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Brabners - SEO & GEO

From topical authority to tangible leads: how we increased enquiries by 67% YoY

We executed a comprehensive local, national, and AI search strategy to help one of the UK’s leading law firms secure more complex, high-net-worth cases.

Project team

Johnny MetcalfeJames Munro

Services provided

67%YoY increase in enquiries

35%YoY increase in sessions to service pages

26%more visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Gemini than their leading competitor

Challenge and vision

Developing a search strategy for a national legal firm with local roots

Brabners is a leading, purpose-led, independent UK law firm with a particular focus on complex, high-profile cases. The firm is perhaps most famously known for representing Coleen Rooney in the ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial against Rebekah Vardy.

The search journey that connects users with Brabners can be an elaborate one, spanning local, national and AI search. The site is divided into three key sections: services, sectors and insights. Each serves a completely different audience in a unique way.

We needed a search strategy then that delivered on three separate levels – local, national and AI.

“I’ve worked with the team at Extreme for many years and their SEO and GEO expertise is outstanding. They’ve played a big role in helping us to gain visibility online, particularly in local search results. I consider them to be trusted advisors and appreciate their responsiveness and the pace at which they work.”

Joe M Head of Digital, Brabners

Craft and delivery

Sending sessions, enquiries and AI search visibility soaring

To ensure each page has its own unique focus and serves the exact needs of each user, we mapped content to various stages of the user search journey. After conducting in-depth topic research, we then refreshed each page with on-brand, search-optimised content.

We created location-specific subpages (such as Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds) nested beneath service pages. The parent service page targets national search, whilst the location subpages serve local search.

The result is that every single page serves a distinct role and is seen as a highly-relevant, authoritative resource capable of appearing in organic and AI search.

Given our client are keen to attract complex and high-net-worth cases, particular importance was placed on reinforcing Brabners’ E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust) to reassure their audience they're the law firm to depend on. This also helps to increase the likelihood of them being cited in LLM answers.

Having worked with Brabners for over a year now, we’ve witnessed a huge growth in sessions and enquiries from organic search as well as an ever-increasing presence in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Gemini.

  • 67% YoY increase in enquiries
  • 35% YoY increase in service page sessions
  • 36% YoY increase in sector page sessions
  • 26% more visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews than their closest competitor
  • Mentioned as one of the top three brands in 40% of answers in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews
  • Higher citation share in ChatGPT than any competitor

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