
71.2% more organic traffic and a Shopify rebuild for Helios Sauna.
We helped Helios move from Squarespace to Shopify, simplify a multi-location booking journey and grow search visibility across Ireland. Web design, development, copywriting and SEO all came together in one tidy project.
Client
Helios Sauna
Industry
Sauna & Wellness
Location
Ireland
Duration
Ongoing partnership
Organic traffic
Growth following the joined-up website and SEO work
“Sauna”
A high-intent booking search
“Sauna Dun Laoghaire”
Visibility where local customers are ready to book
Services
A growing Irish sauna brand with big plans and a busy booking setup.
Helios Sauna runs outdoor sauna experiences across Ireland, with public sessions, private hire, vouchers and a growing mix of locations.
The team had built a distinctive brand around heat, cold water and the kind of coastal reset people happily plan their week around. As demand grew, the digital setup needed to keep pace.
We came in to build a stronger website, make booking easier and help more of the right people find Helios through search.
Growth had outpaced the website.
Helios needed one website to handle multiple locations, several booking types, extras, vouchers, promotions and a fast-growing audience. The existing Squarespace setup was working far harder than it should.
- 01A restrictive platform made the next stage of growth harder to manage.
- 02A complex booking setup had to coordinate public sessions, private hire, extras and several locations.
- 03Too much booking friction gave customers extra chances to pause or leave.
- 04Commercial pages needed a clearer structure around locations, sessions, vouchers and private hire.
- 05Local search visibility had room to grow across Dublin, Wexford and Dun Laoghaire.
- 06The copy needed more personality and precision across the pages closest to a booking.
- 07Content opportunities were sitting untouched across sauna, cold plunge and recovery topics.
- 08Technical signals needed consistency across headings, images, breadcrumbs and structured data.
We treated the website, booking journey and search strategy as one system.
We mapped the whole customer journey, moved the site to Shopify and built the SEO work into the structure from day one. That gave every page a job, every booking step a purpose and our content team a clear direction.
01
Build a scalable base
Move to Shopify and create a structure that can grow with the business.
02
Map the booking journey
Help people choose a location, session and booking option with fewer steps.
03
Write useful commercial copy
Explain the experience clearly and give search engines strong context.
04
Win locally
Create and optimise pages around high-intent location searches.
05
Grow topical authority
Answer the questions people ask around sauna, cold plunge and recovery.
06
Keep the technical layer tidy
Give users and search engines a clean, consistent website to work with.
The rebuild, step by step.
Here is how we took the project from a stretched Squarespace setup to a joined-up Shopify, booking and SEO system. Open any section for the practical detail.
We moved Helios from Squarespace to Shopify so the team had a more flexible base for locations, booking-style products, private hire, vouchers, offers and future growth.
The migration covered the parts customers see and the bits the team manages every day:
- •Site structure and navigation
- •Location and private-hire pages
- •Vouchers and promotional areas
- •Booking-focused page layouts
- •An SEO-friendly page hierarchy
We built the structure around the way customers search and book. That gave Helios a site that feels clear on the front end and stays practical behind the scenes.
Helios had several locations, public sessions, private bookings, extras and different booking types that needed to stay in sync. We mapped the journey from the first location choice through to checkout.
Customers could see where each sauna was, understand the available sessions, pick the right option and reach the booking flow with less hunting around.
We also reduced unnecessary checkout fields. Each field asks for a little more effort, so we kept the process focused on the information Helios actually needed. Fewer speed bumps, more completed sauna bookings.
We wrote and refined copy across the homepage, location pages, private-hire pages and the supporting sections around them.
Every page had a practical job:
- •Explain the sauna experience in plain language
- •Help customers compare locations and booking options
- •Keep the Helios voice relaxed, premium and trustworthy
- •Use relevant search terms naturally
- •Guide interested visitors towards a booking
We wrote for real customers first and gave search engines the context they needed around sauna experiences, outdoor saunas, private hire and location-specific bookings. The result sounds like Helios and works hard in search.
