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**brad12** · 03-29-2011, 04:25 AM

Last day I heard term called Hall way pages. I really don't know what is hall way pages, and what is functionality of this. Can any body tell me what is Hall way pages.

**chrishirst** · 03-29-2011, 04:37 AM

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Last day I heard term called Hall way pages

Last day of what??
The week? The month? The year?

and
What is a hallway page?

**edgray** · 03-29-2011, 05:05 AM

Apparently:

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Hallway page
a page that serves as an index to a group of pages that you would like the search engine spiders to find. Once a search engine spider indexes the hallway page, it should also follow all the links on that hallway page and in turn index those pages as well.

I'll start using these, alongside my favourite SEO technique:

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Water Closet Page
a page that is designed to "flush" PageRank from your Hallway Page through to your deeper, or "sewerage" pages. Particularly useful at capturing "guest" PageRank, that is, PR that is only visiting and you don't want flowing to your main "bathroom" area, where you would ordinarily scrub your PR.

**full house** · 03-29-2011, 09:46 PM

it seem that they are using some house terms... we'll does hall way pages different from landing page or home page?

**chrishirst** · 03-30-2011, 03:57 PM

Obviously they do!!

When you get home, you have to walk down the hallway and up the stairs before you got to the landing!

**yourmobisite** · 04-05-2011, 06:22 AM

Hello.. A hallway page is a page that has links to all your different "optimized" pages you've optimized for each search engine.

**Benmoore47** · 04-06-2011, 04:20 AM

Hallway page

a page that serves as an index to a group of pages that you would like the search engine spiders to find. Once a search engine spider indexes the hallway page, it should also follow all the links on that hallway page and in turn index those pages as well.

From: http://www.seoglossary.com/article/45

**veryshant12** · 04-07-2011, 02:30 AM

A hallway page is a web page that either solely or largely contains hyperlinks to other web pages.Or you can say that a page that has links to all your different "optimized" pages you've optimized for each search engine.Search engine indexes all the links provided in the hallway page. A "hallway" approach may provide a convenient way to encourage spidering.They may provide quick access, rather like a site map, instead of forcing the spider to follow a more convoluted, human oriented navigation system.

**smsinhindi** · 04-07-2011, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Benmoore47

Hallway page

a page that serves as an index to a group of pages that you would like the search engine spiders to find. Once a search engine spider indexes the hallway page, it should also follow all the links on that hallway page and in turn index those pages as well.

From: http://www.seoglossary.com/article/45

You mean, it is like Sitemap ?

**Benmoore47** · 04-07-2011, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by smsinhindi

You mean, it is like Sitemap ?

Yeah. Just like a sitemap.

**Robertpatrick** · 04-07-2011, 06:02 AM

If that's something a site map, then whats the difference between both hall way and site map? Are they called with different terms with same functionality.

**chrishirst** · 04-07-2011, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Benmoore47

Yeah. Just like a sitemap.

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Originally Posted by Robertpatrick

If that's something a site map, then whats the difference between both hall way and site map? Are they called with different terms with same functionality.

Nope not SITEMAP which would encompass the entire website.

A "hallway" page would be more like a "category map" where the links on the "hallway" page are related to the customer's/visitor's query or the product.

**suichiro** · 04-07-2011, 03:01 PM

I see, so it is more like a mini sitemap which helps visitors to navigate within the main pages of site that's connected to the reason why they visit a site.

**chrishirst** · 04-07-2011, 03:31 PM

Yep.

For optimisation purposes this would be a target page for the more generic terms.

**Benmoore47** · 04-08-2011, 03:27 AM

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A "hallway" page would be more like a "category map" where the links on the "hallway" page are related to the customer's/visitor's query or the product.

Chris. but it also describes the characteristic of a sitemap.

**chrishirst** · 04-08-2011, 10:59 AM

Not really, a sitemap would be a map of the entire site, not simply pages that relate to on product or product category.

If we take IMDB as an example.

This page is the Horror movies "hallway", and this page would be the "Sean Connery movies" hallway as well as being the "Sean Connery" target page.

In the world of search don't get bogged down or fixated by definitions and labels that "experts" apply to things. Nothing is as black and white as "experts" would have you believe.

**Benmoore47** · 04-11-2011, 04:26 AM

Well. I clearly understand now the difference between the two.