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Plastic Surgery Marketing

Most people today use the internet to research and compare products and services. Searching for the right healthcare providers is no exception.

As a plastic surgeon, you’ve probably had many patients who first learned about your clinic through search or social media platforms.

You may have relied only on word-of-mouth and referrals for patient acquisition in the past. But the fast-changing marketing landscape may be forcing you to adapt. 

By now, you’ve likely already tried integrating digital marketing services, like SEO (search engine optimization), Google Ads, and Facebook Ads, into your practice. A stronger online presence equals more patient leads, procedures, and consultations, right?

Unfortunately, you’ve yet to see how these marketing strategies can help you maximize your ROIs (return on investment) and scale your plastic surgery clinic.

You invested much of your time, effort, and money into marketing campaigns. Still, you aren’t getting the desired patient leads and sales. What more can you do? 

You know digital marketing can deliver better results than you currently get (some of your competitors seemed to be doing well in this area). But frankly, you’ve lost faith in your current agency’s ability to do so. 

You’ll be more than happy you found us. We can help turn your campaign and practice’s situation around. 

What makes us so confident? We’re specialists in generating more patient leads, consultations, and high-ticket plastic surgery procedures. 

We can help you reach and engage searchers, whether they have just realized their plastic surgery needs or are actively looking for a specific solution.

Our leads-focused strategy ensures you stay front and center with potential clients at every stage of their plastic surgery journey.

Still undecided? We can analyze and audit your marketing campaigns and develop a clear plan for you even before you sign up with us. 

These audits cost thousands of dollars, but we offer them free of charge — no strings attached — because they’ll help you understand the fundamental needs of your practice. 

More importantly, we only take on clients for whom we can generate significant ROI. It’s why our partnership with our clients lasts for years, even without lock-in contracts. They stick with us for the ongoing results we deliver.

Ready to know how we can transform your practice into a profitable and rewarding venture? Let’s dive in. 

What Is Plastic Surgery Marketing?

As a plastic surgeon, you had to (and still have to) learn a ton of technical terms and procedures to be a master of your craft. 

Likewise, seasoned digital marketing specialists like us became the go-to consultants for many businesses due to our in-depth technical knowledge and expertise. 

But as you know, using niche language when speaking to prospective clients isn’t exactly the best way to deliver your message. In fact, it could be counterproductive, as it may leave your audience more confused than ever. 

So, what is plastic surgery marketing? 

Simply put, plastic surgery marketing is a tailored strategy designed to attract and keep plastic surgery patients. It leverages SEO, paid search ads, and various social media channels to get the job done.

For instance, we can help market your practice through these digital channels:

  • SEO
  • Google Ads
  • Facebook and Instagram Ads
  • Bing Ads

Many digital marketers might agree with how we define plastic surgery marketing. But here’s where we differ from most: we believe that healthcare businesses need leads, not impressions.

Impressions only count the number of times a user sees your ad or content on an online platform. 

What Should Your Plastic Surgery Marketing Look Like?

A quick Google search will show you diverse marketing service providers. The number of choices offers you more flexibility. 

But there’s also so much noise (overhyped sales talk) to filter out, making it more challenging for you to vet a reliable marketing agency.

For example, digital marketers love to boast the number of clicks, calls, and emails they can get through their approach. But clicks and traffic — no matter how many you get — are worth nothing if they aren’t from quality leads. 

In short, impactful plastic surgery marketing focuses on generating leads (as per the benchmark you set), not clicks.

How do we know this insight is true? We’ve been in the digital marketing industry for 15+ years and have achieved the following:

  • Tracked, tested, and optimized 2,103+ campaigns
  • Maintained a 95.67% client retention rate
  • Became a member of Google’s highest tier of Premier Partners 

More importantly, we have multiple case studies from our work in the medical industry to back our claims. 

We mention these facts and achievements to highlight two things: we know what high-performance marketing campaigns look like and how to use them to benefit your practice.

The Importance of Digital Marketing to Plastic and Cosmetic Surgeons

The plastic surgery market is booming.

IBISWorld, a well-known comprehensive industry-market research database, says that the plastic surgery industry has reached a market value of $25 billion as of January 2024.

Note: Here, IBISWorld included cosmetic procedures in their definition of the plastic surgery industry. However, we understand that cosmetic and plastic surgeons have their unique focus. 

Plastic surgery focuses on reconstructive procedures to restore the body’s normal function and appearance following an illness, injury, or congenital problem. In contrast, cosmetic surgery specializes solely in aesthetic procedures, such as facelifts and breast augmentation.

Essential differences aside, we want to emphasize a completely different point: both fields likely owed much of their market growth to their increased use of digital marketing. 

Do you want to harness the power of search and social media marketing to scale your practice? Partner with us and get these benefits:

  • Higher organic search rankings through SEO, leading to higher leads
  • Transformation of ad spend in Google Ads, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) Ads, and Bing Ads into quality leads through our combined knowledge of the math that powers digital advertising and your client’s medical journey
  • Monthly reports showing only the clear, actionable information for your business

Who Is Your Target Audience for Plastic Surgery?

For a marketing campaign to be effective, it must have a well-defined goal and target audience. You probably already know about this requirement from previous experience with digital marketing.

Increasing your ad spend or buying a thousand-dollar website won’t get you the desired results. Instead, you should be clear about who you want to engage and how you want them to respond to your message.

That’s why we won’t ask you to spend a cent on us until we do our homework — ensure we understand your objectives, situation, and what a “quality lead” means for you.

Target High-Value Potential Clients

Undergoing a plastic surgery procedure is a life-changing decision for many people. While some may decide based on financial considerations, others may consider a method’s success rate. 

These and many other factors affect how potential patients use the internet when searching and comparing plastic surgery practices. 

Do you want to target searchers who will most likely contact your clinic and book an appointment with you? You’d want what we can offer you.

As a math-based agency, we can devise a precision-targeted marketing campaign for you that focuses on potential high-value clients. 

How? We carefully analyze your target audience’s keywords, interests, and online behavior.

Stay Connected With Previous Patients

Satisfied patients can be a great source of new referrals.

As you know, a growing number of people today turn to the internet as the first resource for their healthcare-related queries. 

This phenomenon could mean that search and social platforms offer a huge growth opportunity for your business. 

However, more online searches — even when they lead to mmobiore visits to your site — doesn’t mean you’ll get more leads that convert (take action in response to your message). Searchers must still be convinced of your practice’s credibility before considering your services.

An effective way to capture these quality leads is through patient recommendations. 

That’s why it is crucial to keep them engaged and ensure they always have something positive to share about your practice in their ordinary conversations. You can do so through social media postings and texts. 

While often overlooked, email marketing remains one of the most effective digital advertising strategies. After all, it lets you stay connected with your clients and keep them interested in your services.

Improve Relationship With Unhappy Patients

When misplaced expectations lead to disappointment, communication is your lifeline for building enduring patient relationships. 

Offer a free appointment via text or call. Educate previous and existing patients about the procedure they underwent and share past results to set realistic expectations. 

Even better, preempt any misunderstandings by laying out exact results upfront.

Marketing Strategy for Plastic Surgery and Advertising Techniques

Most agencies will tell you that digital marketing works. The problem is that they can usually only offer a vague definition of “what works.” 

And if you ask them to elaborate, there’s a good chance they’ll give you more generic examples and explanations.    

However, each industry has unique goals, target markets, and an understanding of marketing success.  So, strategies that worked for say, a textile company won’t work for your plastic surgery practice. 

Our unique, math-driven marketing and advertising approach is built on this insight. Consider some of the things we’ll do to help grow your practice:

  • Use high-level mathematics, like data modeling, advanced statistical analysis, and multi-variant testing, to deliver the results your practice needs and deserves.
  • Generate a steady stream of qualified leads that you can trace to the source and cost to the dollar.
  • Optimize your campaigns to help you spend less money – unless solid data suggests the need for increased spending.

Why are we confident in our approach? Because we’re not just Google Ads or SEO specialists but mathematicians. 

In fact, our founders graduated with top grades from Macquarie University, where they specialized in math- and statistics-heavy fields.

They’ve developed a multi-million dollar dataset for over a decade to track real-world campaign performance and detect significant algorithm changes. We’ve used this in-house tool to propel our clients to great heights.

Branding Your Plastic Surgery Practice

As a plastic surgeon, you may be noticing an increase in competition. And you’re right, considering there are currently over 9,540+ plastic surgeons practicing in the United States.

To ensure potential clients choose your practice for consultations and procedures rather than another clinic, we’ll help you solidify your brand identity and reputation.

What Is Branding?

Your brand communicates to people what is unique about your practice and why it matters. 

Why does your practice need to have a well-established brand? Two words: familiarity and reputation. 

You want an instantly recognizable name and a reputation that assures the prospect that you’re the right plastic surgeon to trust with their procedure.

That’s why we consider brand awareness a crucial ROI (return on investment) metric. 

Brand awareness is a qualitative factor that answers questions like “Am I getting more backlinks, positive reviews, and social mentions?”

Typical branding tactics focus on messaging, brand personality, core values, and positioning. We can supplement these efforts to strengthen brand image by improving the search visibility of branded keywords, such as branded products and brand names. 

What Does Successful Branding Look Like?

If you’re good at finding a lake with many fishes (the right audience), your bait (your message) won’t be as important. If you only know lakes with no fish, you won’t catch any, even if you have the best bait.

Still, consistent and compelling brand messaging is crucial. Using the fishing analogy, don’t expect to catch many fish with broken bait.

We understand your message lets you clarify your self-image while addressing your target market’s needs and desires.

Fortunately, our plastic surgery marketing services include content development and ad writing, ensuring you have a well-established brand identity and fostering trust among potential clients.

Some Basics on Building a Brand for a Plastic Surgeon

Traditional marketing tools like billboards, radio, print, and TV ads can help your brand messaging. 

But here’s the thing: they’re not direct-response ads. You can’t just set up a billboard or magazine ad and expect clients to come flooding in overnight. 

Traditional methods may help build your brand, but they aren’t ideal for increasing conversions (in the long run, improving your brand’s reputation).

That’s why you need another way to promote your plastic surgery practice: digital marketing. Unlike traditional avenues, it offers immediate feedback and precise targeting. 

Digital marketing lets you reach the right audience at the right moment, track real-time metrics, and refine your strategy as your campaign progresses. It’s like using a built-in GPS (global positioning system) to boost your ROI.

Plastic Surgery Brand Messaging

Your message should communicate to potential patients that you’ve got something valuable to offer—something they crave or need.

Focus your brand messaging on the two things most prospects want to know:

1. Why do I need this procedure?

2. Why should I choose you?

Plastic Surgery Brand Visuals

Visual assets, like images or videos, may work well for your social media campaign as they help showcase your services effectively.

For instance, prospective patients may want an overview of your clinic and its amenities before booking an in-person consultation.

If you can feature before-and-after photos of previous patients (with their consent, of course), prospects can see your work’s quality.

Brand Audit: Build Your Online Reputation

Sometimes, something terrible happens at your clinic. A patient may think they’ve gotten an unsatisfactory nose job, or a member of your staff may have been rude to a client. 

Even having slow-loading pages and inaccurate content on your plastic surgery website can be an unfavorable experience for prospects and patients.

Regardless of the cause, you’re constantly at risk of getting negative feedback. 

Worry no more. Through online reputation management, we’ll analyze your online profiles and influence internet users’ perceptions of your practice. 

For example, our Google Reputation Management service can help manage and protect information about your brand and employees and minimize or drown out negative reviews.

Another way we’ll improve your reputation is by conducting a preliminary SEO technical audit of your site. Doing so enables us to make data-informed recommendations (where applicable) that can help lessen your exposure to penalties and address the following:

  • Indexing and crawlability issues
  • Duplicate or thin content
  • Redirect checks
  • Low page-loading speed 

Provide Education and Interactive Elements

Your plastic surgery website shouldn’t be a static page but a dynamic hub where you can inform and engage visitors (potential clients). 

So, use straightforward language to explain your services, benefits, and potential risks. For example, you can include content about your pre- and post-operative care to prepare patients for their procedures.

Also, make your site more interactive. You can offer tools like virtual consultations or online quizzes to help them understand their needs and potential procedures.

Public Relations

PR (public relations) is essential to brand promotion and can help you build a solid brand reputation and ultimately increase sales.

When you have a quality relationship with the public, you achieve high credibility and gain the trust of reporters, blogs, and other authoritative third-party sites. 

Given PR’s significance in boosting high-impact ROIs, you likely want to know how we can help with your PR. 

We empower your PR by crafting share-worthy content optimized for search engines. This strategy helps your site attract backlinks and boosts brand awareness. 

Do you want the top news and informational sites to feature your practice? Through our proprietary analysis and research approach, we can help you develop data-informed content that enhances your PR initiatives.

Your Plastic Surgery Website

Potential patients don’t casually visit a plastic surgery clinic to browse treatments or procedures the way they shop for clothes or furniture. Today’s patients search online. 

What happens if they don’t see your site on the top SERPs? Or if they see and click it only to find pages with low-value content and a difficult-to-navigate website? That’s right, you’d lose potential high-value clients.

That’s why we don’t treat your plastic surgery website as just another digital asset you may or may not need. Instead, we consider it your digital waiting room — a place to engage visitors and turn them into clients.

Our digital marketing efforts aim to optimize your site’s converting power. We’ll help you:

  • Produce insightful content that helps your visitors understand your practice and procedures.
  • Ensure your website has a user-friendly design that searchers can easily navigate regardless of their devices.
  • Incorporate high-quality visual assets throughout your site to showcase your work, such as a before-and-after photo gallery of your procedures.

Why Is Your Plastic Surgery Website So Important?

You only have a few seconds to grab a site visitor’s attention and encourage them to learn more about you.

As a plastic surgeon, you have different prospective clients and, thus, traffic from diverse sources. Some may already know what they want and are looking for the right clinic. 

Others may consider a major or minor physical transformation but are still undecided. These searchers probably don’t even know about existing procedures.

Your website is one of the most effective, if not the most effective, ways to respond to these different types of searchers. You can introduce prospects to the full range of services your practice offers through your website. 

Plastic Surgery Website Design

Your site needs a sound structure and user-friendly interface if you want your content (thus, your practice) to rank high on search results.

Our agency works closely with a website development team to ensure proper implementation of our SEO adjustments. 

For instance, when we identify a new search algorithm pattern, we test our own internal websites until we’ve isolated the actual change.

The change can be so impactful that our web development partners adjust how they develop sites to capitalize on our findings. 

So, what’s our game plan? We collaborate extensively with our web development partners to help optimize your site for search engines.

Plastic Surgery Website Content

Do you want original, high-quality, and rank-ready content for your plastic surgery website? Look no further. 

Our content creation service seeks high-value opportunities based on our in-depth keyword analysis. We refresh or develop new content based on our thorough SEO research.

Our team of exceptional content developers writes articles based on our analysis of the top 20 results for your target key term and investigation of these factors:

  • Word count
  • Terms and frequency (minimum and maximum frequency to ensure natural language)
  • Questions searchers ask 
  • Cannibalization analysis (cannibalization happens when two or more pages compete for the same search term)
  • The search intent represented by your target head terms  
  • Content type
  • Clear content to keyword match

Then, our content specialists and internal editors ensure that articles are plagiarism-free and 100% human-written.  

We ensure the originality of our content using Grammarly and these AI content detection applications:

  • Originality.ai
  • Copyleaks
  • Corrector App
  • AI Classifier
  • Content at Scale
  • Crossplag

Plastic Surgery Before and After Galleries

What better method to showcase your expertise than by presenting potential patients with authentic depictions of your procedure’s potential results? 

A collection of before-and-after client photos acts as visual testimonials, highlighting your skill and fostering confidence and trust in your plastic surgery practice. 

Have a Solid Back-End System

Your plastic surgery clinic’s website requires adaptability for effective marketing. Templates might seem slick, but they’re a dead end for future upgrades and tech advances.

The fix? Get a pro to lay down a solid back-end coding system. Bring in someone who can keep your website updated and backed up regularly. This sets you up to expand your site hassle-free down the road.

Fortunately, our services include web development, from making layouts and writing content to ensuring your site translates well to various web browsers and devices and using permissible graphics.

Offer a Free ‘Photoshop’ Consultation

Photoshop can be an excellent marketing tool in your plastic surgery practice as it allows you to provide potential clients with a preview of how they’ll look after the operation.

For example, you can show a before-and-after photo to let the client know how they’ll look once the job is completed.

Other clinics might charge their clients for a Photoshop consultation. However, a free consultation might give you an edge, especially if you’re experienced and confident that the preview will be as close to the actual results as possible after the procedure.

Clarity and Compelling Messaging Are Essential

As a veteran business owner, you understand how crucial brand reputation is for engaging your target market and maintaining a loyal client base.

One way to maintain a solid brand image is to appear on top-ranking web pages that feature your brand.

Some large businesses control web assets, like social media profiles and websites, where they can promote their brand. 

Others position their brand on third-party outlets, including online news sites, review platforms, and open-source informational pages (like Wikipedia).

Expanding your digital footprint using these platforms can help protect your brand during a brand reputation crisis.

Our marketing services boost the search viability of your owned online properties and preferred content from other websites.

Include Search Optimized Service Pages

Our technical SEO audit ensures you have a sound and fully optimized website environment to get more targeted organic traffic.

Here, attention to detail is a must. A systematic approach that leaves no aspect of your site unexamined will greatly improve your SEO viability.

Feature the Surgeons

Other web page elements to consider to help improve your Google ranking are as follows: 

  • A service page containing descriptions of your plastic surgery procedures 
  • Reasons patients should choose your practice 
  • Clear CTAs (call-to-actions), such as online forms and phone or email contacts

SEO Can Be Incredibly Valuable to a Plastic Surgery Practice

Did you know that the top three results on Google get 75.1% of the clicks? Through SEO, we can help make your plastic surgery website rank higher on the SERPs, boosting your organic (non-paid) traffic and potential leads.

Part of our SEO work is developing relevant, high-quality content and improving user experience to ensure your website consistently meets your potential clients’ search needs.

Use the Language Your Patients Use

The digital landscape is filled with mediocre content. Fortunately, you can improve your plastic surgery content in various ways, such as using compelling language and publishing regularly.

However, one of the most effective ways to market your practice is to produce blogs that provide value to the reader. After all, doing so can encourage searchers to engage with your plastic surgery practice.

Use the Proper Schema Markup

Search engines understand content through the structured data entered into a webpage. This info is often referred to as “schema markup.”

We analyze the latest information regarding impressions and traffic and provide recommendations on effectively managing your page content moving forward, including:

  • Pruning, refreshing, or rewriting blog and resource content that no longer generates traffic.
  • Building on existing resource content, especially on web pages targeted for brand terms.
  • Improving interlinking, content structure, and delivery to ensure content credibility

Then, we follow SEO-focused guidelines for future blog content creation and do the following (when applicable):

  • Improve content tone
  • Restructure content categories
  • Improve internal linking strategy
  • Improve the content’s general credibility

Be Extremely Thorough in Your Web Copy

Most people already feel constantly exhausted by unsolicited ads. So, writing ad copies for the sake of ad copies only pushes potential patients away instead of attracting them.

Our agency has a dedicated team of writers, editors, and proofreaders to ensure ad copies highlight the unique selling points of your plastic surgery practice.

Build Service and Geographic Pages

When finding a plastic surgeon, users usually start with local searches. Think of “rhinoplasty cost in LA” or “breast reconstruction Beverly Hills” for Californian citizens.

We can tailor your service pages to match these local searches. By doing so, we increase your chances of getting a top spot in search engine results. It’s all about meeting your patients where they’re at — geographically and digitally.

Full-Funnel Content Strategy

A conversion funnel refers to the possible route patients take leading to a consultation or procedure. The funnel is divided into three stages with different priorities:

  • Top of the funnel (TOFU): Raising awareness for your services
  • Middle of the funnel (MOFU): Engaging prospects to nudge them to service consideration
  • Bottom of the funnel (BOFU): Validating your services to move them from consideration to conversion

We aim to put your business website before prospects whenever they search for answers to plastic surgery-related queries.  

Our SEO strategy targets users who are likely deep in the buying cycle or interested in your offer. We can also develop insightful, attention-grabbing, and persuasive content that moves prospective patients from knowing about your services to scheduling an appointment with you.

Onpage and Technical SEO

On-page or on-site factors include images and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) tags, like title, meta, and header. Poor on-site features prevent Google from ranking your website’s usefulness and user relevance. 

Our full-scale on-page SEO audit examines every nook and cranny of your website to identify pressing concerns. We use the info we gather from this site check to suggest sound fixes. 

After we’re done with a preliminary audit, we can send you a file consolidating all the issues we’ve found.

Search platforms are fast-evolving technology, so we conduct constant technical investigations to keep pace with requirements. 

We draw from our extensive experience and invest all efforts to pinpoint errors that could block our client’s path to the first page of SERPs.

Local SEO

Local SEO helps improve your local search visibility. Localized organic search results depend on these factors: 

  • Relevance: Does your local business profile match users’ queries?
  • Prominence: How well-known is your business offline? Do the online reviews and ratings reflect your business’ offline popularity?
  • Distance: How far is your business from the location-modified term a searcher used?

Google has been increasingly optimizing its search algorithm to facilitate local searches. 

The good news is that our SEO strategy focuses on location-based targeting before general targeting to generate the highest returns for your practice. 

One of the first things we’ll do for you is to verify if you’ve set up your website to target the right geographical location.

Plastic Surgery Landing Pages: Where Visitors Convert to Leads and Leads Convert to Consultations

A well-crafted landing page is crucial for converting prospects into customers, offering an opportunity to showcase your practice and procedures, highlight exclusive promos, and share contact information — all in one digital space.

These web pages act as touchpoints with potential clients. 

Do you want to make an excellent impression on visitors? Optimize your landing page so visitors will turn into leads, consultations, and procedure bookings.

Landing Page Content for Plastic Surgery 

Landing pages are specialized pages. What the landing page offers should be persuasive enough to searchers and tailored to their location to ensure higher conversion rates. 

The landing page’s content should be consistent with your ad’s message. It should reflect the specific services, deals, or offers relevant to each location. 

If you work with us, expect us to optimize your landing page to ensure you get more leads for your practice.

Dive Deep Into Niche Content for Services Offered by Your Cosmetic Surgery Practice

No two plastic surgeons are identical. Likewise, certain segments of your audience will have a keen interest in specific areas of plastic surgery.

Why should you consider niche content? The answer: Specialty blogs and articles are magnets for top-tier leads. After all, people reading these resources are already interested in the topic.

Content With a Twist

You know you’ve created high-quality content when it is original, data-informed, and compelling. 

Our content team writes articles based on a well-researched content brief. Before publishing the content, our writers and editors ensure the article is exceptional, informative, and engaging.

Many businesses wrongly cram keywords into content for SEO. But Google’s evolving system weeds out clickbait. 

How do you write rank-ready articles? Simple.

Recognize what Google’s top-notch engineers are saying. Then, follow their updates and recommendations.

Landing Page Design

As mentioned, your plastic surgery web design helps compel and drive action from your site visitors. The rule applies to your landing pages, too.

While your landing pages should align with your website’s brand, they should also be finely tuned to achieve a specific objective, whether it’s delivering engaging content or spurring users to schedule a consultation.

That’s because doing so maintains consistency and provides a seamless user experience, translating to better ad scores and helping increase your search rankings.

Landing Page Promotion

Your landing pages should make casual visitors feel good about your plastic surgery practice if you want them to become interested prospects. 

However, if your target audience can’t find these pages, all your efforts go to waste. The good news is that you can use various marketing channels to promote your message.

From pay-per-click campaigns and social media marketing to YouTube adverts and email marketing, several channels exist to help your landing pages improve online visibility and achieve their goal — convert leads.

Plastic Surgery Blog: Relevant Content to Attract Attention

We don’t want to repeat ourselves, but it’s worth emphasizing: Your articles and blogs wield significant influence in directing attention to your plastic surgery clinic and solidifying your authority.

After all, engaging and informative content can vividly showcase your unique services and showcase your expertise and specializations to potential plastic surgery patients.

What Makes a Plastic Surgery Blog Great

Your target customers may want to learn more about your plastic surgery procedures or what they must prepare before visiting your clinic. Blog posts or articles are a helpful way to provide these pieces of information to your audience.

Through our SEO service, we’ll create optimized articles containing a target number of keywords that we maintain monthly. These keywords should be relevant to your plastic surgery practice to help searchers find your content.

Keys to Successful Plastic Surgery Blogging

Guest blogging is crucial to building a natural link profile. But remember: You can’t fool Google’s algorithm.

 It can sniff out link-bait blog posts and nonsense copywriting material like a bloodhound. 

Our strategy? We publish helpful, relevant content on niche-specific websites to gain credibility and establish trust from one website to another.

You Don’t Have to Write It Yourself

If you’re confident in your writing skills or prefer your blogs and articles to reflect your unique voice, we support you in creating your own content. However, crafting high-quality content can be time-consuming.

If you wish to allocate this resource elsewhere, such as providing consultations to potential patients, consider our professional content marketing services.

Our digital marketing team will audit your existing materials, identify high-value opportunities, and craft blogs and articles that hit user intent.

Answer Questions Through Blog Content

Google hates unethical tactics. The platform will penalize you for spammy content strategies, like keyword stuffing and hidden texts.

Your page content should be organized, well-researched, and add value to your potential patients. 

Here are some things we do to craft high-quality, targeted content:

  • Optimize headings for target-specific keywords.
  • Ensure the article is original, logical, and factually correct.
  • Fix internal links.
  • Ensure the article has no low-value, thin content.

Add Video Marketing to Your Campaign: Consistent Video Content

Videos aren’t just extra—they’re crucial. Alongside text and images, they shape your webpage and enhance the user experience, providing information, visuals, and engagement.

Think about it: Your customers want proof. They’ll be more convinced when they see your plastic surgery procedures in action rather than just reading about them. It’s about offering that vivid demonstration and highlighting what makes you stand out from the competition.

Best Practices: Video Marketing for Cosmetic Surgeons

If your customer needs plastic surgery due to injuries or body abnormalities, they turn to reconstructive surgery. A cosmetic surgeon only focuses on reshaping a body structure for aesthetic reasons.

That said, video marketing is a game-changer for plastic and cosmetic surgeons. They can show their specializations, highlight procedures, and build trust with potential patients. 

When making a video, focus on quality and authenticity. Invest in professional equipment, but keep it real. 

Then, we can help you optimize your video content for search engines with relevant keywords. 

Social Media Marketing for Plastic Surgery Marketing

Incorporating social media into your plastic surgery marketing strategy is essential in today’s digital age, especially considering that people spend around 14% of their daily lives on social sites.

Social media offers various avenues to expand your reach, interact with your desired prospects, and promote your plastic surgery practice and its unique propositions.

How to Use Social Media Marketing for Plastic Surgeons

Social media platforms let you share external links, including blogs and articles, which you can use to educate visitors and drive traffic to your plastic surgery website.

You can also run surveys to understand your clientele better, build relationships with prospects through engagement, such as comments, and demonstrate your expertise via before and after photos of procedures.

Most importantly, social media sites like Facebook provide detailed targeting options, letting you choose who to display your ads to based on demographics, behavior, and location.

General Plastic Surgery Social Media Marketing Rules

Leveraging social media and its vast audience can extend your plastic surgery practice’s reach and foster meaningful connections with clients. But you shouldn’t mindlessly throw out organic posts and paid ads.

Social media is a two-way street. Remember that social media marketing also involves providing value and building relationships— not solely selling your procedures.

Strategic Marketing Planning for Plastic Surgery Practices

While social media is a vital marketing channel, it’s crucial to define clear objectives for leveraging it. Do you aim to generate leads or enhance brand awareness?

These goals dictate your strategy. Fortunately, we can help iron out these details before you commit, enabling us to customize your social media content and ad campaigns to achieve your desired results.

Don’t Rely on Any One Marketing Channel

It isn’t a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket (invest your entire marketing budget into just one PPC marketing method).  

Say you only advertise on YouTube, and the platform (for some reason) shuts down your YouTube account. In that case, you could lose your only source of leads (your YouTube ads).

As you know, where your PPC (pay-per-click) ads appear ultimately hinges on the advertising product you’re using. 

For example, PPC ads on Google Ads will be displayed on Google’s advertising network. Meanwhile, PPC ads on Facebook will appear on the social media platform. 

These multiple PPC channels provide you with a range of advertising options to choose from.

Email Marketing for Plastic Surgeons: Don’t Ignore Your Email List

Tailored email marketing may help enhance your practice’s outreach and patient connection.

For example, newsletters posted on your website may attract customer queries through email subscriptions. Then, you can use your site’s contact page to respond to inquiries. 

In other words, email marketing can help you facilitate newsletter registrations and engage enlisted customers.

Email Converting Contents

Email campaigns remain an ideal tool for engaging your desired audience. After all, over 4 billion people use email services like Gmail and Outlook daily.

So, when crafted thoughtfully, email marketing can support your overall plastic surgery marketing strategy to target specific demographics and convert readers into new patients for your practice.

What Makes Email Marketing Work?

Even with the rise of fast and far-reaching digital tactics like viral advertising, email marketing remains a viable promotional avenue.

Why? It’s straightforward. Email campaigns enable consistent communication with your target audience, nurturing trust with prospects and sustaining connections with current patients

By offering valuable, personalized content, exclusive promos, or enticing incentives, you motivate individuals on your mailing list to transition into leads, consultations, and bookings for procedures.

Paid Media: Online Marketing for Plastic Surgeons

Getting into online advertising is the easy part. But choosing from the diverse paid media options? That’s where the real challenge lies. 

Fortunately, we’re here to cut through the noise and narrow your choices to those strategies that maximize your returns. 

Here are some well-known paid online advertising methods for your practice:

Pay-per-Click or PPC: What Are PPC Ads?

Simply put, PPC (pay-per-click) advertising is an online advertising method where you pay a specific amount whenever users click on one of your ads.

As a PPC advertising platform, Google Ads offers four products:

  • Google Search
  • Google Remarketing
  • Google Shopping
  • Google Display (+ YouTube)

Depending on where your target audience sees your practice, they’ll see different ads.

Choosing Your Account Structure

A Google Ads account is like a filing cabinet. Each campaign serves as a drawer, housing related ad groups. And within each ad group, you’ll find individual ads and keywords neatly organized.

A well-organized account structure is crucial for several reasons, including maintaining your ad’s relevance, controlling your budget, and finding optimization opportunities.

For example, a structured account can help you control and refine your bid strategy.

Optimizing for a Better Performance

Google evaluates these factors to determine which business wins an available ad slot:

  • Bid: Your bid indicates the maximum amount you’re willing to pay for each click on your ad
  • Ad quality: Your ad’s quality and relevance matter. Google’s assessment of your ad’s quality is summarized in your quality score, which you can track on your Google Ads account.
  • The projected impact from your ad assets and formats: Ad assets are additional information that ads feature. This info includes a phone number or link to a web page.

Google predicts the impact of your ad assets and formats on your ad’s overall performance.

  • Your ad rank: To ensure high-quality ads, Google imposes the standard for ads to appear in specific positions.
  • The context of your ad: Context also matters in ad auctions. When evaluating ad rank, Google examines:
    • The users’s search terms
    • The user’s device type, such as desktop or mobile
    • The user’s location at the time of the search
    • The nature of the search terms
    • The time of the search
    • Other ads and search results displayed on the page

These five factors are some of the metrics we track to gauge your ad campaign’s effectiveness.

Display Ads

Consider display ads if you want to use different paid media formats. Display ads let you advertise your practice using images, flash, video, and audio.

This PPC option lets you display your ads on the Google Display Network (which can reach 90% of internet users worldwide), helping you promote your plastic surgery practice to prospective patients on Gmail, YouTube, and mobile apps.

Social Media Ads

There are over 5 billion social media users worldwide (nearly 63% of the globe’s total population). Advertising your practice and procedures on social platforms is definitely something that you shouldn’t ignore.

Fortunately, our social media ads service offers you the following:

  • The option to showcase your ads in various media formats such as video and carousel advertisements
  • The ability to reach specific audiences based on their location, interests, and demographics
  • The opportunity to reengage searchers who have shown interest in your services

Mobile Ads

Did you know that 63% of Google searches in the United States are done through mobile devices? So, how do we bring these users to your plastic surgery practice? We optimize your ads for mobile devices. 

For example, most conversions on Facebook come from the social platform’s mobile news feed. We can help you target these conversions by adjusting your ad’s placement settings so that it only appears on mobile devices. 

Retargeting Ads

Acquiring new patients is crucial for your plastic surgery clinic. That’s why our digital marketing strategy includes retargeting campaigns.

This technique involves advertising to users who have previously engaged your site or brand asset but have yet to convert. 

For example, Google Remarketing technology lets you “tag” site visitors. You can then display ads before these prospective patients when they go to other sites. 

Our results-focused team of Google-trained specialists develops precision-targeted, cost-effective, high-converting ad campaigns.

We use this unique retargeting strategy to turn curious or interested searchers to reconsider your services.

Native Advertising

Today, many people feel like they’re drowning in ads. Consequently, paid ads don’t appeal to many people.

