Private visibility audit

Professor Stuart Charles Alec Winter

Professor Winter, let’s look at your local visibility.

We ran the same search, a surgeon, from 25 spots around Headington in Oxford. The map shows you far down the list in most places, with no strong area on this map. So nearby patients are unlikely to come across you there. Each dot is one of those spots; Green means you are among the first few there.

Where this map is weak, someone else is showing up instead. That leads to a simple question: who is being found nearby?

The comparison worth looking at

One nearby practice shows up wider

Against Oxford Hernia Clinic, you are behind both close to your address and further out.

We ran the same search from the same spots around your practice, so the two maps can be read side by side.

This suggests a wider local presence is reachable around Headington in Oxford, so the next question is who reaches your website now: people who know you already, or new people nearby.

Each dot is a tested search location. Green means a top-three position for that search. The comparison concerns search visibility, not the quality of care.

Beyond the map

People are not yet searching for you by name

From the searches we found on Google, nobody is reaching your site by typing your practice name. Instead, the searches are things like 'specialist sinus'.

  • That means people who already know you may still search in other ways, but none of the searches we found uses your name.
  • Those wider searches exist around Headington in Oxford, but your pages sit too far down for most people to see them on a phone.

So which searches can still bring people to you without your name?

The searches behind the numbers

New people rarely reach you through search

These are searches for your ENT work, mainly salivary gland problems and sinus care, from people who do not know your name yet.

  • 'mandible glands' shows up low on the first page, so few people see it and almost no one reaches your salivary glands page.
  • 'specialist sinus' is beyond the first page of results, so most people never see it, and it leads to your home page.

The clearest opening is salivary gland care: you already have a page for it, but it sits low on the first page, so few new people around Headington in Oxford reach you that way yet.

Picture the patients searching for your procedures in Oxford being able to find you.

Here is what already works for you, and what we would put right first.

None of this is about your care. It is about who sees your name first.

You stay with your patients. We carry this part.

Patients choose before they call: from the first names on the map, from the first results on Google. My team rebuilds what decides that, your Google listing and the pages a patient lands on, and keeps it up every month. Here is what happens if you reply.

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Start here

You send a message

WhatsApp or a voice note. Tell me which part of this page matters most to you. I reply myself.

2

About an hour together

We agree the priorities and what Forge will deliver, in writing. It is the only real time this asks of you.

3

Foundations first

Your Google listing and the pages a new patient lands on. Fixed before anything is built on top.

4

Systems that keep running

Kept up month after month. You watch it in a shared table, with a regular call, and your own people kept in the loop.

Work we have already done

Not a promise. The work itself.

Four practices, four kinds of work. Delivered, not promised.

See the projects
A dental practice near Paris

Every page about implants rebuilt, down to the questions patients ask before deciding. Kept up month after month.

An oral surgeon in Paris

The page patients land on before they book, her Google advertising, and a weekly letter to the colleagues who refer to her.

A hand surgeon in Italy

Every question his patients ask, mapped, then written and linked from his own publications.

A plastic surgeon in Italy

His whole site reviewed page by page, and the three-month plan, city by city.

What stays yours

One practitioner per city, in writing.

For a given specialty. So we do not work with the practice on the second map above, and would not while working with you.

From €1,200 per month
First diagnostic free. No minimum term. Agreed in writing before anything starts.
✓
About an hour at the start

Then very little: the odd decision, and your clinical eye where it matters.

✓
Everything built stays yours

If you stop, you keep all of it. No minimum term.

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We commit to the work

Agreed in writing. Nobody honest can promise you a position on Google, and we will not.

Healthcare marketing, led by Dr. Vladimir Khourda

A doctor who ran clinics, doing this part for you

I'm a doctor. I used to run a group of clinics, and I know this part of the job is not why anyone chooses medicine. Today my team does it for practices like yours: the research, the writing and the set-up. You come in only where clinical knowledge matters.

Dr Vladimir Khourda, founder of Forge.

Founder: Dr. Vladimir Khourda
I learned marketing so you don't have to

A message or a voice note is enough

WhatsApp or voice note: +33 7 43 69 81 74. Tell me which part of this page you want to understand better. I reply myself. This page was made for your practice only, and it comes down 32 days after it was published.

Got a question?

A few things you may be wondering

The questions practitioners actually ask me after a page like this.

What would you do first for my practice?

We already have a website, an agency or someone who watches this. Do we start again?

Will this bring the right patients, or just more enquiries?

I searched myself and saw something different. Why?

What does it cost, and how long before something changes?

Do you work with the practice you compared me with?