Full Service Search Agency · New York
AI, SEO & Paid Search
Agency in New York.
We help New York's plastic surgeons, dentists, medical clinics, and law firms win the searches Google judges hardest, from Park Avenue to the outer boroughs, then turn that visibility into booked consultations and signed clients.
SEO · AI Search · Paid Search · Content
Revenue Influenced
Avg. Organic ROI
Brands Scaled
The Problem
You run a top practice in New York. Search says otherwise.
New York is not one search market. It is five boroughs, each with its own map pack, its own patients, and its own idea of what nearby means. A cosmetic surgeon on the Upper East Side competes with dozens of credentialed peers within a few blocks, while a Queens dental practice or a Brooklyn injury firm wins or loses on neighborhood intent. In medical, dental, and legal, the industries Google labels Your Money or Your Life, ranking citywide is rarely the goal. Owning the right borough is.
Our Approach
We build authority Google can't ignore.
Every page we build for New Yorkclients starts from E-E-A-T: real credentials, real reviews, real expertise, made visible to both the algorithm and the AI models answering on its behalf. If it doesn't move consultations or signed matters, we don't do it.
What We Do
Everything a New York Practice Needs to Own Search
Six disciplines. One revenue goal.
Your Money or Your Life
Why Medical, Dental & Legal Search
Plays by Harder Rules.
Google calls these industries Your Money or Your Life: pages that can affect someone's health, finances, or safety. Every core update raises the bar. Here's what that means in New York.
The Scrutiny
E-E-A-T Is the Ranking System
Provider credentials, authorship, reviews, and citations aren't nice-to-haves. They're the inputs Google's quality raters are told to check first.
The Volatility
Core Updates Hit YMYL Hardest
Generalist-agency sites are the ones that crater when an update lands. Authority-first builds are the ones that absorb it.
The Payoff
The Bar Keeps Competitors Out
Once you clear it, the same scrutiny that kept you invisible becomes a moat. Most New York competitors never make the investment.
The New Front Door
When New York Patients Ask AI,
Whose Name Comes Up?
Before they ever search for the best surgeon or lawyer near them, patients and clients are asking ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews. Those answers name names, and being absent is invisible in a way rankings reports never show.
The Territory Split
Maps Owns One Half. AI Owns the Other.
Local intent still routes through the map pack, but research intent, the is-it-worth-it and what-does-it-cost questions, now resolves inside AI answers. We build for both territories, because your next patient crosses both.
The New KPI
We Track LLM Referrals & Citations
We measure the New Yorkqueries where AI names your practice, track LLM referral traffic in analytics, and grow both. It's the same playbook that took one surgeon from 16 to 168 AI Overview citations.
Proven Outcomes
The Work Speaks
Real clients. Real numbers. No exceptions.
Medical Clinic
218%
increase in leads
SaaS Client
3.1x
organic revenue in 12 months
Professional Services
$3.2M
pipeline attributed to organic
Case Studies
How We Get There
Deep-dive breakdowns of real engagements: the traffic, rankings, and AI citations we earn in YMYL niches, where Google holds every page to the highest bar.
Who We Work With
New York's High-Trust Industries
Client Markets
Markets Where We've Helped Clients
Brown Bear has helped clients in New York and in every market below, from plastic surgeons and dentists to law firms, all from the same search-first playbook.
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Common Questions
Search in New York, Answered
We manage the three channels that decide who gets found in New York: organic rankings, AI answers, and paid ads. That means SEO that ranks your practice for procedure and practice-area searches in the boroughs and neighborhoods your patients actually live in, AI search optimization so ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews recommend you by name, and paid search that captures demand while organic builds. Brown Bear specializes in YMYL industries, the medical, dental, and legal categories Google holds to its highest standard.
Google classifies medical and legal pages as Your Money or Your Life content, because a bad answer can hurt someone’s health or finances. That classification triggers stricter quality standards: demonstrated expertise, verifiable credentials, authoritative citations, and trust signals across the whole site. Generic SEO that works for an ecommerce store simply does not clear this bar. Our entire process is built around E-E-A-T, so every page proves expertise to both the algorithm and the patient.
Most practices see meaningful movement within 3 to 6 months and significant lead growth between 9 and 12 months. In New York the timeline depends heavily on scope: a neighborhood map pack in Queens or Brooklyn can move faster than a Manhattan-wide cosmetic or injury keyword, where the field is deep with established names. SEO compounds over time, and paid search fills the gap while organic builds.
Usually yes, and in New York the reason is density. Manhattan cosmetic and legal keywords attract some of the heaviest competition in the country, so paid-only strategies get expensive quickly, while organic-only strategies wait months to break into results held by long-established practices. Paid search lets you target the exact boroughs and zip codes you serve today, and SEO and AI visibility lower your cost per consultation every month they compound.
Yes. We have helped clients in New York. Brown Bear is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and works fully remote with practices and firms nationwide. Search is not a local-office business: your New York rankings depend on your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your citations, and the content on your site, not on where your agency sits. We work on your calendar, in your market data, with the same playbook focused on consultations and signed clients rather than vanity rankings.
Working with Bryan Passanisi
“Bryan makes things happen and has an incredible attention to detail on all of the small SEO tweaks that add up to big results.”
Jean Kim Hahn, Senior Director Global Marketing, MiniMed
“Bryan takes the time to educate other business partners on SEO. Because of that, more integrated branded ideas were able to be executed.”
David Nielsen, Lead SEO, Genentech
“Bryan has an unbelievable drive to excel at everything he does. He thinks through all the approaches, identifies those most likely to yield the most impressive results, executes quickly, analyzes the results, communicates the insights and builds upon them.”
Mike Berry, Ex Adobe, eBay, PayPal
The Expert
Bryan Passanisi
Founder, Brown Bear Digital
Bryan Passanisi is establishing himself as one of the sharpest emerging voices at the intersection of SEO and AI search. With 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling search programs, he brings a depth of knowledge most agencies simply can't match — and a relentless focus on what's actually moving results right now.
As search evolves around AI Overviews, generative engines, and large language models, Bryan is at the front of it — testing, building, and translating what's changing into strategy that compounds. He understands the full search landscape, from technical SEO and entity optimization to GEO and LLM visibility, and he founded Brown Bear to give businesses direct access to that expertise without the agency overhead.
- 15 years across SEO, AI search, and paid strategy
- Deep expertise in GEO, entity SEO, and AI Overviews
- Direct access — no account managers, no hand-offs
Ready to Own
New York Search?
No pitch decks. Just a real conversation about your market.