AETHUS

Dental SEO for Private Practices

SEO for private dental practices, built to bring more self-paying patients to implant, Invisalign and cosmetic treatment pages — and turn them into booked consultations.

Free audit, no obligation. Fixed monthly fee agreed in writing before any work starts.

Healthcare websites since 2015Senior-led deliveryBedford, UK
5.0 · 7 Google reviews

Get your free dental SEO audit

We crawl your dental practice's site and show where patients are being lost, with a prioritised fix list you keep whether or not you work with us.

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Trusted by clinics and practices

  • K Vision Centre
  • Menassa Vision
  • Panthagani

Private dental patients rarely book the first practice they find. They search by treatment — "dental implants", "invisalign cost", "emergency dentist" — compare two or three local practices, and choose the one whose site answers their questions clearly and ranks well enough to be trusted. A practice that relies on referrals and repeat patients is invisible to exactly the self-pay patients actively searching for treatment right now.

Aethus runs SEO for private dental practices: treatment-led content for implants, cosmetic dentistry and orthodontics, local search visibility for "dentist near me" and town-plus-treatment searches, and monthly reporting that ties the work to enquiries, not just rankings. You keep the audit and fix list whether or not you work with us.

What you get

  • Treatment-page SEO for implants, Invisalign, veneers and cosmetic dentistry
  • Local SEO for "dentist near [town]" and emergency-dentist searches
  • Google Business Profile optimised for the categories patients actually search
  • Content that survives GDC and ASA scrutiny on treatment claims
  • Technical fixes prioritised around the booking journey — page speed, mobile usability, a broken implant or Invisalign enquiry form
  • Visibility tracking against the two or three practices patients compare you to before they book
  • A weekly breakdown of what changed on the site, so a broken booking link is caught in days
  • A monthly report and plan direct from Lawrence, our founder — not a generic agency dashboard

The searches that fill a private dental diary

Private dental patients search in a predictable, treatment-led pattern: "dental implants [town]", "invisalign cost", "private dentist near me", "emergency dentist today". Each of these needs its own page — a single "services" page cannot rank for all of them, because Google matches specific intent to specific content.

The practices that win these searches are the ones with a dedicated page per treatment, written in plain language, answering the questions a nervous or price-conscious patient actually has before they call.

What GDC and ASA rules mean for your SEO content

Every dentist and dental care professional named on your site sits on the General Dental Council register, and treatment content has to hold up to ASA advertising rules on claims and before-and-after imagery. This is not a constraint on ranking well — it is largely the same discipline Google rewards. Named, verifiable practitioners and accurate, unexaggerated claims are exactly the trust signals that search engines and patients both respond to. We write and structure content to satisfy both at once; nothing here is legal advice, and any claim we are unsure of, we check with you before it goes live.

What we look for in a dental site audit

We check for a single generic "treatments" page standing in for one per procedure, no dedicated implant or Invisalign page despite those being high-value searches, an online booking link that is broken or buried, a Google Business Profile filed under the wrong category, and no price-guidance page for cosmetic work — which can send a price-anxious patient straight to a competitor who publishes one.

How patient video stories work for a dental practice

Growth adds two captioned patient video stories a month — well suited to an Invisalign or implant journey, where a visible before-and-after change does more to reassure a nervous patient than another paragraph of copy. Consent covers the interview and any dental photography separately, the patient signs off the final cut before it's published, and no treatment plan or cost detail is shared beyond what they've agreed.

How we work together

Three ways to work together

Named for what each does, not a generic tier — built around how a dental practice works. Growth is the level we recommend once you have patients willing to share their story; Ads adds to either level.

Level 1

Essentials SEO

Two locally-focused articles a month, each pointing straight at a booking, backed by weekly reporting so nothing sits broken for long.

  • Two detailed, optimised articles every month, each targeting a search a local patient actually makes
  • Every article links to the service or clinic page that takes the booking
  • A weekly performance breakdown of the site
  • A monthly report from Lawrence, our founder — last month's results and next month's plan
  • Data drawn from leading SEO tools, Google Analytics, Search Console and Aethus Umami (privacy-first analytics)

Why it matters

Weekly numbers mean a problem — a broken booking link, a page that stopped ranking — is caught in days, not found three months later in a quarterly review.

Best for A single practice or clinic ready to be found for the treatments it already offers.

Level 2

Recommended

Growth Platform

Everything in Essentials, plus two captioned patient video testimonials a month and a monthly strategy session with Lawrence.

  • Everything in Essentials SEO
  • Two patient video testimonials a month, recorded from a 20-minute Google Meet call
  • Full recording, editing and upload to your website
  • Burned-in captions, ready to repost to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
  • A monthly strategy session with Lawrence

Why it matters

Self-paying patients choose on trust. A real patient describing their recovery on the relevant service page does more than any claim we could write — six stories by day 90.

Best for A practice with willing patients and more than one service or clinic to build trust around.

Bolt-on

Add to either level

Google Ads

Complete campaign setup, daily monitoring and weekly tuning — adds to either level, so you get visibility from month one while SEO compounds.

