Atlanta Webmaster

How can I help you?

I’m AJ Martin — a webmaster in Atlanta with over 20 years of WordPress experience.

Something about your website isn’t quite right, or you wouldn’t be here. Find your problem below and then hire me to fix it. Most of them are cheaper to fix than you think. I can help you with a one time issue or on a month to month basis. 

You own everything. Your domain. Your hosting. Your site.

Fire me anytime and lose nothing. Ask your current web company to put that in writing.

Identify Your Main Pain Point(s) Below

Odds are you have at least one and probably more than one of the issues listed below.  No pressure to find all of them now – scan the list and find the one you feel is the most important to fix TODAY.

Note: many times these issues are interrelated and one fix solves many other “symptoms”.   

"Nobody can find me"

"I don't show up in Google search."

Sometimes it’s a deep problem. Sometimes your site has been telling Google to go away since the day it launched — and nobody ever noticed. I check the embarrassing stuff first. Then I crawl every inch of your site text, metadata, images, schema, headers, titles, canonicals and many other geeky things you wouldn’t know to ask. You are an expert in your field not a search engine specialist – leave that to me. 

"I don't show up in Google Maps search."

Google My Business pages are one of the most important digital assets for businesses that need local search traffic.  If these pages are incorrect or not optimized your competition will steal your traffic and ultimately your clients. 

"My hours and phone number are wrong on Google."

That map listing isn’t your website — it’s a separate thing, and it’s probably half-abandoned. Fixes are simple but boring and unglamorous.  When somebody actually owns the job and cares this gets the attention it deserves.

"ChatGPT recommends my competitors, not me."

AI tools read websites like Google does — just pickier. I build pages AI can actually quote. Almost nobody around Atlanta is doing this for local businesses yet. Current clients are FIRST on ChatGPT chat replies – can’t get better than that. 

"I don't show up in half the towns I serve."

One page for every town you work in. It’s not glamorous. It works.

"I have great reviews and nobody sees them."

Reviews only work when they’re answered, current, and sitting where customers look. That’s a system, not luck.

"My site embarrasses me"

"My site looks terrible on my phone."

Pull out your phone and look at your site right now. I’ll wait. Squished? Overlapping? Can’t tap the phone number? That’s what every customer sees — most of them never see the desktop version at all.

"My site is slow."

Slow sites lose people before they ever see your work. Usually it’s fixable without a rebuild — bloated plugins, oversized photos, cheap hosting.

"My site doesn't look like the quality of my work."

You do $20,000 jobs. Your site looks like an $800 special. That gap costs you credibility every single day, on every single estimate. You can never know how many people NEVER call you because your initial impression is poor – especially on mobile sites. 

"I hate my page builder." / "My web guy says my site can't do that."

If your site runs on WPBakery or another aging builder, it’s not you — the technology is dying under it. I migrate old WordPress sites to modern Elementor without losing your content or your rankings.

"I don't even know if my contact form works."

Silent lead loss is the worst money you’ll ever lose — because you never know it happened. I submit every form, tap every phone link on a real phone, and check every thank-you page. Then it gets monitored so it stays working.

"I think I am getting burned"

"I pay a monthly fee and can't tell what I'm getting."

Ask them for the list of what they did last month. I send that list every month without being asked — in plain English, not a 30-page report that says nothing.

"My agency charged a ton of money, then disappeared."

You’re not alone — it’s half of how I meet people. Let’s get you back in control of your own site first, then talk about what it needs.

"Who owns my domain name?"

If you don’t know, the answer is probably “not you.” That’s fixable — and it’s a lot easier to fix before it’s a crisis than after.

"What happens if my web company gets sold or shuts down?"

With me: nothing. Everything is in YOUR name, backed up off-platform — your site AND your Google Business Profile content. If I get hit by a bus, you lose nothing.

"Google says my site may be hacked."

Don’t panic, and don’t pay whoever emailed you about it — that email is usually the scam. Let me look. Real hacks are fixable; I’ve cleaned plenty.

Straight answers

Should I be on Facebook?

A page that posts regularly, yes — it’s a trust signal, and a dead page looks like a dead business.  If you are going to have one it needs to stay updated, not looking like an abandoned building.  Also the contact information needs to be correct as these are the most used citations by Google for GMB confirmations. 

