Vikas Thakur / / 13 min readA Google Ads healthcare and medicines disapproval buries the real reason behind a generic label. Here is how Australian cosmetic clinics and dental practices read the reason code, fix the ad, and stop the same rejection landing twice.
Vikas Thakur / / 13 min readAPP 8 does not require an Australian web host. It requires that before your website discloses a patient's details to an overseas recipient, you take reasonable steps, and the OAIC treats some hosting arrangements as a use rather than a disclosure at all. This guide explains that test and what to check before you sign a hosting agreement.
Vikas Thakur / / 14 min readFrom 5 November 2026, NSW's Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026 splits cosmetic injectable rules for nurse-administered treatments into Category 1 and Category 2 requirements. Category 2 is the recordkeeping tier, and it is the one a clinic's booking and patient record system actually has to satisfy.
Vikas Thakur / / 11 min readYou can display an aggregate Google star rating on a clinic website without breaching the testimonial rule in section 133 of the National Law, provided the number stands alone. The risk most sites miss is not the visible badge, it is review text still sitting in hidden schema markup or CSS-hidden widget code that a scraper or a regulator can still read.
Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readMost WordPress themes, page builders and review plugins write Review or AggregateRating schema into a clinic page's JSON-LD automatically, often without the site owner knowing it exists. Section 133 of the National Law bans testimonials about a clinical aspect of a regulated health service, and hidden structured data carrying a patient's outcome statement is still a publication. As at 14 September 2026, Google's own guidelines also will not show a rich result for a business's markup about its own reviews, so the schema creates compliance exposure with no ranking benefit to offset it.
Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readA Black Friday countdown, a Christmas gift voucher, and a Valentine's Day couples package are three separate rule problems wearing the same banner. Building one reusable seasonal campaign template beats fixing the same mistake five times a year.
