Does the nesting level of a page affect promotion?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

Good day. Tell me, does the nesting level of a page affect its promotion in search engines?
Does it matter which page to promote site.ru/page1/ or site.ru/category1/page1/ ?

Answer 1

Well, of course it does.
But the time spent by the visitor on the page is much more influential:
If everyone is looking at the page: site.ru/category1/page1/
Then the site.ru/page1/ page will not be ranked.
In general, write the text where visitors spend a lot of time - otherwise it will be useless.