Truthfully, I wouldn’t really obsess with it at that level of detail. It does help a little bit to have keywords in the URL. It doesn’t help so much that you should go stuffing a ton of keywords into your URL.
If there’s a convenient way that’s good for users where you have 4-5 keywords that, might be worthwhile. But I wouldn’t obsess about it to the level of how deep is the URL in the path or how am I combining it.
For example, on my blog when I do a post, I’ll take the first 4-5 words or 2-3 words related to that post and I’ll use that as the URL. But you don’t need to make 7, 8, 10, 20 words because that just looks spammy to users and people will probably not click through as much in the first place.
Position is going to be a very, very second order kind of thing of keywords in the URLs. I would not worry about that so much as having a great content that people want to link to and people want to find about.
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