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Proposal · prepared for Bell & Sons Menswear · 19 May 2026

A few specific fixes for bellsofalnwick.com.

Bell & Sons Menswear · Alnwick · website rebuild

I rebuild small-business websites in my spare time when I can see they are leaving conversions on the table. I spent twenty minutes on the live site this week. Three things stood out, with one of them showing on the homepage before any scroll. What follows is the three findings, the price, and a working rebuild at /preview you can click through in the next minute.


01

One hundred and twenty-nine years of trading, buried below the product grid.

What I saw. The homepage at bellsofalnwick.com opens on the Shopify Refresh theme's default collection carousel. A first-time visitor has to scroll past the product grid, the brand-logo strip, and a second product grid before the “four generations since 1897” story arrives, on the About page, behind a footer link. The single most distinctive thing about the shop, the bit no other Northumberland menswear retailer can claim, is two clicks away from anyone who lands on the home page.

What the rebuild does about it. The 1897 founding date, the four Bell generations, and the Bondgate Within address are all in the hero, above the fold, on the same eye-line as the call-to-action. The About page does not have to do the heritage work alone any more.

Heritage on homepage currently: footer link → rebuild: hero block, above the fold
02

Forty-nine of your fifty-one five-star Google reviews never appear on the site.

What I saw. Bell & Sons has a 4.9 out of 5 rating from 51 Google reviews. “Top retailer, service is second to none,” “13 suits in total from them and they have all been of high quality,” “Got Groom and Best Man suits from here.” None of that surfaces on the homepage or the wedding-hire pages. The reviews are sitting on Google Maps doing nothing for the conversion path.

What the rebuild does about it. The 4.9 / 51 badge sits in the hero, three real reviews are quoted in the wedding-hire section and the about block, and AggregateRating + Review JSON-LD is wired into the page so Google can surface the rating in search results too.

4.9  ·  51 reviews currently: Google Maps only → rebuild: hero badge, quoted in two sections, AggregateRating schema
03

The site is bellsofalnwick.com, the email signs off as bellsofalnwick.co.uk, and Google has no way to know they are the same shop.

What I saw. Your contact page lists info@bellsofalnwick.co.uk. The store itself is on the .com. The two domains are not linked by a canonical tag, the homepage source returns no LocalBusiness or Organization JSON-LD that names the postal address, telephone, opening hours or AggregateRating, and the og:image tag is missing too, so a customer forwarding the link to a friend on WhatsApp gets a blank unfurl card.

What the rebuild does about it. The rebuild ships with a full LocalBusiness JSON-LD block (postal address, E.164 phone, opening hours, AggregateRating, FAQ), an Open Graph card pointing at the Bondgate Within shopfront, and a single canonical that names the live domain. If you want the .co.uk kept as the email domain, it stays. The schema and the canonical close the gap that is leaking the search-result branding today.

Schema on homepage currently: Organization only → rebuild: LocalBusiness + AggregateRating + FAQPage + ClothingStore

Pricing · one-off plus monthly · no retainer
£2,000Fixed for the rebuild. One off.
£150Per month for hosting and ongoing care.
£50Optional. Embedded chatbot trained on FAQs.

No retainer. No contract. No in-person visits. Fully remote from Switzerland.

  • • One round of revisions before launch
  • • DNS cutover handled, you keep the domain in your name
  • • Thirty days of post-launch tweaks at no extra cost
  • • Source code handed over on day 60, you own everything

If the proposal lands, reply with two or three twenty-minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three Northumberland builds this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I do not hear back by 29 May, the proposal site comes down.

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