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Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson

General practice attorney · Burnside, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 216 Christchurch lawyers.

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Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson

General practice attorney · Burnside, Christchurch

Where you stand#80of 216 lawyers
Overall health6.3/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.407Google search and traffic8.003Map positions7.4

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.102Reviews4.701Google listing4.104Listings and social2.706Your website-
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson is a Christchurch-based lawyer practising from Burnside. He is part of KT Law, which offers personal, business and trusts and estates services across Canterbury. Clients note practical, friendly advice for matters such as buying a first home, business transactions and retirement planning.

Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson is a lawyer based in Burnside, Christchurch, practising with KT Law and serving clients across Canterbury. The firm describes itself as a culturally diverse team offering practical legal help for everyday life events, and lists personal law, business law and trusts and estates among its core areas.

Services emphasised include personal law matters such as home purchases and family-related issues, business law support for transactions and planning, and trusts and estates work aimed at succession and retirement planning. The website frames the practice around practical advice for milestones like buying a first home, making business moves and planning a secure retirement.

Customer feedback highlights an experienced, approachable lawyer who focuses on property and first-home purchases. Reviews mention clear, professional service and a friendly manner that made a home purchase feel safe and straightforward. Themes from client comments include practical advice, professionalism and a reassuring customer experience during property and related legal matters.

Locally, Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson is presented as a Christchurch lawyer offering a mix of personal and commercial legal services with an emphasis on practical, accessible advice. Clients seeking assistance with property, business transactions or estate planning in the Canterbury area will find the firm positioned as a community-focused legal resource with experience in common life and business events.

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Your Google listing

Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson shows a mid-range Google Business Listing health (4.4/10). It has key basics in place-claimed status, website link, title, hours and phone-indicating solid foundational control and accessibility for customers. However, the listing lacks a clear description and a logo, and photos are not yet strong enough to lift performance. Focus on the missing items to improve credibility.

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

  • 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
    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.
4.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (3)
General practice attorney · Burnside
Open 5 days ✓
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson shows a strong start in Google reviews with a top decile star rating, but the overall health score remains moderate at 4.9 out of 10. The most notable finding is the high satisfaction reflected by the top 10% star rating, while the main growth opportunity is low owner response to reviews. Addressing this could boost trust and visibility.

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

  • 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 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
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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3How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
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 Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson shows a very high overall visibility in Google Maps, with a health score of 9.9 out of 10. This indicates strong presence across searches. The strongest performance is in multiple bankruptcy-related keywords, including several top positions in Burnside, Casebrook, Harewood-Chirstchurch Airport, Oceanic Canterbury, and Rolleston North West, among others.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
7.4Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Top three for "bankruptcy attorney" in 26 suburbs, seen in 48
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Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson15.0 ★ (3) · General practice attorney
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Burnside Law Centre4.3 ★ (3) · General practice attorney
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Fleur McDonald Legal4.4 ★ (13) · General practice attorney
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Hill Lee & Scott4.4 ★ (27) · General practice attorney
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #56 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The overall health is 4.0 out of 10, indicating below average local social presence. The business has a completed LinkedIn Company listing, which supports professional reach, but there are gaps in other platforms that limit visibility and trust for local clients.

Strengths

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    OpenLocally ListingWe can see your OpenLocally Listing listing (https://openlocally.com/roger-bensley-partner-at-kannangara-thomson-burnside) 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.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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OpenLocallyroger-bensley-partner-at-kannangara-thomson-burnsideRoger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson | OpenLocally✓
LinkedInkannangara-thomsonRoger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson | LinkedIn
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #159 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

On-page health for Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson is very high, scoring 9.8 out of 10. This indicates the homepage's technical SEO is in excellent shape, with efficient meta tags and secure content. Two key findings are the perfect meta description and title tag health, which align with search intent and improve click-through rates for local clients.

Strengths

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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.
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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.
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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
    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreYour domain has been registered longer than the newest sites here but is still younger than most.
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

The website shows strong health with a high overall traffic and keyword presence, indicating solid visibility in the local market. Primary strengths include organic traffic performance, staying in the local top 10% for organic visits, and excellent organic keyword coverage. Opportunities now focus on initiating paid activity and maintaining growth through content and links.

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.
8.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Your hours against demand

Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson shows good alignment with local demand overall: 40 weekly open hours fall during high-demand windows, and there are no low-demand open hours. Strong matches include Tuesday 12-1pm and Thursday 10-11am, while there are missed opportunities at Friday 8am, Saturday 10am and Sunday early afternoon. Consider limited-hours trials at those missed times to capture extra 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.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Roger Bensley - Kannangara Thomson
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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 Monday · Burnside
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You are #14 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

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#80of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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