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SEO for osteopaths

More new patients from people searching for an osteopath near you.

We help osteopathy clinics show up when someone with back pain searches Google, checks Google Maps or asks an AI tool for a good osteopath nearby. SEO starts at £399 + VAT a month on a rolling monthly contract, with AI search included. Dan, Andy and Lizzie do the work, and they’re the people you’ll speak to every month.

  • A flat monthly fee from £399 + VAT, with AI search included
  • Rolling monthly contracts, and you keep your website, Google Business Profile and data
  • Monthly reports in plain English, with calls and direction requests from your Google Business Profile
8 businesses got in touch in the last 7 days. Trusted by 200+ small businesses since 2017. Rated 4.7 on Trustpilot and 5.0 on Reviews.io.

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We’ll manually check your website, your Google Business Profile and where your clinic shows in the map pack when patients search near you, then send you your growth action plan within 48 hours.

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Small businesses growing with Dandy

  • C Kearney Roofing
  • Chiropractor Bramhall
  • Future Lift Services
  • Spotlights Theatre School
  • MGOC Spares
  • Strength Ambassadors
  • Cornish Lime
  • Huddle
  • Cmbio

SEO pricing for osteopathy clinics

Our Local package is built for osteopathic practices winning patients in one town or city. It starts at £399 + VAT a month with no lock-in contract. If you run clinics in several towns, the National package is quoted after your free audit.

Trusted by 200+ small businesses since 2017

Local SEO

Built for osteopaths and small osteopathy clinics winning new patients from people nearby, in one town or city. Running several clinics? The National package is quoted after your free audit.

From £399+ VAT a month

  • Rolling monthly, no lock-in contract
  • Dan, Andy or Lizzie as your account manager
  • AI search included
Start with a free growth audit

What’s included

Google Maps and your profile

  • Google Business Profile optimisation
  • Google Maps pack optimisation
  • Local keyword research
  • A review generation strategy

Local trust signals

  • Local citation building
  • NAP consistency audit
  • Local schema markup
  • One to two quality links a month
  • Backlink audit

Your website

  • Full website SEO audit
  • On-page and meta data optimisation
  • Internal linking optimisation
  • Technical SEO fixes and page speed
  • Google Analytics set-up

Content, AI search and reporting

  • Two blog posts a month from a content calendar
  • Regular content refreshes
  • AI search optimisation
  • Monthly performance report
  • Competitor analysis

How the first month starts

  1. Free auditWe review your site and Business Profile manually. You get your growth action plan within 48 hours.
  2. Profile and listingsYour Business Profile set up properly, and your clinic name, address and phone number checked everywhere Google looks.
  3. Treatments and keywordsThe treatments you want more of, matched to the searches patients make near you.
  4. Tracking and first reportEnquiry tracking set up. Your report shows rankings, calls, direction requests and bookings.

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What SEO for osteopaths includes

SEO for osteopaths is mostly local SEO: most patients want an osteopath they can get to, so Google Maps, your Google Business Profile, patient reviews and clear treatment pages do the heavy lifting. Osteopathy marketing also has its own rules on what you can claim, so your site has to stay within them.

Google Business Profile optimisation for osteopaths

Google Business Profile optimisation means setting your profile up properly and keeping it accurate: the right main category, opening hours including evenings and weekends, your booking link, treatments and real photos of the clinic.

  • One profile per clinic address, each with its own phone number and hours
  • Each osteopath’s name and GOsC registration shown on the website the profile links to
  • Calls, direction requests and website clicks from the profile in your monthly report
More on local SEO

Local keyword research and map pack rankings

Local keyword research shows what people near you type into Google search: “osteopath near me”, “osteopath [Town]”, “sports osteopath” or “back pain treatment [Town]”. We track where your osteopathy clinic shows in Google Maps and local search results for each keyword, checked from your area, so you can see which searches bring new patients in.

