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Case study · Our own studio · Birmingham, Michigan

Fine Strokes case study

our own studio, built as the proof.

Fine Strokes is our own permanent makeup studio. We built the site, and every method we sell got tested on our own booking calendar and our own money first.

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Industry
Permanent makeup studio
Location
Birmingham, Michigan
Build
WordPress with on-page Square booking
Live site
finestrokesmicroblading.com, our own
The Fine Strokes homepage, our own studio’s site

The receipt

Captured, not described.

Search result

First for “microblading Michigan,” statewide.

The studio sits in Birmingham, but the search is for the whole state. We built the service pages, the city pages and the local-search foundation together, then rewrote the titles, and the result is the one we publish.

  • Search: microblading Michigan
  • Market: Michigan
  • Result: first
  • First for “microblading Michigan” in the captured result
  • Click rate from 0.51% to 1.15% after the title rewrites, at the same rankings
  • Clicks from 2.18 to 6.91 a day in Search Console, July 11 to August 7
Google results showing Fine Strokes first for microblading Michigan
Fine Strokes first for the statewide search, from a studio in Birmingham. Run the search yourself. That’s the whole point.

The leak

A studio nobody could find ten minutes up the road.

Permanent makeup gets searched town by town, and one services page can’t answer forty towns.

Somebody in Shelby Township doesn’t search “microblading Birmingham.” They search their own town. A studio with one services page is invisible to every one of those searches, however good the work is.

The decision is also harder than most local purchases. Somebody is deciding whether to let a stranger put pigment in their face, usually on a phone, usually at night, usually after reading about healing. The site has to show the work, tell the truth about recovery and make booking easy before they talk themselves out of it.

And pages spun from one template are exactly the thin content Google filters. So every city page had to earn its place with real local detail, and every guide had to answer a question people actually ask in the chair. Because it’s our own studio, we learned which parts worked on our own calendar before we sold any of it.

What we built

A studio site in front, a city silo behind it.

Structure

Every service, on its own page

Microblading, lip blush, eyeliner, scalp micropigmentation, corrections, training and the skin treatments, each with its own page so it can rank and be linked on its own.

Local search

88 service-by-city pages

Five core services across the towns around Birmingham, from Troy and Royal Oak to Shelby Township and Farmington, each written with directions and details a local customer recognizes.

Booking

Square booking on the page

The decision to book and the booking happen in the same minute. Nobody fills in a form and waits for a callback.

Choosing

A 60-second quiz

Six options on the homepage, from brows to fixing old work, for visitors who aren’t sure which service they need yet.

Guides

14 guides for real questions

Healing day by day, touch-up timing, lip neutralization, eyeliner, what to expect. Written from what clients ask, not from a keyword tool.

AI search

Readable by AI assistants

An llms.txt file that points AI tools to the real pages, a robots.txt that names and allows each AI crawler, and a chat assistant that answers at 11pm.

The outcome

What the studio runs on now.

Page counts from the live sitemaps on September 18, 2026. The click numbers are Search Console, July 11 to August 7, 2026, and the ranking is from the result we captured.

  • 169

    Pages

    The whole studio, its services, its towns and its policies, on one build.

  • 88

    Service-by-city pages

    So the search that happens ten minutes away still lands here.

  • 1.15%

    Click rate

    Up from 0.51% after the title rewrites, at the same rankings.

  • 110

    Old URLs redirected

    At the relaunch, so nothing the old site had earned was thrown away.

Keep reading

The services behind the build, and more of the work.

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