Digital Growth Diagnostic

Stonehouse Group

Independent financial planning and wealth management firm operating from Brisbane with offices across NSW and QLD, advising individuals, businesses and charitable organisations on superannuation, investments, retirement, insurance, tax, succession and estate planning.

AFSL-backed expertise and a five-star local reputation are not converting into booked advice.

Stonehouse Group has built clear regulated credentials, a Brisbane base with offices across NSW and QLD, and a 5-star Google rating from 23 reviewers that signal strong local trust. Those assets are real, but much of the AFSL detail and client proof is buried in footers and slides, so high-value prospects—business owners, trustees and charity decision makers—leave before they see the proof. A quick, obvious path to book advice is missing where these buyers look first.

Your online reputation

5

Google star rating

23

Verified reviews

High

Reputation strength

Google Business Profile

Your online presence — what the data reveals

AI Visibility

Low

Authority Score

10

out of 100

Organic traffic

134

est. monthly visits

Traffic Trend

-35

%

past 12 months

Organic Keywords

179

ranking terms

Keyword Trend

+88

%

past 12 months

Backlinks

1033

total

Paid traffic

0

0 paid campaigns

Digital maturity

Level 2

out of 5

The good news:

Stonehouse has two assets that competitors will struggle to copy: AFSL-backed credentials and a local reputation shown as a 5.0 rating from 23 Google reviews. The firm also has a meaningful link footprint with 1,033 backlinks from 165 referring domains, demonstrating real offline authority and referrals. If the website surfaces that AFSL status, reviews and local presence in the right places, those assets can be turned into predictable, high-value advisory enquiries.

How your website scores

Message clarity
2/5
Trust signals
3/5
Conversion design
2/5
Visual maturity
3/5
UX total10 / 20

TECH STACK

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UX OBSERVATIONS

Trust signals are present but under-weighted: regulator and testimonial evidence is visible only in small footer or slide elements, reducing immediate confidence and raising verification friction for high-value prospects.

Value proposition fails to prioritise offers: the hero and headline are generic and do not guide visitors to a recommended service or audience segment, forcing prospects to hunt and increasing drop-off risk.

CTA hierarchy dilutes conversion intent: primary actions are small, low-contrast or placed off-peak (floating 'Schedule a Call' + footer form), so high-intent users face unnecessary steps and lower likelihood of converting.

What this means:

Despite 1,033 backlinks and 165 referring domains, Stonehouse only receives about 134 organic visits a month and sits at a national search rank around 586,827, so visibility is low compared with the firm’s real-world standing. That gap means the firm is losing qualified advisory enquiries that its AFSL, five-star reviews and local offices should be generating.

The three gaps holding you back

  • Important credentials and client proof are low-impact. This costs them immediate credibility with high-value prospects because the AFSL, long heritage and 5-star Google reviews are present but buried in footers and slide content rather than surfaced where decision-makers look first.
  • Homepage messaging fails to direct visitors to a recommended service. The hero uses a generic tagline and does not prioritise a target audience or a recommended next step, forcing prospects to search across multiple service pages and increasing drop-off.
  • Conversion points are visually secondary and scattered. ‘Schedule a Call’ and other CTAs are low-contrast or off-peak, which matches the UX conversion score and explains why solid reputation and backlinks are not translating into predictable enquiries.

What's possible when these gaps are closed

  1. Turn credentials into immediate booking drivers

    Move the AFSL badge, long heritage details and 5-star Google reviews (23 reviews) into prominent positions where decision-makers expect them. When those proofs are visible on the homepage and service pages, high-net-worth prospects and business clients are far more likely to trust and book a first call.

  2. Guide visitors to a recommended service quickly

    Use a clear hero that names a primary audience and a recommended next step so visitors do not have to hunt across multiple pages. With organic keyword visibility rising to about 180 keywords from 96 a year ago, a targeted homepage could turn that growing search interest into enquiries for specific services like retirement planning or succession advice.

  3. Make booking CTAs unmissable and predictable

    Promote a single, high-contrast “Schedule a Call” action in the hero and on every service page so it is the obvious next step for visitors. With roughly 150 monthly visits, making CTAs visually and structurally prominent will convert the existing traffic into a steadier flow of qualified advisory enquiries.

This report was prepared by Redfox Digital using publicly available SEO, UX and reputation data.

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Stonehouse Group homepage screenshot