The Challenge

The medical field (particularly in regards to surgical procedures) poses its share of challenges for SEO, PPC, and social media marketing.
For SEO, the medical field is extremely reliant on expertise, authoritativeness, and trust factors so simple keyword optimizations are not sufficient.
For paid search, surgical procedures present a number of limitations and ad copy is frequently disapproved, leading to paused ad groups and a loss of visibility.
Because of Facebook’s strict community standards surrounding weight loss topics, it became difficult to share blog content through the platform. We had to get creative and seek alternative platforms to help us drive traffic to the site.

The Strategy

Our SEO strategy was based around building the expertise and authoritativeness for our client by:

• Increasing visibility on high authority medical websites
• Generating and managing client reviews
• Providing high-quality content on every page of the site

For our paid search strategy, we strictly managed the campaigns to guarantee that there was no lost visibility and we developed creative ad copy to ensure approval, generate a high quality score, and increase click through rates.

For our organic social outreach, we identified Pinterest as a suitable platform for our audience and created boards catered to our buyer personas. Thanks to Pinterest’s high volume of monthly weight loss, wellness, and health searches, we were able to target the bariatric surgery niche well by using weight loss-related keywords.