The website you're judging right now is the sales pitch.

Your free demo is usually ready within days of you saying "show me". After you decide to keep it, the full site goes live on your own domain within a week, with two rounds of changes included plus 30 days of small fixes.

Completely. The domain is registered in your name, and every file is yours. You're never renting from me and never locked in. If you'd rather host it yourself someday, I hand everything over, no charge.

The site is yours either way. Most doctors add the optional Care Plan: I keep the site online, secure and backed up, update your timings, services and photos whenever you message me, and give your Google profile a monthly refresh. Your online presence stays current while you stay with patients. Prefer to run it yourself? I hand everything over, no charge.

Word of mouth is exactly why. When a patient recommends you, the next thing that person does is Google your name, and whatever comes up first decides whether they call. Right now that's usually a listing page with four other clinics on the same screen. Your own site is the one result you control, and it works while you're with patients.

No, and I'd be careful with anyone who promises it. What a site does is make you findable when someone searches your name or your clinic name, and it gives your Google listing something to point at, which helps that listing. Ranking first for "dentist in your area" is a longer game and depends on reviews, your Google profile and how long you've been listed. I'll tell you what's realistic for your clinic rather than sell you a number.

Practo is rented ground. Your profile sits next to other doctors, the "book with someone else" button is right there, and Practo decides the rules and the ranking. Your own site is owned ground: your reviews, your number, nobody else's competitors. Most of my clients keep both. The difference is that one of them belongs to you.

Very little, and that's deliberate. Your logo if you have one, a few photos of the clinic, and the number you want bookings to come to. I take everything else from what's already public: your services, your timings, your reviews. Most doctors spend under twenty minutes on the whole thing.

That's common, and usually it's one of three things: it was never findable, it was built for a desktop and your patients are on phones, or there was no obvious way to call you from it. Send me the old one and I'll tell you which it was. If I don't think a new site will do better for you, I'll say that.

Yes, and it's usually the feature that gets used most. There's a button on every page that opens WhatsApp with the message already written, "Hi, I'd like to book an appointment at your clinic", so the patient taps once and the enquiry lands in your phone already saying what they want. The patient needs WhatsApp or WhatsApp Web and still chooses to send the message. This is an appointment request, not a confirmed time slot: your team confirms availability. It lets patients leave a request outside opening hours without promising an instant reply.

Your site gets a one-tap review link, and I'll give you the same thing as a QR code you can keep at reception. The patient scans it and the review box opens straight away, with no searching for your listing, which is where most people give up. It matters more than it sounds: reviews are one of the strongest things Google uses to decide who shows up first locally, and they're the first thing a new patient reads.

Yes. You deal with one person from the first message to handover, and after. That means I'm slower than an agency on volume and better on detail, and nothing about your clinic gets passed to a junior who's never spoken to you.