What if you can display ads in a way that your adverts won’t appear as promo material? The answer: native ads. 

Native advertising is a paid marketing strategy that blends seamlessly with your publisher’s content.

 Generally, these ads contain “sponsored” or “recommended” text. However, the upside is that they don’t disrupt the viewer’s experience, improving your odds of bringing potential patients to your practice.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Fact: You may be a skilled or competent plastic surgeon. You might even be a leading authority in your field. But if your practice doesn’t appear on SERPs, potential clients won’t even know your practice exists.

Thankfully, we can help transform your clinic into a top choice for potential plastic surgery patients. How, you ask? 

Search engine marketing (SEM). This digital marketing tactic combines paid ads like PPC and organic marketing, such as plastic surgery SEO.

By finding the ideal combination of these strategies, we can give your practice immediate search visibility (via paid ads) and the credibility and authority that comes with appearing at the top of organic search results (via SEO).

Paid Online Advertising Offers Major Advantages

Paid ads aren’t always pay-per-click. Depending on the advertising platform, you might pay based on:

  • PPConv (pay-per-conversion): With this structure, you pay an amount for every user that converts (for example, the searcher booked a consultation or a rhinoplasty procedure).
  • CPM (cost-per-impression): Under this model, you pay for every 1000 ad impressions or user engagements.

In other words, paid advertising offers flexibility and cost-efficient marketing solutions. However, budget control is only one of the many benefits paid ads offer.

Paid online advertising also gives you results quicker. After all, paid ads deliver your message to prospects almost instantly. In contrast, organic marketing, like SEO, usually takes around four months to a year to generate returns.

Paid online advertising is also laser-targeted. You can adjust your ads so they only appear to searchers that match your criteria, such as interests, location, and device types.

As digital marketing evolves, plastic surgery marketing will likely require a combination of various digital strategies (depending on the client’s situation and needs).

Fortunately, you don’t always have to pick between the two organic and paid ads. If done right, you can use both simultaneously. Doing so improves your search viability on paid and organic channels.

Just ask Dr. Richard Zoumalan, a Beverly Hills, California, facial plastic surgeon. Through our PPC and SEO services, we’ve helped him achieve the following:

  • 1,478% more leads
  • 43,700% more appearances in Google’s Top 3 rankings
  • 1,473% better click-through rate (CTR)
  • 314.46% better conversion rate

Here’s what Dr. Zoumalan says about our work with him:

“I was never the least bit skeptical to work with Ash and Digital Spotlight. Ash from the getgo seemed more knowledgeable and found errors that my previous company had done that put me at a disadvantage.

Ash helped me build an extremely functional and stylish website that I STILL use today and took me to the first page for everything that I was trying to promote within a very short period of time. His time is very responsive and very professional. 

I have zero complaints and only positive experience with Ash and Digital Spotlight.”

Do you want to know whether how our digital marketing approach can deliver better returns on less investment? Talk to an expert by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

Offline Marketing for Plastic Surgeons

We’re a digital marketing agency, so our primary focus is online marketing. 

But more importantly, we know that promoting a practice on digital platforms is a proven, cost-effective way to reach and engage more prospective patients (compared to just sticking with traditional marketing tools).

That said, online marketing tools aren’t necessarily at odds with offline ones. In fact, these offline tactics may help increase response to multi-channel campaigns. 

So, we won’t talk you out of using other means to market your practice, especially if you believe they can enhance your marketing efforts.

Let’s look at some offline tactics that can supplement your digital marketing campaigns:

Print Ads

As the name suggests, print ads use the print medium. Consequently, they can only contain texts or images (or both) — no voice-overs or videos.

Like online advertisements, print ads help you inform, entertain, and ultimately sell. 

That’s why picking the right publication to advertise your services is a necessary first step to a successful print ad campaign.  

Which publication do most people in your target demographic read? Where can you effectively reach potential patients? 

For instance, you can print your ads or have an article written about your practice in these types of publications:

  • Regional lifestyle magazines
  • Elite club publications
  • National magazines

Billboards

One primary use of billboard ads is to boost general awareness of your practice. They’re large, placed outdoors, and often printed with bold visuals and punchy messages. 

With billboards, your content should be eye-catching and brief. After all, your viewers (passing motorists and pedestrians) usually only have a moment to notice your ad and grasp your message. 

Note: Billboard campaigns can be prohibitively expensive if you live in a large metropolitan area. Consider this factor before hiring a production team for your billboard ad.

Television

TV (television) ads run by traditional mass media can help you reach a broader audience. Depending on your marketing objectives, TV ads’ potential impact could benefit you or put you at a disadvantage.

For instance, the broad reach we mentioned could help build general awareness about your plastic surgery practice. 

However, a TV ad campaign is typically expensive, especially given the fact that you’d have to run your ad multiple times before you can make an impression. 

Say your viewer demographic is too broad. In that case, your ad will be less likely to appear before potential high-value clients (high-quality leads).

The bottom line? You’re bleeding money like a leaky faucet with no profit in sight. 

Radio

Plastic surgery ads are visual, so radio seems like an odd choice for marketing. That said, radio ads might be an excellent opportunity to target a niche audience.

For example, you could reach motorists stuck in traffic or morning go-getters who listen to radio news programs as part of their routine.

Does your local radio station run a daily or weekly health-related program? How about a short medical news segment? A 10-second sponsorship at the end of these shows could be worth your investment.

Direct Mail

Email inboxes can easily get jam-packed with all sorts of emails, including junk mail and promo materials. And with an audience as specific as yours, email blasts will likely be ineffective and prove to be a money pit.

Direct mailers can be an alternative channel and provide a tangible and personalized approach to reaching new audiences or keeping previous patients engaged.

For example, direct mail postcards can effectively introduce your practice to a local, high-end residential community. 

Additionally, you can send birthday and thank-you cards to your former and existing patients.

Giveaways

Everyone loves free stuff. Take advantage of this fact by sending giveaways reinforcing your practice’s brand.

Branded promo items may help maintain your visibility — but they shouldn’t look cheap and flimsy. 

For example, products like reusable water bottles are used regularly and align with your practice’s commitment to health and sustainability.

Loyalty Programs for Plastic Surgery

Introducing a loyalty program at your plastic surgery clinic can be a smart offline marketing move. Appreciating and incentivizing repeat visits can be an effective way to foster strong patient loyalty.

By rewarding returning clients, you encourage more engagement with your practice and motivate them to bring in new referrals.

What Kind of Rewards Should You Offer?

Do you plan to offer discounts or free consultations? Ensure they’re what your clients are into. If not, they won’t bother to join your program. Knowing their tastes and giving them what they want is how you get them hooked.

Make It Simple

Have you already decided on what incentives to offer? Good. Now, ensure your loyalty programs are straightforward.

An easy-to-follow mechanics keep patients engaged and eagerly awaiting their next reward.

Promote Your Program

You’re all set with your loyalty program. You already know what to offer and how your patients can get them. 

The next step is to promote your program to your regulars and new patients. For example, you can put signage on your clinic’s entrance door or bulletin board, ensuring every visitor knows or remembers the perks you offer.

Things Change

Today’s fast-evolving digital landscape has significantly changed how businesses, including the healthcare industry, market their products and services.

Gone are the days when you could only advertise your products and services through traditional platforms, such as radio, billboards, and newspapers. 

While we mentioned offline marketing strategies, their continuing relevance, and potential uses for your practice, we want to highlight this:

Digital marketing is a non-negotiable strategy for most business owners, including plastic surgeons like you (especially if you run your private practice).

As more people use the internet for medical queries, digital marketing has become increasingly significant for scaling businesses, including clinics.

Ask the most successful plastic surgery practices (the ones raking in leads and sales) how they continue to lead their niche. They’ll likely tell you that digital marketing is an integral aspect of their business strategy.

Marketing strategies have come a long way, from simply printing brochures and handing out leaflets. It appears that traditional ways of marketing require innovation. 

We’re here to fill that need to innovate.

Patient Reviews for Plastic Surgeons

Nothing beats word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing when it comes to turning interested prospects into actual clients. We know this fact firsthand. Most of our clients are referrals from satisfied clients and other agencies. 

Does WOM’s converting power mean you should just stick to the good old-fashioned in-person word-of-mouth referrals? Not exactly. 

As internet usage becomes accessible, more and more people share their thoughts about brands, products, and businesses online. This “electronic word-of-mouth” significantly affects consumers’ buying decisions. 

Potential plastic surgery patients are like other consumers — their “buyer” journey begins with research. Testimonials and online reviews are significant factors in how they decide. So, one way to scale your practice is to grow your online reviews actively. 

Get More Reviews

No one wants to be a guinea pig. That’s why potential patients prefer surgeons with a proven track record. How do you assure prospects about your competence? Get more reviews. 

The sheer volume matters because it subtly communicates that you’ve already handled many cases (potentially similar to that of a prospective patient).

Here are some ways to get more patient reviews:

  • Show preferred review site icons at the reception to prompt quick reviews.
  • Get feedback after appointments and request satisfied clients to write a positive review. 
  • Add review invites in your post-procedure thank-you emails.

Google My Business

Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business) is a free local listing displaying basic business information. It is a free local listing displaying essential business information.

GBP (Google Business Profile) displays your local practice in the map pack (if you’re a top match) with a Google Maps-powered guide to your clinic’s address. 

Maintaining a GBP helps you bolster your brand reputation with reviews, improve your visibility on Google, and control your business info.

We can help you register a GBP if you don’t have one. We’ll ensure your GBP features essential info, including address, contact details, language, currency, and links from local sites. 

Positive and Negative Reviews: Managing Your Reviews and Responding to Them Appropriately

“Bad publicity is still publicity.” In other words, unfavorable reviews aren’t ideal, but they can still attract attention to your plastic surgery practice.

Suppose you don’t track what people say about you (both positive and negative). In that case, review sites can work against your practice.

Fortunately, our digital marketing services include brand reputation management. We’ll highlight positive and neutral evaluations of your practice and procedures and recommend PR (public relations) maneuvers to help drown out negative reviews.

Key Review Sites for Plastic Surgery Practices

There are many review sites out there, and you won’t be able to cover them all. That’s why targeting the ones your prospects are most likely to use is crucial.  

This list might include Google, social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok), and third-party websites (for example, RealSelf and Yelp).

Augment Patient Testimonials With Other Third-Party Verification

What’s even more valuable than patient reviews? Endorsements from reputable third-party websites and organizations that verify your practice’s credibility.

Third-party sources could inform prospective patients regarding your training, credentials, and facilities. 

For example, you can develop a page on your website highlighting recognitions and accreditations, such as the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) certification.

Directories That Rank for Your Keywords and Name

Directories often rank search results for local queries. When searchers click on these directories, they can drive organic traffic to your practice’s website. 

GBP is not the only online directory where you can display your business information. Consider listing your business in Bing Places and other reputable online directories.

How Plastic Surgery Demographics Impact Marketing

Understanding your target audience’s demographics (statistical population characteristics) can affect the services you market and how you communicate their value.

Demographics include characteristics like age, sex, race, income level, location, employment, homeownership, and educational attainment.

Events

Sometimes, your marketing efforts must go beyond the confines of your plastic surgery clinic to attract new patients, raise awareness, and build credibility. Events offer opportunities to engage with your community, demonstrate expertise, and network.

Cause Marketing

Building trust within your community is paramount, and nothing achieves that better than getting involved in charity events. Consider fundraising, sponsoring, or making donations to charitable causes.

Educational Marketing

Marketing isn’t just about selling services, especially when you’re in the healthcare industry. It’s about giving back by providing value. And what better way to do that than by participating in or sponsoring events like seminars?

Anatomy of a Great Event

Successful events don’t just happen — they’re carefully planned and executed. Some essential components of a standout event include: 

  • Hosting a social hour
  • Giving a brief presentation
  • Facilitating a Q&A (question and answer) session
  • Offering exclusive discounts 
  • Holding prize drawings
  • Providing follow-up incentives

These steps can help make your plastic surgery practice stand out, so make the most of it.

Budgeting for Plastic Surgery Practices

Digital marketing can get expensive quickly, especially if you don’t manage your budget correctly. And it’s here that many plastic surgeons like you have struggled or, if you’ve launched a campaign before, failed.

What Should Your Plastic Surgery Marketing Budget Be?

We could say, “If you invest $X, you’re guaranteed to have a successful plastic surgery marketing campaign.” Many digital marketing agencies do. Us? We’re different.

We know that budgeting for online marketing can be complex. Factors like your objectives, situation, and desired results must be considered before deciding how much you’ll invest. 

That’s why we offer free audits (for those who qualify) on your search engine and social media marketing campaigns first. By doing so, we’ll know the optimal way to deliver four numbers that matter to you:

  • More leads
  • Less cost per lead
  • More consults or sales calls
  • Less cost per consult or sales calls

Initial Setup

With us, you’re 100% in control of your ad budget. How? We only manage your campaigns through your account.

Say you don’t have an account. In that case, we can set up an account on your plastic surgery clinic’s behalf. Note: You’ll be the account owner — not us — we’ll only be the account manager.

You pay Google directly, allowing you to track your marketing budget allocation effectively. More importantly, you’ll see how we’ve progressed your Google Ads campaign.

Ongoing Marketing Budget

If you have a fixed marketing budget, we can do nothing about it except work with what you have. While budgeting steps vary from case to case, surgeon to surgeon, we typically do the following:

  • Allocate funds from a campaign not maximizing your budget to another.
  • Focus our optimizations on profitable campaigns (those with good cost-per-conversions).
  • Set up a converting campaign where we target converting ads with the lowest cost-per-conversion

Refining Your Marketing Budget

Budget optimization is essential because we don’t want you to spend any more than you need for a successful campaign.

We’ll let the numbers tell you how committed we are to this process. For example, in Google Ads, we’ve achieved:

  • 30%+ reduction in average wasted ad spend
  • 23% less average acquisition cost
  • 83% increase in average lead and sale metrics, with some clients getting 4× the improvement

Your plastic surgery marketing campaign can achieve these numbers, too. We use advanced math to manage and refine your campaigns for maximum returns.

Measuring Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Marketing ROI

Plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery differ in specialization. As such, they may have differences in the specifics of ROI. 

For example, what qualifies as a good lead to a cosmetic surgeon might not be the same for you, a plastic surgeon. 

That said, you likely want similar things: more quality leads with less investment. We’re here to help you realize this goal. 

We aim to deliver the highest returns possible on your ad campaigns through ongoing testing, tracking, and optimization. 

We measure and analyze all crucial metrics with laser-focused precision, including conversions and ROAS (return on ad spend). 

This unique, metric-focused, and data-heavy approach has helped us achieve stunning ROI for many clients.

Here’s one example: Facial Plastic Surgery Institute, a Texas-based medical center focusing on facial plastic and reconstructive procedures, first came to us with only five leads per month on Google Ads. 

Now, the institute gets at least 40 leads monthly at just 40% of the lead acquisition cost! Look at the numbers:

MetricStartLatestImprovement
Leads25171584%
Top 3 rankings (Google)42371783%
Average cost per click (CPC)$6.09$2.5259%
Conversions540700%
Cost per conversion$344.55$54.1184%

Here’s what this data means:

  • Leads are people who are interested in a product or service. More leads mean more prospective plastic surgery clients for the institute.
  • Top 3 Google rankings mean the client’s pages will appear on Google’s top 3 positions in the SERP. In other words, the search visibility of the institute has significantly improved.
  • The average CPC is the amount a business spends per click (number of site visits). Reducing its value means improvement. The institute is spending less while getting more and better returns.
  • A conversion (an action taken as a response to a campaign) may mean different things, depending on the client’s objective. For example, more conversions may mean more inquiries.  
  • The decrease in cost per conversion means more efficient and fine-tuned ad campaigns, reducing lead acquisition costs.

Implementing Closed-Loop Reporting (CLR)

Some use CLR to trace the revenue from a “conversion” back to channels, keywords, campaigns, and other factors influencing the sale. CLR involves these activities:

  • Website visitor tracking
  • Data integration and storage
  • Revenue attribution
  • Extending data to different sales and marketing tools

Why Choose Digital Spotlight for Plastic Surgery Marketing?

As a full-service agency, we can handle all your digital marketing needs across digital channels like Google, Facebook, Bing, and Instagram.

Our exceptional crew of math and marketing pros is ready to help you craft and implement a marketing game plan tailored to your plastic surgery business. 

Whether you need SEO, paid and social media ads, content marketing, or website design, we’ve got you covered.

Outstanding Service, Exceptional Outcomes

Many agencies like to talk about how outcome-focused their approach is, but ask them for proof, and they can hardly give any. Some may give you one or two examples from five or ten years ago. 

As an industry leader, we continue to achieve more and new marketing success stories.

Here’s an example from our recent work with Dr. Benjamin Paul, a plastic facial surgeon in New York: 

Dr. Paul asked us to help him establish his brand in the highly competitive New York market. We did just that through our proprietary SEO approach. Here are the numbers:

Metric StartLatestImprovement
Leads (analytics)1334162%
Top 10 Rankings (Google)120499316%
Top 3 Rankings (Google)32296825%

Read what Dr. Paul says about working with us:

“Digital Spotlight [is] excellent—responsive and focused. My website has never ranked better, and in my words, becoming more tech-savvy and having a proper team [for] your SEO is essential. That makes Digital Spotlight the team to use!”

The Human-Centered Marketing Agency With a Creative Edge

With the advent of AI-generated content, it would’ve been easy for us to just ride the AI (artificial intelligence) content marketing bandwagon.

However, machine-generated content leads to major problems:

  • Plagiarism and quality issues
  • Still requires human editing
  • Lack of personalization and creativity
  • Lack of originality (no new ideas)

More importantly, Google typically hates low-quality content. 

While Google can’t verify if an article is human-written, it can identify automatically generated, low-quality, and spammy material. Once detected, Google may “deindex” the pages of websites with such content, causing them to be kicked out of search results. 

You won’t have to worry about these problems with us. We exclusively provide content crafted by human writers.

Marketing Is Our Specialty

One thing about working with an agency founded by high-caliber mathematicians: We don’t just wait around for search engines to publish their core updates. We perform our own experiments and analyses using our models to match what ranks today.

We stay on top of the game because we have mastery of math and marketing. We understand how consumers (patients) behave and have the resources and expertise to reverse-engineer the work of Google’s engineers.

A Skilled Team Dedicated to Ensuring Your Success

We run a physical office in the U.S., but our team comes from various places worldwide.

We’ve got a crew of top talents hailing from the United States, Australia, Germany, and the Philippines.

Many agencies offer plastic surgery marketing deals at rock-bottom prices. The truth is that most can’t add value to your practice. 

They guarantee impressive results, take your hard-won money, outsource their tasks to a random freelancer, and leave you when issues reappear or they can no longer deliver.

We don’t hand off our job to strangers online who don’t know real marketing and couldn’t care less about being accountable to us.

Instead, we train and invest in our team. Our global crew of highly skilled pros undergoes our training, works for the firm full-time, and ace our qualifications with style.

More Than Just Upkeep – We Prioritize Care

Google’s primary goal is to make the world’s information “universally accessible and useful.” The search giant works hard to fulfill this agenda by constantly tweaking its algorithm.

Our agency values this commitment. We don’t just want to maintain the content you already have and make some minor tweaks here and there. 

We care for quality content. Quality content marketing is algorithm-sensitive and requires careful examination of Google’s first page, identifying relevant terms, ideal word count, and subtopics for your target keywords.

We also use an advanced tool that takes your keyword and analyses your competitor’s content to develop rank-ready articles.

Our SEO Services

We conduct ongoing and 360-degree technical audits on your website, using feedback from Google and our proprietary tools. 

Our SEO audit puts your plastic surgery website “under the microscope” to investigate these areas:

  • Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business): How does your Google Business Profile appear in the search results? Is your practice’s profile info accurate and consistent?
  • Google Search Console: Are any HTML issues, like non-informative title tags and duplicate meta descriptions, affecting your site’s crawlability and indexability?
  • Competition report: How does your site perform against your competitors? 
  • Client ranking status: How do the core keywords fare in rankings?
  • Algorithmic penalties: Does your site follow Google’s Webmaster guidelines? 
  • On-page elements: Does your site have all the technical on-site SEO factors necessary to rank well?

Our in-depth technical audits inform us about your website’s strengths, weaknesses, and optimization points.

We use this info to devise and implement an ongoing, systematic plan to boost your online presence. 

We have a full-time researcher who leads the process and hunts for clues to a crucial algorithm change. He also gauges our clients’ campaign performance against our massive, multi-million dollar dataset.

Once we’ve got a clue, our specialists run tests to pinpoint the algorithm update. Then, we refine your campaigns to capitalize on this discovery. 

Lastly, our SEO team continuously monitors the results and sends reports to you on the anniversary of your start date with us.

We’ll also give you an account summary every month. These briefs offer you a full-orbed report indicating how our SEO work has improved your website’s ranking.

Marketing Growth Dashboards

We use Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio), a web-based data visualization software, when making our monthly reports. 

Looker Studio lets us create customizable reports and dashboards using data from diverse sources.

Hire Plastic Surgery Marketing Experts Like Digital Spotlight

Does lead generation matter the most to your plastic surgery practice? If so, we’re the ideal team for you. Our holistic, multi-channel marketing has helped scale many healthcare businesses like yours.

Google valued our contribution to the industry so much that the search giant considers us a top-tier Premier Partner. This credential means we have a Google-certified staff who:

  • Manage the highest levels of ad spend
  • Grow our client list fast
  • Keep those clients for extended periods

Plus, as a Google Premier Partner, we can offer you:

  • A hotline to Google’s top representatives that can troubleshoot any account issues anytime
  • Early access to Google’s new features, giving you an edge over your competitors

We provide detailed analytics and reporting tools that let you measure your healthcare marketing campaign’s effectiveness so you can make informed decisions.

How We’ll Work Together

We know what you want: a constant flow of high-quality leads without burning through your budget. 

The problem is that every marketing agency you’ve tried talks a big game without delivering results.

 So, what sets us apart? We operate differently. We don’t make empty promises because digital marketing is too complex for guarantees. Instead, we focus on getting the job done and then some.

You need a strategic partner with real-world expertise to drive genuine growth for your plastic surgery practice. A team that shares your values and integrates data-driven SEO, paid ads, and social media ads seamlessly into your marketing strategy.

That’s why you need us.

With a track record of success in the plastic surgery industry, we have the experience and skills to elevate your online presence. 

Whether you’re promoting non-surgical services or educating your audience about surgical procedures, we’re here to provide an honest assessment and tailored solutions.

Having executed successful campaigns for various businesses, we understand what it takes to establish and enhance your online visibility. 

Ready to transform your practice into a digital marketplace leader? Book a pitch-free consultation with one of our experts. You can call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email us at [email protected].

PPC Marketing for Plastic Surgery

Watching your fellow plastic surgeons enjoy an established and more robust online presence as they try to accommodate patients, consultations, and procedures left and right is frustrating when you know you have far superior skills and a better offer. 

But it’s even more upsetting when you’ve already invested in digital marketing avenues like pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and they haven’t panned out.

While you don’t want to give up on online advertising, especially because you know many of your future patients start their search online, you’re losing hope.

After all, none of the so-called “experts” you’ve worked with have ever delivered your desired results, and you don’t have the time to spare to develop the expertise in the field.

Fortunately, you don’t have to abandon your hopes of dominating the online realm and driving internet users to your plastic surgery clinic and industry-leading services.

That’s because PPC marketing works. The problem is that you haven’t yet found the right firm to partner with.

Because here’s the truth: like how plastic surgeons significantly differ in skillsets and experience, there’s a considerable disparity between digital marketing agencies in approaching search.

We, for example, focus on researching, analyzing, and auditing before asking any of our clients to make a decision about their marketing budgets. Why? Because we want to understand you.

We want to know what your business’ unique needs and goals are. Because when we do, our inside track on the maths of PPC can tell us how to tailor your campaigns to achieve your objectives and maximize your dollars.

Call (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected] to book a no-pitch consultation with our PPC advertising experts and find out how we can help your plastic surgery practice get a leg up over its competition.

Why PPC Should Be on Every Plastic Surgeon’s Radar

As of April 2024, around 9,540 plastic surgeons are employed in the U.S. (United States), and roughly 525 of whom operate in L.A. (Los Angeles).

If this statistic tells us one thing, competition for potential patients in the plastic surgery industry is fierce. So, what do you do? How do you ensure your target audience chooses your practice over your peers’?

Having exceptional skills and competitive offerings are ways to stand out. However, they might not be enough in an age where approximately 97% of people rely on the web to find businesses and services.

Here’s where a digital marketing strategy like pay-per-click (PPC) advertising comes in. In a nutshell, PPC lets you buy your way to the top rankings of Google Search and Google advertising partners.

Why does that matter for your plastic surgery practice? A significant presence on search engine results pages (SERPs) puts more eyes on your clinic, giving you more chances to reach prospective clients.

Understanding the Basics of PPC Ads for Plastic Surgery

Although PPC marketing is straightforward, at least regarding its core principle, it can be complex— a notion we’re confident you can agree with if you’ve ever tried running PPC ads independently.

Unfortunately, many digital marketing agencies fail to correctly demystify the topic, with these “pros” relying on technical jargon to make themselves sound like experts.

But not us. We believe in keeping our clients in the loop with everything we’re doing and why we’re doing it— to give them the tools to take control of their ad campaigns anytime.

So, with that out of the way, here’s PPC marketing in simple English:

What Is PPC?

PPC, short for “pay-per-click,” is a paid advertising technique wherein you display your marketing materials on various publisher platforms, such as search engines, social media sites, and other websites.

You pay whenever someone clicks on those ads— it’s that simple.

Think of PPC advertising as akin to renting a billboard. But instead of paying a fixed fee regardless of how many people notice it, you only pay whenever someone stops and takes a closer look at your message.

If managed by a firm like us, one that speaks the same language as these publishers— mathematics— PPC ads become cost-effective avenues to improving your online presence and reaching your desired audience.

What Is Search Intent?

PPC advertising’s on-the-nose payment model makes it an extremely economical digital marketing strategy. Unfortunately, that’s also one of its primary downsides.

You pay for the traffic your ads generate. But this might include the ad views and interactions from internet users who might not be your intended audience.

Fortunately, platforms like Google Ads (previously called Google AdWords and Google AdWords Express) provide targeting options, allowing you to choose who can see and, by extension, click on your adverts.

Enter search intent. In a nutshell, it refers to the reason for someone’s search. Understanding this purpose is crucial to maximizing your marketing dollars.

But don’t worry. Our penchant for digging into the numbers allows us to consistently identify the right audience and craft adverts that compel them to take action, such as booking a consultation.

How Does PPC for Plastic Surgeons Work?

A PPC strategy involves choosing “keywords.” For a plastic surgeon, these keywords refer to words or phrases potential patients use to search for information about this healthcare field.

Why is keyword selection critical to plastic surgery PPC? Your target search terms trigger the appearance of your ads. Unfortunately, it’s here where things get even more complex.

Let us explain.

Bidding on Keywords

Say you want your adverts to appear for searches related to rhinoplasty. In that case, you select keywords like “rhinoplasty near me” or “rhinoplasty procedures in Los Angeles.”

But before your ads can target internet users using these search terms, you must win the ad auction. This stage involves bidding against other advertisers targeting your chosen keywords.

However, unlike a typical auction with only one winner, the ad auction provides 7 to 11 slots. If you win any of these slots, your marketing materials will appear on Google’s first page.

Yes, the more people vying for a keyword, the more expensive bidding becomes. Fortunately, although influential, your bid amount is only one factor that impacts your chances of winning the auction.

Publishers like Google consider your quality score to determine your ad rank. Your quality score is a metric that represents the following:

  • Your ad’s relevance to the target search term
  • The usefulness of your landing page (the web page internet users are redirected to after clicking on your ad)
  • Your ad’s media format (i.e., text, video, audio)
  • Your advert’s expected CTR (click-through rate or the click ratio of your advertisements)

To help you win the ad auction and maximize your marketing budget, we find the right balance between adjusting your bids and raising your ad’s quality scores. The higher the latter, the less you spend on bids.

Types of Plastic Surgery PPC Ads

A successful PPC campaign can effectively advertise your plastic surgery practice and attract qualified leads— people actively searching for what you offer. 

But how does one ensure the success of an advertising campaign? Apart from understanding your target audience’s search intent and optimizing your bids, you should also pick the appropriate ad type.

That’s right. The type of PPC ads you use can significantly impact converting web visitors into new patients, consultations, and procedures for your plastic surgery clinic.

Think about it. Would you click on an audio-based promo when you have conductive hearing loss due to aural atresia? Probably not. And neither will internet users who have the same condition.

So, what are the ad types you have at your disposal? Here they are:

Traditional Paid Search Ads

When you hear the term “PPC ads,” search ads will likely come to mind. And who can blame you? After all, search ads are the adverts that appear when you do a Google search. 

Paid search campaign ads also appear on Google Search partner websites, such as Ask.com, Amazon.com, and NYtimes.com, allowing you to promote your clinic and services through several channels.

Smart Campaigns

Managing a PPC campaign can be challenging if you don’t have the know-how. Google’s Smart campaigns solve this problem by automatically optimizing your adverts for you.

Sounds good, right? However, we generally don’t recommend smart campaigns for our clients. Why? Here are some reasons:

  • Takes away your control: Smart campaigns don’t let you choose your campaign type, how they’re optimized, and where your PPC ads will show up.
  • Limits your targeting ability: The auto-optimization features won’t let you define a target audience based on your criteria.
  • Outcomes take longer: Unlike traditional Google Ads campaigns, smart campaigns can take several months to show results as the tech giant needs more time to gather and analyze data from the ongoing campaign.

Performance Max

If you don’t have the time to master PPC advertising, consider Google’s Performance Max campaigns. This PPC tool leverages A.I. (artificial intelligence) technology to enhance your ads.

So, how does this type of PPC differ from Google Smart campaigns? Google Performance Max campaigns make your ads more compelling, increasing average conversions by 18% at a similar cost per action to a traditional Google Ads campaign.

YouTube Ads

Sometimes, a short message is all it takes to convince someone to take your desired action. Fortunately, no one’s saying that that message must be in text format.

Enter YouTube Ads, which come in the following styles:

  • In-stream: Video ads that appear before, during, or after a video, which can be skipped after five seconds.
  • Discovery: These video adverts appear as video results.
  • Non-skippable: As its name implies, these adverts cannot be skipped. Traditional non-skippable ads generally last up to 15 seconds. However, “bumper” ads only last up to six.

Note that YouTube ad campaigns also let you display your advertisements on games, mobile apps, embedded website videos, or anywhere your target audience discovers content.

Display Ads and the Google Display Network

The Google Display Network comprises over two million websites, apps, and videos, including YouTube, Gmail, news pages, and blogs. Why did we mention this fact? Simple: this network reaches 90% of internet users.

Simply put, tapping into the Google Display Network through display ads, which can be in image, flash, and audio forms, allows you to promote your plastic surgery practice to an unimaginable number of people.

Paid Social

PPC advertising is often synonymous with running paid ads on Google. However, the search engine giant isn’t the only publisher that utilizes a pay-per-click model.

Social media marketing (SMM) lets you display paid ads on Facebook, Instagram, and X (previously called Twitter). The question is, “Why should you choose paid social media ads over traditional search ads?”

As of April 2024, there are over five billion registered users across various social media platforms— billions of chances to build brand awareness and drive traffic toward your plastic surgery website.

Remarketing Ads

First things first, retargeting and remarketing are two distinct digital marketing strategies. The former involves displaying ads to individuals who have previously interacted with your brand, whether on your website or social media.

On the other hand, remarketing is about reengaging your existing customers through various channels, such as email and paid advertisements. 

Whichever tactic you choose, the goal is to urge them to convert, such as booking a consultation or procedure.

Local Services Ads

Do you want your ads to target a local demographic specifically? If yes, consider Google Local Services Ads (LSA), which are adverts that do just that— target users searching for your services in your chosen area.

The benefits of using LSA to market your plastic surgery practice include the following:

  • Your ads show at the top of search engine results pages (SERPs)
  • Potential patients can call, message, or schedule a booking directly through your adverts
  • LSA comes with “Google Guaranteed” or “Google Screened” badges, raising your clinic’s credibility

Email Ads

When was the last time you checked your physical mailbox? Chances are, it’s probably been a while. After all, receiving and sending messages via email is convenient.

Your target audience likely feels the same way. With email advertising, such as Gmail Sponsored Promotions (GSP), you can reconnect with past clients and keep them engaged with your practice.

The Top Advantages of Utilizing PPC for Plastic Surgery Marketing

Around 65% of SMEs (small-to-medium-sized enterprises) have a PPC campaign. It’s easy to say that businesses choose PPC advertising over other digital marketing strategies because it works.

Although that’s true, there are several reasons why PPC stands out as a not-to-miss tool for plastic surgery marketing. So, let’s get familiar with these arguments, shall we?

Precise Audience Targeting

The more people click on your ads, the faster your ad dollars run out. When it does, unfortunately, the traffic, leads, and conversions you were getting from your PPC campaign stop.

