Healthcare SEO
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.
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.
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.
Covered on every engine your buyers use
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Gemini
- Google AI Overviews
- Google AI Mode
- Copilot
- Bing
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.
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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.
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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.
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Execute
Do the technical, content, authority and AI visibility work ourselves.
Days 30 to 60. Content, technical and authority work shipping every week.
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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.
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 | |
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| 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.
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Book a free consultation
A call about your business, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.
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Get a plan and a quote
We send a plan for what we would do first, with a quote for the plan you choose.
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Work starts right away
Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.
What clients say
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.
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