Monitor your online reputation for FREE with Google Alert
It is very important to find out what your patients are saying online about your dental practice and your team. As a doctor, reputation is everything. Recently, there was a post in Dentaltown by CoachDDS about how people made false allegations and claims about him. Doc talked about his experience on how it negatively affected his dental practice, reputations and how he was able to clear his name. I highly recommend reading here.
If you are worried about your reputation or just simply want to find out what the patients are saying online about your dental practice there’s a simple and free monitoring system you can use, Google Alerts. Google Alerts are actually the simplest way of monitoring your online reputation and see the kind of reviews people are leaving. You need to know what is being said about you and your dental practice.
Google Alerts will notify you by email whenever on the web someone mentions a phrase or certain word. You can have Google Alerts send you notifications everytime someone mentions your web Url, your name, or your dental practice’s name.
For example, if your practice’s name is “Papababa dentistry”. You can have Google Alerts send you an email notification whenever “papababa dentistry” is mentioned on the web.
If you want to see what people are saying about you online you can register your dental practice name and URL. It is very easy and simple to do. Google Alerts
One of the key points that you should consider to avoid too many junk mail is the importance of the double quotation marks. If you still received too many emails, you can adjust the setting.
Examples: “yourpracticename”, “Practicewebsite”, “Practicewebsite.com”, (555) 555-5555, Link:www.practicewebsite.com