Fortunately, platforms like Google Ads and Facebook Ads provide targeting options, allowing you to set an audience for whom to display your ads based on criteria such as the following:

  • Keywords
  • Location
  • Demographics
  • Interests
  • Device types

And if you partner with a PPC management service provider like us, one that focuses on acquiring the leads that matter to you, you ensure your ad spend only goes toward getting these leads— not anyone else.

Attract Engaged Customers

Not everyone who clicks on your ads or browses your plastic surgery website will inquire, schedule a booking, or otherwise convert. But it doesn’t mean these users won’t do so in the future.

Enter remarketing. Publishers like Google provide remarketing capabilities, letting you reengage those who have previously shown interest in your offerings.

Coupling that with our dedication to ensuring your PPC campaign ads give your target audience what they want, you encourage casual browsers to perform your desired actions and become loyal patients.

Boost Your Online Reputation

Testimonials and reviews can shape perceptions about your plastic surgery practice. But do you know what will help you achieve this task better? A prominent position on the first page of SERPs.

People trust search engines like Google and Microsoft Bing to provide the most relevant results to their queries. If your search ads are always on the first page, people can’t help but believe you’re #1.

Here’s where our experience comes into play. Having launched over 2,000 client campaigns, we know what it takes to win the few highly coveted first-page ad slots.

Reduce Advertising Costs and Maximize ROI

The most significant benefit of leveraging PPC in your plastic surgery marketing strategy is that you only pay for the traffic your ads generate, letting you make adjustments to match your budget.

If you partner with us, you can use this online advertising tool even better to maximize your return on investment (ROI). After all, we’ve done it consistently. Don’t believe us? Ask our clients.

On average, we’ve:

  • Reduced wasted ad spend and campaign costs by over 30%
  • Lowered our clients’ cost per sale by 23%
  • Improved leads and sales numbers by 83% (400% for some clients)

What Plastic Surgery PPC Advertising Isn’t

As much as we want to proclaim PPC advertising as a perfect digital marketing strategy, we know it isn’t. Like other tactics, it has downsides that might be detrimental to your plastic surgery practice.

For one, PPC doesn’t work for all budgets. The cost-per-click (CPC) for highly competitive keywords can be steep, making some inefficient to bid on if your ad dollars are significantly limited.

Another limitation: advertising platforms like Google Ads constantly change, which can make previously lead-generating campaigns ineffective after an update. In other words, PPC isn’t a run-it-and-leave-it tactic.

Yes, PPC marketing is many things. What it isn’t is a one-size-fits-all solution. Just as no two plastic surgeons are the same, each campaign must be tailored to the practice’s objectives, competition, and target audience.

Fortunately, you can trust us to tell you if a PPC campaign isn’t the best use of your hard-earned dollars. After all, we only work with clients for whom we can deliver unbeatable returns on investment.

Are you ready for a professional relationship rooted in trust and candor? Schedule a free audit of your ad campaigns by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

How Much Does PPC for Plastic Surgeons Cost?

Until we intimately understand your plastic surgery practice, we can’t put an exact dollar value on your eventual PPC campaign expenses as various factors, like your target keywords and audience, impact the cost.

That said, you can be confident that once we’re done with our research, analysis, and audit, you’ll receive an all-inclusive pricing model that lets you know precisely how much you’ll pay us for managing your ads.

You’ll also pay publishers like Google directly for the clicks. Unlike other online marketing companies, we’ll manage your campaigns through your advertising account, giving you a clear view of your costs.

And the best part? We don’t charge performance bonuses. In short, you only pay a fixed fee for our management services even if your adverts become better at maximizing your marketing budget.

Common Issues Inherent to Plastic Surgery PPC

Clicks that can quickly become expensive, easily duplicated campaigns, and constantly changing platforms are all landmines you should be wary of if you want to use PPC marketing to promote your clinic.

Despite these inherent disadvantages, PPC ads are still one of the best tools to give your practice’s website instant and guaranteed traffic.

Whether the benefits outweigh the cons depends on whom you entrust your advertising dollars to. So, to make a case for ourselves, here’s how we’ll minimize PPC’s shortcomings:

Creating Successful PPC Campaigns for Plastic Surgeons

Marketing isn’t about tricking people into doing things they don’t want. Instead, it’s about finding what’s most important to your target audience and providing it.

Our PPC management services follow this principle, focusing on crafting marketing materials that resonate with and address your potential patients’ needs and desires.

Define Campaign Objectives and Target Audience

The foundation of a campaign that delivers patient leads, consults, and procedures to your plastic surgery practice lies in defining objectives and identifying the right audience.

If you’ve tried running a PPC campaign before, you know that to be true. That’s why before we ask you to invest a dime, we do our homework first— understand your goals and establish what a “quality lead” is for you.

Write Persuasive Copy and Use All the Space Available

Most internet users experience a never-ending barrage of ads online. So, if you create ad copies solely to have ad copies, you’re making it less desirable for your target audience to click your adverts.

Fortunately, we have a seasoned team of copywriters specializing in marketing to craft high-quality ad copies that provide value and encourage engagement.

Whether giving information about a procedure, highlighting your plastic surgery practice’s unique selling points, or encouraging users through your call-to-action (CTA), our team maximizes all the available space.

For reference, Google text ads are composed of the following elements and their respective available space wherein you can make your appeal:

  • Two headlines, each with a 30-character limit
  • Two display paths that have up to 15 characters each
  • A description section that allows for up to 80 characters 

Perform Keyword Research Using Google Keyword Planner

If you want maximum visibility, you must identify and bid on the search terms your ideal patients use when looking for plastic surgery-related information.

After all, these keywords trigger your ads to appear for users who type them into a search bar. Unfortunately, picking the keywords that offer the best returns is always easier said than done.

But not for us. After all, we have a sophisticated keyword selection process that utilizes various industry-standard tools, such as Semrush, Ahrefs, and, of course, Google’s very own Keyword Planner.

Consider Keyword Match Types

Picking the optimal search terms to target is vital for PPC success. But to truly maximize your PPC budget, you must further define when your ads will show. Enter keyword match types.

In a nutshell, keyword match types are additional campaign settings that control how closely a user’s search query must match your target keywords for your adverts to be eligible to appear.

To explain, let’s look at the four primary match types, which are:

  • Broad match: If you use this setting, your ads will appear even if the user query is misspelled or a synonym— as long as the search is relevant to your target keyword

For instance, let’s assume your target search term is “liposuction.” In this case, queries like “fat removal” will still make your ads appear.

  • Phrase match: This match type ensures that your adverts appear for searches that contain your primary keyword. For instance, a query for “rhinoplasty services in Los Angeles” will trigger ads targeting “rhinoplasty services.” 
  • Exact match: This keyword match type is how it sounds— your marketing materials will only appear for search queries that are the same as your target search terms.
  • Negative match: Under this setting, queries containing predefined negative keywords won’t trigger your ad’s appearance. 

To explain, let’s assume your target keyword is “plastic surgery practice.” Say your negative keyword is “cosmetic.” If a user enters the phrase “cosmetic surgery practice,” your ads won’t show.

To maximize our lead generation efforts, we use the phrase match setting. However, depending on your unique situation, we can utilize other keyword match types. After all, we don’t provide off-the-shelf campaigns.

Use Every Ad Extension You Possibly Can

Ad extensions (now called assets) can add more character to your advertisements. How, you ask? Because they let you expand your ads to provide more information.

For this reason, we use as many ad extensions as possible. Some of the assets we utilize to make your PPC ads more compelling and increase their CTRs include the following:

  • Call: An asset that incorporates your clinic’s phone number into your ads and allows users to call you directly
  • Prices: A Google Ads extension that displays your services and their pricing on your adverts
  • Structured snippets: An asset that lets searchers select the most valuable information about your practice via predefined headers

Adhere to PPC Advertising Guidelines and Legal Requirements

Our business is built on lasting relationships— partnerships earned with results. But how do we ensure your campaigns continue to deliver your desired outcomes?

For one, we don’t take shortcuts that might jeopardize your ad approval. Instead, we take the time to guarantee that your PPC campaigns follow platform policies.

For Google Ads, for example, we exclude specific search terms, such as those related to unapproved substances. For Facebook Ads, we limit your plastic surgery marketing campaign to users who are 18 or older.

For more information on how we ensure your PPC campaigns adhere to advertising guidelines and meet legal requirements, call (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

Build Your Campaigns and Ad Groups Around Keywords

Are you a plastic surgeon seasoned in reconstructive surgery or cosmetic ones? Regardless of your specialization, your ads must communicate that forte. Here’s where ad groups come in.

Simply put, an ad group contains one or multiple adverts with similar targets. It helps give your ads a coherent theme. Hence, we create distinctive ad groups, such as one for your services or unique propositions.

For instance, an ad group focusing on reconstructive surgery procedures might include keywords such as palate repair, panniculectomy, and septoplasty.

On the other hand, an ad group for aesthetic surgery procedures might involve search terms like facelift, liposuction, and rhinoplasty.

Limit Your Ad Schedule to Times When It Performs Best

When in the day is your target audience likelier to see your advertisements? Determining that timeframe is critical in ensuring your ads get maximum exposure and increase the chances of engagement.

Fortunately, our PPC management services go beyond targeting people based on the usual options like location and device. We also tweak campaigns to leverage peak times and even seasonal fluctuations.

Maximize Ad Score When Creating Responsive Search Ads

To determine whether you’ll win one of the 7 to 11 slots and how high the ranking is, Google uses the following formula:

Maximum Bid * Quality Score = Ad Rank

If you want your ads to appear more often and more prominently on the first page of Google, you must get a high ad rank. How do we accomplish this task, you ask?

We focus on maximizing your ad’s quality score. After all, doing so puts less strain on optimizing your bids since a higher quality score makes these bids cheaper.

Target Mobile Primarily

Are you aware that approximately 63% of Google searches in the U.S. are done through mobile? Fortunately, platforms like Google Ads and Facebook Ads let you directly advertise to these mobile-oriented users.

As your PPC campaign partner, we aim to ensure your promotional materials are mobile-optimized and effectively convey your plastic surgery practice’s unique selling points.

Adjust Bids by Location Through Geotargeting

According to a 2022 report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), 109,941 breast augmentation procedures were conducted in Region 5, including California (C.A.), in 2022.

Interestingly, only 33,153 were done in Region 1 states, such as New York (N.Y.) and Massachusetts (M.A.). These numbers tell us that targeting specific locations might yield better PPC results.

That’s why we utilize geotargeting. It allows us to pinpoint specific geographic regions where most converters are and where it’s more likely for you to reach potential patients.

Monitor Key Ad Metrics

Although more patients walking through your plastic surgery clinic’s doors could indicate that your marketing efforts are working, there is a better way to tell. And that’s by tracking your campaign metrics.

Some of the essential figures we measure to determine whether your PPC campaign is panning out or needs further optimization include the following:

  • Clicks: The number of people who clicked your advertisement
  • Impressions: The number of internet users who saw your ads or your advert’s exposure level
  • Click-through rate (CTR): The rate at which people click your adverts after seeing them, which signifies the ad’s effectiveness (clicks divided by impressions)
  • Average cost-per-click (CPC): The average amount you paid divided by the total number of clicks
  • Cost: Your total ad spend
  • Conversions: The number of users who converted based on your campaign’s enabled conversion actions
  • Cost-per-conversion: The average amount you spent divided by the people who converted
  • Conversion rate: The rate at which internet users convert compared to those who visited your website through your ads

Tracking qualified lead metrics can also be a way to gauge a PPC campaign. After all, what are clicks worth when they’re not leading to more consultations and procedure bookings for your plastic surgery practice?

So, instead of giving you a report highlighting the showiest numbers, we focus on aligning the update with your desired figures. Doing so allows us to monitor and tweak them when necessary to keep your lead quality high.

How Landing Pages Help Drive Conversions

What happens when a user clicks on your ads? If the PPC campaign is optimized correctly, it should send users to a dedicated landing page that aligns with their intent.

What is a landing page, you ask? It’s a web page users “land” on or get redirected to after clicking your advertisements. The question is, “Why should you have a landing page that offers the same details as the ad?”

That’s because it provides a seamless user experience, which helps encourage people to take action. Think about it. Who would you consult:

  • A plastic surgeon advertising their services and directing you to their clinic’s offerings to help you find what you need?
  • A plastic surgeon promoting their expertise and specializations who then forced you to scour their entire plastic surgery website?

The odds are high that you’d pick the first surgeon for your plastic surgery needs because they made it straightforward for you to do so. Chances are, your prospective patients would choose the same.

Have a Clear Call to Action

Creating landing pages that address the user’s intent can help drive conversions. But why slow-walk your target audience into an epiphany when you can tell them?

Fortunately, we have experienced marketing experts who excel at writing CTAs that don’t force people to go against their wishes but instead deliver their hearts’ desires.

Split Test Landing Pages

An effective landing page will be invaluable for your plastic surgery marketing strategy. But how do you know if your landing pages are precisely that— effective?

Some digital marketing agencies will look at the results. While we also track PPC campaign metrics to help us make informed decisions, we have a better way to test landing pages: split or a/b testing.

This testing process lets us compare multiple landing page versions, giving us a glimpse into which elements, such as CTAs and headlines, contribute to more potential patients for your plastic surgery practice.

Don’t Neglect SEO

One of the most prominent challenges people face with PPC advertising is sustainability. PPC campaigns require constant funding to get results. Otherwise, the results stop.

But what if we tell you that there’s a digital marketing strategy that can give you a consistent stream of patient leads, consultations, and procedure bookings even after your campaign ends?

Enter search engine optimization (SEO), an online advertising tactic that can help boost your organic search rankings and put your plastic surgery practice in potential patients’ radars.

The good news is that we also provide plastic surgery SEO services. If you want to leverage paid and organic channels into your marketing strategy, you can count on us to help.

Strategic Website Design

While success in digital marketing tactics like local SEO doesn’t require you to have a website, you shouldn’t discount the value of one. After all, a website can be a platform for potential patients to learn more about your plastic surgery services.

That’s why we also offer web development services, including creating website designs that help capture the attention of people who click on your promotional materials.

Using Google Ads Effectively

As mentioned, Google Ads offers an extensive reach that someone like you— someone looking to leverage PPC marketing to grow their practice— should consider.

However, like other PPC avenues, Google Ads can be challenging to manage. But not for us. Not to brag, but we know how to use Google Ads effectively. And that isn’t lip service.

It’s because we use the same advanced mathematics that Google engineers utilize, allowing us to consistently pick the moves that provide the most returns for your plastic surgery practice.

PPC Automation

Managing your PPC campaigns and adjusting them to adapt to developing trends in the plastic surgery industry is a continuous process. Fortunately, platforms like Google Ads have automation options.

There are three types of campaign changes you can automate, which are the following:

  • Status change: This automation setting lets you pause or enable keywords, ad groups, and entire campaigns based on predefined conditions.
  • Bid change: A setting that automatically raises or lowers your keyword bids.
  • Budget change: A configuration that adjusts your PPC campaign budget depending on predefined times in the week.

Yes, we also utilize PPC automation to reduce the need to monitor campaigns and make manual tweaks. However, you can expect to see our human hands at almost every optimization.

After all, we understand that a truly successful digital marketing campaign, one that delivers the leads, consults, and procedures you’re after, has a human component.

PPC Reporting Tools

We pride ourselves on being transparent. We want you in the loop with everything we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and the results that come of it. For this reason, we don’t shirk out on reporting.

We use several industry-standard tools, including the following: 

  • Semrush
  • Ahrefs
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Analytics
  • Hubspot

Aside from these tracking and management instruments, we’ll also set up conversion tracking on your plastic surgery website, giving you insight into which campaigns, ads, and keywords are generating returns.

Spy on Your Competition

One of the drawbacks of PPC marketing is that your competitors can easily copy your campaign and ad settings, which can help them outbid you for high-value keywords.

However, the inverse is also true. That’s why one of our responsibilities is identifying and reverse engineering your plastic surgeon peers’ strategies, such as their target keywords.

After all, understanding what your competitors are doing to make their PPC campaigns effective in outperforming you in the plastic surgery industry and the digital realm is vital.

What Are Some Typical Results for a Plastic Surgery PPC Campaign?

We’ve been droning on and on about how PPC advertising can give your plastic surgery practice this and that. We’ve also discussed our approach to managing and optimizing ad campaigns effectively.

However, the question remains, “Will PPC marketing give your plastic surgery clinic the patient leads, consultations, and procedure bookings it needs?”

Unfortunately, we cannot give you a definitive answer— at least, not until we get to know you better and understand your practice’s unique situation, goals, budget, and competitive landscape.

However, we don’t want to keep you wondering, either. So, while we can’t promise you’ll get the same outcomes, here are the PPC campaign results for one of our plastic surgery clients: Dr. Richard Zoumalan.

  • 1,473% better click-through rate
  • 314.46% improvement in his conversion rate
  • 55% reduction in his average cost-per-click
  • 96% decrease in cost-per-lead numbers

“I was never the least bit skeptical to work with Digital Spotlight. From the get-go, [they] seemed more knowledgeable and found errors that my previous company had done that put me at a disadvantage.

[Digital Spotlight] took me to the first page of everything that I was trying to promote within a very short period of time. I have zero complaints and only positive experiences with [them].”

Richard A. Zoumalan, M.D. | Richard Zoumalan, M.D., Inc.

Want to find out what results we can deliver for your plastic surgery practice? Book a no-pitch consultation with us by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

Plastic Surgeon PPC Campaigns: DIY vs. Agency

You can launch, manage, and optimize your PPC campaigns without outside help. However, there’s a solid reason why you should consider partnering with a PPC agency— expertise.

If you’ve tried running a PPC ad campaign independently, you know how complex this digital marketing strategy is. But with professionals at your corner, you skip PPC advertising’s steep learning curve.

Hiring us, for instance, allows you to access a dataset gathered from our experience managing almost 2,000 campaigns over the past 15 years, giving you an inside track into what makes a PPC campaign effective.

So, does that mean hiring a digital marketing agency is the better choice? It’s hard to say. Hence, we perform research, analysis, and audits before asking our clients to sign up.

If we’re not confident that leveraging PPC marketing into your plastic surgery advertising strategy is the best use of your hard-earned money, we’ll tell you instead of trying to make the impossible possible.

Choosing the Right Plastic Surgery PPC Agency

Picking a digital marketing agency to share your PPC journey with is critical. After all, the odds are high that you’re reading this write-up to determine whether we’re better than your other agencies.

Fortunately, there’s a seven-question test to judge if we or any other online advertising company is the right team to help your plastic surgery practice establish a robust online presence and attract patients.

These seven questions are the following:

  1. Is the PPC firm focused on your goals?
  2. Does the digital marketing company have credentials to prove its claimed expertise?
  3. Is the agency providing actionable advice at no obligation?
  4. Does the advertising firm have case studies or testimonials corroborating the effectiveness of its strategies?
  5. Is the PPC agency confident in its ability to deliver your desired outcomes without locking you into long-term contracts?
  6. Does the digital marketing firm offer something unique, like a math-based approach to plastic surgery marketing?
  7. Do publications and financial experts seek the PPC company’s expertise?

If the answers to these questions were a resounding yes, you might have found the right plastic surgery PPC agency that can take your practice to new heights.

Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery PPC Services: What to Expect From an Agency

Yes, partnering with a digital marketing company for your plastic surgery advertising needs can yield significant benefits for your practice. However, PPC marketing firms aren’t created equal.

So, if what was discussed is yet to convince you to choose us over the countless other online advertising firms, allow us the opportunity to make a case for ourselves further.

Here’s what to expect if you entrust your marketing dollars to us:

In-Depth Audit

For many agencies, an audit kicks off the partnership. But not for us. After all, we’ll provide a comprehensive assessment of the current status of your PPC efforts before we ask you to sign up.

Why? Doing so allows us to understand your situation, which helps us identify areas of improvement in your ad campaigns and develop a tailored approach to acquire your desired results.

Strategy and Planning

As they say, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” So, following the audit, we’ll develop an actionable plan based on your plastic surgery practice’s distinct requirements.

Is your campaign for brand awareness? We’ll work to maximize your ads’ exposure. Is your PPC campaign meant for lead generation? We’ll use targeting options to ensure you reach your target audience.

Campaign Build-Outs

We’re a digital marketing agency of doers. Whether it’s ensuring your PPC ads are correctly configured for optimal performance or creating compelling ad copies to drive conversions, we’ll build the perfect campaign that achieves your objectives.

Testing and Optimization Efforts

PPC campaigns require continuous optimization and testing to align with your plastic surgery practice’s needs. Fortunately, we never consider a campaign set.

We’ll be relentless in managing and refining your campaigns, constantly looking for better ways to maximize your ad dollars— a quality you’ll see on your advertising accounts as we do our tweaks on yours.

Landing Pages

We understand the value of landing pages. That’s why you can expect us to constantly test various landing page elements and find the configuration that captivates and provides value to your target audience.

Ads

Marketing isn’t about tricking your audience. That’s why our approach to creating PPC ads revolves around understanding your prospective client’s needs and desires and giving them what they want.

Maximize Your ROI

PPC marketing is a cost-effective digital marketing tactic that creates interest in your plastic surgery practice and services. However, it still requires a monetary investment.

Fortunately, you can expect us to always be on the lookout for ways to maximize your return on investment, whether targeting people likelier to convert or improving your ad quality score to reduce your bid spend.

Advertising Channels

Our team utilizes various advertising channels, including Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, and Bing Ads. Why? We want to ensure we connect you with potential patients wherever they are.

Regular Reporting

For us, transparency isn’t solely a buzzword— it’s a cornerstone of our approach. For this reason, we’re committed to keeping you informed on every step of your PPC campaign. 

Through easy-to-follow monthly reports, we ensure you have a comprehensive understanding of how our efforts are performing and have the necessary information to make decisions about your practice’s future.

Plastic Surgery PPC FAQs

  1. How does PPC help with conversion rate optimization?

PPC (pay-per-click) advertising can help improve conversion rates in various ways. For one, PPC allows precise audience targeting, letting you choose for whom to display your ads.

  1. Should I choose SEO or PPC for advertising my plastic surgery practice?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the organic approach to improving your plastic surgery practice’s search rankings. In contrast, PPC marketing is the paid option.

If you need immediate leads, consultations, and procedures for your clinic, you should pick PPC. If you prefer compounding results over the medium- to long-term, go with SEO.

Do understand, however, that whether SEO or PPC is the digital marketing strategy your plastic surgery clinic needs for growth hinges on your unique objectives, budget, and competitive landscape.

  1. Is the combination of SEO and PPC best for business growth?

You might think it unlikely, but you can use SEO and paid advertising simultaneously. The primary benefit of this two-pronged approach or search engine marketing (SEM) is that it lets you advertise on paid and organic channels, increasing your plastic surgery practice’s online exposure.

  1. Is plastic surgery PPC worth it?

It’s easy for us to say that plastic surgery PPC is worth it. However, we understand that every plastic surgery practice is unique, each with its distinct challenges and goals.

So, it’ll be disingenuous for us to treat plastic surgery PPC as an all-encompassing digital marketing solution. Fortunately, there is a way you can find out if PPC marketing is the right move for you.

And that’s calling us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected], scheduling a no-obligation consultation, and having our team audit your ad campaigns.

  1. Where on a search engine page will my ads appear?

Where your adverts will appear on search engine results pages (SERPs) hinges on their ad ranks. As a general rule of thumb, the higher your ads rank, the higher your ads appear.

  1. What do plastic surgery ads look like?

What a plastic surgery advertisement looks like will depend on the ad type. For instance, a traditional search ad would typically look like the following:

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  1. Is PPC by itself enough to increase traffic to my website and business?

Yes, a PPC campaign can increase traffic to your website and your plastic surgery practice, even if you don’t complement it with other online marketing strategies. After all, PPC guarantees traffic.

  1. How long do PPC campaigns last?

The great thing about PPC campaigns is that they continue to run until you manually disable them or your ad budget runs out.

  1. Can I manage a PPC campaign on my own?

Yes, you can manage a PPC campaign for your plastic surgery marketing strategy without anyone’s help. Unfortunately, such efforts might take away valuable time from doing what you do best— being a plastic surgeon.

So, if you want to focus your time and energy on helping individuals correct dysfunctions in their bodies, consider partnering with a digital marketing agency and leaving your PPC campaign to it.

  1. How do I pick the best plastic surgery keywords for my PPC campaigns?

There are various ways you can choose the best plastic surgery keywords for your PPC campaigns. We, for instance, utilize tools like Semrush, Ahrefs, and Google Keyword Planner.

  1. How quickly will I see results from a PPC advertising campaign?

One of the most significant benefits of PPC marketing is that it offers immediate results. In contrast, a strategy like SEO typically takes around four months to a year to bear fruit.

  1. How involved do I need to be in a plastic surgery PPC campaign?

If you partner with us, you can leave the heavy lifting to our PPC experts. That said, expect to answer questions we might have, such as your goals, and occasionally provide feedback on our tweaks and suggestions.

  1. How is plastic surgery PPC different from local services ads?

PPC ads are self-explanatory— ads requiring you to pay whenever clicked. On the other hand, local services ads (LSA) are paid advertising that uses a pay-per-lead (PPL) model.

Pay-per-lead means you pay whenever someone interacts with your advertisements, such as by scheduling a booking. In contrast, PPC asks you to pay regardless of whether the clicks lead to a conversion.

Surgeon Ads

As a cosmetic or reconstructive plastic surgeon in the United States, do you sometimes feel left out when, despite having better skills and services than your fellow surgeons, they have a more prominent presence online, such as on Google, Facebook, Instagram, or Bing?

Plus, when you have a fully booked schedule attending to patients, isn’t it frustrating when you can’t find the time and don’t have the skills and experience to advertise your practice despite knowing that these online platforms can help deliver the leads for your business?

And even if you try advertising your services yourself, you might feel like the rules keep changing almost daily, making it difficult to succeed. In turn, managing online ads can get confusing.

Perhaps you’ve tried working with an ad agency instead of doing everything yourself. But its promises of leads and sales haven’t brought you the desired results despite the hard-earned money you invested in paid ads.

At this point, you might no longer trust that agency to deliver. We won’t be surprised if you want to give up— what else can you do?

Fortunately, you’ve come to the right place. We’re here to help turn your declining surgeon ad campaign around.

Our strategy involves focusing on patient leads to ensure your ads connect to and engage potential clients at any stage of their journey.

We can handle your ad campaigns, whether on Google, Meta, or Bing, so you can focus on running your surgery practice.

By partnering with us, you get a whole team of ad experts, especially for your social media ads on Facebook and Instagram.

We have years of expertise in getting quality leads while lowering costs. When you work with us, you gain access to a vast volume of information-rich data collected from managing hundreds of clients and millions of dollars in ad spend.

Through our no-pitch consultations, we’ll audit your ad campaigns for free. Although these audits can be expensive, we can handle the cost— all to help us understand your practice’s needs.

Plus, these consults allow our experts to determine which platforms are suitable for your surgery business. And because of the results and significant return on investment (ROI) we deliver for clients, the relationships we’ve built with them last for years, even without lock-in contracts.

Just as surgeons do not have a universal solution for every ailment, marketing agencies don’t have a one-size-fits-all pay-per-click (PPC) strategy that guarantees results for every plastic surgeon.

With these truths in mind, we create tailored campaigns to maximize your reach. 

Our focus is on listening and understanding your business deeply. This way, we understand your unique needs and goals, allowing our inside track on the math of your PPC campaign to tell us which moves are profitable for your plastic surgery practice and which ones to leave your competitors to spend their money on.

What Plastic or Cosmetic Surgery Advertising Can Do for Your Company

You may have had clients who come for reconstructive plastic surgery to restore bodily function or cosmetic surgery to enhance their appearance and look beautiful.

However, some may confuse these terms, which may be inconvenient if they approach a surgeon with a different specialty. Surgery ads with a clear message and appropriate service offerings may help minimize or prevent this situation.

When it comes to finding an advertising provider, any digital ad agency will likely tell you the same thing regarding what they can do for your business: give you the highest flow of leads at the best cost possible.

However, we’ve worked with clients specializing in various surgery practices. And when it comes to advertising, we’ve learned that their needs differ from many industries, even within the healthcare sector.

Keep reading to learn how we can help you achieve these objectives through our surgery ads service.

Increase Brand Awareness

When more people become aware of your brand, their trust in you increases, and they’ll be more willing to spend money on your services.

Plus, when your clients are happy, they’ll likely promote your practice through word of mouth and keep your brand top of mind.

If you want to build brand awareness, our social media marketing (SMM) services can help through paid ads and organic posts on popular platforms like Instagram and Facebook. This effort helps broaden your brand’s reach and attract potential clients to your surgery practice.

Drive Website Traffic

How much traffic does your plastic surgery website get per month? If the volume is slow and inconsistent, you may find it challenging to gain leads and turn them into clients. 

With paid ads, you can direct more visitors to your website. If these ads perform well, your flow of leads will likely become more consistent.

Additionally, our paid ads service provides quick results, improved visibility, and precise audience targeting to help you reach your target audience effectively.

Reach Your Target Audience Directly

Sometimes, certain groups need specific procedures. If you specialize in rhinoplasty, individuals who want to improve their nose’s shape or get their breathing problems treated will likely need your services.

You can even appeal to specific age groups, such as young clients interested in undergoing cosmetic procedures to enhance their looks.

We can help you reach your desired audience segments through our paid ads’ multiple targeting options, such as the following:

  • Google Ads lets you target online users based on keywords, demographics, location, device types, and interests.
  • Facebook Ads allows you to engage the right people based on interests, demographics, location, and behaviors.

Target New Customers

As a skilled surgeon, you can’t always rely only on your past or current client base. New clients will likely need your services, so you should pursue them, too.

By targeting these clients successfully, you can continue growing your audience while filling the gaps that former clients leave behind.

Our Google Ads service can help you reach new patients who may have previously visited your website or shown interest in your services. By remarketing your services, we can help increase the chance of conversion.

Granular Reporting

When it comes to granular or highly detailed reports, they should be simple enough and easy to understand. This way, you can determine at a glance what your campaign’s progress is and where your patients come from.

For instance, our reports show whether your leads come from your surgery ads on Google, Facebook, or Instagram.

We provide reports that you may see as unmathematical. Despite being an agency of statisticians, we’re trained to highlight the numbers important to you rather than flood you with spreadsheets filled with confusing rows of data.

When it comes to the numbers that matter to you the most, our reporting focuses on these four figures:

  • Leads
  • Cost per lead
  • Total consults or sales calls
  • Cost per consult or sales call

Why do these numbers matter? Because leads represent visitors likely to transition into paying clients, and costs indicate how much you pay to acquire those leads.

Aside from these figures, other metrics we provide in our reports, upon your request, are as follows:

  • Impressions
  • Clicks
  • Average cost per click (CPC)
  • Click-through rate (CTR)
  • Conversion rate

Review Management

Do you recall the last time someone sought your surgery services because they read a positive review online? If you want users to see your practice positively and be motivated to leave favorable reviews, our review management services are an excellent solution.

This service may not be necessary if your website doesn’t feature reviews or testimonials. But if these reviews are available, we can include positive ratings or reviews within your ads to attract more attention to your website and boost credibility.

The Types of Cosmetic Surgery Advertising

Surgery ads, whether for cosmetic or reconstructive plastic surgery, don’t just come in one form. When you work with us, you get several options for advertising your practice online.

Let’s look into these types of ads that we can utilize for your surgery practice.

Google Ads

We offer Google Ads as a way for you to promote your services online through various Google platforms like Google Search, YouTube, and other partner sites.

Google recognizes us as one of a select few of the highest tier of Premier Partners. This gives us the privilege of having a direct line to Google Ads’ elite support teams.

In other words, we have hotline access to Google’s top experts who are ready to address any issue you might encounter with your Google Ads campaign.

Even better, as a top-tier Google Premier Partner, we receive better service than 99% of agencies worldwide. In turn, we can give you results you won’t find anywhere else.

Google Display Ads

Want to know a secret your competition likely doesn’t know about? Google’s ad network reaches 90% of web users. By displaying your surgery ads in this network, you can access a broad audience you may not think possible.

With your ads in the Google Display Network (GDN), you can reach most users on Google sites like YouTube and Gmail and engage potential clients across millions of websites, blogs, and news pages.

By placing your ads in the GDN, we can help grab your audience’s attention, regardless of whether you use plain text, eye-catching images, or videos in your ads.

Remarketing

One probable reason why you’re investing your hard-earned money in your website is to make visitors interested in what you’re offering. And, likely, you’re investing in an ad campaign to boost leads and sales.

The problem is that only 2% of first-time visitors will interact with your site. Why? Because people often get distracted, and once they leave, they might find it challenging to find their way back.

Here’s where Google Remarketing comes in.

When users visit your site, Google allows you to “tag” them. This way, your ads appear to those tagged visitors even when they visit other websites.

A well-executed remarketing strategy usually has pinpoint accuracy, high conversion, and cost-effectiveness. Through our remarketing service, you learn what visitors were looking for before leaving your site and use that information to create effective ad campaigns to pull these prospects back.

