Local SEO for medical practices · from $49/mo

SEO for healthcare practices that need the schedule filled, not a rebrand.

theStacc keeps your Google Business Profile posting every couple of days, drafts a reply to every review, and publishes the condition and appointment pages patients read before they call. From $49/mo, no contract.

Free 3-day trial · Cancel before it ends and you won’t be charged · Content on your site stays yours

Used by operators who need publishing volume, not another dashboard

15
planned Google posts a month, written around the care you actually provide
$49
a month for Local SEO — no website required
3 modes
full autopilot, approve-first, or manual — set per module
The plain answer

What is SEO for healthcare practices?

SEO for healthcare practices is the work of getting your clinic to appear when someone nearby searches for the care you provide — on Google Maps, in the local pack, and in ordinary search results. Whatever the specialty, it comes down to three things: a Google Business Profile that stays current on hours, services, and insurance, reviews that are answered without disclosing anything about a patient, and pages that answer the cost, wait-time, and “should I be seen for this” questions people type before they pick up the phone.

The details differ by practice type — a primary care office, an urgent care, an ENT group, and a fertility clinic have almost nothing in common in what patients search for — but the mechanism does not. Every one of them lives or dies on whether the listing is accurate and active, whether the reviews look attended to, and whether the site answers the question the patient actually asked. What kills it is never the strategy. It is that all three jobs are recurring, and clinical staff are the worst possible people to hand a recurring marketing task to.

Where it happens

Two surfaces, not one. The map — your Google Business Profile, which decides whether you appear in the local pack — and the blue links, where your website pages answer the questions people type before they buy.

Why it compounds

Google rewards pages that have been live and useful for months, and listings that stay active. That is why cadence beats intensity: publishing steadily for a year outperforms a burst of work every quarter.

The problem

The listing says you close at five.
You changed that in March.

A patient searching for care nearby opens the map, not your website. They see the rating, the hours, whether the practice takes their insurance, and whether anything on the profile has been touched this year. Wrong hours alone will cost you the appointment before anyone reads a word about your credentials.

What makes it worse is that you already know. Someone was supposed to update the listing after the new provider joined and the Thursday hours changed. It sat on a task list behind actual patient care, which is where it belongs and also why it never happens.

So the practice runs on referrals and reputation, both of which are steady and neither of which grows. New-patient slots go unfilled some weeks and the front desk turns people away in others, and nobody can tell you why the pattern moved.

Then a low review sits unanswered for six weeks — not because nobody cared, but because nobody was sure what they were allowed to say — and it becomes the first thing every prospective patient reads.

What theStacc does

Three jobs, handled.
Every week, without you.

One subscription covers the work an agency splits across a writer, a local specialist, and a social manager.

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A profile that stays accurate and active

theStacc plans 15 posts a month — roughly every two days — around your real services, providers, and patient questions, so the listing reads as a practice that is open and running.

  • Posts built from services you confirm, not guessed from a category
  • Never invents a promo, a price, or an urgent deadline
  • Weekly Maps, Local Pack, and organic rank tracking per keyword
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Reviews answered without saying too much

Reviews are pulled newest and lowest-rated first, so the hard one never sits for a month. Replies are drafted to match the rating and publish straight to Google once approved.

  • Drafts never confirm someone is a patient or reference a visit or condition
  • Publishes only on an exact review match, never a guess
  • Review request kit: direct link, QR code, and message templates for check-out
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The pages that answer “should I be seen for this?”

Symptoms, preparation, what a visit costs, what your practice treats. theStacc researches, writes, scores, and publishes them to your site on a schedule.

  • Condition and visit-preparation pages written for patients, not peers
  • Scored 0–100 across 10 SEO categories before anything publishes
  • Publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, and more
The searches

What patients type
before they ever see your website.

These are the shapes of query theStacc builds your content and Google posts around — matched to the services you actually offer and the areas you actually cover.

