How many is too many - keywords in url

[mysticalsock]

I'm rewriting a sites urls to make them more friendly and hopefully better for Google.

I'm trying to name them logically according to category and section but am not sure how many keywords is too many and already have a keyword in the domain name.

Say my site's about widgets and is widget.com
Section: widget.com/widgets
Category: widget.com/widgets/moving-widgets
Article: widget.com/widgets/moving-widgets/moving-widgets-carefully.htm

Is that too many?

[tedster]

Three might be on the edge for a human inspection. But since so many CMS autogenerate the filepath from the title, I doub't that you would run into a problem with Googl if it only happens once in a while. You also won't get an advantage from the repetition, IMO.

[eltercerhombre]

I have only rule: keep it meaningful but as short as possible. If you can do shorter do it.

[mysticalsock]

Thanks for the replies, my gut instinct was to make them as short as possible so will try to do so.

[Gremlin098]

I started using a SEO component which turns my page titles into really long URLs. Shortly afterwards my SERP imrpoved considerably. It certainly doesn't seem to hurt. In my case I'm pretty sure it helped.