Should I change my website urls?
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We're translating our website in a few languages (FR / DE / JP) using subdirectories. So our website will have the following urls
www.brand.com/en
www.brand.com/fr
www.brand.com/de
www.brand.com/jpI would like to change the url structure of a few pages from www.brand.com/section/feature-name to www.brand.com/feature-name
Is it a good idea to do this now since we're adding the subfolders and these are anyway new urls in google's eyes?
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I would not change the URL structure unless you have to do this. Keep it short and clean.
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