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Chris Sharpe Photography

Photographer · Kaiapoi North, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 194 Christchurch photography businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
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Chris Sharpe Photography

Photographer · Kaiapoi North, Christchurch

Where you stand#10of 194 photography businesses
Overall health9.5/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Chris Sharpe Photography is a professional commercial photographer based in Sovereign Lakes, Kaiapoi, working across Christchurch and New Zealand. Chris specialises in hospitality, tourism and retail imagery, offering photography and video services. Clients note professional, friendly service and consistent, high-quality results aimed at bringing briefs to life for smart brands.

Chris Sharpe Photography is a commercial photography service based in Sovereign Lakes, Kaiapoi, operating throughout Christchurch and across New Zealand. Chris presents himself as a professional photographer focused on creating eyecatching imagery for hospitality, tourism and retail brands, and also produces video work.

Services include commercial photography tailored to brand briefs, with examples from food, staff and retail shoots. The website describes experience working with clients from C-suite to frontline staff, and a practical, collaborative approach to delivering imagery that supports brand needs.

Clients regularly comment on professional, friendly service and reliable results. Reviews highlight quality photos, useful collaboration on website and menu photography, and positive experiences during shoots, with clients recommending Chris and noting good communication and ease of working together.

Locally, Chris Sharpe Photography presents as a hands-on commercial photographer for hospitality, tourism and retail clients who need imagery and short-form video. Chris emphasises making people relaxed on set while staying focused on the brief, which clients report leads to consistent, usable visual content for brand projects.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing for Chris Sharpe Photography shows an above-average health score of 6.5 out of 10, reflecting solid profile completeness with strong ownership verification. Highlights include an active website link, open-for-business status, a listed listing title, claimed status and a visible phone number. The strongest remaining area is the description, which could be refined to move above the bottom quartile.

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

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    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
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    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.
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    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.5Good
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Professional Photographer Creating Eye-catching Imagery for Smart Brands

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Your reviews

Chris Sharpe Photography shows a very high health score on Google Business reviews, indicating strong customer satisfaction and engagement. The top-10% star rating supports consistent, high-quality results. The next focus should be maintaining this rating while pushing to join the top 10% for listing confidence.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.
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    Response rateYou answer virtually every review, which almost nobody in this market does, and the page reads as a business that is present.

Top two opportunities

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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.
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    Review countYou hold more reviews than most of this market - depth buyers read as proof.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
9.6Strong
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Matt B.★★★★★ · 4 months ago

Outstanding job for one of my clients in the retail space. Quality service and great photos. Highly recommend Chris.

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Thanks again for the opportunity to collaborate on this project and appreciate your review, thanks Matt!

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Marcus B.★★★★★ · 4 months ago

Chris has been amazing to partner with on our website development project, in particular capturing our food from our menus and taking photography of our staff. Chris also completed an amazing video for us which was of a very high quality an...

Response from the owner

Many thanks for your kind words Marcus, an absolute pleasure to work with you and the team at CanDo Catering.

Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Chris Sharpe Photography shows a solid overall health in Google Maps, with a score of 8.3 out of 10, indicating strong local visibility. The top finding is dominant performance for key Kaiapoi-centered keywords, placing first for multiple terms. A second notable point is good borough presence, suggesting steady visibility in the surrounding suburb and opportunity to push into the top tier.

Strengths

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

Top two opportunities

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    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.
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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.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
7.9Good
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1Top three for "photographer" in 3 suburbs, seen in 8
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Chris Sharpe Photography25.0 ★ (31) · Photographer
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Photography by Karla5.0 ★ (25) · Photographer
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Wedding Photographers Christchurch0.0 ★ (0) · Photographer
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Display - Commercial Photography & Video5.0 ★ (70) · Photographer
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #42 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Citations & Social Presence shows a very high health score of 9.5 out of 10, indicating strong overall presence. The top finding is outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles supporting credibility, plus a Yellow Directory listing that boosts local visibility. Opportunities focus on missing TikTok presence and strengthening Neighbourly profiles to engage with local audiences.

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.
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    Yellow ProfileWe can see your Yellow Profile listing (https://yellow.co.nz/y/chris-sharpe-photography-579433654) 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.
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    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.
  • 3
    LinkedIn CompanyWe could not find an active LinkedIn Company 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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TiktokNo account found1
NeighbourlyNo listing found2
LinkedInNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #18 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 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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    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
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    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.
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    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.2Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your website

Chris Sharpe Photography shows a very high on-page SEO health score of 9.7 out of 10, indicating strong technical optimisation. The most notable findings are excellent meta description and title tag health, a valid favicon, an SEO-friendly URL, and an H1 tag, which together support clear indexing and user understanding.

Strengths

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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.
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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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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
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    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Website Traffic health for Chris Sharpe Photography shows a solid overall health score with room to grow. The most important findings are that paid traffic is currently not measurable and paid keyword coverage is absent in top 100 results, while organic traffic value and total organic rankings are mid-range and improving.

Strengths

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

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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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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www.chrissharpephotography.co.nzChris Sharpe - Professional Photographer Christchurch

Chris Sharpe Photography is a professional photographer dedicated to creating eyecatching imagery for smart brands across New Zealand.

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Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #46 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Chris Sharpe Photography's hours generally align with daytime demand but miss key evening peaks. Strong alignment occurs mid-day Monday (11am-2pm) and Wednesday noon, matching high search activity. Missed opportunities include weekday evenings (Tuesday 8pm, Wednesday 6pm and 8pm, Monday 5pm) and Friday 5pm when the business is closed during popular windows. Small low-demand openings on Tuesday and Friday suggest minor inefficiency.

Strengths

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

Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
5.6Room to grow
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Kaiapoi North
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Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #86 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews2 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#10of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
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