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I write about websites, SEO and AI for business: what works, what it costs and how I do it.

Bots & automationAugust 29, 20266 min read

Chatbot Development in Tashkent: What Clients Should Know

In Uzbekistan a business bot is almost always a Telegram bot: that is where the audience sits and where requests come in. The price depends on the scenario and the integrations, so it is quoted per task. Before starting, describe the scenario in words and decide where the data goes.

SEO & growthAugust 25, 20267 min read

How to Check if ChatGPT Knows About Your Website

Ask an AI about your company, then about your service without naming the company - that shows whether it knows you and cites you. If it does not, the cause is usually technical: the site serves an empty page without scripts, or the hosting blocks AI crawlers. Both take an hour to check.

SEO & growthAugust 24, 20267 min read

What SEO Services Actually Include

SEO comes down to three parts: technical (speed, indexing, markup), content (pages built for real queries) and external (mentions and links). The basic technical part should be included in the price of the site. As a separate service, promotion makes sense when you need search traffic to grow.

Process & pricingAugust 23, 20266 min read

How to Create a Business Website: Where to Start

Start not with design but with the task: what the site should do and where people will come from. Then you pick the type - a landing page for ads, a multipage site for services, or a catalogue. Client materials are prepared before the start, otherwise the launch stalls on exactly those.

SEO & growthAugust 22, 20266 min read

Why Your Website Loads Slowly and What to Do

Most often a site is slowed down by uncompressed images, unnecessary analytics and widget scripts, heavy code with plugins, and slow hosting. The main rule is to measure what is actually to blame first and only then fix it: guesses usually point at the wrong cause.

Websites & developmentAugust 21, 20265 min read

Online Store or Catalog Website: What Your Business Needs

A catalog shows products and takes a request, a store adds a cart, online payment and stock tracking. If clients pay by transfer or on delivery anyway and the range is small, a catalog solves the same task more cheaply. A store is needed when the purchase has to run without you.

SEO & growthAugust 20, 20265 min read

Google or Yandex: Where to Promote a Site in Uzbekistan

Google dominates in Uzbekistan - about 78% against roughly 21% for Yandex, according to DataReportal. But it is too early to drop Yandex: that is every fifth user and cheaper advertising. Technically you build one site, the differences show up in ads, not in SEO.

Websites & developmentAugust 17, 20266 min read

Domain and Hosting: What They Are and Whose Name They Go In

A domain is the address of your site, hosting is where its files live. Both should be registered in your name and paid for with your card: then the site belongs to you and you can change contractor at any moment. If the domain is registered to your developer, you are renting your own site.

AI for businessAugust 14, 20266 min read

Can You Write Website Copy With AI

Yes: Google penalises not AI but useless text produced in bulk for the sake of rankings. A model works well as a draft and as an editor, but it does not know the facts about your business and invents them. Publishing generated text without checking and without your data is risky.

Websites & developmentAugust 12, 20265 min read

Tilda or a Custom Website: Which to Choose for Your Business

A website builder suits a quick start and simple tasks: you pay monthly and get a ready-made tool. Custom development pays off once the site has become a working asset: you need a unique design, speed, your own integrations and independence from the platform and its plans.

DesignAugust 10, 20265 min read

Dark or Light Website: Which to Choose for Your Business

A light background is the default: more familiar, better with long texts, right for most businesses. Dark works where there is little text and atmosphere matters: technology, premium, portfolios, photo and video. What decides is the volume of content and the audience, not taste.

SEO & growthAugust 8, 20265 min read

Does Your Site Need an Uzbek Version

An Uzbek version is needed if your clients are mass consumers across the country, not only Russian-speaking Tashkent. The standard: Uzbek in Latin script plus Russian, English for foreign partners. Every language needs its own URL with hreflang markup, or search will not see the second version.

DesignAugust 6, 20266 min read

When Your Website Needs a Redesign

A redesign is needed if the site works badly on a phone, loads slowly, you cannot make an edit without a contractor, the structure does not match your current services, or the site is not indexed. If the issue is the text, the offer or the advertising - redoing the design will not help.

Bots & automationAugust 4, 20265 min read

Telegram Bot for Business: When You Need One and What It Costs

A bot is needed when there is a repeating flow of identical requests: bookings, taking orders, answers to standard questions, notifications. If there are few requests or each one is unique, a form on the site is cheaper. The price depends on the scenario and integrations, so it is quoted per task.

Websites & developmentAugust 2, 20265 min read

Why Your Website Gets No Leads

Usually it is one of five: it is unclear what you offer, with no offer above the fold; the form sits too far down; the form is broken or its emails land in spam; the traffic is not your audience; there is no analytics, so you cannot see where people drop off. An hour to check.

Process & pricingJuly 31, 20265 min read

How Long Does Website Development Take

The timeline depends not on how fast the code is written, but on the size of the site and on how quickly the client sends content and makes decisions. A simple landing page usually takes days, a multipage site takes weeks. Projects wait longest for the texts and photos.

Process & pricingJuly 29, 20265 min read

How to Choose a Web Developer and Not Get Burned

Don't judge a portfolio by its pictures - look at live sites you can actually open. Before you pay, put the scope, the price and what happens after handover in writing. The main red flags: 100% prepayment, refusing to show real projects, and a price far below market.

SEO & growthJuly 27, 20264 min read

What GEO Is and Why Your Site Should Show Up in ChatGPT

GEO is optimizing a site for the answers AI models give: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google's AI overviews. Unlike SEO, the goal is not a spot in a list of links but a place in the answer itself. What works: direct answers to questions, structure, business facts in machine-readable form.

Websites & developmentJuly 24, 20264 min read

Landing page or multipage website: what your business needs

A landing page is one page for one action, usually ads: launch fast, drive traffic, collect leads. A multipage website is for several services, search visibility, and showing the whole business. The choice depends not on money but on the task. I explain how to tell what you need.

Websites & developmentJuly 22, 20264 min read

Website or Instagram: what should a business choose

This is not an either/or choice. Instagram attracts attention, a website turns it into leads and stays yours. A profile can be lost to a block. If you run paid ads, send them to a website: a profile has no single goal, a landing page does.

Process & pricingJuly 19, 20264 min read

Why a $50 website costs more than it looks

A $50 website is a builder template or a beginner freelancer. The price is low, but you pay later: add-ons for every feature, a rebuild with a second contractor, leads lost to weak structure. Cheap makes sense for testing a hypothesis, not for a site you need money from.

AI for businessJuly 13, 20264 min read

AI builds websites for free - why pay a developer?

An AI tool will generate a page in 20 minutes - true, and I use AI every day myself. But a generated shell and a website that brings leads are different things. You pay not for the code, but for knowing what a site needs to sell, and for being accountable for the result.

Process & pricingJuly 10, 20264 min read

How much does a website cost in Tashkent in 2026

A website in Tashkent in 2026 costs anywhere from 500,000 to 50 million so'm - a hundredfold spread. Price depends not on page count but on whether it's a template or development built for your task. Across the market a turnkey landing costs $250-500 and a multi-page site starts at $660; with me it is $190 and $490.