: We want to change the URLs of an entire section of the website, what all can go wrong with SEO? We have the following URL sections: http://www.movie-website.com/movies/movie-name/trailers And we

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We have the following URL sections:
www.movie-website.com/movies/movie-name/trailers
And we want to change it to:
www.movie-website.com/trailers/movie-name/
Of course we are looking at the following:


301 redirecting all old URLs to new URLs
Updating the sitemap with the new URLs
Keeping the old URLs as part of the sitemap to help google transition to the new URLs
All occurrences of the old URL on the website have been updated to the new URLs


Can our rankings in google fall despite the above precautions? And if so, why?



Part 2 of this question:

What if I wanted to make the change like this:
www.movie-website.com/movie-name
And we want to change it to:
www.movie-website.com/movies/movie-name/
(Adding a directory between the root and the content.)



Part 3 of this question:

What if I wanted to make the change like this:
www.movie-website.com/movies/movie-name/
And we want to change it to:
www.movie-website.com/movie-name/
(Removing a directory between the root and the content).

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