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Carlton Hair Corporation

Hair salon · Christchurch Centre, 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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Carlton Hair Corporation

Hair salon · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#201of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health6.0/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page7.702Reviews6.5

Where we can help

08Opening hours5.704Listings and social2.901Google listing1.203Map positions1.107Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Carlton Hair Corporation is a hair salon and barber located in Christchurch Central City, Christchurch. The salon offers haircuts, colouring and foils, with a focus on family-friendly service. Reviewers frequently mention stylist Randall for reliable cuts and good work with children, reflecting a high average rating and steady local clientele.

Carlton Hair Corporation is a hair salon and barber based in Christchurch Central City, Christchurch. The salon operates in the central city and presents as a local spot for haircuts, colouring and foil work.

Services described in customer comments include haircuts for adults and children, blonde half-head foils and full hair redos. The salon's named stylist, Randall, is mentioned often in relation to both cuts and colour work, indicating he is a notable member of the team.

Customer feedback consistently highlights reliable haircuts and a family-friendly approach. Reviews note positive experiences with children's first haircuts and adult colouring appointments, describing attentive service and outcomes that met expectations. The salon's average rating is 4.8, reflecting frequent praise for the quality of haircuts and client care.

Locally, Carlton Hair Corporation is distinguished by its central Christchurch location, a clear emphasis on family and children's haircuts, and a stylist who is commonly singled out in reviews for both cut and colour work. Customers tend to choose the salon for dependable service and the practical experience of a familiar stylist in the central city.

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Your Google listing

Carlton Hair Corporation shows very low overall health for its Google Business Listing with a score of 1.2 out of 10. The listing has solid basics like a found phone number, full address and a main image, but gaps remain. The two most important findings are that the listing is not claimed and lacks a website link.

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

  • 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.
1.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Carlton Hair Corporation
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4.8 ★★★★★ (133)
Hair salon · Christchurch Centre
Open 5 days · late Tue and Thu ✓
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Carlton Hair Corporation shows a mid-range health score on Google reviews, indicating overall stability but room for improvement. The top opportunities focus on engaging customers via review responses and maintaining the solid rating momentum. Strength in review volume and satisfaction is evident, with potential gains from stronger owner engagement.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Star ratingYour rating sits ahead of half the businesses here, so the number is not pushing anyone away.
  • 3
    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you ahead of most of this market, which means a customer sees a well-rated business with enough reviews behind it to be believed.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.5Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Carlton Hair Corporation
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4.8★★★★★133 reviews
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3How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #174 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Carlton Hair Corporation shows a very low health score in Google Maps search results, indicating limited visibility. The strongest opportunity lies in improving aggregate and borough-specific rankings, especially for the suburb listing and spelling alignment. Top keywords reveal solid performance for hair salon queries in Christchurch and Richmond, suggesting focus areas for local optimisation.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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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.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
1.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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ZoZo's Hair4.9 ★ (35) · Hair salon
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The Washhouse Hair & Beauty Studio5.0 ★ (1) · Hair salon
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uncommon hair4.8 ★ (89) · Hair salon
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Carlton Hair Corporation24.8 ★ (133) · Hair salon
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #443 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Carlton Hair Corporation shows low overall health in social and directory presence, with a 2.0 out of 10. Key strength lies in the very high trust Facebook presence and active Fresha profiles, which help local visibility and client reach. The remaining opportunities lie in growing Instagram, TikTok, NoSecretSalon, and LinkedIn profiles to broaden audience and trust.

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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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/carlton-hair-corporation-bealey-avenue-christchurch-0qNRJ1) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
2.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Gcarlton hair corporation christchurch centre
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Freshacarlton-hair-corporation-bealey-avenue-christchurch-0qNRJ1Carlton Hair Corporation | Fresha✓
Family Company Studiocarlton-hair-corporationCarlton Hair Corporation | Family Company Studio
White Pagescarlton-hair-corp-christchurchCarlton Hair Corporation | White Pages
Yellow/christchurch/sunbedCarlton Hair Corporation | Yellow3
FacebookcarltonhaircorpCarlton Hair Corporation | Facebook✓
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo 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 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.
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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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
  • 3
    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.7Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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722 followers 2
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★ 11 reviews · recommended 3
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☎ +64 3-366 7197✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #115 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Carlton Hair Corporation shows a strong on-page SEO health, with a score of 8.4 out of 10. Core strengths include a valid favicon, sufficient content, a relevant meta description and title tag, and an SEO-friendly URL. The two key issues to watch are absence of an H1 tag and opportunities to optimise the meta description length and render-blocking resources.

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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    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.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    The shape of your link profileNo links to your site were found, so there is no shape to read yet.
  • 3
    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Separate sites linking to you
2The shape of your link profile
3Meta description
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How people find you on Google

Carlton Hair Corporation shows a moderate website traffic health score with room for improvement in both organic and paid channels. The top findings indicate near zero organic traffic value and no organic keywords in the top 100, suggesting content and on-page SEO need attention. Paid traffic ideas exist but require careful targeting and tracking.

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.
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    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
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Carlton Hair CorporationNot in these results3
21About 0 visits a month from search, across 0 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #212 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Carlton Hair Corporation's opening hours largely align with local demand, especially on Saturday and midweek lunchtimes. Strong coverage includes Saturday 11am-1pm and Tuesday 11am-12pm when search activity is highest. Gaps appear on Monday midday and early afternoon plus Sunday afternoon when the salon is closed despite noticeable demand. There are no low-demand open hours, so overtime is not a clear issue.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
5.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Carlton Hair Corporation
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-8pm
Wednesday9am-5:30pm
Thursday9am-9pm
Friday9am-5:30pm
Saturday9am-3pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Monday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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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#201of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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