Doctor Rank

SEO and AI Search Optimization Agency for Doctors & Lawyers

A boutique SEO and AI search agency for medical and legal practices.

We take one practice per specialty in their city, report on revenue, not vanity metrics, and the founder runs every account.

No commitment required on the first call.

text or call (718) 307-2996

One person

You work with the founder

Month to month

No contracts

Exclusivity

One practice per city

Direct line

Text or call Artem's cell

Our Medical and Legal Marketing Standards

HIPAA and bar advertising compliance
For practices, review requests carry no patient details and before and after photos get written consent before they reach a page. For firms, case results carry the disclaimer language the state bar requires, testimonials follow that state's rules, and attorney bios use only the practice-area wording the bar allows, including whether a lawyer may be called a specialist.
Credentialed review on every page
Health and legal pages fall under YMYL, where Google asks for more experience, expertise, authority and trust (E-E-A-T). Every page we publish names the clinician or attorney who reviewed it, with their credential and a link to their bio, and the same reviewer is written into the page's structured data, so Google and AI tools can verify the credential, not just read it.
Local pack and map coverage
Most patient and client searches carry local intent, so the profile counts as much as the site. We run categories, photos, posts and the review flow, and scan the map grid to see where a practice or firm ranks block by block.
AI search readiness: GEO and AEO
Assistants answer from page text rather than from ranking position. We render every page so a crawler receives real text, mirror the visible facts into structured data (generative engine optimization, GEO, and answer engine optimization, AEO), and track the visits that arrive from AI assistants in your analytics.

Our Recent Client Results

Real data from real clients across healthcare and legal. Measurable growth in calls, leads, consultations, and AI search visibility.

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Dermatologist in Queens, NY

Growth +56%
Before
Dermatologist in Queens, NY before

856 calls in Jun-Jul 2023

After
Dermatologist in Queens, NY after

1,336 calls in Jun-Jul 2025

Dermatology Clinic Brooklyn

Growth +167%
Before
Dermatology Clinic Brooklyn before

43 calls/month in 2024

After
Dermatology Clinic Brooklyn after

115 calls/mo in 2025

GI Clinic NY

Growth +44%
Before
GI Clinic NY before

114 calls/month in 2024

After
GI Clinic NY after

164 calls/mo in 2025

Personal Injury Law Firm in New York

Growth +36.5%
Personal Injury Law Firm in New York, 228 calls from Google Business Profile

228 calls from Google Business Profile. Full case in the portfolio.

Why Medical and Legal Practices
Choose Doctor Rank

Exclusive to medical and legal

Niche focus. Doctors, dentists, clinics and law firms only, and one practice per specialty per city. We are never working for the practice across the street.

The patient journey and the client journey

From the first search or AI question to the booked consult or signed case. Pages, Google profile, reviews and forms are built in the order a patient or client actually meets them.

Proof

Every claim on your pages is sourced and credentialed. Every result we report sits in Search Console, Analytics and call logs under your own login.

Hyper-local mastery

Google Business Profile management, map-grid scans block by block, citations that match everywhere, and local schema so the map and the site say the same thing.

AI search readiness: GEO and answer engine optimization

Pages that render as real text, facts mirrored into structured data, and your practice cited by name in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.

Revenue-driven analytics, not vanity metrics

We integrate your analytics and check actual conversions, not just traffic and not just calls. How many new inquiries, how many new patients or clients. We go over those numbers with you.

Contract transparency and ethical client retention

Month-to-month terms with clear milestone clauses. No penalties, no 12-month contract traps. You stay because the numbers say so.

We don't hold your digital assets hostage

Your website, your content, your analytics, your Search Console and all your data stay under your logins. If you ever leave, offboarding is easy and complete.

One client per city

Once we sign a practice in your specialty in your city, we do not take another one there. You are never competing against your own agency.

One flat fee, agreed upfront

You know the number before we start. It does not go up and it does not go down, and there are no surprise fees.

You work with the founder

You speak with Artem directly, from the first call onward. There is no account manager between you and the work.

Direct line to the owner

You text or call Artem's cell phone when you need something. No tickets, no queue.

Explore Our Services

Focused and deep, built only for healthcare practices and law firms. Every engagement includes AI search optimization at no extra cost.

