CASE STUDY: BARBERSHOP, UK

A Winchester barber website built to be found on Google

Iman Barber is an established barbershop on High Street in Winchester, offering skin fades, beard trims, wet shaves and walk-ins. The project combined website design and development, SEO, GEO and Google Business Profile optimization, with one goal: a stronger online presence that helps local customers find the shop and get in touch.

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INDUSTRY
Barbershop
PROJECT TYPE
Website, SEO and GEO
LOCATION
Winchester, UK
MY ROLE
Web design, SEO and Google Business Profile

The Iman Barber homepage.

THE CHALLENGE

Being found by customers who are already searching

For a local barber, most new customers start with a search such as “barber near me” or “Winchester barber”. Whether the shop appears, and what people see when it does, often decides whether they walk in or choose someone else.

The business needed:

  • A professional barber website that shows its services clearly
  • A stronger presence in Google Search and Google Maps
  • A better foundation for local search and for AI-powered search
MY APPROACH

One online presence, built to work together

Website design and development. A professional, mobile-friendly website with clear services, simple navigation and calls to action that make the next step obvious: book, call or get directions.

SEO. A site structure that tells Google what the business does and where, including service and location targeting, search-friendly content and technical foundations. Search Console was set up to track performance.

GEO (optimization for AI-powered search). GEO means making a business easy for AI search tools to understand and describe correctly. That comes down to clear business details, plainly written services and location context.

Google Business Profile optimization. The Google Business Profile is often the first thing a customer sees, so it was optimized to be complete and consistent with the website.

RESULTS: GOOGLE SEARCH

334 clicks from 11.6K impressions in three months

Google Search Console, Web search, about 5 July to 4 October 2026:

  • 334 total clicks
  • 11.6K total impressions
  • 2.9% average click-through rate
  • 7.9 average position

The website appeared in Google results more than 11,000 times over the period. The average search position of 7.9 is an average across all searches, not the ranking for any single keyword.

Google Search Console performance report, Web search.

RESULTS: GOOGLE BUSINESS PROFILE

1,066 Business Profile interactions from May to October 2026

Google Business Profile performance, May to October 2026:

  • 531 direction requests
  • 368 website clicks
  • 145 calls
  • 22 chat clicks

Customers asked for directions to the shop 531 times and called 145 times. The final data point in each graph is a partial month.

Business Profile interactions, May to October 2026.

Direction requests, May to October 2026.

WHAT WAS DELIVERED

Five parts, one online presence

01

Website design and development

Professional, mobile-friendly design with clear services, simple navigation and calls to action that make it easy to book, call or get directions.

02

SEO and local SEO

Page structure, service and location targeting, search-friendly content and technical foundations, with Search Console set up to track performance.

03

GEO and AI search optimization

Clear business details, plainly written services and location context, so search engines and AI tools can understand the business.

04

Google Business Profile optimization

Business details, services and links kept complete and consistent with the website, so Google Maps and Search tell the same story.

05

Conversion-focused structure

A layout that guides visitors from finding the shop to taking the next step, on any device.

RESULT

A stronger digital foundation

Before

  • Needed a stronger online presence
  • Website needed to better represent the business
  • Local search presence needed optimization

After

  • Professional, mobile-friendly business website
  • SEO foundation in place
  • Google Business Profile optimized
  • GEO considerations built into the content and structure
  • Measurable visibility in Google Search and Google Maps

Iman Barber now has a connected foundation made up of the website, Google Search, Google Maps, local SEO and GEO. The figures on this page are as reported by Google Search Console and Google Business Profile for the periods shown. They describe visibility and customer actions, not guaranteed revenue.

Website design
Local SEO
GEO
Google Business Profile
Mobile optimization

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