Plastic surgery marketing

Plastic surgery marketing that turns research into booked consultations.

Your future patients spend weeks comparing costs, surgeons, and results before they call. Outlier builds the pages, campaigns, and proof that make your practice the one they choose, then the booking path that gets them on your calendar.

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How patients actually decide

They search the cost before they search the surgeon

The biggest plastic surgery searches aren’t surgeon names. They’re cost and procedure questions asked weeks before a consultation, and most of them are easy to rank for. A practice with honest, specific pages for each procedure owns that research phase.

27,100

monthly searches for “tummy tuck cost”, with organic difficulty of just 16.

6

organic difficulty for “mommy makeover cost” (14,800 searches a month): about as open as search gets.

$2 to $5

per click for most procedure searches on Google, so the consult rate, not the ad budget, decides your cost per patient.

Monthly US searches, Google Ads cost per click, and organic difficulty (0 to 100). Semrush, September 2026. Clicks shown as $0.00 have too few advertisers to report.
Search termSearches / monthAvg. cost per clickSEO difficulty
Tummy tuck cost27,100$2.8916
Mommy makeover cost14,800$2.596
Deep plane facelift14,800$1.3020
Plastic surgeon near me12,100$3.889
Liposuction near me12,100$0.0015
Rhinoplasty cost12,100$2.1919
Breast augmentation cost6,600$2.7211
BBL cost6,600$2.2525
Rhinoplasty near me5,400$3.7618
Tummy tuck near me4,400$4.8716
Facelift cost4,400$0.007
Mommy makeover near me2,900$3.7913

Highlighted rows are the most open. More aesthetic demand data: 2026 Med Spa Search Demand.

What we run for surgeons

Every step from first search to surgery date

Procedure and cost pages that rank

One page per procedure with honest cost ranges, recovery, candidacy, and real results. Cost searches are the largest and easiest to win in plastic surgery, and the practice that answers them earns the consult.

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Google Ads and paid social by procedure

Campaigns for each high-value procedure, landing on its own page, measured on booked consultations rather than clicks. Procedure clicks cost $2 to $5, so conversion decides everything.

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Before-and-afters and surgeon video

Consented galleries organized by procedure and a surgeon on camera explaining the approach. Patients choose a surgeon, not a practice name, and video is how they meet you first.

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Reviews and the map pack

"Plastic surgeon near me" gets 12,100 searches a month and is answered by the map first. Review count, velocity, and replies decide who gets the call, alongside RealSelf and Healthgrades profiles.

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The consult booking path

Online consult booking, financing shown next to pricing, a phone answered in minutes, and follow-up for the patients who are still deciding. This is where a click becomes a surgery date.

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Social that shows the work

Results, surgeon expertise, and patient stories told within advertising rules, on the channels where aesthetic patients do their research.

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Questions surgeons ask us

Plastic surgery marketing, answered

It turns research into consultations. Patients spend weeks comparing surgeons, costs, results, and reviews before they book. A plastic surgery marketing agency builds the procedure and cost pages that rank for those searches, the before-and-after galleries and surgeon video that earn trust, the Google Ads and social campaigns that reach people in their research window, and the consult booking path that converts them. Outlier runs all of it under one team.

Cost first, then proof. "Tummy tuck cost" draws 27,100 US searches a month, "mommy makeover cost" 14,800, and "rhinoplasty cost" 12,100, while "plastic surgeon near me" draws 12,100. Most of those searches are easy to rank for: mommy makeover cost has an organic difficulty of 6 and plastic surgeon near me 9. A practice that publishes honest cost ranges and real results wins that research.

Both, with different jobs. Procedure clicks are inexpensive (about $2 to $5 on Google), so paid search fills the consult calendar quickly for high-value procedures. SEO owns the long research phase, cost and recovery questions, and the map pack, and it keeps producing consultations without buying every click. Most practices should run paid search from month one while procedure and cost pages build rankings.

Before-and-after photos are published only with documented consent and representative results, claims stay within what the surgeon can substantiate, board certification is stated accurately, and patient information never enters analytics or ad platforms. Tracking is configured to keep protected health information out, and anything that touches patient data runs on vendors that sign a business associate agreement.

Yes. Outlier markets aesthetic practices across plastic surgery, med spas, cosmetic dermatology, and cosmetic dentistry, and runs the entire digital operation for Dr. Jason Emer, one of the most recognized cosmetic dermatologists in the country.

A monthly retainer scaled to scope and channel mix, in annual partnerships. Ad spend is paid directly to Google and Meta. You always know what you are paying for and how many consultations it produced.

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Twenty minutes, no deck. We read your site, ads, reviews, and booking path the way a patient would, and tell you the three things we would change first.

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