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Bronzed Goddess Sydenham

Beauty salon · Sydenham, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 570 Christchurch beauty businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
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Bronzed Goddess Sydenham

Beauty salon · Sydenham, Christchurch

Where you stand#59of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health9.0/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social10.008Opening hours9.605Facebook page9.407Google search and traffic9.201Google listing7.203Map positions6.9

Where we can help

02Reviews5.706Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham offers spray tans and beauty treatments from salons in Sydenham and Ilam, Christchurch. Locally owned for over 10 years, the dedicated team provides natural spray tans alongside a range of beauty services and retail products. Customers note personable, professional staff and a relaxed, well-explained experience that helps first-time clients feel at ease.

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham provides spray tans and beauty treatments from two Christchurch salons: 439 Colombo Street in Sydenham and 213A Waimairi Road in Ilam. It is locally owned and has operated in the area for over 10 years, serving clients who seek a natural bronzed look and routine beauty care.

The salon specialises in natural spray tans and a variety of beauty services, and also offers an online shop selling self-tan and cosmetic products. Services and products are presented as suitable for different occasions, with staff available to guide clients on colour choice and product selection.

Customers commonly describe the staff as professional, personable and well trained. Reviews note that staff ease nerves for first-time clients, explain the tanning process and aftercare clearly, and personalise each appointment. Clients also mention efficient service and good appointment availability, which contributes to a relaxed experience.

What distinguishes Bronzed Goddess Sydenham locally is its combination of two Christchurch locations, an on-site team focussed on natural spray tanning and broader beauty treatments, and an online retail option for self-tan and cosmetics. The salon's local ownership and the recurring theme of friendly, reassuring service are key features for clients seeking a straightforward, well-explained tanning and beauty experience in Christchurch.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham shows a healthy Google Business Listing with a 7.2/10. The current strengths include claimed status, a website link, an open-for-business status, and a contact phone number, which support easy discovery and access for customers.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
7.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.7 ★★★★★ (36)
Beauty salon · Sydenham
Open 7 days · late Wed, Thu and Fri ✓
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From the business

Time to treat yourself like the goddess you are, our dedicated team will have you looking amazing from head to toe with a natural spray tan and beauty treatments. Our salons are based at 439 Colombo Street, Sydenham & 213A Waimairi Road, Ilam Christchurch. Locally owned and operated for over 10 years.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham shows a healthy Google review profile with an overall health score of 6.0 out of 10, which is above average. The most notable findings are steady progress in Google star rating and a solid number of total reviews, along with a decent response rate. Focus remains on maintaining momentum and improving consistency in responses to reviews.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
  • 3
    Response rateYou reply to some of your reviews but not most, so a customer scrolling your page finds long stretches where nobody answered.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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4.7★★★★★36 reviews
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Kristy S.★★★★★ · Edited 7 months ago

I recently saw Georgia at the Sydenham salon and had an eye trio and tan, I can honestly say she was amazing! She was extremely professional and very good at her job, my tan looks great and after 20 + years she was the only person who recom...

Response from the owner3

Love your review for us Kristy! Will pass on the kind words to Georgia! Thanks and see you again soon.

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Stacey P.★★★★★ · a year ago

I had Georgia for a spray tan and she was absolutely amazing. Thanks again! ❤️

Response from the owner

Thanks so much for your review Stacey!

