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Originally Posted by EVERESS
Such intricate details can never be proven or disproven... So I'm not going to be a ridiculous forum troll and say "prove it". With what you have said... We are on the same page as far as: it may not help... But it won't hurt ether.
Many people would scream... Penalties... Penalties... Penalties!!! On similar factors... but that's usually because they went over the top on something else like link bombing.
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I don't think it would be a penalty as much as, not giving you as much weight as you could get because things look a little spammish.
I did experiment with this on TheDocBlog, if you look the site uses ?p=# for post url's... it was once long urls. My rankings improved rather strongly after the change, and I picked up many new keywords... I really think it was hitting off the URL's making the pages look like spam. - I don't give a shit about Yahoo, "we" don't use Yahoo
I also did something like this on my Golf Blog, but on the pages. I had long url's for those, I reduced them to short urls, redirected and after a short period of time, I went from the 2nd page to #8 for the keyword. Now I didn't hold the ranking because I didn't add more links - but it showed what a simple change can make - reducing your keyword count so it doesn't look like you're trying to spam.
Both of these sites have some authority attached to them.. They dang sure aren't new sites that probably could benefit from the extra keywords, for sure in porn, to pickup those long tail keywords.