Case Study · Med Spa · GEO + SEO · 60 Days
GA Grey Aesthetics — Newport Beach Med Spa

How Grey Aesthetics went from
a local hidden gem to becoming an AI-cited brand
with 175+ citations

Grey Aesthetics had world-class treatments and a loyal patient base. What they didn't have was discoverability. When new patients searched on Google or asked AI for recommendations, a competitor got the appointment instead.

DA Growth (7 to 35)
2.5×
Impression Growth
175+
AI Citations
Now appearing in AI-generated patient recommendations
Perplexity
0 to 42
citations for local aesthetics and treatment searches
X
Grok AI
0 to 39
citations across treatment recommendation prompts
ChatGPT
0 to 25
citations for local med spa and treatment queries
"We were the best-kept secret in Newport Beach. Patients who found us loved us. But most patients never found us at all. Botric changed that in ways we didn't think were possible in 60 days."
GA
Director, Grey Aesthetics
Newport Beach Med Spa · Aesthetics
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Premium treatments. Zero discoverability.

Grey Aesthetics is a full-service medical aesthetics clinic in Newport Beach, California, offering treatments most local competitors simply don't have. AgeJET plasma skin rejuvenation. TriLift non-surgical facelifts. LaseMD Ultra resurfacing. GLP-1 medical weight loss. The clinical quality was exceptional. The online presence was not.

When a potential patient in Newport Beach opened Google or asked an AI assistant "best clinic for AgeJET near me" or "top rated med spa in Newport Beach for anti-aging", Grey Aesthetics was nowhere. Not in the AI answer. Not in the conversation at all.

In local healthcare and aesthetics, that invisibility is not a branding problem. It is a revenue problem. Every search that goes unanswered is a consultation that goes to a competitor down the street.

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Invisible for treatment-specific searches

Queries like "AgeJET Newport Beach," "TriLift near me," and "best non-surgical facelift Newport Beach" returned zero visibility. Patients researching these specific treatments couldn't find Grey at all.

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Absent from AI recommendations

When patients asked ChatGPT or Perplexity for the best med spas in Newport Beach, Grey was not cited. Other clinics offering fewer treatments were being recommended by name.

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Thin, unstructured service pages

Service pages existed but lacked the depth, schema markup, and content structure needed for Google rankings or LLM extraction. A treatment page that lists a name is not a page that gets cited.

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Low domain authority

A DA of 7 gave search engines and AI models very little reason to trust the domain. Without third-party authority signals, even well-written content struggles to rank against established local competitors.

Monthly clicks (March)182
Monthly impressions7.7K
Domain AuthorityDA 7
Average position21.8
Backlinksfew
AI search citations0

The system that turned
60 days into category ownership.

Local med spas face a challenge most SEO agencies miss entirely. National traffic is nearly worthless. A clinic in Newport Beach does not benefit from ranking for "best med spa" in Pittsburgh. What matters is owning the local intent layer: the patients within 10 miles who are actively researching specific treatments and ready to book.

Botric's approach combined local search precision with GEO optimisation, building authority signals that work for both Google and AI platforms simultaneously. The goal was not just visibility but citation, becoming the source AI models recommend when a patient asks which clinic to trust.

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Authority building
621 backlinks from health directories, local Newport Beach sources, and medical aesthetics publications.
A DA of 7 is below the trust threshold for competitive local queries. LLMs weight domain authority when selecting sources. We had to build the foundation before anything else could compound.
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Service page rebuilds
Full rewrites of AgeJET, TriLift, Botox, filler, and LaseMD Ultra pages with treatment depth, candidacy, outcomes, and cost context.
AI models don't cite thin pages. A page that explains mechanisms, expected results, and who the treatment is right for is one an AI can extract a confident recommendation from.
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Schema and structured data
MedicalClinic, Service, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList schema implemented across all key pages.
Schema is invisible to patients and critical to machines. It tells Google and language models exactly what each page is about, removing ambiguity that would otherwise suppress citations.
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Local GEO targeting
Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, and Orange County geo-signals embedded throughout content and structured data.
AI assistants use geographic context when making local recommendations. Without explicit location signals, a clinic in Newport Beach competes globally instead of locally, where it actually wins.
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LLM prompt tracking
21+ high-intent patient queries tracked across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode from the first week.
You cannot improve what you don't measure. Establishing a zero-citation baseline on day one meant every content and authority change could be tied directly to citation outcomes over time.
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GEO-first blog content
Treatment comparison and explainer content written specifically to be extracted by AI models answering patient research questions.
Patients researching AgeJET vs CO2 laser or "best non-surgical facelift for older skin" are high-intent. Content that directly answers those questions becomes the source AI platforms cite.
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April 2025 — Foundation sprint
Audit, structure, and first authority signals

Botric ran a full technical audit and identified three critical gaps immediately: near-zero schema markup, service pages too thin to rank or be cited, and a backlink profile that gave neither Google nor AI models any reason to trust the domain. The AgeJET page was identified as the highest-priority target. It was a distinctive, high-intent treatment with almost no local competition online. A deep rewrite was produced first. Schema was rolled out across all service pages. Backlink outreach launched across health directories and local Newport Beach sources. Botric ran 21+ target prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode to establish a zero baseline. Grey appeared in none of them.

Full audit Schema rollout Backlink launch AgeJET page rewrite LLM baseline set
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April to May 2025 — Acceleration
Service page depth and first AI citations appear

Full rewrites of Botox, dermal filler, TriLift, and LaseMD Ultra pages were completed. Each was built to address the specific questions patients ask AI assistants before booking, covering cost ranges, expected outcomes, treatment candidacy, and recovery. By late April, the AgeJET page began appearing in AI-generated answers. "AgeJET treatment Newport Beach," "AgeJET consultation Newport Beach," and "best clinic for AgeJET Newport Beach" all entered the results. The first confirmed Perplexity citation appeared. Monthly impressions climbed to 12.4K, a 60 percent increase from March. Active users grew from 60 to over 190.

