‘Dental Websites’
Dental Website Design That Works for All Practices
This is not where we convince you of the benefits of a dental website. Quite frankly, if you have an existing practice in today’s environment, you NEED a website. The general public expects today’s dentists to have dental websites. They will use your dental web site to access contact information, to browse services that you provide, to determine the insurance you accept, to get directions on how to get to your office or what address to plug into their GPS, etc. And, due to changing demographics, your practice MUST be on the web because many of today’s adults, especially young adults, only access businesses like yours through the Internet, via their computers and mobile phones. Phone directories are fast becoming a thing of the past (check out our post No Yellow Pages, No Land Lines…Now What for more information on that issue). Read the rest of this entry »
Google Goes Local on All Searches
Google just announced that it is providing local search results on all of its searches. Is your website primed to take advantage of this new feature?
Google announced on April 6, 2009, that it is now providing “local content” on all of its search results, according to its official blog.
In a post on its official blog Google wrote, “We like to make search as easy as we can, so we’ve just finished the worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will now appear even when you don’t type in a location. When you search on Google, we will guess where you are and show results near you.” Read the rest of this entry »
Dental Websites, Keywords and Improving Search Engine Ranking
Dental websites are absolutely necessary in today’s wired world. Unfortunately, creating the perfect dentist website that’s right for your practice is only getting at half of the issue. Just as important and some would argue more important is to get favorable search engine visibility, which means first page search engine ranking for your website. Think about it, with billions of web pages indexed on the internet, what’s the chance that prospective patients and even existing patients will be able to find your website if you’re competing with the masses. Luckily, you can give tremendous advantage to your website if you do some search engine optimization. Read the rest of this entry »
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