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Alana Shinn Photography

Photographer · Cashmere, 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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Alana Shinn Photography

Photographer · Cashmere, Christchurch

Where you stand#94of 194 photography businesses
Overall health5.2/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page7.6

Where we can help

01Google listing5.903Map positions5.902Reviews5.308Opening hours4.904Listings and social1.307Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Alana Shinn Photography is a Christchurch studio specialising in luxury maternity and motherhood portraits. Sessions include hair and makeup, a curated wardrobe, and a calm, personalised studio experience. The studio offers custom art prints and aims to create emotive, artful images that mark the motherhood journey. Clients describe the atmosphere as warm and welcoming.

Alana Shinn Photography is a Christchurch portrait studio focusing on maternity and motherhood work. The studio presents a calm, personalised setting where clients are invited to mark the transitions of pregnancy and early parenting through considered portraiture. Sessions take place at a warm, welcoming studio in Christchurch.

The studio lists maternity and motherhood portraits as its core specialisations and includes hair and makeup and a curated wardrobe styled for each client. Alana offers custom art prints as a finished product, and sessions are presented as a centred, caring experience designed around presence and celebration.

Clients frequently report feeling comfortable, relaxed and supported during sessions. Review themes note a smooth process from first contact to final images, a studio environment that feels comfy, and a photographer who aims to be caring and attentive. Several reviews describe the shoots as emotionally connecting and enjoyable, with clients pleased by the vision and final results.

Locally, Alana Shinn Photography is positioned as a specialist maternity and motherhood portrait studio in Christchurch that combines styling services, inclusive session care, and bespoke prints. The combination of on-site hair and makeup, curated wardrobe options and a focus on emotional, artful imagery are the practical features that distinguish the studio for clients seeking commemorative motherhood portraits.

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Your Google listing

Alana Shinn Photography shows a solid overall health on Google Business Listing, with room to improve visual content and branding. The profile already has a website link, an open-for-business status, a listed phone number, a claimed listing, and a clear title. Key growth areas are adding photos and a logo, while the detailed description remains strong.

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
    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.
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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    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 6 of them.
5.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (4)
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From the business

Alana Shinn Photography | Maternity & Motherhood Portrait Studio – Christchurch Celebrate your motherhood journey with emotive, artful photography designed to help you feel seen, honoured, and empowered. Specialising in luxury maternity and motherhood portraits, Alana offers a calming, personalised studio experience. • Maternity & motherhood portraits • Hair and makeup included • Curated wardrobe, styled for each client • Custom art prints • Warm, welcoming studio Choose an experience centred on presence, care, and celebration—images to cherish for generations. Located in Christchurch. Find out more 022 076 1090

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Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your reviews

Alana Shinn Photography shows a mixed health picture on Google reviews, with a strong star rating but no responses to reviews yet. Overall health sits at 5.3 out of 10, indicating average performance. The top finding is the high rating; the key opportunity is improving engagement by replying to reviews to build trust.

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.

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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    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.
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    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.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #91 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Alana Shinn Photography shows an above-average health level in Google Maps search, with a score of 6.0 out of 10. This indicates solid visibility but room to improve. The business ranks well for several strong local keywords, especially around photography in Cashmere and portrait studios, suggesting a stable local presence and meaningful search relevance.

Strengths

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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.
5.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 4 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Alana Shinn Photography25.0 ★ (4) · Photographer
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #81 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Alana Shinn Photography shows very low social health with a 1.1/10 overall. The strongest finding is a valid Facebook presence, but Instagram and TikTok are missing, limiting local reach and younger audiences. A partial Yellow Directory listing could help with discoverability, though its impact is smaller.

Strengths

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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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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
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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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 3 of them.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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FacebookHSNAlana Shinn Photography | Facebook2
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found3
YellowNo listing found
NeighbourlyNo listing found
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #169 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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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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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.

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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    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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    A street addressYour page publishes no street address, so someone deciding whether you are near enough to bother with has nothing to check and moves on to a page that tells them.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #48 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Alana Shinn Photography shows a developing on-page SEO health with a score of 4.3 out of 10, indicating ample room for improvement to help local visibility. Notable strengths include an SEO-friendly URL, a clear H1 tag, and a relevant Title Tag, while page size is lean and frames are not used. Key opportunities focus on meta description, favicon, and render-blocking resources.

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.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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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.
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    The shape of your link profileNo links to your site were found, so there is no shape to read yet.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

Alana Shinn Photography shows a below-average health score for Website Traffic, at 4.2 out of 10, indicating limited organic and paid traffic activity. The two most important findings are: organic traffic value is near zero and no organic keywords rank in the top 100. This suggests a need for content, on-page SEO and small paid efforts to build visibility.

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.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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21About 0 visits a month from search, across 0 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #87 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Alana Shinn Photography's published hours partly match city demand: many weekday midday sessions align with popular search times, but notable evening and late-afternoon peaks are missed. Strong alignment occurs around Monday 11am-2pm and Wednesday midday. Missed opportunities include Monday 4pm and several evenings (Tuesday and Wednesday 6-8pm, Thursday 4pm). A small amount of Friday afternoon time is open during lower demand.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
4.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Alana Shinn Photography
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Hours 1
Monday10am-4pm
Tuesday10am-4pm
Wednesday10am-4pm
Thursday10am-4pm
Friday10am-4pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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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#94of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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