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The Work · 06 Case Studies
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News & Resources
Reputation
How Patients Choose a Doctor Now — and Why a Directory Often Decides First
The shortlist gets built before a patient ever reaches your website — on reviews, the map pack, AI answers, and a new layer of independent directories. Here's how those lists get made, and how to make sure you're on them.
Social
110 Plastic Surgeons With the Biggest Instagram Followings
A live research archive: the 110 plastic surgeons we found with the largest Instagram audiences — each with their profile, website, Google rating, domain authority, and site speed, captured June 2026.
SEO & Search
How Google Decides Who Wins Atlanta's Facelift Search
A full teardown of Atlanta's facelift market: who ranks, why, and exactly what the top practices do on Google, schema, and site speed. Our 2026 competitive research report.
Video
Video-First SEO: How a Surgeon on Camera Out-Ranks Every Text-Only Practice in Town
Google stopped rewarding the most pages and started rewarding the most trust. A surgeon on camera out-ranks the text-only practices in your market. Here's the full playbook.
Testimonials
The 3-Act Patient Testimonial That Books Consults, Not Just Collects Stars
A five-star review is proof; a patient's story is persuasion. The testimonials that actually book consults follow the same three acts every great story does.
Own your assets
Who Really Owns Your Website, Domain & Google Profile? For Most Practices, It Isn't Them
If you ever sell, relocate, or switch agencies, one question decides how painful it gets: who actually owns your digital front door? For most practices, it isn't them.
Funnels & CRO
Traffic Is Vanity: The Funnel That Turns Clicks Into Booked Consults
Traffic is vanity; a booked consult is revenue. Most practice sites collect visitors and quietly lose every one. Here's the funnel that turns a click into a calendar appointment.
Before / After
Before-and-After, Reinvented: Why Two Flat Photos Lose to Transformation in Motion
The before-and-after is the most persuasive asset in elective medicine, and two flat photos barely scratch it. In motion, it becomes the closest thing to watching the decision itself.
A decade of what actually works in elective-medicine marketing.
Specialty · Med spa SEO

Every treatment,
ranked.

"Botox near me" is a local auction held every day, and the map pack takes most of the clicks. Med spa SEO is winning that auction for every treatment you offer — in Google, in the map pack, and in the AI answers patients increasingly trust first.

SPECIALTY · MED SPA SEO
MS
Med spaLocal + AI search
01The overview · Local intent, treatment by treatment

Med spa search is a hundred small auctions, not one big one

Nobody searches "med spa" and books. They search the treatment — tox, lip filler, laser hair removal, Hydrafacial — plus "near me" or a neighborhood. Each is its own ranking contest with its own page, its own reviews signal, and its own AI citation to win. We run them all as one program, measured in booked appointments.
The secrets

The 10 secrets of med spa SEO

01

The map pack is the market

Most med spa clicks never reach the organic results. GBP categories, photos, services, and review velocity are the real battlefield.

02

Rank the treatment, not the spa

"Lip filler [city]" converts; "med spa" browses. A deep page per treatment captures patients with intent — cost, candidacy, aftercare, gallery.

03

Reviews are the algorithm

Volume, recency, and treatment keywords inside reviews move local rankings. Systematize the ask; the rankings follow.

04

Listings, exactly consistent

Name, address, phone, services — identical across 200+ directories. Inconsistency is the silent local-SEO killer we fix first.

05

Neighborhood pages that aren't spam

Real pages for the areas you draw from — with genuine local proof, not doorway-page filler that gets filtered. Local depth done honestly ranks.

06

Before-and-after as SEO asset

Galleries structured with schema rank in image search and feed AI answers — your results working the night shift.

07

Video results in the carousel

Treatment videos rank in Google's video carousel for treatment searches — a second front most med spas never open.

08

Win the AI recommendation

ChatGPT and AI Overviews now answer "best med spa near me." Citations come from structure, reviews, and consistency — we build and track all three.

09

Speed and mobile, non-negotiable

Aesthetic patients browse on phones between everything else. A slow site loses the ranking and the patient in the same second.

10

Measure appointments, not positions

Rankings are the means. Tracked calls and bookings per treatment are the end. We report what the front desk actually feels.

Questions doctors ask

Straight answers

01

How fast can a med spa move up in local search?

GBP and listings fixes move the needle in 30-60 days; competitive map-pack positions take 3-6 months. Review velocity is usually the fastest lever — and most spas aren't pulling it.

02

We have multiple locations — does that change the SEO?

Completely. Each location needs its own GBP, its own pages, its own reviews stream. Done right, multi-location is an advantage; done lazily, locations cannibalize each other.

03

What makes med spa SEO different from general SEO?

Local intent and treatment-level searches. It's a hundred small auctions — every treatment × every neighborhood — decided by map packs and reviews, not just content. Generalist agencies miss that structure.

04

Do AI Overviews matter for a local med spa?

Yes — they now appear on most aesthetic keywords, and they cite specific practices. Early movers are getting recommended by name in ChatGPT while competitors wait. That window is open now.

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See who's winning your treatments today.

Free visibility audit: every treatment, every competitor, map pack and AI. The gaps will surprise you.