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Is it SEO friendly page or something else please tell what is hallway page.

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Short answer: "hallway page" is an informal/older SEO term for what most modern glossaries call a doorway or gateway page — a page whose primary job is to expose or funnel other URLs to search engines rather than to serve useful content to users. Glossaries and SEO docs treat this pattern as a manipulation tactic when it exists mainly to capture search traffic. Doorway page — Ahrefs. (ahrefs.com)

Several replies here (for example , and ) are describing that indexing/funnel role correctly, but that’s exactly the behavior Google warns against when it’s done to game rankings. Google’s spam policies label this kind of behaviour "doorway abuse" and their guidance (and past ranking updates) explains sites can be demoted or have pages removed if those pages exist mainly to rank and redirect. Google Search Central — Spam policies. An update on doorway pages (2015). (developers.google.com)

Quick checklist (paraphrasing Google) to decide if a page is a harmless index or an abusive hallway/doorway page:

  • Does this page add unique value for real visitors, or is it just a keyword/location wrapper?
  • Is it reachable from normal site navigation, or an “island” created for search engines?
  • Does it duplicate useful aggregations already on the site just to capture more queries?
  • Is the page primarily funneling visitors elsewhere (affiliate/sales redirect)?
    If answers point to "for engines, not people," remove/replace it. (developers.google.com)

Practical alternatives and fixes: consolidate similar pages into one authoritative page with unique content; use proper internal navigation and XML sitemaps so crawlers find the pages you actually want indexed; use rel="canonical" or a robots meta noindex for templates/duplicates you don’t want indexed; and check Google Search Console for manual actions and the Manual Actions report — fix issues and request review if needed. Avoid buying or submitting to lists of “hallway” pages or directories; that’s often part of spam networks and increases risk. Help Google understand site structure. Block indexing / noindex. . (developers.google.com)

If unsure, err on the side of user value: pages built for people (not funnels) are the long-term, safe approach.

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Member Avatar for MaryDD

Sorry, I also don't know this, it is new term for me..

Member Avatar for JamieLynnSEO

From the SEO glossary:

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.

Member Avatar for abelLazm

A "hallway" page is a page that has links to all your different "optimized" pages you've optimized for each search engine. A web page created specifically to link doorway pages on a web site.
A Hallway Page is used to:
a. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page
b. Organizes the Doorway Pages
c. Helps people navigate to different Doorway Pages
d. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

Find more about HallWay Page from google.

Edited by abelLazm because: n/a
Member Avatar for sania85

A "hallway" page is a page that has links to all your different "optimized" pages you've optimized for each search engine. When this hallway page is submitted to a search engine, the search engine's spider travels down the page and branches off to these links indexing those pages you really want indexed. In theory, the pages it spidered will rank higher than the hallway page and higher than they would if they were submitted individually.

Member Avatar for siyajoshi

Hello....
A hallway page is a web page which redirects user to other web pages. its main purpose was to enable a Search Engine's spider to follow these links to the pages to which the links refer in the expectation that the Search Engine will then index these pages.It is not good way of doing seo you should avoid it.

Member Avatar for Logoinn

This is new for many seo's. A website that serves as an index or a focal point for a group of pages. Usually, all the main pages of a site are accessible through the hallway page.

Member Avatar for Markseliven

Please Explain to me how can i submit the link in hallway pages and give me some hallway pages list to sumissions thanks

Member Avatar for Shopprice_1

Yeah I want to say like "markseliven" please can any one give me some hallway pages list?

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Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

If I'd say in simple than Hallway page consist of all the URLs of the website.

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