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SEO for doctors and clinics in Australia

The largest medical searches in Australia are "bulk billing doctor near me", "gp near me" and "medical centre [suburb]", made by people who need an appointment today and will book wherever the map and the booking platform say yes. A practice whose profile and site answer them plainly fills its books before it ranks for a single service.

A doctor in a white coat greeting a patient at the door of a bright consulting room, a nurse at a desk behind

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.

Results from real clients

Every number below is from the client’s own Google Search Console, for the period shown. Impressions are how often the site appeared; clicks are people who arrived. What each visit is worth is your sales process, not ours, so these are the visits we can prove rather than a conversion figure we cannot.

See all eight client results

  • 52,993clicks
    Up and Running Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 1 Mar 2023 to 14 Mar 2024
    Impressions
    2,238,155
    CTR
    2.4%
    Avg. position
    13.49

    +139,355% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

  • 12,285clicks
    Backcountry Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 6 Jul 2023 to 31 May 2024
    Impressions
    601,822
    CTR
    2.0%
    Avg. position
    19.3

    +2,059% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

Questions doctors and clinics in Australia ask us

Do you know the AHPRA advertising rules?

Yes, and every page is written inside them: no testimonials on the site, no claims about outcomes, no inducements. Everything is checked by the practice before it goes live.

We are on HotDoc. Does the website still matter?

The booking platform takes the booking; the search still decides which practice gets it. A profile with current hours and a site with a page per service win the search that the platform then fulfils.

How long until it moves?

Profile changes show in weeks, service pages in a season. Watch the profile’s calls and booking clicks and the new-patient count in your practice software, rather than a ranking.

Book a call with us

A 30-minute call in your working hours. Tell us what you sell and where, and we will tell you what we would do first and what it involves. Prefer email? Send your website through the form and the Passieon Team will reply within two working days.

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