Halloween · For businesses on WordPress
Is your website haunted?
The 13 silent problems I find on almost every WordPress site. Get the free check and run it in an hour, or let me hunt the ghosts down for you before Black Friday.
The problem
The problems that cost you most never show an error.
A broken checkout gets noticed in an hour. A contact form that quietly stopped sending can go unnoticed for months, because the visitor sees a thank-you message and you just think it is a quiet month.
Most WordPress sites I look at have several of these at once. None of them are dramatic. Together they cost enquiries every week. That is why I call them ghosts.
Inside the free check:
- The contact form that still says thank you, but has not sent you an email in weeks
- Why "we have backups" is not the same as "we can restore"
- The plugin you switched off years ago that is still a way in
- Where the authority from your backlinks quietly leaks away
- How I found out my own analytics was missing two thirds of my visitors
- The five ghosts to check first if you only have an hour
Free
The Haunted Site Check
A fillable PDF. Each ghost gets a plain explanation, a five minute check and what "clear" looks like. 8 of them link to a free tool that finds them for you.
- 1. Ghost leads
- 2. Real enquiries buried under spam
- 3. Zombie plugins
- 4. Admins nobody remembers
- 5. The backup that has never been restored
- 6. Ghost links
- 7. Dead pages still in Google
- 8. Haunted speed
- 9. The 200MB video
- 10. Invisible to AI search
- 11. Missing Local Business details
- 12. Expiring SSL and mixed content
- 13. The analytics that misses most of your visitors
Done for you
The Ghost Hunt
Half a day of me hunting down the ghosts on your WordPress site and removing the ones I can in the same session, with a written report of anything that needs more time.
- Every form tested end to end, including the email actually arriving
- Zombie plugins and forgotten admin accounts removed
- Broken links and dead pages found, with redirects fixed
- Your latest backup restored to a staging copy, to prove it works
- A speed snapshot before and after
- A written report of anything I could not fix in the time, priced item by item
- A 20 minute call to walk you through it
Black Friday is a few weeks away. The worst time to find out your forms stopped working is the busiest weekend of your year, so I would rather clear the ghosts out now, for less than my half-day rate.
Half a day of my time, normally £250
£195
The full £195 counts towards any Black Friday offer you book by 1 December: the January Sprint, Aftercare paid yearly, Weekend Cover or a new build.
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Bookings close Saturday 31 October, 23:59. Not extended.
Every report back by Friday 13 November.
No Ghost Left Behind
If I do not find at least three real problems on your site, the Ghost Hunt is free and I refund the full £195.
Free tools that find the ghosts
Each one is named after the ghost it finds.
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Every ghost on the list is something a client will thank you for finding. Black Friday is on too, with sale prices on my templates and plugins as they go live.
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Questions
My site seems fine. Why would I need this?
That is what everyone with a broken contact form thinks. None of these ghosts announce themselves, which is the point. Run the free check first. If you book a Ghost Hunt and I find fewer than three real problems, it is free.
Why not just run the free tools?
Please do, they are all linked on this page. The Ghost Hunt is for when you would rather I tested, fixed and proved it, including restoring a backup to a staging copy, which no tool can do for you.
£195 for half a day sounds cheap. What is the catch?
It is a fixed checklist I run often, so I can do it for less than my usual half-day rate, and I would like to work with you on Black Friday. The full £195 counts towards any Black Friday offer you book by 1 December: the January Sprint, Aftercare paid yearly, Weekend Cover or a new build.
When does the work happen?
Between 2 and 13 November. Every report is back by Friday 13 November, two weeks before Black Friday, and comes with a 20 minute call to walk you through it.
P.S. Every Ghost Hunt report is back by Friday 13 November, two weeks before the busiest weekend of the year. After Saturday 31 October, 23:59 the Ghost Hunt is gone, and the full £195 counts towards any Black Friday offer you book.