SEO for a Private Multi-Specialty Hospital in Dubai
SEO for a large hospital whose doctors are invisible to search engines.
Results at a glance
- Industry
- Healthcare · Hospital
- Market
- Dubai, UAE
- Services
- Technical SEO, Content, Conversion
- Timeframe
- 14 months
The starting point
This 180-bed hospital has more than 200 doctors, all hidden behind a search widget crawlers cannot use. Specialty pages read like brochures, and "maternity package Dubai" sends patients to rivals and forums. Three redesigns have left over 4,000 orphaned or duplicate URLs behind.
What changed
Open up the directory
Doctors become rich, crawlable pages linked from each specialty.
Make service lines useful
Each hub answers questions on procedures, cost and insurance.
Pay down technical debt
Crawl budget moves to pages that lead to appointments.
How the work ran, step by step
Replace the search widget
Static pages for 214 doctors show qualifications, DHA licence number, languages, conditions, clinic days and a booking button, with Physician schema.
Rebuild twelve specialty hubs
Procedures, preparation, recovery, cost ranges, accepted insurers and department doctors, reviewed by the head of department and again every six months.
Publish insurance network pages
The 22 accepted networks each get a page on covered departments and direct billing, which removes a common reason to call first.
Clear out old URLs
Over 4,000 dead or duplicate URLs are redirected or removed, Arabic canonicals fixed and the sitemap rebuilt. New profiles get indexed in days.
The results in charts
Search data over fourteen months: clicks go from about 18K to 41K a month, with a brief dip around the March 2025 core update.
Appointment requests from booking forms and call clicks, set against a year earlier.
Lessons for hospitals
- Patients often search for a doctor, so each specialist should be as easy to find as the hospital.
- Depth and named specialists let a hospital compete with single-service clinics.
- Search widgets can hide a whole directory from crawlers. Check yours.
Where to go next
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