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Case Study

Orthopedic Surgeon SEO That Grew Traffic 127% in 4 Months

A solo knee replacement surgeon with a strong name among doctors, a slow website and no presence on Google.

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  • 127%

    More website traffic in 4 months

  • 90+

    Patients a month at the practice

  • HIPAA

    Compliant scheduling forms

Orthopedic surgery practice

  • SEO
  • Local SEO
  • Web Design

Orthopedic surgeon SEO grew this knee replacement practice's website traffic 127% in 4 months. Booked appointments grew with it, and the practice was seeing 90+ patients a month.

The practice is one orthopedic surgeon who performs only knee replacements, for patients 50 and older. Many of those surgeries are double knee replacements. Other doctors knew the surgeon's work, but patients searching Google or asking ChatGPT for a knee replacement surgeon rarely found the practice.

The challenge

The old website was slow and had no SEO. The practice had no brand presence online, so Google had no reason to trust it.

Google holds medical sites to a higher standard than most, because bad health advice can hurt people. A health site with no authority behind it does not rank, however good the surgeon is.

  • A Slow Site With No SEO

    The old site loaded slowly and was never set up for the searches knee replacement patients type.

  • No Brand Presence

    Outside of referrals from other doctors, the practice had almost no footprint online, on its site or on Google Maps.

  • No Authority With Google

    Google ranks health sites it trusts. With no authority, the practice's pages stayed out of the results.

What we did

We worked on 2 fronts at once. The website had to be fast and clear about the one surgery the practice performs. The Google Business Profile, the listing patients see on Google Maps, had to show a real, active practice that patients trust.

Each step below built on the one before it.

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How we did it

  1. Rebuilt the Website Around Knee Replacement

    We replaced the slow old site with a fast one built around knee replacement, including double knee replacement.

    Each language the practice works in got its own version, so patients read it in the language they search in.

  2. Added HIPAA-Compliant Scheduling

    Patients book a consultation through scheduling forms that follow HIPAA, the US patient privacy law.

    Clear calls to action lead patients straight to the form, so a patient ready to book never has to hunt for it.

  3. Optimized the Google Business Profile

    We optimized the practice's Google Business Profile, took photos of the outside of the office, and posted updates regularly.

    An active profile with real photos shows Google and patients that the practice is open and busy.

  4. Built a Review Routine

    Happy patients got the practice's Google review link at their 3-month follow-up visit, when they could already see their results.

    Reviews came in at the moment patients felt best about their surgery, and each one added to the trust Google looks for in a health practice.

The results

Website traffic more than doubled in the first 4 months, a 127% increase from the month we started.

The new site and the Google Business Profile worked together. More traffic brought more scheduling requests, and booked appointments grew sharply. The practice was seeing 90+ patients a month.

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