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We are looking at implementing HTTPS for our site. I have done a little research but can't find anything recent, http://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-and-http-and-https is the most recent thing I found.

Does everything in the answers still apply? Should I just do a 301 redirect to all new https? Or add a canonical tag?

Thank you for the help.

I just went through the top 150 keywords that brought people to our site to before we switched to our new structure to see if I could find a pattern and it is all random. My first thought was that something was moved farther down the subcategory list but there was no correlation.

Many of these pages have almost none or no links. We have links coming to the site but not every category page. We have some category pages with zero external links rank #1 for our keyword.

The text is unique. They are category pages so there will be some similarities, but the content and items listed are different.

The keywords are low competition.

The external backlinks are the same.

The internal structure is the same. site/category/subcategory

The pages are all done in .net and pulled from the database. There are a few sentences but it is mostly a list of products like http://www.ebay.com/bhp/used-bakery-equipment

This isn't just one category or I would say it is out of the ordinary. We have about 300 total categories. about 200 rank great, and 100 don't.

I work for an e-commerce site that has quite a few categories. Some of these categories rank really well and other don't rank at all. What causes such a drastic difference?

I understand that there are a lot of factors in ranking, so I am not asking why am I ranked #1 in some keywords and #2 in others. What I am trying to figure out is why I rank #1 in some keywords and don't rank in the first ten pages in another. The pages and optimization are the same. Why wouldn't it rank at all?

Because they are the same page with different items don't I run the risk of getting flagged with duplicate content? The title, meta description, and the content are all the same besides the list of items.

We don't have any sessionids or anything like that in URLs, so can I just dismiss using rel="canonical" on the additional pages?

My sitemap also I setup to only show page one in it. Should I add them to the site map? Should I use rel="canonical" all back to the first page?

I am looking at one of our category pages and it has 25 additional pages for a total of 26 pages. The url for the first page looks good, then the next one ends with ?SearchText=768&SearchType=Category

All additional pages have the same url. My first concern was duplicate content, but after looking no pages after the 1st are even indexed. What is the best way to handle this?

I have heard mixed things on schema.org. Is it worth going through your site and doing that? I work for an ecommerce site. Should we do every page or just category and item pages (our landing pages)?

How do you get these to appear - http://imgur.com/xV5LA6E Does a website have any control over what appears?

I have looked and can't find anything in the site that goes from ip. I have looked in Webmaster Tools and it doesn't show any duplicate content. We are on a Windows server, think it would be pretty easy to redirect the ip to the domain?

In links to my site in Google Webmaster Tools I am showing over 28,000 links from an ip address. The ip address is the address that my server is hosted on. For example it shows 200.100.100.100/help, almost like there are two copies of my site, one under the domain name and one under the ip address. Is this bad? Or is it just showing up there and Google knows that it is the same since the ip and domain are from the same server?

My sitemap has been submitted to Bing webmaster tools well over a year ago and I have never had any problems. Starting last week it showed failed, for some reason it can't reach it. I have resubmitted several times and it fails every time. I can go to the url with no problems, and Google Webmaster Tools does not have any problems. We have made no changes in over a year to how the sitemap is made and submitted. Anyone have any ideas?

I am used to using the Moz Pro interface. Now it keeps trying to push this Analytics crap on me. On a different computer I have it bookmarked so I just use that. Unfortunately I do not have it bookmarked on this computer.

There was supposed to be an update on August 26th. I see other posts asking with no Moz response. I am hoping if enough of us ask maybe someone at Moz will respond.

That is what I will probably try. My only concern is if it is worthwhile. Some of our terms are low search volume. Is it worth writing a post if it has a low search amount?

In dealing with industrial equipment we have things like boilers. They cost thousands of dollars, and since we do surplus a lot of times we will only have one. So doing a lot of content on a single item is tough. I am looking at doing a category, but I don't have a lot of knowledge. Do you happen to know if I can cannibalize whats already in search? For instance we sell widgets and the widget category page ranks well. If I write an informative post about widgets, will it hurt my other results?

We work with industrial equipment, so it very rarely trends on anything. We are in a huge industry but nobody is doing any sort of content well. Not quite sure what direction to go since it seems like uncharted territory.

Without owning any item, and without having any knowledge of the product, it makes it tough.

We have a great youtube channel that has over 100k views, and photos are provided by customers so I can't get extras.