Why Your Practice Will Thrive with a Custom Website
Your veterinary hospital is unique, so why would you use a cookie-cutter template website to represent the high-quality care you provide?
A template website is a pre-designed website where you can enter your own content and images. It sounds convenient, but it has significant draw backs compared to a custom website built specifically for you and your business.
Whether you take pride in being a top-notch hospital that offers a small-town and friendly environment or your hospital is a city leader in the latest veterinary technology, it’s imperative that this message is clearly represented to your website visitors. While it may be tempting to use a template website, their severely limited options will hurt your practice in the long run.
Advantages of a Custom Website vs. Template Website
User friendly experience – Custom websites are adaptable to give pet owners an easy and enjoyable user experience, resulting in better Google rankings and happy clients.
Custom sites are goal-oriented – Built to target your local audience, custom websites are focused on expanding business, educating pet owners, or any other goals that you and your practice might have.
High level of customization – A custom website is designed specifically to represent your brand and satisfy your clients’ needs. Web designers work with you to customize everything from colors, logos, photos and special features like online newsletters and prescription refill portals.
Provides credibility for your brand – A consistent branding theme builds trust and reinforces your message with local pet owners and clients.
Optimized for search engines – You want your website ranked high on Google searches. For high search results, custom search engine optimization (SEO) needs to be built into your website. This cannot be accomplished with a template site, only with a well-planned custom website that includes custom SEO.
High Return on Investment – Custom sites have a longer lifespan than template websites, typically 3-4 years instead of only 1.5 years. This saves you time and money, and with a custom website, you have tech support that will help in case your website experiences a problem or if you need to add new sections, update a page or change a photo.
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