A search and AI-visibility strategy for the corporate filing, registered agent, and compliance category — with the market analysis, competitor research, and week-by-week plan behind it.
A new domain can’t out-link 25-year-old incumbents. It can out-structure them for AI — where they’re weakest.
LLCity ranks for exactly one keyword today — effectively invisible in search.
The realistic target: the traffic Harbor & CorpNet earn — through content, not ad budget.
Share of AI citations that come from earned coverage vs. paid placement — where the real work is.
llcity.com currently holds a domain rank of 0, 34 referring domains, ranks for 1 organic keyword, and receives negligible organic traffic. There is no ranking history to preserve and no technical debt beyond the platform itself, which is not built to scale.
“Best / review” queries are held ~80–100% by affiliate publishers (Forbes, NerdWallet). Transactional, state, and compliance queries are held by providers and government sites, with almost no affiliate presence. Live SERPs confirm this split. The second segment is the addressable lane.
Harbor Compliance drives an estimated 252,472 organic visits/mo from 2,936 referring domains; CorpNet 120,987 from 2,599. In this niche, organic performance is content-driven, not backlink-driven. A 2–3k referring-domain profile is realistic; the 26–30k profiles of LegalZoom/ZenBusiness are not the benchmark.
Live keyword difficulty for the target band is materially lower than assumed: certificate of good standing (KD 14), certificate of authority (KD 2), foreign qualification (KD 0), and state registered-agent terms (KD 5–10), at CPCs of $18–37.
Earned media accounts for ~84% of AI citations versus ~0.3% for paid/advertorial (Muck Rack, 2026). A new domain competes on structured citability and third-party trust — where the incumbents are structurally weak — rather than on domain age.
A one-week platform rebuild followed by an SEO/GEO retainer across four parallel workstreams (Platform, On-site/GEO, Off-site Authority, Measurement). The quarter produces roughly 500 targeted pages, front-loaded with the lowest-difficulty wins to demonstrate traction fast.
The short version: a strong, uncontested lane exists; LLCity is well-positioned to take it; the plan below is how — backed at every step by live data.
| Metric | LLCity today | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|
| Domain rank | 0 | CorpNet 411 · Harbor 420 |
| Referring domains | 34 | CorpNet 2,599 · Harbor 2,936 |
| Organic keywords | 1 | CorpNet 22,401 · Harbor 43,020 |
| Organic traffic / mo | ~0 | CorpNet 120,987 · Harbor 252,472 |
| Indexable pages | ~7 | CorpNet ~1,230 (verified sitemap) |
| Programmatic state pages | 0 | Northwest ~2,000–5,000 (est.) |
| Area | Finding | Impact | Sev. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | Hand-coded static site on Express + Bootstrap, no CMS | Cannot template or scale programmatic content | high |
| Indexation | No robots.txt, no XML sitemap | No crawl guidance or discovery signal | high |
| Indexation | Soft-404s — non-existent URLs return the 404 page with HTTP 200 | Crawl-budget waste, indexation hygiene | high |
| On-page | Duplicate titles (all 4 service pages share one), no meta descriptions, double H1 | No keyword targeting, weak SERP snippets | med |
| Structured data | No JSON-LD schema of any kind | No entity, service, or FAQ signals for AI/search | high |
| Rendering | Client-side reliant, no SSR guarantee | AI crawlers do not execute JS — content may be invisible | high |
| Brand entity | “LLCity” collides with generic term “LLC city” | Brand queries diluted; AI entity hallucination risk | med |
| Trust | No Trustpilot / BBB / Google reviews, no backlinks | No third-party trust signal — the AI-citation ceiling | high |
Point B is the trajectory over the engagement, not a 90-day promise. The first 90 days deliver the foundation, the first citable pages, and the earliest rankings and AI citations; scale and the mature trust profile build from there.
