A rebuilt site recorded 148% more visits

The starting problem was reliability: the provider’s website could not consistently serve prospective patients or search engines. An unstable site erodes trust before technical SEO or content quality can make a meaningful difference.

Timeframe: January-May 2018

The reported numbers

• 148% - More organic visits by May 2018
• 394 → 976 - Organic monthly visits
• 111 - Organic-source inquiries over four months

What this case shows

The starting problem was reliability: the provider’s website could not consistently serve prospective patients or search engines.

An unstable site erodes trust before technical SEO or content quality can make a meaningful difference.

Highlights from the documented project include 148% (more organic visits by may 2018) and 394 → 976 (organic monthly visits). Organic visits rose substantially across the reported January-May window, and organic inquiries were recorded separately.

The provider and its market

A U.S. addiction-treatment organization; name withheld. The organization operated in Florida, USA.

A healthcare site needs dependable technical foundations and clear clinical service pages before search visibility becomes useful.

An unreliable website blocked a useful first visit

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Website availability

The site was not dependable

The provider’s outdated website was intermittently unavailable to prospective patients and search engines.

Reliability was a prerequisite for useful discovery and a credible visitor experience.

A usable provider presence

The organization needed a usable presence

The case describes the need for a credible, usable digital presence.

Consider whether visitors could understand the service and reach the organization before evaluating traffic gains.

An inquiry baseline

Inquiries needed their own baseline

The organization needed a baseline for relevant inquiries as well as improved discoverability.

Keep organic visits and organic-source inquiries separate when reading the results.

The client’s site was outdated, intermittently unavailable and unable to compete effectively for relevant treatment searches. Credibility and discoverability had to improve together.

The organization needed a credible, usable digital presence and a baseline for relevant inquiries.

The core decision was how to improve the experience for people whose interest matched the actual services offered - and how to recognize the difference between a casual interaction and a meaningful next step.

A rebuild formed part of a wider program

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Website reliability work

Replace the unstable experience

The agency rebuilt the website as part of the engagement.

Read the rebuild in the context of the original availability and credibility problems.

Technical and content changes

Repair the foundations and content

Technical fixes, on-page SEO and content work accompanied the rebuild.

The source describes a combined program rather than a single isolated change.

The wider marketing activity

Recognize the wider campaign

Paid promotion and social initiatives were also part of the reported work.

Do not attribute every reported change to organic SEO alone.

The agency rebuilt the website and combined technical and on-page SEO with paid promotion, social and content initiatives. It reported organic visits and web inquiries separately rather than presenting traffic alone as patient demand.

A site rebuild was combined with technical fixes, content, SEO and wider promotion.

Technical repairs and site architecture were evaluated alongside the content that answers real service questions.

Organic visits rose across the reported period

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Monthly organic search visits

394 → 976

Organic monthly visits, January to May 2018

These are the starting and ending monthly visit figures stated on the page.

Change across the reporting window

+148%

More organic visits by May 2018

The percentage describes visit growth across the reported January–May window.

Organic-source inquiries

111

Organic-source inquiries, February–May 2018

This is a four-month inquiry total, not a monthly total or a count of admissions.

The recorded figures show organic visits rising from 394 in January to 976 in May 2018 (+148%) and 111 organic-source inquiries during February-May 2018.

Organic visits rose substantially across the reported January-May window, and organic inquiries were recorded separately.

For leadership, these measures matter because they connect marketing activity to the specific outcome the engagement set out to improve. The next question is whether that progress can be sustained and repeated across the relevant services or locations.

What changed in the day-to-day work

The operating lesson is that uptime, indexability and a functional contact route are prerequisites for search growth.

Search improvements are fragile when the site is intermittently unavailable; monitoring, crawlability and the contact route belong in the first technical review.

An actionable technical backlog ties each fix to the service page, its owner and the next test rather than treating SEO as a generic checklist.

For any healthcare site, start by resolving uptime, indexation, service accuracy and measurement definitions before adding large amounts of new content. Report qualified inquiries by channel and actual service line.

Read the numbers with their limits

Organic visits are compared between January and May 2018. The 111 organic inquiries were reported across February-May 2018, which is a different reporting window.

Rankings, visits, qualified enquiries and confirmed patient outcomes should be read as different levels of evidence.

Apply the lesson to your website

Check technical stability and program content before expanding the publishing calendar.

Search strategy should begin with accessible pages, accurate clinical service information and robust reporting.

Apply the lesson to one high-priority service, campaign or location first. Record the existing path, improve the immediate point of friction and use an appropriate commercial measure to judge what changed.

• Repair site uptime and crawling problems before publishing large new content clusters.

• Give each actual treatment service an accurate indexable page and clear contact action.

• Review organic visits and enquiries using their respective reporting periods.

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