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Technical SEO for Health and Telehealth Brands

Regulated catalogues accumulate structural problems general ecommerce sites never encounter. Most of the fix is consolidation rather than creation.

Crawlable HTML
AI crawlers do not run JavaScript
Cannibalisation Fixes
The most common finding
Health Schema
Correct types, not MedicalWebPage

See where your site competes with itself

Start with your domain. We will find the cannibalisation before we find anything else.

Step 1 of 5

What is your website?

Your domain is enough.

Technical SEO for health brands covers site architecture, crawlability, structured data and internal linking for regulated catalogues. The recurring problems are near-duplicate pages competing with each other, state and dosage variants creating cannibalisation, and rendering that AI crawlers cannot process.

17
exits, all built on organic search
$150M
revenue generated for clients
35+
team members worldwide
100%
hands-off, fully managed

01

Most of the work is consolidation

Prescription-led brands accumulate structural problems general ecommerce does not: state availability pages, condition pages, protocol pages, products varying by dose and pharmacy type, and eligibility content that changes as licensure expands.

Done badly this produces hundreds of near-duplicate URLs competing with each other, and Google resolving that competition by picking one at random while the others dilute it.

The single most common finding in a technical audit at this scale is not something missing. It is a site competing against itself, and the fix is merging and redirecting rather than optimising harder.

02

Rendering, and why it is now a strategic issue

Client-rendered sites have always been a Googlebot risk, resolved eventually through the rendering queue with a delay.

AI crawlers are less patient. GPTBot, PerplexityBot and ClaudeBot largely do not execute JavaScript, so a client-rendered site serves them an empty container. As AI search grows, that stops being a performance issue and becomes an invisibility one.

The test is one command. Curl any URL and confirm the body copy is in the returned HTML. If you only see a script tag, the site is invisible to a channel you are about to need.

03

Schema for health, done correctly

Schema for health, done correctly
Page typeCorrect schemaCommon mistake
Category and service pagesService, FAQPage, BreadcrumbListMedicalWebPage, which misrepresents the page
OrganisationOrganization with parentOrganizationNo corporate relationship declared
ReviewerPerson, with verifiable credentialAuthor name in text only, no markup
Research and studiesArticle plus DatasetArticle alone, losing the data signal
ToolsWebApplicationWebPage, understating what it is

MedicalWebPage is the mistake worth naming. It describes patient-facing health information. A commercial page that discusses a treatment category is not that, and marking it up as such invites an evaluation the page was never designed to pass.

When I am asked if I know of anyone in the SEO space, without hesitation I point them to DTC SEO. They truly understand the power of authority content, onsite metrics, and strategic backlinking and has the network to put it into play.
Amanda Raab, Mergers & Acquisitions, Quiet Light Brokerage

Links we have landed for clients

  • Forbes
  • TIME
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Men's Health
  • Inc
  • Martha Stewart
  • Time Out
  • Apartment Therapy
  • mindbodygreen
  • well+good
  • OK!
  • Best

Most audits find consolidation, not gaps

Tell us where you are and we will show you what is splitting your authority.

Step 1 of 5

What is your website?

Your domain is enough.

Works best alongside

  • Programmatic SEO

    Location and variant pages at scale, built as data rather than as templates, so they inform rather than duplicate.

  • Link Building

    Health publishers vet harder and charge more, which is why most agencies avoid the category and why links remain the largest ranking lever in it.

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Technical SEO: what founders ask us

What is the most common technical problem you find?

A site competing against itself. Near-duplicate pages from state, dosage or condition variants splitting authority, with Google picking a winner arbitrarily. The fix is consolidation and redirection rather than further optimisation.

Does client-side rendering hurt us?

Increasingly, yes. Googlebot resolves it eventually through the rendering queue, but several AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript at all and receive an empty container. As AI search grows that becomes an invisibility problem.

How do we test our rendering?

Curl any URL and confirm the body copy appears in the returned HTML. If you only see a script tag, the page is invisible to crawlers that do not run JavaScript, regardless of how it looks in a browser.

Should health pages use MedicalWebPage schema?

Only for genuine patient-facing health information. Commercial pages discussing a treatment category should use Service. Mislabelling invites an evaluation the page was never designed to pass.

How should state availability pages be structured?

As data rather than as pages. One page per state generated from a single source of truth with genuinely state-specific content and a canonical hierarchy. Dozens of templated near-identical pages risk classification as doorway content.

Is site speed still a ranking factor in health?

It matters, and in this category there is a second reason to care. A health buyer evaluating agencies and platforms judges competence partly on how your own site performs.

For health brands doing $10M+

One call. Your architecture, your rendering, and the fastest path to a lower blended CAC.

Step 1 of 5

What is your website?

Your domain is enough.

For brands doing $10M+