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The Lounge Organic Hairdressing

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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The Lounge Organic Hairdressing

Hair salon · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#82of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health8.4/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing is a fully organic boutique salon located in Merivale/St Albans, Christchurch, set in a private garden with parking. Tracette offers one-on-one appointments using certified organic Natulique and Davroe products, specialises in cuts, organic colour and BKT Nanoplasty, and provides a calm, personalised client experience with refreshments available.

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing is a fully organic boutique salon in the Merivale/St Albans area of Christchurch. It operates from a private, exclusive salon set in a garden setting and offers plenty of parking for clients.

The salon provides one-on-one appointments with Tracette, specialising in hair cuts, organic colours, expert colour corrections and BKT Nanoplasty treatments. Products used for in-salon and take-home care include certified organic Natulique from Denmark and Davroe. The salon states it is a certified Nanoplasty specialist and operates under the Sustainable Salon system.

Clients who left reviews describe a personalised, attentive service, noting strong colour results and friendly, experienced styling. Visitors frequently mention a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere during appointments, and some reviews note small extras that add to the experience. Communication and consultation are highlighted in feedback, with clients reporting that the stylist listens and gives practical advice.

What distinguishes The Lounge Organic Hairdressing locally is its organic product focus combined with an intimate, private salon environment in a garden setting. The combination of one-on-one appointments, certified organic product lines, Nanoplasty expertise and a sustainability commitment frames the salon as a specialist option for clients seeking organic hair services in St Albans, Christchurch.

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Your Google listing

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing has a very high overall Google Business Listing health score, indicating strong completeness and optimisation. Key strengths include a claimed listing, a visible phone number, a direct website link, and accurate open-for-business status. The main opportunity is expanding photo uploads to move out of the bottom quartile, while other core fields are already well populated.

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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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
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    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.2Strong
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5.0 ★★★★★ (12)
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From the business

'The Lounge Organic Hairdressing' is a professional fully organic hair salon. Situated in Merivale/St Albans there is plenty of parking. Services are all one on one. Situated in a private, exclusive salon in a garden setting. Freshly ground coffee and delicious herbal Teas available for your comfort. Hair products are certified organic from Denmark.. 'Natulique' Take home hair care is 'Natulique’ and ‘Davroe’ ‘The Lounge’ is a certified ‘Nanoplasty’ specialists. My salon is fully sustainable under the ‘Sustainable Salon’ system. I look forward to meeting you! Please call and make an appointment for a free consultation.Many thanks, Tracette Owers 033796368 0276619454 Instagram ~ lounge_organic Facebook ~ The Lounge Organic Hairdressing

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing shows a very healthy Google review profile, with a 9.1/10 health score and strong customer engagement. The business sits in the top decile for star rating and review response rate, indicating high satisfaction and active listening to clients. The main takeaway is that continued momentum in reviews and engagement should sustain growth.

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.
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Kenza B.★★★★★ · 9 months ago

While in Christchurch for a few days, I went to the salon for a shampoo and cut. Everything was perfect, Tracette listens, gives great advice, and is very flexible. A few weeks after the service, I'm still delighted with the results!

Response from the owner✓

Thank you so much for the review Kenza. It was so cool to meet you! I hope to see you again one day. Tracette x

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Julie F.★★★★★ · 10 months ago

Tracette is amazing! She is a very talented and experienced hairstylist offering a very friendly and personalised service. My hair colour is the best I've ever had and totally organic, and I also love her new Brazilian Keratin Treatment, wh...

Response from the owner

Thank you Julie ! It is always a pleasure to do your hair x

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Where you show up on the map

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing shows a below-average overall health score for Google Maps search visibility, with room to improve both city-wide and borough-focused results. Top findings include a solid rank for several hairdressing keywords in St Albans and surrounding areas, indicating strong relevance for local queries. Opportunities lie in raising aggregate visibility and boosting the borough presence.

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 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.
2.9Room to grow
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1Seen in 4 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
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Where customers find you

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing shows very high health (9.5/10) for social presence and directory presence. Key strengths include outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles and solid local listings on Neighbourly and Fresha. The strongest finding is the already established social profiles with high trust signals. A primary opportunity is expanding TikTok and LinkedIn presence to reach broader or professional audiences.

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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    Yellow ProfileWe can see your Yellow Profile listing (https://yellow.co.nz/y/the-lounge-organic-hairdressing-579404915) 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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    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.
  • 3
    LinkedIn CompanyWe could not find an active LinkedIn Company 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.
9.2Strong
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InstagramloungeorganichairThe Lounge Organic Hairdressing | Instagram✓
FacebooktheloungeorganichairdressingThe Lounge Organic Hairdressing | Facebook✓
Family Company Studiothe-lounge-organic-hairdressinThe Lounge Organic Hairdressing | Family Company Studio
Freshathe-lounge-organic-hairdressing-derby-street-christchurch-ovP7xxThe Lounge Organic Hairdressing | Fresha
Yellowthe-lounge-organic-hairdressing-579404915The Lounge Organic Hairdressing | Yellow✓
Yelpthe-lounge-organic-hairdressing-christchurchThe Lounge Organic Hairdressing | Yelp
Neighbourlyhairdressers/canterbury-region/christchurch/st-albansFound through search, not linked from anything you own2
TiktokNo account found1
NeighbourlyNo listing found2
LinkedInNo listing found3
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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.

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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    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
5 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing all of them.
4.2Room to grow
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Enjoy private exclusive Organic hairdressing in our Merivale salon.3
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🌐 theloungehairdressing.co.nz✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing shows a very high on-page SEO health, meaning technical factors support strong visibility. The most important findings are the overall score and a solid favicon, fast load times, and an existing H1 tag. Top opportunities focus on refining the meta description length, tuning the title tag length, and making the URL structure more SEO-friendly.

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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    On-page scoreFew sites in this market clear these checks as completely as yours: fast to open, readable, and accurate about itself to Google and to the person who lands on it.
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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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    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.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing shows a health score of 6.2 out of 10, which is above average, indicating reasonable overall website traffic health. Key findings include a lack of measurable paid traffic and a small but positive organic traffic position, with opportunities to start targeted paid campaigns and maintain SEO momentum to improve visibility for potential customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
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    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.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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The Lounge Organic HairdressingNot in these results
31About 56 visits a month from search, across 25 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

The Lounge Organic Hairdressing's opening hours partly align with local demand: several weekday and Saturday late-morning to early-afternoon slots match high customer interest, but notable weekday lunchtime closures miss demand. Strong alignment appears on Wednesday 11am-1pm and Saturday 11am-1pm. Missed opportunities occur Monday 12pm and Tuesday 11am-2pm. No low-demand open hours were identified; consider adding short midweek lunchtime hours or targeted appointments on Tuesdays.

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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Hours 1
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am-8pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday10am-8pm
Saturday10am-5pm
SundayClosed
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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

Where you'd stand#82of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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