Houston Dermatology Associates
dermatology · Houston, TX
WordPress — live capture Contact & location
6560 Fannin St Ste 1720, Houston, TX 77030
About the practice
Houston Dermatology Associates is a dermatologist practice serving Houston and the greater Houston metro.
Social presence
Reviews & directory listings
Key pages on the site
ElectiveIndex™ Certified Snapshot
An independent, machine-collected audit of this practice’s live web presence — captured at a single moment in time.
Compiled from public Google, web-crawl, Lighthouse & social data by ElectiveIndex, a Medical Advertising Agency property.
Overview
Houston Dermatology Associates, online — the full picture.
Houston Dermatology Associates is a dermatology practice in Houston, TX, with 711 Google reviews at 4.9★. 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 Houston, it cites this practice once across our queries — best position #6. 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
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.
Claude already cites Houston Dermatology Associates 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.
3 public profiles detected at audit time.
05What the site actually ranks for
1,962 ranked keywords, by search intent.
63% of this traffic is local or procedure searches — the part that books patients in Houston.
Intent tags separate total SEO footprint from local booking demand.
The full keyword map
All 1,962 keywords — yours and every competitor’s. Click to win it.
Every term, every rival, exactly where the money sits in Houston.
06What’s working
What this practice already has going for it.
- 4.9★ across 711 Google reviews
- Structured schema markup (BreadcrumbList, EntryPoint, GeoCoordinates)
07Organic search vs. the Google map pack
Where Houston Dermatology Associates ranks — organic search vs. the local map pack.
Houston Dermatology Associates isn't surfacing in the map pack for these searches yet, and the organic website peaks at #5 — wide-open room to climb.
08Site speed & Core Web Vitals
The site is genuinely fast — among the better-built in the market.
Google’s Lighthouse scores the site 0–100 and speed is a confirmed ranking factor — we fix it. Scores are strong: 93/100 mobile performance, 100/100 SEO, a fast paint.
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
Their map pack, mapped — top-10 across 20.4% 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 12.2% of the area and top-10 in 20.4%, strongest around 6560 Fannin St Ste 1720 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
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.
Houston Dermatology Associates 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.
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 69 URLs in its sitemap. The signals that tell Google what this site is.
Built on WordPress.
Entity markup present.
<title> Dermatologist Houston TX | Houston Dermatology Associates meta For comprehensive dermatology care, consult our medical & cosmetic dermatologist Dr. F… H1×1 · H2×33 · 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.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/",
"url": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/",
"name": "Dermatologist Houston TX | Houston Dermatology Associates",
"isPartOf": {
"@id": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/#website"
},
"about": {
"@id": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/#organization"
},
"primaryImageOfPage": {
"@id": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/#primaryimage"
},
"image": {
"@id": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/#primaryimage"
},
"thumbnailUrl": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sisters-smiling.jpg",
"datePublished": "2022-05-02T16:40:41+00:00",
"dateModified": "2024-12-12T11:39:54+00:00",
"description": "For comprehensive dermatology care, consult our medical & cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Farah Shah & Team at Houston Dermatology Associates in Texas",
"breadcrumb": {
"@id": "https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/#breadcrumb"
},
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "ReadAction",
"target": [
"https://www.houstondermatologyassociates.com/"
]
}
]
},
{
"@type": "ImageObject",
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"@id": "https:
…Rich results this markup earns
Missing — each is a result feature left on the table
- AggregateRatinggold star rating shown in the blue link
- Reviewreview snippets under the result
- FAQPageexpandable FAQ drop-down in the result
- MedicalBusinessmedical-entity panel + AI grounding
- MedicalClinicmedical-entity panel + AI grounding
Richest structured data of any practice in this market — every rich-result feature is markup-ready.
We run this technical X-ray across thousands of pages at once.
13The full sitemap
69 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 69; most local practices have 15–40.
A page built to rank in one town — “Tummy Tuck in Bellaire.”
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.
- Established reviews
- 4.9★ / 711 reviews
- Organic rankings have room to grow
- Convert authority into organic rankings
- Claim more map-pack terms
- Faster, better-linked competitor sites
15The opportunities
Where to focus next.
The moves that compound what's already working.
Local-pack reach is thin — top-10 across only 20.4% of the metro, averaging #5.1. Profile completeness, categories, review velocity and citation consistency are exactly what move a practice up the 3-pack.
★The verdict
The bottom line.
Houston Dermatology Associates shows developing search authority and a developing map-pack position. The fundamentals are sound; the win is converting authority into top rankings.
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