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Contextual advertising for the clinic: records, not clicks, and no promises of treatment

Contextual advertising for the clinic are campaigns for specific areas of reception, where the result is a record, not a click. We manage them in Google Ads: semantics separately for symptomatic and procedural requests, texts for medical service advertising requirements, form events, record widget and call. The two niche bottlenecks are moderation and hit tracking, both of which we review before launch, not after ads have been disapproved. We name the amount after a free check.
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Price
after a free audit
Guarantee
30 days after project sign-off
What was measured
4 live sites 07/31/2026: three clinics and a store of dental materials
after a free audit
Price
30
Guarantee

days after project sign-off

4
What was measured

live sites 07/31/2026: three clinics and a store of dental materials

on one site there are no counters at all, on another the tag container is blocked by an error in the code
Accounting of appeals
from 145 ms to 1,520 ms for the first response in this sample
Reply to the search bot
10-22
Launch date

working days from the issuance of accesses

we do not publicly name: the estimate after a free inspection
Cost
from your Google account, we do not dispose of it
Click budget
Who it's for

Situations where this service delivers results

Scenario 1 of 5

There are windows in the layout, and the flow is in waves

One week is busy, the next is half-empty, and there is nothing to balance it with. Search advertising provides a controlled faucet: we show when the registry office is in place and for those directions where there are currently free hours. The restriction is fair — advertising does not create demand for the procedure, it only removes those who are already looking.

We'll review your situation in a free audit
Cases

Tasks and results in numbers — all metrics measured by us

clinic of plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine

Task
The site was made by us. There was only one question before advertising: if the campaigns were to be turned on tomorrow, would there be anything to measure the appeal.
Solution
We recorded live site indicators on 07/31/2026: response to search bot and browser separately, list of counters, consent mode, site map, structured data.
Result
The bot is given pre-rendered HTML of 126 KB in 145 ms to the first byte, ten types of JSON-LD in the markup, a site map of 89 addresses. Found a defect that would stop any campaign: the inline tag manager snippet is self-blocking - the exit condition compares the id to itself, so the container is not loaded at all, and all events are bound to it. In addition, the consent mode is in the “denied” state by default: until consent, advertising tags are silent, and this should be taken into account in numbers, and not found out in a month.

aesthetic medicine clinic abroad

Task
Check whether the website of the foreign clinic is ready to receive paid traffic and whether there is something to transfer to the advertising office.
Solution
Live site measurement 07/31/2026: volume via open REST API, speed, markup weight, meter composition, site map, structured medical facility data.
Result
26 pages published, first server response 285.9 ms, full HTML load 439.4 ms at 119.5 KB. Counters in place: tag manager, GA4 and social network pixel — accepting ads is something. The gaps are also named: the site map is not given at any of the standard addresses, there is no marking of the medical facility. It is not a blocker for paid traffic, but it is for local delivery.

a niche store of dental materials with a content part

Task
Evaluate what to calculate the effect if the owner decides to buy traffic for the directory.
Solution
Measurement 07/31/2026: site map, catalog volume, speed, page weight and a complete list of analytical counters in the main layout.
Result
96 products and 21 categories give exactly 123 addresses in the site map without a single duplicate, the first response is 440.7 ms with 103.2 KB of markup. And most importantly for advertising: there is no counter in HTML - zero mention of tag manager, GA4 or pixel. It is possible to buy traffic to such a site, but it is impossible to evaluate it in principle, so the accounting applies to the launch, and not after.
What's included

Complete list of work and what you get as a result

  • Semantics for each direction of reception with a division into symptomatic and procedural requests - you can see what you are paying for: for pain or for the name of the procedure
  • A separate campaign for a direction with its own budget and landing page - you can turn off one direction without affecting the rest
  • Texts of advertisements without promises of the result of treatment undergo a second inspection, not only the first one
  • Minus words for self-treatment, folk methods, training, jobs and "free" - cuts off traffic that will never sign up
  • Geotargeting based on actual presence instead of interest in the region — money stays in your outbound zone
  • The schedule of screenings during the hours of operation of the registry office - the call goes to a live person, and not to an empty office
  • Events for registration through the form, online registration widget, click on the number and messenger - the request becomes a number that you can work with
  • Enabling call tracking when the phone is the main channel - the call is connected to the campaign and request
  • Revision of search requests once every two weeks for the first two months — that's where you can see where the budget is wasted
  • Monthly report: costs, requests, cost of recording by direction and list of requests without any request
  • Account transfer at any time: the account is yours, accesses are yours, campaign history remains with you
When this service isn't right

What's not included — so there are no surprises at delivery

  • Advertising budget - pay Google directly from your account
  • Promises of treatment results in any wording
  • Guarantee of the number of patients
  • Medical content and its approval with doctors is your zone
  • Work with patient reviews and reputation in maps
Process steps

Transparent stages with approval at every step

Total duration:10–22 days

  1. Access and analysis of accounting

    2-3 working days

    We take access to the office, analytics and tag manager, see what events exist and whether they work. Here we record that the current texts may affect the verification.

