Is it link farm?

[sniperhiga]

My friend paid for directory submission service and he got this links:

football-coaching-evaluations.gadds.net/
marketing-publishing-books.com/marketing_tips.html
children-party-games.com/
youth-football-coaching-dvd.gadds.net/
educational-toys-books.com/
storybooks-movies-toys.com/products.html
kids-swing-sets.com/index.html

and 100 more....
Is it link farm?
Can it hurt his website?
What can happen?
Please help!

[SkGold]

I don’t believe that SE will penalize you if some junk sites are linking to you. I believe they just not count these links.
Otherwise it will be very easy to screw up your competitors – just submit them to FFA and you done.
I believe SE will penalize you, if YOU will link to the bad sites.
So I would not worry about this too much.
But who knows, I think it is better not to do stuff like this any way.

[Web Gazelle]

Right. It wouldn't make sense to penalize a site for who is linking to them. If that was the case then that is a potential "seo weapon" for getting competitors kicked from the SERPs.

[sniperhiga]

I think that it Google words "Webmasters can't control incoming links"

[Sadu]

I wouldn't be too certain about this one.

As far as I know, Matt Cutts has not announced "You can't get a penalty from having lots of rubbish sites linking to you".

I have been burned hard by overdoing Link Vault, and I think this was building far too many links too quick, not due to a few too many outbound links.
18 months later, even with all Link Vault stuff long gone, the site won't rank for phrases it should rank for, and it's a solid PR6.

I think a better philosophy is "Getting some rubbish links is ok so long as they are a small percentage of your total linkage". If these links are the only links you have, I wouldn't be too surprised if things went backwards. Unless Matt says otherwise.

[solidghost]

Oh no, if they are link farms, then you just sabotage v7n by linking to them here!

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by solidghost

Oh no, if they are link farms, then you just sabotage v7n by linking to them here!

v7n use "nofollow" so, i don't think it will hurt my favorite forum. I don't mind it this thread will be deleted.... All i want, i just need advice.

[SkGold]

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

I think that it Google words "Webmasters can't control incoming links"

So if you know that what you worry about?

Originally Posted by Sadu

I think a better philosophy is "Getting some rubbish links is ok so long as they are a small percentage of your total linkage".

Yes, I agree this probably better philosophy.

[dizyn]

can't say much on this topic

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by SkGold

So if you know that what you worry about?

Yes, I agree this probably better philosophy.

Yeah, but it is new website and this links about 50% of all backlinks.

[Ferre]

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

v7n use "nofollow" so, i don't think it will hurt my favorite forum. I don't mind it this thread will be deleted.... All i want, i just need advice.

We do not use the nofollow tag on v7n forums. I've de-linked those sites.

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by Ferre

We do not use the nofollow tag on v7n forums. I've de-linked those sites.

Thank you.

[Web Gazelle]

Originally Posted by dizyn

can't say much on this topic

Then please don't post.

[Hahh]

How can you tell a link farm from a directory not to place links on the froum?