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Dr. Russell Roderick – Phoenix, AZ Implant Dentist Dental Website Swift Kick! Critique

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Attracting The Patients YOU Want – An interview with Dr. Woody Oakes

Attracting the new patients that YOU want may sound difficult or like a gimmick. However, it is been our approach at SmartBox Web Marketing (SWM) for the last 12 years.

Patients don’t want to feel like they are being sold something, whether it is when they are reading your website, interacting with your staff on the phone, or simply the way you talk to them. If when you are interacting with them, you convince them that you are more interested in doing a great job and creating “value” for them, then you’ll earn them as a new patient.

We help our clients create an image of “value” which attracts the prospects looking for a dentist like that. When you have a persona of value and high level service, you attract those kinds of people. That’s what we call the “mirror effect”. The testimonials on your website should be those same types of people….ones who talk about the great value you provided. Then you will attract more of the same types of people.

Is your web marketing generating real phone calls, or just lots of hits and clicks? People looking for a deal? Are those phone calls solid prospects you want? That’s where SWM (SmartBox Web Marketing) comes in. For 12 years SWM has helped dentists reach out and attract the types of new patients THEY want.

“Anyone can build a website. There are tons of providers out there selling websites and products”, Receveur says.

What we do is create an image and teach our clients how to attract the prospects THEY want using our “mirror effect” and creating value for them so they feel like our dentist client is the only one they should go to”.

SmartBox Web Marketing puts as much passion into the technical side of what they do as they do into the “value building” and image building. Dr. Woody Oakes caught up with SWM founder & CEO Colin Receveur to learn more about how they can add new patients to any dental practice. SWM has many systems, ranging web marketing, social media, automated follow-up, on-site and green screen video production, and their new patient tracking system, Zetetics, designed exclusively for dentists from the ground up.

Their proprietary phone tracking system, automated follow-up systems and “relationship-building video” puts them head and shoulders above their competition.

Visit www.SWMresults.com for case studies from practices that they have helped, then judge for yourself.

Woody: Colin, can you tell our readers what’s new at SWM since we first met?

Receveur: Things have changed a lot. And that’s an understatement. In 1997 or 2000, most dentists didn’t even have a website. Those marketing online were ahead of the curve and taking the lion’s share of new patients. In today’s world, nearly every dentists has a website, many having 2, 4, or even 10 websites for their practice. If you want to grab the lion’s share of new patients in your area today, simply having a website won’t do it—it’s practically the norm.
Our marketing systems are setting records for and new patients generated here in the US and abroad. On average, our clients are seeing a 40% increase in phone calls and new patients with many seeing as high as 125%-150%.

We have continued to grow and expand and meet the needs of our clients. We’ve added six new marketing systems in addition to our original web design services. We’ve assembled complete marketing packages intended to take your practice “from zero to hero”.

Maintaining customer service and improving the value for our clients has always been in the forefront of our minds. As we’ve grown, we’ve also become more intentional about giving back, which is why in January we launched our “No Smart Dentist Left Behind” Scholarship Program for to help recent grads and new offices get the marketing systems and advice they need to succeed. Visit our website www.NoSmartDentistLeftBehind.com to learn more.

Woody: How do your systems help dentists?

Receveur: For years, the majority of our business was simply designing websites. The technology simply didn’t exist yet to do what we can do today with automation, video, and our proprietary phone tracking systems. Before this technology explosion, a dentist would have to invest huge amounts of man-hours to accomplish what we can now with simple computer software programs. We can very accurately figure ROI for a marketing campaign, stay in front of patients who don’t buy (until they do), and track where we are getting the best results with our marketing efforts.
The last few years have been truly remarkable.

In the old days we would bring on a new dentist, build their website and marketing campaign, and they would see a big spike in web traffic as well as new patients. But we couldn’t draw a line between them. The technology just didn’t exist yet. Now we have our Zetetics Phone Tracking System, which we’ve built specifically for dentists to show them exactly how many new patients ANY marketing they are doing is generating.

As I hinted at before, we currently offer six additional systems to improve all areas of your practice’s marketing. By using tested and proven methods and then meticulously tracking absolutely everything from clicks, to calls, to new patients, the results our clients have achieved has gone through the roof.

Up until a few years ago, we only did on-site video production which, as you can imagine, can be expensive to get a 3-man crew plus equipment across the country and into a dentist’s office. Now with our new video studio, our clients can come to us. We’re located just minutes from the Louisville International Airport and have a complimentary concierge service to make your travel to us “brainless” [laughs]. Many dentists are able to fly into the studio in the morning, film 50 to 100 videos, and be back home in time for dinner.

Woody: Colin, tell us how you are different than many of the other “website” providers out there?

Receveur: There’s lots of options and other companies out there. Some only do certain portions and not everything, some just offer advice and make you do the shoveling. We don’t sell shovels, we do the shoveling for you. We’re not in the business of helping our dentists produce incrementally better. We want killer results for our clients. We want to constantly be setting new goals, bigger goals than they’ve ever gotten in the past. Many of our dentists prefer we handle everything for them. They want to be very involved in the development of their message and marketing.

We’re not afraid to tell a client “we can take your money, but we don’t think that will work.” Sometimes it’s painful, but we’re obsessed with the results and your bottom line. Our concept of “focusing on the value” permeates everything we do. We have seen this concept produce results when applied to every aspect of our business.

We have found that “focusing on the value and forgetting about the money” has miraculously transformed the way we do business. The money seems to just take care of itself…and come in more than ever before.

The reality is some dentists have plateaued or need to grow but don’t know how to get it done, or worse, have tried other marketing firms with little to no success. We’re a full service dental marketing firm. We believe and can show that our concepts are working for our clients. We are not just another marketing firm. Do patients want just another dentist?

Woody: What can we expect to see from SmartBox Web Marketing in the future?

Receveur: It’s been around 15 years or so, but just in the last 5 have we seen it revolutionize the way patients find the answers and care they need through Wikipedia, WebMD, YouTube, and Google. Our intention is to double in size in the next 18 months and grow 5-fold in the next 3-4 years. We will continue to add services and products based upon what we’re learning from our dentists and what solutions they need to succeed. Right now, believe it or not, the internet is in its infancy.

Woody: How can a doctor learn about how you can help them?

Receveur: We encourage every dentist to get our Dental Website Audit and evaluate their online marketing and its’ effectiveness. My audit isn’t a sales pitch for our services. It’s a true blueprint to help you you decide if your website is what you really want.

It is available totally free on our website—you don’t even have to enter your email—at www.AttractTheNewPatientsYOUWant.com. There, as a special bonus for all of Woody’s group, you can also get a printed hard copy mailed to your door with 2 bonus DVD’s. The DVD’s are packed full of all of our best material. The systems and strategies discussed on them are the latest strategies have taken dentists to new heights. We’re talking about marketing methods that consistently generate 100-200 phone calls and new patients every month. No dentist will want to miss out on this.

Also, for more information, doctors can call us at 888-741-1413 or go to www.AttractTheNewPatientsYOUWant.com to learn more about what kind of results we can create for you.

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“Being Everywhere On The Internet” with Colin Receveur & Dr. James McAnally

Colin is our secret weapon that we deploy for our best members practices all over the country.

He owns a slew of certifications with Google, Microsoft, Cisco; they all come with lots of little important letters after them. More important than those letters is his intimate knowledge of what we’re up to as dentists and his ability to tie all of the pieces together on the web.

The fact that he gets it is why he’s rapidly become known as a ‘Google god’ for dental professionals.

He has online technologies allowing us to leverage our time, effort, money and energy to be in more places at once than we’ve previously ever imagined in front of our patients, our prospective patients and to stay ahead of competitors.

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Colin Replies to Dr. Howard Farran – Dental Website Review of Dr. Michael Gibbons, Scottsdale, AZ

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Hey Dr. Farran, Colin Receveur, SmartBox Web Marketing. I saw your post here on Dental Town this evening. I just got back from my dad’s, actually. We had our Thanksgiving a little bit earlier. We have a bunch of November birthdays and other family stuff going.

But any who, I wanted to reply to this tonight before this thread gets too long and this reply gets missed. I saw that Michael Gibbons out in Scottsdale, Arizona, you put a thing up that you thought he had the best prosthodontist website. I gotta say, Dr. Farran, I respect your opinion a lot. I’ve followed you for a number of years. I love a lot of stuff you say, but I gotta call you here.
I’m really wondering what you’re seeing in this site. First off, it’s a straight, I mean flat template as template gets. You’ve got text up here in the header with a little star next to his name. You’ve got this rotating banner here, which is absolutely horrible for any kind of conversion.

We’ve done tests with these rotating banners over the years and every time there is a rotating banner here on the front page, they get worse results; less phone calls, less contacts. I can’t read patients’ minds, but I think they just kind of get mesmerized by it. Go to a video, go to an offer, go to a static image and we always see results go up. There’s no contact information here on the front page. We like to see contact information—phone number, address, hours—something other than Gold Standard Dental Care: “Click here to read what our patients say about us.” Let’s click here and
see.

Taking us over to DemandForce, which every dentist has. Frankly, DemandForce used to be really good. They got their reviews directly into Google. Nowadays they really don’t do anything other than they’re kind of like an exit interview…

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“How To Crush The Competiton With Your Web Marketing” – Interview with Dr. Woody Oakes and Colin Receveur

If your dental website isn’t driving a MINIMUM of 100 phone calls a month to your front desk, you are getting “Crushed.”

Colin has been hailed as the “Google God” for his ability to build websites that actually work (and work insanely well!!) by Dr. James McAnally & Dr. Mike Abernathy.

He currently is helping hundreds of dentists to “Crush It” online.

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Dr. Michelle Haynes in Highlands Ranch, Colorado – Dental Website Marketing Plan

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Hi Dr. and Mr. Haynes. Colin Receveur from SmartBox Web Marketing bringing to you this web marketing plan; a plan of action for how we can start finding new patients online from your web marketing, from your website, from your Google places, from all of these different online search engines and pieces of real estate that you have that you’ve not had good luck with so far.

What I’m going to do here is I’m going to skip through your web marketing presence. Some of this I’ve looked at in advance. Some of this I have not, such as your social media links right here. I’m going to open these up and go through them. I have not looked at them before. So let’s jump in and get started here.

The first thing I see when I come to your site is a couple things that I like. You’ve got your information very easily available right here at the top. You’ve got your social media icons here right at the top. And, of course, you’ve got the “request an appointment” page.

One thing I noticed is that there is nobody that has liked you on Google+. Generally, that’s really odd that it’s literally zero here in the marker. I’m going to go ahead and click like and give you your first one. But I would say that’s really a problem with nobody coming to your website.

I did look in the code of your site and I saw that you have Google Analytics installed. So I would take a close look at Google Analytics. See this account number here in Google. Whoever owns that, you need to get access to that as an administrator and really dig down deep into that. Don’t just look at a stock report that you are being sent, because that’s showing you one level of information. Just because they send you a report that says you’ve got 100 people to your site last month, those 100 people might be coming from Pakistan.

You want to make sure that you are getting locally targeted traffic to your website within a 25 mile radius of your office, if not smaller. You want to be sure that they’re coming to your website, that they’re staying on your website, they’re browsing around and clicking on your website. That would be my first indication there.

I love the logo; very colorful, very bright. Awesome. I love the reviews and “submit a Google review”. I’m going to open those up and take a look at them here in just a second.

Going down through the pages here, I like the top. I like the colors. But after you get past the top it all feels very boxy—this “new patient offer”, sharp corners here at the bottom. There’s no footer links down here at the bottom, which is what Google is really liking these days is to have some links down here at the bottom that go to more of your pages. I’ll touch on that more on the backend of this video here to show you what I see that we can do right now to get you more patients in the door from your website.

Going down through the pages here, your “Meet Doctor” page, you’ve got a lot of great information on here. You’ve got good pictures, good content, very down to earth. It’s not overwhelming with CE and the alphabet soup that some dentists put in here.

I’d love to see some video of you. Talk about who you are, what your passion is, who your ideal patient is. What made you become a dentist? These are the things that are going to make you the go-to dentist in your community.

If you want to be the dentist that people think, “I’ve got a problem. I need to call Dr. Haynes,” you have to be more than just a good dentist. There’s a lot of dentists out there that have excellent hands, excellent clinical skills, but they don’t market themselves. And people don’t know that they have great clinical skills. It’s the old adage about just because you build a better mousetrap doesn’t mean anybody’s going to use it.

Going down into the smile gallery, let’s see what you’ve got going on here. This is Adobe Flash, which I would really stay away from. Adobe Flash isn’t compatible with Google. It’s not compatible with any Apple devices. So, any iPods, iPads, iPhones aren’t going to be able to see these before and after pictures. And also, I think that dinging is kind of annoying.

The other thing I’d say about before and after’s is get the full face. As a dentist you love teeth. But consumers want to see the transformation. They want to see how you’ve changed that person. That’s the kind of emotional connection that makes you that go-to dentist in the community. I’m also going to click on “Special Offers” over here, and I’ll come to those pages here in just a minute.

Let’s click through “Finance Options”. You’ve got the Care Credit link which opens up in a new page, but it doesn’t work. So you might look into that. Looks like your Care Credit link is broken.

Let’s go to Patient Services. You’ve got a lot of stuff going on here. Invisalign was one of the things you mentioned. Clear Correct—let’s see what’s going on with that.

You’ve got some good clinical information here. This looks like stock content. Stock content is going to be something that Google is going to penalize you for every day of the week these days. Google wants to see fresh, unique content. If you think about Google form a business perspective, Google’s customer is your patient; they are the same person. The person searching on Google is who Google wants to keep happy.

Google says that, statistically, for their customers to be happy, they need to deliver websites that have fresh, unique content, that provide an awesome user experience and give a lot of great information away.

This is a good start, but I would be putting new pages about Clear Correct and Invisalign, and your bread and butter services, and your cosmetic services every week onto your website, adding fresh content uniquely written, no boilerplate, not stock content—stuff that you guys are writing specifically for you. You can’t copy/paste it from anywhere, unfortunately. You’ll get caught on that.

Let’s skip on here to Patient Forms. It looks like this link here is broken. Let’s try the “online new patient registration”. Looks like that seems to be working. Let’s go to Cosmetic Analysis. OK, these are cool. I’m not going to test it. I’m just going to assume that works, because that will take a little bit too much time. I’m trying to keep this video compact. I don’t want to take up too much of your time. I want to respect about a 15-20 minute limit on this.

Patient Survey—good to find out how you are doing with your patients. “Contact Us”. Let’s skip through here.

I looked at this page earlier and I’m not sure how I feel about this right here. The whole website is warm and fuzzy and then, all of a sudden, a patient comes to the contact page and you’ve got, not in all caps, confirmations and cancellations. I understand why you are doing it, because people come here and they cancel and you only check your email once a day. And they need to be told that they can’t just cancel. You want to talk to them on the phone and find out if there is a way you can mitigate that. But I’m not sure about putting it here on the front page of your site.

My advice would be possibly put this after they submit. In my opinion, it kind of blows the feng shui of the site. Everything is warm and fuzzy and then, all of a sudden, you are telling people what they can and can’t do and putting stuff in all caps.

I would put this after they click submit down here. Have a note pop up that says, “We do not accept cancellations via form. Keep this in mind if you just did submit a confirmation or cancellation. We will not receive it.” That way you get the same message across but you are not putting it right here upfront.

I think a lot of this with your confirmations and cancellations, a lot of this should be handled externally outside of your marketing funnel. You know, automating confirmations, whether you are using Lighthouse 360, or Smile Reminders, or EagleSoft has an internal system that will do it. As far as your cancellations, informing people in the office what they can do. There’s a lot of systems in place that good practice consultant can show you that avoid putting stuff like this on the front page of your website.

Let’s go look at Hours and Locations. You’ve got a map here from Google, but I can’t click on it and go to your Google Places page. I would suggest turning that into a link.

Let’s skip on through your website. I see your Facebook page here. I’m going to go ahead and like you. 30 people have liked it. It looks like you are actually missing your header image up here at the top. There should be an image right here. A big spot where you can put your contact information and all kinds of good stuff that’s missing.

Let’s move on to YouTube, see what we have here. No videos on YouTube. I would definitely fix that. Videos are going to be the bread and butter of what makes you that go-to person. They humanize you. They show who you are and what you are about. People love watching videos. People, frankly, are lazy these days. They don’t want to read. They want to watch video.

I’m going to send a tweet here, and I followed you there as well.

Let’s see. It looks like this is a blog.com something here. I’m not really sure what this is. Something maybe that was kind of a legacy thing that you did first and is still floating around out there.

Back to your website, your Google+ page. Now, something I noticed here is your Google+ page isn’t claimed. Make sure you go to this address right here at the top, come down here and click on “manage this page”. This will do a couple great things for you.

One is if you get reviews you are going to find out. If you get good reviews you are going to know. If you get bad reviews you are going to know. That’s very important because if you get a bad review you want to reply to it. You want to try to mitigate that bad review best you can. It’s not about being right or wrong. It’s about customer service and making that person who left a bad review feel good or figuring out what’s wrong and fixing the problem.

You can also add a lot of great information here about yourself. You will notice this photo box here is empty. You’ll notice this information here is kind of skimp; there’s not a lot here. 470-1377; 470-1377. OK, I just saw this number rotate, which might be your call tracking system you are using here. I thought that number was different. Yeah. So it looks like you are using maybe a call tracking system to rotate these numbers around, which is good so you know exactly what you’re getting.

You should be able to tell me how many phone calls you got from your website last month, which might be one reason why you came to us because you’re not happy with that. We use call tracking in everything we do. Every piece of marketing that goes out has a call tracking number in it. We give it away to our clients because we want them to know what they’re getting with their money.

Special offers: “Receive $200 off Invisalign. Enter your information here.” Good deal. Refer a friend, good deal too. Refer a friend’s name, $50 credit.

Now to the good stuff. I think this is probably one of the primary reasons you reached out to us. This is the reason why I don’t think you are getting any social following on your website. This is the reason I don’t think you are getting any phone calls and results. You are not found anywhere.

I did a search here for “Highlands Ranch Colorado dentist”. Let me give you just a quick rundown of the different kinds of searches that we have going on here.

What we have going on here is right here at the top we have your Google AdWords area. And this is position one, two, and three for Google AdWords. This is the pay-per-click. When you hear people talk about buying ads on Google, these are the two areas that they are buying ads in. Here, one, two, three, and then this one right here is considered number four.

Now, what you also have here is you have the local search, Google Places—the new Google+, which it’s been ported over to in the last 30 days. That is all this area right here in green. It actually continues down under the page.

Now, there’s one search engine that you can’t see here, and that is the Google organic search. That’s Google’s traditional search engine, and it’s down here at the bottom right now. I’m going to scroll down and show you that in just a minute. But what I want to show you before I go down there is the fourth search engine that Google is actually operating that a lot of guys don’t realize.

If you notice here on these Google AdWords, you’ve got three lines here, three lines here, three lines here. But if you come down here and look at this one and then this one here, you notice it has six lines and seven lines. And then this one also has this little blue marker right here next to it, a number one on it. And then you also notice there is a little blue marker with a number one on it up here on the map.

This is Google’s AdWords Express area. What they do with this is it’s the same cost as Google AdWords, but they allow you to advertise with a much bigger ad. You are getting double the size of your ad here. You also get a premium placement with this little blue marker up here compared to these red markers here that go with all these over here. And it’s, again, the same cost. It’s focused on the local search engine, not just any old organic search.

So it’s a tremendous opportunity that, right now, you look at all these advertisers, nine advertisers on the first page, and only two of them are in AdWords Express and have a bigger ad.

So as you scroll down here underneath the local search right here, you’ll see that down here is the organic search engine. This is Google’s traditional search engine. When you hear about people doing search engine optimization and optimizing things, this is actually what they are working on here, is getting placed in here.

In many markets, it’s not as lucrative as it once was because look at all these search results that come up before it. There was a statistic done many years ago that said if you are not in the first three search results you are not getting found at all. Well, even if you show up number one in the organic, there’s still 10 people above you. You are still #11. This is how Google has evolved and is changing things to meet people’s needs.

Here is another search that I did for “Highlands Ranch Colorado Invisalign”, which I didn’t find you guys anywhere. You will notice on this page there are no local search results. And this is just at the whim of Google. This is a test that they’re running.

So for this particular search, it’s going to make sense to do organic optimization. So this is going to be a search term you probably want to organically optimize for so that you can get listed up here. It looks like there is RockeOrtho.com, one of your competitors there in Highlands Ranch. Braces are Cool has an office there in Highlands Ranch. And then, of course, all these AdWords guys.

You’ll notice here on the side, here is an AdWords Express ad with those additional lines and that little blue marker. Now, there is no map here on this page, but you still get the little blue marker that kind of differentiates you.

Moving on here, “Highlands Ranch Colorado cosmetic dentist”. Now you are going to see they’ve even mixed things up further. You’ve got your paid ads here at the top. You’ve got your paid ads here down the side. Here at the top you have your local listing. And you see your local listings here. But then they’ve thrown in these two organic listings here. You see those? And then look here. They’ve split it and they’ve put another local listing right here.

So they are interspersing, they are sprinkling all these search results in all throughout the pages. And again, that’s just something that’s going to be specific to your area. And it’s liable to change tomorrow. Also, you see right here is a Google AdWords Express ad with this blue dot right here.

This is why when you are marketing in the search engines you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket, because for different search terms, different days of the week, next week Google might decide that they want to change this all again. When you are finding placement in local search, the paid search, and organic search, and the AdWords Express engine, and also in the video engine. I haven’t seen any video search results here on these pages yet. Let me look through them. Yeah, I don’t see any videos showing up here. But video is showing up in many, many, many search results now, sometimes right here at the top from YouTube, sometimes down here at the bottom.

So this search here, this is the last one I showed you, you’ve got your paid, your local, two organic listings, a big section of local listings again, and then here’s three organic listings to finish off the page.

So in this particular search, if two years ago you were #6 organically, now you are not even on the first page. So here’s #1 and #2 organically, 3, 4, 5, #6 organic isn’t even on the first page anymore. So they have really turned the search engines upside down. This is why you have to have placement everywhere.
Dominating the search engines isn’t just about having the entire first page and spending a bunch of money and getting all the patients. It’s about protecting yourself from the whims of Google. When they change things up tomorrow they might say organic is the way to go and the search result might look like this one here, where you have a bunch of organic. They might decide local is the way to go and they put all the local results here at the top and they stuff all the organics into the bottom. Or they might split it up like this one did here and they sprinkle them in all throughout.

That’s why you have to have placement everywhere, because you never know what’s going to show up at the top to your consumers. Here’s another search I did for “Highlands Ranch Colorado dental crown” and found you’ve got your three ads here at the top, you’ve got your ads here down the side, and then right here in the middle you’ve got organic. There’s no local places on this at all. In fact, there’s not even any AdWords Express ads here on this one at all. Everything here is just traditional AdWords.

These four searches, first they show that you guys aren’t being found anywhere. You can have the greatest website known to man, but nobody is getting to your website. You don’t have any ingredients coming in the top of your funnel.

What I would suggest for you guys is several changes. Let me go back to your website. The first is you guys have to be found. You’ve got to get a presence in the local search and in the organic search, minimum. I would highly recommend an AdWords Express campaign, and AdWords campaign. And most times you can dabble and spend a small amount in those search engines and get a presence.

50% of your patients are going to click paid, 50% are going to go organic. So having a presence in both, as you see, you never know how Google is going to display you.

The next thing I would suggest is there has been a lot of studies done on the trust that consumers put into marketing. Less than 6% of consumers trust your marketing, marketing in general from anybody.

One thing that we have found, not by us, by web marketing statistical firms have found that consumers trust URL’s that have hyphens less. So I would suggest getting rid of the hyphenated URL. We can show you all kinds of alternatives that you can go to that don’t have these hyphens in them right here.

The next thing I would do is have some way for your patients to get more information about you that’s going to add value to what you do. If you want to be that go-to dentist, you have to be the all-knowing; you have to have the answers. In particular, you have to have the answers to your patients’ problems when they are searching for you.

Right now you have your services listed here, and you have these services that you do—you do cosmetic dentistry, gum care, infection control, and TMJ. But you are not answering the questions people are asking upfront. You are asking them to figure out what service they need first and then go into what can you do for them.

The expression in advertising is: pain, agitate, solution. You identify your patient’s pain, you agitate that pain, and then you offer the solution. Right here on your front page it’s pretty warm and fuzzy; there’s not really any pain identified. You’ve got some new patient offers over here. But if you want to be the go-to dentist, offer a free report that talks about how they can have the smile of your dreams.

Let me show you what we did for a large orthodontic practice. We did a three day video shoot in their office. We ghostwrote this free report: “21st Century Orthodontics: How to Choose an Orthodontist to Get the Smile of Your Dreams”.

If you enter in your email address here, first thing is you are going to be sent the free report. You are going to get that PDF in your email box. It’s a 20 page PDF that talks about how to choose an orthodontist to get the smile of your dreams, blunders used in orthodontics, blunders that patients make choosing their orthodontists.

In fact, here’s the email that just came through. I’m pulling this over from my second screen. Here’s the email that just came through. You can see zero minutes ago it arrived here. So let me click here. I’m going to open up this PDF and show you what it looks like.

This is a GP Orthodontic practice. They have seven offices up in Northern Indiana. We did the cover design for them. We wrote the report. We did the formatting. We even printed them up a physical e-book. It’s all sales. I hate to call it sales, but it really is. It’s sales. We’re all in the business of sales. We’re selling ourselves. You don’t want to be in the business of selling commodities. If you are just selling commodities then you are just competing on price, because there’s no value in commodities; it’s just something you go to the store and buy. If you are selling bananas or you are selling gold or silver, those are commodities.

You are selling services. You are selling value. We have interspersed in testimonials into these free reports. You can see this is a lot of time involved. We wrote all this. At the end, “Click here. You can have the smile of your dreams. Let’s schedule your appointment.”

When your patients see this and they see the amount of time that you have put into your marketing and how much time you’ve put into answering their questions and helping them, that’s what they want. That’s why they’re searching the internet. They’re searching the internet to find answers to their problems. They see you offer this free report, enter in your email, and you send them this report.

You saw as soon as we opted in it gave this opt-in form to schedule an appointment. We’ve also done them where we have an address form on here. It says, “Hey, we see you opted in for our free report. Would you like to get this as a PDF to read on your computer screen, or we’ll mail you a physical copy of the book for free.”

I don’t know about you. I’m a physical reader. When I get something I want to print it off. I want to feel it in my fingers. I like to read and highlight and marker it up. By the way, the magazine I just grabbed was the cover of the Profitable Dentist, their latest edition. We have the cover; featured on the cover. So take a look at that. We’ve got a lot of great information in here. There’s a four page article inside, an interview that we I did with Dr. Woody Oakes.

So yeah, we do fulfillment on the postal mail side. The lifespan of a postal mail piece in your prospects’ hands is weeks, months, years. We’ve had doctors who have sent out a book, we’ve sent out the book for them to a patient, and that patient comes back two years later and says, “OK. I’m ready to move forward with treatment.” Maybe they had a big dental problem. Maybe they get a windfall inheritance or maybe they got a big tax return, or whatever the case is. That book will sit on their desk forever.

The lifespan of an email? Six hours, eight hours. Maybe 48 hours, if you are extremely lucky, that email will sit in their inbox.

So, free reports, we’ve done them on Invisalign, we’ve done them on orthodontics, five blunders that patients make when choosing their dentists, we’ve done them on implants and crowns. We’ve written free reports on every topic imaginable. And they are all customized to whoever you are.

And, if you noticed, I talked that pain, agitate, solution. The first part, you get past the cover and what’s it say? “Do you suffer from anxiety? Wish you knew more? Want your teeth corrected? Worry about the need to wear braces?” We’re identifying those pains right here at the top of it.

“Dream of the smile you know you deserve.” Now we’re going to tell them, “Hey, in this free report that you are reading right now, we’re going to show you how you can have the smile of your dreams. But we understand choosing an orthodontist can be difficult.” We’re identifying with them.

It’s marketing. You can’t just throw up a website and say, “Hey, we offer these services” and people are going to flock to you. Unfortunately, the days have gone by of hanging out your shingle and having business. You have to identify with your patients.

Patients have a lot of choices these days. And in their mind, if you want to be #1, you’ve got to give them a ton of information. You have to answer all their questions.

So the URL, I’d put some information on here, I’d love to see an intro video. The reviews are good. The “request an appointment” is good. But there’s a lot of dead space in here. If it was me, I would take these buttons that you have here and I’d put them down here with this special offer and refer a friend. I would push everything up and I would put you a video right here and introduce yourself. Talk about who you are, your passion for dentistry.

One of the big blunders we see with videos on website is that it’s too scripted and people worry too much about what they are trying to say instead of just speaking from their heart. When we’re doing a video shoot, it’s a conversation between myself and the patient, or myself and the doctor, or myself and the staff.

