How do I implement hallway pages?

[curly_clare]

Hi,

I was wondering what the best way would be to implement Hallway pages? Currently I have several doorway pages set up and I was planning to list links to these pages on a hallway page.
My understanding of the hall page is a list of links to doorways pages that all point to the website of which you are promoting. You submit the index page and the hallway page of your site, and a spider will hopefully index the home page and follow the links on the page (this is where the spider should follow the link to the hallway page, therefore indexing the doorway pages.)
Does anyone out there know if you need to place links within the hallway page back to specific pages on the main site (so the search engines don’t just think that the page is just a links to doorway pages.)
Can the doorway pages be placed in a sub-directory folder instead of residing at the root of the main website, does this make a difference?
As anyone out there have any suggestions on this matter?

Many thanks

Clare

[rencke]

Hello Curly and welcome to Webmaster World. I tooks the liberty of moving your question from the European forum to this one, which is populated by people who know a lot about these things. I am sure one or more will be along shortly with an answer for you.

[oilman]

Hi Curly - welcome.

Everybody seems to implement doorways in a slightly different way so I'll tell you how I do it and hopefully we'll get some other opinions as well.

Basically I make up a very boring page that has between 25-50 links on it. The links are text links using the keyword pharses that being targeted. No meta's or any other garbage included in the code. Then I submit the url of the hallway page to the SEs and wait for the good news. I do not link from my main pages to the hallways but I occasionally link my hallways together.