Change the menu structure and not the directory in WOOCOMMERCE. How will it affect SEO?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

Hello everyone, I have a question.
There is a store on woocommerce. Product categories have a url of this type site.ru/product-category/product category1/product category1.1.
And now the menu that displays the directory navigation has the same structure as the directory itself, i.e. product category 1 contains product category 1.1.
I want to change the directory navigation menu structure. Those. Now I will have in the navigation that the product category is 1.1. will be in product category2, but the URL and breadcrumbs WILL remain the same.
Will my site sag in the SERPs as a result of such manipulations? It seems that I don’t change the URLs, I just essentially rearrange the links in the navigation bar, but it’s still somehow scary. What do you think?

Answer 1

It won't sit. Search engines are now slicing what a navigation menu and links from it are, as a ranking factor, far from being in the first place.