We have cameras all around us filming multiple angles, many times two or three cameras capturing the moment. But the conversation is just between two people. It’s often a conversation that takes an hour. It’s not something you just sit down in front of the camera and rattle off 90 seconds of perfect video. It might look that easy on the website, and guys might want to make you think it’s that easy, but that’s why nobody does it, because it’s not that easy.

You have to get comfortable talking to that person. You have to develop rapport. Then you start talking and you get comfortable and those good segments of video start coming out. And you build on it and build on it, and before you know it, you have a killer two or three minute video to go on the front of your website.

That’s what is going to make you different. Every dentist in your area….let’s look here. So we go “Highlands Ranch Colorado dentist”. Look at all these dentists that have websites. In fact, let’s just go open them up. Let’s open up some of these pay-per-clicks.

These are all your competitors. Here’s one of your competitors, Southbridge Dentistry. They say they’re the cure for dental anxiety. You might notice this is a very stock website. It’s got reviews. This is a DexKnows website. Template, cookie-cutter. They say they are the cure for dental anxiety, the home of radiant smiles. And they’ve got some text reviews below.

Here’s Red Fern Family Dental. They have this live support widget that keeps creeping out on me here that I don’t like. They have this scrolling banner here. “A smile makes all the difference.” “Smile your way to success.”

Let’s go to Dr. Theobald. He says he’s the “2011 top dentist”. OK, that stands out a little bit. He’s got a picture of his staff down here. That’s warm and fuzzy. I like that. I get to see who he is. It says here he’s a top dentist. I’m a consumer; that seems impressive to me.

Let’s skip on here. Twist Dental. “Call now”. Why do you want me to call now? You haven’t even told me what you do. Oh, “Best of the best 2011”. That sounds OK. Might be a little cheesy: “Best of the best”. OK, that guy sounds OK. Let’s keep looking here.

Lone Tree: “We create smiles”. Hmm. Big stock photography, “Meet our Team”, “$59 X-ray and exams”. “We create smiles”. I don’t know. Didn’t do anything for me. Nothing here grabs my attention. Now, maybe if I’m looking for a deal, $59, I don’t know. That’s OK. I wouldn’t choose those guys.

Let’s keep looking. Falcon Park Dental Group. I thought we just looked at these guys. So either these are the same dentists…Nope, the address is different. Two identical websites from two completely different dentists. Look at these. I’m clicking between them right now. You can hardly tell them apart. This is what happens when you buy…Who is this? Let’s see who did these websites. Lone Tree Dental Group. So maybe this is a chain of Lone Tree’s. I don’t know. Falcon Park Dental Group. I don’t know about that.

But anyway, if I’m a consumer and I see two dental websites that have the exact identical websites, I’d X them both. They look the same. I’m confused. I’m moving on.

AAPD. That’s not relevant. Lone Tree Dentist; “Meet the Dentist”. Dr. Lyons. He provides the following services, patient comfort, what others have said. Others have said he is fantastic. Who said he’s fantastic? There’s no name here. There’s no picture. CHM said this: “If you are scared of the dentist he’s perfect.”

Me, being kind of a skeptic, if there is not a picture or a name or something, everybody knows this stuff can be made up. I don’t think I’m the only skeptic in the world. Let’s click here and go through this guy’s website and see what’s up.

“Our team”. He’s got some warm fuzzy pictures here. “Hours and map”. OK. That guy might be a candidate.
Let’s see. “General cosmetic and sedation…” I don’t know. Nothing jumps out to me on this guy. Next.

It was said once that when a person gets their mail out of the mailbox they sort it over the trash can. I find myself doing it every day. I get the mail, I stand over the trash can, and I go, “Trash, keep, trash, keep, trash, keep.” That’s the same mentality people are going to have when they are looking through dental websites to find their new provider.

Here’s a cookie-cutter. You remember the first website from DexKnows? Identical. Next.

Here’s something cool. Let’s see what we got on here. It’s kind of a template. It’s got a text header up here. Didn’t really jump out at me. Another cookie-cutter.

Aspen Springs Dental. Tells me all about the services they provide. Let’s go to the homepage. Didn’t even bring us to the homepage, I guess? “Free whitening”. Big stock photography. I don’t know. That’s OK, I guess.

I would say out of all of these, the one that stands out to me the most is probably this Dr. Theobald. I don’t really like his website. It looked antiquated. But he’s got a picture here of him. He’s got he’s a top dentist. I don’t know. It’s very simple. It’s very easy to browse. I like this site as well. I like the Lone Tree. It’s also very simple. Has a few things that reached out at me.

But the one thing I don’t see on any of these, none of them offer any free information. There’s no opt-ins. There’s no newsletter signup. There’s no video. I didn’t see a single video on any of these sites.

If you are a consumer searching and a website jumped out with a video…Let me give you an example. Let’s go to a client of ours out in California. This is a site we designed.
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So right there he says, “Hey, we’ve got the answers to your questions.” That’s what people are searching for: answers to questions. Dental implants, mini implants, sedation, All-on-4, “Welcome to my practice”. A video jumps right out and grabs you. It shows he’s a real person. He’s humanized. If you go to the video testimonials page you are not going to see a little blip of text with three initials behind it.

You can click here, big video pops up; social proof. Let’s watch this for a moment.

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Talks about his experience. Talks about how he met him. This guy has a twin brother. We interviewed his twin brother that day, too. Here’s his identical twin. This is Gary Hunter’s identical twin, Wes Hunter. He liked the dentist so much that he invited his twin brother in to have the same work done.

Check out the site yourself: SantaCruzImplantDentist.com.

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So these guys, both those had complete reconstructions. Anyway, I don’t want to get too far off on a tangent. The free report we wrote for Dr. Matiasevich is “A Guide to Dental Comfort Breakthroughs, Especially if Hate going to the Dentist. Prevent pain and Save Money”.

So a patient comes here and they enter in their email address and that free report comes right to them. “Thank you for signing up.” The free report gets delivered to them and they can digest that. It’s a 20 or 30 page report that talks all about how you can help them.

Anyway, quickly I will show you the email that comes through. This just came through. You’ll notice it actually comes from the doctor. We are automatically fulfilling it, but it’s coming from the doctor. “Thank you for looking into the Dr. Matiasevich method of dentistry.” An email here talking about all the pain and how he can help people, “Rescuing the fearful and dental disaster patient.”

That’s what it’s about. It’s about helping people and showing them the answers and showing them the path.

So on your site that’s what I’d recommend—a new URL, which we can convert over all the SEO and any ranking power to a new consumer-friendly URL. I’d recommend those changes to the website so that your website can be more consumer friendly. Give away a lot of great information. Jump out and grab people’s attention. And then, of course, you’ve got to be seen. You’ve got to get some visibility out there. Those are going to be the three big changes that are going to make big changes for your new patient flow as well.

So if some of these ideas have resonated with you, feel free to give me a call. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m also going to put my contact information right below the video. I appreciate your time Dr. Haynes. Thanks. I look forward to chatting with you.

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Dr. Bob Matiasevich’s Dental Website Facelift Plan

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Hi Dr. Matiasevich. Colin Receveur. Just wanted to do a quick overview of your website that we had talked about redesigning, give you some design ideas, kind of what I’m looking at seeing and what I would foresee it looking like once we do a little facelift on it, integrate some video with it with your old website, get InfusionSoft on here and set up. I’m going to jump right in.

I would like to move this video up a little bit more above the fold. I think that video would look great right here. The stock photography I don’t put a whole lot of value in. I mean it looks pretty. It’s aesthetically pleasing. But I think your video, if not this one, then one of the other ones that we produced would look fantastic right here.

I would like to put this information up here right above the fold, because that’s good info. And that’s also going to free up a whole lot of area here that we can scoot everything up on your website and get more content in here.

What I’m doing this critique on right here now is a 24-inch monitor; huge. There is a ton of space over here on the side that you can see is blank. There is a lot of space vertically you can see top to bottom. But you get this site on a small screen device such as an iPad and you are going to be cutting down the size of what you see here to like this. It’s going to be significantly smaller.

So I’d like to see you fit more good content up here. I love to put these social links. People might not be ready to click on social links as soon as they come to your site, but they might scroll down on the page and think, “Oh, I want to find this guy on Facebook.”

So what I like to do is I like to have these social links actually hover over here on this page so that no matter where they are on this page looking as they scroll that Facebook link stays there just like that drawing is right there.

I love the map. That’s great stuff. And you’ve actually got it linked to your name as well. It’s just not linked to an address, which is really good.

Of course, this form here on the side I’d like to get set up in InfusionSoft and start sending these people additional information. Maybe instead of a “request an appointment”, we also offer them “request an appointment” but we also offer them a free report of some kind to put in here, or at least start putting these leads in InfusionSoft so that you can run a report down the road. You can do an email blast, a newsletter blast to them down the road if you want to send out some more information.

Of course, all these pages I think are fantastic. I think you’ve got a lot of great information in here. It looks like it’s been a while since you’ve updated some of the stuff on here.

The other thing I wanted to comment, when we transferred the site to us I don’t think I ever talked a whole lot about the trouble we had transferring it to us. The theme that your previous webmaster had set up was pretty difficult to work with from a webmaster’s perspective. We actually ended up making a separate WordPress installation on our server, and you are being hosted basically as a standalone site. If you log in to your Santa Cruz Implant Dentistry site, you will see on the left side that there is some additional stuff—a security program, Twitter integration, optimization programs, YouTube integration, mobile website stuff—that integrates your website with our Snap system and gives you more flexibility.

Whereas, with the site you are on here, your old site, you are not really in our Snap system because we couldn’t bring your old website in. It wasn’t compatible.

So we set you up basically as a standalone on our server, which doesn’t give you access to some of the search engine optimization stuff we’re doing. There are some very cool tools that I think you would benefit from—setting up this contact form to link in to our InfusionSoft as well. I think there are some definite updates, just as simple as adding the video in the InfusionSoft into this site, that are going to really make a difference.

I’d love to put a little more continuity between the blue in your logo and this blue right here. I think the red is really, really close, but I think this is a lighter shade of blue. I like the gradient, but I think it looks a little dated. Of course, by dated you have to talk in dog years, AKA internet years. By dated I mean a couple years old.

I think we can give it a little bit more modern look, especially for your GP side, a younger generation coming in. Put some reviews up here on this page. I love these little review widgets. Included with this “Connect With Us” over here on the side we can put a little review button so that people can always see. That information will just float on the screen out here as they scroll up and down the page.

So I just wanted to put some quick thoughts in the video and see if we were on the same page with what you wanted to do. Let’s see the blogging. It looks like you haven’t blogged on here in about a year or two. If you want to do some blogging on here, that’s going to help out a ton with your search engine optimization. We can do some of the blogging that we’re doing on the implant site on this general site as well, or we can do some more blogging; we can add some additional blogs into your package and do 6, 8, or 10 blogs a month on each. You give me some direction there on where you want to be.

But I think you will definitely see a jump in your search engine ranking with the content, with the Snap platform integration. People are going to call you more with the video. You are a very likable guy. If you show your personality, and your staff, and your patients, and your passion for what you do, when people see that you genuinely care about your patients that’s going to make all the difference in the world.

I would like to make this pop up as a bigger picture when you click on it. When I click on it here it stays small. But yeah, I think a facelift and integration with video, integration with the InfusionSoft, and update the look a little bit and I think you are good to go.

Shoot me an email back and let me know if you agree or disagree or where you want to go with this and we’ll get something together for you and get going on. Thanks for your time.

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Dr. Preeti Singh’s Dental Web Marketing Review

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Hey, Dr. Singh, Colin Receveur, here on your website doing a Swift Kick. And I’m going to go through your website, show you what I find. I’m seeing some really bad things. The first thing is when I go to your website, Google is redirecting me because they see that you have some kind of virus or malware actually on your website, and they are preventing anybody from going to it because of that. I’m going to go ahead and actually proceed anyway here and come on into your website against the best advice of Google and see what’s going on here.

So, the first thing I notice is this entire top area right here is Flash, which is really horrible. Flash isn’t going to be accessible by Google. Google can’t read Flash, so when Google comes to your site, this whole area here just looks like a big black hole. The second problem you run into is Apple devices cannot read Flash. Your iPads, your iPhones, your iPods can’t look at Flash. It just looks like a big blank area.

Also what you have going on here is I see this is actually a splash page. You’re using this as an intro page to the rest of your site. These were popular six to eight years ago, 10 years ago, but they’re horrible for conversion rates. People want to see the goods when they come to your website. Having people click the enter button to come on in is terrible. A lot of people will just click back right there at the first page.

Coming on in here to your site, let’s see, you’ve got some nice pictures here. This is all good stuff. You’ve got your phone number right here. You do have some area right here, this big blank area right here, where you’re missing out, I think, to have some content up there, whether it be your phone number and a big bold number. I know you’ve got your phone numbers down here twice, but having it up here in big bold numbers, big bold letters.

You’ve also got a lot of area over here on the sides of your website, which is common in an older websites. Screens were smaller five, 10 years ago. And, of course, they designed websites to fit those screens. Nowadays you’ve got a lot more room here that you can work with to show off what you’re doing, talk about your practice. Make these pictures bigger.

Going through these pages, I see you’ve got a staff picture here. I’d love to see some more content developed about each of your staff members, about yourself. I don’t see any kind of bio for you in your “Meet the Doctor” page.

Procedures pages, this is kind of unusual that you’re actually using popups for each of these. The content update you have in these boxes is minimal. You’ve got, essentially, two sentences. We like to see 300-500 words on procedure pages describing, basically, what it does. That’s really Google’s preference, not ours. What you have here is maybe 50 words. I don’t see that ranking really well with Google.

Going on in here to the photo gallery, I would tell you to look for full-face photos. You as a dentist, you love dentistry. You want to see teeth. What patients want to see is the full face. They want to see how you can transform people, not just what you can do to the teeth. Some of these are necessary to show the metal, but I would really try to look how you’re changing them as a person. The color matching stuff you’re doing down here, I’m not sure I would show that. That’s a little too clinical. I don’t know that a patient would understand what you’re doing here, especially without any kind of description.

I can’t blow these photos up, so I wish I could look at these a little bit bigger, too. I think that would help you to get more patients in. Patient forms, let’s see what you’ve got going on here. OK. You’ve got a patient form. The link looks good to the PDF. Make sure you put a little button down here that goes to Adobe PDF. A lot of patients don’t have it, and when they click here to get your PDF form, they won’t be able to open it. They’ll be confused. So put a little link to Adobe.com down here with their little PDF icon so that they know where to get it.

Your policy pages, again, this is really odd with these popups here. Popup blockers are going to shut down a lot of this. I don’t run popup blockers myself, but a lot of people do, and they’re not going to allow these pages to open so people will be sitting here, clicking, clicking, clicking and nothing’s happening on your website. I don’t like that all. That’s interesting. I’ve not seen something like that before on a dental website, at least. But I would encourage you to get rid of that and set up individual pages.
Let’s look at the code here. Yeah, see, there’s not any search engine authorization tags on these little popup pages you have. I see that you’re actually running a template here, which isn’t good. Yeah, I would definitely turn these into full pages and put some search engine authorization behind them, make sure all the tags are in here.

Here we go to patient education. I see you’re linking to CAESY Online, which brings up a number of concerns with video that I have. A lot of doctors love to put clinical video on their website. And again, it comes back to like the before and after pictures. As a dentist you love dentistry. You want to show pictures of dentistry. But patients don’t care about the clinical aspects. Very few of them do; 5%, 10% most. And those patients that want to know how you clinically do a procedure can go to Wikipedia. They can go to WebMD. They can Google. They can find out how something clinically works.

Patients want to know that you’re going to do them a good value for the work you do, not the cheapest price, but a good value. They want to know that you’re the guy for them, that you can do the work correctly and that your work is going to last. And they want to know that it’s not going to hurt. And that is where video and multimedia on your website should be directed to, answering those questions that they have. I see you’ve got directions from all the different angles. I love that. Not many guys go to that amount of trouble. I’m going to go ahead and fill this out and test it and see what happens.

Let’s see, you’ve got problems here with your website, too. I don’t know if these forms are coming through to you or not. It might not even be getting through to you, it might be. And I think that you’re probably not even getting the forms that are coming through your website. You have to tell me, though, because I can’t see your email account.

For your newsletter, yeah, nothing is happening here on your newsletter either. You’ve got a lot of problems going on here with your website. It probably hasn’t been kept up in a while. But what I would suggest, get rid of this splash page, get these viruses you fixed. So, here’s my anti-virus on my computer. Your website just tried to load a rootkitter virus on my computer.

And let’s actually go click here and see what “more info” has about it. So your website is actually trying to load junk on, viruses, rootkitters on my computer. Google warned me and now my anti-virus, after I bypassed Google’s warning, my anti-virus actually caught you trying to load stuff on my computer.

So I’d get rid of the splash intro, get rid of Flash altogether. I like the warm, the purple and the lavender colors. It’s all very boxy. I’d like to see a new design, a lot more content on here. Get full-face photos. Get some videos fixed, the bad links on your website. You’ve got a start here that can give you a lot of new patients. I mean, that’s what your marketing comes down to is turning it into phone calls and new patients. But I think with the problems and of course the viruses that are on your site now, you’re probably just not capturing any at all.

I did some test searches here and I see that it looks like there’s a Dr. Preeti Singh out in Scottsdale, Arizona. Yeah, he’s a dentist. Here’s you up in Indianapolis. Here is it looks like your Invisalign page up in Indianapolis. Here’s another website. I guess you have ClearBracesIndianapolis.com. This looks like an IDA site. Yeah, Internet alliance. Extremely cookie cutter. Again, Flash at the top. This area right here is all Flash, same as your other website. Horrible for search engine rankings, horrible for user experience, iPods, iPads, iPhones, Google, none of them will read it.

Meet the Doctor. You know, this is maybe 50 words here. Your website is the first thing your people, your patients, your prospective patients are going to see. They might see your other advertising. They’re going to go to the Web to verify who you are, validate who you are, and then they’re going to call you. If you’re having trouble with all of your advertising, that’s all going to come back to your website. People go to the Web to Google your name, look up your website, find out more about you when they hear about you in the newspaper or the magazine or the radio. Yeah, you’re going to have some people that directly call you from that advertisement. But, 30%-50% of your people that respond to an advertisement are going to go to the internet first to verify who you are and see what’s going on, see what you’re about. IDA’s all templated, cookie-cutter stuff. All these articles and stuff here, yeah, they’re good, a lot of good content, but there’s probably 20 dentists in Indianapolis that have an IDA website with these exact same items of content on it.

So we search for “Indianapolis Internet Dental Alliance”, we see seven websites that IDA has on the first page of Google. And let’s open some of these up. Some of these are orthodontists, cosmetic dentists, Bloomington dentists. Let’s see what these sites are about.

So, we have a black and white website that’s from IDA. We have this green website with the blonde girl. We have a green website with a blonde girl. Here’s a red website with the same image. Notice here and here, exact same image, just inverted mirror image, same Flash header, same stock images that we’re seeing throughout these websites, the older couple. Where did I just see that? I just saw that older couple here.

Indianapolis sedation dentists, same thing; all these templated, cookie-cutter, they’re running Flash headers. They’re not well optimized sites. They just are what they are. They’re a cheap cookie-cutter website. And as you can see here on the first page, there are seven dentists using IDA just in Indianapolis. If we go to page 2, dental15.com, IndianapolisGeneralDentist.com, IndianapolisDental.com, these are all IDA sites. Family Dentist Indianapolis. Let’s go look at these. Another red site with the blonde at the top. Of course, this is all Flash. A purple site, and this looks like one of their new sites they’re rolling out.

They change the colors a little bit but it’s the same blocky style. It is what it is. You go with a big mass dental company and they’re essentially competing against themselves. They have 20 or 30 clients in a given market area, Indianapolis, for instance, and they’re employing that same SEO tactic, that same marketing tactic with every site they do. You know, it’s a gross delusion of what could be a successful marketing tactic. But they’re fighting amongst themselves with having that many clients in a given area. So that’s one reason why you’re probably not getting the results that you’re looking for with them.

Let’s see. What else are we going to look for here? Let’s see what kind of reviews you have. Let’s see, Merchant Circle, Verbiage; Birmingham, Alabama, there’s an MD with your same name; Scottsdale, Arizona. Let’s put Indiana on here just to qualify this down a little bit.

Oh, OK, here we go. Here’s your Google+ page. Here’s a Merchant Circle. Here’s a Superpages, Manta, Angie’s List. Let’s see what we can find on here. Let’s go in here to your Google+ page.

Here is your Google+ page and first thing I see is you haven’t claimed it. Click here on this “Manage this Page” button and go in here and make sure your information is correct. And get this set up here, get additional categories set up here for what you do. You can link here and have patients leave you a review. You can put pictures, add content in here. This is stuff people are finding. A lot of dentists think that if they don’t play the online game, that they can avoid it. You know, they’re not playing. But the truth is, is these games are being played with or without you.

Whether you come in here or claim this or not, Google is playing this game for you. They’ve syndicated this information. In a lot of cases you might have bad reviews on here. But you want to come in here and claim these pages so that you get notification when you get reviews , so that you can control what information is displayed here or not, so that you can optimize it and get people seeing your information more. It’s not something you maybe come in here once a week or once a day and post new stuff. It’s a one-time setup to get all this stuff going.

So, I would strongly encourage to go here, get on Facebook, get on Twitter, set this stuff up and let it be out there. Look at it once a year whenever you have time, once a month, however often you want to engage in it.

Here is you over on Angie’s List. Again, not claimed. I’d encourage you to come in here and claim this. Click right here on this “Claim Your Profile” button and get this set up. There’s nothing wrong with giving it a one-time setup. Everything here is free from Facebook to Twitter to Google+, Angie’s List. You can always set it up for free. And it’s good places to have yourself listed. With a good website, good video, good content, new content. With the websites we’re putting together right now, we’re doing 30 pages on all new websites we build, custom written content for you that Google’s going to love. And then we’re also doing content campaigns that range from 5-30 additional pages every month.

That’s what Google wants. The Google Panda updates, the Google Penguin updates, that’s the currency that the Internet is being cited on right now. That is the SEO for your website.

So if some of the things I’ve talked about here are resonating with you or you have questions, I’d love to chat with you. Feel free to reach out to me. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m also going to put my contact information right here below the video. So if you have any questions, you can find all my contact details there. Thanks, Dr. Singh. Have a great weekend.

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Dr. Stuart Chang Dental Website Review

Dr. Stuart Chang Dental Website ReviewPlay Now

Hi Dr. Chang. Colin Receveur with SmartBox Web Marketing, bringing to you this Swift Kick dental website and all of your web marketing critique. I’m going to take a look through your online presence and give you a couple hints on where I think you can make improvements to find new patients, what I think you might have problems with that’s costing you some new patients.

I’m going to jump right in here and get started. The first thing I notice when I pull up the site here, it’s very aesthetically pleasing. You have a nice logo. You have a picture of your office. You have a welcome message. Your hours, phone number conveniently listed right here at the top. Very vital information. Definitely good to have right there at the top.

Moving down the page, I did try to click on some of these here. I think if it would be nice if these were links people could click on that go to specific pages inside your site. I noticed you had a photo tour here, but it might make it a little bit easier for patients to browse around.

And then over here on the right, I noticed you had a large Adobe Flash piece, which is the first bad thing I found on your site for a couple reasons. First, Google can’t read Flash. So when Google comes onto your site and tries to index it, tries to read your site so that it can display your website to people searching, this looks like a blank area.

Second is Apple and Macromedia, the company that produces Flash, Adobe, are not compatible with each other. So any iPod, iPhone, iPad that is looking at your website won’t be able to see this Flash stuff right here. So I would encourage you to get rid of it. There’s a number of alternatives out there, HTML 5, just a simple scrolling GIF that you can use to get through that.

Moving through here, I love your “Our Team” page. I would encourage you to put some more information about your team members and your staff on here. You’ve got pictures, which is warm and inviting, but talk about yourself. Who are you as a person? They know you are a dentist, but they are not going to choose you because you are dentist. They are going to choose you based on they like you, they think you are a skilled person, they think you are good at what you do, they like the value of the services you offer. So talk a little bit about what you do here and how you are different.

Looking here, you’ve got your location, phone number, a link here that goes to directions from Google. I would encourage you to actually link this not just to your address, but to your local Places page. I’m going to show you what I mean here by that.

Here is your Google Places page. What you can do is take this link right here and instead of linking to an arbitrary dot on the map, you can actually link to your places page where they can click here to get directions, and they can find out more about you. Maybe they will follow you on Google as well. But I would encourage you to link to a Places page or to your Google+ page as opposed to just an address. It gives more versatility.

When I got on here, I also noticed you had a bad review on here, which isn’t the end of the world. Everybody gets bad reviews. But this one said that one of your receptionists was curt, rude, and got mad and got on here and left a review.

So you’ve also got two good reviews on here. I would encourage you to keep building those. Keep promoting and encouraging your patients to leave you good reviews, because that’s going to look good for you in the long run. And, of course, when you get a bad review then it’s buried in the stack.

Moving along, let’s go back to your website. Looking at the appointments page. I like the appointments page here. You’ve got your office hours. It’s a very simple form. You’ve got the date that they can click on, preferred time, comments, send info. It’s very simple, very quick, very easy. I like everything about it.

Survey. Kind of ambiguous. What is a survey? I clicked on it and it took me here to see “What did you think about us?” I’m not sure the point or the use of this, but it’s interesting. You might be using this to drive patients there after an appointment to give their feedback.

Insurance of course a big deal these days. You’ve got all the insurance providers on here. I noticed you are linking to their sites as well, and you have put the code in that actually opens these up in a new tab, which is fantastic. So they’re not actually leaving your site, they’re just opening up a new window or a new tab for their site.

Moving into the contact page. You’ve got some good information on here, email and comments. I would possibly add a first name and a phone number field, or at least a first name so you can address somebody. It’s very short. I’m usually a fan of very short. That’s a little bit shorter than I would expect. If it’s working for you, I would keep it up.

Treatments. This is very similar to what I see a lot with the clinical video pages. Pro Sites is really big on this stuff. And there’s a couple guys out there that they want to tell you all about how these procedures work. They use these stock videos. Let’s watch a couple of these and see if maybe this is different than what I’m thinking of. No, this looks the same.

This clinical video stuff, dentists love. You are a dentist. You love what you do. That’s why you become a dentist. But patients do not care about the clinical stuff and how you prep for crowns and how you do the work you do, no more than you care about your mechanic, how he changes the head gasket on your car or the logistics of how a plumber snakes out a pipe.

I would encourage you to take this spot on your website and use video, or multimedia, or use content that engages your visitor in a way that doesn’t tell them how an inlay or how a filling works. Showing a patient how you prep a crown or how you prep for a filling does not help their buying decision.

Patients are going to buy based on three things: Will it hurt? How much does it cost? How long will it last? Showing a patient how a crown, or a filling, or any dental procedure clinically works doesn’t tell them you know what you’re doing. It doesn’t tell them you charge a fair price. And it doesn’t tell them that the work you do is going to last them for five, 10, 20 years, or the rest of their life.

If they are really concerned about how a procedure works, there is WebMD, there is Wikipedia; there are these titans of information out there on the internet that they can find that stuff out on.

I would use your website as a tool to make you the expert, the guy that can fix their problems. Same here for these implants. This illustration is kinda cool. See, if you get a fearful patient, they are going to think of drilling a drywall or a deck screw up into their jaw. That’s the wrong image to have in their head.

Looking at your smile gallery here, I love the face shots. So many dentists just put the teeth. But the face is what people connect with. They go, “That guy, he looks great now. Look at his teeth. Look at the before and after’s.” I would even encourage you to get before face shots and put it over here on the left. That’s fantastic. Grow this. Patients love to look at galleries when there are faces, not just teeth.

I also took some time to search around for you a little bit and see what I could find on you on Google. I did find there are a lot of reviews out there on you. It looks like you’ve been using Demand Force, which Demand Force used to be a few years ago. When Google dropped them, they really just don’t do a lot for me anymore. I don’t see a whole lot of point.

I do like kind of the exit interview concept. If you have a patient that is upset, you can give them that Demand Force review and that will act as a way to let them vent so they don’t do it somewhere else. I think it does have some purpose, but their offering was much stronger a few years ago when they had their deal with Google and they could syndicate reviews right inside Google.

I did several searches here for you and couldn’t really find you anywhere—local listings, paid listings, organic listings. I’m not really seeing you anywhere here. “Oceanside California implant dentistry”, “Oceanside California general dentistry”. No. How about just “dentist”. Nope.

OK. I would encourage you to get some presence on the search engines. Getting an organic ranking is a formula of producing content and building links. Getting your local listing up here doesn’t cost you a dime. You can go do it for free right now. Get it claimed, get it optimized, and get it up here. Google is going to start rotating and showing it.

Of course, the pay-per-click area, while it is an expense, what we find is about 50% of people are going to click on the organic side, the local side, 50% of your patients are going to click on the paid listings. Some dentists swear that they never click on the paid ads because they know somebody is paying for them. Other dentists say, “I only click on the paid ads because I know it’s somebody with money behind it.”

