Local Therapist SEO: be the addiction & substance abuse… your city finds

Local Therapist SEO: the searches are "near me" and a city name

Nobody types "addiction & substance abuse…" without a place attached, in words or by location. Search engines and assistants answer from sources that state a city and an address consistently, and from pages that exist for that city. A registry line with an old address is the opposite of that.

Guide.md lists 4,976 addiction & substance abuse…s from the National Provider Identifier registry, refreshed weekly. Every addiction & substance abuse… who claims a profile gets a page on each condition and procedure they confirm, in their city, which is what "who treats X in my city" is answered from.

Where addiction & substance abuse…s are searched for, by state and city

Each state and city has a addiction & substance abuse… listing page on Guide.md, sorted with claimed profiles first. Claiming yours is what moves you onto it by name rather than as a registry line.

How AI assistants choose, and what they read

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity answer "find me a addiction & substance abuse… near …" from pages they can parse: structured data, consistent facts across sources, and specific statements about what a provider treats. A registry line with an old address is not a page an assistant recommends from.

A claimed Guide.md profile carries schema.org markup, the conditions and procedures the provider confirms, locations, languages, insurance and the provider's own words, on a page assistants and search engines already read.

The first step of local therapist seo, in two minutes

1. Find your record. Search your name or NPI on the claim page; the profile already exists.
2. Confirm it is yours. With a practice, hospital or institutional email, type your name and it is yours at once. Any other address is reviewed by a person within a few days. Free, no document, no card.
3. Say what you do. Tick the conditions and procedures you treat, add your locations, hours and a paragraph in your own words. The registry never overwrites what you write.
4. Switch on what applies. Accepting new patients, telehealth and appointment requests are free badges with their own listing pages; an organization profile also lists the clinicians who work there.

What Guide.md does not do

• It is not an SEO agency and does not sell rankings: nothing you pay changes where you appear in results, and nobody is ranked by quality.
• It does not guarantee that any assistant or search engine will recommend you; nobody can. It makes sure what they read is accurate and complete.
• It never charges to claim, correct or hold a profile. Paid plans and listings are optional.