Healthcare clinic SEO, Los Angeles
Los Angeles patients search by procedure and by neighbourhood: rhinoplasty in Beverly Hills, BBL in the Valley, Botox in Santa Monica. We build procedure and neighbourhood pages your surgeon signs off, galleries that follow California's before-and-after rules, and Spanish-language pages where your staff consult in Spanish. Every consultation request is counted by page without sending health details to ad platforms.
$3,500 per location a month
Customer success journey
Los Angeles is one of the more contested cosmetic surgery markets in the US: Percepture prices competitive metros above single-location practices, and Sagapixel groups Los Angeles with New York and Miami as primary markets. Head terms such as 'plastic surgeon Los Angeles' are held by practices with years of links, so the plan starts with procedure plus neighbourhood searches, revision searches and Spanish-language searches, then builds outward. Pick your starting point, use your own numbers, and walk the months. The chart is a planning model with every assumption on screen. It is not a promise.
Aesthetic group across the Westside and the Valley. Three or more locations, for example Santa Monica, Encino and Sherman Oaks, with busy injectable lines and few surgical consultations from search. Visits are a sample number across locations. Visit to request uses 3%, an assumption set just under the 3.36% medical practice lead conversion rate Promodo reports for paid search. Request to booked treatment uses 9.5%: 18.9% booking a consultation (First Page Sage) multiplied by 50%, the midpoint of the 40 to 60% same-visit conversion Pabau reports for injectables. Fee per new patient is a sample $1,200 for a first year of injectable visits; the ASPS cost page gives $435 as the average cost of one botulinum toxin treatment.
Beverly Hills or Century City surgeon, crowded procedure terms. A surgeon's office near Bedford or Camden Drive, or in Century City, where many practices compete for the same procedure terms. Visits are a sample number and visit to request (1.5%) is an assumption. Consultation request to booked procedure is 3.8%: 18.9% of SEO leads book a consultation (First Page Sage, 58 US plastic surgery clinics, early 2025 data) multiplied by an assumed 20% of consultations booking surgery. Pabau puts mature surgical practices at one booking per six consultations, rhinoplasty and facelift consultations at 12 to 18%, and practices that handle the decision well at 30 to 40%, so 20% is an assumption you should replace with your own. Procedure fee uses $10,000, a sample number above the $7,637 average cost of rhinoplasty on the ASPS cost page, because no Los Angeles fee figure is published; replace it with your own fee.
Body contouring practice competing on BBL price. BBL and liposuction searches where patients compare prices across Southern California and across the border. The page work leads with surgeon credentials, facility accreditation and safety, not price. Visits are a sample number and visit to request (2%) is an assumption. Consultation request to booked procedure is 3.8%: 18.9% of SEO leads book a consultation (First Page Sage, 58 US plastic surgery clinics, early 2025 data) multiplied by an assumed 20% of consultations booking surgery. Pabau puts mature surgical practices at one booking per six consultations, rhinoplasty and facelift consultations at 12 to 18%, and practices that handle the decision well at 30 to 40%, so 20% is an assumption you should replace with your own. Procedure fee uses $7,264, the average cost of buttock augmentation with fat grafting on the ASPS cost page (surgeon's fee only, no data year on the page).
Bilingual staff, English-only website. Your coordinators consult in Spanish, but the website and Google Business Profile are English only, so Spanish-language searches go to other practices. Visits are a sample number and visit to request (1.5%) is an assumption. Consultation request to booked procedure is 3.8%: 18.9% of SEO leads book a consultation (First Page Sage, 58 US plastic surgery clinics, early 2025 data) multiplied by an assumed 20% of consultations booking surgery. Pabau puts mature surgical practices at one booking per six consultations, rhinoplasty and facelift consultations at 12 to 18%, and practices that handle the decision well at 30 to 40%, so 20% is an assumption you should replace with your own. Procedure fee uses $7,637, the average cost of rhinoplasty on the ASPS cost page (surgeon's fee only, excluding anesthesia, facility and related costs; the page gives no data year).
Every account, export and document sits in your name from day one.
The tracking spec, the dashboard and the data handling note.
The procedure map and the question tracker.
Page briefs and the gallery policy.
The review flow, reply templates and consent log.
Location page templates and the citation sheet.
The PR story assets and the mid-year review.
The test log and the speed-to-lead report.
Cost page templates tied to your fee sheet.
The procedure report and its definitions.
Line or location playbook.
Refresh calendar for year two.
Everything we built, in your accounts.
Expected and conservative use the ramps in the assumptions panel. Month 0 is your input with no change.
Non-branded, from your analytics
From organic visits
From consultation requests, month 0 to the month shown
Each square is a booked procedure in a typical week across your offices. The model takes booked procedures from your inputs, spreads them over the weeks of the month and splits them across the lines shown. The mix is a sample; set it to what your Westside, Valley or South Bay offices actually book. A surgical practice books a few procedures a week, so the grid stays mostly open for the surgical starting points; the count beside it carries the number.
