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Memorial Plastic Surgery

plastic surgeon · Houston, TX

★ 5 · 419 reviews
memorialplasticsurgery.com
Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS — Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS: Memorial Plastic Surgery website homepage (Houston, TX plastic & cosmetic surgery) WordPress · Divi · Cloudflare — live capture

Contact & location

8731 Katy Fwy Ste 500, Houston, TX 77024

+1713-633-4411

Google Business Profile

About the practice

Vasileios Vasilakis is a plastic surgeon practice serving Houston and the greater Houston metro.

EI

ElectiveIndex™ Certified Snapshot

An independent, machine-collected audit of this practice’s live web presence — captured at a single moment in time.

Data collectedJune 28, 2026
Snapshot time2:30 PM ET
Certificate IDEI-VVMF-20260628

Compiled from public Google, web-crawl, Lighthouse & social data by ElectiveIndex, a Medical Advertising Agency property.

Overview

Vasileios Vasilakis, online — the full picture.

Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS is a plastic-surgery practice in Houston, TX, with 419 Google reviews at 5★. The clearest measurable gap is mobile site speed (37/100).

For the patient

Real reviews, verified credentials, who’s actually established.

For the doctor

Where you rank, and the gaps we fix.

For the marketing team

Exactly what the leaders do to win.

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01AI search visibility — what ChatGPT and Claude recommend

ChatGPT and Claude name this practice for 9 of the money procedures.

When a patient asks ChatGPT and Claude (with live web search) for a plastic surgeon in Houston, they cite this practice 10 times across our queries — best position #1. AI search is the fastest-growing patient-referral channel and the one with the least competition. These are the procedures it recommends them for:

best plastic surgeonbreast augmentationeyelid surgeryfacial plastic surgeonliposuctionmommy makeoverplastic surgeonplastic surgerytummy tuck

Source: ChatGPT and Claude, both with live web search — the same grounded answers patients get, not training-data guesses. Queried across the Houston metro on the money procedures.

The FixAI visibility

ChatGPT and Claude already cite Dr. Vasilakis for 9 procedures — the work is to widen that lead and lock in citations before competitors catch up, while AI search is still uncontested.

What we’d do about it
AI Visibility (GEO)$850one-time

Make the practice citable in AI search — llms.txt, entity schema, citable content, AI-visibility report.

Fix this

03Paid advertising — Google & Meta

Memorial Plastic Surgery is running 48 Google ads.

This is how you tell if a practice is running paid ads. Google publishes an exact ad count per website — a hard signal that they’re paying to show up. Facebook & Instagram don’t, so for Meta we can only search the public Ad Library — a lead to check, not proof. They may run none; they may run plenty. The real creatives are below.

48ads on this domain
Activelast ran 2026-06-10
6 imagecreative formats (sampled)

Google counts are exact by domain; the Meta link is a live keyword search, not a verified figure.

05What the site actually ranks for

8,524 ranked keywords, by search intent.

77% of this traffic is local or procedure searches — the part that books patients in Houston.

KeywordSearches/moPosIntent
labiaplasty near me5,400#5Local intent
memorial plastic surgery2,900#3Local intent
boob job houston1,900#2Local intent
breast augmentation houston1,900#6Local intent
breast augmentation houston tx1,900#6Local intent
houston tx breast augmentation1,900#5Local intent
houston tx tummy tuck1,600#5Local intent
tummy tuck houston1,600#5Local intent
tummy tuck houston tx1,600#5Local intent
celebrity breast augmentation before and after1,600#3Procedure
houston lipo1,600#2Local intent
liposuction houston1,600#6Local intent
before and after celebrity breast implants1,600#4Procedure
mommy makeover tummy tuck1,300#2Procedure

Intent tags separate total SEO footprint from local booking demand.

The full keyword map

All 8,524 keywords — yours and every competitor’s. Click to win it.

Every term, every rival, exactly where the money sits in Houston.

855-905-0969Get the full keyword reportFree walkthrough · no obligation

06What’s working

What this practice already has going for it.

5★Google rating · 419 reviews
458pages in the sitemap
6.1%metro top-10 in the map pack
  • 5★ across 419 Google reviews
  • Structured schema markup (AggregateRating, BreadcrumbList, City)

07Organic search vs. the Google map pack

Where Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS ranks — organic search vs. the local map pack.

Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS hits #4 in the map pack at its strongest location — but that's proximity to one office, not metro reach. Across the metro the website peaks at #1 organically, and organic is the visibility that travels beyond the immediate area. The geo-grid below shows the real metro coverage.

08Site speed & Core Web Vitals

Site speed is reasonable, with clear room to improve.