Invisible today, but a clean slate. The rebuild is the foundation everything else depends on.
| Cluster | Example | Volume/mo | KD | Who ranks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered agent — state | texas registered agent | 70k (50-state sum) | 5–14 | Providers |
| Compliance — good standing | certificate of good standing texas | 41k (sum) | 1–14 | Providers + gov |
| Compliance — foreign qualification | foreign qualification | 480 + long tail | 0 | Providers + gov |
| Compliance — annual report | [state] annual report | 39k (sum) | 39–56 head | Providers |
| Formation — state | how to start an llc in texas | 74k (sum) | 18–26 | Publishers + gov |
| Best / review | best registered agent service | 390–9k | 0–75 | Affiliates |
Top 10 = Northwest, Harbor, CA-registered-agent, Forbes (only affiliate), RASi, Wolters Kluwer, Thomson Reuters. A provider SERP.
Top 10 = Wolters Kluwer, GA SoS, CSC, Harbor, Northwest, Bizee, Cornell Law. Providers + government, zero affiliate reviews.
Top 10 = TX SoS, Comptroller, TX Bar, corporatecreations (#3), Wolters Kluwer. Government-heavy; provider entry at #3.
The money is in transactional and compliance searches, where providers rank and affiliates don’t. That is the lane we take.
Read the gap: the top brands earn 650k–790k visits/month on huge link profiles. But Harbor and CorpNet earn 120k–250k on a fraction of the links — because their traffic is content-driven. That tier is the realistic goal, not LegalZoom.
| Competitor | Rank | Ref. domains | Keywords | Traffic/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLCity — today | 0 | 34 | 1 | ~0 |
| CT Corporation (Wolters Kluwer) | 587 | — | — | — |
| CSC (Corporation Service Company) | 412 | 3,467 | — | — |
| Cogency Global | 265 | 759 | 2,898 | 19,389 |
| RASi (Registered Agent Solutions) | 204 | 211 | 1,625 | 9,671 |
| Harbor Compliance | 420 | 2,936 | 43,020 | 252,472 |
| Northwest Registered Agent | 455 | 6,593 | 33,233 | 788,538 |
| LegalZoom | 414 | 28,774 | 138,739 | 668,224 |
| ZenBusiness | 445 | 30,055 | 73,157 | 253,802 |
| Rocket Lawyer | 421 | 25,920 | 48,717 | 204,738 |
| CorpNet | 411 | 2,599 | 22,401 | 120,987 |
| Bizee (formerly Incfile) | 348 | 4,034 | 13,103 | 66,774 |
| MyCorporation | 358 | 3,143 | 13,470 | 135,179 |
Premium leader, founded 1892. ~70% of the Fortune 500, 15,000+ law firms. RA ~$436/state/yr (est.). Now one of three Wolters Kluwer brands.
Highest raw domain authority in the set (wolterskluwer.com). Templated 50-state RA pages; named-author E-E-A-T; heavy CTA/BOI thought leadership.
Thin SMB/top-funnel content; enterprise tone; fragmented multi-domain UX; bot-blocks AI crawlers (403) — a direct GEO liability.
Do not contest enterprise/Fortune queries. Their AI bot-blocking is an opening: their pages are absent from what the models read.
Enterprise-first, founded 1899. 90% of the Fortune 500. Quote-only pricing.
Very high authority (since 1899); huge brand-citation base; dominates enterprise/branded and UCC/transactional queries.
State pages are ~70% boilerplate with no per-state fees/deadlines; content gated behind lead-gen; compliance calendar locked in CSCNavigator (not indexable).
Beat the thin state pages with genuinely state-specific data. The SMB segment is deliberately ceded.
White-glove, founded 1980. Mid-to-enterprise; law firms, nonprofits, lenders/UCC. Quote-only.
Deep practitioner blog (~370 posts) on niche UCC/nonprofit/structured-finance topics — strong, citable authority material.
No state-templated programmatic layer at all. Actively filters out SMB traffic. Weak on head/commercial terms.
The entire state matrix is uncontested by Cogency. Flank their nonprofit/UCC depth rather than attack it.
B2B/mid-market. Acquired by Wolters Kluwer (Mar 2025). Corpliance® compliance-calendar platform is the moat. RA ~$149/yr.
