My question is simple: Is there any disadvantage (in terms of SEO and search engine behavior) to using / instead of other delimiters in URLs like http://example.com/en/items/1234/page3
?
I vaguely remember reading something about some search engines not liking URLs that have too deep a folder structure (basically what the /'s indicate), but I'm not sure if that's still an issue.
example.com/a/b/c/d/e/f
orexample.com/some-pathetically-long-full-verbiage-url-that-no-one-will-ever-ever-type-out-in-full
? I'll take a short/obscure url over a moronically long one any day.