Do city pages still work for SEO?
Local SEO — answered straight, by an operator who builds these systems rather than an agency selling them.
Yes, when each page is genuinely about that city — the neighborhoods and county you serve, the work you actually do there, local specifics a competitor could not copy. Pages that swap only the city name into identical text are the doorway pages Google explicitly targets, and they can drag a whole site down.
The longer version
The test is simple: if you deleted the city name from the page, would a reader still know which market it was about? If not, the page is a template, and it is competing against every other contractor running the same template with the same tool.
Done properly, city pages are still the backbone of multi-market local search. They give the search engine a specific document to rank for a specific town, they give a visitor from that town the proof that you work there, and they give an answer engine something concrete to cite.
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