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What is link farming?

by mathewhogard
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Is link farming is a part of black hat SEO?
#farming #link
  • Profile picture of the author rosesmark
    On the World Wide Web, a link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group. Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated programs and services.

    In My opinion that tricks is black Hat SEO
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  • Profile picture of the author jonnyhardbaked
    Link farming is a black hat method that aims to boost link popularity in illegal way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Justinpage
    Also in my own opinion, link farming is a black hat SEO because it is a method by which you try to increase your link popularity without following the search engines' standards.
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  • Profile picture of the author jhnbrwn
    Yes link farming is a technique of Black Hat SEO and isthe 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shiva
    Link Farming is definetely Black Hat SEO!!
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    • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
      Hey Matthew,

      Matt Cutts said it best when he called link farms a ponzi scheme and a con game.

      These are a group of websites that take content and link back to a website for a payment. This is disgusting in my opinion to say the least - said one marketer.

      Sometimes link farms just come in the form of they will give you x number of links for x dollars. Then the IP is the same on all sites, the sites have little or no original content if any at all.

      So based on what Matt said... Yep its black hat as they come.

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  • Profile picture of the author alexgarci92
    Link farming is a method of planting your links and in the next step is link harvesting.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoservices1
    Hi

    Yes You are right link farming is a technique of Black Hat SEO and is the process of exchanging reciprocal links with Web sites in order to increase search engine optimization.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aandice Austin
    On the World Wide Web, a link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group. Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated programs and services. A link farm is a form of spamming the index of a search engine (sometimes called spamdexing or spamexing). Other link exchange systems are designed to allow individual websites to selectively exchange links with other relevant websites and are not considered a form of spamdexing.

    Search engines require ways to confirm page relevancy. A known method is to examine for one-way links coming directly from relevant websites. The process of building links should not be confused with being listed on link farms, as the latter requires reciprocal return links, which often renders the overall backlink advantage useless. This is due to oscillation, causing confusion over which is the vendor site and which is the promoting site.
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  • Profile picture of the author smithhooper
    A link farm is a website set up with the sole purpose of increasing the link popularity of other sites by increasing the number of incoming links to those sites.Link farming may certainly be unethical but it does not qualify as being illegal.
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  • Profile picture of the author sammuel8435
    definitely a black hat seo technique..so don't use it for your safe.
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  • Profile picture of the author seospecialist08
    Hi All
    I have question related to link farming,is those sites called link firms those have category pages of different topics.Such as a business site has category pages like health,education,law etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wildnettechnologies
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    • Profile picture of the author mrfusion
      A group of websites whose sole purpose is to link is black hat. Putting relevant links to your own websites from your own website network, that's more gray hat and to me perfectly acceptable.

      And to correct an earlier poster, it's not "illegal" to use a link farm. No laws are broken in this process.
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  • Profile picture of the author jack jastin
    Link farming is a set of websites that gives you a very fast way of link popularity by making hyperlink to your group of sites. Though, This gives a very fast popularity of your site, Ultimately, Its not an ethical way of process so Google may penalize you for this.
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