Websites for dog groomers.
I'm Huw. I build sites for dog groomers and other small businesses around Bridgend and South Wales. I can help acquire and setup your domain, the hosting and your custom email.
It's just me, so you deal with the same person the whole way through.
For most sites I build, there's no ongoing monthly cost once it's live, that includes no hosting cost. You'll see some other agencies charge a monthly ongoing fee to keep your site live, with me, you only pay when you actually need something.
I'm in Bridgend, working across South Wales and remotely anywhere in the UK.
What your customers type
The searches worth turning up for. Each one wants something slightly different from the page it lands on.
- how often should a cockapoo be groomed
- teddy bear cut cockapoo
- puppy first groom what to expect
- what is hand stripping
- matted dog coat what happens
- how much does dog grooming cost
- how long does dog grooming take
- dog grooming prices UK
- dog groomer taking new clients
- dog groomer near me
- cockapoo groomer Cardiff
- mobile dog grooming Barry
Owners search the breed
Some of the best traffic in this trade is people typing “how often should a cockapoo be groomed”, “teddy bear cut cockapoo”, “what is hand stripping”, “puppy first groom what to expect”. They’re not shopping around yet, they’re trying to work out what their dog needs and whether they’ve been getting it wrong. Whoever answers that is who they book three or four weeks later.
Three owners, three worries
The doodle owner honestly doesn’t know what the daily brushing was for until the coat has gone, and by the time they’re searching “matted dog coat what happens” they’re braced for bad news and half expecting a telling off. The one asking what grooming costs is really asking why their quote came out different from their friend’s, since it’s the breed, the size and the state of the coat doing it rather than a price list. And there’s always somebody with a nervous rescue, a bad hip or a dog that snaps when the back feet get done, reading to work out whether you’ll cope with it. That last one will drive past two salons to get to whoever sounds like they’ve met a dog like theirs.
What I’d do for you
The first meeting is me going through how owners actually find a groomer and what each of them is worried about. Then I’ll scope it and price it.
The build, your email and your Google profile
Most of these sites are static: plain files on a server, nothing to log into, no plugin sat there waiting to be patched. They load quickly on a phone with two bars of signal, and for most of them there's no ongoing hosting cost. No monthly retainer, and the domain renews once a year at list price in your name with no commission from me. If you'd rather edit the pages yourself I'll build you something you can edit, and tell you what it costs to run before we start.
Email goes on your own custom domain, setup properly so your quotes, invoices and confirmations land in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
Then the Google Business Profile, which on a phone often sits above every website on the screen. I go through yours with you and get it agreeing with the site, because when the two disagree they stop being read as the same business.
What I'd build for dog groomers in your town
The job is the same wherever you are. What changes is which town and village names belong on the page, that's what people type.
See where your site stands first
Put your address into the free check and it tells you where the site's hosted, what it's built with, what a search engine actually gets and whether your email is setup right. Takes about ten seconds and nothing on your site is touched. Run the free check.
If the email records come back failing, that's worth reading about on its own. If it's the site, here's how I build them, and here are five things to ask anyone quoting you.
Tell me about the business.
Say what you're trying to achieve and I'll tell you what I'd do, including when the answer is an hour on your Google Business Profile would do more than a new site.