Rising authority via the WK halo; clean transactional/branded footprint.
Thin content (~16 articles incl. off-topic filler); no scaled programmatic SEO; best data (due dates) locked behind login.
Programmatic breadth is ~zero. The thin blog is easily out-produced; their gated due-date data is absent from the open web.
Purpose-built multistate compliance, founded 2012. Nonprofits + regulated industries. Semi-transparent pricing.
The strongest programmatic SEO in this cohort. License Library (24,689 agencies, 14,381 licenses); 50-state templates (charitable / annual report / license) with real per-state data and statutory citations.
Premium/enterprise tone; two-brand dilution (Labyrinth for nonprofit); not obviously LLM-optimized despite depth.
The pSEO benchmark to study and match — with richer per-state tables, freshness, and a GEO layer they lack.
#2 RA in the US, founded 1998, family-owned. “Privacy by Default®”, US-based support. LLC $39 (RA yr 1 bundled), RA $125 flat.
Highest organic traffic in the set. Owns registered-agent terms and, per live SERP, the head “how to start an LLC.” Large free legal-forms library.
Utilitarian/dated UX; à-la-carte model confuses novices; weak on enterprise/multi-entity; bot-blocks crawlers (403) → GEO exposure.
Match the no-upsell substance but out-execute on UX, packaged guidance, multi-entity depth, and AI-citable structure.
Category leader, public (Nasdaq: LZ), ~$756M FY2025 revenue. Broadest funnel; brand + authority moat.
Highest domain authority and keyword footprint; dominates commercial and informational head terms plus a second consumer-legal vertical.
Registered agent unbundled (~$249); upsell-heavy checkout, hidden-fee complaints; not a specialist in complex/multi-entity filings; publicly flags “search headwinds.”
Unwinnable on brand/authority. Their “search headwinds” admission is the GEO opening — generic informational content is exactly what AI Overviews erode.
Best-funded entrant ($200M Series C, ~$1.7B valuation), founded 2015. All-in-one for new founders.
Aggressive programmatic factory (state LLC + RA pages) and a large editorial blog; strong brand recall (~64% direct traffic).
Subscription-trap funnel (auto-renewing WFC/RA); generic templated content vulnerable to helpful-content signals; does not own the head term.
Generic template pages are beatable on depth and freshness. Target comparison/hidden-fee BOFU queries.
Online legal-services platform, founded 2008. Subscription-first + AI. Not primarily a formation house.
Programmatic legal-document library (~1,200 templates, per-state × per-doc matrix) — a structurally large footprint pure formation players lack.
Formation is a deprioritized secondary business; several formation URLs currently 404 after a restructure; RA not core/bundled.
Do not fight on document templates. Attack formation, registered agent, and complex compliance — where they are weak and in flux.
Closest analog to LLCity. Family-owned, founded 2009. Two-sided: B2C/SMB + a real B2B partner/reseller channel. Multi-state/bulk RA.
~1,230 indexable URLs (verified sitemap). ~7 per-state families (form-llc, incorporate, registered-agent, payroll-tax, secretary-of-state, meeting-minutes) + a 126-page business-licenses cluster. Founder-led E-E-A-T.
Smaller brand/traffic; pricing friction (3% fee + $29 shipping); foreign qualification is a single hub page, not a 50-state cluster; no GEO optimization.
The model to copy and extend. Build the per-state clusters they skipped (foreign qualification, per-state licenses); win on transparency, UX, and AI-citability.
Original “$0 + state fee” pioneer, founded 2004. Rebranded Incfile → Bizee, late 2023. Budget/volume.
State-templated page farm + free tools (name generator). Historically strong on “free LLC” terms.
Rebrand surrendered ~19 years of brand equity; traffic is branded-dependent and volatile; BBB “F” rating; downmarket cap.
Non-branded organic moat is thinner than headline traffic suggests — contestable now on non-branded commercial terms.
Founded 1998, owned by Deluxe (2018). Positioning angle = longevity. RA outsourced.
Aged domain with topical authority on “start a corporation,” DBA/trademark; actively maintained blog.
