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Vital Wellness Massage

Massage therapist · Hoon Hay, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 203 Christchurch physiotherapy businesses.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Vital Wellness Massage

Massage therapist · Hoon Hay, Christchurch

Where you stand#144of 203 physiotherapy businesses
Overall health2.9/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Vital Wellness Massage in Hoon Hay, Christchurch provides massage-based physiotherapy and wellbeing services from the former Sri Thai Massage premises. The clinic says it has rebranded to offer a broader range of treatments focused on relaxation, healing and holistic wellbeing. Clients report a warm, welcoming atmosphere and skilled, attentive therapists who prioritise comfort and care.

Vital Wellness Massage is based in Hoon Hay, Christchurch, operating from the same address previously used by Sri Thai Massage. The clinic has rebranded to reflect a wider focus on wellbeing while maintaining the location and continuity of care familiar to local clients.

The practice describes a broader range of services that centre on relaxation, healing and holistic wellbeing. Treatments remain massage-based and aim to combine therapeutic technique with an emphasis on overall physical comfort. Services are presented as attentive and adaptable, with staff noting an ongoing commitment to client care.

Client reviews consistently note a warm, welcoming reception and a calm, comfortable treatment environment. Reviewers highlight practitioners who are caring, present and accommodating, and who take time to make clients feel safe and well looked after. Many comment on the quality of the massage work and on feeling relaxed and cared for during and after appointments.

Locally, Vital Wellness Massage stands out for maintaining continuity with the previous clinic while signalling a wider wellbeing focus. The practice is easy to find in Hoon Hay and is described by clients as friendly and attentive. This combination of familiar location, rebranding toward broader services, and consistently positive reports about the client experience helps define its local character.

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Your Google listing

Vital Wellness Massage shows solid health on Google Business, with room for selective gains. The overall health score is 7.3 out of 10, indicating a high level of completeness and accuracy. The most notable findings are a complete listing with a phone number and website link, plus a claimed status that gives full control over details.

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 more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
  • 2
    Category fitYour category set covers less of this market than half the field, so there are jobs being searched for near you that your listing is not eligible to appear in.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou carry more photos than most of this market, which gives a customer a real look at the work before they ring.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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4.8 ★★★★★ (65)
Massage therapist · Hoon Hay2
Open 6 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri ✓
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From the business

Dear Valued Client, We are excited to share some important news with you! Sri Thai Massage has rebranded and will now be operating under our new name, Vital Wellness Massage. This change reflects our commitment to providing a broader range of services that focus on relaxation, healing, and holistic well-being. Please rest assured, while our name has changed, our address and the high-quality care you’ve come to expect remain the same.

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Your reviews

Vital Wellness Massage shows a very high Google review health score (8.6/10), indicating strong customer trust and social proof. The business already benefits from an outstanding total review count and ranking within the top 10% for Google Business Listing. The main opportunity is to start replying to reviews to boost trust and engagement, while continuing positive momentum in star rating and overall confidence.

Strengths

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    Review countYou hold one of the deepest review banks in this market - social proof that does its own selling.

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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    Star ratingYour rating sits ahead of half the businesses here, so the number is not pushing anyone away.
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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you ahead of most of this market, which means a customer sees a well-rated business with enough reviews behind it to be believed.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
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4.8★★★★★65 reviews ✓
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Google reviewsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #19 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Vital Wellness Massage in Christchurch shows a very low overall health score for Google Maps search at 1.4 out of 10, indicating limited visibility. The top finding is strong ranking for sports massage therapist in hoon hay (position 1). Opportunities exist to improve aggregate maps visibility and strengthen local borough performance to lift local discoverability.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
1.5Room to grow
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1Top three for "sports massage therapist" in 1 suburb, seen in 4
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Vital Wellness Massage24.8 ★ (65) · Massage therapist
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Christchurch Sports Massage5.0 ★ (13) · Massage therapist
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Bodyworks Massage Therapy4.9 ★ (215) · Massage therapist
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Elite Recovery Massage5.0 ★ (59) · Massage therapist
Map positionsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #173 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Vital Wellness Massage shows a low overall health score for social presence (2.4/10). The business has a strong Facebook presence, a solid foundation for engagement, but lacks activity on other key platforms. Primary strengths lie in a very high trust Facebook profile; opportunities exist to establish Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and Neighbourly listings to improve discovery and trust among local customers.

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.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
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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.
  • 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.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
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Listings and socialChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #141 for listings and social
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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 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.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
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    People following your pageMore people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post can travel past your own customers when one of them shares it into a local group.
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    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.
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🌿✨️Home-based Massage Therapist provides professional and affordable Service in a beautiful and tranquil environment. Deep Tissue, Relaxation, Thai Massage, Hot Stone Massage. at 299 Hoon Hay roa...
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Facebook pageChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #94 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Vital Wellness Massage shows a very low on-page SEO health score of 0.7/10 and requires foundational fixes. The most impactful findings are missing on-page elements, notably the homepage has no meta description or title tag, and there is no valid favicon. These gaps hinder search visibility and click-through rates, and the site could benefit from simplifying structure and removing frames.

Strengths

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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

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    On-page scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Vital Wellness Massage shows a low overall health score for website traffic, indicating limited organic and paid visibility. The strongest findings point to zero organic traffic and no measurable paid activity, with opportunities to build content, on-page SEO, and targeted campaigns to begin improving rankings and conversions.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
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    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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You are #158 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Vital Wellness Massage generally matches local demand well, with 50 well-aligned peak hours and no low-demand open hours. Peak alignment is strongest mid-morning and mid-afternoon - notably Monday 2pm, Tuesday 10-11am, Wednesday 3pm and Thursday 10am. Missed opportunities exist at early-morning peaks around 8am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday when the clinic is closed.

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.
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Hours 1
Monday9am-7pm
Tuesday9am-7pm
Wednesday9am-7pm
Thursday9am-7pm
Friday9am-7pm
Saturday10am-4pm
SundayClosed
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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#144of 203 Christchurch physiotherapy businesses
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