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Dental SEO Trends For Better Patient Engagement

SEO Trends to Attract AND Connect With Your Ideal Dental Patient Dentistry is all about precision, care, and attention to detail, and when it comes to marketing your practice, those principles apply just as strongly. It's not merely about having a website; it's about optimizing your online presence to attract new patients who want to […]

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Ellen Horton

20 February 2019

Facebook… It’s Also a Search Engine

Google is by the far the largest search engine. No other platform comes close. However, social networks like Facebook are underestimated for their search engine abilities. Prior to 2013, Facebook’s search function only returned results based on existing pages. There wasn’t much logic in the algorithm. Then the network made refinements. It took pages, categories, […]

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Ellen Horton

13 February 2019

Don’t Skimp on Subject Lines

Have an exciting new development at your practice? A new special you'd like to offer? Email is an excellent channel to get the word out. So you've written your email and scrutinized each sentence. Now you just need to add a subject line. You plug something in and hit the send button. Wait… it's not […]

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Google Ads vs. Organic Search

Ellen Horton

12 February 2019

Google Ads vs. Organic Search

Unless you're one of the 20 percent of people using Bing or Yahoo, we all go searching for answers in the same place – Google. The search engine giant, in all its tech glory, represents two completely different, yet equally valuable traffic sources: organic search and paid search. The difference between the two? Organic Search […]

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Ellen Horton

30 January 2019

New Local Search Trends Report

Understanding local search trends is essential. After all, how consumers use the Internet to consume local information determines how visible your practice is to prospective patients. A new report by Yext revealed interesting findings on local search trends, examining 300,000 business locations from the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2018. What can we […]

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Ellen Horton

23 January 2019

Should You Stay Ahead of the Curve?

The modern digital world, social media especially, is constantly changing. Keeping up with the never-ending stream of updates, announcements, and shifts within the digital marketing space can be daunting. Many changes are self-evident. For example, you log into your Facebook account and see a feature you've never noticed before. Others might be more complex… A […]

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Ellen Horton

16 January 2019

Searching and Clicking On Your Own Google Ads

Once your Google Ads campaign goes live, it might be tempting to head to Google, search a relevant keyword, and click on your ad. Well, resist this temptation. Doing so could make your campaigns less effective and more costly. Moreover, your individual search isn’t necessarily a representation of how your campaigns are performing on a […]

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