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Case study Cardiology group Sydney, NSW

Making consultant-name searches the new referral channel.

Patients were already Googling cardiologists by name after GP recommendations. ACS just wasn’t showing up when they did.

SEO Consultant profiles Schema & entity SEO AI visibility
+218%
Branded & consultant-name search traffic
+34%
YoY growth in consultant-name queries
9
Of 11 specialists cited by ChatGPT & Google AI
Cardiology specialist
What we delivered

The results

When AI and search agree on who the expert is, the rest takes care of itself.

Consultant-name search traffic
+218%

Patients searching a cardiologist by name are now finding them on ACS’ own site — not on directories.

AI citations
9

Specialists out of 11 cited by ChatGPT & Google AI Overviews for “best cardiologist Sydney”.

Procedure searches
+156%

Organic traffic to TAVI, ablation and pacemaker pages.

Bookings
+72%

Monthly appointment bookings via the site.

Featured snippets
23

Owned featured snippets across cardiology terms.

SERP movement

From page 4 to page 1 — for every procedure that actually converts.

Before · Sep 2025
Page 4
Avg. position across 20 priority terms
  • #37tavi sydney-buried
  • #42cardiac ablation specialist nsw-buried
  • #56pacemaker specialist sydney-buried
  • #28heart failure specialist-buried
After · Apr 2026
Page 1
Top 5 for 18 of 20 priority terms
+ top 10
  • #2tavi sydneywas #37▲ 35
  • #1cardiac ablation specialist nswwas #42▲ 41
  • #3pacemaker specialist sydneywas #56▲ 53
  • #2heart failure specialistwas #28▲ 26
AI citations · specialists by name
9 / 11
Recommended or cited by name across major AI platforms
ChatGPT
8/11
Google AI
9/11
Perplexity
7/11
Claude
6/11
Before
0/11 specialists named in any generative answer.
Search impressions
+286%
Monthly · 12 months
Trend up
300k 200k 100k 50k May Oct Apr
Cardiology patient consultation

The brief

Eleven leading cardiologists, invisible to the patients their GPs had just recommended them to.

ACS is one of Sydney’s most respected cardiology groups. The specialists had decades of experience, publications, major hospital appointments — and almost zero presence when a patient Googled their name.

Third-party directories were taking every branded click. AI answers were recommending competitors. Our job: own the search journey from GP recommendation to appointment booking.

Specialty
Cardiology & electrophysiology
Baseline
Page 4+ for procedures
Specialists
11 cardiologists
Timeframe
10 months

Patients we helped find the right specialist

Heart conditions don’t wait for a second opinion. Patients need to find the right cardiologist, fast.

Senior cardiac patientArrhythmia · 67
Cardiologist with monitorPost-TAVI follow-up
Patient consultationHeart failure review

We used to lose patients to directories and comparison sites. Now they find us first — and they arrive already knowing who they want to see.

Managing Partner · ACS

Specialist search done right

If your consultants are the experts, the search results should say so too.

See where you’re visible, where competitors are winning, and where AI is sending your patients instead.

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