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Meares Williams

Lawyer · Bryndwr, 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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Meares Williams

Lawyer · Bryndwr, Christchurch

Where you stand#132of 216 lawyers
Overall health3.9/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page8.007Google search and traffic7.904Listings and social7.3

Where we can help

01Google listing3.602Reviews2.008Opening hours2.003Map positions0.706Your website-
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Meares Williams is a Christchurch law firm based in Strowan that serves clients across Canterbury and nationally. With more than 100 years in practice, the firm offers a broad range of legal services and works with national and international clients. It emphasises community values, personalised legal advice and long-term client relationships.

Meares Williams is a Christchurch law firm located in the Strowan area that serves clients across Canterbury, New Zealand and beyond. The firm notes more than 100 years of local practice and describes itself as providing legal services to national and international clients.

The practice offers a comprehensive range of services including property, commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution, resource management, rural law, relationship property and trusts. The website presents these areas as part of a broad capability to manage both routine matters and more complex legal needs for businesses and individuals.

Clients can expect a service approach framed around community values and personalised attention. The firm states it focuses on delivering outstanding service and nurturing long-term relationships, and says it keeps in touch with the latest legal developments, requirements and precedents to inform client work.

Locally, Meares Williams is distinguished by its long-standing presence in Christchurch and Canterbury, a wide span of legal specialities and an expressed emphasis on client relationships. The Strowan location and a client base that includes national and international parties position the firm as a multi-disciplinary legal practice with deep local roots and a broad service offering.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Meares Williams shows a low overall health for its Google Business Listing, but there is a clear path for improvement. The listing has essential details in place (claimed, website link, phone, and full address), yet the health score remains 1.9/10. Key findings point to missing or minimal description and photos, plus the need for a logo and status clarity to reassure 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.
  • ✓
    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.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Meares Williams shows a very low Google Business health score, highlighting a weak overall rating, few reviews, and no response to feedback. The strongest immediate concern is the lack of engagement and a low confidence in rating quality. Priorities should be encouraging positive reviews, addressing negatives promptly, and starting to respond to all feedback to build trust.

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.
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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Where you show up on the map

Meares Williams shows a very low overall health score for Google Maps search, indicating limited local visibility. The strongest findings are the top rankings for tax attorney in strowan (position 6) and lawyer in strowan (position 13), with barrister in strowan at position 18. Opportunities focus on improving aggregate and suburb-specific scores to boost overall maps presence and consistency across Christchurch.

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.
  • 2
    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.
0.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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Strowan Law1.0 ★ (1) · Lawyer
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Joynt Andrews Solicitors4.7 ★ (11) · Lawyer
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Immigration Lawyer Barrister & Solicitor Mr. Lukas4.0 ★ (4) · Lawyer
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Meares Williams Lawyers Merivale4.3 ★ (20) · Lawyer
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Meares Williams2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #202 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Meares Williams shows a stable overall health with a score of 5.9 out of 10 for social presence. The strongest current asset is a highly trusted Facebook profile and an up-to-date LinkedIn Company listing. The main opportunities focus on expanding on Instagram and TikTok, plus claiming and updating profiles in GrabOne and Neighbourly to improve local discovery and trust.

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.
  • ✓
    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/meares-williams) found via: Google search results, Your website.
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    Top Lawyers ListingWe can see your Top Lawyers Listing listing (https://toplawyers.co.nz/meares-williams-lawyers-christchurch) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    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 6 of them.
7.3Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #58 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

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.
  • ✓
    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

  • 1
    Recommendations on your pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
  • 2
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
  • 3
    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
8.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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We offer high quality and cost-effective legal services on a wide range of matters. Meares Williams has offices in Merivale, Rolleston and Lincoln.3
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🌐 meareswilliams.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-374 2547✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #43 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Meares Williams shows a very high on-page SEO health score, indicating strong technical optimisation for the homepage. Key findings include a valid favicon, an SEO-friendly URL, and an H1 tag, which support clarity and accessibility. Opportunities lie in refining the title tag and meta description length, improving text-to-page size balance, reducing render-blocking resources, and fixing mixed content.

Strengths

  • ✓
    On-page scoreFew sites in this market clear these checks as completely as yours: fast to open, readable, and accurate about itself to Google and to the person who lands on it.
  • ✓
    Domain Age ScoreYour domain has been registered longer than almost any business in this market.
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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

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
  • 2
    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, so a reasonable spread of places vouch for you.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are spread across a fair range of sites for a profile this size, and the mix of link types looks ordinary.
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

Meares Williams displays a healthy website traffic profile, with a health score of 7.5 out of 10 indicating solid performance relative to peers. The strongest signs are solid organic traffic value in the 50-75% range and meaningful local visibility. Key opportunities lie in initiating paid activity and sharpening paid keyword coverage.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Meares Williams has been serving Christchurch and Canterbury people and businesses for over 100 years · Property Law and Conveyancing · Rural Law · Business and ... Read more

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About 806 visits a month from search, across 107 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #47 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Meares Williams has no published opening hours, so alignment with local demand cannot be measured. The health score is 0.0, signalling missing data rather than actual service gaps. To assess alignment, hours should be added to the public profile so comparisons can show when opening times match city-level demand peaks, where closures lose enquiries, or when open hours fall during low-demand windows.

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.
2.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
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You are #174 for opening hours
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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#132of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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Christchurch lawyersOverall · 216 businesses
You are #132 overall
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