Video Ads (YouTube)

You don’t have to limit your surgery ads to text or images only. Video ad campaigns can help you reach users who are watching or searching for videos like those on YouTube. You only pay when these potential patients show interest.

Our video ads come in various formats that include the following:

  • In-stream ads (short ads placed within a video content)
  • Non-skippable in-stream ads (ads that are 30 seconds or less and play before, during, or after a video)
  • Video discovery ads (only available on YouTube)
  • Outstream ads (mobile-only ads appearing on Google video partners)
  • Bumper ads (similar to non-skippable in-stream ads but are six seconds or shorter)

Social Media Ads

As the global digital population grows, the popularity and reach of social media also expand. As of January 2024, social media users worldwide have reached 5.04 billion. Hence, there is so much potential if you place your surgery ads on social media.

Fortunately, our social media ads can help turn your ad spend on Facebook and Instagram into leads. Let us show you how we do it.

Facebook Ads

If you want an effective digital platform that lets you promote your surgery services on Facebook and its affiliated platforms, choose Facebook Ads.

This powerful ad platform offers diverse ad formats, accurate targeting options, and solid analytics to help you reach your desired audience. Facebook Ads can also help boost traffic to your site, increase your brand’s visibility, and generate leads or sales.

Through our Facebook Ads service, we offer a tailored and affordable advertising solution for your business regardless of size. Implemented correctly, Facebook Ads can be an indispensable tool for your digital marketing needs.

Instagram vs. Facebook for Plastic or Cosmetic Surgeons

Your ads posted on Facebook and Instagram fall under Meta Ads. However, these ad types differ in a few ways and may appeal to different audiences for your surgery practice.

For instance, with Instagram ads, you can use photos, videos, and carousel ads to market your services. Instagram typically targets a young crowd, including millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996).

If you launch ads on this popular platform to promote your surgery practice, they’ll appear on your potential clientele’s Instagram feeds or stories.

Meanwhile, Facebook allows ad campaign optimization according to age, gender, language, and other factors.

Although Instagram also lets you optimize your ads by analyzing your audience, goal, visuals, call to action, and other campaign elements, Facebook may have the upper hand in distributing information for surgery practices, such as plastic surgery.

One limitation of Instagram is that when a user clicks on a business ad, the links won’t redirect users to a separate tab. Meanwhile, Facebook Ads offers complete control over your ad campaigns.

Most Facebook users are between 18 and 29 years old and predominantly female. When deciding which audience to target for your surgery ads on this platform, these details should be considered.

Whether you choose Facebook or Instagram ads, our SMM services can help draw new clients to your business and expand its market reach.

Creating a Facebook Ads Manager for Your Medical Practice

If you want to use Facebook Ads to create ads for your medical practice for the first time, you must have a Facebook Ads Manager account.

Don’t have the time to make an account and run the ads yourself? We can create your ads account, tweak your settings, and set up your payment method.

Understanding the Anatomy of the Structure

How do your surgery ads on social media typically appear? What elements comprise such ads? Let’s look into these elements to understand the structure of your social media ads.

The Ad Format

Our Facebook Ads service offers several ad formats that can help engage people and allow you to showcase your services creatively, including the following:

  • Image ads
  • Video ads
  • Carousel ads
Cosmetic Ad Images and Headlines Plus Descriptions

Facebook Ads allows you to create cosmetic ads using the following structures:

  • Use single images or videos to tell a story
  • Use carousel ads, which can have 2 to 10 scrollable images or videos, to advertise different surgery services, such as breast enhancements, facial procedures, or body contouring
  • Use collections to combine all images and videos into one full-screen display to depict your cosmetic procedures

Additionally, Facebook ads have the following details:

  • The headline text has a maximum of 40 characters, although keeping the text within 25 characters is good practice.
  • The description must have  30 characters at most.
  • The primary text should have only up to 125 characters.
The Ad’s Primary Text, Call to Action, or URL

Your ad’s primary text helps describe your audience, why you are reaching out to them, and how your services can solve their issues.

There are three ways to write your ad’s primary text, call to action (CTA), or uniform resource locator (URL):

  • Single text: promotes your message straightforwardly
  • Single paragraph: works well for telling a story or providing some background before advertising your healthcare services
  • Bullet points: lists items for your ads, such as the cosmetic procedures you offer

Conversion Tracking

If it’s essential to know where a particular lead comes from and whether your ad campaign’s progress is on the right track, we can conduct conversion tracking to do the following:

  • Identify the origin of a lead, such as calls, form submissions, or subscriptions
  • Determine whether your ad campaign goals were achieved
  • See the return on your ad spend or the amount being spent per lead
  • Make data-driven decisions, such as whether to scale your campaigns or to stop, to help remove waste and maximize your investment
  • Avoid making changes based on guesswork of what “seems good” or “probably profitable” because the data wasn’t collected

Web Design and Development

Do you need a website built to help showcase your surgery practice? We’ll create one for you based on your requirements! And it’s a guarantee: you retain ownership of your site from day one, even if we design and develop it.

Analytics

Whether we use Google or Facebook for your ad campaigns, our analytics can provide measurable results.

Do you need detailed analytics and reporting tools to help you track ad performance? Our Google Ads service has them to measure your campaigns’ effectiveness and help you make objective decisions.

Meanwhile, Facebook’s advanced analytics provide helpful metrics and insights to track ad performance and help optimize your campaigns.

SEO

If you want your surgery practice website to rank high in Google’s search results, consider going for search engine optimization (SEO).

Why does this matter? Because more than 75% of clicks go to Google’s top three search results. And when you rank higher, you’ll likely gain more leads.

What Is Plastic Surgeon SEO?

Different industries have different SEO needs. Even similar practices within the healthcare industry have unique requirements.

And when it comes to plastic surgeons, we offer SEO services that focus on the unique needs of clients practicing plastic surgery.

To demonstrate, we implemented an SEO improvement plan for Dr. Richard Zoumalan, a renowned facial plastic surgeon. Initially, he wanted fully booked appointments for at least three months.

By the second year of working with us, he gained significant prominence on Google that he no longer needed to run ads, leading to six-figure savings annually, thanks to our SEO work. And the best part? He exceeded his initial goals by having fully booked appointments for up to six months!

Why Is SEO for Plastic Surgeons So Important?

SEO is an excellent solution if you want your plastic surgery website to gain visibility and organic (nonpaid) traffic on search engines like Google. SEO helps your site appear in the top search results for your target keywords. This way, more people will visit your pages as you rank higher.

CRO

Generally, conversion rate optimization (CRO) is about increasing the percentage of users completing a preferred action on your site. For paid ads, CRO also refers to the number of conversions per click.

Why does CRO matter? Because it helps increase the number of leads for your practice.

Content Marketing for Surgeons

Content marketing involves creating helpful, valuable, and sometimes entertaining content for your target audience. When done correctly, your surgery ad campaigns can help drive interest in your services.

Part of our marketing strategy is placing content on your website and sharing it on social media and other channels. This way, you can attract and convince potential leads to engage with your brand.

Creating a Campaign for Your Cosmetic Practice

After consultation and knowing your marketing needs, our next step is to create a campaign for your cosmetic or reconstructive plastic surgery practice. The following sections discuss what goes on when we build an ad campaign for you.

Defining Your Campaign Goal

What are your goals for your surgery ad campaign? When defining those goals, be specific. Do you want to create traffic to your site or get visitors to complete an action?

We can help define your surgery ad campaign goals through our no-pitch consultation. Depending on your needs, we’ll give an honest assessment of how much growth our Google Ads, Bing Ads, and Facebook or Instagram Ads can bring to your business.

Setting Your A/B Testing and Budget for Your Healthcare Campaign

If you want your ad campaign tested, we’ll conduct split testing, also called A/B testing, to get accurate results. In this test, we compare two versions of your campaign to see which one performs better.

We also conduct A/B testing on various elements of your campaign, such as the following:

  • Landing pages
  • Ads
  • Keywords
  • Bidding strategies

Regarding your campaign budget, we allocate sufficient funds to campaigns with better cost-per-conversion performance. Proper campaign investment can help you save money and give other campaigns a chance to gain higher search traffic.

What Is a Landing Page?

Your website’s landing page is designed to persuade visitors to perform a desired action. For example, they can sign up as a newsletter subscriber or book an appointment for one of your surgery procedures.

Visitors often arrive at your landing page through the following ways:

  • PPC ads
  • Your site’s homepage
  • Social media posts
  • Organic search results
  • Email campaigns

Depending on your needs, we can help create a landing page for your site. Contact us for a pitch-free consultation, and we’ll discuss how to build your landing page.

Print Advertising for Surgeons

Although technological innovations have helped bring about online ads and digital marketing like never before, some prospects may still prefer reading physical brochures and newspapers.

Older generations often prefer print ads. So, if they’re the target audience for your practice, this marketing channel can help you reach elderly patients who need surgery.

In addition to marketing your surgery practice online, you can consider investing in print ads through the following channels:

  • Magazines
  • Newspapers
  • Direct mail
  • Letterbox drops

The Elements of a Good Advertisement

Is your ad appealing enough that online users will stop scrolling and click it? What features can help your ads bring more visitors to your site and turn them into potential patients?

Let’s discuss these elements in the following sections.

Uniqueness

Any digital marketing agency can produce ads with well-written content and collate patient before-and-after photos and testimonials. But what usually makes a prospective patient click on your ad is that it must have something unique to offer.

For instance, rather than only having image or text ads, consider going for video ads as well. And if you need variety in your ad formats, our paid ads, such as the following, can provide it for you:

  • Google Ads offers text ads, video ads, display ads, shopping ads, and app promotions.
  • Facebook Ads provides image ads, video ads, and carousel (combination of image and video) ads.

Appealing Graphics

Sometimes, your audience may want to see more than just text from your ads. If you will showcase the results of your plastic or cosmetic surgery procedures, consider putting graphics in your ads.

A quick and easy way to obtain such graphics is by using stock photos. They’re easily accessible. You can find these free or pay for photos online.

However, there’s no guarantee that your competitors aren’t using the same image as the one on your ad. Also, some consumers can tell whether you’re using stock photos or pictures from an actual procedure.

Another alternative is to use before-and-after pictures of your cosmetic surgery services showcasing your most successful procedures.

Whether you want to use stock photos or authentic images from your clinic, we’ll include them in your website and ads as long as they comply with the ad platform’s regulations. Contact us for a consultation, and we’ll demonstrate how these graphics will appear to your audience.

Enticing Copy

Suppose a potential client browses the internet and stops mid-scroll to read your surgery ad because it piques their interest. Is the ad convincing enough to make them consider clicking it? Do they connect with the ad, and does it remind them of their healthcare needs?

If your ad grabs the viewers’ attention, we can say your ad copy is effective.

Part of our ads management, such as through Google Ads, is ensuring that the ad copies we create are relevant to your target audience. We also test different variations to see which ads resonate best with your market.

How Can You Grow Your Plastic Surgery Business?

Digital advertising is one way to bring in the leads for your healthcare business. So, if you want to grow your plastic surgery practice, consider working with an online marketing agency like ours that knows how to increase your leads.

One of our clients, Facial Plastic Surgery Institute, experienced this growth by partnering with us. In the past, a good month would only bring the company about five leads through Google Ads.

Today, it gets at least 40 leads monthly for only 40% of the website’s usual cost per lead! Not only did the business grow in terms of leads, it also saved on expenses.

Find and Engage New Patients for Your Surgical Practice

Did you know that 80% of adult online users, or about 93 million Americans, use the internet to search about at least one major health-related topic?

Plus, most of those users go online to research a service or product before buying it.

In other words, when someone wants to know more about their health or look for a surgeon, expect them to go online to find the answers.

We can help bring these potential patients to your surgery practice. We’ve connected many healthcare businesses to clients who need them. And we can do the same for you.

Has your patient only recently become aware of their medical issue or actively been seeking a procedure? Whatever stage they are in their journey, our online advertising services can help bring them to your doorstep.

How Do You Promote Surgery?

If you want to promote your surgical practice and bring it to the next level, consider working with a digital marketing agency like ours. As mathematicians, we use the same math Google uses to test and adjust how the search engine giant perceives your website.

When done correctly, our math-based process can help transform your website into a top 10 answer for your clients’ questions.

This way of promoting your healthcare practice can help you get more leads while lowering your costs. In turn, we connect your business with people who need your services the most.

Marketing Channels for Surgeons

As a surgeon, you must consider using a wide range of marketing channels to reach diverse potential patients. Some channels suit a specific demographic better. Thus, using various channels for your marketing campaign can help you reach every demographic you want to target.

Some of the marketing channels we use for clients specializing in surgery are as follows:

  • Google Ads
  • Social media ads
  • Bing Ads
  • Search engine optimization (SEO)

How to Get Started With Marketing a Surgeon’s Practice

Marketing your surgery practice can be challenging, especially for the first time. Create a list of the offers and services you want to include in your ads to help you organize your goals.

Read on to learn more about getting started with marketing your practice.

Your Plastic Surgery Ad Offer

How do we create an ad offer for your plastic surgery practice? On Facebook Ads, we typically use ad sets based on your target audience and apply changes to your ads according to how those sets perform.

Suppose you want to offer appointment discounts. We can place an ad offer based on this goal and apply a discount rate that should help increase your revenue over time.

Highest Priority

Our high-priority services that involve delivering ads for your surgery practice include the following:

  • Google Ads
  • Facebook Ads
  • Instagram Ads

Medium and Lowest Priority

Services considered medium and low priority will depend on your needs based on your consultation with us.

For example, we provide web development only if you’re a paid enterprise client or your site requires the service.

Policies to Keep in Mind When in the Healthcare Field

Because your ads deal with healthcare-related services, platforms will require us to comply with specific guidelines.

Some policies are implemented to help avoid negative self-perception among viewers and ensure the ads don’t contain misleading or false claims.

Let’s take a look at some of these policies.

Key Terms and Images to Avoid in Your Ads for Plastic Surgeons

When creating ads for your surgery practice, you must follow the platforms’ guidelines regarding restricted and prohibited content.

For instance, Facebook prohibits the following terms and images in your ads:

  • Specific products and services, such as tobacco, electronic cigarettes, and drugs
  • Certain advertising tactics, such as before-and-after images containing unlikely results
  • Assuming knowledge of personal characteristics, such as name, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, or medical condition

How to Stay Compliant and Avoid Disapprovement

Sometimes, you may feel that complying with various policies is overwhelming to the point that you might think you can’t express what you initially wanted in your ads.

Fortunately, Facebook offers tips to help you comply with its advertising standards so that the social media giant won’t disapprove of your ads.

One such tip is to avoid including prohibited or restricted content. Understanding what ad content falls under these categories can help ensure your ads get approved.

We also check your ads and website or landing page for elements that don’t comply with the policies and provide recommendations.

How Much Do Plastic Surgeons Spend on Marketing?

If you’re still starting your surgery practice, the amount you allocate for your marketing budget will depend on your needs.

Some estimates suggest allocating around 6% to 12% of your annual revenue. However, you may need to spend more to gain initial exposure or if competition is tight within your area.

Do these figures apply to our digital marketing services? Keep reading to find out.

What Is Surgical Marketing?

As a surgeon, you typically perform tasks that help improve and even save your patients’ lives daily. These duties can leave you exhausted and with almost no time for marketing.

Despite all that, marketing is essential if you’re keen on running a business.

Marketing your plastic or cosmetic surgery practice involves using strategies that help attract potential patients and increase their awareness of your business.

Our digital marketing services, such as Google, Bing, Facebook, and Instagram ads, can help draw visitors to your business by turning your ad spend into leads. For your surgery practice, this investment means more consults and procedure bookings.

Plastic Surgeon Marketing Company

As a digital marketing company experienced in handling ad campaigns for plastic surgeons, we know what works for your surgery ads and what doesn’t.

And if there’s one thing we know about your needs, it’s that online marketing for your healthcare practice requires not just impressions or ad views but leads.

Take one of our clients, Dr. Benjamin Paul, as an example. By working with us, he gained a 700% increase in leads due to our paid ad work. And with more leads, the chances of getting more patients also increase!

Your Ad Placements and Budget

Despite the abovementioned estimates, we don’t specify the costs or pitch anything for your surgery ad campaign until we know what you need.

That’s why we provide pitch-free consultations to show you how paid ads, such as those appearing on Google, Bing, Facebook, and Instagram, can help grow your business.

You might even be surprised that, aside from delivering a reliable flow of leads for your business, we work to help you spend less money on your marketing—unless our audit shows solid data to justify higher spending.

Want a Professional Running Your Ads for Your Plastic Surgery Practice?

Can you manage your surgery ads by yourself? If you have the time and skills, why not? But if your schedule is filled to the brim with patient appointments and surgeries, consider entrusting the job to professionals like us.

Check out why you should consider leaving your surgery ads to us, a digital marketing agency committed to delivering results.

We’re Collaboration Experts in the Surgical Arena

We’ve worked with some of the prominent names in the surgery industry, and our results speak for themselves.

Among these renowned professionals is Dr. Mark Solomon. Through our digital marketing services, he has secured the market for his primary specialty. Still, his practice keeps growing, and he continues to promote new procedures and follow his interests.

Growth Is Our Goal

We want to help you achieve your growth goals for your surgery practice. However, we also know that no single process can deliver the results for everything, just like how there’s no cure-all medicine for all ailments.

That’s why we commit to listening to you and researching. We dig deep and understand your needs to uncover the right solutions to bring in those much-needed leads.

Industry-Leading Digital Marketing

We’ve helped plastic surgeons achieve massive lead growth with figures you won’t believe possible. One of our clients, Dr. Benjamin Paul, experienced a jaw-dropping 700% increase in leads thanks to our paid advertising work!

Do you want these numbers for your practice? Call us for a no-pitch consultation.

We’re Performance Marketing Experts

Performance marketing is all about combining paid ads with brand marketing. Our paid ad services, such as Google Search ads, help ensure that potential clients notice your brand.

We also offer bumper ads on YouTube that can help you reach your target clients and increase brand awareness through short videos and highly relevant messages.

If you prefer social media ads to boost your brand’s visibility, our Facebook Ads can help you reach this goal.

And if you’re wondering how you’ll get updates on your paid ad campaign’s performance, we conduct weekly and monthly reporting. Doing so helps us see the progress of your surgery ad campaigns and whether they’re on the right track to achieving your goals.

We Generate Patients

We don’t just generate and measure ad clicks. We deliver high-quality leads. Why are we keen on doing so? Because leads represent potential clients. And when they enter your clinic, you know you have more opportunities to generate sales.

About Digital Spotlight Health

We’ve had a working relationship with Google for years that’s so stellar that the search engine giant has granted us Platinum status, Google’s top partnership tier.

This recognition means we’ve demonstrated that we have Google-certified staff who can:

  • Manage a fast-growing client list
  • Invest high levels of ad spend
  • Retain clients for extended periods

Being a Google Premier Partner means we’re among the first to hear about new features. We’ll test these for you before other doctors know about them, giving you a competitive edge.

Plus, we don’t do lock-in contracts—no strings attached. When you stay a client, that’s because we bring in leads and deliver results.

If you want to know more about how our ad services can help your surgery practice earn steady leads, call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected]. If you’re in California, drop by our office at 2450 Colorado Avenue, Suite 100E Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Trends

According to a survey by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), the United States holds the record for the most cosmetic procedures globally. With over 7.4 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures done in one year, it’s clear that there will be no shortage of potential cosmetic surgery clients in the years to come.

This high and growing demand may have pushed you to advertise your cosmetic surgery practice online. Unfortunately, with everything else you have to do, you may have little time to learn how best to leverage your digital marketing.

Plus, you don’t have the time and expertise to tinker with online platforms like Google, Facebook, or Bing to benefit your practice best.

And with so many cosmetic surgeons advertising online, you may feel lost amongst every other surgeon. The tight competition can be challenging for you to stand out and succeed. 

Maybe you’ve worked with other digital marketing agencies and spent money on search engine optimization (SEO) and paid ads. But you still haven’t gotten your desired results – more patient leads, consults, and procedures.

To make things complicated, digital marketing rules are constantly changing. What works for your campaign today may no longer work tomorrow.

Maybe you’ve recently started your cosmetic surgery business, and you’re searching for an agency that understands the unique requirements of your practice – one that can work with the latest marketing trends in your field.

If these situations seem familiar, then maybe you’re asking if there’s a digital marketing company you can trust, one that can offer the best marketing option for your practice.

Fortunately, there is – Digital Spotlight Health.

We specialize in bridging the gap between you and prospective patients who need your services. We’ll handle your digital marketing campaigns so you can focus on running your cosmetic surgery practice.

Whether you’re helping your patients fulfill their cosmetic needs to look better or undergo a specific aesthetic procedure to feel more confident and improve self-esteem, we’ve got you covered.

Our patient leads-focused strategy can help you engage potential clients at every stage of their journey.

We’ve built our relationships on the results we deliver, ensuring our clients stand out as they continue to work with us for years. We believe you should start working with us, too.

Our deep understanding of Google’s algorithm lets us know what’s popular and what’s not, leveraging cosmetic surgery marketing trends that can turn your casual site visitors into loyal clients.  

With 15+ years of experience in the digital marketing industry, we’ve gathered valuable data that can help your cosmetic surgery business win top positions in search engines. And the best part? We can do this at a lower cost than what your competitors spend.

Before you sign up with us, we’ll create an online marketing plan unique from your competitors—for free! We believe it’s only fair to identify what you truly need before quoting you for the actual work.

Online Marketing Continues to Overtake Outdoor Advertising

Having worked with several plastic and cosmetic surgeons in their marketing campaigns, we understand that both practices are different despite their similarities.

Plastic surgeons perform mostly reconstructive surgery to restore form and function. Meanwhile, cosmetic surgeons perform procedures to enhance aesthetics. 

Knowing these differences, we can tailor-fit digital marketing strategies that effectively reach a specific target audience. That’s why we offer pitch-free consultations, analyses, and audits to truly understand our client’s unique needs and offer realistic solutions.

Suppose you’ve been in the cosmetic surgery industry for a long time, and you’ve considered advertising your practice through outdoor ads like billboards and signage.

As time passes and more people go online, you may see the internet as an opportunity to market your practice instead. In other words, online marketing may help you reach your target audience better.

Because of the prevalence of digital ads today, expect searchers to see an ad or two each time they check their social media accounts or look for a cosmetic surgeon on Google Search.

Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, digital ad spending increased by 12.2%. Meanwhile, revenue from social media ads reached $41.5 billion. These figures show how effective digital ads can be for your business.

If you have a low risk tolerance for marketing, you may be concerned about the challenges of measuring your return on investment (ROI) through outdoor advertising.

Don’t worry. Our digital marketing services have numerous tools, such as Google Analytics, that can help us track and analyze your campaign’s performance, such as for Google Ads or Facebook Ads.

With the right online marketing strategy for your cosmetic surgery practice, we can help you gain more leads and grow your business.

Online Medical Marketing for Aesthetic Practices

Online marketing has the necessary tools, platforms, and channels to help your cosmetic surgery practice succeed.

Accessibility to these tools opens up opportunities for you to offer aesthetic surgery to a broader clientele and not just exclusively to the rich and famous.

Nowadays, more people from various demographics, including those extremely active online and on social media platforms, are choosing cosmetic surgery.

If you want your practice to be visible to this growing target base, you should be more active and engaging online.

However, if you want to connect with a specific target audience that can benefit from your practice, consider partnering with a digital marketing agency like ours. 

When it comes to healthcare businesses like yours, our online marketing strategy is all about delivering leads, not impressions or ad views.  

SEO Continues to Grow in Impact

Decades ago, plastic surgeons mostly relied on outdoor advertising, such as television, radio, print, or billboards, to reach their target audience.

However, over the last ten years, plastic surgery advertising has gradually moved away from this type of marketing and trended towards digital advertising.

In fact, the pandemic saw a 12% increase in overall digital ad spend.

Plastic and cosmetic surgeons who knew little about digital marketing, many of whom had never previously advertised, started to invest in it and gave it a try as interest in it grew. And why not when digital marketing has better return-on-investment (ROI) measurability than outdoor advertising? 

As more and more people turn to Google for answers, online searches for information on plastic and cosmetic surgery continue to increase. People not only search for information about procedures but also look for and vet plastic surgeons online. 

If you want your practice to get in front of these searches, you must be on Google’s #1 page. More than 75% of clicks on Google go to the top three search results, and reaching those ranks can help you gain more leads. 

The good news is that our SEO services can help you get to the top.

We understand that impressions or ad views may not be enough in the healthcare industry, including cosmetic surgery practices. Instead, what your online marketing campaign must do is generate leads.

Why do leads matter? It’s because they represent visitors interested in your services and can become potential customers.

The Zoom Boom Theory

Zoom, a video conferencing app, became even more popular during the COVID pandemic when people stayed mostly indoors, and work-from-home setups were the norm. 

Studies showed that the Zoom boom might have made people more self-conscious of their physical features, increasing public interest in plastic surgery procedures.

On the other hand, another study suggested that the relative increase in cosmetic surgeries immediately after the lockdowns could be due to a backlog of cases.

Whatever the cause of the digital surge, the trend was consistent. There were huge spikes in searches for almost all procedures globally, especially facial plastic surgery and nonsurgical procedures. 

Understanding these data allows you to anticipate your potential client’s interests better and meet their needs. 

Analyzing the trends influencing your clients’ decisions can help you choose which marketing strategy to use in your campaigns. 

Below are some of the latest trends in cosmetic surgery.

Rhinoplasty Trends

In 2019, searches for “rhinoplasty” hit significantly high levels, often reaching monthly averages between 40,000 and 90,000.

Even during the pandemic, rhinoplasty searches continued increasing, often reaching monthly numbers of around 110,000. However, in September 2021, demand dipped to pre-pandemic levels, suggesting that the trend has somehow simmered down.

Several factors influence the demand for rhinoplasty, especially among young adults. Social media, a primary driver, is an example.

Platforms like Snapchat and Instagram often set unrealistic beauty standards, influencing young minds to consider rhinoplasty and other cosmetic procedures to look beautiful.

Facelift Trends

“Facelifts” has been a popular search term for years, trending from around 18,000 monthly searches in 2017 to about 30,000 during the pandemic.

Like rhinoplasty, however, the “facelift” search trend cooled off in September 2021 to pre-pandemic levels.

Still, based on a member survey by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), facial plastic surgery and noninvasive treatments will continue to be in high demand in 2024.

If this trend continues, you’ll likely see more young patients asking for a “natural facelift.” With today’s technological advancements, facial “tweakments” will be an ongoing trend due to its appeal and accessibility to all ages.

Are these key terms crucial to your practice? Consult with us, and we’ll research these words to determine how they can help you rank high in the search results.

Brazilian Butt Lift Trends

Among the procedures mentioned in this section, Brazilian butt lift (BBL) has one of the most significant increases in monthly searches. In other words, compared to other cosmetic surgeries, BBL is among the most in-demand procedures searched online.

BBL searches hovered around 40,000 per month even before the pandemic. In September 2021, the trend increased to about 118,000 searches, up almost 300%.

According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), almost 400,000 people worldwide underwent this transformative procedure in 2021. This striking statistic represents an estimated 20% rise in the procedure’s popularity since 2017.

Based on these numbers, BBL may provide a significant opportunity to gain leads if you haven’t been offering this service yet. And if you already do, call us for a consultation on how we can help you market your BBL procedure online.

Butt Implant Trends in Search

Butt implant searches may have seen a 50% increase monthly during the early period of the pandemic. By September 2020, however, the trend dropped to late-2017 levels.

This initial uptrend and subsequent drop-off may be due to influencers contributing to the increase in BBL searches and not because of a general desire to improve that body part.

Many doctors see the potential influence of social media on the growing demand for butt implants. 

For example, patients who see tighter, higher, and rounder bottoms flaunted and praised on social media are driven to research and, ultimately, schedule appointments to give their own butts a boost.

If you want to utilize social media to advertise your butt implant procedures, give us a call. Our social media marketing service can help you expand your practice’s reach, engage potential customers, and build meaningful connections in the digital landscape. 

Liposuction Search Trends

From 2019 to 2021, liposuction search trends increased during the pre-summer months. However, searches for this procedure didn’t improve as significantly as the other procedures despite the weight gain reported by many people during the pandemic.

Then, in 2022, more than 2.3 million liposuction procedures were performed, a 21.1% increase over 2021. 

Once again, social media was cited as contributing to the rising public interest in cosmetic procedures like liposuction.

Tummy Tuck Search Trends

Did you notice a sudden increase in patients undergoing tummy tucks during the summer of 2020? You may attribute that surge to the number of tummy tuck searches that almost doubled during this period.

While this trend eventually leveled out, searches for this procedure in 2021 maintained a 50% increase over pre-pandemic levels.

Book a consultation with us to see how we can help you market your tummy tuck procedures.

Breast Implant Search Trends

Searches for breast implants increased by 50% during the pandemic, although by mid-2020, this trend quickly reversed to pre-pandemic levels.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), breast augmentation was the most frequently performed cosmetic plastic surgery procedure from 2005 to 2020. In 2022, ASPS member surgeons did close to 300,000 breast augmentation procedures.

If you only handled a tiny fraction of that number, say, fewer than 100, you only got a little slice of the pie.

Let us help you change that number and draw more clients to your practice. Our SEO and digital ad services can help bring in those leads.

The Future of Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Is Online

The number of Americans going online to look for health-related information, especially about cosmetic surgery, is increasing. Some interesting trends related to these matters are as follows:

  • One in three American adults searches the internet to learn about specific medical conditions.
  • Photo sharing on social media resulted in a 31% increase in surgery requests.
  • 57% of patients go online to search for information about plastic surgery.
  • 77% of patients look for information about health conditions using search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo.
  • 76% of patients visit hospital websites for health-related information, while 52% visit healthcare information sites.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has made offline marketing and networking with referring doctors difficult, online marketing continues to bring in more leads.

Ready to amplify your lead flow? Work with us and see how our online marketing services can help fill up your appointment books with leads. 

You can leave the heavy lifting to us so that you can free yourself from doing all the high-priced and time-consuming marketing.

The Rise in Technology

Advanced tools like ultrasonic saws can enhance the quality of your cosmetic procedures. If you’re interested in ultrasonic rhinoplasty, these tools can improve precision and minimize the risk of trauma for your patients.

If you’ve used advanced tools in your practice, good for you and your patients! You’ve embraced the technological innovations that enhance your ability to perform cosmetic procedures more effectively.

And what could be a better approach to promoting your state-of-the-art cosmetic surgery procedures than working with a digital marketing agency like ours that leverages innovative tools?

As a Google Premier Partner, we’re always the first to hear about the search engine giant’s latest features. This means we can test them out for you before anyone else in the industry even knows what’s happening.

The Rise of Celebrity Plastic Surgery

Kim Kardashian. Amy Schumer. Bella Hadid. Katy Perry. What do these celebrities have in common? They’ve openly admitted to having undergone some form of plastic surgery.

In the entertainment industry, physical appearance often plays a significant role in a celebrity’s fame. 

While it’s easy to think they just lucked out with good genes, that’s not always true. Chances are, they’ve got a plastic surgeon who knows what they’re doing and has the right tools and experience. 

As more celebrities opt for plastic surgery to look their best in front of the cameras, awareness and public interest in cosmetic procedures further increases. Factors contributing to this increase include the following:

  • Advancements in surgical techniques lead to safer and more accessible procedures.
  • Social media platforms help boost the visibility of celebrities, drawing in public fascination with their seemingly perfect physical appearances.

Celebrities turn to plastic surgery to preserve their youthful look and beauty, somehow normalizing the practice. 

For example, the rising popularity of face augmentation procedures, such as fillers and botox, among superstars has made plastic and cosmetic surgery acceptable, increasing the interest in and demand for cosmetic procedures.

If you’ve had celebrities as cosmetic surgery patients or plan to market your practice to them, we have online marketing services for you.

For example, our pay-per-click (PPC) or paid advertising service allows you to display ads on online platforms like Google or Facebook. This service can help you target specific audiences on those platforms and reach your preferred clients effectively.

The Impact on Marketing Strategies

The influence of celebrity plastic surgery on marketing strategies has resulted in the following emerging trends within the plastic surgery industry:

  • Celebrity endorsements: Plastic surgeons and marketers have started associating their practice with celebrities to attract the public who want similar results.
  • Before-and-after photos: Some plastic surgery clinics use before-and-after photos of celebrities as a marketing technique to exhibit the procedure’s transformative effects. This appeals to potential clients who want to achieve similar looks.
  • Social media: Many celebs use social media to share their plastic surgery experiences. Engaging with these posts can help you reach your target audience and interest them in your services.

Given these trends, our PPC services, such as Facebook Ads and Google Ads, let you target customers based on their demographics, location, behavior, and interests.

Adapting to the Changing Landscape

As a cosmetic surgeon and business owner, you must stay competitive and adapt to your industry’s changing environment. One way to do so is by developing advanced strategies that leverage the influence of celebrity plastic surgery.

