SEO
Squidoo Lenses for SEO
by pdesigns on May.23, 2009, under Internet Marketing, Medical Website Design, SEO
Squidoo is an online community with a collection of user created pages, which are called lenses. The lenses can include pictures, Google maps, blogs, YouTube videos and a lot of other “modules”. These lenses can be used to promote your website and other services. A lens not only becomes another webpage for you, it also provides important backlinks.
With a lens you can also highlight websites, teach people about concepts, do polling, highlight an eBay auction, or establish your identity. Be sure to look at our websites on medical websites. After a lens is created, it can then be promoted through blogs or social bookmarking such as Digg, reddit, or MyBlogLog.
Physician Designs is a medical web site design and internet marketing company catering to the online needs of healthcare professionals.
SEO Contest
by pdesigns on May.18, 2009, under Internet Marketing, Medical Website Design, SEO
NetBuilders.org is having a very interesting SEO contest. The goal is to place in the top 3 for keyword “sulumits retsambew”, which is “webmaster stimulus” backwards on Google. The contest started March 15th and ends August 15th.
Prizes:
First: $1000
Second: $500
Third: $250
You can see the current leaders at Google.
Sulumitsretsambewno.com is currently #5 for sulumits retsambew. Sunita, the writer for the blog, also owns an SEO company and offers great advice about SEO techniques. A lot of the entrants are blogs, which goes to show how beneficial they can be for SEO. This blog of course caters to marketing medical website design services for Physician Designs. Physicians can also have their own blog and offer updates and information regarding medical procedures or new advances. At the same time, they can provide links to their own website.
Dentist Website Design
by pdesigns on May.16, 2009, under Internet Marketing, Medical Website Design, SEO
Physician Designs also specializes in custom dental website design and internet marketing services. The all inclusive package, starting at $398, includes website design, hosting, content changes, SEO, and email accounts. This allows for dentists to have one stop for all of their internet marketing needs.
SEO includes on-page and off-page optimization. Physician Designs may be the only company that includes off-page SEO for healthcare professionals. This includes blog articles, article submission, and directory submission. Again, this is in addition to all on-site SEO such as meta tags, web design standards compliance, XML sitemaps, link nomenclature, and H-tags.
Physician Without a Website?
by pdesigns on Mar.06, 2009, under Internet Marketing, Medical Website Design, SEO
Are you a physician without a website? If so, then you need medical website design even if you think you are fine without it. Imagine patient questions being answered on your website and imagine being able to answer them in ways that don’t involve the telephone or staff time.
So what exactly are the benefits of websites for doctors? Here is a list for you to take a look at:
- Even when your practice is not open, utilizing a website will make your business available to patients 24/7. If they have a question, they can refer to your website. If they need to know how to contact you, they can just go to your website.
- You can list your services. This is a very effective way for attracting new patients. Patients can visit your website and see what specialty services you offer.
- You can provide individuals with healthy tips. People love it when they can find healthy tips easily. Many people looking to lead better lifestyles have no idea where to start and you can make it easier for them because they trust you. Your tips can even make them trust you
- You will notice that you will gain more patients. You would be surprised how many individuals search for doctors on the Internet. Actually, when they have a computer in their home, they will turn to it to find websites for doctors before turning to the phonebook.
- You can have your medical website design company arrange for patients to contact you via email for non-urgent inquiries and promise them a response in a certain period of time. This can keep the phone the phone at the office from ringing off of the hook all the time. You can also provide enough information that they may not have to call.
Along with providing benefit for the physician and the office, a medical website can also provide benefit to patients. A patient can go online, download the forms and fill them out. A website can also allow for appointment requests where they don’t even have to call the doctor’s office.
Even if you’re not sure about medical website design, it is important that you at least give it a try. If it doesn’t work for you, you can always go back to the way things were. You’re not obligated to stick with anything if you don’t want to. But there is a good chance that once you go the website route, you won’t go back because of how everything will run smoother for you and your practice.
A custom designed medical website can be a great asset to a busy or even new medical practice. It provides great benefit to the physician, office staff and patient. You can learn more about our services on the medical website design services post.
What Our Medical SEO Includes
by pdesigns on Mar.03, 2009, under Internet Marketing, Medical Website Design, SEO
With 85% of all website traffic originating from search engines, Physician Designs will make sure that your website attains a high page ranking for the keywords and phrases that will produce the greatest number of patients for you.
— Identify primary and secondary keywords and phrases for your medical practice
— Website optimization for selected location and medical keywords
— Create a content rich site for targeting additional keywords
— Ensure that your website is submitted to major search engines
— Create solid title tags and site structure for search engine positioning
— Design a sitemap to support search engine indexing
— Keyword/keyphrase implementation
— Content uploading and optimization
— Meta tag generation
— Nomenclature of links
— XML Google sitemap
— XML Yahoo sitemap
— Optimized HTML sitemap for search engines
— Backlink creation along with directory submission
— Hand submission to major search engines
— Research competition’s SEO strategies
We also offer directory submission, article writing/submission, and social bookmarking services. These build backlinks to your website which search engines, such as Google, love. Its part of how search engines know what terms or keywords to associate your website with. SEO must be part of any medical marketing campaign.
No medical website design is complete without Search Engine Optimization. We include SEO with all of our websites. If you have a website, you must be sure that people and patients can find it. Two websites we recently completed: Trophy Club Doctor, Dallas Family Doctor and Hospitalists. These are all ranking on the first page of Google for their targeted keywords.
Learn more about SEO at Wikipedia.