Atelic · Prepared for Josh Beller
A Look at Your Two Sites
Josh, here is what I found on West Lake Tahoe Cleaning and Crested Butte Cleaning, checked on your own pages the morning of August 20th. It is yours to keep and to hand to whoever looks after the sites.
West Lake Tahoe Cleaning
What is working: the site is quick, about two tenths of a second to load, secure, and clean on a phone. Google reaches every page, nothing blocked or hidden, and the sitemap is current. The writing is plain and honest about what you do: you clean vacation rental homes.
1. Google introduces your services page as "Home Disinfection Services." Search for your business and that page comes back headlined "Home Disinfection Services," while the page itself is entirely vacation rental cleaning. The word disinfection appears nowhere on it. A property manager scanning results sees the wrong business. Retitle the page around vacation rental cleaning in Tahoe City and the search result changes with it.
2. There is nowhere to check your reviews. Nothing on the site links to your Google listing, Facebook, Instagram, or Yelp. Someone choosing between you and the next cleaner cannot see what other owners say, and that is what closes a first booking with a stranger. Put those links in the footer of every page.
3. The site never hands over its business card. Google Maps and the AI assistants people now ask for recommendations read a short hidden summary of a business: name, phone, service area, ratings. Your site carries none, so those tools guess at basics you already know. Adding it is an afternoon of work.
4. The homepage offers one way in. Your phone number is there and works correctly, but there is no email link, and the only other path is a form on the contact page. Plenty of owners will not call and will not fill in forms. Add an email link beside the number.
5. The pages are short. The homepage runs about 312 words, the contact page about 104, and four of the seven open without a headline saying what the page is. Short pages give Google little to match against what someone typed. A few honest paragraphs under a clear headline is the whole fix.
Crested Butte Cleaning
What is working: same strengths, and the build is tidier: fast, secure, fully reachable by Google, fresh sitemap, and a real phone number and service area plainly in the footer.
1. The phone icon in the header dials the wrong area code. The phone icon at the top of every page dials (707) 400-7784. Everywhere else, on the site and in your signature, the number is 970-400-7784. Anyone tapping it from a phone reaches a Northern California number instead of you, and that person was ready to book. Point it at the 970 number.
2. The envelope icon beside it cannot open email. It is built as a web address rather than an email link, so tapping it reloads the homepage instead of starting a message to you. Same visitor, same moment, second dead end. The address behind it is correct, so it is a one line change.
3. The published address is in Breckenridge. The footer reads P.O. Box 2880, Breckenridge, Colorado on a site serving Crested Butte, Mt. Crested Butte, and Gunnison, roughly 100 miles away. A homeowner reads that as an out of town outfit, and Google will not verify a map listing to a PO Box at all. A Crested Butte address fixes both.
4. Same missing business card. Same gap here, even though the footer already carries the real details. One job fixes both sites.
5. The two sites share copy word for word. The Claire E. testimonial and the Automated Scheduling section appear identically on both, and the pages are short here too, about 245 words on the homepage. Two sites saying the same words compete for the same searches. Give each its own language, written about its own town.
If You Want Help
Atelic looks after this kind of thing for local businesses, so if you want a hand with any of it, just say the word, or shoot me an email.
Reliably Yours,
Matthew Fornaciari · Atelic