Loncar Lyon Jenkins is a personal injury law firm out of Dallas, Texas. Five stars across more than 1,500 reviews. That kind of trust takes years to earn, one client, one case, one result at a time.
Let me be clear about something up front: I never review the work itself. I don’t know if they’re good lawyers, and that’s not what this is. I review the online marketing. And that’s where the leaks are. What I found is the same stuff I find in HVAC accounts, plumbing accounts, roofing accounts, seven basic problems, every one of them fixable, every one of them costing real money.
If you run a local service business, read this like it’s your own website. Because odds are, at least two or three of these apply to you right now.
1,500 Five-Star Reviews Google Can’t Display
Their website shows off those reviews. Great. But there’s no review markup in the code behind them. That’s the small piece of schema, a tag that tells Google “these are real reviews, with real ratings”, and it’s what lets Google print gold stars right inside the search results.
Think about what that means. Over 1,500 five-star reviews, and Google can’t display a single one. No stars next to the listing. No visual pop at the exact moment a potential client is deciding who to click. All that earned trust, invisible where it matters most.
And it goes deeper. There’s no structured business data on the site at all. That’s the behind-the-scenes code that tells Google your hours, your phone number, and your service area. Without it, Google is left guessing. Here’s the why for your business: this is a one-time, essentially free fix that makes every other marketing dollar work harder. And nobody did it.
A 37 Out of 100 Mobile Site, While Paying for Clicks
Next up: speed. Google’s own testing tool scores their mobile site a 37 out of 100. The main content takes nearly 26 seconds to appear on a phone.
Twenty-six seconds. On a phone, people are gone long before that. You’ve done it yourself, you tap a result, it hangs, you hit back and tap the next one. That’s human behavior, and no ad budget overrides it.
And here’s the part that should make any owner angry: they are paying for clicks. Google Ads is running. Every person who taps that ad, waits, and bails is money straight into the fire. Legal clicks are some of the most expensive clicks in all of Google, and they’re being sent to a page that takes 26 seconds to show anything. The same thing happens in your trade, emergency searches happen on phones. A slow mobile site pushes your cost per lead up and your booked jobs down. Simple as that.
Google Ads Running Half-Blind
The conversion tag is there. The call tracking isn’t.
The Google Ads conversion tag is right there in the code, so someone set up the basics. But there’s no call tracking software on the site (click here for the one we use). For a law firm, same as for a plumber, an HVAC company, a locksmith, the phone call is the lead. Not a form fill. The call.
Without call tracking, Google can’t learn which ads actually make the phone ring. So the budget keeps optimizing half-blind, pouring money into keywords and ads that might produce nothing, while starving the ones quietly driving every real lead. If you’re running ads without call tracking, you’re not optimizing. You’re guessing with a credit card.
No click fraud protection
Those ads are also running unprotected. No click fraud protection software, click here, the kind that blocks bots and competitors from clicking your budget away. Without it, typically 10-20% of ad spend burns with zero leads to show for it. On a legal budget, that percentage is a serious pile of money every single month. For contractors the number varies, but the leak is the same: if nobody’s blocking junk clicks, you’re buying them.
No Meta Pixel, No Retargeting, No Video
There’s no Meta pixel on the site either. That means no retargeting. Anyone who visited the site and left without calling is simply gone, even though warm audiences like that are usually among the cheapest leads you can buy. Somebody who already looked you up, already read your reviews, already considered you… and there’s no way to stay in front of them. That’s the easiest win in paid marketing, left on the table.
And video? A blank page. Nothing on the homepage. Their YouTube channel hasn’t uploaded in over 20 months. For a business that runs on trust, and what runs on trust more than the lawyer you call after an injury, or the tech you let into your home, video is the fastest trust builder there is. Sitting idle. Twenty months of silence.
Why This Keeps Happening: The Retainer Pattern
Here’s the pattern, and I want you to sit with it. Every single one of these is a basic check any marketing agency should catch in week one. Not month six. Week one. Review markup, structured data, mobile speed, call tracking, fraud protection, retargeting pixel, content, this is table stakes.
So why are they missed? Because the typical model is broken. Most owners assume that hiring a home service marketing agency means a senior person is watching their account every week. In reality, agencies collect the monthly retainer while junior staff juggle 80 accounts, and nobody actually looks. Your account becomes one of dozens, and the “management” is often a report pulled from a template.
Every one of these is a basic check any agency should catch in week one. When they’re missed, it’s usually because agencies collect the monthly retainer while junior staff juggle 80 accounts, and nobody actually looks.
If someone’s being paid to run this account, they should have caught it. All of it. And if you’re paying a home service marketing agency right now and nobody has walked you through these seven checks on your own site, you already know what that tells you.
The Part Most Owners Don’t Know Yet
Here’s the good news, and it’s a genuine shift in how this industry works. With AI, these exact fixes can now run automatically. The schema, the tracking, the speed monitoring, the fraud blocking, the retargeting, the things agencies charge retainers to ignore, can now be handled by software that never gets bored and never juggles 80 accounts.
With a bit of guidance, you can bring your marketing in-house, own the whole thing, and never depend on an agency again. That’s exactly why I built Local Service Mastery, coaching, training, and the LSM AI platform that does the doing for you. Not another retainer. Ownership.
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