North Texas Dentistry Volume 4 Issue 1 Volume 4 Issue 1 | Page 20

practice marketing GETTING NOTICED Why is that other dentist’s website ranking higher than mine? by Neil Rudoff You’ve built or revamped your practice website (or hired a marketing or web design firm to do it for you.) You’ve added photos, content and details about your specific services and procedures. You might have even tasked someone on your staff to do all the behind the scenes online marketing work that is supposed to help your website show up on the first few pages of a Google search. You feel pretty good about your marketing choices. After all, you are a dentist and not an online marketing expert, right? Then it happens. You have some downtime between patient appointments, so you decide to sit down at your laptop and search Google for den