Medical SEO

Rank #1 for the procedures that drive your revenue

When a patient searches for a surgeon or specialist in your market, they should find you first. We build the SEO infrastructure — technical, content, and local — that puts your practice at the top and keeps it there.

94%
Avg. organic traffic increase
#1
Rankings for 200+ procedure terms
6 mo
Avg. time to first-page results
3.8×
Avg. ROI from organic search

Why medical SEO is different

Generic SEO agencies don't understand your patients

Healthcare SEO requires a level of specialization that most agencies simply don't have. Your patients search differently than retail consumers — they research extensively, use clinical terminology, and make high-stakes decisions based on trust signals that only matter in healthcare.

Google's E-E-A-T standards (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) apply with extra weight to health content. A generic agency writing about "knee pain" won't rank against a specialist writing about "ACL reconstruction recovery protocols" — and your patients won't convert on thin content.

We've spent years building SEO systems exclusively for medical practices. We know which procedure terms drive surgical volume, how to structure content that satisfies both Google and HIPAA, and how to build the local authority that puts you in the map pack for every relevant search in your market.

Healthcare SEO analytics dashboard showing ranking growth

Procedure & Condition Page Strategy

We build out a complete library of high-intent landing pages targeting the exact procedures and conditions your patients search for — rhinoplasty, ACL reconstruction, LASIK, Botox, and hundreds more. Each page is engineered to rank and convert.

Local SEO & Google Business Profile

Patients search locally. We optimize your Google Business Profile, build local citations, and create location-specific content that puts your practice in the local pack for every relevant search in your market.

Technical SEO Audit & Fixes

Site speed, crawlability, schema markup, Core Web Vitals, mobile optimization — we audit your entire technical foundation and fix every issue that's holding your rankings back.

Medical Content Strategy

We create HIPAA-aware, medically accurate content written by healthcare marketing specialists — not generalist copywriters. Blog posts, FAQs, condition guides, and physician bios that build authority and drive organic traffic.

Competitor Gap Analysis

We reverse-engineer what your top-ranking competitors are doing right — their keyword strategy, backlink profile, content structure — and build a roadmap to outrank them for every term that matters to your practice.

Link Building & Authority

Domain authority is a ranking factor you can't ignore. We build high-quality backlinks through healthcare publisher outreach, medical directory listings, and digital PR — the right way, with no black-hat shortcuts.

Our process

How we build your SEO dominance

01

SEO Audit & Opportunity Analysis

We start with a comprehensive audit of your current rankings, technical health, content gaps, and competitive landscape. You get a clear picture of where you stand and what it will take to dominate your market.

02

Keyword & Content Roadmap

We map every high-value keyword to a specific page on your site — existing or new. You get a prioritized 90-day content roadmap built around the procedures and conditions that drive your revenue.

03

Technical Fixes & On-Page Optimization

Our team implements all technical fixes and optimizes every existing page — titles, meta descriptions, headers, schema markup, internal linking, and page speed — before we start building new content.

04

Content Creation & Publishing

We write and publish procedure pages, blog posts, and location pages on a consistent schedule. Every piece is medically reviewed, SEO-optimized, and designed to convert visitors into consultation requests.

05

Link Building & Authority Growth

We run ongoing outreach to earn high-quality backlinks from healthcare publishers, medical associations, and local directories — steadily building the domain authority that sustains long-term rankings.

06

Monthly Reporting & Strategy Reviews

Every month you get a clear report showing ranking movement, traffic growth, and leads generated from organic search — plus a strategy call to review results and adjust priorities.

Results in action

Medical SEO case study

OrthopedicsHouston, TXResults in 6 months

Southwest Orthopedic Group

The Challenge

Ranking on page 3 for most procedure searches while spending $18K/month on Google Ads with a $340 cost-per-lead.

"NEXA completely transformed how patients find us online. We went from losing ground to our hospital competitor to consistently outranking them for every major procedure we perform."

Dr. Marcus Webb
Managing Partner, Southwest Orthopedic Group
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Results after 6 months

312%
Organic traffic increase
127
New surgical consults/month
$68
Cost per new patient lead
#1
Rankings for 14 procedures

Achieved without increasing their paid advertising budget — pure organic growth.

Common questions

Medical SEO FAQ

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