Local SEO · Dental
Top-3 placement for the searches that actually bring you business.
The reality
Patients searching for a provider type the problem and the location, then choose from the top results, usually one of the three businesses in the Google map pack. Local SEO puts your practice in front of patients at the exact moment they're choosing where to book.
What we fix
The average dental patient is worth $1,200-$2,000 per year and stays with a practice for 5-10 years. A single new patient family represents $5,000-$15,000 in lifetime value. A typical practice with a slow, outdated site loses 5-10 patient families a month — leaving $120K-$300K/year on the table.
New patient forms that nobody finishes
Long, clunky intake forms buried three clicks deep. Patients start filling them out, get frustrated, and leave. Every abandoned form is a patient your competitor gets instead.
No online scheduling — just a phone number
60% of appointment searches happen after business hours. If your site's only call-to-action is 'Call us,' you're invisible to everyone searching at 9pm on a Tuesday.
A website that looks like it was built in 2015
Template sites with stock photos of smiling models don't build trust. Patients judge your practice by your online presence before they ever walk in the door.
Zero visibility in local search results
Your competitors show up when someone searches 'dentist near me.' You don't. Poor SEO, missing Google Business optimization, and no local content strategy mean you're paying rent on a website nobody finds.
What you get
Full claim, optimization, photo strategy, services configured, posts scheduled, reviews flow wired in. The most important SEO asset for a local business, run correctly.
Dedicated pages for each service you offer and each area you serve. Built to rank for the long-tail searches your customers actually type.
Consistent NAP (name, address, phone) across the directories Google checks. Built once, maintained forever.
Schema markup, Core Web Vitals, internal linking, and the on-page work that lets Google understand and rank the site.
FAQ
Dental website design runs $997 to $2,997/mo on a 12-month commitment, with no separate build fee and a one-time activation equal to one month. We publish three tiers: Starter ($997/mo) is the core system for a single-location practice without the deeper automations. Signature ($1,297/mo, full management) is the recommended standard — HIPAA-compliant intake, PMS-integrated scheduling, review generation, local SEO, ongoing management. Platinum ($2,997/mo) is for businesses whose system connects to an outside data source, or that run more than three locations. For comparison, industry pricing guides put custom dental sites at $2,500–$8,000 with a small agency, $10,000–$25,000 with a mid-size marketing company, and $15,000–$40,000+ with a large healthcare-marketing firm. Full breakdown at /pricing.
A typical dental build lands live around Day 28 (Week 4). Week 1 is discovery (existing site audit, PMS confirmation, treatment mix, brand direction, HIPAA + BAA sign-off across every vendor in the intake stack) plus the Quick-Win Sprint on your existing number. Week 2 is design and development (custom design, PMS integration configuration for Dentrix / Eaglesoft / Open Dental / Curve, insurance eligibility wiring, HIPAA-compliant form flow). Week 3 is content migration (existing practice photos, service pages, provider bios, insurance-accepted list, before/after images with signed releases), plus intake-flow testing with a set of test-mode patient records to confirm PMS round-trips and a HIPAA compliance pass. Week 4 is launch, and we stay next to any front-desk questions through it. Recall cadence, review-generation flow, and local SEO tuning continue in the monthly NovraScale One relationship after handoff.
Dental practices leave with everything a dental practice needs to keep running. Codebase, domain, HIPAA-compliant hosting account (transferred to your name, not ours), the full patient database including every completed intake form (exported in HL7 or CSV for import into your next PMS), all photography and video assets with signed model releases, every drafted piece of content, and the Google Business Profile management access. We also disconnect ourselves cleanly from the PMS integration on your timeline — not ours. The commitment runs twelve months, with a performance exit if we stop delivering, and we assist with migration for 14 days after cancellation, including sitting on calls with the incoming team to answer PMS-integration questions. Ownership is in writing on page 1 of the proposal, and so is what happens if we stop delivering.
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