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Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North

Pet groomer · St Albans, 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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Checked12 October 2026
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Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North

Pet groomer · St Albans, Christchurch

Where you stand#23of 79 pet grooming businesses
Overall health7.2/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North is a mobile dog grooming service operating from Saint Albans, Christchurch. It brings professional washing and grooming to homes across the area, offering warm hydrobaths, nail trimming and flea treatments. The team describe themselves as friendly, trained and insured. Customers commonly note stress-reducing mobile visits and single-groomer praise in reviews.

Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North provides mobile dog washing and grooming services based in Saint Albans, Christchurch. The service brings professional grooming directly to customers' homes, aiming to make the process familiar and low stress for dogs that are uncomfortable travelling to a salon.

Services listed include warm hydrobaths, full grooming and clips, nail trimming and flea treatments. The business promotes a mobile approach with friendly, trained and insured groomers, and states that treatments are carried out in the comfort of the dog's familiar environment.

Customer feedback in reviews highlights a positive experience with at least one named groomer who receives strong recommendation. Reviews emphasise helpful, hands-on care from that groomer, while an older review expressed uncertainty about the service's current availability. Overall, customer comments point to a mix of satisfied pet owners and a small note of confusion about presence over time.

Locally, Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North is presented as a mobile pet grooming option that focuses on convenience and a stress-free experience for dogs. The combination of on-site hydrobaths and routine care such as nail trims and flea treatments, together with a branded, insured team, are the main practical features that distinguish the service in Saint Albans and surrounding Christchurch suburbs.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing health for Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North is very low, at 0.8 out of 10, indicating significant gaps that could affect customer visibility and contactability. The listing already shows a title, website link, open status, full address and a main image, but critical items are missing or incomplete. Key issues include unclaimed status, missing phone number and logo, and minimal description.

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
    PhoneYour listing has no phone number, so the call button a customer expects to tap is not there and the ones in a hurry ring someone else.
  • 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.
0.3Room to grow
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Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North1✓
Own this business?
3.0 ★★★★★ (2)
Pet groomer · St Albans
Open 7 days ✓
Directions Website 2✓
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North shows a very low health score given in SUMMARY CONTEXT, with several opportunities to improve. The most important findings are the need to boost the Google Business Rating Confidence and to start responding to reviews, which impacts trust and engagement. The business also should continue growing its review base to raise star rating levels.

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.
0.8Room to grow
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Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
3.0★★★★★2 reviews
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #73 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North shows a moderate health score in Google Maps search, indicating some visibility but room to improve. Top keywords demonstrate strong presence in Saint Albans and adjacent areas with notable positions for pet groomer queries. The main opportunity is to lift aggregate maps visibility while maintaining solid borough performance.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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 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.
5.1Room to grow
9:41
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1Top three for "pet groomer" in 2 suburbs, seen in 11
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Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North✓3.0 ★ (2) · Pet groomer
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Savoir Dog Grooming4.9 ★ (77) · Pet groomer
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Pawsome Mobile Pet Grooming4.9 ★ (19) · Pet groomer
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Dogzday Grooming4.8 ★ (22) · Pet groomer
Map positionsChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #39 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Health is strong, with an 8.5 out of 10, indicating solid social and directory presence. The main finding is strong Facebook and Instagram profiles, plus a well-maintained LinkedIn listing, showing trusted, high-quality accounts. Opportunity exists to extend reach by adding TikTok, GrabOne, Yellow Directory, Tiktok Directory and Neighbourly listings to improve discovery.

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.
  • ✓
    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/10796017) found via: Your website.

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.
9.1Strong
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FacebookjimsdogwashJim's Dog Wash Christchurch North | Facebook✓
LinkedIn10796017Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North | LinkedIn✓
PetCareDBjims-dog-wash-christchurch-north-9326Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North | PetCareDB
Instagramjims_dogwashJim's Dog Wash Christchurch North | Instagram✓
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #8 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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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.
  • ✓
    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.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.7Strong
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Jim's Dog Wash And Grooming✓
22.5K followers ✓
Your local dog grooming expert that comes to you!!!1
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🌐 jimsdogwash.net.au✓
☎ +61 131546
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Facebook pageChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #3 for your Facebook page
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Your website

The On-Page SEO health for Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North is very high, indicating strong technical foundations and good optimisation. The top findings show solid meta and title tagging, a valid favicon, and no render-blocking resources, supporting fast, crawl-friendly access for search engines.

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
    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.
  • 2
    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, so a reasonable spread of places vouch for you.
  • 3
    Meta descriptionThe length of your search summary is close enough now that most people see all of it, so the gain left is in the words: one concrete reason to ring you beats another description of what you do.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

The website health for Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North shows a very high overall traffic health score, with strong organic performance. Key findings indicate solid organic traffic value and total, while opportunities lie mainly in starting paid traffic and improving paid visibility. A measured, staged approach is recommended to begin paid campaigns and protect current organic gains.

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.
8.7Strong
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Google search and trafficChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #11 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North has strong alignment between opening hours and local demand. Multiple mid‑afternoon slots on Tuesday and Thursday and a Sunday lunchtime peak are covered, while there are no missed high-demand windows. A small portion of weekly hours fall in low-demand times (early mornings and evenings midweek and Tuesday night), suggesting modest hour reductions could improve efficiency without losing customers.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
8.8Strong
9:41
Jim's Dog Wash Christchurch North
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday12am-12am
Tuesday12am-12am
Wednesday12am-12am
Thursday12am-12am
Friday12am-12am
Saturday12am-12am
Sunday12am-12am
Popular times Wednesday · St Albans
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Opening hoursChristchurch pet grooming · 79 businesses
You are #10 for opening hours
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The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

These are your top 19 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 positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#23of 79 Christchurch pet grooming businesses
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Christchurch pet groomingOverall · 79 businesses
You are #23 overall
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