Is it good to have more keywords (& hyphen separators)?

Is it good to have more keywords (& hyphen separetors)?

The following are questions raised (but unanswered) in one disucssion.
I just create another thread, so more people will notice it.

1)
Since I am organising a article base, so I wonder if it is good to do the following:
- www. mywebsite.com/article-type(eg blog)/main-category(eg logic)/sub-category01/sub-category02/.../title-of-page.htm

Although it is well-organized, you see, it is very clumsy.
Will search engine punish this type of URL?

2)
Do you know if the following situations will get punished:
- have more hyphens in the URL
- have more keywords in URL
Eg: word1-word2-word3-word4 will be punished

3)
Will the above situation be treated differently when it appears on different parts in a URL, eg:
- in domain name (eg www .word1-word2-word3-word4.com)
- in category (eg .../word1-word2-word3-word4-category/xxx.htm)
- in page name (eg .../word1-word2-word3-word4.htm)

Any clues?
Thanks!

 

I've heard that you don't want pages more than 3 clicks away from the home page. Not sure if that is more for the human or bot. If you have a well organized but deep directory structure make sure you use a site map. That way all pages will be available to the bots even if they are 3 or 4 levels deep. Personally I'd keep directory names and page names down to just one or two keywords/phrases. If you use keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.html it tends to look spammy.

 

The deep directory structure is not too important.
You can always use "shortcuts" to link directly to that part.
Site map is one way (Good advice mate!), and I tihnk site map is a good idea towards Search Engine Optimization.

Actually this kind of naming convention is derived from what I do with my files in my computer, eg:
C:\My File Center\Comp\Security\Anti-virus\The Comprehensive AV Report

Comparing with:

www .learn-is-fun.com/games/video-games/academic/geograpghy-subject/why-geography-is-fun.swf

Since no one will SPAM their own computer, this kind of naming convention will not considered as spammy (you spam for what? Spam for yourself )

However when it comes down to Internet, there're reasons to spam URL. that's the mian reaosn why the same naming convention looks spammy in one case, not in another.

PS: The only difference is the words in the "computer case" is separated by "space", the "URL by "hyphens". But you should know why it is "hyphens" instead of "spaces"

 

Having more keywords will not get you punished (where did you get that idea?!), however it is unlikely that each one of these keywords will have sufficient "weight". I.e. "Cheap-Trip-to-Hawaii-and-Hotel-Accomodation.htm", is quite useless, because the "weight" is spread across all of them instead of keeping it focused. Instead, make 2 pages, "Cheap-Trip-to-Hawaii.htm" and "Hotel-Accomodation.htm", and stuff them with some content...

 

The reason why I'm worried because it looks spammy.
Just like when the time peole stuff lots of keywords in meta-tags.

 

You'll look spammy if your keyword density exceeds certain threshold... keyword-to-content ratio is what actually counts.

 

Another reason why I think it will get punished is one article says you may get punished if you use 2 or more hyphens in domain name or in one part of URL.