  • doctor near me accepting new patients
  • walk in clinic [city]
  • [specialty] near me that takes [insurance]
  • same day appointment [city]
  • how much is a visit without insurance [city]
  • best rated clinic in [city]
  • do i need to see a doctor for [symptom]
  • clinic open saturday near me

theStacc does not sell search-volume or keyword-difficulty numbers — we don’t license a keyword database. Keywords are generated from your business and filtered for whether you can realistically win them.

How it works

Set it up once.
Then approve, or don’t.

  1. 01

    Connect your listing

    Search your practice on Google and confirm it. No website needed to start — the Local SEO module works from the listing alone.

  2. 02

    Confirm your services

    theStacc reads your practice and drafts your services, patient types, and tone. You correct anything wrong before a word publishes.

  3. 03

    Review the month

    15 planned post titles, and on Blog SEO a 30-day article calendar. Edit any topic inline or regenerate it.

  4. 04

    It publishes itself

    Content is written the evening before it is due and posts at your chosen hour, in your timezone — or waits for approval. Your choice, per module.

  5. 05

    Watch the ranks

    Every Monday theStacc records your Maps, Local Pack, and organic position per keyword and keeps the history.

Every module runs in one of three modes: full autopilot, draft-for-approval, or manual. You pick per module, and you can change it any time.

What lands

This is what shows up
in your first month.

Not a strategy document. Actual published work — here is the shape of it.

Articles on your site Blog SEO

  • What to Bring to a First Appointment (and What to Skip)
  • Urgent Care or Emergency Room? A Plain Guide for [City] Patients
  • How Much a Visit Costs Without Insurance — and How to Ask
  • New Patient Paperwork: Why We Ask What We Ask
  • When a Symptom Is Worth an Appointment Rather Than a Wait
  • Telehealth vs In-Person: What We Can and Cannot Do Over Video

Titles are examples of the shape theStacc produces from your business — your real plan is generated from your own services and areas.

Posts on your Google profile Local SEO

Google Business Profile · scheduled

Booking a first appointment? Bring a photo ID, your insurance card, and a written list of every medication and supplement you take, including doses. The medication list is the one people forget and the one that changes what we can safely recommend. Arriving ten minutes early gives the front desk time to finish paperwork before your slot starts.

Book Publishes 9:00 AM · your timezone
  • 15 planned posts a month — about every two days
  • Phone numbers stripped automatically — Google rejects posts with them
  • No invented promo codes, prices, or deadlines. Ever.
Timeline

What actually happens
in the first 90 days.

SEO compounds, so anyone promising rankings in week two is guessing. Here is the honest sequence.

Day 1

Setup and first output

Connect your Google listing and, if you have one, your site. theStacc analyses the business, drafts your services and voice, and generates the first month’s plan. You approve it.

Weeks 1–4

Cadence starts

Posts begin landing on your profile every couple of days and articles publish on schedule. Reviews get replies. Your first weekly rank snapshot is recorded as the baseline.

Weeks 4–8

Google catches up

Index checks run at days 2, 7, 14 and 28 per article, so you can see what Google took and what it ignored. Early ranking movement usually appears on long-tail terms first.

Weeks 8–12

The loop closes

With Search Console connected, your real queries start feeding next month’s plan — the system writes toward terms you already almost rank for instead of guessing.

We do not guarantee rankings or lead volume, and we would be suspicious of anyone who does. What is guaranteed is the output cadence.

Your options

Do it yourself, hire an agency,
or run an engine.

Healthcare marketing agencies commonly quote practices $800–$2,500 a month for roughly this scope, usually with a minimum term. Here is the honest comparison, including what theStacc does not do.

  Do it yourself Hire an agency theStacc
Monthly cost Front-desk time $800–$2,500 $49–$167
Google posts When someone remembers 4–8 a month 15 a month, planned
Review replies Delayed, or avoided entirely Often an add-on Drafted for every review
Website articles Rarely 2–4 a month 30 a month on Blog SEO
Rank reporting Googling yourself Monthly PDF Weekly, with history
Contract 6–12 months typical Month to month
Who owns the content You Sometimes the agency You — it stays on your site
What we can prove

We don’t have a healthcare case study.
We won’t manufacture one.

