Optimizing your dental practice’s online content for organic search, also known as search engine optimization (SEO), will enhance its visibility by boosting its ranking in the results. Additionally, effective SEO can be a significant factor in long-term growth for any dental practice dedicated to maintaining a strong online presence. However, for those who are not well-versed in the science of organic rankings, SEO can be intimidating. While SEO can get complicated, the basic concepts are pretty straightforward. Allow me to break it down for you and demonstrate how SEO can help your practice.
Have you recently tried to search a business, service provider, or medical professional on the internet only to find that they don’t have any real online presence to speak of? Maybe you can find the phone number and address on Google, but no website. Maybe you find them on Facebook, but there hasn’t been a post in over a year. Maybe you locate a website, but it does not contain much useful information other than contact details. How likely are you, as a consumer, to trust that business or professional?
Dental Practices Online: Why It Is Important to Have an Online Presence
Of all the available digital marketing options, which one is the most effective, the most pervasive and the most important? It’s a trick question. Here’s the real question: Is it possible to achieve all of your dental practice’s marketing goals with a single digital marketing channel?
Which Digital Marketing Channel Should You Use?
Dental practices interested in expanding their marketing efforts or perhaps just venturing into digital marketing for the first time may be in the dark about some of the major differences and potential consequences of handling things in house versus trusting it all to a marketing agency. In fact, the differences can be quite significant, and it is important to know about them before making a decision on which direction to go.
DIY Marketing vs. Using a Professional Marketing Agency
Chances are if you have been utilizing online patient reviews as part of your marketing strategy, you might get a not so flattering one every now and then. Everyone does. The question however, is how will this affect your practice and what can you do about them.