trillianjedi - 9:39 am on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

That's a total nightmare from an SEO point-of-view.

Actually, it isn't at all.

I'm assuming that you're in this for the long haul and this isn't a "throw it up and make as much as possible" short term thing?

If that's correct, all you really want to achieve with the URL's is to make them not look too ridiculous for humans, and make them indexable by bots.

If I were to do this all by hand I would use a URL such as this

That's a very short term approach. Think about how the SE's are thinking about this, and how they chop and change their algo to take into account "fashionable" practices.

URL's are not easy to change further down the line. Pick for the long term with them, not the short term.

If you're using a CMS you don't have the URL luxury that you have when hand-coding a site. With the additional automation, there is a risk that some URL's will come out looking like spam (especially if you take page title as your base for the URL).

You do not want spammy looking URL's.

TJ