Your website is only as good as your SEO

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If you’re a dentist then you probably have a website. It might even be an awesome site. But here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter how much blood, sweat and money you’ve sunk into, if prospective clients can’t easily find your site then it’s not really doing you any good.

So how do you get them there? Try typing ‘dental office’ into Google right now along with your town or city and see what comes up. Is your website there or is it someone else’s?

To ensure your site is near the top of the Google search rankings (the goal in local search is #1), you need to work on your SEO. Search Engine Optimization is the method web experts use to make sites appear at the top of search results and get your business found by potential patients.

Given the number of practices competing for new customers local search is becoming a big deal and it’s only a matter of time before every practice starts to optimize their sites for maximum exposure.

Do you want to get your dental career started on the right path? Are you looking to put in place the practices and procedures to make your existing dental business more profitable? Send Dr. Coughlin a quick email today!

I recently spoke to a guy named Mike Pederson about it. Mike is the CEO of Dental Boost, a cutting-edge dental SEO company for both solo and group practices.

He told me it all comes down to coming up with the right ‘buyer-intent’ keyphrases that people use on Google to find dental practices.

Typically, most dental practice’s keyword phrases number about 20. Mike Pedersen’s company has developed around 500 such phrases. However it’s about more than numbers. The better your phrases and search terms are, the more chance your practice has of rising up through the rankings.

Of course if that’s all it took then everyone’s practice would be at the top of the searches! There’s more and you should look into a company like Mike’s to give you some guidance. .

So is it worth it? Every penny!

Outside of word-of-mouth, web searches are the best way for people to find a new dentist.

Although a good marketing campaign also helps, making sure your business name is tops in web searches is a basic necessity, the digital equivalent of having a lighted sign in front of your practice.