Private visibility audit

Professor Dominic Furniss

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

We ran one search, Surgical center, from 25 spots around Headington in Oxford. You are on the first screen in many spots, but below the top three in most. Closer to you, you appear among the first three more often; across the area, you drop. Each dot is one of those spots. Green means you are in the top three there.

Where the map is weaker, someone searching nearby may not come across you. Close to you, there is some presence to protect. So what happens when another nearby practice appears?

The comparison worth looking at

One nearby practice shows up more widely

Compared with you, Oxford Hernia Clinic appears both close to your address and further out, so patients nearby are more likely to see it across Headington.

This is the same search from the same spots around Headington in Oxford, so the two maps can be read side by side.

So a wider presence across Headington is possible. Who is getting through to your website when people search?

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

None of the searches we found used your practice name. Instead, people reach you through searches like 'operation for lymphedema'.

  • That means someone who already knows you may still be searching another way, rather than typing your name into Google.
  • Your website is already doing part of the hard work by being findable when someone searches for this kind of surgery around Headington in Oxford.

So which searches are bringing in people who do not know you yet?

The searches behind the numbers

Lymphoedema surgery already brings some new people

These are searches for your lymphoedema surgery, related lymphatic procedures, and imaging, each leading to a page on your site.

  • 'operation for lymphedema' shows up among the first results and leads to your about page, so a person with lymphoedema can reach your practice from this search.
  • 'lymphography' shows up low on the first page and leads to your ICG lymphography page. It is seen by few people and brings almost no one.

The clearest opening is your own field: people searching for an operation for lymphoedema can already find you, so that service is the one to build on.

Picture the patients searching for lymphoedema surgery in Oxford being able to find you.

Here is what already works for you, and the few things we would fix 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?