Google reviewsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham shows an above-average overall health in Google Maps, with a 6.7/10 score indicating solid visibility but room to grow. The top opportunities focus on broadening aggregate visibility and further improving suburb performance. The business already ranks well for key services, especially in Sydenham.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
6.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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BEAUTYFIX Hair'n Skincare5.0 ★ (98) · Beauty salon
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Embrace Skin & Beauty Rolleston4.9 ★ (231) · Beauty salon
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Bronzed Goddess Sydenham24.7 ★ (36) · Beauty salon
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Body and Soul4.7 ★ (150) · Beauty salon
Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #177 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham shows very high health (9.9/10) for citations and social presence, indicating strong third-party profiles and directories. Key strengths include outstanding Facebook, Instagram and TikTok profiles and a fully detailed Fresha listing. Opportunities focus on adding NoSecretSalon, Neighbourly, Yellow, GrabOne and Yellow Directory listings to further improve local discoverability.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Tiktok ProfileWe found your Tiktok Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

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    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
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    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    LinkedIn CompanyWe could not find an active LinkedIn Company listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
10.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebookbronzedgoddess.coBronzed Goddess Sydenham | Facebook✓
Instagrambronzedgoddess.coBronzed Goddess Sydenham | Instagram✓
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Freshabronzed-goddess-sydenham-beauty-tanning-christchurch-439-colombo-street-owo7ieo0Bronzed Goddess Sydenham | Fresha
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YellowNo listing found1
NeighbourlyNo listing found2
LinkedInNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.

Top three opportunities

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    People following your pageMore people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post can travel past your own customers when one of them shares it into a local group.
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    Recommendations on your pageMore customers have recommended you than at most pages in this market, and depth like that reads as a business that has been doing this a while.
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    What your page says about youYour intro carries more detail than most pages in this market and is doing the work of a short landing page for the visitors who never reach your website.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2.4K followers 1
Christchurch experts in Spray Tanning, Beauty & Lash Extensions. Visit our 2 Salons at 439 Colombo St, Sydenham & 213 Waimairi Rd, Ilam, Christchurch. Book or Buy Online at www.bronzedgoddess.co.nz3
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★ 17 reviews · recommended 2
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☎ +64 22 099 6993✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #36 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham shows a strong on-page SEO health, with a current health score of 8.3 out of 10 indicating solid technical foundations and good performance for the homepage. The business has a useful favicon, a relevant title tag, and adequate text content, plus secure HTTPS resources and fast load times, supporting a positive user and crawler experience.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
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    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, so a reasonable spread of places vouch for you.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are spread across a fair range of sites for a profile this size, and the mix of link types looks ordinary.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham shows a very healthy website traffic picture, with strong organic performance and top local visibility. The overall health is excellent, indicating solid foundations in organic reach and SERP presence. The most important findings are the high organic traffic value and the top-10% local organic traffic, underscoring effective SEO and local relevance.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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www.redbeauty.co.nzRed Laser & Beauty Christchurch
www.thecolombo.co.nzEmbrace Skin & Beauty
www.bronzedgoddess.co.nzOur new Sydenham beauty salon is now open!

14 Mar 2023 — Our new Sydenham beauty salon is now open! 439 Colombo Street, Sydenham. Book online https://www.bronzedgoddess.co.nz/pages/book-a-service Read more

www.facebook.comBody and Soul | Sydenham
About 3,151 visits a month from search, across 399 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #46 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Bronzed Goddess Sydenham's opening hours largely match local demand, with 58 well-aligned peak hours and no low-demand open hours. Strong alignment occurs on Tuesday 11am, Wednesday 3pm, Thursday 4pm and Saturday early afternoon. Missed opportunities include being closed at Tuesday 9am, Thursday 9am and Sunday afternoons (2pm-3pm) plus Saturday 4pm. Consider modestly shifting a few hours into popular weekend and early-week windows.

Strengths

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    Hours aligned with demandNo business here matches the demand around it more closely than you do - you are open when people are looking and shut when they are not.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. Your hours already line up with when people are looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.6Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Bronzed Goddess Sydenham
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Hours ✓
Monday10am-6pm
Tuesday10am-6pm
Wednesday10am-9pm
Thursday10am-9pm
Friday10am-9pm
Saturday10am-4pm
Sunday10am-2pm
Popular times Sunday · Sydenham
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

Where you'd stand#59of 570 Christchurch beauty businesses
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Christchurch beautyOverall · 570 businesses
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