But the truth of the matter is it only really matters what your patients do. Patients, by and large, are right down the middle. So I would encourage you to get a presence out here.

I didn’t find you on any social media, so I would encourage you to at least get set up. You don’t have to go on Facebook all the time and be posting and updating. But at least get on there, get a Facebook page set up, get it linked from your website, put some little icons down here or up here where people can go and friend you and like you and at least connect with you, even if you are not updating it on a regular basis. You know, go out there for the major holidays and post a little update, or post a picture, or whatever you want do.

That really ties up this Swift Kick. I hope that some of this information I’ve given you is beneficial and can help you to attract more the types of patients that you want. There’s a lot of more advanced tactics. You’ve got a pretty simple website here right now. In fact, going out to Google and looking at your domain, you only have 27 pages on your entire website that are indexed with Google, which is really nothing.

Every website that we are building today we put 30-35 pages to start with, and we’re building out an additional 5-30 every month. That’s really the currency of Google to rank your site higher, to engage you visitors, additional content, building links, posting video, getting your videos optimized and right there on the first page of Google. All these things are going to get you more visibility. They’re going to get you more conversion of those clicks into phone calls, and ultimately more new patients in your practice.

If you have any questions or if I can be of any assistance to you, feel free to reach out to me. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m going to post my contact information down below and hope you have a great weekend. Thanks Dr. Chang.

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Dr. Donald Cleland’s Dental Website Swift Kick! Review

Dr. Donald Cleland's Dental Website Swift Kick! ReviewPlay Now

Hey Dr. Cleland. Colin Receveur from SmartBox Web Marketing, bringing to you this short video. I’m going to go through your website, all of your web marketing and point out some things I see that can find you more patients. I know when we talked a couple times, you’ve been concerned that your website has had a diminish return over the past few years. That when you first got started on it, it was really performing. 2011, 2012 it’s really fallen off. I understand where you are coming from. We see a lot of dentists that, with the changes Google has made, this has happened. They’ve lost some of the ranking they had. They had a great website that performed a few years ago, but it’s just not done much for them now.

I’m going to start here on your website. The first thing I notice is that you don’t have a lot of content here on your homepage. Google is really looking for content these days. It’s all about fresh, unique, compelling content. If you can provide that, if you can show Google that you’re an authoritative source for information, they’ll rank you higher on the search engine.

There’s not a lot of content here on your homepage, some small excerpts here. Generally, we see that not faring well with Google.

I like that your phone number is here at the top, very simple to schedule online. I like everything I see here except this CAPTCHA. I don’t care for these silly things a whole lot. They don’t really prevent a lot of spam and it’s just a hurdle for people to jump through. I would recommend getting rid of that.

Let’s go back to the homepage and read your testimonials. You’ve got some good testimonials. I would consider putting some pictures of the people in here as well as a last name or a city that they belong to. People these days are very educated searching online. They know that this kind of stuff can be made up. I’m not saying that yours is, but any kind of credibility you can give to your social proof, your testimonials, is going to in turn make you look better.

Meet Dr. Cleland. Let’s see this video here.

So it looks like a green screen video you read off a teleprompter. I would be included to put that video right here. To me, this stock photo doesn’t really do a whole lot. “If you are looking for the most experienced and gentle dentist in Orland Park, you will find Dr. Cleland to be an excellent choice.” I would put that video right here. I would put that video on YouTube and optimize it for your local area. I think that’s going to give you much better results than you’ll find with this stock image here.

Let’s skip over to services. I love the video, but I would make it easier to watch. I’d put it right here on the page versus making people click for it. People are extremely lazy these days. I would put it right here on the page.

I love your text here. Too many websites just have, “This is sedation dentistry. You take a pill. Somebody needs to drive you home.” You actually make it about emotion, which is what dentistry is about. Selling is all about emotion. People buy because they like you. People like to do business with people they like.

You’ve got these review items here. I like this. I like the side options here. You’ve got sedation dentistry details: download the packet. I would put this opt-in form right here on the page. This video, I would put it right here on the page.

Testimonials, learn more. Let’s see what we’ve got here. Excellent. Love you bio. Very simple, very easy to read. There’s not an alphabet soup of accreditations and continuing ed. I like the captions below the pictures.

I’d love to hear more about your staff. Have each of them write four sentences about themselves and put it next to or below the picture.

Let’s see what else we have here. Let’s look at Invisalign. Excellent. Again, kind of an emotionally charged page here. This is another video. I’d put it right here on the main page, right here in the middle. Take that video and put it right here. It’s going to let your patient see it. A lot of patients won’t click here. They’ll read this and they’ll skip over it.

Watch out video. Let’s see what this guy is. This is fantastic. It looks like you’ve been doing some video on press releases. I would create a press button right here at the top; press, news, updates, whatever it may be, and put all kinds of press related stuff underneath it.

Any kind of press exposure you have is going to make you look like the expert. You are in the media. You are being interviewed. You are in an authoritative source of information. I would definitely, definitely highlight this. That’s going to make you look fantastic.

General dentistry. Another video about payment plans. I would put that video right here, front and center. Take all the videos, put them right here on the page, smack dab in the middle of the page. Make it very accessible. Let people know there’s a video; that it’s one click away. They can watch it.

In many cases, we make some of our videos automatically play. Now, you have to be careful with that because some people find it annoying. But in certain scenarios automatic playing video is very, very powerful.

Gum disease. You’ve got more videos here. I’d put that, again, right in the middle of the page. I would make your offer, your special downloads, I would put all this right here, I would condense it and I’d put it right here, right there on the first page. Give them the whopper right here from your main website. Put a picture of your report here, make a little picture for it, make it look like a report, put some bullet points, put your opt-in box, first name, email address, and your submit button, and let them go get it. that’s what I would do. Make it super easy for people to get in touch with you, to see your stuff.

Nobody wants to read anymore. It’s unfortunate. Nobody picks up a book and reads it anymore. They watch TV. They go to the internet. This is one reason why YouTube is so huge. People want to watch videos. They don’t want to read anymore. It also sets you apart. Your videos were shot on a green screen with a teleprompter. While you had some good content in there, when you’re reading off a teleprompter, sometimes it suppresses some of the emotions that would otherwise come out.

When we’re doing video shoots, we prefer to interview you. In this case, the camera is over here just kinda looking at you. A lot of times we even use two cameras looking at you from different angles. And me and you just have a conversation. When it’s not in front of a camera, you’d be surprised how good the content and the sincerity and the genuine compassion and passion for dentistry that you have comes out. And that’s what people want to see. People choose their dentists because they like them, or they have a genuine compassion, or they are the expert. It’s all emotion.

Your site has a lot of emotion in it. I love it. I applaud you for it. But I think there’s a couple big changes we could make that would really kick that up to the next level. I think these next few years, for you, I know you are wanting to kind of step back and enjoy life a little more right now. I think we can get you a lot of patients with a few of those tactics, getting some killer video in here, and then, of course, getting in the search engines.

Right now your website has 47 pages total that Google has indexed. New websites that we’re building right now we’re starting with 30, and we’re adding anywhere from 5-30 additional webpages every month. Most of the websites that we’ve put together have hundreds and hundreds of pages because that’s what Google wants to see. Google wants to see great content. That is what search engine optimization is.

So I’ve got a little test search here I did for “Orland Park Illinois dentist”. I’m going to walk you through kind of the different search engines that are going on here. Hopefully it will give you a better idea of where you need to spend your marketing dollars; where would be best to spend your marketing dollars.

The first thing I see is right here at the top you’ve got a paid listing right here at the top. That’s fantastic. 50% of your patients are going to click on a paid listing. What you have is this box here at the top. This is paid ads. You also have this box down the side that’s paid ads.

Sometimes this box at the top won’t show up. Google kind of alternates it back and forth. You’ve also got some local listings going on here. This box here and this box here are your local listings. And then right here in the middle you have some organic listings.

Now, to drill down even a little bit further, you’ve got another search engine that’s going on in here. You see a blue marker there and you see that blue marker there. And then here on this paid ad, you see this paid ad is a lot bigger than the others. Same for this paid ad right here.

Look at your paid ad here. You’ve got a title, you’ve got your website, you’ve got your tagline: “Call our dentist now”, and you’ve got a “click here for the map.” Whereas on these, they are much bigger. You’ve got a directions link, you’ve got this little blue number right here next to it. And this is what’s called Google’s AdWords Express.

In Google’s AdWords Express it’s a combination of AdWords, which is what you’re running, and their local search. Very powerful. It’s the highest ROI stuff we’re doing with our dentists right now. That is because it really gives you a little bit of an edge in these paid listings. Your ads are bigger. You have more information displayed out there. And you get this cool little blue button on the map. It kinda sets you apart.

I also see down here on the local listings that you have some exposure going on there. Let’s take a look at that. Where I don’t see you is I don’t see you in any of the organic listings, so these results here and these results here. I don’t see you going on anywhere there.

What you are going to see is 50% of your patients are going to click on a paid ad, 50% of them are going to go to an organic ad.

Here is your Google+ page. What I’m assuming, because I see down here it says, “Is this your business? Manage this page,” you probably had this set up in Google Places, which recently, in the past 30-60 days transitioned over to Google+. So it carried over a lot of your information—your address, your categories, a little blip about you, of course all your pictures up here, your name and address. But it’s not actually managed by you yet. So I would definitely reach out here and get this guy managed under your account. That’s going to be something that, if you get a bad review, you want to know what happened. You can add additional information. And this is the future of Google that you are looking at right here.

You’ve got some great reviews going on here. Excellent, excellent, excellent, good, good, good. Fantastic reviews. I would get more reviews. You’ve got 19 reviews so far. I would try to double that within six months. It should be very doable, especially linking to your website with it, encouraging your patients to post reviews and information about you once they leave your office.

One tactic we’re using is actually putting iPads on the front desk of our office clients. What that is good for, you have to make sure you get an iPad that has 3G coverage. If you use the Wi-Fi Google will see it’s from your IP address and they’ll ban you. But if you use a 3G account and you make sure you are connected over the Wi-Fi with Verizon or AT&T, it masks your location. You can have your patients log in right there at your desk, connect over 3G, and leave a review right there at the desk of your office. Extremely powerful. I’d love to see you get involved with that. I think that will give you a tremendous boost, especially looking at your competition here. None of them really have any reviews of any consequence. You know, two, four reviews, one review. Not a whole lot going on here.

Here is a link to your Google+ page. Reach out and get that claimed.

So here is my action plan for you guys. I would set you up a website with a ton of content, custom written, that’s going to enhance your organic ranking with Google. I’d put a lot of video on here and make the video you have much more visible. You’ve got good exposure right now on Google AdWords, as well as a decent listing down here in the Google local. I would like you see get set up with some AdWords Express so that you have these little blue markers. Again, another point of exposure. You are running AdWords here. What if you had this spot also held with your name that had your map and address here? You are taking up all the first page, dominating the search engines. And that’s what it’s about. It’s not about just having one listing. It’s about having multiple pieces of real estate.

You can take your videos, for example. Your video is well optimized. There’s no reason why you couldn’t have Google displaying some videos for you right here, again, taking another piece of real estate. A well optimized website with a bunch of content, you could have a listing here. The more pieces of real estate you occupy, it’s like the land rush days, the Gold Rush days, the more patients are going to come to your website. The better website you have, the more video content, the more written content, the more questions you are going to answer, the more comfortable people are going to feel with you. They get to see you, they get to interact with you.

You have the free reports on your website already. I’d love to see you make that a little bit easier for people to get to. Reach out, grab some of your social media. Get Facebook set up. Get those set up. It’s not something you need to be posting to daily or weekly. What we do is we actually link your blog to your Facebook, your Twitter so that when we release new content on your website, it automatically syndicates out and updates them all at once so you don’t have to around and run around and make a bunch of updates.

I don’t want to run this any longer. That’s the highlights of where I think you are losing some patients here. If you have any questions or if we can help you in any way, feel free to give me a call. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m also going to put my contact information below this video so that you can access it a little easier.

Take care Dr. Cleland. I appreciate your time.

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Dr. Farzad Hassani’s Dental Website Review & Marketing Plan

Dr. Farzad Hassani's Dental Website Review & Marketing PlanPlay Now

Hi Dr. Hassani. Colin Receveur. I’m going to go through a web marketing plan like we talked about on the phone this morning. Just wanted to go through your website, sum it all up for you, show you the kind of changes that I see us making and what we can do to bring you more patients.

As I showed you on our webinar this morning, here’s your website. The few changes that I would really like to make is first off, this area above the fold right here. This area where it’s the first thing that your visitors come to when they see your website should have something in it. Very important information up here. When you are talking about newspapers it’s the area above the fold in the newspaper.

So I would take this website that you just had built and we can make some tweaks to it, transfer it into our system. I don’t know what kind of capabilities you have right now with editing the website yourself and doing search engine optimization. But we’re glad to transfer the site into our system or you can continue to host it where you have it now. Really, the choice is yours.

But the changes that I would like to make here would be to fill this area up here with important information, whether it’s a free offer, moving this information here up, and moving everything up on the page. That can be a very simple fix.

The next thing I’d like to see done is this main picture her removed. The reason for this is we’ve done a lot of studies over the years, a lot of split test with these scrolling, rotating images that you have here on the page. What we find all the time is that patients tend to get kind of mesmerized by this rotating image that you’ve got going on here. They look at it and it all looks nice and they are great pictures, and there is a great place for these pictures. It’s just not right here at the top of the website, right here the first thing they see.

The first thing you want your patients to see is why they should stay on your site—your offers, your expertise, what you can do to fix their problems, because that’s why they are on your website. They’re looking for a solution to their problems.

I love your logo. It really demonstrates very clearly what you are about—family dentistry, all people big and small. So I love your logo design. I like that you have this information up here.

I love this picture here, the castle with the entrance. That’s very cool. I have a great place in mind that all these pictures will look great in.

I have some great ideas for what kind of content we should be putting here. What you want to have is some direct response items. Have a free report offer, have a coupon offer, have something that is going to grab their attention and pull them in. Oftentimes we’ll put a video right here at the top of the page. Maybe over here on the left side we have a free report that we have ghostwritten for you. With a free report here where they can enter their email address and maybe their first name, and they can click this button here and get a copy of your free report.

That’s a way that you can capture their email addresses. You can begin to build your tribe, as well as pull them in with a video that’s going to show some real warmth and sincerity for what you do. It’s not just a page out there on the internet like every dentist has.

Going down through your site, I’m going to go ahead and sign up here for your newsletter. I signed up for your newsletter. I’d love to see that when it comes out.

The main thing I see here that I’m just kind of missing is a lot of content. The currency of the internet right now is content. The more content you have with the Google Panda and the Google Penguin updates, the higher Google is going to rank you. Most doctors, we’re adding anywhere from 10-30 or 40 new webpages a month to their website.

One thing I did see here on your contact page is you have the email address, but you don’t have a contact form. A lot of people that use a webmail system these days, if they click on this, nothing will happen because they are using a Gmail or a Yahoo account. This is great for the old days when people had Outlook, Express, and used locally based mail clients.

So I would like to see a contact form on here that people can opt-in to a lot easier. It’s easier for you as it allows you to standardize communication from your website.

Looking at the implant pages here, you’ve got some clinical stuff here I’m not really so keen on. These popup pages I’m not really big on because it’s not good for search engine optimization. I would like to see these actually turned into another page, a separate page that doesn’t just pop up here in front.

I would suggest getting rid of the clinical stuff. Your website is about showing patients that you care about them, that you are the man for their needs, that you are not going to hurt them. And showing patients how stuff clinically works doesn’t really hit at any of the points that will convince them to become your patient. So I would tweak that a little bit.

Financing options, all the other information in here I like. I just like to see a lot more information.

Also looked at some of the code of your site, some of the source code. As I mentioned on the phone, right here you need to be setting yourself as an author here in the code. That’s one of Google’s newest tags that they’re wanting to see on websites.

And then also, right here in the keywords, I’d like to see a bunch more of these keywords. You’ve got six or eight in there now. I’d like to see 20, or 30, or 40. And then here for your keyword description, this is what Google is going to display when it shows your website in the search engine.

For instance, I did a search for your name. This tag right here, your meta description tag, this area I’ve highlighted right here is what Google is going to show right here below your website. So when Google displays your website you have the link, you have the address. It might give you some information about what type of file it is. In this case there’s a PDF here. But then it’s going to show that blip. So you want to have something good in here that’s going to convince people to click on your link after they find you in the search engine. Just because you show up number one doesn’t mean people are just going to automatically click on you. Something that is said here has to be convincing them , that prospect that is searching, to click on your website.

Looking down through the code here, I see you’ve got a lot of style, JavaScript. It all looks OK. I would probably move this JavaScript area here to an external file and link it. That way you are going to have a better code to noise ratio. Getting rid of all this code makes it easier for Google to read your site.

Looking down through here, I don’t see Google Analytics installed anywhere, which is particularly concerning for me because if you are going to be doing Google AdWords, that’s kind of like saying that you’re going to drive a car without putting gas in it. You need to really have Google Analytics installed on here. Get your webmaster to do that or it’s going to cost you a lot of money in the long run. That’s what marketing is about—getting a return. If you are not getting a return, why are you spending money on marketing?

Google Analytics should be installed right here on your website. So make sure to get your webmaster to get that installed before you spend any more money or before you start your AdWords campaign.

I did a little reputation search for you. I found that you had joined the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentists back in 2011. I found your deals on Demand Force, which is here and here.

Demand Force used to have a killer product. They had a deal with Google where they could syndicate reviews directly to Google. And when you would search, when you would go to Google and search you would see here, where it says “two reviews”, Demand Force had a little blip over here too that showed Demand Force reviews.

Unfortunately, about 16, 18 months ago Google dumped Demand Force. And now Google is only displaying Google reviews. What that means is you need to be playing with Google to get your reviews directly into Google, because people are searching and they are going to see what’s in Google. What’s in Demand Force now is they have this little bitty line item right here at the bottom of your places page that says, “Click here to view more reviews around the web.”

Something else I see here is that you haven’t claimed your Google+ page. This means that you if you get a bad review, one, you are not going to get notified of it. You are not going to know you have a bad review out there. And secondly, you can’t reply to reviews.

Part of running an elegant business is that you can’t make everybody happy. Somebody is going to leave you a bad review at some point. How you handle that bad review speaks volumes for what kind of dentist you are. Are you the dentist that is going to argue with their patient online about how they are wrong, about their problem? Or are you the dentist that goes on here and replies to a bad review and says, “I’m really sorry for your trouble. Here’s my personal cell phone number. Please call me. I’d like to resolve it.” That’s what it’s all about. It’s customer service. It’s not who is right and wrong.

So claim your Google Places page and start editing this. Add pictures in here. Add content. Get notifications. Reply to reviews. Very important.

Demand Force really doesn’t do a whole lot for me. It’s kind of like an exit interview. You do get a lot or reviews back from people, but they just don’t show up anywhere. Let’s go search for “Aurora Ontario dentist”. Here’s a Demand Force, but it looks like it’s for your competitor St. Andrews Dental Center. So they are midway down the first page here. How about “Aurora Ontario cosmetic dentist”. I don’t see you anywhere. I also don’t see Demand Force here.

What you are dealing with here is you have three different searches that Google is running. You have the paid. This is Google AdWords, which is running right here inside the gray. This is the pay-per-click area. This is where if you pay to run your ad you can run an ad right there.

Here inside the blue we have your Google Local area. This is the local search. This is the Google Places, the Google+ pages. And this is a free service that Google offers that if you fill out and complete your profile 100%, you can add reviews in here, you can publish information about yourself.

The third area that Google offers is they have their organic search results. There’s actually some more organic results down here at the bottom that you can’t see right now. And then what they also have is they have a fourth area that’s kind of a hybrid. It’s kind of a combination between the pay-per-click here and the local search here.

So, for instance, in this Google pay-per-click ad here, you see the title, you see the website, and you see the description. But however, here on this ad and this ad, you see that below the ad they have an address with a little blue market next to it. You see how that pops up on the map?

Now, these are Google AdWords Express ads. What these give you is they give you, of course, this little blue market that the eye quickly sees. You get a bigger ad because you get your extra address and phone number information here below it. Whereas on these you only get three lines, here you are getting seven lines. You also get a little blue marker up here on the map, which you can’t see right now because it’s up in Aurora, Ontario. And if you notice, both these ads, because I’m here in New Albany/Louisville metro area, these ads are shown based on my geographic location. So they are displaying ads here for two dentists here in our town. But for a person that was searching in your area, they would have a little blue marker right here on the map for these two blue markers down here. They’d have a one and a two on them, actually, identifying them.

As we scroll down the page, I mentioned there was some more organic results here that you couldn’t see before. These are all organic results.

And then, what you also have here is you have a fifth search engine that Google is selectively displaying in certain markets. You’ve got three YouTube videos here. This is one of the newest things Google is doing. If you have a YouTube video that you well optimize for your local area, Google will display it right here on the search engines. This is another piece of real estate that you can claim. These are considered organic results, but it is different from the others because, of course, if you click on it, it’s going to play a video.

Also, I’m going to point out one more thing here at the bottom. The very last result on the first page is a PRWeb press release. We do a ton with press releases because you can claim yet another piece of real estate here on the first page of Google.

Our philosophy is about dominating Google. You can get a first page ranking. You can get a couple rankings here on the first page. But if your dental practice is here, is here, you have an AdWords Express ad over here, you’ve got this organic ad here. So you’ve got a paid ad, you’ve got an organic ad, you’ve got a Local Places ad, you’ve got an AdWords Express ad, and now they scroll down the page and they see that you are here in a video, and they see that you’ve got a press release here at the bottom of the page, you have dominated the whole first page of Google. Not only have you excluded places your competition can market, but you’ve got six or seven instances on the first page. That’s when you really pull in a ton of patients, because they scroll down the page and it’s the number of touches they have. The more times a person sees you, the more likelihood that they are going to click on you and they are going to recognize your name. It’s all about recognition.

We can talk about branding, and that’s essentially what we’re doing here. You are branding yourself in your local area.

I did see here that it looks like for July/August 2011 you joined the AACD. I found this online for you. So that’s something that you can definitely highlight and talk about. Affiliations with dental organizations are something that a lot of consumers don’t understand entirely what they mean, but it’s something that we’ve done press releases for with great success to highlight affiliations or continuing education training that a dentist has.

That really sums up my marketing plan for you, the changes to your website that I would make as far as getting you visibility in the search engines, adding video here to the first page of Google. That’s going to your ticket to more new patients.

If you like some of the things I’m saying here, I’d love to chat with you again and see what we can do. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m at extension 17. I am also going to put my contact information at the bottom of this video here so it’s easier for you to find.

I appreciate your time Dr. Hassani. Take care.

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Dr. Jim Dores Dental Website “Swift Kick!” Review

Dr. Jim Dores Dental Website Play Now

Hey Dr. Dores, Colin Receveur, SmartBox Web Marketing, bringing you this Swift Kick of your website, your web presence. I’m going to show you some ways to find more patients online. I know you’ve got a number of problems that you’re having with your current website, with your Google Maps, your local places that you’re not showing up for. I’m going to show you how to fix all that.

We’ll get started right here on your website. The first thing I see, you’ve got a Pro Sites website. It’s a template, cookie-cutter, boilerplate deal. It’s a few years old. I see a number of things that are costing your patients right now.

The first is this right here. We’ve done a number of studies over the years. These scrolling banners have always performed extremely poorly. My personal belief is that people get kind of mesmerized by it. The pictures scroll, the text moves, it’s dynamic. It looks nice, but they sit here and they watch this for a minute or two and then they realize it’s a repeating banner. And by then they are bored, and then go to something else that’s going to take their attention. And by something else I mean this button right here that goes back. That’s a B drawn with a pencil.

So, they are really horrible. Every split test we’ve ever done with these scrolling banners has proved that they are completely ineffective for website marketing.

The second is it’s Flash. If you right-click on it you can see that it’s Adobe Flash Player. Flash does a number of things. All of them are bad. Number one is it’s not compatible with Google or any of the search engines. What that means for you is when Google is browsing your website, when they are indexing your website, this looks like a big black hole to them. It looks like bad web design because Google can’t read this, so it looks like a blank hole in your website.

The second thing is no Apple product can read Flash. So if you have a prospective patient or a current patient that is looking at your website on an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod, any Apple product can’t see this. So it’s as if this doesn’t exist on your website. It’s just this big hole.

So it’s bad for user experience. It’s bad for people actually being able to read your site. Your site looks horrible it is looked at on an Apple device. Lots of reasons we don’t use Flash. We haven’t used Flash for years.

Positive aspects to your site. You have the phone number right here at the top. I like your logo right here at the top. It’s good for branding. The navigation is very clear. I’m going to talk about that in a minute with your buttons right here at the top. The drop down menus are very well organized.

Moving down the side, I tested the Contact Us form just a minute ago. Everything seemed to be working there. I noticed here on the maps page you’ve got MapQuest coming off here, but then somewhere else I clicked took me to a Google map. I’ll address that in just a minute. See, this one goes to Google Maps and you have this one here going to MapQuest. I don’t really like either one of them, and I’m going to explain more in a second why I would change all that.

Going through your pages here, your Practice page, I don’t know if you wrote this all or not. This might be boilerplate, it might not be. But good stuff. 300-500 words is kind of the usual size we shoot for. Meet the Dentist page, it’s very easy to read for a layman. It’s not scattered and filled with all your continuing education and alphabet soup of accreditations.

As impressive as that is to a dentist, most normal people do not understand what all that stuff means. So you’ve got a very simple…I would make it a little bit longer. It’s a little short, I think. But overall, very good.

Procedure pages. This is the big boilerplate thing that Pro Sites pushes. They advertise that they give you this extensive library of all this content. But what they don’t tell you is it’s all boilerplate content. Google looks at this. It knows this is a clone website and it’s not going to give you any kind of ranking when you are running a clone template cookie-cutter website like this.

You might have heard the buzzwords Google Penguin and Panda updates. These recent updates that Google is doing, it wants unique, compelling fresh content. What that means is that your website needs to have something on it that makes it different than everybody else.

The new websites we’re building right now, we’re starting with 30 or 40 pages, and we’re adding anywhere from 5-30 additional webpages a month onto those websites, because that’s what Google wants. You’ve got to play ball with the big gorilla in the room.

CEREC; I’m sure this is the boilerplate stuff here. FAQ’s, I see this on every Pro Sites site I like at. We like to turn our FAQ’s into actual videos. You can get videos to rank right at the top of Google. It’s also more dynamic for your visitors to look at. People love to watch videos. They don’t want to read. And, of course, this is all boilerplate content, so Google is going to be de-ranking because of it.

Links pages brings up a good point. These were very popular back in the ‘90s back before there were search engines. The reason they were so popular in the ‘90s is because that when there wasn’t a search engine or there weren’t very good search engines, in order to find related information about what you were looking at here, so I’m a patient, I’m on your website, I want to find related information about Dr. Dores. Well, what do I do? I go to your links page and you provide links to other websites out there that complement what you do.

Now, in the days of Google, if people want more information they go search. Well, before that you had to show people where to go.

Not only is this taking up some prime real estate at the top of Google, one of your buttons, it’s also hurting your Google ranking.

So think of your Google ranking as a bucket. You have your ranking power, your link juice, coming in the top—people that link to your site, articles that link to your site, all of your backlinks are coming in the top. That’s your link juice.

Now, every time you link to another site, you are putting a hole in your bucket and that link juice is pouring out into somebody else’s site. So you are helping the ADA and the Halloween Candy Buyback and the National Museum of Dentistry, but what you are not doing is helping your own ranking.

Now, there are ways to link to other websites correctly that will not hurt your own ranking. Unfortunately, you are not doing it here. When you put a link to another website, right here where I’m drawing these green lines, this is the actual code of your website. There should be a rel=nofollow tag in here that tells Google, “Don’t take my link juice and send it to these other websites.” But, unfortunately, you don’t have that here. So that could be one other reason why you’re not showing up.

Dental videos. I think these are just absolutely horrible. I hate to sound so opinionated on it, but you’ve probably on the other Swift Kicks I’ve done about what these really are. Pro Sites loves these things. They put them everywhere, and they put them on some websites multiple times.

It shows clinically how procedures work—how you prep for a porcelain inlay, how dental implants work, how they go in, how you prep for a crown, what a cap looks like, what endodontics is, what dentures looks like and what options are available out there, impacted wisdom teeth—all clinical stuff—all stuff that as a dentist you love because you love dentistry.

Patients hate this stuff. It sends them running for the door. Patients are looking for answers to three or four main questions. One is they want to like you. People do business with people they like. Second is they want to know that you’re not going to overcharge them. They want to know that the services you provide are a good value. Notice I didn’t say the cheapest; I said a good value for the service you provide. They want to know that the services you provide are within your skill set; that you are the best person to perform those procedures. They want to know it’s not going to hur.t And they want to know that your dentistry is going to last. They are not going to have to get it redone next year by another dentist.