Treatment and condition pages patients can trust

Treatment pages win searches like “sciatica treatment [Town]”. On the Local package we optimise the treatment pages you already have and write two blog posts a month that answer what patients ask before they book. New condition and location pages come with the National package. We write with the ASA’s guidance in mind on which conditions osteopaths can claim to treat.

  • What happens at a first appointment, how long it takes and what it costs
  • Structured data so search engines can read your treatments, hours and address
  • Internal links from each blog post to the treatment it mentions

Reviews, asked for at the right time

Patient reviews build trust with a nervous first-time patient, and recent reviews help your clinic in the map pack. We give you a simple way to ask existing patients for a Google review by text or email, once they can say how treatment is going. Replies stay general and polite, with nothing about anyone’s treatment in public.

Technical SEO and tracking that counts bookings

Technical SEO lets search engines read your whole site, and a fast mobile page with a booking button turns visits into appointments. We fix what stops search engines reading your website, from page speed to broken links, and set up tracking so you can see which pages bring calls and online bookings. Link building adds one to two quality links a month from relevant health and local websites.

AI search, included

AI search is included in every SEO package. We make sure your website, Google Business Profile, reviews and directory listings all give the same facts about your clinic, then re-run the questions your patients ask in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity every month to see whether your clinic is named.

More on AI search

Monthly reports in plain English

Every month we pull the figures from Google Analytics, Google Search Console and your Google Business Profile, including calls and direction requests, then tell you which pages brought bookings in, how your rankings and organic traffic moved and what we’re doing next.

Where SEO and osteopathy marketing usually go wrong

If any of these sound like your clinic, each one has a cause you can check.

Examples of what osteopaths tell us

  • “Our clinic comes up for our own name, but not for ‘osteopath near me’.”

    Why it happensThe website and Business Profile describe who you are. They don’t match what new patients type: the town, the problem or “near me”.

  • “Word of mouth used to fill the diary, and it’s gone quiet.”

    Why it happensReferred patients often look you up on Google before they book. A thin profile with old reviews makes them hesitate, or pick the clinic above you.

  • “An agency wrote us pages for conditions we’re not allowed to claim.”

    Why it happensGeneric healthcare copy ignores the ASA’s guidance for osteopaths, which accepts claims for a set list of conditions and expects strong clinical evidence for anything else.

  • “We pay for SEO and can’t tell if it brings in new patients.”

    Why it happensThe report counts rankings and organic traffic. Nobody has set up tracking for calls, booking clicks and direction requests.

Results from local clinics and service businesses

Chiropractor Bramhall and Podiatry Hub are local clinics that fill their diaries from people nearby, the way an osteopath does, and their results come from Google Ads. Strength Ambassadors shows what SEO does for a local business.

Chiropractor Bramhall

Local clinic · Google Ads

1,668bookings in last 12 months
98%increase in conversion rate
£2.81cost per booking across 2026

Campaigns split by service and area, a local Performance Max campaign and bidding pointed at confirmed bookings.

“Working with Dandy has been so easy. They take the time to explain everything and they get results. I’ve seen such a spike in bookings since they started supporting my business, it’s a pleasure having them on my side!”
Jordan GregoryOwner, Chiropractor Bramhall
Read the case study

Podiatry Hub

Local clinic · Google Ads

6,000phone calls and bookings
156average monthly actions
£0.87average cost per local action

A Google Ads account built from scratch in 2021, bringing a steady flow of calls, directions requests and bookings to a local clinic.

“Most of my bookings now come from the work Dandy Marketing do for us. When I have a question, I get a quick, professional answer.”
Freya GregoryPodiatry Hub
Read the case study

Strength Ambassadors

Strength coaching in London · SEO

198%year-on-year traffic increase
236+1st page rankings secured

Technical fixes, rewritten service pages, long-form guides and industry outreach.

“I highly recommend their services! The team is attentive, thorough, and always approaches challenges with a helpful, can-do attitude. I’m already seeing fantastic results from their work.”
Sally MossOwner, Strength Ambassadors
Read the case study

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What you want from an SEO agency, and what we do about it

Point by point, so you can hold us to it.

