The Right and Wrong Ways to Include Local SEO onto Your Therapist Website
This post highlights some extreme (ACTUAL) examples of poorly done local SEO, and offers suggestions on the right way to do local SEO.
How to Add a Simple Practice Scheduler on Your Website - A DIY Guide
If you use Simple Practice to manage your client appointments, you can seamlessly integrate the scheduler onto your website. This step-by-step guide will show you the ropes.
Project Spotlight: QA Prep
As a website designer, I'm always excited to collaborate with clients on projects that breathe new life into their online presence. Recently, I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey, the mastermind behind QA Prep (https://www.qaprep.com) and the original Maven of My Digital Maven.
HACKED! The Importance of Website Security
This brief blog post shows the consequences of poor security with examples of an actua site hacked with hundreds of ads,
Setting Up Your Website Terms & Policies
Unsure what polices you need to add to your site, and WHERE to even get them? I break it all down and recommend just TWO services for this, making it much easier than seeing what comes out of the Google Box.
4 Ways to Use SEO on a Psychotherapy Website
Many people will try to convince you that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a complicated science and that you have to be a tech guru to understand how to use SEO to improve your private practice website. However, this isn’t ALL true.
There are multiple ways you can improve your SEO by doing only one thing- simply thinking like a client.
A Comparison of Brighter Vision, TherapySites and My Digital Maven
Here’s the deal, I used to recommend Brighter Vision to therapists. A lot! People would ask me who designed my first business website because they wanted to hire that person, and were disappointed once I told them I did it all myself with SquareSpace…
Is Your Private Practice Website Missing This Vital SEO Info?
I spent a few days recently doing local SEO research for a counseling practice. Part of this research includes checking out “the competition” and seeing what other therapists in the area have to offer. Time and again I noticed that therapists were making a critical mistake. They were actually making it harder for clients to find them!
How To Use Traditional Marketing Techniques for a Therapist Website
This article from Conversion Rate Experts is long and complicated but it explains how they helped a client improve their website by increasing their conversion rate by 363%. There’s a lot we can learn from this case study so here are 4 takeaways from the article and how they apply to a therapist website.
Why Every Therapist (Still) Needs a Blog
When I started my online business years ago I was determined NOT to blog. I proudly declared this resolution to my psychotherapist business coach who paused and then said, “You need to blog.” Here's why she was right...
SquareSpace for Therapist Websites: What We Recommend
I was THAT person… the one who messed up settings on the projector, the computer, the kitchen timer, basically anything that was technical or electronic. But now I run a web design business, help therapists with SEO, and manage about a dozen websites. If I can do it, YOU CAN, TOO.