Website Hosting Comes to the Blinko Business Plan

Ask a local business owner where their website is and you'll usually get one of three answers: there isn't one, there's a Facebook page standing in for one, or there's a half-finished site somebody's nephew started two summers ago.

None of those answers is a moral failing. Building a website is a project, projects need a free week, and nobody who runs a cleaning round or a repair bay has had a free week since they opened. So the website stays on the someday list while customers search for — and find — the competitors who got theirs done.

As of today, Blinko closes that gap. Website Hosting is now included with the Business plan: a real business website at yourname.blinkolocal.com, hosted by Blinko, built and edited by talking to Blinko Copilot. See the full product page or pricing for where it sits in the plans.

Setup is a conversation, not a project

There's no editor to learn and no blank canvas to stare at. You tell Copilot about your business in a short back-and-forth — what you do, who it's for, what makes you the one to call.

Two things keep that conversation short:

• Every question is skippable. Answer what's useful, skip what isn't.
• Most answers are prefilled from your Blinko business profile. If Blinko already knows your trade, your hours and your address, you won't be asked to type them in twice.

At the end of it, Copilot drafts the site. Which brings us to the part we care most about.

Nothing publishes without your approval

Copilot builds and edits; you decide. Every draft and every change sits in front of you before it goes anywhere near the public internet, and you approve it — or don't. There's no version of this where software quietly publishes something in your name.

And if you approve a change and regret it over lunch, one-click rollback restores the previous version.

Editing is talking, too

The site never goes stale behind a login you've forgotten. To change something, you say so: "make the header darker", "add a page for gutter clearing", "swap the photo on the services page". Copilot makes the edit, shows you, and waits for your approval.

Some things you'll never need to ask for. Hours, phone number and address sync from your Blinko profile automatically — change them once, the site follows.

Enquiries become leads, with a push alert

A website that just sits there is a brochure. Yours captures work: visitors can send a quote request or an appointment enquiry straight from the site, photos attached if the job needs showing. Each one lands in your leads inbox and pings your phone with a push alert, so the enquiry that arrives while you're mid-job is waiting for you — written down, not garbled into a voicemail.

Built for search, without the cookie banner

Under the surface, every site ships SEO-ready: a sitemap, canonical tags, and LocalBusiness schema typed to your trade — a plumber's site tells search engines it belongs to a plumber, a salon's that it belongs to a salon.

Analytics are cookie-free, which has a pleasant side effect: your website doesn't need a cookie banner. Your customers get a page about your business, not a consent pop-up.

Templates that start in your trade

The first draft doesn't start generic. Templates cover cleaning services, contractors and trades — plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, painting — auto services, beauty and salons, retail, and restaurants, so the site already speaks your language before you've said a word about layout.

Who gets it, and how to start

Website Hosting is included with the Business plan — the address, the hosting and the Copilot editing all come with it, with no separate website bill. Your site lives at yourname.blinkolocal.com; for custom domains, contact us.

If you're already on the Business plan, tell Copilot you want your website and the conversation starts there. If you're not, the pricing page shows what else the plan carries.

The someday list just got one item shorter.

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