ADSAMERICAN DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS

A Website Proposal

Prepared for Tim Houlihan Jr.

You and your leadership team have built a world-class operation. This proposal is about the one surface that has not caught up to it yet.

April 2026 |  Confidential

Prepared by Haney Strategy, LLC

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D+current grade

Executive Summary

The business is first-class. The website has not caught up yet.

The technical hosting is healthy. The team credentials are strong. The story behind ADS is the kind of story a buyer would remember. The site itself is an Elementor brochure that hides those assets behind broken links, missing metadata, generic copy, and a contact page that does not exist. Every one of those is a fix. Taken together, they are the reason the website does not do the selling the business has earned.

The Full Audit

The Full Scorecard

Site under review

ads-nj.com

ads-nj.com
WordPress + ElementorRandolph, NJ9 pages indexed
D+
44/100 composite

Technical Foundation

B-

Add the five standard security response headers at Cloudflare. Low effort, immediate Best-Practices lift, and a compliance posture a B2B buyer can check for.

Google & Bing Visibility

D

Ship meta descriptions on every page, rewrite the homepage H1 to lead with category and geography, and add the Sitemap directive to robots.txt. That is a one-day fix with the largest CTR lift in the entire engagement.

AI Search Readiness

F

Add Organization + LocalBusiness + Service schema, publish a real llms.txt, and wrap the executive bios in Person schema linked to their LinkedIn profiles. That unlocks eligibility for AI-generated answers in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.

Conversion Paths

D-

Build a real /contact/ page with address, map, hours, multiple contact methods, and the form. Fix the broken tel link. Add a 15-minute calendar booking for a fleet consultation. That is the shortest path to measurable lift in captured leads.

Brand Voice & Story

D+

Rewrite the hero around the founder story and the local operator thesis. Lead with what only ADS can say. That is the sentence every competitor is missing today.

Trust & E-E-A-T

D

Replace the broken LinkedIn link with a real company page. Stand up a Testimonials page with three to five named customers, quote, outcome, and photo. Add Privacy, Terms, and Accessibility pages to the footer.

Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)

D-

Populate alt text on every meaningful image starting with the logo and hero. Replace file-name alts with real descriptions. Publish an accessibility statement. These fixes reduce WCAG 2.2 AA exposure and help image search visibility.

Content Engine

F

Stand up a blog and commit to one post per week focused on ADS services and the geographies you serve (Morris County, Bergen, Essex, Union, Passaic). Freshness, topical authority, and long-tail search capture compound monthly.

Where the site stands across eight dimensions

Website Speed & Stability

These are the four metrics Google uses to judge whether a website feels fast and stable. They matter because they directly affect search rank, ad quality score, and how many visitors stay long enough to convert.

Server response time117 ms

TTFB (Time to First Byte)

How quickly the server begins sending the page. A strong result here. The hosting is healthy.

Time until the main content appearsPending

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

How long a visitor waits before seeing the biggest element (usually the hero image or headline).

Visual stability while loadingPending

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Whether the page jumps around as it loads. Low numbers are good. Layout shift is what causes a miss-tapped button.

Responsiveness to clicks and tapsPending

INP (Interaction to Next Paint)

How quickly the page responds after someone clicks, taps, or types. This replaced an older metric (FID) in 2024.

Why three of these show “Pending”

Google's page-speed measurement service was temporarily rate-limiting test requests during the audit window, so we captured the server number directly and deferred the other three for a second pass. Neither option above is blocked on these, and the live numbers will be captured and reported during the engagement.

Seven Findings, Each a Fix

Seven Quiet Leaks

These are the line items draining leads and trust today. Each one is small in isolation. Together they describe why cold traffic bounces and why warm traffic does not convert at the rate this business has earned.

01

The Contact page does not exist

/contact-us/, /contact/, and /testimonials/ all return 404. Nav "Contact Us" links to #Contact on the homepage, which is a fragment anchor, not a page.

The reframe

On a local services site this is the single highest-leverage conversion surface. Standing up a real /contact/ page with address, map, hours, multiple contact methods, and a form is a one-day fix that rebuilds the most important moment in the buyer journey.

02

One of the click-to-call links is broken

The header contains href="tel:Call%20973-970-9737". The tel: URI scheme does not accept the word Call or a space. Mobile dialers silently refuse it. The adjacent tel:973-970-9737 works.

