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Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words

Interior designer · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 111 Christchurch interior designers.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words

Interior designer · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#42of 111 interior designers
Overall health6.3/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words is a Christchurch Central City-based interior designer and freelance writer. Pip combines qualified interior design with a background in English literature and art history to create spaces focused on colour and texture. The practice emphasises personal storytelling through design and tailored written work, offering clients a bespoke, customer-centred creative service.

Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words is a Christchurch Central City studio offering interior design and freelance writing. Pip is a qualified interior designer who also works as a regular contributor to NZ Life & Leisure and writes business copy and art reviews. The practice presents itself as a bespoke creative blending spatial design with written storytelling.

The services include interior design focused on colour, texture and pulling existing elements together, plus tailored writing for business and editorial contexts. Pip describes a background in English literature and Art History and lists experience across design, teaching, farming and sport as informing her approach. The combined offering aims to tell a client's story either through space or through words.

Customers commonly describe Pip as having a good eye and providing practical, thoughtful advice, and several reviews note an approachable, straightforward manner and strong guidance during renovations and refurbishments. Clients report emotional, positive reactions to completed projects and value Pip's role as a sounding board during decision-making. The review themes emphasise clarity of direction, aesthetic sensitivity and a collaborative client experience.

Locally, Quill positions itself as a small, personalised studio for clients seeking attentive design and customised written work in Christchurch. The practice's mix of interior design and freelance writing, together with a focus on texture and colour, is presented as the practical point of difference for customers looking for both spatial and narrative solutions.

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Your Google listing

Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words shows a below-average Google listing health score, with clear opportunities to improve listing status, branding and photography. The business has a claimed listing and functional contact details, and a solid description, but the profile lacks a logo, and the open-for-business status is unclear.

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

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    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.
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    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
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    Category fitYour category set covers less of this market than half the field, so there are jobs being searched for near you that your listing is not eligible to appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.5Room to grow
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From the business

Freelance writer and interior designer, Pip Goldsbury of Quill, offers a unique combination of services, a customer-centric creative who tells YOUR story, whether it's written or spatial. A regular contributor to NZ Life & Leisure, writer of business copy and reviewer of art, Pip's words are tailored to each individual situation. Don't expect ordinary. Pip's love of words and her background in English literature and Art History, combined with a healthy dose of sport, farming, mothering, design and teaching makes her approach to writing refreshingly approachable. As if telling written stories isn't enough, Pip is a qualified interior designer with a passion for colour and texture, telling your personal story through thoughtful design.

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Your reviews

Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words shows strong Google review health, with a high overall rating and solid engagement. The top achievement is a stellar star rating in the top 10% of local peers. Key opportunities focus on growing total reviews, maintaining rating confidence, and pushing response rate further. Overall health of 8.3 out of 10 suggests stability with room to grow in volume and 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.
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    Response rateYou answer virtually every review, which almost nobody in this market does, and the page reads as a business that is present.

Top two opportunities

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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.
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    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
8.2Strong
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Andie M.★★★★★ · 2 months ago

Pip helped us with our cottage refurb and we’re so glad we had her expert advice. She has such a good eye and guided us towards the right wallpaper, somehow knowing exactly what we were after but elevating it far beyond what we could have...

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Thanks Andie - that’s really kind of you. You live in such a beautiful setting💕🍸

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Sara A.★★★★★ · 2 months ago

When we were renovating our very old house, I wanted someone as a sounding board. I didn’t need someone to choose paint colour or fabrics as I enjoyed that part of the process. But having Pip available to just call in and talk through thoug...

Response from the owner

Thank you Sara - you’ve such great style so to be your soundboard was a real honour.

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Where you show up on the map

The maps performance for Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words shows an overall health score of 5.4 out of 10, indicating average visibility in Google Maps searches. The top opportunities focus on improving aggregate and borough-specific map presence, with steady gains needed to move out of the current bracket and reach the local midpoint.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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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.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
5.3Room to grow
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2Seen in 4 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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The Touch Interior Design5.0 ★ (1) · Interior designer
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Map positionsChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
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Where customers find you

Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words shows a moderate overall health score reflecting a solid but uneven presence across third-party profiles. The strongest findings are established, high-trust Facebook and Instagram profiles with ongoing branding and interaction. Opportunities lie in adding missing listings on TikTok, Yellow Directory, LinkedIn Company, GrabOne and Neighbourly Directory to improve 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.
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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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    Houzz ProfessionalWe can see your Houzz Professional listing (https://houzz.co.nz/quill-pfvwnz-pf~130241504) 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.
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    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.
17 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.6Good
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TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
You are #27 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 page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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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

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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
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    An email addressA customer who would rather put a request in writing at ten at night has only Messenger to work with, because the page carries no email address.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Facebook pageChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
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Your website

Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words shows a solid on-page SEO health, with a 7.5/10. Key strengths include a well-tuned title tag in the ideal range, a valid favicon, a relevant meta description, secure content over HTTPS, and adequate text length to inform visitors. The main opportunities relate to meta description length, page speed, and removing frames or render-blocking resources.

Strengths

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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.
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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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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
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    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
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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

Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words shows very low website traffic health with a 0.0/10 health score. This indicates limited organic and paid visibility. The strongest immediate signal is the near-zero organic traffic value and the absence of paid traffic, suggesting focus areas in content, on-page SEO, and small paid campaigns to start building reach and attract local customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
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    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Google search and trafficChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
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Your hours against demand

No published opening hours means temporal alignment cannot be measured. There is no evidence of hours open during peak demand, and the listing effectively misses opportunities when customers search. Similarly, there is no way to see if the practice is open during low-demand windows that could be inefficient. Adding accurate hours would immediately reveal where hours match local search patterns and where to adjust commercially.

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.
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Opening hoursChristchurch interior designers · 111 businesses
You are #88 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews2 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#42of 111 Christchurch interior designers
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Christchurch interior designersOverall · 111 businesses
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