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		<title>How To Partner With Google To Get New Dental Patients</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days the success or failure of your Dental Practice hinges primarily on one important area – your ability to get people to your website and convert those visitors into patients. Powerful Internet marketing tactics are being employed by Dental Practices everyday in a bid to expand their businesses and attract more patients. For the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-17" title="d1-final" src="http://www.1dentalmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/d1-final.jpg" alt="d1-final" width="588" height="463" />These days the success or failure of your Dental Practice hinges primarily on one important area – your ability to get people to your website and convert those visitors into patients. Powerful Internet marketing tactics are being employed by Dental Practices everyday in a bid to expand their businesses and attract more patients. For the long term, an effective strategy of bringing in a constant flow of new patients is necessary.</p>
<p>Here’s a recommended resource:</p>
<p>Discover how to start bringing in new patients in less than 7 days &#8211; Best of all, you don’t have to lift a finger to get it done – Visit this web page to find out how:  <a href="http://1dentalmarketing.com/dentist-marketing">Dental Marketing</a></p>
<p>Now let’s take a look at some ways you can hold your costs down while propelling your practice skyward using online advertising.</p>
<p>The 2 keys to getting dental patients online are traffic and conversion. You need to get pre-qualified visitors to your website and convert them into patients.  So if speed is what you’re after, below you’ll find 2 lightning fast tips to attract new patients with your website.</p>
<p>So let’s get started:</p>
<p><strong>Media Buys.</strong></p>
<p>This is the process of buying ad space on websites.  You would typically use banner ads for this type of advertising.  Media buying is a powerful source of instant traffic because you can place your banner ads in front of thousands of potential customers literally overnight.</p>
<p>How do you find websites to publisher your banner ads?</p>
<p>First, you can target sites in your niche.  However, if you are a direct competitor they may not want to sell you ad space.  Alternatively, you can buy media from websites that cater to your client base.</p>
<p>To do this, you need to know your demographics and the demographics of the website on which you wish to advertise.  How can you find this information?  That’s easy.  Just visit quantcast.com or Alexa.com</p>
<p>Now that you know your demographic, you can search alexa.com and ranking.com for websites that cater to your demographic.  This way you can find local high traffic sites where your patients hang out.</p>
<p>When reviewing the websites you find in your search, look for an *advertise* link at the bottom of the page.  This will give you their media buying requirements.</p>
<p>The fee for this type of advertising is either a monthly charge or a cost per thousand impressions &#8211; or CPM for short.</p>
<p>CPM is the price you would pay to an advertising vendor for every 1,000 times your ad is displayed.</p>
<p>This fee can range from .25 to $50 per thousand impressions. Personally, I never agree to pay more than $1 to $3 CPM.</p>
<p>Here’s what to say when you contact the websites to negotiate the best rate for your buy:</p>
<p>* We are a direct response advertiser and we are looking to buy remnant inventory.  What is the lowest price your advertisers are paying for remnant traffic right now?*</p>
<p>Remnant traffic is left over traffic the site was unable to sell at full price. You can typically purchase this traffic at a huge discount.</p>
<p><strong>Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising.</strong></p>
<p>Another way to jump start your income is to buy PPC traffic from:</p>
<p>Google: google.com/adwords</p>
<p>Yahoo:  sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing</p>
<p>MSN:    adcenter.microsoft.com</p>
<p>The cool ting about the internet is your ability to spy on your competition.  If you would like to eliminate some of the guess work involved with starting a PPC campaign from scratch, here’s a tool that will give you all your competitors’ top performing keywords and ads: keywordspy.com</p>
<p>Here are a few tips to help you create winning ads for your pay-per-click campaigns:</p>
<p>1. Test magazine headlines in your ads.  Go to magazines.com to find magazines in your industry.</p>
<p>2. Test switching the 1st and 2nd lines of your ad to see if it increases click thoughs and conversion.</p>
<p>3. Ask a question. Here’s an example: “Would you like to lose 7 pounds in 10 days?”</p>
<p>4. Test *Wanted* headlines. Here’s an example, “Wanted: Women Age 25-54”.  Again, you would need to know your demographics to create such a headline.</p>
<p>5. Use specifics – no generalities.  For example, if your product tastes great you wouldn’t just make the statement “tastes great” in your ad.  Instead, you would say, “won 23 taste test awards”.  Get the idea?</p>
<p>Well, that&#8217;s all for now. With these helpful tips you can grow your practice with much less effort.  Undoubtedly, good Internet advertising tips and tools can produce the desired result when used wisely.</p>
<p><strong>Additional Resource:</strong></p>
<p>Click here to get a <a href="http://www.1dentalmarketing.com/dentist-website">professional dentist website</a> at a huge discount.</p>
