A prospective patient often reads your Google Business Profile before your website, and some never click through: the hours, the photos, the address of the consult office, and every review attached to the practice. For a cosmetic surgery practice it is also a public surface with rules attached, because patients can add photos to it, strangers can suggest edits to it, and anyone holding access can reply under the practice name. We manage that listing field by field, including the parts other people can change.
Book a free consultation →Behind every listing on that map is a set of fields somebody filled in once, usually during a website launch, and then left alone. In this field the same handful of fields go wrong.
Most of it traces back to a partner change, a merger or an agency switch that nobody paired with a pass through the listing.
We work as a manager on the profile, so the practice stays the owner and can pull our access whenever it wants. The service as it applies to any business is on our Google Business Profile page. Here is the part specific to a surgical practice.
That same listing data is part of what AI assistants pull from when someone asks for a practice nearby, which is its own body of work on our AI search page.
Parts of a profile change without anyone at the practice touching them. They are public, rarely checked, and the place a surgical practice can end up displaying something it would never have published.
Photos. Anything posted to a listing is public and easy for anyone to save and repost out of context. That makes the profile the wrong home for before and after work. The image, the patient's written authorization behind it, and the caption that explains it belong together on pages the practice controls, which is part of what the practice website is for. On the profile we keep to the building, the entrance, the waiting room, the surgical suite, the team, and where to park: what a first time patient is actually trying to see. Patients upload their own photos too, and those sit alongside yours.
Suggested edits. Anyone can propose a change to a listing, and Google can apply it without asking the practice first: a closed label on an operating day, a phone number copied from an old directory, a category a stranger thought fit better. Watching for those is routine upkeep, not an emergency, as long as somebody actually does it.
The questions patients ask. Profiles no longer carry a public question-and-answer feature, so whether a particular surgeon still operates there, whether financing is offered, which procedures happen in the office: those now get answered from the services list, the description and the pages on the site, which is where the practice controls the wording. Google's old chat feature is gone as well, so a first private conversation belongs on a consultation request built with HIPAA-conscious handling in mind on the practice's own site.
On a profile, reviews are not a separate channel. They are attached to the listing itself, which makes every listing problem above a review problem too: a duplicate profile quietly collects reviews the practice never sees, and an old practitioner listing can be holding years of them under a previous employer's address. Working out where the reviews actually landed is part of the profile job.
Who can post a reply. Owners are not the only ones who can answer a review, since other access levels on the listing can publish a response under the practice name too, and in a practice that has added injectors, lost a partner or changed agencies, that access list is usually longer than anyone knows. Our own access is at manager level, and logins still held by former staff and past vendors get removed, so every reply comes from somebody the practice has actually authorized.
Reporting a review. A review that looks fake, comes from someone who was never there, or is abusive can be reported through the profile, and Google decides, usually without explaining itself. Filing that report sits with whoever manages the listing.
Two parts of the review rule touch this page, the same invitation for every patient with nothing given in return and no reply that confirms anyone is a patient, and the full version lives on reputation management for cosmetic surgeons.
Profile work for a surgical practice is billed as part of a broader local SEO engagement: no standalone monthly product, no per listing fee. The listing and the site run on the same facts, the same categories, the same service list, the same address, so splitting them onto two invoices mostly means doing the work twice.
For most practices, ongoing local SEO runs $1,500 to $3,500 a month. In competitive metros, or for a practice with more than one location, it runs $3,500 to $7,500 a month. The profile work described here sits inside that figure, next to the on-site local search work it depends on. Everything is month to month, and the practice keeps the profile, the reviews, the photos, and every login. The full local picture for this field, citations and location pages included, is on local SEO for cosmetic surgery practices.
If all a practice needs is a one time cleanup, one listing straightened out, duplicates resolved, practitioner profiles reconciled, categories and services rebuilt, that can be scoped and quoted on its own. The number depends on how many listings and how many surgeons are tangled up in it, so it waits until we have seen what is actually live. A suspension appeal gets quoted the same way, plainly, on the call. Our guides on what SEO costs and how long SEO takes are the honest version of both questions.
Measurement comes with it. The profile reports its own calls and direction requests, the tagged website link shows which visits started on the listing, and consult requests land in a first-party lead dashboard like the ones running on more than 20 of the sites we manage.
Worth saying out loud before anyone signs anything.
Starting is a conversation, not a proposal. Call or text (407) 694-2055, or request a quote, and we will go through the listing with you while you are on the phone. If you would rather see work first, a free mockup is yours to keep either way. The wider marketing picture for this field is on our cosmetic surgery page.
Both can exist. Google permits a separate listing for an individual practitioner, and for a group with several surgeons that is often the right structure: each one pointed at the same address, with its own name and specialty. The trouble is usually the profiles nobody meant to create, left over from a hospital affiliation or a previous practice, still live and still collecting reviews. We find those first and decide what to do with each one.
It depends on whether the second address is staffed and whether patients go there on their own. A surgical facility patients arrive at, with its own hours and its own phone, can usually stand as its own listing. A suite the practice books time in, with no staff of its own, should not. We set it up to match how the practice actually operates, because a listing that describes something else is the kind that gets flagged.
Not by moving them yourself. Reviews stay with the listing they were left on, and what happens to them when a duplicate is merged or a practitioner listing is marked as moved is Google's decision, not the practice's. What we can do is find every listing carrying the surgeon's name, confirm who controls each one, and settle what gets updated, merged or closed before anything is touched, so nothing gets retired by accident.
We advise against it. Photos on a listing are public and easy for anyone to copy out of context, and the patient's written authorization, the caption, and the disclaimers that belong with a before and after image do not travel with it. That work belongs on pages the practice controls. The profile does better with the building, the entrance, the waiting room, the surgical suite, and the team, which is what a first time patient wants to see anyway.
Google removed them. The public question-and-answer feature came off Business Profiles in late 2025, and answers about a business in Maps now draw on the profile itself, its reviews and its website. So the fix for a wrong answer about financing, or about which surgeon still operates there, is no longer posting under a question. It is making sure the services list, the description and the pages on your site say the right thing.
Not directly. A photo a patient adds sits on the listing under their own account, and the practice cannot delete it. You can report one that breaks Google's content policies, for instance a photo showing another patient or one that has nothing to do with the practice, and Google decides. What the practice controls is its own photo set, kept current, so there is a real picture of the building and the team beside whatever patients add.
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Call or text (407) 694-2055, email [email protected], or request a quote. We will search the practice and each surgeon by name with you, list every profile that turns up, and say plainly which to keep, which to fix and what that would cost.
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