Does order of site: URLs denote anything of great importance?

[Corbec888]

Howdy!

Whilst looking through a few clients via the 'site:' function i've noticed that the order of pages can sometimes begin with the homepage and follow the hierarchy that is laid out on the site.

However, there are instances where the top page of the 'site:' search will be a sub-page and not the home page.

My question is, does this order of pages denote anything of importance?

Many thanks!

[Chris.Menke]

Yes.

It is understood that that "importance" is the primary order.

[Corbec888]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the response!

Do you have any sources for this information just as a reference point that I can use for documentation?

Cheers,

[Chris.Menke]

Well, you might have me on that.

Back in the day of the original SEO Rockstars podcast with (ALL HAIL) Greg Boser (webguerrilla) and Todd Friesen (Oilman)  (circa 2005/6), I recall the order was believed/assumed to be by importance. I know that was a long time ago but I'd never seen anything subsequent to challenge that belief.

But here's content from webmasterworld that counters that information. Personally, I was never a big JW fan or a big believer in her technical knowledge so take the information in that article as you may. Maybe someone here at Moz can chime in on this.

Anyway, you may try the site:domain search operator in conjunction with a search term and that may give you the ordered list you're looking for. I'll leave it to you to determine whether that's true or not.