All living creatures place their faith in someone more powerful... In this way, all kings are born.

— Sōsuke Aizen

All Case Studies
Beauty & Salon eCommerce

Rapple Salon Products

rapple.co.za✦ Website designed by Fortune Design

Premium salon furniture, equipment and products serving barber shops, hair salons and beauty studios across South Africa.

Rapple Salon Products website and SEO case study

2 queries

AI Overviews Featured

salon products · barber chairs

+231%

Organic Traffic Growth

8 months

+68%

Revenue from SEO

attributed

380+

Product Pages Ranked

page 1 & 2

AI Overview Citations

Rapple Salon Products AI Overview result for "professional salon and barber products south africa"

"professional salon and barber products south africa"

1 of 6
Rapple Salon Products AI Overview result for "barber chairs for sale"

"barber chairs for sale"

cited with pricing

Keyword Position Changes

KeywordBeforeAfter
salon furniture south africa#22#1
barber chairs for sale#45#3
beauty salon equipment#38#2
hair salon furniture johannesburg#61#4
salon products wholesale#54#6
professional barber shop supplies#73#5

What We Did

  • Rewrote all product titles and descriptions with keyword-rich, buyer-intent copy across 380+ product pages

  • Optimised 6 category pages with buying guides, comparison tables, and FAQ sections to capture mid-funnel traffic

  • Implemented Product, BreadcrumbList, and Review schema to enable rich snippets in Shopping results

  • Set up and optimised Google Merchant Center feed for Shopping results, driving direct product impressions

  • Built local SEO pages targeting Johannesburg and Cape Town with branch-specific NAP and map embeds

  • Improved site speed by 38% through image compression, lazy loading, and removing render-blocking scripts

  • Launched a category-level internal linking strategy to distribute authority across the product catalogue

  • Earned placements on SA beauty trade directories and salon industry blogs to build topical backlinks

Client Testimonial

"Thanks to Fortune Design's SEO strategy, Rapple is now ranking on Page 1 of Google for all our main keywords. Organic traffic has more than doubled and the quality of leads coming through search has been exceptional. Highly recommend."

Leon De Wet

Rapple Products · 1 review · 11 months ago

Rapple Salon Products — Google review of Fortune Design