SEO for Therapists: the Basics That Build Findable Practices
Google decides who counts as a therapist in your town before a single client does, and it makes up its mind faster than you'd like.
Google decides who counts as a therapist in your town before a single client does, and it makes up its mind faster than you'd like.
Findable practices book differently Your website says a great deal about anxiety and very little about where you actually sit. Search engines need both, stated plainly, on the same page, more than once. Get that right and the phone starts ringing about the exact things you help with.
Google works through your About page the way a neighbour works through your recycling bin. Counting bottles. Making notes.
It wants your town and your specialism, mentioned like you mean them.
Write "counselling in Leeds" once, in an ordinary sentence, the way you'd mention it at a bus stop. Then leave it alone.
You don't need to apologise for saying where you work. Naming your postcode on purpose, in writing, is the whole job.
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A practice near Bristol added its postcode area to three page titles. Nothing dramatic. No rebrand, no candid photo of anyone holding a mug marked THERAPIST.
Within weeks the practice had passed a directory listing that had sat above it for two years.
Nobody sent flowers. But the phone started ringing differently that month, from clients who'd already decided the practice was local before they called.
Three page titles. Two years undone. No flowers.
Fifty-eight per cent of UK small businesses spend under two hundred and fifty pounds a month on marketing, run solo, with no written plan.
None of this is shameful. A great many capable people are doing this alone, in the dark, holding a torch where a light switch would do.
You don't need a marketing department. You need three page titles done properly and a plan you could explain to your mother in one sentence.
Meta descriptions don't lift your ranking. Google skims past yours without a glance.
Clients read every word of it. That little grey sentence under your name decides between your booking page and the other practice's better line about anxiety.
Write it like you're describing yourself to a friend, not a filing cabinet. A tired reader is choosing between you and a stranger, on the strength of one sentence, at half past ten at night.
Keeping this ticking over yourself is entirely doable, if fiddling with page titles on a quiet evening is your idea of a nice time.
Handing it to a practice that does this daily works just as well.
Neither choice marks you out as the sort of person with a treadmill and a jumper drying on it. You get to choose the version of tidy that suits you.
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Search engines notice consistency the way a suspicious cat notices a new sofa. Slowly, then completely, then forever.
Say "psychotherapist in Norwich" the same way on every page. Stop rotating five job titles out of politeness, as though the search engine minds being bored.
It doesn't mind at all. It wants the same words, in the same order, said calmly and often, until it believes you.
Pick one title. Say it everywhere. Let the cat get used to the sofa.
See exactly where your practice is losing clients to a better sentence and a tidier page title. score your practice
The best practitioners always find their way here. We have a story garden, a listening wind and a visual river waiting to make sense of themselves - they do, beautifully, in a twenty-five-minute conversation over a good coffee. How do you take it?
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