Websites for hair and beauty salons.
I'm Huw. I build sites for hair and beauty salons 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.
- balayage ideas
- balayage vs highlights
- how much does balayage cost
- hair extensions cost UK
- classic vs hybrid lashes
- how long do lash extensions last
- BIAB vs gel nails
- bridal hair trial near me
- curly cut near me
- hairdresser Bridgend
- lash extensions Porthcawl
- barber open Sunday
The treatment comes first, the salon second
Hardly anyone types your salon name unless they’ve already been. What they type is “balayage ideas”, “how much does balayage cost”, “classic vs hybrid lashes”, “BIAB vs gel nails”, somebody who does curly cuts. Usually at half nine at night, usually after seeing a photograph of somebody else’s hair. A page saying hair and beauty matches none of that, and a page about balayage matches all of one of them.
What’s going on at half nine at night
The comparison searches, balayage against highlights, tape in against micro ring, classic against hybrid, are being read by somebody who has already decided to spend the money and is working out what on. The one asking what it costs has usually been caught out before by a figure that turned out to be for short hair, so the honest answer about length and thickness lands better than the cheap one. Bridal is its own thing again, booked a year out and researched like a wedding rather than a haircut. And clients follow people rather than salons, so when somebody’s told “ask for Ffion, she’s brilliant with curls”, that name needs to find something.
What I’d do for you
The first meeting is me taking you through how your clients search, what they’re deciding at each point and what that means for you. Then I’ll tell you what I’d build and what it costs to run. If you want online booking as part of it, whether that’s the system you already pay for or a new one, that’s on the custom systems page.
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 hair and beauty salons 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.