Kimmage is a crossroads place. Kimmage Road Lower comes down from Harold’s Cross, past Mount Argus, to the junction everyone calls the KCR, and from there the roads fan out to Terenure, Templeogue and Crumlin. The shops are strung along that road and gathered at the crossroads: barbers, takeaways, a chipper, pharmacies, small grocers, bookies, pubs, and the odd new cafe that has arrived with the younger buyers moving into the terraces. Kimmage was one of the big Corporation housing schemes of the 1930s, and the houses are now mostly owned, extended and in constant need of a tradesman. If you run a business here and want website design in Kimmage done by someone who will actually call in, we are in Dublin and we meet owners at the counter.
Two postal districts, one village
Kimmage sits across Dublin 6W and Dublin 12, which sounds like a detail and is not. A customer on the Harold’s Cross side searches “barber Dublin 6W”. A customer off Sundrive Road searches “barber Dublin 12”, and someone on Kimmage Road West might type “barber Crumlin” because that is the name they know. Your site and your Google Business Profile have to be clear about the one place you are in, and honest about the ones you serve. We write the address with the D6W or D12 routing key you actually have, name Kimmage as the place, and describe the neighbouring areas as a service area, so Google can connect them without the page reading like a list of place names.
How a Kimmage customer finds you
Three ways, mostly. Someone walking the road sees the sign and checks the reviews on their phone before coming in. Someone at home opens Google Maps and looks for what is open and nearest. And someone asks in a local Facebook group or a WhatsApp group of neighbours, gets a name, and then searches that name. The third one catches most businesses out: the recommendation was good, but the search finds an old listing with the wrong hours, or nothing.
A takeaway here lives by the Friday evening search and the delivery apps. A barber lives by the “barber near me” search from someone who has just moved onto a road off Kimmage Road Lower and does not know anyone yet. A plumber or electrician based in Kimmage works Harold’s Cross, Terenure, Crumlin and Walkinstown and needs all of those places to find him. Each needs a slightly different site, and none of them needs a big one.
What we set up
The basics first: a .ie domain in your name, a fast site that works on a phone, the Google listing set up and verified with the right pin at the right door, hours including the bank holidays, your prices or your menu, and photos of the actual shop or the actual work. For a takeaway the menu goes on the page as text, not a photo of a printed sheet, so a phone and Google can both read it. For a barber or nail salon on Complete we add online booking and the review request that goes out after each appointment.
You change things yourself from your phone through a private edit page, or send us the change on WhatsApp.
The Kimmage businesses with no website at all
Plenty. Barbers and nail technicians who take bookings through Instagram messages, takeaways that exist only inside a delivery app, painters and tilers with a Facebook page last updated two summers ago, and dog groomers and childminders working from home who rely entirely on word of mouth. All of them are losing the people who search instead of ask. A simple page that names Kimmage, shows the prices and has a button that opens WhatsApp puts them back in front of those people. We have written about whether Instagram alone is enough.
Price
Essentials is €499 up front and €50 a month. Complete, with bookings, payments and chat, is €1,499 and €100 a month, and there is no contract either way. Full detail on the pricing page, and if you cut hair the barbers page shows that site in full.