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Philip & Guy

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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Philip & Guy

Hair salon · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#184of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health6.3/10across the eight areas

Going well

07Google search and traffic9.4

Where we can help

08Opening hours5.602Reviews2.701Google listing2.503Map positions1.905Facebook page1.504Listings and social0.306Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Philip & Guy of Merivale is a hair salon located in the Saint Albans area of Christchurch. The salon offers professional styling and colour services, including foil work and blonde highlights, and stocks Redken products. Customers note friendly, attentive service from experienced stylists in a relaxed, small-salon setting.

Philip & Guy of Merivale is a hair salon in the Saint Albans area of Christchurch. It operates as a compact neighbourhood salon offering a range of hair services and colour work in a relaxed setting close to Merivale.

The salon highlights professional styling and colour services, with specific mention of full head foil work and blonde foils. Staff are noted for using Redken products. Reviews refer to particular stylists by name and describe the team as professional and capable with colour and styling tasks.

Customers tend to describe a friendly, attentive experience. Reviews mention stylists taking care to understand client preferences, producing well-executed foil work and leaving clients satisfied with colour results. Several comments describe the salon as a pleasant place to spend time and note consistent, professional service from the team.

Philip & Guy of Merivale is distinguished locally by its neighbourhood presence in Saint Albans, a focus on colour services and the use of recognised salon products. With a strong review snapshot and named stylists associated with positive outcomes, the salon presents as a small, professional option for clients seeking foil and colour work in Christchurch.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Philip & Guy of Merivale shows a low overall health on Google Listings with a 2.4/10. The core issues are missing a website link, a descriptive listing, a logo, and limited photos. The listing has a claimed status, full address and phone number, and open status, but the lack of these elements constrains visibility and engagement.

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

  • 1
    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.
  • 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.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.8 ★★★★★ (16)
Hair salon · St Albans
Open 5 days · late Wed ✓
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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Philip & Guy of Merivale shows a low health score on Google reviews, 2.8 out of 10. The business has not responded to any reviews, which lowers customer trust. It has a decent review count and a rating around the midpoint, with steady momentum in ratings and listing presence.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Philip & Guy of Merivale shows a low overall health on Google Maps search with a 2.0 out of 10. However, there are solid top rankings for local terms such as unisex hairdresser in St Albans and hair salon in St Albans, indicating useful visibility in relevant queries. Opportunities lie in strengthening aggregate and borough performance to move toward the local midpoint and beyond.

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.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
1.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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unisex hairdresser
1Seen in 2 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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L'amour Hair Specialist4.9 ★ (79) · Hair salon
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Beauty with Grace St Albans4.8 ★ (174) · Hair salon
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DF Hair Studio4.9 ★ (107) · Hair salon
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KeKe Hair Lounge5.0 ★ (93) · Hair salon
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #402 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Philip & Guy of Merivale shows very low health in the citations and social presence area, with a 0.4/10 overall. The most important findings are missing active Instagram and TikTok profiles and lack of GrabOne and Neighbourly listings, while Facebook has a moderate trust score. Improving Instagram and TikTok presence could boost local visibility, and claiming GrabOne or Neighbourly profiles would broaden reach.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
YellowNo listing found
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #485 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
1.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #425 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Philip & Guy's on-page SEO health is very high, with a score of 8.9 out of 10. This indicates solid technical foundations and low risk of search issues. The most notable findings are the excellent meta description health, the presence of a valid favicon, and a properly sized page. Remaining opportunities focus on fine-tuning title tag length, speeding load times, addressing mixed content, and reducing render-blocking resources.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than almost any business in this market - a spread built over years that a competitor cannot buy their way into.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.

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.
  • 2
    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
  • 3
    Pages linking to youMore pages link to you than most of this market, which gives your site real weight in search.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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1On-page score
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How people find you on Google

Philip & Guy shows very strong website traffic health, with a 9.4/10 score. The strongest points are organic traffic value and local SERP presence, placing in the top 10% for both. This indicates solid SEO and a competitive position for local search, but paid opportunities remain unaddressed and could be pursued with targeted campaigns.

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.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Philip & GuyNot in these results
About 9,030 visits a month from search, across 957 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #31 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Philip & Guy of Merivale's opening hours align reasonably with local demand but miss key weekday lunchtime traffic. The salon is open during several high-demand windows: Tuesday 11am-12pm and Saturday 11am-1pm, matching strong customer searches. Missed opportunities occur on Monday lunchtime (11am-2pm) and Sunday 3pm when searches are high but the salon is closed. No low-demand open hours were identified.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
5.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Philip & Guy
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-6pm
Wednesday9am-8pm
Thursday9am-6pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-3pm
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 page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#184of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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