DentalAI SEOPPC

All-on-4 at the top of the nav, and nothing to be found for underneath it

RANA Dental · Lincoln Park, NJ · audited September 1, 2026

Panoramic dental x-ray displayed on a clinic monitor

Who they are

Implant-led three-dentist practice in Lincoln Park — Dr. Samir Rana, Dr. Maggie Rana and Dr. Afsoun Adibi. All-on-4 and implants sit at the top of the navigation, alongside sedation, dentures, veneers and emergency care. Built on Framer, with ZocDoc booking and English/Spanish service.

Live site audit · September 1, 2026

What we verified

Blog in the footer, ZocDoc booking, insurance and financing page, before/after imagery, English and Español noted. Built on Framer — a modern design-led platform, unusual in this vertical and technically clean.

Every statement above was confirmed against ranadental.com on September 1, 2026. Sites change; this is a dated observation, not a permanent claim.

The problem

The practice bet its positioning on the highest-value case in dentistry and had almost no content answering the questions those patients actually ask before committing.

All-on-4 averages around $15,176 per arch. Nobody books that from a homepage. The decision runs weeks of research — cost, recovery, candidacy, alternatives, financing — and 47% of patients now run part of that research through an AI assistant. A practice with implants at the top of its nav and a footer blog is present for the click and absent for the decision.

What made this one different

Framer builds are fast and clean but content-light by default. The platform was fine; the content strategy did not exist.

What we did

AI SEO playbook

Local health queries only return an AI Overview about 11% of the time. The AI risk to a practice is at discovery, not on the SERP — 47% of patients now research providers with AI and 36% say it changed their choice.

  • Built page depth against the questions patients actually ask, not the treatments the practice sells — symptoms and decisions, because that is what gets cited.
  • Held the Local Pack with a proper GBP rebuild: local health queries return an AI Overview only about 11% of the time against 93% for conditions and symptoms, so the money keywords are still a pack fight.
  • Ran the Scriblr citation baseline across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews on the practice's real patient-question set, tracked weekly.
  • Built review architecture as an AI input, not a vanity metric — 75% of patients refuse to book below 4.0 stars, 44% require 4.5+, and 55% have cancelled or avoided an appointment over reviews.
  • Went after third-party mentions through LinkersPro, because 77% of AI citations come from sources that are not the practice's own website and 84% trace to earned media.
  • Kept every clinical page current, since AI-cited content runs 25.7% fresher than the organic top ten.

PPC playbook

The dental ad account is rarely the problem. The phone is. Buy intent correctly, then fix the call path that loses a third of it.

  • Split campaigns by intent tier, because emergency ($75.19 CPL, 8.89% conversion), general ($84.77, 7.74%) and orthodontic ($71.52, 14.21%) demand behave nothing alike and should never share a budget.
  • Rebuilt landing pages per treatment against the 10.67% category conversion benchmark, with insurance and financing answered above the fold.
  • Then fixed the leak that costs more than the entire ad account: 30–38% of practice calls go unanswered during business hours, and 60–65% of those are new-patient calls.
  • Installed call tracking, recording and a missed-call text-back, and scored every call — call-to-appointment sits at 55% industry-wide against a 72% top decile.
  • Built a same-week appointment offer into the ads, because top-decile practices seat new patients in 4.5 days against a 25-day average and speed-to-seat is the conversion lever nobody bids on.
  • Moved reporting to cost per booked new patient against a $850–$1,300 first-year production value.

How it was sequenced

AI SEO timeline

  1. Days 0–30

    Citation baseline across four assistants, GBP rebuild, page architecture and entity cleanup.

  2. Days 31–90

    Symptom and decision content shipped, review engine live, first off-site mention wave.

  3. Days 91–180

    Mention velocity sustained, citation rate compounds, freshness cycle running on clinical and service pages.

PPC timeline

  1. Days 0–14

    Audit, conversion tracking rebuilt, negative keyword purge, campaign restructure by intent tier.

  2. Days 15–45

    Treatment landing pages shipped, call tracking and missed-call recovery in place.

  3. Days 46–90

    Budget reallocated on booked-patient data rather than lead data; same-week seating offer live.

The numbers

Targets this programme was set and measured against

These are not reported results. RANA Dental's own reporting has not yet been reconciled against these rows — see how we define a target versus a result.

MetricBaselineTargetChangeScope
AI assistant mention rate10%29%+19 ptsshare of the practice's patient-question prompt set naming it, across 4 assistants
Local Pack top-3 coverage on '[treatment] near me'26%50%+92%share of grid points in the top 3
Non-branded organic new-patient enquiriesindex 100index 150+50%indexed to engagement start = 100
Cost per lead by intent tier$93$73-22%USD, blended across intent tiers

Where these targets come from

Published figureWhat it measuresSource
47% / 36%Patients who used AI to research providers, and who say AI influenced their final choicerater8 Patient Choice Report (2026)
11% vs 93%AI Overview coverage: local health queries vs conditions/symptoms queriesSearch Engine Land / BrightEdge (2026)
75% / 44%Patients refusing to book below 4.0 stars, and requiring 4.5+rater8 Patient Choice Report (2026)
77%Share of AI citations on branded queries coming from off-page sources, not the brand's own siteOmniscient Digital (23,000+ citations) (2026)
$2,143 / $15,176US average single-tooth implant (before crown) and All-on-4 archCareCredit / Synchrony ASQ360 (2025)
$72.97Dental Google Ads cost per lead, $8.00 CPC, 10.67% conversion rate (13,474 US campaigns)WordStream / LocaliQ (2026)
55% / 72%Dental call-to-appointment conversion: industry average vs top decile (12.5M interactions)Patient Prism (2026)

Objections this answers

  • “Patients find us by referral. Search doesn't matter for dentistry.”
  • “We tried Google Ads and got price shoppers.”

The proof behind every figure

These are the raw exports RANA Dental receives, and the ones any number on this page reconciles against. Ask any agency for the equivalent.

  • Scriblr prompt-set exports, before and after
  • Local grid screenshots
  • GBP insights
  • Review dashboard
  • Mention log with live third-party URLs
  • Google Ads export by campaign tier
  • Call recordings with booking outcome scored
  • Practice management new-patient export matched to source
  • Appointment lead-time report

Systems used

  • Scriblr for AI citation tracking
  • LinkersPro for earned mention acquisition
  • M.A.R.S. for call tracking, missed-call recovery and booking attribution

Questions about this engagement

The practice bet its positioning on the highest-value case in dentistry and had almost no content answering the questions those patients actually ask before committing. All-on-4 averages around $15,176 per arch. Nobody books that from a homepage. The decision runs weeks of research — cost, recovery, candidacy, alternatives, financing — and 47% of patients now run part of that research through an AI assistant. A practice with implants at the top of its nav and a footer blog is present for the click and absent for the decision.

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