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Linwood Dental Centre

Dentist · Linwood, 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
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Linwood Dental Centre

Dentist · Linwood, Christchurch

Where you stand#124of 210 dentists
Overall health4.1/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours7.907Google search and traffic7.3

Where we can help

03Map positions5.305Facebook page3.804Listings and social2.801Google listing2.602Reviews2.206Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Linwood Dental Centre is a dental clinic on Linwood Ave in Christchurch providing general dentistry from check-ups and cleans to extractions. The practice lists cosmetic dentistry and free basic care for 13-18 year olds, and offers WINZ quotes for eligible patients. Reviews commonly note friendly staff, professional care and reasonable pricing alongside comments about older facilities.

Linwood Dental Centre is a dental clinic located at 211 Linwood Ave in Linwood, Christchurch. The practice presents itself as a general dentistry provider serving the local community from a central Linwood location.

Services listed on the website include general check-ups, routine cleans, extractions and a cosmetic dental range. The clinic also states it provides free basic dental care for 13 to 18 year olds, and that WINZ-registered dentists on the team can provide quotes to help patients access financial assistance for urgent treatment.

Customer feedback shows recurring themes: patients describe friendly and accommodating staff, clear communication and reasonably priced work, and several reviews single out Dr Shorokh Hamadani by name for professional care. Some reviewers comment that the building and some equipment feel dated, and there is at least one negative report about a difficult treatment outcome.

Locally, Linwood Dental Centre is presented as an accessible community clinic with a long-serving clinical team and practical financial support options. The mix of general, cosmetic and youth-focused services, together with WINZ quote availability, are distinguishing practical features for residents seeking dental care in Linwood and surrounding Christchurch suburbs.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Linwood Dental Centre shows a health score of 2.7 out of 10, indicating low overall health for the Google Business Listing. The listing already includes a live phone number, website link, claimed status, and a visible listing title, which helps customers reach and learn about the practice. The main opportunities focus on adding branding and visuals to strengthen trust and identify the business quickly.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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 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.
  • 2
    Main imageYour listing has no main image, so the first picture a customer sees is whichever one Google chose for you.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Linwood Dental Centre
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3.9 ★★★★★ (13)
Dentist · Linwood
Open 5 days ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Linwood Dental Centre shows a low overall health score in Google reviews, with room to improve engagement and more reviews. The strongest opportunities lie in boosting response rate to reviews and encouraging more positive feedback, while continuing to grow the total number of reviews and maintaining quality care.

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.
2.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Linwood Dental Centre
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
3.9★★★★★13 reviews
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friendly staff 4waiting room 2skilled dentist 2driveway 2dental work 2
1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #164 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Linwood Dental Centre shows an above-average health score of 5.8 out of 10 for Google Maps search, indicating reasonable visibility overall. Top findings show strong ranking for multiple Linwood related dental terms, including dental clinic and dentist in Linwood, which helps capture local demand. There is room to improve both the city-wide and borough scores to reach higher exposure.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 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
    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.
5.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "dental clinic" in 2 suburbs, seen in 10
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Linwood Ave Dental4.3 ★ (42) · Dentist
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Linwood Dental Centre23.9 ★ (13) · Dentist
Map positionsChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #99 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Linwood Dental Centre shows a below-average health score for social presence and local directories, indicating limited across-platform visibility. The strongest area is Facebook, with a high trust association, while Instagram, TikTok, Yellow Directory and LinkedIn are missing or weak. Priorities should focus on establishing profiles on Instagram and TikTok, and claiming Yellow Directory and LinkedIn, to expand reach and trust.

Strengths

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    Healthpoint ListingWe can see your Healthpoint Listing listing (https://healthpoint.co.nz/linwood-dental-centre) found via: Google search results.
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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/linwood-dental-centre) found via: Google search results.
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    ServiceFinder ProfileWe can see your ServiceFinder Profile listing (https://servicefinder.co.nz/Linwood-Dental-Centre-100034) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Healthpointlinwood-dental-centreLinwood Dental Centre | Healthpoint✓
White Pageslinwood-dental-centreLinwood Dental Centre | White Pages✓
ServiceFinderLinwood-Dental-Centre-100034Linwood Dental Centre | ServiceFinder✓
Yelplinwood-avenue-dental-practice-christchurchLinwood Dental Centre | Yelp
NZWAOlinwood-ave-dental-limitedFound through search, not linked from anything you own
Dentist NZlinwood-avenue-dentalFound through search, not linked from anything you own
FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
3.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
You are #130 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Linwood Dental Centre shows an above-average on-page SEO health score of 6.6 out of 10, indicating solid technical foundations with room for improvement. The most notable findings are a valid favicon, relevant title tag and meta description, and a page size under 256KB, suggesting fast load times and clear metadata 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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    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.
  • ✓
    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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
  • 3
    Pages linking to youFewer pages link to yours than most of this market, so search engines have few routes into your site.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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How people find you on Google

Linwood Dental Centre shows an above-average health score for website traffic with room to grow paid and organic impact. The key takeaway is that paid traffic is not yet measurable and paid SERP coverage is missing, while organic rankings are solid and organic value is strong.

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.
7.3Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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linwooddentalcentre.co.nzLinwood Dental Centre | 211 Linwood Ave, 8011

211 Linwood Ave, Christchurch, 8011. Telephone: +64 3 3899730. FAX: +64 3 3899527. E-mail: [email protected].

www.healthpoint.co.nzLinwood Avenue Dental Practice
About 719 visits a month from search, across 67 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch dentists · 210 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Linwood Dental Centre's hours partly match local demand: weekday mid-mornings and mid-afternoons on Tuesdays and Wednesday are open during high-demand windows, while late Friday afternoon and several Saturday mornings and midday are closed despite notable local search activity. There are no open hours during low-demand windows, so the main opportunity is modestly extending weekend or Friday late-afternoon coverage to capture missed patient demand.

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.
7.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Linwood Dental Centre
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Hours 1
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-4pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#124of 210 Christchurch dentists
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Christchurch dentistsOverall · 210 businesses
You are #124 overall
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