We ran the same search, a dental clinic, from 25 spots around Wythenshawe in Manchester. At most of those spots you come up among the first three names a patient is shown, and at every spot closest to your own street you hold that. It softens only in a pocket out to the north. Each dot is one of those spots; Green means you are in the top three there.
So near you, someone searching for a dentist can find you easily. That is worth protecting. Out towards Northenden, though, you sit far enough down the list that they would have to scroll to find you.

We ran the same search for Gatley Park Dental Practice. It comes before you at only a few of the tested spots, and you come before it at the rest, near you and further out.
Same search, a dental clinic, from the same spots around you, so the two maps can be read side by side.
You are among the first three at far more of those spots than they are, so someone nearby is shown your name first. The local map is an asset; the question is your website.

At least half of the estimated visits your site gets from Google come from people typing your name, like 'wythenshawe dental clinic'. These are estimates, but the pattern is clear.
So what are those people actually typing when they need a dentist and have never heard of you?

Some of the searches reaching your site carry no name at all. They are people looking for a dentist nearby, and people pricing up specific work: dentures, root canal treatment, aligners.
So the people who do not know you yet arrive through dentures and root canal work, both genuinely yours. Dentures is the one already sitting among the first results, so that is the one worth building on. Which leaves the question of where your strengths and your first priorities sit.

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.