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Boutique Hair by Sophie

Hair salon · Northcote-Papanui, 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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Boutique Hair by Sophie

Hair salon · Northcote-Papanui, Christchurch

Where you stand#188of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health6.2/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Boutique hair by Sophie is a hair salon located inside Olive and Rocco at Shop 6, 485 Papanui Road in Papanui, Christchurch. Sophie offers personalised cutting and colouring services and is available for specialty event styling, including formals and weddings. The salon emphasises attentive consultation and long-term client relationships in a compact, boutique setting.

Boutique hair by Sophie is a hair salon based inside Olive and Rocco at Shop 6, 485 Papanui Road in Papanui, Christchurch. The listing notes on-site entrance and parking down Bellvue Ave, and opening hours that include extended evening availability on some days.

Services focus on personalised cutting and colouring, with Sophie available for house calls for specialty event styling such as formals and weddings. The website highlights a boutique experience tailored to individual needs and mentions both appointment-based work and occasional out-of-salon event services.

Customer feedback consistently praises Sophie's listening and technical skills, noting clients who have returned for many years. Reviews emphasise clear communication, practical advice about hair care, reliable styling results, and improvements to hair condition over time. The review snapshot indicates strong customer satisfaction and repeated bookings from long-term clients.

Locally, Boutique hair by Sophie presents as a small, client-focused salon in central Papanui that combines salon-based cutting and colouring with event styling options. The combination of long-term client relationships, hands-on hair expertise, and availability for formal and wedding styling is a distinguishing local feature noted in available information.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Boutique hair by Sophie shows a low overall health on Google Business Listing, at 2.8/10, indicating limited completeness and optimisation. The listing is claimed and has a full address and a website link, but key gaps remain: no phone number, no logo, a weak description, and only a budding photo set. Address those first to improve accessibility and credibility.

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

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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4.9 ★★★★★ (11)
Hair salon · Northcote-Papanui
Open 2 days ✓
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Boutique hair by Sophie shows a below-average health score of 3.2 out of 10, with limited customer engagement on Google reviews. The strongest finding is a solid rating and growing review volume, while the main opportunity is to start replying to all reviews to boost trust and visibility.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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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.
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    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.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
2.8Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Boutique hair by Sophie shows a below-average health score of 3.2 out of 10 for Google Maps search results, indicating limited overall visibility. The strongest finding is notable top rankings for several local keywords such as hair salon in strowan and unisex hairdresser in strowan, with further positive signals in northcote-papanui. Opportunities focus on boosting aggregate and borough presence.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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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.
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    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.
3.3Room to grow
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1Top three for "hair salon" in 1 suburb, seen in 3
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Divine Hair and Beauty Salon Papanui & Barber4.9 ★ (206) · Hair salon
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Hepburn Hair5.0 ★ (11) · Hair salon
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Amy Glow Beauty5.0 ★ (14) · Hair salon
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Synergy Hair Northlands4.4 ★ (85) · Hair salon
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where customers find you

Boutique hair by Sophie shows a healthy online presence with a 7.0 out of 10 health score, indicating above-average visibility across platforms. The strongest achievement is a very high trust Facebook profile, and an active Fresha directory entry that boosts search visibility. Key opportunities include improving TikTok trust, adding NoSecretSalon and LinkedIn profiles, and establishing a LinkedIn Company page.

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 found your Tiktok Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
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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.
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Freshalp/en/bt/hair-salons/in/nz-christchurch/northcoteBoutique Hair by Sophie | Fresha3
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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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    What your page says about youFew intros in this market run as full as yours, and it sits close to the limit that length has stopped being a lever.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.5Room to grow
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I'm based out of Olive and Rocco. As a qualified self-employed stylist with many years of experience, I'm passionate about forming great connections with my clients and getting to know what type of ha...✓
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🌐 boutiquehairbysophie.co.nz✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #226 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Boutique hair by Sophie shows a strong on-page health score with solid fundamentals. The site already has a valid favicon, an H1 tag, a secure HTTPS setup, and a relevant meta description, supporting clear visibility. The main opportunities lie in further optimising page speed, trimming the title tag length, and tweaking the meta description to the ideal range to improve click-through.

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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    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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    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.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
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    The shape of your link profileNo links to your site were found, so there is no shape to read yet.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Boutique hair by Sophie shows a modest overall health with room for improvement in paid traffic and keyword footprint. Organic traffic value is above the 25th percentile, reflecting steady SEO fundamentals, while total organic traffic is just above the bottom quartile-suggesting continued optimisation of keywords and navigation could lift traffic further.

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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31About 9 visits a month from search, across 6 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #207 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Boutique hair by Sophie has very focused alignment with city demand: the salon is open during several strong weekday lunch peaks (notably Tuesday 11am-2pm and Wednesday noon). However the business is closed for 51 popular high-demand hours, including key Saturday midday and Friday 11am slots. No hours are open during low-demand periods, but the missed weekend midday trade is a clear commercial gap.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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.
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am-8pm
Wednesday10am-8pm
ThursdayClosed
FridayClosed
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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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#188of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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