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Complete your Google listing
Name, address, hours, services and contact, the same facts a directory carries (MAB guideline 6.4). Add real photos of the clinic.
Dental clinics · Malaysia
SEO for a dental clinic in Malaysia, inside the advertising rules
Patients now ask Google and ChatGPT which clinic to visit. Your clinic can be the name they hear. Every step below stays inside the MAB and MDC rules.
Read from the rules themselves on 24 September 2026 by Dijumpai.
On your clinic's website
What your pages may show, and what to leave off
| Show it | Leave it off | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| Name, address, hours, phone | "Best", "first", "most advanced", "terbaik" | MAB guideline 5.2 · MDC guidelines 2.2 |
| Your treatments and your fees | Discounts, packages, "this month only" | MAB guideline 7.0 · MDC Code 1.8 |
| Each dentist's qualifications, as facts | "Better than" any other clinic | MAB guideline 5.1 · MDC guidelines 2.4 |
| Articles that explain a treatment | Patient testimonials beside a booking button | MAB guideline 5.3 |
| "Pakar" for a specialist on the register | "Specialist" or "Braces" in the name, unless a specialist runs the clinic | MDC Code 5.2 |
| The date the page was last updated | A celebrity promoting the clinic | MDC guidelines 3.2.9 · MAB guideline 5.4 |
A treatment you promote should say it may not suit every patient and depends on an assessment (MDC guidelines 3.2.9).
The KKLIU question
Which pages need a KKLIU?
Some pages offer to treat a condition and ask the patient to book. The law calls that an advertisement (Medicines Act 1956, section 4A). It needs approval from the Medicine Advertisements Board. The KKLIU number and its expiry then go on the page.
Most clinics need three kinds of page. Two of them go up today.
Five steps, all inside the rules
How a dental clinic gets named by the AI
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Ask every patient for a review
Ask every patient, in the same words. Google's rules bar gifts for reviews and asking only happy patients.
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One page per treatment you offer
Plain words on what it is, who it suits and the fee. A booking button on it needs your KKLIU.
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The same name everywhere
Your clinic name, address and phone spelled the same on Google, your site and every directory. The AI trusts a name it sees agree.
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Ask the AI every month
Type "best dental clinic in [your city]" into ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Write down who it names. That is your score.
Who the AI names today: Penang · Ipoh · Kuala Lumpur · Johor Bahru · Petaling Jaya · Shah Alam · Melaka · Seremban · Kuching · Kota Kinabalu, read by Dijumpai.
What dental clinics ask us
What dental clinics ask us
Does my dental clinic's website need a KKLIU?
Only the pages that offer a treatment and ask the patient to book. The law calls those advertisements (Medicines Act 1956, section 4A). They need approval from the Medicine Advertisements Board, and the KKLIU number goes on them. A listing page and an article that only explains a treatment need no approval.
Can a dental clinic say it is the best in Malaysia?
Keep it off your own pages. The MAB guideline for clinics bars superlatives such as terbaik, pertama and paling maju, and the MDC guidelines bar laudatory terms. What gets you named by the AI is reviews, listings and pages that answer patients' questions.
Can I show patient reviews on my clinic website?
Keep testimonials off any page that promotes a treatment or takes bookings: the MAB guideline bars them there. Your Google reviews live on Google, which is where patients and the AI read them. Ask every patient, in the same words.
How much does SEO cost for a dental clinic in Malaysia?
Most Malaysian agencies charge RM 1,500 to RM 3,000 a month. Dijumpai is RM 1,200 a month, one dental clinic per city, with the price published.
Language: Bahasa Malaysia
Sources, read 24 September 2026:
- Medicines (Advertisement and Sale) Act 1956, section 4A
- Medicine Advertisements Board, guideline for healthcare facilities, 2010 (LIU 6/2011)
- Malaysian Dental Council, Guidelines and Provisions for Public Information 2022
- Malaysian Dental Council, Code of Professional Conduct 2022
This page reads the rules in plain words. For a ruling on your own page, ask the Medicine Advertisements Board.