Short answer: one of five things, and the order you check them matters
A website stops producing leads for one of five reasons: it is not being found, it is too slow on a phone, it does not look trustworthy, there is no clear next step, or the leads arrive and nobody answers. Check them in that order, because a beautiful fast page nobody finds and a well-ranked page nobody can call fail for completely different reasons, and the fixes range from a twenty-minute edit to a rebuild.
This page gives you the five checks in order, a table of symptoms and fixes, a frank split between cheap fixes and expensive ones, and a free written check if you would rather I do it. The local SEO service page covers the found part in depth; the redesign or new site guide covers the rebuild decision.
The diagnosis order
1. Is it found? Open Search Console. If it has never been set up, that is the first finding: you have no idea what the site earns. If it is set up, look at impressions and clicks for your main service plus your city. Then search that phrase yourself in a private window. If you are not in the map results or on the first page, and you are not running ads, search is not sending you visitors. Then check the other channels: GA4’s acquisition report shows what arrives from referrals, directories, social, email, and direct visits, and whether any of it converts. If almost nothing is arriving from anywhere, nothing further down this list matters yet, and the fix is local SEO, Google Ads, or both. Sonoran Sun AC’s rebuilt site launched in October 2025 with booking paths and tracking already in place, and GA4 showed zero organic booking clicks before the SEO program; by March 2026 it recorded ten in a thirty-day window. The page could already convert. What changed was being found.
2. Is it fast on a phone? Load your own site on your phone over cellular data, not office Wi-Fi, and count. Google’s Core Web Vitals guidance says the largest element on the page should appear within 2.5 seconds, and that the right way to measure is “the 75th percentile of page loads, segmented across mobile and desktop devices” (web.dev, Web Vitals). Most slow small business sites are slow because of images. Gluch Group’s site measured 5.6 seconds on PageSpeed Insights’ simulated mobile test, then 2.9 seconds on the same lab test on May 12, 2026, after 39 oversized images were converted to WebP in March inside a support plan, with no rebuild. That is a lab measurement on two dates, not the 75th-percentile field figure, and it does not isolate the images from everything else that changed on the site in those weeks.
3. Is it trusted? A stranger decides in seconds. Real photos of your people and your work, not stock. Google reviews with a count and a rating, linked. A street address or a stated service area. Names. Licenses where they apply. A page that hides all of that reads as a lead-generation front even when it is a real business.
4. Is there a clear next step? On a phone, is the phone number tappable in the header? Is there a short form above the fold on the service pages, not just a Contact page three taps away? Does the page say what happens after someone calls? And does the form actually deliver? Submit it yourself. Forms that silently break after a plugin or email change are a leading cause of a site that “used to work” going quiet.
5. Does the phone get answered? Pull the last month of calls and form submissions and look at response times. If calls go to voicemail during business hours or forms wait a day, the website is doing its job and the business is dropping the lead. No page change fixes this.
Symptoms and fixes
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| Check | Symptom | Likely cause | Fix and cost level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Found | Search Console shows almost no impressions; you cannot find yourself for “service + city” | No service or location pages, weak or unverified Business Profile, no citations, no ads | Local SEO program (mid, monthly) or a Google Ads test (mid, monthly); Business Profile corrections (cheap) |
| Found | Impressions but a very low click rate | Titles and descriptions that do not match the search, no reviews showing, wrong page ranking | Rewrite titles and the first screen of the ranking page (cheap to mid) |
| Fast | Visitors arrive and leave within seconds; the site takes five or more seconds on cellular | Oversized images, bloated theme, too many plugins, slow host | Image compression and caching (cheap); host move (mid); rebuild only if the theme itself is the problem (expensive) |
| Trusted | Visitors read but do not act; few repeat visits | Stock photos, no reviews on the page, no address or names, dated design | Add reviews, real photos, names, and address (cheap); design refresh (mid); rebuild if it looks a decade old (expensive) |
| Next step | Traffic and time on page are fine, but no calls or forms | Phone number not in the header, form buried on a Contact page, no call button on mobile, broken form | Header phone and call button, form on service pages, form repair, conversion tracking (cheap) |
| Answered | Tracking shows calls and forms, but the calendar is empty | Voicemail in business hours, slow form replies, no follow-up | Call handling and a reply rule (cheap, but it is a business change, not a website change) |
Cheap fixes, mid-sized fixes, and the rebuild
Cheap, often inside a support month. Phone number and call button in the header, form test and repair, image compression, reviews and real photos on the service pages, address and names, Business Profile corrections, conversion tracking so you can see what happens next. The support guide describes the month-to-month arrangement these fit into.
Mid-sized, monthly programs. Service pages built around how people actually search, a local SEO program from $1,400 per month, or a Google Ads test from $600 per month plus spend. The $1,400 guide and the $600 guide itemize each. If you serve several cities, the city page guide explains when a location page helps and when it hurts.
The rebuild. From $2,500, and only when the site cannot be made fast with image work, cannot hold service pages, cannot be edited without a developer, or looks old enough that trust fails on sight. Rebuilding a site that is simply not being found is the most common expensive mistake owners make; the new site will not be found either.
The free website and local search check
If you would rather have the five checks done for you, request the free website and local search check through the form on the SEO page. You send the site address and the service you most want calls for. You get a written read, in the order above, naming where the leak is and separating the cheap fixes from the expensive ones. No call is required, and the honest answer is sometimes that the website is fine and the phone is the problem.
I am Ryan Kee, the owner, and I do the check myself. Websites from $2,500. Local SEO from $1,400 per month, month to month, no long-term contract. Google Ads management from $600 per month. Ryan Kee replies, usually the same business day.
Not ready for a call? Request a free website and local search check.
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