Private visibility audit

Dr Jeremy Francis Lars Cobbold

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

We ran one search, Doctor, from 25 spots around Headington in Oxford. The map shows you are far down the list in most spots. So when someone nearby looks on their phone, you are unlikely to be shown. Each dot is one of those spots; Green means you are among the first shown there.

Meanwhile a practice nearby is showing up where you are not.

The comparison worth looking at

One nearby practice shows up more widely

The Manor Surgery appears both close to you and further out, so people searching nearby are more likely to see it than your practice.

This is the same search, made from the same spots around your practice, so the two maps can be read side by side.

That shows a wider spread around Headington in Oxford is possible. So when people do reach your website, are they mostly looking for you by name or finding you another way?

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 could see, people reaching your site through Google are not using your name.

  • That means someone who has heard of you through a recommendation, or who is already a patient, is not searching for you by name.
  • So the question is which other searches are bringing people to you, and whether those pages are easy to find.

Those other searches are where new people are finding you.

The searches behind the numbers

New people find you through bowel symptoms

These are searches from people who do not know you yet. They group around bowel conditions, mainly diverticular disease, with one search about coeliac disease.

  • 'diverticulitis treatment' shows up among the first results and leads to your diverticular disease page, so someone with bowel symptoms can find that part of your gastroenterology work.
  • 'diverticular disease' shows up low on the first page, below the results most people click, and leads to the same page, so almost no one reaches it.

The clearest opening is diverticular disease. That is already bringing new people to a page in your own gastroenterology field, so that is the service worth building on.

Picture patients searching for diverticular care in Oxford being able to find you.

Here is what already works for you, and what 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.

1
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.

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?