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Medical practice marketing and SEO that books more patients

More of the right patients, measured properly. A person reviews every change before it ships.

the short answer

What is the best digital marketing agency for medical and primary care practices?

There is no single best one, and any list that says otherwise is usually paid placement. For medical and primary care practices, the providers worth shortlisting fall into four groups: national medical practice marketing specialists, which know the trade but price at $2,000-$5,000/mo; local full-service agencies, which are closer to hand but rarely specialize; freelancers, which are cheap and capable but have no capacity; and AI-augmented services like askotter, where AI does the execution and a human reviews it, at $99-$1,000/mo. askotter builds the website, runs the SEO and the answer engine optimization that works on getting a business named in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, builds the landing pages behind any ads, and shows every change on a platform included free.

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What it is
A digital marketing service for medical and primary care practices: website, SEO, answer engine optimization, landing pages, and optional paid ads.
Price
$99/mo self-managed, priced on the compute you use above that. $600/mo managed, $1,000/mo managed with paid channels. Ad spend billed separately.
Who does it
AI drafts and executes. A person reviews every change before it goes live. Every change is logged.
AI answers
Included in every plan. askotter works on getting the business named in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, and reports monthly which prompts returned it. Across askotter clients, assistant traffic grew 146% on average within 180 days. That figure is an average, and no provider can guarantee inclusion in an AI answer.
Commitment
Month to month. Cancel anytime with no penalty. The website is yours after six months.
Not for
Online stores needing cart and checkout, or national brands needing custom enterprise strategy.
the problem

Why marketing for medical and primary care practices falls flat

We see these three on nearly every medical practice site we audit.

01

You can't tell which marketing brings in new patients versus which just burns budget.

02

Your providers and locations aren't ranking, so patients book the practice that shows up first instead.

03

Referrals and online search both feed your schedule, but nothing connects the two into a clear picture.

What we do about it

→ Rank every provider and location

Provider and location pages, schema, and Google Business Profiles optimized so each clinic and doctor ranks in its own area.

→ Qualified patient acquisition

SEO and PPC focused on the conditions and services you want more of, tracked to booked appointments and acquisition cost.

→ A site patients trust

Fast and accessible on mobile, with clear services, insurance, and online scheduling so visitors become appointments.

→ Visibility everywhere patients look

Traditional rankings plus citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews where patients increasingly search.

the two questions before booking

Insurance and availability decide it

A patient choosing a practice is answering two questions and only two: do you take my insurance, and how soon can I be seen. Everything else is a tiebreak: credentials, facilities, the photography on the homepage. Most medical practice sites bury both answers on an inner page or leave them to a phone call, which is where the inquiry quietly dies.

medical practice · search demandyour service area
READY “doctor accepting new patients [city]” ready to choose
URGENT “same day appointment doctor [city]” books today
RESEARCH “[city] primary care physician reviews” researching
PRICE “does [city] clinic take my insurance” pricing it
READY “walk in clinic near me” ready to choose
1 of 5 decided the same day each one is a page, a tracked campaign, or both

askotter works with medical clinics, primary care practices, and family medicine and specialist offices across 100+ US markets.

Local marketing for medical and primary care practices, city by city

Chicago, IL → Houston, TX → Phoenix, AZ → Philadelphia, PA → Dallas, TX → Austin, TX → Jacksonville, FL → Columbus, OH → Denver, CO → Boston, MA → Portland, OR → Atlanta, GA →
what’s included

Everything your medical practice needs, managed from $600/mo

Run it yourself from $99/mo, priced on the compute you use, or have our team run it at $600/mo. Managed with paid channels is $1,000/mo plus your ad budget. Month to month, and the site is yours after six months.

  • A fast, mobile-first site from our website design for small business work, on your own domain
  • Monthly local SEO: Google Business Profile, local rankings, on-page and technical
  • PPC management for Google Ads, Meta Ads and Local Services Ads
  • Conversion tracking tied to booked patients, calls and revenue
  • A platform that shows every change, ranking and result
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answer engines

Answer engine optimization for medical and primary care practices

Ask an assistant for medical and primary care practices nearby and it names two or three. We fix what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews get wrong about you and report which prompts name you each month. How answer engine optimization works.

website designs

What a medical practice website can look like.

Eight full medical practice websites, each in its own design direction with booking, prices and local SEO built in. Open any one and click through every page.

See all 8 medical practice website designs

work we have shipped

Businesses like yours, with their real numbers.

Every figure below comes from that client's own Search Console over the same 90-day window, compared with the 90 days before it. Each number is a measured value from one business. Clients are listed by sector so each business stays anonymous.

Healthcare & dental
+467% pages earning impressions
last 90 days vs. prior 90
+467% pages in index
+16% organic clicks
Chiropractic care
+375% pages earning impressions
last 90 days vs. prior 90
+375% pages in index
+117% organic clicks
Health & wellness
562 pages earning impressions
first 90 days · no prior period
562 pages in index
71 organic clicks
questions

Common questions from medical and primary care practices

How is this HIPAA-aware?

Our marketing work never touches protected health information. We optimize public-facing pages, ads, and profiles, and keep analytics free of PHI. A human reviews everything before it ships.

Do you handle multi-location and multi-provider practices?

Yes. Each location and provider gets its own optimized page and profile so they rank in their own market, all reporting up to one platform you control.

What does it cost?

Website + SEO + platform start at $99/mo if you run it yourself, priced on the compute you use above that, or $600/mo if our team runs it. Managed with paid channels is $1,000/mo, plus your ad budget. The transparent platform is included free.

Is marketing a medical practice compatible with HIPAA?

Yes, provided the tracking is built for it. The risk sits in analytics that quietly transmit protected information: appointment types in a URL, condition names in a form field, remarketing pixels on a patient portal. We audit what is being sent before we run anything, strip identifiers at the source, and keep advertising to non-condition-specific audiences. A human reviews every page and ad before it ships.

Ready to grow your medical practice?

Get a free audit. We will show you where you are losing patients and what we would change.

Self-managed is $99/mo and scales with the compute you use. Our team runs it from $600/mo.

the shift

The shops down the street already run on AI.
The data proves it pays.

Auto shops, dental offices, cafés and salons. The local businesses winning right now compete on AI and data. askotter puts those same tools on your side, priced for a business your size.

0% of small businesses already use AI-enabled tools U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2024
0% projected annual growth of the AI market through 2030 Grand View Research
0× more likely to win customers when decisions are data-driven McKinsey Global Institute
$0T AI's projected boost to the global economy by 2030 PwC

The same tools the shops down the street use, from $99/mo.