  2. Semantics and structure of campaigns

    3-4 working days

    We divide requests into symptomatic ("toothache") and procedural ("tooth implant price"), divide by campaign according to the direction of reception, collect the first list of minus words.

  3. Texts and moderation

    2-5 working days

    We write ads without promises of results, prepare documents if the specialization requires confirmation, and submit for verification. This is the only stage, the term of which does not depend on us.

  4. Events, call tracking and geotargeting

    2-4 working days

    We put events on the form, record widget, click on the number and messenger, if necessary, connect call tracking. We adjust the screening area according to attendance and the schedule according to the registration hours.

  5. Launch and first adjustments

    3-6 working days

    We start from two or three directions, read the search query report every few days, clean up the garbage, and adjust the bids to the actual cost of the request.

  6. Lunar cycle: reconciliation and report

    every month, 1-2 working days

    We summarize our events with your data about who reached the reception and give a report by direction. Then the cycle repeats every month - advertising is not a "done and forgotten" job.

Free inspection before advertising medical services

There are two bottlenecks in medical advertising: moderation and accounting. The first can stop the campaign for a week, the second makes any evaluation impossible. Both are checked before launch.

What we measure

  • How the record is now fixedForm, call, online registration widget, messenger. On the clinic site that we measured, the inline snippet of the tag manager self-blocks with an error in the exit condition: the container does not load, and with it all events are silent - the counter seems to stand still, and conversions as numbers do not exist.
  • Are calls measured?In medicine, the telephone is often the main channel. Without call tracking, you see a smaller part of the appeals and draw conclusions based on it.
  • Formulations that will not pass moderationPromises of treatment results, comparisons with other clinics, mentions of individual conditions in targeting. We check the texts of the site and future announcements.
  • Pages for reception directionsA separate page for the service with a description, preparation and doctor works better than a general section. Let's see what's available.
  • Speed ​​and mobile lookIn the sample we measured, the slowest site gave the first response in 1.52 seconds. For advertising, where the majority of traffic is mobile, this is a direct loss.
  • Local dataThe address, schedule and phone number must match on the website, in the markings and in the company profile - the patient comes physically.

What you get

  • List of things that interfere with advertising: record keeping, wording, pages.
  • Assessment of risks of moderation in your specialization.
  • The scheme of events that must be set before launch.
  • Conversation for 40 minutes on the document.

Timeline: 3-4 working days

Why is it free

Because in the medical field, the most expensive mistake is made before the launch: the campaign is rejected, the texts are rewritten for weeks, and the budget during this time just stands.

What's next

We provide an estimate separately for setting up record accounting and separately for launching and running campaigns.

Short form: your contact and site URL

  • Contract, act and 30-day warranty

    Every project gets a written contract: scope, deadlines, amount, acceptance procedure. After delivery — act and invoice, then 30 calendar days of warranty.

  • Sole proprietor & bank transfer

    The contractor is a registered sole proprietor. Payment by invoice with closing documents.

  • Rights & access — yours

    Code, design and materials transfer to you after full payment. Domain, hosting, repository and analytics are registered to you.

  • Client portal instead of email chains

    During the project you get access to a portal: contracts, invoices, acts and project status in one place.

  • European clients

    Among our work — projects for Norway, Bulgaria, Moldova and Spain.

  • Verifiable numbers

    Every case in the portfolio comes with a link to a live site and a technical measurement.

  • Audit first, then pricing

    There is no price list on the site intentionally: the scope of the same work differs multiples between clients.

  • We say "no" when unsure

    If the task isn't ours or the deadline is unrealistic — we tell you upfront.

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What affects the price

Why two seemingly identical tasks are priced differently

  • How many areas of reception are we conducting separately?One direction is one semantics, one set of ads and one landing page. Six directions multiply not only the collection, but also the weekly work: search requests are reviewed for each campaign separately.
  • The difficulty of moderation in your specializationAesthetic dentistry and treatment of chronic conditions are tested differently. Where wording is required to be confirmed and rewritten, it takes weeks to agree, and someone has to work that time.
  • The state of registration of appeals at the startIf the recording events are already available and live, we simply connect. If there is no counter at all (and we measured this), first the account is set, and only then it makes sense to turn on the displays.
  • Is call tracking needed?This is a separate system with a pool of numbers and a monthly service fee. Our part is connecting and communicating with campaigns; the bill for the numbers itself goes past us, and it's better to know about it before the launch.
  • Landing pages are readyA procedure page with preparation, progress, and doctor works better than the general Services section. If there are no such pages, they must be created - this is another service, and we talk about it before the estimate for advertising.
  • Who from your side checks the records with the receptionsWithout this person, we are measuring referrals, not patients. Reconciliation takes hours a month, but it is what turns the cost of a referral into the cost of a patient that has arrived.
Technologies & integrations

