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Re-opening and growing your dental practice after the pandemic
Most dental practices have reopened or are about to reopen after the initial pandemic closures. While your team is likely excited to get back to work, some of your patients may be apprehensive about returning for appointments. Making sure those patients feel confident...
How Much Should a Dental Practice Spend on Marketing?
Marketing Budgets for Dental Practices Dental practices often wonder what an appropriate marketing budget is for their practice. How much should they spend? How much are their competitors spending? How much do they need to spend to grow their practice and keep it...
Local Search and Behavioral Signals
This is the seventh part of our Local SEO series that focuses on optimizing your dental website for search engines. You can view the other posts here: Local Search for Dentists Google My Business for Dentists SEO for Dentist Websites Inbound Links for Dental Websites...
Local SEO and Social Media For Dentists
This is the sixth part of our Local SEO series that focuses on optimizing your dental website for search engines. You can view the other posts here: Local Search for Dentists Google My Business for Dentists SEO for Dentist Websites Inbound Links for Dental Websites...
Local SEO for Dentists – Online Reviews
This is the sixth part of our Local SEO series that focuses on optimizing your dental website for search engines. You can view the other posts here: Local Search for Dentists Google My Business for Dentists SEO for Dentist Websites Inbound Links for Dental Websites...
Citations for Dental Practices
This is the fifth part of our Local SEO series that focuses on optimizing your dental website for search engines. You can view the other posts here: Local Search for Dentists Google My Business for Dentists SEO for Dentist Websites Inbound Links for Dental Websites...
Inbound Links for Dental Websites
This is the fourth part of our Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) series on optimizing your dental website. You can view the previous posts here: Local Search for Dentists Google My Business for Dentists SEO for Dentist Websites Citations for Dental Practices...
SEO For Dental Websites
This is the third part of our Local SEO series on optimizing your dental website for search engines. You can view the other posts here: Local Search for Dentists Google My Business for Dentists Inbound links for Dental Websites Citations for Dental Practices Reviews...
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...
Google My Business For Dentists
This is the second part of our Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) series on optimizing your dental website and internet presence. You can view the other posts here: Local Search for Dentists SEO for Dentist Websites Inbound links for Dental Websites Citations for...
Local Search For Dentists
This is the first part of our Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) series on optimizing your dental website. You can view the other posts here: Google My Business for Dentists SEO for Dentist Websites Inbound links for Dental Websites Citations for Dental Practices...
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 people searching for a new...
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...
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...
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...
Mobile 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...
Importance 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,...
It 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...
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...
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...