A modern dental clinic with strong offline reputation but low online visibility. We rebuilt their search presence end-to-end and made booking frictionless on mobile.
Evidence note: One real six-month engagement with identifying details removed for client confidentiality - a named local practice case would expose competitive detail.
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Shows the diagnostic model working in a measurable service-business journey.
3x
Organic traffic
Top 3
Local pack rankings
42 → 180
Google reviews
CONSTRAINT
Strong offline reputation was being lost online because crawlability, treatment pages, reviews, and booking friction were disconnected.
SYSTEM FIXED
The search-to-booking system linked technical SEO, treatment-page depth, local proof, and mobile enquiry flow.
EVIDENCE
Issue register, booking-path review, and review system.
OUTCOME
3x organic traffic, top-3 local pack rankings, and reviews grew from 42 to 180.
LESSON
The same method applies when the buyer journey can be mapped from search to enquiry, booking, follow-up, and reporting.
Before
Strong offline reputation, weak online visibility, and booking friction on mobile.
After
Rebuilt the technical foundation, treatment-page depth, local SEO, and mobile booking flow.
Win trust and rankings against entrenched competitors
The practice was competing against clinics with 200–600+ reviews and years of local SEO momentum but had minimal visibility for high-value treatments.
Technical gaps (no robots.txt, duplicate meta, broken links), thin service pages, and a seven-field booking form suppressed rankings and conversions.
We needed to fix crawlability, build authority quickly, and make it effortless to book on mobile within a six-month window.
Cleared 38+ blocking issues so Google could crawl, index, and evaluate the site cleanly.
Rebuilt every treatment page with intent-based copy, FAQs, and before/after proof to outrank templated competitors.
Optimised Google Business Profile and citations to push into the map pack for priority services.
Reduced booking friction and highlighted social proof to turn traffic into appointments.
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System map
The work was not isolated activity. The useful proof is the sequence of handoffs that became clearer, faster, or easier to measure.
01
High-intent treatment and emergency queries
02
Robots, sitemap, canonicals, broken-link fixes
03
Service depth, FAQs, local modifiers
04
Three-field enquiry and click-to-call
05
Review requests tied to real appointments
What Encanta owned
Dental evidence dossier
Issue register, booking-path review, and review system. Each artifact made the next decision concrete: what to fix first, where booking friction appeared, and how reputation could compound.
Issue register
01High
Crawl, sitemap, redirects, and canonical issues blocked priority treatment pages.
Medium
Thin treatment pages missed patient questions and local modifiers.
Dependency
Technical fixes had to land before content and local proof could compound.
Booking-path review
02Before
Name, email, phone, treatment, date, time, message before the practice could respond.
After
Name, phone, treatment need, with click-to-call and reassurance copy on mobile.
Metric
Mobile form completion rate and qualified appointment requests.
Review system
03Trigger
Appointment completed and patient marked satisfied.
Message
Short SMS/email request with the Google review link.
Reminder
Staff prompt and follow-up reminder until the loop is closed.
The tools and surfaces we relied on to keep execution consistent.
Six-month lift after technical and content overhaul.
Implants and emergency queries now surface in the 3-pack.
Review cadence and automations boosted trust signals.
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