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The Salon Collective

Hairdresser · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers.

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The Salon Collective

Hairdresser · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

Where you stand#356of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health2.9/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social8.107Google search and traffic7.9

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.908Opening hours3.801Google listing2.702Reviews0.803Map positions0.106Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

The Salon Collective is a premium blonde specialist salon based in Rangiora, Waimakariri, serving Christchurch and North Canterbury. They describe themselves as blonde transformation specialists offering packaged colour services across Avonhead, Pegasus and Rangiora. The salon emphasises ongoing stylist training and a personalised, relaxed hairdressing experience focused on achieving and maintaining blonde colour.

The Salon Collective is a premium blonde specialist salon located in Rangiora, Waimakariri, and operating across Christchurch and North Canterbury. They list Avonhead, Pegasus and Rangiora among their service locations and present themselves as specialists in blonde transformation.

They describe their core services as structured colour packages designed for blonde clients, with a focus on providing the ingredients and steps for a finished hair look rather than leaving choices to clients. The salon states that all colour services are delivered in packages and emphasises careful preparation and product use.

Customers can expect a personalised, relaxed appointment according to the salon content. The Salon Collective say blondes are their passion and that staff have spent years training and continue to refine their skills. They invite clients to "sit back and enjoy" a slightly informal but attentive hairdressing experience while the stylists manage the technical work.

Locally, The Salon Collective is presented as a specialist option for clients seeking professional blonde work and consistent colour results. Their packaged approach to colour services, focused training and multiple North Canterbury locations are highlighted as practical differentiators for clients looking for dedicated blonde expertise.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Salon Collective shows moderate overall health on Google Business Listing, with room to improve basic contact details and branding elements. Key positive findings include claimed status, open-for-business display, a website link, a listing title and a full address. Primary opportunities focus on adding a phone number, refining the description, adding a logo, and expanding photo uploads.

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 three opportunities

  • 1
    PhoneYour listing has no phone number, so the call button a customer expects to tap is not there and the ones in a hurry ring someone else.
  • 2
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 3
    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hairdresser · Rangiora North East
Open 5 days · late Tue ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Premium Blonde specialist salon

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Salon Collective shows a very low Google review health, with a health score of 0.0 out of 10. This suggests customers may be cautious about engaging. The top findings are a lack of reviews and no responses to existing reviews, indicating improvements needed in gathering feedback and engaging with customers publicly.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
  • 2
    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

The Salon Collective shows very low overall health in Google Maps with a 0.0/10 score, indicating limited visibility across multiple suburbs. Key opportunities focus on improving the Google Business Listing details and ensuring address accuracy to lift aggregate and borough scores.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou barely turn up in Google Maps searches across the suburbs around you, so the customers who search by what they need rather than by your name never see you at all.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Not seen in the searches we ran across Christchurch
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The Salon Collective2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #492 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The Salon Collective shows a modest overall health score for social presence, reflecting average performance across platforms. Key strengths are strong Instagram and Facebook profiles with very high trust, suggesting solid brand visibility. The main opportunities lie in expanding presence on TikTok, LinkedIn (personal and company), and NoSecretSalon listings to improve discovery and trust among customers.

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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    Cylex ListingWe can see your Cylex Listing listing (https://cylex.co.nz/the+salon+collective-18264087) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Fresha ProfileWe could not find an active Fresha Profile 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.
8.1Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook104911111324325The Salon Collective | Facebook✓
Instagramthesaloncollective_nzThe Salon Collective | Instagram✓
Cylexthe+salon+collective-18264087The Salon Collective | Cylex✓
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 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 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.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
  • 2
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
  • 3
    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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The Salon Collective - NZ1
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BLONDE TRANSFORMATION & EXTENSION SPECIALISTS AVONHEAD PEGASUS RANGIORA3
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

The Salon Collective shows an above-average on-page health score of 5.9 out of 10, indicating some improvements are needed to optimise visibility. Notable strengths include a fast load time, a compact page size, a present H1 tag, secure content delivery, and a relevant meta description. Key opportunities focus on meta description absence, on-page SEO score, title tag length, favicon presence, and removing render-blocking resources.

Strengths

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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.
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    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.
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    H1 heading tagYour home page opens with a proper heading, so a visitor landing cold and a search engine reading the page are both told what this business is in the first line.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
  • 2
    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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✓Page file size
✓H1 heading tag
1Meta description
2Separate sites linking to you
3The shape of your link profile
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How people find you on Google

The Salon Collective shows a solid website traffic health with a score of 8.1 out of 10, indicating strong local performance and room to grow. Key findings include no measurable paid traffic yet and a need to start targeted paid campaigns, plus opportunities to improve paid and organic footprint and sustain high organic value with consistent content and clean SEO basics.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than half the businesses here, so competitors are picking up searches you could be answering.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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21No ads from you on any search
thesaloncollective.co.nzThe Salon Collective: Blonde

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3About 525 visits a month from search, across 204 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #103 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

The Salon Collective's opening hours align reasonably with peak weekday demand but miss several key weekend peaks. Strong alignment is evident on weekday lunchtimes-Tuesday 11am to 1pm, Wednesday 12pm and Friday 11am-when local search interest is highest. The business records no open hours during low-demand times, but it is closed during high-demand Saturday mid-day windows, creating notable missed opportunities.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
3.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-8pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Rangiora North East
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #307 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#356of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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