Is my Link Structure to Deep?

[anthony_alsup]

I am building a new ecommerce store with lots of products. I layed out my site architecture based on how customers in my niche search for their products. They search by category, then brand. In doing so, my product pages seem a little deep for search engines, but not for customers.

My product link depth is
mysite.com/keyword-category/brand/product.html

Is the product page too far from the home page? I am more interested in SEOing my categories and brand pages. But there are some super longtails that would work great with some of the products. Will the products at this depth hurt my ability to get indexed at the product level?

I tried laying it out with a flat architecture, but I just cant make it work for the visitors if I go too flat.

Thanks If it's good for visitors I would say it isn't too deep. But I would make some link building for categories and for brands, too. That will help indexing all pages. Thanks!

I think I can put an HTML sitemap in the footer, that way all my links are accessable by one or two clicks for the spiders. That's not too deep.
Anyway what is your site, Is it e-commerce site. This is the good structure. Need not worry... If you can come to your home page by 3 clicks, then it is good and yours is like that only...

I wouldnt be too concerned at all. I have an ecommerce site which has a few specific urls going 5 clicks deep, to some relatively minor products.

Surpringly only a while back they were