No. Metro, Island, and Interior markets differ in density, travel patterns, competition, and service-area expectations.
Market overview
The hardest market in BC sits beside an open one
"Dentist Vancouver" draws 1,000 monthly searches at a keyword difficulty of 69, one of the hardest in the country. "Dentist Surrey", twenty-five kilometres away, draws 500 at a difficulty of 0. A provincial plan that treats Metro Vancouver as one market spends its budget in the hardest part of it and misses the open one next door. Victoria behaves differently again at 90 searches and difficulty 45.
Services
What we do for practices across British Columbia
Most practices start with two or three of these. The free audit says which ones, and in what order, for your clinic specifically.
Case result
What this work looks like when it lands
One dental practice we work with, over the course of the engagement. Leads and booked patients are counted separately, because they are not the same number.
2080
monthly new leads
1365
monthly new patients
Results from a ScaleUp Dental client engagement. The practice asked not to be identified. Individual results depend on market, service mix, capacity and budget, and we do not present these as typical or as a forecast for a British Columbia practice.
Pricing
What this costs a British Columbia practice
Published rates, not a quote you have to ask for. The two recurring plans both include AI search optimization, and they are founding client pricing — locked for the first three practices we take on.
- Starter Visibility Plan$400/month
- Patient Growth Plan$2,000/month
- Practice Scale Plan$3,500/month
- Dental Website Setup$1,250one-time
Advertising spend and third-party software are quoted separately. Prices in Canadian dollars, taxes additional.
See what each plan includesWorth reading first
Before you hire anyone
Our own research, published in full. Most of it is inconvenient for the way this industry sells, which is rather the point.
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Strategy for this market
What we would prioritize
Metro-level segmentation
Avoid treating Vancouver and surrounding municipalities as one interchangeable keyword market.
Travel-aware conversion
For wider catchments, make service suitability, scheduling, directions, and next steps clear before a patient contacts the clinic.
Relevant language support
Develop multilingual content only for languages the clinic can actually support and after confirming local search demand.
Privacy and advertising context
Canada and province-aware workflows
British Columbia’s private-sector privacy framework may apply alongside other Canadian obligations. Forms, call tracking, and analytics should collect only what the workflow needs, with responsibilities reviewed before launch.
Service-area note: This page does not claim a ScaleUp Dental office or physical address in British Columbia.
FAQ
Do you use the same strategy across British Columbia?
Do you provide dental SEO across British Columbia?
Yes. Dental SEO for British Columbia practices covers the treatment and location pages patients search for, the Google Business Profile that decides most local visibility, and the internal linking that connects them. In our study of 213 Canadian dental clinics, keyword coverage tracked organic traffic at +0.88 while Domain Rating managed +0.36 — so the work is building pages worth ranking, not buying links.
Can a British Columbia dental clinic appear in Google AI Overviews?
Yes, and that is what generative engine optimization (GEO) is for. We measured 100 Canadian dental keywords: 94% of cost and insurance questions and 92% of treatment comparison questions now return an AI Overview, while searches naming a city return one only 10% of the time. So a British Columbia practice gets cited by answering cost, comparison and candidacy questions in a form an assistant can quote, with FAQ schema and entity data behind it. Nobody can guarantee a citation, and anyone who does is describing something they do not control.
Do you manage Google Ads and PPC for British Columbia dentists?
Yes. Pay-per-click for a British Columbia dental practice means a radius around the clinic rather than a whole region, a negative keyword list that excludes jobs, courses and insurance research, and landing pages that continue the ad instead of dropping people on a homepage. We report cost per booked appointment, not cost per click — the cheapest clicks in dentistry are usually the ones furthest from a booking.
Do you run Facebook and Instagram ads for British Columbia dental practices?
Yes, for the treatments they suit. Meta ads create demand rather than capture it, so they work for elective, visual cases with a long decision window — clear aligners, veneers, whitening, implants — and not for emergency or routine care, where the patient is already searching. We will tell a British Columbia clinic when the honest answer is that Google and the Business Profile should come first.
What does dental marketing cost across British Columbia?
Plans run from $400 a month for local search foundations to $3,500 a month for the full system, and a website is $1,250 one-time with the first year of hosting included. The two recurring plans include AI search optimization. Those rates are founding client pricing, locked for the first three practices we take on. Ad spend and third-party software are quoted separately.
Do you work with more than one clinic across British Columbia?
One clinic per area. We take a single practice per market and work only for them, so if your area is already taken we will say so in the first reply rather than compete against our own client.
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