Good call on the 301s Miriam.

After the url site changes, we WILL be resubmitting to all the directories, G+, etc. Thanks for the additional feedback!

Thanks for the feedback Matt. My hunch is that short term there may be a bump, but long term having the city name of the business in the url structure could only help.

With all the flux at Google+ Local/Places and lack of support, it would seem the more obvious you could make your location across the page, the better.

We submitted a group of 50+ franchise stores into UBL to fulfill directory listings back in September. We are now looking at changing the some of the URL structure to include city names.

Example:  website.com/store/store-name(not city)

to                website.com/location/city-store-name

Will changing the subdirectory and resubmitting to the directory aggregators negatively effect their search results?

Thanks,

Jake

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