These clinical videos don’t answer any of those questions. It simply shows how clinically these procedures work, which patients don’t care about, no more than you care about how to change the head gasket on your car or how to build a house. Most dentists don’t care about the engineering of LVL’s in their floors to support large spans. You just want to know that the floor is not going to crash in on you after the house is built. You just want to know that your car is going to run after you’ve got that transmission repaired. You don’t care that they put a new head gasket on it or changed out three belts, or whatever it is.

Same for patients. They just want to know that it’s fixed and it’s fixed right. What you are doing here is you are showing them clinically how it works. You are not answering any of their questions. And you are failing, you are missing the opportunity to connect with your patients on a deeper level. You are missing that opportunity to show them that you are the expert, to show them you are a likable guy.

Video is the only way to do that. But unfortunately, your video is all clinical. So I just really have a strong opinion about these clinical videos that everybody is putting out there on their websites these days.

Kind of the same thing with the smile galleries. First off, it’s templated. I know this is a Pro Sites boilerplate smile gallery. The second thing is these kinds of clinical pics showing pockets and missing teeth. I’ve seen some on here that the doctors have the scoops in the mouth and they’re showing the drills going in doing implants, and all kinds of craziness. That’s stuff is just horrible. Horrible!

No patient cares about this. Now, these are all pretty good here. But I would encourage you to go with a full face photo. As a dentist, of course you love teeth. You want to show off the teeth. Patients want to see the whole picture. They want to connect. They want to see how that person transformed after you did their dentistry.

So I would encourage you to get some full face photos in here. Of course get rid of this templated gallery stuff. It doesn’t do anything for patients when they see the same pictures on five dentists in your area. In fact, I’ll do some searches here in a few minutes. I’m sure that I can find five dentists in your local area that are using Pro Sites and have all this exact same content, pictures, and videos on their site.

The appoint request, I love these. These are great. I would get rid of everything in this box right here. I think it’s a little bit too much information. You want to get people on the phone. You don’t want to set a barrier to high. Ask them what the best time to call is. And from there, give them a call back quickly. Boom. Find out what you can do to help them. Because responding to these web requests quickly is what’s going to capture that patient.

Contact page, everything looks fine here. Patient forms page, everything looks good here. I’ll make sure these work. Sometimes we find some bad links in here. Looks like everything works. No bad links.

So from here, what I would recommend doing is expanding this site. There’s a lot of blank space here on each side. That’s partially because this is a template website, and partially because this is an older website. The older websites, screens were smaller and you designed websites for smaller screens. Nowadays they’re bigger. You have all this area on each side. I’d get rid of the Flash header you have here.

Just do a general redesign adding a lot of unique content for your website, creating a web presence that’s going to compel people to take action.

Let’s skip on over. Actually, before I go any farther, let’s do “Long Meadow dentist Pro Sites”. Long Meadow Dental Care. Here’s a Pro Site here. I actually just did a critique for another dentist. Look at the last two critiques I’ve done and there was another dentist that had this exact same website.

Let’s see “Long Meadow Dental Care”. Here’s you, James Dores. Optimal Smiles, Flagship Dental. Let’s see what these guys look like. That looks pretty close to your site. Of course, the Flash header. You will notice these images are the same across your sites. Of course, here a patient comes to dental videos, they are going to see the exact same horrible videos. If they go here to Smile Gallery, they see the exact same smile gallery. Even on this site that looks different, they come here, dental videos; it looks the same. Smile Gallery, they come here, looks the same. You’ve got these same teeth on every site.

Patients notice this kind of thing. They know you haven’t put time or effort into your dental website. Patients want a dentist that’s going to put effort and time into them. They don’t just want somebody that’s going to drill and fill. They want somebody who’s going to care about them as a person.

We’ve heard from many dentists that they’ve had patients tell them that, “I knew you were the dentist for me because of the effort and time that you put into your website.” When you have cookie-cutter content it’s bad for Google, it’s bad for users. You can take this as a sales pitch if you want, but it’s true. When you have the same stuff on every site, patients notice this.

Same for the procedures page here. All this content is identical. Cleanings and prevention. Let’s go back to this site. Exact same content. Patients notice this, that all these sites are identical. It speaks about what you are as a dentist inadvertently.

So going back to Google Local places here, I notice you link to MapQuest. You also link to Google. I would recommend getting rid of MapQuest and condensing it into Google, but I also don’t like that you link just to an address. What I would like to see you do is to link actually to your local places page right here.

I see here you are running an offer: 40% off Zoom Whitening. Expires the 24th of the month. But I also see that you have not claimed your local Places page. So I would encourage you to get on here, click this little “manage page” button, and claim this. You can add photos. You can add information. A lot of times Google has the wrong information here. I see that they’ve got the correct web address. It looks like they’ve got your correct phone number. But you are only listed as a cosmetic dentist. You don’t have a lot of information in here.

Expand this. Grow it. Put more content in here. That’s what people want to see. People these days want to see a lot of information about you before they ever pick the phone up. They are going to make their decision. They might see your advertisement in the newspaper or the radio. They are going to go to your website to validate who you are. If they like what they see on your website, they’re going to call you. If they don’t like what they see on your website, they’re going to keep looking for another dentist until they find somebody that stands out to them.

I’d recommend getting all that claimed, getting that linked into your website correctly. That’s going to fix a lot of your Google Maps problems. Getting that optimized, you’ll start showing up on Google Maps and Local Places.

Let’s do a couple test searches here: “Long Meadow dentist”. I see you showing up here in Local Places. I don’t see you down here in the organic. I also don’t see you up here in the paid.

“Long Meadow denture dentist”. Looks like one of your competitors here is number one. I don’t see you anywhere under that. Not up here in the paid listings.

About 50% of your patients are going to click on a paid listing. 50% are going to click on the organic or the local. So my opinion is you are losing if you are not in both. You can get into the paid listings pretty reasonably these days in most markets. And you can hold a small area there that will drive people into your website.

“Long Meadow dentures” I don’t see you for. “Long Meadow denture” it looks like you are showing up number two for. “Long Meadow dental implants” I don’t see you here for. “Long Meadow dental implant” I don’t see you here. A lot of your competitors are showing up. “Long Meadow general dentist”; there you are showing up at number two in the local, nowhere in the organic, nowhere in the paid. “Long Meadow family dentist” number two organically, number one local. There’s a good word for you, “Long Meadow family dentist”.

What I would tell you to do is you really need to look at what people are actually searching for. This is something that we do for all our new clients; finding out what people are actually searching for in your area that pertains to you. Just because you type in “Long Meadow family dentist” and you show up number two here, as well as number one on the local listings, it doesn’t mean that any of your patients are typing that in and finding you.

You can look at your Google Analytics and see what people are searching for. But more importantly, the keywords that people are searching for you are probably not showing up for. You need to be looking at Google AdWords, look at their Sandbox tool. There’s also a number of tools out there that you can steal your competitor’s keyword campaigns. You can look at EastLongMeadowDental.com and Flagship Dental and these other sites that are ranking above you on a lot of keywords, find out what they are doing to rank there. Find out what other keywords they are ranking for and jump in on them. Because if they are spending money to market themselves there, then it’s probably profitable. Most people don’t continue a marketing campaign that doesn’t make them any money.

That’s the end of the Swift Kick here. The website changes, getting good, solid video on there, making these changes to your Google Maps. I have no doubt you are missing out on a ton of new patients here. We’d love to help you. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m also going to put my contact information right here below this video. Thank you for your time. Take care.

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Dr. Guy Nash Dental Website Review

Dr. Guy Nash Dental Website ReviewPlay Now

Hi Dr. Nash. Colin Receveur, SmartBox Web Marketing, bringing to you this Swift Kick web critique of your website, of your website presence. If you give me just a few minutes here, I’m going to run through. I’ve got your website up and I’ve got a few searches of some things I’ve found on you on the internet here.

I’m going to jump in and get started right here on the front page of your website. The first thing I see, the website I think is very aesthetically pleasing. I really like the colors. Very warm, inviting colors. The images here, while they are stock photography and a lot of patients realize that, they are warm images. You’ve done a good job of selecting demographics, picking out a variation of ethnicity groups, ages, male, female, children. So I do like it.

However, this entire area here, if you can see when I right-click, it says Adobe Flash, which is horrible, really, for any kind of website that’s been designed in the last five years. Adobe Flash is not compatible with Google, with any of the search engines. They are not able to read it all. They are not able to index it. Any Apple devices, your iPods, your iPads, your iPhones are not able to play Adobe Flash. It’s basically a technology that has been incompatible for a number of years, but there really wasn’t an alternative, so a lot of people used it. And now that HTML 5 and some other newer technologies have come out, they are actually pushing it out the door, and there is something out there that is able to replace Flash now. Whereas, in the past, yeah there was some stuff out there, but it wasn’t as good as today.

So anyway, I would strongly encourage you to get rid of this Flash on your website. It kills your search engine rankings. It kills your user experience. Because if you look at this on an Apple device, it’s just blank here.

Scrolling down the site, I like the video you have here. I’m going to play it. You have a nice little intro video here. I would like to see this video up here. Put something warm and inviting that jumps out and grabs people right here at the top. You’ve also got some real estate up here at the top. If you notice, the website is kind of smooshed in on the sides. You’ve also got a lot of real estate up here in this white area that’s unused. I would encourage you to move things up.

If you think about the newspaper, you’ve got the above the fold that refers to their highest value real estate. Above the fold on your website– everything in the screen that loads before you can scroll. You’ve got a lot of space here that we can put some great information in. Maybe some social media buttons, maybe putting the phone number up here. Instead of using a reverse contrast here, generally we try to stay away from reverse contrast. What you have basically in the whole website is a reverse contrast, where you have a darker background, lighter letters, as opposed to having a light background and dark letters. It’s difficult for the eyes to read in a lot of cases.

Let me skip through here and I’ll go on to some more pages. I saw you had a dental video page here. I always like to comment on these, because these are so popular, but they are really not good from a marketing perspective. When patients come to your website, they are going to choose you based on your expertise, based on the value you offer, based on your price, or based on the fact that they just like you; you’re just a nice guy or they like your staff.

Patients don’t want to know about how you prep for a crown or how a dental implant goes in. And if they do want to know that, there is WebMD, there is Wikipedia, there are these titans of information out there that they can look that up in.

What I would encourage you to do here with your video area is to offer video that connects with your patients in a way that you couldn’t do otherwise. You know, explaining how an implant for a denture works, or showing these pictures, or how you do deep root planting, or an implant goes in, or how you prep for a porcelain inlay. There’s always one in here that shows how you prep for a crown. Well, there’s a cap.

That kind of stuff, the clinical aspects is not what drives the buying decision. I would encourage you to put stuff in here that’s going to develop a connection, that’s going to foster that relationship with your patients. Again, I know pro sites is really big on this, and they think this is just the best thing since sliced bread. But I truly think it’s horrible to have this clinical stuff on your website. So that’s my take on that.

Going into your meet the practice page, meet the doctor, I love the family pictures here. Very warm, very inviting. You’ve got a little video here that talks about it. And your bio is in normal people words. Sometimes you look at a dentist bio and it just has lists, and lists, and lists of accreditations and continuing education and memberships, and it doesn’t really say who you are as a person. So I like that it’s a down-to-earth feel here.

I love the office picture. I love the little excerpts here. Something we like to do is actually to put little videos of each staff member next to their biography, or have them say this on video. It really adds a warm feel to your website and lets people get to know you more.

As far as all your procedure pages, I’m not really going to touch on those a whole lot. I want to keep this short to respect your time and not let this drag out. But generally, all the procedure pages are good. You have to let people know what you can do. Make sure you are putting out additional content on these procedures so that Google is indexing you. Content is the currency of the search engines. More content, unique content, that’s how you get ranked higher.

Now here you have actually a link going off your site, which is OK usually, but you’ve got two problems here. One is the link doesn’t work. And two, your webpage just disappeared. So for the person that was on your webpage, now you have taken them off your webpage. Most dentists go, “Oh, well they could click back and go back to your webpage,” but that’s another step they have to take.

I would make sure that when you are doing links off your site that you open those links up in a new page, not in the existing page here. Your webmaster can show you how to do that. It’s very simple. It’s like seven letters from the keyboard and code. It takes five seconds to put together.

Sedation dentistry. Fantastic that you offer that. The oral conscious sedation, so much fear, especially in the older generation that have had bad experiences earlier in life.

Six month smiles. I saw you had some before and after’s here. Make sure you get some full face photos. The teeth photos are great and dentists love teeth, so they put photos of the teeth. But patients want to see your whole mug shot. So I would encourage you to do some before and after face photos and post those up, because that’s the connection people get to you when they are looking around and they go, “Oh, wow. Look how he really transformed that person.”

Inevitably, what also happens is for the before pictures, the patients come in and maybe their hair is not done or their makeup is not on. But when they come back in for that after picture, boy, they are spruced up and they look like a million bucks. The after pictures always look stellar. So I would encourage you to do that as well.

Headaches here, I saw you had this ad. Fantastic. That puts a promotion out there. You might put some kind of tag here on a value or an offer—free consultation, $99 consultation—some kind of hook that’s going to give people something to chew on, so to speak.

50% of your people are going to make their buying decision based on price. 50% of them are going to make it based on value. So I would put something in there that hits on whichever way you want to sell it. We tend to push more towards value because, of course, that’s how you can charge higher fees.

Smile gallery. Love smile galleries. I would hope that, again, you would get some full face photos in here. The stuff of just the teeth, nobody looks at this stuff; very rarely. And when they do look at it, they don’t know what they’re looking at. I’m going to look at the dental implants. Oh, people don’t want to see this. This is horrible.

Showing people this gory clinical stuff with the pockets, and I’ve seen some pretty horrid stuff with puss coming out, it’s just not good stuff that you want to be showing. If somebody has a chipped tooth, or if you want to do a zoomed out shot of the before, or it’s just not so bad orthodontics or whatever, or they have a big metal tooth, that’s OK for an in-close. For a scared patient, a skittish patient, that’s certainly not helping your chances. This kind of stuff, oh man, I wouldn’t put that on there. But that’s my opinion from my experience.

Going into the frequently asked questions. You’ve got a lot of great information here. We like to turn the FAQ’s into a video section. Patients love to watch videos. It’s one reason why nobody reads books anymore. People would rather sit in front of the TV and be told rather than pick up a book and read it.

So we like to turn all the FAQ’s into videos. We see a ton of people viewing them. Of course we get them on YouTube. We get them ranked on YouTube, up on the first page of Google.

Same thing with your testimonials. I see you’ve got a number of testimonials here, which is stellar. Fantastic. I would tell you to flip-flop these. Put the text below the videos. Videos are more powerful. Let’s watch one of these and we’ll see how it goes.

I notice one thing right of the bat here. You’ve got “afraid” spelled wrong, which is something a patient is going to notice.

Attention to detail. I’ve heard practice consultants talk about simple things—mow the grass, have a well-kept office. Present yourselves in a professional way how you want to be perceived. Spelling, grammatical errors, that kind of stuff goes to speak to that. Let’s finish watching this video.
The one thing I notice here is the camera shaking, which it feels like maybe you’ve got it on a tripod. It seems to only shake side to side. But I would really try to tighten that up, because that’s kind of annoying to see the camera vibrating.

Also, I don’t hear a microphone. It sounds like you’ve just got maybe a little flip-cam. You can get some very, very inexpensive microphones that will hook into the audio input. I know I’ve got a small camera that I travel with. It was like $350 for a little handheld camera. I’ve got a hardwire microphone that was like $40. And the audio is tenfold better than when you have the microphone 10 foot back from the camera. You run the microphone up and clip it on their jacket. You can put a very inexpensive video kit together that will get really good testimonials.

The lighting here actually looks pretty good. It looks a little bit bright here. Blown out is the technical term. But you’ve got pretty good lighting.

The other thing I’d tell you to do is to scoot the subject, your patient, away from the wall. When you create depth between the person you are shooting and the background, it looks fantastic on video.

If you’ve got a little bit bigger area, try to scoot your patient out from the wall a little bit and that will really appear nice in the video. Put maybe a little flower vase behind him on his left side or right side. You can really shoot some great videos for under $500 in equipment that is just super simple to operate.

Links and important information. I’m not so big on links pages. This was something that was really big in the late ‘90s when there were no search engines. If you wanted to find another website, you went to a website you knew, you went to their links page, and they linked to other places and you could find related items.

But for the past 10, 12 years now, Google came about in 2000, 2001, people just don’t care about links pages anymore. There’s not a whole lot of SEO value for you for linking to other people. In fact, there’s actually liability for you from an SEO perspective.

If you think of search engine optimization, if you think of what’s called link juice as a bucket, everybody that links to you is putting water in your SEO bucket. Everybody you link to is a hole in your bucket. The more water in your bucket, the more SEO your site has, the higher Google is going to rank you.

So if you are not creating these links properly, which I’ll look at it right now and tell you that you are not, these links here that you are linking to other sites on are actually bleeding off your link juice. So that’s something I’d just get rid of completely. Nobody cares about them. If somebody wants to know something about it, they’ll go to Google and search.

Offers. The quality dental plan, of course that’s getting big these days. I would encourage you to put your offers on every page. Don’t make somebody click here to find your offers. Put them down the side of the page. Make it very easy for them to get to.

Patient forms. Let’s make sure those links work. OK, looks like those links work. Good to have patient forms on there. Appoint requests, of course.

I would maybe get this simpler. Some of this, “best time to call”, I would probably get rid of everything I’m highlighting here, all these options. The more confusing something is, the more options there are, the more chances a patient just looks at it and goes, “I don’t know. I’m not interested right now.” And they go to the next thing.

Patients online have the digital attention deficit disorder—DADHD I call it. I would definitely get rid of this spam blocker stuff down here. There’s a lot better ways to get rid of spam if you are even having a problem with that. Most guys put a spam blocker on here and they really haven’t even had a problem. So I would encourage you to simplify that a little bit.

For your contact page, I would get rid of your email address here. You can post it, but what you are using here is what’s called a mailto link. These were very popular years ago. Well, they still have some use today for people that still use Outlook, or Apple mail, or whatever local programs on their computer might be.

The problem is, if they use Yahoo or Gmail or a web-based email where you have to open up your browser first, these links don’t work. So what I would encourage you to do here on your contact page is to put a form on here just like this. That’s going to allow people just to type their information in, boom, click send and it goes right to you. It makes it a lot easier.

I see your Facebook and Twitter. Like I mentioned at the beginning, I would put those right up here at the top. If somebody wants to go friend you on Facebook of Twitter, cater to them. Let them do it.

Driving directions. Now, you’ve linked to your address here, but you have not linked to your Google Places page. I would make sure you jump out there and claim your Google Places page and then link to that page. In fact, here is your Places page right here.

I would link to this page right here. Instead of going to just an address, send people to this page. They’ll be able to leave reviews. They are able to click right here and get directions. They are able to get more information about you.

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, yeah, put a little button up there for that, too, at the top of the screen.

Suggest categories. Go ahead and set up some categories here. I see you’ve got 69, 70 likes. That’s good. We don’t see a whole lot of business come from Facebook, just by its nature of how it works. Let me go ahead and like you. I’ll give you 70. Same on Twitter. It’s good to have it set up. You’ve got a few followers. I’ll go ahead and follow you there. But we don’t see a whole lot come from social media. I can give you a more in-depth explanation on that if you are interested.

Now, you do have two local places here that both look to be claimed. Both have reviews on them. Be careful with this. This is actually a violation of Google’s terms of service to have two duplicate listings that you’re working with both of them. If you did this yourself or you are working with somebody, make sure you get those merged together. It’s a pretty simple process, but if you don’t you risk Google suspending them both and getting stuff un-blacklisted, unsuspended from Google is like pulling teeth. No pun intended.

I also did a few searches on you. “Temecula dentist”. Found you fourth in the local. Didn’t see anything for you in the paid section and didn’t see you down here in the organic. Let’s try “implant dentist”. Find you here number one in the local again. Didn’t see you in the organic at all. Didn’t see you in the paid listings.

About 50% of your people searching are going to go to a paid listing and advertisement. 50% are going to stay over here on the left-hand side. So I would encourage you to get some visibility. If you don’t want to do the paid ads, definitely work on getting up here in the organic side. Getting in the organic isn’t fast or easy. It is very predictable if you use the right methods. You need to produce a lot of content and do link building. Those two things done with what’s called a White Hat tactic, which is the guidelines Google sets out; you are not doing anything deceitful or devious or illegal by Google terms. And you can get ranked up there in a reasonable amount of time. Content and links. That’s all it takes.

I did some more searches: “Guy Nash bad review dentist”. Couldn’t really find anything. “Guy Nash scam dentist”. I saw your website actually came up here when I searched for scam, which is good. Health grades, Yelp…let’s see what you’ve got going on here. Health Grades, don’t see any reviews here, really. Yelp, been hearing a lot of bad things about Yelp lately. I don’t want to say anything on video here. I’ve had a few clients that have had trouble with them. What I’m hearing right now is I would definitely steer clear or Yelp.

“Guy Nash review dentist”. Yelp comes up, Rate MD’s, Manta, Dr. Oogle. I don’t really see any bad reviews come up here, which is excellent. It feels like everybody has a bad review these days. It’s hard to please everybody. You know, you have 50 patients in your office a day. Inevitably, one of them gets upset that their insurance didn’t cover something and they post a bad review about you. So not having any bad reviews is pretty exceptional.

Let’s go back and look at Google Local “Guy Nash dentist”. Let’s see what reviews you are getting. You’ve got two excellent reviews on this one, six and seven months ago. Two years ago you had an excellent review. Yeah, looks fantastic.

I would get these filled out a little bit more. Get this listing claimed here. Manage it. Get a link back to your site on it. You don’t have to do a lot to generate activity on it, but it’s good to link to them.

That sums up my Swift Quick here. My big action items for you would be to redo the top of the site, get rid of the Flash. Get some more video on here. Video is huge to differentiate yourself to set you apart. Get some contact forms on here so it makes it easier for patients to contact you and get a hold of you.

Let me look at your search engine tags here. Everything looks good here. You’ve got Google Analytics here, which is good. Everything looks pretty good here in the source code. I would encourage you just to make those few changes. I think you can really have a killer web presence that will bring you a lot of new patients in.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. My number here is 888-741-1413. I’m going to put my contact information below the video. Have a great weekend.

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Dr. Alan Jurim – Jurim Dental Group – Dental Web Marketing Plan

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Hey Dr. Jurim. Colin Receveur bringing you this Swift Kick web critique of your website web marketing. I’m going to through all of your web presence and show you what I’m seeing, ways that we can increase patients coming in your door, increase case acceptance, and grow your practice, provide the best care for your patients.

I’m going to start here on your website. I see a number of things I like and a few things that I don’t like right off the bat. The first thing I see is you’ve got here, and then this box right here is Adobe Flash. You can check for yourself and see that it’s Flash by right-clicking on it. You see it says Adobe Flash Player here and then up here at the top as well.

Adobe Flash was very popular five, 10 years ago. All technology comes and goes. Adobe Flash is not compatible with any Apple devices. So any iPods, iPads, iPhones that are looking at your website are not going to be able to see this Flash. It’s just going to be a big blank spot on your website.

What you also have is Google cannot read Flash. So when Google comes on your site and they are trying to index you, trying to see what’s going on here, they are not able to read any of this.

I do like this little dropdown here. I just wish it wasn’t done in Flash. There’s a lot of ways to do this with HTML 5 and other technologies that will be Apple friendly and Google friendly and provide this identical experience here.

One small change I’d make is I would like to see this Facebook logo made blue. That’s a pretty trademarked thing with Facebook and people will recognize that. I do see you’ve got the Like button here up above. I’m going to go ahead and like your Facebook page and follow you on there.

Your navigation is very clearly defined here. It looks like when I clicked home it took me to a different home page. You’ve got your phone number right here at the top. You’ve got your fax number right here at the top. I don’t know that a fax number is that important to have at the top of your site, but that’s good you have it there.

Let’s go in here and click through some pages and see what we’ve got here. Of course you’ve got this moving banner animation here on the top of each page. We’ve done a lot of studies with this over the years. Yours is less animated than a lot of the ones we see. A lot of the really animated ones are really, really detrimental to conversion—getting patients to come to your websites and take action, because people get kind of mesmerized by it, I think.

With yours here, it’s not as in motion, but it still has some motion there and it distracts people from doing, really, what you want them to do.

I do like this news area here. This is kind of cool. I guess that’s tracking some blogs and some other new items that you have coming out. I really like that. That’s going to grab people’s attention and show them what’s going on with your practice.

As far as your services here, pretty basic. You tell people what you have to offer. If you are wanting to show up in the searches for more search terms and get more visibility, you need to have more content.

Right now your website has 17 pages, which is nothing. All new websites we are doing right now we’re putting out with 30-40 pages on the day we launch them, and we’re adding anywhere from 10-30 additional webpages every month to augment your website, to put new content.

If you’ve kept up with the Google Panda, Google Penguin changes here in the last 18 months, even in the last three months, content is the currency of the internet. It’s what Google wants to see. It shows Google that you are dynamic, that you are updating your website. If you have a lot of content, they are going to rank you higher.

Going here to your sitemap, I see you’ve got an ASPX sitemap. I don’t see that you have a Google sitemap, which is going to be what Google reads. You might have it hidden somewhere that I’m not seeing, but that’s something that’s going to enhance your search engine visibility as well.

Going into the gallery, let’s see what we’ve got in here. A lot of good before and after cases. One thing I would suggest is enlarge your pictures. Show more than just the teeth. These down here are better than I see with a lot of dentists. The full face; love the full face. That’s what patients want to see. They want to see how you changed them. They don’t want to see that you fix teeth. They want to see how that person has been transformed, how you’ve helped their self-esteem, their smile, and their overall appearance.

These pictures up here that just have the mouth, they don’t have a lot of value, in my opinion, to consumers. Now, as a dentist, of course you love teeth. You want to see teeth. But to a consumer, they want to see the full face.

If you’ve got full faces of these patients, I would encourage you to put them on here. Fantastic stuff. I like the angles here. This is very good, showing patients what they see. A lot of guys just go head on. And a lot of problems, these incisors that are leaning funny, you can’t tell from head on. So I like the side shots going on there.

Moving forward with Our Office, I like the holiday spirit. I wonder if you are rotating this image based on the holiday. That would be a neat trick to do—having your office decorated for Christmas, take the pictures and you can reuse them for years, and years, and years. Beautiful office you have here, by the way.

If you are going to be a high-end dentist, if you are going to put out the perception that you are high quality and not high volume, you have to have a nice looking office. If you want people to think you are somebody, you wear a suit every day. If you want people to think you do high-end dentistry, you have to have a high-end office. And you’ve definitely put forward that perception here. I appreciate that. That’s fantastic.

New patients area. You’ve got a HIPPA notice here. The link works. Let’s see if this download new patient form works here. That works good, too. Press area; fantastic. Keep it up—posting new press about yourself, about your office, what’s going on. I think that’s probably linked here to this. If it’s not, that would be a great way to push out your press releases to every page.

Organizations. This is kind of like the links pages. I’m not big on links pages because nobody looks at them. They don’t have a lot of value. The purpose of links pages 10 years ago was because there weren’t any search engines. And business set up links pages because when somebody came to the website, if they wanted to find related information, that was the only way. You put a links page out there and people could now click and go to other related pages.

Now, one problem I do see here with your links pages is your link juice is being dripped out of your website into other websites.

So if you think about search engine optimization, think about it as a bucket of water. The more water your bucket has in it, the more highly optimized your website is. When you link to another website, you are sending that other website your link juice.

Now, there is a correct way to do it without leaking it out of your bucket, without putting a hole in your bucket that leaks out, and there is a wrong way to do it. Unfortunately, you’ve got it set up here the wrong way.

On each of these pink lines that I’m putting in here, there is a tag, a rel=nofollow tag is the technical term, that should be in your code here. That will keep your search engine optimization from bleeding out to other external sites that you link from. So I would definitely take a look at that and get that rel=nofollow tag in there. There’s no sense in sending your hard earned work out to other sites in the form of link juice.

The contact form, very simple, very straightforward. You’ve got the email addresses posted here that are mailto hyperlinks. So if somebody is using an Outlook or an Apple mail app, they can click, or they can fill this out here. I’m going to go ahead and fill this out and see what’s going on here; see if it works, see if it forwards you to a good page.

“Thank you for your interest. We will contact you shortly.” Fantastic. Looks like everything is working there.

Let’s go check you out on Facebook and see what we have going on. You’ve got a great header here. You’ve got your logo. You’ve got an appointments and a reviews button here. Custom pages set up. Excellent. I love to see that. Too many guys simply just having you coming to their page and they don’t really have anything going on here.

Something else I would suggest changing is instead of bringing them to your Facebook page and showing them your wall by default, I would bring them here to your Facebook page and show them another page. I would set up another customer page that has some kind of offer or information here on it. You’ve got a doctor’s page, you’ve got a reviews page, and you’ve got an appointments page. Set up a fourth page that has information about your practice and maybe offer a free report where people can like you and get the free report or opt-in with an email address and get more information. That will really turn your Facebook page into more of a sales funnel, into more of a marketing tool than just sending people here to your Facebook page where they can look at your wall, where, really, no action is required. It’s usually like a black hole; people come here, look at it, and then they do this—they click X and that’s it.

