Practical Resources

Guides for clinic owners

Step-by-step walkthroughs on AI visibility infrastructure, Google Business Profile management, and building patient acquisition you own.

Each guide covers one specific topic and can be read in under 15 minutes. Written for clinic owners and practice managers, not developers. Where technical implementation is required, we indicate what to hand to your developer.

Getting Started
Quickstart · 10 min read

How to check your clinic's AI visibility in 10 minutes

Five practical tests you can run right now without any technical knowledge — robots.txt, llms.txt, schema, ChatGPT, and Google Search Console.

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Setup · 15 min read

How to set up Google Business Profile for a clinic in India

Step-by-step: choosing the right primary category, writing service entries, setting up Q&A, and configuring photos for AI visibility.

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Checklist · 8 min read

The 60-day AI visibility roadmap

A sequenced view of everything Iris builds in the first 60 days — from audit through to first AI Overview citations and organic ranking movement.

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Technical Infrastructure
Technical · 12 min read

What is a llms.txt file and how to create one

Plain-language explanation of llms.txt, what AI crawlers do with it, and a worked example of a well-structured medical practice llms.txt.

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Technical · 14 min read

Schema markup for clinics: MedicalBusiness, MedicalProcedure, FAQPage

Which schema types matter for clinics, how the @graph JSON-LD format works, and how to check whether your website has valid schema.

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Technical · 8 min read

Robots.txt and AI crawler access: the most overlooked gap

How to check which AI crawlers your robots.txt permits, how to fix it, and what Cloudflare WAF settings to change.

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Technical · 7 min read

What is ai-index.json and why your clinic needs one

The entity profile file that AI retrieval systems use as a high-confidence reference for your clinic's name, services, and location.

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Content and Copywriting
Content · 11 min read

How to write AI-readable content for your clinic website

The inverted pyramid format, FAQ structuring, and the specific content patterns that AI systems extract and cite versus the patterns they ignore.

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Content · 9 min read

Patients are arriving with AI diagnoses. How to be the clinic they quote.

Which content types drive pre-visit AI citation — condition explainers, FAQ hubs, treatment comparison pages — and how to structure each.

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Content · 8 min read

How to write Google Business Profile posts that generate calls

Post frequency, format, topic selection, and the specific content patterns that make GBP posts appear in local search results.

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Aggregators and Platform Independence
Strategy · 10 min read

Your Practo listing and what you are giving away

What Practo retains — search data, SEO equity, review authority — and what your clinic never receives from the interaction.

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Strategy · 7 min read

Practo vs Google Business Profile: a direct comparison

Side-by-side comparison across visibility, data ownership, cost, AI discoverability, and control.

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Strategy · 12 min read

How to migrate clinic bookings from Practo to your own domain

The technical steps, the patient communication plan, and the timeline for moving consultation booking to your own website.

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Specialty Guides
Skin and Aesthetics · 9 min read

AI visibility guide for skin clinics and dermatology practices

Specific schema types, GBP categories, procedure page formats, and patient query patterns for aesthetic dermatology.

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Dental · 9 min read

AI visibility guide for dental clinics

The correct GBP categories, procedure schema for implants and aligners, and the highest-value patient queries to target.

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Eye Care · 9 min read

AI visibility guide for LASIK and ophthalmology practices

The GBP category problem, surgeon Person schema, and how ophthalmology practices change AI recommendation patterns.

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