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Estuary Veterinary Clinic

Veterinarian · Brookhaven-Ferrymead, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 64 Christchurch vets.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Estuary Veterinary Clinic

Veterinarian · Brookhaven-Ferrymead, Christchurch

Where you stand#48of 64 vets
Overall health2.5/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours7.103Map positions7.002Reviews6.2

Where we can help

04Listings and social3.805Facebook page3.701Google listing1.607Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Estuary Veterinary Clinic is a veterinary practice in Woolston, Christchurch, offering general veterinary care for companion animals. The clinic is known locally for a compassionate, customer-focused team and long-standing community ties. Clients report attentive, kind service from vets and nurses, including support for routine checks and longstanding patient relationships.

Estuary Veterinary Clinic is a veterinary practice based in Woolston, Christchurch, providing veterinary care for companion animals in the local area. The clinic identifies as a community practice with established local roots and ongoing client relationships.

The clinic offers general veterinary services for pets, centred on routine checks, care and support for companion animals. Staff are described as professional and pet-focused, maintaining a consistent, compassionate approach to animal care and client communication.

Customers consistently describe the team as kind, attentive and compassionate. Reviews highlight individual vets and nurses for their thoroughness and care, and clients note a welcoming experience for first-time visits as well as long-term care for longstanding patients.

What distinguishes Estuary Veterinary Clinic locally is its strong community connection and a team reputation for personal, pet-centred care. Clients value the clinic's attentive service, continuity of care and a compassionate approach that has sustained long-term relationships with many local pet owners.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Estuary Veterinary Clinic shows low overall health on Google Business Listing, with room to improve key listing elements. The strongest current assets are an open-for-business status, a visible listing title, a working website link, a listed phone number, and a full address. Primary opportunities focus on claiming the listing, expanding a meaningful description, adding a logo, and increasing photo volume.

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

  • 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
    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.
  • 3
    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Estuary Veterinary Clinic
Estuary Veterinary Clinic1✓
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4.8 ★★★★★ (152)
Veterinarian · Brookhaven-Ferrymead
Open 6 days ✓
DirectionsCall Website ✓
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Estuary Veterinary Clinic shows a healthy overall Google review profile with a 7.1/10 health score and strong review volume. The top findings show solid star ratings and listing activity, though there is a gap in responding to reviews that could erode trust if left unaddressed.

Strengths

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Top three 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 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
    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Estuary Veterinary Clinic
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2How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #25 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Estuary Veterinary Clinic shows moderate health in Maps Search Performance, with an overall score of 5.7 out of 10. The business ranks well for local keywords such as veterinarian in brookhaven-ferrymead, mount pleasant and redcliffs, and animal hospital in woolston, indicating strong local relevance. Opportunities lie in expanding presence across more suburbs and strengthening borough visibility.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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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.
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    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.
7.0Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Top three for "veterinarian" in 7 suburbs, seen in 23
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Estuary Veterinary Clinic14.8 ★ (152) · Veterinarian
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Petfirst Veterinary Ferrymead4.7 ★ (47) · Veterinarian
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Animal Orthopaedics5.0 ★ (58) · Veterinarian
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Animal and Bird Hospital4.7 ★ (635) · Veterinarian
Map positionsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #20 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Estuary Veterinary Clinic shows an overall health of 3.5 out of 10 for social and directory presence, which is below average and signals room for improvement. The strongest current strength is a very high-trust Facebook profile, indicating solid audience engagement and branding. Key opportunities focus on establishing or improving profiles on Instagram, TikTok, Neighbourly, LinkedIn and Yellow, and solidifying trust among local directories.

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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    TopVet PracticeWe can see your TopVet Practice listing (https://topvet.net/estuary-veterinary-clinic-26664) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe turned up your Instagram Profile page, but only barely, and nothing you own points at it - your website does not link to it and it is not on your Google listing.
  • 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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
3.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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InstagramestuaryvetsEstuary Veterinary Clinic | Instagram1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #40 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

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    Recommendations on your pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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★ 3 reviews · recommended 1
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☎ +64 3-384 3075✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
You are #41 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Estuary Veterinary Clinic shows a very low on-page SEO health score, indicating needs for foundational fixes. Key findings include missing meta description and title tag, absence of a visible H1 tag, and no valid favicon. Addressing these basics will help improve search visibility and click-through rates, while strengthening the page's structure for both users and crawlers.

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.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
  • 3
    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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How people find you on Google

Estuary Veterinary Clinic shows a low health score for Website Traffic, indicating limited organic and paid visibility. Key findings point to near zero organic traffic value and no organic ranking in the top 100, with no clear paid spend. Focused action on local content, on-page SEO, and a small paid campaign could start improving traffic and awareness among local clients.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    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
9:41
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www.estuaryvet.co.nzESTUARY VETERINARY CLINIC - Estuary Vet Home

Veterinary Clinic located at 1091 Ferry Rd, Unit D, Ferrymead, Christchurch, New Zealand. Ferrymead for over 20 years. We welcome new clients and pets to join ...

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Your hours against demand

Estuary Veterinary Clinic's opening hours generally align with local demand during weekday afternoons, particularly mid-week at 3-4pm. The clinic is closed for several Saturday afternoons and midday windows where customer searches remain notable. There is no time open during low-demand hours, so inefficiency from unnecessary hours is not evident. Adjusting a few Saturday hours could capture missed clients.

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.
7.1Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Estuary Veterinary Clinic
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Hours 1
Monday8am-6:30pm
Tuesday8am-6:30pm
Wednesday8am-6:30pm
Thursday8am-6:30pm
Friday8am-6:30pm
Saturday9am-12pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Brookhaven-Ferrymead
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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#48of 64 Christchurch vets
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Christchurch vetsOverall · 64 businesses
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