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SwainWoodham Group

Insurance broker · Waltham, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 121 Christchurch insurance brokers.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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SwainWoodham Group

Insurance broker · Waltham, Christchurch

Where you stand#54of 121 insurance brokers
Overall health5.6/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

SwainWoodham Group is an insurance and investment firm based in Christchurch Central City. The firm manages personal insurance, investments and employee benefits across life stages. Clients can expect a people-focused approach emphasising financial planning and continuity. The practice highlights advisor-led guidance and administrative support for Kiwisaver, pensions and workplace benefit programmes.

SwainWoodham Group is an insurance and investment firm located in Christchurch Central City that manages risk and investment needs across different stages of life. The firm presents a client-centred approach, positioning clients' experiences and important life moments at the heart of its work.

Services include personal insurance, investment advice and employee benefits. The website also lists administrative roles and support services that indicate capacity for financial administration, project administration and personal assistant or general admin support.

Customer feedback highlights advisors who act in clients' interests, with mentions of practical help on Kiwisaver and overseas pensions and guidance that supported retirement confidence. Reviews also note approachable staff by name and a general sense of satisfaction from clients who use their services.

Locally, SwainWoodham Group is characterised by advisory-led service, a focus on long-term investment and benefits planning, and hands-on administrative support. That combination aims to help clients manage both individual insurance needs and workplace benefit arrangements through ongoing adviser relationships.

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Your Google listing

SwainWoodham Group shows solid presence on Google Business with a health score of 4.5 out of 10. The listing is claimed, with a clear phone number and a website link, and the status shows open for business. The strongest current feature is verified control of listing, while the health is limited by missing logo and modest photo gains.

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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    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.
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    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.
  • 3
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.6Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (9)
Insurance broker · Waltham
Open 5 days ✓
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From the business

SwainWoodham Group manage all risk and investment needs across all stages of life’s journey. We are here to ensure you have confidence and the ability to create the life you choose. At the heart of everything we do is you – your experiences, your memories, your moments that matter most. We’re here to ensure you can focus on living your life to the fullest, without interruptions – insurance with heart, investment for life.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

SwainWoodham Group shows solid health on Google reviews with a 6.0 out of 10, indicating above-average performance in the local market. The top achievement is a stellar star rating, placing the business in the top 10% for customer satisfaction. A key opportunity is to increase engagement by replying to reviews, which will help build trust with clients and potential customers.

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.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
6.0Good
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Google reviewsChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

SwainWoodham Group shows above-average health in Google Maps performance with a 6.8/10 overall score. The top opportunities focus on strengthening aggregate city-wide visibility and solidifying the borough presence. The business should continue building local prominence while nudging suburb-specific rankings toward the local midpoint to maximise reach among Christchurch clients seeking insurance and financial guidance.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
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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.
6.8Good
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2Seen in 14 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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QuoteHub5.0 ★ (2) · Insurance broker
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imsure Insurance Advisers5.0 ★ (9) · Insurance broker
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Needham Heatley Insurance Brokers0.0 ★ (0) · Insurance broker
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Gerrards Insurance Brokers5.0 ★ (430) · Insurance broker
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Map positionsChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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Where customers find you

SwainWoodham Group shows an above-average health score of 5.8 out of 10 for social presence, indicating decent visibility with room to strengthen key profiles. A strong Facebook presence and an accurate LinkedIn Company listing are the current highlights, supporting credibility with clients and partners. Focus should be on expanding channels that lack activity to improve reach.

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.
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    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/swainwoodham-group) found via: Google search results.
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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/swain-woodham-group-sydenham) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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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.
  • 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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.2Good
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LinkedInswainwoodham-groupSwainWoodham Group | LinkedIn✓
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Finance Advisers Providermaurice-woodham-limited-christchurch-FSP112724SwainWoodham Group | Finance Advisers Provider
FacebookSwainWoodhamBrianSwainWoodham Group | Facebook✓
IBANZ Broker10095-s123Found through search, not linked from anything you own
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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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.
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    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 two opportunities

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    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
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With 34 years industry experience, we bring our passion for insuring you have the right insurance in place in the event of an unexpected life challenge. If things do go wrong, we are second to none wh...
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Facebook pageChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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Your website

SwainWoodham Group's on-page SEO health is below average with a score of 4.0 out of 10. This indicates technical issues and limited optimisation for search engines. The top strengths include a valid favicon, sufficient text content, no frames, a relevant title tag, and an SEO-friendly URL. Immediate attention should focus on meta description absence and render-blocking resources to improve performance and click-through potential.

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.
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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.
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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

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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.
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    Page titleThe headline on your home page is either a single word or long enough that a search result cuts it off part way through.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

SwainWoodham Group's website traffic shows a below-average health with clear room for growth in organic and paid reach. The top takeaways are minimal organic traffic value and no organic rankings in the top 100, indicating a need for local content and on-page SEO improvements, plus a small but focused paid effort to start capturing traffic.

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
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21About 0 visits a month from search, across 0 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch insurance brokers · 121 businesses
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Your hours against demand

SwainWoodham Group's published hours show above-average temporal alignment (health score 6.6/10) but city-level demand data is unavailable to map exact peaks. The business is reported open during some high-demand windows and closed during others; it also maintains some off-peak openings that may be inefficient. Practical hour changes should focus on matching common client patterns like before-work, lunchtime and early-evening access.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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.
10.0Strong
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Hours 1
Monday9am-4pm
Tuesday9am-4pm
Wednesday9am-4pm
Thursday9am-4pm
Friday9am-4pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#54of 121 Christchurch insurance brokers
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Christchurch insurance brokersOverall · 121 businesses
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