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Harewood Veterinary Hospital

Veterinarian · Bishopdale, 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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Harewood Veterinary Hospital

Veterinarian · Bishopdale, Christchurch

Where you stand#7of 64 vets
Overall health9.0/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Harewood Veterinary Hospital is a small animal practice in Bishopdale, Christchurch, caring for dogs, cats, pocket pets and birds. The clinic's team of veterinarians and veterinary nurses provide routine and urgent care, emphasising clear communication and compassionate handling. Customers commonly note friendly, efficient service and staff who take time to explain options. The practice focuses on personalised, local pet care.

Harewood Veterinary Hospital is a small animal veterinary clinic located on Harewood Road in the Bishopdale area of Christchurch. The practice describes itself as caring for dogs, cats, pocket pets and birds and operates with a team of veterinarians and veterinary nurses based at the clinic.

The clinic provides general small animal services, with its staff listing vets and veterinary nurses among the key team members. Website content highlights the clinic's approach to straightforward, accessible pet care and encourages clients to get to know the qualified team. Services are presented for a range of common companion animals rather than large or farm stock.

Customer feedback emphasises a friendly, cheerful team and vets who are knowledgeable and take time to explain treatment options. Review themes include helpful reception staff, thoughtful veterinary nurses, and vets who build rapport with pets and their owners. Clients commonly describe efficient appointments and staff who show compassion and clear communication during consultations.

Locally, Harewood Veterinary Hospital is presented as a small, community-focused clinic offering personalised attention for companion animals in Bishopdale. What distinguishes the practice is its concentration on small pets, an established clinical team, and repeated customer notes about approachable, explanatory service and a care-focused customer experience.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Harewood Veterinary Hospital shows strong health on the Google Business Listing with a score of 7.9 out of 10. This indicates good completeness and solid local presence. The most notable findings are that the listing is claimed and verified, and essential contact details and a website link are present for customers. Opportunities focus on description and photo updates to lift rankings.

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
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Category fitYour category set is one of the better-fitted in this market, so you are eligible for nearly every search happening around you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.8Good
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4.6 ★★★★★ (297)
Veterinarian · Bishopdale3
Open 6 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Harewood Veterinary Hospital is a small animal practice providing outstanding care to dogs, cats, pocket pets and birds. Our experienced and dedicated team of Veterinarians and Veterinary Nurses are committed to providing the highest level of care to your pets. Get to know our qualified team here. We look forward to seeing you and your lovely pets soon.

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Google listingChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Harewood Veterinary Hospital shows a healthy presence in Google reviews with an overall health score of 4.6 out of 10. The strongest finding is a solid review count and a top quartile total reviews, indicating competitive visibility. However, there is no response to any reviews yet, which limits customer engagement and trust.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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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.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.1Good
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Harewood Veterinary Hospital
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4.6★★★★★297 reviews
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caring staff 39caring vet 9vaccination 6welcoming staff 5vet nurses 3kitten worming 2
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Google reviewsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Harewood Veterinary Hospital shows a healthy overall presence on Google Maps with a health score of 7.8 out of 10. The top opportunities include continuing to raise the aggregate Maps search score to broaden visibility across more local suburbs and maintaining momentum to stay above the borough's median. These strengths align with the practice's focus on local, compassionate care.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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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.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
8.1Strong
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2Top three for "veterinarian" in 5 suburbs, seen in 31
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Harewood Veterinary Hospital14.6 ★ (297) · Veterinarian
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Harewood Veterinary Clinic0.0 ★ (0) · Veterinarian
Map positionsChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Harewood Veterinary Hospital shows moderate health overall with room for improvement in social profiles. The most notable finding is a very strong Facebook presence and high trust score on the clinic's own site, which supports client trust. Opportunities exist to expand on TikTok and Neighbourly, LinkedIn and Yellow pages to widen reach.

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/harewood-veterinary-hospital-26770) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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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.
  • 2
    Instagram Profileyour Instagram Profile page surfaces strongly in search, which is how we found it, though nothing you control points at it.
  • 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.
5.2Room to grow
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FacebookHarewoodVeterinaryHospitalHarewood Veterinary Hospital | Facebook✓
TopVet Practiceharewood-veterinary-hospital-26770Harewood Veterinary Hospital | TopVet Practice✓
Best For Pet Clinicharewood-veterinary-hospitalHarewood Veterinary Hospital | Best For Pet Clinic
Kwister Animals12025-harewood-veterinary-hospitalHarewood Veterinary Hospital | Kwister Animals
Instagramharewoodvet_chchFound through search, not linked from anything you own2
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch vets · 64 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 pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    A street addressYour page publishes no street address, so someone deciding whether you are near enough to bother with has nothing to check and moves on to a page that tells them.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.0Room to grow
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870 followers 1
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★ 13 reviews · recommended 3
🌐 harewoodvet.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-352 2574✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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Your website

Harewood Veterinary Hospital shows a very high on-page SEO health score (9.5/10) for the homepage, indicating strong technical foundations. Key strengths include a well-optimised title tag, an excellent meta description, and a valid favicon, with no frames and secure HTTPS resources. The main room for improvement is ensuring an H1 tag exists and addressing render-blocking resources to further enhance load speed.

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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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.
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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.

Top three opportunities

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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.
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    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.
  • 3
    Pages linking to youFewer pages link to you than half the businesses here, which means a customer researching your trade reads someone else's explanation of it rather than yours.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Harewood Veterinary Hospital shows solid overall website traffic health with a score of 6.8 out of 10, indicating above-average performance for the local market. Organic traffic is strong, and the business ranks well locally. The main takeaway is continued success in organic visibility, alongside opportunities to initiate targeted paid campaigns to grow paid traffic and top-100 paid keywords.

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 ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    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.
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harewoodvet.co.nzHarewood Veterinary Hospital - 207 Harewood Road ...

Harewood Veterinary Hospital is is a small animal practice providing outstanding care to dogs, cats and pocket pets.

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About 2,193 visits a month from search, across 189 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch vets · 64 businesses
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Harewood Veterinary Hospital's opening hours largely match local demand, with strong alignment across key midweek afternoon peaks (Tuesday-Thursday 3-4pm). Several Saturday peaks are missed, notably a mid-afternoon 2-4pm window and an early 8am slot. No low-demand open hours were flagged, so waste from unnecessary open time appears minimal. Consider modest Saturday or early-morning adjustments to capture more demand.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand better than nearly every business here, so most of the time you are open, people are actually looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
8.3Strong
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Harewood Veterinary Hospital
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Hours 1
Monday8am-7pm
Tuesday8am-7pm
Wednesday8am-7pm
Thursday8am-7pm
Friday8am-7pm
Saturday9am-2pm
SundayClosed
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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#7of 64 Christchurch vets
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Christchurch vetsOverall · 64 businesses
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