On my website I had a wordpress permalink structure that was as follows:
http://example.com/2012/03/post-name/
Having read in many places that a simpler permalink structure could boost SEO rankings, I changed the structure and created permanent redirects to the following:
http://example.com/post-name/
It seems google did not like the change. In the three months since the change was implemented traffic has dropped by about 50%.
Would changing the structure be helpful or would it simply screw things up further?