Should I run Facebook ads?

Boosting posts and hoping? No — that’s donating to Facebook. Done properly, ads are a separate conversation, and I’ll tell you honestly if I don’t think you need them.

Should I run Google ads?

I don’t sell them. Ads are a pain. If ads really are your answer, I’ll say so and point you somewhere honest. Most Google ads are swapping money since they recently changed their bidding model to increase their revenues on the back of their advertisers. 

Do I need video?

For most local businesses, no. Real photos of real jobs beat stock video every time.

Do I need a whole new website, or can mine be fixed?

Most sites can be fixed. The audit answers that question — and the audit fee credits toward the work either way.

Should I be blogging?

“Blogging,” no. Blogging is for travel sites and mommy bloggers. Anyone selling you blogging services needs to be able to explain WHY. Pages that answer exactly what your customers type into Google and ChatGPT — yes. That’s different, and it’s what I build every month.

Does AI matter for a business like mine?

It’s starting to. When somebody asks ChatGPT “whats the best company to fix my garage door” you want to be the answer. That’s built into how I write every page.

What should a website cost?

My prices are right below. If someone won’t show you prices, that tells you something.

Paying agency prices for webmaster work?

A typical agency bills from $1,500 to $4,000 a month to maintain a local business website — updates, a few posts, a report, a monthly call. That’s decent work passing through a lot of hands: account managers, project managers, and somebody’s office lease. I do the same work myself for $1,000 a month. Same deliverables. One person. No org chart, no fancy offices, no break room – all those agency costs eventually show up on your invoice.

01 — The audit

I review what you have, what you own, and what your agency actually delivers each month. $250, credited back to you on your first project. 

02 — The handover

Domain, hosting, and every login move into your name. You own everything from day one.

03 — The switch

I take over quietly — your site doesn’t blink, your rankings don’t reset.

Month to Month Pricing - Two plans, no contracts

⭐ MOST POPULAR

Full Webmaster — $1,000/mo

Your business: found and growing.
Everything in Website Care, plus a 10-hour monthly budget:

Hours don’t roll over. For sites that need to stay alive and stay right.

Website Care — $500/mo

Your site: healthy, safe, handled.

Hours don’t roll over. For sites that need to stay alive and stay right.

Both plans: month-to-month · cancel anytime with 30 days notice · you own everything · no contract required.
Bigger operation? Multiple locations? Custom Contract ? That’s a custom quote — call me let’s talk.

One-time project work

Website Risk Audit : $250 - $350 - this fee is credited toward any future work

Like a home inspection, for your website. Forms, phone links, mobile, security, backups, domain name –  verify who actually owns your web assets. PDF questionnaire to send your current team to document your situation. 

Technical SEO Audit: $500

Why you don’t rank — starting with the embarrassing “is it plugged in” checks nobody else looks for.

WordPress Rescue: priced by page - complexity and number of pages to be converted matters most on the pricing. Heavy templated sites can be priced by group to reduce costs.

Old builder → modern Elementor. Content and rankings survive the trip.

Rebuild: Starting at $3k

When the site can’t be saved — or the business has outgrown it.

Google My Business (GMB) Audit : $350

Check local ranking on GMB for 5 keyword phrases.  Check your visibility on “near me” Google map searches.  Employ a variety of tools to test and then improve your GMB visibility.

The guy behind it

AJ Martin. Webmaster. Atlanta.

I’ve been working with WordPress since it launched in 2003 — over 20 years and more than a thousand WordPress sites, including years running sites for companies with 500+ employees. Now I do it for local businesses that are great at their work and tired of being burned on their websites.

I’m not an agency. There’s no account manager, no ticket queue, no 30-page reports. You get me. I answer my own phone, and if a task takes ten minutes, I don’t bill an hour.

What's a Fractional Webmaster ?

A full-time webmaster on payroll runs about $7,500 a month with benefits. Your website needs one — it just doesn’t need one full-time. That’s the whole idea: $500 to $1,000 a month buys you the fraction your business actually uses. Same expertise, no salary, no long-term commitment — month-to-month, and you own everything. 

No hostage holding like some agencies attempt on their clients.  I have to earn your business each day.

Tell me what's broken.

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Serving all of metro Atlanta. Local means local — I know your market, I’m in your time zone, and I answer my own phone.