~30% of traffic from affiliates; Trustpilot ~3.3 (only ~280 reviews); dated .jsp UX and dead links; thinner content than ZenBusiness/LegalZoom.
The softest target in the set — straightforward to out-content, out-transparency, and out-review.
Aim for the Harbor / CorpNet tier. They got there on content depth, not a 28,000-domain link profile — which is reachable.
Consistent with LLCity’s own positioning (it lists itself alongside CT/CSC and targets accountants, attorneys, investors) and with the lowest-competition search band. The self-positioning and the data agree.
Enterprise players cede SMB; consumer brands are thin on foreign qualification, good standing, and multi-entity compliance, and hide their best data behind logins.
Every page is built as an answer-unit; the technical foundation ships with llms.txt, entity graph and schema from day one. A greenfield domain’s only route past 28k-backlink incumbents is structured citability + earned trust.
Our move: Persona pages mapped to LLCity’s stated audience (Delaware LLC, multi-state, non-resident founder, real-estate syndicators, accountants).
Our move: Every page opens with a bolded answer-unit, then a fast-facts box and a real per-state fact table.
Our move: Entity graph with a disambiguating description resolving “LLCity” vs “LLC city.”
Our move: An earned-authority engine (affiliate-driven roundup inclusion, review presence, digital PR) from month one.
AI Overviews already appear on 8 of 10 money queries and LLCity is cited in none. Citation patterns are being set today; a greenfield domain that establishes citability early compounds — and the window before incumbents fix their AI-crawler blocking (Wolters Kluwer & Northwest currently 403 AI bots) is closing.
Programmatic pages on a new domain take weeks to get indexed. To capture the Jan–Apr formation surge and each state’s annual-report deadline season, pages must be live and indexed before the season — which means starting now, not next quarter.
Competitors are cited in AI answers today. Delay is not neutral — it cedes ground on the surface that is replacing classic search.
Compete where a new domain can actually win: structured, AI-citable content on the lowest-competition band.
The moat is not hand-writing every page — it is a verified data store, a quality gate, and human sign-off. Volume is feasible because pages are assembled from checked data, not typed one at a time.
Per-state facts (fees, exact form names, deadlines, processing times, SoS links) are compiled once into a single structured source of truth, versioned, and fed to the templates. Pages are assembled from verified data — not written one at a time — which is what makes the volume feasible without cutting corners.
Each combination is scored on real demand and how much genuinely unique data it carries. High-value, data-rich combos get a standalone page; low-demand or near-duplicate combos are consolidated into a section or skipped — so we never ship the thin, templated pages that get filtered as scaled-content spam.
Because wrong filing data is a client liability, not just an SEO miss, every batch is fact-checked against the state source, and compliance claims are signed off by LLCity’s in-house CPAs on an agreed per-batch SLA. A QA sampling rate is applied to every release.
Weeks 1–4 ship the foundation plus ~150 pages built deep on the highest-value compliance/state band. Once the data store and template are proven, the matrix scales toward ~500 — with the QA sampling and quality gate held constant. The full 50-state matrix continues compounding beyond the first quarter.
Rebuild the site on a platform that AI and search engines can actually read and that can scale to hundreds of pages.
Move LLCity off the hand-coded static site onto Next.js — a platform that renders pages on the server and can generate hundreds of pages from a single template.
The current static site cannot template content or guarantee server rendering — both are prerequisites for programmatic pages and AI visibility.
A live, server-rendered site with a template system ready to scale — shipped in week 1.
Configure the site so every major AI and search bot is explicitly permitted to read and cite it.
Being admitted is necessary but not sufficient — a crawler must be able to reach the content before it can ever cite it, and some competitors block these bots outright (a gap we exploit). Citation is then earned through the content and trust work in §B and §C, not by crawl access alone.
Verified crawler-access configuration, tested per bot.
Give AI agents a clean, structured map of the site and a plain-text version of every page.
