Sunday, March 21, 2010

Search Engine Optimization Basics For Your Chiropractic Practice - Part 1

By Frank Gordon

When it comes to promoting your chiropractic practice on the Internet, one of the most critical components for achieving success is to get your practice listed on page one of Google. That's because when web searchers enter a search into a search engine like Google, they rarely look past the first page.
How do you get on the first page of Google? First, you have to understand your business and think like someone looking for a chiropractic practice. If you were looking for a chiropractor, what would you enter in Google's search box? What one enters into the search box is called a keyword or keyword phrase. The first critical step in search engine optimization for your chiropractic practice is to decide for what keyword you wish to appear on the first page.
Here's one tip- when searchers are looking for a chiropractor, they will most likely key in the city where the chiropractor is located (for example, Huntington Long Island chiropractor). They also might key in a specialty like "Huntington Fibromyalgia treatment". Keywords like these are called long tail keywords because they are very specific. Long tail keywords are easier to achieve ranking (appear on the first page of Google) than more competitive keywords like the term chiropractor. That's because there is less competition for these more specific keywords. If you searched for the term "Huntington Long Island chiropractor" you would find 284,000 competing sites but if you keyed in the term "chiropractor" you would find 5,550,000 competing sites.
When it comes to search engine optimization basic for your chiropractic practice, there's another consideration when deciding what keywords you wish to optimize for and that's how many people per day actually key in the term. If only fifty people a day use the search term "Huntington chiro" but three thousand people a day use the search term "Huntington chiropractic practice", you would obviously be interested in the second term assuming there wasn't millions of competing sites.
How do you find out how many people use a certain keyword when searching? There are many tools you can use. One free keyword tool is Google's AdWords keyword tool. Understanding keywords, keyword search volume, and competing sites are all critical components of how to get your chiropractic practice on the first page of Google.
When it comes to getting on the first page of Google, here's some good news- local businesses are just beginning to think about getting their business on the first page so achieving this goal is easier than you may think. Another piece of good news is that 28% of all searches conducted on the Internet are by searchers who are looking for local businesses. Now is the time to begin thinking about getting your chiropractic practice on the first page of Google before other chiropractors in your town become aware of this new marketing opportunity. As advertising sources such as the Yellow Pages are used less often to find chiropractors, ranking your chiropractic practice on the Internet will be essential.
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