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Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy

Permanent make-up clinic · Riccarton, Christchurch

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Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy

Permanent make-up clinic · Riccarton, Christchurch

Where you stand#103of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health8.2/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy is a Riccarton, Christchurch salon offering cosmetic tattooing and beauty therapy. They state 34 years in cosmetic tattooing and 45 years in beauty therapy. Services mention brows, eyeliner and lip work alongside general beauty treatments. Clients can expect personalised consultations and treatments tailored to individual facial features.

Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy is a salon based in Riccarton, Christchurch that offers cosmetic tattooing and beauty therapy. The practice presents decades of experience and focuses on treatments that complement natural facial features.

Services listed include cosmetic tattooing for eyebrows, eyeliner and lips, plus broader beauty therapy offerings. The website states 34 years of experience in cosmetic tattooing and 45 years in beauty therapy, and notes a personalised approach where not every face is treated the same.

Customer feedback highlights skilled cosmetic tattooing with natural-looking results, careful attention to detail and a calm, patient manner during treatments. Reviews mention successful corrections of previous work, steady hands during procedures and a tendency for the practitioner to take extra time to ensure client comfort.

Locally, Virginia Scott positions itself as an experienced provider of both cosmetic tattooing and traditional beauty therapy in Riccarton. Customers seeking detailed consultations, corrective microblading or subtle lip and eyeliner tattooing may find a tailored, patient-focused experience emphasised in the salon's approach.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing for Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy shows a solid base with the health score ranking as average. Key strengths include claimed status, a listed website link, an open-for-business indicator, a listing title, and a visible phone number. The main opportunity is a more informative listing description to engage potential customers.

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 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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou carry more photos than most of this market, which gives a customer a real look at the work before they ring.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.4Good
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4.8 ★★★★★ (115)
Permanent make-up clinic · Riccarton2
Open 5 days · late Tue, Wed and Thu ✓
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy shows an above-average Google health score of 6.4/10. The business benefits from a solid review base and improving engagement, with strong performance on total reviews and response rate relative to peers. Key opportunities focus on sustaining listing momentum and boosting confidence and rating level further.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateYou reply to some of your reviews but not most, so a customer scrolling your page finds long stretches where nobody answered.
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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.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating sits ahead of half the businesses here, so the number is not pushing anyone away.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.2Good
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4.8★★★★★115 reviews
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Jamin★ · a year ago

Response from the owner1

Hi Jamin I have no records of you being a client

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Jomas B.★★★★★ · a year ago

Virginia is an absolute gem, does free consultations and is a wizard at what she does!

Response from the owner

Thankyou Jomas for your lovely review

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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Maps search health for Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy is very low, with an overall health score of 0.2 out of 10. This suggests limited visibility in Google Maps searches and room for improvement. Top opportunities focus on improving aggregate maps rankings and ensuring the suburb listing aligns with map queries.

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 suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.4Room to grow
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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Live Deeply Spa5.0 ★ (1) · Permanent make-up clinic
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The Beauty Parlour4.6 ★ (77) · Permanent make-up clinic
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Lavande Hair & Beauty4.8 ★ (78) · Permanent make-up clinic
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Beauty Lies Within4.9 ★ (95) · Permanent make-up clinic
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Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #545 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy shows a very high health score of 9.5, indicating strong presence and trust across social profiles and directories. The most important findings are outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles and a solid Fresha presence, which together support broad local reach and credible branding.

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

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    Tiktok ProfileWe found your Tiktok Profile page through search alone, with nothing on your own website or your Google listing pointing at it.
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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.
  • 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.
9.3Strong
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FacebookVirginiaScottBeautyClinicVirginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy | Facebook✓
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Freshalp/en/tt/permanent-makeup-tattooing/in/nz-christchurch/riccartonVirginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy | Fresha3
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Listings and socialChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #39 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

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 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.

Top two opportunities

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    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.
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    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.2Strong
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1.1K followers 1
Over 42 years of international experience, with a strong background in cosmetic tattooing. Past clie2
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☎ +64 27 224 2175✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #44 for your Facebook page
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Your website

The On-Page SEO health for Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy shows a solid baseline with a high score of 8.0 out of 10. Key findings include a valid favicon, efficient page size, no frames, a relevant meta description, and a strong title tag. Opportunities focus on improving meta description length, fine-tuning the title tag, and adding an H1 tag to further optimise crawl indexing.

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.
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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.
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    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
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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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    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
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How people find you on Google

The website health for Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy is strong, with a health score of 8.3 out of 10. Organic traffic value is already solid in the 50-75% local range, while paid efforts are just starting. The top opportunities focus on initiating paid traffic campaigns and refining paid keyword presence, alongside sustaining content and backlinks to push organic growth.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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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.
  • 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.
8.0Strong
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Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty TherapyNot in these results
About 303 visits a month from search, across 184 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #113 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy shows reasonable timing in Riccarton: 42 weekly open hours align with many high-demand windows but 35 high-demand hours are missed. Good coverage on weekday afternoons and Saturday early afternoon, with no open hours during low-demand periods. The mix suggests the current schedule reaches key appointment times but could extend specific weekend and early-week afternoon slots to capture more local searches.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Virginia Scott Cosmetic Tattooing & Beauty Therapy
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am-8pm
Wednesday10am-8pm
Thursday10am-8pm
Friday10am-5:30pm
Saturday10am-2pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Monday · Riccarton
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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#103of 570 Christchurch beauty businesses
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