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Island Styles Barber

Barber shop · Linwood, 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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Island Styles Barber

Barber shop · Linwood, Christchurch

Where you stand#458of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health0.8/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01NameYour 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.01PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Where we can help

04Listings and social4.403Map positions2.205Facebook page2.008Opening hours1.502Reviews0.901Google listing0.407Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Island Styles Barber is a local barber shop in Linwood, Christchurch, offering men's and boys' haircuts and basic barbering services. It is known locally for family-friendly appointments and affordable pricing. Customer feedback highlights reliable kids' cuts and value, while some recent reviews note inconsistent results on individual visits.

Island Styles Barber is a barber shop situated in Linwood, Christchurch, providing haircuts and standard barbering services for men and boys. The shop presents itself as a neighbourhood barber serving local families and walk-in clients in the Linwood area.

Services focus on routine cuts and family-oriented appointments, with an emphasis on straightforward, affordable barbering. The available information indicates regular work with children's haircuts and general men's styling rather than specialised or high-end services.

Customer feedback shows a mix of experiences. Several customers report positive outcomes for their children's cuts and describe the pricing as affordable. At the same time, there are recent low-rated reviews that report uneven results on particular visits, specifically mentioning a lop-sided mullet, which suggests inconsistency in some appointments.

Locally, Island Styles Barber is positioned as an accessible, budget-friendly option for neighbourhood clients seeking routine haircuts for boys and men. The combination of family-focused service and value pricing is a defining local feature, though prospective clients may notice variation in individual experiences according to recent reviews.

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Your Google listing

Island Styles Barber shows a low overall health on its Google Business Listing, but some core elements are present. The business has a listed phone number, full address and a main image, and is marked open for customers. Improvement is needed in areas like a claimed listing, a website link, a fuller description, more photos and a logo to strengthen the profile.

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.
  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    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.
0.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Island Styles Barber
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3.7 ★★★★★ (6)
Barber shop · Linwood
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Island Styles Barber shows a very low health score on Google reviews, with room to improve engagement and ratings. The two clearest opportunities are increasing the response rate to reviews and continuing to build the overall star rating by gathering more customer feedback.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Island Styles Barber
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3.7★★★★★6 reviews
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Island Styles Barber shows a low health in Maps search performance, with an overall health score of 2.0 out of 10. The strongest top keywords include barber shop in linwood (ranked 4th) and barber shop in phillipstown (7th). Opportunities focus on improving aggregate maps visibility and boosting local presence in the Linwood/borough area.

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.
  • 2
    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.
2.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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The Kings Barber - Linwood Christchurch4.7 ★ (317) · Barber shop
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Manila Barbershop4.8 ★ (22) · Barber shop
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JV Family Salon4.1 ★ (106) · Barber shop
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Island Styles Barber23.7 ★ (6) · Barber shop
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #391 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Island Styles Barber shows a healthy online presence in key platforms but overall health score sits at 4.8 out of 10, indicating room for improvement across social platforms and local directories. The most notable finding is a very high trust Facebook profile, with other platforms requiring stronger consistency and more complete profiles to boost trust and discoverability.

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

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
  • 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 4 of them.
4.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Gisland styles barber linwood
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InstagramislandstylehairdressingIsland Styles Barber | Instagram1
FacebookIsland-Style-Barbering-And-Saloon-Services-100091629678546Island Styles Barber | Facebook✓
Freshalp/en/bt/barbershops/in/nz-christchurch/linwoodIsland Styles Barber | Fresha
Tiktokdiscover/best-barber-in-christchurch-nzIsland Styles Barber | Tiktok2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    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.
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    A cover photoYour page opens with a cover photo rather than a blank banner, so the first impression a visitor gets is your own work.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Gisland styles barber website
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Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

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Where we can help

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0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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No ads from you on any search
Island Styles BarberNot in these results
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

Island Styles Barber currently has no recorded opening hours, so alignment with Christchurch demand patterns cannot be measured. Without published hours, there is no evidence of strong alignment with peak search times and missed peak-hour opportunities cannot be identified. Publishing accurate opening hours is the first step to reveal whether current hours serve families and weekday or weekend peaks and to avoid wasted low-demand openings.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
1.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Island Styles Barber
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#458of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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