301 redirects and you-keyword.html homepages

Does it matter? If I have a ton of links moving across www.myurl.com and 301 all of them to www.myurl.com/my-keyword.html, will that help me or hurt me?

A 301 redirect is alright for SEO terms. It doesn't matter where you go with the redirect, but if google were to hit a lot of your links, and realize that they all point to the same page, that is SEO'd for a specific term, it might flag all that, and penalize you.

So, the 301 is ok, the amount of 301's might not be.

well a 301 is the right way to do a redirect in terms of seo though it wouldn't help for you to build up link popularity on the actual keyword.html URLs to make them stand out in their own right.

it will help in the sense that keyword.html is more appealing to the eye over script.php?a=b&c=d&e=f and most spiders from what i've read often fail to look beyond the ? but you've not really elaborated on the link structure you're using before the 301

then again it also depends on my-keyword.html being static like blue-widgets.html or variable like $colour-$gadet.html if it's static you might get busted for link and keyword spamming. if they're dynamic and the page content changes though i doubt they'd penalise you for it.

Well I would only be sending 2 urls to keyword.html, my www.url.com and url.com. ONLY the home page will be redirected to www.url.com/keyword.html. I'm not trying to send links that go all over my site to this page, just the home page. I want, and this is exactly what I want, www.myurl.com and myurl.com and myurl.com/index.html to go to www.myurl.com/keyword.html. What I'm saying is the new homepage, to replace index.html ,will be keyword.html.

You could use .htaccess to set the index in that directory to keyword.html

Well what I'm saying is, I hear that having the keyword in the url helps, would just having the name of the index being keyword.html have the same effect as far as SE's are concerned?