Prepared by Forge Marketing

Private visibility audit

Aisha Iman

Hi Aisha, let’s look at your local visibility.

We ran the same search, a laser hair removal service, from 25 spots around St James Tower in Manchester. You come up in the list at all of them, but only at your own address do you land in the first three. On the streets closest to you, and further out too, you sit lower down or well down the list. Each dot is one of those spots; Green means the top three there.

So someone a few streets away, phone in hand, looking for laser hair removal nearby, would have to scroll a long way down the list to find you. Is that normal here?

The comparison worth looking at

One nearby practice appears higher at every spot

Pulse Light Clinic Manchester comes ahead of you at all 25 of the tested spots, including right at your own door and at the eight spots closest to you.

Same search, laser hair removal, from the same twenty-five spots around you, so the two maps sit side by side.

It lands in the first three at about half of those spots, where you manage it at one. That is a real local benchmark to work from, not a promise. Which brings us to who actually reaches your website.

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

Both kinds of search reach your website

Of the two searches we found, one is your name and the other is 'skin cosmetics'. Half the estimated visits from Google come from each, so searches that carry your name and searches that do not both lead here.

  • Someone typing your name has heard of you somewhere already. Someone typing what they want has not, and that is the search worth holding on to.
  • For that second search your site does come up among the first results, so a stranger with a phone in hand can reach your pages.

So what else are people typing when they want laser hair removal and have never heard of you?

The searches behind the numbers

One search without your name reaches you

Only one of the two searches we found leaves your name out. It is a near miss on the spelling of your own practice, and it lands on your home page.

  • 'skin cosmetics' puts you among the first results, and sends that person to your home page, where they meet your laser and skin work for the first time.

So the one search bringing people in without your name is really a misspelling of it. We found no search for laser hair removal around St James Tower in Manchester leading to your site. That gap is worth a conversation, and so is what you already do well.

Picture patients searching for your treatments in Manchester 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.

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Step 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.

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Step 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.

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Step 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.
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About an hour at the start

Then very little: the odd decision, and your clinical eye where it matters.

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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.

Founder

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
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.

Or book a call

One hour on video, free. Pick a time that suits you.

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?