Hi TheJack23 and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

Actually, one canonical redirect should handle all your URLs, but this is the SEO forum so we'll stick to that aspect. For redirect questions, see the Apache forum: [webmasterworld.com...]

By creating the new GSC property and submitting a new sitemap for that property you can compare the old and new crawl via GSC to know when they have completed their first crawl. Don't delete the old GSC entry, Google never forgets an URL they've seen and they may continue trying it for longer than necessary. It should be a seamless (not to mean 'overnight') change. Once their crawl is complete, you will want to remove the sitemap from the old www GSC property. Since requests for https://www.example.com will land on https://example.com URLs, it should be fine as described.

In most cases an URL change done right is quickly digested but due to algo changes and updates, your URLS may be reevaluated as if they are new and it may take time to seat in the same positions. Google is not predictable, and Google views the www and non-www sites as two different domains. Where you have backlinks, you might want to work on updating those, but the old links should land on the new URLs as expected.

You don't mention whether this is a WP site, that can make a difference in what needs to be done.

Google never forgets an URL they've seen and they will continue trying it for longer than necessary.

ftfy ;)

Within the last month, I’ve seen G### requests for URLs that were redirected in September 2012 (not a typo).

Keep your redirect in place for infinity. I also have sites getting requests from GoogleBot for pages and folders that were redirected years ago.

Mack.

Hello, Minor URL changes with proper 301 redirects likely won't hurt your SEO much.