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Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited

Certified public accountant · Merivale, 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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Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited

Certified public accountant · Merivale, Christchurch

Where you stand#189of 245 accountants
Overall health2.3/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.803Map positions8.0

Where we can help

05Facebook page4.302Reviews4.101Google listing4.004Listings and social2.507Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited is a chartered accounting firm based in Merivale, Christchurch. The firm provides accounting and taxation services to local individuals and businesses, emphasising professional standards and tailored financial support. Clients can expect a central Merivale location and a focus on practical, reliable compliance and reporting services.

Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited is a chartered accounting firm located in Merivale, Christchurch. The firm operates from the Merivale area and presents itself as a local provider of accounting services to individuals and businesses in the city.

The practice offers accounting and taxation work typical of chartered accountants, including financial reporting, tax compliance and ongoing bookkeeping support. Its stated focus is on delivering professional accounting services that meet regulatory and statutory requirements for local clients.

Clients engage Matheson Rae for routine financial management tasks, tax returns and compliance paperwork, and for clear financial records. The practice aims to provide structured accounts and timely filing, with staff available for routine client enquiries and standard reporting cycles.

Located in Merivale, Matheson Rae positions itself as a locally accessible chartered accountancy option for Christchurch residents and small to medium enterprises. The combination of a central suburb office and chartered accounting credentials forms the basis of its local offering and practical service orientation.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited shows a solid presence on Google Business Listing with a health score of 4.6 out of 10. The listing has basic essentials in place, including claimed status, an open-for-business indicator, a website link, a listing title, and a visible phone number. Primary concerns are a missing logo, a weak description, and limited photos.

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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    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.
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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.
  • 3
    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.
4.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Certified public accountant · Merivale
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

To assess Google Business Reviews for Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited, the health is below average with a 3.6/10 and several clear opportunities to improve, including increasing the number of reviews and improving response rate. Focus should be on obtaining more positive reviews, addressing negative feedback quickly, and starting to respond to all reviews to build trust.

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.
4.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Maps Search performance for Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited shows a healthy overall health score of 8.1 out of 10, indicating strong visibility in Google Maps. The strongest finding is borough-specific performance, where the business ranks in the top 10% for Merivale, Christchurch, signaling solid local presence. A key opportunity lies in further improving aggregate local search results across multiple suburbs.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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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.
8.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Map positionsChristchurch accountants · 245 businesses
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Where customers find you

Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited shows low social presence health, with a score of 1.6 out of 10. The business has a confirmed LinkedIn listing, but no active profiles on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, and no Neighbourly or Yellow Directory listings found. Focus should be on creating/activating key social profiles and directory listings to build trust and visibility.

Strengths

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    OpenLocally ListingWe can see your OpenLocally Listing listing (https://openlocally.com/matheson-rae-chartered-accountants-limited-merivale) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
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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.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Listings and socialChristchurch accountants · 245 businesses
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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

Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited shows a low On-Page SEO health score of 2.1 out of 10 for the homepage, indicating foundational issues. The most important findings are missing Meta Description and Title Tag, with no on-page SEO score detected, and no valid favicon. Addressing these will establish a baseline and improve search visibility for potential clients.

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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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited shows a low overall health score for website traffic, indicating limited earned and paid traffic and weak keyword visibility. The most important findings are near-zero organic traffic value and no organic keywords ranking in the top 100, with no measurable paid traffic yet. Targeted content, on-page SEO, and small paid campaigns are needed.

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.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Your hours against demand

Matheson Rae's opening hours are tightly aligned with midweek demand, especially on Thursdays when the firm is open through high-traffic windows. Notable strong alignment occurs 9am-3pm on Thursday. However, the firm is closed during several popular weekend morning slots (Sunday 9am-12pm) and Saturday late afternoon (4pm), which are missed opportunities. There are no low-demand open hours to reduce.

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.
9.8Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Matheson Rae Chartered Accountants Limited
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Hours 1
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#189of 245 Christchurch accountants
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