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News & UpdatesWhat's new at maple.website
Product releases, features, and milestones - from $10/month Canadian hosting to AI-built sites and answer-engine optimization. Newest first.
June 25, 2026Meet Wren, your AI website specialist - plus a free AEO check
maple.website now has a real AI specialist on the page. Wren, our Maple.Website Product Specialist, answers your questions live - what hosting costs, what a build includes, how billing works, and whether your idea is a fit - so you get straight answers without waiting on a sales call or an email reply. Wren knows the current model cold: $10/month hosting with your own domain on Canadian infrastructure, and a build from $50.
We also shipped a free AEO check. Paste your website's address and we score how well today's AI assistants can find, understand, and quote your business - rated 0 to 100 across extractability, structured data, citations, and freshness, with the top fixes spelled out. For a Canadian small business, that is a no-cost, no-commitment way to see exactly where you stand before spending a dollar. Try the free check on the home page.
June 21, 2026maple.website earns its own identity in search and AI answers
We rebuilt the maple.website landing experience with unique, purpose-written content so search engines and AI assistants treat it as its own destination rather than a duplicate of another page. That sounds technical, but the payoff is simple: when someone searches for affordable Canadian website hosting - or asks an AI assistant where to get a small-business site built - maple.website can show up on its own merits.
For a Canadian SMB, discoverability is the whole game. A site that search engines refuse to index, or that AI tools never cite, is invisible no matter how good it looks. By giving maple.website a clean, self-canonical identity with its own structured data, we made the front door easier to find - and we apply the same indexing discipline to every customer site we host, so your business gets found too, not buried.
June 1, 2026New: generate QR codes for any page on your site
You can now create a QR code for any page on your hosted site, right from your management area. Point it at your booking page, your menu, your contact form, or a seasonal promotion, then drop the code on a business card, a flyer, a window decal, a vehicle wrap, or a table tent. Customers scan and land exactly where you want them - no typing, no lost traffic.
For a Canadian small business that lives on local, in-person discovery, this closes the gap between the physical world and your website. The codes are generated instantly and tie directly to the pages you already host with us, so there is no third-party QR service to sign up for, no expiring links, and no separate subscription. It is one more way maple.website turns your $10/month site into a working part of how you get customers - online and on the street.
May 22, 2026maple.website goes live: Canadian hosting on its own home
maple.website is now live as its own destination, with the full hosting stack behind it: Canadian infrastructure, a managed network and CDN, SSL on every site, and daily backups - all included in the flat $10/month plan. We also stood up an automated demo pipeline and published our first AI-built sample site, so a prospect can see a real, working site rather than a "coming soon" placeholder.
For a Canadian SMB, this means hosting, your domain, security, and performance are bundled into one predictable monthly price with one Canadian company to call - no juggling a separate host, an SSL vendor, a backup service, and a CDN. Your site stays fast and online, your data stays in Canada, and your bill stays simple. It is the foundation everything else here is built on.
May 22, 2026Fairer build pricing: pay for words, images and hours - never pages
We locked in a transparent way to price a done-for-you build. Instead of charging per page - which punishes you for having a proper site - we bill by what actually takes work: characters of copy, custom images, and hours of design time. A build starts at $50 and includes 20,000 characters of content, 4 custom images, and 2 hours of work. Need more? Extras are clearly priced - roughly $0.20 per 1,000 characters, $2 per custom image, and $40 per hour - and you can supply your own content to keep costs down.
For a Canadian small business, that removes the usual web-design guessing game. You can see what a site will cost before you commit, scale it up or down to your budget, and never get surprised by a "that'll be another page" upcharge. Honest inputs, honest price.
May 21, 2026Done-for-you AI website design arrives for Canadian SMBs
maple.website pivoted to AI-powered web design built specifically for Canadian small businesses. You give us a short brief; our AI produces a complete, professional first draft fast; then a Canadian designer reviews and polishes every page before it goes live. AEO and SEO structure are baked in from the first draft, and an AI sales agent can live on the finished site to answer visitor questions around the clock.
The business value is speed without the agency price tag. Most sites are live in 7 to 14 days, you skip hiring a separate designer, host, and SEO consultant, and you get a site that is built to be found and to sell - not just to look nice. Hosting is included free with MapleConcierge and MapleBuy paid plans, so for many businesses the site that wins customers comes bundled with the tools they already pay for.
May 8, 2026Built to be the business AI assistants recommend
From the start, maple.website was built around a shift in how customers find businesses: more and more people ask an AI assistant for a recommendation instead of scrolling a search page. So every site we build is answer-engine optimized - structured with clean markup and machine-readable data so AI tools can find your business, understand what you do, quote your prices and hours, and send customers your way.
For a Canadian SMB, this is the difference between being part of the answer and being left out of it entirely. Traditional SEO still matters, and we do that too - but the new front door of the internet is the AI assistant, and a site that those tools can read and trust is a real competitive edge over local rivals who are still optimizing only for yesterday's search box.
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