Meet the Founder
Ashikur Rahman, the person who does the work on your account
I run Proximity Ranker myself, keep the client list short on purpose, and do the SEO, AI search, Business Profile, ads, review and website work on your account with my own hands.
- In SEO since 2017
- LL.B and LL.M in International Law
- Former SEO Manager, Doctor Rank
- Law firms only
- You talk to me directly
01The story
Why I built Proximity Ranker
One person who owns the whole of your visibility, instead of five vendors who never speak.
I’m Ashikur Rahman. I started in SEO in 2017 as a freelancer, working on e-commerce and service businesses on Shopify, Wix, Webflow and WordPress. That is where I learned the trade: on real client sites, where a change either brought calls or it did not.
In 2023 I became SEO Manager at Doctor Rank, a medical and legal SEO agency. With the team there I worked on search, local and AI visibility for personal injury, criminal defense and immigration law firms.
Along the way I finished two law degrees, an LL.B and an LL.M in International Law. I chose search over practice, so I give no legal advice, but I can read the rules a legal page is built on, and I know why a review reply must never mention the case. Legal content, where every claim has to hold up to a professional’s review, is where I am most at home.
Proximity Ranker is my own agency, built for law firms only, so that the map pack, the AI answers and the review replies are handled together by the same person. I keep the client list short so that is actually possible.
Hire the agency and you work with me. I run the audit, write and structure the pages, run the Business Profile and the ads account, handle the review disputes and write the monthly report. Custom AI agents do the slow mechanical checks under my review. If something is not working, the report says so and says what changes next.
If that sounds like the kind of help your firm wants, the audit is where every engagement starts. It is a week of my work, you keep the PDF either way, and it is free on the SEO plan.
02How I work
Four things I do differently
Four things I do differently from most agencies, each one you can check on the first call.
- 01
You work with me, not a middleman
Hire Proximity Ranker and I am the one on your account. I look over the content, the author blocks and the AI recommendations myself before any of it ships, and I write the report you read each month.
- 02
I cap how many clients I take
A short client list is a deliberate choice. It is the only way every plan gets built around your practice, your city and your goals, instead of pulled from a drawer. When the list is full, I say so.
- 03
Nothing publishes without your lawyers
Every page, profile update and review reply goes to a lawyer at your firm before it goes live. I draft to your bar's or law society's advertising rules first, so their read is a check rather than a rewrite. The legal judgment stays with them.
- 04
I build for AI answers, not just rankings
Search has moved past ten blue links. I structure your pages so AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity can quote you, I check what they say about your firm every month, and earning a place in those answers is the work I care about most.
03On your account
Where the hours go
Six services, one person. This is what I actually do with the hours on a law firm account, month after month.
- 01SEO for LawyersI build the practice-area and location pages, fix the technical faults and earn the local signals by hand.$799/moFirst 5 firms, then $1,199
- 02AI SEOI structure your identity and pages so ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Perplexity can verify and quote you, and check what they say monthly.IncludedIn the $799 plan
- 03GMB OptimizationI set the categories, services and attorney profiles, post an update every week and keep the reviews coming.IncludedIn the $799 plan
- 04Negative Review RemovalI document the reviews that break Google's rules and escalate them, and I write the replies that keep client confidentiality.$199Per review, free on the plan
- 05Google AdsI run Search and Local Services campaigns on a flat fee, with conversion tracking you can read and a negative list kept current.$499/moFree on the plan
- 06Website DesignI build fast sites that prove the firm is real in seconds and turn a visitor into a call, on the same foundation the SEO runs on.From $799Free with six months
01Are you a lawyer?
No. I hold an LL.B and an LL.M in International Law, which is why I can read the rules a legal page is built on, but I do not practice law and I give no legal advice. Every page I write is approved by a lawyer at your firm before it goes live.
02Will I actually talk to you?
Yes. The first call is with me, the audit is my work, and the monthly report is written by me. There is no account manager, no salesperson and no junior learning on your account.
03Do you work with firms outside those five practice areas?
Personal injury, immigration, family law, criminal defense and estate planning are the practices with their own pages, plans and searches on this site. Other consumer-facing practices are taken on request, after the audit shows the work would pay for itself.
04What is Doctor Rank, and are you still there?
Doctor Rank is a medical and legal SEO agency where I was SEO Manager from 2023. Proximity Ranker is my own agency, built for law firms only. The results shown on this site come from my own client work, with the client names withheld at their request.
05How do we start?
With the audit: $350 for one office or $550 for two, and free on the SEO plan. Seven days from payment to a detailed PDF of every finding with its fix. If the audit shows your site is in good shape and the gap is somewhere else, I will say so.
06Can I ask a question before paying for anything?
Yes. Use the contact page or book a call, and you talk to me directly. I will tell you honestly whether the audit is worth it for your firm before you pay for it.
05Work with me
Let’s talk about your firm
Book a call and you talk to me directly. We will look at where you stand in search and in AI answers, and whether the audit is worth it for your firm before you pay for anything. $350 for one office or $550 for two, and free on the SEO plan.
- Where you stand in the map pack today
- What the AI engines say about your firm
- Whether the audit is worth it for you
- A straight answer before you pay anything
- $350One office
- $550Two offices
- FreeOn the plan
Illustration: your firm at the centre, and the firms around it competing for the same searches.
Written and reviewed by Ashikur Rahman, LL.B, LL.M. Last reviewed 20 October 2026.