John Mueller confirmed that AI training crawlers are actively hitting sitemaps and RSS feeds. If you publish anything online under your name, your sitemap and RSS feed are part of how AI systems find and index your work. Having those set up and pointing at everything you've written isn't optional anymore if you want to show up in AI-generated answers.
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Your Name Is the Byline: Why Every Attorney Needs Their Own Site in the Age of AI Search
When people ask AI about a legal problem, the answers increasingly cite lawyers, not firms. Here's what an individual attorney's site needs to do, and how publish.law gives you one, under your own name, for free, in an afternoon.
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The Benefits of Third-Party Legal Publishing: Why Your Firm Website Isn't Enough in the Age of AI Search
Your firm website and social feeds aren't enough to get found anymore. Publishing on established third-party platforms builds the digital footprint search engines and AI rely on, the authority that earns citations, and a brand that compounds over time.
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How SEO and GEO Impact Your Law Firm's Visibility and Brand
Law firms must use SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) strategies to be visible where their audience is looking - in Google search results, AI Overviews, and within AI chatbots.
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