by search engines and AI assistants. en-GB Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-i-built-to-run-this-business.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-i-built-to-run-this-business.html The tools that handle the administration of a one-person software business: what each one does, what building rather than buying actually cost, and why the honest advice to most businesses is the opposite. Studio Sam Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-contact-forms-that-go-nowhere.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-contact-forms-that-go-nowhere.html A contact form is the only part of a website that can fail completely while looking perfectly healthy. How they break, a ten-minute test that actually catches it, and why a phone number often beats a form. Web Design Sam Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-the-copyright-notice-that-says-2001.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-the-copyright-notice-that-says-2001.html Just under a third of the local business websites I surveyed failed on upkeep: a stale copyright year, a leftover template page, or a duplicate copy on a builder subdomain. What each signals, and a twenty-minute self-check. Research Sam Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-when-your-web-designer-disappears.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-when-your-web-designer-disappears.html Recovering a website when the person who built it has stopped answering: how to find out who holds the domain, the routes back to control in order of how well they go, and what is realistically recoverable. Domains Sam Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-local-website-health-2026.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-local-website-health-2026.html A technical survey of 88 independent businesses around Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent. 65 of 88 had a website not doing their business justice, 55.6% failed the basic on-page search check, and 16 domains did not serve a site at all. Full anonymised dataset with per-criterion scores, CC BY 4.0. Research Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-heading-structure.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-heading-structure.html Headings look like styling and are actually the outline every search engine, AI assistant and screen reader reads a page from. The four ways it drifts, how to check yours in five minutes, and what good looks like. SEO Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-a-small-business-website-needs.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-a-small-business-website-needs.html The short list a small business website has to get right — what you do, where you work, a contact route that arrives, proof, speed on a phone, and working for everyone — plus what can safely wait. Web Design Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-when-your-domain-expires.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-when-your-domain-expires.html Sixteen of 88 surveyed businesses had no working web address while still trading. How renewals fail silently, what stops working besides the website, the three stages after expiry, and a ten-minute check. Domains Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-do-you-own-your-website.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-do-you-own-your-website.html Four separate things get bundled together under “my website” — the domain, the hosting, the content and the build — and they are held in four different ways. The question to ask about each. Web Design Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-why-your-website-feels-slow.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-why-your-website-feels-slow.html Speed on a website is mostly weight, and most of the weight is images. The causes in order of impact, how to measure without misleading yourself, and the six fixes worth doing before considering a rebuild. Performance Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-google-business-profile.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-google-business-profile.html The fields that decide which searches you appear in, the two sections most people do not know they can edit, how to handle reviews within the rules, and a fifteen-minute monthly routine. Local SEO Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-website-accessibility-basics.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-website-accessibility-basics.html Where the Equality Act and WCAG actually sit for a private UK business, the eight things that matter most, how to check your own website cheaply, and why accessibility overlays do not do what they claim. Accessibility Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-is-your-website-working.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-is-your-website-working.html Deciding what the website is for, the four figures worth watching, the three that mislead on small numbers, the one question that beats all of them, and where consent comes into it. Analytics Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-who-looks-after-your-website.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-who-looks-after-your-website.html The eight maintenance jobs that keep a website working, the four honest answers to who is doing them, what to ask before paying for a care plan, and a two-hour-a-year minimum. Web Design Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-from-idea-to-operation.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-from-idea-to-operation.html One month of trading, written up with the specifics attached: what it took to reach the first invoice, five clients, the three things that went wrong and what each one changed. Studio Sam Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-who-is-responsible-when-ai-gets-it-wrong.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-who-is-responsible-when-ai-gets-it-wrong.html Where responsibility actually sits when a business AI makes a mistake: mistaken prices, consumer rules, what supplier contracts say, the insurance question, and the controls that reduce the exposure. AI Sam Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-ai-policy-small-team.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-ai-policy-small-team.html Why AI policies fail in small businesses, why an outright ban backfires, the six questions a policy has to answer, and a one-page template you can lift and adapt. AI Sam Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-can-i-use-ai-on-customer-data.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-can-i-use-ai-on-customer-data.html The UK GDPR shape of putting customer information through an AI tool: processor contracts, lawful basis, privacy notices, international transfers, special category data, and being able to honour a deletion request. AI Sam Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-prompt-injection-explained.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-prompt-injection-explained.html What prompt injection is in plain language, why the indirect kind matters more than the obvious kind, why telling the AI to ignore it does not work, and the four questions to put to a supplier. AI Sam Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-you-type-into-ai.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-you-type-into-ai.html Where your text goes when you paste it into ChatGPT or similar, what varies between free and business tiers, where UK GDPR comes into it, and a five-line policy a small team will actually follow. AI Sam Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-safe-chatbot-scope.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-safe-chatbot-scope.html The useful conversation about a website chatbot is about its limits. Scope, commitments, prompt injection, data access, and handing over to a person. AI Sam Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-using-ai-safely.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-using-ai-safely.html A practical guide to where AI belongs in a small business and where it does not: what it can see, what it can do, what you type into it, and the questions to ask before adopting anything. AI Sam Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-ai-search-sees.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-what-ai-search-sees.html AI assistants read a website differently from a person. A plain look at what they can and cannot pick up, and the ordinary fixes that close the gap. SEO Sam Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-business-details-consistency.html https://scorpionaitooling.co.uk/blog-business-details-consistency.html Your name, address and phone number appear in more places than you think. Here is why they drift apart, why it matters, and how to bring them back into line. Local SEO Sam Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100