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CLIENT

Sarasota Surgical Arts

DISCIPLINE

Local SEO, citations, link building

SECTOR

Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery

MARKET

Sarasota, Florida

Google couldn't tell whether this was one practice or several.

Most cosmetic surgery searches never leave the map. Three listings sit above the organic results, and the practice that isn't in them is effectively invisible to a patient looking for a surgeon nearby. Sarasota Surgical Arts had the reviews and the reputation to be there, but its name, address, and phone number appeared differently across the directories Google reads. We fixed the record, built the citations and links behind it, and put the practice in the top three of the map pack on its commercial terms.

The Challenge

The practice was underperforming in local search for a reason that had nothing to do with quality of care. Google confirms a local business by checking its details against everywhere else that business appears online. Here, those details disagreed with each other, so the practice never earned the confidence a map pack ranking requires.

01 Name, address and phone inconsistent across directories
02 Addresses listed differently from one platform to the next
03 Thin citation coverage across the directories that matter
04 Little local authority pointing at the practice

The Inspiration

Nothing about the practice needed inventing. Dr. Sessa had eighteen years of surgical experience, thousands of procedures, and patient-choice awards behind him. The credibility a patient looks for already existed — it just wasn't legible to Google as a single, verified business. Local ranking is a confidence problem before it is a content problem, and confidence is built by agreement.

The Idea

We standardised the practice's details to one exact form and corrected every listing to match it, then built citations across the directories Google cross-references. Local links followed, giving the corrected record authority rather than just accuracy. Alongside it we published procedure content around the practice's actual specialisms and the service areas it treats, so the pages behind the listing supported the terms the map pack was being asked to rank.

TERMINUS

The practice now appears where cosmetic surgery patients actually look first.

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Top 3

Map pack placement on the commercial terms

10/10

Consistent NAP record across every corrected listing

3

Markets covered: Sarasota, Bradenton and Tampa

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