Start your 2024 Confidently with SEO Checklist for your Multi-Branch Healthcare Practice

Begin your SEO checklist by performing keyword research for each branch’s location to identify high and low-performing. It will help you determine which short-tail and long-tail to focus on and which keywords are primarily searched by the users.

You will get insight into every locality user search intent through keyword research. Accordingly, integrate keywords in your site content, title tags, meta descriptions, image ALT tags, and URLs. It will make each branch appear in relevant searches and acquire potential leads.

Next, claim and optimize GMB listings for each branch. After that, update essential information, such as name, address, phone numbers, services offered, business hours, high-quality images, and website and social media platform URLs.

It will positively impact your search engine rankings and build your credibility in search engine eyes, giving you amplified local search visibility. It also instills trust and confidence in local patients.

The next thing in your SEO checklist should be implementing local schema markup to provide search engines with structured information for your healthcare practice each branch, such as every branch address, phone number, and business hours. It enhances visibility and crawlability in local search results.

This technique is pivotal for SEO as it generates quality organic traffic. Link building from authoritative websites augments your practice’s credibility in search engines’ eyes and ranks your content higher.

The best approach is cultivating high-quality backlinks from local directories and reputable healthcare websites.

Ensure you regularly perform audits and optimize your website for technical elements, such as page speed, mobile-friendliness, fixing broken pages and duplicate content, core web vitals optimization, checking SSL certificate validity, and site architecture (XML sitemap).

It will help search engines crawl your site content effortlessly and index it in their libraries. With 8 out of 10 patients using search engines on their smartphones, it is pivotal to make your site mobile-friendly by working on faster loading of pages and other technical SEO components.

Note: Google gives foremost preferences to mobile-responsive and technically optimized sites.

With nearly 30% of mobile users using voice search assistants to find information, it is pivotal to optimize your site content for voice search. Make sure to focus on the local language preferred by natives of each branch.

Also, incorporate long tail keywords used by users for voice search, ensuring it aligns with how people speak when using voice search.

Over 90% of users go through reviews and testimonials of recent and past patients to assess their experience and your healthcare practice expertise.

Hence, invest in responding to patients’ comments on the GMB profile of each branch and social media platforms, including negative ones.

It demonstrates your generosity in addressing patients’ issues and resolving them to convert them to positive reviews.

Note: Google and other search engines give significance to healthcare providers with higher ratings and positive reviews.

With pay-per-click (PPC) ads generating $8 for every $1 spent on them and over 50% of traffic from smartphone users, it is a valuable approach for generating qualified leads for appointments.

You can tailor your PPC Ad copies according to each branch’s patient demographics to captivate their attention.

The best part about PPC Ads is you only pay when users click on them. They are displayed below typed query on SERPs and help in fostering brand awareness.

You have control over your spending (budget) and fine-tune ad campaigns by monitoring and analyzing performance through tools. And you can even allocate more budget to a particular branch for more leads.

If SEO is the backbone of digital marketing, content is the heart. Hence, invest in a content marketing service or hire a content writer to develop an informative and engaging geotargeted content strategy that addresses the unique healthcare needs of each location’s patients.

You can publish blogs and classifieds, answer Quora questions, post FAQs, and social media posts in the form of infographics and short videos containing educational content.

Content writers are well-versed in drafting compelling content for different localities in the tone local residents prefer.

It not only increases your content visibility on SERPs but also builds trust in local patients of each branch about your healthcare practice as an authoritative source of information.

Apart from the above tips, optimize your website content to highlight this feature if your practice offers telehealth services. It will help you attract a broader patient base seeking telehealth services.

Also, monitor your competitor’s performance by analyzing their SEO strategies assessing their keywords ranking, site content, and social media posts to determine what extraordinary they are doing. And accordingly, refine your approach to stay ahead in this competitive healthcare landscape.

Moreover, utilize Analytic Tools to regularly monitor and analyze your SEO strategies to evaluate the website’s performance, track user behavior, and gain insights for fine-tuning implemented SEO strategies for maximum impact.

Nonetheless, invest in social media marketing to keep patients hooked with your social media content, conduct live Q&A sessions to answer users’ queries and post them on your social media handles, and keep your comments free from negative responses, as patients do review social media of healthcare practices for decision-making.