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A Bridge Page Too Far? { } From The Search Engine Report | Feb.3,1998 f ! One of the more popular bits of advice that have been going around in the ‘; past few months is the idea of submitting "bridge" pages or "entry" pages ! to search engines. { E These are pages that have been created to do well for particular phrases. { They are also known as portal pages, jump pages and by other names. i Regardless of the name, they are easy to identify in that they have been l designed primarily for search engines, not for human beings.

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A Bridge Page Too Far? { } From The Search Engine Report | Feb.3,1998 f ! One of the more popular bits of advice that have been going around in the ‘; past few months is the idea of submitting "bridge" pages or "entry" pages ! to search engines. { E These are pages that have been created to do well for particular phrases. { They are also known as portal pages, jump pages and by other names. i Regardless of the name, they are easy to identify in that they have been l designed primarily for search engines, not for human beings.
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Google Search Liaison (searchliaison@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 06:33:21 JST Google Search Liaison
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In 1998, long before I joined Google or Google existed, I wrote about how the search engines of the day were trying to understand how to deal with content “designed primarily for search engines, not for human beings.” In particular, the rise of what we now call cloaking and doorway pages….

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