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Originally Posted by AdultKing
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You're correct this isn't 2003, so there is absolutely no excuse for sites not to present user friendly URLs. It's not all that expensive or difficult to do.
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I have an excuse for one site I manage. There are so many links and backlinks to the legacy URL's, I worry about losing traffic and the wait time to get re-indexed by Google if I change to a different URL structure.
Yes. I can imagine SE traffic might improve in the future with better URLs, however I hate to look at the prospect of 12 years work going down the drain if the old URL's don't get forwarded correctly due to a change over in structure.
SEO is always such a voodoo art form, it seems difficult to get a quantitative answer on the benefits of making such a huge leap.