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What a small business website must have: a checklist

Updated November 7, 2026 · 2 min read

In short

A small business website must have: what you do and where (right at the top of the page), a quick way to get in touch, a page for each main service, trust signals like reviews and real photos, a mobile layout, speed, an accessibility statement, and a structure Google understands: a title and description for every page and a sitemap.

At the top of the page

  1. What you do and where, in one sentence. "iPhone repair lab in downtown Seattle", not "Welcome".
  2. A prominent action button. Call, WhatsApp or leave your details.

Content

  1. A page for each main service. With an explanation, who it suits and FAQs.
  2. An About page with faces. People buy from people. A real photo is worth more than a stock photo.
  3. Reviews. With a name (and the customer's permission).
  4. FAQs. Rough prices, arrival times, warranty.

Technical

  1. Mobile. Most visitors come from phones. Check every page on mobile.
  2. Speed. A website that loads slowly loses visitors. Compressed images and no unnecessary plugins.
  3. Security. An SSL certificate (the padlock in the browser).
  4. Accessibility. Good contrast, readable text, image descriptions and an accessibility statement.

Google and measurement

  1. A title and description for every page, a sitemap and a connection to Search Console.
  2. Measurement. Know how many visits, calls and inquiries the website brings in.

How BazSite handles the list

Most of these items are built into every BazSite website: service pages and FAQs are written from the questionnaire, every website fits phones, with SSL, an accessibility statement, a sitemap and titles for Google, and the system counts visits, clicks on phone and WhatsApp, and inquiries. What's left for you: real photos and reviews.

Built into BazSite, no plugins

In WordPress, Wix and Shopify most of these take plugins or apps, each with its own settings, updates and fees, and most only work when someone runs them by hand. In BazSite they're part of the system, included in the plan and run on their own.

SEO analysis and one-click fixes On plans with SEO

An SEO score for every page and article, and with "Help me fix it" the AI writes the fixes themselves: the Google title and description, a missing paragraph, questions and answers. You approve each suggestion with a click.

In WordPress: An SEO plugin (like Yoast or Rank Math) that gives a score, and you write the fixes yourself.

Descriptions (alt text) for every image On plans with SEO

The system shows which images on the website are missing a description, and with one click the AI looks at each image and writes its description in the website's language, for Google and for blind visitors.

In WordPress: Writing them by hand, image after image, or yet another plugin.

Change text in plain words

Write "shorten the About page and add the opening hours", and see before and after for every part of the page. It works on the whole website at once too, and nothing goes live without your approval.

In WordPress: Editing by hand in the block editor or a page builder.

Change the design in plain words

Write "rounder buttons and dark blue headings", and see the page before and after, on desktop and on a phone, before you approve.

In WordPress: CSS code, theme settings or a page builder.

Ready for AI search (GEO)

Every website is open to the crawlers of ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, with an llms.txt file that sums up for them who the business is, how to reach it and what's on the website, and with structured data about the business, its questions and answers and its articles. Every new article opens with a direct answer, exactly what AI engines quote.

In WordPress: An SEO plugin (like Yoast) for structured data and llms.txt, and setting it up.

New articles every month On plans with SEO

The system picks topics from keywords that aren't on Google's first page yet, writes the articles and sends them to you for approval, or publishes on its own if you chose that.

In WordPress: Writing by hand, or an AI plugin that writes an article when asked, with no link to your Google rankings.

Built-in catalogs Depending on the plan

Listings for a realtor, treatments for a clinic, memberships for a gym: your own fields, a page for every item, a list with filters and a map. Adding an item is like filling in a form.

In WordPress: A content type with ACF or Pods, a loop built in Elementor and a filter plugin, each needing setup and updates.

A weekly website check-up

Once a week the system goes over the website and emails you about broken links, heavy images, pages without a Google title and a contact form that doesn't work.

In WordPress: A plugin or an outside monitoring service.

Accessibility check

The system goes over every page of the website against the accessibility standard (WCAG 2.1 AA) and shows what to fix: images without a description, colors without enough contrast, fields without a label and more. A color that fails is fixed with a click. Every website includes an accessibility statement.

In WordPress: An accessibility plugin or an outside scanner.

The full comparison: what's built into BazSite and what needs a plugin elsewhere →