08/31/2026
6 homepage mistakes that cost local businesses real money
1. Hours, prices, or menus saved as images — unreadable to Google and to screen readers
2. A photo slider nobody waits for (slide 2 has never been seen by a human)
3. No city or service area in text anywhere on the page
4. "Contact us" as the only button — give people a reason and a next step
5. Stock photos of people who obviously don't work there
6. Loads in 8 seconds on a phone — most visitors are gone by 4
If you fixed only #1, #3, and #6, you'd be ahead of half your competition.