Changing node page name and URL portion

[Old Nick]

My home page is a node page, its URL portion is named welcome as well as the name of the node: Welcome. If I change both entries to articles and Articles, what will be the SEO consequences? Thanks.

 

[Old Nick]

I don't really know why this thread was moved in this forum "Forum management" from the from "XenForo questions and support"!
It doesn't really make sense!

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[Jeremy P]

In any case, the old URL will no longer resolve properly. You can set up a route filter however and set "Incoming URL conversion only" to redirect the old URL, where the SEO impact should be minimal.

 

[Old Nick]

The game is perhaps not worth the effort, thank you for the clarification, I will leave it that way.

 

[Paul B]

I don't really know why this thread was moved in this forum "Forum management" from the from "XenForo questions and support"!

Because you specifically asked for the impact to SEO.

what will be the SEO consequences?

That's not an XF support issue, it's a forum management issue.

 

[Old Nick]

Ok.

 

[CedricV]

Seo-wise talking, this will be recrawled to the new url, there is no loss really.

 

[Suzanne O]

@Old Nick if you do want to make changes back up your site just in case it doesn't work.