Stephen J. Laquis, MD
Dr. Stephen J. Laquis · Facial & Oculoplastic Practice · Fort Myers, FL
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Stephen J. Laquis, MD, FACS is a facial & oculoplastic practice based in Fort Myers, Florida. By the public record it carries 46 Google reviews at 4★. This profile is an independent read of how the practice shows up in local search, the map pack and AI results for aesthetic terms across the Fort Myers metro — compiled from public data, not supplied by the practice.
Social presence
Reviews & directory listings
Key pages on the site
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Overview
Stephen J. Laquis, online — the full picture.
Dr. Stephen J. Laquis is a cosmetic practice in Fort Myers, FL, with 46 Google reviews at 4★. It holds the #9 backlink profile in the market (126 referring domains). The site is technically sound.
For the patient
Real reviews, verified credentials, who’s actually established.
For the doctor
Where you rank, and the gaps we fix.
For the marketing team
Exactly what the leaders do to win.
01AI search visibility — what Claude recommends
Claude names this practice for 1 of the money procedure.
When a patient asks Claude (with live web search) for a plastic surgeon in Fort Myers, it cites this practice once across our queries — best position #1. AI search is the fastest-growing patient-referral channel and the one with the least competition. These are the procedures it recommends them for:
Also winning AI search in this market
What the AI actually said — verbatim
Claude We asked: “Who are the best plastic surgeon options in Fort Myers, Florida? Name specific practices and their websites.”
… ses on facial plastic surgery with more than 2 decades in practice and has treated thousands of patients 3. Dr. Stephen Prendiville - Website: www.drprendiville.com - Double board-certified facial plastic surgeon - Known as "Dr. Timeless™," with over two decades of experience in …
Claude We asked: “Who are the best best plastic surgeon options in Fort Myers, Florida? Name specific practices and their websites.”
… than 2 decades in practice - Location: 13470 Parker Commons Blvd., Suite 101, Fort Myers, FL 33912 3. Dr. Stephen Prendiville - Website: www.drprendiville.com - Surgeon: Dr. Stephen Prendiville, known as "Dr. Timeless™," a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon w …
Claude We asked: “Who are the best facelift options in Fort Myers, Florida? Name specific practices and their websites.”
… erformed over 15,000 surgeries - Features Dr. Nicholas Garcia as well, a board-certified plastic surgeon 2. Dr. Stephen Prendiville - Website: - Dr. Stephen Prendiville, known as Dr. Timeless™, is a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon with o …
Source: ChatGPT and Claude, both with live web search — the same grounded answers patients get, not training-data guesses. Queried across the Fort Myers metro on the money procedures.
Claude already cites Dr. Laquis for 1 procedure — the work is to widen that lead and lock in citations before competitors catch up, while AI search is still uncontested.
Make the practice citable in AI search — llms.txt, entity schema, citable content, AI-visibility report.
Fix this02Social reach
The social profiles we found.
1 public profile detected at audit time. Only one — worth a deeper look; most established practices run several.
03Paid advertising — Google & Meta
No Google ads found for Stephen J. Laquis, MD.
This is how you tell if a practice is running paid ads. Google publishes an exact ad count per website — a hard signal that they’re paying to show up. Facebook & Instagram don’t, so for Meta we can only search the public Ad Library — a lead to check, not proof. They may run none; they may run plenty. The real creatives are below.
Practices running Google ads in Fort Myers (Ads Transparency Center)
Google counts are exact by domain; the Meta link is a live keyword search, not a verified figure.
04Benchmarks — measured against the market
7th in the market for estimated organic traffic.
Against 21 competitors, Laquis ranks #9 in backlinks, #10 in keywords, #7 in traffic.
of 22 practices
strongest backlinks
the opportunity
Estimated organic traffic — last 6 months
Traffic is modelled; keyword and backlink counts are DataForSEO totals — applied the same way across every practice.
06What’s working
What this practice already has going for it.
- 126 referring domains — the #6 backlink profile in the market
- 4★ across 46 Google reviews
- Well-structured schema markup (AggregateRating, GeoCoordinates, LocalBusiness)
07Organic search vs. the Google map pack
Where Stephen J. Laquis, MD, FACS ranks — map pack vs. organic.
Stephen J. Laquis, MD, FACS shows in Maps but outside the 3-pack (best #10); the organic website peaks at #1. Both are winnable.
08Site speed & Core Web Vitals
Site speed is reasonable, with clear room to improve.
Google’s Lighthouse scores the site 0–100 and speed is a confirmed ranking factor — we fix it. On mobile the site scores 75/100 for performance — the main area to address — alongside 40/100 SEO and 96/100 best-practices.
How long until the biggest thing on screen — usually the hero image — finishes loading. Good is under 2.5s.Learn more →
How long until the very first text or image appears, so the page feels like it’s working. Good is under 1.8s.Learn more →
How much the page jumps around as it loads (the annoying shift when a button moves under your thumb). Good is under 0.1.Learn more →
How long the page is frozen and can’t respond to taps while background code runs. Good is under 200ms.Learn more →
09Local visibility — live geo-grid
Map-pack coverage — top-10 across 37.0% of the metro.
