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Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon

Hairdresser Ā· Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

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Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon

Hairdresser Ā· Hornby-Islington, Christchurch

Where you stand#87of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health8.3/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon in Hornby, Christchurch offers full-service hair and beauty treatments from experienced stylists and a makeup artist. Services include personalised haircuts and styling, colouring and highlights, and occasion makeup and hair-up. Reviews note friendly, professional staff and a clean, welcoming salon atmosphere that focuses on customised looks for each client.

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon is a hair and beauty salon based in Hornby, Christchurch. It presents as a neighbourhood salon offering hair and beauty services from a team of skilled professionals and a resident makeup artist.

The salon lists personalised haircuts and styling, professional colouring and highlights, and makeup and hair-up for special occasions. Pricing examples on the website show haircuts starting at $34 and colouring and highlighting services with higher starting prices. Services mentioned in reviews include hair treatments such as nanoplasty.

Customers commonly describe friendly and professional interactions with staff members, including specific praise for stylists named in reviews. Feedback highlights skilled stylists, useful advice on suitable looks, a clean salon environment, and a smooth, pleasant overall experience. Comments also note reasonable pricing and consistent results that leave clients feeling refreshed.

Locally, Bellsie's positions itself as a full-service option in Hornby that combines hairstyling and beauty services with a personalised approach. The salon's focus on tailored looks, a welcoming atmosphere, and staff noted for helpful, professional service are among the features that distinguish Bellsie's to customers in the Christchurch area.

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Your Google listing

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon shows strong Google Business presence with a claimed listing, open-for-business status, a website link, a clear title and a visible phone number. The overall health score is 7.6/10, indicating solid performance but room to improve. The main takeaway is a healthy profile with opportunities to enhance the description and leverage existing photo activity.

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

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    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.
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    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
8.1Strong
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5.0 ★★★★★ (55)
Hairdresser Ā· Hornby-Islington2
Open 6 days · late Thu ✓
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From the business

"Inviting clients experience with highly skilled hairstylist and makeup artist offer a high quality services. You are sure to get a complete customised look suiting your need and personality"

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon shows an excellent overall health on Google reviews, with a 9.9/10 Health score and strong engagement. The most notable findings are top-10% Google Rating Confidence and Star Rating, plus an outstanding review response rate in the top decile. Opportunities are modest, with listing reviews already in the upper median for trust.

Strengths

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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you at the head of this market: well rated, with enough reviews behind it that a customer takes the number seriously.
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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.
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    Response rateYou answer virtually every review, which almost nobody in this market does, and the page reads as a business that is present.

Top opportunity

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    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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5.0★★★★★55 reviews 1
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Gayani G.★★★★★ · a month ago

Got my nanoplasty hair treatment done here and I’m very satisfied with the results. The staff are extremely friendly, polite, and professional. The whole experience was smooth and pleasant.

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Thank you so much Gayani for your 5 * review, we truely appreciate your support and are glad you had a great experience with us.

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Annika (.★★★★★ · 2 months ago

I had an amazing experience at Bellsies hair & Beauty Salon. I went in there not knowing what I wanted to get done as my hair was a real mess. But Maribel gave me good advice and said what would suit my skintone and face. Her knowledge and...

Response from the owner

Thank you for your 5* review Annika, we truly appreciate for support and are glad you had good experiences with us.

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Where you show up on the map

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon shows very strong overall health in Google Maps search, with a 9.5/10 health score. The top finding is dominant rankings for core hair and beauty keywords in Hornby-Islington and Hei Hei, indicating high local visibility. There is room to push the suburb/borough score toward the top 10% through continued listing refinements.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility across the city groupThere is no wider Maps reach available to a business at your address - you appear across more of the surrounding suburbs than anyone in this market.

Top opportunity

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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.
9.5Strong
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✓Top three for "hair salon" in 2 suburbs, seen in 12
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Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon15.0 ★ (55) · Hairdresser
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Trends Hair Beauty and Nails4.7 ★ (104) · Hairdresser
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Rodney Wayne Hornby4.5 ★ (214) · Hairdresser
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Synergy Hair Hornby4.4 ★ (34) · Hairdresser
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers Ā· 498 businesses
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Where customers find you

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon shows a healthy overall presence with a health score of 8.4 out of 10. The strongest current assets are highly active Instagram and Facebook profiles that enhance trust and engagement, plus a well-maintained Fresha listing and directory presence. The key opportunities lie in expanding on TikTok and LinkedIn profiles to reach additional audiences.

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

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    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.
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    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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Instagrammaribel37_hairandbeautyBellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon | Instagram✓
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Freshalp/en/bt/hair-salons/in/nz-christchurch/islingtonFound through search, not linked from anything you own3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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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.
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    A street addressA street address sits in your page details, so someone deciding between you and a business two suburbs over can see which of you is closer.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Recommendations on your pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.5Room to grow
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Invest in your hair, it's the crown you never take off. Let Bellsie's take care of your hair. Open Monday to Sunday šŸ˜ You can booked now in this link https://bookings.gettimely.com/bellsieshairandbe...
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers Ā· 498 businesses
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Your website

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon shows a high level of technical on-page SEO with a healthy overall health score. Key strengths include a valid H1 tag, secure HTTPS content, a concise page size, and a relevant meta description. The main opportunity lies in improving meta description length and on-page SEO score to move into the top tier.

Strengths

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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.
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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

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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
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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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    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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How people find you on Google

Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon shows a healthy website traffic posture with a 6.5/10 health score, indicating above-average performance for local benchmarks. The strongest finding is organic traffic value above the 25th percentile, while paid traffic remains underdeveloped and would benefit from targeted campaigns and clear landing pages to capture conversions.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
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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 search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Bellsie's Hair & Beauty SalonNot in these results
31About 33 visits a month from search, across 32 searches
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You are #184 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Bellsie's opening hours largely align with customer demand around mid-mornings and Saturday midday, covering several peak windows. Notable strong alignment occurs Tuesday 11-12 and Saturday 11-1. Missed opportunities include being closed during Monday midday hours and Sunday 4pm when searches are still high. No low-demand open hours were identified, so inefficiency is minimal.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Bellsie's Hair & Beauty Salon
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-7pm
Friday9am-6pm
Saturday9am-4pm
Sunday11am-4pm
Popular times Monday · Hornby-Islington
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03Map positions1 opportunity

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05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

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