Will this effect PR of each page?

pagerank,pr,site redesign

[dcallan]

Hello,
I need your advise, I'm currently considering
making lots of keyword rich sub directories for various
articles which I have written. At the moment my keyword rich
named html files are all linked from my root.

I was thinking that I might be able to boost the ranking of some of these article pages if the url had more keywords within it. ie( mydomain.com/keywords-keywords/keywords.html)

I am however worried that the pr for these pages will be decreased (as they will be further down from the root) and I will end up cancelling out any benefit from having lots of keywords in the urls of these files. Will this be the case, does pr decrease as you go further from the root domain?

Please advise.
Regards
Dave Callan
Ireland.

[ciml]

PageRank follows links, not directories. The Toolbar guess for URLs that aren't in Google and don't have any PageRank uses URLs because many sites have a link structure that closely mirrors URLs.

I would be more concerned about page content, titles and link text than URLs though; URLs aren't a major aspect of how Google ranks.