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Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center

dermatology · Houston, TX

★ 4.7 · 335 reviews Multi-provider group
dermlasersurgery.com
Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center — Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center website homepage (Houston, TX plastic & cosmetic surgery) WordPress · Divi — live capture

Contact & location

1802 Binz St Ste 500, Houston, TX 77004

+1713-900-3900

Google Business Profile

About the practice

Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center is a dermatologist practice serving Houston and the greater Houston metro.

Key pages on the site

EI

ElectiveIndex™ Certified Snapshot

An independent, machine-collected audit of this practice’s live web presence — captured at a single moment in time.

Data collectedJune 28, 2026
Snapshot time2:30 PM ET
Certificate IDEI-DLSC-20260628

Compiled from public Google, web-crawl, Lighthouse & social data by ElectiveIndex, a Medical Advertising Agency property.

Overview

Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center, online — the full picture.

Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center is a dermatology practice in Houston, TX, with 335 Google reviews at 4.7★. The clearest measurable gap is mobile site speed (47/100).

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.

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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 Houston, 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:

cosmetic dermatologist

Source: ChatGPT and Claude, both with live web search — the same grounded answers patients get, not training-data guesses. Queried across the Houston metro on the money procedures.

The FixAI visibility

Claude already cites Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center for 1 procedure — the work is to widen that lead and lock in citations before competitors catch up, while AI search is still uncontested.

What we’d do about it
AI Visibility (GEO)$850one-time

Make the practice citable in AI search — llms.txt, entity schema, citable content, AI-visibility report.

Fix this

02Social reach

The social profiles we found.

3 public profiles detected at audit time.

05What the site actually ranks for

5,583 ranked keywords, by search intent.

16% of this traffic is local or procedure searches — the part that books patients in Houston.

The largest non-local keyword by estimated traffic is “scar removal” — 8,100 searches/mo, ranked #5, tagged informational.
KeywordSearches/moPosIntent
lip injection houston1,300#4Local intent
houston lip fillers1,300#5Local intent
lip filler in houston1,300#5Local intent
lip fillers houston tx1,300#5Local intent
houston tattoo removal1,000#5Local intent
houston texas tattoo removal1,000#5Local intent
tattoo removal houston texas1,000#5Local intent
dermatologist for lip filler880#6Procedure
birthmark removal near me480#2Local intent
paul friedman md houston390#1Local intent
under eye treatment near me390#5Local intent
dark circle treatments near me320#5Local intent
ultherapy houston320#4Local intent
top dermatologist houston260#4Local intent

Intent tags separate total SEO footprint from local booking demand.

The full keyword map

All 5,583 keywords — yours and every competitor’s. Click to win it.

Every term, every rival, exactly where the money sits in Houston.

855-905-0969Get the full keyword reportFree walkthrough · no obligation

06What’s working

What this practice already has going for it.

4.7★Google rating · 335 reviews
273pages in the sitemap
10.2%metro top-10 in the map pack
  • 4.7★ across 335 Google reviews

07Organic search vs. the Google map pack

Where Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center ranks — organic search vs. the local map pack.

Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center isn't surfacing in the map pack for these searches yet, and the organic website barely ranks — wide-open room to climb.

Organic web results — ranked metro-wide — the race that travels
Map pack — best rank by location — proximity, not reach

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 53/100 for performance — the main area to address — alongside 92/100 SEO and 96/100 best-practices.

LCPLargest Contentful Paint

How long until the biggest thing on screen — usually the hero image — finishes loading. Good is under 2.5s.Learn more →

FCPFirst Contentful Paint

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 →

CLSCumulative Layout Shift

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 →

TBTTotal Blocking Time

How long the page is frozen and can’t respond to taps while background code runs. Good is under 200ms.Learn more →

The FixSite speed

At 53/100 on mobile and a 10.4 s largest-paint, the site is slow enough that both Google and patients feel it. Speed is a confirmed ranking factor and a direct booking-rate lever — every second of load time costs consults.

What we’d do about it
Site Speed$900one-time

Core Web Vitals remediation — caching, image compression, lazy-loading, deferred scripts.

Fix this

09Local visibility — live geo-grid

Their map pack, mapped — top-10 across 10.2% of the metro.

We ran “dermatologist” 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 8.2% of the area and top-10 in 10.2%, strongest around 1802 Binz St Ste 500 and tapering toward the edges of the metro.

#12–34–56–1011–20not ranked
8.2%of area in the top 3
10.2%of area in the top 10
#6average rank where shown

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

335reviews
4.7★rating
photos
1categories
claimed & verified
Plastic surgeon

The opportunity — squeeze more reach

The profile is claimed and well-rated; the reach left on the table is in the parts most practices ignore:

  • Only 1 category listed — the market’s leaders run 3–5 (one primary + secondaries). Each category is another set of searches you can surface for.
  • Google Posts: most practices post zero. Weekly posts are a freshness signal the 3-pack rewards — free real estate on your listing.
  • Seed the Q&A: you write the questions and the answers, so a patient’s first impression is your message, not a competitor’s.
  • Services & booking on the profile — let patients book without ever leaving Google.