You wantWhat you get from us
Prices up frontNot a sales call first.

Local SEO is from £399 + VAT a month, shown on this page. If you run several clinics, we quote the National package after the free audit, before you commit to anything.

Someone who knows how clinics bookFirst appointments, follow-ups and free slots.

We plan the work around booked appointments, as we do in our digital marketing for the local clinics in our case studies, and write with the ASA’s guidance for osteopaths in mind.

Reports in bookingsDid new patients book?

A plain-English monthly report from Google Search Console, Google Analytics and your Google Business Profile: calls, direction requests, bookings and what’s next.

An honest timelineNot page one next week.

Rankings usually move in three to six months, and leads can take up to a year to follow. We show progress every month.

SEO is a good fit if...

  • You run an osteopathy clinic or practise on your own and want more new patients for the slots you have free
  • You see patients from a clear local area, or want to grow into the next town
  • You can answer enquiries quickly, or patients can book online at any hour
  • You can give it three to six months to build

Probably not for you if...

  • You need the diary full this month: Google Ads may suit you better
  • You want guaranteed number one rankings by next week
  • Your list is full and you can’t take on new patients

Not sure? The free audit will tell us both.

Clients say it better than we can

4.8average from 52 reviews

The reviews below are from Reviews.io, word for word.

Digital marketingJul 2025

“we have seen our inbound leads go from 3-4 per month to 1-2 per day”

Andy and Dan run a really impactful agency and have been a dream to work with. They have a lot of domain knowledge and expertise, are nimble and are able to work with small, fast-paced businesses and offer a really cost-effective solution for digital marketing. Since we have started working with them, we have seen our inbound leads go from 3-4 per month to 1-2 per day. Would highly recommend them!

Mo LanghiCmbioReviews.io
SEOGoogle AdsOct 2025

“genuinely invested in helping us grow”

We’ve been working with Dandy Marketing since June 2024 on SEO and PPC for our performing arts school. Dan and Andy are great to work with — approachable, knowledgeable, and genuinely invested in helping us grow. They explain things clearly, make practical suggestions, and are proactive in improving our SEO and ad campaigns.

Al WillingaleSpotlights Theatre SchoolReviews.io
SEOGoogle AdsJul 2025

“This isn’t a sausage machine process”

We’ve worked with Dandy Marketing for close on three years and continue to value their deep, nuanced, and experience-led approach to SEO and PPC. This isn’t a sausage machine process, the digital landscape constantly shifts, and Dandy have helped us navigate it with clarity and confidence. They’re conscientious in their work, working to budgets while being open to exploring alternative strategies, testing new ideas, and providing actionable insights we can trust. Their reporting is clear, data-led, and dependable, and they’re on hand with practical guidance when we need it. For any SME trying to make sense of search marketing, Dandy Marketing bring not just knowledge, but a real energy and commitment. We genuinely couldn’t do it without them.

CChrisReviews.io
SEOGoogle AdsJul 2025

“we’ve seen a noticeable increase in both enquiries and website visitors each month”

…Since launching our new website and starting SEO/PPC work with Dandy, we’ve seen a noticeable increase in both enquiries and website visitors each month. Their work has had a clear and positive impact on our business and I would highly recommended to anyone looking for a professional, efficient and supportive agency!

IImiReviews.io
Google AdsAug 2026

“real confidence that our advertising budget is being put to good use”

Excellent Google Ads Management & Great Results We've had a fantastic experience working with Dandy Marketing. From day one, they've been professional, responsive and genuinely invested in helping our business grow. Their management of our Google Ads campaigns has been excellent, with clear communication, regular updates and a proactive approach to improving performance. They're always happy to explain their recommendations and make adjustments where needed, which gives us real confidence that our advertising budget is being put to good use. If you're looking for a knowledgeable, reliable marketing agency that genuinely cares about getting results, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Dandy Marketing. Thanks again to the whole team – we look forward to continuing to work with you!

