Medical & Healthcare
Fertility Clinic Marketing Agency.
What we ship for ivf & reproductive medicine
- 01Cost per new consultation through paid search runs $80-$250 depending on market and competition, with all-in acquisition cost to a started IVF cycle landing around $200-$600 after accounting for the 2-4 consultations typically needed per start (industry fertility-marketing benchmarks, 2025-2026).
- 02High-intent fertility keywords run $6-$12 per click in competitive metros, well above the ~$4.99 average CPC across fertility-healthcare search terms broadly (industry PPC benchmark, 2025-2026).
- 03SART's 2018 advertising guidelines require member clinics to report success rates using SART/CDC-verified methodology, bar unsubstantiated outcome claims, and prohibit denigrating or superiority statements about other programs.
- 04Google Ads policy restricts promotion of fertility-related services, including fertility testing and surrogacy, in certain countries and regions — creative has to be checked against current platform rules before launch, not assumed from last year's campaign.
- 05Standard Google Ads conversion tracking sends personal health data to Google's ad servers by default, which is a HIPAA exposure for any clinic running unmodified pixel tracking on a consultation-request funnel.
Source: Sources: SART Advertising Guidelines (2018, revised); FTC/FDA joint guidance on fertility-product marketing (2021); Google Ads healthcare policy; industry fertility paid-search benchmarks, 2025-2026.
2026 market context
What we're seeing in the field.
A fertility marketing agency runs a longer, more heavily regulated funnel than almost any other medical vertical: Google restricts direct fertility-service ad targeting in some regions, SART member clinics answer to a 2018 advertising code on success-rate claims, and standard ad-pixel tracking can leak protected health information before a lead ever reaches the CRM. What makes fertility marketing different is that the buyer researches for months, the ad platforms limit what you can say, and the thing patients actually want to know — will this work for someone like me — is the exact claim the rules restrict most.
What does a fertility marketing agency actually do that a general healthcare agency doesn't? It builds a funnel around a decision cycle that runs months, not days, and a claims environment where the two things patients search for most — success rates and cost — are also the two things SART and the FTC watch most closely. SART's member advertising guidelines, first published in 2018, require success-rate claims to trace to verified SART/CDC data, ban superiority and denigration statements about competing programs, and hold member clinics to a transparency standard that most healthcare categories don't face. Layered on top, Google restricts fertility-service ad targeting in some jurisdictions, and standard conversion-tracking pixels risk pushing protected health information to ad platforms unless the clinic's tracking setup is built HIPAA-first. What makes fertility marketing different from general OB/GYN or med-spa marketing is that the funnel has to hold a patient's attention across a multi-month, multi-consultation journey while every claim about outcomes stays inside SART's verification standard — content and nurture sequences do the work that a single high-converting ad can't do in a category where the highest-intent keywords already run $6-$12 a click.
What we solve
The five things eating your marketing budget — and the fix.
- 01
Success-rate claims are the highest-scrutiny content on the page
SART's advertising guidelines require success-rate statements to trace to SART/CDC-verified data and forbid unsubstantiated claims or comparisons that denigrate other clinics. A landing page built by a generalist agency without this check is a compliance liability the moment it cites a number.
- 02
Ad platforms restrict the exact targeting fertility clinics want
Google's healthcare ad policy limits promotion of fertility testing and surrogacy services in certain regions. Campaigns built without checking current platform policy risk disapproval or account-level restriction mid-flight.
- 03
Standard conversion tracking is a HIPAA exposure
Default Google Ads and Meta pixel tracking sends form-fill and page-view data — which can constitute protected health information in a fertility-consult funnel — to the ad platform's servers. That's a HIPAA business-associate problem most agencies never flag before launch.
- 04
The funnel is measured in months, not form fills
A patient researching IVF typically takes 2-4 consultations before starting a cycle. A funnel optimized for single-session conversion undercounts the real acquisition cost and abandons the nurture sequence that actually closes the second and third touch.
- 05
Cost and outcome are the two questions patients search for most — and the two most regulated to answer
'IVF success rate' and 'IVF cost near me' are the highest-volume fertility searches, and both sit squarely inside SART's compliance perimeter. Content that answers them accurately, with sourced data, converts better and survives an advertising-code review.
How we apply our services
Three services. One playbook tailored to ivf & reproductive medicine.
Web Development
Website Development
Consultation-request funnels segmented by patient stage (initial research, second opinion, ready to start a cycle), success-rate and cost pages built to SART's citation standard, HIPAA-compliant form handling and hosting.
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Search & GEO
SEO
Long-form content answering the exact questions patients search before a consult — success rates by age and diagnosis, cost breakdowns, what makes a fertility clinic different from a general OB/GYN — all sourced to SART/CDC data rather than clinic-generated claims.
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Paid Media
Ad Campaigns
Google Search on cost- and success-rate-intent keywords with SART-verified data cited on the landing page, Meta retargeting across the multi-month research window, HIPAA-compliant server-side conversion tracking instead of default client-side pixels.
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Metrics that matter
What we actually report on.
Cost per started cycle
All-in acquisition spend divided by IVF cycles actually started, not consultations booked.
Benchmark · $200-$600 per start after 2-4 consultations (industry benchmark, 2025-2026)
Cost per consultation
Spend ÷ new-patient consultations booked through paid search.
Benchmark · $80-$250 depending on market and competition
Consultation-to-cycle conversion rate
The number that reveals whether the nurture sequence, not just the ad, is doing its job across the multi-month decision window.
PHI-safe tracking coverage
% of conversion tracking running through HIPAA-compliant server-side methods rather than default ad-platform pixels.
Benchmark · Target 100% before any paid spend goes live
Compliance + regulation
The legal asterisks we build in.
SART member clinics operate under the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology's 2018 advertising guidelines, which require success-rate claims to be reported using SART/CDC-verified methodology, prohibit unsubstantiated outcome claims, and bar denigrating or superiority statements about other ART programs. The FTC and FDA jointly warned fertility-product marketers in 2021 that claims to prevent, treat, or cure a condition require competent and reliable scientific evidence. Google's healthcare advertising policy restricts fertility-service promotion, including testing and surrogacy, in certain countries and regions. Standard ad-platform conversion tracking risks transmitting protected health information and requires HIPAA-compliant, server-side implementation rather than default pixels. We check every claim, campaign, and tracking setup against all four before launch.
FAQ
Questions ivf & reproductive medicine actually ask us.
- It runs patient acquisition for IVF and reproductive-medicine practices across a decision cycle that typically spans months and 2-4 consultations before a cycle starts — longer and more claim-sensitive than almost any other medical vertical. That means building content and nurture sequences (not just ads) around the two questions patients search most, cost and success rates, while keeping every claim inside SART's advertising guidelines and every conversion-tracking pixel HIPAA-compliant. A generalist healthcare agency that treats a fertility consult like a dermatology appointment booking will undercount the real acquisition cost and risk shipping an unverifiable success-rate claim.
Other medical & healthcare work
Adjacent industries we serve.
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Quality Score
Google's 1-10 scoring of keyword + ad + landing-page relevance that affects CPC and ad rank.
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Negative Keywords
Keywords explicitly excluded from a Google or Microsoft Ads campaign to prevent wasted spend.
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Local Pack
The 3-business map result shown above standard search results for local-intent queries.
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CRM
Software that stores customer + prospect data and tracks interactions across the lifecycle.
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