Changed URLs from Upper to Lower Case, and lost page authority should we switch back?

[mjo136]

During an overhaul of our site architecture we switched from having capitals in our urls to all lower case, we did the 301's but the page authority is not nearly what it was should we switch back?

(new) http://www.usleaseoption.com/rent-to-own/florida

vs

(old) http://www.usleaseoption.com/rent-to-own/Florida/

[goodlegaladvice]

if its 301ed the pagerank should flow how long has it been since you changed? You should try to get some links to you new url if possible aswell?

[mjo136]

That's what I thought, but It's been about a month and we lost significant rankings. Those links took years to build and not exactly feasible to go back and generate links for all  50 states and thousands of cities.

[NakulGoyal]

If the 301's are in place, I would not worry. The bigger question is, why did you change them in the 1st place ? Was there strong reasoning to change them ? If yes, is that reasoning still valid ?

[mjo136]

We had issues with both caps and non caps being accepted as well as trailing and non trailing slashes causing duplicate content. We decided all lowercase was a bit cleaner,  however could switch them back to capitals but have the fixes still in place to not cause the duplication.