We ran the same search, a dental clinic, from 25 spots around Wythenshawe in Manchester. At most of them you sit among the first three names a patient sees, and at your own door no one is shown above you. It softens in a pocket further north, around Northenden. Each dot is one of those spots, and Green means you are in the top three there.
So most people searching near you can find you straight away. In that northern pocket they may scroll past you, which is the one part worth watching while the rest holds.

We ran the same search for Gatley Park Dental Practice. It comes before you at a few of the spots we tested, on the eastern side; at the other twenty-one, you come first of the two.
Same search, same spots around your practice, so the two maps can be read side by side.
They are shown in the first three at far fewer spots than you are. So a patient searching near you is more likely to see your name, and the question becomes what your website does next.

A little over half the estimated visits from Google come from people typing your name. Others come from searches like 'dentists wythenshawe'. That is an estimate, but a healthy mix.
So which searches without your name bring people in, and where do they land?

Some of the searches reaching your site carry no name at all. They are people looking for a dentist nearby, for denture prices, for a private root canal, for aligners.
So the searches that do not name you are dental ones, in your own field, and dentures lead the way. That is the service worth building on. The question is what those people do once they land.

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.
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.
WhatsApp or a voice note. Tell me which part of this page matters most to you. I reply myself.
We agree the priorities and what Forge will deliver, in writing. It is the only real time this asks of you.
Your Google listing and the pages a new patient lands on. Fixed before anything is built on top.
Kept up month after month. You watch it in a shared table, with a regular call, and your own people kept in the loop.
Four practices, four kinds of work. Delivered, not promised.
See the projectsEvery page about implants rebuilt, down to the questions patients ask before deciding. Kept up month after month.
The page patients land on before they book, her Google advertising, and a weekly letter to the colleagues who refer to her.
Every question his patients ask, mapped, then written and linked from his own publications.
His whole site reviewed page by page, and the three-month plan, city by city.
For a given specialty. So we do not work with the practice on the second map above, and would not while working with you.
Then very little: the odd decision, and your clinical eye where it matters.
If you stop, you keep all of it. No minimum term.
Agreed in writing. Nobody honest can promise you a position on Google, and we will not.
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.


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