Google’s Lighthouse scores the site 0–100 and speed is a confirmed ranking factor — we fix it. On mobile the site scores 54/100 for performance — the main area to address — alongside 100/100 SEO and 96/100 best-practices.

LCPLargest Contentful Paint

How long until the biggest thing on screen — usually the hero image — finishes loading. Good is under 2.5s.Learn more →

FCPFirst Contentful Paint

How long until the very first text or image appears, so the page feels like it’s working. Good is under 1.8s.Learn more →

CLSCumulative Layout Shift

How much the page jumps around as it loads (the annoying shift when a button moves under your thumb). Good is under 0.1.Learn more →

TBTTotal Blocking Time

How long the page is frozen and can’t respond to taps while background code runs. Good is under 200ms.Learn more →

The FixSite speed

At 54/100 on mobile and a 5.9 s largest-paint, the site is slow enough that both Google and patients feel it. Speed is a confirmed ranking factor and a direct booking-rate lever — every second of load time costs consults.

What we’d do about it
Site Speed$900one-time

Core Web Vitals remediation — caching, image compression, lazy-loading, deferred scripts.

Fix this

09Local visibility — live geo-grid

Their map pack, mapped — top-10 across 6.1% of the metro.

We ran “plastic surgeon” from 49 GPS points across the metro and recorded the practice’s local-pack rank at each. The result, in one picture: top-3 in 2% of the area and top-10 in 6.1%, strongest around 8731 Katy Fwy Ste 500 and tapering toward the edges of the metro.

#12–34–56–1011–20not ranked
2%of area in the top 3
6.1%of area in the top 10
#13.2average rank where shown

10Google Business Profile

The Google Business Profile.

The free listing behind the map pack — for a local practice, the single most valuable thing to get right.

What the listing has

419reviews
5★rating
photos
1categories
claimed & verified
Plastic surgeon

The opportunity — squeeze more reach

The profile is claimed and well-rated; the reach left on the table is in the parts most practices ignore:

  • Only 1 category listed — the market’s leaders run 3–5 (one primary + secondaries). Each category is another set of searches you can surface for.
  • Google Posts: most practices post zero. Weekly posts are a freshness signal the 3-pack rewards — free real estate on your listing.
  • Seed the Q&A: you write the questions and the answers, so a patient’s first impression is your message, not a competitor’s.
  • Services & booking on the profile — let patients book without ever leaving Google.

We rebuild the profile to the standard the market leaders hit — categories, posts, Q&A, services, photos.

The FixThe map pack

Dr. Vasilakis sits behind Lift Plastic Surgery and others in the local 3-pack — the box that takes most of the clicks and calls. The Business Profile, review volume, and citation consistency are exactly what move a practice up it.

What we’d do about it
GBP Rescue$750one-time

Rebuild the Google Business Profile to the standard the market leaders hit — categories, services, posts, Q&A, photos.

Fix this
Citation Cleanup$600one-time

Make NAP consistent and present across the directories that feed local rankings — clean what's wrong, build what's missing.

Fix this

11Under the hood — how it’s built

The technology behind the results.

The site publishes 458 URLs in its sitemap. The signals that tell Google what this site is.

Framework
WordPress Divi Cloudflare

Built on WordPress.

Structured data (schema)
AggregateRatingBreadcrumbListCityEntryPointGeoCoordinatesImageObjectListItemMedicalProcedureOpeningHoursSpecificationOrganizationPostalAddressPropertyValueSpecification

Entity markup present.

Homepage signals <title> Memorial Plastic Surgery in Houston &amp; Webster, Texas meta Top board-certified plastic surgeons in Houston &amp; Webster, Texas, Dr. Hsu, Dr. Roehl, … H1×1 · H2×13 · H3× · canonical ✓ · robots ✓
Schema analysis

What this site tells Google in code.

Schema tells Google and AI what this practice is — we make sure it says the right thing.

memorialplasticsurgery.com · JSON-LD · 2 blocks
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/",
      "url": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/",
      "name": "Memorial Plastic Surgery in Houston & Webster, Texas",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/#website"
      },
      "about": {
        "@id": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/#organization"
      },
      "primaryImageOfPage": {
        "@id": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/#primaryimage"
      },
      "image": {
        "@id": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/#primaryimage"
      },
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/103A4539_Edited-1.webp",
      "datePublished": "2024-06-14T07:09:35+00:00",
      "dateModified": "2026-06-23T03:25:48+00:00",
      "description": "Top board-certified plastic surgeons in Houston & Webster, Texas, Dr. Hsu, Dr. Roehl, Dr. Vasilakis, Dr. McElwee & Dr. Lapaine specialize in plastic and reconstructive surgery.",
      "breadcrumb": {
        "@id": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/#breadcrumb"
      },
      "inLanguage": "en-US",
      "potentialAction": [
        {
          "@type": "ReadAction",
          "target": [
            "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "inLanguage": "en-US",
      "@id": "https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/#primaryimage",
      "url": "ht
  …

