1. Start with a geographic definition that matches your practice
A location filter is only useful when the firm agrees on what it means. Cayce is recorded as a municipality, and its county relationships are Lexington County and Richland County. Those are different geographic relationships, not interchangeable labels. A Cayce-focused review should therefore distinguish city targets from county targets rather than combining every result into one local number. Population can provide context for the place being evaluated, but it cannot prove that residents are searching for a particular legal service or that a marketing channel will produce matters.
Recommended approach
Before reviewing the dashboard, list the locations that matter to your firm: Cayce city, either county, South Carolina, or another area your attorneys intentionally serve. Ask which geography is attached to each ranking, call, lead and matter field. If a city question and a county question are merged, request a definition that prevents the resulting comparison from being mistaken for demand or revenue evidence.
