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Francis Sylvest

Wedding photographer · Christchurch Centre, 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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Francis Sylvest

Wedding photographer · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#141of 194 photography businesses
Overall health2.7/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Francis Sylvest is a Christchurch-based destination elopement and wedding photographer and videographer. He specialises in planning unique elopement and wedding experiences across New Zealand, guiding couples from initial planning to final delivery. With over six years' experience, he focuses on creating a personalised, low-stress wedding day that reflects each couple's story and connection to place.

Francis Sylvest is a New Zealand destination elopement and wedding photographer and videographer based in Christchurch Central City. He works with couples who want to plan elopements and weddings that reflect their relationship and the locations important to them.

He describes a focus on building each event from the ground up, offering both photography and videography services. His work is aimed at couples seeking a tailored elopement or small wedding experience, and he brings more than six years of elopement and wedding experience to the planning and capture of those days.

Customers can expect planning guidance through the entire New Zealand elopement experience, with an emphasis on reducing the stress associated with traditional weddings. The approach places value on shaping the wedding day as a celebration of the couple, their love, and the elements that have brought them together, with photography and video that document those moments.

Locally, Francis is positioned as a Christchurch-based specialist in destination elopements who assists with both planning and creative capture. He aims to provide couples with a personalised, low-stress way to mark a wedding or elopement in New Zealand, combining practical guidance with photography and videography services.

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Your Google listing

Francis Sylvest's Google Business Listing shows an average health score of 5.4 out of 10, indicating room for improvement in listing completeness and engagement. Strengths include an open-for-business status, a claimed listing, an active website link, and a full address, which support reliable visibility. Key opportunities focus on adding a phone number and photos to boost accessibility and credibility.

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
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.5Room to grow
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Wedding photographer · Christchurch Centre3
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From the business

Welcome to all, I'm Francis Sylvest, a New Zealand destination elopement photographer and videographer. I specialize in helping couples plan their unique elopement and wedding experiences from the ground up. With over 6 years of elopement and wedding experience, I'm here to help! Rest assured that I'll be there to guide you through this entire New Zealand elopement experience. From start to finish we'll build your wedding day into a celebration of you, your love, and what has brought and held you together. We'll leave the stress of a traditional wedding behind, and give you the New Zealand wedding day you've always deserved.

Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Francis Sylvest's Google Business profile shows a low health score, signalling limited trust from potential clients. The most important findings are the very small review base and no responses to reviews, which reduce perceived credibility and engagement. Encouraging happy clients to leave reviews and starting to respond to all feedback are essential next steps.

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

Francis Sylvest's Google Maps health for Christchurch elopement and wedding photography sits at 0.7 out of 10, indicating very low visibility. Top opportunities focus on improving aggregate and suburb-specific rankings, especially aligning the suburb address with mapping queries. Best‑performing keywords show strength for "wedding photographer in richmond" and "wedding photographer in phillipstown," suggesting a path to target related local terms.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.8Room to grow
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1Seen in 2 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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LRD Photography5.0 ★ (8) · Wedding photographer
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Paul Wilson Wedding Photographer5.0 ★ (25) · Wedding photographer
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Mandy Caldwell Photography5.0 ★ (39) · Wedding photographer
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J N J Photography5.0 ★ (10) · Wedding photographer
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Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #178 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Francis Sylvest's health is 4.4 out of 10, indicating moderate presence with room for improvement. The most important findings are a very high-trust Facebook profile and opportunities to extend reach on TikTok and LinkedIn, plus enhancements to Fresha and Yellow Directory listings.

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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    Yelp ListingWe can see your Yelp Listing listing (https://yelp.com/francis-sylvest-boulder) 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.
  • 2
    Instagram Profileyour Instagram Profile page surfaces strongly in search, which is how we found it, though nothing you control points at it.
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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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
4.4Room to grow
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Yelpfrancis-sylvest-boulderFrancis Sylvest | Yelp✓
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InstagramafsylvestFrancis Sylvest | Instagram2
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #109 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 pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #70 for your Facebook page
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Your website

The on-page SEO health for Francis Sylvest's site shows a very low overall score (1.5/10). The most important findings are the absence of a detected on-page SEO baseline and missing key elements, including the homepage meta description and a descriptive title tag.

Strengths

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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 scoreYour home page did not return anything we can measure, and a page that will not answer a scanner is usually the same page that keeps a customer waiting.
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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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 4 of them.
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How people find you on Google

The website's overall health for Francis Sylvest | Elopement & Wedding Photographer + Videographer is low, with a health score of 2.1 out of 10. This indicates limited organic and paid traffic activity and weak keyword visibility. The top opportunities focus on building organic value and initial paid activity to attract local couples seeking elopement and wedding services.

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.
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You are #87 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Francis Sylvest's published hours align well with Christchurch demand patterns during mid-day weekday peaks. Open hours match high-search windows around Monday 11am-2pm and Wednesday midday, covering the core lunchtime planning period. No high-demand hours are missed. Some low-demand time is open early mornings and late evenings, which could be trimmed or shifted to improve commercial efficiency.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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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Hours 1
Monday12am-12am
Tuesday12am-12am
Wednesday12am-12am
Thursday12am-12am
Friday12am-12am
Saturday12am-12am
Sunday12am-12am
Popular times Friday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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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#141of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
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