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		<title>3 Proven Methods For Attracting New Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking to get more patients for your Dental Practice?  Quality website traffic is very important, even critical, to the success of your practice.   For the long term, an effective strategy of bringing in a constant flow of new patients is necessary.   Read on for some tips that can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-14" title="d2-final" src="http://www.1dentalmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/d2-final.jpg" alt="d2-final" width="588" height="458" />Are you looking to get more patients for your Dental Practice?  Quality website traffic is very important, even critical, to the success of your practice.   For the long term, an effective strategy of bringing in a constant flow of new patients is necessary.   Read on for some tips that can help you generate an unlimited supply of new patients from Google.</p>
<p>You will need a website to implement these strategies.  <strong>Only a professional looking website will do.</strong><strong></p>
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<p>The free design website and the amateur look are not an option for a dentist. Think about it. How can you expect to have new patients willing to spend a significant amount of money in dental services, when your website looks like you may have plastic chairs in your reception area!</p>
<p>Here’s a great place to get a professional looking website at a reasonable price:  <a title="Dentist Websites" href="http://www.1dentalmarketing.com/dentist-website/">Discount Dentist Websites</a></p>
<p><strong>I.</strong><strong> Get Top Search Engines Listings</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>One way to get new patients is to get your website listed on the first page of Google.  Here’s how:</p>
<p><strong>Step #1:</strong> Keyword research – Find the keyword terms for your practice that have the most search volume with the least competition.  Here’s a free tool to help: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal</p>
<p><strong>Step #2:</strong> On Page Optimization – Put your main keywords in your web page, title tag, H1 tag, image alt tags, image names and internal links.  Use “No Follow” tags in your internal links to channel Page Rank to your important pages.  You will also need to consider your site structure and internal linking strategy to channel your page rank properly.</p>
<p><strong>Step #3:</strong> Off Page Optimization &#8211; The most important off page factor is link popularity.  You need backlinks from as many high page rank websites as possible. Here are a few ways to increase your link popularity:</p>
<p>Article syndication, social bookmarking, blog posts, forum posts, directory listings and link buying.</p>
<p><strong>II. Google Adwords</strong></p>
<p>Another way to get new patients from Google is to advertise using Google Adwords.</p>
<p>Adwords can be a very profitable place to invest your advertising budget. In fact, I make most of my living doing so. The key is to understand the (sometimes unwritten) rules, tips, and tricks to employ in order to create a profitable campaign. Here are 3 quick tips to help:</p>
<p><strong>Tip #1:</strong> Split test your ads – Run 2 ads, keep the winning ad and repeat the test.  Use a split test calculator to decide the winner.</p>
<p><strong>Tip #2:</strong> Improve your Quality Score &#8211; Google will reward you for a high quality score with lower ad costs and better ad positioning – Giving you more website traffic and customers! Here are a few tips to improve your quality score:</p>
<p>(1) Write winning ads to improve your click through rate (2) Make sure your keywords, ads and landing pages are all related (This is extremely important!) (3) Improve the loan time of your landing pages &#8211; Google and your customers appreciate web pages that load quickly</p>
<p><strong>Tip #3:</strong> Track Conversions &#8211; If you do nothing else, do this… You must track conversions!  If you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re getting for your advertising dollar, how can you make good decisions?</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re selling a product, the best way to do this is to use Google&#8217;s conversion tracking. But since you offer a service you’ll need a separate phone number for tracking.  You can get one here: www.RingCentral.com</p>
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<p><strong>III. Google’s Local Business Listing</strong></p>
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<p>When you conduct a local search you’ll notice Google offers a list of local businesses.</p>
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<p>You can list your practice there for free.  The problem is your competitors have free listings there as well.</p>
<p>To improve your business listing, Google recommends that you establish a strong, accurate presence on the web.</p>
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<p>Make sure that information about your business on the web is accurate, and try to correct it if it&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>Google improves search results using information about your business from all over the web.</p>
<p>Encourage customers to review your business or to blog about it. Google uses these to improve search results too.</p>
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<p>That’s all for now.  With these helpful tips you can grow your practice with much less effort.  Yes, the resources you need to get more patients online are readily available.  Thanks to the World Wide Web and this <a title="Dental Marketing" href="http://www.1dentalmarketing.com/dentist-marketing/">dental marketing plan</a>.</p>
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