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So you're finally ready to make a second or even third website?

Well, you need to make sure you do things the right way or your efforts may not pay off, and even worse, they could actually harm your efforts.

Multiple web sites can work. Three, four, five, even ten web sites enable you to increase your exposure, drive more prospective patients, and build your practice.

So it's time to go for it, right? Just copy your website ten times and give each new one a different domain?

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Blogs

You've no doubt heard a good deal about blogs, but what exactly are they? Well, a blog is a type of website that is similar to a journal or diary. It's an individual's personal website in which they post daily comments and opinions to which others can post a response.

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Cosmetic Surgery Website Basics: Typeface

Typeface is an important element of website design -- and your own plastic surgery marketing campaign -- but it’s often overlooked. In an attempt to create a visual punch, many designers lose site of the fact that the text must remain readable for the user.

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Important Principles of Doctor Website Design

There are millions of websites out there on the Internet today, and literally thousands of ideas on how to create them. Nevertheless, there are several basic principles when it comes to good website design. To make your plastic surgery website as successful as it can be, you must determine those principles that are right for you and apply them to your site.

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Don't Forget The Spiders

A great deal of website promotion, particularly with cosmetic surgery marketing, involves search engine optimization. The search engines are capable of providing a large percentage of the traffic to your website, but only if your pages are optimized for them. Because of that, it's important that you understand what the search engines, or rather the search engine spiders, are looking for when they visit your site.

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The Magically Disappearing Visitor

Are visitors coming to your website and then leaving in droves? That most likely wasn't your goal when creating your site. Unfortunately, there are several simple, well-meaning things that you might have done that are making your visitors do just that leave. The following are the most common reasons why visitors leave a website in search of another and, as such, are best avoided.

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What Ads Types Are Most “Helpful”? Search Ads Follow Newspapers, TV

Internet Ads vs. Newspaper, TV, and Radio Ads: How Your Cosmetic Surgery Ads stack up against the competition.

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As a practicing plastic surgeon you gain people’s trust when you provide them with relevant and up to date information and having a web presence doesn’t hurt your practice, it only enhances it and gains more influence for the Internet. Even though those who utilize the Internet and search ads to advertise their goods and services, they don’t solely rely on this option for all their advertising needs. We still have a need for our newspapers and televisions and that will probably never change. But we need to give new forms of media a chance before we outright condemn them. Who knows in a few more years the Internet may gain more ground but for now, it is waiting in the wings for us to wake up and realize that we have more options available to us right now.

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Ask Welcomes Back Jeeves, At Least In The UK, That Is. Jeeves returns to Ask.com

Ask.com use to be formerly known as AskJeeves.com. "Jeeves" was a British butler who had wide knowledge of various subjects, and the search engine was geared towards the premise of asking Jeeves a question, and he would provide search results that answered the question. About three years ago, the management at AskJeeves.com decided that the character was juvenile. They took action to change the name of the site to Ask.com. The face of the brand, Jeeves, was slated and retired.

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Gmail Labs Adds Location To Signatures. Gmail Labs tells you where it's at!

Almost every email system in production can tell you who wrote you an email, what it's about, and when it was sent. How many do you know tell you where an email was sent from though? Now you won't have to worry about losing that trivia question, because Gmail Labs has now introduced a new location feature. With the click of a single checkbox, your emails can now add location details to your email through use of a signature, namely a block of text automatically appended to the bottom of an email before it is sent.

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Marketing Medical Practices On The Web

Marketing medical practices on the Internet is becoming increasingly more common, and for good reason. More and more people are using the Internet to search for medical- and health-related information and to find qualified medical professionals. In fact, research indicates that n early 75% of Internet users use the Internet for medical research. With over 200 million U.S.

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