6.6 booked procedures a week, expected. Conservative 6.6.
The grid holds 36 a week.
Weekly booked procedures are the monthly model number divided by 4.33 weeks and split evenly across the lines shown. Both are assumptions; your booking system data replaces them.
This is a planning model built from your inputs and public benchmarks, most of them from agency and vendor sources. It is not a forecast, a promise or a guarantee of rankings, traffic, consultations, patients or revenue, and it says nothing about clinical outcomes.
| Month | Organic visits, cons. | Organic visits, exp. | Consultation requests, cons. | Consultation requests, exp. | Booked procedures, cons. | Booked procedures, exp. | Procedure revenue, cons. | Procedure revenue, exp. | Cumulative, cons. | Cumulative, exp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 300 | 300 | 28.5 | 28.5 | $34K | $34K | $34K | $34K |
| 1 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 300 | 300 | 28.5 | 28.5 | $34K | $34K | $68K | $68K |
| 2 | 10,000 | 10,100 | 300 | 303 | 28.5 | 28.8 | $34K | $35K | $103K | $103K |
| 3 | 10,100 | 10,300 | 303 | 309 | 28.8 | 29.4 | $35K | $35K | $137K | $138K |
| 4 | 10,400 | 10,800 | 318 | 340 | 30.2 | 32.3 | $36K | $39K | $173K | $177K |
| 5 | 10,700 | 11,400 | 337 | 376 | 32 | 35.7 | $38K | $43K | $212K | $220K |
| 6 | 11,100 | 12,200 | 360 | 425 | 34.2 | 40.3 | $41K | $48K | $253K | $268K |
| 7 | 11,500 | 13,200 | 380 | 483 | 36.1 | 45.9 | $43K | $55K | $296K | $323K |
| 8 | 12,000 | 14,300 | 410 | 558 | 39 | 53 | $47K | $64K | $343K | $387K |
| 9 | 12,500 | 15,400 | 443 | 624 | 42 | 59.3 | $50K | $71K | $393K | $458K |
| 10 | 12,900 | 16,500 | 457 | 668 | 43.4 | 63.5 | $52K | $76K | $445K | $534K |
| 11 | 13,300 | 17,600 | 471 | 713 | 44.7 | 67.7 | $54K | $81K | $499K | $615K |
| 12 | 13,800 | 18,800 | 489 | 761 | 46.4 | 72.3 | $56K | $87K | $555K | $702K |
For each month m from 0 to 12: Organic visits(m) = V0 x VisitRamp(m). Consultation requests(m) = Organic visits(m) x C0 x ConversionRamp(m). Booked procedures(m) = Consultation requests(m minus L) x P. Procedure revenue(m) = Booked procedures(m) x Average procedure fee. Cumulative procedure revenue = sum of procedure revenue from month 0 to m. Before month L, booked procedures come from the month 0 level of consultation requests.
Each ramp is a multiplier on month 0, one per month. Month 0 is 1.00. Every multiplier is an assumption and is editable below.
| Multiplier | M0 | M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M6 | M7 | M8 | M9 | M10 | M11 | M12 |
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| Conversion ramp, conservative |
This is a planning model built from your inputs and public benchmarks, most of them from agency and vendor sources. It is not a forecast, a promise or a guarantee of rankings, traffic, consultations, patients or revenue, and it says nothing about clinical outcomes.
| In your model | Today (month 0) | Month 12, conservative | Month 12, expected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic visits per month | 10,000 | 13,800 | 18,800 |
| Consultation requests per month | 300 | 489 | 761 |
| Booked procedures per month | 28.5 | 46.4 | 72.3 |
| Procedure revenue per month | $34K | $56K | $87K |
| Cumulative procedure revenue, months 0 to 12 | $445K if month 0 holds | $555K | $702K |
| Area | Today | Month 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Attribution | Consultation requests arrive with no page or office attached | Every request carries its landing page, office and procedure line |
| Patient data in tracking | Ad pixels may sit on consult and booking pages | No form fields or health details reach analytics or ad tools |
| Neighbourhood coverage | One 'Los Angeles' page for the whole county | Pages for the neighbourhoods your patients actually search, tied to the office that serves them |
| Spanish-language search | No Spanish pages, so Spanish searches go elsewhere | Spanish procedure and office pages written by a fluent medical writer |
| Before-and-after gallery | Cases without procedure names or a results statement | Each image names the procedure, keeps presentation comparable, labels models and says results may not occur for all patients, as section 651 requires |
| Credentials | 'Board certified' used loosely across the site | Certification stated only where the board qualifies under section 651, with the board's full name and licence details as on the record |
| Reviews | Requested now and then | One request flow for every patient, within the FTC reviews rule |
| Reporting | Rankings in a monthly PDF | Consultation requests and booked procedures by office and line |
Playbook
Each card is a page type and the kind of search it answers, with your names in the brackets.
