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May 26, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara 20 Comments

4 Tips Chiropractors Can Use to Be Found on Linkedin

As of this writing, Alexa ranks Linkedin as the 29th most visited site in the world. Because of its online dominance chiropractors should be actively building a presence within this powerful networking tool.

According to Wikipedia, Linkedin is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of 8 April 2010, Linkedin had more than 65 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
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May 24, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara 8 Comments

3 Reasons Why Chiropractors Should Avoid Automated Blog Content Generators

As small business owners, chiropractors are inundated with advertisements, marketing offers, and other forms of services that claim to increase their practices. The good news is that some of these offers are legitimate and prove successful in the real-world of business. However, as to be expected, some are blatant lies and can be classified as get-rich-quick schemes.

One of the ones I’ve seen lately is services providing autogenerated blog content. The sales pitch typically claims things like the following:

Create targeted blog posts on any topic without writing anything!
Start hundreds of blogs on any topic and never have to lift a finger to keep them pumping out as much content as you like!
Generate traffic, money and blog posts while you sleep!
Achieve higher search engine rankings and massive affiliate revenue with self-updating blogs

May 22, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara 6 Comments

Why Chiropractors Should Use the RSS Footer WordPress Plugin

One of the problems professional bloggers face is having their content stolen and republished on another website or blog. The technical term for this is called web scraping and can become an annoying problem as the popularity of your blog increases.

Recently, as I was checking my Google Alerts and trackbacks, I noticed the URL of a chiropractic site that was scraping my blog’s content without permission.

Since my content is both copyrighted and registered with Creative Commons, I quickly notified the offender of his violation and politely asked him to remove it as soon as possible.
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May 21, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara Leave a Comment

Start Blogging Today is Now LIVE!

Back in March, I wrote a post about Why Smart Businesses Use Blogs and Social Media to Grow Their Businesses. At the conclusion of that post, I mentioned a new project I was working on with some of the top business bloggers around.

I also gave you the opportunity to sign up for a special newsletter that would inform, enlighten, and prepare you for what was coming down the pike.

If you missed it or just weren’t paying attention, then listen up because today I’m EXCITED to announce that our new project, Start Blogging Today, has just gone LIVE!
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May 20, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara Leave a Comment

If You Printed Twitter

The following infographic was first published by Creative Cloud of Cartridge Save on January 19, 2010. The image was so impressive that Mashable decided to republish it on the same day as well.

So, just for fun and in case you missed it, I decided to republish it as well for your enjoyment and amazement. You can thank the kind folks over at Cartridge Save for providing the images for reproduction.

Furthermore, when you consider that this is just one social media network, it truly is mind-boggling!

Can you imagine what Facebook would look like?

Besides the infographic, I’ve also included the stats that Mashable pointed out in their post. They are extremely intriguing:
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May 15, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara 4 Comments

How TextExpander Can Save Chiropractors Time

UPDATE: If you are a Windows user, 16 Software offers a program called Breevy that functions similar to TextExpander for Mac OS X. Make sure you check it out!

As a busy professional and entrepreneur, every second counts. Likewise, if you organize your life and implement efficient systems, the potential to earn a greater income will only increase — ergo the saying that time is money.

Furthermore, when chiropractors consider blogging, they should also consider how to make it more efficient.

Why?

Well, because time is money!
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May 12, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara 12 Comments

12 Tips Chiropractors can Use to Help Increase Page Ranking with Google

One of the most popular questions I receive from chiropractors is how can they achieve higher page rankings from Google for their chiropractic website?

Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple. Matter of fact, even if I had thirty minutes of their time, I still wouldn’t be able to adequately cover the techniques and art of quality search engine optimization.

But, through a blog like Next Generation Chiropractor I can slowly educate and inform chiropractors on proper SEO strategies that’ll not only help push their chiropractic content further up Google’s ladder but will also help connect them with chiropractic prospects that so desperately need their services.

So today I decided to provide chiropractors with 12 tips that’ll help increase their chiropractic websites’ page rankings with Google.
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May 10, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara 7 Comments

How to Create Compelling Content that Ranks Well in Search Engines

One of my goals for chiropractors is to train them on how to create compelling content that ranks well in search engines. Matter of fact, one of my recent series titled Why Chiropractic Blogs Should Be Chiropractors’ New Patient Internet Marketing Tool of Choice is just one example on how I achieve this.

Furthermore, whenever I learn that one of my mentors has produced something that helps accomplish the same thing, I’m always thrilled to pass along the information so that other chiropractic bloggers can benefit as well.

Well, today’s post accomplishes the aforementioned.
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May 8, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara Leave a Comment

How to Protect Your Chiropractic Content via the S3MediaVault WordPress Plugin

This week in Blogging Chiros, chiropractors are learning how to create a membership site for their prospects and patients. So far, we’ve discussed why chiropractors need a membership site, the software that makes it possible, and how to protect content from being stolen.

Since content is the foundation of membership sites, knowing how to protect it is vitally important. And, if you want to protect it from being freely distributed, you need even more security than what most membership software provides.

But what if you don’t have plans to create a membership site? Should chiropractors still protect content that’s being published to their chiropractic blog?
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May 5, 2010 By Dr. Patrick MacNamara 16 Comments

What is Your Greatest Challenge as an Online Chiropractic Entrepreneur?

Since the inception of Next Generation Chiropractor, I’ve focused primarily on educating chiropractors on how to use blogs and social media to market and grow their practices.

As time marches on, one thing’s for sure — my passion to help chiropractors with inbound marketing has only increased.

Even though there are various ways to gauge passion to determine the health of a blog, one of the ways I determine it is by examining my editorial calendar juxtaposed with the number of blog posts in queue. If the numbers are low, it’s time to re-evaluate my purpose, focus, and commitment to its cause.
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