Marketing for medical practices: what we found in 11 US practices
Marketing for medical practices starts with something concrete: a patient searching for a service finds you, sees whether you take their insurance and books without calling twice. On October 3 and 4, 2026 we reviewed 11 practices one by one: family medicine, pediatrics, chiropractic and dental offices in Hialeah, FL; Sunnyside, WA; Dodge City, KS and Dalton, GA. We checked each website, its Google profile and whether it ran ads.
- 2 of 11have no working website: one has none at all and the other fails to load with a security error.
- Of the 9 with a site, 7 have no online booking. Appointments go through the phone or a call-back form.
- 3sites have no main heading (H1) and another 3 have several, so Google cannot tell what the page is about.
- 2sites are not built for mobile, and one of them still loads without https.
- 7 of 9sites are entirely or almost entirely in English, in cities where many patients speak Spanish.
- Only 1 of 11 runs ads on Meta, and we found no Google Ads under any of their names.
None of these fixes is expensive. Meanwhile, the patient who cannot find the service or the booking button on a phone books with the practice down the street.