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Why does my website get visitors but no enquiries?

Because being found and being chosen are different jobs, and the second one usually fails quietly. The common causes are a site that never says what things cost, an enquiry path that asks too much too early, and no evidence that anybody else has trusted you.

Because being found and being chosen are two different jobs, and search only does the first one.

This is a better position than it feels like. Getting found is the slow, expensive half, and you have already done it. What is left is usually a handful of things on the page, and most of them are fixable in an afternoon.

First, check the enquiries are actually arriving

Before anything else. Submit your own form, on a phone, on mobile data, and confirm it lands. Check the spam folder and check whoever else is meant to receive it.

Forms fail silently and they fail for months. It is worth ruling out before you start rewriting anything.

Then the four usual causes

You do not say what it costs. The single most common one. A visitor who cannot find any indication of price assumes it is expensive, or that finding out means a sales conversation. A lot of them leave rather than ask. You do not have to publish a full price list. A starting figure, or a worked example, or what governs the cost, all do the job.

The enquiry asks for too much, too early. A nine field form with “how did you hear about us” and a required phone number is asking somebody to commit before they have decided. Ask for the minimum that lets you reply.

There is no evidence anybody else has trusted you. Not testimonials on a slider that nobody reads. Specifics: who you work with, what happened, how long you have been doing it, a recognisable name if you are allowed to use one.

It is not clear what happens next. People hesitate when they cannot picture the next step. Say it plainly: what you will do when the form arrives, how quickly, and what it will cost them to find out.

The thing most people check last

Read your own site on a phone, logged out, as a stranger, and time how long it takes to answer three questions.

Do you do the thing I need. Roughly what will it cost. How do I start.

If any of those takes more than about ten seconds to find, that is your problem, and it is not a search problem.

Check the traffic is the right traffic

Sometimes the visitors were never buyers.

Open Search Console and look at what people searched before arriving. If the terms are informational rather than buying terms, you are attracting readers rather than customers. A page that ranks well for a question nobody pays to have answered will produce visitors forever and enquiries never.

That is worth knowing, because rewriting the contact form will not fix it. The answer is pages aimed at what people search when they are ready to buy.

What this page cannot tell you

Which of these is yours. They look identical from the inside, which is exactly why owners spend money on more traffic when the traffic was never the problem. A stranger reading your site for ten minutes will tell you more than another month of search work.

Last checked 14 September 2026 · written by Alex Harvey