Hiddlestone Electrics

Your website went down with a critical WordPress error for several days this month, while you still rank position 4 for "electrician subiaco."

The goal

Most Perth electrical businesses your size sit between $30k and $100k a month. If the goal is holding $100k consistently rather than riding the season, this is about the gap between those two numbers.

What we found

1

Your website went down with a critical error for several days this month

Direct checks (WebFetch + curl), 7 to 11 Sep 2026: hiddlestonelectrics.com.au and www, plus /contact, /services, /about, all five returned HTTP 500 with WordPress's own "There has been a critical error on this website" page. Re-checked 12 Sep 2026: the site is back up.

What it costs: For those days, every visitor, including anyone finding you through "electrician Subiaco", where you rank position 4, hit a dead page instead of a hundred-year-old business. It's back now, but WordPress critical errors like this usually come from a plugin or theme update, and without finding the actual cause, it can happen again.

The fix: Get your host or developer to check the PHP error log from around 7 to 11 September to find what caused it, so it doesn't repeat.

See your homepage (it's back up now) →

2

You already rank position 4 for "electrician Subiaco". That almost went to waste.

Ahrefs Site Explorer, Australia, 12 Sep 2026: "electrician subiaco", 20 searches/month, you rank position 4 on your own homepage.

What it costs: That ranking is real, earned visibility built over a hundred years of trading, and it was pointing straight at a dead page for days. Most of the hard work here is already done, it just needs a working page behind it.

The fix: Nothing extra needed here beyond keeping the site up, this ranking is already yours.

Search it yourself right now →

3

No star rating or review count shown anywhere on your own site

Live homepage, checked 12 Sep 2026: real customer testimonials shown as plain text quotes, no star rating or review count anywhere on the page. Birdeye (aggregating Google), checked 11 Sep 2026: 4.2 stars, 15 reviews.

What it costs: A hundred years of trading and real proof, and none of it is a number a new visitor can see in three seconds. A star rating and review count next to your testimonials does more to build trust at that moment than the quotes alone.

The fix: Add your actual star rating and review count directly above your testimonials.

See your own testimonials section →

4

A genuine point of difference sitting in front of 149 people

Instagram, @hiddlestoneelectrics, checked 11 Sep 2026: 149 followers, real restoration project photos and reels (antique lamp and chandelier restoration), posting April 2025 through June 2026.

What it costs: Almost no other electrician has this niche, and it's sitting in front of 149 people. That's a reach problem, not a content problem, the actual content is good.

The fix: Once the site's stable, link every post straight back to it and put a little paid reach behind your best restoration videos.

See the account yourself →

The maths

People searching "electrician subiaco", per month, and you already rank #4 for it20
A general electrical job, low end price$250
If just 2 of those became booked jobs a month$500/mo

One fix, done for you

Homepage trust line
4.2 Stars from 15 Google Reviews, Trading Since 1920
Testimonials heading
What Subiaco Says About Us (4.2★, 15 reviews)
Instagram bio link
Point it back to your website once the site's stable, and pin your best restoration video

Hey, thanks for taking a look at the audit.

I only spent about half an hour on your digital presence and found these four things. They're not the biggest issues out there, but they all add up to how you rank and how you show up online.

If you want to go deeper, I'd love to take a proper look at your paid ads, specifically Google and Meta, and hear a bit about your business and where you want to take it, whether there's a revenue number you're chasing. We specialise in Perth service businesses, tradies and schools included.

If any of this is worth a conversation, send me a message below and I'll give you a call.

Thanks,
Chris