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Tim Holton Law

Lawyer · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

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Tim Holton Law

Lawyer · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#102of 216 lawyers
Overall health5.3/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Tim Holton Law is a Christchurch Central City law firm specialising in property and family law. It offers conveyancing, wills, estate planning and estate administration alongside a specialist first home buyer service. The firm provides legal aid for parenting, guardianship and family violence matters and describes itself as client focused and straightforward in its approach.

Tim Holton Law is a small Christchurch Central City law firm that focuses on property and family law. The firm is based on Peterborough Street and states a commitment to responding to legal needs as simply as possible.

Services include conveyancing for buying and selling houses, all aspects of family law, wills and trusts, enduring powers of attorney, estate planning and estate administration. The firm highlights a specialist first home buyer service and provides legal aid for parenting, guardianship and family violence matters.

Customer feedback emphasises professionalism and diligence, with clients describing the firm as helpful during difficult times and straightforward to deal with. Reviews mention repeat use for property transactions and estate matters and a tendency for clients to recommend the firm to friends and colleagues.

Locally, Tim Holton Law presents as a client-focused legal practice offering a broad personal legal services mix for people buying homes, managing family law issues or organising estate affairs. Its stated simplicity of approach and a dedicated first home buyer service are factors that distinguish the firm within Christchurch Central City.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Tim Holton Law shows a healthy Google Business Listing with a 7.6/10 score, indicating solid presence and accessibility for customers. The listing already has essential contact details and an open-for-business status, while the description and photos are improving. The two key takeaways are: a claimed listing with a visible phone number and a strong basis for ongoing photo and description enhancements.

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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    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.
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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
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.0Good
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From the business

Tim Holton Law is a small client focused law firm specialising in property and family law. We offer legal aid services for parenting, guardianship and family violence matters. If you are a first home buyer we offer a specialist first home buyer service.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Tim Holton Law shows a solid health score for Google reviews, with strong star ratings and growing review counts. The top finding is that the business already has a stellar star rating in the top 10%, indicating high customer satisfaction. A second important note is that there is no review response to date, which could affect perceived engagement. Initiatives to respond to reviews and encourage more feedback will help lift overall 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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    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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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 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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
4.3Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #123 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

The Maps Search Performance health for Tim Holton Law stands at 3.3 out of 10, indicating below-average visibility in Google Maps searches. Top opportunities include ensuring the suburb/borough spelling matches maps queries and, where this is already strong, continuing to build presence across multiple local suburbs. Focus on refining the listing address and leveraging proven local-areas keywords.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.8Room to grow
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Hatherly Loughnan4.4 ★ (8) · Lawyer
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Absolut Legal5.0 ★ (219) · Lawyer
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Tim Holton Law15.0 ★ (2) · Lawyer
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Cruickshank Pryde5.0 ★ (2) · Lawyer
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #134 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Tim Holton Law has a health score of 6.9 out of 10, indicating above average overall presence health from Marketbase. The most impactful findings are a strong Facebook presence and an accurate LinkedIn listing, which support reach and professional credibility. Current gaps include inactive profiles on Instagram, TikTok, Yellow, LinkedIn Company, and TikTok Directory that limit local visibility 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.
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    Lawzana LawyerWe can see your Lawzana Lawyer listing (https://lawzana.com/tim-holton-law) 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.
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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    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 5 of them.
6.6Good
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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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Tim Holton Law is a small client focused law firm specialising in property and family law. We offer legal aid services for parenting, guardianship and family violence matters. If you are a first home...
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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Your website

Tim Holton Law shows a below-average on-page SEO health of 3.7 out of 10, meaning there are notable issues affecting search visibility. The most important findings are opportunities to improve meta description length and title tag length, plus reducing render-blocking resources and expanding content to exceed 1024 characters.

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 load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
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    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.
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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

Tim Holton Law shows below-average website traffic health with a 3.3/10 health score. The main finding is that paid traffic activity is effectively absent while organic traffic is starting to improve, and paid search opportunities remain underdeveloped. Focus on small, targeted paid campaigns and continue refining organic SEO fundamentals to build steady visibility.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    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 search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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31About 4 visits a month from search, across 5 searches
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You are #147 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Tim Holton Law's opening hours show a reasonable match to Christchurch demand, with 40 weekly peak hours open and no low-demand hours. Peak-time coverage is strongest midweek around late morning and lunchtime, notably Tuesday 12-1pm, Wednesday 12pm and Thursday 10-11am. Missed opportunities include several weekend and early-morning peaks-Saturday 10am, Sunday 1-2pm and Friday 8am-where opening could capture more enquiries.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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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Tim Holton Law
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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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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#102of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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Christchurch lawyersOverall · 216 businesses
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