We get dental and orthodontic practices to the top of Google Maps and AI search so new patients find you first — not the practice down the street.
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See exactly where you rank on Google Maps, who's beating you, and how to fix it — instantly.
"We went from 50 clients a month to over 3,400 — now 75+ staff across four locations, with sales up 3,233%. I'd recommend his local SEO to anyone in Vancouver."
"Michael took the time to review my site and pointed out improvements no one else had caught. On another level."
"We went from virtually being unknown to #1 on Google search. I owe it all to their service."
Dental SEO in Vancouver gets your practice into Google's Map Pack and AI search so new patients find and book you first. Lead Local SEO does it by optimising your Google Business Profile, generating a steady stream of 5-star reviews, building consistent local citations, and structuring your website so Google's AI Overview and ChatGPT recommend your practice by name. Vancouver practices we work with have moved from page two to the top three and filled their schedules — one client scaled from 50 to 3,400 monthly clients across four locations. Because 92% of searchers never leave page one, and a single new dental patient is worth thousands over their lifetime, ranking where patients actually look is the highest-return marketing a practice can invest in. Plans start at $500/month with a free audit and no contract. Below: how it works, what it costs, how long it takes, and real results.
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of searchers only look at page 1.
of local searches become a call or visit within a day.
a single new patient is worth thousands in lifetime value.
"My schedule has gaps I can't explain." · "The practice down the street ranks above me on Google." · "I've paid an agency for 'traffic' and reports, but no new patients." · "People are asking ChatGPT for a dentist and my practice is nowhere."
You could be the best dentist in Vancouver — but new patients don't choose the best dentist; they choose the one they find first. Most never scroll past the Google Map Pack, and a growing number just ask ChatGPT or Google's AI to recommend a dentist, and act on the answer.
Every patient who books the practice ranked above you compounds: a new patient isn't one appointment — it's cleanings, an implant or Invisalign case, and family referrals over years. Being invisible at the moment of search is a growth ceiling. The good news: local visibility is winnable, and most competitors are doing it poorly.
Here's the live Google Map Pack for "dentist vancouver" — the three businesses taking the calls you're not getting:
| # | Business | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Square Dental Center Vancouver | 4.8★ | 1165 |
| 2 | Vancouver City Centre Dental | 4.8★ | 835 |
| 3 | Downtown Dental | 4.9★ | 1032 |
The benchmark to beat: an average of 1011 reviews at 4.8★. Breaking into that top three means closing the review gap, out-optimising their Google Business Profiles, and building the local signals they're missing — exactly the work below. Live Google data, checked 2026-07-11.
A steady, predictable flow of new patients who found and chose you first — without discounting, chasing referrals, or learning SEO:
A single implant or Invisalign case can pay for a full year of SEO.
Get My Free Audit →We serve practices across Vancouver and Metro Vancouver — Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Yaletown, the West End and the Broadway corridor's dense clinic strip, out to Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey and North Vancouver. Each neighbourhood gets its own service-area treatment, because "dentist Kitsilano" and "dentist Downtown Vancouver" are different battles with different winners.
We know how Vancouver patients search: "Invisalign Vancouver," "emergency dentist near me," "dental implants Burnaby" — high-intent, treatment-specific searches that deserve their own optimised pages, not one generic city page. And with several dozen clinics competing within blocks of each other in central Vancouver, the Map Pack is a knife-fight where profile precision and review velocity decide who gets the call.
Credible with your college: content that stays on the right side of the BC College of Oral Health Professionals advertising expectations — professional, accurate, trust-building, never overclaiming.
You've likely been burned before — an agency that sold you rankings and colourful charts while your phone stayed quiet. Here's why we're different:
No outsourcing, no junior hand-offs, no overseas teams, no call centre. The person who plans and runs your growth is the person doing the work.
Rankings and traffic don't pay your team — booked new patients do. Every campaign is optimised toward calls and bookings.
Most agencies still only chase Google rankings. We optimise for the Map Pack and ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews.
We understand your market, your neighbourhoods, and how customers here choose. That focus is why our campaigns convert.
Month-to-month, and your first month is backed by a full refund if you're not happy. You stay because it works.
5.0 on Google, 1.8M+ leads generated, and clients who've scaled to multiple locations. Real calls, real new patients.
We connect your Analytics, Search Console, Google Business Profile and ad accounts, and benchmark where you rank vs. competitors on Maps and AI.
A deep diagnostic of your website, Maps presence, reviews, citations, content and technical health.
A custom, prioritised plan across local SEO, reviews, on-page, AI search (AEO/GEO), and — if you want — Google & Meta ads.
Implemented in phases: GBP optimisation, citations, review generation, service pages, technical SEO and schema — continuously refined.
Monthly, plain-English reports tied to rankings, calls and new patients.
With the foundation in place, we scale: more visibility, more reviews, more new patients, a stronger brand.
When someone asks Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini "best dentist in Vancouver" or "top-rated Invisalign dentist near me," an AI answer now sits above the traditional results and recommends a short list of practices. Only 1% of businesses ever get named.
AI doesn't look at your Google ranking. It pulls from your reviews, listings, consistency across the web, and how citable your content is. We build exactly those signals — schema, review volume and sentiment, consistent NAP, question-format content — so your practice is the one AI recommends. The same AEO/GEO work national agencies charge thousands for, built for your local market.
monthly clients for our longest-standing client
sales growth · now 75+ staff, 4 locations
online leads via CRO-focused website
1st-month money-back guarantee. No contracts. If you're not happy in your first month, we give your money back — no questions asked. You get a live dashboard and monthly plain-English reporting, so you always know exactly what you're getting.
Run the free audit and you'll see instantly:
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Your growth partner
I'm Michael Coombe, founder of Lead Local, based right here in Vancouver. After 18 years building 7-figure businesses and mastering digital growth across SEO, Google Ads and Meta, I started this agency with one mission: help great local businesses get found, trusted, and chosen. No guesswork. No outsourcing.
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