HotDoc and HealthEngine hold the "book a doctor" searches and the corporate medical centres hold the city terms. Neither can write about your practice: which doctors bulk bill and for whom, whether you take new patients, the skin checks, travel vaccinations, women’s health and chronic disease care that each have their own search and their own page.
All of it stays inside the AHPRA advertising guidelines, which prohibit testimonials about clinical care and unsubstantiated claims. The work needs neither.
The searches in Australia
The shapes doctors and clinics are found by in Australia. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- bulk billing doctor near me
- gp [suburb]
- skin cancer check [city]
- travel vaccinations [suburb]
What is different in Australia
Bulk billing is the search
Patients search bulk billing before they search a name. A page that says plainly which services and which patients are bulk billed, which are mixed billing and what happens at the desk answers a search most practice sites leave to the phone.
Testimonials are off the table
AHPRA prohibits testimonials in the advertising of regulated health services, including reviews quoted on the site. Google reviews on the profile are the patient’s own words in Google’s place, and the profile is where the review work goes.
Suburb, not city
Australian patients search the suburb, and a practice competing on "gp Melbourne" is fighting hundreds while on "gp [suburb]" it is fighting a dozen. The map pack, the suburb and the service plus suburb are where an independent practice wins.
What a month of work covers for doctors and clinics in Australia
- A treatment or condition page written or rewritten each month, highest-value first, reviewed by a clinician before it goes live
- Google Business Profile for each location and each practitioner: categories, services, hours, photos, questions answered
- Review requests built into the checkout or discharge moment, and every review replied to within the rules of your regulator
- Citations on the medical and local directories, matched to the exact practice name and address
- Technical fixes: booking links, speed, practice and practitioner markup, accessibility
- A monthly Search Console report of the treatment searches you now appear for, and the bookings behind them
The industry page, SEO for doctors and clinics, has the
problems and the questions in full; the country page, SEO services in Australia, has the search landscape
in Australia for every trade.
The search landscape in Australia
Suburb is the unit, not the city
Sydney and Melbourne are too large to be a catchment. Pages written for the suburbs you actually serve outrank a single city page in every one of them.
Regional terms are often uncontested
Outside the capitals the same search has a fraction of the competition and frequently the same commercial value per enquiry.
Licence numbers belong on the page
Australian buyers look for a licence number for regulated trades. It belongs on the page because it converts, not because it ranks.
Cities in Australia 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 Australia
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 doctors guide is
the list we start from.