Every other med spa SEO agency you are comparing will promise rankings and invoice you for twelve months while you wait. We agree the consultation targets first, put them in the contract, and refund you if we miss them.
The stakes
A woman decides on a Tuesday that she wants Botox before a wedding. She does not ask a friend.
She types “med spa near me”, scans the map, compares two review counts, opens a gallery, and books that afternoon. Eleven minutes, and you were never in it.
The clinic that got her does not have better injectors. It has a complete Google Business Profile in the map pack, a Botox page written the way patients actually search, and enough authority for Google to trust it with a medical question. And it did not win one sale. That patient is a slot every four months, plus the peel she adds in year two. You get the gap in the schedule and a laser lease that still bills on the first.
Every month
Botox, dermal fillers, lip fillers, laser hair removal, microneedling, CoolSculpting, body contouring, chemical peels, radiofrequency and PRP each earn their own page, with candidacy, downtime, pricing signals and the FDA cleared device named. A single “Services” page competing for twelve procedures ranks for none of them.
Correct primary category, full service list, treatment photos, posts, Q&A, citations on the directories patients check, and a review generation flow your front desk runs at checkout. The map pack sends more consultation calls than everything below it combined.
Crawl and indexation cleanup, mobile speed, Core Web Vitals, and schema for MedicalBusiness, Physician, Review and FAQPage.
Your before and after gallery is your best conversion asset and usually your worst SEO asset: unnamed files, no alt text, no procedure labels, scripts that hide it from crawlers.
Keyword research by procedure and by margin, a competitor analysis of the clinics outranking you, and patient education answering the safety questions people ask themselves at 11pm before they call anyone.
Consultation requests, tracked calls, booked appointments, cost per acquired patient, revenue by treatment, share of search. Not a keyword count.
Three verticals
Medical spa SEO is won inside a three mile radius: map pack strength, treatment page depth, and reviews that arrive weekly instead of in bursts. Groups get one profile and one landing page per address, with distinct injector bios so Google does not read twelve clones.
Longer consideration, bigger ticket, higher trust bar. Procedure pages for rhinoplasty, breast augmentation and liposuction have to answer cost, recovery, risk and revisions honestly, backed by board certification and surgeon authorship. Prospects compare four surgeons over six weeks, and the one whose content answers the uncomfortable question wins the consult.
Proximity and urgency drive it. Condition pages for sciatica, lower back pain, whiplash and disc issues, insurance and cash pricing stated plainly, and a profile tuned for “chiropractor open now”. Volume beats ticket size, so reporting tracks new patient visits and retention.
Agencies competing for these terms either specialize in aesthetics alone or split the verticals across separate sites and teams. Run a med spa inside a surgical practice and that means two invoices and nobody accountable for the result.
AI answers
Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews to recommend a med spa and you get a short list. No map, no ads, no second page. Those systems cite what they can verify, so getting named takes entity first content, structured data stating your treatments and locations, identical business details everywhere you appear, and mentions in publications the models trust. Generative engine optimization is built into the same retainer, not billed separately.
Compliance
Patient photos need written authorization before they reach a gallery or a social post. Treatment claims have to match what the device is cleared to do, because “permanently removes fat” is a regulatory letter waiting to happen. Booking forms and tracking pixels can carry protected health information into an analytics account. We write to those limits in the first draft.
The first 90 days
Technical audit, competitor teardown, and a benchmark for every term that actually books a consultation.
The twelve month roadmap plus the written targets your guarantee rests on. You approve it before anything ships.
Fixes, treatment pages, profile and citation work, gallery cleanup, first content wave, first press pitches.
Content, coverage, links, review velocity, AI citation tracking, reporting tied to booked patients.
Cost
Almost nobody in this market publishes numbers, so here they are.
Single location clinics generally pay $1,000 to $3,000 a month, practices with several locations $3,000 to $8,000, and surgical groups $8,000 to $20,000. The $500 offers buy automated directory submissions and recycled blog posts.
AceIt SEO engagements run mid five figures to six figures annually. If PR joins the plan, Forbes campaigns are scoped and priced in writing before kickoff. Model the return first at the ROAS calculator.
Why AceIt
The fear here is not the retainer.
It is twelve payments made, no movement on “botox” in your own city, and the clinic two blocks away still holding all three map pack slots. Most owners in this niche have been burned twice: once by an agency that vanished after onboarding, once by one that spent the budget on blog posts about skincare tips.
So we do the thing none of the pages ranking for this keyword will do. Targets, deliverables and timelines are agreed in writing before kickoff, and if we do not deliver what we committed to, on the timeline we committed to, you get your money back. Nobody honest sells you position one, because that ranking is not ours to sell. We commit to growth in qualified organic traffic, map pack visibility, consultation requests and AI citations, each backed by a refund. Senior people, no junior handoffs, replies in 1 to 2 hours.
Proof
One anonymized Forbes feature produced 4,200+ visits, a 38% increase in branded search, a backlink from a domain rated 94, and 12 secondary pickups, which is the same mechanism that lifts a treatment page. That program has now secured 50+ placements across 12+ industries. On the campaign side, our PR work earned over 1 million brand impressions for Vezbi, a community super app, during its U.S. expansion, all of it through organic PR. More case studies.
The fit
It fits clinics with capacity to fill, groups opening locations, and owners willing to put an injector or surgeon’s name on the content, because reviewed medical content outranks anonymous medical content every time.
It does not fit anyone who wants a number one ranking promised for next month, refuses to ask patients for reviews, or is shopping purely on monthly price. Adjacent verticals we run: healthcare SEO, dental SEO, healthcare PR.
Questions
Anything else, email [email protected] and it comes back in 1 to 2 hours.
Most med spas pay $1,000 to $3,000 a month for a single location, $3,000 to $8,000 across several locations, and $8,000 to $20,000 for surgical groups. Anything near $500 is automated directory work. AceIt engagements run mid five figures to six figures annually, with every agreed deliverable backed by a money back guarantee.
First movement usually lands in 90 to 120 days, as technical fixes take hold, your Google Business Profile strengthens, and map pack positions shift on treatment searches. Compounding growth in consultation requests takes 6 to 12 months. That timeline goes into your agreement before kickoff, and missing it triggers your refund.
Yes. Aesthetic patients search with local intent almost every time, and the map pack sits above the organic results on the phone screen where the search happens. Without an optimized Google Business Profile, consistent citations and steady reviews, you can rank well organically and still never appear in the block that gets the calls.
Yes, and those terms are usually the fastest win. Someone searching “lip filler” plus your city has already chosen the treatment and is choosing a provider. A dedicated page per injectable, with pricing signals, units explained, downtime, candidacy and a labeled before and after gallery, converts that search far better than a general services page.
Yes, and most clinics lose traffic here. We rename image files by procedure, write descriptive alt text, add captions and structured data, fix loading scripts that hide images from crawlers, and place each gallery on the treatment page it supports. Photos need written patient authorization first, which we build into your intake process.
Yes, in intent and timeline. Plastic surgery SEO targets a six week research window and long procedure pages answering cost, recovery, risk and revisions, supported by surgeon credentials and authorship. Chiropractor SEO targets someone in pain today, so it prioritizes condition pages, insurance clarity, and a profile tuned for immediate local searches.
Next step
Send your website, your city, and the two practices outranking you. Within 1 to 2 hours you get what is broken technically, which treatment searches you are losing, and what we would fix in month one. Targets go in writing, backed by a 100% guarantee: you get the agreed results or your money back.
Targets go in writing, backed by a 100% guarantee: you get the agreed results or your money back
