Aesthetic Clinic SEOa curriculum for clinics 32 modules · 8 parts · free to read
Figure index33 figures

Every figure in the curriculum

All 33 diagrams, in module order, with the caption each carries and a link to where it appears. Every one is drawn in SVG for this publication. None is a screenshot.

Overlapping orthographic planes drawn in ink and clay wash on cream

Figures are numbered by module. Figure 10.1 is the first figure in Module 10. Where a figure is referred to again in a later module it keeps its original number, so that a reference always points at one drawing.

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Figure 1.1The two columns of an aesthetic clinic. Almost every clinic website is written entirely in the left column, and every patient arrives holding the right.Module 01, What a clinic sells
Figure 2.1The three roles in an aesthetic clinic decision. They frequently overlap, and the person who says no is often the one who never visited your site.Module 02, Who decides
Figure 3.1The six stages. The first three are information searches, where a small clinic can compete cheaply. The last three are provider searches, where everybody competes at once.Module 03, The patient journey
Figure 4.1The five gates. A page can be perfectly written and stuck at gate two. Diagnosis before treatment applies here as much as it does in a clinic.Module 04, How search works
Figure 5.1The five layers. They apply simultaneously. Satisfying the advertising code does not exempt you from your own professional standards, and neither exempts you from medicines law.Module 05, The rules
Figure 6.1The three parts of a working proposition. The failure mode is an elegant sentence that excludes nobody and therefore decides nothing.Module 06, The proposition
Figure 7.1Demand against demonstrable competence. The top left quadrant is the one that wastes years, because it is the one that looks most attractive on a spreadsheet.Module 07, Choosing treatments
Figure 8.1Plan and elevation. Most competitor research produces only the plan, which tells you what is there and nothing about where to stand.Module 08, Reading the market
Figure 9.1A clinic site plan. Four or five top-level sections, every page with a single parent, nothing more than three clicks from the homepage.Module 09, The site plan
Figure 10.1The ten blocks of a treatment page in their correct order. A patient reads until their current question is answered and then stops, which is why the order is not negotiable.Module 10, Treatment page anatomy
Figure 11.1The six sentences. If a reader saw only this block, they would still know what the treatment is, whether it is for them, and what to do next.Module 11, The opening 120 words
Figure 12.1The four constructions. Only one of them both sets an expectation and survives the consultation that follows.Module 12, Price
Figure 13.1Aftercare structured as time rather than as advice. A patient wants to know what next Tuesday looks like, which no amount of general reassurance answers.Module 13, Risks and aftercare
Figure 14.1The nesting for a clinic treatment page. Everything in this diagram must correspond to something a reader can see on the page.Module 14, Structured data
Figure 15.1Six question families. Every treatment generates all six, and most clinic websites answer the first and the last.Module 15, Finding questions
Figure 16.1The answer page pattern. The first two blocks are what a hurried reader and an answer engine both take away; everything below serves the reader who wants to understand why.Module 16, The answer page
Figure 17.1A comparison page is a table with a closing paragraph, and the closing paragraph is the part that decides whether the page is useful or an advertisement.Module 17, Comparison pages
Figure 18.1The regulatory stack from Module 5, applied to photography. An image is a claim, and every rule that applies to a written claim applies to it.Module 18, Before and after imagery
Figure 19.1What can be lifted from a page and what cannot. The left column is also what a reader in a hurry takes away, which is why this is not a machine technique.Module 19, Writing to be quoted
Figure 20.1The five gates from Module 4, with the fault that stops a page at each. Work left to right; a fix at gate four does nothing if the page is stuck at gate one.Module 20, Crawling and indexing
Figure 21.1The three Core Web Vitals and their published thresholds. The bands are set by Google and documented on web.dev; they are not opinions.Module 21, Speed
Figure 22.1The correct shape of a redirect. Many old addresses may point to one new one; each does so directly, permanently, and to the closest equivalent page rather than to the homepage.Module 22, URLs and redirects
Figure 23.1The hub pattern for one treatment. Solid lines are reciprocal links between the treatment page and everything supporting it. Dotted lines join supporting pages only where a reader would genuinely want that route.Module 23, Internal linking
Figure 24.1Reading measure. A line much longer than about seventy five characters causes the eye to lose its place returning to the left margin, which produces skimming rather than reading.Module 24, Accessibility
Figure 25.1The three factors Google publishes for local results. Distance is fixed. Relevance and prominence are the whole of the available work.Module 25, Business Profile
Figure 26.1The site plan from Module 9, with locations on the right. A location page has only one legitimate parent, and only one legitimate reason to exist: premises a patient can attend.Module 26, Location pages
Figure 27.1The same three lines, everywhere, character for character. A suite number in one and not the others is enough to make a machine uncertain that these are the same business.Module 27, Citations
Figure 28.1The reputation loop. Four of the five steps happen inside the clinic rather than online, which is why reputation is an operations problem before it is a marketing one.Module 28, Reviews
Figure 29.1The booking path. The two steps with the largest loss are making an enquiry and receiving a reply, and neither is a search problem.Module 29, The booking path
Figure 30.1Fields to ask at the form and fields to ask at the clinic. Every field below the line reduces completion and buys information you could have asked for later.Module 30, Enquiry forms
Figure 31.1The monthly review sheet. Six lines, four columns, the same day every month. If a line has not changed a decision in six months, delete it.Module 31, What to measure
Figure 32.1What to keep, what to hand over, and what never to hand over. The two shaded quadrants are the ones a clinic owner should be unwilling to move.Module 32, When to stop
Figure A.1The loop that fixes any of these. Most of the mistakes below are not errors of knowledge; they are the result of never completing one full turn of this loop on a single page.Appendix