A low-cost hedge on an emerging standard: no engine has publicly committed to llms.txt as a citation input yet, but it is cheap to ship and a clean machine-readable index and plain-text pages only help agents that do consume them. Freshness dates improve how often content is used.
An llms.txt index and clean-text version of every page.
Add structured data (schema) that defines the LLCity brand and its services — and resolves the ‘LLCity vs LLC city’ confusion.
Without this, AI engines cannot reliably tell which brand LLCity is and may invent a wrong one; structured data also feeds rich results and citations.
A validated brand entity and schema across all page types.
Clean up the on-page issues from the audit (§2) and build the internal-linking and indexation system that 500 programmatic pages actually need — not a one-off pass.
At 500 pages, internal linking IS the topical-authority system, and indexation on a rank-0 domain is a real risk Google throttles — both must be designed up front, not retrofitted.
A clean crawl, a programmatic linking model, and a monitored indexation pipeline.
Hit Google’s Core Web Vitals performance targets, especially on mobile.
Speed is both a ranking signal and a crawl-efficiency factor; heavy pages waste crawl budget.
Core Web Vitals passing on mobile and desktop.
Install the measurement stack and record the day-0 baseline before any content ships.
You cannot show progress without a clean starting measurement — and the KD/volume thesis deserves a second-tool check before scale.
Full analytics instrumentation, cross-validated keyword data, and a documented baseline.
Write the pages that win the low-competition band — structured so both Google ranks them and AI engines quote them.
Write the definitive page for each core service — registered agent, foreign qualification, certificate of good standing, annual report, incorporation, DBA, EIN, S-corp election, business licenses, operating agreements — each the clearest answer on the web and built for AI to quote.
These terms sit in the winnable band and are high-intent; the structure is exactly what AI engines quote.
~10 service pages built to rank and be cited.
Build pages aimed at specific buyer situations, because those specific searches are what trigger a live AI web search (generic terms get answered from memory).
Specific, situational queries are the ones that make AI engines run a live search — and they match the audience LLCity already lists on its site.
6 situation-specific pages that act as entry points.
Build state pages for the 8 highest-demand states (registered agent + certificate of good standing) using real, fact-checked per-state data.
Accurate per-state data is the moat — thin, generic state pages get filtered as spam. This is where competitors like CorpNet are beatable.
16 data-rich, fact-checked state pages.
Extend the proven template across all 50 states and up to ~9 service families — the bulk of the quarter’s ~500-page output.
This is the programmatic engine: ~450 pages across the addressable state matrix, capturing the compliance clusters affiliates ignore.
~450 programmatic state pages live by end of quarter.
Publish neutral buying guides and head-to-head comparison pages that capture bottom-of-funnel and ‘alternatives’ searches.
Comparison and alternatives pages are exactly the surface AI retrieves when someone asks for a recommendation or a switch.
A guide + comparison/alternatives cluster.
Publish answer-first explainers that capture top-of-funnel questions and feed links to the money pages.
These capture early-stage questions, build topical authority, and are highly quotable in AI answers.
A seeded learn/explainer hub.
Put named experts — the founder and in-house CPAs — behind the content, with profiles and credentials.
Legal content is ‘your money or your life’ territory — search and AI hold it to a higher trust bar, and named-expert authorship counters the ‘anonymous/white-label’ signal AI flags.
Credentialed author entities on all sensitive content.
Build a free, genuinely useful tool and a data study on the per-state data competitors hide behind a login — the one asset a competitor can’t cheaply copy, that earns editorial links passively and is natively AI-citable.
Digital PR without a linkable asset is low-yield outreach. A proprietary tool/data asset earns links and citations at scale, differentiates from thin templated competitors, and is the closest thing to a durable moat in a copyable space.
A free tool, a linkable data study, and a forms library.
Build the accountant / attorney / reseller channel LLCity already positions for — a recurring, higher-LTV, less-SERP-contested lane that CorpNet proves works, and that the plan should not shrink to a single persona page.
The partner channel is LLCity’s stated core differentiator and diversifies beyond consumer SERPs into recurring, higher-value revenue — a defensible lane the incumbents (except CorpNet) under-serve.
