Quote Originally Posted by barricades View Post
I've just realised that on the live site that I have SSU on I changed a categorys name a while back but since the instructions weren't fresh in my mind I didn't refresh the cache. It doesn't seem to have had any negative effect that I can spot in terms of actually working, in other words all the URLs say what they're supposed to without me resetting the cache. Is the negative effect therefore just a performance of server issue? Or does it have a bad effect on my sites ability to be spidered and indexed?

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Then it's no problem at all, dont worry about. Resetting cache is usually done because sometimes a change in the code will not be reflected in the links unless you do it.
So in your case, you changed the category names but you did not reset cache, i will assume that the link name will be that of the old category name. Nothing wrong with that, it will keep working. Next time you reset cache, the link name will be changed, and customers/spiders visiting old links will be redirected properly to new links