Operational
Changelog
Operational transparency. What we shipped on VerySEOly, when, and what is on deck next. Reverse-chronological, the freshest work sits at the top, including in-progress and planned entries so this page doubles as a public roadmap.
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Move to the audit-led model, retired the self-serve packages
- Positioning update: VerySEOly is now a bespoke web, marketing, and automation partner. Every build and retainer is quoted to the business, so the old fixed self-serve packages have been retired
- New value ladder: a free automated audit at /audit (the Free Site Score), then a paid £300 Marketing and Automation Deep-Dive at /marketing-automation-audit (a one-hour consultation, a detailed written audit, and a fixed quote, with the £300 credited against any build)
- Website management from £49/month, quoted to your business, no lock-in, cancel any time, and direct support, not a call centre
- All "pick a plan" and /start onboarding links now point at the free audit
- On deck
Cyber Essentials + ICO registration
- Cyber Essentials self-assessment package (IASME), baseline controls already meet most of the questionnaire; the badge itself is the deliverable
- ICO registration in progress, once the data-protection fee is paid and the registration number is issued, it will be rendered on /credentials and the footer; no ICO number is claimed until one exists
- Both will move /credentials from "claimed" to "badged", see the positioning evolution brief
- In progress
Wave E, content cluster + glossary + changelog + meta polish
- Glossary expanded to cover every term the site uses on first mention; cross-linked from /credentials and term anchors throughout the site
- This page, operational transparency, public roadmap, reverse-chronological
- Meta polish sweep: per-page <title>/description audit, JSON-LD coverage, internal-link map
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Wave D ships, done-for-you online presence positioning
- Positioning evolution: collapsed messaging to "your whole online setup, built by hand and run for you", one promise, one accountable point of contact, one simple ladder
- Six new pages live: /jordan (founder story), /credentials (proof + receipts), /reviews (case studies), /partners (referral programme), /systems (how it is built), /managed-website-service (the run-it-for-you deep-dive)
- Proper help system shipped, /audit grew a 3-tab interface, blog categories now have their own landing pages
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Wave C ships, illustration system + Cal.com + welcome cron
- 15 custom SVG illustrations added across the blog (no stock photography, ever)
- Walkthrough component live on /start and /portal, first-run guidance instead of a wall of text
- Cal.com integration replaces the old "email us to book" flow
- Welcome-sequence email cron now fires on Stripe checkout completion; Capsule CRM record created in the same transaction
- /pricing gained a sticky CTA on scroll, and an annual prepay option was added alongside the monthly plans in use at the time (pricing has since moved to the audit-led model, see 1 July 2026)
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Wave B ships (PR #80), Pagefind search + end-to-end audit
- Pagefind site search shipped, fully static, no third-party search dependency
- Walkthrough component scaffolded (Wave C builds on it)
- 4 new blog SVG illustrations
- Business audits now execute end-to-end (input → score → recommendations → email)
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Wave A ships (PR #79), Bing, JSON-LD, Stripe portal, AI markers
- Bing meta verification added, pricing JSON-LD schema corrected
- Footer reverted to v1 layout after feedback; Stripe Customer Portal wired into /portal
- AI-gen marker sweep, every page that uses AI-assisted copy now declares it inline
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Rebuild ships (PR #78), simpler pricing, AIDA spine
- Pricing at the time was collapsed from 5 muddled tiers to a simpler set of self-serve plans (since retired in favour of the audit-led model, see 1 July 2026)
- About page rebuilt around an AIDA spine (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action)
- Homepage redesigned to follow the same AIDA flow
- Onboarding form shipped, /audit got the first proper upgrade
- /help index page and pricing visual hierarchy fix
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