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Sol Spa

Skin care clinic · Woolston, Christchurch

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Sol Spa

Skin care clinic · Woolston, Christchurch

Where you stand#60of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health9.0/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page9.007Google search and traffic8.508Opening hours8.203Map positions7.104Listings and social6.1

Where we can help

02Reviews5.901Google listing5.706Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Sol Spa is a boutique skin clinic and day spa located at The Tannery in Woolston, Christchurch. The clinic offers personalised, results-focused skin treatments alongside restorative spa rituals, including facials, dermal needling, Face Up sculpting, peels, LED and massages. Experienced therapists create customised plans with a calm, welcoming atmosphere.

Sol Spa is a boutique skin and wellness clinic at The Tannery in Woolston, Christchurch. The clinic presents a sanctuary where clinical skin treatments and restorative spa rituals are offered together, led by founder Natalie Gibson, a skin therapist with over 25 years of experience.

Services focus on personalised, results-driven skin care and relaxation. Offerings listed by the clinic include facials, dermal needling, Face Up sculpting, chemical peels, LED therapy and massages. Staff create customised treatment plans intended to address skin concerns while supporting overall wellbeing.

Customers commonly describe calming, restorative experiences. Review themes emphasise relaxing, attentive treatments and a welcoming atmosphere; clients mention feeling nurtured and noticing professional, thoughtful care from therapists. Several reviews note both effective skin-focused advice and deeply relaxing massage or facial sessions.

Locally, Sol Spa is presented as a combined clinical and spa option in Christchurch, aiming to balance skin science with soothing rituals. The emphasis on personalised plans, a well-appointed space at The Tannery and experienced therapists frames the clinic as a recognised local spot for both skin treatments and relaxation.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Sol Spa shows an above-average health score with solid basics in place: key listing details exist and are verified. The most important findings are that the listing is claimed and includes a website link and phone number, enabling direct customer contact, while the health score indicates room for improvement in description and photos.

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
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
5.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Sol Spa✓✓
5.0 ★★★★★ (67)
Skin care clinic · Woolston3
Open 7 days · late Tue and Thu ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Sol Spa offers a personalised approach to beauty and wellness. Their experienced staff creates customised treatment plans to achieve visible results, focusing on enhancing your natural beauty.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Sol Spa shows an above-average health score with strong customer satisfaction and engagement. The standout finding is a top-10% Google star rating reflecting high-quality experiences. Opportunities include improving the owner response rate and maintaining strong review volume, with a path to reach the top 10% by expanding engagement and continuing solid feedback.

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

  • 1
    Response rateYou have replied to a small share of your reviews, so most customers reading your page still see feedback about you with no voice from you anywhere on it.
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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.
5.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Sol Spa
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5.0★★★★★67 reviews 2
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✓How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
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KimK★★★★ · Edited 3 weeks ago

I enjoyed my facial with Amy. It was helpful and relaxing. The main reason I gave three stars is that I paid for a 1 hour 15 minute experience. The facial itself was around 45 minutes and I was in and out within the hour. Sol Spa called me...

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Hi Kim, thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to share your experience. We’re really glad to hear you enjoyed your facial with Amy, however this is absolutely not the standard we...

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Megan P.★★★★★ · 9 months ago

I recently had an incredible massage with Chloe! This was officially the second best massage I’ve ever had. Only because the best was the one she gave me a few weeks earlier, which was so good I instantly rebooked. The space is beautiful, t...

Response from the owner

Hey Megan, thank you for your kind feedback. So happy to hear you enjoyed your experience at Sol x

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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Sol Spa has a solid overall health in Google Maps search with a score of 7.3 out of 10, indicating good visibility and room for careful improvement. The strongest indicator is top-tier rankings for specialist beauty terms, especially in Woolston and Hillsborough. The key opportunity is to push the suburb/borough score into the top 10% by refining the Google Business Listing presence.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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
    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.
7.1Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "beautician" in 2 suburbs, seen in 4
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Glowing Beauty5.0 ★ (6) · Skin care clinic
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Sol Spa25.0 ★ (67) · Skin care clinic
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Willow Nail & Beauty Studio5.0 ★ (1) · Skin care clinic
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The Pamper Bar aka TPB5.0 ★ (12) · Skin care clinic
Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #164 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Sol Spa shows an above-average health rating with solid social platform presence. The most notable finding is strong Facebook and Instagram activity, indicating trusted profiles and steady engagement. Opportunities lie mainly in expanding local and niche directory presence to improve discovery and reach within Christchurch's spa-seekers.

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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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
    Fresha ProfileWe could not find an active Fresha 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.
6.1Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Instagramsolspa_thetannerySol Spa | Instagram✓
NZWAOsol-spa-limitedSol Spa | NZWAO
FacebookSolspathetannerySol Spa | Facebook✓
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #221 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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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.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
  • 2
    What your page says about youYour intro carries more detail than most pages in this market and is doing the work of a short landing page for the visitors who never reach your website.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
Solspathetannery✓
2.9K followers ✓
Our clinic specializes in tailor-made, results-driven beauty treatments. Sol Spa offers clients a variety of services and products that will help you feel young, energized and stunning every day.2
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★ 5 reviews · recommended 1
🌐 solspa.co.nz✓
☎ +64 22 199 3052
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Facebook pageChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

Sol Spa shows a very high on-page SEO health with a score of 9.5 out of 10, indicating strong implementation of technical factors. The most notable finds are an excellent title tag, a valid favicon, and an SEO-friendly URL, which support visibility and credibility for local clients in Woolston and Christchurch.

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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    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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreYour domain is younger than most businesses here.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
🔒solspa.co.nz3✓✓
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2Separate sites linking to you
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How people find you on Google

Sol Spa shows a solid traffic health with a score of 8.0 out of 10, indicating a strong position in the market. The most important findings are that organic traffic value sits in the excellent 50-75% band and organic traffic total is impressive in the local 50-75% range, suggesting good visibility and reach.

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.
8.5Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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321No ads from you on any search
www.fresha.comGlowing Beauty Woolston - 10 Saint Adela Place - Fresha
www.fresha.comBest Beauty Salons near me in Woolston, Christchurch
www.solspa.co.nzSol Spa Christchurch – Skin Clinic & Day Spa at The Tannery

Sol Spa blends clinical skin results with restorative spa rituals. Facials, dermal needling, Face Up® sculpting, peels, LED, massages & more in ...

thetannery.co.nzSol Spa - Christchurch
About 560 visits a month from search, across 144 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Sol Spa's opening hours are mostly aligned with local demand, with strong coverage during several high-traffic windows: Tuesday 11am, Wednesday 3pm, Thursday 4pm and Saturday early afternoon. There are notable missed opportunities when the clinic is closed during popular times, including Tuesday 9am, Thursday 9am, Wednesday 5-6pm and Saturday 5pm. No low-demand open hours were identified.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand better than nearly every business here, so most of the time you are open, people are actually looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
8.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Sol Spa
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday10am-5pm
Tuesday10am-8pm
Wednesday10am-5pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday10am-5pm
Saturday10am-5pm
Sunday10am-5pm
Opening hoursChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews2 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#60of 570 Christchurch beauty businesses
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Christchurch beautyOverall · 570 businesses
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