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Originally Posted by JamesAB
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.
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Yet another good example of why Google would never penalize sites for not having pretty urls. Leave your links how they are. It won't change anything and could harm your site otherwise.