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Darin Young Photography

Photographer · Heathcote Valley, 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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Darin Young Photography

Photographer · Heathcote Valley, Christchurch

Where you stand#121of 194 photography businesses
Overall health3.8/10across the eight areas

Going well

07Google search and traffic9.5

Where we can help

04Listings and social3.902Reviews3.605Facebook page3.608Opening hours3.003Map positions1.001Google listing0.206Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Darin Young Photography is a Christchurch-based photography studio located in Heathcote Valley. The practice provides professional photography services across the Christchurch area and is positioned to serve local clients seeking photographic work in the suburb and surrounding city.

Darin Young Photography is a photography practice based in Heathcote Valley, Christchurch. It operates locally within the Christchurch area and identifies as a provider of photography services.

The studio offers professional photography services. No additional service specialisations or package details are provided in the available source material.

There are no published customer review summaries or a review snapshot in the provided information, so specific customer experiences and common review themes are not available for inclusion here.

Located in Heathcote Valley, Darin Young Photography is presented simply as a Christchurch-based photography provider. The local address in Heathcote Valley is the primary distinguishing detail available from the source information.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Darin Young Photography shows a fragile overall Google Business presence with a health score of 0.1 out of 10. The listing has a complete address and a main image, but crucial gaps remain: no claimed status, no phone, no website link, a non-existent or weak description, and an unclear open/closed status. Addressing these will build trust with local clients.

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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    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.
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    AddressYour listing carries an address, so the directions button works and Google can match you to searches for your suburb.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 3
    PhoneYour listing has no phone number, so the call button a customer expects to tap is not there and the ones in a hurry ring someone else.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
0.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Darin Young Photography shows a low Google Business health score (2.6/10), indicating potential customers may be cautious. Key findings point to no reviews yet or very few, no responses to existing reviews, and an unestablished star rating. The business should focus on collecting positive reviews, responding to feedback, and building a visible review presence.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
  • 2
    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Darin Young Photography shows very low overall health in Google Maps at 1.2/10, indicating minimal visibility. The strongest result is ranking as photographer in Heathcote Valley (Pos 12), but broader aggregate and borough-specific scores remain weak. Opportunities lie in improving local maps presence and increasing ranking in suburb searches to broaden visibility among local clients.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
  • 2
    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.
1.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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Kerry's Photography0.0 ★ (0) · Photographer
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Susannah Blatchford Photography5.0 ★ (32) · Photographer
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Agnes Grace Photo & Film5.0 ★ (22) · Photographer
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Stacey Cavalier Photography5.0 ★ (90) · Photographer
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Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #174 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Darin Young Photography shows a strong overall health with a high 8.5/10 score, indicating solid presence in local directories and social platforms. The most notable current strengths are highly trusted Instagram and Facebook profiles, plus a professional LinkedIn presence that supports credibility. Opportunities focus on expanding visibility on TikTok and improving Yellow and Neighbourly profiles to boost local discoverability.

Strengths

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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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
  • 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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
3.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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InstagramcopperstudiosphotofilmDarin Young Photography | Instagram✓
LinkedIndarin-young-1a9285baDarin Young Photography | LinkedIn
FacebookIsellbussinessesDarin Young Photography | Facebook1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #118 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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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.
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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

  • 1
    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
  • 2
    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page sends people to another feed or a links page rather than to a site of your own, so someone chasing a price ends up one more tap from the answer and scrolls until the errand is forgotten.
  • 3
    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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Photography is my passion and gets me off the couch...3
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #125 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Darin Young Photography shows a very high on-page SEO health, with a score of 9.4 out of 10. The most notable completed items include an ideal title tag already in the 50-60 character range, a valid favicon, an SEO-friendly URL, an H1 tag, and a relevant title tag. Opportunities focus on fine-tuning meta description length, reducing excessive plaintext size, removing render-blocking resources, and avoiding frames.

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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    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
    On-page scoreMost checks on your home page pass, so someone clicking through from a search gets a page that opens quickly and says what it is.
  • 2
    The shape of your link profileYour links are spread across a fair range of sites for a profile this size, and the mix of link types looks ordinary.
  • 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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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

Darin Young Photography shows a very strong overall health for website traffic, with a health score of 9.5 out of 10. This indicates excellent performance in organic traffic and keyword coverage. The most notable findings are high organic traffic value and top local ranking, suggesting solid SEO and credibility among Christchurch clients.

Strengths

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    Search terms you rank forYour site appears for more search terms than almost any business in this market, so there are more ways to find you than to find anyone else 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 ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 4 of them.
9.5Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Darin Young PhotographyNot in these results✓
About 308 visits a month from search, across 123 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Darin Young Photography has no published opening hours, so alignment with Christchurch demand patterns cannot be assessed directly. Without listed hours, it is unclear where the practice would be open during high-demand windows or closed during popular times. This lack of data is itself a missed opportunity: publishing realistic studio hours and tracking search demand would quickly reveal when to offer shoots or appointments to better match local customer activity.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
3.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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The next step

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01Google listing3 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#121of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
You are #121 overall
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