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Rothbury Insurance Brokers

Insurance agency · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 121 Christchurch insurance brokers.

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Rothbury Insurance Brokers

Insurance agency · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#6of 121 insurance brokers
Overall health9.6/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Rothbury Insurance Brokers is a Christchurch Central City brokerage offering tailored insurance for individuals and businesses. The locally based team brings over 75 years of combined experience and local insight to business, commercial motor vehicle, liability and professional indemnity cover. Clients are supported with evolving policies that adapt as operations and assets change.

Rothbury Insurance Brokers is a Christchurch Central City insurance brokerage located on Colombo Street. The firm describes itself as a local provider, with a team that lives and works in the communities it serves and more than 75 years of combined experience advising Kiwi individuals and businesses.

The firm offers tailored insurance solutions across business, commercial motor vehicle, liability and professional indemnity cover, and notes expertise in helping protect businesses from financial and legal risks. Services emphasise working closely with clients to adjust cover as business needs, operations and assets change over time.

Customer feedback consistently notes prompt, helpful and professional service. Reviews highlight ease of process for house and contents policies, positive claims handling, responsiveness for urgent indemnity requests, and a caring approach from the team during stressful situations.

Rothbury presents itself as a locally grounded insurance adviser for Christchurch businesses and residents, combining long-standing industry experience with hands-on client support. Its central city location and focus on evolving, tailored commercial and personal insurance solutions are practical distinctions for clients seeking local industry knowledge.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Rothbury Insurance Brokers shows a very high overall health on Google Business Listing, reflecting a complete profile and verified ownership. Core details are present and accurate, including a listed website link, phone number, and open-for-business status, with the title clearly shown. The primary opportunities are enhancing listing photos and further refining the 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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    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 two opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Description lengthYour description is one of the fuller ones in this market, which means a customer comparing you side by side has more of your case in front of them than most.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.3Strong
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4.8 ★★★★★ (91)
Insurance agency · Christchurch Centre
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From the business

Located in the central city of Christchurch, our local insurance brokers are here to support you. Our team lives and works in the communities we serve, bringing deep local insight and over 75 years of experience advising Kiwi individuals and businesses. We provide tailored insurance solutions and expert guidance across key areas including business, commercial motor vehicle, liability and professional indemnity helping protect businesses from financial and legal risks. As a trusted business insurance adviser in Christchurch, we work closely with our clients to ensure their cover evolves alongside their business, adapting to changing needs, operations, and assets over time.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Rothbury Insurance Brokers shows an above-average health score of 6.4 out of 10, indicating solid overall Google review performance with room to improve engagement and consistency. The strongest signals are a healthy rating and a high number of reviews, while the key opportunity is improving response to reviews to build trust with customers and clients.

Strengths

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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 3 of them.
7.2Good
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4.8★★★★★91 reviews
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Google reviewsChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
You are #35 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Rothbury Insurance Brokers shows a high overall health in Google Maps search presence, with a score of 8.3 out of 10. The borough presence has improved from the bottom quartile and is approaching the local midpoint, while aggregate visibility sits at or above the local median, reflecting solid overall exposure and continued momentum in local searches.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
  • 2
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
9.1Strong
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Map positionsChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
You are #12 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Rothbury Insurance Brokers shows an above-average health score of 6.8 out of 10. Strengths include a very strong Facebook presence and a well-maintained LinkedIn Company listing, with Neighbourly also active. Opportunities focus on establishing or revitalising key profiles (Instagram, TikTok) and directory listings (GrabOne, Neighbourly, Yellow Profile) to improve discoverability 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.
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    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/rothbury-insurance-brokers) found via: Google search results, Your website.
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    Yelp ListingWe can see your Yelp Listing listing (https://yelp.com/rothbury-insurance-brokers-canterbury-christchurch) found via: Google search results.

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.
  • 2
    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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.2Good
9:41
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Yelprothbury-insurance-brokers-canterbury-christchurchRothbury Insurance Brokers | Yelp✓
LinkedInrothbury-insurance-brokersRothbury Insurance Brokers | LinkedIn✓
Finance Advisers Providerrothbury-insurance-brokers-limited-auckland-central-FSP284625Rothbury Insurance Brokers | Finance Advisers Provider
FacebookRothburyInsuranceBrokersRothbury Insurance Brokers | Facebook✓
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IBANZ Broker10095-s123Found through search, not linked from anything you own
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

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 cover photoYour page opens with a cover photo rather than a blank banner, so the first impression a visitor gets is your own work.

Top three opportunities

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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
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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.
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    An email addressA customer who would rather put a request in writing at ten at night has only Messenger to work with, because the page carries no email address.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.3Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
You are #70 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Rothbury Insurance Brokers shows a very high on-page SEO health score of 9.1 out of 10 for the homepage, indicating strong technical setup. Key strengths include an excellent meta description within 130-150 characters, a valid favicon, no render-blocking resources, a relevant title tag, and an in-page H1 tag that clarifies page content.

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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    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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    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 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
    The shape of your link profileYour links come from fewer separate sites than most profiles the size of yours.
  • 3
    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than most of this market, so search engines see a wide spread of independent sites vouching for you.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Rothbury Insurance Brokers shows very strong website traffic health with a score of 8.8 out of 10. The strongest evidence is high organic traffic value, local top-10% for organic traffic, and top-10% for local organic keyword coverage. Paid traffic is solid but with room to improve through data-driven bidding and landing-page optimisation.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsYour paid search activity is smaller than most businesses advertising here.
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    Monthly ad visitsYou are getting fewer visitors from paid search than the middle of the businesses advertising here.
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    Search terms you advertise onYour ads cover fewer search terms than the middle of the businesses advertising here.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
9.2Strong
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Rothbury is your trusted local insurance broker in Christchurch - Canterbury ... Location: Ground Floor 518 Colombo Street, Central City, Christchurch 8011. Read more

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Google search and trafficChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Rothbury Insurance Brokers shows very strong temporal alignment overall with a high health score (8.8). Specific hour-level matches could not be listed because city-level popularity data is not available. The current opening pattern appears broadly appropriate for central Christchurch demand, though a quick review of local search trends could reveal modest extensions into early evenings or weekend slots if client behaviour supports it.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
10.0Strong
9:41
Rothbury Insurance Brokers
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Hours 1
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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01Google listing2 opportunities

02Reviews3 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#6of 121 Christchurch insurance brokers
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Christchurch insurance brokersOverall · 121 businesses
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