A patient is told to see a specialist. They search the doctor’s name before they book. What appears on that page, and whether the details match, decides whether they call. Medical SEO is the work of controlling that page, and the searches before it, without putting health information where it doesn’t belong. Strategic Web Designs is a South Florida agency doing SEO for medical practices locally and, remotely, across the country.
Patients search in stages, moving from symptoms to conditions to treatments to a doctor. Symptom searches are the widest and riskiest, since Google holds health content to a higher standard. We target the stage where a patient is choosing a provider, and write symptom content only where a clinician will review it.
The provider's name gets searched before booking. If credentials, phone numbers or addresses differ across your site, directories and reviews, patients lose trust or call the wrong number.
Multi-location practices compete with themselves. Near-identical location pages give Google no reason to prefer any one. Each page needs facts specific to that office.
Measurement can expose health information. Site search terms and URL parameters can pass a visitor's condition into analytics, a data problem before it is an SEO problem.
We check whether site search terms and URL parameters reach your analytics, and keep tracking off portal and login pages. Your compliance advisor decides how tracking guidance applies to your public pages; we hand over what runs where.
We check which page Google shows for each search, and merge or differentiate pages that are splitting traffic.
Every page gets a review date and a list of pages due another look.
We set up call tracking without recording unless your compliance advisor approves it and a notice plays.
Medical SEO tends to take longer than most work, since clinical review adds steps and you compete against health systems and large publishers. Three to nine months is a common range before new-patient calls move in a way you can measure, and it can be longer. We do not promise a position or a date.
First steps include access and tracking setup in week one, a full audit of provider name searches, directories, location pages and analytics through week three, a sourced data sheet for each provider and office by week four, then fixes in order of cost and impact, followed by new content built around your highest-value specialties, each with a named clinical reviewer.
Ongoing SEO for a single-location practice is typically $1,500–$4,000 per month, with setup, where needed, typically $2,000–$6,000. Contract terms: month-to-month after an initial 3-month commitment, with 30 days’ written notice to cancel.
Cost depends on the number of providers, since each needs a page, a source check and directory work; the number of locations and specialties, since each combination needs its own facts and an overlap check; how much content needs clinical review, since reviewer time is often the real limit; and your competition, since ranking against a hospital system takes more than ranking against a peer practice.
Your accounts stay in your name. We work as a manager on them.
We are a South Florida agency with no staff outside the region, and nobody from us visits your city. Medical SEO runs on data, documents and interviews, so almost none of it needs anyone in the room. Kickoff, provider interviews, audits, content drafting, technical fixes and reporting all run by video or asynchronously.
A few things still need someone at your practice: a named clinician to review each clinical page, manager access to your Google profiles, the verification video Google can request, and your compliance advisor’s sign-off on tracking and call recording.
No. Nobody can. We describe the work and show you the data each month.
Only where a clinician on your team will review the page. Otherwise we focus on conditions, treatments and choosing a provider.
Your compliance advisor decides what applies to your practice. We keep health information out of analytics, reports and ordinary email, and our agreement terms are {BAA_POLICY}. We are not a law firm.
Usually, since patients search the name. The page can be short, but it has to be accurate.
We claim and correct the profiles and strengthen your own provider pages. We cannot promise that yours will outrank them.
Yes to both. More offices and specialties means more pages to check for overlap, which is why the audit comes first, and remote work follows the same process described above.
The audit covers what appears when someone searches each of your providers by name, what your analytics collect, which of your location and specialty pages compete with each other, and how your directory profiles compare with your real credentials. Call +1 754-704-4727 or request an audit from this page.