- Challenge
- A family law firm losing share to competitors who appear as the recommended option in ChatGPT and Perplexity for high-intent searches in their state.
- Solution
- AEO-focused content rebuild, attorney bios optimized for E-E-A-T, FAQPage schema, and a legal-vertical citation campaign targeting bar association directories.
- Outcome focus
- Answer-engine visibility rebuild
Sample strategy — illustrative, not a past client engagement. No real client or results are depicted. This page shows how a Foundgrove engagement would be structured.
Website Design + SEO sample strategy: Med Spa
Pre-launch site + booking-intent foundation — an illustrative 12 weeks engagement, not a past client result.
Challenge
A new med spa launch with no domain authority, no content, and a narrow window before opening to be visible for booking-intent searches.
Approach
Next.js website with full schema deployment, launch landing pages, GBP setup, and a pre-launch content sprint targeting booking-intent keywords.
Outcome focus
Pre-launch site + booking-intent foundation
Background
Who is this sample strategy for?
This illustrative scenario models a new single-location med spa in a single-location launch market that would engage Foundgrove for website design + seo while dealing with a brand-new med spa launching with no domain authority, no content, no GBP, and a narrow window before opening to be visible for booking-intent searches. The work outlined below would be led by a senior strategist on our team and run for 12 weeks from kickoff.
This sample strategy maps how a Foundgrove engagement would handle a med spa opening its first location with budget for either a website or a marketing program — not both. The proposed approach is a hybrid: build a fast, SEO-ready Next.js site that doubles as the marketing foundation, then run a pre-launch content sprint.
The challenge
What's the challenge?
In this scenario the business is dealing with a brand-new med spa launching with no domain authority, no content, no GBP, and a narrow window before opening to be visible for booking-intent searches. A Foundgrove engagement would lock the baseline in writing during the audit phase, so every target below is measured against a fixed, documented starting point — not a moving denominator.
A new med spa launch with no domain authority, no content, and a narrow window before opening to be visible for booking-intent searches.
The engagement is structured to launch the site ahead of opening day, with service pages, FAQ schema across the board, a fully optimized GBP profile, and launch-themed blog posts targeting 'opening', 'first appointment', and 'introductory pricing' queries.
The approach
How would Foundgrove approach it?
The engagement would deploy a Next.js website with full schema deployment, launch landing pages, GBP setup from day one, and a pre-launch content sprint targeting booking-intent keywords. Each tactic is sequenced over 12 weeks and tracked weekly inside a live dashboard the client team can view at any time.
Next.js website with full schema deployment, launch landing pages, GBP setup, and a pre-launch content sprint targeting booking-intent keywords.
A Foundgrove engagement would sequence the work so that local ranking and booking-intent visibility are in place by soft-launch, with the booking calendar as the north-star metric — measured against the spa's own scheduling data rather than any figure we control.
Target outcomes
What outcomes does this target?
This sample strategy is built around two outcome categories: booking-intent local visibility from day one and a fast, schema-complete site that doubles as the marketing foundation. In a real engagement, each target would be measured against the business's own data — GA4, Google Search Console, ad platforms, and CRM — with the baseline locked in writing at engagement start. No figures are shown here because Foundgrove is pre-launch and depicts no real client results.
Primary focus
booking-intent local visibility from day one
Secondary focus
a fast, schema-complete site that doubles as the marketing foundation
Timeline
How is the engagement sequenced?
An engagement like this would run 12 weeks from audit kickoff. Below is the illustrative phase-by-phase plan of what would ship and what each phase is structured to move.
- 1
Pre-launch phase 1
Brand and conversion-goal discovery. Local competitors and regional med-spa websites audited. Domain reserved, GBP profile set up, and treatment menu locked.
- 2
Pre-launch phase 2
Next.js site designed and built with service pages, FAQ schema across the board, a fast LCP target, and click-to-book CTAs above the fold. The plan brings the site live ahead of opening day.
- 3
Pre-launch phase 3
Content sprint: launch-themed blog posts targeting opening, first-appointment, and introductory-pricing queries. Internal linking optimized for service-page authority flow.
- 4
Soft-launch
The engagement is structured so local ranking and a fully indexed GBP profile are in place by soft-launch, with early booking inquiries as the first signal.
- 5
Post-launch phase 1
Inbound website bookings tracked against the spa's own scheduling data. A paid retargeting layer is added for visitors who hit pricing pages without booking.
- 6
Post-launch phase 2
The booking calendar is the north-star metric — measured against the spa's own scheduling data — with the engagement shifting from acquisition to retention content as demand fills.
Next steps
How would this apply to my business?
If you run a med spa business, the same playbook applies — adjusted for your market and baseline. Start with our SEO program for med spas page, or browse all 53 industries we serve. Compare with our other sample strategies in the full sample-strategy library or see the Website Design + SEO service overview with pricing and process details.
More sample strategies
Other sample engagement scenarios
Two more illustrative scenarios. Each links to the full sample-strategy breakdown.
- Challenge
- A multi-location dental group ranking on page 3 for high-intent terms across its markets, with no presence in Google AI Overviews and a competing group appearing in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers.
- Solution
- Full local SEO rebuild across every GBP profile, service-area landing pages for each location, FAQPage schema on every service page, and a content overhaul targeting passage-level extraction by AI Overviews.
- Outcome focus
- Multi-location local + AI visibility rebuild
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By the Foundgrove team · Updated June 2026