Worth changing the URL structure to incorporate keywords?
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I am migrating my blog from PHP to ASP.NET and while recoding the whole website, I figured I might as well improve the URL structure.
This is how an url looks like now:
example.com/blog/post/755/hakurei-reimu-cosplay-from-touhou-by-kishigami-hana
and this is hould it will look after the change (cosplay being the dynamic main keyword of the post):
example.com/blog/cosplay/hakurei-reimu-cosplay-from-touhou-by-kishigami-hana-755/
The website is a bit more than a half year old and receives around 650k page views a month, mainly from search traffic. Of course everything would be redirected with 301 redirects. Do you think it is worth changing to a new URL structure, or will it harm the ranking in the long run?
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