Private visibility audit

Mr Peter Ugboaja Kalu

Mr Kalu, let’s look at your local visibility.

We ran one search, a plastic surgeon, from 25 spots around Headington in Oxford. You appear lower down the first screen in many of those spots. In most, you are not among the top three. Each dot is one of those spots; Green means you are in the top three.

From those parts of Headington, someone searching on their phone may not come across you. So what does the same search look like for a nearby practice?

The comparison worth looking at

One nearby practice shows up more widely

From the same spots around Headington, and further out, Isabel Teo Plastic Surgeon appears above you.

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

That suggests a wider local presence is reachable around Headington in Oxford. So the next question is whether people are searching for you by name at all.

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

This suggests the Google searches we found do not use your practice name.

  • In practice, that means people who already know you may be finding you in other ways, rather than searching for your name.
  • It also means anyone who does not already know your name has to find you some other way.

So what happens when someone searches for the surgery you do, without your name?

The searches behind the numbers

None of the searches we found brings people in

These are searches for plastic surgery services you offer, mainly breast surgery, nipple reconstruction, ear pinning and scar revision.

  • 'breast capsulectomy' is beyond the first page of results, so most people never see it, and it leads to your breast implant exchange or removal and capsulectomy page.
  • 'pinning ears back' is beyond the first page of results, so most people never see it, and it leads to your ear pinning surgery page.

The gap is in your own field: these searches are for plastic surgery you do offer, but none of the pages we found is being seen by new patients around Headington yet.

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

Some of what you have built is already working and worth keeping. A few things are holding you back, and each of them can be put right.

I used to run clinics myself, so this is two colleagues reading the same page together. None of these gaps needs solving all at once; each one can be taken on its own.

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?