Quick question about best practices for a business that serves several towns and cities close together?

[Foureyes]

I work for a legal firm that has one location but serves clients all over the state. Our focus is the city we are in and the southern are of the state within 30 minutes of our location. The main question I have is; On my landing page near the end of the page I currently have a list that says "Southern [State] Law Firm Serving" and then a list starting with the city we are in followed by the towns and cities we serve within that Southern state area. Does this seem helpful or harmful? I have heard Google cares more about the city you are actually located in. Most of my target keyword phrases are focused around "Attorney near me" "Attorney in [city]" "Lawyers in [City]" "Family Law Attorney [city]" and so on. I also have Attorney in [city] as an H1 at the beginning of the landing page. Open to input and suggestions.

I'm still pretty new to SEO and love having a place to bounce my questions off of.

TIA,
Mike (AKA) Foureyes

 

[Powersupport]

Having a list of the towns that you want to come up in doesn’t do too much in itself. But if each one of those towns in the list is a link to a landing page with unique content about your services in that town, then that will help.

Unique content about the legal services that you offer as well as some content about the town itself, reviews from people who live in that town, maybe the location of the courthouse, etc.

 

[Foureyes]

Having a list of the towns that you want to come up in doesn’t do too much in itself. But if each one of those towns in the list is a link to a landing page with unique content about your services in that town, then that will help.

Unique content about the legal services that you offer as well as some content about the town itself, reviews from people who live in that town, maybe the location of the courthouse, etc.

Got it. So not detrimental to have, just not affective without links to unique town/city specific content.