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I never had any intention of doing it, I was just surprised that so many other people still did it. There was not one single site that didn't do it.

I have been looking at the website of local web design companies and every single one in my area has a footer with links to a separate page for that local city. This seems like a bad idea to me, but everyone in the local pack has it. Does it work?

Keep what you have, but add an update paragraph at the end, this should limit your risk.

I just went ahead and submitted it in https just to make sure. I haven't had any problems or drops in traffic.

I did the site search that you suggest- site:www.site.com widgets and it was in the correct order.

When I added the word used to the search it came up in the wrong order. They both have the word used, used the same amount of time. It makes no sense to me.

They actually are two separate types of items so I don't think I can canonical because I still want people to find the other category if that is what they are looking for. The names are so similar it is a problem.

I have an x category, y category, and xy category. Even though the names are the same, they are very different products.

http://germanhausbarn.com/ Here is the homepage. It is more informational then anything.

It is unfortunate, but they have almost the exact same name. I don't know how to differentiate them.

For the term "used widget" ,the title for the page I want to rank is "used widget for sale". For the page I do not want it to rank for this term it is "used widget - type for sale".

It It has breadcrumbs and it shows the category in the level up mechanism for the category sort.

I am trying to figure out why the wrong thing is coming up in the serps. For example, we are trying to rank for used widgets. But when you type in used widgets in google the primary widget page doesn't come up, one of the secondary categories under used widgets comes up. What would cause this? What are things I should check?

I am in the process of redoing our homepage. We actually do not have a lot of content on our homepage and virtually no keywords. That should be remedied in the next few weeks and we will see if that solves the problem.

It is just a basic site for a non-profit. Everything seems to be ok, I just thought it was weird. It looks like the homepage doesn't have an optimized enough title so I think that might be it.

I do use Cloudflare and I am wondering if that may be the problem.

Screaming Frog is showing a 503 code for images. If I go and use a header checker like SEOBook it shows 200. Why would that be?

Here is an example link-

http://germanhausbarn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/36-UPC-5145536-John-Deere-Stoneware-Logo-Mug-pair-25.00-Heavy-4-mugs-470x483.jpg

How would you recommend removing them?

It isn't a keyword search it is a site:search. I have a copy of a site audit and it says that the homepage should come up first, but it doesn't.

I have a site with woocommerce. Do I need to block the cart page?

When I do a site: search the homepage comes up second. Does this matter?

I took over a site that had been hacked. A bunch of pages were created that said domain.com/cms/viagra.

The pages are gone but they still show in webmaster tools as not being found, which is what I want. However, should I do anything besides leaving them as 404?