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KeKe Hair Lounge

Hairdresser · 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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KeKe Hair Lounge

Hairdresser · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#62of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health8.8/10across the eight areas

Going well

03Map positions9.401Google listing8.904Listings and social8.902Reviews8.807Google search and traffic7.1

Where we can help

05Facebook page4.308Opening hours2.506Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

KeKe Hair Lounge is a Saint Albans hair salon in Christchurch led by senior stylist and salon director Kurt Ellison. The space hosts a team of independent, qualified stylists offering consultations, modern colour work and a range of cuts. The salon stocks professional lines such as EVO and OLAPLEX and aims to provide a comfortable, skilled experience for clients.

KeKe Hair Lounge is a hair salon located at 924 Colombo Street in the Saint Albans area of Christchurch. Salon director Kurt Ellison is a senior hairstylist with extensive experience, and the salon operates as a shared space for independent stylists.

Services include colour work, colour corrections and a variety of cuts from pixie styles to long layered looks. The salon notes use of professional products including EVO and OLAPLEX, and stylists offer style consultations and booking via their online profile.

Clients commonly report positive experiences with skilled, attentive stylists and a comfortable, relaxed salon atmosphere. Reviews emphasise professionalism, careful listening during consultations and satisfaction with both cuts and colouring work.

KeKe Hair Lounge presents as a local salon that combines experienced leadership with independent stylists in a garden-city suburb. Its combination of professional product ranges, a focus on consultation and consistently positive client feedback are distinguishing local features.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

KeKe Hair Lounge shows a healthy Google Business Listing profile, with a strong foundation and verified access. The overall health is 8.3 out of 10, indicating solid completeness and reliability for customers seeking services. The most notable findings are that the listing is claimed and open-for-business, with a working website link and visible phone number.

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 two opportunities

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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.
  • 2
    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 5 of them.
8.9Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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KeKe Hair Lounge
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5.0 ★★★★★ (93)
Hairdresser · St Albans2
Open 5 days ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Hello Everyone, Kurt here I am a Qualified Senior Hairstylist with over 11 years experience Salon Director and Senior Stylist at KeKe Hair Lounge @ 924 Colombo Street in the lovely garden city Christchurch. We are a colaborative highly skilled team here at KeKe having independent hairdressers sole trading out of our lovely space. We look forward to meeting you!!

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Your reviews

KeKe Hair Lounge shows a very healthy Google review profile with a high health score and strong customer satisfaction. The top findings are excellent rating confidence and star rating, both in the top 10%, indicating consistent positive experiences. The business also maintains a solid response rate and favourable review engagement, supporting trust among potential clients.

Strengths

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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you at the head of this market: well rated, with enough reviews behind it that a customer takes the number seriously.
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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top two opportunities

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    Response rateYou answer more of your reviews than the middle of this market, so a customer scrolling your page mostly finds you there.
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    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
8.8Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
KeKe Hair Lounge
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Brenda H.★★★★★ · Edited 3 weeks ago

What a lovely afternoon and I love my new hair do. Great coffee and great chats . Thank you Kurt ❤️

Response from the owner1

Im happy you had a lovely relaxed Visit Brenda look forward to next time.

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SAMMIE C.★★★★★ · Edited a month ago

Kurt is a one of a kind hairdresser. Lovely inside and out. So warm and down to earth. I always look forward to my hair appointments with him. He knows his colours too. He always gets my hair looking so fresh and clean and give me a confide...

Response from the owner

Thank you so much Sammie for your beautiful review we look forward to seeing you soon.

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Where you show up on the map

KeKe Hair Lounge shows a very high overall health in Google Maps search performance, indicating strong online visibility that supports attracting local clients in Saint Albans and Christchurch more broadly. The top opportunities focus on expanding visibility across multiple local suburbs and pushing toward the top quartile in the borough. Existing rankings for key hair and salon keywords reflect solid local familiarity.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility across the city groupThere is no wider Maps reach available to a business at your address - you appear across more of the surrounding suburbs than anyone in this market.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓Seen in 23 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where customers find you

KeKe Hair Lounge shows an overall health score of 4.3 out of 10 in the Citations & Social Presence area, indicating average presence and some visibility gaps. The strongest asset is a very high trust Facebook profile, supporting local credibility. A key finding is the absence of active TikTok and limited NoSecretSalon and LinkedIn presence that could help reach new audiences.

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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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/keke-hair-lounge-colombo-street-christchurch-46DbRN) 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
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Freshalp/en/tt/womenKeKe Hair Lounge | Fresha✓
FacebookKeKe-Hair-Lounge-61553799330467KeKe Hair Lounge | Facebook✓
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InstagramkekehairloungeKeKe Hair Lounge | Instagram✓
Neighbourlyhairdressers/canterbury-region/christchurch/st-albansFound through search, not linked from anything you own3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo 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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    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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    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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    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.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.3Room 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

KeKe Hair Lounge shows very high on- page SEO health with a score of 9.3 out of 10. The key strengths include a valid favicon, fast page load under 3 seconds, compact page size, secure HTTPS content and sufficient text. The most important findings point to adding an H1 tag and reducing render-blocking resources to improve load performance and clarity for visitors.

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 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
    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

KeKe Hair Lounge shows a solid overall traffic health of 7.2/10 for website traffic, with room to improve paid and organic presence. Key takeaways include weak paid activity but good organic value progress and a mid-range organic traffic standing. Focused tweaks to paid campaigns and continued content/link-building will support gradual gains.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.1Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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3About 220 visits a month from search, across 79 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #146 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

KeKe Hair Lounge's published hours partly match local demand: the salon is open during strong Saturday lunchtime peaks (11am-1pm), Friday 11am and Monday 12pm, which align with popular booking times. However the listing shows 41 missed high-demand hours, notably midday on Tuesday and Wednesday when demand is high but the salon is closed. Total weekly open hours are 30, health score 2.3/10.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
KeKe Hair Lounge
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Hours 1
Monday10am-3pm
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
Thursday10am-5pm
Friday10am-6pm
Saturday10am-3pm
Sunday10am-3pm
Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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01Google listing2 opportunities

02Reviews2 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#62of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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