SEO for Dental Practices

The 9pm toothache.

135,000 Australians type “dentist near me” into Google every month. The practice at position one captures 27 percent of the clicks. Everyone else fights for scraps.

Blog posts/moFrom 8
Starting at$997/mo
Lock-inNone
Results8-16 weeks

You are paying for rankings you cannot see.

Every month the invoice arrives. $1,500, sometimes $2,500. The PDF report says rankings improved. The phones still ring the same. The new patient enquiries still come from the same handful of referrals they always did.

Somewhere there is a spreadsheet you have never seen. Three blog posts were published on your site last quarter. None of them mention Invisalign, implants, or the suburb you practise in. Your Google Business Profile has not been touched in eleven months.

“Eighteen months with an agency. Seven blog posts total. They kept sending me screenshots of keywords I had never heard of ranking for positions I could not find.”

Principal dentist, inner west Sydney practice

A new practice opens three blocks away. Six months later they have written 40 blog posts, claimed every citation, and answered every patient question on their site. They are now the first result for every treatment you offer. You have been practising for twenty years. They have been practising for nine months.

The Math
dentist near me135,000/mo
invisalign33,100/mo
teeth whitening27,100/mo
dental implants9,900/mo
cosmetic dentist3,600/mo
bulk billing dentist2,900/mo
kids dentist2,400/mo
best dentist near me1,600/mo

Source: DataForSEO, April 2026. National Australian volume. Eight terms of many hundreds in the active dental search category.

That is 215,600 searches a month. Just these eight terms.

Add every suburb variant, every symptom query, every emergency dentist search at 9pm on a Tuesday. Your competitors are publishing content that catches each one. Every page they ship is a new doorway into their practice.

135,000monthly searchesfor “dentist near me” alone

SEO compounds. Ads don’t.

Eight posts a month is 96 pages a year. Each one targets treatment intent, builds domain authority, and catches patients while you sleep. Google Ads stops the moment you stop paying. A ranked blog post keeps earning for years.

Your Google Business Profile is half the work.

Most dental SEO agencies ignore it. Suburb-level searches live inside the map pack. Categories, services, photos, review responses, Q&A, and posts all affect whether your practice shows up when someone two kilometres away types emergency dentist at 9pm.

AHPRA-safe content

Written to the Dental Board and AHPRA advertising guidelines. No superlatives, no misleading testimonials, author credentials intact.

Month-to-month

No contracts. No setup fees. If the work stops delivering, you should leave. Most dental SEO agencies lock you in for 12 months.

Transparent reporting

You see every published post, every backlink, every ranking movement, every GBP update. No vanity metrics, no mystery dashboards.

Pricing

Published pricing. No “book a call” games.

One new implant patient covers three months of SEO. One Invisalign case covers six.

Starter

$997/mo

Solo practices and new clinics building presence.

  • 8 blog posts per month
  • Google Business Profile optimisation
  • 2 backlinks (DA 20+)
  • 30 keywords tracked
  • Monthly performance report
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Growth

$1,997/mo

Established practices competing on treatment terms.

  • 20 blog posts per month
  • Full GBP + review response drafting
  • 5 backlinks (DA 30+)
  • AI SEO monitoring + optimisation
  • 75 keywords tracked
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Scale

$3,497/mo

Multi-location groups dominating their geography.

  • 50 blog posts per month
  • Multi-location GBP management
  • 10 backlinks (DA 40+)
  • Full AI SEO + PDF authority reports
  • 150+ keywords tracked
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Month-to-month. No setup fee. No minimum commitment. View full SEO package details.

How It Works

Four steps.
Rankings in weeks.

Chris Raad, founder of Studio Slate
FounderChris Raad

Built Sub Tracker, an AI-augmented SEO platform with 113 keyword-targeted posts shipped, and ran the Local Electrical Solutions campaign that reached position one in eight weeks. Knows what AHPRA-safe dental content looks like and how a Google Business Profile actually wins suburb searches.

Dental SEO audit

We analyse your current rankings, your site, your Google Business Profile, and the three closest competitors. You get a written audit showing exactly where you stand, what is broken, and what it takes to move.

Treatment and suburb map

We map your treatments to commercial-intent keywords and your suburb to local-intent keywords. Invisalign, implants, cosmetic, emergency, kids. Every treatment gets its own ranking page and its own content cluster.

Content and GBP work

Blog posts ship to your site. Treatment pages get on-page SEO and schema markup. GBP gets categories, services, Q&A, photos, posts, and review responses. Backlinks build domain authority. Every piece is compliance-checked before publishing.

Monthly reporting

Rankings, organic traffic, GBP impressions, direction requests, calls from search, new patient enquiries. You see exactly what was published, what moved, and what is scheduled next. No vanity metrics.

FAQ

Common questions.

Ready to rank for what your patients search?

15 minutes. We will show you exactly what your competitors rank for, where the gaps are, and how many searches you are missing in your suburb.