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Meola Dental

Dentist · Point Chevalier, Central Auckland

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 277 Central Auckland dentists.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
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Meola Dental

Dentist · Point Chevalier, Central Auckland

Where you stand#115of 277 dentists
Overall health5.9/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours7.202Reviews6.703Map positions6.4

Where we can help

01Google listing5.507Google search and traffic4.805Facebook page4.704Listings and social1.306Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Meola Dental is a dentist in Point Chevalier, Auckland, providing dental care from a practice established on Point Chevalier Road in 2008. The clinic focuses on careful, fairly priced treatment, plain-English explanations and appointments with the same dentist, with a gentle approach for youngsters and anxious patients.

Meola Dental is a dental practice on Point Chevalier Road in Point Chevalier, Auckland. It has provided dental care in the area since 2008, with weekday opening hours from 9am to 5pm.

The practice provides care shaped around each patient's priorities and budget. Its approach includes explaining treatment in plain English, allowing time for appointments and avoiding double-booking. Meola Dental also describes its care as gentle with youngsters and patient with people returning after dental anxiety.

Customers commonly describe the team as gentle, friendly and professional. Review themes include clear explanations before treatment, efficient appointments and attention to patient comfort. Customers also mention straightforward service, reasonable costs, progress pictures and dental work they consider high quality.

Meola Dental's local character comes from its long-standing Point Chevalier location and continuity of care. Patients see the same dentist at each visit rather than rotating staff, while treatment plans are shaped around what they need and can afford. The combination of an established local practice, unhurried appointments and plain-English communication distinguishes its approach in Point Chevalier.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Meola Dental's Google Business Listing has an Average health score of 5.5 out of 10. Core details are in place, including the business name, website link, phone number, trading status and claimed access. The main gaps are the lack of a meaningful listing description and fewer photos than most nearby listings, which may give customers less information when comparing local dental practices.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    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
    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
  • 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.
5.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.7 ★★★★★ (13)
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Google listingCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Meola Dental has an above average Google review health score of 6.7 out of 10. The practice responds to virtually every review, creating a current and engaged listing. The main gap is confidence: its star rating and review count both sit below the middle of the local market. Improving one or both could make the listing more convincing to prospective customers comparing nearby dental practices.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Response rateYou answer virtually every review, which almost nobody in this market does, and the page reads as a business that is present.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
6.7Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Urban T.★★★★★ · 6 days ago

Best dentist I have ever been to. At 26, I have been to a lot of dentists but not many come even close to the level of care and gentleness that this clinic does. I would 100% recommend them and will be going there if I need any more work do...

Response from the owner✓

Thank you very much.

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Mervyn W.★★★★★ · 3 months ago

Response from the owner

Thanks Mervyn.

Google reviewsCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Meola Dental has an above-average Maps Search health score of 6.4 out of 10. It ranks strongly in Point Chevalier, appearing in positions 2 to 3 for several core and specialist searches, including dentist and dental clinic. The main gap is visibility across surrounding suburbs, where fewer potential customers see the practice than competitors. Continuing to gather reviews is the clearest opportunity identified.

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 nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
6.4Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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cosmetic dentist
1Top three for "cosmetic dentist" in 1 suburb, seen in 2
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Pt Chevalier Dental Centre4.9 ★ (69) · Dentist
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Meola Dental24.7 ★ (13) · Dentist
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Pt Chevalier Family Dentist4.4 ★ (399) · Dentist
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Cosmetic Dental5.0 ★ (86) · Dentist
Map positionsCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #99 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Meola Dental has a very low Citations & Social Presence health score of 1.3 out of 10. The main issue is that no active Facebook, Instagram or TikTok profiles were found, limiting places where customers can check information or contact the clinic. Infobel and Cylex listings were also not found, reducing the business's visibility across local and niche directories.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

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 3 of them.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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White Pagespt-chevalier-dentalFound through search, not linked from anything you own
FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
YellowNo listing found
Listings and socialCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #241 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Meola Dental has no Facebook page that can be found, so customers cannot use Facebook to confirm the practice is real, check what it does, or send a message. That is unusual in this market: 150 of 277 businesses have a page that can be found. The gap is either an absent page or one that is not discoverable.

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.
4.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #148 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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    On-page scoreFew sites in this market clear these checks as completely as yours: fast to open, readable, and accurate about itself to Google and to the person who lands on it.
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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.
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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

  • 1
    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 2
    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links come from fewer separate sites than most profiles the size of yours.
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

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

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 search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
  • 3
    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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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31No ads from you on any search
Meola DentalNot in these results
2About 129 visits a month from search, across 15 searches
Google search and trafficCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #144 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Meola Dental's hours cover 68% of the week's customer traffic, with no open hours in quiet periods, so the schedule is well aimed and one busy gap remains. On Saturday from 9am to 3pm, customers meet a closed practice while the local market is busy. Meola Dental should open Saturday from 9am to 1pm so customers can arrive and be served during the busiest part of that gap.

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.
7.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Meola Dental
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursCentral Auckland dentists · 277 businesses
You are #77 for opening hours
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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#115of 277 Central Auckland dentists
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Central Auckland dentistsOverall · 277 businesses
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