If you review a service page, you need to know whether its text explains the place and service conditions that matter to local customers. Select US Cities in Content Optimizer to compare your writing with a city category. It uses the same comparison process as the other taxonomies. It answers a question the others cannot: does this page read as being about the place, or does it only mention it?
The test before you run anything
Read the page and substitute a different city name throughout. If it still reads correctly, the page is not about the city and no measurement is needed to tell you.
Most templated location pages fail that test. The comparison matters for the ones that only just pass it, and for checking pages at scale.
Running it
Choose the city the page serves, then read its position among the nearest matches. You can also select a topic category from another taxonomy to examine the service and the location separately, which is often the more informative pair.
Investigate an unexpected match
A service page can emphasize a neighboring city through its project examples, address information, or description of travel. If another city appears above your intended one, inspect those details before changing any wording.
For example, a contractor's Boulder page may describe several Denver projects. Keep the truthful project information, and explain the actual Boulder service area and booking conditions if those are the page's purpose. The fix is usually adding what is missing rather than removing what is true.
Use verified local information only
The measurement cannot distinguish real local knowledge from invented local knowledge. Both move the result identically.
A city comparison does not verify a business address or establish eligibility for a map listing. Add information the business can substantiate: service boundaries, scheduling restrictions, location-specific work, local requirements that apply.
Do not create an office or a customer example to change the result. That produces a page which measures better and misleads the customer who arrives from it, which they discover at the point of enquiry.
Comparing pages at scale
If you maintain many location pages, check two or three against their own cities. Near-identical nearest-city lists across pages mean they are one page with names substituted, which is a measurement rather than an impression.
Decide whether you have enough location-specific information for thirty useful pages or whether five would serve readers better.
Limits
The taxonomy covers 4,117 US cities with populations of 10,000 or more, so a page written for another country cannot be checked this way today. Work on non-US locations has begun, with no release date. The submission limit is 8,192 bytes, so a long page is checked in sections. A page covering five service areas is about all five, and the result will describe that blend rather than confirming one.
Before publishing a local revision, check the location comparison alongside verified service details and the customer’s actual question.
See what city relevance can establish, the review procedure, or how it is measured.