Rich results this markup earns

AggregateRatingBreadcrumbListMedicalProcedureOrganization

Missing — each is a result feature left on the table

  • Reviewreview snippets under the result
  • FAQPageexpandable FAQ drop-down in the result
  • Physiciandoctor knowledge panel
  • MedicalBusinessmedical-entity panel + AI grounding
  • MedicalClinicmedical-entity panel + AI grounding

Richest structured data of any practice in this market — every rich-result feature is markup-ready.

We run this technical X-ray across thousands of pages at once.

13The full sitemap

458 pages on the site.

Every page Google can rank — the more pages, the more ways to get found.

Sitemap

The master list every site hands Google so it can index every page.

URL

One address = one page. This sitemap holds 458; most local practices have 15–40.

Location landing page

A page built to rank in one town — “Tummy Tuck in Bellaire.” This site has 2.

Your competitors have more pages — here’s the page count, by type.

procedure pages
456
location pages
2
First 50 of 458 URLsscroll ↓
procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/how-to-fix-uneven-ears/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/dr-tyler-mcelwee-texas-super-doctor-2024/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/plastic-surgery-consultation/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/upper-and-lower-blepharoplasty/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/healing-after-rhinoplasty/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/hair-transplant-after-10-years/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/otoplasty-swelling/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/how-painful-is-a-rhinoplasty/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/facelift-for-wrinkles/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/blepharoplasty-recovery-time/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/breast-augmentation-dimension-and-configurations/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/breastfeeding-after-breast-augmentation/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/blepharoplasty-scarring/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/how-to-minimize-scars-after-surgery/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/co2-laser-benefits/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/open-vs-closed-rhinoplasty/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/mps-featured-in-haute-living-magazine-website/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/dr-hsu-texas-super-doctors-2022/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/get-contoured-cheeks-with-buccal-fat-pad-removal/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/loose-skin-after-liposuction/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/best-coolsculpting-results/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/fat-transfer-breast-augmentation/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/blepharoplasty/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/brow-lift-for-droopy-eyes/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/chin-augmentation-with-fillers/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/upper-blepharoplasty-recovery/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/things-to-do-before-surgery/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/buccal-fat-removal-for-men/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/four-different-butt-shapes/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/types-of-nose-shapes/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/chin-implant-before-after-results-and-benefits/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/neck-lift-before-and-after/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/rhinoplasty-before-and-after-your-nose-transformed/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/breast-reduction-scars/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/buccal-fat-removal-guide/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/preparing-for-chin-lipsuction/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/what-not-to-do-after-rhinoplasty/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/blepharoplasty-for-men/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/how-to-get-rid-of-neck-wrinkles/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/chin-augmentation-recovery/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/breast-reduction-for-back-pain/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/buccal-fat-removal-recovery/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/combining-facial-and-body-procedures/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/how-long-does-facelift-last/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/facelift-recovery/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/what-to-expect-3-weeks-after-rhinoplasty/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/fillers-before-facelift/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/recovery-from-eyelid-surgery/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/temporary-lip-fillers/ procedures https://memorialplasticsurgery.com/uneven-eyelids/

14The bottom line

The whole picture, four ways.

Everything we found, distilled — how we’d brief a strategy meeting on this practice in thirty seconds.

Strengths
  • Established reviews
  • 5★ / 419 reviews
Weaknesses
  • Mobile performance 37/100
Opportunities
  • Lift front-end performance
  • Convert authority into organic rankings
  • Claim more map-pack terms
Threats
  • Faster, better-linked competitor sites

15The opportunities

Where to focus next.

The moves that compound what's already working.

01

Local-pack reach is thin — top-10 across only 6.1% of the metro, averaging #13.2. Profile completeness, categories, review velocity and citation consistency are exactly what move a practice up the 3-pack.

02

Mobile performance is 54/100 — usually the hero image plus render-blocking assets. A focused fix raises it without a rebuild, and speed feeds both Google rankings and booking conversions.

The verdict

The bottom line.

Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS shows developing search authority and a developing map-pack position. The clearest opportunity is mobile performance (37/100).

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This is independent research, not our website. ElectiveIndex is a market-research tool published by Medical Advertising Agency. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or working for Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS, Vasileios Vasilakis, MD, FACS: Memorial Plastic Surgery, or any practice profiled here. Every figure is compiled from public sources (Google, the live website, and public social profiles).