What exactly is link farming??

[skyblue8]

A company website has a package deal that offers me 50, content relevant, website backlinks (one way) for my site. My cost would be $100, is this a good option for me to pomote my website for traffic, or is this consider a link farming option and viewed as a negative with search engines and should be avoided?

[pinkfluffybunny]

If you are a finacial company and you place ads on fool.com yea take it (no hundred dollar links there). I've found the conversion isn't as good but if you get a measuable ROI, good deal.

If you're doing it just to get links - pass

Pay someone $100.00 to write some unique content for your site.

[~DaRk-EyE~]

The idea behind link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites according to, among other things, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours.

[MichelRobinson2]

Hi buddy!!!

To clear you about Link Farming, Here I have some matter for you that I got from net. Please go through this...

"The process of exchanging reciprocal links with Web sites in order to increase search engine optimization. The idea behind link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites according to, among other things, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours. In theory, the more sites that link to yours, the higher your ranking in the search engine results will be because the more links indicate a higher level of popularity among users of the Internet. However, search engines such as Google consider link farming as a form of spam and have been implementing procedures to banish sites that participate in link farming, so the term link farming has garnered negative connotations across the Internet."

[dominating_seo]

Originally Posted by skyblue8

A company website has a package deal that offers me 50, content relevant, website backlinks (one way) for my site. My cost would be $100, is this a good option for me to pomote my website for traffic, or is this consider a link farming option and viewed as a negative with search engines and should be avoided?

Its depends !!! Depends on many factors such as

1. PR of Webpage from where you are getting link.
2. Page at which link is to be putted
3. Age of domain from where you are getting link
4. Is it directory or general website
5. How many outbound links are there on that specific page
6. Also check if link is with nofollow rel or not.

Consider this factor whilst planning you link building campaign.

[xiaoniao]

find me !!!

[pinkfluffybunny]

MichelRobinson2,

You're just not going to convince the flat earthers it's a waste of time.....

It's all they know how to do seo wise

[full house]

link farm is just a certain site that full of links on it. Most of the corner of the page are links where that certain page is not design to place links.

[arcel]

link farm is a set of link web pages that have been built for the sole purpose of increasing the number of incoming links to a website to increase link.

[skyblue8]

Originally Posted by pinkfluffybunny

MichelRobinson2,

You're just not going to convince the flat earthers it's a waste of time.....

It's all they know how to do seo wise

Is paying for content related links allways a bad option to drive traffic to my site? Thanks

[ezhel]

The process of exchanging reciprocal links with Web sites in order to increase search engine optimization. The idea behind link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites according to, among other things, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours. In theory, the more sites that link to yours, the higher your ranking in the search engine results will be because the more links indicate a higher level of popularity among users of the Internet. However, search engines such as Google consider link farming as a form of spam and have been implementing procedures to banish sites that participate in link farming, so the term link farming has garnered negative connotations across the Internet.

[~DaRk-EyE~]

Originally Posted by skyblue8

Is paying for content related links allways a bad option to drive traffic to my site? Thanks

I'm not in favor of buying links, I suggest that you stay away from paid links...

[corlock]

Originally Posted by pinkfluffybunny

MichelRobinson2,

You're just not going to convince the flat earthers it's a waste of time.....

It's all they know how to do seo wise

he's just trying to help dude. no need for this kind of replies...

anyways, link farming is a risky SEO strategy. its best not to do it...

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by ezhel

The process of exchanging reciprocal links with Web sites in order to increase search engine optimization. The idea behind link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites according to, among other things, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours. In theory, the more sites that link to yours, the higher your ranking in the search engine results will be because the more links indicate a higher level of popularity among users of the Internet. However, search engines such as Google consider link farming as a form of spam and have been implementing procedures to banish sites that participate in link farming, so the term link farming has garnered negative connotations across the Internet.

Originally Posted by MichelRobinson2

Hi buddy!!!

To clear you about Link Farming, Here I have some matter for you that I got from net. Please go through this...

"The process of exchanging reciprocal links with Web sites in order to increase search engine optimization. The idea behind link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites according to, among other things, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours. In theory, the more sites that link to yours, the higher your ranking in the search engine results will be because the more links indicate a higher level of popularity among users of the Internet. However, search engines such as Google consider link farming as a form of spam and have been implementing procedures to banish sites that participate in link farming, so the term link farming has garnered negative connotations across the Internet."

Same idea? Hmmm...

[x3mario]

Some checklist of Link Farm request.

- Their site has no possible connection to your subject matter whatsoever. The page they put your link on isn't linked to FROM any page, meaning it's floating out there in never-never land and is a ploy to get you to link to their site.

- The page where they put your link is on a URL a mile long and several directories deep so engines will never find it.

- The page looks like a farmer's field with nicely arranged rows of links to hundreds of sites which aren't necessarily organized in any logical manner, but that doesn't matter because someone told them the link is all that counts.

- It's a link and a link only. No description. No proof the person ever actually reviewed the site.

- They don't seem to know that links leak PageRank in Google, not the other way around or that the link that does you the most good is the one that shares space on a page with about 2 other outbound links, not 3596 other ones.

- Signs they'll accept anything that shows evidence of being a "live" link. A true Directory has criteria, frets about the quality of sites it links to and doesn't have people out begging for links. Instead the reverse is true, with people begging to be let in.

- They ask you for a link on your links page, even though you don't have one.

- Watch for scams such as sub-domain one-way traffic feeders where the page your site is linked to isn't part of the main website. Study the URLS carefully before you decide to accept a link request.

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[redeemer_spawn]

Link farming could be a threat to your site., be safe at all time.,

[digitalseo]

a blackhat technique that should be avoided for all SEOs...

[~DaRk-EyE~]

Lets just follow the advice of Google that we should stay away from link farms...
It won't benefit us in a proper way, instead it can cause us penalties and ranking loss...

[arturobraganza]

Link farming = you fill a page with unrelated links from unrelated sites.

[mit]

It sometimes called as spamexing. Check the URL to know what Link Farm is exactly - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm