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Kudos Hairdressers

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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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Kudos Hairdressers

Hair salon · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#152of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health7.0/10across the eight areas

Going well

07Google search and traffic8.108Opening hours6.805Facebook page6.1

Where we can help

04Listings and social4.702Reviews2.401Google listing2.303Map positions0.906Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Kudos Hairdressers is a hair salon in Merivale, Christchurch offering a full range of hairdressing services and professional retail products. The salon highlights customer service and a team of stylists who provide cuts, colour and styling. It also stocks Wella and System Professional lines and accepts appointments at short notice for clients in the central Christchurch area.

Kudos Hairdressers is a hair salon located in Merivale, Christchurch. The salon presents itself as a central Merivale business focused on hairdressing services and retailing professional haircare products.

The salon offers full hairdressing services including cutting, colouring and styling. Website content notes an extensive range of professional products, online shopping for Wella products, and that the salon now stocks System Professional. The team is introduced on the salon site as a key part of the service offer.

Customer reviews commonly mention friendly, professional service and the ability to accommodate clients at short notice. Review themes include positive experiences with individual stylists, satisfaction with cuts, colour and blowdries, and recommendations from clients attending for special occasions such as weddings.

Kudos is described on its site as placing customer service at the heart of its offer and distinguishes itself locally through its Merivale location, a visible product range including Wella and System Professional, and a team-based approach to styling and appointments. Customers can expect a professional salon environment with options to buy professional haircare products alongside standard salon services.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Kudos Hairdressers shows a low overall health score for its Google Business Listing, indicating room for essential improvements. The listing already provides a website link, title, open status, phone number and a complete address, which helps customers reach and learn about the salon. Key gaps include claiming the listing, a clear description, a logo, and expanding photos to boost visibility.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

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
    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.
  • 3
    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Kudos Hairdressers
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Own this business?
4.2 ★★★★★ (36)
Hair salon · St Albans
Open 5 days · late Thu ✓
DirectionsCall Website ✓
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Kudos Hairdressers shows a low overall health score for Google reviews, but some progress is evident. The top opportunities focus on improving engagement and growing reviews: respond to reviews to build trust, and continue accumulating reviews to lift the overall rating band. Steady momentum in total reviews supports ongoing improvement.

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.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Kudos Hairdressers
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
4.2★★★★★36 reviews
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #379 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Kudos Hairdressers shows a very low overall health in Maps Search Performance, with a 0.6 out of 10. This indicates limited visibility across Google Maps searches and opportunity to improve. Top opportunities focus on improving aggregate visibility and ensuring the suburb/borough listing matches the exact spelling used in maps queries, then applying the recommended techniques from the training.

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 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.
0.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Seen in 2 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #451 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Kudos Hairdressers shows a below-average social presence health score of 4.0 out of 10, indicating overall room for improvement in visibility and trust across third-party profiles. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, with Neighbourly and Fresha listings helping reach local clients. Key opportunities lie in expanding TikTok, Instagram, Yellow, NoSecretSalon, and LinkedIn listings to strengthen discovery 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.
  • ✓
    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/kudos-hairdressers-papanui-road-christchurch-znZ2bg) found via: Google search results.

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 5 of them.
4.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Gkudos hairdressers st albans
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StarOfService Prokudos-hairdressersKudos Hairdressers | StarOfService Pro
Freshakudos-hairdressers-papanui-road-christchurch-znZ2bgKudos Hairdressers | Fresha✓
FacebookKudos-Hairdressers-100063478779848Kudos Hairdressers | Facebook✓
Yellow/canterbury-region/hairdressersKudos Hairdressers | Yellow3
InstagramkudoshairmerivaleKudos Hairdressers | Instagram1
Neighbourlyhairdressers/canterbury-region/christchurch/st-albansFound through search, not linked from anything you own
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #266 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.
  • ✓
    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

  • 1
    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.
  • 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.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.1Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1.1K followers 2
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★ 12 reviews · recommended 3
🌐 kudosmerivale.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-355 4734✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #196 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Kudos Hairdressers shows very high on-page SEO health, with a score of 9.6 out of 10. The most important takeaway is that meta description and H1 presence are solid, and page size is well managed. Key issues to monitor include page load time and secure content, which can affect user experience and crawl efficiency.

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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    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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
  • 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.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1The shape of your link profile
2On-page score
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How people find you on Google

Kudos Hairdressers shows a solid website traffic health, with a 7.3 out of 10. The strongest area is organic traffic value in the 50-75% band, indicating steady content and backlinks. Key opportunities include initiating small paid campaigns and building paid presence, plus improving paid keyword coverage and landing-page tracking to convert interest into bookings.

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.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
8.1Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Ghair salon merivale
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www.kudosmerivale.co.nzKudos, hairdressers, Merivale, Christchurch » Kudos ...

Kudos is a premier hair salon in the heart of Merivale, Christchurch. We offer hairdressing services and online shopping for Wella Hair Products.

www.vivo.co.nzVivo Merivale: Excellence in Hair Styling
About 849 visits a month from search, across 76 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #97 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Kudos Hairdressers' opening hours largely match local demand, with 46 well-aligned peak hours and no low-demand open hours, giving an above-average temporal health score. Peak alignment is strongest on Saturdays midday and Tuesday late morning to midday. However, there are 25 missed high-demand hours - mostly Monday late morning to early afternoon and Sunday mid-afternoon - that could be considered for adjustment.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
6.8Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Kudos Hairdressers
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-5:30pm
Wednesday9am-5:30pm
Thursday9am-8pm
Friday9am-5:30pm
Saturday9am-4:30pm
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#152of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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