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How to avoid a website “Not secure” warning on your dental website
You may have heard that dental practice websites without an SSL certificate are now showing a "Not secure" warning in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. You may be confused about what https and SSL are and whether your practice website needs an upgrade with an SSL...
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Google My Business For Dentists
In our recent blog post, Local SEO for dentists, we discussed the importance of the tool 'Google My Business' in local SEO strategy. Google My Business is one of the easiest and most effective ways to help Google understand your dental practice. Optimizing your Google...
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Local Search For Dentists
Why Local Search is important for dentists It’s one of a dentist’s most difficult business challenges: a potential patient is searching for a new dentist but the dental practice doesn’t appear in the search engine results until page three - far past any relevant...
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Pay-Per-Click For Dentists
Pay-Per-Click For Dentists Why do you need pay-per-click (PPC) advertising? Most new patients start looking for a new dentist with a Google search. Pay-per-click advertising is an essential part of search engine marketing, and helps to ensure your site is visible to...
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How to Handle Negative Customer Reviews for Dental Practices
Negative reviews are always challenging. For a dentist who receives one, it can cause a great deal of stress and even feel like a personal attack. Critical online reviews have the power to cause lasting damage to a dental practice. This is the reality of running a...
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Why SEO Matters to Dental Practices
Dentistry is a competitive business and patients in most cities have endless options when they’re choosing a practitioner. Attracting new patients requires a competitive edge. Now, more than ever, it is essential for your practice to be visible online. Patients aren’t...
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After Design: Dental Website SEO
So now that you have a new fancy and modern site for your dental practice, it is time to promote your site and improve those Google Rankings. For significant levels of success, the work here is just beginning. Fresh out of the Box Websites built by First.Dentist come...
read moreMobile Dental Websites Mean More Patients and Better Visibility
Did you know that over 70% of people searching for a new dentist use a smart phone during their research? Did you know that Google ranks sites higher if they provide a great mobile experience? If you don’t have a website that looks great on a smartphone, you’re...
read moreDental Web Marketing Podcast Episode 3
Dental Web Marketing Podcast Episode 3 - July 5th 2016, Internet Marketing Strategies to...
read moreDental Web Marketing Podcast Episode 2
Dental Web Marketing Podcast Episode 2 - June 8th...
read moreImportance of Content on Dental Websites
Content. Whenever you read an article or SEO how-to guide about what is required for great Google rankings, it is the one thing that pops up over and over again. The now cliché, ‘content is king’, is widely over used. But for good reason. It is king. Yes, links,...
read moreDental Web Marketing Podcast
Dental Web Marketing Podcast by First.Dentist In the Inaugural first episode, Ross Dunn and Michael Lambe discuss how they met and partnered up in First.Dentist. With 20 years of SEO experience and 10 years of Design they are in the forefront of the Dental Web...
read moreIt can take time to climb the page rank in Google for local searches. Why you need to start now!
"It's 2015 and we all use the internet to find local services...restaurants, movie theaters, doctors, and dentists. Most of us click on first page search results because top results are showing the best of these services, right? After all, they beat everyone else! If...
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Getting started with Google+ For Plus Size Business Benefits
The medical profession is now warming up to the fact that being on Google can benefit their practice in a big way. A larger number of people now prefer using search engines to find dentists in their neighborhood. This has made it crucial for all professionals to...
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Importance of a Mobile Site for Your Business
Having a mobile site for your small business is now more important than ever. To highlight that point, here is an often quoted statistic, that was originated back in 2012 and is frequently repeated throughout the marketing and tech fields: “There are more mobile...
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YouTube SEO Benefits
Google recently brought about many changes in the way rich snippets are treated in search results. It played a major role in reducing the importance of video snippets in search results, limiting them to sites that were based solely on video, such as YouTube. What are...
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How to Entice different Generations to Your offer!
In the last blog post I talked about some key elements of an effective Email Marketing Offer. Today the focus will be on how to establish an enticing offer by understanding your “target audience”. There are a couple of things to consider when putting your offer in...
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Social Marketing – Email Marketing
In the September 20, 2012 blog post we talked about social media taking a stagnant marketing campaign to being one that is more interactive to your target audience with inbound and outbound components. So, today we are going to talk about one form that can be both...
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Why is Social Marketing on Social Media so Critical?
Building relationships is key to attracting and retaining patients in today business climate. People need to feel safe and have a level of trust when making decisions for themselves and their family. Marketing and Sales have always partnered together, but today...
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Social Media for Dentists
RBD understands that successful Dental practices are built on relationships and community. In today’s consumer market, Social Media is an essential tool for communicating this message. Based on a high demand, we are proud to announce a new division dedicated to Social...
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Guide to Dental Website Design