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Dental SEO Tips For Achieving Featured Results at Google

Dental SEO Tips For Achieving Featured Results at Google

8/4/2019 2:29:55 PM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 33
There is a big difference in your practice flow when you're ranked 5th or 6th vs. being in 1st, 2nd for target phrases! 

The phone rings more, your new patients per month start climbing and lots more. Momentum cranks up. Being top ranked is like surfing and you caught a good wave!

I have a few tips about this subject I would like to share here with DentalTown.

Today, the holy grail of SEO is position 0. The "featured result" area where Google scrapes your site for info to display in an effort to quickly answer a question. 35%-60%, depending on whether the user is on desktop or mobile, of all Google searches now result in NO CLICK because of these featured results. 






Let your SEO team know you'd like to also achieve featured results and answer box results (known as position 0) in addition to your top organic placement goals. Keep them digging for better just like whipping a horse in a race. Once you get a few of those featured results sprinkle some targeted Google Ads into the mix and you can dominate nearly the entire first results page at Google! 

There are a few different kinds of featured results to shoot for. 

The first one I call the "local authority" result where someone asks a question or searches for a particular procedure and is given a featured result for what/who Google considers the local authority who can answer your query and also who is sharing data and user behavior (evidence) that they provide the service successfully. Reviews and user behavior seem to have weight with these local featured results in combination with on-site SEO. Your content is king but locality also plays a big part. Results will be different for every user depending on where they search from.






There are several kinds but another type of featured result I can demonstrate here quickly is an "answer box" where Google scrapes your content that satisfies searcher intent and answers the user's question by displaying it in position 0:



Notice a featured result answer box result like this pushes even position 2 out of view. Results like this can even be shown before ads and push ads to the bottom of page one. Cool huh! 

Notice the "People also ask" section where Google uses AI to try and help you in your quest for answers. The questions listed here are prime pickings for Dental SEO content to place on your site and try to get featured results for.

Try it out. Ask Google some questions about your preferred procedures using an incognito or private browser window and see what shows. Note those queries you see. It would be wise to provide answers to those questions on your website. :)

The two results I show above strengthen my claim that dentists need to be transparent and display pricing on their site in a format Google can ingest.
It's estimated that half of all people looking for a dentist or dental procedure they would like to have are looking for pricing. If you do provide upfront pricing on your site you may just get a featured result when someone local is searching and this will often lead to a new butt in the seat. You're not going to scare people off by showing pricing, instead you'll be satisfying searcher intent. Google laps that up like a thirsty dog.

When Google attempts to answer queries in the results with featured snippets or scraped answers, optimize to win those positions, and then provide a strong reason for searchers to click through to your site (by providing some, but not all of the information, or by offering a compelling hook to what else you provide).

Cheers,
Christopher Scott
Dental SEO Marketing Expert
Address: 140 S Spriggs Blvd, Bloomington, IN 47403 
Phone: (317) 999-7733
Web: cuttingedge.marketing
Category: Marketing
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