Losing keyword rankings and sessions.
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I had removed /en from end of each page ( www.mydomain.com/en become www.mydomain.com)
Could it be the reason of losing keyword rankings and sessions?
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Hey Jason,
Yes, it could be definitely one of the reasons.
Let's assume you haven't conducted any other changes, only this one. The problem could be here with non-existing pages since you deleted them. Make sure you've redirected the .com/en version to the similar (or same) page on the .com version.
Google doesn't like links pointing to 404s so that could be the reason you rankings are dropping.
Also, if you have any backlinks from other websites, you could contact the webmasters to update the URLs as well.
Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin
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