From Zero to Digital Leader in Two Years: 568% Non-Branded Growth for a Private Medical Center

Discover how we partnered with ASA Hospital to orchestrate a large-scale content strategy involving over 40 content writers, including external contributors and medical professionals. We transformed ASA Bolnica’s online visibility, driving 568% non-branded organic growth in two years and a 260% increase in total organic traffic within six months. A large-scale content strategy featuring 500+ medically accurate procedure pages now attracts thousands of daily organic visits. By optimizing key service categories and aligning content with search intent, we secured triple-digit growth across multiple departments, reinforcing the hospital’s digital leadership in healthcare.

ASA Hospital is a state-of-the-art healthcare facility located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As the first private general hospital in the country, ASA Hospital offers a comprehensive range of medical services across 12 specialized departments, including surgery, cardiology, gynecology, pediatrics, and radiology. The hospital is renowned for its commitment to delivering world-class healthcare, integrating cutting-edge technology, and collaborating with leading international medical institutions.

With a focus on patient care, medical accuracy, and innovation, ASA Hospital has quickly established itself as a trusted provider of healthcare services in the region, catering to thousands of patients annually.

Client

ASA Hospital

Expertise

Research
Strategy
Implementation
Operations

Year

2022 - 2024

Challenges

  • Ensuring Medical Accuracy
    Producing content for over 500 medical procedures required meticulous fact-checking and validation to ensure accuracy. Medical content must adhere to strict quality standards, requiring collaboration with doctors, specialists, and subject matter experts.
  • Orchestrating a Large Team of Writers
    Managing a team of 40+ content writers and medical professionals, posed logistical challenges. Aligning their efforts to maintain consistent tone, structure, and quality across all pages required a structured workflow and constant oversight, especially given that each content piece had to be fact-checked and verified multiple times throughout the organization.
  • Balancing SEO and Readability
    Medical content needs to strike a delicate balance between SEO and readability for patients. Over-optimizing could harm the user experience while under-optimizing could limit visibility. Structuring content with appropriate headings, keywords, and schema markup was critical.
  • Content Structuring at Scale
    Ensuring uniformity and clarity across 500+ procedure pages involved creating and adhering to a standardized content template. This template included sections like procedure overviews, benefits, risks, steps, and FAQs to address patient queries comprehensively.
  • Aligning Multiple Stakeholders
    Coordination between medical professionals, SEO strategists, and content writers required streamlined communication. Feedback loops from subject matter experts often extended timelines, and aligning all contributors to meet deadlines was a significant challenge.

Solution

  • Unified Strategy
    A comprehensive content plan aligned with ASA Hospital’s goals, ensuring medically accurate and patient-centric information for over 500 procedures.
  • Scalable Content Operations
    A structured workflow that streamlined content creation, collaboration, and quality control across a team of 40+ writers, editors, and medical experts.
  • SEO-Driven Content Structuring
    Consistent content templates optimized for search engines while maintaining readability and clarity for patients.
  • Performance Monitoring and Adjustments
    Ongoing tracking of content performance, keyword rankings, and organic visibility, enabling continuous optimization to achieve and sustain over 4,000 daily organic clicks.
  • Collaborative Excellence
    Effective alignment of stakeholders, from SEO strategists to healthcare professionals, ensuring all content met the highest standards of accuracy, consistency, and search engine visibility.

Results

  • 260% increase in total organic traffic in the last 6 months of 2024
  • 568% increase in non-branded organic traffic in the last 6 months of 2024
  • 2700 average daily organic clicks in December 2024
  • Key categories 379% to 606% increase in key category visibility in last 6 months of 2024
Content Framework Development

We began by creating a comprehensive content framework tailored to the healthcare industry. This included standardized templates for procedure pages that ensured consistency and scalability while maintaining SEO-friendliness and patient-centric readability.

Writer Onboarding and Collaboration

To ensure accuracy and efficiency, we orchestrated a team of over 40 writers and medical professionals. A structured onboarding process was implemented to align the team with ASA Hospital’s guidelines and content goals.

SEO and Keyword Research

We conducted extensive keyword research to identify the most relevant and high-traffic search queries for medical procedures.

Content Quality Control

A multi-tiered review system was established, involving editors and medical experts. This ensured that every piece of content adhered to strict medical accuracy, SEO best practices, and user-friendly formatting.

Workflow and Operations Management

We developed an operational framework to streamline the content production process. This involved task management, writer coordination, editorial reviews, and performance tracking to meet deadlines efficiently.

SEO Support and Optimization

Ongoing SEO support was provided and we ensured that the content remained visible to search engines and easily accessible to users long-term.