WWillReviews.io

The people who’ll work on your SEO

Dan leads SEO and AI search, Andy looks after strategy and Lizzie runs content. You’ll deal with the same three people every month, and they’ll get to know how your clinic fills its diary.

Dan & Andy

  • Dan, co-founder of Dandy Marketing

    Dan

    Co-founder · SEO & PPC

    Dan is Dandy’s Co-Founder and leads SEO, PPC and AI search. Having run in-house digital for some very recognisable international brands, he now brings that same big-brand thinking to small businesses, without the big-brand price tag.

  • Andy, co-founder of Dandy Marketing

    Andy

    Co-founder · Strategy

    Andy is Dandy’s Co-Founder, with 15+ years in marketing behind him, he’s here to give small businesses the honest, friendly agency he wished he’d had whilst working for numerous client side organisations.

  • Lizzie, Head of Content Operations at Dandy Marketing

    Lizzie

    Head of Content Operations

    Lizzie leads content strategy, production and in-depth content audits, making sure everything we publish earns its place and brings the right people in.

How the growth audit works

  1. 1

    Send us your website

    Your name, email and clinic website. It takes a minute.

  2. 2

    We check it manually

    Your Google Business Profile and map pack positions for your main treatments, listings, reviews, the clinics that outrank you and how easily your website turns visitors into bookings, to find where your next bookings will come from.

  3. 3

    You get your growth action plan within 48 hours

    What’s working, what isn’t and what we’d do to get you more bookings. No obligation, no hard sell.

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SEO for osteopaths: questions

Something we haven’t covered? Email info@dandymarketing.co.uk and we’ll get back to you.

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How much does SEO for osteopaths cost?

Our Local SEO package starts at £399 + VAT a month on a rolling monthly contract, with AI search and monthly AI visibility tracking included. Google Ads management starts at £200 + VAT a month as a flat fee, with ad spend paid straight to Google.

How long does osteopath SEO take to work?

SEO usually takes three to six months for rankings to move, and up to a year for leads to follow. If you need new patients sooner, Google Ads can run alongside your SEO strategy on your busiest treatments while the organic work builds. Your monthly report shows how the SEO campaign is progressing.

What can osteopaths say about treatments on their website?

The ASA and CAP accept claims for a set list of conditions, including sciatica, back pain not caused by an injury or accident, minor sports injuries, migraine prevention and uncomplicated mechanical neck pain. Claims for other conditions are likely to be a problem without strong clinical evidence. CAP also advises osteopaths without a general medical qualification to avoid calling themselves “Dr”. This is general guidance, not legal advice: check the ASA’s advice page or your professional body.

Do I need to show my GOsC registration?

The title “osteopath” is protected by law, and it’s against the law to use it without being on the General Osteopathic Council register. Showing each osteopath’s registration on their profile page adds credibility patients can check for themselves, and it’s a quick win worth doing.

Can a small osteopathy clinic compete with bigger clinics on Google?

Yes, in its own area. Google says its local results are mainly based on relevance, distance and popularity. A clinic with a complete Business Profile, steady recent reviews and clear treatment pages can outrank much bigger names for searches near it.

Do you work with multi-disciplinary clinics?

Yes. If your clinic also offers physiotherapy, chiropractic or massage, we plan the keywords so each service gets found without the pages competing. See our pages on digital marketing for chiropractors, SEO for physiotherapists and healthcare marketing.

Can I do SEO for my osteopathy clinic myself?

You can do a lot of it. Keep your Google Business Profile complete, ask happy patients for reviews, give your main treatments their own pages and make booking easy on a phone. The free audit shows where your search engine visibility stands and what we’d fix first, whether you work with us or not.

Let’s fill your appointment diary

Send us your website. We’ll manually check how your clinic shows up when patients search near you and send you a clear plan.

  • An audit done by a person, within 48 hours
  • What we’d fix first, in plain English
  • No obligation and no lock-in contracts
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