Private visibility audit

Dr Sam Dawkins

Dr Dawkins, let’s look at your local visibility.

We ran the same search, a cardiologist, from 25 spots around Headington in Oxford. On this map, you are on the first screen in many spots, but below the top three in most. So someone nearby can still miss you. Each dot is one of those spots; Green means the practice is in the top three there.

Where the map is weaker, someone searching from there may not come across you. So what happens when a nearby practice shows more often?

The comparison worth looking at

One nearby practice shows up more widely

From the same spots, Dr Julian Ormerod appears both close to you and further out than you do, so patients nearby are seeing another cardiologist more often.

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

That suggests a wider local presence is reachable around Headington in Oxford. The next question is who reaches your website now, and whether they already know your name.

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

In this estimate, none of the searches we found that reach your site uses your name; one is 'cardiac pfo'.

  • That means we cannot yet see people finding you on Google by searching for your practice or your own name.
  • We did find searches for heart conditions, but your pages sit too far down for most people to see.

So which searches bring people to your pages without your name?

The searches behind the numbers

These searches are rarely seen

These are searches about your heart services, mainly structural treatments and valve conditions, with one about echocardiography.

  • 'severe aortic stenosis symptoms' is low on the first page. It is seen by few people and brings almost no one to your aortic stenosis page.
  • 'left atrial appendage occlusion' is beyond the first page of results, so most people never reach your page about that treatment.

These searches are in your cardiology field, especially valve and structural treatments, but none shows up among the first results yet, so the people asking them are not yet finding you.

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

Here is a fair look at what already works and what we would take on 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.

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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?