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Yardley Architecture

Architectural designer · Merivale, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 252 Christchurch architects.

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Yardley Architecture

Architectural designer · Merivale, Christchurch

Where you stand#15of 252 architects
Overall health9.4/10across the eight areas

Going well

03Map positions9.805Facebook page9.504Listings and social9.208Opening hours9.202Reviews8.301Google listing7.507Google search and traffic6.0

Where we can help

06Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Yardley Architecture is an architectural practice based in Merivale, Christchurch, offering consultation, planning and design for residential projects. The studio focuses on custom new homes and renovations, providing personalised design work and hands-on guidance through project planning. Clients note collaborative communication and attention to brief during design and build stages.

Yardley Architecture is an architectural practice located in Merivale, Christchurch, providing consultation, planning and design services for residential work. The firm lists a Christchurch address on Welles Street and states a focus on architecture suited to New Zealand living.

The studio offers architecture consultation, project planning and custom design for new homes and home renovations. Source material indicates work on residential projects such as cedar-gable and barn-style houses. Contact details and examples of completed builds are provided on the business website.

Clients consistently describe collaborative working relationships with the lead designer and team. Review themes note that clients felt listened to, that the practice worked alongside homeowners to refine ideas, and that design solutions responded to brief, budget and time constraints. Reviewers mention creative thinking for renovations and the delivery of homes tailored to client requirements.

Locally, Yardley Architecture positions itself as a Christchurch-based designers' studio with a residential focus and hands-on client engagement. Practical distinguishing features from available information include a Merivale location, a portfolio of custom homes and renovations, and reviewer emphasis on collaboration and responsiveness during the design process.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Yardley Architecture shows a solid overall health, with room to fine-tune the listing to lift it into the upper quartile of local peers. The most notable findings are a claimed listing with a valid website link and a clear phone number, plus an open-for-business status that provides accurate availability to customers.

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

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
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    Photos on the listingYou carry more photos than most of this market, which gives a customer a real look at the work before they ring.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
7.5Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (7)
Architectural designer · Merivale
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From the business

Christchurch Architectural Designers based in Merivale, Christchurch. We provide quality architecture consultation, planning and design.

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Google listingChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your reviews

Yardley Architecture shows a healthy Google Reviews profile with a strong star rating and solid review volume. Overall health sits at 8.5/10, indicating satisfied customers and credible feedback. The most notable finding is the top-10% star rating, signalling high client satisfaction. A key area to improve is responding to reviews to boost perceived engagement.

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 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.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits above the middle of this market, which puts you in the group customers read as established rather than untested.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
8.3Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #43 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Yardley Architecture shows a very high health score for Maps Search Performance, indicating strong visibility in Google Maps. The top results reflect notable borough- and suburb-specific strength, with several key keywords ranking #1 and others at #2. The main opportunity is to sustain and fine-tune this performance through ongoing updates to maintain the elite local standing.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility across the city groupThere is no wider Maps reach available to a business at your address - you appear across more of the surrounding suburbs than anyone in this market.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. Every check we run here is at its best on Google Maps.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
9.8Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓Top three for "architecture firm" in 11 suburbs, seen in 52
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Yardley Architecture✓5.0 ★ (7) · Architectural designer
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Walker Architecture5.0 ★ (6) · Architectural designer
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DD Architects5.0 ★ (1) · Architectural designer
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Marchese Partners0.0 ★ (0) · Architectural designer
Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #6 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Yardley Architecture shows a very high health score of 8.7, indicating strong presence across major platforms. The most notable strengths include outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles with very high trust scores, plus a solid Yellow Directory listing. The key opportunities focus on expanding reach through TikTok, LinkedIn profiles and company listings, and directories like GrabOne.

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.
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    ServiceFinder ProfileWe can see your ServiceFinder Profile listing (https://servicefinder.co.nz/Nicholas-Yardley-Architecture-57045) found via: Google search results.

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 can see the Yellow Profile listing (https://yellow.co.nz/y/yardley-and-foster-architecture-579456722) found via: Google search results, but nothing on it tells us it is yours - no matching phone number, no matching address, and the name does not line up.
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    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.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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TiktokNo account found1
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #20 for listings and social
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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 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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    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.
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    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.5Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Architectural Designers - based in Merivale, Christchurch. Providing quality Interior and Exterior Architecture consultation, planning and design.2
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

Yardley Architecture shows a modest on-page SEO health score (4.6/10) with clear strengths in meta description relevance, title tag relevance, favicon presence and compact page size. Key opportunities include improving meta description length, adjusting title tag length, reducing load time, and ensuring a high text-to-page size ratio. Overall health suggests progress is needed but there are solid foundations to build on.

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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    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

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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 titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
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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.
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

Yardley Architecture shows a moderate health score for website traffic with room to improve both paid and organic activity. The strongest signal is mid-range organic traffic value, suggesting ongoing content and link-building efforts can lift rankings. Notable opportunities include starting small paid campaigns with targeted landing pages and tracking, and boosting paid and organic presence to capture more potential clients.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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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 ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    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.
6.0Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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21No ads from you on any search
www.barryconnordesign.co.nzMERIVALE HOME | ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT DESIGN
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yardleyarchitecture.co.nzYardley Architecture

Christchurch Architectural Designer based in Merivale, providing quality architecture consultation, planning and design. New Home Designs, Home Renovations.

archipro.co.nzMerivale House 5 by O'Neil + Shirley Architecture
3About 78 visits a month from search, across 15 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #102 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Yardley Architecture's hours show solid alignment with weekday lunchtime demand, open at key midday peaks on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (11am-1pm across those days). However, the studio is closed across the busiest weekend times, notably Saturday midday to mid-afternoon and Sunday midday, which are high-search periods. No low-demand open hours were flagged, so any hour increases should target weekend midday windows.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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The next step

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01Google listing2 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#15of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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