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SEO, AEO and GEO for Healthcare Providers and Health Brands

Patients now ask an AI engine which specialist to see and whether a hospital takes their insurance, then check Google before they call. When the answer names a medical publisher and a rival group, the appointment request goes elsewhere. Our healthcare SEO work combines SEO, AEO and GEO with clinical review, so your service line and physician pages get ranked and cited. We measure it in appointment requests and referrals.

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Why patients choose a provider before they ever call you

Patients research the condition before they research the provider. Someone with knee pain asks an AI engine when to see a doctor, what a replacement involves and who does it well nearby. The answer leans on Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic or WebMD for the medicine, then names a few surgeons and hospitals drawn from Healthgrades, Zocdoc and US News rankings. Google holds these searches to its Your Money or Your Life standard, so pages without clear authorship and review rarely surface.

National medical sites own every condition search

Searches about symptoms, treatments and recovery go to large medical publishers with years of reviewed content. Your service line pages sit far below them, so patients learn about their condition from someone else and never reach the page that explains why your team is the one to treat it.

Our doctor and location pages all look the same

One bio template, one block of service copy and one insurance list, repeated across every location and physician. Google picks a single version and ignores the rest, AI engines can't tell your surgeons apart, and a patient looking for a specialist nearby lands on a directory instead.

AI still uses our old name and specialties

After a merger, a rebrand or a new service line, AI answers keep describing you as you were. They name the old hospital, list specialties you dropped and miss the ones you added, because old directory listings and news pages still say so and nothing newer corrects them.

What we build for healthcare SEO, AEO and GEO

Six workstreams from one roadmap, ordered by your baseline. Every medical claim is reviewed by a clinician you nominate before it is published, no patient information appears anywhere without written consent, and copy for regulated treatments follows the advertising rules that apply to it.

01

Patient questions mapped by service line and location

We list what patients ask, from the best orthopedic surgeon near me for a knee replacement to when a symptom needs a doctor and whether your hospital takes a given plan. Then we record which providers and publishers each engine names, and who ranks on Google and Bing.

02

Service line and treatment pages your clinicians approve

Service line pages by condition and location, treatment explainers with a named clinical reviewer and review date, and insurance and cost pages that answer coverage questions plainly. Each opens with a direct answer an engine can quote and links to the physicians who provide the care.

03

Accurate profiles on the directories patients check

We trace which sources the answers cite for your service lines, such as Healthgrades, Zocdoc, Vitals and US News hospital rankings, then correct and complete your profiles and earn mentions in local health coverage. Any listing fees are yours to approve. We never buy, fake or incentivize reviews.

04

Physicians and locations described as distinct entities

Each physician profile carries credentials, specialties, affiliations and locations in text and schema, matched to their directory listings. Location pages and Google Business Profile data, from names to hours and departments, stay consistent, so engines stop merging doctors or describing you by an old name.

05

Duplicate provider pages fixed so crawlers read them

Health sites often carry thousands of near-identical doctor and location pages, booking widgets that hide content, find-a-doctor tools crawlers can't search and old domains left over from mergers. We fix indexation, rendering and redirects, and confirm Google, Bing and AI crawlers can read every key page.

06

Appointment requests and referrals counted by service line

We track appointment requests, referral forms, calls and new patient enquiries from search and AI referrals in your own analytics, grouped by service line and location. Tracking is set up with your privacy team, so no patient information is collected along the way.

Covered on every engine your buyers use

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Google AI Mode
  • Copilot

ChatGPT search and Copilot draw on Bing's index, so Bing rankings feed AI answers. We work on search and AI engines as one program.

How it works

The same four steps on every engagement, with a clear view of what to expect at 30, 60 and 90 days.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Map your business, buyers, competitors and the prompts and searches that decide your category.

    Days 1 to 30. A fixed baseline across every engine and the prompts that matter.

  2. 02

    Prioritize

    Pick the few moves that will get you recommended fastest and turn them into a focused roadmap.

    Days 1 to 30. A focused roadmap agreed, with the first fixes already shipping.