  • Complete setup of targeting, keywords and ad copy
  • Daily monitoring
  • Weekly adjustments to keywords, targeting and copy
  • Conversion tracking set up with your developer, or installed by us (installation may carry a one-off fee)

Why it matters

SEO compounds over months; ads put the practice in front of people searching near each clinic from month one. Ad spend is paid directly to Google, separate from the management fee.

Best for A practice opening a new clinic, or one that wants visibility while the SEO content builds.

Fee
A fixed monthly fee, agreed in writing after the free audit — before any work starts.
Minimum term
Six months on Essentials and Growth, because SEO compounds — then 30 days' notice.
Your contact
A dedicated Partner Success contact you can call any time.
Staying aligned
Regular contact to keep the work aligned with the practice.

The plan

How the first 90 days work

  1. Step 1

    Audit and advise

    We set a baseline, hand over a prioritised fix list, and publish your first content.

  2. Step 2

    Localise the content

    We write for the searches local patients make, and point every article to a booking.

  3. Step 3

    Review and plan ahead

    We report against the baseline and set next quarter's plan.

Month 1

Audit and advise

Essentials

  • Reporting set up with a baseline
  • Prioritised fix list for your developer, starting with anything breaking bookings
  • Posts 1–2 on high-intent local searches

Growth adds

  • Strategy session 1 — agree priority clinics & services
  • Videos 1–2 recorded and captioned

Google Ads adds

  • Targeting, keywords and copy set up
  • Conversion tracking set up with your developer
  • Campaigns launched, with daily monitoring

Month 2

Localise the content

Essentials

  • Posts 3–4
  • Suggested titles & descriptions for key pages, ready to paste in
  • Advice on a page per clinic or location

Growth adds

  • Strategy session 2, reviewing month-1 data
  • Videos 3–4 cut for social

Google Ads adds

  • Weekly keyword and copy tuning
  • Ads scheduled around clinic hours

Month 3

Review and plan ahead

Essentials

  • Posts 5–6
  • Results reported against the month-1 baseline
  • Content plan for next quarter

Growth adds

  • Strategy session 3
  • Videos 5–6 — six patient stories in total

Google Ads adds

  • Budget shifted to what's working
  • Cost per enquiry reported by clinic

By day 90 and what we measure

By day 90 you'll have

  • Six locally-focused articles, each pointing to a booking
  • A prioritised fix list, with titles and descriptions ready to use
  • Weekly breakdowns, three monthly reports and a plan for next quarter
  • Growth: six captioned patient videos and three strategy sessions
  • Ads: live campaigns with 90 days of results

What we measure every month

  • Search impressions for your priority treatment searches
  • Clicks through to the booking page
  • Booking enquiries, by clinic
  • Ads: cost per booking enquiry

Getting started

What we'll need from you

  • Access to your website, so we can publish posts and videos
  • Your developer's contact, for the fix list and tracking
  • Access to Google Analytics and Search Console
  • Clinic details — addresses, areas served, and the services at each
  • Willing patients, two a month (Growth)
  • Access to your Google Ads account and a monthly budget (Ads)

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“Since Aethus rebuilt my site around patient questions, more of my enquiries come from Google searches and from ChatGPT conversations, and I’m seeing more self-referring patients. The articles do the explaining before the consultation, so the patients who reach me are ready to talk about treatment.”— Mr Jesse Panthagani, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, private practice
5.0 · 7 Google reviews

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Frequently asked questions

Will this help with searches like "invisalign cost near me"?

Yes — treatment-plus-modifier searches like this are exactly what dedicated treatment pages are built to capture, alongside the local signals that put you in the map pack for "near me" queries.

Can you write content that stays within GDC and ASA rules?

We write treatment content and claims to hold up under GDC and ASA scrutiny, and check anything borderline with you before publishing. This is not a substitute for your own compliance sign-off.

Do you cover emergency dentistry as well as cosmetic work?

Yes. Emergency-dentist searches are high-intent and time-sensitive, so we make sure that route is visible and fast to find alongside your implant, orthodontic and cosmetic treatment pages.

Can you help us rank for implants in towns near our practice?

Yes — we build a dedicated implant page for each town or catchment area you actually treat patients from, rather than one implant page trying to rank everywhere at once.

How much does dental SEO cost?

A fixed monthly fee, scoped to your practice and catchment after the free audit — we don't publish a figure here because it depends on how many treatment pages and towns we're targeting. Essentials and Growth run to a six-month minimum, because SEO compounds, then 30 days' notice.

How long until we see more implant and Invisalign enquiries?

Most private dental practices see meaningful movement in three to six months. Competitive treatment terms like "dental implants" take longer to rank than local, less-contested searches, because you are competing against every other practice bidding for the same self-pay patient. We report progress weekly and monthly throughout.

Dental SEO for Private Practices

Free audit, no obligation. Fixed monthly fee agreed in writing before any work starts.

Healthcare websites since 2015Senior-led deliveryBedford, UK
Privacy by designICO registeredWCAG 2.2 AA
5.0 · 7 Google reviews

Trusted by growing UK businesses and clinics

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