Dentist Nerds — Smart Dental Marketing
SEO Audit & Growth Report · Confidential
Audited: practicewebsite.com

Website Audit for [Practice Name]

Prepared for [City, ST] · Mon 2026

We reviewed every signal — page-by-page content, Semrush rankings, Local Falcon coverage, schema markup, Google Business Profile configuration, and the manual user experience. The audit surfaced the issues below. This report explains what's holding the site back, and exactly how we'd fix it.

Prepared For
[Practice Name]
[Doctor / Owner]
Report Date
Mon 2026
Tools: Semrush, Local Falcon, manual UX
Issues Found
3 critical · 6 other
across the site
Our Recommendation
Rebuild & Grow
foundation-first plan
Health Score Breakdown

Overall site health: 28/100.
Three of four pillars are in the red.

We graded the site across four categories using Semrush data, manual review, and Core Web Vitals testing. The numbers below show the percentage of best-practice items the site currently meets in each pillar.

Overall Site Health
0 50 100
28/100
Critical · Rebuild Recommended
Content Quality & Accuracy
18%
User Experience & Navigation
25%
AI Search Visibility (AEO)
32%
Local Search & Maps
42%
Semrush

Search Visibility

Where the practice stands on organic search performance today.

Monthly Traffic
organic visits / mo
Low
Ranking Keywords
target: 80+
Under 80
AI Visibility
cited in AI answers
Weak

Ranking under 80 keywords points to thin content and no keyword strategy — not a technical block.

Semrush

Authority & Backlinks

The link profile that drives — or drags down — domain authority.

Total Backlinks
high volume
Domain Authority
low for the volume
Cleanup needed
Toxic / Spam %
share of profile

Many backlinks but low authority = a toxic profile dragging the site down. Disavow & clean up first.

Biggest Priorities

Top 3 Weaknesses

The three issues doing the most damage right now — fix these first and everything else compounds faster.

01

Toxic backlink profile

High link volume but low authority — spammy links are capping rankings until they're disavowed.

Critical
02

Thin treatment pages

Service pages are too short and missing FAQ schema, so they don't rank or earn AI citations.

Critical
03

Weak local visibility

Outside the map pack across most of the grid — GBP isn't optimized for the target area.

High
Other issues we found
  • ADA / accessibility gaps (alt text, labels, contrast)
  • No keyword strategy — under 80 ranking keywords
  • Meta titles & descriptions need a rewrite sitewide
  • Underdeveloped organic search channel
  • Limited internal linking between service pages
  • Few recent Google reviews / GBP posts
Semrush

Local Keyword Rankings

Where the site ranks in Google organic search for the core local terms patients actually search.

KeywordGoogle Rank
dentist in [city]#—
dentist near me#—
dental implants in [city]#—
emergency dentist in [city]#—
dental veneers in [city]#—
dental cleaning in [city]#—
invisalign in [city]#—
all-on-4 in [city]#—
root canal in [city]#—

Source: Semrush organic positions. Replace each keyword's city + live Google rank per client (good = 1–3, amber = 4–10, red = 11+/none).

Content Gap

Keywords On Your Site You Don't Rank For

These terms already appear in your website's content, but the site isn't ranking on page 1 for them — fast wins once the pages are optimized.

KeywordAppears OnMonthly SearchesCurrent Rank
dental implants [city] Implants page 720 Not in top 100
invisalign [city] Invisalign page 480 Not in top 100
emergency dentist [city] Homepage 390 Page 4 (#34)
teeth whitening [city] Cosmetic page 320 Not in top 100
veneers [city] Cosmetic page 260 Page 3 (#28)

These are pages you already have — they only need stronger content, internal links & schema to rank.

Ranking Keywords

You vs. Local Competition

How the practice's keyword footprint compares to nearby competitors.

This practice
48
Competitor A
210
Competitor B
154
Competitor C
118

Bar widths are illustrative — set each bar's width:% relative to the top competitor.

Local Falcon Grid

Google Maps Visibility

Where the practice shows up in the map pack across the local grid.

Keyword scanned: dentist near me
Top 3 in the map pack
Page 1 (4–10)
Not ranking (11+)

Average map rank 8.4  ·  Visible in 36% of the grid

Our Game Plan

How Dentist Nerds Fixes This

We don't believe in flashy launches that flame out. The plan starts with a strong foundation, then layers ongoing engines on top — each one compounding the last.

⚡ Start Here
01
The Foundation
Rebuild the website from the ground up.

What we'd do in Step 1

This is the heaviest lift — and the precondition for everything that comes next. We rebuild the entire website with a strong technical and on-page SEO foundation. Without this layer in place, the work in the engines below won't compound the way it should.

  • Rebuild the website. Start fresh on a modern platform with clean visual design, premium positioning, and a structure that reflects the full practice.
  • Fix every layout issue and broken link. Clean URLs, proper redirects, no placeholder or malformed links.
  • Lock in a strong SEO structure. Proper heading hierarchy, semantic HTML, clean internal linking, Core Web Vitals optimized from day one.
  • Add FAQs to every treatment page — written in patient language, structured for both SEO and AI search.
  • Schema markup on every page — Dentist, Physician, FAQPage, MedicalProcedure, AggregateRating.
  • Rewrite thin content & meta tags across every service page so each one can actually rank.

Why this matters: a strong foundation is what every other channel — reviews, backlinks, content, AI search — needs to actually compound. Skipping it means the rest of the work leaks instead of stacks.

What runs alongside & after — the ongoing engines
02

Authority & Backlinks

Audit the profile, disavow toxic links, then build quality backlinks, citations & brand mentions across high-authority dental and local publications.

TargetDomain Authority climbing month over month
03

Content Engine

4 strategic blogs per month written for AI search and traditional SEO — filling topic gaps and pushing ranking keywords past 80+.

Target4 keyword-targeted articles per month
04

Google Business Management

Hands-on GBP management: weekly posts, review responses, Q&A, photos, tracked with Local Falcon to dominate the map pack.

TargetTop-3 Map Pack for core keywords
05

Tracking & Reporting

Semrush, Local Falcon, GA4 & Search Console together — monthly reports show what's working and what to iterate next.

TargetMonthly reporting · always know where you stand
06

Foundation Upkeep

Ongoing technical SEO, schema, and Core Web Vitals maintenance so the rebuilt site stays fast, clean and fully indexed.

TargetHealthy technical baseline, every month