So far I like everything that I’m seeing here. The one thing I notice here on my screen also is that it’s very narrow. You have a lot of area over here on the sides that is not being used. Typically, we see this on older websites. Screen sizes have gotten a lot larger through the years. As screens get larger, you’ve taken a website that was designed a few years ago for a smaller screen and it looks like this. You have a lot of space here on the sides that is unused.

Newer websites, you can make them wider, fit more content on there, fit more information; more space, more real estate to put you information up out there.

One of the problems that you listed in your application is no conversion. I think the problem you are running into here is that you don’t have a lot of content on your site, for one. You are giving people a menu list of services that you offer, but then you take them to this page and you just give them literally a clinical explanation of what it is.

People aren’t going to choose you based on a clinical explanation of what you can do. People want to know that you are the guy for them. They want to know that you are going to do the job right and they’re not going to have to come back and get it redone in a few years. They want to know that you work not necessarily for the cheapest price, but that you offer a good value. High-end people want more value for the money they pay, and that’s OK. Dentists are able, if they offer a high service, to charge a high price, a price commiserate with the level of service they provide. That is a good value for that particular type of patient.

They want to know that you are not going to hurt them. And they want to know that you are the best person for their needs. If somebody wants to come in and get 10 veneers done, they want to know more than “Veneers are thin porcelain shells that are bonded to your natural teeth to correct crooked, dark, misshaped smiles. Adrian Jurim, NDT invented this cosmetic advancement in 1982 and holds the patent and works personally on each of our veneer cases.”

Well, that’s kinda cool that somebody in your family literally invented the veneer. But it’s not relayed on the site that you are the expert. If somebody in my family invented the veneer, I would have that plastered all over the internet. I would be doing press releases. I would have that right at the top of the site: “Hey, we don’t just do veneers. We invented the veneers. We hold the patent on veneers.”

Here on your site it’s one little line item in the middle of the page. It doesn’t have a big impact, in my opinion.

So having more content out there that answers the questions that people are asking, these questions that are going on in their head: “Will he hurt? Is he the expert? Will it last? Is it a good value?” I would start answering those kinds of questions. More content is going to be the currency that you can work with Google on to get a better ranking. More content is going to give you better conversion.

Video is going to give you much better conversion. Now people can see you face. They can see you talking to them. You are not just words on a page that say, “Click here and I’ll tell you what a veneer is or how I help you.” Now you are a face that’s talking to them.

Video carries with it a way that you can express sincerity, that you can express genuine compassion and concern for their problems. You just can’t do that with words on a page. No matter how many times you type in: “We understand how embarrassing it is.” If you go on video and say that, it’s a thousand times, 10,000 times more powerful than saying it on a page. So if you want to attract that type of patient, video is the ticket.

Offering a way that people can get more information. They might not necessarily want to contact you. Maybe putting together a free report on, “Hey, I invented the veneer. We invented it. Let me tell you why we’re the only guys that can do it right for you.” We have a number of cosmetic dentistry reports that we’ve put together over the years, from working with implant guys on how to have a beautiful smile in one or two painless visits, to Invisalign, to cosmetic dentistry—how to have the smile of your dreams. Taking one of those reports and putting a spin on it with you guys invented the veneer, extremely powerful. Extremely powerful.

I like your logo. I don’t care for this rotating banner here much. As I said before, patients get mesmerized by this stuff and they just sit here and look at it. Even if it does have great smiles, it just doesn’t compel people to do what you want them to do—contact you, download a free report, look at your Facebook page, watch a video—something that’s going to move them through the sales process and convert them into a patient, at least a phone call first.

I did some searches in your area. You are in a very dense area, obviously. You probably already knew that. I did a search for “Woodbury New York dentist”. I found you down here at D. You are fourth. You’ll have to look at how far you are able to attract your patients in. the scale here right now is one inch on this screen is five miles.

Obviously, you know your area. Over here to Brentwood you’re about 6-8 miles away. Over here to Garden City, which has a large population, you are 6-8 miles in either direction. You are probably pulling most of your patients within 2-5 miles. You might be pulling a little bit longer. Dentists that are very specialized are able to pull from longer distances. You’ll have to look at how far you want to market out. You might want to expand out and set yourself up as “Brentwood dentist” or “Brentwood cosmetic dentist”. That’s something that you’ll have to look and decide, “Hey, am I pulling patients? Is this an affluent neighborhood?”

There’s a lot of demographics we can look at as well to tell you where we see good demographics at. Household incomes versus average age in the household is often an important metric. Older patients have more dental needs. That’s just the way it is. With the younger generation, we’ve had fluoride in our water for 35, 40 years now, some areas 50 years. We don’t have the complex dental problems that the older generation has. So that’s always a big metric, looking at where do you want to focus your marketing on here in these areas?

Let’s look at your review page. I see you’ve got a lot of good things here. You’ve already claimed it. You’ve got your picture set up here. Actually, you haven’t claimed it because it says, “Is this your business?” here.

I’m guessing what you probably did is you claimed your Google Places page. When Google Places converted over to Google+, you have to go through and reclaim it. So your extra images are here, the stuff you set up. Your phone number, 9010, that looks correct. JurimDentalGroup.com looks correct. Address looks correct. Your information is correct here.

Five good reviews. Fantastic. You’ve got a lot of information here. But come in here and claim this guy so you can start optimizing or at least have control of this, so when somebody posts a review you find out. There’s nothing worse than getting a bad review and you don’t know about it because you haven’t claimed the real estate.

Finding you here on Yelp, I see that you’ve got a couple reviews. You’ve got your hours set up here. I’m assuming you’ve claimed this. Everything here looks good. Your Google+ page, again, we just talked about that.

Here is a search for “Woodbury New York dentists”. You’re showing up number four on the local search. Your Yelp page is showing up number three. Organically, I’m not seeing you anywhere else. Don’t see you in the paid listings.

So just a quick refresher course, what you have here on this search is right here, these are organic listings. This is the stuff that Google decides what it thinks is best to be displaying here for its customers.

Going down the page, of course over here, this area right here is all your paid listings. And then you have your map here, as well as these with the addresses, and these are your local listings. And then, also you have, down here below this, you have more organic listings down here.

So what Google is doing in a lot of markets is they are splitting their search results. They are putting some organics up here. They’re sprinkling in some local listings, some more organic listings down here. Over here, here is a prime example of Google AdWords Express. Let me explain what this is.

Google has the paid area, which is this section right over here. Everyone on the side is going to be paid. Now, you’ll also see sometimes some paid listings here at the top. It will be in a shaded box. It will be blue, yellow, purple, or gray in a shaded box right here. But in this search, Google has not put any paid listings here at the top. They’ll also put paid listings down the side.

Now, what you also have is AdWords Express, which is a combination of Google’s local search engine, which is this stuff right here with the map, and Google’s paid search engine, which is in the red boxes.

So, what you see here is this guy has this extra blip of information here that none of these other paid guys have. The reason he has that is because it is through AdWords Express. He is able to put more information here on the paid listing.

We’ve been having a lot of success with AdWords Express. One, because it makes you stand out. You are over here on the paid side and it’s got your reviews and your address. It grabs consumers’ attention.

50% of your patients are going to go on the organic side. 50% are going to be on the paid side. I would strongly encourage you to make sure you have a presence in both. Right now you do have a presence right here in the organic, and then you’ve got a presence here in the local listings under this search term now.

The game that search engine optimization companies play is they search for terms that maybe your patients aren’t searching for. Are your patients typing in “Woodbury NY dentist”? Maybe, maybe not. Are they typing in “Woodbury cosmetic dentist”? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe they are typing Maplewood.

So these are things that you have to look at: What are people actually searching for in my area? You can’t just pick an arbitrary combination of words out of top of your head. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don’t.

Here’s another AdWords Express ad, for example. And then what you also have here, you see this yellow shaded box here. These are the paid ads here that Google has put at the top. And then, of course, you also have this section over here of paid ads, and then with this specific ad being AdWords Express.

Now, something else you might notice is here on your map, which is part of the local listings, you have a blue marker here and here, but then you also have red markers all throughout here. Your blue markers are going to be for AdWords Express. Your red markers are going to be just for the local search engine. So these local listings here are going to be these red dots here. Whereas the paid listings that I showed you a second ago for the AdWords Express, this one here, these two right here that have the address on them, those are going to be your two blue markers.

So AdWords Express you get a couple advantages. You get a different color marker. You get more exposure. I can go into more detail on why it’s been so successful recently, but it’s working for a number of reasons.

That really ties up the Swift Kick here. My advice to you would be make it easier for people to get a hold of you. Offer more information. If you want to be known as that go-to guy for cosmetic dentistry in your area, you have to put out more than just what a clinical description of a veneer is and a line item to how your family invented the veneer.

I also found this link here. You’ve got some videos that aren’t working. I’d love to see that stuff fixed. I’d love to see videos on your website.

Here we go. Another website I found for you. Let’s see what this guy is about while we’re here. You talk more about the veneer, how it was invented by your family. Meet the team. I’d love to see some pictures on here of your “Meet the team”. High tech facility, looks nice. Superior quality, laboratory services, photo gallery. Again, I’d love to see full face photos here. That’s what patients are wanting to see. Send us a case. I think this might actually be for a lab. This might be for your dental lab. This might not be patient oriented. In which case, if it’s a dental lab then teeth only pictures are great. I wouldn’t put any of this clinical stuff if this was a consumer website, but if it’s a dentist oriented website, yeah, that’s what dentists want to see. Contact Us contact form. Yeah, good stuff.

What I would tell you to do is back here on this website, grow it. Put more information out here. Get rid of this Flash header—horrible for results. You can use HTML 5 and get the same results with these kinds of dropdown menus without killing yourself with Apple products and Google incompatibility. Lot of content. Content is going to be king. Lot of video. That’s going to take care of your search engine optimization and your visibility. That’s going to convert people. People will see you as a person, not just the Jurim Dental Group that offers veneers that are porcelain shells that are bonded to your natural teeth.

That’s what people want. They want to know you are a human. They want to know you are a person. They want to like you. People do business with people they like.

I hope this has been helpful to you. I hope this will help you to find more of those patients you are looking for and increase the conversion on your website.

If you have any questions or if I can help you in any way, feel free to give me a call. I’m going to put my contact information right here below this video. Feel free to give me a call if you have any questions. Thanks. Have a great weekend.

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Dr. Melissa Miller in Colorado – Dental Website Review

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Hi Dr. Miller and Donna. This is Colin Receveur, SmartBox Web Marketing. I’m bringing you this swift quick critique of your website and your web marketing presence. We talked quite a bit last month and I just wanted to follow up and give you a little bit more idea of an action plan of what we can do to get you guys more patients. Because that’s what it’s all about—marketing that is going to convert into dollars and patients for you.

So let’s jump right in. The first thing I see here is your homepage. I love the warm, inviting picture of Dr. Miller. You’ve got your phone number, your contact information right here at the top. Logo very cleanly done. I know this is a template look with the torn edges here.

Let’s go in and actually look at the search engine optimization and see what you’ve got going on here. I’m looking at the code of your site. I’m looking for your keyword tag and the description tag. What I’m seeing here on both of them is there’s nothing set up here.

So when you are talking about search engine optimization from the perspective of getting Google to index your site, getting Google to trust you, getting Google to even know what kind of searches you want to come to you, these are two important tags that basically are not set up at all. “Keywords go here”.

There’s also a number of other tags, these meta tags, that are missing from here. There’s a meta author tag. It would probably be good to spell out Colorado here in the title. That’s also a very short Title tag. We should probably make this quite a bit longer. I would bring it out here somewhere in the 15-30 word range. Right now you have five words. Somewhere around 15, 20, 30 words max is what I would put there.

Let’s go down through the page here and see what else we find. I don’t see any kind of Google Analytics on here. Google Analytics is a critical tool to show you what’s going on with your website, what kind of searches people are finding you under.

Typically, I’m going to see that Google Analytic tag right here, right above this body tag here. I don’t see any kind of Google Analytics here. That’s something that you definitely want installed on your website so you know what’s going on with it. It’s not something that’s going to tell you whether your website is successful or not, but it is one tool that is going to give you an idea of, “Hey, am I getting the kind of traffic I want? Are people searching for me? What kind of keywords are they searching for that they’re coming to my website under?”

Right here on the front page: “Click here to schedule an appointment”. Fantastic. So many dentists don’t put any kind of direct response metric on their website. You’ve got an email address here, which is click to email enabled.

You do have a bad image down here in the corner. This little bitty image down here probably doesn’t make a lot of difference. Google will de-rank you if your site is not properly constructed—you have bad links, bad images showing up. I would definitely fix it. I don’t think it’s really causing you any harm sitting down there in the corner.

You’ve also got your contact form here. I’m going to go ahead and plug my information in here and see if this works for you. Email verification. I’m not really big on these things. It’s another step that somebody has to go through. It’s kind of burdensome. I know it seems simple. But, so you get a little bit of spam through your website. We’ve done tests where we put in those spam checkers, and while that word here, this one looks OK to read, if I click new image enough, eventually I’m going to get one that is not readable. Two letters are going to run together or they are going to mush or mesh in a funny way and it’s going to be difficult to read, and your visitor is not going to be able to read it, and they are going to get frustrated, and they might back out of the contact.

It’s just something of “why do it?” when a little bit of spam is not that big of a deal. So I would recommend taking that off.

As far as the contact request form here, I love the simplicity. A lot of times they have all kinds of buttons and gadgets and gizmos. You’ve got the vitals—name, address, phone number, email, “When do you want us to call you?”, “What are your symptoms?” I commend you on that.

Hours and location; very simple here: three days a week, 8-5. Of course, you’ve got the Google map here, which I like. I love to see the Google gadget here so you can plug this right in and get thrown off to Google to what’s going on here. I just plugged in the office address and of course we’re 17 ½ hours away.

The other thing I would look at is here on Google Maps you are linking directly to your address. But what I would recommend you do is actually link to your Google Places page.

So here on Google Maps, let’s search for “Dr. Melissa Miller in Colorado”. You’re not showing up. That’s something else that I would recommend to fix. Maybe it’s under “Mile High Esthetics Colorado”. Nope, don’t see it there either.

I would strongly recommend you get your Google Local Places page set up. Get your Google+ page set up. Because this is the most used search engine in the world. Google controls 70% of searches in the United States. Not being found here, this is the search engine people go to when they are looking for local service providers. So when you are not able to be found here within these few searches here…

Let’s see. You are in Lone Tree Colorado. Let’s try this: “Lone Tree Colorado Dentist”. Don’t see you here. Not showing up. Why don’t we go back to the actual regular Google page: “Lone Tree Colorado Cosmetic Dentist”. Looks like here is one of your competitors. Some more competitors here.

Let me give you a breakdown of kind of what we are looking at here. The first thing you see is this shaded box right here that has these first three search results in it. This is your paid ads. This is number one, this is number two, and this is number three. The over here on the side you also have paid advertisements, starting with number four.

Now sometimes, Google won’t display the ads here at the top. Sometimes they will start here on the side with number one. It just depends. Google is constantly testing things, changing things up.
The second thing we see here is we see the map. This is part of Google’s Local Places initiative. And then you also see one map listing right here, and this is number one in Google Maps.

Now, something else I see here which is interesting is here in the paid listings, you see this listing here and this listing here have reviews, address, and phone number in addition to the advertisement, compared to this ad right here that just has a title and the advertisement. Then this one here as well has phone number, address; it’s a much larger advertisement.

That is Google’s AdWords Express initiative. What that is, it’s actually a combination of your Google pay-per-click and the Google Local. They’ve come together and you can actually pay for placement onto…well, here’s actually another one right here at the top. You see it’s got the address and make appointment page, but it’s in the paid listings.

So Google allows you to pay for placement on the local searches, which is an extremely powerful area for finding new patients. It’s one of the best returns on investment that we’re doing right now. You get this little blue marker up here on the map as opposed to the unpaid ones are red. So you get to stand out.

So you’ve got the paid listings. You’ve got the local listings. You have the AdWords Express listings that Google kinda sprinkles in there. And then the last area you have is these listings right here. These are actually the organic listings. This is Google’s traditional search engine. When you hear about getting ranked in the organic searches, this is where you are at down here.

It’s not the most best ROI in today’s market, but it is something that you want to look at when you are trying to get listed up in Google.

Now, here is something else that Google is doing. You’ve got your local listings here. Organic listing, local listing in green, and then Google comes back and they put more local listings down here.

So Google is constantly testing things trying to see what motivates their customers the best. You are not Google’s customer. You are Google’s vendor. You are buying advertisement and you are wanting Google to place you in front of their customers. But their customers are the people searching.

So Google is constantly flipping this around and trying to see what works best. Right now, as you scroll up and down you will see this map stays with the page, this map up here in the corner. So as we scroll down, now here’s the bottom of the local results. So you still have the map up here at the top. You have these local results here. And then here’s Google sprinkling in some more organic results down here.

So they are testing things, trying to find out what works the best. So what works six months ago doesn’t work today. But the cosmetic cases, crown and bridge type dentistry that you are looking for, you have to be seen out here on the internet. These are the different search engines that you can be seen on: the local search, the paid search, the organic search, the AdWords Express search. You also have a mobile search engine that Google is pushing these days; people searching from their iPads, iPhones, tablets, things like that.

One thing I noticed, I did a search for your reputation, trying to see what is out there. I did find you on Wellness.com here. It says you have one review, a four star review. It doesn’t look like you’ve claimed this listing, though.

And by that, what you can do on these review sites is come out here and click to update your profile: “Are you Melissa A. Miller, DDS?” You can claim that as yours. What that will allow you to do is you can edit the information. Say this phone number is wrong. It very well could be. We see a lot of dentists that have these directory listings that the information is wrong because they are just syndicating information from wherever they can find it, and oftentimes it’s an old number of they just flat out syndicated the wrong information.

Reach out and claim this. Get this claimed as yours right here. Because if you get a bad review, if you have some bad information on here, now you can get notified about it. So I would highly recommend you do that.

The other thing I notice is, number one, when I search for “Melissa Miller dentist Colorado” is a Ponzi scheme that it looks like you were the victim of. While you were the victim of it, I have to say I’m not sure that having this number one when a customer comes here and searches for your name is in the best interesting of your dental practice.

There’s certainly a trend in the country right now of those that have money and those that don’t. The fact that you were able to invest a large amount of money with a Ponzi scheme that you were the victim of, and it says down here on the bottom somewhere, I think, you are involved in a lawsuit with these guys currently, granted this was a few years ago, five years ago, I would not want this…

Let me put it this way. If this was my dental practice, I wouldn’t want this showing up when somebody searched for my name. This wouldn’t be the kind of press and the kind of first impression that I would want my customers to see about me.

Doing a reputation management campaign that would push this down in the rankings…the way I look at things like this that are possibly questionable is: what’s the upside and what’s the downside? On something like this, I don’t see any upside, which leaves only downside for people that find this information out.

So I would encourage you to run a reputation campaign. Things like this can be pushed down in the rankings. Supplement your reputation, your online presence, with more positive information—stuff that you are currently doing, advances, press releases, articles you’ve published. Putting together a content campaign, that’s going to get you ranked up here in the search engines.

Let’s go back to your website. Services. I like how this dropdown here happens. That’s kinda cool. Let’s look at the search engine optimization. Again, here on the inside pages as well, you’ve got a meta description tag. You’ve got your Title tag, which is actually duplicated from all the other pages, which is a big no-no here. I don’t see a meta Title tag. There should be some more tags here that are missing.

So the search engine optimization of your site is not existent. The fact that you created all these pages, the way that these pages are set up is in such a way that I don’t think you are getting the best bang for your buck with the SEO.

If you notice, this address up here at the top does not change as you click through these pages. What that means is all these pages, Google looks at all of these different categories down here as a single page. That’s not the way I would prefer to do it. This address right here is what I’m talking about that’s not changing.

You want to optimize all those different services as individual pages so that when somebody is searching for specific information, Google looks at that and goes, “Oh, Dr. Miller has a page for that specifically on crowns and bridges. This patient wants to know about crowns and bridges. Here’s a page.”

What you’ve got is everything just kind of thrown together all on a single page. Here’s a link that takes you off the site. Now, you did open it up in a new window, which is good. But I generally don’t like to put links offsite, especially without explicitly telling the user that you are taking them offsite. I think it kind of diminishes that trust that you have with them.

Resources, online forms, patient login—all good things to have. Financial information, always good. Office tour; let’s see what we got going on here. Ah, very nice. Great pictures of your office. We like to do video tours where we actually let you as the doctor walk through the office and introduce your office. But these pictures are great. Meet the doctor, beautiful.

Good content here. It’s not overwhelming. Sometimes dentists like to put all their accreditations and CE and everything in there and it becomes an alphabet soup. Very down to earth, very easy to read.
Juvederm takes you off the site again, and the Botox link. I’m not a big fan of that. I would rather have the information on your site. For one, it’s going to give you a better search engine ranking. Having the link off your site, Google doesn’t look at you as an authoritative resource for that information. That’s what you want Google to do, is to look at you and go, “Dr. Miller has got that information. Let me give this link to my customer, the person searching, and we’ll take them to Dr. Miller’s site and Dr. Miller can explain everything to you.”

So yeah, that’s really the rundown of what I see on here. I don’t see any social media links. I’d love to see Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ pages set up. That’s not something that you need to be doing constantly. Some offices get all worried that they have to be posting on their daily and weekly. We don’t subscribe to that mentality. We set it up. We put it out there for you. But we don’t see new patients come from social media. By design, you are not going to find new patients in social media. It’s an internal marketing tool. But I’d love to see that setup, linked here on the site.

I’d love to see some video about you. Video is going to allow you to connect with people. You can put words on a page all day, but video is going to show sincerity, it’s going to express real concern, genuine compassion. You can put on here that you are the most compassionate dentist in the world, but when you are on video and you really feel that way about your dental practice and how you interact with your patients, it comes right out in the video.

Good video is paramount to setting yourself apart, because everybody has a website these days. Most dentists have five or 10 websites. But very few of them have good video. A lot of them have stock video from the templated video stuff, but that’s for another discussion.

I did see one thing in here, crowns and bridges, that I didn’t like where you’ve got some pictures here showing the missing tooth and the prepped crowns. I’m not a big fan of this clinical type information. A lot of sites like to put these clinical videos on there and clinical pictures. You as a dentist, you love dentistry. You got into dentistry because you love it. You have a passion for it.

But patients don’t want to know about how you are going to do the work. They have a few questions in their head. They want to know that it’s not going to hurt. They want to know that you are the person to do the job. You are the expert or you have the clinical skills to do it. And they want to know that it’s going to last and it’s going to be a good value. It doesn’t mean it has to be the lowest price, but value commiserate with the level of service you are going to provide.

The problem with putting clinical stuff out there is that it doesn’t answer any of those questions. Showing somebody how a crown works, they can find this information on WebMD, or Wikipedia, or these titans of information out there on the internet that they can practically self-diagnose themselves with.

So if you had the opportunity to get a patient on your site that wants to know more about crown and bridge, or they want to know more about cosmetic dentistry, take that opportunity to connect with them. People do business with people they like. If your patient likes you, if your prospective patient likes you, they are going to call you and set up and appointment.

So if you can get a patient on your website that will come to the cosmetic dentistry page, don’t tell them how cosmetic dentistry works. That doesn’t help you. Tell them how you can help them. Talk 60% about how you can help them and 40% about yourself; 60% them, 40% you.

Talk about the emotion of cosmetic dentistry. Why do people get it done? Well, they are embarrassed about their smile. They can’t chew foods anymore. Their daughter is getting married and they are tired of carrying their teeth in their pocket. There’s always an emotional trigger behind it—embarrassment or fear. Fear is often the motivator why people stay away from the dentist. But why people come to the dentist, they can’t take it anymore. They can’t chew. They can’t eat. They’re not healthy.

When you get somebody here to look at veneers, don’t show them how a veneer works. Don’t tell them about, “A veneer is a dental procedure placed outside of the tooth. Veneers are usually done to only done to the part of the teeth that are visible when talking or smiling. In two to three weeks it will come back from the lab…”

This is all counterproductive to getting them to call you and getting them to become your patient. Show them cases of veneers you’ve done. Talk about before and after pictures of how it has changed people’s lives. Get patients to go on video and talk about how before they had veneers they would cover up their mouth when they chew or talk, or how they were embarrassed to smile, and whenever there were family photos they just held their lips together.

That kind of stuff is powerful. That’s going to be what convinces people to come to your office, because they see that and they go, “Wow. That’s what I want. I want to be that guy.” They relate. Your marketing is a mirror reflection of the kind of patients you want to attract.

So they see you talking about not smiling at family events and they see your patient testimonials, your patients saying, “I couldn’t smile at family events for 20 years because I was embarrassed about my smile. I didn’t have any teeth to chew,” or whatever the case.

And then they see that and they go, “Wow. That’s me! That’s my problem. I want to go see Dr. Miller. She knows how to fix that.” And that’s what makes people choose you to be their dentist. It’s not that you can show them clinically how a veneer works.

So as far as your overall site design, I like what you’ve got going here. Very clearly defined navigation, logo/information up here at the top. You do have a little bit of space over here on the side that’s empty. Generally, we see this on an older website. Screen sizes three or five years ago were smaller, so you designed the website to fit a smaller screen.

This screen that I am on here right now is a 24 inch screen, which at Best Buy, a 24-inch LCD is under $200. It’s very reasonably priced that any consumer can buy it. So make sure you are taking advantage of this space over here on the side when you redesign your website.

As far as getting more people to your site, SEO, the AdWords we talked about. All that is going to get more people in the top of your funnel. A website with a ton of content is going to convert people into phone calls.

Right now Google has eight pages indexed from your website. Your website has eight pages on it. That’s going to be one reason why your website just isn’t found anywhere. Google wants fresh, unique content. If you’ve kept up with Google Panda or the Google Penguin updates here in the last 18 months to now, it’s been an ongoing major rollout change. Google wants websites that are dynamic, that have fresh, unique content, that it can send its customers to that are going to answer their questions.

Your patients are searching for answers to their problems. If you provide that answer, Google will up-rank you. The websites we’re designing right now have 30 pages right out of the gate. And we’re adding anywhere from 5-30 pages a month, new webpages a month, to their website answering other questions, creating FAQ’s and articles, press releases, blogs. That’s what SEO is about. That’s where you are going to get found by more people, is when Google sees you have more pages, they see you are answering more questions, you have more content on your site, well optimized. You will get ranked higher.

Paid placement. Back here to the search page, 50% of your patients are going to click on these paid ads. I talked to dentists all the time and they say, “Well I never click on the paid ads. I don’t want to advertise there.” Well, frankly, it’s not so important what the dentist thinks about where they want to click. What’s important is what the numbers tell us about where your patients are clicking. 50% are going to click on a paid ad here and here.

The other 50% are going to click on an organic or a local listing here or here. So you want to be in both places. We talk to patients when we’re doing video shoots and we always want to ask them: “Where do you click? Where do you search?” We have some patients that say, “I always click on the local listings because I don’t want to click on the ads, because I know there’s somebody paying for that.” We have other patients that say, “I only click on the paid ads because I think that means there’s a business there that’s paying money, and if they’re paying money, if they are reputable and they are spending money, they must be doing a good job. They are a successful business. They are spending money advertising. They must do a good job. So I only click on the paid ads.”
It really goes both ways. There’s not a rhyme or reason. But I would encourage you to be in both places, otherwise you are going to be losing patients.

That really ties up my web marketing plan—a website with a ton of content, getting your local search set up—you are not really found at all right now, getting your social media engaged, which is not that difficult—you just set it up and link to everything out there, and getting some visibility on the search engines here. I know you just paid to have your website done. I think what you have here is a good start, but you are not going to get new patients with what you have here. I think, frankly, that’s why you came to us, is you are looking at this saying, “Well, we have a website, but it’s still not sending us phone calls.”

I think what you have here is a very good start. It’s the first step. But you are still a step away from having the content, having the SEO, having the advertising that’s going to turn this into a marketing engine, not just a website sitting out there in cyberspace.

If some of these things I’ve said have resonated with you, I’d love to chat with you and see how we can help you. My direct line is 888-741-1413. I’m going to put my contact information at the bottom of the page here. If you have any questions, feel free to give me a call. Thanks for your time.

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“How To Win The Marketing Game” – An Interview with Jonathan Moffat & Max Gotcher

Special guest Colin Receveur from SmartBox Web Marketing talks about how to unlock the mysteries of online marketing. Why are some Dr.’s offices having succes, while most others are struggling.

Has someone promised to get you on the first page of Google search and not delivered?

Take 50 mins and listen to what Colin has to say before spending another dime on marketing that is not getting you results.

