How Next Wave shows up on Google

For Sasha at Next Wave Therapy, from Joel the Nerd

How many people find you on Google, what they search for, what has changed since Joel took over on 15 September and the plan from here.

At a glance

The week Joel took over against the latest check. Every number below is explained further down the page.

People visiting from Google

People who found your site on Google and clicked through. Straight from your Google Search Console.

–visits from Google last month
–more than the same months last year
–visits from Google in the last 12 months

How visible you are on Google

The best single measure of your overall Google presence. Straight from your Google Search Console.

Problems from before the takeover

Each of these started before Joel took over on 15 September. The first one is the late April drop on the chart above.

Week of 20 April

Google visibility nearly halved

Searches showing your site on Google's first page fell from 972 to 611 in a single week.

Fixed: pages rebuilt one by one, with missing answers, wording and page titles put back.

21 May to 15 September

Site running on an old backup

After the old host was breached the site ran on a backup from 21 May, so about three and a half months of edits were lost.

Fixed: moved to clean hosting on 15 September with every web address kept. Your post-June wording and 21 missing FAQ answers are back.

4 to 11 September

Gambling spam on your About page

Spam added on the old host made Google show your About page for a gambling brand, 2,124 times.

Fixed: clean About page, re-checked by Google on 21 September. Spam searches are left out of every number in this report.

9 to 10 September

Website pointing at the wrong address

The whole site redirected to a development address instead of nextwavetherapy.com.au.

Fixed: your own domain now points straight at the new site.

September

Fake emails and old agency access

Fake emails were being sent using your web address. The old agency still had owner access to your Google Search Console.

Fixed: fake emails now go to spam. The agency's access was removed on 23 September.

Found 28 September

Links sending visitors to ChatGPT

Ten links on Injuries We Treat went to ChatGPT's website instead of your own pages.

Fixed: all ten now go to the right pages.

Searches moving up since the takeover

Service searches where people found you on Google and clicked through, over the last three months.

What people searchedBeforeNow

Since Joel took over

Google results checked from Perth with no personal search history, on takeover day and today.

Google Maps around the clinic

We search Google Maps from 25 spots around the clinic every week. Each pin shows where you appear when someone searches from that spot.

#1 to #3 #4 to #6 #7 to #10 #11 to #20

Launched this month

Live on your website now. Click any page to see it.

The plan

Keep visits growing past 1,000 a month and win the searches where you are close to the top. Every goal below is checked against the same independent Google data each month.

Fremantle

Biggest search market

Done: Fremantle back in the Physiotherapy page title, five pages that all called themselves the Fremantle page given their own titles, your nine suburb pages linked from every page and the Fremantle page rewritten as your main Fremantle page.

Next: add the clinic details Google reads directly (address, hours and map) to the Fremantle page. Keep one clear Fremantle page for physio and one for occupational therapy.

Goal: first page for "physio fremantle" and Maps top 5 around the clinic.

Chronic pain

Your specialty

Done: the home page links to Chronic Pain Physio again, the two chronic pain pages work as a pair and your answers on back, neck and lower back pain are back on the page (live 28 September).

Next: Google usually takes a few weeks to re-read a changed page. We check it every week. If it has not moved back up by mid October we add more of your own content to it.

Goal: back in the top 3 for "chronic pain physio perth".

Perth-wide

Long game

Next: two articles a month written from your own service pages, each linked to its service. Regular posts on your Google Business Profile once we have manager access.

Goal: first page for "exercise rehabilitation perth".

Every week

Looking after the site

Rankings and Google Maps checked from Perth, this report refreshed and anything that breaks on the site fixed the same week.