We rebuild the profile to the standard the market leaders hit — categories, posts, Q&A, services, photos.

The FixThe map pack

Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center sits behind Lift Plastic Surgery 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.

What we’d do about it
GBP Rescue$750one-time

Rebuild the Google Business Profile to the standard the market leaders hit — categories, services, posts, Q&A, photos.

Fix this
Citation Cleanup$600one-time

Make NAP consistent and present across the directories that feed local rankings — clean what's wrong, build what's missing.

Fix this

11Under the hood — how it’s built

The technology behind the results.

The site publishes 273 URLs in its sitemap. The signals that tell Google what this site is.

Framework
WordPress Divi

Built on WordPress.

Structured data (schema)

No structured data detected.

Homepage signals <title> Houston Dermatologist | Dermatology Specialists in Houston meta At Houston&#039;s Dermatology &amp; Laser Surgery Center, our team of experts performs cos… H1×1 · H2×7 · H3× · canonical ✓ · robots ✓
Schema analysis

What this site tells Google in code.

Schema tells Google and AI what this practice is — we make sure it says the right thing.

No readable structured data on the homepage. Without it, Google has to guess what this page is — we fix that.

We run this technical X-ray across thousands of pages at once.

13The full sitemap

273 pages on the site.

Every page Google can rank — the more pages, the more ways to get found.

Sitemap

The master list every site hands Google so it can index every page.

URL

One address = one page. This sitemap holds 273; most local practices have 15–40.

Location landing page

A page built to rank in one town — “Tummy Tuck in Bellaire.”

Your competitors have more pages — here’s the page count, by type.

procedure pages
273
First 50 of 273 URLsscroll ↓
procedures / procedures /media/ procedures /our-providers/cosmetic-dermatologist/ procedures /procedures/ultherapy/ procedures /procedures/platelet-rich-plasma-prp/ procedures /procedures/thermage-flx/ procedures /about/clinical-trials-houston/ procedures /dr-paul-friedman-featured-in-the-new-york-times-for-life-changing-work-with-sex-trafficking-survivors/ procedures /procedures/sofwave-skin-tightening-in-houston-tx/ procedures /dr-paul-friedman-honored-by-sturge-weber-foundation/ procedures /our-providers/ procedures /our-providers/lori-chapa-aesthetician/ procedures /dr-paul-friedman-and-dr-megan-couvillion-named-2026-castle-connolly-top-doctors/ procedures /about/cosmetic-consultations/ procedures /our-providers/megan-couvillion-md/ procedures /our-providers/heather-richmond-md/ procedures /about/ procedures /about/dermatology-career/ procedures /contact-us/ procedures /cosmetic-inquiries/ procedures /newsletter/ procedures /our-providers/emily-l-guo-md/ procedures /procedures/vbeam/ procedures /birthmark-inquiries/ procedures /dr-paul-friedmans-review-of-dual-non-ablative-fractional-lasers-earns-editors-choice-in-lasers-in-surgery-and-medicine/ procedures /patient-reviews/megan-couvillion-md/ procedures /procedures/ultraclear/ procedures /ultraclear-laser/ procedures /procedures/glacial-rx/ procedures /procedures/botox/ procedures /skin-conditions/ procedures /skin-conditions/stretch-marks/ procedures /procedures/non-surgical-eye-rejuvenation/ procedures /procedures/teeth-grinding/ procedures /procedures/tca-cross/ procedures /laser-treatment-guide/ procedures /procedures/skin-care-products/ procedures /procedures/lip-filler/ procedures /procedures/daxxify/ procedures /procedures/rha-collection/ procedures /skin-conditions/acne/ procedures /skin-conditions/pediatric-vitiligo/ procedures /procedures/juvederm/ procedures /general-dermatology-inquiries/ procedures /about/wedding-services/ procedures /dr-paul-friedman-discusses-ultraclear-and-picoway-lasers-in-modern-aesthetics/ procedures /dr-paul-friedman-receives-prestigious-aad-presidential-citation-for-leadership-and-advocacy/ procedures /procedures/eon/ procedures /procedures/radiofrequency-microneedling-lutronic-genius/ procedures /home-test/

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.

Strengths
  • Established reviews
  • 4.7★ / 335 reviews
Weaknesses
  • Mobile performance 47/100
  • Thin organic rankings
Opportunities
  • Lift front-end performance
  • Convert authority into organic rankings
  • Claim more map-pack terms
Threats
  • Faster, better-linked competitor sites

15The opportunities

Where to focus next.

The moves that compound what's already working.

01

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.

02

Local-pack reach is thin — top-10 across only 10.2% of the metro, averaging #6. Profile completeness, categories, review velocity and citation consistency are exactly what move a practice up the 3-pack.

03

Mobile performance is 53/100 — usually the hero image plus render-blocking assets. A focused fix raises it without a rebuild, and speed feeds both Google rankings and booking conversions.

The verdict

The bottom line.

Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center shows developing search authority and a developing map-pack position. The clearest opportunity is mobile performance (47/100).

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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 Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center, Dermatology & Laser Surgery Center, or any practice profiled here. Every figure is compiled from public sources (Google, the live website, and public social profiles).