The reframe

A buyer who taps the wrong CTA gets nothing. A buyer who taps the right one gets your team. Fixing this is a five-minute change that removes a silent loss that only shows up in lost calls nobody knew were lost.

03

Every page is missing its meta description

Zero of nine pages tested carry a <meta name="description">. Google is writing the search snippet for every page using whatever body copy it decides to grab.

The reframe

The meta description is the single most controllable lever on search click-through. Writing one for every page is the highest-leverage SEO hour on the roadmap.

04

The homepage H1 is the brand name only

The homepage H1 reads "American Document Solutions." Brand searches already resolve. Category and geography searches do not, because the H1 spends its one best slot on the brand.

The reframe

Rewriting the H1 to lead with the category and the geography (for example, "New Jersey's copier, production print, and managed IT partner") earns non-brand traffic the brand name never could.

05

The site gives AI search nothing to cite

Zero JSON-LD schema blocks on the homepage. No llms.txt. No FAQ content. No entity graph linking executives to LinkedIn.

The reframe

Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude are reshaping how buyers find local B2B providers. Adding LocalBusiness and Organization schema plus an llms.txt is a day of work that unlocks eligibility for AI-generated answers you cannot be found in today.

06

The LinkedIn link goes to LinkedIn's home feed

The footer LinkedIn href is https://www.linkedin.com/feed/. That is a personal-feed URL, not a company page. It dumps visitors into their own LinkedIn home.

The reframe

A small miss, the kind that is easy to leave in the field when you are running a real business. Repointing to the ADS company page and hardening the social icon set restores a trust-stage signal.

07

Seventy-five percent of images have empty alt text

42 of 56 homepage images have alt="", including the ADS logo itself. The populated alts that exist are file names like "2560px-Xerox_logo.svg_".

The reframe

This is an accessibility, SEO, and WCAG exposure at once. Populating meaningful alts on every image is a half-day sweep that touches all three at once.

The Proposal

Two Paths Forward

Two options, priced flat and honest. Option A respects what is already in place and sharpens it. Option B is the one we recommend, because it matches the website to the ambition of the business.

Option A

Tidy & Optimize

Clean up what is broken, ship the AI and SEO foundation, and tighten the copy on all nine pages.

$8,000$10,000

flat · 4-week engagement

Intro-engagement pricing for ADS

Right for ADS if the priority is measurable search and conversion lift in the next sixty days without changing platforms.

  • Fix every broken surface

    Real /contact/ page, fixed tel link, repointed LinkedIn, corrected form fields, restored /testimonials/.

  • AI and SEO foundation

    Meta descriptions on all nine pages, JSON-LD schema, llms.txt, Open Graph cards, Bing IndexNow.

  • Copy tune-up on all nine pages

    Hero rewritten around the founder story, H1s for category and geography, service cards that stop sounding like every other dealer.

  • Accessibility and trust sweep

    All 56 homepage alts populated, accessibility statement, five security response headers, privacy and terms pages.

Timeline4 weeks from kickoff to ship
Payment50% to begin · 50% upon completion
Recommended
Option B

Full Site Rebuild on Next.js

Rebuild the site from the ground up on a modern platform built to perform, compound, and grow with ADS.

$16,000$20,000

flat · 8-week engagement

Intro-engagement pricing for ADS

The right call if the business has outgrown the WordPress template. Faster, AI-search-native, and a foundation that stops costing money to maintain.

  • Modern stack, modern speed

    Next.js + Vercel. Sub-second LCP, 95+ Lighthouse scores as a floor. The same stack the national brands use.

  • AI and SEO native from day one

    Structured data on every page, llms.txt, MDX blog engine, FAQ and Speakable markup, IndexNow on publish.

  • A real content engine

    Blog, industries served, service-area landing pages, case studies, testimonials, and a lead-magnet surface the WordPress site cannot match.

  • Every page and every schema block owned

    Twenty recommended pages, twelve JSON-LD schema blocks, named customer proof, a Team page that actually showcases the leadership bench.

After launch · monthly recurring

Managed hosting

Vercel Pro, CDN, Skew Protection, monitoring, uptime SLA, monthly report.

$75/mo

Daily security checks

Dependency scans, security header validation, SSL posture, uptime and response-time monitoring, monthly security report.

$50/mo
Timeline8 weeks from kickoff to launch
Payment50% to begin · 50% upon launch

Both options include a 50% deposit to begin and 50% upon completion. Both can be extended with the Thought Leadership add-ons below.

