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Rhodes & Co

Law firm · Christchurch Centre, 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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Rhodes & Co

Law firm · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#142of 216 lawyers
Overall health3.4/10across 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.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.01WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.107Google search and traffic4.702Reviews4.608Opening hours3.401Google listing2.604Listings and social2.403Map positions1.806Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Rhodes & Co is a Christchurch Central City law firm practising across corporate and commercial law, property, primary industries and litigation. Based in Christchurch, it traces roots to 1884 and provides advisory and transactional legal services. Clients describe professional service and results, though some reviews note slower processes with senior lawyers. It serves businesses and individuals in the South Island.

Rhodes & Co is a Christchurch Central City law firm serving clients across the South Island. Founded in 1884, the firm offers legal services from its Christchurch office and presents itself as an established practice with a long local history.

The firm lists corporate and commercial work, advising on a range of transactions and commercial issues, alongside specialisation in primary industries and specialist property services. Rhodes & Co also provides litigation and dispute resolution handled by its partners and legal team.

Client feedback shows a mix of experiences. Several reviews emphasise professional, effective service and matters being resolved as clients expected. The overall rating sits above average, while at least one review raises concerns about inefficiencies and slower turnaround when dealing with partners. These themes indicate generally positive outcomes for many clients alongside occasional frustrations about process speed.

Locally, Rhodes & Co is positioned as a full-service lawyers practice with experience in agriculture-related matters, property transactions and corporate work. Customers can expect a traditional law firm structure with partner-led teams and a focus on established practice areas relevant to Christchurch businesses and residents.

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Your Google listing

Rhodes & Co shows a low overall health on Google Business Listing at 1.8 out of 10. The listing already provides a website link, phone number, title, and full address, which supports basic accessibility. Primary issues are unclaimed status, a missing or weak description, few photos, and no logo, limiting engagement and brand visibility.

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.
  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

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
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.4 ★★★★★ (7)
Law firm · Christchurch Centre
Open 5 days ✓
DirectionsCall Website ✓
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Rhodes & Co shows a decent overall health score on Google reviews, with room for improvement in engagement. The top findings indicate a need to increase response to reviews, while rating confidence and star rating are trending positively as more reviews come in.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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 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.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Rhodes & Co
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4.4★★★★★7 reviews
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2How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #118 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Rhodes & Co shows a low overall health score on Google Maps at 1.8/10, indicating limited visibility. The strongest points are the top five keywords where the business ranks decently, such as law firm in richmond and personal injury lawyer in merivale, but overall growth remains slow. The main opportunity is to improve both aggregate and borough local presence to lift visibility.

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 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.
1.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Meares Williams Lawyers Merivale4.3 ★ (20) · Law firm
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Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #178 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Rhodes & Co shows a very low health score for social and local presence, with limited active profiles across key platforms. The strongest point is an up-to-date LinkedIn profile, which helps reach business audiences. Immediate focus should be on establishing or refreshing Facebook and Instagram, and exploring GrabOne and Neighbourly to improve local visibility and trust.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Yelp ListingWe can see your Yelp Listing listing (https://yelp.com/rhodes-and-co-christchurch) 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 4 of them.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Yelprhodes-and-co-christchurchRhodes & Co | Yelp✓
LinkedInandrew-tait-47617797Rhodes & Co | LinkedIn
FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #165 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

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
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #106 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Rhodes & Co shows a moderate on-page SEO health with a 4.5/10 score, indicating room for improvement in technical elements. The site has strong foundations with an SEO-friendly URL, an H1 tag and a relevant title tag, plus a compact page size under 256KB. Primary takeaway is to push the on-page score higher while addressing meta description and favicon gaps.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
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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
    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.
  • 2
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
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

Rhodes & Co's website traffic health sits at 4.4 out of 10, indicating average performance. Organic traffic value is above the 25th percentile, while paid traffic shows no measurable spend. Key opportunities involve starting targeted paid campaigns with landing pages and tracking, and maintaining momentum in organic SEO through fresh content and meta improvements.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
  • 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 ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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32No ads from you on any search
Rhodes & CoNot in these results
1About 218 visits a month from search, across 14 searches
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You are #115 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Rhodes & Co's opening hours largely match weekday mid-day demand, with 45 well-aligned peak hours and no low-demand open hours, producing a strong temporal health score (8.6/10). Peak alignment is concentrated around late-morning and early-afternoon on Tuesday to Thursday. However, there are clear misses on weekend afternoons and early Friday mornings where demand is high but the firm is closed.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
3.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Rhodes & Co
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Hours 1
Monday8:15am-5:15pm
Tuesday8:15am-5:15pm
Wednesday8:15am-5:15pm
Thursday8:15am-5:15pm
Friday8:15am-5:15pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Christchurch Centre
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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#142of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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Christchurch lawyersOverall · 216 businesses
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