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© 2010 Site-Seeker, Inc. www.site-seeker.com
Understanding Internet Marketing for Dental Practices
Kathy Hokunson Vice President Sales and Marketing
Siobhan Becker Independent
Internet Marketing & Social Media Strategist
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• Founded in 2003
• Corporate Office in New Hartford NY • Satellite offices in Bloomfield CT, Rochester NY, New Jersey
• 20 Employees
• Full Service Internet Marketing Agency • Search Engine Optimization Services • Pay-Per-Click Management Services • Social Media Implementation and Mgmt • Web Design, Development, Applications & Testing • Analytics
Who are we?
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Fast Track 50 of CNY
2007 2008 2009
3 4 2
MV Chamber of Commerce
Top 3
2009 Business of the Year
B2B Twitterer of the Year
@KatieHoke
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Part l Building Effective Dental Practice Websites Building the foundation utilizing your website
Driving traffic to your website – SEO
Part ll Social Media: Google Local Blogging Facebook
What We Will Cover
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A Show of Hands
How many of you…
…are currently attracting new patients from your website?
…believe you could be attracting new patients from your website?
…are not sure where to start?
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Why is the Internet relevant to growing your practice?
• 50% of dental patients research their dentist online before booking an appointment (less than 9% would use the yellow pages).
• 90% of consumers trust online recommendations from people they know.
• 70% trust opinions of unknown users.
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The Internet makes an immediate and lasting impact on how patients find, evaluate and decide on a dental practice
• 94% of respondents take a dentists website into consideration before booking their initial appointment. • Practice success depends on the next generation of patients.
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Information relevant to your patient:
• Do you offer the dental services I need?
• Where are you located?
• What do other people think about your dental practice?
• Do you make it easy to be your patient?
• Practice hours • Online appointment requests • Email appointment confirmations
What patients expect to find online
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Cornerstones to a successful Internet marketing strategy
Measure
Drive
Convert
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SEO
The process of improving the
volume and quality of traffic to a
website from search engines via
“natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”)
search results.
An Internet advertising strategy
used on search engines,
advertising networks, and
content websites, such as blogs,
where advertisers bid on
keywords to achieve ad
placement.
Pay-Per-Click
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
• In 2008 North American advertisers spent 27.5 billion on SEM, a 22% increase over 2007 and a 40% increase over 2006.
• From the emarketer digital intelligence website
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Search Engine %
Google 66.2
Yahoo! 16.4
Bing 11.8
Comscore Numbers 11/2010
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Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a multi – phase process. • To have a successful SEO program you must think of SEO in terms of ongoing and in constant motion.
Let’s define SEO...
Two Phase Approach
Phase 1: Website Structure
Phase 2: Ongoing SEO Efforts
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SEO Program – Phase 1
• Keyword Research and Selection • Title, Header, Keyword, Description, Alt Img • Content rewrite - keyword density • URL Structure • Navigation • Organization of code and link structure • XML sitemap • Robots.txt • Webmaster tools accounts • Analytics and conversion funnels • Establish a baseline
The Basics
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• What are your main objectives • New patients • Increase revenue for particular services • General dentistry
• How do your patients refer to these services?
Keyword Research
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• Keywords tell the search engines what your site is about
• Don’t let the website designer pick your keywords
• Use words and phrases that your customers use
“Keyword”
Keyword Selection - Summary
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• Not the same game • 250 – 500 words • Use bullets • Use common language • One subject per page
• Create Keyword Rich Content • Body • Headings • Image tags • Meta data
Content Writing for SEO
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Break apart content
Content Writing for SEO
Service 1
Service 2
Services Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.
Our Dental Services
This is bad
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Break apart content
Content Writing for SEO
Service 1
Service 1
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.
Dental Service 1
This is good
Service 2
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• Generate a sitemap - www.xml-sitemaps.com
• Upload to your website.
• Tell Google, Yahoo, and Bing to Read It - google.com/sitemaps - siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com - bing.com/webmaster
Crucial Elements of SEO – XML Sitemap
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• Create a Robots.txt file - Can be done right in Google Webmaster tools - Prevent spiders from accessing portions of your site - Prevents duplicate content
• Upload it to your website.
Crucial Elements of SEO – Robots.txt
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How will you measure the effectiveness of your website?
