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Good Dog Spa

Pet groomer · Wigram, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 79 Christchurch pet grooming businesses.

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Good Dog Spa

Pet groomer · Wigram, Christchurch

Where you stand#34of 79 pet grooming businesses
Overall health5.8/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social8.107Google search and traffic8.105Facebook page7.901Google listing6.9

Where we can help

08Opening hours5.603Map positions3.502Reviews0.606Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Good Dog Spa is a pet grooming and care facility in Wigram, Christchurch, offering grooming, daycare and canine physiotherapy. Grooming is led by Melissa with state-of-the-art equipment, while daycare provides monitored play and rest. Canine rehabilitation and hydrotherapy are provided by Kate Donald, a certified therapist with over eight years' experience.

Good Dog Spa operates in Wigram, Christchurch, as a purpose-built facility for dog grooming, daycare and canine rehabilitation. It presents itself as a local day-spa where grooming, hydrotherapy and rehabilitation are available alongside supervised daytime care.

The spa offers full grooming services using state-of-the-art equipment under an experienced groomer, Melissa. Daycare includes monitored, scheduled play times, activities and rest overseen by qualified supervisors and attendants. Rehabilitation and hydrotherapy are delivered by Kate Donald, who is certified in Canine Rehabilitation and has practised for over eight years. The site also lists dog training, gait training and puppy training among its services.

Customers can expect grooming aimed to be luxurious and stress-free, with outcomes described as dogs that look and smell fantastic and enjoy their visit. Daycare guests experience structured socialisation and stimulation during play and activity sessions, with supervised rest periods. Rehabilitation focuses on restoring physical wellness, improving strength and fitness, and includes assessment and hydrotherapy where appropriate.

Locally, Good Dog Spa combines grooming, hydrotherapy and rehab in a single Wigram location, staffed by named practitioners and purpose-built facilities. Its mix of state-of-the-art equipment, an experienced groomer and a certified canine rehabilitation therapist distinguishes it for owners seeking both regular grooming and planned physical therapy for their dogs.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing for Good Dog Spa shows a very healthy profile with a solid base of essential information and verified ownership. The overall health score is 8.8 out of 10, indicating strong completeness. The strongest points are a claimed listing, an available website link, and a visible phone number for 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
    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.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Grooming at the Good Dog Spa aims to provide a luxurious and stress-free grooming experience for your pampered pooches. We have state-of-the-art equipment in the hands of a skilled and experienced dog groomer, Melissa. The result is dogs who look and smell fantastic, and who have also had an enjoyable experience at their local day-spa. Daycare at the Good Dog Spa offers monitored, scheduled play times, activities, and rest to keep your pooches stimulated, entertained, and socialised throughout the day. Physiotherapy and Canine Rehabilitation at the Good Dog Spa is offered By Kate Donald, certified in Canine Rehabilitation, and has been practicing for over 8 years. We aim to provide the same quality care we would expect for ourselves.

Google listingChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Good Dog Spa shows a very low health level based on Google review data, indicating issues across ratings, reviews, and engagement. The top findings are the lack of established star rating and very few reviews, plus no response to any reviews, which can erode trust with potential customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 3
    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.
0.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google reviewsChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Good Dog Spa shows a below-average overall health score of 3.7 out of 10 for Google Maps search visibility. The business ranks well for core pet grooming terms in Wigram, notably pet groomer in wigram and animal hospital in wigram, indicating solid presence in key local searches. However, aggregate and borough scores indicate room to grow visibility beyond current bracket.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Top three for "pet groomer" in 1 suburb, seen in 6
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Good Dog Spa✓0.0 ★ (0) · Pet groomer
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Wigram Vet Wigram4.8 ★ (224) · Pet groomer
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Sharnas Doggy Day Care and Dog Grooming4.4 ★ (116) · Pet groomer
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Clover Pet Grooming4.8 ★ (42) · Pet groomer
Map positionsChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #52 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Good Dog Spa shows solid social presence with very high trust on Instagram and Facebook, yielding a strong health score of 8.1 out of 10. The most notable strength is active, trusted Instagram and Facebook profiles that support customer trust and brand visibility. Opportunities lie mainly in expanding directory listings and adding short-form video presence to reach broader audiences.

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.
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    PetCareDB ListingWe can see your PetCareDB Listing listing (https://petcaredb.com/good-dog-spa-8290) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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 6 of them.
8.1Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Instagramwigramvet_gooddogspaGood Dog Spa | Instagram✓
Facebook100090454507405Good Dog Spa | Facebook✓
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TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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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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    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.
  • 3
    Recommendations on your pageMore customers have recommended you than at most pages in this market, and depth like that reads as a business that has been doing this a while.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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The Good Dog Spa offers a dedicated Dog Daycare, Groomer, and Canine Physical Therapist.2
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☎ +64 3-929 0987✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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Your website

Good Dog Spa shows an above-average on-page SEO health score of 6.7 out of 10, indicating solid technical foundations with room for improvement. The site already benefits from a valid favicon, a relevant title tag, an SEO-friendly URL, and no frames, contributing to crawlability and quick load. Two key findings: the meta description is missing, and render-blocking resources slow pages slightly.

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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    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

  • 1
    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.
  • 3
    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.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

Good Dog Spa shows a solid website traffic health, with a score of 7.7/10 indicating a healthy baseline but room for growth in paid visibility. The strongest current area is organic traffic value, already in the 50-75% band, while paid metrics show no measurable spend yet and paid keywords are absent from top 100 results. Addressing paid strategies could unlock new visits.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
8.1Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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angelsgrooming.co.nzAngels Grooming Parlour Christchurch
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Visit Our Pet-Friendly Facility Today and find out more about our day care, and grooming services Hydrotherapy. Call today (03) 929 0987 Wigram Vet & the Good  ...

www.facebook.comGood Dog Spa | Christchurch
About 1,765 visits a month from search, across 151 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Good Dog Spa's hours show focused alignment with afternoon demand but leave several popular windows closed. All 40 well-aligned peak hours fall in mid-afternoon weekday slots (Tuesday-Thursday around 3-4pm), while 49 high-demand hours remain closed, notably Sunday late morning-early afternoon and weekday 5pm slots. No open hours fall in low-demand periods, so adjustments could shift commercial opportunity without extra idle time.

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.
5.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Good Dog Spa
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Hours 1
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#34of 79 Christchurch pet grooming businesses
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Christchurch pet groomingOverall · 79 businesses
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