Make sure you do your city-data searchers carefully.  

Are there any tertiary markets in particular that you'd suggest I start with as I widen my search?  

I’m well aware of the importance of searcher intent.

I think a lot of the problems you cite can be fixed or at least improved by this - ability to nail it down to better dial in on the searchers you are looking forThe above categories are confusing and have a lot of overlap and there are much better ways to do it, but I will leave it to the imagination as to why no action here has been taken..

Originally posted by @Dustin Haviland:I've worked as a title searcher, title examiner and currently as an escrow officer for one of the larger title companies in the state and I would not advise anyone to do their own title search.