Monday, May 18, 2015

Promoting Your Practice Online with SEO



After you worked hard to graduate from dentistry school and completed other certifications to finally become a qualified dental practitioner, you still have to exert just as much effort to promote your practice. So when it comes to internet marketing; especially now in an age of online communications, how will you get potential patients to find you? 

It may not be obvious! However, over 70% of people searching for dental care turn to the internet to find a profile of a local dentist that appears in search engine results.  Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a key element in that endeavor, and a Baltimore SEO company can  help you achieve your goals. 

Here are some strategies that are critical to making your business stand out with SEO. 

Location Tracking – Many patients prefer dental offices that are no more than a few minutes away from their home and will allow booking of appointments over the phone or through the practice’s website. To this end, you will have to submit your business’ contact details to online directories or listings, as well as post them in a section of every page on the website. The details will be accounted for in a mapping system on the search engine.

Keywords – All of your website’s content should be based around specific keywords, but it’s not advised that the keyword is placed so many times in each content piece. Search engines can penalize the page for keyword stuffing.

Content – The content information must be well-written and informative, as people need further convincing on why they should book appointments with you. 

If your website isn’t optimized for SEO, your dental business could get lost in the search. Work with an SEO expert who will identify search phrases that will drive local traffic for you.

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