Legal is one of the most expensive verticals to advertise in — so in Metro Manila, where a single click on "litigation lawyer Makati" is brutally contested, organic search and plain trust decide who gets the consultation. The free instant scan reads your firm's site the way Google and an AI assistant do, then hands you a score out of 100 and your top issues in seconds. No signup, nothing upfront.
A prospective client in BGC, Ortigas or Quezon City rarely walks into a firm cold anymore. They search, they read two or three attorney bios on their phone, and they decide who feels credible before they ever pick up the phone. For most Metro Manila firms the website is doing the opposite of what the partners assume — it loads, it looks respectable, and it still quietly hands qualified matters to the firm down the road who happened to be easier for Google to understand.
That gap is almost never about how the site looks. It's structural: schema search engines can't find, practice-area pages buried so deep nobody links to them, anonymous bios that fail the trust test in a profession built entirely on trust. The free instant scan is the fastest way to see your own version of it — your score and the issues that matter most, in the time it takes to read this paragraph.
Four patterns show up again and again on Manila firm sites — and every one of them is invisible from the front end, which is exactly why they go unfixed for years.
Search engines and AI assistants lean on Attorney / LegalService structured data to understand who you are and what you practise. Most Manila firm sites carry none, so when someone asks an assistant for a "corporate lawyer in Makati," your firm simply isn't a candidate it can name.
Litigation, corporate, immigration, family law — each should be a strong, linkable page. Instead they're trapped behind a single "Practice Areas" dropdown, four clicks from the homepage, splitting your ranking authority so thinly that no single page ranks for the search that would have brought the client.
Legal is YMYL content, held to a higher trust bar. A bio that's three lines with no name on the byline, no credentials, no bar standing, fails that bar — and a Manila client comparing two firms on a phone screen feels the absence before Google ever scores it.
A consultation form that posts over plain HTTPS-less HTTP sends a prospective client's name and case details unencrypted — a confidentiality risk for the firm and a weak position under the Data Privacy Act of 2012. Qualified cases are lost the moment a cautious client sees "Not secure" in the address bar.
Drop in your firm's URL and the free instant scan runs a real check on your live pages and returns, in seconds and with no signup, two things: a score out of 100 so you know where you stand, and your top issues — the handful of problems doing the most damage right now, named in plain English. It's enough to tell whether there's a real leak worth closing. It is deliberately not the full picture: the scan surfaces the headline problems, not all 149 checks.
Beyond the scan, there's a set of 12 free tools you can run on any page with no email at all. For a Manila firm, the ones that usually open eyes first: the schema gap finder (does your site even declare it's a law firm?), the E-E-A-T checker for your attorney bios, the Core Web Vitals checker for how your pages feel on mobile data, and the AI crawler checker to see whether assistants can read you at all. Browse the full set at /tools/.
When the free scan confirms there's something worth fixing, the deep audit is the complete diagnosis — 149 checks across 15 categories, every finding ranked by what it's actually costing your firm in qualified enquiries, each with the exact fix in plain English. Built for the way a law firm site really has to work: schema page by page, practice-area architecture, the trust signals on every attorney bio, intake security, and how your firm reads to an AI assistant.
A firm site drifts — a new associate's bio goes up without schema, a plugin update breaks a form, a server hiccups during a holiday week and nobody notices for days. Audit clients can stay in a monitoring membership: monthly re-scans that catch regressions early and always-on uptime monitoring that flags a downed site before a prospective client ever finds it broken. Soft ask, not a hard sell — mention it when your report lands and we'll see if it fits.
No — I'm a Technical Web Architect, not a lawyer, and I work remotely from the Philippines. Being PH-based means I'm in your timezone: when a Makati or BGC firm messages at 9am, I reply in the same business hours, not overnight from another continent. I won't invent a fake Metro Manila address on your site, and I'd flag it if yours has one — Google and prospective clients both punish that.
When someone searches "corporate lawyer Makati" or asks an AI to recommend a litigation firm, engines lean on Attorney / LegalService markup to understand who you are and where you serve. Most Manila firm sites have none, so Google guesses — and often hands the rich result and the AI recommendation to a competitor who spelled it out. The free scan tells you in seconds whether yours is present and valid.
Working and secure are different things. A form on plain HTTP sends a prospect's name and case details unencrypted — a real exposure for a confidentiality-bound profession and a poor look under the Data Privacy Act of 2012. Browsers also brand the page "Not secure," which a wary Manila client notices before they type a word. The scan flags non-HTTPS forms immediately.
The free instant scan gives you a score out of 100 and your top issues in seconds, no signup — enough to see whether there's a leak worth fixing. The $297 deep audit is the full picture: 149 checks across 15 categories, every finding ranked by what it's costing your firm, with the exact fix for each. Start free; pay only once you've seen the gaps.
GCash for local firms (0995 446 1476), or Wise / PayPal if your firm prefers USD. A formal invoice is available for your records, and the $297 credits in full toward any rebuild work if you hire me to fix what the audit finds.
Yes, and it must, because Metro Manila is mobile-first. Much of the research into hiring a lawyer here happens on a phone over mobile data, and a practice-area page that takes five seconds to paint loses the client before the first line. The scan and the deep audit both measure Core Web Vitals mobile-first and name the exact pages and assets slowing you down.