1. Start with Auburn and the county you actually serve
Bosseo’s public programmatic SEO description allows a footprint covering an entire state or only selected counties. For an Auburn firm, the first decision is therefore geographic rather than numerical: should pages cover Auburn alone, cities throughout Cayuga County, or a broader New York service area? Auburn is recorded as a municipality in Cayuga County. That relationship matters because a county-limited plan should reflect the places your lawyers genuinely serve, not merely every nearby place that can be named. The Census population estimate can establish that Auburn is a defined place for planning, but it cannot establish that residents are searching for a particular legal service or that a page will rank.
Recommended approach
List the cities and communities your firm accepts matters from, then compare that list with the counties you want to cover. Keep Auburn in scope only for services your firm actually handles there. Ask Bosseo to explain how the proposed footprint distinguishes Auburn pages from county-level and other city pages, and how you can expand or narrow the geographic scope later.
