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Writing for agencies who manage client sites.

Practical pieces on website change monitoring, client disputes, evidence trails, and the unglamorous side of agency work that nobody tweets about.

16 May 2026 · For agency owners · 6 min read

A month with WebCopilot — what actually changed.

An honest retrospective from the first wave of pilot agencies. No week-three transformation, no magical reduction in client questions — just a small accretive shift, and one dispute call that pays back the month.

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13 May 2026 · For agencies · 9 min read

A complete checklist for taking over a client's website from another agency.

Everything to capture, verify, and document on day one — before the old agency stops returning your emails.

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13 May 2026 · For agency owners · 6 min read

How to add "website monitoring" as a profit-line on your retainer.

Most agencies absorb monitoring into "general maintenance" and lose the chance to bill £50–150/month per client for work they're already doing. A short guide to formalising it.

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9 May 2026 · For agency owners · 7 min read

The "you broke my site" problem — and how agencies stop losing the argument.

Every agency has had the call. You didn't touch the homepage. The client insists you did. Without proof, you lose a little trust either way. Here's how to stop losing.

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9 May 2026 · For agencies + in-house SEO · 8 min read

Six silent SEO regressions that quietly tank a client's rankings.

The six silent changes — meta titles, robots.txt, canonical tags, schema, internal links, redirects — that quietly tank a client's search traffic, and how to catch each one within a day.

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9 May 2026 · For founders + marketers · 7 min read

How to monitor a competitor's website without checking it daily.

The pages worth watching, the cadence that works, and how to stop missing the moves that actually matter.

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9 May 2026 · Opinion · 4 min read

If you manage client websites, you're already paying for an archive. You just don't have one.

An honest accounting exercise about the invisible cost of running an agency without an evidence trail.

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