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Should I Change URL Structure or No?

Hello all,
This is sort of a poll. I have my business website and we have a few different services.

Our service URLs are like this /services/service-name/ (ie. /services/window-washing/).

There is a particular service for which we didn't use just the name as the URL, but rather a whole keyword we were targeting like "service-name-company" (ie. /services/window-cleaning-company/).

Last year we got hit really bad and now we're making some big changes. As part of those big changes, we want to get rid of /services/ from the URL and also update some service names.

Ideally, we would want to change /services/window-cleaning-company/ to just /window-cleaning/. And then redirect the old URL to the new one.

Here is the issue -- that one specific page is actually ranking pretty well AND has received several good backlinks.

Would you change it? Or would you keep a random odd looking service URL for that one specifically?

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