Below are strategies we can focus on for your marketing campaign:

  • Establish a solid online presence: Engaging social media users and maintaining a user-friendly site can help improve your online presence. This way, you can showcase your expertise and connect with potential clients.
  • Market your content: Creating informative and helpful plastic surgery content can help position you as an industry authority. Examples of content that can inform and educate potential patients are blogs, videos, and webinars.
  • Provide testimonials: Genuine feedback and reviews from satisfied clients can be a way to showcase their experiences with your service and help you build credibility and trust with potential clients.
  • Collaborate with influencers: Partnering with beauty and wellness influencers and those who have undergone surgery can help promote your practice and engage with audiences beyond your immediate reach.
  • Personalize your marketing: Customizing website content, email campaigns, and social media content according to your audience’s preferences and interests are some ways to personalize your marketing.

Ethical Considerations

Suppose you have a celebrity endorser for your cosmetic surgery services. Even if this campaign is effective, we must still consider the ethical implications of this marketing strategy.

For example, respecting a celebrity’s privacy and obtaining consent before using any information, image, or video related to their surgical procedure for your ads is of utmost importance.

We ensure your marketing materials are accurate and transparent, giving your potential clients realistic expectations about the cosmetic results they can get from your services.

That’s why we are for no-pitch, free consultations. Similar to how you should listen to your patients and understand their needs, we also listen to you and understand your needs and expectations.

The Rise in the Number of Cosmetic Surgeons

As more people express interest in cosmetic surgery procedures, more medical practitioners want to get involved in the world of cosmetic medicine and practice it alongside plastic surgery and dermatology.

In fact, a forecast on industry trends in the U.S. shows that the plastic surgery industry may grow to about $24.3 billion and have over 11,000 businesses between 2024 and 2029.

Are you a medical professional who just changed your practice to include cosmetic medicine to pursue botox injections and other cosmetic procedures? 

If your answer is yes, then you’re part of this fast-growing industry. This also means you’ll see more competition in your field.

But there’s no need to worry. Our digital marketing services, such as SEO, can help you rank for relevant keywords in Google and kick your competition out of those top spots! And when potential customers see only you in the search results, they may not even hear about your competitors.

The Confluence Between Cosmetic Surgery and Entrepreneurship

Although cosmetic surgery belongs to the medical industry, more individuals see this practice as part of the fashion and cosmetic industry.

This isn’t surprising. After all, many people consider cosmetic surgery as more of a beauty treatment than a health procedure.

Due to this trend, cosmetic surgery has evolved into an entrepreneurial industry. More clinics now function as private equity entities (legal structures like investment firms that conduct business activities) rather than as traditional private individual practices.

If you have that entrepreneurial spirit, it may be tempting to do everything, including marketing your cosmetic surgery practice, by yourself.

Fortunately, we’re here to help with your marketing needs so you can focus on running your practice. Our online advertising services, such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads, can help you target your desired audience based on their demographics, location, and interests.

For example, in places such as Los Angeles, more and more people are willing to undergo cosmetic surgery. If you have a clinic in this location, you can expect to face fierce competition from many other cosmetic surgeons.

The good news is that we can help your practice stand out from the rest. With Google Ads, you can reach millions of daily search engine users and site visitors. Meanwhile, with Facebook Ads, you tap into a large customer base comprising billions of active users.

Average Cost for Cosmetic Surgery Is Dropping

The cost of undergoing cosmetic surgery may not be affordable for many people. Some clinics charge at least $8,000 for facelifts and other similar procedures, and that amount has yet to include facility costs and related expenses!

However, this trend of surging costs for cosmetic surgeries may change soon. In fact, the increasing number of cosmetic surgeons and alternative procedures are lowering the average cost of surgeries.

Meanwhile, when it comes to marketing your practice, we can also help lower your costs further and win the best spots for you while your competitors pay more for lower positions. We understand the algorithms Google and other platforms use, and we know which searches will be profitable.

So, if you’re dead set on winning those top spots in your niche, work with us, and we’ll help you obtain a high flow of leads for the best possible acquisition cost.

Conversion Attribution Is Getting More Challenging for Digital Marketers

Suppose your potential clients use browsers with built-in tracking protection. This feature may prevent Facebook and Google Analytics from collecting user information.

For example, you can’t see yourself in the analytics of your own website when using the Firefox browser, making it more and more challenging to track your campaign.

Due to this feature, a digital agency without the right tools may find it difficult to report conversions.

Fortunately, we can monitor and attribute these out-of-sight conversions, thanks to Google and Facebook’s new processes. These developments, such as the following, help us identify hidden conversions:

  • Server-side tracking: This Facebook tracking feature stores hashed or encrypted data via the server side.
  • Enhanced conversion: This process hashes the first-party data to Google, allowing the search engine to report the leads.
  • Consent mode V2: This feature enables conversion reporting based on data characteristics even without the user’s consent to track their data.

PPC Increases in Competition

We offer paid or pay-per-click (PPC) advertising if you want to display your ads on online platforms like Google or Facebook. PPC helps you reach potential customers on those platforms by targeting specific demographics or bidding on keywords.

However, costs have increased as competition among surgeons has become more intense. Still, costs remain comparatively lower than in other industries like legal services, where each click can cost you hundreds of dollars for particular keywords.

Fortunately, our paid advertising services, such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads, are still among the cost-effective ways to market your business. 

Google Ads and Facebook Ads allow you to set a budget and choose a bidding option depending on your goals and the average amount you’re comfortable spending for your campaign.

Cost per Click by Procedure

Estimates show that the cost per click (CPC) for nearly any ad related to cosmetic procedures is in the two- to five-dollar range.

However, we typically don’t put a price on your CPC before evaluating your cosmetic surgery marketing needs.

Instead, we provide a free, no-obligation analysis of your current marketing strategy and determine whether Google Ads, Facebook Ads, SEO, or Bing advertising suits your practice. The results of our audit can determine whether your budget can cover your advertising requirements.

What Is SEO?

In simple terms, SEO is how websites improve their visibility in Google or other search engines and gain organic (nonpaid) traffic. SEO is also how you can reach the top search results for keywords relevant to your site.

Whenever potential customers search for your cosmetic surgery services on Google, it’s highly likely that the results they see on top of the search page are there because of SEO.

If you want your cosmetic surgery website to rank high on Google, our SEO services are among your best options.

By comparing real-world performance against our ever-evolving SEO model, we uncover subtle shifts (even the ones other agencies find difficult to detect) and utilize them to achieve long-term SEO results.

Want proof? Our SEO work has helped over 1,800 businesses rank on Google’s first page! Plus, 79% of our clients have over 400 non-branded keywords ranking on page one of the search results!

We’ve had plastic surgeons who have benefited from our SEO service, like our client, Dr. Richard Zoumalan, a distinguished surgeon known for his natural-appearing noses that breathe well. He is also admired for his tastefully sculpted faces.

Dr. Zoumalan wanted only two things: to specialize in rhinoplasty (nose jobs) and be booked for at least three months in advance. 

We’re proud to say that our SEO strategy helped him reach these goals and more. Not only is he fully booked for up to six months, but his visibility on Google has also improved, allowing him to turn off his ads and gain six-figure savings yearly!

AI-Generated Content Is Here

Technological innovations have brought us advanced tools such as ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate content automatically.

As these tools continue to improve and become more sophisticated, some marketers use them to create content for healthcare websites like yours.

However, the rapid advancements in AI content generation following ChatGPT’s game-changing features have become a concern for those unaware of the negative impact of AI content generators on some sectors and institutions. 

For example, as a cosmetic surgeon and modern-day business owner, you may be worried about whether you’re receiving high-quality online content that is worth your money or fake content that squanders your investment. 

Google can’t really determine whether or not your content is human-written. 

However, the search engine giant can detect pages with low-quality and spammy content and potentially deindex (remove from the search results) such pages. And more often than not, AI-generated content quality is poor.

For these reasons, we only provide human-generated content when we create content for your website. We even run it through several AI content detection tools to ensure that the percentages of AI content in our human-written content do not exceed 25%.

The Benefits of Social Media Platforms

Social media platforms provide many opportunities for your cosmetic surgery practice to grow your brand and reach potential patients.

More than 62% of the world now uses social media, making it an effective marketing strategy. 

For example, potential clients can follow you on social media and learn about the different cosmetic procedures you offer. So, if you’re not on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, you’re missing out!

Social media advertisements like the Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads that we offer provide businesses with numerous benefits, including the following:

  • Access to a massive audience with a potential customer base
  • Detailed targeting options, such as demographics, locations, and interests
  • Diverse ad formats like images, videos, and carousel ads (a combination of videos and pictures)
  • Accessibility through mobile devices

Social Media’s Role in Cosmetic Surgery Marketing

If you want to target potential patients in their research phase, consider using SEO or PPC as your preferred marketing channel. But if building your brand and earning your patients’ trust are your priorities, marketing through social media may be more effective.

Our social media marketing (SMM) services allow you to utilize organic posts and paid ads on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to achieve the following:

  • Engage your target audiences
  • Build brand awareness
  • Drive traffic to your site or online content

Here are some of the ways our social media services can help promote your cosmetic surgery practice:

Brand Building

Many cosmetic dermatologists and plastic surgeons have become popular on social media platforms such as TikTok or Instagram. These practitioners have built a following of audiences who eagerly engage with their content and trust the information they get.

We can help build your brand through our SMM services and expand your brand’s reach. This way, your cosmetic surgery practice can target a wider audience and improve online connections.

Trust Nurturing

Social media may sometimes play a role in your patient’s decisions, such as whether to book a consult or undergo a specific procedure.

For example, your social media profile can help educate users about your cosmetic surgery procedures, or past patients can leave reviews on your Facebook page. Such features may improve the chances of potential patients trusting you with their needs.

Through our social media ad services, such as Facebook Ads, we utilize Facebook’s social nature that lets users like, comment, and share your ads. These features can help enhance your credibility and visibility and promote your brand through organic word-of-mouth.

Demographic Trends on Different Social Media Channels

Have you ever done breast augmentation more frequently for patients below 35 than for older customers? What about liposuction for people below 70? Perhaps you’ve been noticing age-specific trends in your practice.

A 2023 study showed that certain age groups may have particular preferences regarding the type of procedure and social media platform to engage in. 

If you are interested in marketing cosmetic or  plastic surgery marketing on social media, the following research information might be useful to you: 

  • Patients aged 17 to 35 usually prefer breast augmentation more than any procedure. Consider using Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat when offering this procedure.
  • Patients between 36 and 70 are more open to liposuction. Consider offering this procedure on Facebook or Instagram.
  • Patients 70 and older may need blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery to remove excess skin). Consider using Facebook to advertise this procedure.

If you’re looking to target clients based on these recommendations, our social media marketing services, such as Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads, have detailed targeting options. This means you can focus on your audience by considering demographics, location, interests, and other factors.

Discoverability for Plastic Surgeons Is Greater on TikTok Than Other Social Media Channels

Instagram may be a better platform than Facebook for delivering content suggestions to your audience. But if we’re talking about organic reach, Instagram may still be behind TikTok.

For instance, users who haven’t interacted with your business on Instagram may find it challenging to discover your content on that photo- and video-sharing site.

Meanwhile, TikTok’s algorithm doesn’t discriminate against new or unknown content, so boosting your organic reach is easy, even if you’re still new to the platform. 

This high discoverability on TikTok may help your cosmetic surgery account get in front of people interested in your content in ways Instagram still struggles with. 

Unfortunately, TikTok doesn’t allow ads related to plastic surgery. Still, we can tweak your ads to ensure they conform to TikTok’s standards.

For example, the TikTok ads we placed for Tahiri Plastic Surgery allowed us to market the clinic on this platform even though the business mainly offers plastic surgery services.

Utilizing Influencer Partnerships

When you collaborate with influencers engaging a large following on social media, your cosmetic surgery practice gets to access a new audience base, helping to boost brand awareness. That’s why influencer partnerships are among the most popular and effective marketing methods today.

Aside from helping you promote your practice and services, influencers can offer helpful insights based on their followers’ interests, such as what these followers expect from cosmetic procedures.

Although influencer collaboration is primarily something done on your end, we can help you develop a strategy that puts your practice in the spotlight and keeps it competitive.

Leveraging Reviews and Testimonials

Online marketing’s rising popularity among plastic surgeons has created an emphasis on leveraging testimonials and reviews to establish credibility. In other words, getting favorable online feedback about your cosmetic surgery practice is good for your business.

When a satisfied patient leaves a positive review about your services, it can help boost your reputation. Potential patients can see your work quality and customer satisfaction based on those reviews on your website and social media channels.

Similar to what we do with influencer collaborations, we develop a strategy to highlight testimonials and reviews to help you market your services.

Online Reputation Matters to Prospective Patients

If you want your cosmetic surgery practice to stand out, consider placing extra attention on your online reputation. Potential patients will sometimes research and check your reputation online before deciding to go for an appointment.

People interested in the procedures you offer might look for your name or clinic on Google Search. They’ll read the reviews to learn about the procedures and methods and what previous patients say about you and your staff.

Regular monitoring of reviews and improving your online reputation help maintain your practice brand. Responding to the reviews or simply thanking a client for their positive feedback goes a long way in making people feel appreciated.

But what if you receive a negative review? Don’t ignore it. Instead, take it as an opportunity to resolve issues amicably and satisfy all involved parties.

We can help manage your online reputation through our Google Reputation Management service, which includes the following:

  • Conducting a comprehensive ongoing analysis of negative web properties related to your important keywords on Google’s first page
  • Ranking negative web properties based on what causes the most damage to your reputation
  • Listing all key terms and their associated web properties causing online reputation damage
  • Identifying which key terms to fix while considering the negative reviews, predictive traffic, and the keywords’ importance to your business
  • Making recommendations to help control and protect information associated with your business and drown out damaging reviews
  • Doing monthly simultaneous SEO to multiple online profiles, documents, and entries to achieve first-page rankings
  • Conducting an initial technical audit of your site and making recommendations, where necessary, to lower your exposure to penalties (due to thin or duplicate content, low page speed, redirect checks, and indexing issues)

Create Engaging Content

One effective way to promote your cosmetic surgery services is to have unique and engaging content on your website that places you leagues above your competition. 

But how can you ensure your content is exciting and compelling enough to capture your potential clients’ attention and motivate them to take action?

That’s where we come in. Content creation is part of our digital marketing services, such as our SEO Enterprise package, and includes the following:

  • Writing SEO-optimized articles
  • Maintaining a monthly target number of keywords
  • Conducting content type analysis
  • Creating content briefs
  • Recommending title tags and meta descriptions

Title tags are elements coded in your web page’s hypertext markup language (HTML) to indicate that page’s title, which can also appear on the search engine results page (SERP).

On the other hand, meta descriptions are a relevant summary of what your page is about. They also help convince users that your page has the information they want.

Cosmetic Pay-per-Click and Video Marketing

PPC and video ads can help attract more potential patients and boost brand awareness.

Through PPC, you only need to pay when someone clicks or views your ads. This service allows your cosmetic surgery website to reach the top ranks on Google or partner sites quicker than organic marketing.

PPC helps increase your visibility and precisely target your audience, leading to immediate results.

You can also consider video campaigns for your cosmetic surgery marketing. They can help you reach your target customers, especially those watching YouTube videos. Similar to PPC, you only pay when users show interest.

What’s great about video campaigns is that they let you show video ads within streaming video content on YouTube and throughout the Google Display Network (GDN).

Since GDN can reach 90% of online users worldwide, promoting your services using video ads on the GDN lets you reach out to a broader market across millions of websites, including Google platforms like YouTube and Gmail.

Patient Engagement Is Key

Understanding how a potential cosmetic surgery patient makes decisions is among the most effective ways to engage them.

One way to do so is by optimizing your website, marketing material, blogs, and social networking space to address your potential patients’ questions and concerns.

If it’s an optimized website you want, you can turn to us to build it for you. You’ll have complete control of your site from the day we start building it.

More importantly, consider the best practices listed in the section below to help you engage with your patients better.

Best Practices for Patient Engagement

Through our online marketing services, we can help you engage your patients more effectively and even encourage you to interact with them in the following ways:

  • Delivering a personal touch from beginning to end when you engage with a potential patient
  • Establishing yourself as an industry authority through partnerships
  • Providing personal and timely communications
  • Providing reassurances with proof at all times
  • Using patient testimonials to show potential patients your offerings
  • Addressing your client’s concerns and questions honestly
  • Encouraging referrals from customers, especially when most of your new patients come from referrals

Telemedicine and Digital Convenience

Suppose your cosmetic surgery clinic is in California. Do your patients live far away, such as in Canada, Europe, India, or Japan, that traveling to and from your clinic is more of a hassle? Do you want to engage with them remotely instead?

If so, offering telemedicine, such as virtual consultations and follow-up appointments, can help improve your appeal and customer service.

Since telemedicine and digital convenience are services you can offer to patients, we recommend the following features to help you engage with your patients digitally:

  • Online scheduler: This tool can help streamline and automate your processes and be tailored to your patient’s understanding.
  • Online forms linked to your practice management system (PMS): This feature not only allows your front office to collect patient information automatically. Such forms can also simplify the requirements you need to collect from your patients.
  • Telemedicine: Virtual consultations can help save time and boost your production.
  • Digital payment: As fewer customers opt to pay using checks and traditional snail mail, consider offering online payments as a transaction method.
  • Recall and follow-up: This feature can help increase productivity by streamlining and automating follow-up reminders and recalls in your digital communication.

Additionally, if your clinic doesn’t have a customer relationship management (CRM) system, we suggest you have one. This way, we can easily link it to our conversion tracking system.

Some standard features of CRM software are as follows:

  • Store contact information of customers and prospects
  • Identify sales opportunities
  • Manage marketing campaigns
  • Record service issues

Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Will Continue Evolving Into Next Year and Beyond

As you promote your cosmetic surgery practice online, you may see more plastic surgeons doing the same thing, and PPC costs may also increase.

Plus, TikTok’s maturity as a platform will likely draw older demographics, which typically comprise a large market for cosmetic surgery. You’ll probably see TikTok develop into a more attractive platform for promoting your practice.

Similarly, we must expect your cosmetic surgery practice’s marketing strategies and techniques to continue evolving. What works for you today may no longer be as effective tomorrow.

Despite these challenges, our online marketing solutions will continue bringing the leads into your clinic. By doing so, we can help you cut off other expensive and time-consuming marketing activities.

Contact us for a pitch-free consultation, and find out how we can help you gain a steady flow of leads.

Keeping Up With the Latest Trends

Whether you’re a startup in the cosmetic surgery industry or looking to take your practice to the next level, keeping up with the latest cosmetic surgery marketing trends is crucial. This is not only important for remaining competitive and achieving long-term success but also for survival in the industry.

More consumers than ever before are turning to online channels to research procedures and book appointments. That’s why effective online marketing has become essential for many successful cosmetic surgery marketing strategies.

If you want to attract more customers, maximize your reach, and build a strong brand identity, consider leveraging online marketing tools like search engines, social media, and blogs.

Our digital marketing services can help deliver the big numbers for your practice. By connecting you and other healthcare businesses to customers needing your services, we can help you reach the best spots for less than the amount your competitors usually spend for lower positions.

If you want to know more about the marketing trends that can help your cosmetic surgery practice earn a steady flow of leads, call us for a pitch-free consultation. We’ll listen to you and talk about real solutions for your needs.

Call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected]. Are you in California? Visit us at 2450 Colorado Avenue, Suite 100E Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Google Ads for Plastic Surgery

If you’re looking for a digital marketing tool to advertise your plastic surgery practice, Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords and Google AdWords Express) could be a powerful solution.

And why wouldn’t it be when it allows you to quickly reach potential patients and promote your clinic’s services through targeted ads across various platforms, including Google Search and YouTube?

But while Google Ads can drive patient leads, consults, and procedures to your practice, it isn’t a magic wand you can just flick. Google Ads can be complex to learn and even more so to master.

Unfortunately, developing the expertise to launch a successful Google Ads campaign takes time— a resource you could have spent serving people looking for safe and effective reconstructive procedures to treat a medical problem, restore function, and enhance appearance.

Although you can circumvent this problem by tapping into the knowledge of digital marketing agencies, you may not know which one to hire. And unfortunately, only a few live up to their promise of unbeatable results.

So, what do you do? Do you sacrifice your time unraveling the intricacies of Google Ads? Or do you continue gambling your marketing dollars away with inept advertising firms?

Neither.

With Digital Spotlight, you’ll get technical specialists who can demystify how Google Ads works for you— without all that needless jargon— allowing you to design and take control of your campaigns.

You’ll also have a partner who doesn’t rely on guarantees but instead uses the advanced mathematics that Google does to deliver the outcomes that matter to your plastic surgery practice.

Just as there’s a significant difference between plastic surgeons in skillset and experience, there’s a noticeable disparity between digital agencies specializing in Google Ads. So, you must choose well and work with only the best.

And here’s how confident we’re the firm to take your practice to the next level: we’ll research, analyze, and audit your Google Ads campaigns for free before we even ask you to sign up.

Call (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected] to learn how our Google Ads management services can funnel a continuous stream of patients to your clinic’s doors — without breaking the bank.

Plastic Surgeons PPC (Pay-per-Click) Advertising and Google Ads Management

It makes perfect sense that if you’re the best in the plastic surgery world, potential patients will line up for your reconstructive surgery expertise and offerings, right?

Unfortunately, that isn’t always true. You’re likely reading this write-up because your competitors— even those less qualified— are landing more consultations and procedures than you.

But why is that? While there could be countless reasons why your booking list looks thin, it might be because your practice doesn’t have a robust online presence.

In today’s age, it’s not enough to have competitive offerings or cutting-edge skills to stand out. You must also appear prominently on the World Wide Web. 

After all, 97% of people rely on the digital landscape to discover businesses, products, and services. And if they can’t find your practice online, they might not even realize your clinic exists.

Here’s where our PPC (pay-per-click) advertising and Google Ads management services come in. Continue reading to find out why they might be the solutions your plastic surgery clinic needs.

What Is “Plastic Surgery PPC?”

To grasp what plastic surgery PPC (pay-per-click) is, you must first understand Google’s pay-per-click (PPC) advertising solution. 

With PPC, advertisers bid on keywords and phrases relevant to their target audience for a chance to show ads in Google search results. 

Although PPC advertising is a complex marketing strategy, its core premise is straightforward. When someone clicks on your ad, you pay. That’s it.

Plastic surgery PPC is a paid advertising model wherein you ask a publisher like Google to display your ads, promoting your practice and services, on its platform.

But as the name of the marketing strategy implies, you’ll only pay for the traffic your ads generate, or more specifically, whenever an internet user clicks, views, or otherwise interacts with your ads.

What Are Google Ads?

Although social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are excellent publishers for PPC advertising, Google and its Google Ads platform give you the best odds of reaching your target audience.

Why? Because Google Ads lets you utilize Google’s expansive advertising network through its four primary products:

  • Google Search: This platform lets you display your ads on the Google Search Network or Google Search Partners like Amazon.com and NYTimes.com, allowing you to promote your practice to searchers. 
  • Google Display: This Google product gives you access to the Google Display Network, which consists of over two million websites, apps, and videos, letting you reach over 90% of internet users.
  • Google Remarketing: This PPC avenue lets you target your promotional materials to “tagged” visitors. In short, it’s a way to reengage existing patients to act, such as booking a procedure.
  • Google Shopping: This product lets you showcase your brand, products, and essential information about your practice to people actively searching for your offerings.

Do understand, however, that while Google Ads’ diverse product options can help you reach the broadest possible audience, they add further complexity to launching a Google Ads campaign.

Choose the wrong product, and you’ll see how quickly your marketing budget vanishes. Here’s where we come in. We’ll ensure you find the right mix if you partner with us.

And we’re confident that we can fulfill this responsibility consistently. After all, we have a dataset built by investing millions of campaign dollars across almost 2,000 companies.

PPC vs SEO

While Google Ads can help your plastic surgery practice secure the patient leads, consults, and procedures it needs for growth, it’s not the only way to get the results you’re after.

Enter search engine optimization (SEO).

Like PPC advertising, SEO is a digital marketing strategy to improve your online presence. The difference is that the latter does so by organically (non-paid) enhancing your rankings on search engine results pages (SERPs).

While the SEO process can vary significantly depending on your needs, goals, and competitive landscape, ours typically includes initiatives such as the following:

  • Identifying high-value, return-on-investment (ROI)-focused keywords
  • Producing high-quality, relevant, and authoritative blogs and articles
  • Building domain authority (D.A.) via backlinks or referrals from industry leaders

The question is, “Is SEO better than PPC advertising?” In some aspects, yes. For one, PPC ads stop delivering outcomes once your campaign dollars run out.

Another is that many internet users don’t like sponsored results. Paid advertisements like Google Ads only pick up 30% of traffic, leaving 70% of people clicking on organic results.

So, should you skip out on PPC?  No, not really. PC has several advantages over the organic digital marketing approach, with the most significant one being that PPC advertising can improve website traffic and sales more quickly and effectively. 

In contrast, SEO efforts usually take around four months to a year to bear fruit.

How Will PPC Affect SEO?

Despite their difference, PPC and SEO share the goal of helping your plastic surgery practice attract more patients and land more consultation and procedure bookings.

Fortunately, you don’t always have to choose between the two digital marketing approaches. That’s because you can use both simultaneously. Doing so gives you a strong presence on paid and organic channels.

You can ask Dr. Richard Zoumalan, a Beverly Hills, California, facial plastic surgeon specializing in rhinoplasty (nose job) and facial surgery.  Through our SEO and PPC advertising services, he’s seen the following improvements:

  • 1,478% more leads
  • 43,700% more appearances in Google’s Top 3 rankings
  • 1,473% better click-through rate (CTR)
  • 314.46% better conversion rate

“I was never the least bit skeptical to work with Ash and the Digital Spotlight team. From the get-go, [they] seemed more knowledgeable and found errors that my previous company had done that put me at a disadvantage.

… [Digital Spotlight] took me to the first page of everything that I was trying to promote within a very short period of time… [They] are very responsive and very professional. I have zero complaints and only positive experiences with [them].”

Richard A. Zoumalan, M.D. | Richard Zoumalan, M.D., Inc.

Do you want to know whether a two-pronged digital marketing approach best uses your advertising budget? Talk to our experts by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

Why Is Google Ads Important for Plastic Surgeons?

In an age where many potential clients are likely on the web looking for services like yours, Google Ads stands out as an invaluable tool to market your plastic surgery practice.

Yes, Google’s vast advertising network is the number one reason why that is. Measurable and immediate results via an economical pricing model are a close second. However, Google Ads is so much more.

So, why is Google Ads essential for plastic surgeons? Here are two more benefits:

Google Ads = Top Lead Source

Having access to a broad audience is invaluable for building brand awareness. But what do more eyes mean for your plastic surgery clinic if they’re not from quality leads?

Fortunately, Google Ads also offers laser-targeting options. In other words, it lets you pinpoint for whom you want to display your ads based on several factors, including the following:

  • Keywords or search terms
  • Location
  • Interests
  • Demographics
  • Device types

This targeting feature ensures that the clicks you pay for are from your desired audience— the people most likely to make a phone call and book a consultation or procedure.

But it gets even better. When you enroll in our Google Ads management services, you’ll get to define a “qualified lead” for your plastic surgery practice— the only leads that will be important to us. 

Google: Your Key to Sustainable Patient Growth

When your Google Ads campaigns are optimized for lead generation, such as when properly targeted, your ads will be more effective at reaching your desired target audience.

Ironically, this effectiveness comes with a drawback. After all, the more clicks your ads get, the faster your advertising budget runs out, and the sooner your results will stop.

But not if you have us as your digital marketing partner. 

We’ve slashed our clients’ Google Ads spending and cost per sale by more than 30% and 23%, respectively.

With us, not only can you expect to see an increase in quality leads and sales metrics, which for some of our clients was as high as 400%, but your campaigns become more sustainable and profitable in the long run.

Google Ads for Plastic Surgery Requires a Specialized Approach

Do you know why many online advertising service providers fail to uphold their promise of unbeatable results? It’s because they’re content with providing off-the-shelf solutions.

But that’s not us. Just as we don’t treat two plastic surgeons the same, we approach every Google Ads campaign differently. We understand that a worth-your-investment Google Ads campaign requires a tailored touch.

To prove our commitment to providing bespoke digital marketing solutions, we’ll conduct research, analysis, and audits before we ask you to make a decision about your hard-earned dollars.

This way, we can optimize your ad campaigns for what you’re trying to achieve with Google Ads, your target market, seasonal fluctuations, regional variations, and your competitors’ strategies.

So, what are you waiting for? Schedule a no-pitch, no-obligation, and free consultation with our Google Ads experts. Call (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

How to Make a Google Ads Account for Your Plastic Surgery Practice

While you might think it unlikely, your Google Ads account plays a critical role in the success of your ad campaigns. After all, it’s where you’ll create your ads and track metrics.

Fortunately, creating one for your plastic surgery practice is straightforward. Here are the steps:

  1. Sign in to your Google Gmail account. Sign up if you don’t have one or want to use a dedicated account for your clinic.
  2. Visit the Google Ads homepage and click the “Start Now” button.
  3. Afterward, you’ll be asked to create a new Google Ads account or switch to a different Google Gmail account. Choose the first option.
  4. Provide information about your plastic surgery practice, including its name and phone number.
  5. Set up your billing information by choosing your billing country, time zone, and payment method from the dropdown menus.

We can also create an account on your plastic surgery clinic’s behalf. The good news is that you’ll be the account owner— not us. We’ll be the account manager.

This way, you’ll pay Google directly, allowing you to keep tabs on where your marketing budget is going. Most importantly, this setup lets you see how relentless our Google Ads efforts are.

How PPC for Plastic Surgeons Works

Dissecting Google Ads can feel like navigating a maze. Unfortunately, many digital marketing firms exploit this complexity to their advantage. 

Often, agencies will make it seem that PPC advertising through Google Ads is so intricate that learning its ins and outs isn’t worthwhile, leaving you with no option but to trust their expertise blindly.

Yes, Google Ads can be complex. However, unlike most online advertising companies, we will never ask you to surrender complete control. After all, partnering with us means that— a mutually beneficial partnership.

We understand the value of empowering our clients. That’s why, instead of asking you to “just trust us,” we show you through your Google Ads account and explain everything we’re doing in plain English.

In that spirit, here’s how PPC advertising for plastic surgeons works:

The Bidding Process in Google Ads

In a Google Ads campaign, you select specific keywords or search terms – words or phrases that, when searched by internet users, will trigger your advertisements’ appearance.

However, choosing a keyword doesn’t guarantee your ad’s appearance when the term is entered into the search box. That’s because you must first win an auction against others similarly targeting that word or phrase.

Fortunately, the Google Ads auction will typically have 7 to 11 winners, depending on the term. If you’re one of these lucky few, your marketing materials will show up on the first page of Google.

Our responsibility is to ensure you win those highly competitive slots by adjusting your bids. For instance, we’ll lower bids on keywords with an average cost-per-click (CPC) higher than your max CPC or budget.

How Google Determines Positions of the Ads

In a typical auction, the person with the highest bid takes the spoils. Luckily, this system doesn’t apply to Google Ads, giving you the chance to win an ad placement even on a limited budget.

Yes, your bid amount influences your ad placement. However, it isn’t the only factor that Google considers when determining the auction winners. So, what dictates your ads’ positions?

Here’s the equation:

Maximum Bid * Quality Score = Ad Rank

To get your ad’s quality score, Google looks at various elements, including the following:

  • Your ad’s relevance to your chosen keyword
  • The landing page experience or its usefulness to users
  • Your advertisement’s format (text, video, audio)
  • The ad’s expected CTR

Our job is to balance bidding the right amount and raising your ads’ quality scores. The better the quality score, the lower your need to bid on your target keywords.

How Much Does PPC for Plastic Surgeons Cost?

Giving an exact dollar value on how much running a PPC advertising campaign will cost your plastic surgery practice is almost impossible. After all, various factors can affect the price.

To explain, let’s assume that you’re targeting a keyword like “rhinoplasty.” As of April 2024, this specific search term has a monthly search volume (number of searches) of 90,500.

With a search volume like that, other plastic surgeons will likely also bid on “rhinoplasty,” hoping their ads appear when searchers use that keyword. But when competition is up, the average CPC is, too.

So, assuming you and your competitors have the same ad quality score, you’ll need to increase your bids to get a higher ad rank, which means higher costs.

Unfortunately, this example is but one of many. Other factors like your bidding strategy and keyword strictness also influence your total PPC campaign expenses, which may force you to raise your budget.

Optimizing Your Google Ads Budget

If you can’t increase your Google Ads budget without putting your plastic surgery clinic in financial jeopardy, there’s nothing we can do about that except work with what you have.

While this process can vary from surgeon to surgeon and situation to situation, it typically involves the following initiatives:

  • Reallocating funds from a campaign not fully utilizing your budget to a more performing campaign with a higher return on investment
  • Focusing our optimizations on profitable campaigns or ones with good cost-per-conversion
  • Setting up a converting campaign, wherein we target converting ads with the lowest cost-per-conversion

It’s for this reason that we offer free consultations and audits. By understanding your plastic surgery practice intimately, we can help you set an appropriate budget to get your desired results.

