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SEO for plastic surgeons: the most expensive search market we measure
This is a market where large agencies compete on behalf of practices, and where a single patient is worth enough to justify years of paid work. A practice site that was built once and left alone is competing with full-time teams.
What we measured in this niche
- Searches a month
- 1,460 across the niche, 720 on seo for plastic surgeons
- AI answer shown
- Yes
- Holding the top today
- coalitiontechnologies.com, plasticsurgerystudios.com, percepture.com, jlplasticsurgery.com, dagmarmarketing.com
- Asked alongside it
- What are the best SEO strategies for doctors? · How much does an SEO consultant cost? · What are the top 5 SEO strategies? · What are some effective marketing ideas for plastic surgery businesses?
Source: DataForSEO live search results, measured 13 September 2026. Search results move, which is why the date is here.
The results are agency territory
The pages holding this query belong to marketing agencies and to practices those agencies run. This is not a niche where an untouched site drifts into the top.
The useful reading of that: ranking for the broad national phrase is not the goal. A practice earns its patients on procedure pages and on its own city, where the competition is a handful of local practices rather than a national agency roster.
What a practice site has to do
A page per procedure, written for the patient rather than the surgeon: what it involves, recovery, who it suits, and what it costs. Procedure pages are what people actually search.
Before-and-after work presented properly and legally, with consent handled and images that load fast enough to be seen on a phone.
Credentials stated where a nervous person will find them, not buried in a biography page.
A consultation booking that takes seconds, because the decision to enquire is made once and rarely made twice.
An AI answer sits above the results
Google shows an AI answer on this query. In a medical market it leans on pages that are specific, sourced and cautious rather than promotional.
For a practice this favours honest procedure pages with real detail over marketing copy, which is a rare case of the safe version also being the effective one.
What it costs with us
A practice site is a business site with a large procedure section. We publish our prices, we do not sell retainers by the year, and search work is bought a month at a time.
Our published prices: $800 to $2,500 for a one page site, from $3,000 for a business site, $250 / month for ongoing search work, one month at a time.