Local SEO & GEO · Client case study

MRP HealthPhysiotherapy

One local clinic.34% of its category.

How a single-location Neutral Bay clinic won Position 1 for “physio neutral bay” — ahead of larger multi-location practices.

  • Physiotherapy
  • Neutral Bay, Sydney
  • February – May 2026
Illustrative physiotherapy treatment room with a treatment table and pilates reformer Featured case study
MRP Health Neutral Bay, Sydney · Illustrative image
“Physio neutral bay”
#1
Head term won and held
Local category share
34%
Leading position, single-location clinic
Organic clicks / month
408
+15% month on month at 3.8% CTR
GBP profile views
974
187 interactions — 19.2% rate
The client & the challenge

A single-location clinic. A category-leading presence.

MRP Health is a physiotherapy and allied health clinic in Neutral Bay, Sydney, offering physiotherapy, pilates, exercise rehabilitation, dietitian services, massage therapy and podiatry.

It competes in a category dominated by larger multi-location practices and established names with many years of online presence.

Neutral Bay, Sydney February – May 2026

What made the difference

Local SEO & GEO. A strategy that compounds.

A website structured so Google can read it clearly. A complete, active Google Business Profile. Content AI tools cite as the authoritative local answer.

Lighthouse scores: 97 performance / 92 SEO / 96 best practices.

Result: #1 for “physio neutral bay”.

  • Winning the head term The foundation

    Technical optimisation, authoritative local content and a fully completed Google Business Profile took Position 1 from an exact-match domain competitor.

  • A coherent service cluster The content

    Separate pages for Dietitian, Massage, Pilates and Clinical Pilates, each acquiring their own traffic.

  • AI search citations The visibility

    29 authoritative citations established across 9 high-intent local prompts in AI search.

  • Google Business Profile The conversion

    Optimised to a 19.2% interaction rate — nearly 1 in 5 people who find the profile take a direct action.

The results

Real visibility. Measured impact.

From the head term to AI citations, the clinic’s visibility is growing across search, maps and AI.

  • Organic search 408

    Organic clicks per month

    Up 15% month on month, from 10,500 monthly search impressions.

  • Category share 34%

    Of local category clicks

    A leading position for a single-location physiotherapy clinic.

  • AI discovery 29

    AI citations

    Across 9 tracked questions — 3.2 citations per question. 13 AI mentions, up 44% in one month.

  • Google Business Profile 187

    Direct actions in May

    Calls, direction requests and bookings from 974 profile views.

  • Position 3: “neutral bay physiotherapist” & “massage neutral bay”
  • Position 5: remedial & sports massage neutral bay
  • 3.8% CTR · 178 keywords tracked
The journey

Three months. Position 1 and holding.

From overtaking the incumbent to compounding category share, here’s how the engagement progressed.

  • Technical SEO
  • Google Business Profile
  • GEO positioning
  1. February 2026 Month 1

    Overtake the incumbent.

    Outranked the exact-match domain competitor for “physio neutral bay”. Organic traffic reached 395 visits, up 179. 562 keywords tracked; Global SEO Score 90.

  2. March 2026 Month 2

    Hold Position 1.

    Position 1 held across all branded and local queries. Google Business Profile interactions grew from 906 to 1,004.

  3. May 2026 Month 3

    Let the results compound.

    34% category share holding. Organic clicks reached 408 (+15%), GBP views 974 and AI citations 29. Dietitian page up 50%, Massage page up 13%.

The search presence

Found in search, maps and AI.

Patients searching for a Neutral Bay physio now find MRP Health across organic results, its Google Business Profile and AI answers.

  • 01 · The AI answer

    Cited as the source.

    “Choose the right physio near Neutral Bay for back pain” now returns MRP Health as a cited source.

  • 02 · The profile

    1 in 5 take action.

    974 profile views in May and 187 calls, direction requests and bookings — a 19.2% interaction rate.

  • 03 · Mobile discovery

    Found in the moment.

    47% of profile discovery comes from mobile — patients searching during pain episodes and deciding within minutes.

Search data documented in the client case study · February – May 2026

What this means

Not more spend. A clearer website.

34% of all category clicks going to a single-location practice is an unusual result — and it isn’t from spending more on advertising.

  • A site Google reads clearly

    Structured so Google understands it, with service pages gaining their own independent traffic.

  • A profile and AI presence that convert

    A complete, active Google Business Profile, and AI tools citing the clinic as the authoritative local answer.

Your next chapter

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