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As a busy physician, you may be wondering why you should take the time to learn about SEO for doctors. The truth is that this information could be vital for preserving the health of your practice. Even if you hire a consulting firm to handle your web presence, you still need to understand the basics so you know your business is being well-served. Here’s a quick look at 3 critical features of good SEO:
GOOD HEALTHCARE SEO IS LOCAL SEO
Local SEO Google MapUnless you are encouraging medical tourism, you want to focus on targeting patients who are in your local area. Sure, it’s nice to be a specialist that people travel halfway around the globe to see. But for most physicians, the “bread and butter” of their business is much closer to home. You may already know that terms like, “Rheumatology specialist Salt Lake City” are more valuable to you than simply “arthritis”. But geo-specific optimization is about much more than peppering the text on your website with the name of your city or region.
A significant portion of local optimization is created behind the scenes in the “meta” information hidden throughout your website. For example, if you include a GPS Tag in your meta-data, your practice is more likely to show up in the ‘local business results’ map in a Google search. Not all physicians know to compete for these spots – especially if they aren’t used to thinking of their practice as a traditional business. So, you could really make some headway on a tight budget with the right optimization strategy.
IS A BLOG REALLY NECESSARY FOR GOOD SEO?
blogging for doctorsThis is kind of like a patient asking, “Is exercise really necessary for my health?” Certainly, you can stay alive for quite a long time without a regular fitness routine. But you’re not going to win any races. Make no mistake: SEO is a triathlon that requires a diligent, multi-pronged approach for success. Search engines are demanding more and more fresh content all the time. Plus, there are new keywords coming into play every month.
This is especially true in medicine. For example, plastic surgery procedures get renamed frequently in an effort to make them appear new and sexy. You don’t want all your web content to refer to “autologous fat transfer” when patients really want to know about the “stem cell facelift”. Blogging gives you a fantastic way to have your name associated with the latest trend without having to rewrite your website. If you time it right, you might even have a blog article that “goes viral” and nets you a lot of inbound links for your targeted keywords.
MEDICAL SEO GOES SOCIAL
social media for doctor quoteSocial signals are the new game in town for healthcare marketing. Search engines now place a very high value on content that gets linked to, shared, talked about, commented on, retweeted, liked, +1’d, etc. Any time a user takes an action on a social media platform in relation to your content, this helps you get closer to the top of search results. This makes it more likely that patients will find you when they start looking for a doctor in their area.
But can you really make yourself heard among all the voices shouting back and forth on popular social media platforms? Your chances are probably better than you think. Most doctors are now active on FaceBook. But as of the QuantiaMD survey published in September 2011, only 20% physicians were considered “connected clinicians” who effectively used two or more social media sites for personal and professional purposes. That percentage has doubtless risen over the last year and a half. But doctors are still lagging behind many other industries in effective use of the top social media platforms to drive web traffic. Take advantage of this head start! Begin by creating keyword optimized profiles on each social media site to “claim your name”. From there, you can begin branding your practice with surgical precision with each social interaction.
It's that time of year again. You've consumed your own body weight in mince pies and gin, while the most strenuous exercise in weeks was a sozzled bout of dancing on New Year's Eve. It's resolution time, and somewhere near the top of your list is adopting a more healthy, active lifestyle.
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Such resolutions traditionally also lead to new gym memberships – also known as the forking out of large sums of money to alleviate indolence guilt. In a recession, pouring money down a communal shower's plughole may seem even less appealing, and according to Mintel the average gym membership in 2009 cost £442. That's about £37 per month, with some chains charging significantly more than that.
So perhaps it's no wonder that 23 per cent of consumers say they have already cancelled their gym membership, with a further 6 per cent saying they plan to do so, according to the report, which is out this week.
"The drop-out rate is built into gyms' business models," says Wesley Doyle, fitness editor for Men's Health magazine. "Everyone feels guilty after the Christmas binge and joins a gym and then drops out after three months." Drop-out rates of 30-40 per cent used to be eased by new members who stayed the course, but in tighter times this fresh in-take is less reliable.
Matt Punsheon, manager of Lifetime, a training consultancy and Centre of Excellence for Fitness, suggests our approach is changing: "Over the last year, the people using clubs have changed. It's much more hard-core. People who've been less enthusiastic and self-motivated in the gym have looked at other avenues."
Even if we're falling out of love with the cross-trainer, as a nation we still need to shape up. For general health we need at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on five or more days of the week, according to Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer at the Department of Health. His guidelines go on to say that "it is likely that, for many people, 45-60 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity a day will be needed to prevent obesity".
A recent survey by PruHealth found that only 10 per cent of us exercise more than five times a week. Perhaps it's hardly surprising that, according to the same study, over half the population (51 per cent) are unhappy with their weight, while the most recent government statistics show that more than a fifth of adults in England are obese.