Show up when nearby patients search for care
Google Business Profile, consistent local listings, useful service pages and clean technical SEO, so your practice appears when patients nearby look for what you treat.
How patients find a practice today
Most patients start with a search: a specialty and "near me," a symptom, or a practice name they heard from a friend. The results that matter are the map pack and the first few listings. Google says local results are based mainly on relevance, distance and prominence (Google Business Profile Help). You can't move your office, but you can make sure Google understands exactly what you do and that your reputation is visible.
Many practices lose ground on basics: an unclaimed or half-finished Business Profile, a wrong phone number on directories, service pages that don't exist, and reviews nobody asks for.
What we do
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Google Business Profile
Complete categories, services, hours, photos, booking link and regular updates for each location.
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Listings cleanup
Consistent name, address and phone across major directories and health listing sites.
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Service and location pages
A useful page for each service and location you want to be found for.
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Technical SEO
Site speed, mobile usability, structured data, crawl errors, redirects and sitemaps.
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Reviews
A compliant process to ask for reviews and templates to respond without revealing patient information.
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Content that answers questions
Pages built around what patients actually ask your front desk.
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AI search readiness
Clear, well-structured answers that search engines and AI assistants can understand and cite.
How it works
Audit
We review your Business Profile, listings, website, competitors and current search visibility.
Fix the foundation
Profile, listings and technical issues first, because they unlock everything else.
Build pages
Service and location pages, written in plain language and reviewed by your practice.
Grow reputation
Review requests and responses, plus regular profile updates.
Report monthly
Search visibility, profile actions such as calls and direction requests, and what we did.
What you get
A complete Google Business Profile for every location.
Clean, consistent listings across the directories that matter.
New and improved pages for your key services and locations.
A review process your staff can run in under a minute per patient.
A monthly report in plain English, with no vanity metrics.
Reviews and privacy
Responding to reviews is where many practices get into trouble. A reply that confirms someone is a patient or discusses their visit can violate HIPAA, and the HHS Office for Civil Rights has taken enforcement action in cases involving online review responses. Our templates thank reviewers and invite them to contact the office directly, without confirming any patient relationship.
Who it's for
- Practices that don't appear in the map results for their main services
- New practices or new locations starting from zero
- Practices with incorrect listings or a neglected Business Profile
- Practices with good care but few online reviews
Getting found in AI answers too
More patients now ask AI assistants and AI-powered search results which practice to choose. Those tools draw on the same signals as search: clear pages that answer specific questions, consistent facts about your practice across the web, and reviews. We structure your pages with direct answers, accurate structured data and up-to-date practice details, so both search engines and AI tools can understand and cite you correctly.
Pricing
SEO and local search are a flat monthly retainer. An initial audit and foundation cleanup may be quoted as a fixed setup project. We never charge per ranking, per call or per new patient.
SEO & local search questions
Straight answers. If yours isn't here, email hello@claimcoders.com.
What is local SEO for a medical practice?
Local SEO is the work that helps your practice appear in map results and local search when people nearby look for a provider or service. It covers your Google Business Profile, consistent listings across directories, location and service pages on your website, and reviews.
How long does SEO take to work?
Fixes such as a complete Google Business Profile or corrected listings can help within weeks. Content and authority build over months. We will not promise rankings or a date, because no honest agency can; we report what changed and why every month.
Can you guarantee first place on Google?
No, and you should be wary of anyone who does. Google decides rankings. We focus on the factors Google publicly says matter for local results: relevance, distance and prominence.
Do you write blog posts?
When they serve patients. We prefer useful service and condition pages and answers to the questions your staff hears every day over a stream of generic posts. Clinical content is reviewed by your providers.
How do you handle reviews?
We set up a simple, compliant way to ask patients for reviews and draft response templates. Responses never confirm that someone is a patient or discuss their care, which protects patient privacy.
Be the practice patients find first.
Tell us your locations, services and the searches you want to show up for. We reply within one business day.