I’m calling this week 2 of the impact of the COVID-19 virus pandemic on dental practice because, before last Tuesday we weren’t seeing any reduction in appointment requests. That all started last Tuesday, March 17, when the American Dental Association published its recommendation encouraging dental practices to postpone any elective procedures. Last week our data  Read More

Google announced on Friday, March 20th that there would be limited functionality inside the Google My Business (GMB) dashboard, due to COVID-19. For dental practices, the important new restrictions are that the ability of patients to post new reviews and the ability to respond to reviews will not be available. Users will be able to write  Read More

We did an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 virus, otherwise known as the coronavirus or the Chinese virus, on dental practice, which is maybe more about the effect that the news about this virus is having on patients. At Infinity Dental Web, we monitor the patients using our online appointment request forms to  Read More

As we come to the end of the year, let’s take a look at the current status of local search. First, for those who may not know, let’s explain what we mean by local search. There are two broad categories of search engine optimization or SEO. One is general search, which is the basic SEO  Read More

To stay abreast of what is going on with search, we subscribe to a number of services from Search Engine News, including their monthly podcast updates. In one of those podcasts earlier this year, they announced that they were going to now be including update reports on the search engine DuckDuckGo, added to their reports  Read More