Web Writing for Healthcare in the 2020s

Healthcare marketers not only have the opportunity to promote services that change lives but also to bridge communication gaps and improve health outcomes. According to the U.S. Department of Education, only 12 percent of American adults are able to find and understand the information they need to make informed health choices. Because people increasingly turn to digital resources to research medical decisions, the guidelines we’ll discuss in this webinar can help empower your audience to take an active role in their care.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Create highly readable content for audiences with diverse health literacy levels and educational backgrounds
  • Develop text content that meets today’s web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) – and those around the corner
  • Make it easy for users to take actions that align with your business goals
  • Portray your brand as a trusted, compassionate source of information and health services
  • Reach prospective and current patients at different points in their journey and on various devices
  • Use content to boost SEO

Case Study: How Avera Designed Modern Healthcare’s Website of the Year

Watch this webinar and learn how Avera created their patient-centric and award-winning website and content marketing hub. Lindsey Meyers, MBA, Vice President, Public Relations at Avera, shares the strategy behind how they tell their complex story online. During this in-depth case study, you’ll learn how the organization’s digital presence has evolved over the years, how they used consumer expectations to guide decisions in their latest redesign, and how they secured buy-in for the project across diverse internal stakeholder groups.

In this free, on-demand webinar you’ll learn how to:

  • Use consumer expectations to shape online experiences
  • Create a thoughtful digital strategy for a complex health system
  • Gain project buy-in across diverse and geographically-disparate stakeholder groups
  • Holistically approach content strategy, SEO, design, and functionality in a redesign
  • Integrate your content marketing investment across your digital presence to increase brand awareness and engagement

Content Marketing Hubs: How to Build Trust and Boost Traffic

Learn how to make your investments pay dividends. From content strategy and design to SEO and editorial calendars, this webinar will answer your top content marketing questions, share real-life examples of organizations that are doing content marketing well, and put you on a path to developing effective online hubs that build trust in your brand and attract new patients.

Watch this free webinar and learn how to:

  • Understand the options available for content marketing hubs and how which platform you build on can impact your success.
  • Integrate your content marketing investment across your site to increase engagement with providers and services.
  • Design and implement online content marketing hubs that share content in engaging ways, provide an exceptional user experience, and address many of the top SEO ranking factors.
  • Leverage and iterate on content marketing investments other healthcare marketing teams are doing.

Using Web Analytics Tools to Improve Your Healthcare Website’s User Experience

The good news is: you probably already have access to the tools you need to gauge how people are interacting with your hospital or healthcare system online. In this webinar, we cover ways you can measure how well your website is meeting the needs of users and your organization.

Watch this webinar and learn how to:

  • Build trust with your community through positive experiences with your brand
  • Use bounce rate, site search, and page path data to find areas where your site may not be meeting users’ expectations
  • Set up events and goals in Google Analytics to better track user experience and prove value to key stakeholders at your organization
  • Effectively measure, experiment, and repeat to find success

Industry Trends from Geonetric’s 2018 Healthcare Digital Marketing Survey

Watch this webinar and learn the answers to your most pressing questions as we share the results of our much-anticipated 2018 Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey. With a record 249 healthcare organizations responding, plus additional input from industry vendors, you’ll not only discover the data you need to benchmark your organization in terms of team and budget size, you’ll also uncover insights that will help you plan for the future of your digital operations.

You will learn:

  • How your organization’s online strategies and investments compare to others.
  • How leading organizations plan, budget, and execute differently from their counterparts.
  • Insights on marketing trends that will reinforce your position as the go-to resource at your organization on digital.
  • The biggest barriers to digital marketing success.
  • What your agency and vendor partners are saying is really holding your efforts back.

Turn Competing Goals into a Balanced Content Strategy

Watch this webinar and learn how to strike the right balance between system-wide content and content unique to certain services, locations, and providers. You’ll learn the latest in health consumer search trends – particularly around location-oriented queries – and why user behavior should drive your content decisions.

After viewing the presentation, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand your users and match your content to their needs
  • Develop a user-focused content strategy that still works within your unique organizational framework
  • Integrate an all-important location strategy into your overarching content strategy
  • Use content strategy guidelines for long-term maintenance and governance

Four Keys to Creating a Winning SEO Strategy for Healthcare

SEO is like whack-a-mole. As soon as you apply pressure to one area, another pops up vying for your attention. Sometimes it’s hard to know which tactics are the most valuable – and which ones, if ignored, will cause the most harm. In this no-nonsense webinar you’ll learn the optimization areas you need to focus on – technical, on-page, and external – and discover what’s holding your site back and what to do about it. You’ll also get a deep dive into why measurement is critical to ongoing optimization success, as long as you make small adjustments, measure, and repeat.

Watch now and learn how to:

  • Identify the most common technical SEO errors and how to fix them
  • Use keyword research to really impact your optimization efforts
  • Focus on long-tail and localized keywords
  • Write page titles that encourage click-through rates
  • Recognize external sites and applications that could be affecting your SEO
  • Implement measurement and iterative changes to achieve long-term success

Writing for SEO: 6 Tips to Improve Your Healthcare Content

Gone are the dark days of keyword stuffing and other black hat tactics that didn’t benefit actual human readers. In this 20-minute webinar, we’ll cover rules for writing a webpage that competes in online searches.

You’ll learn:

  • Tricks to optimize your page for certain search engine queries
  • How a page’s placement in your site structure can affect page ranking
  • Why researching keywords is vital
  • The value of metadata
  • And more…

WordPress Survival Skills for the Healthcare Marketer

You probably know that WordPress powers more than a quarter of the entire internet. What you may not know is if it is a good fit for your next healthcare marketing project. In this webinar, you’ll learn veteran tips on how to take full advantage of this ubiquitous platform or how to keep your current site delivering value. Whether you’re considering building your next main site on WordPress, or creating a blog, content marketing hub, or microsite with the platform, it’s important to ensure it supports your overall digital strategy. From choosing plugins and custom themes to building healthcare-specific functionality to meeting security and privacy requirements, we’ll provide guidance on both implementation and ongoing site management. No digging into development technicalities here: This webinar will answer the big picture questions and help marketing strategists know if this is the right platform for your next digital initiative.

Watch now and learn how to:

  • Avoid common WordPress pitfalls that result in hidden costs and risk the security of your site.
  • Approach content strategy when working in WordPress.
  • Make best use of built-in content management and site structure.
  • Enhance your search optimization efforts while using WordPress, specifically if you are thinking of launching a blog or microsite.
  • Understand the future of WordPress and what that means for marketers

Top Digital Marketing Trends to Watch in 2018

Learn top trends – both inside and outside of healthcare – you should focus on in 2018. You’ll learn which optimization techniques will set you apart from competitors and help you rank well for patients using voice search. Understand why you should invest in paid advertising if you want to stand out in the ever-shrinking search results page. We’ll also discuss the latest in hyper-localization techniques, content personalization tactics, enhanced mobile user experience (UX) strategies, MarTech ecosystems, and data analytics. We’ll also discuss bigger shifts we’re seeing in hospital website usage as well as trends in how health systems are branding online.

Attend this free webinar and learn how to:

  • Enhance the user experience across your digital platforms based on changes in consumer behavior
  • Invest in optimization and paid advertising techniques that will help you stand out in the market
  • Capitalize on emerging tactics, such as voice search and personalized content
  • Understand broader changes in the healthcare and digital landscapes that could impact your overarching strategy
  • And more