Chart Music

What is a links farm?

I've heard it said many times, but I wouldn't really know what one was if I saw it.
I understand it's pages with links to other pages. But every site is like that. Here on the forum there are links all over the place for exmaple.
So my question is what is a links farm and how would you know if you saw one?

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Katey

Hi there,


It is basically a site dedicated to covering the site in links, and is an attempt at making backlinks, Google penalize so stay well away .


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Kieran Taylor.

Chart Music

I would stay away if I knew what to stay away from.
Do you mean outbound links, internal links. What? It's seems rather mysterious to me, could you explain what it is?

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Katey

Hi there,

Imagine it like this...a farm produces things right, and a links farm produces backlinks, by you submitting your URL. This then places your link in with all the other hundreds and thousands of other links, and this is a link farm.

They basically look like sites 'covered' in advertisement, and have that general spammed look to them.

Sorry of this isn't clear enough but I can't think of any other way to word it.


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Kieran Taylor.

Chart Music

So your talking about outbound links?

So are these examples?

http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/all_participants.php
http://www.dmoz.org/

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Katey

Hi there,

The first one I suppose could fall into that category, although it has a legitimate purpose, DMOZ also. Maybe someone else can explain it a bit better for me, I am finding this hard to explain . Sorry.


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Kieran Taylor.

Chart Music

I'm playing a bit of a devil advocate by suggesting DMOZ but you can see my confusion.

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kenni

Here's a good definition:


Let me know if that solves the mystery.

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sanderson

I think the whole thread had already answered your question - what is links farm? If you still not satisfied with this then you might need to rephrase your question stating what exactly do you want to know. Is it about inbound link or something else? It will save your time as well as others?
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Sanderson

Bagi Zoltán

Referring to the guides -i've already read- You should avoid getting inbound links from pages conatining only links, no text, and from sites which are visited only by robots no webusers.

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ForumZClub

Just See A WEb Directory I Made BY A Script ,

It has All URls that DMOZ.org Has

Url is http://www.1up.in/dir

Chart Music

No, how can Google know what a sites purpose is? Surely it can't that's only in the mind of the creator. So that definition makes no sense to me.

Also according to that definition I understand this is links farm
http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/all_participants.php

And also this directory site is possibly a links farm? It's got loads of links and almost all of it is unrelated being advertising for various things.
http://www.somuch.com/

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starsearcher

Yes, I believe that's a link farm.

To my understanding, link farm is where you become a member of a site that has a lot of links. Then, when people click on your link, they will be directed to a page full of the other members' links. It applies to other members as well because other members will also have your link in their pages.

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