When you’re looking for a new Italian restaurant to check out in your town, or when you’re in a new city, you probably go to Yelp. Founded in San Francisco in 2004, Yelp has become the dominant site/guide for finding local businesses. And, unlike the Yellow Pages of yore, Yelp doesn’t simply provide the static […]
There was a time when “reviewers” were paid positions. Consumer Reviews made an entire magazine empire out of reviewing everything from baby cribs to cars. Siskel & Ebert were the trusted source to tell you if you should bother going to see a new movie or not. Every newspaper in every city and town had a
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At MyAdvice, we’ve always been focused on getting our client practices to rank as high as possible in organic search. Since we’ve been building beautiful medical practice websites and optimizing them for search for 20 years, we’ve seen a tidal wave of change in search itself. It’s interesting to note that the iPhone is only
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At MyAdvice, we’ve been building the best looking, best-functioning medical websites on the Internet for over 20 years. But we’ve never been satisfied with just that. We’ve also made it our mission for those sites to rank in organic search. After all, what’s the point of having a great-looking site if no one’s looking at
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No matter what you personally think of social media, as a practice owner you need to have at least a Facebook page for your practice. We’ve told you that in other blogs. But simply having a page isn’t enough; you have to keep the content fresh and the engagement active. You may not particularly like
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A study conducted by the Journal of Medical Internet Research has given us an insight into how doctors view social media. Even though healthcare social media networks are on the rise, doctors are unsure of the benefits of interacting online in their professional capacity. Many doctors say that the ambiguous legal and ethical implications of
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If you have a medical practice, the odds are good that you’ve heard a digital marketing agency touting “market exclusivity.” However, when it comes to market exclusivity actually bringing you the results you are hoping–and paying–for, the odds are slim that exclusivity is likely to have an impact on your campaign. Market exclusivity is a
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At MyAdvice, in addition to building the industry’s best medical websites and optimizing them to rank in search, we also provide content. While some clients provide all of their own content for their sites, for others we write each page. We also provide blogs that Google’s bots love to crawl and some Facebook posts. There’s
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It seems Facebook is always changing. Considering all of the bad press the social media behemoth has received for fake accounts, false information, and possibly helping to inadvertently sway elections, change would be good. But they’re also continually changing the Facebook Business pages, which means your practice page is also evolving. Here’s a rundown of
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There are 80 million Facebook Business pages out there. Each week two out of three people using Facebook visit a local business page or an event page. And all of those businesses, you included, need to pay attention to a series of big changes the social media monster has in store for these pages. Some
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