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Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy

Beauty salon · Strowan, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 570 Christchurch beauty businesses.

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Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy

Beauty salon · Strowan, Christchurch

Where you stand#295of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health4.8/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy is a home-based beauty and makeup service on Hartley Ave in Strowan, Christchurch. It offers eyebrow shaping and tinting, eyelash extensions, waxing, manicures, pedicures, spray tans and facials using Priori and Sothys, and retails Young Blood mineral makeup. The setting is described as clean and warm, with treatments ranging from quick touch-ups to longer relaxation sessions.

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy operates from a home studio on Hartley Ave in Strowan, Christchurch, close to Elmwood Village. The location is presented as a convenient spot for a short appointment or a longer pampering session in a residential, relaxed setting.

Services include eyebrow shapes and tints, eyelash extensions, waxing, pedicures and manicures, spray tans and facials using Priori and Sothys products. The business also retails the Young Blood brand of mineral makeup, described as a natural-mineral option new to New Zealand. Treatments can vary from brief touch-ups to more extensive skin and body care.

Customer comments emphasise a clean, tidy and warm facility and highlight relaxation during treatments. Reviews mention effective massages and thorough facials, as well as attentive extras such as hand massages during facials. Clients describe the therapist as experienced and personable, and feedback frequently recommends the service for fatigue relief and general pampering.

Locally, the studio is positioned as a neighbourhood beauty option offering a broad range of standard salon services from a cosy, home-based setting. The combination of established facial brands, lash and brow work, nail services and a natural-mineral makeup line provides a practical mix for clients seeking routine beauty care or a short restorative visit in Strowan.

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Your Google listing

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy shows a strong basic presence on Google, with essential contact details and a main image. The overall health is very low at 0.9/10, reflecting missing elements. The most important findings are that the listing is not claimed and the description is too brief, limiting credibility and discoverability for local clients.

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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    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.
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    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

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    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.
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    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.
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    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.6Room to grow
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Your reviews

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy shows a low overall Google review health score but solid momentum in ratings. The business has a top 10% star rating, indicating strong customer satisfaction, and is actively collecting reviews. The main positive finding is the high rating; the key risk is the lack of review responses and limited total review volume, which affects trust and perceived engagement.

Strengths

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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 three opportunities

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    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.
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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 countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
2.4Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #431 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy shows a moderate overall health on Google Maps with room to improve. The strongest signal is in the Strowan area, where the business ranks well for several beauty-related queries, including beautician in strowan and beauty salon in strowan. Opportunities lie in broadening visibility across maps queries and maintaining momentum in the borough.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
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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.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
4.3Room to grow
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Nava Beauty Salon5.0 ★ (72) · Beauty salon
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Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy25.0 ★ (3) · Beauty salon
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Citrine Beauty Studio5.0 ★ (70) · Beauty salon
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Appearance Beauty and Health4.3 ★ (65) · Beauty salon
Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #328 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy shows a below-average overall health score for citations and social presence, with room for improvement across platforms. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, while Fresha listings support local visibility. The top improvement areas focus on expanding presence on Instagram and TikTok, and enhancing Neighbourly, LinkedIn, and NoSecretSalon profiles to build trust and reach.

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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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/louise-kelly-beauty-therapy-christchurch-wr4wYq) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
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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.
  • 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.
3.9Room to grow
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Listings and socialChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #347 for listings and social
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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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    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.
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    Recommendations on your pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.3Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #325 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy shows a solid on-page SEO health score of 8.5 out of 10, indicating strong technical performance with room for refinement. The key findings include an excellent meta description within 130-150 characters and a valid favicon, plus a streamlined page under 256KB. Focus areas include reducing render-blocking resources and balancing the text-to-page size ratio.

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

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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
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    Page titleThe headline on your home page is either a single word or long enough that a search result cuts it off part way through.
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    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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How people find you on Google

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy shows an average health of 5.7 out of 10 for website traffic, indicating room for improvement in both paid and organic reach. The most notable finding is that organic traffic value is above the 25th percentile and paid traffic remains minimal. Actionable opportunities focus on launching targeted paid campaigns and maintaining organic gains.

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.
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    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.
5.9Room to grow
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beautytherapychristchurch.co.nzLouise Kelly: Home

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy operates from her home on Hartley Ave in Strowan Christchurch. Just around the corner at Elmwood Village on Normans Road are a ... Read more

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Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Louise Kelly Beauty Therapy has no published opening hours, so temporal alignment cannot be measured against Christchurch demand patterns. No strong alignment can be identified and specific missed peak-hours cannot be isolated. To improve commercial timing, adding accurate opening hours is the priority; then consider matching staff availability to city-level peak search windows and trimming any low-demand slots once data is available.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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.
1.3Room to grow
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Opening hoursChristchurch beauty · 570 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

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