You don’t need software or an agency to get a first read on where your firm stands in AI search. You need about an hour, a notepad, and the same tools your prospective clients are already using. Step 1: Ask the questions a real client would ask Open ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google (to see the … Read more

For most of the last two decades, the goal of law firm marketing was straightforward: rank as high as possible, because higher rankings meant more clicks, and more clicks meant more calls. That relationship is getting more complicated, and it’s worth understanding exactly how. The headline number: fewer clicks overall When an AI-generated answer appears … Read more

Every piece of advice about AI-era visibility comes down to the same recommendation: publish clear, direct, genuinely useful answers to real client questions. For attorneys, that recommendation runs straight into a reasonable hesitation — bar rules around advertising, confidentiality, and what counts as legal advice versus legal information. This isn’t a reason to avoid publishing. … Read more

If you’ve ever read an SEO article that throws around the acronym E-E-A-T without explaining it, here’s the plain version: it stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trust, and it’s the framework Google uses to judge whether content is reliable enough to rank — especially in categories where bad information can genuinely hurt someone. Legal … Read more

Schema markup has a reputation for being a developer-only topic, which keeps a lot of firms from touching it at all. The concept underneath it, though, is simple: it’s a way of labeling information on your website so a machine — a search engine or an AI tool — doesn’t have to guess what something … Read more

Most law firm FAQ pages are written for compliance, not for readers — a wall of legalese under a heading nobody scrolls to. That’s a missed opportunity right now, because FAQ-style content happens to be exactly the format AI search tools are built to pull from. Here’s the thing worth understanding first: Google quietly stopped … Read more

There’s a natural assumption that AI tools work like a faster version of Google — find the top-ranked page, quote whatever’s at the top of it. Recent research on this is more interesting, and a little more useful, than that. Position on the page barely matters A study that analyzed thousands of URLs cited inside … Read more

If you’ve read anything about marketing in the last year, you’ve probably run into a new acronym: GEO. Generative Engine Optimization. It sits next to SEO now, and half the articles about it assume you already know what it means. You probably don’t, and that’s fine — most attorneys don’t either. Here’s the short version. … Read more

A few weeks ago, a friend told me she’d asked ChatGPT “how do I find a good estate planning attorney near me” before she ever opened Google. She got a short answer, a few things to look for, and — this is the part that matters — one local firm’s name, pulled straight from that … Read more