You can count on us to be forthright if we can’t make things work. We would rather let you walk away than waste your time and, more importantly, your hard-earned money.

After all, we only work with clients we’re confident— up to the decimal place— for whom we can deliver qualified leads and unbeatable return on investment (ROI).

Common Issues Inherent to Plastic Surgery PPC

PPC advertising is one of the most cost-effective solutions to giving your plastic surgery practice instant and guaranteed online traffic.

However, it’s far from perfect. Like any digital marketing strategy, pay-per-click advertising has drawbacks that you must consider before investing your hard-earned money.

Below are some disadvantages of PPC: 

  • PPC can be expensive: Yes, a PPC model means you only pay per click. However, you’ll pay more for those clicks as competition for your target keywords becomes fiercer. 
  • PPC ads can be copied: Platforms like Google Ads let you export your campaigns. Unfortunately, this feature makes it easy for competitors to duplicate your strategy and outbid you.
  • PPC keeps evolving: One of the most significant cons of PPC advertising is that it’s a constant game of catch-up. Updates happen often, and some can render working campaigns ineffective.

Here’s where we come in to minimize these pitfalls. When you hire us for your plastic surgery marketing needs, you’ll get a digital advertising firm that Google trusts.

So, what does this mean for you? Your campaigns will be optimized using non-public data and beta features straight from Google, ensuring your ads match current trends, are tailored to your objectives, and are future-update-proof.

What Are Some Typical Results for a Plastic Surgery PPC Campaign?

While we don’t like tooting our own horn, we have a 95.67% client retention rate. You might think this statistic is because we trap plastic surgeons in long-term contracts. But you’d be wrong.

Clients stay with us because we’re a digital marketing agency that delivers more leads, lower acquisition costs, and better ROI— results that they wouldn’t get anywhere else.

Here’s what you can expect when you choose us to handle your plastic surgery PPC campaign:

  • Reduce your wasted Google Ads spending and slash campaign costs by over 30%
  • Lower your cost per sale by 23%
  • Improve your lead and sales numbers by 83%

Why Google Ads?

Google isn’t the only platform that uses a pay-per-click model. So, why should you or any plastic surgeon choose the Google Ads platform? Short answer: Google Ads’ precise targeting helps you connect with the right audience at the right time.

Unfortunately, listing everything that makes the search engine giant a better marketing avenue will require an entirely separate write-up altogether— there’s just so much.

So, let’s stick to the most impactful ones, shall we?

Plastic Surgery Ads Appear First in Google Search Results

When you type in a keyword like “breast augmentation Los Angeles,” for example, you’ll receive results that are most relevant to it. The first four links will typically be ads or “sponsored” results.

Why is appearing on top of search engine results pages critical for plastic surgery marketing? Because the top three get 75.1% of the clicks. In other words, the top results get more patient leads.

Google Ads Enable Keyword Selection

If your plastic surgery practice offers liposuctions and tummy tucks but not facelifts and botox, you wouldn’t want your ads to appear for internet users seeking information about the latter procedures.

Why? Simple: you don’t want to be paying for the facelift- and botox-related clicks, wasting your marketing dollars on people who won’t translate to additional leads and bookings for your clinic.

Fortunately, Google Ads lets you choose the specific keywords based on the searches you want your ad to appear in, allowing you to target search terms related to your services and relevant to your desired audience.

Potential for High ROI and Effective Targeting

What do you specialize in? Do you focus more on cosmetic surgeries or reconstructive ones? Like keyword selection, audience targeting based on your specialization is a critical aspect of a successful Google Ads campaign.

The wonderful news is that Google Ads provides precise targeting capabilities, letting you broadcast your message to people who are more likely to be interested in what you offer, hence maximizing your investment.

Google Ads’ Influence on Consumer Behavior

You can be a trailblazer in the industry and have the most competitive services in plastic surgery. But none of that matters if you don’t appear on the first page of Google.

However, the reverse is also true. Your practice can build reputation and credibility and get on potential patients’ radars by consistently appearing on top of the search results through targeted ads.

After all, when Google thinks your promotional materials deserve to be on its first page, searchers can’t help but believe you’re the #1 brand— what we call the “Google halo.”

Bid on Chosen Keywords and Set a Monthly Budget With Google Ads

Some keywords are expensive, and bidding on them can quickly drain your marketing dollars. However, when your budget runs out, so do the results.

Thankfully, Google Ads lets you set monthly, even daily, limits for your campaigns, giving you control over your advertising budget and ensuring your plastic surgery practice gets the most out of your marketing spend.

Google Ads Offer Precise Targeting, a Major Advantage Over Print Advertising

Traditional marketing techniques like print advertising, while they can still help you promote your practice and services, have become less favored due to the advent of digital advertising.

And there’s a reason for that: targeting. Whether you want to target users based on their location, online behavior, or device type, Google Ads gives you the tools to tailor your ads to a specific demographic.

Unlike print media, wherein you’re only hoping that your message reaches potential clients, Google Ads’ level of targeting ensures you reach your desired audience at the right time.

Brand Awareness Grows As People Search for Keywords and View Your Ads

When your ads appear whenever internet users search for keywords related to plastic surgery, you’ll build brand awareness and familiarity with your practice.

After all, repeated exposure on the first page of Google raises the likelihood that people will think you’re the most authoritative voice on the subject.

Global or Local Visibility Options Are Available As Needed

Whether you want to target potential patients in your local area or reach a broader audience on a global scale, Google Ads offers flexible targeting options to suit your preferences.

With its geo-targeting capabilities, you can focus your ads on specific geographic locations, ensuring your marketing spend goes towards attracting users in your target market. 

Google Ads Boost Exposure and Website Traffic for Your Plastic Surgery Practice

Google Ads can direct eyes to your plastic surgery practice, giving it the traffic it needs to attract new patients, consults, and procedures. And that’s not a possibility; it’s a guarantee.

“What Can I Expect After Starting A Google Ads Campaign?”

Trusting an agency to launch and manage your plastic surgery practice’s Google Ads campaign can be a worrisome endeavor, especially if you’ve had bad experiences with doing so in the past.

But allow us to put your mind at ease. First of all, we’re honest. We will never ask you to sign up for our Google Ads management service unless we’re confident it’s what your clinic needs.

Second, you can expect our marketing efforts to be guided by math. We use advanced statistical analysis, modeling, and multi-variant testing — not gut feelings — to direct our optimizations.

Lastly, you can expect us to be always hard at work, refining your ads and looking for areas for improvement, all to give you unbeatable ROI and get you the results you’re after.

And you’ll never have to guess whether we’re meeting these expectations. You’ll see for yourself because we’ll manage your campaigns on your Google Ads account.

The best part about partnering with us? We don’t use lock-in contracts. You’re free to walk away if we cannot give your practice the patient leads, consultations, and procedures we said we would.

The Six Types of PPC Ads

Choosing to leverage PPC advertising into your plastic surgery marketing strategy is a no-brainer choice when you consider that it allows you to quickly promote your clinic’s offerings to a vast audience.

However, Google Ads offers various types of PPC advertisements, each with unique features and benefits, that can make your foray into paid marketing complex.

But don’t worry. We’re here to simplify things for you. 

Below are six types of PPC ads that are excellent candidates to maximize your limited budget and deliver the numbers that matter most for your practice:

Traditional Paid Search

When you think of PPC ads, what comes to your mind? You wouldn’t be wrong if you’re imagining advertisements that appear whenever you conduct a Google search.

After all, Google search ads appear on SERPs and redirect internet users to your website or provide information about your practice, such as its phone number.

The primary benefit of paid search ads? They utilize the Google Search Network and Google Search Partners, allowing you to reach a broad demographic and drive traffic to your services.

Smart Campaigns

Is your plastic surgery practice new and small? If so, consider Google’s smart campaigns. This tool automatically optimizes your PPC ads for you— perfect if you need minimal setup and maintenance.

But that’s not all. Smart campaigns display your ads or “promoted pins” on Google Maps, not just on Google Search, helping your clinic stand out across multiple channels.

Despite these features, we don’t recommend smart campaigns for your plastic surgery marketing venture. 

Here are some of the reasons why we’re not big fans of smart campaigns:

  • Lack of control: Smart campaigns don’t let you choose your campaign type, how they’re optimized, and where your PPC ads show up.
  • Limited targeting: The auto-optimization features won’t let you define a target audience based on your criteria.
  • Slower results: Unlike traditional Google Ads campaigns, smart campaigns can take several months to show results.

Performance Max

Managing a PPC campaign and providing plastic surgery services simultaneously can be time-consuming. So, why not unburden yourself with the latter by letting AI (artificial intelligence) do the work for you?

Enter Google’s Performance Max campaigns, a goal-based PPC tool that automatically optimizes your ads to become more compelling to your target audience— to the point where you’re getting 18% more conversions.

Unlike smart campaigns, however, we don’t discourage our clients from pursuing Performance Max campaigns. That said, Performance Max setup and management services are only available to our enterprise-level clients upon special request.

 Talk to our Google Ads experts for more information on our service package suites. Call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

YouTube Ads

Traditional text ads are effective, but YouTube ads are way better. 

But what if you want your marketing materials to highlight your plastic surgery expertise better or simply want to spice things up? You use a more engaging media format: YouTube.

YouTube lets you display your ads to the billions of users watching video content on the platform in various ways, such as the following:

  • In-stream: These YouTube ads appear before, during, or after a video and can be skipped after five seconds.
  • Discovery: These adverts appear as video results where your target audience discovers content.
  • Non-skippable: As its name implies, this type of YouTube ad, typically up to 15 seconds, cannot be skipped.
  • Bumper: These ads appear as short-form videos, usually lasting up to six seconds. They’re also unskippable.

Display Ads and the Google Display Network

Consider display ads if you want more paid media formats, such as images, flash, and audio, to add more character to your PPC ads, increase exposure, and direct traffic to your website. 

With PPC ads, you get to display your ads on the Google Display Network, helping you promote your plastic surgery practice to potential patients on YouTube, Gmail, and mobile apps.

Paid Social

There are over 5 billion registered users across various social media platforms. This is why advertising your procedures and services on social sites is something you shouldn’t skip out on.

Fortunately, like the abovementioned PPC ads, paid social media adverts also give you various benefits, including the following:

  • The option to display your ads in several media formats like image, video, and carousel advertisements
  • The ability to target specific audience segments
  • The opportunity to retarget and reengage internet users who have shown interest in your offerings, increasing the chances of conversions

The Anatomy of Google Text Ad of a Plastic Surgery Practice

Your message (the hook) is not as critical when you know for whom (the audience) to broadcast it. However, that doesn’t mean crafting your text ads should be an afterthought.

After all, Google text ads are opportunities to highlight your plastic surgery practice’s unique selling point, provide value to your target audience, and compel them to perform your desired action.

So, here’s a breakdown of the essential components of an effective plastic surgery text ad:

Headlines

Before we start dissecting the various elements of a text ad, here’s an example of one:

Not Getting Results with Google Ads? – Need Someone Better to Manage Your Campaigns?
www.digitalspotlighthealth.com/GetMore/Leads
Stop Wasting Your Marketing Budget. Google Premier Partner. Free Audit. Call
Services – Testimonials – Contact Us – Why Us
2450 Colorado Avenue, Suite 100E Santa Monica, CA 90404 – (+1) 310 879 8003 – Open

When creating headlines for your ad, we can include up to two headlines, each with a limit of 30 characters. Here, we include the most relevant keyword to appeal to your target audience.

In the example above, “Not Getting Results with Google Ads?” and “Need Someone Better to Manage Your Campaigns?” are the first and second headlines, respectively.

Display Path

Google Ads lets you use two display paths, each with a 15-character maximum. These paths represent the website you want your target audience to visit.

In the earlier example, the display path is “www.digitalspotlighthealth.com/GetMore/Leads.”

These display URLs (uniform resource locators) give searchers an idea of the page they’ll be on after they click an ad, providing additional context for potential patients and catching their eyes. That’s why we also incorporate your plastic surgery practice’s primary appeal.

Description

In the description section, which appears below the display path, you have up to 80 characters to provide more information about your plastic surgery services.

When creating your Google text ads, we’re responsible for showcasing your practice’s unique proposition and encouraging internet users to engage using a call to action.

In the text ad example, the description is “Stop Wasting Your Marketing Budget. Google Premier Partner. Free Audit. Call.”

Final URL

Here’s an interesting tidbit: the display paths are not actual URLs. Instead, they provide brief descriptions of the web page your Google text ad will redirect users to— the final URL, also known as the landing page.

How We Optimize PPC for Plastic Surgeons

You’ll find no shortage of firms offering PPC advertising services as more and more plastic surgeons like yourself realize the value of leveraging paid ads in their plastic surgery marketing strategy.

However, out of the countless service providers competing for your marketing dollars, how do you decide whom to trust? The answer lies in spotting a firm that can confidently present its blueprint for achieving online marketing success.

That said, here’s how we optimize PPC for plastic surgeons:

Picking Your Advertising Goal

What are you looking to achieve with a PPC campaign like Google Ads? Is it more website visitors? How about consultation and procedure bookings? 

Whatever your goals are, they form the backbone of our efforts.

That’s why we provide campaign audits at no additional cost. After all, it’s only by understanding your practice in and out that we determine what we must do to deliver your desired outcomes.

We Structure Your Campaigns and Ad Groups Around Keywords

An ad group is a set of ads that share the same target. It helps organize your PPC campaign and gives multiple ads a coherent theme. Our job is to ensure that your ad groups represent your message.

Are you more of a reconstructive surgery specialist than a cosmetic surgeon? If so, we’ll create distinct ad groups for the reconstructive procedures you offer, like cleft lip and palate repair, for example.

We Choose the Right Ad Types

Do you think someone suffering from aural atresia or a lack of an ear canal will appreciate an audio ad? Probably not. In other words, you must select the appropriate ad type to reach your target audience effectively.

Fortunately, we can do just that. Our love of digging into the numbers lets us excel at understanding who to target and how to encourage them to take action.

We Write Compelling Ad Copies That Showcase Your Unique Selling Points

Surveys show that two in three people already feel constantly bombarded by ads, and almost 60% of respondents agree that ads have little to no relevance to them. 

So, writing ad copies for the sake of ad copies only drives potential patients away instead of attracting them.

That’s why our digital marketing team has dedicated and skilled writers, editors, and proofreaders, ensuring we craft ad copies highlighting the unique upsides of choosing your plastic surgery practice.

We Limit Your Ad Schedule to Times When They Perform Best

An effective PPC campaign isn’t solely about creating persuasive marketing materials. It’s also about understanding your prospects and knowing when they will likely see and engage with your ads.

Hence, our PPC management process includes analyzing performance data to identify peak times and tweaking your campaigns to take advantage of these high-performing schedules.

Keywords to Include in Your Cosmetic Ad

Targeting the right keywords is one of the steps, if not the most critical, in PPC advertising. After all, your chosen search terms, when typed, trigger your ads to appear.

Fortunately, we leave nothing to guesswork. We have a sophisticated keyword selection process that includes the following initiatives:

  • Gathering an initial list of keywords relevant to your plastic surgery practice and target audience using various methods, such as:
    • Asking for the search terms you want to target
    • Identifying your competition’s selected keywords
    • Using industry-standard keyword tools like Semrush, Ahrefs, and Google Keyword Planner
  • Filtering the initial keyword set using the following criteria:
    • Quality or the keyword’s likelihood to lead to conversion
    • Quantity or the search term’s search volume
    • Competition or the keyword’s ranking chances

Distinct Types of Keywords

For many digital marketing firms, keyword-related optimizations end once they’ve identified the keywords they’ll target in your PPC campaign. But not us.

We go the extra mile and include keyword match types. This way, we can control who can view your ads, minimizing irrelevant clicks and maximizing your PPC budget.

Below are the different match types:

  • Broad match: Ads set to this match type appear even if a searcher misspells or enters a synonym. For instance, if your target keyword is “breast augmentation,” a relevant search like “boob job” can activate your ads. 
  • Phrase match: This match type triggers ads for searches that contain your chosen search term. For example, “rhinoplasty for teens” can make your ads appear for a “rhinoplasty for teens near me” search. 
  • Exact match: As its name suggests, this keyword match type restricts your ad’s appearance to a precise match. For instance, ads targeting “botox in Los Angeles” can only show up for “botox in Los Angeles.”
  • Negative match: Unlike previous match types, this one prevents your ads from appearing for searches containing your predefined negative keywords.

For example, if you set “cosmetic” as a negative keyword, your marketing materials won’t appear for searches like “cosmetic surgery.”

Note that we generally use the phrase match type. Depending on your unique goals and budget, however, we might utilize other keyword match types to get the results your clinic needs for growth.

Restricted Keywords to Not Include in Your Plastic Surgery Ads

Partnering with us means you’re signing up for a long-term relationship. So, it doesn’t make sense for us to take shortcuts and jeopardize your online presence.

For this reason, we take the time to ensure your PPC campaigns follow platform policies regarding advertising healthcare and plastic surgery, such as avoiding specific keywords.

With a Google Ads campaign, for instance, we exclude search terms related to unapproved substances, such as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), speculative or experimental medical treatments, and clinical trial recruitments (in some countries).

For an exhaustive list of keywords you don’t want to be included in your plastic surgery ads, visit the Google Ads policy page. If you want more information on how we ensure your campaigns meet compliance, talk to our PPC advertising experts.

Schedule a free consultation by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected]. You can also visit us at 2450 Colorado Avenue, Suite 100E Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Keeping an Eye on Conversions and Results of Your Plastic Surgery Ads

Yes, more patients walking through your plastic surgery clinic’s doors, consultations, and procedure booking signal that your marketing efforts are paying off.

But there’s a better way to tell if your Google Ads campaigns are maximizing your marketing dollars or if they need to be optimized further: checking the numbers — something we excel at.

We Keep Track of Measurements

How do we monitor your Google Ads campaign progress and measure your plastic surgery practice’s growth? We use industry-standard tools, including the following:

  • Semrush
  • Ahrefs
  • Google Tag Manager (GTM)
  • Google Analytics
  • Hubspot

Adding Google Ad Conversions to Your Plastic Private Clinic Website

We do our optimizations on your Google Ads account, letting you see everything we’re doing to get you the results you hired us for. However, that’s not enough for us.

We know that a successful partnership is only possible with absolute transparency. That’s why we’ll also set up proper conversion tracking and generate a tag for your plastic surgery website.

This way, conversion tracking lets you see which campaigns, ad groups, adverts, and keywords generate returns. On the other hand, a tag allows you to track conversions, such as a sign-up.

We Split Test Landing Pages

Landing pages are straightforward. They’re web pages where internet users are redirected to or “land” after clicking your ads. They’re crucial in turning searchers into leads, consults, and procedures for your practice.

That’s why we conduct landing page split testing. Doing so lets us strategically test and tweak your plastic surgery landing pages’ elements like headlines, calls to action, and images.

We Use As Many Extensions As Possible

Google Ads extensions let you add more details about your plastic surgery practice to your ads, giving them better functionality and improving visibility.

For example, the “call extension” lets you add your phone number to your ads, allowing internet users to call your plastic surgery clinic directly. Other extensions supported by Google Ads include the following:

  • Mobile Apps: Encourage web browsers to download your app.
  • Callouts: Add additional text to your adverts like “24/7 customer support.”
  • Prices: Display your services and their pricing.
  • Snippets: Let searchers select the most valuable information about your practice via predefined headers, such as the specialized plastic surgery procedures your clinic offers.
  • Sitelinks: Allow internet users to navigate to a specific page within your website.

Generally, we use the call, callout, snippet, price, image, location, and lead form extensions to help your advertisements attract high-quality leads.

We Maximize Ad Score When Creating Responsive Search Ads

Did you know that roughly 5.9 million Google searches occur every minute? Just imagine tapping into this extensive audience base! Doing so gives you more chances to drive people towards your plastic surgery offerings.

But how does one accomplish that? In our case, we focus on getting your ad rank as high as possible. After all, a higher ad score means you’ll win more auctions, helping your ads to show more.

We Target Mobile Users

Here’s another interesting statistic: 63% of Google searches in the U.S. are done through mobile devices. Our solution to driving these users to your plastic surgery practice? Optimize your campaigns for mobile devices.

This process includes targeting keywords preferred by mobile users and adding Google Ads extensions like sitelink, location, and call. 

We’ll also be tweaking your landing pages for mobile devices by making headlines clear and concise, eliminating pop-ups, and creating simple navigation and contact options.

Competitor Bidding

What better way to stand out from your plastic surgery peers and poach their prospective patients than to outbid them on their target keywords? If you want, that’s what we’ll do.

Fortunately, this strategy isn’t a hard-and-fast rule. So, if you don’t believe competitor bidding is the best use of your marketing budget, we’ll include their target keywords in your negative keyword list.

We Adjust Bids by Location Through Geo-targeting

Even on the digital landscape, it’s all about location, location, location. That’s why we’ll also optimize your plastic surgery ads to target specific geographic areas where converters are.

We Double Check Location Targeting

One of the advantages of Google Ads is that you can turn it on or off anytime, perfect for ensuring your campaigns are tailored to your desired targeting options.

Fortunately, we never consider campaigns set. We’re always checking. This vigilance guarantees that your adverts target potential clients within your target locations, reducing wasted ad spending on irrelevant areas.

We Don’t Forget Facebook Ads

Google Ads is great. But if you want to squeeze more patient leads, consults, and procedures out of your marketing budget, sign up for our Facebook Ads management service.

And you won’t regret doing so. You might even wish you leveraged Facebook Ads for your plastic surgery practice sooner. After all, delivering leads and sales at 30% to 70% less ad spend is something we do routinely.

We accomplish this cost-saving feat using our in-depth knowledge of Instagram and Facebook’s advanced features and our unique audience segmentation analysis.

“How Do I Measure Google Ads Performance?”

There are various ways to see whether your Google Ads campaigns are helping your plastic surgery clinic attract patients. One way is to check your Google Ads account— where you’ll see the wins we’re getting for you.

You can also check your Google Ads campaign performance through the monthly reports we’ll provide— summaries that showcase what we’re doing and what’s happening due to our marketing efforts.

Key Metrics to Track for Your Ad Campaign

We provide easy-to-understand reports, as we don’t hide anything from our clients. 

To help you judge whether we’re the real deal, here are some of the most essential metrics you should be aware of:

  • Clicks: The number of clicks or interactions your adverts received
  • Impressions: The number of people who saw your ads
  • Click-through rate (CTR): The rate at which internet users click or interact with your ads
  • Average cost-per-click (CPC): The average amount you paid per click
  • Cost: Your total ad spend
  • Conversions: The number of people who performed your desired action
  • Cost-per-conversion: The average amount you paid to get a conversion
  • Conversion rate: The rate at which people convert after engaging with your ads

The Significance of Partnering With a Google Ads Professional like Digital Spotlight Health

We’re not here to tell you that you cannot launch and manage a Google Ads campaign independently. That’s because that’s not true. However, there are upsides to seeking professional help.

Here are practical reasons why you should partner with an online advertising firm like us for your plastic surgery marketing:

Leveraging the Expertise of a Google Ads Professional for Your Plastic Surgery Practice

Developing the know-how to run an effective Google Ads campaign takes time. Partnering with a digital marketing professional lets you skip straight to the results.

Choosing Digital Spotlight, for instance, allows you to tap into over 15 years of managing almost 2,000 client campaigns and leverage the dataset gathered from them into your Google Ads crusade.

Finding the Right Google Ads Professional for Your Practice

Finding a Google Ads management service provider that will put your practice on top of the plastic surgery industry is easier than you think. That’s because there are clear signs — you only need to know what they are.

So, here are seven dead giveaways to find the right Google Ads expert for your plastic surgery practice:

  • They’re not salespeople: Google Ads professionals who live up to their title are more interested in understanding your goals than selling their services.
  • They have the credentials: The right digital marketing agency to manage your Google Ads campaigns is one recognized by Google. If Google considers them a partner, it’s better!
  • They give actionable advice: Plastic surgery marketing experts who want to help won’t be afraid to provide no-strings-attached guidance.
  • They have proof: Google Ads experts who can take your services to the forefront will have a long list of satisfied clients, case studies, and testimonials.
  • They’re confident: Online marketing professionals confident in their Google Ads management services will never ask you to sign a lock-in contract.
  • They offer something unique: The right firm to entrust your marketing dollars to will have a unique value proposition, such as a maths-based approach to Google Ads.
  • They’re highly sought after: Agencies worth your time will have publications and financial experts asking for their digital marketing expertise.

Fortunately, you don’t have to look any further. That’s because we have all these qualities and then some. Don’t believe us? Try us! Call (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected]

FAQs

  1. Is there an app to see what plastic surgery would look like?

Yes, there are various apps available that let you visualize the potential results of plastic surgery procedures, such as AEDIT: AI Plastic Surgeon for Apple devices and Plastic Surgery Simulator Lite for Android.

  1. What is the most requested face plastic surgery?

Facial plastic surgery trends come and go. For instance, rhinoplasty was the most prominent facial surgical procedure in 2019. However, cleft lip and palate repair took the crown in 2022.

  1. What is the most controversial plastic surgery?

The latest in the round of controversial plastic surgery procedures is buccal fat removal, which aims to give patients a more chiseled jawline. This procedure involves removing the buccal fat in your lower cheek and jaw, which are fat tissues responsible for making the jaw appear round and soft.

What makes this purely cosmetic plastic surgical procedure is that it’s permanent and can potentially lead to complications, such as prolonged post-operation swelling, muscle weakness, and saliva duct damage.

Plastic Surgery Ads

It’s no secret that leveraging the digital landscape is your best chance at driving more potential patients, consultations, and procedures to your plastic surgery practice.

After all, roughly 97% of people use the web to find nearby businesses, products, services, and, possibly, plastic surgeons who can help correct dysfunctions in their bodies.

Unfortunately, tapping into the power of search engines and social media platforms is always easier said than done— a sentiment we’re confident you can agree with if you’ve tried launching ads before. 

There are too many ad options and platforms to choose from, and developing the expertise to maximize your campaigns can take valuable time away from running your clinic. 

There are also likely countless digital marketing agencies in your area promising impressive ad returns on Google, Bing, Meta, and TikTok. But rarely, if ever, do any of them hold true to their word.

Here’s where we come in. We’ve mastered the maths behind bridging plastic surgeons and those needing them. Our leads-focused search engine and social media advertising strategies ensure you increase your client count and book more consultations and procedures.

And unlike many marketing agencies, we won’t promise impressive returns for your marketing dollars just to get you to sign up. That’s because we only take on clients who can truly benefit from our services.

So, instead of making grand assurances, we’ll audit your ad campaigns at no additional cost or obligation. This way, you’ll have all the facts needed to make a decision about your budget.

Leave your ads to us so you can focus on helping those who need your experience and skills. Book a no-pitch consultation with us by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

Online Marketing for Plastic Surgeons: Paid Media

Deciding to jump into digital marketing is the easy part. The challenging aspect lies in the fact that, for better or worse, you have countless paid media options to choose from.

Fortunately, we’re here to make things straightforward— narrow your choices to those that maximize your hard-earned dollars and deliver the numbers you care about the most.

So, here are some of the most prominent and cost-effective paid online advertising techniques you should consider for your practice:

Pay-per-Click or PPC

PPC, short for pay-per-click, is often synonymous with paid advertising. We even use the two terminologies interchangeably. That’s because PPC embodies what paid marketing is.

How so? PPC advertising involves paying a publisher, such as Google or Facebook, for digital real estate on its platform where you can advertise your plastic surgery clinic.

Think of it like paying for a billboard spot on the 405, for example. The difference is that you, as the name of the digital marketing technique implies, only pay whenever someone clicks or interacts with your ads.

PPC is cost-effective because it allows you to reach your target audience and only them much quicker than organic marketing methods like search engine optimization (SEO).

Display Ads

Yes, PPC search ads via Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords and Google AdWords Express) can give your plastic surgery procedures and clinic immediate visibility on search engine results pages (SERPs).

But if you want to reach more potential patients and book more consultations, consider display ads. That’s because Google’s Display Network, a group of over two million websites, apps, and videos where your Google ads can appear, can reach over 90% of internet users.

After all, advertisements can be displayed in various formats, such as images, video, and audio, and can appear on YouTube videos, Gmail, and millions of websites, including news pages and blogs.

Social Media Ads

With more than 5 billion combined registered users, almost everyone is on a social media platform. So, it makes sense that you should utilize social media ads to grow your plastic surgery practice.

However, a massive audience is just one of the many upsides of running ads on platforms like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and TikTok. That’s because social media ads also offer the following:

  • The ability to use diverse ad formats, such as image, video, and carousel advertisements
  • Precise demographic targeting, which lets you display your ads to the right people— ones who are in need and looking for reconstructive surgery
  • The option to showcase your experience and skills to individuals who have previously shown interest in your practice

Mobile Ads

When was the last time you searched for a product or service other than with your smartphone? Chances are your target audience is the same— they can’t remember.

So, why bother advertising your plastic surgery procedures and clinic on marketing channels where your prospective patients aren’t? Enter mobile advertising.

These types of adverts are straightforward. They let you reach and engage with your desired audience through mobile devices and apps with mobile-optimized advertisements. 

Retargeting Ads

While remarketing and retargeting have similar goals, they are distinct digital marketing strategies. The former focuses on re-engaging your existing customers to act, such as patients booking another consultation.

On the other hand, retargeting is about displaying your advertisements to individuals who have visited your website or have used social media platforms to interact with anything related to your brand.

If you want to increase your conversion rate and push your target audience down your plastic surgery clinic’s pipeline, consider retargeting via paid ads.

Native Advertising

One of the most significant downsides to running paid ads is that they don’t fair well with people. After all, the web is flooded with advertising, making people feel like they’re constantly drowning in ads.

But what if we tell you there’s a way to make your adverts not appear as promotional material? Enter native ads, a form of paid marketing designed to blend seamlessly with your publisher’s content.

 Although these ads typically appear with a “sponsored” or “recommended” text, they don’t disrupt the viewer’s experience, increasing your chances of driving these potential patients to your practice.

Paid Online Advertising Offers Major Advantages

Paid ads aren’t exclusively pay-per-click. Depending on your chosen platform, you might pay based on:

  • CPM (cost-per-impression): Under this model, you’ll pay for every one thousand ad impressions or user engagements.
  • PPConv (pay-per-conversion): With this structure, you pay whenever a user converts, such as booking a consultation or a procedure like a rhinoplasty.

With these pricing structures, it’s clear why paid advertising is a highly cost-efficient marketing solution. However, greater budget control is only one of the many benefits paid digital marketing offers.

Another, it gives you results quicker. Paid ads deliver your message to prospective patients almost instantly. In contrast, an organic solution like SEO typically takes around four months to a year to deliver outcomes.

Paid online advertising is also hyper-targeted. After all, these ads can be tweaked to only appear to individuals that match your criteria, such as location, interests, and device types.

Pull It Together

Paid media can be a valuable tool to increase the number of patients who walk through your plastic surgery clinic’s doors. However, determining which approach will be most effective for your situation can be complex.

Fortunately, you can leave that to us. After all, we use the same language publishers like Facebook and Google use— advanced statistical analysis, data modeling, and multi-variant testing.

This maths-based approach allows us to unlock your ad campaign’s full potential, ensuring it delivers qualified leads at a lower acquisition cost for your practice.

Find out how our paid digital marketing services can maximize your marketing dollars by booking a no-obligation consultation. Call (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

What Should Your Plastic Surgery Marketing Look Like Today?

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) had over 8,000 members, which accounted for 93% of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the U.S. (United States) in 2020.

In that same year, those surgeons performed approximately 6.8 million reconstructive surgical procedures— a 3% increase from 2019— and 15.6 million cosmetic procedures.

Fast forward to 2024, and there are now more than 9,540 employed plastic surgeons in the country. These figures highlight an irrefutable fact: the healthcare industry, particularly the plastic surgery field, is becoming increasingly competitive.

While traditional marketing avenues like word-of-mouth advertising can help you stand out— it’s how many of our clients came to know about us— you should consider focusing your advertising efforts on the web.

Why? Simple: the new patients your plastic surgery clinic needs for growth are likely on the internet, with around 94.6% of U.S. residents actively engaging in the digital realm.

What Is Trending in Plastic Surgery?

While TikTok doesn’t let you run ads related to plastic surgery, it has emerged as a significant influencer in shaping trends in this healthcare field, particularly among younger demographics.

Popular plastic surgery procedure trends on TikTok include the following:

  • Buccal fat removal
  • Jaw filler
  • Breast reduction
  • Brazilian butt lift (BBL)

However, alongside the surge in interest in plastic surgery procedures, several concerns have also emerged— ones that you should consider if you’re contemplating leveraging TikTok in your plastic surgery marketing.

These risks include the following:

  • Misinformation: TikTok has an abundance of content. However, not all of it is accurate.
  • Unrealistic expectations: Filters and edited images on TikTok can make people seek unnecessary plastic surgery services.
  • Safety concerns: Some might encounter unqualified plastic surgeons and follow unverified advice.
  • Mental health impact: Constant exposure to idealized images can negatively affect individuals’ self-esteem and body image.
  • Impulse decisions: People might rush into surgeries with irreversible consequences.

