Article by Axandra
SEO software

Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that Google checks the click-depth of pages to find the most important pages on a website:

"To give a sense of importance within your website you'd need to do that more with regards to internal linking. So less with just purely the sitemap and more kind of making it easy for Google to recognize when we crawl your site which of the pages you care about.

The most usual is like we would start with your homepage, depending on the website. But in many cases, we start with the home page and things that are linked from the home page we would see as being more important than things which are just like, I don't know, five or six steps distance from the home page."