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It's in a large medical building with about 40 other dentists, plastic surgeons, etc as well..

Hi Miriam! Thanks for the response and great resource! Sorry for the late reply...

To clarify- in this case we will be bringing the retiree's practice under the umbrella of our own AND also be taking over his suite space, occupying both sides of the hall.

Hi Mozzers! I have an interesting online marketing challenge I would love to hear the community's thoughts and advice!

My clients (a dental practice consisting of 3 dentists) are taking over (buying) the practice of another dentist across the hall (same address except for suite #), who is retiring (we'll refer to him as "retiree" from here out for simplicity). The retiree's dental practice has close to zero online presence. He has citations across the web (google listing, yelp, healthgrades, etc), but no website.

My question is: How would you go about consolidating the web presence for my clients? We want to get the traffic for existing and potentially new patients searching for the retiree. The retiree isn't retiring right away. His presence for the next several months will be vital to my clients' success as he will introduce new patients to my clients and pass the torch, so to speak.

Would you create a landing page for the retiree on my clients' website & claim/add my clients' NAPW on all of the citations? That seems to be the best & simplest idea I've come up with so far, but I would LOVE to hear if anyone has any creative thoughts or ideas.

THANKS!

Thanks, Jordan!

Thank you, Patrick!

Hi everyone!

I'm currently in the process of re-branding a website, and am really worried about the SEO consequences of doing so... The site I'm working on has recently been seeing a large increase of organic search traffic (almost 25% each month for the past 3 months)  and I want to do my best to avoid screwing that up in the process of changing the aesthetic of the site.

A couple specific questions I have are:

1. Does changing the stylesheet, but none of the on-page content affect SEO?

2. Would condensing menu items (i.e. putting all services under 1 item named "services") have a positive or negative effect? Neither?

Any advice, tips, or previous experiences on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hey Mozzers!

I have a client who is a dentist, with multiple offices, and wants to use an identical blog post (including images, alt text, text, tags, everything pretty much) from one of his office's website on his other office's website to save time and mimic the success of the original content for his other office.

Everything I've researched says this is a HUGE no-no, but I'd love to hear if anyone else has tried to do something like this and if they were successful in doing so (implementing rel=cannonical or 301?). Also, if he is the owner of both sites and they both receive low traffic will Google even notice? My biggest worry is that if I did post the content on his other site, identically, that it would dilute the visibility of the original post, which has and is continuing to surpass our organic search goals...

The main goal though, is to drive traffic to BOTH sites via organic search using the same content. Would love to hear everyone's opinions if this is possible or unrealistic...

Thanks!

-D

I am employing some schema.org markup for a dental website, and I am wondering what best practice for using markup is.

The NAP is on the footer and on some pages on the sidebar. I was wondering...

1. Should I use schema for the NAP on both the footer and the sidebar or is markup on just one enough? Are there any negative consequences to having the same info marked up twice on the same page?

2. Should I use the itemtype "dentist" or "localbusiness"? Is there an added benefit to either depending how you look at it? My thoughts were that "dentist" is more specific, so that would also imply that it is also a local business...

3. If I use the itemtype "dentist" on the footer and "localbusiness" on the sidebar would that violate best practices or would you get the benefits of both?

Would love to hear all of your thoughts! Thanks!!!

Thanks, Alan! That being said, do you think that for our press page this issue can be skirted simply by no following the links? Or do you think it would be wiser to avoid providing links all together to our press breaks and display them in another way?

Thanks Bowey!

In context, it is for a Press Page I am making, linking to all the articles that are linking to us.

I appreciate the response!

Cheers,

Derek