Building Your Acupuncture Practice Through Your Website

That is a great course beeing offered. site optimization and search engine placement is not an easy task. Search engines are really getting smarter !

There is a new "tool" beeing offered for Acupuncturists and Chinese Medicine practitioners for website development. it is called:

http://www.ChineseMedicineWebsites.com

they offer custom websites that have pre-loaded content (over 60 pages) of TCM related information and easily editable pages by their owners. It is automatically updated for search engine optimization and content pages are continously beeing added.

For the practitioner that doesn't want to become an expert on search engine optimization or want to pay thousands of dollars to create such a website this is an amazing deal !

Not sure exactly what they are offering but SEO (search engine optimization) is very important these days. First of all, it is a no brainer that your website should be optimized for google and yahoo etc...if you do not have this maybe it is time to call the guys that make the websites above, thanx for the resource.

Search engine optimization boils down to 2 basics; lots of relevant content, and other relevant sites having links to yours. Work hard at these simple principles and you can always feel confident that you are doing your part,...so a site that comes pre-made with 60 pages of content is a good place to start.

there are many things to do to optimize your website, but bottom line, it will require work on your part, just like any other project that is worth while. I know in my practice at least 1/2 of our 200+ patients a week come from web searches and the internet in general. If you are not up to date in this world you are missing out on a huge referral source.

think about it this way,..what are the primary ways your patients are first introduced to you and your clinic; word of mouth, seminars, trade shows, your reception (phone), and your website. If you are deficient in any one of these, maybe it is time to go to an expert. Call these guys above for tips, and get one of those websites mentioned.

ROI (return on investment), if a few thousand dollars spent turns into many more thousand dollars down the line, it is worth spending it. The web is an essential place to have a pressence. This is just, plain and simple, good business.

My 2 cents.

the first part is relevant for people trusting web designers who "figured how to get good placement" by cloaking or making extra pages for search engine spiders !