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Beautician Schema
schema.org markup for beauty therapists and salons — HealthAndBeautyBusiness type, hasOfferCatalog with priceSpecification per treatment, hasCredential for NVQ/VTCT qualifications, memberOf BABTAC, and license field for SPMU salons.
Definition
Beautician schema.org implementation: (1) **Schema type**: HealthAndBeautyBusiness (sub-type of LocalBusiness → HealthAndBeautyBusiness) for fixed-location beauty salons; ProfessionalService for mobile-only beauticians; (2) **Qualification credentials**: employee.hasCredential with EducationalOccupationalCredential entries — "VTCT Level 3 Diploma in Beauty Therapy", "City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Beauty Therapy", specialist awards for lash, micropigmentation; (3) **Professional membership**: employee.memberOf with Organization for BABTAC (British Association of Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology) — BABTAC maintains a public member directory providing third-party verifiability; (4) **Service catalog**: hasOfferCatalog with Offer per treatment including priceSpecification ({@type: PriceSpecification, price: 65, priceCurrency: "GBP"}) for the most common treatments; (5) **SPMU licence**: for salons offering semi-permanent makeup — license: "Leeds City Council Environmental Health — Skin Penetration Premises Licence #XXXXX"; the issuing local authority name + licence number as the value; (6) **AggregateRating**: reviewCount and ratingValue from Google, Treatwell, or Fresha reviews; (7) **Server-rendering**: schema MUST appear in initial HTML response — JavaScript-injected schema is not reliably processed by Google.
Why it matters for SEO
HealthAndBeautyBusiness schema with populated hasCredential and memberOf entries provides structured E-E-A-T signals for beauty businesses operating in an unregulated sector. The priceSpecification on individual Offer entries enables price-rich snippets in SERPs. The license field for SPMU is the only structured-data signal that cross-references a verifiable regulatory record.
How DeepSEOAnalysis checks this
DeepSEOAnalysis validates HealthAndBeautyBusiness schema type, checks hasCredential population, verifies memberOf includes BABTAC where claimed on-page, checks priceSpecification format, confirms schema is server-rendered in initial HTML, and flags missing required LocalBusiness fields.
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