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The Beauty Cottage

Beauty salon · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

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

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Checked13 October 2026
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The Beauty Cottage

Beauty salon · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

Where you stand#515of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health1.0/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01NameYour 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.01PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.903Map positions3.204Listings and social2.702Reviews1.908Opening hours1.801Google listing0.807Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

The Beauty Cottage is a beauty salon in Rangiora offering a variety of beauty services and treatments. Located in the town centre, it presents a calm, salon-style setting where clients book appointments for personal care. The salon is noted locally for its consistently high customer ratings and for creating a pleasant, relaxing experience for visitors.

The Beauty Cottage is a beauty salon based in Rangiora, providing general beauty services and treatments to local clients. It operates from a town-centre location and serves residents of Rangiora and nearby communities seeking salon-based personal care.

The salon offers a range of beauty services and treatments tailored to individual appointments. Services are delivered in a salon environment and focus on personal grooming and appearance, consistent with the beauty category. The business describes itself as a place for standard beauty care rather than a medical or cosmetic surgery provider.

Customers tend to describe visits as very positive, with reviews noting a pleasant, relaxing experience. The available review snapshot shows a high average rating and past comments that characterise visits as a pleasure and like a little slice of heaven. These themes suggest clients value the welcoming atmosphere and the quality of service experienced during appointments.

Locally, The Beauty Cottage is identifiable as a small Rangiora beauty business with consistently favourable feedback from clients. It is positioned as a salon option for people seeking routine beauty treatments in a calm setting and is recognised in reviews for providing a comfortable client experience.

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Your Google listing

The Beauty Cottage shows a very low overall health on its Google Business Listing, with clear gaps in ownership and online presence. The strongest points are consistent contact details, a complete address, and a main image, but critical items like listing ownership, a website link, a meaningful description, a logo, and an expanding photo library need attention.

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.
  • ✓
    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
0.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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The Beauty Cottage
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5.0 ★★★★★ (1)
Beauty salon · Rangiora North East
Open 1 days ✓
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business
No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Beauty Cottage shows a low overall health score on Google reviews, with room to grow in engagement and total review volume. The strongest finding is a top‑tier star rating that reflects high customer satisfaction, while the business has yet to actively respond to reviews, and review counts remain limited.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
1.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
The Beauty Cottage
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #464 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

The Beauty Cottage in Rangiora shows a below-average health score of 3.0 out of 10 for Google Maps search results. Overall visibility remains limited, but there are clear steps that can lift performance. Top opportunities focus on strengthening aggregate maps visibility and improving the borough presence to move toward the local midpoint.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
3.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Seen in 4 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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My Beauty Treat5.0 ★ (27) · Beauty salon
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Brows n Beauty5.0 ★ (84) · Beauty salon
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Absolute Beauty Therapy Clinic4.7 ★ (53) · Beauty salon
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KH Health & Beauty4.8 ★ (103) · Beauty salon
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The Beauty Cottage2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #388 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

The Health score for The Beauty Cottage's Citations & Social Presence sits at 2.9 out of 10, indicating below-average overall health. Two key takeaways stand out: a very strong Facebook profile and solid Yellow profiles, which help local visibility. However, there are several gaps across social and local directories that limit reach and trust.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/beauty-cottage-hwke) found via: Google search results.
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    Yelp ListingWe can see your Yelp Listing listing (https://yelp.com/the-beauty-cottage-rangiora) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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 6 of them.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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White Pagesbeauty-cottage-hwkeThe Beauty Cottage | White Pages✓
Yelpthe-beauty-cottage-rangioraThe Beauty Cottage | Yelp✓
Yellow/rangiora/beauty-therapyThe Beauty Cottage | Yellow3
FacebookthebeautycottagewestcoastThe Beauty Cottage | Facebook✓
InstagramthecottagebeautyretreatThe Beauty Cottage | Instagram1
TiktokNo account found2
Listings and socialChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #419 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

  • ✓
    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 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.
  • ✓
    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

  • 1
    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
  • 2
    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
  • 3
    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
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663 followers 2
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★ 6 reviews · recommended 1
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☎ +64 27 335 2307✓
PostsAboutPhotosReviews
Facebook pageChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #235 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google Mapsgoogle.com › mapsThe Beauty Cottage - Rangiora North East, Christchurch
Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here.
0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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No ads from you on any search
The Beauty CottageNot in these results
Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #266 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

The Beauty Cottage's hours partially match local demand: strong alignment on Thursday mid-afternoon and early evening (11am, 3-6pm) where demand is high. However, several popular slots are missed - notably Saturday 1-2pm and Tuesday 10-11am, plus Wednesday 3pm - leaving commercial opportunities untaken. No open hours fall in low-demand windows, suggesting efficiency but limited reach into peak weekend and midweek searches.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
1.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
The Beauty Cottage
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
Thursday8:30am-8pm
FridayClosed
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Wednesday · Rangiora North East
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#515of 570 Christchurch beauty businesses
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