1. Start with a geographic definition your partners can audit
A dashboard is only useful when everyone agrees what its location labels mean. Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Your firm may also serve people outside the city, but a Medford label should not silently include all of Middlesex County or the wider metropolitan area. The Census population estimate for Medford city is a description of the municipality, not a forecast of cases or marketing opportunity. Ask to see how location is represented in keyword targets, landing pages, calls, forms, leads and matters. Also ask whether a city field describes the search target, the caller’s location, the page that generated contact, or the address associated with a matter. Those are different fields and should not be treated as interchangeable.
Recommended approach
Before reviewing a scorecard, write down the geographic questions the firm needs answered: which Medford targets are tracked, whether county activity is separated, and whether a reported lead can be tied to a page or channel without overstating what location data proves.
