Monthly Archives: March 2008

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Does Your Front Office Suck?

Pardon me for getting right to the point, but statistically speaking, your front office sucks. It sucks dollars, it sucks opportunities, and it sucks prospective patients away from the practice. Now that I've got your attention (and hopefully not offended you), hear me out. I actually took some time to gather data about just how... Continue Reading

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Link Building Strategy 3: Pay

As you can probably guess, paying for links is very controversial! Search engines want links to be an objective indicator of your site's popularity and value...paying for popularity can hardly be called an "objective" way of attracting inbound links. While it is unlikely that Google or another major search engine would punish you for purchasing... Continue Reading

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Link Building Strategy 2: Earn

Earning something that's truly valuable takes hard work. But earning links from reputable and related sites requires something more. You can't just work hard — you need to be clever and maybe even a little controversial to attract the right kind of attention with high-quality links. Consider this: How many hours did you spend yesterday... Continue Reading

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Link Building Strategy 1: Ask

I learned when I was a kid that I'm much more likely to get something if my request is reasonable and I ask politely. That's certainly true of link building. If you read last week's newsletter you know that the goal of link building is to obtain relevant links from trusted sites. So who do... Continue Reading

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