Digital Growth Diagnostic

Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service

The good news:

Derbarl Yerrigan’s hardest to replicate assets are its long history and local standing: founded in 1974, four clinics and a 4.3 Google rating from 160 reviews. You also have real operational scale with 127 staff serving multiple Perth suburbs. If the online presence better reflected that cultural authority, those assets could drive predictable bookings, memberships and ongoing care engagement.

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What's already working for Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service

Your reputation is a real asset

4.3

Google star rating

160

Verified reviews

High

Reputation strength

Google Business Profile

The first opportunity we’d explore

Reputation not signalled where it matters. The organisation has longevity (established 1974), 127 staff and a 4.3 Google rating from 160 reviews, but that social proof and community governance are not prominent on entry pages, so visitors do not immediately register this as their Aboriginal community provider and may leave to other services.

What closing theSE GAPS COULD looks like:

  1. Make the site unmistakably Aboriginal community controlled

    Lead with your heritage and clinic footprint so visitors immediately know they are on a community controlled service — four clinics, 127 staff and a history since 1974. Calling out your 4.3 Google rating from 160 reviews in that opening will turn more of the roughly 4,900 monthly visitors into bookings and membership enquiries.

  2. Create clear urgent access and clinic finder paths

    Make clinic locations, membership and urgent help CTAs prominent above the fold so people can call or book within one click rather than hunting through dense navigation. That change should increase predictable bookings and calls from the current organic base of about 4,900 monthly visits and reduce drop-off for urgent care seekers. It will also make outreach referrals from partners easier to act on.

  3. Turn reputation into a steady bookings and membership engine

    Use your backlink strength of about 2,007 links from 374 referring domains and local credibility to rebuild keywords and lift organic visibility from roughly 4,900 visits and an authority score of 31. Adding clear nurture paths will convert casual visits into memberships and repeat care, increasing the value of your 4.3 rating and 160 reviews. Improving rankings will also reverse the keyword decline and make new patient pipelines more predictable.

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Deep community trust across four Perth clinics, but the website does not convert that trust into bookings.

Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service has built real local credibility: founded in 1974, operating four clinics across Perth with 127 staff and a 4.3 Google rating from 160 reviews. That scale and cultural authority are not being signalled clearly online, so many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members and urgent care seekers will not immediately recognise the site as their trusted local service. As a result, predictable bookings, memberships and repeat engagement are being lost before they reach a clinic.

Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service's online presence — what the data reveals

AI Visibility

Moderate

Authority Score

31

out of 100

Organic traffic

4934

est. monthly visits

Traffic Trend

-4

%

past 12 months

Organic Keywords

499

ranking terms

Keyword Trend

-27

%

past 12 months

Backlinks

2007

total

Paid traffic

0

0 paid campaigns

Digital maturity

Level 2

out of 5

How your website scores

Message clarity
3/5
Trust signals
3/5
Conversion design
2/5
Visual maturity
3/5
UX total11 / 20

UX OBSERVATIONS

The hero and subsequent sections fail to structure a single, obvious action for patients; consequence: predictable booking flows and urgent help calls will be lower because users are not funnelled to book or call.

Cultural imagery creates authenticity but professional trust signals are under-signed and small errors exist (spelling), consequence: new patients and external referrers will hesitate to convert because clinical credibility is not clearly asserted.

Multiple equal-weight CTAs (Donate, Become a Member, Careers, See our services, Find your clinic) create decision friction, consequence: commercial goals compete and measurable patient acquisition is weakened.

TECH STACK

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Two more things we noticed

  • Homepage positioning distracts from access to care. The hero imagery and headline foreground a single clinical visual rather than cultural security, clinic access or urgent help; the result is buried clinic-finder and membership pathways and friction for users trying to book or find local care.
  • Clinical credibility cues are visually weak and poorly placed. Medicare, NDIS and specialist logos plus specialist visiting info are present lower on pages but are visually buried, which reduces immediate confidence for people seeking trusted care despite reasonable authority metrics and backlinks.

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Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service homepage screenshot

This report was prepared by Redfox Digital using publicly available SEO, UX and reputation data.