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Web Development Insights

Honest, practical writing on web development, e-commerce, hiring, and the tech behind our client projects.

November 3, 20268 min read

How to Track Keyword Rankings in Google Search Console

Track keyword rankings with Google Search Console: find queries earning impressions, prioritize realistic wins, and measure SEO progress without vanity metrics.

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SEO

October 31, 202616 min read

Google Business Profile Suspended? How to Get It Back (2026)

Your Google Business Profile was suspended and the calls stopped. What the message means, what to fix first, and the appeal that gets it back.

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E-commerce

October 28, 202625 min read

Selling on ONDC in 2026: The Honest Maths Before You List (Fees, Real Order Volumes, and Who It Works For)

ONDC charges no commission, and that is where most sellers stop reading. Here is the real bill on one order, the volumes that went down when subsidies did, and the three kinds of business it genuinely works for.

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Guides

October 22, 202617 min read

PHP Bug Puts WordPress Sites at Risk: The 10-Minute Check

PHP shipped emergency patches on 21 October 2026. The bug is in PHP, not WordPress, so updating plugins fixes nothing. Here is the ten-minute check.

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SEO - Your Competitor's Website Is Beating Yours: The 20-Minute Teardown (2026)

SEO

October 19, 202614 min read

Your Competitor's Website Is Beating Yours: The 20-Minute Teardown (2026)

We lost a ₹6.2 lakh project to a company with a worse product and a cheaper website. So I tore their site apart. Here is the 24-point scorecard I now run on any competitor, the free tools that do it, and the three things to fix first.

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Business

October 17, 202611 min read

How to Get Google Reviews for Your Business in India (2026)

A client paid ₹8,000 for 20 Google reviews and lost all of them in three weeks. The rules that delete reviews, four request messages you can copy, and what to do about a fake one star.

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Guides

October 16, 202614 min read

Payment Gateway Rejected Your Website? 5 Pages to Add (2026)

Razorpay, PayU and Cashfree reject the website, not the business. The checklist a reviewer runs, copyable policy text, and what to fix before resubmitting.

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Business

October 15, 202621 min read

How Clients Judge Your Business Name Before They Ever See Your Work

Same scope, same people doing the work, two quotes: eighteen thousand and one lakh forty. The only thing that changed was the name on the proposal. What Indian buyers read into a business name, and how to stop being priced as one person with a laptop.

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Mobility

October 13, 202629 min read

EV Charging Rules Every Indian Company Has to Follow in 2026 (And the Software That Proves It)

Buying chargers is the easy part. The Ministry of Power guidelines, the PM E-DRIVE subsidy conditions and your state building code all end in the same place: somebody has to produce data, invoices and reports on demand. Here is what is actually written down as of October 2026, which clauses are mandatory and which are only advised, and exactly which of them turn into software your company has to own. We already run that software in production, so there is a live demo at the end of it rather than a sales pitch.

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Guides

October 11, 202613 min read

Nobody Has a Backup of Your Website: How to Check Today (2026)

Most Indian business owners find out there was no backup on the day they need one. By then the site is gone, the developer is unreachable, and the quote to rebuild it is higher than what the site cost in the first place. Here is the ten-minute check that tells you whether a copy of your website exists, who holds it, and what it costs to put a real backup in place.

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SEO - Your Website Is Not Showing on Google: How to Find Out Why (2026)

SEO

October 10, 202613 min read

Your Website Is Not Showing on Google: How to Find Out Why (2026)

You paid for a website, you search your own business name, and nothing comes up. Here is the ten-minute diagnosis that tells you whether Google has never seen your site, has seen it and refused it, or has it indexed and simply ranks it below everyone else. Three different problems, three different fixes, and only one of them costs money.

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Guides

October 8, 202612 min read

Is Your Website Mobile Friendly? The 5-Minute Phone Test (2026)

Most visitors to a small business website in India arrive on a phone, and Google now reads only the phone version. Here is a five-minute test you can do yourself, the eight mistakes we see most, what a fix costs in 2026, and the exact message to send your developer.

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Business

October 7, 20269 min read

Your Website Was Down and Nobody Told You: The ₹0 Fix (2026)

Most small business websites in India go down a few times a year and the owner finds out from a customer. Free uptime monitoring takes ten minutes to set up. Here is how, and what downtime really costs.

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Business

October 6, 202610 min read

Business Email ID in India: Cost and Setup Guide (2026)

A business email ID on your own domain starts at ₹59 a user per month in India. 2026 prices, setup steps, and the DNS records that keep you out of spam.

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Guides

October 5, 202611 min read

Who Owns Your Website? The 10-Minute Check (2026)

Your domain, hosting, admin login and Google accounts should all be in your own name. How to check in ten minutes, and what to do if they aren't.

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Pricing

October 4, 202613 min read

GST on Website Development in India: What You Pay (2026)

What you really pay in GST on a website in India in 2026: the 18 percent rule, when you get it back, how TDS fits in, what a valid invoice needs.

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Pricing

October 2, 202610 min read

Website Renewal Charges: What You Should Pay Yearly (2026)

What each line of a yearly website renewal bill in India should cost in 2026: domain, hosting, SSL, email, maintenance, and how to check yours.

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Guides

September 29, 202610 min read

Website Says "Not Secure" in Chrome? How to Fix It (2026)

Why Chrome marks a small business site "Not secure", the four causes we keep finding across India, and the fixes, most of them free and under an hour.

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Guides

September 28, 202610 min read

Website Development Quotation: Format and Sample (2026)

What a website development quotation in India should contain, a sample format you can copy, fair 2026 prices, and how to compare three quotes.

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Guides

September 27, 202611 min read

DLT Template Rejected? Fixes and Samples That Pass (2026)

Why DLT SMS templates get rejected or fail with "template not found" in 2026, the pre-tagging rules behind it, and sample templates that get approved.

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Mobility

September 25, 202612 min read

Unified Bharat e-Charge (UBC), Explained for EV Operators

UBC puts EV charging inside BHIM over the Beckn protocol. What it is, how it sits next to OCPP and OCPI, and what operators' software has to get right.

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Pricing

September 25, 202611 min read

AI Chatbot Development Cost in India (2026): Build and Run

What an AI chatbot costs to build and run in India in 2026: our INR prices, the monthly model bill worked out, and why enterprise quotes start at ₹6 lakh.

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Mobility

September 19, 20268 min read

OCPP 1.6-J Source Code: Five Open-Source Codebases Worth Reading Before You Write a CSMS

Three open-source central systems and two protocol libraries, with licences and OCPP versions checked against the repositories, the half of the product none of them contain for India, and the trade we made on PlugEV.

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Backend

September 19, 20265 min read

.NET Does Not Need Windows Any More: What It Actually Costs to Run in 2026

The licensing objection to .NET is a decade out of date, and it still decides stacks. What .NET actually costs to host in India now, where the real costs sit, and when it is still the wrong pick.

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