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Area 51 Decorators

Interior designer · Linwood, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 111 Christchurch interior designers.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
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Area 51 Decorators

Interior designer · Linwood, Christchurch

Where you stand#96of 111 interior designers
Overall health1.4/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01NameYour 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.01PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.503Map positions5.404Listings and social4.702Reviews3.308Opening hours2.101Google listing0.707Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Area 51 Decorators is an interior design and decorating firm based in Linwood, Christchurch. They offer local interior design and decorating services for residential spaces and maintain a visible storefront presence in the Linwood area. Customer feedback is mixed, with some shoppers reporting positive experiences while other reviews raise concerns about service and transactions.

Area 51 Decorators is an interior design and decorating firm located in Linwood, Christchurch. The practice presents itself as a local resource for interior design and decorative products and services to residents in the eastern Christchurch suburbs.

The business focuses on decorating and interior design work, drawing on its shop presence in Linwood. Services are presented around fit-out and decorative choices for homes, reflecting the business category of interior designers and decorators.

Customer feedback is mixed. Some reviewers describe a positive shopping experience, while other reports raise serious concerns about transactions. The average rating from available reviews sits at 3 stars, indicating varied client satisfaction.

As a Linwood-based interior design business, Area 51 Decorators is a local option for Christchurch customers seeking decorating and interior design services. The combination of an active shop presence and mixed online feedback is a notable local characteristic for potential clients to consider.

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Your Google listing

Area 51 Decorators shows a very low overall health on Google Business Listing at 0.5/10, indicating limited completeness and optimisation. The listing already has a title, phone number, address, and main image, which are positives, but critical gaps exist in claimed status, website link, status, description and photos that limit customer discovery and trust.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 3
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
0.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Area 51 Decorators
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3.0 ★★★★★ (2)
Interior designer · Linwood
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business
No description yet3
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Area 51 Decorators shows a below-average health score of 3.3 out of 10 on Google reviews, indicating room for improvement. The most important findings are limited engagement with customers and a growing but still small review base. While ratings have improved, the business has not yet cultivated a strong response pattern or extensive reviews.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Area 51 Decorators
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
3.0★★★★★2 reviews
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Area 51 Decorators has a health score of 5.5 out of 10, indicating average visibility in Google Maps. The top findings show strength in ranking for key local terms such as interior decorator in Linwood and home staging service in Linwood, with room to improve aggregate and borough presence to reach the local midpoint and beyond.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
5.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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interior decorator
1Top three for "interior decorator" in 1 suburb, seen in 3
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Interior Design0.0 ★ (0) · Interior designer
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Comber and Comber Interiors4.9 ★ (27) · Interior designer
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Area 51 Decorators23.0 ★ (2) · Interior designer
Map positionsChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
You are #52 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Area 51 Decorators shows an overall health score of 4.6 out of 10, indicating average presence across social platforms and directories. The strongest achievement is a very high-trust Facebook profile, with LinkedIn Company listing also in place. Opportunities focus on expanding on Instagram, TikTok, GrabOne, Neighbourly, and Yellow Profile to improve reach and trust.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    Cylex ListingWe can see your Cylex Listing listing (https://cylex.co.nz/area+51+decorators%2C+linwood+christchurch+decorator-18105392) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    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.
17 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
4.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Cylexarea+51+decorators%2C+linwood+christchurch+decorator-18105392Area 51 Decorators | Cylex✓
FacebookArea51DecoratorsArea 51 Decorators | Facebook✓
Builders Crack Tradieavenue-detail-and-design-decoratorsArea 51 Decorators | Builders Crack Tradie
InstagramareafiftyonestoreArea 51 Decorators | Instagram1
LinkedInarea51designArea 51 Decorators | LinkedIn
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
You are #59 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    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

  • 1
    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
  • 2
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
  • 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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
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127 followers 2
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🌐 gopher.co.nz/listing/a9oz/upper-hutt/interior-decorators/area-51-decorators.html✓
☎ +64 21 495 707✓
PostsAboutPhotosReviews
Facebook pageChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
You are #51 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Area 51 Decorators shows very low on-page health with a score of 1.1 out of 10. The most impactful findings relate to missing page structure signals, notably the absence of a detectable Title Tag and Meta Description on the homepage. Implementing these alongside a favicon and resolving mixed content will improve crawlability and perceived trust for customers.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
  • 3
    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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3Separate sites linking to you
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How people find you on Google

Area 51 Decorators shows a low overall health for website traffic. Key findings indicate organic and paid channels have little to no measurable value or activity, with no organic keywords ranking in the top 100 and no detectable paid traffic. Focused, local content and basic on-page SEO could start improving visibility and traffic gradually.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
  • 2
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
  • 3
    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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No ads from you on any search
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You are #66 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Area 51 Decorators has no recorded opening hours, so temporal alignment with local demand cannot be measured. Without published hours, there is no evidence of strong alignment with Christchurch peak search windows, nor specific missed or inefficient open periods. Listing reliable hours will allow clear identification of when being open would capture high-demand searches and where closures leave opportunities untapped.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
2.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Area 51 Decorators
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
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You are #88 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#96of 111 Christchurch interior designers
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Christchurch interior designersOverall · 111 businesses
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