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the Supreme Court of Ohio, with the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas serving a competitive legal market. Clients today search Google AND ask AI systems for lawyer recommendations. If you rank third on Google but never appear in ChatGPT or Claude answers, you're losing half the market.

This dual-system approach—combining traditional SEO with what we call GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)—is now table stakes for serious law firms. SEO for law firms starts with the fundamentals: your website ranks in Google organic search for keywords people actually type, like "personal injury lawyer Columbus Ohio." That's the foundation. But modern law-firm SEO is really two systems working together.

First, technical and content SEO gets you ranking in Google. Second, AI-visibility optimization—GEO—gets you cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. A page that ranks well in Google usually gets cited by AI, but only if it's structured correctly: fact-dense, answer-first, and properly marked up with schema.

AI visibility works differently than Google SEO. When someone asks ChatGPT "best personal injury lawyers in Columbus," the engine retrieves answers from pages it finds credible and citable. Instead, it looks for answer-first content, real case results, clear credentials, and dense facts.

That means your practice-area page can be invisible in Google's top 10 and still get quoted by AI if the content is well-written and well-sourced. Conversely, a page ranking number one in Google might never be cited by AI if it's thin or oversells. We optimize your content for both systems: direct answers to the questions your clients ask; real case results and credentials; schema.org markup that tells AI exactly who you are and what you do; and hub-and-spoke site architecture so every practice area and location page is discoverable and linked.

The result is visibility where clients are already looking—in Google and in AI. The first 30 days are research and optimization. We audit your site, research your competitors, identify the keywords and AI-citation opportunities, and build authority through content and schema.

Weeks two through six, organic traffic usually ticks up and you start seeing AI mentions—you can verify these by asking ChatGPT or Claude questions related to your practice. By day 90, signed cases typically start rising. Firms we've worked with for years see compounding returns: more citations, more referral traffic, better case quality.

We measure success the way you do: signed cases. Every month, we track your AI-citation share (how often you appear in AI answers), organic search impressions and clicks, and case intake. We also review your Google Business Profile, online reviews, and schema markup.

But the core metric is simple: signed cases and ROI. The average InterCore client sees an 18:1 marketing-efficiency ratio—one dollar in marketing spend yields eighteen in case value, measured by cases your team attributes to GEO + SEO. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.

We serve law firms only—no personal-injury agencies or generalist marketers. Our founder, Scott Wiseman, was a Google Marketing Director and has been building law-firm-only marketing since 2002. Everyone we work with understands legal services, bar ethics, and why one signed case matters more than a thousand impressions.

We've worked with firms across personal injury, medical malpractice, family law, employment, real estate, and more. We know the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, the local bench, and the neighborhoods where your clients come from. The process starts with a free 23-point AI-visibility audit.

We run your homepage, practice-area pages, and location pages through a custom checklist: Are your answers direct and answer-first? Is your E-E-A-T visible (credentials, author bios)? Does your schema markup match your visible content?

From that audit, we identify 5–8 high-impact quick wins—usually content tweaks, schema fixes, or architecture gaps—and a longer-term roadmap. Then we move into execution: content optimization, internal linking, schema markup, and ongoing monitoring. See our /geo-for-lawyers framework for the full approach.

Engagements are month-to-month; you own all code, content, and data. Your next step is simple: get your free AI-visibility audit. It takes 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear picture of where you stand with AI search and where the biggest opportunities are.

You can reach us at 213-282-3001 or start your audit at /ai-visibility-audit.

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