HEALTHCARE MARKETING

Healthcare PPC built around relevant appointments

Put the budget behind the treatments your schedule can absorb. Connect focused Google Ads, relevant landing pages and conversion feedback with appointments that are booked and kept.

A clear plan. A dedicated partner. Measurable progress.

Illustrative Pay-per-click advertising preview for healthcare practices medical clinic near me All Maps Images News More Sponsored yourbrand.com Your Brand Here · Your Ad Meet the team. Book your appointment. riversideclinic.com Riverside Clinic Compare nearby clinics. Request a call back. Book an appointment Organic results Summit Health · Local services Search ad Landing page Booked appointment

THE PROOF IS PERSONAL

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A CLEAR CONNECTION TO YOUR BUSINESS

Understand which campaigns create appointments

Search worth paying for

Know the query behind each paid call, not only the keyword you bid on.

Front desk qualified it

Mark each paid call for service fit, insurance and appointment capacity.

Cost per attended visit

Compare spend against visits that were actually attended, per campaign.

A PLAN YOU CAN FOLLOW

Every click should have a clear next step.

Illustration of four paid searches with a cost per qualified lead beside each, two kept and two excluded Which clicks are worth paying for? book a doctor appointment $28 / lead ✓ family doctor accepting patients $24 / lead ✓ free clinic near me $0 / lead ✗ nursing jobs near me $0 / lead ✗ 2 of 4 worth working on ✓ Top pick: book a doctor appointment Cost per qualified lead, not cost per click

Choose what to pay for

Start with treatments the schedule can absorb and searches made by patients ready to book. Group demand around services the practice actually provides, so paid acquisition supports available appointments instead of every symptom question people research.

Illustration of one search phrase carried through to the ad headline and the landing page heading, each ticked as a match Search, ad and page say the same thing The search family doctor accepting patients ✓ Your ad Accepting new patients ✓ Your page New patient appointments ✓ One phrase, carried all the way through

Match the search

Give each treatment group a matching ad, then exclude symptom research, job searches and price only queries before they spend the budget. This keeps paid clicks focused on people seeking care the practice can provide.

Illustration of three treatment ad groups, each matched to the page that books that visit Every campaign has its own page New patient visits → /new-patients/ ✓ Knee and joint pain → /knee-pain-treatment/ ✓ Same-week appointments → /book-an-appointment/ ✓ One service per page, so the click lands where it was promised

Earn a qualified inquiry

Send each campaign to its treatment page, with the appointment offer, hours and phone number in the first screen. Keep the request to fields reception needs, and pass the treatment, campaign and call time with every inquiry.

Illustration of a four stage funnel from search impressions to attended visits, with a count and a kept-rate at each stage What each patient actually costs Search impressions 19,700 Visits 2,560 13% Appointment requests 349 14% Attended visits 241 69% KEPT Spend and outcome checks

Invest in real visits

Match each call and form to its campaign, then let the front desk mark it as booked, wrong fit or an existing patient. Set spend against appointments kept, so the budget moves toward campaigns that fill the schedule with suitable visits.

THE SEARCHES WORTH BUYING

Reach people looking for your care

A practice that offers urgent care, dermatology, physiotherapy and implants is really running four campaigns, because those patients are making four different decisions. One needs somewhere open this afternoon; another is comparing clinicians for a treatment they have been thinking about for months. One campaign, one landing page and one message serves none of them well, and the click costs the same either way.

“urgent care open now near me”

The ad group it belongs to: Urgent care, same day Where the click lands: The urgent care page, with today’s hours and how long the wait usually is. Why it is kept separate: Time is the whole decision here. A general homepage loses this click to whoever answered the question.

“skin check dermatologist near me”

The ad group it belongs to: Dermatology, skin checks Where the click lands: The skin check page: what the appointment involves, and which clinician performs it. Why it is kept separate: A screening appointment is a different decision, and a different cost, from a cosmetic one.

Illustration of three searches sorted into include, include and exclude, under the rule that decides Reach the right search clinic appointment Include family doctor near me Include medical jobs Exclude Service + location + readiness to book

“physiotherapy after knee surgery”

The ad group it belongs to: Physiotherapy, post-operative Where the click lands: The post-operative rehabilitation page, including the referral route. Why it is kept separate: Post-operative care has a referral path a general physiotherapy page does not explain.

“dental implant consultation”

The ad group it belongs to: Implants, consultation Where the click lands: The implant page, with what the consultation covers and what happens after it. Why it is kept separate: A high-consideration treatment. The click is expensive, so the page has to answer the cost question rather than defer it.

Illustration of a search terms report: two terms kept with the calls and forms they earned, two added as negative keywords What people actually typed clinic accepting new patients 36 clicks · 6 calls ✓ KEPT book appointment this week 29 clicks · 5 forms ✓ KEPT medical assistant jobs 22 clicks · nothing back ✗ NEGATIVE what causes knee pain 18 clicks · nothing back ✗ NEGATIVE Kept terms earn the call or the booking; the rest become negatives Weekly review checks

Sample ad groups for four services a multi-disciplinary practice might offer. Build the live groups from treatments your clinicians provide and appointments the practice can staff.

THE PAGE THE CLICK LANDS ON

Make the booking step clear

The landing page is where a healthcare campaign is won or lost, and most of them ask for too much too early. A patient arriving from an ad wants to know three things before they will give you a phone number: is this treatment for me, who would I be seeing, and how do I actually book. Answer those three and the form can be short, because by then it is only collecting a name.

Say whether this is for them

The treatment, who it suits and who it does not, in the first screen. A patient who reads two sentences and knows this is the wrong clinic has been served well.

Name the clinician

Who performs it, their registration and how long they have been doing it. Healthcare is the one market where the person matters more than the brand.

Offer the route they will actually use

A phone number that is answered, an online booking link that works on a phone, and a plain statement of what happens after they send it.

A FEW THINGS YOU MAY BE WONDERING

Good questions. Clear answers.

How do you target the services our clinic provides?

Campaigns are built per treatment you actually offer, with the ones you do not take excluded outright. Geography follows your catchment, so you are not paying for clicks well outside it.

What is included beyond ad management?

Landing page work, conversion tracking set up within healthcare advertising restrictions, call tracking, and a review cycle comparing spend against booked appointments. Media spend is billed by the platform, separately.

How do you measure appointment quality?

Three separate counts: inquiries, appointments booked and appointments attended. Front desk feedback closes the loop, so a campaign producing calls that never turn up gets changed rather than celebrated.

How is patient privacy protected in ad tracking?

Tracking records that a booking happened, not who booked or what for. The approved measurement setup is documented with your practice before any campaign runs, within the platforms’ restrictions on sensitive data.

YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

Let’s make your next move count.

Tell us the appointments you want more of and the sites you run. We’ll tell you what it would take to be found for them.

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