Marketing Strategy for Plastic Surgery

If you’re reading this write-up, you’ve likely worked with an online marketing service provider that promised you unbeatable results for your investment but never delivered them.

So, we understand how challenging it is to trust another agency— to trust us— after your awful experience. But here’s how we’re different: we don’t hide behind guarantees.

Instead, we outline our process for achieving our clients’ desired outcomes— in easy-to-understand English. In that spirit, here are some of the marketing strategies we use to help plastic surgeons like you:

Increase Your Plastic Surgery Clientele Through Enhanced Website Engagement

We don’t treat your plastic surgery website as a digital placeholder for your practice. Instead, we view it as your online front desk— an opportunity to attract potential clients.

That’s why our digital marketing efforts involve maximizing your online presence’s effectiveness in attracting and converting leads through better website engagement, such as:

  • Producing informative content that gives visitors insight into the field and the services you offer
  • Ensuring your website features a user-friendly design and is easy to navigate on whatever device your target audience is using
  • Incorporating high-quality visuals throughout your site to showcase your work, such as before-and-after photos of procedures

Utilize Pay-per-Click (PPC) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Strategies

If your practice doesn’t show up on SERPs, it might as well not exist at all. If you partner with us, you can be confident that your plastic surgery clinic does so prominently.

How, you ask? Search engine marketing (SEM). This digital marketing strategy simultaneously utilizes paid ads like PPC and organic means, like plastic surgery SEO.

With this two-pronged approach, we can give your practice immediate search visibility, plus the credibility and authority that comes with appearing on the first page of organic search results.

Consistently Employ Local SEO Tactics to Attract Plastic Surgery Clients

If you want to drive new patients, more consultations, and procedure bookings to your clinic, you must not ignore one of your most valuable traffic sources: your local market. Fortunately, we don’t.

Hence, our online marketing approach includes local search optimization techniques, such as the following:

  • Targeting keywords relevant to your local audience and incorporating them into your web pages and content
  • Claiming and enhancing your online business listings on platforms like Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business)
  • Identifying opportunities for local NAP (name, address, and phone number) citations and reviews of your clinic

But why do we employ local SEO tactics? So we can ensure your online presence attracts potential patients in your area actively seeking plastic surgery services.

Leverage Google’s Local Services Ads for Enhanced Plastic Surgery Client Acquisition

Like local SEO, Google’s Local Services Ads (LSA) lets you advertise your offerings to prospective clients in your geographical area. The primary difference is that the latter is a paid digital marketing technique.

Nonetheless, LSA is worth considering, especially if you consider that these ads appear first— above organic results and PPC ads. They also come with a “Google Guaranteed” badge, enhancing your practice’s credibility.

Increase Plastic Surgery Clientele via Facebook and Instagram Marketing

As part of our comprehensive plastic surgery marketing process, we leverage the power of Meta platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram. And why shouldn’t we?

After all, our math-based approach, unique audience analysis, and expertise in running Meta ads have consistently delivered results at 30% to 70% lower costs than other advertising methods.

Ad Retargeting: A Novel Approach in Plastic Surgery Marketing Techniques

We understand the value of acquiring new patients for your plastic surgery clinic. That’s why our digital marketing process includes retargeting campaigns.

As mentioned, this technique involves advertising to individuals who have previously interacted with anything related to your brand but have yet to convert, encouraging them to reconsider your services.

Create a Plastic Surgery Facebook Group

Our social media marketing (SMM) services excel in driving a steady stream of qualified leads. But if your focus is on building a robust online community around your practice, we can also do that for you.

One way is creating and managing a dedicated Facebook group that fosters community engagement and trust among current and potential clients.

Content Marketing Equates to Effective Advertising in Plastic Surgery

Marketing isn’t about tricking people into paying for your services. Instead, it’s about providing value to your intended audience. And what better way to do that than by offering them high-quality content?

The good news is that our online advertising strategies include content marketing, spearheaded by our in-house team of editors, proofreaders, and content writers.

With their marketing expertise and informative blog and article creation efforts, we position your practice as a valuable resource for potential patients considering plastic surgery procedures.

Create Helpful YouTube Videos About Plastic Surgery

Did you know that roughly 77.7% of Americans who are 18 and higher are on YouTube? This figure translates to around 239 million people, a significant audience to which you can market your practice.

Fortunately, we also offer YouTube advertising services in various formats, including the following:

  • In-stream: Ads that appear before, during, or after a video— the ones you can skip after five seconds.
  • Discovery: Media adverts that appear as sponsored results for YouTube users.
  • Non-skippable: Video ads that are 15 seconds or less and, as their name suggests, cannot be skipped.
  • Bumper: Short-form, non-skippable ads typically lasting up to six seconds or less.

Email Marketing Also Serves as a Potent Tool for Plastic Surgery Advertising!

Think of digital marketing as your expansive surgical toolkit. That toolkit includes various strategies like PPC, plastic surgery SEO, and content marketing.

While often overlooked, email marketing is still one of the most effective online advertising tools. After all, it lets you stay in touch with your ideal clients and keep them engaged. 

Conferences Can Get You More Plastic Surgery Leads

There are no ifs and buts about it. Attending industry events like conferences can help you generate quality leads and expand your plastic surgery practice’s reach.

These events allow you to forge partnerships with industry leaders, establish credibility, and, most importantly, increase your practice’s visibility among potential clients.

The Impact of Reputation Management on Your Plastic Surgery Practice

In an age where potential patients research your practice’s reputation online and read reviews from past clients, managing one’s digital standing is critical.

That’s why one of our responsibilities is to identify the culprits causing damage to your online reputation and craft a plan of attack to defend against these negative web properties and earn positive or neutral ones.

A Unique Selling Point Can Make Your Plastic Surgery Advertising Stand Out

What separates your practice from others offering plastic surgery? Do you specialize in any procedures like breast augmentation? Do you have competitive pricing?

Whatever your unique selling points are, we will leverage them in our plastic surgery advertising efforts by highlighting these propositions in the content we craft and showcasing them in the ads we launch.

For this reason, we offer free audits and bespoke digital marketing solutions— not one-size-fits-all strategies. After all, no plastic surgeon or practice is the same.

Co-market With a Relevant Practice

Who says growing your plastic surgery practice must be done on your own? Not us. After all, we believe two practices sharing marketing efforts can double their reach.

Our outreach team exemplifies this sentiment, pinpointing authoritative brands relevant to your practice and connecting you with them through link-building and guest-posting activities.

Utilize Direct Mail Campaigns to Generate Additional Leads for Plastic Surgery

Don’t get us wrong. Digital marketing tactics like email campaigns work. But let us ask, “Do you and can you read every email in your inbox?” Probably not.

Here’s where an offline advertising technique, such as direct mail campaigns, comes in. Unlike virtual mail, direct mail communicates your message to prospective patients better.

After all, personalized letters, postcards, and brochures highlighting your experience, skills, and services stand out in physical mailboxes, increasing the odds of being seen and read.

Referrals Can Get You More Plastic Surgery Leads

A simple marketing strategy doesn’t always mean that it’s less effective than a complex one. Case in point: many of our clients came from word-of-mouth referrals.

In other words, you shouldn’t overlook encouraging your clients to recommend you to others, such as family and friends. Why? It’s a potent avenue for acquiring quality plastic surgery leads.

Demonstrate Thought Leadership

Who do you think potential patients would trust more: a plastic surgeon with an extensive record of successful procedures or someone claiming to be the best in the industry without proof?

It’s a no-brainer. Most would likely consult the former. Suffice it to say that you must establish yourself as an authority in your field to get more clients, consultations, and procedures.

We make this objective possible in various ways, such as by creating insightful content, fostering ties via community engagement, and connecting you with industry leaders.

Avoid Purchasing Plastic Surgery Leads if Not Necessary

Many digital marketers focus on getting you clicks. Some even sell leads. While numbers do matter, you must remember that quality does, too. Think about it. What sense are leads that don’t convert?

Fortunately, our digital marketing strategies work in reverse. We maximize your budget and work to give your plastic surgery practice the leads you want— the people you believe are essential for your clinic’s growth.

What Is PPC?

The concept of pay-per-click advertising is straightforward: you display your ads on a publisher’s platform and pay every time someone clicks or interacts with them.

However, things can get complex once you look under the hood, which we’re sure you understand if you’ve launched a PPC campaign before. Let’s simplify it, shall we?

How Does PPC for Plastic Surgeons Work?

In a nutshell, PPC lets you buy your way to the top of the search rankings. In other words, PPC allows you to purchase online visibility for your practice and reach potential patients instantly.

In contrast, a digital marketing strategy like search engine optimization requires you to tweak elements of your online presence to match ranking algorithm criteria before you can rank.

What Is Search Intent?

If you’re a plastic surgeon focusing on reconstructive procedures, would you be happy if your marketing budget is being spent on clicks related to aesthetic surgery, such as liposuction, facelifts, and fillers?

Probably not. That’s the essence of search intent— the goal behind an internet user’s search and why they would click on a particular advertisement.

Understanding search intent is the cornerstone of any successful PPC campaign. After all, you’d want your ads and, by extension, dollars to lead to interaction from people actively looking for what you offer, right?

Fortunately, our love for mathematics and commitment to digging into the numbers let us excel at that— understanding who to target and giving them what they want.

Bidding on Keywords

Keywords or search queries refer to the terms and phrases users type into search bars. For instance, “plastic surgery in Los Angeles” or “rhinoplasty services near me.”

These keywords are what trigger your ads’ appearance on SERPs. Unfortunately, you can’t just choose a keyword and expect your adverts to show up. That’s because you must first win the right to use those terms.

Enter the ad auction. In this stage, you and others who want to use the same keywords make bids. Your ads will appear on Google’s first page if you’re among the top 7 to 11 winners.

Plastic Surgery PPC Best Practices

As a digital marketing service provider, we aim to ensure you win the bidding process. But how do we do that? Hint: the winner isn’t always the one with the deepest pocket.

Yes, your bid amount is a factor that affects your chances of winning the ad auction. However, it’s only one part of the equation. Google uses this equation to determine the winners:

Maximum Bid or CPC (cost-per-click) * Quality Score = Ad Rank

How does Google get your ad’s quality score? It looks at various elements, including the following:

  • Your ad’s relevance to your chosen keyword
  • The usefulness of your web pages, including the homepage and landing pages, to users
  • The format your ad is using
  • The expected click-through rate (CTR) of your ad

The higher your ad ranks, the better your odds of getting into the desired 7 to 11 slots. Our best practice? Raise your ads’ quality scores so you spend less on bids.

Perform Keyword Research

Identifying the keywords to bid on is one of, if not, the most critical steps in paid advertising. Fortunately, there’s no guesswork in what we do. We choose keywords based on the following criteria:

  • Quality or how likely a search using a search query will convert
  • Quantity or how many of your prospective patients are using a particular keyword
  • Competition or how easy it would be to win the bid stage

Use Google Keyword Planner

We use various ways to gather the initial list of keywords that we’ll compare against our selection criteria. These methods include asking for your priority targets and identifying your competition’s chosen ones.

Additionally, we use industry-standard tools like SEMRush and Ahrefs. We also receive valuable keyword suggestions from Google through its Keyword Planner tool.

Consider Keyword Match Types

Here’s where running a PPC campaign gets more intricate: keyword match types. Simply put, they determine which searches trigger your ads to appear based on how your target keywords were written.

To explain, here are the four primary keyword match types:

  • Broad match: Ads using this match type appear regardless of whether a searched keyword is misspelled or is a synonym as long as it’s relevant to the original search query.

For instance, a search for “boob job,” “silicone implant,” or “breast size increase” might trigger your ads even if your target keyword is “breast augmentation.”

  • Phrase match: This match type triggers ads for searches that contain your key phrase. For example, “rhinoplasty for kids” can make your ads appear for searches like “rhinoplasty for kids near me.” 
  • Exact match: It’s how it sounds— your ads will only appear when a user types your precise target keyword.
  • Negative match: Under this match type, searches that include your predefined negative keywords won’t trigger your ad’s appearance. For example, let’s assume your target keyword is “surgery.”

If you choose “cosmetic” as your negative keyword, your adverts won’t appear for searches like “cosmetic surgery.” However, they can still show up for queries like “reconstructive surgery.”

We generally use the phrase match type. However, this approach can change depending on your unique objectives and budget. That’s because, as mentioned, we don’t do off-the-shelf solutions.

Want to determine what keyword match type will best maximize your PPC investment? Call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

The Advantages of Using PPC for Plastic Surgery Marketing

There are many reasons we offer PPC management services, such as Google and Bing Ads— plenty enough that listing them all might require a separate write-up altogether.

But here are the primary reasons we recommend PPC advertising for plastic surgeons like you:

  • You only pay if and only if someone interacts with your adverts.
  • PPC gives you instant, guaranteed, and highly targeted traffic.
  • PPC campaigns are scalable based on your needs and budget.
  • You can stop your ads anytime, giving you precise control of your marketing dollars.

What Plastic Surgery PPC Advertising Isn’t

Pay-per-click advertising is an excellent digital marketing solution to get more patients, consultations, and procedure bookings. But before you sign up, you must understand that PPC has drawbacks, too.

For one, PPC can be costly. Yes, you only pay per click. However, each click can become more expensive as more people compete for the keywords you want to target.

While you might think this scenario won’t happen for a specialized industry like plastic surgery, think again. That’s because your competition can copy your PPC campaign settings.

PPC also isn’t a one-time thing. Platforms like Google Ads constantly change. A working bidding strategy that’s effective today might not be as effective when an update rolls out.

Lastly, while PPC guarantees traffic to your plastic surgery website, it’s less effective at doing so than other online advertising tactics like SEO. After all, only 30% of searchers click on paid ads.

Tracking and Managing Your PPC Campaigns

PPC is not a perfect digital marketing strategy. But there are ways we can minimize its downsides and maximize its advantages. For starters, we track and manage your campaigns.

Monitoring your PPC campaign’s performance lets us identify areas for improvement and make informed management decisions, such as choosing keywords with higher conversion rates and adjusting bid amounts.

Our partnership with Google helps with these processes, too. After all, Google lets us access data your competition will be hard-pressed to get their hands on, making it challenging for them to copy your campaigns.

We also get the first crack at Google’s new features, allowing us to stay on top of platform changes and give your plastic surgery practice the edge over your competitors.

In short, PPC has its challenges. But when you partner with an agency that relentlessly ensures your campaigns run as optimally as possible, like ours, you get more of the good than the bad.

PPC Automation

If you’ve previously launched a PPC campaign, you know how managing it can be time-consuming and complex. But are you aware that you can automate PPC ads?

From creating scripts to purchasing third-party tools that automatically adjust your ad spend and keyword selection, you have countless ways to streamline your pay-per-click ads.

The problem is that writing an automation code or learning to navigate the PPC automation software’s features adds complexity to the already intricate task of managing a campaign.

Here’s where we come in. Our PPC experts look at real-time data and use advanced statistical analysis, modeling, and multi-variant testing to optimize campaigns.

The difference? We’re always at the end of the phone. That’s because we know that the most successful digital marketing campaigns have a human component at the heart of it.

PPC Reporting Tools

Unlike many online marketing firms, we ensure you’ll have complete visibility of everything we’re doing, giving you the peace of mind to focus on what you do best: providing reconstructive procedures.

After all, every little thing we do will be on your account— not ours. We’ll also send reports to provide you insight into the returns you’re getting for your ad dollars from tools, including the following:

  • SEMRush
  • Ahrefs
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Analytics
  • Hubspot

Spy on Your Competition

Understanding your competitors’ PPC strategies is vital to staying ahead in digital advertising. We accomplish this task by leveraging tools that we also use for reporting and management.

With the information these tools provide, we can refine our strategies, identify lucrative keyword opportunities, and further optimize your PPC campaigns for maximum impact.

Branding Your Plastic Surgery Practice

As mentioned, there are over 9,540 plastic surgeons employed in the country. So, how do we ensure prospective patients seek your practice for consultations and procedures rather than another clinic?

Helping you establish a robust brand identity and stand out from other clinics is always a good place to start. Here’s how we leverage branding to enhance your plastic surgery marketing efforts:

Plastic Surgery Brand Messaging

Your message is less critical when you know whom to target. That said, it doesn’t mean you should ignore crafting compelling brand messaging altogether.

We don’t. That’s because we understand your message is an opportunity to convey your practice’s unique proposition while addressing your target audience’s needs and desires.

Fortunately, our plastic surgery marketing services include ad writing and content development, ensuring you establish brand recognition and build trust with potential clients.

Plastic Surgery Brand Visuals

As they say, “Clothes make the man.” This proverb also applies to plastic surgery marketing, as your brand visuals help shape perceptions around your practice.

That’s why we take the time to do our research first— understanding your practice— before we ask you to make a decision involving your hard-earned advertising dollars.

After all, doing so gives us insight into the preferences and expectations of your desired demographic, which helps us ensure your visual ads align with those elements.

Your Plastic Surgery Website

How often do you visit a physical store to ask about their products or services? Chances are you don’t. Instead, you would get as much information as possible online before leaving your house.

Your potential patients are likely to do the same. And where will they get the details they need about your plastic surgery practice? From your website, of course.

Why Is Your Plastic Surgery Website So Important?

You might think it unlikely, but you don’t need a website to establish an online presence and market your services. A Google Business Profile can help with that. So, why should you create a website or pay a digital marketing firm to make you one?

Simple: a website provides prospective clients with a platform where they can learn more about your services and expertise. In other words, a website is a virtual gateway to your plastic surgery practice.

Plastic Surgery Website Design

Like your ads, your website design must be appealing and inviting to your target audience. Otherwise, it won’t capture the reader’s attention and keep them engaged.

Plastic Surgery Website Content

Aside from providing the main content of your plastic surgery website, your articles and blogs are crucial in showcasing your practice’s unique selling point. After all, they help prospects understand the benefits of choosing your practice.

Before and After Galleries Are Your Best Testimonials

What better way to demonstrate the quality of your work than by giving potential patients a realistic portrayal of the possible outcomes of your procedures?

A gallery of before and after client photos can serve as visual testimonials, showcasing your expertise and helping instill confidence and trust in your plastic surgery practice. 

Hire a Professional to Create an Adaptive Website 

With website builders like GoDaddy and WordPress, anyone can create a hub for their practice, making hiring a digital marketing company for web development simply another option.

However, there’s a good reason you should spend the cash on professional web development: it saves you time— time you could’ve otherwise spent on other aspects of your plastic surgery marketing campaign.

Fortunately, our services include web development, from creating layouts and writing content to ensuring your website translates well to various web browsers and devices and procuring permissible graphics.

Plastic Surgery Landing Pages Are Where Visitors Convert to Leads and Consultations

As its name implies, a landing page is a page within your plastic surgery website where your target audience “lands” or gets redirected to after clicking a link, such as an ad or search result.

These web pages serve as touchpoints with potential clients. So, it’s no surprise that you must optimize your landing pages. After all, an excellent first impression can help turn visitors into leads, consults, and procedure bookings.

Landing Page Design

As mentioned, your plastic surgery website’s design helps convey your message and encourage action from site visitors. The same is true for your landing pages.

While your landing pages should align with your website’s overall brand scheme, they should also be tailored to a specific goal, such as providing compelling content or prompting users to book a consultation.

That’s because doing so maintains consistency and provides a seamless user experience, translating to better ad scores and helping increase your website’s rankings in SERPs.

Landing Page Promotion

Ensuring your landing pages create a positive perception of your plastic surgery practice is critical for converting passive browsers into engaged prospects.

However, all your work will be wasted if your target audience can’t find these web pages. Fortunately, you have various marketing channels to promote your landing pages.

From pay-per-click campaigns and social media marketing to YouTube adverts and email marketing, several avenues exist to help your landing pages gain online visibility and do what they’re meant to do— convert leads.

Have a Clear Call to Action

What do you want your site visitors to do? Do you want them to subscribe to your newsletter? Would you like them to book an appointment? Whatever your goal, your landing pages must communicate it.

Sure, a good page design can accomplish this task. However, a concise and compelling call to action (CTA) can guide potential patients toward your desired action even better.

Test Landing Page Elements

Many digital marketing firms will jump straight into optimizing your landing pages. But not us— at least, not mindlessly. We want to ensure that our work is the best move for your plastic surgery practice.

That’s why we take the time to conduct split testing, allowing us to systematically test and refine landing page elements like headlines, calls to action, and images to achieve maximum effectiveness in converting visitors into leads for your practice.

Plastic Surgery Blog: Attract Attention With Relevant Content

We don’t want to sound like a broken record. However, your articles and blogs are powerful tools for driving attention to your plastic surgery clinic and establishing your authority.

After all, compelling and informative content can effectively highlight your unique offerings and demonstrate your expertise and specializations to prospective patients.

Plastic Surgery Landing Page Content

As mentioned, landing pages are specialized pages. What the landing page offers should be compelling enough to users and tailored to their location to ensure higher conversion rates. 

The landing page’s content should be consistent with the messaging of your ads. It should reflect the specific services, promotions, or offers relevant to each location. 

If you work with us, expect us to optimize your landing page to ensure you get more leads for your practice.  

Simplified Plastic Surgery Content With Visuals

Have you noticed how we avoided using technical jargon throughout this write-up? That’s because while you excel at reconstructive surgery, you might not be as familiar with digital marketing.

It’s likely the reason you’re here in the first place. So, look at content marketing from your target audience’s shoes. Will they enjoy reading your content if you flood them with complex terminology? Probably not.

That’s why you should make your content straightforward— so that potential clients can understand what your practice is all about. Better yet, spice things up with visual aids to pique their interest.

Create Content for Niche Services Offered by Your Plastic Surgery Practice

No two plastic surgeons are identical. You might have specialties that help you stand out among your peers. Similarly, some of your audience will be more interested in unique areas of plastic surgery.

So, consider exploring niche content. Why? Because specialty blogs and articles can attract high-quality leads. After all, people reading these materials are already interested in the topic.

What Makes a Plastic Surgery Blog Great

The digital landscape is overflowing with mediocre content. Fortunately, you can make your plastic surgery blog great in various ways, such as using compelling language and publishing consistently.

But the best advice we can give you is to produce blogs that provide value to the reader. After all, doing so can encourage browsers to engage with your plastic surgery practice.

You Don’t Have to Write It Yourself

If you’re confident in your writing skills or want your blogs and articles to reflect your unique voice, we won’t stop you from producing your own content. That said, creating high-quality content can take time.

If you want to use this valuable resource elsewhere, such as providing consultations to potential patients, consider outsourcing to content marketing professionals like us.

Our digital marketing team will audit your existing materials, identify high-value opportunities, and craft blogs and articles that hit user intent. Call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

Social Media Marketing for Plastic Surgery

Incorporating social media into your plastic surgery marketing strategy is essential in today’s digital age, especially considering that people spend around 15% of their daily lives on social sites.

How Do You Use Social Media Marketing for Plastic Surgeons?

Social media offers various avenues to expand your reach, interact with your desired prospects, and promote your plastic surgery practice and its unique propositions.

For instance, social media platforms let you share external links, such as your blogs and articles, which you can use to educate and drive traffic to your plastic surgery website.

You can also run surveys to understand your clientele better, build relationships with prospects through engagement, such as comments, and demonstrate your expertise via before and after photos of procedures.

Most importantly, social media sites like Facebook provide detailed targeting options, letting you choose who to display your ads to based on demographics, behavior, and location.

General Plastic Surgery Social Media Marketing Rule

Yes, leveraging social media and its vast audience can extend your practice’s reach and foster meaningful connections with clients. But you shouldn’t mindlessly throw out organic posts and paid ads.

After all, success in social media marketing requires striking a balance. Enter the 5-3-1 rule, which suggests that for every 10 SMM actions, five should go toward being informative, three to engage, and one to promote.

Why, you ask? Because social media is a two-way street. Remember that social media marketing also involves providing value and building relationships— not solely selling your procedures.

Strategic Marketing Planning for Plastic Surgery Practices

Although social media is a marketing channel you don’t want to miss out on, you must define objectives— the reasons for leveraging SMM. Do you want to acquire more leads? Do you want to build brand awareness?

These goals are what will define your approach. Fortunately, we’ll get all that sorted out before you sign up, allowing us to tailor your social media content and ad campaigns to deliver your desired outcomes.

Policy Details on Facebook Ads

While you should strive to follow the 5-3-1 principle, it isn’t a hard-and-fast rule. However, social sites like Facebook have some that are. These policies ensure that your ads meet regulatory and ethical standards.

Overview

We’ll discuss Facebook’s policies on plastic surgery marketing on its platform in detail below. But to sum up, your advertisements must only target individuals who are 18 or older.

Guidelines

Facebook lets you display adverts on its platform, promote your procedures, and even offer wellness products and services. However, these adverts must adhere to specific guidelines. Here are the key points:

  • Targeting restrictions: Ads promoting weight loss products and services, such as dietary supplements and procedures, must target individuals at least 18 years old.
  • Approved procedures: Facebook allows your ads to promote various reconstructive and cosmetic surgeries, including the following:
    • Breast augmentation
    • Rhinoplasty
    • Skin rejuvenation
    • Micropigmentation
    • Gender reassignment
  • Exemptions: Some products and services are exempt from age-targeting restrictions. These include general well-being products, general food products, and cosmetic products like creams and makeup.

However, Facebook might also have accuracy, transparency, and user safety policies. Talk to us if you want to find out how we ensure your ads comply with the platform’s guidelines.

 Book a no-pitch, no-obligation consultation with one of our social media marketing experts by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

Email Marketing for Plastic Surgeons

Email campaigns remain a powerful tool for keeping your desired audience engaged. After all, over 4 billion people use email services like Gmail and Outlook daily.

So, when crafted thoughtfully, email marketing can complement your overall plastic surgery marketing strategy to target specific demographics and convert readers into new patients for your practice.

Email Converting Contents

Like paid ads, your email must grab attention and drive readers into action. While a captivating subject line and a compelling CTA can help you accomplish this task, segmenting is arguably the most critical.

Email segmentation means dividing your email list based on specific criteria, such as demographics and procedure interest. Doing so allows you to tailor your email content to those within the segment.

What Makes Email Marketing Work?

Despite the advent of digital marketing strategies that offer quick, widespread reach, like viral advertising, email marketing continues to be one of the best promotional avenues.

The question is, “Why?” Simple: email campaigns allow you to regularly communicate with your target audience, fostering trust with prospects and maintaining connections with existing patients.

By offering valuable, personalized content, exclusive deals, or other incentives, you encourage people on your mailing list to become leads, consults, and procedure bookings.

Patient Feedback: The Unmatched Power of Word-of-Mouth in Plastic Surgery Recommendations

Yes, your ads and content must communicate the arguments for why someone should choose your plastic surgery practice. Unfortunately, these promotions can sometimes come off as self-serving claims.

So, how do you convince your target audience that you are who you say you are? You get your patients to vouch for your services and recommend you to others.

Get More Reviews

As more and more people turn to online platforms to discover and evaluate plastic surgeons, harnessing the power of patient feedback is becoming increasingly essential for establishing authority and credibility.

That’s why you must remind and encourage your patients to share their experiences, such as by asking them to leave reviews, regardless of whether they’re positive or negative.

However, you should never buy positive online assessments or discourage criticism. That’s because platforms like Google consider these acts as violations regarding fake engagement.

Manage Your Reviews

“There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” In short, while unfavorable reviews might not always be ideal, they can still generate attention for your plastic surgery practice.

However, they can and will break your online standing if left unchecked. That’s why our digital marketing services include reputation management.

This process involves highlighting positive and neutral evaluations of your services and procedures and recommending P.R. (public relations) moves that will help drown out negative reviews.

Key Review Sites for Plastic Surgery Practices

We recommend obtaining reviews on your Google Business Profile since they significantly affect your rankings. But for the most part, focus on platforms where your prospective patients are.

By encouraging clients to review your practice on these platforms, you can maximize your clinic’s visibility and help streamline the review process for your target audience.

Augment Patient Testimonials With Other Third-Party Verification

Do you know what’s better than patient feedback? Votes of confidence for your practice as verified by authoritative third-party websites and agencies. 

It’s hard to trust what’s online these days. More so when it comes to reviews and information that could influence a prospect when making a potentially life-changing decision. To ensure accuracy, third-party verification from outside organizations could definitely help establish your practice’s credibility. 

Third-party sources could inform potential patients about your credentials, training, and facilities.

It also helps to display recognition and accreditations, such as certification from the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS).

Offline Marketing

While online advertising remains our primary focus due to its broad reach and cost-effectiveness, we won’t dissuade you from pursuing other avenues you believe are best for your clinic.

So, if you’re still on the fence about digital plastic surgery marketing, here are some offline techniques you can invest your advertising dollars in for the time being:

Print Ads

Like with digital marketing, understanding the target audience and identifying where they discover reconstructive surgery procedures and services is critical to a successful print ad campaign.

After all, selecting the publications that resonate with your desired demographic allows you to effectively reach potential patients, giving you more chances to promote your offerings.

Billboards

With billboards, you often only have seconds to communicate your plastic surgery practice’s unique selling points and appeal to your target audience’s interests.

But with a concise and impactful message, sometimes, those few seconds can capture the attention of passersby and convert them into growth-inducing leads, consults, and procedures.

Television

While television advertising can be costly, it may still offer value, especially if you get ad slots on networks from which many of your desired patients get their T.V. programming.

Radio

Radio advertising can be a good use of your marketing dollars in areas with heavy traffic congestion, like Los Angeles (L.A.). Think about it. What do you do when you’re stuck on the road?

Direct Mail

Email inboxes can get overcrowded. Direct mailers are an alternative channel and provide a tangible and personalized approach to keeping your practice top-of-mind among recipients.

Giveaways

Who doesn’t like free stuff? Use this to your advantage by doing giveaways that reinforce your practice’s brand and leave a lasting impression on your target audience.

Loyalty Programs

Implementing a loyalty program at your plastic surgery clinic as an offline marketing strategy can be an effective way to incentivize repeat visits and foster patient loyalty.

By rewarding returning patients, you encourage them to engage with your practice more and increase the likelihood of them referring new clients to your clinic.

What Kind of Rewards Should You Offer?

Whether discounts or free consultations, you must ensure that your rewards suit the preferences of your clientele. Otherwise, they won’t be motivated to participate in your programs.

Make It Simple

Aside from offering suitable incentives, you must also ensure your loyalty programs are straightforward, and the mechanics are simple to maintain patient interest and engagement.

Promote Your Program

It might sound like a no-brainer, but you shouldn’t forget to actively promote your rewards programs to existing clients and new patients, such as by displaying signage within your clinic.

Events: Finding Any Reason to Celebrate

If you want to raise awareness for your practice, reach new patients, and establish credibility within your niche, your marketing efforts must sometimes exceed the bounds of your plastic surgery clinic.

After all, attending and hosting events gives you valuable opportunities to engage with your community, showcase your expertise, and even network with industry leaders.

Cause Marketing

Nothing builds trust with your community better than participating in charity events. So, consider engaging in charitable activities, such as sponsorships, fundraisers, or donations.

Educational Marketing

Marketing isn’t solely about convincing people to pay for your services. It’s also about giving back by providing value. And what better way to accomplish this task than participating in events like seminars?

Anatomy of a Great Event

You’ll want to participate in events to enhance your plastic surgery practice’s reputation and cultivate lasting relationships. However, you shouldn’t join or launch functions just for the sake of it.

That’s because events that generate leads, consults, and procedures resonate with attendees and align with you as a healthcare professional.

Budgeting for Plastic Surgery Practices

Digital marketing can get expensive quickly, especially if you don’t manage your budget correctly. And it’s here that many plastic surgeons like you have struggled or, if you’ve launched a campaign before, failed.

How Much Should Your Plastic Surgery Marketing Budget Be?

It’s easy for us to say that you should have a budget of $X for a successful plastic surgery marketing campaign. Many digital marketing service providers do.

But the truth is that budgeting for online advertising can be complex. After all, factors like your objectives and desired results can impact how much you must invest.

That’s why we conduct free audits on your search engine and social media ad campaigns first. Because doing so lets us know what we need to do to give you:

  • Increased potential clients
  • More consultations
  • Additional procedures
  • The best returns on investment (ROI)

Refining Your Marketing Budget

When you partner with us, you can be confident that we’ll put your marketing dollars to good use, as we’ve done consistently for our other satisfied clients. On Google Ads, for example, we’ve:

  • Reduced average wasted ad spend by over 30%
  • Lowered average acquisition costs by 23%
  • Increased average lead and sale metrics by 83%, with some clients seeing up to four times the improvement

These numbers are possible for your plastic surgery marketing campaign, too. That’s because we don’t just wing it. Instead, we use math to manage and refine your campaigns.

And that isn’t just lip service. After all, you’ll see everything we’re doing on your account, including how relentless we are at maximizing your hard-earned dollars.

Plastic Surgeon PPC Campaigns: DIY vs. Agency

Hiring a digital marketing professional to run your plastic surgery marketing campaigns is an additional expense on top of the money you need to cover your PPC ads.

