UKNM: RE:

[Knight, Vanessa]

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From: William Wemyss [

williamwpanlogic [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:williamwpanlogic [dot] co [dot] uk)

]

Sent: 23 July 1999 12:19

To:

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

Subject: 


> Hi everyone. Anyone got any thoughts on the following


>The subject is 'hallway pages' about which much has been written in the

>variuos discussion groups on both sides of the Atlantic.  I understand 

>the principle behind 'hallway pages' but is there yet any proof that 

>pages which are found by the spiders rather than submitted actually do 

>end up higher in the rankings?


Hi William 

Sounds like you get the Webposition newsletter. You're not the only one to

get curious/baffled about their piece on 'hallway' pages. If you have spider

friendly navigation on your homepage that points to important pages then you

already have a 'hallway' for spiders. The tactic seems tailored for Excite

which steadfastly favours homepages and indexes whatever it likes rather

than what you ask it to, goodness knows where they got the higher rank idea

from. 


Danny Sullivan made comment on this on the I-Search mailing list recently -

you can find his response here, its the last post:


http://www.audettemedia.com/i-search/archives/143.htm


Regards,


Vanessa Knight     

Web Researcher | Brann Interactive

Tel: 0117 914 6263 | Fax: 0117 914 6125

100 Victoria, Bristol, UK, BS1 6HE

http://www.brann-interactive.com 

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