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TELEHEALTHSEO

COMPETITOR TEARDOWN

Ro owns GLP-1 dosing, and rents almost everything else

The most aggressive paid spender in telehealth, and the single best organic position in weight loss. Both things are true, and the gap between them is the lesson.

Methodology: Ahrefs Site Explorer, ro.co including subdomains. Ahrefs, organic keywords and site metrics, subdomains mode. United States. 1 August 2026. Figures are the Ahrefs export on that date and are not adjusted. CPC values are converted from the API's cents to dollars.

22,126
Monthly visits from dosing queries
$1.93M
Monthly paid spend
29,750
Keywords in the top 3

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Ro draws 749,354 monthly organic visits in the US from 59,816 keywords, with 29,750 in the top three. Their strongest position by far is the GLP-1 dosing cluster, where they hold first place on terms like "tirzepatide dosage" at 44,000 searches a month. Alongside that they run 302,186 monthly paid visits at roughly $1.93M, which is the heaviest paid programme in the category.

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

01

Organic and paid, side by side

Most telehealth brands run one channel well and neglect the other. Ro runs both hard, which makes the comparison unusually informative.\n\nTheir paid spend is 57% of the value of their organic traffic. Put another way, they are paying nearly two thirds again on top of an organic position most brands in this category would consider finished.

Organic and paid, side by side
MetricOrganicPaid
Monthly visits749,354302,186
Monthly value$3,379,518$1,928,435
Keywords59,8161,924
Keywords in the top 329,750

The reason is category specific. GLP-1 is where transactional demand is most valuable and most contested, and Ro is defending a position rather than building one. That is an expensive place to be, and it is the position every brand that waits ends up in.

02

The dosing cluster is the whole strategy

This is the part worth copying, and almost nobody does it.\n\nRo holds first position across the GLP-1 dosing cluster. Not the buying terms, the dosing terms: the queries a patient runs after they have a prescription and are working out what week four looks like.

The dosing cluster is the whole strategy
KeywordVolumeKDPositionTraffic
tirzepatide dosage44,0004216,952
tirzepatide dosage chart44,0002016,905
semaglutide weight loss dosage chart15,0004812,890
retatrutide dosage17,000111,966
mounjaro dosage chart17,000391623
ozempic dosage chart14,000601567

Those six positions alone carry more than 19,900 visits a month, and the wider dosing set runs past 22,000.\n\nThe strategic read is that dosing content does two jobs at once. It captures the patient who is already medicated, which is a retention and adherence audience rather than an acquisition one, and it builds the topical depth that makes the transactional terms rankable later. Ro built the base first and the money pages second, which is the order our weight loss playbook argues for.

03

Where the buying demand actually sits

Filtering to non-branded keywords with commercial or transactional intent and a CPC above $2.50 gives the demand a competitor is fighting for.

Where the buying demand actually sits
KeywordVolumeKDCPCPositionTraffic
peptides for weight loss82,00015$3.061604
glp 1 pills66,00044$10.5118408
oral minoxidil45,00034$5.8117246
weight loss shots34,00044$6.3516259
semaglutide cost33,00065$4.821815
tirzepatide brand name11,00069$4.9710357

"glp 1 pills" is the row to sit with. 66,000 searches a month at a $10.51 CPC, and Ro is at position 18. The paid market has priced that click at more than ten dollars, which is as clear a signal of commercial value as this category produces, and the category leader is on page two.\n\n"peptides for weight loss" is the mirror image: 82,000 searches at difficulty 15, first position, and 604 visits. Difficulty 15 on 82,000 searches should not be possible, and the traffic figure tells you the SERP is resolving that query without sending clicks anywhere.

04

Where the flank is open

Ro is beatable in three specific places, and none of them require matching their spend.\n\nThe first is the pill formulation cluster. "glp 1 pills" at 66,000 and "glp1 pill" at 20,000, both above a $10 CPC, both held at position 11 or worse. Oral GLP-1 is the newest shape of demand in this category and the incumbent has not built for it.\n\nThe second is hair loss, which they treat as a secondary line. They sit at position 17 on "oral minoxidil", the same 45,000 search term Hims sits at 19 on. Two of the largest men's health platforms in the country are both on page two of a term worth $5.81 a click.\n\nThe third is the dosing playbook itself. It works, it is documented above in their own numbers, and it is available to anyone willing to build genuinely useful clinical content before they build the buying pages. Most brands do the reverse and then wonder why the transactional terms never arrive.

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

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Methodology: Ahrefs Site Explorer, ro.co including subdomains. Ahrefs, organic keywords and site metrics, subdomains mode. United States. 1 August 2026. Figures are the Ahrefs export on that date and are not adjusted. CPC values are converted from the API's cents to dollars.

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How much organic traffic does Ro get?

749,354 monthly visits in the US from 59,816 ranking keywords, 29,750 of them in the top three positions. Ahrefs values that traffic at roughly $3.38M a month.

What is Ro's strongest SEO position?

The GLP-1 dosing cluster. They hold first place on "tirzepatide dosage" and "tirzepatide dosage chart", both at 44,000 searches a month, and the dosing set as a whole brings them past 22,000 visits a month.

Does Ro rely on paid advertising?

Heavily. 302,186 monthly paid visits at roughly $1.93M, which is 57% of the value of their entire organic channel. They are the most aggressive paid spender of the telehealth brands we have pulled.

Where is Ro weakest?

Oral GLP-1 formulation terms. "glp 1 pills" carries 66,000 searches at a $10.51 CPC and they sit at position 18. They are also at position 17 on "oral minoxidil", a 45,000 search term at $5.81.

Where did these numbers come from?

A single Ahrefs Site Explorer export for ro.co including subdomains, United States, taken on 1 August 2026. Nothing is adjusted, rounded or estimated.

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