SEO

We put your practice at the top of Google for the services patients and clients actually search.

Website Design

Fast, mobile-first sites for practices and firms, built to convert ranked traffic into booked patients and consultations.

AI Overviews, GEO and AEO

Patients and clients now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews to pick the provider. We work to make your practice the name those answers reach for.

Every core service includes AI Overviews, GEO and AEO at no extra cost. While other agencies focus only on Google, we make sure your practice is named when patients and clients ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or any other AI agent.

Founder of Doctor Rank

I'm Artem, founder of Doctor Rank. I've done SEO since 2005, through every rewrite of Google's rules up to the March 2026 core update. Doctor Rank is a boutique on purpose: we stay small, we take one practice per specialty per city, and every strategy gets my attention.

Some clients run practices with 8, 12 or 20 offices. Others are solo dermatologists, plastic surgeons or DUI attorneys who want to own one market. Either way you talk to me, not an account manager, and I review every page and every AI search recommendation we ship.

Artem, Founder of Doctor Rank

Artem Saribekyan

Founder · SEO since 2005

Our Human & AI Team

The people and the software behind every account. I set the strategy and review the work before it ships. Ashik handles local listings, Shagor builds the automation, and Agent Zero, our own software, runs day-to-day operations under my supervision. Nobody is handed off and nothing is outsourced.

Artem Saribekyan

Artem Saribekyan

CEO & Founder

Agent Zero

Agent Zero

AI Operations Agent

Our own software, not a person. It runs client operations under Artem's supervision.

Ashik

Ashik

Local SEO Expert

Shagor

Shagor

Automation Specialist

Frequently Asked Questions

Who will I actually be working with?+

Artem Saribekyan, the founder. You text or call his cell phone directly. There is no account manager and no ticket system.

Will Doctor Rank sign my competitor?+

No. We work with one clinic or practice per specialty per city. Once you sign, that spot in your city is closed to every other practice in your specialty, for as long as you are a client.

How long does SEO take to show results for a doctor or lawyer?+

Most practices and firms see measurable improvements in 3 to 6 months, with rankings compounding over 12 to 18 months. Healthcare and legal are both competitive YMYL categories, so the ramp is slower than it would be for a retail business, but the compounding is also stronger because once you own the rankings, they are harder to lose.

Do you work with practices and firms outside of New York?+

Yes. We are based in New York and we serve healthcare practices and law firms across the United States. Local SEO principles are the same whether the practice is in Manhattan or Miami, Dallas or Denver. We tune the approach to the competitive density of the specific market.

What is AI agent and AI Overviews optimization?+

It is the discipline of making Google AI Overviews and the AI agents people now use (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude) recommend your practice or firm by name when a patient or client asks for the best in your specialty in your market. Google has signaled that the ten blue links are giving way to agent-driven answers, and this is the work that gets you named inside those answers.

What about Google's move to AI agents and AI Overviews?+

At Google I/O, Google made clear the future of search is AI agents answering the query directly instead of a list of links. AI Overviews already sit above organic results on the majority of healthcare queries. Our entire methodology is built for this shift: schema that AI engines can verify, citations across the directories AI agents trust, and content structured around the natural-language questions patients and clients actually ask. Every Doctor Rank engagement is future-proofed for the agent era.

What about personalized AI agents that search on behalf of patients and clients?+

Gemini, ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Apple Intelligence are rolling out personal agents that go past answering questions. They act. They search, compare options, screen reviews, and increasingly book the appointment or schedule the consultation on behalf of the user. We optimize for the same trust signals those agents use to pick a provider: credentials encoded in schema, citations across the directories agents trust, review sentiment, and content structured around the natural-language questions real patients and clients ask. The goal is to make your practice the one the agent recommends and books.

How much does ChatGPT and AI agent optimization cost?+

It is included at no extra cost in every Doctor Rank engagement. We treat Google AI Overviews and AI agents as the core surface.

Do you do SEO for dentists?+

Yes. Dentists are one of our most-served specialties. See our guide on ChatGPT SEO for dentists for the framework we apply.

Do you do SEO for plastic surgeons?+

Yes. We serve board-certified plastic surgeons and cosmetic surgery practices.

