Prepared by Forge Marketing

Private visibility audit

Dr Shabeeb Paktiawal

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

We ran the same search, a dental clinic, from 25 spots around Kingsbury Rd in London. At your own address you come up among the first three. Everywhere else we tested you sit below that, and farther out you fall a long way down the list. Each dot on the map is one of those spots; Green means you are in the top three there.

So someone a street or two away, phone in hand, looking for a dentist, may scroll past you entirely. Would a practice nearby fare any better here?

The comparison worth looking at

One nearby practice appears higher overall

We ran the same search for Kenton Dental Centre, and it comes before you at 23 of the 25 spots we tested, both close to you and further out.

Same search, a dental clinic, from the same spots around you, so the two maps sit side by side.

Yet it reaches the first three at barely more spots than you do. Neither of you is seen across this area, so those top places are open. Which raises what your website does next.

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

Most of your website's search visits come from your own name

At least three quarters of the estimated visits your site gets from Google come from searches typing your name, like 'pristine dental'. Those searches were already looking for you, not for a dentist.

  • Someone searching your name has usually heard of you already. Someone searching for a dentist nearby has not, and that is a different person with a different need.
  • Your site does reach Google's first page when someone nearby searches for a Kingsbury dentist, though it sits low on that page, below the results most people click.

So which searches bring people who have never heard of you, and where do they land?

The searches behind the numbers

One search without your name brings new people

Six of the searches we found do not use your name. One is someone nearby looking for a dentist. The others are veneers, private dentistry and other practitioners' names, and they sit beyond the first page.

  • 'kingsbury dentist' shows low on the first page, below the results most people click, and leads to your home page.
  • 'private dental london' shows beyond the first page of results, and it too leads to your home page rather than a page about that treatment.

So one local search for a dentist is doing nearly all the work of bringing new people, and it lands them on your home page. That is the search worth building on. Which brings us to what to do first.

Picture patients searching for your treatments around Kingsbury 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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Step 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.
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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?