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Most of what a small business site needs from SEO comes from free tools made by Google and Microsoft. What each free tool covers, which jobs are one-off rather than a subscription, the four situations where a paid tool earns its fee, and which one fits which budget, with prices checked on the vendors' pages.
Aliteq Team · · 12 min
AI assistants repeat whatever their sources say, and old listings are the usual culprit. The questions to ask to catch the mistakes, which listing to fix for each one, what Google, Microsoft and Apple say about how long fixes take, and how to keep watching it.
Aliteq Team · · 12 min
A Reddit post said 65% of Shopify stores block AI crawlers without knowing it. We read the robots.txt files of 87 real Shopify stores: 4 blocked any AI crawler, and none blocked ChatGPT search with an AI-specific rule. The gaps we did find were thin product descriptions and missing product data. How to check your own store in 10 minutes.
Aliteq Team · · 14 min
SE Ranking has two self-serve plans, Core and Growth, both 20% cheaper billed yearly, and a 14-day trial that needs no card. What each plan covers, what costs extra, what a Shopify store gets from Core, and how it compares with Semrush on price. Checked on SE Ranking's own pages on Nov 1, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
Semrush has a free plan with no card required, capped at one demo project and 10 reports a day. The 7-day trial turns into a paid plan unless you cancel, and monthly plans can't be refunded. What a store or small business can do with 10 reports a day, checked on Semrush's own pages on Nov 1, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
There's no secret file or special markup. Microsoft and Google both say the same few things, and our own data showed which pages AI assistants picked. The checklist for a business site or an online store, with the myths, like llms.txt, sorted out.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Your customers ask AI assistants which product to buy and which store to trust. Four free checks show whether you're named, which pages get used and who's named instead, using Bing Webmaster Tools, Google Search Console, your Shopify or Google Analytics reports and the assistants themselves.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Being named in AI answers and getting visitors from them are two different things. Our own Bing and Google Analytics numbers, what got cited, what didn't, what it means for an online store, and how to check the same for your business with free tools.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
You post when you remember, usually a dim phone photo of the display case at 6 a.m. How bakeries and cafes batch a month of social visuals in one afternoon with AI, enhance the real food, and never fake the actual dish.
Aliteq Team · · 3 min
Year 1 of paid Windows 10 security updates ends on October 13, 2026. Year 2 doubles the price, a PC that skipped Year 1 pays for both, and Year 3 doubles again. Here is the bill for 10, 25 and 50 PCs, how to buy and activate it, and when a Windows 11 upgrade or new PC is the cheaper move.
Aliteq Team · · 10 min
A locked copy that ransomware cannot delete is the cheap part of a modern backup plan, unless you pick the wrong storage. Monthly bills for Backblaze B2, Wasabi, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2 and Hetzner at three sizes, with the minimum-storage and restore charges that change the answer. Prices read from each vendor on October 3, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 14 min
Most of a surprise AWS bill is not the servers you picked. It is the NAT gateway, the traffic, the logs and the forgotten disks around them. Every price here comes from AWS's own price files, read on October 3, 2026, with the Cost Explorer view that finds each one.
Aliteq Team · · 17 min
Broadcom publishes no per-core price, so nobody can hand you a VMware total. We can price the Proxmox side to the dollar, count the 96 cores you would license on VMware, and show the one per-core quote that makes the two equal.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
Microsoft keeps your files running, not your history. Its own backup costs $0.15 per GB a month, Veeam's online store charges $3.50 a user, Afi $3, IDrive $1.67, and Keepit, Datto and Acronis publish no price at all. Every option priced for 10, 25 and 50 users, from the vendors' own pages.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
Windows Server 2016 stops getting free security fixes on January 12, 2027. Three years of extended updates cost $2,999 per 16-core Standard host, a new Windows Server 2025 license costs $1,176, and Azure gives the updates away if you move. Here is every path priced for 1, 2 and 4 servers, from Microsoft's own pages.
Aliteq Team · · 12 min
The $50 single-server colo deals include a fraction of the power a GPU box needs. What hosting a 1, 2 or 4 GPU machine really costs a month, per kilowatt, from providers' own price pages, and when an office closet or a rented GPU beats it.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
A US company with 25 staff pays a managed IT provider about $3,125–5,000 a month, before onboarding and projects. The monthly bill at 10, 25 and 50 people, what the base fee leaves out, and when one in-house hire or a co-managed setup costs less. Every price comes from providers' own pages, and we say so.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
Should a 10–50 person company buy a GPU server, rent one by the hour, or just pay per token? The three-year bill for each, from live rental prices, today's hardware prices and government power statistics. The answer for most small companies is not the one GPU vendors sell.
Aliteq Team · · 13 min
Answer support chats, move data between your apps, draft and file the routine stuff, with a person checking. What each kind of agent costs on the vendors' own price pages (read Nov 3, 2026), where agents still fail, and how to start small.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min