Los Angeles patients add a place to the procedure: Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Encino, Pasadena. We build a page only where you have an office or a surgeon who operates nearby, with directions and the facility, so the page is true and useful rather than a doorway.
Many Los Angeles practices answer in Spanish on the phone but not on the website. We write Spanish pages with a fluent medical writer, set the Google Business Profile for both languages and route requests to a Spanish-speaking coordinator.
California Business and Professions Code section 651 requires actual patient images to name the procedures performed in a prominent place, keep before and after views comparable so results are not distorted by poses or lighting, and state that the same results may not occur for all patients; model images must say they are models. We build the gallery to those rules from consented cases only.
Section 651 limits who can say they are board certified: an American Board of Medical Specialties member board, a board the Medical Board of California approved before 2019, or a board with an ACGME-approved training programme, and the board's full name must appear with the claim. We state certification only where the board qualifies, show the Medical Board of California licence as it appears on the record, and leave out 'specialist' wording that the record does not support.
BBL searchers compare prices across Southern California and across the border. A safety page explains surgeon credentials, facility accreditation, anesthesia and aftercare without attacking anyone, which answers the real question behind a price search.
Westside, Valley and South Bay patients rarely cross town for a consultation. Each office gets its own Google Business Profile services, photos you own and a page with parking and the freeway or Metro route.
We count consultation requests by page and office without sending form fields or health details to ad platforms, and keep third-party tags off booking and portal pages. California also has its own privacy laws, so your counsel confirms the final setup.
Proof
43x
The founder ran SEO and paid search in-house at Brain Station 23, a software development and IT services company. The same method of tracking first, bottom-of-funnel pages next, then links and conversion work, took inbound pipeline to 43x in eight months. That was SEO and paid search together, for an IT services company, not a healthcare clinic.
Source: Brain Station 23 internal data, founder's in-house role; published as a multiple only
Brain Station 23 (software development and IT services) and NopStation (Brain Station 23's nopCommerce e-commerce brand) are the founder's in-house work, not client results. S & F Consulting (company formation, licensing and accounting, not a law firm) and SM Pest Control (local service, Bangladesh) are CMBD clients. CMBD has no published clinic case study yet.
Ten keywords from four of our projects, each with its Google position, the country searched from and the project it belongs to. The chips list every country where one of the three Ahrefs-tracked projects has a keyword in Google's top 10. Positions only.
Ranked in
Source: Ahrefs organic keywords exports for brainstation-23.com, nop-station.com and sfconsultingbd.com, 16 Oct 2026, plus one client row from the CMBD homepage rank card (Google Bangladesh). Positions are Ahrefs positions on the export date, shown as keyword, position, country and project only.
Illustration of the goal
Illustration: a Google search for your keyword, with Your brand in the first result, above Competitor 1, Competitor 2 and Competitor 3.
Illustration of the goal, not a promise and not a client result. Competitor 1 to 3 and positions 2 to 4 are placeholders and appear only in this drawing. CMBD has no published clinic case study yet.
Pricing
$3,500per location a month
Cosmetic or plastic surgery practice with offices in Los Angeles County; aesthetic clinic groups with three or more locations pay per location, three location minimum
From $5,500per location a month, by proposal
Practices competing for crowded procedure terms in Beverly Hills, Century City, West Hollywood or Santa Monica, or adding Spanish-language build-outs across several offices
By proposal
Fertility clinic groups, hair transplant clinics and multi-location med spa groups
Fit
FAQ
Not on the head terms at first. The plan starts with procedure plus neighbourhood, revision and Spanish-language searches, where fewer practices have strong pages, then builds toward broader terms as links and reviews grow. The model lets you see that ramp with your own numbers.
Section 651 of the Business and Professions Code requires actual patient images to name the procedures performed, keep before and after views comparable without favourable poses or lighting, and state that the same results may not occur for all patients. Model images must be labelled as models. We build galleries to that standard.
Only where the certifying board qualifies under section 651, for example an American Board of Medical Specialties member board, and the board's full name has to appear with the claim. We state credentials exactly as they appear on the record and avoid 'specialist' wording the record does not support.
If your coordinators consult in Spanish, yes. We write them with a fluent medical writer and route Spanish requests to the right person, so a patient is not handed from a Spanish page to an English-only phone line.
We count requests by page, office and procedure line only, keep form fields and health details out of analytics and ad platforms, and remove third-party tags from booking and portal pages. Your counsel confirms the setup against HIPAA and California privacy law.
No, and we will not invent them. Our first clinic client is a pilot whose 90-day interim metrics we will publish with permission. The method comes from the founder's in-house work at Brain Station 23, an IT services company, where SEO and paid search took inbound pipeline to 43x in eight months.
We cite these as directional, and say so where a figure is secondary.
In a 30-minute call we look at your procedure and neighbourhood pages, your gallery against section 651 and how consultation requests are tracked now. You leave with a month 0 baseline idea and a written scope if it fits.