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I just came across this new site, Podiatry Tradeshow. It’s got a listings of things like all the podiatry suppliers and all the foot orthotic labs from around the world. It’s a good resource.

Most blogs  on the web allow visitors to post comments. There are no comments on this blog. The main reason is that we do not have the patience  or tolerance to deal with all the spam and link drop and nonsense comments that get made. It takes too long to moderate them and delete them (even with the most obvious being caught by the automated systems). Blog and forum spam are a huge problem. They are just low life idiots who post comments or join forums to get some link juice to their own sites. The more links to a web site, the better it generally ranks in a search engines. Blogs, like this WordPress one and forums, like the vBulletin ones get spammed regularly. Forum and blog owners have to deal with it on a daily basis (see vBulletin spam). We have decided to turn the opportunity to comment off here becasue of the nonsense. Nulled vBulletin is particualrly prone.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the art and science of ranking a site well in the search engines, like Google to get free traffic to your website. If you have a website for your clinic, you have to promote it. It has to be a good domain name that patients can remember; you have to have it in you advertisements and on your stationary including your business card. For the search engines, if someone types in “{Your City} podiatrist“, does your website show up? If it doesn’t then you have got some work to do. See this on how the search engines rank a website. To get a site to rank well, you need to build backlinks by getting other sites to link to your website. Submitting to web directories, such as DMOZ also helps link building. Generally the more links to a site (link juice), the better you will rank in the search engines. If you serious and have a lot of competition, then you should consider engaging an SEO professional (not an SEO Kiddie). Linkvana is a good way to build acklinks.

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