Siloing Architecture with Large Inventories

[mhare777]

Hi!

Question...

How do you maintain silo site architecture while working with very large inventories/huge selection of products? I am trying to keep things somewhat close to the root domain name but with all the products I find myself building sub-folders sometimes 4 off the root. For instance, I am working on a motorcycle niche and my structure planning is coming out a little like this...

www.motorcyclesite.com/honda/cbr1000rr/2004-2005/product1.html

This is as far as it goes, but I've always been under the opinion that the further google has to crawl to finally get the product is a major no-no. Keep it organized, siloed, and as close to the root as possible. (ie...motorcyclesite.com/honda/product1.html)

Any suggestion for larger inventories like my own?

Thanks for all that you do!

Mike

[EGOL]

If you have links to 100 category pages on your homepage and each of those category pages links to links to 100 subcategory pages, each linking to 100 products then that should give you 1 million products, none deeper than three clicks from home.