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Tony Stewart Photoshots

Wedding photographer · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 194 Christchurch photography businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
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Tony Stewart Photoshots

Wedding photographer · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

Where you stand#116of 194 photography businesses
Overall health4.0/10across the eight areas

Going well

07Google search and traffic7.904Listings and social7.305Facebook page7.3

Where we can help

02Reviews3.608Opening hours3.001Google listing2.403Map positions1.906Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Tony Stewart is a Rolleston-based wedding and portrait photographer. He offers wedding and portrait photography, with colour and black-and-white galleries on his site. An experienced photographer and NZIPP Grand Master, he and his staff say they listen to clients and aim to provide the best photographic service to meet and exceed expectations.

Tony Stewart is a wedding and portrait photographer based in Rolleston. His practice focuses on wedding photography and portrait work, with galleries on the website showcasing both colour and black-and-white images. His professional identity is closely tied to New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography recognition.

Services include wedding and portrait photography delivered by Tony and his supporting staff. The website highlights a Colour Gallery and a B&W Gallery, and notes a long record of awards-138 NZIPP Professional Photography Awards since 2004-and the NZIPP Grand Master of Photography title awarded in 2018.

The tone communicated to clients is attentive and service-led: Tony states that the total wedding experience is paramount, that he will listen to clients' needs, and that he and his staff aim to provide the very best photographic service to meet and exceed expectations. The site emphasises collaboration with clients and attention to the experience on the day as part of the photographic offering.

Locally, Tony Stewart is presented as an award-winning practitioner with formal recognition from NZIPP and a long history of professional awards. The site notes he was the first Grand Master recipient in the Canterbury Westland region, a fact that is used to signal his standing within regional professional photography circles.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Tony Stewart | Wedding Photographer shows a low overall health of 1.8 out of 10 on Google Business Listing. The core health issue is missing claimed status, despite having a listing with a website, phone, full address and a main image. Strengths include a clear listing title and ready contact details, while opportunities focus on claiming the listing, updating status, adding a description and photos, and adding a logo.

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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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your reviews

Tony Stewart's Google Business health is considered low, with a 1.6/10 health score. The main takeaway is that ratings and engagement are weak, and there are minimal reviews to build trust. The strongest opportunities lie in boosting the rating confidence, increasing the star rating, accumulating more reviews, and improving response rate to customer feedback.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
  • 2
    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Tony Stewart | Wedding Photographer shows a low overall health in Google Maps with a 1.7 out of 10. The top opportunities focus on improving aggregate and suburb-specific scores, plus verifying the listing address to match maps queries. Best-performing keywords confirm strong presence for Rolleston areas, especially as a wedding photographer in Rolleston north east and Rolleston north west.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
1.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Top three for "photographer" in 1 suburb, seen in 2
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Pixel Stories by Sanka5.0 ★ (3) · Wedding photographer
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Donna Chambers Photography0.0 ★ (0) · Wedding photographer
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Jack 'n' Jill Portraits4.0 ★ (6) · Wedding photographer
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #158 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Tony Stewart | Wedding Photographer shows a high health score of 8.3 out of 10, indicating strong presence and trust. The most notable findings are outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles that bolster visibility and credibility, and a solid LinkedIn profile that can support professional branding. Opportunities focus on expanding reach and professional platforms.

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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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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.
7.3Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Instagramphotoshots_tonystewartTony Stewart Photoshots | Instagram✓
Facebook100063705721881Tony Stewart Photoshots | Facebook✓
LinkedIntony-stewart-27a0b810Tony Stewart Photoshots | LinkedIn
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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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 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.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
  • 2
    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
  • 3
    What your page says about youYour intro carries more detail than most pages in this market and is doing the work of a short landing page for the visitors who never reach your website.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.3Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your website

Tony Stewart | Wedding Photographer shows a solid on-page SEO health with a score of 7.2 out of 10. The strongest strengths include a relevant meta description, an SEO-friendly URL, a clear H1 tag, and a concise page size under 256KB. Key opportunities focus on speeding up load time, optimising the meta description length, and refining the title tag and favicon presence.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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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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    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
    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.
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    On-page scoreMost checks on your home page pass, so someone clicking through from a search gets a page that opens quickly and says what it is.
  • 3
    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, so a reasonable spread of places vouch for you.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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3Separate sites linking to you
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How people find you on Google

Tony Stewart | Wedding Photographer shows a solid website traffic health with a 7.9/10. This indicates strong baseline organic presence and room for measured paid and on-site improvements. The strongest opportunities lie in starting and refining small paid campaigns and improving paid keyword coverage, while continuing to grow organic value and rankings.

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
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

No opening-hours data is recorded for Tony Stewart | Wedding Photographer, so alignment with local demand cannot be confirmed. No strong alignment patterns are identifiable because hours are missing. Several high-demand windows are likely unserved, creating missed opportunities. Adding published hours would allow precise matching to peak search times and reduce the risk of appearing closed when potential clients are looking.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
3.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours
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Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #137 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#116of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
You are #116 overall
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