As opposed to targeting cities and your primary keywords in your optimization or towns. The question of what type of location page should I create ? This location page issue comes up quite a bit. Why not have both counties and cities for best geo targeting. And having all of them it's not that it is bad it is just not optimal for Google rankings.
Ill cover the advantages and the disadvantages of creating location pages for cities vs local pages for towns or counties in your service area. I will give clear understanding to what is going to be the best approach in my opinion and hopefully you walk away with a deeper understanding on how to optimize your location-based Pages the best for local SEO.