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Local SEO for salons: how to get fully booked

People choose a salon on Google with their eyes — your photos, your reviews and how easy you are to book. Here's how to get fully booked, in plain English.

By Ben Criddle · Founder, Fixr SystemsReviewed 7 min read

Short answer

To get more bookings from Google, use a specific category(“Hair salon”, “Beauty salon”, “Nail salon”), add plenty of fresh photos of your work, put a booking link on your profile, and gather genuine reviews. Beauty is a visual, spontaneous choice — the salon with the best photos and reviews wins the booking.

Choosing where to get your hair or nails done is fast, visual and local — a quick search, a scroll of the photos and reviews, and a booking. Your Google Business Profile is basically your portfolio and your booking desk in one, and it often decides the choice before anyone reads a word.

Pick the most specific category

Don't settle for a vague label. Use “Hair salon”, “Beauty salon”, “Nail salon” or “Barber shop” as your primary, and add the others you offer as secondary categories, so you match exactly what people search for.

Photos do the selling

This is where salons win or lose. Add fresh, high-quality photos of your work, your team and your space, and keep adding them — a stale gallery reads as a stale salon. Show the styles and treatments you're proud of.

Make booking effortless

Add a booking linkso customers can book in a tap while they're still keen, keep your hours accurate, and reply to reviews to show you look after people. For more reviews, see how to ask customers for Google reviews.

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A free MyBizRanked audit shows how your salon looks to someone choosing where to book — category, photos, reviews — and the fixes that fill your book.

Frequently asked questions

Use the most specific one that fits — 'Hair salon', 'Beauty salon', 'Nail salon' or 'Barber shop' — rather than a generic label. If you offer several, set the main one as primary and add the others as secondary categories.

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