  3. 03

    Execute

    Do the technical, content, authority and AI visibility work ourselves.

    Days 30 to 60. Content, technical and authority work shipping every week.

  4. 04

    Improve

    Track AI citations, rankings and the leads they drive against the baseline and keep refining.

    Days 60 to 90. A first read against the baseline, then the next quarter planned.

Case studies

Neither client below is a healthcare company. The method we used for an AI ad tool and a Salesforce partner, clear pages, consistent entities and a fixed baseline, is what carries over to providers.

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Who this is for, and who it is not for

A good fit

Healthcare organizations with a live website, a clinician who can review medical content and a way to count appointment requests and referrals

  • Hospitals and health systems with several service lines
  • Multi-location specialty groups and telehealth providers
  • Home health and senior care organizations
  • Health and wellness brands, pharmacies and labs

Not a fit yet

  • Providers with no clinician available to review medical content
  • Organizations that want patient stories published without consent
  • Businesses with no live website or nothing to sell yet
  • Anyone expecting guaranteed placement in a specific answer

How we compare with the other ways providers buy visibility

SearchAxe Healthcare marketing agency Hospital in-house team Directory and review ads
Understands how your buyers research Maps patient questions by service line Often led by campaigns and brand Knows patients, short on search time Reaches people already on the directory
Works on AI answers and search together One roadmap for both Search first, AI as an add-on Rarely staffed for AI answers Neither
Ships the fixes We write, fix and publish Often plans and reports Queued behind other priorities Changes only your listing
Earns third-party mentions Directories, rankings and local health coverage Sometimes, often press releases Press team, not search sources Paid placement, not earned mentions
Compliance-aware copy Clinical review and consent built in Usually, varies by writer Yes, through internal review Directory rules, not yours
Measured against a baseline Appointment requests, citations and rankings Traffic and rankings Varies by team Profile views and clicks
Published pricing Yes, from $499 per month Usually on request Salaries, tools and agency spend Per listing or per click

What you get each month

  • Baseline report Where you stand on every engine and in search before any work starts.
  • Monthly AI citation and ranking report Citations by engine, rankings and referring domains, read against the baseline.
  • Appointment requests attributed The appointment requests, referrals and new patient enquiries that search and AI answers drove that month, in your own analytics.
  • Slack access A shared channel with the people doing the work.
  • Rolling roadmap What shipped, what is next and why, updated every month.
  • Competitor movement Which competitors gained or lost ground in AI answers and search, and why.

How we get started

From first call to work in progress in three steps.

  1. 01

    Book a free consultation

    A call about your business, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.

  2. 02

    Get a plan and a quote

    We send a plan for what we would do first, with a quote for the plan you choose.

  3. 03

    Work starts right away

    Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.

What clients say

We had thousands of pages going nowhere. Amit cleaned that up and rebuilt our landing pages. Our top three rankings are up 362% and our citations across AI engines have grown more than a hundred times.

Nan Ha Nan Ha Product Growth Lead, Viggle AI Read the Viggle AI case study

We came to Amit with a good product and almost no search presence. He gave our team a plan we could actually follow. Referring domains are up 183% and our first page rankings have more than tripled.

George Kurdin George Kurdin Co-Founder, Monk Read the Monk case study

Our content was getting published but not landing anywhere. Amit reworked how we format it for AI engines and our citations across all seven engines are up over 400%. The Reddit community he built now brings us leads weekly.

Aditya Nagpal Aditya Nagpal Founder, Wisemonk Read the Wisemonk case study

We launched with a homepage and nothing else. Amit built the search foundation, the landing pages, the blog, the schema. Our domain rating is up 70% and we went from zero AI citations to being quoted by six of the seven AI engines.

Ahad Shams Ahad Shams Founder, HeyOz Read the HeyOz case study

We had multiple pages fighting each other for the same terms. Amit mapped it all out, consolidated what needed consolidating, and rebuilt our service pages. Organic traffic is up 147% and our top three rankings have more than doubled.