Do you do SEO for law firms?+

Yes. We serve law firms across personal injury, criminal defense, family law, DUI, immigration, bankruptcy, and medical malpractice.

How does Doctor Rank help law firms get cited in ChatGPT?+

We encode attorney bar admissions in schema, build citation footprints across Avvo, Martindale-Hubbell, Justia, FindLaw, and state bar directories, and structure practice-area content around the natural-language questions real legal clients ask. ChatGPT cross-references those signals when choosing which firm to name.

Do you have long-term contracts or cancellation fees?+

No. Doctor Rank is month to month. You pay one flat fee that is agreed upfront and does not change, there are no surprise fees, and you can cancel whenever you want without a cancellation fee.

What happens to my website if I leave Doctor Rank?+

It goes with you. If you decide to leave, we transfer your website and everything else we built to you or your next agency. You owe nothing for the handover.

Is SEO HIPAA-compliant for medical practices?+

Done correctly, yes. We run review generation, content production, and reputation management inside HIPAA boundaries. We do not expose patient information and we follow marketing consent protocols.

Is SEO compliant with state bar advertising rules for law firms?+

Done correctly, yes. We follow state bar advertising rules on testimonials, case result language, and attorney advertising disclaimers. Compliance varies by state and we calibrate to each firm's state bar.

Do you guarantee rankings?+

No reputable SEO agency can guarantee specific rankings because Google's algorithm is not controllable by any outside party. What we guarantee is that we will implement proven strategies, track results transparently, and work every month to grow your visibility.

What is the difference between SEO, AEO, and GEO?+

SEO is traditional search engine optimization for Google. AEO is Answer Engine Optimization, tuned to surfaces that return direct answers. GEO is Generative Engine Optimization, tuned to large language model responses on ChatGPT, Claude, and similar. In practice, the three disciplines overlap and we run them as a single program.

How is ChatGPT different from Google for finding a doctor or lawyer?+

Google returns a list of links. ChatGPT returns a single answer that names two or three providers or firms. For the patient or client that is a shortlist, so being one of the names matters more than being one of ten links. ChatGPT mostly cites practices that already rank on page one of Google, which is why we treat it as part of the same work.

What makes Doctor Rank different from other agencies?+

Six things. One client per specialty per city. No long-term contracts and no cancellation fee. One flat fee agreed upfront that does not go up or down, with no surprise charges. If you leave, your website and everything we built goes with you to your next agency. You work directly with the founder, and you have his cell number instead of a ticket system.

How can I tell if my SEO agency is actually working?+

In the first three months, look at trajectory: is your site appearing more often in Google, and being cited more in ChatGPT and Gemini? Google Search Console shows the Google side and you should have your own login. After that, Google Analytics should show visits and conversions by source, and a call tracking number should show how many people actually called. If a report skips the metric that went down, or was built in a tool you cannot open, that is your answer.

How do doctors get to the top of Google?+

Three things compound together: a website with procedure and condition pages structured around what patients search, a fully built and actively managed Google Business Profile, and a steady flow of real reviews plus citations across the directories Google trusts. There is no shortcut. The practices that own the top of Google are the ones that have done this consistently over 12 to 18 months.

How do I market my medical or dental practice online?+

Start with the channels that compound. SEO and your Google Business Profile bring in patients who are already searching for your services, which is the highest-intent traffic you can get. Layer in reviews and structure your content so AI tools like ChatGPT recommend you by name. Paid ads work as a complement once the organic foundation is in place.

How do I get a bad Google review removed?+

Google removes reviews that break its policies. A merely negative review stays. A review that names and insults a front desk employee, curses, or makes accusations nobody can verify can qualify even if the visit happened. You report it from your profile, then appeal through Google's Reviews Management Tool. The odds run about fifty-fifty, so it is almost always worth filing. We do this for our clients at no extra charge as part of reputation management.

How do I get started?+

Call or text (718) 307-2996, or schedule a free strategy session through the button below. The first call is a free audit of your current online presence and an honest recommendation on whether we are a fit.

Check Whether Your City and Specialty Are Still Open

One practice per specialty per city. A free 30-minute call shows where you stand today and what it would take to hold your market.

Our Offices

Based in New York and Port St. Lucie, serving practices and law firms nationwide.