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Avenue Hair Design

Hairdresser · Phillipstown, 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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Checked13 October 2026
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Avenue Hair Design

Hairdresser · Phillipstown, Christchurch

Where you stand#176of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health6.5/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Avenue Hair Design is a hair salon and barber located in Linwood, Christchurch. The salon provides both barbering and salon services and is noted in reviews for well priced cuts and good service, particularly for men's hair. Customers can expect straightforward, value-focused hair care from a local Linwood shop.

Avenue Hair Design is a hair salon and barber based in Linwood, Christchurch. It operates as a local salon offering a mix of barbering and general hair services to residents in the area.

The salon describes itself through its service mix as serving both barbering and salon clients. Review material specifically references men's barbering and the general haircutting service. Pricing is noted in reviews as being reasonable, and the business presents as a practical local option for routine haircuts.

Customers tend to describe their experience around a few consistent themes: well priced services, good service from staff, and satisfying haircuts. Reviews focus on the mens barbering experience and note pleasant, tidy results. One review remarks on the inability to comment on the ladies pampering side, which indicates limited published feedback for that aspect.

Locally, Avenue Hair Design stands out as a Linwood salon where customers seeking standard barber and haircut services can expect value and dependable service. Its compact local presence in Christchurch and the consistent positive feedback in reviews characterise it as a straightforward option for clients after routine cuts and basic barbering work.

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Your Google listing

Avenue Hair Design's Google Business Listing shows a very low health score overall, at 0.6 out of 10, indicating significant gaps in profile completeness. The listing already features a title, phone number, full address and a main image, and it is marked as open, but critical elements are missing or underdeveloped. Key findings point to missing website link, unclaimed status, a weak description, few photos, and no logo.

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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    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.
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    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
0.5Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (2)
Hairdresser · Phillipstown
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Avenue Hair Design shows a low overall health score for Google reviews, with room to grow. The standout finding is a top-10% star rating, indicating strong customer satisfaction. However, there is no review response yet and the total review count is still modest, suggesting opportunities to boost customer engagement and feedback volume.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

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.
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    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
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
1.5Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #424 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Avenue Hair Design shows a very low overall health score for Maps Search (1.2/10), indicating limited visibility in Google Maps results. The strongest signals come from top-ranked keywords in Linwood, notably "unisex hairdresser in linwood" and "hair salon in linwood," suggesting decent performance for those terms but overall room to grow. Focused improvements in mapping data and suburb accuracy could lift local presence.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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.
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    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 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
1.6Room to grow
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2Top three for "unisex hairdresser" in 1 suburb, seen in 1
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Fix Hair & Beauty Studio5.0 ★ (50) · Hairdresser
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Avenue Hair Design15.0 ★ (2) · Hairdresser
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Rouge Hair4.8 ★ (117) · Hairdresser
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Fredrick Jones4.7 ★ (53) · Hairdresser
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #419 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Avenue Hair Design shows a below-average health score of 3.7 out of 10 for social presence, indicating room for improvement. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, reinforcing credibility with local customers. A notable secondary asset is a Fresha directory listing that boosts visibility beyond the main profile.

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.

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.
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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.
  • 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 5 of them.
6.5Good
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Freshalp/en/bt/hair-salons/in/nz-christchurch/phillipstownFound through search, not linked from anything you own3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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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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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.
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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.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 4 of them.
9.5Strong
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The Avenue is an elegant inclusive space where our team thrives and our guests leave feeling beautiful. Education for our guests & our team support us to deliver a client journey that is bespoke,nurtu...
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★ 33 reviews · recommended ✓
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☎ +64 9-424 7522
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

Avenue Hair Design's on-page health is very strong, scoring 9.0 out of 10. The site already has a fast load time, a compact page size, and a clear H1 tag, supporting quick access for local customers. The most notable finding is the excellent on-page SEO score, with a minor area for improvement around the favicon and some meta-description tweaks.

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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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.
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    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

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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.
  • 2
    FaviconYour site has no small icon of its own, so the tab it opens in shows a blank page symbol and a bookmark of you sits in the list looking like every other unnamed page.
  • 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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How people find you on Google

Avenue Hair Design shows a very high website traffic health score (8.8/10) driven by solid organic traffic and a growing keyword footprint. The key finding is potential gains from paid traffic, which currently shows little to no measurable paid spend or paid keywords, suggesting opportunities to introduce targeted campaigns and landing pages.

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
    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.
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Avenue Hair DesignNot in these results
About 1,177 visits a month from search, across 343 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #72 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Avenue Hair Design currently has no recorded opening hours, so alignment with local demand cannot be measured directly. Without hours, it is unclear which peak search windows the salon already covers or misses. Adding accurate opening times will allow comparison with Christchurch demand patterns and identify when the salon should open to capture popular appointment times or reduce low-demand hours.

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.
1.5Room to grow
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Hours
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Popular times Saturday · Phillipstown
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #423 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#176of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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