Key Words – Their importance for Dental Web Marketing

A common theme
When you do conventional marketing, by that I mean flyers and leaflets etc you may look for a common theme to ‘tie’ them all together… a way for people to recognise your business amongst the daily influx of this type of marketing.
One way to do this is to use repeating images, fonts, design and logos, these become the ‘glue’ that bind your campaigns together in the minds of the reader, they see your logo, recognise it from last time and your business gets logged in their ‘psychie’ for when they need a dentist… or at least that’s the theory.
So, how do we do this online? How do we find a common ‘glue’ to hold your online marketing strategy together? Well the answer is key words.
Key words are your online logo for the search engines, they are a common theme that should purvey everything you do online. As a logo gets registered in the minds of your readers, so key words get registered in the minds of search engines. A logo gets you noticed, key words get you noticed.
Key words are essentially what people type in to search engines to find web sites, so if I live in Dartford and want an implant dentist, I am likely to type ‘Implant dentist in dartford’ in to a search engine. If you have a practice in Dartford then ‘Implant dentist in Dartford’ should be one of the key words or phrases that you concentrate on… but how and where? The answer is two fold, onsite and offsite.
Onsite
Each page on your website should be optimised for a different key word or phrase, implants, cosmetic, ortho are all possibilities. Your key words should appear in 5 main places:
  1. Page title – this is what the web browser will show as the very top as the title
  2. Page file name – this will be the page itself i.e xyzdental.com/dentalimplants
  3. Headings – each page should have headings and these should contain your key words
  4. Text – the same words should be repeated in the main text up to a maximum of 5% of the page content (use www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php)
  5. Meta Tags – not seen by you , but hidden in the code of the page

Offsite

You should seek to get as many inbound links to your website as possible from as many relevant websites as you can, but be selective. Get links to specific pages using specific key words. So if you have a dental practice in Dartford and you specialise in Implants, then you need to get links to your web page that talks about implants (not necessarily your home page), BUT the link should be in a specific format…

DO NOT use links like this. “To find out more about dental implants in Dartford click here.”

Instead use links like this “Please visit our website to find out more about dental implants in Dartford”

This way the search engines will see the text in the link i.e. ‘Dental Implants in Dartford’, they will follow that link and end up at your website, they will read the title, headings, meta tags and headings in the page you send them to and see that indeed your web page IS about dental implants in Dartford…

…suddenly the search engines have found the common theme that glues your online strategy together, they can instantly recognise you and they can register you in their mind… they can register you on their searches because they finally know what your website is about.

Summary

This is NOT intended to be a comprehensive guide to getting your website found and certainly this is only a few ways to use key words… but its enough to have HUGE impact on your web marketing strategy and will go a long, long way to getting your website found.

Stay sharp,

Mark

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