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TAHAN Art Classes

Art studio · Burnside, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 194 Christchurch photography businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
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TAHAN Art Classes

Art studio · Burnside, Christchurch

Where you stand#103of 194 photography businesses
Overall health4.7/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Tahan Art Classes runs drawing and painting lessons in Burnside, Christchurch, for beginners through more experienced students. Classes cover a wide range of techniques and materials, including drawing basics, palette arrangement, colour mixing, brush application, glazing and tonal values. Students receive demo instruction and individual guidance to work through their own artworks.

Tahan Art Classes runs drawing and painting lessons in Burnside, Christchurch, for beginners through more experienced students. The programme covers a wide range of techniques and materials, aiming to teach drawing fundamentals, the right materials to use, palette arrangement, colour mixing, brush application, glazing, mediums and tonal values.

Classes include demonstrations and individual guidance to assist students through their artwork. Instruction spans drawing into painting, with practical focus on using oils alongside other mediums where students wish to progress from line and tone into colour and form.

Reviews consistently note the instructor's knowledge and teaching approach. Customers report learning technical skills, gaining confidence, and progressing from basic drawing into more complex painting work. Many highlight one-on-one feedback and the teacher's ability to support both beginners and those developing a personal style.

As a Christchurch option for art tuition, Tahan Art Classes is positioned for learners wanting structured lessons, hands-on demos and personalised guidance. Their local presence in Burnside and steady positive feedback suggest a focus on skill development, material knowledge and ongoing artistic progress.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing for Tahan Art Classes shows a strong overall health score of 8.6 out of 10, indicating solid completeness and accuracy. Key findings include a verified listing with a working phone number and a website link, plus a claimed status and open-for-business indicator. The description is already performing well within the local market.

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 two opportunities

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    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
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    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
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5.0 ★★★★★ (10)
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From the business

TAHAN ART classes will cover a wide range of techniques and materials in drawing and painting for beginners to more experienced students. Our classes provide you with knowledge beyond just colour and composition. These classes will cover the basics in drawing, using the right materials, Palette arrangement, colour mixing, brush application, glazing, mediums,tonal values and more. Demo and individual guidance to assist you through your artwork.

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Your reviews

Tahan Art Classes shows a very healthy Google Business profile with a 9.4/10 health score and a top 10% star rating. The business benefits from strong customer satisfaction reflected in high ratings and an active engagement with reviews, with room to push response rates and total review count in line with top peers.

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 confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
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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.
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Gretta L.★★★★★ · 3 years ago

I started art classes with Mehrdad this year and have enjoyed the classes very much. Mehrdad has so much knowledge and is able to teach from beginner students to someone who may have been painting or drawing for sometime and wishes to up t...

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Thank you Gretta for your kind review, it's been great to work with you and witnessing how far you have gone with your drawing practice and I am very positive that in near future you will paint with...

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Caroline F.★★★★★ · 4 years ago

I have always wanted to paint in oils and joining Tahan Art Classes has made that dream real. I began by drawing and soon moved into the painting. Everytime I think I've ruined my painting or become struck, Mehrdad comes along and changes e...

Response from the owner

Thank you Caroline for your kind review. Its been great to have you in the wednesday's art group and witnessing how much you have grown during the term . your great assets are your passion and enthus...

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Where you show up on the map

Tahan Art Classes shows a very low overall health in Google Maps search, scoring 0.8 out of 10. This suggests limited visibility across city-wide and local suburb searches. Top findings show only modest presence in broader maps queries and minimal local presence for the Burnside area, indicating growth potential in both areas.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.5Room to grow
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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Maria Buhrkuhl Photography4.9 ★ (56) · Art studio
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Belinda Lansley Photography4.9 ★ (78) · Art studio
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Mandy Caldwell Photography5.0 ★ (39) · Art studio
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The Best Passport Photo and Portrait Studio4.9 ★ (393) · Art studio
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Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Where customers find you

Tahan Art Classes shows very low health in social presence with a score of 1.3 out of 10. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, which anchors trust while other platforms show little or no activity. The main opportunity is to establish active profiles on key channels to improve visibility and engagement with local customers.

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.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
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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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
2.8Room to grow
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Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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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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    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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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
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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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    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your website

Tahan Art Classes shows very low on-page SEO health, with an overall health score of 0.1 out of 10. The most important findings relate to missing meta description and title tag, and the lack of an on-page SEO score. Implementing a descriptive homepage title tag, a compelling meta description, and a baseline on-page SEO score are the top priorities for improvement.

Strengths

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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

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    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
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Your websiteChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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How people find you on Google

Tahan Art Classes shows very low website traffic health, with a health score of 0.1 out of 10. The most important findings are near-zero organic traffic value and no organic rankings in the top 100, alongside no measurable paid traffic. This suggests the site has little visibility and requires foundational traffic-building actions.

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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Your hours against demand

Tahan Art Classes has very limited alignment with local demand: the studio is open for three Saturday mid-morning and noon hours that match higher search activity, but it is closed during many weekday peak periods. Strong alignment occurs Saturday 10-12 PM (10 AM, 11 AM, 12 PM), while major missed opportunities appear across Monday late morning and early afternoon and Wednesday noon.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Saturday10am-1pm
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Popular times Wednesday · Burnside
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02Reviews2 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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