We ran “plastic surgeon” from 49 GPS points across the metro and recorded the practice’s local-pack rank at each. The result, in one picture: top-3 in 0% of the area and top-10 in 0%, strongest around 7331 College Pkwy and tapering toward the edges of the metro.
10Google Business Profile
The Google Business Profile.
The free listing behind the map pack — for a local practice, the single most valuable thing to get right.
What the listing has
What we verified
Verified: claimed listing, 4★ across 46 reviews, categories ['Ophthalmologist', 'Eye care center', 'Medical clinic', 'Plastic surgeon'].
Dr. Laquis sits behind Azul Cosmetic Surgery and Medical Spa and others in the local 3-pack — the box that takes most of the clicks and calls. The Business Profile, review volume, and citation consistency are exactly what move a practice up it.
Rebuild the Google Business Profile to the standard the market leaders hit — categories, services, posts, Q&A, photos.
Fix thisMake NAP consistent and present across the directories that feed local rankings — clean what's wrong, build what's missing.
Fix this11Under the hood — how it’s built
The technology behind the results.
The site publishes 117 URLs in its sitemap. The signals that tell Google what this site is.
Built on WordPress.
Entity markup present.
<title> Best Eyelid Surgeon in Fort Myers | Dr. Stephen Laquis meta Trusted Fort Myers eyelid surgeon Dr. Stephen Laquis with 30,000+ procedures. Expert in bl… H1×1 · H2×1 · H3× · canonical ✓ · robots ✓ What this site tells Google in code.
Schema tells Google and AI what this practice is — we make sure it says the right thing.
We run this technical X-ray across thousands of pages at once.
3 practices in this market rank better organically than Dr. Laquis. We tighten titles, schema, and internal links to climb past them.
On-page + technical SEO — titles, meta, schema, heading structure, sitemap, internal links.
Fix this12Inbound links — who vouches for this site
126 websites link here.
What is an inbound link? When another website links to this one, Google counts it as a vote of confidence — and the more authoritative and relevant the linking site, the more that vote counts. Links are one signal Google weighs — but not the whole story: a site can carry plenty of them and still rank mid-pack if its map presence, reviews, or speed lag. They move the needle most when the rest is already in place. This practice's 126 referring domains rank #9 in the market. Here are the highest-authority sites pointing to it.
Pulling, scoring and (where needed) building this kind of authority is core to what we do — the strongest, most relevant links are the ones that move rankings and are hardest for competitors to match.
3 competitors have more websites linking to them than Dr. Laquis does — and referring domains are one of the signals Google weighs most for organic rank. The reliable way to close it is earning new, relevant links.
Write + distribute a professional press release — authority backlinks, syndication, on-site SEO.
Fix thisBuild net-new listings across the directories and data aggregators that feed Google — Apple Maps, Bing Places, Yelp, Healthgrades, and the niche medical directories competitors already sit in.
Fix this13The full sitemap
117 pages on the site.
Every page Google can rank — the more pages, the more ways to get found.
The master list every site hands Google so it can index every page.
One address = one page. This sitemap holds 117; most local practices have 15–40.
A page built to rank in one town — “Tummy Tuck in Cape Coral.”
Your competitors have more pages — here’s the page count, by type.
14The bottom line
The whole picture, four ways.
Everything we found, distilled — how we’d brief a strategy meeting on this practice in thirty seconds.
- 4★ patient rating
- Top-10 for “oculoplastic surgeon” across 37.0% of metro
- No rich schema markup
- Not yet cited in AI search
- Close the gap on AI search visibility
- Grow Google review volume and recency
- Add structured-data markup for richer results
- Other med spas investing in local SEO + reviews
- Surgeons' in-house injectable arms
15The opportunities
Where to focus next.
The moves that compound what's already working.
The homepage carries no rich schema markup. Adding it makes pages eligible for star ratings, FAQ drop-downs and richer local/map results — a fast, mechanical win that also helps AI engines read the site.
Local-pack reach is thin — top-10 across only 0% of the metro, averaging #16. Profile completeness, categories, review velocity and citation consistency are exactly what move a practice up the 3-pack.
★The verdict
The bottom line.
Stephen J. Laquis, MD, FACS is an aesthetic provider, not a surgeon — so it lives and dies on local search, reviews and the map pack. It shows strong local reach — it lands in the top 10 for “oculoplastic surgeon” across 37.0% of the metro. The single clearest opportunity is AI search visibility.
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This is independent research, not our website. ElectiveIndex is a market-research tool published by Medical Advertising Agency. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or working for Dr. Stephen J. Laquis, Stephen J. Laquis, MD, FACS, or any practice profiled here. Every figure is compiled from public sources (Google, the live website, and public social profiles).
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