What hallway pages are used for Hallway pages or crawl pages are thus used by Webmasters to give the search engines a little boost in finding their pages, or to entice the spiders to crawl an entire site which is normally navigated in a hierarchy like a tree with several levels of pages linking to each other. The hallway is not intended for casual Web surfers. A hallway page is intended strictly for the spiders to follow. Therefore, hallway pages don't require any sort of special design. Just create a list of links on a page without a title or meta tags or headings and submit the page to the search engines.
Hallways are quick to make and ugly to look at.
They are not content pages and should not be included in any normal navigation system. Other uses for hallway pages Some people take hallway pages a step further and use them to help create link popularity for their doorway pages. To do this effectively, you'll want to format the hallway a little by giving it a title and heading, and for best results store it on a domain other than the one you're linking to. The search engines may now actually return the hallway page in some of their search results, but they may also give greater credibility to your doorway pages because their spiders found them through the links on the hallway and because they are being linked to by another domain. But even so, if you are in a competitive field and one of your rivals discovers you are using a hallway to increase your link popularity, they may be complain to the search engines.