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Dentists buy other practices all the time. Sometimes they change the name of the practice and other times they keep the name.

I am working with a dentist on a new website because their old one is riddled with flash (and is ugly too)  She has two practices but they have the same practice name. One of them caters to half English speaking and half Spanish speaking patients.

I'm thinking I should create a separate website for each practice mainly because we may want to design the graphics and text for the appropriate patient language probably with a English/Spanish translation button on the website?

For localization, wouldn't it be better to have a url for each physical site?

Suggestions?

One of the dentist that I pitched said he has a dedicated front office gal that does the seo for the office two hours a day. After I showed him my SEOmoz reports including his page titles and descriptions, he said "Where do I sign!"

I just started marketing to dentists. I spoke at a local gathering to about 6 dentists and 3 of them said they were using SEO services. I looked at their sites and absolutely no SEO of anything was performed. They were quite taken back by this. Page titles all the same, no page descriptions etc.

These dentists were paying about $800 per month and some had micro sites set up for them. It appears that this SEO company was using Google adwords to "artificially" drive traffic to the dentist or dentist micro site... and calling themselves an SEO company.

This SEO company was also using tracking phone numbers on both the primary and micro sites. Which I've read can harm local NAP issues.

I'm a bit worried that if I tell these dentists to stop using this company and go with me that the traffic will decrease while I work on real SEO. Maybe I should use adwords too until the "organic" power of SEO kicks in and they cut back until traffic stabilizes?

Thanks for the guidance. Time for more learning! I'll get with their web developer and see if we can make this happen. I guess the next question would be the preference of blogging software. Bloglines, Typepad. Does it really matter as long as there is good content?

These are all great questions.

I was using SEOmoz to look for all the backlinks that our competitors have.  I noticed that an attorney out of Texas who came up #1 in Google for Divorce Attorney had a backlink at typepad and articlebase.(just to name a few)  At the moment, I was thinking that we need to create articles and blogs so we could get the same backlinks they do.  That's about as far as my thinking went.

On your point #1, I called the headline creating backlinks because my goal at the moment is to create more backlinks than out competitors. It just so happens that the backlinks from our competitors with the highest domain authority were typepad and articlebase.

On your point #2, Since I have never set up a blog site before, I'm kind of lost on the best approach.  Sounds slick to integrate it into the law firm website. I am just looking to see what our competitors are doing who are ranked on the first page of Google and emulating what they are doing. The goal would be to do everything you said.

I have seen articles that lawyers have written 2 or 3 years ago still showing up as one of their backlinks . I want to do the same for my client.

I'm on my first SEO project with a law firm. I'm at the stage where I am doing competitive backlink research on other law firms that my client gave me.

I saw a blog site called typepad. It has a high domain authority so I was going to recommend to my client that they set up an account and blog away!

Since it's a law firm, I am not qualified to start blogging on behalf of my client and I know they are extremely busy so now I have to "ride" my client to get busy and start creating content.

I feel like I want to do more for them on the blog side to keep things going but not having a law background, probably not doable.

Question: Do most SEO's do the blogging for their clients, farm it out or keep pushing their clients to do it?

I also want them to sign up with articlebase but the same thing is going to happen. I have to push them to write articles. I guess this is my job?

-Bob

You should be able to log in from any computer.

1. I know this seem obvious but I have created accounts late at night and forgot the password by the next day. Have you tried to log back in to the laptop you used to create the account? Can you get in? If not, reset your password.

2. I have had issues logging into other sites with different browsers. I use both IE, Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari because I do web development  and need to see how each site looks in a different browser.  Make sure you clear your cache and cookies on the browser that you are currently using.

3. If possible, try to use a different browser on the computer that won't let you in. Firefox only takes a few minutes to download and install.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the info Robert. Just finished a night of uploading videos for my client to their new YouTube channel I just setup. Spent a bunch of hours scouring a ton of websites making sure I optimized the videos... doing my due diligence.

I really appreciate your  help. This is my first big client and what is good about it is that they need absolutely everything. Having to learn about setting up all the social media, web content and.. well you know... There is a ton of stuff to learn and I love it! I think that this is one profession that will never get  old!

-Bob

I am working with a friend of mine who is a lawyer. He has one partner and a couple of other lawyers at the firm. The attorneys each have their own Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin ,Youtube and other social media accounts. I am trying to create one brand, which is the name of the law firm.

Question 1:

It would make sense to me to create all social media accounts under the law firm name. Would you agree on this?   I'm worried that users wouldn't use the company facebook page if they are used to communicating to the attorney through their personal accounts.

Maybe I should put the social media links for the firm on the home page only and then put the individual social media links next to the attorney profile page?

Question 2:

The firm has been posting Youtube videos but under one of the attorney's names. I have 16 new videos they want posted and they asked me if they should be posted to a new company name channel (yet to be created) or post them under one of the attorneys accounts?

I think that most attorneys might look out for themselves ahead of the Firm. If they ever change jobs, they don't have a built up social profile if everything is listed under the firm name.

Maybe the way to go would be to help optimize both the attorneys personal profiles and then the firm?

Thoughts?

I have a client (yea! my second one doing seo) who has a law firm. He has a main site and then another site that just forwarded to his main website.

He wants to find all the directories (and other places on the web) where his second site is listed. At the time when he was adding his firm into the directories, he was using his secondary url but now he wants to go back and use his main website.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have a log of every place he added himself.

I tried just searching Google for "mysecondarywebsite.com"  (in quotes)for example but the SERPS return  listings that aren't right.

Suggestions?

Thanks for the help. So much for the balance between flashy web site and SEO friendly.

I'm checking out a dentist website http://www.sagedentalnj.com/

I was referred by a friend so just taking a little peek at it. When you click on the menu items, the url at the top doesn't change. When you view source, the page titles are all the same.

when I do site:http://www.sagedentalnj.com/  none of his pages are indexed by google.

What can be done with his site so that google sees his pages? Maybe submit sitemap?