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Desmond Salon

Hair salon · St Albans, 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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Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Desmond Salon

Hair salon · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#141of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health7.2/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Desmond Salon is a luxury hair salon in Edgeware, Saint Albans, Christchurch, specialising in lived-in blondes, rich brunette colours and bespoke hair transformations. The light-filled, botanical studio focuses on hair health and premium Kevin Murphy colour products. Customers can expect a calm, welcoming space inspired by English hospitality with complimentary specialty tea or coffee.

Desmond Salon is a luxury hair salon located in Edgeware, Saint Albans, Christchurch. It operates from a light-filled, botanical studio and presents itself as a calm, welcoming space influenced by English hospitality.

The salon specialises in lived-in blondes, rich brunette colours and bespoke hair transformations, with a strong focus on hair health. Services use Kevin Murphy products and are presented as premium colour work and tailored styling aimed at individual looks.

Customer feedback highlights friendly, attentive staff and consistent colour expertise, with clients noting detailed advice on face shape, colour and suitable haircuts. Reviews mention a welcoming studio atmosphere, polite service and a comfortable experience that includes being offered a drink during appointments.

Locally, Desmond Salon is described as a neighbourhood hair studio offering specialist colour services and a relaxed client experience. Its emphasis on hair health, premium colour brands and a hospitality-led approach are presented as distinguishing traits for customers seeking colour-focused treatments in central Christchurch.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Desmond Salon shows a very healthy Google Business Listing, with a health score of 8.9 out of 10. This indicates strong completeness and optimisation. The business has claimed status, an open-for-business status, a website link and a visible phone number, which supports easy discovery and contact for customers. The main opportunity lies in expanding photo content and refining the description.

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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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 2
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
  • 3
    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 6 of them.
8.0Strong
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4.9 ★★★★★ (27)
Hair salon · St Albans3
Open 6 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed and Thu ✓
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From the business

IvyNine is a luxury hair salon in Edgeware, Central Christchurch, specialising in lived-in blondes, rich brunette colours, and bespoke hair transformations. Our light-filled, botanical hair studio offers a calm and welcoming experience, with a strong focus on hair health and premium colour services using Kevin Murphy products. Inspired by English hospitality, we invite you to relax, enjoy a specialty tea or coffee, and leave feeling confident, refreshed, and beautifully looked after.

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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Desmond Salon shows a solid presence on Google, with a 4.5/10 health score indicating room for growth but steady performance. The strongest signal is the high star rating, suggesting a solid reputation among customers. Opportunities exist in increasing review responses and growing total reviews to move toward the mid and top quartiles while sustaining a positive rating.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateYou have replied to a small share of your reviews, so most customers reading your page still see feedback about you with no voice from you anywhere on it.
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    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.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.1Room to grow
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4.9★★★★★27 reviews 3
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staff 8hairdresser 4lovely staff 2welcoming 2
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Amanda W.★★★★★ · 6 years ago

My fav ladies who make me feel so welcome and provide top quality service every visit.

Response from the owner1

Hi Mandy, thank you so much....always a pleasure to have you in the salon....TG Gals x

Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Desmond Salon shows a low overall health score on Google Maps at 1.6 out of 10, indicating limited visibility across maps searches. The top finding is a strong position for unisex hairdresser in edgeware (rank 2) and beauty salon in edgeware (rank 7), but there is weak performance in borough and broader city searches, suggesting a need to build local presence.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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 suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
1.7Room to grow
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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L'amour Hair Specialist4.9 ★ (79) · Hair salon
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Beauty with Grace St Albans4.8 ★ (174) · Hair salon
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Hair Art & Beauty4.9 ★ (296) · Hair salon
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DF Hair Studio4.9 ★ (107) · Hair salon
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Desmond Salon2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #413 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Desmond Salon shows an overall health score of 5.4 out of 10, indicating average presence across social platforms and directories. The strongest current asset is Facebook, with a very high trust score, suggesting solid brand credibility there. Fresha directory visibility also supports customer flow beyond the main platform.

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.
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    Infobel ListingWe can see your Infobel Listing listing (https://infobel.com/desmond_salon) found via: Google search results.

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.
  • 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 6 of them.
8.9Strong
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InstagramdesmondsalonDesmond Salon | Instagram✓
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Cylexdesmond+salon-18213748Desmond Salon | Cylex
Family Company Studiotg-hairdressingDesmond Salon | Family Company Studio
Freshalp/en/bt/hair-salons/in/nz-christchurch/st-albansFound 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
You are #57 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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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.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    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.
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581 followers 2
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★ 9 reviews · recommended 3
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☎ +64 3-930 0094✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

Desmond Salon's on-page SEO health is 4.6 out of 10, indicating average performance and notable gaps in critical areas. The strongest takeaway is the need to establish baseline on-page structure and metadata, including a visible Title Tag, Meta Description and favicon, to improve search visibility and user trust.

Strengths

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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.
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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 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 youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
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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.
  • 3
    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Your websiteChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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How people find you on Google

Desmond Salon's website shows moderate health for traffic, with room to grow in organic and paid channels. The most important findings highlight near-zero organic traffic value and no organic rankings in the top 100, suggesting content and SEO work is needed. Some paid activity exists in theory but has no measurable impact yet.

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.
  • 3
    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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2No ads from you on any search
Desmond SalonNot in these results
31About 11 visits a month from search, across 16 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #200 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Desmond Salon's opening hours largely align with local demand, notably strong on Tuesday mid‑day and Saturday late morning to early afternoon. The salon misses key Sunday afternoon demand where it is closed around midday through 4pm. No low‑demand open hours were found, so current hours avoid obvious waste. Consider opening limited Sunday slots around 12-3pm or extending Saturday if staffing and return justify it.

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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Desmond Salon
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Hours 1
Monday9am-7pm
Tuesday9am-7pm
Wednesday10am-8pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-3:30pm
SundayClosed
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#141of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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