Psychology Associates of Grand RapidsGrand Rapids, MI

109% more estimated search traffic for a Grand Rapids psychology group

A referral often begins with a psychologist’s name. Our focus for Psychology Associates of Grand Rapids was to help those searches lead to the right person on the practice’s own website.

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Additional estimated visits / month

+7468 → 142 · Ahrefs estimate

Estimated monthly traffic growth

+109%Sep 2025 → Sep 2026

Additional leads / month

14Monthly increase in inquiries
Ahrefs estimates: Sep 2025 → Sep 2026. Rankings: September 2026 snapshot.View the results ↓

01 The starting point

A group practice
Individual people patients wanted to find.

Psychology Associates of Grand Rapids is a multi-clinician psychology group in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Its search growth was led by individual clinician-name searches.

That makes the story different from a broad service campaign. The opportunity was to support people who already had a name in mind and needed a clear practice-owned source of information.

The practice
Psychology Associates of Grand Rapids
Community
Grand Rapids, MI
Focus
A multi-clinician psychology group

02 The challenge

Make the referral easier to follow online.

Someone given a psychologist’s name should be able to find the relevant profile without working through a general group introduction or relying entirely on directories.

Give each clinician a clear destination

Provide an individual page that people could find through a name search.

Connect the person with the practice

Help referred visitors recognize the clinician’s place within the group.

Understand the kind of growth

Keep referral and name-search visibility separate from discovery by people who did not already know the clinician.

03 Our SEO approach

Build the website around the people behind the referrals.

We focused on individual biographies and how they served searches for known practitioners.

Create individual clinician pages

Profile-page structure

We gave clinicians their own biography pages, establishing a specific destination for each person instead of relying only on a team overview.

Make the name the clear subject

Clinician-name relevance

We focused those pages on the practitioner people were searching for, helping the practice’s own website answer a referral-led search.

Read profile performance separately

Search visibility review

We used the clinician-page rankings to distinguish this result from broader service discovery. The leading profile ranked first for its clinician’s name.

04 The results

More people found the practitioners they were looking for.

Estimated monthly search visits rose from 68 to 142. The Erin Atkinson and Craig DeWitt profile pages each ranked first for their corresponding name searches.

Estimated monthly search traffic:
Sep 2025 → Sep 2026

Estimated monthly search visits

68→1422.1×

Sep 2025 → Sep 2026

Monthly Ahrefs estimates2001000Sep 2025Sep 2026

Domain Rating · link strength29 → 18

Keyword rankings · Sep 2026

  1. #1
    erin atkinsonnew bio page: 0 → 93 est. visits/mo
  2. #1
    craig dewittbio page: 0 → 18 est. visits/mo
  3. #8
    psychology associateshomepage: 45 → 57 est. visits/mo

Search traffic estimates and September 2026 keyword rankings: Ahrefs.

Traffic estimates and keyword rankings: Ahrefs. The chart summarizes the reporting periods shown above.

The profiles helped the practice receive more of its referral-led search audience. This is not evidence that broad, non-brand demand doubled.

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