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Proposal · prepared for Storyville Books · 18 May 2026

A few specific fixes for storyvillebooks.co.uk.

Storyville Books · Mill Street, Pontypridd · website rebuild.

I rebuild small-business sites in my spare time when I can see they are leaving conversions on the table. I spent twenty minutes on storyvillebooks.co.uk and found three things worth writing down. Three findings below, then a working rebuild you can click through.

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Pontypridd · Mill Street · since 2021
2018
Pontypridd Children's Book Festival, founded
Cerith Mathias, ex-BBC Jeff Baxter, festival The only indie in RCT
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Three findings, in order of revenue impact

What twenty minutes on the live site turned up.

01

You are the only independent bookshop in RCT, but the homepage opens with a generic Wix gallery rather than that line.

What I saw
On a cold load of storyvillebooks.co.uk the first viewport is a stock Wix carousel of book cover thumbnails with the words "Storyville Books" overlaid in a default Wix system font. A first-time visitor from a Google search for "bookshop Pontypridd" sees a product grid before they learn that this is the only independent bookshop in Rhondda Cynon Taf, that the shop is on Mill Street, and that the two people behind the counter founded the Pontypridd Children’s Book Festival three years before opening the shop. The credentials are buried in /about, two clicks deep.
The rebuild
After rebuild, the hero opens with the exact line that earns a click: "Pontypridd’s independent bookshop, on Mill Street, since 2021." Below it, four named badges name Cerith Mathias and Jeff Baxter, the 2018 founding date of the Pontypridd Children’s Book Festival, and the words "only indie in RCT." The Wix carousel goes.
02

The Pontypridd Children’s Book Festival, your strongest credential, is not on the home page above the fold.

What I saw
You founded the festival in 2018, two years before the bookshop. By 2022 it was in its fifth year and had grown across Pontypridd Museum, Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd Library and Storyville itself, with Eloise Williams and Connor Allen (the Children’s Laureate of Wales and the Children’s Laureate) running masterclasses. Right now a visitor cannot find any of that on storyvillebooks.co.uk above the fold. The events page links to a Wix-default month grid with no Event JSON-LD, so the festival programme cannot surface in a Google "events near you" panel either.
The rebuild
After rebuild, the homepage carries a dedicated featured block for the festival, with the year-founded number large, the laureates named, and a small Pontypridd town-trail of venues. A separate /events page lists each in-store author talk with Event JSON-LD so Google can pull the date and venue into search. The festival becomes a credential the homepage trades on, not a footer link.
03

The Open Graph description that goes out on every WhatsApp and Facebook share reads "Welsh language vodka and cards."

What I saw
View source on storyvillebooks.co.uk and the meta description and Open Graph description both read: "Storyville Books offers the latest in new fiction, non-fiction, history, classics, Welsh language vodka and cards and a wide range of children’s books." A Wix autocorrect turned "books" into "vodka" and the typo has been live since the shop opened. Every time a customer pastes the link into a group chat, the WhatsApp unfurl announces a Welsh-language vodka section. The site also carries only a WebSite JSON-LD block, no BookStore, no LocalBusiness, no opening hours, no address, no telephone, so Google has nothing to show in search beyond the title tag.
The rebuild
After rebuild, the OG title, description and image are authored by hand and reference the named credentials (Mill Street, since 2021, the festival, the Welsh-language shelf, the only indie in RCT). A BookStore + FAQPage JSON-LD block carries the full address, the E.164 phone, opening hours and the FAQ items, so a Google search for the shop produces an opening-hours panel, a phone tap target, and the festival dates.
Pricing

Fixed price, no hourly billing, no surprise upgrade tier.

£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.

If the proposal lands, reply with two or three 20-minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three South Wales builds this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I don't hear back by 28 May 2026, the proposal site comes down.

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