Case Study

How a healthcare practice became visible to AI assistants - in 2 weeks

A Lisbon medical practice with a multilingual website went from invisible in AI search to appearing in AI-generated healthcare responses - with a perfect security score - in just 2 weeks.

AI

Now appears in AI-generated healthcare responses

27

Pages with optimized search appearance

100

Security score (out of 100)

3

Languages optimized (PT, EN, FR)

Challenge

A medical practice invisible to AI search

This client runs a Lisbon medical practice with a multilingual website serving Portuguese, English, and French-speaking patients. Despite having quality medical content, the practice was not appearing in AI search results for any medical queries.

Title tags were truncated in Google results, reducing click-through rates. The site had security issues - mixed content warnings and no HSTS - which undermined patient trust signals critical for healthcare websites.

Approach

Medical-grade SEO and AI optimization

AISO Hub deployed targeted optimizations addressing healthcare-specific requirements:

  • 1
    MedicalBusiness JSON-LD implementation

    Practice now correctly classified in AI engine knowledge bases as a medical provider, enabling healthcare-specific queries to surface the site.

  • 2
    27 title tags rewritten in Sanity CMS

    Every page now displays correctly in SERPs - no more truncation losing critical medical service information.

  • 3
    HSTS and security hardening

    Deployed HSTS and fixed all mixed content warnings for a GDPR-compliant security posture - essential for patient trust.

  • 4
    Multilingual meta optimization

    Updated French meta tags across all pages and fixed redirect architecture via Cloudflare Workers for clean locale routing.

Results

Visible, secure, and AI-discoverable

In 2 weeks, the practice went from invisible in AI search to appearing in AI-generated responses for relevant healthcare queries, with perfect security and optimized search presence across all pages.

AI-generated healthcare responses

The medical practice now appears in AI-generated responses for relevant healthcare queries - a new patient acquisition channel.

All 27 pages optimized

Every page across the site has optimized search appearance with correctly formatted title tags.

100/100 security score

Site security upgraded to perfect score with HSTS, eliminating all mixed content warnings.

Return on investment

One new patient covers the cost

At EUR 890/month, for a healthcare practice where a single new patient generates EUR 200-500+ in lifetime value, acquiring just one patient per month via organic search pays for the service in full.