What's a preferred site structure?

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Published on March 6, 2009 10:20:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx68PlCTuIU

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On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.

Katy Bairstow from London asked:

There seems to be little impact on human visitors where in the site's structure a given page is, so:
Is it better to keep key content pages close to root, or have them deep within a topical funnel-structure, e.g.:
food/fast-food/burgers/hamburgers.php