The treatment searches follow: emergency dentist, implants, Invisalign, wisdom teeth, children’s dentistry, each with its own page and its own questions. The corporate groups hold the city-wide terms; the neighbourhood and the treatment plus neighbourhood are where an independent practice wins.
Each province’s dental college sets its own advertising rules, and everything is written inside the rules of the province the practice is in. Nothing here requires a claim about outcomes.
The searches in Canada
The shapes dentists are found by in Canada. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- dentist accepting new patients [city]
- emergency dentist near me
- dentist that accepts cdcp [city]
- dental implants [city]
What is different in Canada
Insurance and the CDCP
Patients search whether you bill their plan directly and whether you accept the federal plan. A plain page that says which plans, how direct billing works at the desk and what the patient pays on the day answers a search most sites leave unanswered.
Provincial rules
The RCDSO in Ontario, the CDSBC in British Columbia and the other colleges each publish advertising standards. Superlatives, unverifiable claims and some uses of testimonials are restricted, and every page is written for the province and checked by you.
Winter, distance and the map
Patients pick a practice they can reach in January. The map pack, the neighbourhood pages and a profile with the parking and the transit stop named win the search that a downtown chain cannot.
What a month of work covers for dentists in Canada
- A treatment page written or rewritten each month, starting with the highest-value ones (implants, orthodontics, cosmetic)
- Google Business Profile: services, hours, weekly posts, photo uploads, Q&A answered
- Review requests set up with the front desk, and every review replied to
- Citations on dental directories and local listings, matched to the exact practice name and address
- Technical fixes: booking links, speed, schema for the practice and each dentist
- Monthly report from Search Console with the treatment searches you now appear for
The industry page, SEO for dentists, has the
problems and the questions in full; the country page, SEO services in Canada, has the search landscape
in Canada for every trade.
The search landscape in Canada
Seasonality decides the calendar
Pages for a seasonal service need to be written and indexed months before the season. Publishing a snow removal page in November is publishing it late.
Province first, city second
A page per province that a business genuinely serves, with city pages underneath only where there is real service, reads as true to both a buyer and to Google. A footer listing every city in Canada does not.
French is a separate job
Quebec search is a different campaign with different pages, written by somebody who writes French natively. We do the English side and say so plainly rather than machine-translating.
Cities in Canada with their own page
Each is written for the way that city searches and for the trades that search there most.
Working with us from Canada
SEO happens in your accounts and on your website, so nobody needs to visit. We scope the
work on a video call in your hours, send a written quote, and then work month by month
with a call whenever you want one. The result is judged on the enquiries in your own
records, never on a ranking report.
If you would rather do the first part yourself, the Local SEO for dentists guide is
the list we start from.