Optimizing Your Social Media Content for Results

Strategic Social Insights: Optimizing Your Social Media Content for Results

A successful aesthetics practice is about more than just treating patients. On top of the bookkeeping, staff management, and facilities upkeep, social media marketing has become an essential function of healthy practices.

Social media is rapidly changing. That’s why we’re starting this Strategic Social Insights series: to arm you with information about the latest trends in digital marketing and give you the knowledge you need to succeed.

We’ve recently noticed a significant evolution in the landscape of social media, and it’s called social searching, and it gives your practice the opportunity to increase patient acquisition through social media and conventional search engines.

WHAT IS SOCIAL SEARCHING?

Social searching is when people on social media use Instagram, TikTok, or any other social media platform to seek information as they would in a traditional search engine like Google.

The trend of social searching began in the early 2020s, where tourists would turn to social media to find things to do in an area they’re visiting. Searches like “best coffee in Austin, Texas” or “fun things to do in Brooklyn” allow people to find real people giving real reviews that they could experience in real time.

Research now shows that two-thirds of all US consumers are using social media as a primary search engine.[1]

The same is happening in reverse. Not only are people using social media as a search engine, but search engines are also social media content to power results.

Google has recently introduced a “Short Videos” tab in their search results page, and they are pulling directly from Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook to display these results.

HOW CAN THIS HELP MY PRACTICE?

Optimizing your social media content for search engine results will not only make it more likely for patients to find you within social media platforms – you’ll also make it easier for them to find you on Google.

HOW CAN MY PRACTICE’S SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT SHOW UP ON GOOGLE?

There is no secret magic to using social searching to your practice’s advantage. The same principles that have proven to be successful in getting your website to show up on Google are working to get your social media content to do the same.

There are three tried-and-true principles of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, that you can easily implement into your social media content creation:

1. Make your page interesting and useful.
2. Expect your patients’ search terms.
3. Anticipate Google’s needs.

Let’s explore some examples with a practice promoting XERF^TM Structural Skin Tightening.

MAKE YOUR PAGE INTERESTING AND USEFUL

It all starts with high-quality content. Search engines like Google want to promote engaging and informative videos. Above all else, you want to focus on bringing value to your audience by following these basic principles:

• Put effort into your content creation. Strategize with your team, write scripts for your videos, and create a visually appealing location for filming.
• Listen to your followers. If patients are asking repeated questions in your comments, make a video discussing and answering them.

For a practice promoting the XERF^TM treatment, this can be a series of videos on what makes the treatment comfortable for patients: the Integrated Cryogen Delivery and Wave Fit^TM pulse technology.

EXPECT YOUR PATIENTS’ SEARCH TERMS

Understanding the questions that patients have about your services is essential to creating effective social media content.

Let’s say our XERF^TM practice wants to make a video answering frequently asked questions about the treatment. One easy way to generate ideas is to put phrases like “does XERF,” “how does XERF,” or “is XERF” into Google and take note of the most popular suggestions, such as:

• Does XERF actually work?
• How long does the XERF treatment take?
• Is XERF painful?

Use these questions as the basis for social media videos, that way they directly correlate with popular search terms regarding the XERF^TM treatment.

ANTICIPATE GOOGLE’S NEEDS

Google uses a process called “indexing” to determine the most relevant search results. To make the indexing process easier, there are a couple of things you can do.

The first is including accurate, easy-to-read captions in your video. Don’t rely on Instagram and TikTok’s auto-captioning feature to accomplish this. Instead, use an app like CapCut to create on-screen captions for your video.

The second is to include product and service keywords in the caption of your video. Including device and treatment names directly in your captions on social media will make it easier for Google to show it to the right people.

STAY UP TO DATE ON SOCIAL TRENDS

Here at Cynosure Lutronic, we want to arm you with knowledge that will power your practice’s success. Following us on all our social media channels, regularly check out this blog, and keep up on the AMPS Advantage to maintain a strategic advantage in your practice’s digital marketing.

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The XERF device is intended for use in dermatologic and general surgical procedures for electrocoagulation and hemostasis.

All instances of the term “skin tightening” are used to describe tightening effects that occur via soft tissue coagulation. 

Cynosure, LLC and Lutronic Aesthetic, Inc. do not diagnose or treat medical conditions, prescribe treatment protocols, provide medical advice, or otherwise practice medicine. Patient should consult with a qualified healthcare professional for diagnosis and proper treatment protocols/parameters to determine if treatment with any product is right for them. Qualified healthcare professionals are responsible for diagnosis and treatment protocols using products.

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[1] https://www.emarketer.com/content/social-search-usage-trends-2025