How Deep of a Link is too Deep?

[Charles Washington]

I ask because I was thinking of breaking my store down into categories, then sub categories to target longtails.

Here are my subs
Main site: cool widgets
category: climbing widgets
Subcategory: steep climbing widgets
Product:...

So my link would be coolwidgets.com/climbing-widgets/steep-climbing-widgets/product for the product. Is the product to far from the home page?

I am only concerned from an SEO standpoint. To me, that is the easiest way to optimize a few longtail variations of the category word. To me it seems to make sense. How about you guys?

[PhilipSEO]

Originally Posted by Charles Montgomery

I ask because I was thinking of breaking my store down into categories, then sub categories to target longtails.

Here are my subs
Main site: cool widgets
category: climbing widgets
Subcategory: steep climbing widgets
Product:...

So my link would be coolwidgets.com/climbing-widgets/steep-climbing-widgets/product for the product. Is the product to far from the home page?

I am only concerned from an SEO standpoint. To me, that is the easiest way to optimize a few longtail variations of the category word. To me it seems to make sense. How about you guys?

First of all, please don't create URLs like this:
coolwidgets.com/climbing-widgets/steep-climbing-widgets/product
This looks slightly spammy, and moreover the number of subfolders here basically tells Google the page is not very important. Instead (unless this is an AdSense site, a separate story), use a URL like this:
coolwidgets.com/product

The "depth" of a page should be determined not by the number of subfolders in the URL but by the number of clicks from the home page (as few as possible is always best).

No deep linking is too deep: build links to all your important pages as well as the home page.

I hope this helps!