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Dr. Gary Michaelson’s Dental Web Marketing Review & Plan

Dr. Gary Michaelson's Dental Web Marketing Review & PlanPlay Now

Hi Dr. and Mrs. Michaelson. Colin with SmartBox Web Marketing. I just wanted to follow up with our previous conversations and put a marketing plan together for you guys; what I’m seeing going on with your website, with your total online presence.

I know we had talked several times about ways that you guys can attract more of the patients that you’re looking for; not the coupon surfers, not the deal getters. I know you’ve done a lot of that in the past and you really haven’t been happy with the results.

So I’m going to show you some things that I see here that are dampening the results you’re getting. I think what you’ve got here is you guys are really presenting yourself as an upscale dental provider. Spa amenities, you’ve put a lot of time and energy into your website. You’ve got a lot of information on here. But I think there’s still a few things that are holding you back and are keeping you from getting the results you want.

I’m going to start off here, come back to your homepage here. I’ve been looking around before I started recording.

The first thing that catches my attention, first off, I like that you have the contact information right here at the top. That’s fantastic. So many dentists don’t have the contact information on the site.

The next thing that I’m not really sure about is this box here. I say I’m not sure about it because I’m not sure what it does for you. It does link to the homepage and to your patient reviews area, which are very important, but the first thing that a person sees when they come to your website is the behavioral studies that have been done show that the person looking at your website actually looks where the people on the website are looking.

So, for instance, if you put this picture right here as the only picture on this page, this picture right here was your centerpiece, people are going to look this way when they come to your website.

Now, that’s important to know for a few reasons. First is because if your navigation is over here like it is, you want people looking this direction, because you want it to be intuitive that people can browse and navigate and find their way around your website.

I think that these people looking kind of straight on, straight on, straight on, all these straight on pictures, it’s a little bit overwhelming for me. And it’s kind of confusing. I did see this actual patient blip up here, but at first glance I didn’t. The first thing I saw was these smiling faces.

The first thing that occurred to me is that they are stock photography. You’ve obviously had a professional come in and take these and they look fantastic. But it’s almost a little bit too much, maybe, in my opinion that you have the six smiling faces up here.

I think there is a great place to do something like this, but I think that you would be better served by taking this box here with your branding, your business, and putting it up here in this area. I would enlarge your address and phone number. I would actually probably put the address over here underneath the phone number in a smaller font. A lot of people don’t really want the address as much as they want to know what number they should call.

So I would put your logo and that information right here. And then over here on this side, maybe have a smiling face or two. You could also have an opt-in box like you have here and put that up here. I wouldn’t do “Sign up to receive discounts and deals”. I would do something that’s educational marketing. Offer a free report. Offer a book . Offer a free DVD.

If you want to attract the types of patients that aren’t looking for coupons and aren’t looking for discounts, if you want to attract the types of patients that appreciate a high level of service and are willing to pay for that service, you have to talk to them in the language that they are speaking. People that want a high level of service want to be educated about their choices. They want to know what’s available to them. They want you to spend time with them and talk to them. And if you offer them information about how you can help them with their problems, putting a free report together, putting a series of emails together that they can opt in right here for, that’s what attracts those kinds of people.

You have your logo over here. You have your free report opt-in here. Frankly, I wouldn’t be opposed to just leaving this area right here as a little bit of blank space, a little bit of white space. Generally, I like to have everything pushed up towards the top because that’s your above the fold area, if you think about the newspaper days. And you want to have all your content above the fold.

But a little bit of white area, properly constructed, you have your branding here, address, phone number, maybe you put a smiling face up here, have a free report, and then I would jump right into the rest of your site, what you have going on here.

The links over here do blend in a little bit. I think they’re good. It is strong contrast. But you’ve got a lot of activity going on, on your website here. You’ve got the six patients up here. You’ve got these four boxes here. You’ve got a box here. You’ve got this free report box here, refer a friend, social media, before and after. Here you’ve got some more boxes here in the middle, boxes over here, boxes over here. You’ve got the main area down here.

It’s a very, very busy website. I fear that you might have patients that are just kind of overwhelmed when they come to it and see all this. Maybe you feel differently. Maybe I’m off base on it. But that’s kind of the way I feel when I come to it.

It’s very boxy. It’s just kind of overwhelming with all the different calls to action that you have on here. Don’t get me wrong. You have to have multiple calls to action. Everybody is going to respond to different calls differently. Some people are going to be spurred to action by a free report. Some are going to want to refer a friend. Most of your refer a friend people, though, are going to be existing patients. They probably will say something in your office or they won’t say anything to you at all; they’ll just send a friend over. Dental insurance, of course, is a big item.

Office tour. I love the video you have here. I’d love to see this video be bigger. More videos. Video is so powerful. Too many dentists don’t appreciate the power of good video. Not clinical video. In fact, I’m kind of concerned that this picture here is somebody in the chair, that this might be a little clinical. Let’s watch it and see. This is great so far.

Yeah, that’s fantastic. The one thing I would suggest is get some patients talking for you. Your patients, when they talk about you, that is going to be kind of a mirror reflection—I call it the Magic Mirror—of the kind of patients you attract.

If you get patient testimonials that say, “He accepted my insurance and he had a great deal, and he’s a nice guy,” you are going to attract patients that are looking for you to accept their insurance, and they get a discount, and they like you.

If you get patients on here that say, “He provides a superior level of service. He does a fantastic job and it didn’t hurt,” those are going to be the kinds of patients that you attract. I see you’ve got a lot of testimonials. I haven’t had a chance to read all of them. So when you are posting, keep that in mind that your testimonials are truly the heavy lifters of your marketing campaign.

The other thing I would do with this video here is you notice the snapshot that YouTube displays is you working in a patient’s mouth in a chair, I believe. You can go on YouTube and actually change the thumbnail that is displayed here before you click play. I’d recommend you change it to something a little warmer. I like to stay away from everything clinical when we’re building out websites and doing any kind of marketing. People aren’t going to choose you based on clinical skills or that they know how you prep a crown.

One thing I noticed here when I was coming in here looking at some of your services pages was that you’ve got some short little videos about, “What is a crown and why do I need a crown? What types of crowns are available? Gold, porcelain, silver, all ceramic.”

Let’s see if you actually do have some Google Analytics installed on here. Here we go. You’ve got Google Analytics installed on here. Fantastic. Here is your Google Analytics code right here. I would venture to guess that if you went into Google Analytics and looked at the code of your site, that the time on page, the amount of time that people spend reading your service pages is extremely low; probably seconds.

Nobody wants to know clinically how a crown works. What they want to know is that you’re going to fix their problem. You are not going to hurt them and you provide a good value. And your work is going to last; you are not a bad dentist.

Clinically, how a clown, or a veneer, or cosmetic dentistry, or restorative, whatever it may be, clinically, how those procedures work, a very small percentage of the population wants to know. And if they do want to know that they are going to go to WebMD or Wikipedia and they are going to look it up. Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia not only in the world, but in the history of the world. Its accuracy is higher than Encyclopedia Britannica. And patients know; if you go and Google, Wikipedia shows up everywhere.

Your website is a tool that present you. Not your profession, but who you are. People are going to do business with you because they like you. People do business with people they like. People are going to do business with you because they know you do a good job and they know you take care of them. They know you are not going to hurt them. They are not going to do business with you because you show them how a crown works.

This stuff is really prevalent on a lot of dental websites out there today. I think it’s the wrong approach to trying to capture more patients.

When you go to take your car into the shop, do you want to know how they change your oil or how they fix a head gasket or a transmission? Or when you have a plumber out to your house because, God forbid, you have some kind of overflowing plumbing problem, you don’t want to know about how the plumber does his work. You just want to know it’s fixed and it works and you are good to go.
That’s the same thing our patients want. I would encourage you to talk more about how you can help your patients rather than the tools you use to help them with.

Clicking on here, before and after’s, I think I actually talked to your wife at length about these before and after’s. I absolutely love these. This is the best before and after gallery I think I’ve ever seen. You’ve got them framed up here. You’ve got the before faces, which is what people want to see. Your patients don’t want to just see the teeth. They want to see how somebody is transformed, how you’ve changed their life. You’ve got the description down here below. If they want the close-ups, of course they’ve got the close-ups here in the middle, before and after.

This is probably the best before and after gallery I think I’ve ever seen. In fact, I’m thinking about changing some of our clients’ before and after galleries to look more like yours. And you’ve got dozens. I don’t know how many you have here, 40, 50 of these. I think that these should be a centerpiece for your website. Put these down the side of a page instead of just having this little before and after blip over here like this. On the services pages when you go to talk about what porcelain veneers are, put before and after’s all over this page.

You’ve got a link here and you’ve got some more videos: “See more Examples”. I’d put them right there on the page. People are so lazy these days when they are browsing websites. It’s this digital attention deficit disorder. We all want the information and we want it right now. I would litter this page with examples of every service.

If you want to talk a little bit about how a procedure works, that’s fine. I wouldn’t go so in-depth here with all this. A lot of these are frequently asked questions: How durable are they? How long will they last? Let’s watch one of these videos and see what you’ve got here.

That’s pretty templated. What we do with these is actually put the doctor on camera and shoot a series of frequently asked question videos, whether it’s about cosmetic, or veneers, or restorative, or implants, or whatever it may be. And we can optimize them and get them displayed right at the top of Google as well. So that’s something that is on the cutting edge right now as far as search engine optimization and visibility goes.

Looking through here, you’ve got an appointment request. I appreciate that it’s so succinct, very simple here. I like this right here. If you watch some of the other videos, I always complain they have these silly write these letters in and type these letters in. You wouldn’t believe how many people are just too lazy to do that or they have trouble reading some of those and they just give up.

Having this simple thing, “You must check this box to be able to send”, I would imagine that cuts out the majority of your spam. And it’s so simple and so easy that most people, 99.9% of them, are probably going to do that. So I like that as well that you’ve been able to incorporate that in a way that doesn’t obstruct the user experience.

Media coverage; very important. You guys are everywhere it looks like. I hope you’ve done some press releases with these. I did do some searches on the internet I’m going to get to a little bit later and talk more about this. But all this press coverage, this is a gold mine. This is stuff that I hope you guys are exploiting in your marketing, because patients just eat this up. They are looking for a dentist that the news is covering, that they can look up to, so to speak, because that is somebody, if you are on the news, you must be a good dentist, you’ve associated with the right people, you’ve done good things, you are doing good things.

We often do several press releases before and after our clients have media coverage to build up momentum, build interest, and ultimately get exposure and build backlinks into the site and bring in more patients.

Spa amenities; good stuff; very popular these days. Patient forms; all good stuff. I’ll make sure these three forms work here for you. That one works, that one works, and that one works. They all work good.

Patient Offers; lot of good patient offers on here. Again, if you post a lot of offers you are going to get coupon cutters. If you are looking for patients that aren’t coupon cutters, you have to use different marketing tactics, whether it’s educational-based marketing, or a free consult, maybe. That is something that a lot of dentists use. A comprehensive new patient exam is something we have a ton of doctors do, oftentimes at a higher price point that this very successfully. So adjusting the price is a great filter to find those patients that are looking for quality and value rather than just the run of the mill.

Financing; good stuff. Care Credit…I hope these open up…yes, they open up in a new window. That’s great. That way it doesn’t actually take you away from your website.

Our blog: Welcome to Dentistry Blog Spot; good stuff. Looks like you are rather current here. September 28th. I would love to see you put out more content. It looks like you are posting about once a week. Our clients, we are generally posting anywhere from 10-40 new webpages a month on their website, whether that’s a blog, an article, an FAQ piece—tons of content is what is going to rank you higher in the search engines. Well optimized content is what you are going to use to entice Google to send you more traffic if you’ve kept up with their recent Panda and Penguin updates. That’s what it’s all about.

Let’s see. Contact form here. Again, I love the check the box. I love the form. What else do we have here? Phone number, of course, hours, send us a message, driving directions. Let’s look at the driving directions and see what we’ve got.

OK. You’ve got the driving directions actually linked to your actual address. What I would suggest doing is linking in here instead, to your actual Places page so that when they click, you don’t just get a little marker with your address. The actual Places page pops up like this and they have the options here to click Directions, Search Nearby, they can click More, More Info. They can see that you guys have reviews. They can see the whole gamut. That would be just a simple link change that I would recommend that I think is a better user experience for you patients.

Going here looking at your Google+ page, I see it’s not been claimed by you. Come here and click this little button right here and get this guy claimed as yours. That is going to do a few things for you. Since you do have pictures in here, and it looks like you have a lot of information in here already, what I’m assuming is that you had your Google Places page claimed before. You probably had done some work to it.

In the past 30 days Google Places has transitioned over to Google+. So we’re seeing a lot of dentists who have their Google+ page, and it has some information in it here, but it’s not claimed as theirs. So you can respond to the reviews. You can’t post more information. You don’t even get notice of the reviews coming in.

Now here is also something that I see here, a poor review that you have. It looks like this patient went into a lot of detail here on how upset she was with you. She was going to consider litigation. This looks like an absolute tirade rant. Wow.

Something like this definitely needs a response. It was reviewed over a year ago, which is not the best that it’s been floating around out there for a year. Bad reviews aren’t about who is right or wrong. This patient might be the biggest pain in the you know what that ever existed. She might be unreasonable and you might be 100% in the right.

But unfortunately, these kinds of patients can come here and post anything they want about you, and there’s really nothing you can do about it.

The best defense with reviews is a good offense. There are two things you can do when you have bad reviews. First is you have good reviews that just saturate your review page and it’s hard to find the bad review.

So here you’ve got two good reviews that have come in on top of it. Unfortunately, you need a lot more than two to squash this one out. The second thing you do is you can reply. Once you claim this page here, you can reply to bad reviews.

Like I mentioned before, it’s not about who is right and wrong with reviews. It’s about customer service. It’s about understanding their frustration. You don’t have to tell them they are right. But you tell them that you are really sorry that this is all happened and you offer to fix it. Maybe you post your personal cell phone number on there and say, “Please call me. I’d like to fix this.”

From there, everybody who sees this poor review on here now sees that you have replied and tried to resolve it to the best of your ability. I think that really speaks volumes for the type of business or type of dentist you are, because everybody has problems. Everybody has bad reviews. But how you handle that problem really speaks to what kind of a person you are.

That’s my take on bad reviews. So I would definitely get this guy claimed, get more information in here, and get those couple items I talked about done.

Get this set up as the link from your website here. I would change that. And when you actually do an embed here, you can embed it with your business name showing up right here inside of it as well. So I would suggest that you take a look at that.

Let’s look at your source code here and see what we’ve got going on here. I see some meta tags. I see the links and the scripts. What you want to do for optimal page loading times is you want all these here that say “link” to be together and all the ones that say “script” to be together. What you have here now, you can see that there are some links and scripts and they flip back and forth.

Another thing that I see, here is your meta description tag. You’ve got your Google site verification. Here is another script down here that should be up here organized. Here is your Title tag. There’s a couple tags here that are missing that I’m not seeing.

A couple search engine tags that are missing could be costing you some ranking. Let’s go look at this page and see if it’s any different. You’ve got your Title, meta description. What you also need to realize with this meta description here, this is the tag that Google is going to use when it’s displaying you in the search results.

So you want to write this meta description to be persuasive. This piece right here is what Google displays right here. Here you are right here: “Our reputation and excellence attracts patients in Orlando,” yada, yada, yada. “Our reputation and excellence attracts patients.” So you see exactly what I’m saying.

Make sure that you are writing that to be persuasive. I’m not saying that this is bad. I’m just saying it’s definitely worth thinking about to make sure that’s the first thing you want your patients to read about you. Because just being on the first page doesn’t mean they are going to read this and click on you. It’s a good step. It doesn’t guarantee it, though.

I do see these tags are missing here from the homepage as well. Here’s Google Analytics. I would definitely get this optimized up here so you’ve got your link and script references all organized. That is going to help your page load a lot faster. Google is now penalizing for slow loading websites. So that’s something that you have to be conscious of.

You’ve got your H1 tags here, which is good. I don’t see anything else that really stands out to me. I’m sure my coding guys would probably see some things that I’m missing here.

I would consider maybe making this a little more direct response, making this say whatever your offer is on the homepage. You said you didn’t want to be so coupon oriented, but if that’s the types of patients you are looking for, I would consider changing this to that. Or if you are looking to market to a higher-end patient with some educational marketing or a $297 complete dental physical type offer, consider putting that in here, because that is the first thing they are going to see you with right here.

They are going to have your Title…so this tag here that’s highlighted right now comes from this right here, and then this part right here comes from this right here. So it reads right off your site. Sorry to get off on a tangent. I just wanted to make sure that was all clear.

I’m going to skip forward to your Facebook. I see you’ve got some extra pages here, a review page. That’s fantastic. I love to see people doing more than just the wall with Facebook. The one thing I would suggest here is that when somebody comes to your Facebook page, Facebook.com/OrlandoDentist, maybe bring them to a page other than just your wall. Bring them to a page that has an offer on it or has a free report signup, or has some kind of coupon, again, if that is the kind of patients you are looking for.

Bring them directly to this review page. But bringing them directly to the wall is a missed opportunity. You can actually create custom pages on Facebook that look just like your website and use them for promoting different things. It becomes more than just posting to your wall. You can actually turn it into a sales funnel.

I found you here on Twitter. Custom background, your image; I think everything looks good on here. And it looks like you’ve got it linked up with your Facebook as well, which is great.
Search engines. Let look at what kind of search engine results you are getting here. “Orlando Michaelson Dentist”, I was just really wanting to see stuff that involved your name. I’m finding a lot of stuff, Yellow Pages, Super Pages, mostly all coming from your website. So I don’t see anything bad coming up there.

I did another search for “Orlando Dentist”. This is where I started to notice that I really couldn’t find you. First off, let me just do a quick crash course in search engine technology.

You have three results here at the top, as well as these guys down the side that are part of Google AdWords pay-per-click. That’s the paid ads. Here at the top you have your local search combined with these items right here. Right here in the middle you have two organic results. And also, down here at the bottom there’s some more organic results that you’ll see when I scroll down the page.

Now, there’s also a fourth search engine at work here that I’m going to mention that we’re using it on many markets with a lot of success. You’ll notice on this map over here there are blue and red markers. What you have, the red ones are the local search. The blue ones are also the local search, but those advertisers are using what’s called AdWords Express.

AdWords Express does a couple things for you. First, you get a cool little blue marker that stands out. And second, you get these little extra blips of information underneath your Google AdWords ads that makes your ad larger, for starters, and second, it gives more information about you. It says there’s reviews posted out there about these different people.

So you can see there’s a blue 1 here, a blue 2, a blue 3, and a blue 4. Those correspond to these numbers up here on the map. Instead of having this guy here that’s just doing simple AdWords, he has a three line ad, this guy has a four line ad, a four line ad. Now you have a six line ad, a seven line ad.

It’s just like old newspaper advertising. The more lines you have the more exposure. So I would encourage you to look at AdWords Express there as well. In many markets it’s very open.

I mentioned that as we scrolled down we would see more of the standard organic listings. Here are those here. This is the end right here of your local listings. Everything from there and up is part of this Google Local listings.

You’ll notice as I scroll as well that the map stays right there at the top. And then, here’s something interesting. Here is actually a YouTube video of myself. I gave a seminar in Orlando in 2009. This is the video, I’m assuming. Let’s click on it and actually see what this is.

Oh yeah. So here is the seminar that I gave in Florida with Big Case Marketing back in ’09. Anyway, that’s kind of funny that’s showing up on your search.

So, on to the next search. I did some reputation searching on you. I found you’ve got some pages floating around out there. You’ve got this page over on Avvo. All good stuff. I would do some searches out there. Make sure you claim these guys. Click here and claim them. That way you are going to get notifications if somebody does something or posts something on them.

I wouldn’t be paying any of these companies, but I would definitely reach out there and claim them and make sure they are yours. That way a competitor doesn’t claim them. That way if somebody leaves you a review you get notification, you can reply to them, the whole gamut.

I think that ties up this website review swift quick. If some of the things I’ve said have resonated with you, feel free to give me a call. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m also going to put my contact information right below this video to make it easier for you.

I look forward to hearing from you if you think we can help you find more new patients. Thanks for your time.

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Dr. John McAllister’s Dental Web Marketing Plan

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Hi Dr. McAllister. Colin Receveur, SmartBox Web Marketing. I got your application in the mail. I appreciate you go to that effort to get that to us.

I’d like to go through this. You’ve got a lot of information here. I’ve been reviewing your websites. I looked over some search results. I see a lot of area where it looks like you’ve got a lot going on, but I also see a lot of areas for improvement, to find you more patients.

I’m going to start right here on one of these websites, the JohnDDS.com. The first thing I see is this rotating banner right here. We’ve done a lot of tests with these rotating banners. These have always been very popular. Dentists love them. You know, scroll some pictures, show some stuff; warm, fuzzy, feels good, aesthetically pleasing.

The problem with them is that they just don’t produce results. It’s taking up your high value real estate above the fold. Every split test that we’ve done marketing with these rotating banners, they have had dramatically less results—less contact forms, less phone calls coming from the websites, just less overall.

This website seems to have a lot of content on it. I did a search for one of these guys I did a search for a second ago. I saw it had 160 pages. It had a good amount of content. You said in the application you had some concerns about the optimization of it.

Something else I don’t like is I hate these CAPTCHA things here. I would get rid of that. It’s just a hurdle that the patient has to jump through.

I notice you have the site in Espanol as well. That’s great, especially for your area. There’s a large population of Spanish speaking Americans.

Going down the page, you’ve got a lot of content here. A lot of stuff going on—services, dentures, partials, implants, perio. You’ve got the whole gamut here. A lot of videos.

The one thing I’ve seen a lot of throughout your website is there’s a lot of clinical videos, which I just don’t have any use for. Some of this is emotion, but a lot of this kind of stuff here, showing how you [xx 2:30] the gums and put the implants in and do all that, if patients wanted to have clinical explanation, they’ll go to Web MD, they’ll go to Wikipedia. There is a small percentage of patients that want to know how a procedure works or what you do.

I saw on one of your websites, this picture here where you’ve actually got the minis here in the jaw. That stuff is going to scare off a lot of your patients. A fearful patient, a patient that has had a bad experience, a patient that avoided the dentist, as a result of avoiding the dentist they’ve lost all their teeth, they are going to see this and they’re going to go, “That’s weird. I don’t want to see that.”

A patient wants to know that you’ve got the solutions. They want to know that you are the man for the job, that you are going to fix it and you are going to fix it right. Just like you go to the mechanic, you don’t want to know how they change the band on your transmission. You don’t want to know how they do a head gasket swap. You just want to know when you pull away it’s going to work.

And that’s the same thing your patients are looking for. But, of course, it’s a much more intimate area. It’s not your car, it’s inside your mouth.

As far as the content going on, on these pages, I’m not seeing a lot of procedure specific content. You’ve got a sentence or two, a video here. This video looks like it doesn’t even work. So you might have some dead stuff here going on. Cosmetic…you’ve got the list going on here.

Let’s check out your About Us page. I want to skim through these sites really quick because I’ve got some important stuff on the backend I want to get to. But I do want to give your sites a quick critique. You’ve listed six of them here. I’m not going to be able to get through all six of them in depth as I like to go, but I’m going to try to hit the high points on all of them and show you what I’m seeing.

I love the pictures here, the videos of all your staff. Fantastic. That’s warm, fuzzy. That’s going to allow people to connect with you, allow your patients know who you are and what you’re about.

Looking at the reviews here…Let’s look here. Let’s look at your code here, switch gears a little bit. If you are going to be linking to pages off your site here, I would definitely put some rel no follow tags in here. That’s going to help you with some search engine optimization.

Technically, you are linking to your own properties, so you are kind of helping yourself and hurting yourself at the same time. I’m going to pick this up on the backend why I am saying this now. I would focus on one web property and start optimizing it, because one of the problems I’m seeing is I’m not finding you in the search results.

You’ve got six websites. You’ve got all this social media stuff set up. But you are just not showing up when I’m searching in your area. I think that’s one of the reasons, after looking through your application, that you’re looking for a new web marketing provider to help you fix that.

Let me keep flipping through here. You’ve got a Twitter page. Real cute. The caricature, that’s good. I’m a big fan of caricatures. It lightens the atmosphere. You’ve got a lot of tweets going on, followers, following. Everything looks pretty good here.

Facebook page. You’ve got some custom pages set up. The one big thing I see on Facebook is that guys do come up here and they set up additional pages, custom pages. You are not limited, actually, to just reviews and appointments. You can set up a completely custom page that you can force the person to click like before you show them the content.

What you’ve done here is you are just delivering everybody to your wall page, which is OK. It’s just not the best way to do it. I would advise you to set up a custom Facebook page. Force them to click like and offer them a reward when they do—a free report, a book, watch a video about how you can help them, or some kind of information.

We’re big on education-based marketing. It’s how you attract elegant clients, elegant patients, not the ones looking for discounts, not the ones looking for the cheapest dentistry in town, but the ones that are going to appreciate the type of dentistry you do and the value that you provide.

I would suggest setting up a custom page. You can design the page, the whole thing top to bottom, completely custom here. Set that page up. Make them like you first. After they like you the page will automatically change. You can give them a free report with a little opt-in box. You can capture their email address, first name, last name, phone number, whatever you want to capture. But that would be one big change I would make there that we’ve seen terrific results with.

LinkedIn, we don’t see a lot of patients over on there. It looks like we’re somewhat connected here. But it looks like we’ve got some common connections going on here.

Here is your laser gun treatment site, which this website looks pretty template, pretty cookie-cutter. I’m hoping some of this content is not templated, cookie-cutter. It looks like these are a bunch of references here; citations for some kind of article you wrote, or maybe a book. I would get rid of all that. That’s good stuff, but I don’t know about here on the homepage. That’s pretty long.

The things I’m seeing here, you’ve got a lot of space over here on the sides. These template websites, they design them to work with everything. There’s no mobile version. There’s no tablet version. It’s just one website. So they make it narrow so it kinda fits on the little screens and it kinda fits on the big screens.

Also, the template websites were pretty popular a few years ago before Google’s Panda/Penguin updates when screens were smaller. Now screens are a lot bigger, as you can see, and there’s all this blank space over here on the sides.

You’ve got some good videos going on here. You’ve got a blog. I found some posts here on you. I’m not sure how recent it is. OK, it looks pretty recent. I hope you are not copy/pasting this stuff. On your blog you need to be writing the content. Copy/pasting blog content isn’t going to give you any kind of SEO advantage. In fact, it’s going to penalize you if you are duplicating content from somebody else’s website.

Clicking through here, this is all good stuff. If it’s not custom written it’s penalizing you. It could be one reason why I’m not finding you in the search results if this is all stock content—stuff you’ve pulled from other places. That kind of stuff isn’t going to give you any kind of advantage with Google.

Post-op instructions, some videos down here. You’ve got a lot of social proof. I love the testimonials. It seems like what you are lacking is the same thing you said in your application—content. All the sites we’re building these days, we’re putting 30 or 40 pages on them right out of the box. And we’re adding somewhere between 10 and 50 additional pages a month, just depending on needs.
You are right outside Los Angeles. You are in one of the most densely populated areas in the country; very high concentration of patients and dentists.

In these web marketing video plans we do, I don’t dive into any of the specific demographics on your area. That would make these videos hours long. I wouldn’t be able to stay in the 20-30 minute range. I like to appreciate your time as well as mine putting these together.

But I can tell you from experience, I’ve been doing this for a decade, guys that are in your area with your kind of competition, there’s a lot of competition. There’s a lot of other doctors willing to spend money to produce content, to do search engine optimization, to put videos together. And there’s a lot to run with.

You’ve got a heck of a start here. You’ve got a ton of video. I had your YouTube page open a few minutes ago. I was looking through it. You’ve got a ton of websites, a ton of content. You’ve got the marketing concepts down. You understand it. You get it.

But the thing I see that you are missing is the content, the ranking, which I’m going to click into here in just a second. A very simple contact form here. Cost of mini dental implants. Very simple here. I would probably expound a little bit more on the cost, talk more about the value. Maybe you’ve already tested this and you know this performs better. But when we talk about cost, we like to lace it with value more than just saying, “Here’s the bare cost,” three sentences and it’s done.

“Free dentures with mini implants”. I don’t see anything wrong with that site. Very small website. Let’s go to the contact page here. Social media links, email address, video, form down here at the bottom. I’d probably move this form up the page. You’ve got MapQuest and Google going on here. Interesting. I usually keep it down to one map program.

Also, here on your Google I see you are linking directly to your address versus actually setting up to your Google+ page. I’d recommend linking it with the embed map to your Google+ page so that when patients come here they can get more information about you, not just directions. From your Google+ page there is a directions button as well. So I like to link to those. It gives a little bit of boost to the social media campaigns.

Here it looks like a very templated Invisalign website, copyright 2005, John McAllister. So I’m guessing this is several years old. Looks like you’ve got some problems here in your navigation. It looks like the site is broken. Not sure I can even see all the pages in here. Good content. Good videos. But it looks like the site is a little bit old and broken.