What we build on and what it connects to

Stack

  • Google Ads, search campaigns — we take the formed demand; limitation: the search does not create a demand for a procedure that is not known about
  • Manual bids at the start, auto strategy later - limitations: automation does not learn on several conversions per month
  • GA4 and Google Tag Manager — all recording events in one place; limitation: shows trend, not cash
  • Call tracking — links a call to a campaign; limit: monthly fee for pool of numbers
  • Geotargeting by presence is a limitation: reach drops, and this is a deliberate trade-off
  • The schedule of showings under the registry — restrictions: night calls are lost if no one calls back
  • The search query report is a source of negative keywords; limitation: Google does not show part of the queries

Integrations

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • call tracking
  • online registration system
  • Google Business Profile
  • CRM clinic
Search advertising against the target in social networks for the clinic

How this option differs from the alternative

The moment when a person is caughtwhen she is looking for a procedure or symptom herself
Targeting by health statusprohibited, we work by requests and geography
Path to recordclick - procedure page - form, widget or call
Which works wellspecific procedures with the name that people enter in the search
What does not givedoes not create demand and does not save from a weak registry
What we need from you

We can't start without this — best to prepare in advance

  1. Access to Google Ads, GA4 and Tag Manager is at the edit level, not the view level.
  2. List of directions of reception with priorities and actual loading of doctors.
  3. License details of the clinic, if required for account verification.
  4. Hours of operation of the registry office and rules for handling requests: who calls back and for how much.
  5. Access the online registration system to hang the event for successful registration.
  6. A person from your side who checks once a month how many entries have reached the reception.

If something is missing — let us know, we'll help you gather it or do it as a separate task.

FAQ

Most frequently asked questions — with concrete answers

Is it even possible to advertise medical services on Google?

Yes, with limitations, and they are more serious than in most niches. You can't promise the result of treatment, you can't compare yourself with other clinics in evaluation formulations, you can't build targeting based on a person's state of health. Some specializations require additional account verification with documents. We go through this path to launch: checking the wording after a rejection is weeks of downtime with an already allocated budget.

Why was the campaign rejected after a month of normal operation?

Most often due to a change on the site or due to the reevaluation of the same text during a re-check. Phrasing like "complete relief from pain" passes once and does not pass the next - moderation is partially automatic, and its threshold is floating. That's why we write ads so that they don't rely on the promise of a result at all: we describe the procedure, preparation, doctor, and appointment conditions. Such text survives re-examination and, in our experience, is less intimidating to an experienced patient.

We make appointments mostly by phone — how do we count that?

Call tracking: the service replaces the number on the website and connects the call with the campaign and request. This is a separate monthly fee for a pool of rooms and the bill passes us by - better to know in advance. Among the medical sites we measured on 07/31/2026, there was no call tracking in any; on projects where the telephone is the main channel, we installed Binotel. The minimum option without call tracking is a number click event: it's rough, it doesn't see calls from the phone's memory, but it's better than zero.

Can ads be targeted to people with a specific medical condition?

No, and this is not our reinsurance, but a direct prohibition: you cannot build an audience based on your health. We work with what a person himself types in the search, and with geography - this is enough to make the ad relevant. If a contractor suggests "targeting lipedema sufferers" or something similar, it's a quick check to see if they've read the rules at all.

How many directions of reception to launch at once?

As much as the registry and doctor's schedule will hold. A typical mistake is to turn everything on at once, get an uneven flow and fill one office while the other is empty. Our recommendation: two or three directions, chosen on the basis of margin and free hours, and only when the actual pace of entries is visible - to add the rest. It's slower, but you don't have to turn off ads because no one wants to accept them.

When will the first recordings be made?

The first appeals usually come in the first days after passing moderation — search advertising is therefore different from organic. But the adequate cost of the record appears later: it is necessary to clear the search queries, and for the first two months we review them once every two weeks. We do not promise the number of entries: it depends on the demand in your city, prices and callback speed, which is beyond our control.

How to understand that appeals from advertising reach reception?

Just an animal from your side. We see an event: a request, a call, a successful recording in the widget. You see whether a person has come to the chair. Once a month, we put it together: how many appeals, how many were reached, what is the cost of the patient who reached. Without reconciliation, any conversation about the effectiveness of advertising in the clinic remains a conversation about clicks — and that is why we ask for a person for reconciliation right at the start.

Advertising or SEO — where should clinics start?

They have different roles and different deadlines. The ad gives appeal now and is good at picking up specific procedures that people are searching for by name. Organics are cheaper per treatment, but require months of work and medical texts read by a doctor. If the budget is one, we advise you to start with advertising in two or three priority areas, and build organically in parallel and slowly. The reverse order also works — but then the clinic lives without a controlled flow for the first six months.

Give the site address and a list of receiving directions — we'll check if there's anything to advertise.

In response, you will receive what hinders the launch, an assessment of the risks of moderation in your specialization and a scheme of events that must be set before the first show.

From measured cases26 pages published, first server response 285.9 ms, full HTML load 439.4 ms at 119.5 KB

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