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Raymond Donnelly

Legal services · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

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Checked12 October 2026
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Raymond Donnelly

Legal services · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#134of 216 lawyers
Overall health3.8/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Raymond Donnelly operates as the Office of the Crown Solicitor in Christchurch Central City, handling prosecution of serious crime and related appellate work across Canterbury and the West Coast. The firm also acts for government departments and entities in litigation. Contact details include a PO Box in Christchurch, a local phone number and an email for enquiries.

Raymond Donnelly is the Office of the Crown Solicitor based in Christchurch Central City. The practice carries responsibility for prosecution of serious crime and related appellate work in the Canterbury and West Coast regions, operating from a central Christchurch mailing address.

The firm specialises in criminal prosecution and appellate matters and states it acts for government departments and other entities involved in litigation. Its listed services focus on representing government interests in serious criminal cases and providing related appellate work across its jurisdiction.

Customers and contacts note a positive experience with the office. Review comments reference helpful and accommodating staff and describe the firm as a capable law practice. These themes suggest clients and professional contacts experience a combination of professional legal handling with approachable administrative contact.

Locally, Raymond Donnelly is identified by its role as Crown Solicitor for Canterbury and the West Coast and by its focus on serious criminal prosecutions and appellate work. Practical details include a Christchurch PO Box address, a local phone number and an email for enquiries, reflecting a central-city legal office that maintains direct lines for official and public contact.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing for Raymond Donnelly shows an average overall health with clear controls in place, indicating the listing is active and contactable. Key strengths include a claimed listing, an accessible website link, and a visible business title and phone number. Opportunities focus on adding photos and a logo to improve visual trust and local presence.

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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    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.
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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
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.0Room to grow
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From the business

As the Office of the Crown Solicitor we are responsible for the prosecution of serious crime and related appellate work in the Canterbury and West Coast regions. We act for government departments and entities involved in litigation

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Your reviews

Raymond Donnelly shows strong customer satisfaction with a top 10% Google star rating, but health overall is 4.8/10. The business has not yet responded to any reviews, which can affect trust, and it has begun collecting total reviews to improve future performance.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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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.
  • 2
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
  • 3
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
4.7Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #114 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

The Maps search health for Raymond Donnelly is low, with an overall Google Maps health score of 2.0 out of 10. This indicates limited visibility and continued reliance on a narrow set of local queries. Top opportunities focus on increasing aggregate map visibility and strengthening the borough presence to capture more local searches.

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 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.
2.0Room to grow
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1Seen in 15 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #172 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Raymond Donnelly's social presence health sits at 3.0 out of 10, indicating below-average visibility across key platforms. The most important finding is the lack of active profiles on Instagram and Facebook, with a limited presence on TikTok, LinkedIn and Yellow Profiles also missing. This suggests opportunities to build local trust and reach through social and directory channels.

Strengths

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    Neighbourly ProfileWe can see your Neighbourly Profile listing (https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/business/raymond-donnelly-co) found via: Google search results.
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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/raymond-donnelly-co-christchurch) found via: Google search results.
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    Find A Lawyer FirmWe can see your Find A Lawyer Firm listing (https://findalawyer.co.nz/raymond-donnelly-co) 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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.2Room to grow
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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.
5.1Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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Your website

Raymond Donnelly's on-page SEO health sits at 4.9 out of 10, indicating average performance. The analysis highlights a solid favicon, compact page size, relevant meta description, no render-blocking resources, and HTTPS content as strengths. Immediate priorities include adding a meta description, nudging the title tag toward 50-60 characters, and addressing page load speed.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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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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    Domain Age ScoreYour domain has been registered longer than almost any business in this market.

Top three opportunities

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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.
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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Raymond Donnelly shows an above-average health score for website traffic, indicating solid performance with room to improve paid activity and organic value. Key findings show paid traffic is not yet measurable and paid keyword coverage is missing, while organic traffic value and total traffic are mid-to-high in the local market.

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.
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    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.
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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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RAYMOND DONNELLY. PwC Centre, Level 3, 60 Cashel Street, Christchurch 8013. PO Box 533, Christchurch 8140. Phone 03 366 0264, Email [email protected]. Read more

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Your hours against demand

Raymond Donnelly shows solid timing alignment but with clear gaps. Openings on Tuesday midday and Thursday mid-morning match high local demand, while the firm is closed during several busy weekend and early-morning windows. No low-demand open hours are recorded, so current hours are efficient overall. Adjusting a small number of closed hours to cover Saturday morning, Friday early morning or limited Sunday afternoon could capture more enquiries.

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.
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Raymond Donnelly
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Hours 1
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Christchurch Centre
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You are #14 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#134of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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