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AB Massage

Massage therapist · Northwood, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 203 Christchurch physiotherapy businesses.

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Checked12 October 2026
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AB Massage

Massage therapist · Northwood, Christchurch

Where you stand#120of 203 physiotherapy businesses
Overall health4.1/10across the eight areas

Going well

02Reviews9.201Google listing8.0

Where we can help

03Map positions5.008Opening hours4.007Google search and traffic3.204Listings and social3.105Facebook page2.406Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

AB Massage is a Christchurch-based massage studio in Casebrook run by Andrea Breach, a Level 6 Registered Remedial & Therapeutic Massage Therapist. The clinic specialises in remedial deep tissue work, Manual Lymphatic Drainage and TMJ (jaw release), and also offers relaxation and pregnancy/postpartum massage. Sessions are tailored to the individual and are by appointment only.

AB Massage is a massage studio in Casebrook, Christchurch, run by Andrea Breach, a Level 6 Registered Remedial & Therapeutic Massage Therapist. The practice focuses on hands-on bodywork to support pain relief, recovery and nervous system balance, with appointments by arrangement.

The studio lists remedial deep tissue work, TMJ (jaw) massage, Manual Lymphatic Drainage and relaxation and pregnancy/postpartum treatments. Descriptions note targeted deep work to reduce tension and stiffness, jaw-focused treatment for headaches and neck discomfort, and gentle rhythmic lymphatic work to address swelling and fluid retention.

Reviews consistently describe clients leaving feeling more relaxed and with reduced pain. Feedback highlights effective targeting of tight areas during deep tissue sessions, attentive listening from the therapist, a holistic approach to care, and a clean, comfortable treatment room. Several reviewers report relief from persistent shoulder, lower back and neck issues after a small number of treatments.

Locally, AB Massage presents as a small, appointment-only studio offering personalised massage therapies tailored session by session. The practice emphasises hands-on remedial techniques alongside calming and supportive treatments for pregnancy and postpartum clients, with a focus on easing pain, improving movement and helping clients feel more balanced.

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Your Google listing

AB Massage shows strong Google Business presence with a health score of 8.0 out of 10. The listing highlights include a website link, an open-for-business status, a verified claimed listing, and a visible phone number, which support easy discovery and contact by potential clients.

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
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have more photos on your listing than half the businesses here, so a customer arriving has enough to look at that they stay on it.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
8.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (43)
Massage therapist · Northwood1
Open 6 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed and Sun ✓
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From the business

Hi, I’m Andrea Breach — a Level 6 Registered Remedial & Therapeutic Massage Therapist based in Belfast, Christchurch. I offer professional massage therapy in Christchurch, specialising in Manual Lymphatic Drainage and TMJ (jaw release), helping relieve tension, jaw pain, headaches, and fluid retention. With over 7 years of experience and thousands of treatments performed, I also provide deep tissue, relaxation, and pregnancy/postpartum massage. Each session is tailored to support your body — easing pain, improving movement, and helping you feel more balanced and at ease. By appointment only.

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Google listingChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

AB Massage shows a very high Google review health with a 9.7/10 score, strong star rating and substantial review volume, indicating solid customer satisfaction. The key finding is outstanding rating confidence and top 10% star rating, while a notable improvement area is the lack of response to any reviews. Addressing review responsiveness could further boost trust and engagement.

Strengths

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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you at the head of this market: well rated, with enough reviews behind it that a customer takes the number seriously.
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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.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Review countYou hold more reviews than most of this market - depth buyers read as proof.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #18 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

AB Massage shows an average health score of 5.1 out of 10 for Google Maps performance, indicating moderate visibility and room for growth. The strongest ranking occurs for sports massage keywords in Casebrook and surrounding areas, especially in Casebrook and Northwood, which points to solid local relevance. The Suburb/Borough score reveals limited local presence that could be expanded with targeted local signals.

Strengths

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

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
5.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Top three for "sports massage therapist" in 7 suburbs, seen in 32
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AB Massage15.0 ★ (43) · Massage therapist
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Remedial Massage by Sonia5.0 ★ (24) · Massage therapist
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New Moon Wellness5.0 ★ (13) · Massage therapist
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Shadeofgrey Cottage4.9 ★ (50) · Massage therapist
Map positionsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #103 for map positions
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Where customers find you

AB Massage shows a low overall health score for social presence (2.6 out of 10) with limited active profiles beyond Instagram. The strongest current strength is an outstanding Instagram presence that signals trust and branding. Key opportunities exist to establish Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and Neighbourly profiles to broaden reach and improve discoverability.

Strengths

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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

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on 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.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
3.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Instagram_abmassagetherapy_AB Massage | Instagram✓
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FacebookNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #141 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #155 for your Facebook page
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Your website

AB Massage shows a solid on-page technical health with a 7.9/10 overall. Key strengths include a valid favicon, a fast page under 3 seconds, a compact page under 256KB, an SEO-friendly URL and secure HTTPS resources. Close attention needed to H1 presence and title and meta alignment to push beyond the current health score.

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 load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Separate sites linking to you
2The shape of your link profile
3On-page score
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How people find you on Google

AB Massage shows an overall health of 3.4 out of 10 for Website Traffic, which is below average. The key takeaway is that paid traffic is not yet measurable and needs a small, targeted initial campaign, while organic traffic already exceeds the bottom quartile and can be built on with better SEO fundamentals.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
3.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2No ads from you on any search
AB MassageNot in these results
31About 7 visits a month from search, across 7 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #139 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

AB Massage's opening hours mostly match local demand, with strong alignment across mid-morning and mid-afternoon weekdays (notably Monday 2pm, Tuesday 10-11am, Wednesday 3pm and Thursday 10am). There are clear missed opportunities on several weekday mornings-Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9am and Friday 9-10am-where demand is high but the clinic is closed. A few evening hours (Mon-Tue 7-8pm) show low demand and could be trimmed.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
4.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
AB Massage
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday10am-8:30pm
Tuesday10am-8:30pm
Wednesday10am-8:30pm
Thursday10am-6:30pm
Friday11am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
Sunday3pm-8pm
Opening hoursChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews2 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#120of 203 Christchurch physiotherapy businesses
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Christchurch physiotherapyOverall · 203 businesses
You are #120 overall
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