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The ads are performing. The landing page is breaking the sale.

When ads convert at the platform level but the landing page is not producing sales, the failure is almost always one of four structural issues. Message-match break between ad promise and page headline. Trust-gap at the offer above the fold. Page weight slowing interaction. Or a form that asks for too much too early.

Quick answer

A landing page that is not converting has one or more structural failures: hero that describes the business instead of the buyer problem, value proposition using category words instead of specific outcomes, weak trust signals, or ad-to-page message mismatch. Stan Consulting diagnoses the specific failure in 72 hours via the $999 Conversion Second Opinion.

Structural Causes

What actually causes this.

Message-match break

Ad promises A, page opens with B. Every percentage point of mismatch cuts the conversion rate measurably. The H1 and the ad headline need to converge.

Trust-gap above the fold

No proof, no named practitioner, no date, no address, no specific number. The offer reads as generic. The visitor leaves to verify elsewhere.

Page weight

Lighthouse Performance below 70 on mobile. Images un-optimized. Scripts blocking render. The visitor who hits a slow page does not recover from the delay.

Form asking too much

Ten fields when three would do. Phone required when email was sufficient. Company size required before anything has been offered. Each unnecessary field cuts completion by a measurable fraction.

When a diagnostic is warranted

When to commission the Conversion Second Opinion.

30+

Days the symptom has persisted

If the commercial problem has outlasted a month of in-house investigation, it is structural, not tactical.

72 hr

Turnaround on the report

Written diagnostic and prioritized fix list delivered within seventy-two hours of granted account access.

$999

Engagement fee, one time

If the weekly cost of the problem exceeds $999, the diagnostic is underpriced against the loss it prevents.

The first fix on the prioritized list is the one with the highest commercial impact at the lowest implementation cost. That is the structural judgment the engagement is paying for.

Common Questions

On record.

How do I know it is the page and not the ad?

Platform click-through rate is healthy, platform conversion rate is near zero. That combination is the landing page. Compare with a calibrated page and the difference is structural.

Do I redesign or fix?

Redesign is rarely the answer. The structural fixes are usually under six changes. The diagnostic identifies which six.

How fast to test the fix?

A/B framework allows the fix list to be tested inside a week against the existing page, not against a hypothetical redesign.

The Engagement Format

Begin with the diagnosis. Not the proposal.

$999 · 72-hour written diagnostic · No retainer structure · fee is final on submission before work commences

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