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Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent

Tax preparation service · New Brighton, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 245 Christchurch accountants.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent

Tax preparation service · New Brighton, Christchurch

Where you stand#187of 245 accountants
Overall health2.4/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.01NameYour 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.

Where we can help

05Facebook page4.307Google search and traffic4.302Reviews4.101Google listing3.903Map positions3.608Opening hours2.504Listings and social2.206Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent is a Christchurch-based tax agent located in New Brighton. Herbert Ramsay prepares business and personal tax returns and works with small businesses, rental property owners and clubs, offering GST, tax advice and liaison with the IRD.

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent is a Christchurch tax agent based in New Brighton. Herbert Ramsay identifies as a taxation agent who prepares business and personal tax returns and provides general tax services for local clients.

The practice states it works with small businesses such as hairdressers, beauty therapists, designers, IT consultancies, plumbers and builders, as well as rental property owners and clubs and societies. Services listed include annual tax returns, GST returns and tax advice.

Herbert Ramsay also describes assistance with liaison with the IRD, debt and remission matters, requests for refunds and voluntary disclosures. Clients engage the practice for these specific tax-related processes and compliance needs.

Located in New Brighton, Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent is positioned to serve Christchurch small-business operators, rental investors and community organisations seeking hands-on tax return preparation and IRD interaction.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent benefits from a claimed Google Business Listing with a full address, phone and website link, elevating trust. The health score is 3.0/10, indicating below-average completeness. Key strengths include claimed status, verified contact details and an active address; however, the business description is missing or too brief, which lowers discovery and customer explanation of services.

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 lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 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
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Tax preparation service · New Brighton
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Your reviews

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent shows below-average health on Google reviews, with a 3.2/10 health score and limited review activity. The top opportunities focus on building trust: securing more reviews from happy clients and improving engagement by responding to reviews, alongside elevating the overall rating and visibility. Addressing negative feedback promptly will help restore confidence among potential customers.

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.
4.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google reviewsChristchurch accountants · 245 businesses
You are #145 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent shows below average overall health in Google Maps search performance, with a 3.6 out of 10. The business ranks well for several tax-related terms in New Brighton, indicating strong relevance for key services, but overall visibility remains limited. Focused improvements can lift the local and borough presence and attract more 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.
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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.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 2 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Tax Value Group Ltd4.6 ★ (11) · Tax preparation service
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SBA Small Business Accounting New Brighton4.5 ★ (27) · Tax preparation service
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Trailblazer Accountants Canterbury0.0 ★ (0) · Tax preparation service
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EastsideTax5.0 ★ (1) · Tax preparation service
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Map positionsChristchurch accountants · 245 businesses
You are #158 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent shows low social presence with a 2.8 health score. Strengths include a Yellow Directory listing and a LinkedIn profile, indicating some established reach. Key opportunities focus on establishing active profiles on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and listings on GrabOne and Neighbourly to improve visibility and trust among local customers.

Strengths

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    OpenLocally ListingWe can see your OpenLocally Listing listing (https://openlocally.com/herb-ramsay-taxation-agent-new-brighton) found via: Google search results.

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.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
2.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Yellow/new-brighton/taxation-consultantsFound through search, not linked from anything you own
FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch accountants · 245 businesses
You are #192 for listings and social
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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.
4.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch accountants · 245 businesses
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Your website

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent shows an average on-page SEO health of 4.5 out of 10, with several issues to address. Strengths include a valid favicon, fast page load, reasonable page size under 256KB, no frames, and an SEO-friendly URL. Critical gaps are missing meta description and H1 tag, and a need to improve overall on-page SEO score and title tag length.

Strengths

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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.
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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.
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    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 3
    Page titleThe headline on your home page is either a single word or long enough that a search result cuts it off part way through.
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

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent shows below average website traffic health, with a health score of 4.1 out of 10. The top opportunities focus on building organic traffic value, launching a small paid campaign, and starting paid traffic while improving site navigation and keyword focus. Organic traffic is above the bottom quartile and represents a key area for growth alongside early paid activities.

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.
4.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2No ads from you on any search
Herb Ramsay Taxation AgentNot in these results
31About 0 visits a month from search, across 1 searches
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You are #140 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Herb Ramsay Taxation Agent lacks published opening hours, so alignment with Christchurch demand cannot be measured directly. With no recorded hours, the analysis flags a low temporal-health score and highlights the need to publish accurate hours. Adding hours will allow identification of when the business would be open during peak search periods, closed during high-demand windows, or open during low-demand times.

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.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours
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Opening hoursChristchurch accountants · 245 businesses
You are #185 for opening hours
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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#187of 245 Christchurch accountants
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