A live B2B/partner content track and lead path.
Build the third-party trust that AI grounds on — the ceiling on visibility for a new domain — cleanly and safely.
Stand up an affiliate program that gives review publishers a commercial reason to list and rank LLCity in the ‘best registered agent’ roundups AI engines cite. This materially increases the probability of inclusion — it does not guarantee a #1 slot.
In this niche, roundup rankings correlate strongly with commission economics, so a competitive payout is the most effective lever available — but inclusion still depends on reviews and reputation, which is why this runs alongside §C2 and §C3, not instead of them.
A live affiliate program, agreed unit economics, and a publisher pipeline.
Claim and grow the review profiles AI engines ground on — in full compliance with the FTC’s fake-review rule.
Review sites appear in ~34.5% of commercial AI Overviews, and 2+ profiles correlate with materially higher citation odds — a directional signal we treat as a reason to prioritize reviews, not a guaranteed multiplier.
Claimed profiles (or the fallback trust stack) and a growing, genuine review base.
Earn genuine third-party mentions — the source of ~84% of AI citations.
Earned coverage is ~84% of AI citations vs ~0.3% for paid placement — this is the highest-leverage off-site work.
A steady flow of earned mentions and expert placements.
Build a real presence on the community sources AI grounds on, and seed the business databases that feed the Knowledge Graph.
Reddit is the single most-cited source across AI engines; consistent business listings strengthen the brand entity.
A genuine community footprint and clean entity records.
Track the thing that matters — whether AI cites LLCity — and report it on a predictable cadence.
Run a fixed set of real questions across every major AI engine and record whether LLCity is named — the metric almost no agency reports.
This isolates discovery from content quality and produces the headline metric: time to the first AI citation.
A baseline and recurring AI-citation logs.
Give LLCity a single view of progress and a fixed communication cadence.
A single view and a predictable rhythm keep the engagement transparent and accountable.
A live dashboard and a scheduled reporting cadence.
The following are deliberately out of scope. In a legal-services category, and for a reputation-sensitive owner, the regulatory and brand risk outweighs any short-term gain.
FTC final rule (Oct 2024): ~$51.7k per violation, potentially per review. A legal brand cannot carry this risk.
Google spam-policy violation (Dec 2024 + Aug 2025 updates); silent devaluation with ~0 AI upside.
Duplicate, de-duplicated content; ~0 AI citations.
Four workstreams, every activity tied to a reason and an output. Nothing here is busywork.
| Phase | Weeks | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| Phase 0 — Foundation | Week 1 | AI-indexable platform live; entity graph, llms.txt, analytics baseline shipped. |
| Phase 1 — Citable core | Weeks 2–4 | ~10 service + ~10 persona + first state pages live; review profiles claimed. |
| Phase 2 — Scale & authority | Weeks 5–12 | ~500 pages total; affiliate program live; first AI citations; live dashboard. |
| Frequency | Deliverable |
|---|---|
| Weekly | Async status: activities shipped, pages published, blockers. |
| Bi-weekly | Written report: rankings, indexation, AI-citation deltas. |
| Day 0/7/14/21/30 | 20-query AI-citation measurement runs. |
| Monthly | Review call: results vs. plan, next-month priorities. |
Fastest wins first, inside the retainer — and honest about what continues after.
Run live via DataForSEO (Aug 2026): Google AI Overviews now appear on 8 of 10 core money queries — and LLCity is cited in zero. The engines already ground on Harbor, CorpNet and MyCorporation (proof the attainable tier is cited today), plus YouTube and Reddit. This is the baseline the measurement program tracks from day 0.
| KPI | Definition | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Time-to-first-citation | Days to the first organic citation of llcity.com in an AI answer without a pasted URL. | Primary |
| AI share-of-voice | % of target queries where LLCity appears in the AI answer, across 5 engines. | Primary |
| Indexed page count | Programmatic + editorial pages indexed (GSC). | Leading |
| Low-KD keyword rankings | Positions on the KD 0–14 compliance/state band. | Leading |
| Referring domains | Growth toward the 2–3k attainable-tier benchmark. | Leading |
| Organic traffic & clicks | GSC/GA4 sessions — tracked, but the by-product. | Lagging |
Google AI Overviews already answer 8 of 10 core queries in this category — and LLCity is in none of them. That is the gap this engagement closes, and the baseline we measure against from day 0.
