Website audit · 22 June 2026
Subiaco Dental Practice
subidental.com.auPoor · local business
A 1998-era dental practice with decent schema bones but a homepage so thin it can't compete in 2025.
Subiaco Dental Practice has a clear local identity and two structured data blocks that give it a foundation for AI visibility, but the homepage content is alarmingly sparse — a broken hero slider (serving dummy.png placeholders), no visible patient reviews on-page, and a services list that covers only four treatments. The site ranks second on Google for its own brand name, which is fine, but the LinkedIn profile and Healthengine listing are doing more storytelling about Dr Alex Yoong than the actual website.
The breakdown · 7 dimensions, worst first
First Impression
32The hero slider is broken — both images are loading from the Revolution Slider dummy.png placeholder path, meaning visitors see no real visual on arrival. The headline 'Experience the Subiaco Dental Difference' is present but fragmented across the scraped text ('a healthy… smile for life'), suggesting the slider copy is split across broken layers. The phone number and 'Book an Appointment' CTA are visible, which is the one saving grace.
Conversion
43The primary conversion mechanism is a phone number (08 9388 8555) displayed near a 'Book an Appointment' label — there is no online booking form, no click-to-call markup, and no appointment request form visible on the homepage. The 'New Patients Welcome' page exists in the nav but is not promoted on the homepage. The Google Reviews CTA links to a URL with ?gl=PH (Philippines locale), which may show irrelevant or broken results for Australian visitors. There are no urgency signals, no offers for new patients, and no secondary conversion path (e.g. newsletter, free consultation).
Design & Brand
44The logo is duplicated four times in the header markup (two standard + two @2x versions for both desktop and mobile nav), which is sloppy HTML. Alt tags on content images are present and descriptive (e.g. 'Subiaco Dental Practice - Expert Dentists Team'), which is positive. However, there is no H1 tag visible in the scraped homepage content — the hero text appears to be slider-layer text rather than a semantic heading, and the three content blocks use H3s with no H1 or H2 hierarchy establishing the page.
Messaging & Copy
46The value proposition 'Exceptional Service, Understanding, and Quality Dentistry' is generic and could apply to any dental practice in Australia. The 'My Practice Philosophy' section uses first-person ('I founded') without ever naming Dr Alex Yoong on the homepage, creating a disconnect. The only CTAs visible are 'Book an Appointment' (with a phone number, no online booking link), 'read more' links (lowercase, uninspiring), and a Google Reviews link that opens with a Philippine locale parameter (?gl=PH), which is a credibility-damaging error.
Trust & Authority
53The practice was established in 1998, which is a strong trust signal, but it's buried in a paragraph rather than highlighted. There are no on-page Google review stars, no testimonial quotes, and no visible practitioner credentials (Dr Alex Yoong's UWA dental degree and awards mentioned on Healthengine don't appear on the website). The Google Reviews link exists but is broken by the ?gl=PH parameter. The address and phone are in the schema but not visibly displayed in the footer or homepage body. The Facebook page exists (from Google results) but is not linked from the homepage.
SEO Foundations
54The meta title 'Subiaco Dental Practice - General & Cosmetic Dentist Subiaco Perth' is well-formed and geo-targeted. The meta description is adequate but bland. The site ranks #2 on Google for its own brand name, with LinkedIn appearing above it at #1 — a concerning signal that the website's authority is weaker than a social profile with only 6 followers. Healthengine (result #4) provides richer practitioner content than the website itself. No H1 is present on the homepage, and the services menu covers only four treatments despite the meta description claiming 'full spectrum of dental services'.
AI & LLM Visibility
61The site has two structured data blocks: a Yoast-generated WebPage/Organization/WebSite graph and a manually coded Dentist schema. The Dentist schema includes address (156 Rokeby Road, Subiaco WA 6008), opening hours (Mon-Thu 07:30-16:30), phone, email, founding date (1998), and a description mentioning surrounding suburbs. This is genuinely useful for AI citation. However, the Dentist schema has a leading space in the 'name' field (' Subiaco Dental Practice') and the URL field (' https://subidental.com.au/'), which are data quality issues. The lead dentist Dr Alex Yoong is never named in the homepage body text or schema, making entity disambiguation harder for LLMs. No review schema, no FAQ schema, and no service-specific schema exist.
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