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+420% organic traffic

From page 4 to category authority in regulated healthcare

A telehealth provider was stuck on page four in a category where Google holds content to its highest trust bar. We rebuilt their authority from the ground up — and the credibility showed up in both rankings and bookings.

ClientHealthcare · YMYL
IndustryTelehealth provider
Timeframe11 months
Services
Content & KeywordsOff-Page SEOTechnical SEO
+420%organic traffic
Page 1for core condition terms
+96%qualified consultation requests
2xreferring healthcare domains
The challenge

In a 'Your Money or Your Life' category, the pages lacked credible authorship and citations, and a previous agency's thin content had eroded site-wide trust. Every condition they treated sat on page four — invisible to the patients searching for help.

  • No named clinical authorship or editorial standards
  • Thin, uncited content from a prior agency dragging down trust
  • Page-4 rankings for every core condition term
  • Few credible referring domains in the health space
The strategy

In healthcare, trust is the ranking factor. We rebuilt the program around demonstrable E-E-A-T.

01

Establish credibility

We gave every page the authorship and editorial rigor a YMYL topic demands.

  • Named, credentialed clinical authors and reviewers
  • Citations to primary medical sources
  • Clear editorial and medical-review policies
02

Restructure for authority

We pruned what was hurting the site and rebuilt it into authoritative condition hubs.

  • Pruned thin and outdated pages
  • Condition hubs with comprehensive coverage
  • Technical cleanup for trust and crawlability
03

Earn the trust signals

We built the off-page credibility that tells Google this source can be relied on.

  • Links from credible health and industry publications
  • Expert contributions and digital PR
  • Brand and reputation reinforcement
The trajectory
Organic traffic (indexed)
M0M2M4M6M8M10M11

Traffic more than quadrupled once trust signals lifted the condition hubs.

The results
Core condition rankings
Page 4Page 1
Organic traffic
Baseline+420%
Qualified consultations
Baseline+96%
Referring health domains
Baseline2x

Rebuilding trust signals moved the core condition pages from page four to page one and lifted organic traffic more than fourfold. The credibility work didn't just help rankings — it converted, nearly doubling qualified consultation requests from search.

They understood that in healthcare, trust is the ranking factor. The authority they built shows up in our rankings and our bookings.
Dr. Helena VossMedical Director, Caldera Health
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