More on Building a Website for Your Private Practice

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Here’s a quick update on our suggestions for building a site featuring your private practice, including notes on increasingly popular outsourcing solutions.

I’ve recently updated our article on options for building a private practice website to include more on a relatively new breed of bundled services offering a ‘complete package’ of site, hosting, maintenance, and various value-added services like shopping carts, appointment request systems, marketing assistance, and the like.

Since that article was originally written half a decade or so ago, I’ve been contacted many times by folks at various firms selling similar services who wanted me to give them some exposure; I’ve always declined to mention them, even when they wanted to pay to advertise on this site. Why? Quite frankly, most of their customers’ sites I’ve seen are pretty awful, full of poor coding and sometimes quite ludicrous volumes of primitive attempts at search engine optimisation. (One such service based in the UK used to be very popular with UK psychotherapists who unfortunately didn’t seem to know any better; it was so atrocious I won’t even mention it by name. When I sat down to update our article about site building, I dropped by to see whether it had improved in the last few years and discovered that on the contrary, it seems to have gone out of business entirely, with the domain now redirecting elsewhere. I have no idea what might have happened to all those practitioners who got stuck when the service ceased operations. My point in even mentioning it now that it no longer exists? Caveat emptor!)

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Update [September 2012]: It’s now been more than 7 years since the original article was written about options for building a private practice website, and it’s been 3 years since this blog post revisited the topic. In that time, many providers of bundled services have come and gone, and if anything, the quality of what is available has become even more spotty. There are certainly still a few gems out there, though; if you’re a practitioner who would like to explore this route in more detail, feel free to drop us a line any time, and we’d be glad to share our latest suggestions based on the feedback we receive.

Happy site building!

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