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Glenn Jones Barrister

Barrister · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 216 Christchurch lawyers.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Glenn Jones Barrister

Barrister · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#161of 216 lawyers
Overall health2.6/10across the eight areas

Going well

01Google listing6.0

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.108Opening hours3.407Google search and traffic2.804Listings and social2.402Reviews2.003Map positions2.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Glenn Jones Barrister is a Christchurch Central City barrister and accredited mediator based at Bridgeside Chambers, specialising in civil, commercial, construction and employment disputes. He offers strategic dispute resolution and accepts appointments to mediate or arbitrate matters, working with individuals, companies, charities, Crown entities and professionals across New Zealand.

Glenn Jones Barrister is a Christchurch Central City barrister and member of Bridgeside Chambers. He practices from Christchurch and is described as working across civil, commercial, construction and employment dispute resolution and litigation in New Zealand courts and tribunals.

He specialises in strategic dispute resolution, advising on litigation strategy and tactics to achieve preferred outcomes. He practises in civil, commercial, construction and employment matters and takes appointments to mediate or arbitrate disputes.

Clients have included individuals, large and small companies, business owners, charitable organisations, Crown entities, school boards, financial institutions and professionals. He is an accredited mediator with AMINZ and Resolution Institute and has experience in courts and tribunals up to the Privy Council.

Locally, Glenn Jones Barrister is positioned as an experienced Christchurch-based barrister and mediator offering dispute resolution, advocacy and alternative dispute resolution appointments. His combination of long‑term experience, accreditation in mediation and willingness to accept mediations and arbitrations distinguishes the practice within the Christchurch legal community.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Glenn Jones Barrister shows an above-average health on Google Business listing, with essential information in place and claimed ownership. The overall health score indicates solid completeness and visibility, though room exists to improve the description and photo collection. Key strengths include an accurate open status, a claimed listing, a website link, a visible title, and a direct phone number for 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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    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
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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From the business

Barrister and Mediator specialising in civil, commercial, employment disputes.

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Google listingChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Glenn Jones Barrister shows a low overall health in Google reviews, indicating customers may hesitate to engage. The most important findings are the very limited number of reviews and no responses yet to any reviews, which affects trust. Addressing both rating confidence and response activity is critical to build credibility online.

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.
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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.
  • 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.
2.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #174 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Glenn Jones Barrister profile shows a low overall health score for Google Maps search visibility, at 2.0 out of 10, indicating limited exposure. Top opportunities focus on boosting aggregate visibility and ensuring the suburb/borough listing aligns with the correct address. Several strong keywords already rank in the top 15, especially for local areas like Avondale and Templeton.

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.
2.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #173 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The health for Glenn Jones Barrister shows room for growth, with a 3.3 out of 10 overall. This indicates below-average local presence, but meaningful opportunities exist to improve visibility and trust through social profiles and directories. The strongest current asset is an active LinkedIn profile that can anchor professional reach and credibility.

Strengths

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    LinkedIn ProfileWe can see your LinkedIn Profile listing (https://linkedin.com/in/glenn-jones-bb187b13) found via: Google search results, Your website.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    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 4 of them.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #165 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
5.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #106 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Glenn Jones Barrister shows a very high on-page SEO health for its homepage, with a health score of 8.8 out of 10. Key strengths include a well-optimised meta description and a valid favicon, plus a compact page size under 256KB. Opportunities focus on finishing on-page SEO by tightening meta tags, headings, and content structure.

Strengths

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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.
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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 youNo separate website links to yours.
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    The shape of your link profileNo links to your site were found, so there is no shape to read yet.
  • 3
    Pages linking to youVery few individual pages anywhere on the web link to yours, so there is almost nothing for search engines to follow back to 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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2The shape of your link profile
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How people find you on Google

Glenn Jones Barrister shows a low website traffic health score of 2.7 out of 10, indicating limited organic and paid visibility. Key findings: organic traffic value is near zero and paid traffic indicators are absent, while organic traffic total sits above the bottom quartile and paid SERP coverage is currently nil. Recommendations focus on building content, targeted paid efforts, and improving navigation to stabilise growth.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
2.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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31About 5 visits a month from search, across 1 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #156 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Glenn Jones Barrister's published hours show strong alignment with weekday lunch and late-morning demand, notably Tuesday 12-1pm, Wednesday 12pm and Thursday 10-11am. There are no low-demand open hours, so published availability is efficient. However the listing misses several popular times-Saturday morning, Saturday evening and Sunday early afternoon-where being open could capture extra enquiries from local clients and legal professionals.

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.
3.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Glenn Jones Barrister
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5:30pm
Tuesday9am-5:30pm
Wednesday9am-5:30pm
Thursday9am-5:30pm
Friday9am-5:30pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Christchurch Centre
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#161of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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