Yes, you can eliminate this extra cost by advertising independently— but optimizing your campaigns for maximum effectiveness takes time, and time is money. So, is doing it yourself really better?

It can be if you’re willing to dedicate your time to PPC’s steep learning curve. Otherwise, tapping into the expertise of PPC professionals like us is the go-to choice.

 Fortunately, we will never ask you to invest in our online marketing services if we’re not confident you’ll get the leads, consults, and procedures your plastic surgery practice needs to stand out from its competition.

So, if you’re ready for our candor, book a no-obligation consultation with our marketing experts by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

Hire the Plastic Surgery Marketing Experts

We’re not going to sugarcoat it. Your chosen digital advertising firm can make or break your plastic surgery marketing campaigns, so partnering with the right one is essential.

But how do you identify which agencies will deliver your desired outcomes from those that will only waste your advertising dollars, you ask? Here’s how:

How to Find a Good Agency

Finding a good agency is much more straightforward than people realize. That’s because there are telltale signs— seven, to be precise. These signals are:

  • Commitment to your goals: The digital marketing firm you should partner with listens to your goals instead of focusing on selling a service.
  • Third-party credentials: Good agencies are recognized by advertising platforms like Google. Great advertising companies are considered partners.
  • Actionable advice: Plastic surgery marketing experts who live up to their titles are willing to provide guidance you can use without asking for payment.
  • Client results today: They have a long list of satisfied clients. It’s as simple as that.
  • Self-belief: Online marketing experts confident in delivering your desired results won’t ask you to sign a lock-in contract.
  • A real point of difference: Like you, the right firm has a unique selling point, such as a math-based approach to plastic surgery marketing.
  • Innovation: Publications and financial experts seek the digital marketing expertise of a good agency. 

About Digital Spotlight

We’re a digital marketing agency founded by a pair of advanced mathematicians. This origin story also defines who we are as a firm — one that uses numbers to provide bespoke data-driven and algorithm-researched solutions.

So, if you’re ready to experience the Digital Spotlight difference and beat the online advertising game, book a no-pitch, no-obligation consultation. Call (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

FAQs

  1. What is the most requested facial plastic surgery procedure?

The most popular facial plastic surgery procedure varies depending on the year. In 2019, for instance, rhinoplasty was the most prominent facial surgical procedure. However, the most requested facial reconstructive service in 2022 was cleft lip and palate repair.

  1. Is plastic surgery PPC worth it?

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can be a worthwhile plastic surgery marketing avenue, especially if you partner with a digital marketing firm that can maximize your budget.

That said, PPC isn’t an all-encompassing advertising solution. Depending on your objectives and your practice’s unique industry situation, opting for other online advertising techniques like search engine optimization (SEO) might be better.

  1. What’s included in plastic surgery PPC management services?

The strategies involved in plastic surgery PPC management depend on your chosen service provider. Our PPC service, for instance, involves the following initiatives:

  • Website and campaign audit
  • A/B split testing
  • Keyword research and selection
  • Bid and budget optimization
  • Tracking and reporting
  1. Can I manage a PPC campaign on my own?

Yes, you can manage your PPC campaigns independently. The question remains: “Are you willing to allocate your time and money to find the most optimal campaign mix that will deliver your desired outcomes?”

  1. How do I choose the best keywords for my plastic surgery PPC campaigns?

Tools like SEMRush, Ahrefs, and Google Keyword Planner are good starting points. However, the best keywords we typically target are those from searchers interested in and ready to try out your services.

  1. What do plastic surgery ads look like?

The format in which your plastic surgery ads will appear depends on the type of advertisement you’ll use. Display ads, for example, can be in image, video, and audio forms.

  1. How much should I spend on a PPC management service?

How much you must spend on a PPC campaign will vary based on your objectives and desired outcomes. If you want an estimate, call (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected].

  1. Is PPC for plastic surgeons’ practices more effective than SEO?

There are several aspects in which PPC has the upper hand over SEO. However, the reverse is true— search engine optimization has advantages over pay-per-click advertising.

For example, PPC ads can give your practice immediate visibility, while SEO takes at least four months to a year to bear fruit. However, SEO is more effective at driving traffic, whereas PPC only picks up 30% of searchers.

Depending on your goals, your plastic surgery clinic might benefit more from one, both, or neither. Fortunately, you can trust us to recommend the best solution to maximize your advertising dollars.

  1. How are plastic surgery PPC advertising and Local Services Ads different?

PPC and Google’s Local Service Ads (LSA) are paid marketing techniques. The difference is that the latter is geared toward helping you attract a local audience.

Plastic Surgeon SEO

Did you know that plastic surgery is among the most well-known medical procedures worldwide? In 2021, plastic surgeons performed over 12.8 million surgical and 17.5 million nonsurgical procedures.

If you’re an experienced plastic surgeon, you’re probably offering better patient services than your competitors. But the online landscape may say otherwise, and those who aren’t as skilled as you may have a more prominent presence on the Google search engine.

Similar to a plastic surgery patient who has to live with an unsatisfactory facial reconstruction, you may have worked with a digital marketing agency before but ended up with substandard results that didn’t fix your issues.

But, like how these patients can get revision surgery, you don’t have to put up with such SEO results. You need an agency seasoned in growing the plastic surgery practices of specialists at the top of their field.

Look no further. Through search engine optimization (SEO), we have significantly increased the business of many surgeons and developed unique processes specifically for surgery centers, surgeons, and their practices.

We’ll work closely with your practice manager to develop and implement a plan so that you can focus on your expertise.

What Is Plastic Surgery SEO? And What’s Involved?

When people seeking plastic surgery look for a clinic that can fix their body defects due to injury or birth disorders and restore or improve the affected tissues’ function, you want your practice to appear on the first page of the search results. This part is where plastic surgery SEO comes in.

At the basic level, plastic surgery SEO is about ensuring that plastic surgery websites—preferably yours—appear at the top of the search results page when people search for information about plastic surgery.

And when it comes to search engine ranking, your domain authority can indicate your site’s likelihood of appearing in the search results. The higher the domain authority, the more likely your page will perform better on the results page.

Think of domain authority as similar to a world-class plastic surgeon’s reputation. When that reputation is positive, won’t you be more likely to look up to them as an authoritative figure in relation to your practice?

How Does SEO Work?

You know when you’re explaining to your patients how their operation would go, and you want them to understand without going into too many complex details that will probably just fly over their heads? That, too, is our goal. 

We won’t go into a long discussion or use complex words to describe how SEO works.

Basically, SEO is about improving your website’s rank on the organic (non-paid) search engine results pages (SERPs).

Sounds simple, right? However, executing SEO in the long term can be challenging, so you should work with an agency with the right strategy, skills, and experience.

That’s similar to how patients would pick a certified plastic surgeon with decades of experience and hundreds of satisfied patients compared to one just starting their practice.

Effective SEO isn’t just about filling your page with keywords to boost website traffic and organic search rankings, just like how plastic surgery isn’t only about improving your looks.

For us, SEO also involves deciphering Google’s work to uncover a pivotal change in the algorithm. We’ll capitalize on that discovery to optimize your online marketing campaigns, much like how plastic surgery can improve not just appearance but fix defects and restore function as well.

Why You Need Plastic Surgery SEO

Do a quick Google search for plastic surgery clinics similar to yours. Then, ask yourself, “What’s my edge over my competitors?” “Why should potential clients choose my services?”

You can offer affordable pricing, advanced plastic surgery services, or high-quality web content to get those prospects to pick you over your competitors.

But these features mean nothing if customers don’t have the slightest clue that your business exists. So, what makes SEO worth your investment?

Two words: domain authority. If Google thinks your website’s domain has more authority, you’re likely to reach the first-page rankings. In turn, you have a better chance of drawing attention to your products and services.

SEO for Plastic Surgery Yields the Most Cost-Efficient Leads When Highly Ranked

A correctly implemented SEO campaign for plastic surgery can help increase your leads while decreasing costs.

One of our plastic surgeon clients, Richard Zoumalan, M.D., whose website needed a facelift, contacted us for help.

After our initial SEO diagnosis and surgery, organic traffic to his website increased by 79.58%. More importantly, their leads increased by over 1,200% while the cost per lead decreased by 84.75%!

Not Yet Invested in SEO for Plastic Surgery?

Just like how plastic surgery cannot cure psychological issues brought by facial or body tissue defects, SEO isn’t a “fix-all” solution. However, SEO can benefit you depending on your business objectives.

If you’re unsure whether SEO is the right solution for your needs, contact us for a pitch-free consultation. You can also check our case studies on our website for real-world examples.

How Plastic Surgery SEO Benefits Your Practice

SEO can help enhance your plastic surgery practice in numerous ways. Let’s discuss these benefits in the following sections.

Drive More Profits

The higher your website ranks on the search results, the more people will see it when searching for your services. More visibility leads to more site traffic and online engagement, ultimately increasing profits as you acquire potential patients.

Increase Visibility

Our SEO solutions can help you generate more leads by increasing your online visibility. When your website is at the top of search results for the plastic surgery services you offer, more users within your target audience can discover your practice.

Increased Web Traffic

A properly executed SEO can help attract customers and gain quality web traffic. We can boost your organic traffic by performing on-page SEO to optimize your website’s pages, publish high-quality content, and optimize page elements like title and header tags.   

Improve Your Conversion Rate

Users will likely want to stay on a site that looks great, navigates easily, and has the information they want, which can increase conversion.

We can help improve your conversion rate using SEO strategies that enhance your website’s design and accessibility and create well-crafted content to optimize the user experience and convert more customers.

Build Your Brand

Dominating search results creates more brand awareness and builds your brand’s reputation. Users will feel more confident about choosing your practice when you have a solid and positive online reputation.

Plus, when you appear above competitors in search results, you send a message to users that you are a reputable brand and the number one choice in the market.

Lead Generation

Quality content marketing is among the essential elements of a plastic surgery SEO campaign. When your website is the top search result for things related to your practice, your target audience will come to you.

Adapting your plastic surgery marketing to current trends and updating your website with the latest industry news can help you generate more leads.

SEO Tools and Services for Plastic Surgeons

Just like how you need a reliable set of tools for your practice, we also use several SEO tools and services that benefit your plastic surgery business. These tools include the following:

  • Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business): This service can help enhance your clinic’s local online presence by providing listings on Google Search and Maps and keyword optimization for relevant plastic surgery terms.
  • Google Search Console: This tool helps you monitor and improve your website’s search rankings by tracking queries leading to your site, identifying site issues, and improving content performance.
  • Google Keyword Planner: This tool offers insights into what prospective patients typically search online by providing keyword suggestions, competitive analytics, and search volume insights.

Guide to Effectively Enhancing Your Plastic Surgery Website

You want your plastic surgery clinic to grow your practice and attract high-value patients, such as those needing reconstructive surgery to fix defects and other function issues.

With plastic surgery SEO, you have an opportunity to achieve both. Let’s discuss how it can help improve your website.

Starting With Your Website

How fast your website loads or how accessible it is on mobile devices can provide plenty of signals Google needs to rank your plastic surgery website higher. So, what criteria does Google use to place your page on the search results?

Criteria Google Uses to Rank Your Plastic Surgery Practice Website

When going for an SEO campaign related to your practice, we consider the following aspects for your website optimization checklist:

  • Page speed, or how quickly the pages on your site load
  • Core web vitals, such as page speed loading time, your site’s visual stability, and the time it takes to interact with your pages
  • Secure sockets layer (SSL), a certificate validating your site as being trustworthy and safe from hacking
  • Uniform resource locators (URLs or web addresses) containing your keywords to support good rankings and make indexing your site for search engines easier
  • Calls to action (CTAs) to encourage conversions, such as online purchases or calls to your business, among users

Plastic Surgery Website SEO Terms

Whether you do SEO by yourself or get an expert like us to do it for you, you’ll likely encounter a few essential terms while reviewing your plastic surgery website’s performance, such as the following:

  • On-page: Refers to everything on your website, including content, layout, structure, and metadata
  • Content: Includes your service webpages, blog posts, infographics, images, and videos that site visitors can view
  • Off-page: Includes directory listings and link and citation building
  • Technical SEO: Involves site speed issues, site security, structured data markup, and other technical tasks associated with plastic surgery SEO

Optimizing Your Plastic Surgery Website

After we develop a keyword strategy, you can check your plastic surgery website to ensure you’re taking advantage of all the ranking signals available.

Examine Your Website to Identify Areas for Enhancement

Auditing your website to identify potential areas for improvement involves various processes, such as the following:

  • Reviewing your content to see if it can be improved or optimized
  • Double-checking all of your site’s links going to other pages and out to other sites to see whether those links need fixing
  • Checking the crawlability (how easily search engines discover your page) and indexability (how search engines add your page to their index) of your site and other important pages
  • Updating your pages’ title tags
  • Adding missing meta descriptions
  • Adding internal linking to let visitors stay on your site longer

Focus on Structure, Engagement, and User Experience

When structuring your website’s architecture, we consider ease of use while prioritizing essential factors needed for patient acquisition.

For example, we must consider what should go in your site’s navigation bar to help streamline visitor use. If your plastic surgery practice includes cosmetic surgery, we can list “Facial lifts” or “Breast augmentation” as terms to help engage your users.

Other user experience elements to consider when designing your website include the following:

  • Each of your page’s potential as a front door when users land on a specific page that ranks highest for their keyword
  • Appropriate site maps to allow the search engine to easily find and index your page

Establish Your Expertise Through Plastic Surgery Content and Blogging

Setting up a blog containing optimized content can be a key factor in a successful SEO campaign. Some benefits of blogging plastic surgery content are as follows:

  • Blogs can help drive user traffic to your website.
  • Google uses a ranking signal that rewards websites that frequently update content.
  • Research-based keywords can help create engaging content as they can generate traffic.
  • Blogs can attract desirable inbound links.
  • You can create blogs to share news and updates about your surgical practice.

Web Pages: Ramp Them Up for Rankings

Other web page elements to consider to help improve your Google ranking are as follows:

  • A service landing page containing descriptions of your plastic surgery procedures, reasons patients should choose you, and clear CTAs in available methods, such as online forms and phone or email contacts
  • A location landing page if you have more than one office or surgical clinic, including the city, state, and contact information
  • A compelling “About Us” page containing ways people can connect with you
  • Strategically placed testimonials and reviews throughout the site as social proof
  • Bulleted lists and checklists throughout your site and a frequently asked questions (FAQ) page

Back-End Optimization

When creating a page or post, we include text that you want to appear in that page’s title and meta description tags as part of our back-end optimization.

Title tags are an essential ranking factor in Google, so using as many relevant keywords as reasonable within the character limit can be helpful.

Meta description tags don’t usually affect rankings, but compelling ones can entice people to click.

Enhance Google’s Perception of Your Website Pages Using Schema

Schema markup, also known as structured data, is a code you add to your web pages to help Google and other search engines understand your content better. It can help boost your plastic surgery SEO’s effectiveness and reward your practice with review snippets in the search results.

The code can be challenging to set up by yourself, so contact us to learn more or let our experts take care of your plastic surgery content marketing and development.

On-Page Optimization

We perform on-page SEO to optimize your pages to make search engines understand your website’s content and ensure that the content is relevant to your target customers.

Part of the scope of our SEO services is adjusting on-page optimization elements to help boost your site’s relevance on Google. These elements include the page’s title tag, header tags, and content.

Develop an SEO Content Strategy Based on Keyword Research

We can help you develop an SEO content strategy using keyword universe analysis. This way, we perform keyword research utilizing several sources, such as product listing ads (PLA), Google Search Console, competitor rankings, and other keyword tools.

How to Find the Keywords That Target Your Best Prospects

When determining the best keywords for your business, we look at three factors:

  • Quantity: How many searchers are out there?
  • Quality: How is the searcher likely to purchase?
  • Competition: How quickly can you rank?

Check Your Competitors’ Keyword Targeting

Upon your request, we’ll perform keyword competitor analysis and market research.

This way, we can check what keywords your competitors are targeting, including highly difficult ones. With this information, we formulate a plan to beat your competitors for their ranked keywords.

Most Valuable Keywords for Plastic Surgeons

Words like “Rhinoplasty,” “Facelift,” or “Silicone” may be related to the plastic surgery services you offer. But you may also want to target specific regions or personalities like celebrities or sports athletes. So, the keywords you value the most can differ from your competitors.

In this case, we perform keyword research to determine core keywords leading in the Google rankings and compile the terms relevant to your industry. A well-executed keyword research can help attract your target market and achieve your business objectives.

The Role of Blogging in Plastic Surgery SEO

We can help you post blogs to improve your site’s trustworthiness and authority and give other websites a reason to link to you. Blogs can contain helpful information like data and information that support other websites’ content.

In plastic surgery SEO, you can use your blog to reach your target patients.

For example, you may want to rank for “Rhinoplasty for bulbous nose” searches. When a patient travels across the country seeking a plastic surgeon with such a specialty, your blog is your opportunity to showcase your expertise.

Create an Engaging and Optimized Title Tag for Your Procedure Pages

Your prospective clients may want to learn more about the plastic surgery procedures you offer. You can capture their interest by having an eye-catching title on your procedure pages.

The title tag appears on the SERP when your page shows up on a user’s search. We can help optimize your page by adjusting its title tag, along with other on-page elements like header tags, to make your website more relevant to Google.

Create Detailed, Content-Rich Descriptions for Each Procedure

You know your patients are satisfied when your procedure achieves the reconstructive look they want and are happy with it. Similarly, you know your SEO content works when it provides the information your potential patients seek and gives your page a purpose.    

Thus, when writing content about your plastic surgery procedures, we help ensure it contains useful, information-rich content about each one of them.

Build Robust Internal Links to Your Procedure Pages

Solid internal link building can help distribute link equity throughout your site and improve the ranks of your plastic surgery procedure pages.

For instance, using breadcrumbs (navigational aids that let users track their current location on your website) can make navigating your site easier. These aids also let Google know your website’s hierarchy and help your pages rank better.

Local SEO for Plastic Surgeons

Local SEO services for your plastic surgery business focus on improving your rank on Google’s local search results. We consider several factors, like Google Business Profile (GBP), which contains your language, address, currency, and phone number, crucial in implementing local SEO.

How to Improve Your Rankings in Local Searches

One of the ways we can help improve your local search ranking is by setting up your GBP profile. This includes uploading photos, optimizing for multiple first-page rankings, and increasing visibility on Google for each of your branches with offline addresses.   

Enhance Your Procedure Pages for “Procedure Plus Location” Search Queries

Having well-optimized pages for all your plastic surgery procedures in locations where you offer these services can significantly help attract new patients.

For example, when your website has procedure pages, they should appear in the search engine results when patients search for terms like “Cleft lip and palate repair + city.”

Content Creation

Putting together a quality content strategy isn’t only about how many keywords we put on your webpage. Also, we can’t just place the same keywords on multiple pages on your site. Doing so will make these pages compete for the same search result positions and dilute your relevance and authority.

Rather, you must also consider why these words are placed there and whether your readers will understand. In this case, keyword intent is essential to help create meaningful, thoughtful content.

Video

We can use SEO to optimize your videos for indexing and ranking for relevant keyword searches on the SERPs.

Aside from written content and images, interactive elements like videos can give your web page its purpose and define the user’s experience while they navigate your page. Videos, together with text and pictures, provide the information, visuals, and interaction your potential customers seek.

After all, won’t your customers be more convinced when they see a demonstration of your plastic surgery operations and how they differ from cosmetic procedures than just reading about them?

Enhancing Your Website’s Credibility and Authority

You might think that targeting as many keywords as possible gives your page a higher chance to improve its credibility, authority, and rank. However, that’s not always the case.

Plastic surgery patients suffer if a nose job or reconstruction is overdone. They may even question your credibility. The same goes with SEO.

When you have too many keywords and other optimization factors on your page, Google might think it’s too spammy and cause your page to drop in the rankings.

Deoptimization is one way to help your page improve its ranking and credibility. By deoptimizing your page, we can balance optimizing your individual pages with your website and user experience.   

Monitor, Measure, Improve, and Repeat

Our SEO team constantly monitors and measures the progress of our tests on your marketing campaigns.

Afterward, we’ll send you a monthly account summary report to provide a detailed account showing how your site’s rankings have improved due to our SEO work.

We’ll also send you a progress snapshot email that lets you see how your most important terms rank in the search results.

Get Backlinks

If you want to boost your site’s domain authority and relevance for plastic surgery-related topics, we can analyze and help you build authoritative backlinks.

To determine your site’s authority, we measure it based on how many links and how authoritative the linking pages are. Domain and URL ratings help us see your website or page’s backlink profile strength. 

The Level of Expertise in Your Writing Is Very Important

Content dealing with health, finance, science, or anything that can lead your clients to make significant life decisions usually undergoes greater algorithmic scrutiny than other topics.

Thus, your plastic surgery content must demonstrate a degree of expertise with a low possibility of misinformation or discussion going against medical consensus.

Get Your Technical SEO Right

We perform technical SEO to optimize your website’s potential to rank in the search engines based on the keywords you want to target.

We do an initial SEO technical audit on your website to thoroughly analyze and uncover penalties and other technical matters, such as thin content, indexing and crawlability issues, and low page speed.

If necessary, we’ll also perform periodic technical audits to identify issues keeping you from ranking high.

Noindex Low-Value Archive Pages

Archive pages rarely provide value to search engines and potential plastic surgery patients. One way to omit these pages from the search results is to use the noindex tag.

Think of the noindex tag as an on-page instruction telling search engines not to index the page.

Ensure Breadcrumbs Are on All Procedure Pages

When your plastic surgery website has several levels of pages, such as multiple procedure pages, your reader can easily get lost and have difficulty navigating to what page they came from.

As mentioned, breadcrumbs are one solution to help ease your users’ navigational burden. This feature allows us to create a solid internal linking structure between your procedure pages.

Make Certain Your Clinic’s Website Meets Google’s Core Web Vitals Standards

Core Web Vitals is a Google tool that helps improve user engagement and business metrics. With this tool, your website visitors are less likely to abandon page load, and your page views and advertising revenues can increase.

Implement Technical SEO Strategies to Boost Your E-E-A-T

One of the last things Google wants is to have content authors adopting fringe medical views to rank high in search engine results.

To address this issue, we refer to the E-E-A-T concept, which stands for experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trust.

Google uses these elements in its quality reviewer’s search guidelines and has trained its machine learning models to determine your content’s level of authoritativeness.

With these elements in mind, we implement the following strategies, such as those we use for our SEO Enterprise package, that can help with our technical SEO work:

  • Keyword research
  • Content creation
  • Technical audit for key issues (including indexing issues, penalties, search engine accessibility, content issues, and link issues) and sitemap detail

Make Sure You’re “Up to Speed”

A website that loads slowly isn’t only frustrating for your visitors. Your plastic surgery SEO campaign can suffer, too.

Loading speed is among the elements Google considers when ranking your plastic surgery website for SEO.

We can help boost your site’s loading speed using tools like Google’s PageSpeed Insights. This tool rates page speed and provides prioritized suggestions on how to optimize your website’s speed.

Furthermore, the Google PageSpeed tool considers page speed as a ranking factor on desktop and mobile search results and provides different scores for both versions.

Optimize Landing Pages

As SEO experts, we continuously work to achieve the best results for your plastic surgery SEO. By optimizing your landing page, we can consistently improve your website to increase conversions.

Some ways we optimize your landing pages are as follows:

  • Periodically recalibrating link strength on keywords to optimize anchor texts and avoid over-optimization penalties
  • Expanding key term optimization by adding variations of targeted keywords ranked for past searches and likely to rank in the future
  • Putting no limits on how many keywords to optimize over time without increasing the monthly fee

Apply Basic Technical SEO Changes for Major Impact

Another way to rank better on Google is to consider implementing the following technical improvements:

  • Ensuring your website employs best practices in the HTML (hypertext markup language) markup of headers
  • Creating and submitting sitemaps to Google
  • Using your robots.txt file correctly (this file helps avoid overloading your website with requests)
  • Making sure the website is free from technical errors
  • Linking to essential pages using descriptive anchor text

Work on Your Google Business Profile

Your GBP (formerly Google My Business) is often associated with your reputation, so you have to work on it and maximize it. If you have issues with your profile affecting your ranking, we’ll advise you on how to fix those issues through our Google Reputation Management service.

Ensure Your Clinic’s Google Business Profile Is Fully Completed

Your potential clients will likely want to see who their plastic surgeon will be. They may also want to see your office’s interior and equipment. We can include this information on your business profile.

If your past patients permit you to share their “Before and after” pictures, we can include them in your profile. We’ll also ensure your listing matches the name on your signage.

Keep a Uniform Name, Address, and Phone Number for Your Plastic Surgery Practice

When filling out your Google Business Profile, we’ll help establish a consistent name, address, and phone number (NAP) for your plastic surgery clinic.

In SEO, we call this practice NAP consistency. This way, we use the same NAP format on the following:

  • On your website
  • In your website’s schema markup
  • On any social media or directory listings for your clinic

NAP consistency is important, especially in local SEO, as it helps Google and other search engines understand your business’ location and brand identity. When NAP is inconsistent, local rankings may be negatively affected.  

Establish a Routine for Asking for Reviews

Getting reviews for your plastic surgery practice can take plenty of work. Often, patients aren’t immediately eager to flaunt that they “had work done.”

Don’t fret. Your competitors are also facing the same predicament. What you must do is put a little more effort than the clinic on the next neighborhood block to accumulate positive reviews.

Aside from having prospective patients trust your clinic more when they see dozens of reviews, expect the keywords in those reviews to impact the keywords for which your practice appears in the map results.

Start Using Google Posts

Google Posts are a great way to share announcements and updates about your business on Google Search and Maps.

Although Google Posts won’t necessarily improve your rank in the map results, such posts may influence a prospective patient to consider booking an appointment with you.

Make Your Plastic Surgery Website MobileFriendly

Making your website mobile-friendly means it can look good and navigate well on any mobile device.

Suppose a customer on the road or riding a train is searching for a plastic surgeon on their phone. A mobile-friendly design can help make your website accessible on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices.

Double Down on Social Media

Showing off your work on social media is one of the most simple advertising tasks you can do as part of your marketing strategy. Backlinks can help connect your social media presence to your plastic surgery SEO services.

When social media users post your website link on their profiles, those in their network can click on that link to access your pages.

Don’t Set It and Forget It

After a successful plastic surgery procedure, your patient may need to return for follow-up aftercare. You may have to perform minor adjustments or check if the patient can resume some of their regular activities.

In the same way, once we finish setting up SEO on your website, you might think you’re done. But that’s not the end.

Google regularly makes changes to its algorithm, impacting how your website ranks in the search results. Such modifications can cause your organic visibility to suffer, resulting in fewer organic sessions.

One way to help address this issue is by performing keyword research. Our strategy involves targeting an initial list of core keywords during the first month. Afterward, we add more keywords from the second month onward, targeting more as these keywords get into and stay in the top 10.

Targeting new terms is important in keyword research because doing so lets your website gain tens, if not hundreds, of keywords ranking on Google’s first page over time.

Also, we’ll send monthly reports, which we regularly deliver to keep you up-to-date with your site’s monthly performance.

Don’t Let All Your Plastic Surgery SEO Work Go to Waste

Getting people to visit your website is one thing. But turning them into paying customers is another.

To help ensure you’re getting your money’s worth with SEO, we’ll include CTAs that get your website visitors to do something desirable for your practice, such as signing up for a membership or booking an appointment.

Hiring Experts for Your Plastic Surgery SEO Campaign

Here’s how we achieve excellent SEO results for you:

  • Our dedicated researcher browses through thousands of SEO articles to determine relevant trends and clues, no matter how tiny, which may lead to potentially significant changes.
  • After comparing your real-world issues with our dataset’s patterns, our team of mathematicians and specialists will perform tests until we identify a substantial change that we can apply for your benefit.
  • We work with web developers who make regular website improvements from the SEO changes we detect to help maximize the benefits you get.

What Is Included in Our SEO for Plastic Surgery?

SEO offers several benefits to improve your business, but some can benefit your plastic surgery practice in the following ways:

  • Lock out your competition: Your potential patients may not even find out about your competitors if you can keep rival practices away from the top organic search results.
  • Organic halo: People will likely see you as the top brand when your page becomes the best response to a Google search query.
  • Boost your organic search visibility: Our SEO solutions can help bring in leads from Google users actively searching for your healthcare products or services.

Choosing the Right Plastic Surgery SEO Partner

When looking for a digital marketing agency that can handle your plastic surgery SEO needs, evaluate it using this seven-step test:

  • Provides total commitment to understanding what you want to achieve
  • Is confident with its ability to deliver results
  • Offers actionable advice without any obligation
  • Is a Premier Partner and has the highest standard set by Google
  • Offers something different
  • Provides innovative research
  • Has clients who are happy to work with it

Why Choose Digital Spotlight for Plastic Surgery Marketing?

If there’s one word to explain why Digital Spotlight is the right agency for your business needs, it’s “Results.”

Plus, we have experience handling plastic surgery SEO, so we have the relevant data and skills to help you get the results you need for your practice.

One of our clients, Facial Plastic Surgery Institute, started working with us in 2018 under our SEO Corporate package. In five years, the client’s organic website traffic increased by a massive 8,010%, and their top 10 Google rankings increased by 415%!

The results our clients enjoy are why you should consider working with us. Call us, and we’ll show you how differently we do things before you even invest a dollar.

A Successful Plastic Surgery SEO Firm

Everyone wants to work with an SEO company with stellar credentials. We’re confident in our ability to deliver you results based on the following achievements:

  • 1,812 clients in 355 niches have reached Google’s first-page rankings
  • 79% of these clients have over 400 nonbranded keywords on page one of Google
  • Improved Google organic rankings have brought over $130 million of additional annual revenue to our clients

If we believe we can add significant value to your plastic surgery business, we’ll work with you. We guarantee that there won’t be any sales pitch. Instead, we’ll listen and talk about what’s realistic. Call 310 879 8003 or email us at [email protected] to start today.

FAQs

  1. Who is the Kardashians’ plastic surgeon?

Dr. Garth Fisher is the Kardashians’ family plastic surgeon. Some procedures the Kardashians have undergone under his care include breast augmentation and facelift. He’s been informally known to many as the “Plastic Surgeon to the Stars.”

Has your practice handled a celebrity client before? Are you planning to target such clientele? Call us, and we’ll provide an SEO solution that will fit these goals.

  1. Why should I prioritize local SEO for my plastic surgery practice?

If you want to make your business appear prominently in online vicinity searches by potential patients, consider prioritizing local SEO. These clients will likely prefer nearby clinics for follow-up visits and convenience.

  1. Why does a website for plastic surgery require a lot of content?

Plastic surgery pages often need plenty of content because one of the goals of plastic surgery SEO is to ensure your website’s content is relevant to as many patient searches as possible. The content must also be more authoritative and comprehensive than what your competitors have.

  1. What makes local SEO unique compared to SEO for plastic surgeons?

Some healthcare practitioners, such as plastic surgeons, cater to patients outside their local area. However, some prospective patients look for plastic surgery services near their residences. Local SEO can help capture these patients’ attention.

With effective local SEO, you can ensure that when a person searches for a “Plastic surgeon near me,” your practice’s website will appear at the top of the search results.

  1. Is it possible for my staff to manage SEO for my plastic surgery practice?

You can get your plastic surgery staff to manage SEO if they can. However, you may find it impractical to do SEO yourself, especially when most of your time and skills are spent attending to patients and running the business.

In this case, working with an SEO agency like us can help ease your burden of managing SEO.

  1. What amount do plastic surgeons typically allocate for marketing?

Your marketing budget depends on your business needs. Some small practitioners may set small budgets, while bigger ones may have deep pockets for digital marketing. What’s important is that the results you get should be worth the value you paid for.

  1. Can online reviews affect my SEO rankings as a plastic surgeon?

You want your patients to have a good impression of your practice. Therefore, positive reviews, such as those on the GBP platform, can help enhance your online reputation and boost your local SEO ranking.

  1. How do backlinks benefit my plastic surgery website’s SEO?

When your website has high-quality backlinks from reputable sources, search engines can tell it is authoritative and credible. This signal can positively impact your rankings.

  1. What’s the importance of keyword research for plastic surgeons?

Keyword research can help you identify terms prospective patients use when searching for plastic surgery services. Targeting these keywords can ensure your content reaches and is relevant to the right audience.

  1. Can I handle SEO on my own, or should I hire a professional?

Suppose you have little to no experience with SEO. You can still manage basic optimization, especially in a specialized field like plastic surgery. However, hiring an SEO expert will likely yield better results while saving you effort and time.

  1. How does SEO differ for plastic surgeons compared to other industries?

Some of the significant differences are in the keywords and target audience. Plastic surgery typically caters to individuals seeking reconstructive procedures, so SEO strategies must focus on patient concerns, local service availability, and relevant terms.

  1. What is the highest certification for a plastic surgeon?

When searching for a plastic surgeon, you must seek one who is board-certified within their field of practice. For instance, you can consult a doctor certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS).

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification, such as the ABPS certification, is considered the gold standard in physician certification.

If you have such a certification, talk to us to see if we can target keywords relevant to it to help improve your SEO campaign.

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