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Darren Burnett Film & Photography

Photography service · Belfast, 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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Darren Burnett Film & Photography

Photography service · Belfast, Christchurch

Where you stand#76of 194 photography businesses
Overall health6.1/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Darren Burnett Film & Photography is a Christchurch-based wedding photographer and videographer operating from Northwood. Darren has been shooting couples and family moments for 10 years and also works in commercial fashion photography. Clients can expect a focus on candid moments, attention to light and composition, and a relaxed, friendly approach described on the website as bringing 'good vibes' to shoots.

Darren Burnett Film & Photography is a wedding photographer and videographer based in Northwood, Christchurch. The business describes itself as specialising in capturing couples in love, wedding days, family shoots and commercial fashion work, operating full-time from the Otatahi area.

Services include wedding photography and videography, family portrait sessions and commercial fashion shoots. The owner notes 10 years of experience shooting people in love and four years working in the fashion world, and highlights an eye for detail, light and composition as part of the offering.

Clients tend to experience a relaxed atmosphere and an emphasis on genuine, candid moments and emotion. The website describes the approach as focused on happiness, joy and laughter during shoots, with the practitioner aiming to bring 'good vibes' to help create natural shots and comfortable sessions.

Locally, Darren Burnett Film & Photography combines wedding and videography services with commercial and family photography experience. The mix of ten years of wedding experience, some fashion commercial work and a stated focus on light, composition and a relaxed client experience is presented as the business's defining local character.

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Your Google listing

Darren Burnett Film & Photography shows an average health score with room for improvement in visibility and branding. The profile already has a website link, phone number, listing title and claimed status, and is open for business, which supports direct customer contact and transparency. Key opportunity areas include adding a logo and continuing to grow the photo library alongside 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 three opportunities

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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 gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.7Room to grow
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Photography service · Belfast
Open 7 days ✓
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From the business

Christchurch wedding photographer and videographer who's been shooting couples in love for 10 years! Getting married? Let me tell your love story!

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Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your reviews

Darren Burnett Film & Photography shows very low overall health in Google Business reviews, with a health score of 0.0 out of 10. The business should focus on gathering and responding to reviews to establish credibility, especially by inviting happy clients to share experiences and addressing negative feedback promptly. Current lack of responses and few reviews amplify perceived risk for potential customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
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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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.6Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #125 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Darren Burnett Film & Photography shows a reasonable overall health on Google Maps with a score of 4.5 out of 10. The business ranks well for several key Northwood related terms, notably photographer in northwood and wedding photographer in northwood, indicating strong local relevance. Opportunity lies in lifting the aggregate maps score and continuing to grow borough visibility.

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.
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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.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
4.5Room to grow
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2Top three for "photographer" in 2 suburbs, seen in 4
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Canterbury Tales Photography4.9 ★ (17) · Photography service
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Darren Burnett Film & Photography10.0 ★ (0) · Photography service
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SR Photography5.0 ★ (13) · Photography service
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Inview Photography5.0 ★ (47) · Photography service
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #107 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Darren Burnett Film & Photography shows an above-average health score of 6.3 out of 10 in the citations and social presence area. The strongest completed assets are Facebook and Instagram profiles, both rated with very high trust, reflecting solid brand presence. Opportunities lie in expanding to TikTok, Neighbourly, LinkedIn, Fresha, and a LinkedIn Company page to widen reach and credibility.

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.

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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    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.
  • 3
    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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
6.5Good
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TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #69 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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    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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    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
8.1Strong
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #37 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Darren Burnett Film & Photography currently shows a very strong on-page health score, 9.2 out of 10, indicating solid technical foundations for SEO. Key strengths include a valid favicon, no use of frames, secure HTTPS resources, a relevant meta description, and page load under 3 seconds. Minor refinements could push performance into top quartile, particularly optimising the title tag length and meta description window.

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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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
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    Pages linking to youFewer pages link to yours than most of this market, so search engines have few routes into your site.
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    Links to your siteA handful of other websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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2Pages linking to you
3Links to your site
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How people find you on Google

Darren Burnett Film & Photography shows a healthy website traffic profile with room to grow paid and organic reach. The main takeaways are that paid traffic is not yet measurable and organic value is mid-range, indicating potential for stronger content, landing pages, and campaigns to lift visibility and conversions.

Strengths

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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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Darren Burnett Film & PhotographyNot in these results
3About 18 visits a month from search, across 28 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #40 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Darren Burnett Film & Photography's opening hours are largely aligned with local demand. Key weekday midday slots are open during high-search periods-Monday 11am-2pm and Wednesday 12pm-so core availability matches customer interest. There are no missed high-demand windows. Some low-demand hours are open (early mornings and late evenings on select days), which could be trimmed or handled by appointment to reduce inefficiency.

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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Darren Burnett Film & Photography
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Hours 1
Monday12am-12am
Tuesday12am-12am
Wednesday12am-12am
Thursday12am-12am
Friday12am-12am
Saturday12am-12am
Sunday12am-12am
Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #18 for opening hours
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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#76of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
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