Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 Brian Carter wrote an article about online referral services. He used the alexa.com toolbar to get traffic statistics for each one and did google searches to see where they rank in acupuncturist searches. 2 sites that got a lot of hits and are free are qpuncture.com and gancao,net. Also acufinder.com has a free service and a paid service. But the organization called Acupuncture by Specialty gets the highest combination of hits and search rankings. It is a little expensive, but probably worth it if you feel like paying for this type of service because it comes back with a money back guarantee. If you get one regular patient, you will break even. I like the service and the attitude of the owner, so I have decided to affiliate with this site rather than continue to try and promote an independent database at CHA. If you plan to use such a service, the link is http://www.acupuncturebyspecialty.com/ ?ref_id=130#The_Chinese_Herb_Academy Chinese Herbs FAX: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 I'm not sure why you would endorse paying money for a service you can get for free at gancao.net. Acupuncture.com has, I believe, decided to align itself with a commercial listing which may be Acu by Speciality. Despite what Brian C. might say I don't know how many referrals anyone gets through the internet. Maybe you will have better luck, let us know. In at least, type in acupuncture or acupuncturist and you get several dozen listings many of which may have their own listings. But type in the city, for example: acupuncture santa monica and voila, up comes after the listing site, Laurie Binder (who does a lot of work to on her site), Al Stone (of course) and Julie Chambers and yours truly at the end of the first page. , wrote: > Brian Carter wrote an article about online referral services. He used > the alexa.com toolbar to get traffic statistics for each one and did > google searches to see where they rank in acupuncturist searches. 2 > sites that got a lot of hits and are free are qpuncture.com and > gancao,net. Also acufinder.com has a free service and a paid service. > But the organization called Acupuncture by Specialty gets the highest > combination of hits and search rankings. It is a little expensive, but > probably worth it if you feel like paying for this type of service > because it comes back with a money back guarantee. If you get one > regular patient, you will break even. I like the service and the > attitude of the owner, so I have decided to affiliate with this site > rather than continue to try and promote an independent database at CHA. > > If you plan to use such a service, the link is > > http://www.acupuncturebyspecialty.com/ > ?ref_id=130#The_Chinese_Herb_Academy > > > > Chinese Herbs > > > FAX: > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 In Google, if you type in " Licensed acupuncturist Santa Monica, " I believe my name comes up first! At least it did recently. I have had a few referrals from my website over the last few months. I have checked out Acupuncture by Specialty, and when I tried to search for an acupuncturist in Los Angeles specializing in pain management, or headache, and when I tried Santa Monica for headache and pediatrics, all searches came up empty. I would like to know how many requests per week this service actually gets, and I have emailed Michael Berkley to ask him. Julie Chambers - " " Saturday, March 20, 2004 3:30 PM Re: online referrals > In at least, type in acupuncture or acupuncturist and you get several dozen > listings many of which may have their own listings. But type in the city, for example: > acupuncture santa monica and voila, up comes after the listing site, Laurie > Binder (who does a lot of work to on her site), Al Stone (of course) and Julie Chambers > and yours truly at the end of the first page. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 , Julie Chambers <info@j...> wrote: > > I have checked out Acupuncture by Specialty, and when I tried to search for > an acupuncturist in Los Angeles specializing in pain management, or > headache, and when I tried Santa Monica for headache and pediatrics, all > searches came up empty. that just means no practitioner in those areas in those specialties has yet signed up to use the service. it tells you nothing about usage. in fact, it means there is an opportunity to promote yourself in this area. the site gets over 1,000,000 hits per month. I can guarantee you that most of those are from the public. since the site only offers searches and no other features, the only reason to visit is to do a search or sign up to use the service. So a huge % of all its hits must be for searches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 On Mar 20, 2004, at 4:00 PM, wrote: > (acupuncurebyspecialty.com). gets > over 1,000,000 hits per month. That seems a bit high to me. When I last had a looksie at the stats in the summer of 1992, it was getting 250,000 page views per month, I assume it has grown a bit since then. I can't imagine that acupuncturebyspecialty.com is getting 3x as many. When a site such as acupuncturetoday.com describes how many hits it gets per month, by my outsider estimates it is actually counting what many stat programs call " requests " . Because each page at acupuncturetoday.com is chalk full of images, every time a page is viewed, there are about 25 requests from the server. One for each of the images and one for the text in question. So, one person looking at one page can generate 26 hits. So, a better counter would be the so-called " page views " than " hits " . acupuncturebyspecialty is not an especially image intensive website, I would say that each page view may generate perhaps three requests that may be counted as hits. I have never honestly been too enthusiastic about sites that charge to have a listing put up. In those areas where there isn't a lot of competition, just about any listing on-line is going to get you new patients. Although my free listing at gancao.net is not causing people to bang down my door, I have a website set up for my partner, who is in a different business and probably 90% of our new business comes in from that website. She probably gets four new people per week from her website which is not all that extensive, but it says what people are looking for, and so the search engines favor her website. Sometimes the efficacy of the web based advertising is a question of the market you're in as much as anything. -- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. -Adlai Stevenson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 On Mar 20, 2004, at 4:37 PM, Al Stone wrote: > On Mar 20, 2004, at 4:00 PM, wrote: > >> (acupuncurebyspecialty.com). gets >> over 1,000,000 hits per month. > > That seems a bit high to me. > > When I last had a looksie at the stats in the summer of 1992, Oops. I should add " the stats of acupuncture.com " . -- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. -Adlai Stevenson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 > that just means no practitioner in those areas in those specialties has yet > signed up to use the service. it tells you nothing about usage. in fact, it > means there is an opportunity to promote yourself in this area. the site gets > over 1,000,000 hits per month. I can guarantee you that most of those are > from the public. since the site only offers searches and no other features, the > only reason to visit is to do a search or sign up to use the service. So a huge > % of all its hits must be for searches. Oh, of course I know that it means no one has signed up to use the service. But how useful is this service if no specialists are on it in a huge area like LA/Santa Monica? It made me wonder if this is a brand new service and people just don't know about it yet. How did you find out that it gets over 1,000,000 hits per month? Where are the specialists who have signed up for it, if not in our big city? Julie > > > > > > Chinese Herbal Medicine offers various professional services, including board approved continuing education classes, an annual conference and a free discussion forum in Chinese Herbal Medicine. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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