Our published case studies are in solar and B2B software — real Search Console exports, not mockups. We have not run a medical practice account long enough to show you a healthcare number, and inventing one would be a strange way to start a relationship with a practice whose entire business runs on trust. What transfers between industries is the mechanism, not the specialty. The free 3-day trial exists so you can see real posts and articles written for your own practice before you pay for anything.

Pricing

From $49/month.

No contract, no setup fee, no per-location surprise. Cancel and everything already published on your site stays yours.

Local SEO
$49/mo

15 planned posts a month — about every two days, review replies published to Google, weekly rank tracking, 0–100 profile audit. No website needed.

See Local SEO →
Blog SEO
$99/mo

30 SEO articles a month, researched, scored, and published to your site. WordPress, Webflow, Ghost and more.

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Don’t want to touch it at all?

Or hand the whole thing
to our team instead.

Everything above is the software — you approve the work, or let it run. If you’d rather not think about marketing again, the same engine comes with people attached.

Managed Services · from $749/mo

A strategist who runs it, not a dashboard you have to learn.

A dedicated SEO manager owns the strategy, quality-checks what the engine produces, and reports back every month. You get the output — articles live, Google posts published, reviews answered — without opening the app. Most healthcare practices who choose this are busy running the business, not learning software.

  • Every module included — blog, Google Business Profile, and social
  • A dedicated SEO manager on strategy and quality
  • Monthly reporting call — you hear what moved and what’s next
  • Month to month. No lock-in, no long agency retainer
Questions

What healthcare practices ask us first.

Partly, and the boundary matters more than the marketing line. theStacc ships a US healthcare compliance rule pack: fail-closed gates that block content matching prohibited patterns before it can publish, plus deterministic disclaimers appended where the rules require them. Fail-closed means that when a check cannot pass, the content is held instead of going out. What the pack is not: HIPAA certification, a clinical review of medical accuracy, state medical board guidance, or legal advice. We are not your compliance counsel. Your practice stays responsible for what publishes, which is why approve-first mode exists and why review replies are drafted to disclose nothing about the patient.

The safe pattern is a reply that acknowledges the feedback, never confirms treatment or a visit, and moves specifics to a private channel. theStacc drafts replies that way by default and matches the tone to the rating rather than sending one template to everyone. In approve-first mode nothing reaches Google until a human at your practice approves the exact words.

The plan is built from the services you confirm at setup, not from your Google category, so a fertility clinic and an ENT group do not get the same calendar. You see the month’s topics before anything is written and can edit or regenerate any of them. If the drafts do not fit after that, the trial is exactly where you should find that out — before you pay.

Two things you can check rather than trust. There is no contract — it is month to month. And the free 3-day trial produces real posts and articles for your practice before you pay anything, so you are judging the output instead of a proposal. Cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged.

Yes. Local keywords are built from a real service you offer combined with a real area you serve, and multi-location practices get content distributed across locations rather than all aimed at one. We will not generate location pages for areas where you have no office.

Not for Local SEO at $49/mo — it runs entirely from your Google Business Profile, which is where most patients form their first impression anyway. A website only matters if you want Blog SEO at $99/mo, which publishes articles to your own site.

Local movement usually shows over weeks rather than days, and we do not guarantee rankings or appointment volume. What you can verify immediately is output: posts live, reviews answered, articles published, weekly rank history accumulating. If you cancel, you keep access to the end of the period you paid for, and everything already published to your website stays yours.

Nothing goes wrong on any single day.
That’s exactly why it persists.

Stale hours, an unanswered review, a profile nobody has touched since the last provider left — none of these produce a complaint. They produce a patient who booked somewhere else and never told you. Meanwhile the practice down the road posts twice a week and answers everything, and twelve months later the difference shows up in your new-patient numbers with no obvious cause to point at.

SEO for Healthcare Practices

Show up every week.
Without doing it yourself.

Start the free 3-day trial and watch the first posts and articles get made for your business. Cancel before it ends and you won’t be charged.

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