Changing site URL structure

[Ruhol]

Hey everybody,

I'm looking for a bit of advice. A few weeks ago Google sent me an email saying all pages with any text input on them need to switch to https for those pages. This is no problem, I was slowly switching the site to https anyway using a 301 redirect.

However, my site also has a language subfolder in the url, mysite.com/en/ mysite.com/ru/ etc. Due to poor work on my part the translations of the site haven't been updated in a long time and lots of the pages are in english even on the russian version etc. So I'm thinking of just removing this url structure and just having mysite.com

My plan is to 301 all requests to https and remove the language subfolder in the url at the same time. So far the https switching hasn't changed my rankings. Am I more at risk of losing my rankings by doing this?

Thanks!

[vezaus]

The rule of thumb is a 301 redirect passes 90-99% of page rank. If the 301 is redirecting to another page on the same domain, it's probably closer to 99%. I would not worry about the 1% loss.

Redirecting to https on the same domain actually improves page rank. Google likes HTTPS, and it is a positive ranking factor.