DentalDowney.com. Testimonials at the bottom. Copyright 2010. Social media links here at the bottom. Videos. Contact page. Again, I don’t care too much for these CAPTCHAS here. It’s just a hurdle for patients to jump over. For the very small amount of spam most guys get, there are easier ways to resolve this than making people jump through a hurdle.

It seems silly. It seems, “Well, why wouldn’t a patient answer that?” But some patients will type in eight, some will put the number 8. Some will use capitals, some will use lowercase. Unless you account for every possible way that a patient is going to answer this question, we see a lot of rejected contact forms and people just give up when we put stuff like that in there.

There’s some good copy here up top. Let’s go to services. Again, if this content is all written by you that’s great. There’s not time on these video marketing plans to actually tell you if the content is all uniquely written for you. But that should be something that you know. If you wrote the content or if you paid somebody to custom write the content, then you are OK. If we run it through Copyscape and we see that, hey, this content has been used all over the internet, this is template, cookie-cutter stuff, Google is going to strike you down. They’re not going to give you any kind of ranking here.

As far as up here at the top, I like the email thing here. The problem you are going to run into with this is not everybody has a local email client anymore. A lot of guys are using web-based email clients, in which case these link to links aren’t going to work.

What I would suggest doing is actually having a link here, and when they click on it, it drops down a little form here with name, address, phone number with a submit button at the bottom that they can toggle up and down. That way it is very accessible, but at the same time you are also making it compatible with everybody no matter what kind of email client they are running.

Let’s go to reviews here. A lot of reviews. Put some of those videos in here. Maybe this is an older site, but let’s see what you got here. It’s got a market but it’s not really letting me do anything with it. I would change this so it actually embeds your Google+ page here. That way people can click on it and get directions. Right now it’s kind of unusable. They can move it around and see it, but that’s about it.

Up here at the top, I like the “Call Us”. I like the links here. Very clear, very easy to see. You’ve got your branding here. You’ve got your “Email Us” link here. I’m not so sure about everything inside this area right here. It’s stock photography. It’s pretty pictures. It’s aesthetically pleasing. But patients know that pictures are bought and sold these days.

I like to put genuine looking real patient photos up here at the top throughout the sites if we are using them. I’m not a big fan of stock photography. I think it looks cheesy.

Also, up here at the top I like to put offers. whether it’s a free report that we have ghostwritten for one of our clients with first name, email, submit, where they can get this free report. We get their email address, and then for the next 360 days we are sending them an email once a month or twice a month. Or, we have some doctors that we’ve set up systems for that go out two or three years sending patients more information—weekly newsletters, monthly newsletters. You don’t want to be a pest, but you want to keep your name in front of them.

Free reports, books, white papers, all that kind of stuff is the gateway into building your tribe. You have to offer patients some kind of carrot to get them to opt in and get them to give you their email address.

One big thing I would say is on your application you mentioned you have not used any phone tracking. I would put phone tracking on every website you have today. There’s a lot of services out there. We offer it. There’s a lot of great providers out there. Take a look around and talk to people. We designed our Zetetics system specifically for dentists to show you what you are getting.
I would run a 90 day trial of every website you have and see what you are getting from it. 90 days is a very generous time span to get a good sample size. You are going to find out, “Hey, this website hasn’t sent me a call. I didn’t get any calls from it in 90 days. I got two calls from this one in 90 days.”

At the end of the 90 days, I would look at taking down the websites that aren’t producing for you at all, doing 301 redirects the correct way to merge those sites together with one of your existing sites, transfer that SEO value over, or building a new site out and transferring that SEO value from that old domain you had into it.

Nothing is worse than a patient finding an old website that’s got old information, and it’s not your best foot forward just because you chose to leave an old website out there on the internet. SEO value, ranking, link building, all that can be transferred to new websites when you do it the correct way with 301 redirects.

One thing I saw here on this site that I didn’t like, first off, you’ve got this big area here at the top that’s blank. You’ve got this scrolling banner here, which I already talked about how those are ineffective. You’ve got this area on the side here that you don’t have much of anything going on with.

And the last thing that I really don’t like, I don’t mind a video that automatically plays. But when it automatically plays, I want it to be front and center where if somebody doesn’t like it, they can quickly click pause or stop.

When I came here to this website, I was kind of confused, and I looked around and it took me three, four, five seconds to figure out you are down here in this corner talking, and the play button kinda blends in. I don’t know. I was kind of annoyed by it.

We test auto-play versus click to play on a lot of our sites. We have different results; different areas, different dentists, different demographics. Younger kids seem to dislike auto-play videos versus an older demographic who seems to like them. That’s kind of a shoot from the hip feeling.

I would get rid of that or make it bigger or put it up here at the top. I love video up here at the top of the page. It instantly jumps out to your people. Put you a video right here or change this testimonial you have here and put your video here. But down here at the bottom, I’m just not feeling that.

I’m sorry I’m moving so fast. I just don’t want to have a 60 or 90 minute video going on here. “Downey California McAllister.” OK, here is your Google+ page, which is something that I definitely want to talk about. 30,60 days ago Google converted Places over to Plus. You are the first dentist in the past seven days that has actually claimed their Google+ page after the conversion took place.

I talk to dentists all the time that didn’t even know it happened. They don’t even know what’s going on with it. Or maybe you set this page up before the change took place. But it’s so important and you’ve done it, and I applaud you for it.

I did see you had a poor response here that you left a review to. I think that’s fantastic. You got a negative review from somebody that had never set foot in your practice. I think your response was spot on.

In this case, generally when people leave bad reviews, it’s not about being right or wrong. It’s about just fixing the problem. It’s customer service. You know, “Please call me. I’d like to resolve this.” In this case, you have no idea who this person is. They were not a patient. I agree that it was correct to go with the right and wrong. “I can’t call you in drugs when you are not a patient of record. Sorry about your luck. You have never stepped foot in my office. Please remove it.”

Of course this person did not remove this review. They are probably not going to remove the review. They were mad enough to leave this negative review in the first place. You responding to them isn’t going to help.

The best thing I’ve found is if you can figure out who left that review…it was left a year ago. The chances of figuring that out now are probably slim to none. I’ve had some success with calling patients and actually talking to them; having one of your staff call, talking to them, apologize. Don’t ask them to remove it, but they’ll feel that and they’ll remove it after the fact. So keep that in mind if you have any more problems with crazy patients.

You’ve got a lot of good information here. Again, the same phone number. I would put call tracking on everything you touch. It’s so ridiculously inexpensive. It costs less to run call tracking than it does to host a website for 12 months. Use call tracking. Find out what is working for you. You’ve got all these properties out there and there’s only one way to find out what works and what doesn’t. You can look at Google Analytics and see if you are getting any traffic, but that’s still just hits and clicks. If it’s not converting into phone calls, that website is not doing you any good. Dentists aren’t Amazon.com where a click equals five cents. You guys make your money off phone calls. Everything converts into phone calls.

Now is the part that I really wanted to jump into. This is where I see the biggest improvement for you to find more new patients or to start finding new patients, wherever you are at in you juncture.

I didn’t see any new patient numbers on your application. A lot of times we have dentists write in around the production stuff what kind of result they’ve been seeing with their current marketing, but I didn’t see that here on yours. Maybe there is a page missing here; I only see four pages.

The biggest thing I see here, you’ve got a local listing here and that’s the only place I’m finding you at. I’m not seeing you in the organic areas. I’m not seeing even your Yelp directories come up. I’m not seeing you in the paid area. So your exposure here is pretty limited.

You are coming up number one here for the Google Local. Let me, if I may, just give a quick crash course, and I’m going to lead into the different types of Google advertising that is available right now. We will start with this search because this is a good example.

What you have here is, of course, you have the paid ads. Google has chosen to put three ads here at the top, and their paid ads also run down the side. Sometimes they put ads here at the top, sometimes they don’t. You’ll notice there is a yellow, purple, blue, or green shading behind the ads when they put them at the top to help identify them.

The next thing you’ve got is the local search over here on the side and here. The third Google search engine you have is your organic results right here in the middle. You’ve also got some more organic down here at the bottom that is not visible right now without me scrolling down.

What a lot of dentists haven’t realized yet is there’s actually a fourth Google search engine that Google is running right now. If you look at these Google AdWords right here, you see, OK, you’ve got three lines, four lines, three lines, four lines. Look at this guy. Six lines. Look at this guy. Seven lines. Google Reviews, address, directions; he’s got this cool little blue popup icon right here. Same for this guy.

If you look up here at the map you see there’s a little blue marker right there. This is called Google’s AdWords Express program. This is one of the hottest areas that we’ve been putting our clients in and have been having great results in most markets.

This is something that is a cross between Google’s local search engine and their pay-per-click engine. It doesn’t cost any more to have it. The ads are priced the same as Google AdWords ads. It’s just a different engine that you set up and configure your advertising with.

With it you get more exposure, you get this little blue icon, you get more lines. You also get exposure when people are searching for you over at local.google.com. When they are looking for a local provider you get more exposure in this as well.

Here is the end of the local results right here. Here is the beginning of some more organic results. What you also have Google doing, you notice there is a video down here: “Gum dentist Downey, California. Dr. Michael Dunker.” One of your competitors, I assume.

This is another search engine that Google is running. And this is pulling videos right off YouTube. If your videos are well optimized on YouTube, you can place videos here. At the bottom of the first page isn’t that impressive. We like to get them right up here at the top. And if they are well optimized, Google will put videos right here at the top above organic, above local listings of you talking, of your patients, whatever it is.

Here is a search for “Downey, California mini dental implants”. It looks like I was talking about a second ago, optimizing your videos, here is one of your videos right here at the top right under the paid ads. Here is your paid ads on the side. There are no local listings on this page. The only thing we’ve got is paid, your YouTube video, and then organic ads right here down the middle of the page. Here is one of the ads Google chose to put a little picture next to.

Google is always trying new stuff. Why they do the things they do? It’s always testing. Marketing is a big experiment, finding out what works, what doesn’t work. You can see here your video is showing up right there number one.

Let’s take a look at it. You’ve got 210 views and you uploaded it about a year, year and a half ago. Now, if that’s true that’s pretty cool– if this is your patient and you have the oldest person to have implants placed.

This is actually a question that we’ve shot with a lot of our docs—Is one too old for dental implants? We get a lot of traffic on these videos talking about how old is too old? We’ve done some press release for clients that have had dental implants and been in their 90’s.

So if you’ve got the oldest patient on record, I would exploit that. I would start doing some press releases, putting stuff out there. These three are our clients here that we had in our green screen studio to shoot that exact question with—part of our Doc TV package.

Here’s another search result: “Downey, California Dentist”. I’ve got you right here. Don’t see you anywhere else. You just don’t have any exposure and I think that’s really what’s hurting you. You’ve got a lot of video. You’ve got a lot of presence out there, a lot of websites. But some of your websites are old. Some of them are broken. I don’t think you’ve ever really had a comprehensive marketing plan put together of what to do on the web and what matters.

I think you need content. I think your video looks pretty solid. My suggestion would be to go through your YouTube channel, re-optimize all those videos, what you have here existing, and see where you end up. See where that puts you. That might put you in a great position that you say, “Colin, I don’t want you to come out to my office and shoot videos.” Or maybe you wouldn’t say that anyway.

But I would go through your YouTube channel and re-optimize everything, or at least check everything and see where things stand. I would start producing new content for you to the tune of 20, 30, 40, 50 items a month.

I don’t know where you want to be, how aggressive you want to be with your marketing, but new content is going to be the currency that you can deal with Google on.

Putting a website together or taking one of your existing websites and changing it with some of the suggestions that I’ve put forward. If you tell me one of these websites is your most current, I’d be glad to do a screen share with you and go through and give you some more definitive answers. I know we hopped through that really quick, and this is already running longer than I want to. I appreciate you hanging with me here. I’m sorry to take up so much of your time.

I would definitely look at the autoresponders—having a way to start building your tribe—a free report, a book, some kind of carrot that you can dangle in front of people and say, “I’ll give you this information on mini implants, or Invisalign,” or whatever procedure you want to push, “and then in return you get the free report. I get your email address,” and we can start dripping on these people two, three years down the road, once a month.

I’m actually going to pull up a drip marketing campaign that we’ve set up for an implant dentist out in your area. Maybe a little bit a way; a couple hundred miles away.

When I talk about a drip marketing campaign, this is what it is. As soon as somebody comes to your website, they see that little report, that little e-book. They enter in their name and email. Then it goes into our InfusionSoft system. The first thing that happens as soon as possible is that report is sent out to them.

Seven days later we send another email. 14 days later we send another email. Let me show you what one of these emails looks like. They are actually coming from you, from the doctor, from your email address. So if they reply, they are replying to you and you can answer them.

They are personalized with the people’s information and they have a bunch of information. They are informative. They are educational. This isn’t sales. This is convincing the person that you are the best option for their needs.

They might not want to spend five, 10, or 50 grand right now on their mouth. But a year from now they might have an inheritance. They might decide in six months that they can’t do it anymore. One of their daughters might be getting married next year. When they find out, they go, “Well I want those pictures to look great. I’m ready to do this.”

So keeping your name in front of them is what it’s all about. Keep your name in front of them until they are ready to buy. I wrote the book on it. That’s the title of my book: “How to keep your name in front of your patients until they are ready to buy”.

With this particular drip marketing campaign, we’re sending an email starting out about once a week. Around day 30 we go to once every two weeks. Day 100 every three weeks, dripping out to 350 days later we are sending out a little bit more than once a month to these people with content, with emails. This is what it’s all about—giving them all kinds of value.

You are the expert. So it’s showing them all the press that you’ve done, your social proof, and convincing them that you are the man for their needs.

So that would be a key component of what I would see with your marketing campaign. So, re-optimizing all your videos, a free report or a book with an autoresponder system behind it, redoing one of your websites or building you out a new website. A content campaign is going to handle all the search engine optimization that you need to put together. And a mobile website. We throw in mobile websites. It’s usually included with all the new websites that we’re doing these days. We also can do custom mobile websites. If you have a need for a completely custom solution we can do those as well.

If some of these things I’ve been saying resonated with you, I’d love to talk with you more. Feel free to give me a call. My number is 888-741-1413. I’m also going to put my contact information here below the video now so that you can access that easily. I appreciate your time, Dr. McAllister. Have a great week.

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Dr. Glenn Vo’s Dental Web Marketing Plan

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Hi Dr. Vo, Colin Receveur, SmartBox Web Marketing. I appreciate your time yesterday. I’m just going to put together this video so that you can share this with your wife and you can show her real-time what we talked about. And I can give you an idea of the kind of ideas that I think would be great to implement on your website to find you more new patients.

The first thing is this banner here on your website. There’s a couple things wrong with that. First is it’s Flash, which is incompatible with Google. Google can’t read it. It’s also not compatible with any Apple device. So your iPods, iPads, iPhones can’t read it either. So it’s overall bad for user experience on Apple devices, inter-compatibility, as well as with Google.

The other thing that we’ve seen a lot with these banners is we’ve done a lot of testing over the years with different website designs, what works, what doesn’t, what makes the phone ring and what doesn’t. These banners have been very popular. A lot of dentists like them.

I mean I agree; they are very aesthetically pleasing. But we’ve done a number of students where we’ve taken and had these rotating banners, and we’ve put them in one design and we’ve taken them out of a design. Maybe they get replaced with a free report here with a little opt-in box where they can enter in their email address or simply enter in some practice information—your phone number and address.

We’ve tested it a number of different ways. What we’ve found is that every time we put a rotating banner in, phone calls and responses drop, and they drop dramatically. I can’t read minds as to why a prospective patient doesn’t react to this, because, by and large, everybody likes them visually.

But the best thing I could figure is that patients just get mesmerized by it. I know I kind of sit here and watch it and wait to see what happens, but I don’t click on anything. When I get bored with it after a few minutes, they click back. So that’s the best explanation I can give you other than just the raw studies that we’ve conducted.

I would suggest replacing this with a still image, one of these images, but just don’t make it rotate. You could also put the free report in here that we talked about with an opt-in for name, email address, maybe even phone number with a submit button. That would be a great addition, I think, that would go right there on the main part of your page.

I also think you could insert some content in here in these two areas. I would also like to see some footer links down here. That’s something that Google likes to see, to have a couple rows of footer links, kind of a navigation area where people can see some other pages on your site. Maybe they are not important enough to have up here at the top, but add some down here.

We can also add in, if you’ve got a lot of patient testimonials, taking those videos. We can optimize them on YouTube for you. We have a video optimization service that I think I mentioned on the call. The website that I showed you from the orthodontist, where we took these videos right here on the front page and made them kind of pop up in front of you for these frequently asked questions.

This is one of the most watched areas of their website, actually. Let me actually show you something very cool that we’ve rolled out to some of our dentists here recently. We have partnered up with Crazy Egg, who has an amazing analytics program.

What Crazy Egg allows us to do is to really drill down into not just what Google Analytics can show us about the pages people look at and how long they look at the page, this certainly doesn’t replace Google Analytics in that respect. But it does show us some pretty awesome things about what they are actually clicking on.

We can do heat mapping where we can see, OK, these people…Look at these links here at the top. These things are glowing. These things are on fire. After we added these, I told you the search engines love them, people love them too. You can see which one of these main navigation links people click on.

This is targeted at a young demographic. Promotions is a big thing, fun stuff. You can see Treatments, Patient Info, Before and After isn’t look at a whole lot. We see these demographics switch when you go to an older generation, targeting implants or more reconstructive work, before and after’s start getting looked at a whole lot more.

You can see these videos get clicked on a good amount here and there. You can see this button right here for the $250 off with his demographic is a hot topic. You can see down here at the bottom, “38 Reasons to choose Orthodontic Affiliates” is a hot item.

Let’s go back to the dashboard and I’ll show you our homepage for curiosity’s sake. This is hour homepage. I was telling you about the buttons approach where we want to answer people’s questions right away. We put these three buttons at the top of our site. You can see the play button right here is clicked on pretty heavily. People want to play the videos.

We’ve tried going back and forth. Sometimes we automatically start the videos for them. Sometimes we don’t and they have to click the play button. But you can see that the play button is clicked pretty heavily.

“Download now for our dental website audit” is another item that’s clicked pretty often. Going down the page, you can see here again, clicks, clicks.

This gives you an idea of what people are actually doing on your website. Getting down here to the testimonials, you can see some hovers over them, and then, of course, down here on the products.
It really gives you an idea of what’s going on, on the website, where the active places are.

We also have scroll maps. Things of fire; the brightest part of the fire is white. You have this table over here on the side that shows you. Here’s 100%. So this area right here is where people spend the most amount of time looking at on our website, going down, yellow, red, green, blue, etc. This gives you an idea of where people are actually looking on the page.

It’s got a cool confetti approach here where it will actually identify every click that ever happened on your website. You can really see where people are clicking. Look at all these people that clicked “Change the volume”. Does that mean the volume is too low, the volume is too high? I don’t know. You have to look at some other metrics to figure that out.

You can see where they are coming from here. 677 of them came from Google. 656 came from our own website, referred to ourselves. We have a lot of them county central—Dental Town, 134 coming from there. 92 from our video marketing that we’re doing from YouTube. PRWeb, a big portion of them, 26 coming from PRWeb.

So it gives you a little insight into some things that Google Analytics doesn’t visualize so easily.

Let’s go back to your website. I would like to see some more content in here. Add some footer links. Do something with this flash here. Definitely get rid of the flash. Either replace it with a free report, a still image. We can put a video in there.

Here’s a website we did for a dentist up in New Jersey where we put a video right here on the main part of their page. Let’s see, what do we have down in your neck of the woods?

Here’s a website we’ve done for a guy in Dallas. This website is a few years old, which is why it’s a little bit dated. But here is an example of the free report that we use on his website. He didn’t actually want to put it up here at the top, so we put it down here throughout the copy. It’s in here twice with testimonials down the sides.

I would encourage you to get a lot of testimonials on there. What we typically do with testimonials is we transcribe them, then we tweak them. We optimize them with the keywords we want to see. We can load them on your website, we can load them on YouTube.

Page 30 in our dental website audit—you can grab this on our website—we give away the formula for how to optimize videos to show up at the top of Google, number one on Google. Of course, you have to do your keyword research, figure it out, but the real secret here is in the formula. Once you figure out what keywords you want, we give you the formula here for how to take those keywords and how to edit your video so that Google will display your videos right there at the top of a search.

That’s something I would suggest you do with those videos you’ve got to make the best use of them.

Let’s look at a couple searches—“Best Denton dentist”, “Denton Cosmetic Dentist”, “Denton Dentist”. NO videos on here at all, which tells me that you’ve got a million search results, 224,000…not really a high number here. Usually I’m used to seeing a couple million at least. 144,000 for “Denton, Texas Dentist”. That’s a pretty small market.

I would venture to guess that there’s not anybody in your area that has done anything with video optimization. If you optimize your videos, Google will display your videos all over the page. I’ve seen them put them right here at the top, number one. I’ve seen them put them right here above the Local Voices. I’ve seen them put them down here in different areas. You are at Google’s mercy, but if you’ve got video on the first page, that’s more real estate than if you didn’t have videos on the first page. And it’s pretty simple, especially when you don’t have any competition.

Looking at the code of your site, of course it’s a WordPress site, I don’t really see anything that stands out to me too bad. You’ve got your Title tag here which could definitely be spruced up a little bit. It tells who you are and what you do.
But this is the part that when you are searching, this line here is going to be this right here. This next part here is going to match this part right here. So “Denton Dentist- Dr. Vo, also a Denton cosmetic dentist, is dedicated to restoring…”, “Denton Dentist- Dr. Vo is dedicated to restoring your teeth and gums.”

Think about changing that and not just saying who you are and what you do, but why they should choose you. Oftentimes we’ll put an offer in that little blip. Because when somebody is searching, it’s not just about being number one; it’s about giving them a reason to click on you.

Yeah, you have to be in the top three statistically for somebody to click on you, but why did they choose the number one position over number two or vice versa, choose number two position over number one? Well, this little blip right here is a big part of it.

You’ve got your site links set up here. That’s great. Typically, that happens when you’ve already verified your site with Google Webmaster Tools. I haven’t checked for that. It takes a little bit of legwork for me to do that, so I’m not going to do that here on the video. But that’s something you also want to look at—get Google Analytics, Get Google Webmaster Tools if you don’t already have that.

I see you are running the All In One SEO pack. Great plugin. Gives you all kinds of flexibility. Here’s Google Analytics. OK, so you do have Google Analytics installed. That’s fantastic.
There’s a couple filters you might want to make sure you have set up. When you come in here to your admin area, click on your profile. You can come up here to Filters. And if you have a lot of problems with Google displaying your…you might have uppercase and lowercase and they’re actually separating the statistics into two different pages, you can run some very simple filters here and convert everything to lowercase. You can run more advanced filters. I can show you how to set up different metrics here. Maybe if you have multiple domains, removing multiple domains from your Google Analytics so that it combines the statistics. So it’s a real clean look and feel.

Also, when you are in here, down here at the bottom Property Settings, you can see under your Webmaster Tools Account if you are synced up with Google Analytics, which is very important so that these two tools are sharing data back and forth.

Back to the website. You mentioned that you thought my site loaded up very quickly, whereas yours didn’t. I can see one reason here why that might be the case. I’m going to highlight what I see.
What you see here is you see a bracket where these link tags and then there’s these script tags, and then link tags, and then there’s meta tags, and then a link tag and then a script tag, and then a meta tag.

This is one reason why your site could be loading really slow. You really want to condense all these into like areas, running all your links at the top, running your meta’s actually above that usually; it’s not critically important if it’s above or below.

Typically, you want all this script stuff, all these scripts, this stuff to be down at the very bottom. The reason is a lot of the script stuff that you are going to run is effects, it’s stuff that can load after the webpage downloads.

So the first thing you want to do is get that page up in front of the person. From there you can load all the scripts, which generally are what take a lot of the time to load.
So here you’ve got more scripts. You’ve got another link. So what you have is when your webpage is getting pulled up, it tries to run this script and it has to run these functions. Then it loads a little bit of style. Then it runs another script and then it loads style. Then it reads meta tags.

When you are jumping all around like this, it really slows down. Here’s another script. So you are running QFont on the site. QFont is great. I love it. I run it on a bunch of sites I have. But you want to condense all this code.

Think of organizing your desk drawer. You put the pens, and the markers, and the highlighters, and the scissors. It’s the same way with your website. You want to have all the code in certain areas, all the link references, all the meta tags, all the body stuff.

There can also be some other reasons why your site is loading slowly. You could have some big images in here. I don’t see anything that throws me off and makes me think that. But I also haven’t looked very deeply into this. I’m just giving you a high level overview on what I’m finding here in your site.

WordPress is a fantastic platform. I would highly encourage you to keep it. We build every new site we’re building on a WordPress-based platform. We call it our Snap Platform like I showed you a few minutes ago. We’ve modified to help dentists achieve what they need best. Basic WordPress doesn’t have all the needs we have. But WordPress is fantastic.

I like the interior pages of your website. I think they’re great. You’ve got a lot of content in here. The area on the side here, I would encourage you to put testimonials in all this. I’m assuming that these blocks over here, they should just be simple widgets.

I’ll fire up one of our WordPress sites here. If you go over here to the left and click on Appearance and then Widgets, this should bring up something that looks like this. If your WordPress is designed properly, if you want to add, say, a custom menu over here…

Same for these blocks over here. Properly designed, these should be widgets. If you want to drop another widget down there, you simply go over here, you drag this over. Oh look, now you have a custom menu widget that dropped up here.

Extremely, extremely easy to work with. I would suggest you make a testimonials widget. I would put it right here at the top. I would put it right there underneath those buttons.
Down here on this page, maybe like on the orthodontics site, we can link all your videos and have a little section that says “Hear from our patients”. Social proof; everybody wants to see social proof these days.

These buttons here, similar to what we did on our website where we’ve got our three most commonly asked questions here. I think that would be a tremendous addition to what you have right here. Make this a few buttons. Give people a call to action over here. Maybe you put a video here. In our video here we actually reference. At the end of the video I say “Click here”. Point to these buttons. That would be a really key way to segment people and really deliver the answers that they’re looking for when they come to your site. Put a couple commonly asked questions over here.
So yeah, a simple redesign. Of course adding in the mobile site that we talked about. I would really look at your Google Analytics on that. Let me give you a hint here. What you want to look at, you pull up your Analytics. Go to Audience. Go to Mobile. And go to Overview.

Right here you can see “Mobile including tablet”, it’s going to tell you exactly how many people are looking at your site.

So for our website, SmartBox Web Marketing, in the past 30 days we’ve had 785 visitors that are not using a mobile tablet. 89 of those are using a mobile or tablet device. So we’re running a little bit over 10%. So if you go to our website, you’re going to see that we have a mobile website.

I set the mark usually at about 4%. 5% is pushing it. If you have under 5% today right now, I probably wouldn’t worry about a mobile site. If you are 5% or over, I would definitely look at a mobile site to accommodate those people.

The mobile segment is going to grow. So if you are under 5% today, or even if you are at 3% or 4% today, you might consider doing it. Make a note on your calendar. Look at it in six months. Look at it in three months maybe. I expect that it’s going to grow very, very rapidly from here on the mobile segment. I mean look at iPads, the tablets, the Androids, the iPhones. That stuff is just record sales. And you look at desktop and laptop computers. They’re at the slowest point their sales have been in a decade. It’s where everything is going, it just might not be to your market area yet.

What’s next? We had talked about creating content. Content with the new Google Panda, Google Penguin, that’s going be your currency to deal with Google. When you want to convince Google that you are the best person for them to display number one, content is where it’s at.

I showed you the article, actually, from our Facebook page about blogging. Here’s the article from Search Engine Land talking about blogging even being applicable to local SEO now, where Google is looking at blogging not only for their organic search engine rankings, but also or your local search engine rankings, which is something that was released four hours ago and said this—November 5th at 2:31.

I’ll give you a quick rundown of the different kind of search engines you are working with. Right here at the top in this highlighted box you have your paid ads. You also have your paid ads here down the side. This is Google’s AdWords section. When you go to AdWords and you buy an ad, this is where you are appearing.

We also have one organic listing right here, which is Google’s traditional search engine. When you are doing search engine optimization, that’s where you are appearing right there. And there’s also some area down here at the bottom that you can’t see where the organic section continues.

Here in the middle you have Google’s local search . That is also linked to this map that’s up here in the corner. You’ll notice this map stays with the page as you scroll; the map doesn’t move.
There’s also one other search engine in here that is the newest addition to Google’s search engine arsenal. That’s the AdWords Express engine. It looks almost identical to AdWords. It’s going to show up in the AdWords areas and it’s going to appear as an AdWords ad.

But one thing you notice is that while your AdWords ads are five lines here, three lines here, four lines, four lines, this guy’s is eight lines. It’s got reviews, directions, address. It’s got your creative, it’s got your phone number, website address, and your title.

You also notice it’s got this cool little blue marker right here, which if somebody is searching in your geographic area, since I’m here in Louisville, Kentucky it’s not going to show on my map, you will also have a little blue marker here on the map that shows up different from the red markers that are positioned around here that are linked to these A, B, and C’s down here.

