link farms

[dadaas]

Can you guys explain me what are link farms and how they are penalized?

and if posible give me example of link farm website.

[brealmz]

link farms are those web pages that has lot(i can't define how many a lot means to search engines) of an external links which is not related to web page topics. but to google seach engine bot it has no problem and it will not penalize you if you are the subject of link farms(outbound link). pagerank was divided into how many links are in there in a single page. also it will not credit you in google serp since ranking in serp depends on quality and relationship between two linking page.

The moral is it was useless having a backlinks from link farms(e.g. link clouds)

[peter_d]

Link farms tend to only exist for the purposes of listing unrelated, outbound links. You don't see them as much as you used to.

They are only worthwhile if they carry enough authority. Very few, if any, do, and therefore a complete waste of time these days.

[joe-d]

Being listed in link farms is just a complete waste of time. They give no value and does not pass PR juice.

[dadaas]

ok are those directorys with tons of links, link farms?

can you give me example of website that is link farm?

[peter_d]

ok are those directorys with tons of links, link farms?

The distinctions are around classification, descriptive text and editorial screening.

can you give me example of website that is link farm

They used to be around in the late 90's, but became redundant with the rise of Google. I can't recall the last time I saw one. It's just a site with page after page of link lists, and nothing else.

The use of the term tends to be pejorative these days. Essentially, if people don't like the outbounds on a site, they'll label it a "link farm".

[adam123]

read the history of link farms, it might help you to understand what link farms actually are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm

[EWSitesCom]

Link farms are bad. Try to stay out of this. Bette to find good clean quality links.

[sniperhiga]

Everyone can create link farm. Using 5gigs, narod, livejournal, blogger, and other websites who provide free blog or host you can open 500 accounts, link each other and add the same links on all of them. This way "blak hat" seo works when they offer you 500 links for only $100 or something like this.

[EWSitesCom]

I dont know. I guess if you are in to black hat its ok.

[cessai]

this might help you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm

[sheena]

Link farm is any group of web pages that all hyperlink to every other page in the group.. Link farm sites or pages are penalized by search engine and should be avoided by all cost.

What does Google say?

“Don’t deceive your users, or present different content to search engines than you display to users,” Google says, and they list some bullet points on avoiding being banned.

1. Avoid hidden text or hidden links.

2. Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.

3. Don’t send automated queries to Google.

4. Don’t load pages with irrelevant words.

5. Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

6. Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.

[coolguy27]

link farm = linking to unrelated sites... Main purpose is to have a high PR. It is not advisable to do this kind of process... Google will surely penalized link farm site....

A link farm is a group of separate, highly interlinked websites for the purposes of inflating link popularity (or PR). Engaging in a link farm is a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning.... 'from Source"

A link farm post large amount of unrelated links on their site. Link farm sites and the links that the site provides are pretty much useless and not worth adding links to. (aka FFA - Free for All)......"from Source"

[sniperhiga]

Link farms still work. I see a lot of niche and local sites who rank well on search engines.

[-MGS-]

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

Link farms still work. I see a lot of niche and local sites who rank well on search engines.

That’s true but also brings up the debate about if web directories are in some way link farms as well. I remember the days when link farms were all the rage and everyone had to have one/get listed. But now they are irrelevant and just a waste of time.

[temyong]

If always go for a relevance site which is much better in building links.

[sniperhiga]

Originally Posted by -MGS-

That’s true but also brings up the debate about if web directories are in some way link farms as well. I remember the days when link farms were all the rage and everyone had to have one/get listed. But now they are irrelevant and just a waste of time.

It is apply to cheap directories. If directory well organised and link from each category only relatd sites it is OK (Yahoo dir, DMOZ, Aviva, BOTW, JoeAnt, v7n dir). But when directory link everyone who paid from the pages which closer to homepage and from categories which are not related to websites it is a link farm.
Remember that many original link farms use the same php software like regula directories. So, for spider cheap directory look the same way like a link farm.

[Janna122003]

Link farms are site that put unrelated links.