The private services follow: physiotherapy, cosmetic and aesthetic medicine, travel clinics, allergy testing, executive health, each with its own search and its own page. The hospital networks and the health authority sites hold the city-wide terms; the neighbourhood, the service and the question are where a clinic wins.
Each provincial college regulates physician advertising, and several restrict testimonials and comparative claims. Everything is written for the province the clinic is in and checked by the clinic before it goes live.
The searches in Canada
The shapes doctors and clinics are found by in Canada. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- walk in clinic near me
- family doctor accepting new patients [city]
- physiotherapy clinic [city]
- travel clinic [city]
What is different in Canada
Accepting new patients is a page
Whether the clinic is taking new patients, how to register, what to bring and how long the wait is are the answers the largest search in the country wants. A page that gives them, kept current, fills the roster; silence sends the patient to the next clinic on the map.
Hours, the map and winter
Patients choose a clinic they can reach in January. The map pack, the transit stop and the parking named on the profile, and hours that are true including holidays, win the search a downtown network cannot.
Inside the college’s rules
The CPSO in Ontario and the other colleges publish advertising policies, and testimonials, superlatives and unverifiable claims are restricted in several. Every page describes the services plainly and goes to the clinic before publication.
What a month of work covers for doctors and clinics in Canada
- 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 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 doctors guide is
the list we start from.