Burnaby Dental Clinic: Competing With Vancouver — and Winning | Web Design Case Study | Burden Marketing
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Burnaby Dental Clinic: Competing With Vancouver — and Winning

A structural rebuild that gave a Burnaby clinic the search authority to outrank larger Vancouver competitors.

Burnaby Dental Clinic: Competing With Vancouver — and Winning
Burnaby Dental Clinic: Competing With Vancouver — and Winning

KEY RESULTS

189%

Increase in organic new patient inquiries

5 months post-launch

Page 1

Rankings for 12 target Burnaby keywords

Month 3

3×

Google Maps visibility increase

Burnaby & New Westminster

44%

Reduction in cost-per-new-patient

vs. paid advertising baseline

THE CHALLENGE

Buried Behind Vancouver Brands Despite Being 10 Minutes Away

A well-reviewed dental clinic in Burnaby's Metrotown corridor was consistently losing new patient searches to Vancouver clinics that appeared first, despite the Burnaby clinic having better reviews and a longer track record. Their site was technically weak, lacked local content depth, and wasn't structured for the specific search intent of patients in Burnaby, New Westminster, and surrounding communities.

SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED

✕Ranking on page 2–3 for 'dentist Burnaby' and related queries
✕No neighbourhood-level content for Metrotown, Brentwood, or Edmonds
✕Weak Google Business Profile with inconsistent citation data
✕Homepage had no structured local signals — Google treated it as a generic site
✕New patient inquiries stagnant despite strong reviews

BEFORE / AFTER

After
After
Post-rebuild — locally structured, page 1, Maps dominant
Before
Before
Pre-rebuild — generic, no local signals, page 2–3
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THE SOLUTION

Local Authority Architecture That Outranked the Vancouver Gravity

We rebuilt the site's content architecture with Burnaby-specific local signals, restructured service pages with FAQ content optimized for featured snippets, cleaned up citation inconsistencies across 40+ directories, and built neighbourhood-level landing pages for Metrotown, Brentwood, and Edmonds.

01

Citation Cleanup & GBP Overhaul

Full citation audit across 40+ directories, NAP consistency fixes, and complete Google Business Profile rebuild with category optimization and photo strategy.

02

Service Page Restructure

Each core service page rebuilt with local keyword targeting, FAQ schema, and structured content that earns Google's People Also Ask placements.

03

Neighbourhood Landing Pages

Dedicated, indexable pages for Metrotown, Brentwood, Edmonds, and New Westminster capturing hyper-local patient search intent.

04

Technical SEO Foundation

Site speed, mobile performance, schema markup, and internal linking rebuilt from scratch to eliminate the technical gaps holding rankings back.

05

Review & Trust Signal Strategy

Structured review acquisition process and trust signal placement that converted existing review volume into visible ranking authority.

MEASURABLE RESULTS

What Changed — and By How Much

189%

Increase in organic new patient inquiries

5 months post-launch

Page 1

Rankings for 12 target Burnaby keywords

Month 3

3×

Google Maps visibility increase

Burnaby & New Westminster

44%

Reduction in cost-per-new-patient

vs. paid advertising baseline

CLIENT VOICE

"We had better reviews than most of the clinics ranking above us. The rebuild fixed the structural gap — and within three months we were outranking Vancouver clinics that had been there for years."

Kevin L.

Practice Owner, Burnaby BC

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