We ran the same search, a dentist, from 25 spots around Murray Rd in Northwood. At your own address you come up among the first three. From the ring of spots just around you, and further out, you sit outside the first three everywhere we looked, and often well down the list. Each dot is one of those spots; Green means the practice is in the top three there.
So someone a street or two away, phone in hand, looking for a dentist, may simply not come across you. Is that normal here, or can a practice nearby do better?

Smiles and Smiles by L&Y Dental Northwood comes before you at 24 of the 25 spots we tested, including at your own door and at every spot in the ring closest to you.
Same search, a dentist, from the same twenty-five spots around you, so the two maps sit side by side.
It reaches the first three at nine of those spots, against one for you. So the gap is not about the town being hard; it is about who comes up first here. The next question is who is actually reaching your website.

Of the estimated visits from Google, about a third come from searches that include your name, like 'dental design studio'. A smaller part comes from searches without it. The rest we cannot see.
So what are people searching for when they do not know you yet, and where do they land?

Only one of the searches we have leaves your name out. Someone types a dentist and a town, with no idea who you are, and lands on your site.
So people searching for a dentist do reach you, but in another town. Someone looking for a dentist around Murray Rd in Northwood does not arrive this way yet. Worth knowing before we talk about where to start.

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.