Stacks on either option

Thought Leadership Add-Ons

These stack on either option. Pick one, both, or neither. The pricing below is the same whether ADS chooses Option A or Option B above.

$400

per month

Weekly Blog Program

One blog post per week, focused on ADS offerings and the geographies you serve.

Why it earns the line item

  • Compounding topical authority. After twelve months, that is fifty-two indexed posts, each capturing its own long-tail queries ("Randolph NJ production print," "Morris County managed print," "Passaic County copier lease").
  • Freshness lever for Google. A site that publishes weekly gets re-crawled weekly. A site that never publishes drifts down in rank over time.
  • Primary AI search surface. Every Google AI Overview, ChatGPT answer, and Perplexity citation on a local B2B query pulls from answer-shaped content.
  • Fuel for the sales team. Every post is a link a rep can drop in a prospect email or a LinkedIn DM without sounding like spam.

What is included each month

  • Topic calendar aligned to ADS services, seasonal cycles, and target counties.
  • One 900 to 1,400-word post per week with FAQ schema and a Quick Answer block.
  • Hero image per post.
  • Internal linking pass across the site as new posts publish.
  • Monthly report: traffic, queries captured, new keywords ranked, featured-snippet wins.

Applies to Option A or Option B.

$200

per month

LinkedIn Syndication

Every blog post gets a tied-back LinkedIn post from the ADS company page.

Why it earns the line item

  • Referral traffic that Google cannot give you. A single LinkedIn post that lands with the ADS network ships more warm traffic in a day than a week of cold search.
  • Sales rep distribution. Reps reshare from the company page and the algorithm rewards native LinkedIn engagement an order of magnitude higher than external links.
  • Recruiting surface. The ADS company page becomes a living signal of what the team thinks about and how it operates.
  • Category presence. Over ninety days, the ADS feed reads like a dealer that thinks, not a dealer that sells.

What is included each month

  • One native LinkedIn post per week from the ADS company page, tied back to the week's blog post.
  • Hook and body copy written for LinkedIn.
  • Link in the first comment (external links in the body of a LinkedIn post depress reach significantly).
  • Reshare coordination playbook for leadership and sales reps.
  • Monthly report: impressions, engagement rate, profile views, company-page follower growth.

Applies to Option A or Option B. Best paired with the Weekly Blog Program.

Bundled Thought Leadership

Both add-ons together at $600/mo is the full compounding engine: weekly content, weekly LinkedIn, monthly reporting.

$600

/ month, bundled

Who would be doing the work

The operator who would run this engagement, and how the engagement runs.

Jim Haney on stage

Jim Haney

Founder & Fractional CMTO, Haney Strategy, LLC

Twenty-plus years in GTM and revenue leadership across MSP, VAR, and office-technology companies. Ran marketing and technology as a CMTO at a regional office-technology dealer that scaled IT services from eight million to twenty-five million in revenue. MIT AI and Digital Transformation certificate. Operator-first, not consultant-first. Haney Strategy works with independent dealers, MSPs, and mid-market B2B companies that want their marketing and AI stack to perform the way the rest of their business already does.

  • ·MIT AI and Digital Transformation certificate
  • ·Twenty-plus years in MSP, VAR, and office-technology GTM
  • ·Former CMTO, regional office-technology dealer (scaled IT services $8M to $25M)
  • ·Direct experience across copier, production print, managed services, and IT
  • ·Based in Tennessee. Works nationally. Available on East Coast hours.

How the engagement runs, start to finish

Four phases. Weekly previews. No surprises.

01

Kickoff & Discovery

Working session with the ADS team to lock goals, success measures, constraints, and the first two weeks of work. Access granted to GA4, Search Console, CMS, and CRM as applicable.

02

Weekly Friday Previews

Every Friday, a preview link and a plain-English written update covering what shipped this week, what ships next week, and what needs an ADS decision.

03

Launch & Handoff

Ship the work, walk the team through every new surface and every measurement, and leave a handoff document that does not require Jim to be on the phone for the team to understand what lives where.

04

Post-Launch 30-Day Tuning

Measure, tune, and document. Every engagement ends with a written retrospective and a clear answer to the question, "What is worth doing next?"

Friday, April 24

Looking forward to our follow-up call on the 24th.

If anything in this proposal raises a question you'd like answered ahead of the call, send it over. I'll come prepared to walk through it in detail.