12.4K impressions First AI citations AgeJET rankings appear Service page rewrites done
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May 2025 — Category ownership
DA 35, 621 backlinks, full AI prompt coverage

Domain Authority reached 35, up from 7 at onboarding. Total backlinks hit 621. Impressions reached 19.3K, a 2.5x increase from the March baseline. Grey Aesthetics was now cited across all 21 tracked AI prompts covering AgeJET, TriLift, Botox, LaseMD Ultra, and non-surgical facelift queries. The AgeJET page alone held 9 separate position-one Google rankings. Monthly organic users grew from 30 in April to 106 in May. The clinic effectively owned its niche in Newport Beach across both search and AI.

DA 35 19.3K impressions 21+ AI prompts cited 9x AgeJET #1 rankings 621 backlinks

60 days of compounding growth

Total Impressions
19.3K
March: 7.7K · +2.5x
Total Clicks
728
March baseline: 182 · +4x
Domain Authority
35
From DA 7 · +5x
Organic Users (May)
106
April: 30 · +3.5x

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Every metric, before and after

Metric Before (March) After (May) Change
Monthly impressions 7,730 19,300 +2.5x
Monthly clicks 182 272 (Apr peak) +49%
Total cumulative clicks 182/mo 728 total 4x run rate
Average search position 21.8 20.6 Improving
Domain Authority (Moz) 7 35 +28 pts
Organic keywords ranked low 111 111 new
Monthly active users 60 (Apr start) 192 (May) +3.2x
Organic users per month 30 (Apr) 106 (May) +3.5x
AI search citations 0 / 21 prompts 21+ / 21 prompts 0 to full

Where Grey Aesthetics appears in AI answers

Most agencies track Google rankings. Botric tracks where patients actually make decisions: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and other AI assistants. At onboarding, Grey appeared in zero prompts across any of them. The data below is real, platform by platform.

The key insight driving this result: AI models don't cite clinics. They cite content they can understand and trust. A service page that lists treatment names is not citable. A page that explains what AgeJET is, who it is right for, what results to expect, and how it compares to alternatives gives an AI model everything it needs to make a confident recommendation. That is what Botric built.

175+
Total citations across all platforms
7+
AI platforms now citing Grey
0
Citations at start of engagement
21+
Tracked prompts with full coverage

Platform-by-platform citation breakdown

Tracked from day one. Every number is real.

Perplexity
42citations
Started at 0 · strongest platform
Growing steadily
ChatGPT
25citations
Started from zero · strong momentum
Built from scratch
Gemini AI
10citations
Early traction across queries
Emerging visibility
Copilot
16citations
Consistent discovery across prompts
Expanding reach
Meta AI
23citations
Strong visibility shortly after tracking
Rapid adoption
Grok AI
39citations
Quickly became a top-performing channel
Scaling fast
AI Mode
23citations
Immediate visibility after launch tracking
New channel

AgeJET: from nowhere to nine #1s

At onboarding, Grey had zero meaningful non-branded keyword rankings. By May, the AgeJET page alone held nine position-one rankings. Grey Aesthetics effectively owns AgeJET in Newport Beach on Google. TriLift followed the same pattern.

#1
AgeJET treatment Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#1
AgeJET cost Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#1
AgeJET skin rejuvenation Newport Beach CA
Service page · Google
#1
AgeJET consultation Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#1
Affordable AgeJET treatment Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#1
Best med spa for AgeJET Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#1
Plasma skin rejuvenation Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#1
AgeJET Newport Beach CA
Service page · Google
#1
AgeJET plasma skin rejuvenation Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#1
TriLift Newport Beach CA
Service page · Google
#1
TriLift facial treatment Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#2
Plasma skin resurfacing Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#2
Botox Newport Beach cost and treatment guide
Blog · Google
#3
AgeJET vs CO2 laser Newport Beach
Blog · Google
#4
Dermal fillers Newport Beach
Service page · Google
#4
Best dermal filler clinic Newport Beach
Service page · Google

Your patients research before they book.
AI is where that research starts.

Grey Aesthetics is not a unique case. Across every local healthcare and aesthetics category, the patient journey now starts with an AI assistant before it hits Google. "What is the best clinic near me for X treatment?" is being asked thousands of times per day. The clinics with no AI presence are not even in consideration.

The practices that establish GEO presence now will be the ones patients find first, trust first, and book first. Grey moved early. That advantage compounds.

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Local healthcare moves on trust

When AI recommends a clinic by name and treatment, that recommendation carries far more weight than a generic search result. Being cited by name is credibility at scale.

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The early-mover window is now

GEO for local medical practices is where local SEO was in 2013. The clinics building AI presence now will be significantly harder to displace in 18 months.

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Authority compounds across both channels

The backlink and content work Botric built for Grey did not just improve Google rankings. It also gave AI models the trust signals needed to cite the clinic with confidence.

Grey Aesthetics owns AgeJET
in Newport Beach. On Google and in AI.

In 60 days, Botric took Grey Aesthetics from a DA 7 site with no AI presence to a category-dominant local brand. Nine position-one Google rankings. Cited across 21 AI prompts. 621 backlinks. The treatments were always exceptional. Now the patients can find them.

5x
Domain Authority growth in 60 days
11
Position-one Google rankings built
175+
AI citations built from zero

Your patients are already
asking AI which clinic to trust.

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