Content

Rowan Psychology

Overall Score

38/100

Critical Issues

16

High Priority

2

Total Issues

18

Issues: Content

Critical

High-traffic blog posts have no in-content CTAs - the only 'Book' button is in the sticky header, not connected to the article topic

Your doom scrolling article gets thousands of visitors a month. Someone reading about doom scrolling and anxiety is precisely the kind of person who might book a therapy appointment - but there is nothing in the article body connecting what they are reading to your services. The only 'Book a Free Consultation' button is in the top navigation bar, which readers tune out. A contextual CTA mid-article and at the end, tied to the topic ('Struggling with doom scrolling habits? Our therapists can help - book a free call'), would meaningfully improve conversion.

Critical

CBT page ranks 24th for a 12,100/month keyword - wrong content format for commercial search intent

Your CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) page currently ranks 24th - page 3 - for a keyword searched 12,100 times a month. At that position you're getting essentially zero traffic from it. Two problems are compounding here: the page reads like a blog article ("How Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Work? A Guide...") rather than a service page, which doesn't match what Google wants to show for people searching for CBT therapy. And it's competing against established psychology organisations (APA, NAMI, Psychology Today) with far more authority on a generic term. The fix is to restructure this as a proper service page for "CBT therapy in Los Angeles" targeting the local commercial intent, not the generic national educational term.

Critical

7 near-identical location pages risk Google doorway page penalty and suppress domain-wide quality signals

You have 7 city-specific anxiety therapy pages (Burbank, North Hollywood, Encino, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks) that together only attract about 400 monthly searches. More importantly, these pages appear to use the same template with just the city name changed - which Google actively penalises as "doorway pages." This can suppress rankings across your entire site, not just those individual pages. Each location page needs genuinely unique content: local office details, therapist bios serving that area, neighbourhood context, and location-specific service information.

Critical

ACT service page is 1,400 words and ranks 13th for a 14,800/month keyword - needs major expansion to break top 10

Your Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) page currently ranks 13th on Google for a keyword searched 14,800 times a month - that's page 2, getting almost zero clicks. The page is also only 1,400 words, which is too thin to compete with the in-depth resources Google is currently ranking above you. This is your highest-traffic service term with any existing traction and the biggest content opportunity on the site. A proper expansion - covering ACT theory, what sessions look like, who it helps, clinical evidence, and FAQs - could move this page into the top 5 for one of the most-searched therapy terms in your category.