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Head Rush - [Branch]

Hair salon · Rangiora North East, 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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Head Rush - [Branch]

Hair salon · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

Where you stand#265of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health4.7/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Head Rush Hair Salon in Rangiora is a full-service hair salon that pairs award-winning stylists with up-and-coming apprentices. The salon offers cutting, colouring and treatments using Keune products, including the So Pure Natural Balance range. Customers can expect a friendly, welcoming atmosphere and professional advice on colour, highlights and extensions in a relaxed local setting.

Head Rush Hair Salon is a full-service hair salon located in Rangiora. The salon combines experienced, award-winning staff with apprentices, providing a local option for haircuts, colour work and hair treatments. It stocks Keune products, including the So Pure Natural Balance range touted for being ammonia, paraben and sulphate free and enriched with certified organic ingredients.

Services at the salon include hair cutting, colouring and highlighting. Reviews reference colour work, blonde highlights and hair extensions, and customers note advice and service around extensions. The team describes itself as working alongside apprentices, which allows for a mix of experienced stylists and developing talent handling a variety of hair services.

Customers tend to describe friendly, welcoming staff and positive salon experiences. Multiple reviews highlight satisfaction with colour, successful first salon experiences for younger clients, attentive listening from stylists and useful advice on styling or extensions. The salon's average rating is 4.6, and reviewers frequently mention staff who listen, chat and deliver the results clients requested.

Head Rush Hair Salon is distinguished locally by its combination of veteran stylists and apprentices, its use of Keune So Pure Natural Balance products, and a customer-focused, approachable style. Located in Rangiora, the salon is positioned as a neighbourhood option for clients seeking professional colour, cuts and extension advice in a relaxed, friendly environment.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Head Rush Hair Salon displays a solid Google Business Listing health with a verified status and essential details, but the listing lacks a phone number. Strengths include a claimed listing, open-for-business status, a website link, and a complete address. Overall health sits at an average level, with room to improve contact options while continuing to post images and optimise 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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    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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    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
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    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.1Room to grow
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4.6 ★★★★★ (58)
Hair salon · Rangiora North East
Open 5 days · late Wed and Thu ✓
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From the business

Distinguished by a fresh and friendly approach, our award winning staff work alongside up and coming apprentices to make your every visit an experience you’ll love repeating. While we take the very best care of your hair by stocking high quality Keune products – including all New, So Pure Natural Balance range, being 100% Ammonia, paraben & sulphate free, enriched with certified organic ingredients.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Head Rush Hair Salon shows a below-average health score of 3.2/10 on Google reviews, indicating overall performance needs attention. The business has a reasonable review base and a good response history is lacking, with no responses yet. Notable strengths include a solid rating trajectory and a solid number of reviews that signals customer trust within the local Rangiora market.

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 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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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.2Room to grow
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Head Rush - [Branch]
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #290 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Head Rush Hair Salon in Rangiora shows high visibility on Google Maps with a health score of 8.0 out of 10. This indicates solid presence in maps searches, especially within its borough. The strongest opportunities lie in expanding visibility in broader maps queries and sustaining momentum to reach top performers in the local area.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
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2Top three for "hair extension technician" in 2 suburbs, seen in 4
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Head Rush - [Branch]14.6 ★ (58) · Hair salon
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Smoke and Mirrors Hair Lounge4.9 ★ (206) · Hair salon
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Vivo Hair Salon Rangiora4.7 ★ (85) · Hair salon
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MJ Makeup and Beauty5.0 ★ (36) · Hair salon
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #97 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Head Rush Hair Salon shows an above-average health score of 6.8 out of 10 in the Citations & Social Presence area, indicating decent presence but room for improvement. The strongest asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile underpinning local credibility. A notable opportunity is Instagram, which already has high trust and can be built on further.

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.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe found your Tiktok Profile page through search alone, with nothing on your own website or your Google listing pointing at it.
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    Instagram Profileyour Instagram Profile page surfaces strongly in search, which is how we found it, though nothing you control points at it.
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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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
5.2Room to grow
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FacebookheadrushhairnbeautyFound through search, not linked from anything you own✓
Instagramhead_rush_hairFound through search, not linked from anything you own2
Tiktok@christchurchgalFound through search, not linked from anything you own1
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Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #238 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
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    A street addressYour page publishes no street address, so someone deciding whether you are near enough to bother with has nothing to check and moves on to a page that tells them.
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    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Thanks for visiting the Head Rush FB page! Award winning salon & stylists Sydenham (03)3778180 Rangiora (03)3136656 Merivale (03)42147493
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #139 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Head Rush Hair Salon shows a very low on-page SEO health score of 0.3 out of 10 for the homepage, indicating a weak technical baseline. The most important findings are missing meta description and title tag, and a lack of a valid favicon, plus page speed exceeding 3 seconds. Addressing these will improve discoverability and user trust.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Your websiteChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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How people find you on Google

Head Rush Hair Salon shows very low overall health for website traffic, with limited organic visibility and no measurable paid activity. Key findings point to near-zero organic traffic value, no top-100 organic keywords, and no paid traffic signals. The business should prioritise local content, on-page SEO, and small, targeted paid campaigns to begin building visibility and attract local customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    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
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Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Head Rush Hair Salon's opening hours show clear alignment with several high-demand windows but also notable gaps. The salon is open during strong Saturday peaks (11am-1pm) and midweek lunch peaks (Tuesday 11am-12pm), covering 44 well-aligned peak hours. However, 27 high-demand hours are missed, including Monday 11am-1pm, Tuesday 4pm and Sunday 3pm, indicating opportunities to better match local demand.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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.
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Head Rush - [Branch]
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-4pm
Wednesday9am-9pm
Thursday9am-9pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-4pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Monday · Rangiora North East
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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#265of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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