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Tom Evatt & 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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Tom Evatt & Co

Law firm · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#137of 216 lawyers
Overall health3.7/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Tom Evatt & Co is a Christchurch Central City law firm advising individuals, businesses, companies and farmers across commerce, agriculture and property law. Established in 2018, the firm says it offers fresh, affordable and innovative legal advice and uses technology to stay accessible. Services include commercial work, farm and property transactions, and project-based matters such as development and compensation claims.

Tom Evatt & Co is a Christchurch Central City law firm established in 2018. The practice works with individuals, business owners, companies and farmers, providing advice in commerce, agricultural and property law. The firm emphasises client-focused service and accessibility through the use of technology.

The firm outlines core services across commercial, agricultural and property areas. Commercial work covers company incorporation, constitutions and shareholder agreements, disputes, business sales and acquisitions, financing, commercial agreements, terms of trade and franchising. Agricultural services include farm sales, purchases and leases, and stock sales and leasing arrangements. The practice also handles project-based matters such as property development, irrigation and compensation claims.

Clients comment on a capable team; the review snapshot notes a consistently positive rating and brief praise for the team. This aligns with the firm's stated approach of delivering commercially minded advice and practical support. Contact arrangements aim to provide either direct legal advice or a referral to an alternative adviser if a matter falls outside the firm's scope.

Locally, Tom Evatt & Co presents itself as a generalist commercial and rural law practice rooted in Christchurch Central City. The combination of commerce, agriculture and property work, a stated focus on accessibility and a small-team reputation are the practical features that distinguish the firm within its local market.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Tom Evatt & Co shows a very high health for its Google Business Listing, with all key fields populated and verified. The most notable strengths are a claimed listing with full control, a working website link, a visible listing title, an open-for-business status and a clearly listed phone number. The top opportunity is to continue increasing photos to move out of the bottom quartile.

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 two opportunities

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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.
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    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
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From the business

A Fresh Approach to providing legal advice Tom Evatt & Co believe in providing their clients with excellent advice and service in a fresh, affordable and innovative way. Our team are experienced, commercially minded and eager to deliver outstanding support to our clients whatever their needs may be. Tom Evatt & Co are experienced in providing legal advice to businesses, individuals, companies and farmers. If for any reason, we can’t assist with a client’s needs then we will find someone who can and work with them to ensure client’s needs are satisfied. Tom Evatt established Tom Evatt & Co in 2018 with client needs first and foremost in a fast paced and busy environment. We utilise technology to ensure that we are accessible when need

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Your reviews

Tom Evatt & Co shows a below-average Google review health score of 4.1 out of 10, indicating room for improvement. The business has a strong star rating in the top 10% but has not yet engaged with any reviews publicly. Key opportunities include increasing response rate to reviews, expanding total reviews, and continuing to provide excellent experiences to lift the rating confidence.

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

Tom Evatt & Co shows a below-average health score in Google Maps search results, at 3.4 out of 10. The top finding is a reasonable standing for some broader maps queries, but there is a clear opportunity to improve local results, especially in the borough-specific searches. Focus should be on strengthening presence in the local area.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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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.
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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.
3.5Room to grow
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1Top three for "business attorney" in 1 suburb, seen in 8
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Saunders & Co Christchurch4.9 ★ (540) · Law firm
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Patient & Williams, Barristers & Solicitors5.0 ★ (11) · Law firm
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Tom Evatt & Co25.0 ★ (2) · Law firm
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St Martins Law Limited4.6 ★ (25) · Law firm
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #140 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Tom Evatt & Co shows very low social presence health, with a 1.3/10. The strongest current asset is an active LinkedIn Company listing, which helps reach customers professionally. The main opportunities lie in establishing active profiles on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Neighbourly networks to improve visibility and trust among local clients.

Strengths

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    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/tom-evatt) found via: Google search results, Your website.
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    Lawzana LawyerWe can see your Lawzana Lawyer listing (https://lawzana.com/tom-evatt-co) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
3.3Room to grow
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Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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
You are #106 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Tom Evatt & Co shows below average on-page SEO health with a 3.3 out of 10. Strengths include a valid favicon, an SEO-friendly URL, a concise character count, an H1 tag and a precise title tag. Key opportunities focus on adding a meta description, balancing the title length, improving overall on-page SEO score, adjusting text-to-page size ratio and reducing render-blocking resources.

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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    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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    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.
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    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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How people find you on Google

Tom Evatt & Co shows a below-average website traffic health (3.8/10), indicating limited paid and organic visibility. Key findings highlight the absence of measurable paid traffic and spend, alongside some momentum in organic traffic. Opportunities focus on starting targeted paid campaigns with landing pages and tracking, while continuing to refine organic SEO fundamentals and keyword strategy to improve visibility and conversions.

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 10 visits a month from search, across 9 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #138 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Tom Evatt & Co's opening hours partially match Christchurch demand: 40 weekly hours fall during peak search times, especially midweek lunchtimes and Thursday mornings. However the firm is closed during several popular windows including weekend afternoons, early Friday mornings and a Saturday morning, representing missed commercial opportunity. No open hours occur during low-demand windows, so inefficiency from being open at quiet times is minimal.

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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Tom Evatt & Co
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
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#137of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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