Accurate and consistent medical practice listings are important for your patients to find you online. Small changes over time create major problems with online listings. In addition, fresh content is also a plus on many listing sites.
How does your online listing measure up? Check out your results with this interactive analysis tool.
Online Listing Checklist
Learn to identify some of the issues that cause listing errors or poor online visibility in this checklist. Can you answer “yes” to each question?
Practice Name
✓ Does your medical practice name fall within the guidelines, i.e., character length, dashes, parenthesis, etc.?
✓ Is your practice name the same on all online listing directories and websites?
✓ Does each business at your address have its own listing, i.e., medical spa & plastic surgery practice?
✓ Have you always had the same practice name (no past changes)?
✓ Have all surgeons remained the same in your practice (no changes in associate names or a doctor leaving the practice)?
Address Information
✓ Have you always been at the same address (no physical moves)?
✓ Is your address consistent among all online directories and websites?
✓ Has your street name always been the same (no changes within the city)?
✓ Does a photo of your location appear on Google maps?
✓ Is your Google map marker displaying correctly in driving routes?
Phone Number
✓ Have you always used the same phone number for your practice(s)?
✓ Has each business at the address always had its own phone number?
✓ If you share facilities or an answering service, have you always maintained your own phone number?
✓ Has your phone number only been used for your practice (no side businesses, school or church groups, etc.)?
Update Your Online Listing
✓ Do you add new profile and cover pictures to your online listings as they are updated?
✓ Are you adding specials, feature products, events, etc. to your listings?
✓ Do you add new product/procedure photos to your listings
✓ Do you have staff and surgeon bios on your listings when appropriate?
If your online visibility needs help, contact PUMC to learn more about how you can get more patients in your door.