The Virus Every Blog Writer Wants

viral marketingThe first time a client dentist emailed me that a blog I wrote “went viral,” I became very interested in what that phrase meant. Sure, I knew that the concept of viral marketing, basically, meant spreading something exponentially, like a chain letter. However, the term has been adopted by the Internet marketing industry.

Facebook Insights, the analytics for Facebook fan pages, actually shows a percentage of virality for each post. Here’s Facebook’s definition of virality: The percentage of people who have created a story from your Page post out of the total number of unique people who have seen it.

How to Write Viral Content

What you need to know is, virality comes by way of information sharing. So, how does a copywriter share information? Blogs, articles, press releases, social media posts. Read More

Online Resources for Dental Copywriters (And How to Use Them!)

Research Man!As you dip your toe in the dental copywriting waters you will face several challenges. In addition to writing interesting, engaging, and original content on a sharp deadline, dental copywriters must also ensure that they discuss dentistry in a clinically accurate way. If the information you write is faulty, your client could lose patients (and patience!). The best approach for locating accurate, reliable information about dentistry includes drawing from a variety of online resources and using a healthy dose of common sense.

Go-To Sources for Clinical Information

You are not a dentist and your intended readers are not dentists. Therefore, highly technical articles published in peer-reviewed journals may not yield the type of usable information you need. Read More

Dental Websites Need Original Dental Articles

web writer 2Many dentists are under contract with a dental website company, and they become frustrated with poor search engine rankings. The contract, however, holds them to two years, or they’ll face a hefty fee. One typical cause of low SEO rankings on template dental websites is duplicate content. Often, dental website companies pull text from a bank of library articles. This means, all of their clients’ websites have the exact same text about services, like crowns, implants, cleanings, etc. The only original content is that which the dentist delivers, usually for the homepage and bios. Read More