We focused on the pages closest to a booking: the homepage, location pages, private-hire pages and sauna booking pages.
Our keyword targets included “sauna Dublin”, “sauna Wexford”, “sauna Dun Laoghaire”, “saunas Dublin”, “private sauna Dublin”, “sauna Ireland” and “outdoor sauna Ireland”. These searches carry clear local intent and lead naturally towards a booking.
We tightened the heading hierarchy, rewrote metadata and made each page more specific to its location and service. Google received clearer signals, and customers received more useful search results.
We built a content plan around the questions people ask as they discover sauna and cold-plunge culture. The topics covered health benefits, session length, temperature, workouts, calories, colds, cold plunges and beginner ice-bath advice.
Someone searching “does sitting in a sauna burn calories?” may be early in their journey. They are still a highly relevant visitor for Helios. Helpful answers brought that audience into the site and introduced them to the experience.
We connected each article to the relevant location, booking and private-hire pages through internal links. That helped the content build topical authority and support the commercial side of the website.
Wellness is personal, so customers want to see who runs the business, who looks after each location and who stands behind the advice they read.
We supported author bios on blog posts, an Our Team page and location-manager sections on relevant pages. These additions made the website feel human and gave every piece of expertise a real name and face.
In SEO terms, this supports experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. In everyday terms, it shows people who they are booking with. Fairly sensible, really.
Alongside the rebuild, we handled the technical details that help search engines crawl, understand and present the site correctly.
The work covered image optimisation, formatting, breadcrumb improvements, heading structures and a structured-data review. We kept the implementation clean and consistent across the page types that mattered most.
We also reviewed rating and review schema with accuracy in mind. We used markup we could keep reliable and skipped anything likely to become misleading. A tidy technical setup ages much better.
More visibility, stronger pages and a launch that ranked early.
The combined website and SEO work grew organic traffic by 71.2% and pushed Helios into strong positions across local booking terms and wider sauna topics.
- 01Organic traffic grew by 71.2% as the rebuild and SEO work gained traction.
- 02Helios reached #1 for “sauna Dun Laoghaire”.
- 03The site reached #1 for “sauna Wexford”.
- 04Helios reached #5 for “sauna Dublin” and #4 for “saunas Dublin”.
- 05The content strategy earned #1 for “does sauna burn calories”.
- 06The private-hire page reached #2 for “private sauna Dublin”.
One result still makes us smile: the landing page for Helios Sauna's first floating sauna in Ireland was already ranking #1 a week before the official launch and before bookings opened. The SEO groundwork was doing its job before the first customer could reserve a session.
Each piece made the next one stronger.
We planned the project as one joined-up system. Shopify gave Helios room to grow, the booking work reduced friction, the copy clarified the offer and the SEO brought relevant people into those pages.
That connection mattered. A location page could rank for a high-intent search, explain the experience in Helios's voice and take the customer straight into the right booking flow.
We handled the strategy and implementation as one team, which kept the work organised and the handovers pleasantly uneventful.
- Shopifygave the business a flexible foundation for locations and bookings.
- Booking UXhelped customers move from curiosity to a confirmed session.
- Commercial copymade the experience, options and next steps easy to understand.
- Local SEOconnected each location with people actively looking nearby.
- Useful contentgrew topical visibility around sauna and cold plunge questions.
- Technical SEOkept the whole system clean, crawlable and easy to understand.
A five-star review from a team we genuinely enjoy working with.
Helios described us as responsive, proactive and organised, and highlighted the new ideas we continue to bring to the business.
That review sums up the relationship nicely. We keep communication clear, deliver the agreed work on time and stay curious about the next opportunity. We also fully intend to claim that sauna session next time we are in Ireland.
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- Clear technical thinking
- Regular communication
- Practical implementation
- 100% in-house team
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