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Installing, configuring and theming a support chatbot: the model key, what gets indexed, the refusal floor, and how to make the widget look like your site rather than a plugin.

AI chatbot for website: what it is and how to pick one: a large dark circle with two thin elliptical orbits around it and a brand-coloured dot on the outer orbit
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AI chatbot for website: what it is and how to pick one

An AI chatbot reads your own pages and answers questions from them. What that really means, the four kinds on the market, what each costs, and when you should not install one.

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How can AI help my website? Six real jobs and three it cannot do: a four by three grid of white tiles with thin grey borders and one filled brand-coloured tile
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How can AI help my website? Six real jobs and three it cannot do

The useful version of this question is not what AI can do in general, but which jobs on your site it can take today and which ones it will quietly get wrong.

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How to create an AI chatbot for your website: the real steps: a faint blueprint grid on a pale ground with a dark outline of a page layout and a brand-coloured highlighted block
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How to create an AI chatbot for your website: the real steps

Installing takes five minutes and every guide stops there. The work is what comes after: what it reads, what it must not, and what it does when it does not know.

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AI widget for website: making one that fits your site: a four by three grid of white tiles with thin grey borders and one filled brand-coloured tile
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AI widget for website: making one that fits your site

A chat widget is the only plugin whose output every visitor sees on every page, and the category treats it as plumbing. What to demand from one, and what it costs your page.

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How to troubleshoot a website: reproduce, isolate, change one thing: three rows of small product squares on a pale ground with a larger brand-coloured square and a dark price-tag shape
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How to troubleshoot a website: reproduce, isolate, change one thing

The instinct is to disable plugins until something changes. It works often enough to become a habit and teaches you nothing when it does not. Here is the order that survives a hard case.

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How much does an AI chatbot cost? The four pricing shapes: a row of dark bars growing taller left to right with one tall brand-coloured bar and a dashed grey baseline
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How much does an AI chatbot cost? The four pricing shapes

The number on the pricing page tells you about an average month. The shape behind it tells you about your worst one, and only one of those is worth comparing.

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How to improve website performance: measure, then fix one thing: a row of dark bars growing taller left to right with one tall brand-coloured bar and a dashed grey baseline
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How to improve website performance: measure, then fix one thing

Most speed advice is a list of twelve things to try, which is what you write when you have not measured. Find the one request costing you the time, and change that.

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Connect ChatGPT to a website: what actually has to move: a row of dark bars growing taller left to right with one tall brand-coloured bar and a dashed grey baseline
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Connect ChatGPT to a website: what actually has to move

Connecting a model to your site is four small pieces of plumbing, and one of them is a security decision people get wrong on the first attempt. Here is what moves, and what it costs.

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What happens when an AI chatbot cannot answer a question?: a wide gauge arc in grey with a brand-coloured segment and a dark needle pointing to the right side
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What happens when an AI chatbot cannot answer a question?

Three things can happen and only one of them is acceptable. This is the behaviour worth testing before you buy anything, and almost nobody tests it.

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How do I train an AI chatbot on my own data? You mostly don't: rounded dark and brand-coloured blocks sliding from a loose stack on the left into an aligned column on the right
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How do I train an AI chatbot on my own data? You mostly don't

Training teaches a model how to sound. Indexing teaches it what is true about your business. Almost everyone asking the first question actually wants the second.

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How to use AI for website customer support: what to automate first: a four by three grid of white tiles with thin grey borders and one filled brand-coloured tile
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How to use AI for website customer support: what to automate first

Start with the four questions that arrive every week and whose answers are already written down. The order you automate in decides whether anybody trusts the result.

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Are AI chatbots GDPR compliant? The four decisions that decide it: a large dark circle with two thin elliptical orbits around it and a brand-coloured dot on the outer orbit
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Are AI chatbots GDPR compliant? The four decisions that decide it

GDPR never mentions chatbots. It governs personal data, and a visitor's question is personal data. Compliance turns on four decisions you make at install time, not on a badge on a pricing page.

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How to improve ecommerce conversion rate without fooling yourself: a four by three grid of white tiles with thin grey borders and one filled brand-coloured tile
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How to improve ecommerce conversion rate without fooling yourself

Most conversion advice is untestable at your traffic level. Here is what to change, how to tell whether it worked, and how long you have to wait before the number means anything.

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Put a real answer on every page.

Ask this site's own widget a question and watch it cite the page, or refuse. It is the same plugin, running on the same content you are reading.