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Dentist on Merrin

Dentist · Avonhead, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 210 Christchurch dentists.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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Dentist on Merrin

Dentist · Avonhead, Christchurch

Where you stand#183of 210 dentists
Overall health1.3/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social6.0

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.803Map positions3.402Reviews1.408Opening hours1.301Google listing1.107Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Dentist on Merrin is a dental clinic in the Avonhead suburb of Christchurch offering general dental care and minor oral surgery. Reviews note painless wisdom tooth extractions performed by Dr Gao and a straightforward customer service approach, while other feedback highlights concerns about fillings, appointment handling and cleanliness. The clinic serves local residents seeking routine and emergency dental work.

Dentist on Merrin is a dental clinic located in the Avonhead suburb of Christchurch. It provides general dental services to local residents and is identified in reviews by its location on Merrin and by clinicians such as Dr Gao.

Services mentioned in public feedback include wisdom tooth extractions and routine restorative work such as fillings. Reviews describe extractions carried out without pain in some cases and also mention ordinary dental procedures; restorative work appears in feedback alongside specific notes about sensitivity after treatment.

Customer experience as reflected in reviews is mixed. Several customers praised professional skill and comfortable, painless wisdom-tooth removals and described positive customer service. Other reviewers reported problems after fillings, including increased tooth sensitivity, and some raised concerns about appointment scheduling errors and hygiene or cleanliness.

As a local Avonhead dental provider, Dentist on Merrin is known to people seeking extractions and routine dental care in Christchurch. Public commentary highlights both successful surgical visits and instances of dissatisfaction with restorative work and administrative matters, giving potential patients a range of reported experiences to consider when choosing local dental care.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Dentist on Merrin shows a healthy Google Business Listing presence with a verified address, phone and main image, but overall health is very low at 0.9/10. The strongest finding is the complete contact details and location, while the listing misses key elements like a website link and a clear description that explains services and value to patients.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    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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    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.
1.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Dentist on Merrin
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2.3 ★★★★★ (10)
Dentist · Avonhead
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business
No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Dentist on Merrin shows a low health score with room for steady improvement in online reviews. The clinic has started collecting reviews and has some positive signal, but needs active engagement and more reviews to strengthen credibility. The main opportunities involve boosting rating confidence, increasing response rate to reviews, and encouraging more feedback to move into higher rating brackets.

Strengths

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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
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
1.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Dentist on Merrin
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
2.3★★★★★10 reviews
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #180 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

The overall health score for Dentist on Merrin on Google Maps is 2.6 out of 10, indicating a low visibility level. Top findings show strength in ranking for key terms like dentist in avonhead and endodontist in avonhead, with several other related keywords ranking in the top five. Opportunities lie in improving aggregate scores and sustaining borough presence.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
  • 2
    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.
3.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "dentist" in 1 suburb, seen in 2
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Avonhead Dental4.9 ★ (34) · Dentist
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Dentist on Merrin22.3 ★ (10) · Dentist
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Riccarton Dental Studio (Previously Stafford Dental Centre - Sockburn)4.9 ★ (596) · Dentist
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Designer Denture Clinic5.0 ★ (101) · Dentist
Map positionsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #139 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Citations and social presence for Dentist on Merrin shows overall health of 4.4 out of 10. The score suggests average visibility and trust across third-party profiles. A strong Facebook presence is the standout asset, while opportunities lie in expanding across Instagram, TikTok, Yellow Profile, Tiktok Directory and GrabOne to improve local discovery and trust.

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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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/dentist-on-merrin-avonhead) found via: Google search results.
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    Dentist NZ ListingWe can see your Dentist NZ Listing listing (https://dentist.co.nz/dentist-on-merrin) 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.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.0Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookthedentistonmerrinDentist on Merrin | Facebook✓
Dentist NZdentist-on-merrinDentist on Merrin | Dentist NZ✓
White Pagesdentist-on-merrin-avonheadDentist on Merrin | White Pages✓
Healthpointavonhead-dental-centreFound through search, not linked from anything you own
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #84 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 three opportunities

  • 1
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
  • 2
    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
  • 3
    An email addressA customer who would rather put a request in writing at ten at night has only Messenger to work with, because the page carries no email address.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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157 followers 1
The Dentist on Merrin is your most convenient family and emergency dentist. We fully commit to provide you with the best quality dental services.
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★ 3 reviews · recommended 2
🌐 dentistonmerrin.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-358 9662✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #89 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Dentist on Merrin shows very low on-page SEO health, with a score of 1.3 out of 10. The homepage lacks a detectable meta description and title tag, and there are opportunities to add a favicon and align tags with page content. Improvement focuses on establishing baseline page structure, concise meta data and brand elements to boost visibility and click-throughs.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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

  • 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
    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
  • 3
    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2On-page score
3Separate sites linking to you
Your websiteChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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How people find you on Google

Dentist on Merrin shows very low overall website traffic health with scope on traffic and keyword footprint. The most important findings are that organic traffic value is near zero and no organic keywords rank in the top 100, suggesting weak visibility and content gaps. A small paid traffic presence is also not evident and paid spend is unclear.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
  • 2
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
  • 3
    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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No ads from you on any search
Dentist on MerrinNot in these results3
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You are #122 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Dentist on Merrin has no published opening hours, so alignment with Christchurch demand patterns cannot be mapped. No specific hours can be identified as well aligned or missed. This prevents targeted advice and contributes to a very low temporal health score. Adding accurate opening hours will enable identification of peak-match opportunities and reduce the chance of being closed when local patients search for dental services.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Dentist on Merrin
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Hours
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Opening hoursChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

These are your top 21 opportunities, from the 71 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

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#183of 210 Christchurch dentists
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Christchurch dentistsOverall · 210 businesses
You are #183 overall
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