Shopify store optimisation · Australia

Your Shopify store, refined.

I'm Indy. I fix and optimise Shopify stores for small Australian brands — so more of the people who find you actually buy. I started with my own.

Get a free audit No pitch, just honest feedback.

Why it matters

You set your store up once — a default template, a few photos, whatever copy you had time for — and moved on to running the business. Fair enough.

But it's quietly costing you: pages that load slowly, a store Google and AI tools can't read properly, and product pages that make buying harder than it should be.

It's not broken. It's just never been refined.

What I fix

01Get found

A store Google and AI shopping tools can actually read.

Page titles, descriptions, image text and product info cleaned up, so search engines — and the AI tools more people now shop with — understand exactly what you sell. No ranking guarantees; nobody honest gives those.

Measured: Google's SEO score, before and after

02Load fast

Faster pages, fewer people leaving.

Unused apps and leftover code removed, images compressed, heavy scripts cut — so your store loads quickly on the phones most of your customers are using. I'll never add a paid app without asking.

Measured: load time, before and after

03Get bought

Product pages and menus that make buying easy.

Clear photos and options, delivery info where people look for it, menus built around how your customers actually shop — and anything that's broken, fixed.

Shown: before and after screenshots

What you get A scored audit of your storeA before-and-after reportA written handover of every change

The work

HAYDENSMITH CO.

Homepage optimisation · Shopify

A church and missionary dress shirt brand based in Australia. I built this brand, so I know what it's like to watch a store not convert with your own money in it.

HAYDENSMITH CO. homepage after the rebuild
HAYDENSMITH CO. homepage before the rebuild
Before After

Drag the handle to compare — the panel follows you down the page.

41 → 63Google performance score
61 → 100Google SEO score
83 → 100Accessibility score

Mobile scores, measured in Google PageSpeed Insights.

Why 63? Shopify stores that run apps for reviews, email sign-ups and pop-ups usually score 50–70 on mobile. HAYDENSMITH CO. kept the apps it actually uses — I remove the ones you don't need, not the ones you do.

Other work

JN BladeZ

Custom booking site · Gold Coast barber

Different platform, same approach: fix what's actually costing bookings, not just what looks nice. Built a self-serve booking system from scratch for a local, home-based haircutting business — appointment types, available time slots, and automatic confirmations, so bookings happen without a single back-and-forth DM.

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The process

Free audit

Send me your store URL. I'll go through it myself and send you a written scorecard within two days — no call required, no obligation. I'll score your store across speed, design, mobile experience, product pages, and search visibility, and show you exactly where you're losing sales.

Proposal

Clear scope, timeline, and price. No surprises.

Build & handover

I make the changes, re-test everything, and hand over a written summary of what changed and why.

Who this is for

Small Australian brands running a Shopify store they set up themselves, or had set up cheaply, and haven't touched since. Usually one to three people, selling real products, more focused on the business than the website.

If you're an enterprise team with a dedicated developer, I'm not the right fit — and I'll tell you that on the audit rather than take the work.

Investment

No improvement, no final payment.

Founder rate
$300

For my first 3 clients. From $650 after that.

What that covers: full store audit, homepage plus up to 5 product pages improved, speed optimisation, technical SEO setup, one round of revisions. Typically 7–10 days start to finish.

Bigger stores or extra pages get scoped and priced in the proposal — no surprises after you've paid.

50% deposit to begin, remaining 50% on handover. You keep full ownership and access throughout — I work in your store, on your terms.

If your technical SEO score hasn't measurably improved by handover — verified by Google's own tool, not mine — you don't pay the balance. And if your store already scores well there, I'll tell you at the audit. You'd be paying me to fix something that isn't broken.

FAQ

How long does it take?

Usually 7–10 days from deposit to handover. If your store needs more than that, I'll say so in the proposal before you pay anything.

Do I need to give you my passwords?

No. You add me as a staff account in Shopify with only the permissions I need, and you remove that access whenever you like. Your store stays yours the whole way through.

What if I already have a designer?

Then you probably don't need me. If you want a second opinion, the audit is free either way — take the findings to them.

What happens after handover?

You get the store, plus a short written summary of what changed and why, so you or anyone else can pick it up later. No lock-in, no retainer, no ongoing fees.

Want to know what's holding your store back?

Send me your store link and I'll audit it for free — a written scorecard within two days. No call, no pitch, just honest feedback on what's costing you sales.

Reply within two days.