Easy Biz Ames search traffic follows Iowa State's calendar. Is your website built to catch it?
Ames is home to Iowa State University, which means students, football weekends, and visiting families search online before they ever pick up a phone. If your website is slow, outdated, or missing the local SEO signals search engines look for, and increasingly the structure AI tools like ChatGPT need to recommend you, that traffic goes to a competitor instead. The $297 AI Tools Assessment checks whether your Ames business website is actually built to be found.
Based in Altoona, Iowa. Serving Ames and small businesses across the region.
Why Ames businesses go unseen online
Most owners already know their site isn't pulling its weight. They just don't have time to dig into why, or what to do about it. That's the job.
An outdated website
If your site still looks like a placeholder or hasn't been touched in years, it tells potential Ames customers something you don't mean to say.
Not showing up in Google
When someone in Ames searches for what you do, your competitors show up and you don't. That's a fixable problem, not bad luck.
Invisible to AI search
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews are answering the same questions Ames customers used to type into Google. If your site isn't built for AI crawlers to read and cite, you're not in the running.
No local SEO signals
Search engines and AI tools both look for consistent local signals: your name, address, phone number, and service area. Missing or inconsistent signals push your business down the list.
Slow or not mobile-friendly
Most Ames searches happen on a phone. A slow site or one that doesn't work well on mobile loses the visitor before they ever see what you offer.
No schema markup
Schema markup is the behind-the-scenes code that tells Google and AI tools exactly what your business does, where, and for whom. Without it, they're guessing, and usually guessing wrong.
The website and search fix is the headline. It's not the only thing we can plug in.
A website and SEO/AI-visibility fix is the main job. Once we're already in there, it's often worth also plugging in the day-to-day leaks: missed-call text-back, AI chat and SMS booking, and automatic review requests, so nothing else is quietly costing your Ames customers.
Three simple steps
Take a free class
Ted teaches free "AI for local business" classes at Iowa business organizations. No pitch, just practical ways local businesses are showing up in Google search and AI answer engines like ChatGPT.
Get the AI Tools Assessment
A $297 session where Ted looks at your Ames website, your Google visibility, and whether AI search tools can even find you, then hands you a plain-English report on what's actually worth fixing.
Install what the assessment finds
A rebuilt or repaired website, schema markup, local SEO fixes, and AI-crawler access, whatever the assessment turned up. While we're in there, Ted can also plug in missed-call text-back, booking, and review requests. Many businesses keep Ted on afterward on an ongoing retainer.
AI Tools Assessment
- A real look at your Ames website, your Google ranking, and whether AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity can find and recommend you
- A look at how your site stacks up against other businesses like yours in your area, and whether AI answer engines even know you exist
- A plain-English report on what's actually costing you visibility: outdated design, missing schema, no local SEO signals, or blocked AI crawlers
- No pressure to buy anything, just a clear picture of what's worth fixing
- If you want help fixing it, Ted can build or repair the site himself
One person, not a call center
Easy Biz Tech is run by Ted Gaunt, based in Altoona, Iowa. Ted spent 30 years running his own small businesses before turning to this work, so he's not selling software he's never used, he's solving problems he's actually run into himself.
His clients so far are the kind of small local businesses that find him by word of mouth: the businesses people already know and trust, plus churches, ministries, and musicians. He's not a big agency with a sales team. He's one person who listens first, then builds what actually fits, including for business owners in Ames.
Ted Gaunt, Easy Biz Tech
Ready to find out if your website is costing you customers in Ames?
Call and talk it through, or ask a question first. Either way, it's a real conversation, not a sales script.
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