You get a bigger creative. There’s no surcharge for it. It’s the same kind of money. It’s just a different search engine that not a lot of docs know about that can get you better placement. Of course you are getting placement in the local search engine. You are getting a bigger creative here on the side of Google. So it’s something that we’ve had a lot of success with in currently to maybe six months back.

I mentioned here that below these local results here there were some other organic results, which are here all the way down. As I scrolled down here, these were the local results that we were looking at. And then, of course, here’s your map that, as you scroll down, it continues. But these are all organic results down here.

That’s kind of a run down. 50% of your patients are going to click in an organic area. By organic I mean here in the local or on these organic searches here. 50% of your patients are going to click on a paid ad. Some patients say, “I only click on the paid stuff because I know it’s a business with money. And if they are spending money they must be doing good.” The other 50% are the skeptics, the cynics, and they go, “I don’t click on the ads because that means somebody is paying for it and they don’t have to be any good.” It’s just all across the board. It’s people’s opinions.

So what we found is that generally 40%-50% go paid. 50%-60% go organic. Usually it’s pretty close to 50/50, but there is a little bit of variation between geographic areas, different areas of the country.

I would encourage you to be in both areas. Have a strong presence. We can help you do that if you want to get AdWords express set up or want us to look at your campaign, see if we can improve it in any areas. Our goal is not for you to look at us as a charge every month for your AdWords maintenance, but to go, “Wow. They saved me $700 last month on some negative keywords or on some geographic targeting they did. Or they split tested and they doubled our click-through rate or phone call rate with the work they were doing.”

So that’s where we want to fit in. We don’t want to look at what we’re doing as an expense. We want to add value to your practice and find you more patients.

Content creation. I lightly touched on that a few minutes ago. I would like to see a content campaign set up for your site. Your site has 47 pages on your website currently that Google is seeing. New websites that roll of the factory floor right now that we’re doing have 30-35 pages standard. That’s the base.

I would like to see a lot more content on your site, especially to maintain your ranking going forward. I talked about the content packages a little bit. We have 10, 20, and 30 piece content packages per month, or as needed, that we can add onto your site with doing blogs, articles, FAQ’s. We can also do the press releases that I talked about through PRWeb Financial Release. So that’s something I would strongly urge you to do.

Even if you are blogging yourself, try to blog as much as possible. Make your posts well optimized. Use the keywords that you are finding people to search for you. Google Analytics can give you some insight into that. You can go check out the Google Sandbox and you can do some research in your market area.

This result right here, the third result, Google Keywords Tool. This is a great tool to find out what kind of keywords people are searching for you with. Go in here and dig around and see what you can dig up.

We talked about the mobile site. We’ve talked about the content campaign. We’ve talked about the Google AdWords Express.

Video. We touched on video a little bit on our phone call. I would urge you to look at doing more video for your website. We can show you how to have a semi-professional studio there in your practice with less than $750. We can show you where to source and what kind of equipment you should buy and what kind of stuff is going to work. A good camera that’s not a little flip camp. There’s not much you need—a camera, a tripod, a microphone, a couple lights and a background.

A camera is going to run you $300-$350. A microphone maybe $100 for a decent one. A couple lights at Home Depot with the right light bulbs, $25. A background, you can do something really simple for a couple hundred bucks. And a tripod. What’s a tripod cost? A few bucks. Not a whole lot. $10 maybe on Amazon.com to get a decent tripod.

So I would strongly urge you to look at doing that, not just shooting against a white backdrop. It adds a little bit of interesting stuff into your videos. You can get a background that even matches the dĂŠcor of your website and it will look like it was meant to be that way. That would be where I would go with the video.

Of course we also do onsite video shoots; 1, 2, or 3 day video shoots where we bring our crew to your practice; three guys for 1, 2, or 3 days. Generally, in one day we can shoot 10 patients, 20 segments with you as the doctor or you and your wife—whoever you really want to be the spokesperson for your practice. We can shoot videos with your staff. Sometimes we can do a walkthrough video in a single day. One day is pretty tight.

Two days we are going to be shooting 20 patients, 35-40 doctor segments, 10 staff videos, office walkthrough videos, sizzler video, which is really important. Check out our website to see some of our sizzler videos, or look on our YouTube channel. We just threw a couple new ones in there we just finished.

Our video Elite package, three day. It’s pretty much kind of the hog heaven of video. 30-40 patients, 60-70 doctor testimonials, 20-30 staff videos. In three days we can film all kinds of stuff. We’ve had guys that have walked away with 125-150 videos when we shoot for three days. It’s pretty incredible.

We also have guys fly to us. We’ve got in-studio packages. Of course, the downside is you can’t very easily fly your patients to us. When doctors come to us they are just strictly shooting the educational video—the segments where they are talking with us or with the camera, but we are not able to get that social proof, the patient testimonials, here.

It just depends on what areas you need us to fit into for you.

Of course, the free report we talked about; ghostwriting a report or a book. We also do a lot of hard copy print of those so that when a patient opts in to get your free report, we can give them the option: “Hey, do you want this PDF on your screen or do you want us to mail you a hard copy of this book?”

We just finished up that dental implant book: “You don’t have to live with your teeth in your pockets” for a guy. It’s 100 pages, softback. We designed the cover for it. Real nice book. Stiff cardboard cover. So it’s not really a softback, but it’s not a hardback. It’s a very nice little unit. We’ve done one on sleep apnea too. We’ve done them on a number of topics—cosmetics, sedation dentistry. We’ve got a bunch of them that we can show you some examples for.

The free report or the book is kind of the bait. It dangles the carrot out in front of them and gets people to opt in.

I’ll show you what I mean. The free report sits out here on the front of your website. It says download it. “Enter your name and email.” On the backend, this all goes into our database in FusionSoft, which is an extremely powerful marketing engine because it allows us to drip information out to your prospects over the next two years.

So you have a prospect that has come to your website and they want to get a copy of your free report. So they enter their name and email address and it automatically sends them the free report in their email. Or if they’ve requested a hard copy, we also handle the fulfillment for it, automatically mailing things out for you to make it easier on you guys.

This is an example of a sequence that we have set up for an implant dentist in California. This first email here, this is the sequence that is triggered when somebody comes to your website and opts in for your free report.

The first thing that is done is they get the free report, which is this email right here. Seven days later we are sending them another email. 14 days later another email, etc., etc., etc., etc. 350 days later they are still getting an email from you talking about whatever that subject is that you opted in for.

So in this case, this doctor is talking about sedation in implant dentistry. 350 days later, we have written this sequence that sends out this email about cosmetic dentistry and whitening. This is actually the last email in the sequence, so we kind of spread out a little bit and say, “Well, if you are not interested in implants, here are some other things we can do.”

The first 20 emails of the sequence are all talking about implants—rescuing the fearful and dental disaster patient. You can see here it is sent directly from the doctor. So if you have a patient reply to it, you get the email right back in your account.

But these are all sequences automatically that we can send out for you once somebody opts in on your website. We can do emails. We can do postcards, text messages—all kinds of cool stuff.
The final item here is call tracking. I know we talked about it on the phone how we are using call tracking with all of our marketing. This is the same doctor I showed you that sequence for a second ago, Dr. Matiasevich. This is some of the results that his website has brought him. We have two websites actually set up for him that are bringing him excellent results.

We’re doing a content campaign for him. We’re doing Google AdWords Express. We are doing some search engine optimization. We’re just kind of dabbling around in all the different search engines. So if you go search in his area, you are going to see him everywhere across the search engines. Of course here you can see the number of calls that we’ve been able to get for him over the past 30 days.

That’s everything I have here on my list that we talked about. If you have any questions or if you’d like to set up a conference call with your wife and yourself, I’d love to go through it with you guys and answer any questions you might have and see if we’re a good fit to help you guys out.

My phone number here is 888-741-1413. I’m also going to put my contact information right under this video so it’s a little bit easier for you guys to access. I appreciate your time today and your time watching this video. I hope it helped you guys to find more new patients. Thanks. Have a good one.

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July’s Swift Kick Dental Website Critiques

Dr. David Smith's Dental Website Swift Kick ReviewPlay Now

Dr. Bob Young's Dental Website Swift Kick ReviewPlay Now

Dr. Steve Sutherland's Dental Website Swift Kick ReviewPlay Now

Dr. Leon Peele's Dental Website Swift Kick ReviewPlay Now

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Google AdWords: One Way to Lose $12,329.45

Watch this 2 minute video to see a doctor actually make a $12,329.45 mistake using Google AdWords:

Dr. Richard Gillum's Costly AdWords MistakePlay Now




Hey Dr. Gillum, it’s Colin Receveur here. I actually came across your name on Google and I saw a really glaring error that I wanted to make you aware of. I was searching for another client for ‘Indianapolis dentist’ and what I came across was one of your Google Adwords ads over here on the side. I thought I’d click on it to see what you guys are up to and when I did it came to this page, which means that the address up here in the bar that your Google Adwords campaign is running in is incorrect. So basically what that means is you’ve paid for all the clicks, Google won’t refund all your clicks if you’re put the wrong URL in, so you’re still paying for the clicks, and your patients aren’t even getting to your website. I hope you guys haven’t been running that for very long because that’s definitely money right down the drain.

I hope everything’s well with you guys, I just wanted to point that out quickly and help you guys out from spending a lot of money on some bad Google Adwords. Take care.

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Dr. Tom Bender’s Dental Website Review

Dr. Tom Bender Swift Kick! Video CritiquePlay Now

Hey Dr. Bender, Colin Receveur here at a conference in Destin, Florida for Excellence in Dentistry and wanted to do a quick critique of your website. I know I didn’t actually advertise the critique in the Swift Kick package; it’s an unadvertised bonus that we’re doing to help guys that really want to jumpstart their marketing and to get things going in the right direction. So without further ado I’m going to jump right in.

I’ve looked at your website, I’ve looked over your marketing and I’ve gone through our checklist and I’m just going to point out a couple of things that you might want to look into. I know we had also talked on the phone a little bit about video and things along those lines, so I’ll point out a couple of things that we can help you with or that you can do to improve your website and attract more patients, especially the types of patients that you want.

Looking at your website, the first thing that stands out to me is it is very monotone in color; it’s black and white, you have a smile over here but it’s just, to me, in my opinion, it’s just kind of bland. The big thing I notice is this box right here is all Flash. Let me go to your homepage. This box right here is all Flash. Flash is very nice, it’s very fancy, it looks good but unfortunately it’s not going to work on any Apple products. Apple iPhones, Apple iPads, it’s not going to load on at all and it’s very bad for search engine optimization. Google, Bing, Yahoo!, the search engines cannot read a Flash file like you have here, so we recommend not using it. You can achieve the same effect that you have here on your Flash using other technologies that are very search engine friendly and that work on Apple products and Android products and computers and other things as well. There are a lot better ways to put this together.

The other thing I noticed, I went down here to your testimonials and the testimonials page is blank so I thought maybe that’s what you were contacting us about was to get some video testimonials and get some other things in here. I think this is Demand Force you have here now, this is fantastic, you’ve got all these reviews here that your patients have left you. That’s fantastic. The one thing I caution people about Demand Force is that their service has drastically changed in the past six months. Prior to six months ago Demand Force was able to syndicate their reviews into Google, into the Droogles and Yelps and all the different review sites, local search sites. What Google did is they realized that it was too easy to get good reviews out there and that there was a lot of fraud and things happening, and they wiped Demand Force and Drugal and Yelp, wiped them completely off the map. They do not allow reviews to be syndicated directly into Google.

What you have happening is when a patient is searching for your dental practice, they are going to be searching on Google or on the search engines and now, whereas in the past they would be able to see all your Demand Force reviews, now they do not. That’s one thing I would look into. Make sure you are focusing on getting these reviews into Google. You’re getting them here, that’s the first step, that’s great, but going one step further and getting them into Google is where people are really going to see them at.

Your patient education tab, I didn’t see anything on here, just a little search box. I wasn’t sure if this was filled up or not yet. I would suggest having a lot of information here that people can click on and navigate, rather than just a search box to direct them on to the next place they need to go. Also along the lines of videos with the reverse patient testimonials, we also offer a Doc TV package, a 51 video package that we film with you on straight to camera where you can educate your patients about the types of procedures that you want to offer. To say that a different way is you’re going to attract the patients that need the type of care that you can provide. Our Doc TV package, a 51 video package that educates patients on what you do and how you work, without boring them to death is the key. We try to avoid anything clinical in our education because we find that that just runs people off.

Going back to your homepage, I was flipping through here, I saw your social links. That’s fantastic that you’ve got the social links on here, but I noticed that your blog, when I clicked on Blog, the page that came up was not working so that’s something you definitely want to get fixed. That’s a big thing Google will penalize you for if you have bad links on your site. The Facebook and Twitter page, again fantastic that you’ve got those going, but they looked kind of sparse; you’ve got two tweets here from back in 2010 on your Twitter page so when somebody comes here and looks at this you’ve got one follower and two tweets, that looks pretty stale. I’m actually going to go ahead and follow you right now so now you’ve got two followers and I’ll be glad to keep an eye on it and see what kind of changes you might make here in the future.

On your Facebook page, again you’ve got this set up and that’s great, so many practices don’t even have it set up, but it’s pretty stale, there’s not a lot of activity going on here. You’ve got a couple of things here and there, you’ve got something here posted from January, February and December, September; it looks like once every couple of months, but not a lot of activity going on here with regards to your Facebook page. Something I would recommend doing is keeping that updated a little bit more so that when somebody does go look at it and they click Like, like I just did, they see a little bit more information on there.

Flipping back to your website, I mentioned the video testimonials on your testimonials tab would be very powerful to add. The patient education. The MySpace link here, I don’t see a whole lot of people on MySpace, it’s pretty dead these days. There’s nothing wrong with having it there, it’s just something I wouldn’t add because there’s not a lot happening there. Of course, with regards to some kind of follow up system here on your website, the only method I saw to contact was through this contact form. You might look into adding some autoresponders or some auto-texting systems. I’d be glad to give you some more information on how those work and how they can allow you to keep in touch with your prospects for up to two years after they visit your website.

That’s really the highlights of what I’ve noticed. I also went here and looked at the code of your website and it looks like you have correctly filled out your meta tags and your title tags. This is all very technical stuff, but I just wanted to let you know that I had flipped through here. At the bottom I noticed that you did have some Google Analytics which is good for showing you how many people are coming to your website, but many dentists don’t know how many phone calls that’s generating which is drastically more important than hits and clicks because dentists are in a service oriented industry. Hits and clicks aren’t putting any money in your pocket, the phone calls, cases, consults, scheduled cases started, case acceptance and dollars generated, that’s going to be the path that your patients follow which is a path that you should be tracking if you want to see the kind of results you’re getting not only from your website, but also from other marketing you’re doing; direct mail, TV, radio, newspaper, magazine.

Keep in mind the four pillars that I talk about; visibility, all the buzz words, SEO, search engine optimization, search engine monitoring, your pay-per-click, your local search, your mobile search, you’ve got to get people into your funnel to start. You’ve got to pre-qualify them with video, with patient testimonials, with educational videos, so that they are a candidate for the type of dentistry and the procedures that you offer, that you want to provide. As case size increases you have to follow up with them more, you have to reach out and touch them more because the larger cases require more thought processing, they require more thinking, more time to make that decision. And then of course the tracking like I just touched on; you have to know exactly what kind of money all of your marketing is doing. We look at marketing as an investment, and like any stock or bond or real estate that you might purchase you know your costs basis and you know your profit and loss. I strongly encourage all of our clients to have the tools available such as our Zetetics phone tracking system, to be able to exactly track what they’re getting for it.

If you have any questions I’d enjoy having a conversation with you and see how we might be able to help you. My direct line is 888.741.1413, again that’s 888.741.1413 and feel free to touch base with me or shoot me an email if you’d like to learn more. Thanks for your time.

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Dr. Thomas Lambert’s Dental Website Review

Dr. Thomas Lambert Swift Kick! Video CritiquePlay Now

Hey Dr. Lambert, Colin Receveur from SmartBox Web Marketing, just following up with your Swift Kick SuperPackage. One of the unadvertised bonuses that we offer with the package is a video critique of your website and your web marketing. A lot of the stuff you’re reading and going over in our package, the books, the DVDs, the reports, all that information, I’m going to give you a ten minute overview of how it applies to what you actually have, what I see that I might improve, what I would do and how we can ultimately help you to attract more of the patients that you want to help. That’s what it comes down to; attracting the patients that you want.

I’m going to start here on your website, the AlwaysAboutSmiles.com. First off my first impression is I really like it. I like the gray background, I like the soft colors, the gray-blue scheme is very appealing, very comforting, very cool to the eyes. Immediately my eyes go to the four boxes over here which is good. These two smiling heads here, they’re okay, I won’t say they’re good or bad. I would like to see your phone number up here highlighted a little bit more, and I would consider maybe moving your phone number over to this side next to the other contact information and making it bolder, bigger and a little bit more visible so that people can find it much quicker.

One thing I noticed when I did load up your site for the first time is this header, all these images here seemed a little slow to load. I’m here at a conference right now in a hotel and it could just be the wireless they have provided here, but I would take a look and see if you can optimize these images and make them a little bit easier, a little bit faster to load because people on slower connections like myself or like possibly some of your prospects that aren’t in a city, out in the outskirts of town on a slower connection might have some trouble with that.

I did see this free report down here and I love when I see dentists that have free reports they’ve put together. So many docs think the website is just the end of the road and the patient should call after that. Two suggestions I would make on your free report; one, move it up here into this header, maybe get rid of one of these smiling faces. In my opinion the smiling faces look good but they don’t really add a whole lot to the overall scheme of things. I always do the thumb test; put your thumb over something on the page and if it still has the same message then get rid of it. So consider maybe moving your free report up here to the header.

I always recommend people to get a nice eBook made for their free report. If you go to our website, SmartBoxWebMarketing.com, you’ll see that all of our books have these snazzy looking covers. Yours is kind of plain down here. I would suggest going to like KillerCovers.com and having them produce you, for like $100 they’ll make you a little eBook looking image to stick on your site that’s, no pun intended, just killer. I would consider putting that up here so patients can access it easier, and then also right now you’re giving it away as a free download, consider using an opt-in box, an email box where they have to enter their name to get that free report. Then also you’ll be able to email them more information down the road through autoresponders, through text messaging if they want to provide their mobile phone, or if they go so far as to provide their full postal address you can automatically send them postcards, letters, gifts in the mail, gift cards, flowers; anything you want can be automated like that. That’s just something that we provide to our clients as part of some of our packages.

One of the big things I noticed right off the bat with your site is there’s no video on it. Video is huge these days. Even if you run out and get a flip cam or you grab your Christmas camera and start shooting some patient testimonials, try to get some video, try to get some patient testimonials to your website. We use our Doc TV video package where we script and produce about 51 videos for you, and they’re educational in nature so that you are educating your prospects on what’s available and you’re essentially attracting the patients that want the kind of care that you provide. Use videos to educate and don’t get clinical, stay on the emotional side. Use videos to capture your patient testimonials. We all can talk about how great we are 100 times, but when somebody else says how great you are now that has made a very strong impression. It doesn’t come across as gloating or arrogant, not that you’re doing that, I’m just using that as a reference point for you to think about. So the video, I would definitely make sure to get some video.

I did a little bit more searching, I saw you’re on Demand Force and I commend you on getting on there and starting to capture reviews. Reviews are a very important part of online marketing these days. One tip on Demand Force, and this is a change that was recently made that you might not be aware of, in the past Google allowed Demand Force to syndicate the reviews you get directly into the Google Places. Now what happened is it just kind of got out of control and Google wants their local search engine to have a high degree of integrity, to be very reputable. So what they did is they went to Demand Force and Yelp and Drugal and got rid of it. As of six to eight months ago if you search on our site you can see a couple of blog posts and videos I made about it, it was a huge deal. Google has completely wiped the slate clean of Demand Force and Yelp and Drugal and all those third party reviews.

You’re getting the reviews, that’s great, but also focus on getting them directly into Google Places. I can help you take care of that if you have questions; give me a ring or shoot me an email and we can talk about some different options.

I checked out your Facebook page. Fantastic that you’ve got, okay, my mistake this actually brings up the next point that I wanted to talk about. There is a Thomas Lambert dentist, also in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I know you’re in Pennsylvania and I pulled up his Facebook page here and thought this was you. My next talking point was that you do have another dentist in another geographic area with almost your exact name, other than the middle initial. I would keep an eye on his publicity and his reviews as well. What I’ve seen happen is that I’ve seen two dentists with similar names, one gets some bad reviews and what you have happen is when a patient is trying to research you they just type in your name and in your case the name is almost identical other than the middle initial, something that a patient might not even notice. If this dentist got some bad publicity on the internet, a patient could plausibly search for your name, find the bad publicity, find the terrible review that you have, and think it’s you. Keep an eye on, here’s his website, the guy in Grand Rapids, Thomas J. Lambert, DDS, keep an eye on his Facebook page just to make sure that you maintain your own integrity and reputation.

Back to your website. A couple of technical things I noticed about it, and this was something you might want to talk to your webmaster about. I did not see any tracking code on it. I didn’t see any Google Analytics which is very important for seeing how many people are actually coming to your site, where they’re coming from. But more important than Google Analytics and how many hits or clicks you’re getting is how many phone calls your marketing is generating.

In a service oriented industry like dentistry, the hits on your website are great but it’s not putting dollars in your pocket. I would encourage you to look into using phone tracking in all of your marketing. We’ve developed, specifically for dentists, our Zetetics phone tracking system which allows dentists to track their exact ROI, consult schedule, cases accepted and ultimately dollars generated from any marketing, whether it be internet, TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, billboard and it allows you to see from start to finish, from phone call to dollars in your pocket the kind of results you’re getting. Marketing is an investment in your practice, and like any good investment you have a cost basis and you know your profit or loss. Look at doing some tracking with all of your marketing. Look at using your existing free report and I would add that opt-in here in the top right corner like I mentioned. Move the book up there, get like a killer cover, I think that would look tremendous on your website to have that up there and start gathering those emails, start sending people emails, get a little email marketing going on, start touching people, contacting people.

I wasn’t able to find you on Facebook or Twitter so I would suggest you get a presence on there and start to build your following on there as well. Keep an eye on that other dentist, make sure that he stays in good rapport with everybody online so that somebody doesn’t accidentally mistake some bad publicity he got for you and then ultimately decide to go to another dentist based on that in your area.

Overall I think you have an above average website. So many guys have these template or cookie-cutter things that don’t have a lot of content in it. As far as your navigation here, it could be a little bit more contrasting, stand out a little bit more, maybe simply bolding up the letters would look good, or making the letters a different color. The headlines here in the navigation are kind of bland, Patient Information, Dental Services, Patients Say, Smile Gallery, and then the menus that drop down are much more emotional, Why You Will Love Our Office, My Personal Promise to You, Amalgam Free Dentistry which is becoming a very growing trend, Patient Testimonials. You’ve got these emotional headlines, I would consider putting more emotion into your navigation text links here because that’s what patients see. You’re not guaranteed that they’re going to put their little mouse over it and see the rest of your options, so try to present, first impressions, put your best foot forward, show them everything.

I think that ties up this critique. All of these items that I’ve talked about here, if you have any questions, if you need some help getting video produced, gathering patient testimonials, getting some autoresponders, setting up tracking, whatever it may be, feel free to give me a call. My number is 888.741.1413 and I’ll put that number at the bottom of the page right now. I look forward to seeing how you continue to develop your already great website. I hope you enjoy our Swift Kick package that you purchased. If you have any questions about it or anything that we can do to help feel free to give me a call, shoot me an email. Let me know what I can do for you. Again, thanks for your business and take care.

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Dr. Randall Jones’ Dental Website Review

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Hey Dr. Jones, Colin Receveur coming to you from a conference here in Destin, Florida, sorry for the headset I’ve got on. I wanted to catch up with you and give you a quick critique to go along with your Swift Kick package that you bought from us recently and show you how what you’re reading about, what you’re listening to implements into your website and your web marketing campaign as it relates to finding you the new patients that you want to attract.

Let me jump right in and get started. I did some searches for you online and found this website here that I’ll talk a little bit about, and I’ve got some other pages too that I’m going to touch on. The one thing that I noticed here is that when I click on the Welcome button the site breaks, it doesn’t work so I’m going to click back and we’re going to go back to your site.

I see a number of things here that I’m not sure that I would include if I was designing this site. First off is the search box here. In my opinion it’s confusing because when somebody’s on your website they’ve already found you, they don’t need to search. Your navigation should be clear enough and well structured enough that they don’t have to search to find what they need. In today’s world, people have digital attention deficit disorder and what that means is they want what they want right now and they don’t want to have to search and look for it again. I would encourage you to make your website more consumer friendly, patient friendly, that they can find what they want without having to use this search feature.

I noticed your phone number was here big and white, that’s great. You might even consider moving it up here in this top area so it’s even higher and more visible on the page. This whole area here with the picture and the toothbrush and the logo, it doesn’t really add a whole lot. It’s pretty but I would consider condensing that and moving that up to the top of your page here where it doesn’t occupy valuable real estate and you can put other things there such as a newsletter opt-in or free report or your map and directions. Try to scoot everything up the page as best you can.

I noticed on the newsletter opt-in you had a feature here that people can check in to get your newsletter. I’m going to have to apologize, I don’t remember exactly which page it’s on, but what I noticed was that they had to click twice before they could even enter in their email address to get on your newsletter. Here it is, check out our smile week newsletter. So we click here once, and then we have to click here again to subscribe and then we can enter in the information. I would definitely cut out both those clicks. Put the little box here for their email address right here on the front page and don’t require that they put their first or last name in, that’s just a barrier of entry. What you’re trying to do is you’re trying to get people that are interested into your list so that you can drip information out to them, drip videos, drip content, stuff that is useful to them. So I would suggest definitely putting that right on your website so people can do that easier.

I did a little bit more searching and I found this DrRandallJones.com, but the website didn’t work at all. I’m not sure what’s going on there. Then I did a little looking on Facebook and I found this Facebook page here, but it looks like it’s been pretty idle for a long time. January 2011 back here it looks like you made a post, but it looks pretty stale to me.

A couple more quick points on this; I saw that I couldn’t find you on Twitter. One big thing on your website is there’s no video anywhere that I could find. No video of yourself, no video of your patient testimonials, no reverse testimonials so I would strongly encourage you, even if you just get a little flipcam out and start shooting patients in your dental chair, start getting video up on the internet because that’s building your expert status and it’s building your rapport. It shows patients that you are a good guy and you are a good dentist; we all can say that we’re the best at what we do as many times as we want, but the truth is when you have somebody else say it about you it carries a ton of weight and a ton of power.

I noticed this was an AT&T website as well. Typically they only do pay-per-click advertising which gets very expensive. I would encourage you to look at other marketing mediums online other than just pay-per-click such as the local search, organic search, mobile search. Also make sure you’re tracking your marketing. This 870 number you have here, I’m not sure if this is actually a tracking number from AT&T or not but you should be exactly tracking your marketing through not only AT&T but any direct mail, TV, radio, newspaper, anything you’re doing. Make sure you know your exact ROI, your marketing is an investment in your business, in your practice, and like any good investment you know your cost basis and your profit and loss.

There are all kinds of technology out there. We’ve developed our Zetetics phone tracking that is specifically designed for dentists to show them how many phone calls they receive from any piece of marketing, how many cases or consults were scheduled and how many moved forward with treatment and the exact return on investment generated from that specific advertisement. The tracking is paramount.

Another item to look at on your website is a way other than your newsletter, maybe you offer a free report on facial rejuvenation or some of the other services that you offer, a short five or ten page report that gives them more information that they can enter their email address in to get. Then you have their email address, you can drip market them down the road, you can send them some autoresponders once a month for the next two years to keep your name in front of them. As case size goes up that’s going to be exponentially more important to converting those prospects into paying patients.

In my book here that you’ve got, How to Stay in Front of Your Patients Until You’re Ready to Buy, you’ll see a statistic from the National Sales Executive Association that 90% of sales are closed in the fifth to twelfth touch that you have. One touch might be they find your Yellow Page ad or your newspaper ad, another touch might be that they see your website, they watch your video, they get a free report from you, they get some autoresponders from you and before you know it you’ve touched them a half dozen or more times and they’re coming into your office. You look like the expert because you’ve given all of this great information to them and now they are looking to you because you’re the go-to guy for facial rejuvenation or for other services that you want to target patients for.

That’s what all of this is about; it’s about attracting the patients that you want to attract, that you want to help and you want to service and bringing them into your office in a way that they are already educated, they are already informed, they already know what you do, you’re not upselling and pushing that rock uphill.

I just wanted to thank you again for your business, for purchasing our Swift Kick package. If you have any questions feel free to call, feel free to email me. My direct line here is 888.741.1413 and I’m going to put that at the bottom of the screen right now. If you have any questions or you are looking to get some help with some of these aspects we’ve talked about feel free to give me a call and I’ll be glad to talk it over with you and show you what we can do. Thanks for your time.

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