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Essential Nutrition

Nutritionist · Templeton, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 79 Christchurch dietitians & nutrition businesses.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Essential Nutrition

Nutritionist · Templeton, Christchurch

Where you stand#62of 79 dietitians & nutrition businesses
Overall health2.2/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Essential Nutrition is a dietitians and nutrition practice based in Templeton, Christchurch, with a head office at Innovation Park and an Ashburton office in Tinwald. They provide nutrition and dietetic services and offer business-focused support, and maintain multiple contact options including phone, freephone and email for clients across Canterbury.

Essential Nutrition is a dietitians and nutrition practice with its Christchurch head office at Innovation Park, 185 Kirk Road, Templeton, and an Ashburton office at 160 Melcombe Street, Tinwald. The firm operates from these Canterbury locations and lists phone, fax, freephone and email contact routes for clients.

They describe their work as adding value to businesses and provide dietetic and nutrition services. Contact details shown on their site include a Christchurch phone and fax, Ashburton office number and fax, a freephone 0800 number and multiple email addresses for enquiries. The website invites prospective clients to contact one of their team to discuss services.

Customers commonly approach Essential Nutrition through the listed contact channels to enquire about nutrition support for businesses and individual clients. The site emphasises direct contact, with a web form and clear phone and email options. They state that talking with their team is the way to learn how Essential Nutrition can add value to a business.

Locally, Essential Nutrition is notable for operating from a Christchurch head office in Templeton while also maintaining an Ashburton/Tinwald presence and a nationwide freephone number. That combination of regional offices and multiple contact methods is presented as the practical way for clients in Canterbury and beyond to reach their dietitians and nutrition advisors.

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Your Google listing

Essential Nutrition's Google Business listing shows a low health score due to incomplete setup, with basic contact details present. The most notable findings are that the listing already has a title, a website link, a phone number and a full address, but key improvements are still needed to attract customers and improve visibility.

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.
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    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    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.
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    Main imageYour listing has no main image, so the first picture a customer sees is whichever one Google chose for you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
0.9Room to grow
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Your reviews

Essential Nutrition shows very low overall health on Google Business reviews. The main finding is the need to build review volume and improve engagement, as the health score is 0.3 out of 10. Key opportunities include encouraging positive reviews, addressing negative feedback quickly, and starting to obtain initial reviews to establish a rating for potential customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
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    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.5Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch dietitians & nutrition · 79 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Essential Nutrition shows a health score of 4.3 out of 10 for Maps Search Performance, indicating room for improvement in Google Maps visibility. Top findings show strong ranking for 'dietitian in templeton' (position 2) and 'nutritionist in templeton' (position 2), plus solid presence for 'weight loss service in templeton' (position 10).

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
4.1Room to grow
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NM Nutrition5.0 ★ (8) · Nutritionist
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Essential Nutrition20.0 ★ (0) · Nutritionist
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Cushla Holdaway Dietitian5.0 ★ (135) · Nutritionist
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Well and Truly Nourished5.0 ★ (17) · Nutritionist
Map positionsChristchurch dietitians & nutrition · 79 businesses
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Where customers find you

Essential Nutrition shows a below-average overall health score for social and directory presence, with a 3.2 out of 10. The strongest observed achievement is a 'very high' trust Facebook profile, indicating solid reach and branding on that platform. Key opportunities include establishing active profiles on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, GrabOne and Yellow Directory to broaden visibility and trust among 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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
4.5Room to grow
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InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
NeighbourlyNo listing found
Listings and socialChristchurch dietitians & nutrition · 79 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 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.
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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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    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
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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 page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.2Room to grow
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Essential Nutrition was established in 1996 and exists to proactively improve animal health and deliver breakthroughs in livestock performance across New Zealand.
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Facebook pageChristchurch dietitians & nutrition · 79 businesses
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Your website

Essential Nutrition's on-page SEO health is low, with a 2.4/10 overall. The most important findings are the missing meta description on the homepage and the need to refine the title tag and favicon, which together limit click-through and brand visibility.

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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    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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    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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    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.
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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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Essential Nutrition's website shows an average health score for traffic, with some positive footing in organic visits but limited paid activity. The top opportunities point to starting a small paid campaign with clear landing pages, while continuing to grow organic reach through keyword refinement and better navigation.

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.
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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.
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    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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.0Room to grow
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2About 56 visits a month from search, across 16 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch dietitians & nutrition · 79 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Essential Nutrition currently has no published opening hours, so alignment with local demand cannot be confirmed. The lack of hours means likely missed visibility during city-level peak search periods and possible inefficiencies if staff availability does not match when clients look for nutrition services. Adding clear hours will reveal where current availability matches or misses high-demand windows and improve scheduling decisions.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
3.1Room to grow
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 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#62of 79 Christchurch dietitians & nutrition businesses
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