• Increased visitors to the site
• New patient appointment requests
• Patient referrals
• Phone Calls
Establish Baseline & Benchmarks
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SEO – Phase 2
• Research and develop inbound links • Create Authority - Create Content Pages for:
• social media • micro sites
• 301 redirects from alternate domains • Vertical search • Addressing website performance, strengths and weaknesses as identified in GA reporting.
Ongoing SEO Efforts
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SEO Programs...
Ongoing process that requires • Monitoring for cause and effect • Modification of actions to increase ROI.
Many factors affect strength and positioning • Addressed a priority basis • Look for biggest ROI opportunities • Stay abreast of changes
Are NOT a one time deal.
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Web Analytics Is...
- Wikipedia
“Web analytics is not just a tool for measuring website traffic but can be used as a tool for business research and market research.”
the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage.
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Overall Traffic
• We launched the site toward the end of June. • Traffic spiked in August, and has been sporadically up since then.
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Traffic Sources
• Referring sites make up the majority of the site’s traffic, showing good efforts at linking and social media.
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Referring Sites
• Facebook sent over 28% of the site’s overall traffic this quarter. • We ran Facebook ads to drive traffic to the Facebook page. The Ads received 278 clicks and 862,879 impressions.
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Search Engines
• Google is the most popular search engine, and its traffic to the site is larger than its market share.
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AdWords
Keywords with geo-modifiers such as dentists in Jewett City & dentists in Norwich faired better than general dentistry terms such as family dentistry, dental services and so on.
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Paid Keywords
• The keyword [dentists] (a phrase match keyword) drives more than 76% of all impressions. • Dentists in CT, brought-in most of the traffic via Google PPC.
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Top Keywords
• Many visitors are searching for area-based dentistry practices.
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Ranking Analysis
Keyword GoogleRank BingRank Yahoo!Rank
aboutden+stsinjewe0city 1 7 7
aboutgoodwinfamilyden+stry 1 1 1
affordablecosme+cden+stryjewe0city 1 1 1
affordablecosme+cden+stry,newlondon,ct 1 1 1
contactden+stsinjewe0city 1 2 2
contactgoodwinfamilyden+stry 1 1 1
den+stsinjewe0city 1 9 9
dr.stevegoodwinlisbon 1 Notintop100 Notintop100
dr.youdmdjewe0city 1 1 1
generalden+stryjewe0city 1 4 4
preven+vecareden+stryjewe0city 1 1 1
preven+vecareden+strynorwich,ct 1 1 1
preven+vecareden+stry,newlondon,ct 1 1 1
aboutdr.stevengoodwin 2 6 6
affordablecosme+cden+strynorwich,ct 2 1 1
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We hear it everywhere…
Social Media
“Social Media is, at its most basic sense, a shift in how people discover, read, and share news
and information and content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming
monologue (one to many) into dialog (many to many.)
-Brian Solis
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What are your options?
• Google Places
• Blogging
• YouTube
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Local Search - Summary
• Free
• Easy
• Trackable
• Gets you there with little to no effort
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What Can Facebook do for your practice?
• Enhance internal marketing
• Build a patient community and create relationships with your patients
• Promotes you and your practice as current and relevant
• Attract new patients
• Receive patient feedback
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Facebook – what to measure . .
• Page “likes” are - they up or down? • Conversation & comments - are the
growing or flattening out? • Links to your website – are you
engaging people to want to know more?
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Establishing Credibility with Social Media
Become the Expert
Create Accounts (Name Claim)
Grow Networks
Create Content
Distribute Content
Participate in Discussion
Lead Discussion
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How to Distribute Your Blog Email Campaign
Other Blogs
Social Bookmarking Sites
Other (links)…
Blog Posts
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Wordpress.com
• Free and Easy to Use
• All setups and upgrades are done by the program
• Extra traffic from blogs of the day and tags
• Easy to find similar bloggers through tags
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Online Reputation Management
Personal Reviews • Yelp! • Google Places • Healthgrades • Wellness
Relax! Manage them, don’t react!
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Bringing it all together . . .
Effective Practice Marketing Is all about
ROI
Measure, Modify, Move forward
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Thank You! Kathy Hokunson
Vice President Sales and Marketing
Siobhan Becker Independent Dental Consultant
(860) 748-4895 [email protected]
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