AI Overviews are changing branded search. Learn why healthcare organizations may need branded PPC to protect visibility, reduce confusion, and help patients find them.
AI Overviews are changing branded search. Learn why healthcare organizations may need branded PPC to protect visibility, reduce confusion, and help patients find them.
Paid search alone no longer builds a full patient acquisition funnel. Here is how to audit your channel mix and reallocate spend across paid search, paid social, and programmatic to reach patients at every stage of the decision journey.
Google didn't lose the AI race—it reinvented Search. This article argues that the biggest disruption isn't ChatGPT itself, but a fundamental change in how people discover information. As patients shift from typing keywords to having conversations with AI, Google is evolving Search to match changing consumer behavior while protecting its advertising business. For healthcare organizations, the implications are profound: success is no longer just about ranking well in search results, but ensuring AI systems accurately understand, represent, and recommend your organization throughout the patient journey.
This article explores how ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, and other generative AI tools are changing the patient journey by interpreting healthcare organizations—not just helping patients find them. Stewart Gandolf explains why AI hallucinations are really symptoms of a larger challenge: ensuring your organization is represented accurately, authoritatively, and consistently across the web. Drawing on insights from Healthcare Success's webinar, AI Hallucinations in Healthcare: The Hidden Risk to Your Brand, Compliance, and Patient Trust, the article outlines how healthcare marketers can strengthen digital authority, build patient trust, and prepare their brands for an AI-driven future.
If advertising inside AI assistants is going to be effective in the long term, it must be trust-first by design. For healthcare brands, that standard must also be privacy-first and compliance-forward, even when the platform itself is not processing protected health information (PHI).
Managing successful Google Ads campaigns is more than just winning clicks—it’s about converting those clicks into results (e.g., new patients or B2B inquiries). At Healthcare Success, we manage millions of dollars in Google Ads spend for our healthcare clients. We often see the following 13 mistakes tank conversion rates. But don’t worry—13 isn’t unlucky here. […]
Managing a PPC strategy for any sized business is complex and challenging. But organizations with dozens or hundreds of locations face even more hurdles: Multilocation providers must consider each location’s unique needs, competitive situation, and business objectives—compounding the complexity of managing an accurate and effective PPC (aka pay-per-click or paid search) strategy. The good news […]
Do paid search terms have you scratching your head? If so, don’t sweat it. There are about a hundred million trillion of them, and they can get confusing. But don’t worry, we’re here to help you get a base-level understanding of the most commonly used terms that we share with our clients. We hope you […]
Your paid search landing page is a stand-alone web page typically separate from your website. It’s the first page visitors see after clicking your paid search ad, making it solely responsible for high-quality lead conversions and performance. Getting it right is essential. The effectiveness of its design, message, page load speed, lead capture form, and […]
Paid search (aka pay-per-click or PPC) often yields the highest ROI of any digital advertising medium. Our agency, therefore, manages Google Ads for dozens of our clients. Google Ads (and its much smaller competitor Microsoft) work so well because they target people actively searching for healthcare solutions. Moreover, paid search delivers tremendous advantages and provides […]
Best-in-class healthcare marketers are already planning for next year. They’re researching key trends that will attract new high-intent audiences, increase engagement, drive revenue, and reinforce patient loyalty in 2023. If you’ve been revamping the same marketing plan for a few years, now is the perfect time to reevaluate everything through the lens of market innovations […]
Google Trends is a powerful but underutilized tool that helps healthcare marketers It also allows marketers to analyze search term popularity over time, explore related keywords, and compare how search terms vary across different geographical areas. In this article, you’ll learn: What is Google Trends? Google Trends is an online search tool that analyzes the […]
If you want to dominate organic, paid, and local search results, you've got to study your business from several angles. Building a deep understanding of your competitors' strengths and weaknesses and what makes your shared audience click improves branding, SEO, paid search, social media, and other general marketing strategies. However, understanding which marketing tactics you […]