These are targets reviewed monthly against actuals. If a monthly gate is missed, the next review diagnoses and adjusts scope — or triggers the exit path (§9). Traffic and mature AI-citation share are multi-quarter outcomes; the Month-3 items are the near-term committed deliverables.
| Risk | Likelihood | Mitigation |
|---|---|---|
| Programmatic pages don’t get indexed on a new, low-authority domain | High | Phased sitemaps, internal-link-driven discovery, prune thin combos, weekly GSC coverage monitoring |
| Wrong per-state legal data (YMYL liability) | Med | Single verified data store + CPA sign-off + QA sampling on every batch |
| Scaled-content-abuse / thin-content penalty | Med | Per-combo quality gate; genuinely unique per-state data; consolidate low-demand combos |
| AI-citation mechanics shift (engines change how they cite) | Med | The classic-SEO foundation still pays off; multi-run measurement; no single-channel over-reliance |
| GBP ineligible on the virtual HQ address | High | Fallback to NAP/citations + Trustpilot/BBB + service-area schema; resolve before promising GBP |
| Traffic dip during the platform migration | Low | Full old→new 301 redirect map, staging environment, rollback plan |
Week-0 call; provision repo, hosting, analytics and domain access.
Lock the segment emphasis and first-wave state priority.
Delivered as the first artifact — where LLCity and competitors stand in AI answers today.
One-week platform build + quarterly retainer; investment scoped in the follow-up.
Approve a week-0 kickoff. The first deliverable is a live AI-citation baseline — a concrete look at where LLCity and its competitors stand in AI answers today — before any retainer decision.
| Keyword | Volume | KD |
|---|---|---|
| registered agent | 14,800 | 38 |
| registered agent services | 12,100 | 38 |
| registered agent for llc | 9,900 | 17 |
| texas registered agent | 8,100 | 5 |
| california registered agent | 3,600 | 5 |
| florida registered agent | 4,400 | 10 |
| new york registered agent | 1,600 | 7 |
| change registered agent | 390 | 9 |
| cheap registered agent | 320 | 3 |
| certificate of good standing | 8,100 | 14 |
| certificate of good standing texas | 3,600 | 1 |
| certificate of good standing california | 1,900 | 1 |
| certificate of authority | 3,600 | 2 |
| foreign qualification | 480 | 0 |
| foreign qualification california | 110 | 14 |
| annual report filing | 1,900 | 56 |
| file annual report | 1,900 | 39 |
| how to start an llc | 22,200 | 26 |
| how to start an llc in texas | 9,900 | 18 |
| llc formation service | 22,200 | 23 |
| llc cost | 2,900 | 15 |
| series llc | 1,900 | 1 |
| s corp election | — | 15 |
| form 2553 | 22,200 | 28 |
| corporate compliance | 1,300 | 17 |
| entity management software | 260 | 6 |
| boi report | 4,400 | 36 |
| best registered agent service | 390 | 0 |
| best llc service | 1,300 | 6 |
| State | RA | CGS | AR | LLC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 4,400 | 5,400 | 2,900 | 880 |
| Florida | 4,400 | 1,600 | 6,600 | 5,400 |
| Texas | 8,100 | 3,600 | 590 | 9,900 |
| New Jersey | 2,400 | 2,900 | 6,600 | 1,900 |
| Wyoming | 8,100 | 880 | 720 | 390 |
| Illinois | 1,600 | 5,400 | 1,900 | 2,400 |
| California | 3,600 | 1,900 | 590 | 6,600 |
| Colorado | 2,400 | 1,600 | 480 | 1,900 |
| Washington | 1,600 | 390 | 2,400 | 1,000 |
| Georgia | 2,900 | 880 | 480 | 2,900 |