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Doctor-led skincare brand

Shown in Google nine times as often since we started, and listed as a source in its AI answers.

Doctor-led UK skincare brand (anonymised) · 2026

Bar charts of monthly Google appearances and clicks for an anonymised skincare brand, March to October 2026, rising from 2.1k appearances in May to 19.1k in October
Times shown in Google a month
2.1k → 19.1k
Clicks a month
213 → 497
Google AI answer
First source listed
E-commerceDoctor-led UK skincare brand (anonymised)2026Case studyThe Social Target

Before

2.1kTimes shown in Google a month

Now

19.1kTimes shown in Google a month

The work

A doctor-led UK skincare brand sells online, and its customers search for honest answers before they buy. The brand already had a blog. In May 2026, the month before we started, its pages were shown in Google about 2,100 times and earned 213 clicks.

We worked on it with our partners, The Boutique Consultancy. We started in late June with a full search and AI audit, then fixed the site underneath. The homepage went from 51 to 95 on Google’s mobile speed test, from 88 to 100 on accessibility, and it passed all three of Google’s checks for AI agents. Those are health scores, not rankings. They are the floor the rest of the work stands on.

Then the writing. We rewrote the older articles that were closest to page one, then added new ones. Each article answers its question in the opening lines, in plain English, with its sources linked.

By late August, Google’s AI answer to a common question about the brand’s main type of cream listed one of our rewritten articles as its first source and cited it twice. The same page was the top ordinary result underneath. For two product searches, the AI answer listed the brand as a source too.

Between May and October, the times its pages were shown in Google each month went from 2,096 to 19,087. Clicks grew more slowly, from 213 to 497. We can’t say every extra click came from our work. We can say this is what happened from the month we started.

Service delivered SEO & AI visibility

See our work with The Boutique Consultancy

The approach

How the growth actually happened.

  1. 01

    Audit first

    A full search and AI audit before we wrote a single word.

  2. 02

    Fixed underneath

    Faster on phones, accessible to everyone, readable by AI agents.

  3. 03

    Rewrite, then add

    Older pages near page one rewritten first. New articles second.

  4. 04

    Answer first

    Every article answers its question in the opening lines, with sources linked.

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