Why Is Your Website Failing?

Today, a website is essential for your medical practice. Regardless of specialty, a practice’s online presence will have a massive impact on its success, as patients, young and old, often visit a website before making any care decisions.

With a great deal of your success depending on the quality and visibility of your website, you need to be critical and often evaluate what may or may not be working:

Now that you understand why you need to focus on creating and monitoring your website, let’s look at ways that websites fail, which could ultimately help you avoid the same fate. Bottom line – if you ignore the performance of your website, constantly monitor it for errors and continuously implement enhancements, you will fall behind your competition.

So, let’s break down several ways that your practice’s website could end up failing. Being aware of items on the following list can help you tremendously.

1. The website is not optimized for mobile devices.
2. The public interface is not user-friendly.
3. Slow page load time.
4. Broken links and pages limit access to information.
5. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) needs to be dialed in, specifically for Google.
6. Poor site promotion and a lack of a conversion strategy with Call-to-Action (CTA) options.
7. A proper content strategy is not implemented, such as not having a blog or comprehensive, unique content.

With a clearer understanding of how a website can fail, let’s analyze some methods that will help prevent your website from failing.

1. Hiring a reliable website design and digital marketing agency will enable you to create a mobile-optimized website that has a professionally designed layout. This will also help you avoid broken links and pages while improving the user experience.
2. Some items to target when dealing with slow page-load times include improving image optimization correctly, browser cache configuration is completed, and using a top-notch host.
3. Effectively promoting your website and providing ample conversion opportunities all comes down to the marketing strategy. A strategy must include a complete understanding of your target audience and how they research a new doctor.
4. Proper content strategy ties into knowing your audience and what they are after. This allows you to provide them with the material and information they seek. Having a blog is one of the easiest ways to relay information while showing expertise in your field.
5. SEO ties into your content strategy and drives high-conversion organic traffic.

In conclusion, if you plan to leverage digital marketing to increase your patient base and grow your practice, a website’s digital presence is a crucial starting point. And if you pay attention to the points mentioned in this blog and confront them with a critical eye, you can effectively create and grow a powerful digital presence.