Hallway page

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This is a web page often created by webmasters who believe that it helps search engines find pages on a website that they might otherwise miss.

As such a hallway page (sometimes called a gateway page) is often no more than a set of links for spiders and robots to follow.

There is some dispute as to whether or not they work as submitting a comprehensive sitemap.xml file to Google and the other major search engines should ensure they are aware of all your pages anyway.

Hallway pages are also sometimes used for Black Hat SEO where a webmaster is trying to fool search engines into thinking certain pages are more important than they are.