Whether you’re a dry cleaner or a dentist, you need positive online reviews from people who have used and liked your goods and services. The more of them you get, the better off you are: they help drive new business, and help you rank in Google search results. The quest Read more…
When all is said and done, a dental practice is a business. Patients are really customers, and they want to find the best dentist they can. How does anyone find a local business these days? You Google it and check out reviews. As it turns out, dental practices are among the businesses Read more…
Virtually every dental practice has a website these days. It’s all but impossible to succeed without one. Yet a lot of dentists don’t take the time to keep their sites current, and as a result, they lose ground to their competition. It is essential to stay on top of online trends to Read more…
News flash: no one uses the Yellow Pages anymore. All right, so that isn’t exactly news. Those heavy old phone company listings have long since gone the way of the dinosaur. To find information about virtually anything, including local dental practices, everyone turns to search engines like Google. And that Read more…
Industry prognosticators are constantly looking into their crystal balls to identify social and business trends – and that includes dentistry. The dentistry trends that many of them see include the ever-growing importance of online reviews, and the online reputation of your dental practice. Every dental practice loves to see new Read more…
In a recent study by recent study by SEOBook, 1,000 people were shown screenshots of Google search page results and asked whether or not the page featured ads. The surprising results? Although all the pages shown had ads, nearly half (45.5%) of the people surveyed said there were no ads. Read more…
Before you decide to shell out big bucks to advertise your business on Facebook, consider taking a cue from GM. The third largest advertiser in the U.S., GM pulled $10 Million in ads from Facebook last week as a result of their ineffectiveness. How is it that the largest social Read more…
With the uncertainty in the markets, it is easy to get caught up in believing the news. Yet, some of the most successful practices take a different path from the rest of the crowd during times like this.
The news from Google that they will not post 3rd party reviews (only links to them) has created concern for many dental practices that rely on local internet marketing. Now that these third party reviews have disappeared from Google Places (other than to have a link to them), it is important to have a strategy to get reviews posted directly in Google. During the past few weeks, we have discussed a variety of approaches with dental practices. Here are some strategies to consider.
There has been a lot of growth in blogs during the past couple of years. There is good reason for that with all the benefits this can offer your internet dental marketing.