Integrate SEO and PR to Increase your Patient Reach

Search engine optimization (SEO) continues to be the most powerful marketing tool to increase the market reach of your dental practice, but it can do even better when it is combined with a sound public relations (PR) strategy. Search engine algorithms are now adjusted to pick up social signals and online conversations to evaluate how … Read more

Refrain from Using Outdated Dental SEO Tactics

Search engine algorithms have evolved dramatically over the last few years. Following major search engine updates, particularly in the last three years, many of the traditional search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and tactics are no longer relevant. If you continue to embrace the old and outdated SEO practices, it will become increasingly difficult for your … Read more

Avoid Negative SEO Tactics to Maintain Website Search Rankings

Search ranking algorithms of leading search engines such as Google and Bing have become highly sophisticated in recent years. It is no longer a wise move to indulge in negative SEO tactics in the hope of pushing up search rankings for your website by manipulating the search algorithms. Such a move is most likely to … Read more

World Wide Web

Is Your Website Really Working? The world of websites and online marketing can be confusing. Dentists and their staff often feel like their website could be doing more for them, but aren’t quite sure how to determine this or what to do about it. The goal of this article is to provide some clear, easy … Read more

Adobe Labs Downloads

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta – If you want to experiment with Photoshop for free – this is it!! The world’s best digital image editing software is about to get even better. Explore Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 beta for a sneak preview of some of the incredible performance enhancements, imaging magic, and creativity tools we are working … Read more

Canada Still Leads the World in Online Engagement, Report Suggests

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Fri, March 2, 2012 – in Tech Vibes  Canada continues to lead the world in online enagement, according to new data from comScore. The 2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus report reveals that web users spend an average of 45 hours online per month.  The study also found that, while Facebook is … Read more

There is a god; we made the New York Times Sunday Review

IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic … Read more

Are Dentists’ Facebook Fans Local?

From Modern Dental Practice Management Some interesting information hit my email box this morning, thanks to Dr. Emmott’s blog. An article at www.pcmag.com tells us “Most Facebook Fans of Small Businesses Aren’t Local, Study Finds.” I know that’s the case with the MDPM Facebook page. We have fans from all over the globe — but … Read more

Open Sesame

Tip of the iceberg…….doing a little research for the blog and came across the following site. http://www.sesamecommunications.com/ I urge you to simply wander through the links……ortho websites are a big component, but don’t let that confuse you.  Strong links to the Pride Institute….it’s a magnificent overview of the now and tomorrow on one site.

Google by image

The term to “GOOGLE” has become as much a part of the vernacular as “it is what it is” my personal least favorite commentary on life…….whereas GOOGLE opens a world of wonder and magic. For those who recognize that the future is inherently visual – GOOGLE allows you to search by IMAGE…..go figure eh hoser? … Read more