Manjunath Thandu Manjunath Thandu CEO, Zivoke Read the Zivoke case study

Who's behind SearchAxe

Amit Malvi spent four and a half years at Invideo AI, rising from SEO Executive to Senior SEO Manager. He built and led a 20-person link building team and owned the company's GEO and AEO programs. Today he works hands-on with a small number of businesses across 16 industries, from SaaS and AI startups to law firms, clinics, online stores and manufacturers, that want to be the name search and AI engines recommend.

Pricing

Published prices, in US dollars per month. The plan that fits this work is below.

Full Service SEO and AI Visibility

$1,499 per month

Minimum three months

For businesses that want one partner to own search and AI visibility end to end, from the fixes to the monthly report.

  • Everything in SEO Consulting
  • Technical fixes, on-page work and citation-ready pages
  • Link building, brand mentions and entity optimization
  • Monthly reporting on citations, rankings and the leads they drive

Third-party fees, such as editorial or placement fees and paid listings, are paid by you directly.

Questions buyers ask us

Will the content pass our clinical and compliance review?

It is written to. Google holds health content to its Your Money or Your Life standard, and AI engines favor pages with clear authorship, so every condition and treatment page carries a named clinical reviewer and a review date. We draft, your clinician reviews, we revise, and only then does it publish. We follow advertising rules for regulated treatments, make no outcome promises, and re-review pages when guidance or your services change.

Can you build location and physician pages at scale?

Yes, as long as each page has something true and specific on it. A physician page needs credentials, specialties, locations and the conditions they treat, written as text and matched to their directory profiles. A location page needs its own services, hours, parking and accepted insurance, aligned with its Google Business Profile. Where pages would differ only by a name, we merge them rather than publish duplicates.

Can we use patient testimonials and stories?

Only with written consent that covers how the story will be used, and only with the details the patient agreed to share. HIPAA applies, so we never put patient information into content, schema or review responses without that consent. Where consent isn't in place, we build on what doesn't need it: physician expertise, service details, outcomes data your organization already publishes and accurate directory profiles.

Do AI answers matter for symptom searches?

They matter, but not in the way most providers expect. For a symptom question, engines lean on large medical publishers for the explanation. Providers get named on the next question: who treats this near me, does this hospital take my plan, what does the procedure involve here. We build pages for those questions and make your organization clear enough to be the name in that answer.

How do you attribute appointment requests to search and AI answers?

We tag appointment request forms, referral forms, click-to-call and online booking events, and separate AI referral traffic from Google and Bing in your own analytics. Each is grouped by service line and location and read against a baseline set before work starts. Tracking is configured with your privacy team, so no patient information passes into analytics at any step.

AI engines still describe us by our old name. Can you fix that?

Often, but not from your own site alone. Engines repeat what old directory listings, news coverage and profiles say. We find every source still carrying the old name or specialties, correct the ones you control, request updates on the rest and publish one clear account of who you are now. That off-site half is what our brand mentions work covers, measured against the same baseline.

How long before we see results?

We set the baseline in the first 30 days, covering rankings, AI citations on your patient questions and appointment requests from search. Technical fixes and entity corrections register first. Clinical review adds time to every new page, and earning mentions on directories and rankings takes longer still. You get the first full read against the baseline at day 90. We don't promise rankings, citations or appointment volumes by any date.

What does it cost?

Three plans: Link Building and Brand Mentions at $499 per month, SEO Consulting at $999 per month and Full Service SEO and AI Visibility at $1,499 per month, which runs all six workstreams. The $199 AI Visibility Audit is a one-time read of how engines describe your organization today. Directory or listing fees are paid by you directly. See our pricing for what each plan includes.

Do you need access to our systems?

We need analytics, Search Console and CMS access, or a web team who can publish for us. We never need patient records, your EHR or anything containing protected health information. Any change to tracking or forms goes through your privacy and compliance review first, and every medical page goes through clinical review before it ships.

Let's get your business recommended.

Tell us what you sell, who buys it and where you show up today. We'll reply within one business day with what is costing you leads and what we would fix first.

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