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Lens King Photography

Photography service · Waltham, 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
Your marketChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Lens King Photography

Photography service · Waltham, Christchurch

Where you stand#171of 194 photography businesses
Overall health1.2/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.104Listings and social6.5

Where we can help

02Reviews3.603Map positions2.905Facebook page2.101Google listing1.107Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Lens King Photography is a Christchurch-based photography business located in the Waltham neighbourhood. Lens King Photography provides photographic services across a range of client needs, operating locally within the city. The studio emphasises practical, client-focused work and serves individuals and local organisations seeking photography in the Christchurch area.

Lens King Photography is a photography business based in the Waltham neighbourhood of Christchurch. It operates locally within the city and identifies itself as a provider of photographic services to customers in and around Waltham.

Lens King Photography offers a range of photography services intended for clients in the Christchurch area. The studio describes its work simply as photography, serving both individual customers and local organisations. Services are conducted from its Waltham location and are presented as practical photographic work for everyday needs.

Customers who engage Lens King Photography work directly with the studio to arrange shoots in and around Christchurch. The studio aims to deliver photographic outcomes suited to customers' stated needs, coordinating sessions from its base in Waltham. Interactions focus on arranging and completing photography assignments for local clients.

Lens King Photography is distinguished locally by its Waltham location within Christchurch and its focus on serving nearby residents and organisations. As a neighbourhood photography provider, it is positioned to support clients who prefer a Christchurch-based photographer working from the Waltham area.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Lens King Photography shows a low overall health for its Google Business Listing, but recent active steps help. The health score is 1.5 out of 10, indicating significant room for improvement. Key current strengths include a listed phone number, complete street address, an open-for-business status, a dedicated main image, and an existing listing title that is visible to customers.

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.
  • ✓
    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

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
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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0.0 ★★★★★ (0)
Photography service · Waltham
Open 7 days ✓
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #173 for your Google listing
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Lens King Photography shows a very low health score on Google reviews, indicating concerns about trust and engagement. The top findings point to a lack of reviews, a non-established star rating, and no response to customer feedback. Addressing these areas can gradually improve credibility and attract more clients.

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
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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

Lens King Photography shows a low overall health score for Google Maps at 2.8 out of 10, indicating limited visibility in maps results. The top opportunity lies in improving aggregate maps rankings, with notable potential in the Waltham borough where local presence is minimal but recognised. Best-performing keywords include photography service in Waltham and photographer in Waltham, suggesting focus areas.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
  • 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.
2.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "photography service" in 1 suburb, seen in 2
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Lens King Photography20.0 ★ (0) · Photography service
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Susannah Blatchford Photography5.0 ★ (32) · Photography service
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Christchurch Headshot Photographer5.0 ★ (130) · Photography service
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Pete Prue Photography5.0 ★ (114) · Photography service
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #138 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Lens King Photography shows a below-average overall health score of 4.0 out of 10. This suggests limited social presence and directory presence. The strongest current asset is a very high trust Facebook profile, indicating solid audience engagement on that platform. Other platforms and directories show room for growth to improve 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

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Instagramlensking__photographyLens King Photography | Instagram✓
FacebooklenskingphotographyofficialLens King Photography | Facebook✓
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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    A cover photoYour page opens with a cover photo rather than a blank banner, so the first impression a visitor gets is your own work.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Where your page link pointsNothing in your page details points at a website, so a visitor who has read your posts and wants prices, hours or a booking form has nowhere to go next but back to search - where your competitors are waiting.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 4 of them.
2.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #154 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Where we can help

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0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #87 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Lens King Photography's opening hours align well with demand during weekday middays, particularly Monday 11am-2pm and Wednesday midday when local search activity peaks. No high-demand hours are missed, but a small set of early-morning and late-evening slots show low demand while the studio remains open. This suggests minor trimming or shift-testing of low-traffic hours could improve commercial efficiency without losing peak coverage.

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.
9.1Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Lens King Photography
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Hours 1
Monday12am-12am
Tuesday12am-12am
Wednesday12am-12am
Thursday12am-12am
Friday12am-12am
Saturday12am-12am
Sunday12am-12am
Popular times Monday · Waltham
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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

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#171of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
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