[isismedia]

What is link farming? Does it affect search engine ranking of keywords?

[unik]

Exchanging links with thousands of irrelevant sites. Yes, it affects keyword ranking greatly, you can be on the first page of a large scale keyword within 2 months, but once google finds out about your little link farm, it will ban you forever. That why you shouldn't do it. If you exchange links with a link farm and link to them its bad for your site, and their inbound link is worthless if of course they are a confirmed link farm.

[lindamartin88]

As to the definition, link farm is an ideal way to increase your site traffic. But the Search engine bots can read the source of your link if it is a link farm. So if you get caught, it will make your site suffer.

[SSL Matrix]

In his explaination, link farms are collections of sites that all link back to each other. So in order to gain backlinks for your main site, you create a bunch of smaller sites that all link back to it. As explained in the video, search engines can detect this and devalue those links. It's also a lot of work to set up, for marginal benefits.

[jhonden]

Exchanging links with irrelevant and unwanted sites is known as link farming. It is of no use and does not perform much fort he website.

[ozsubasi]

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Originally Posted by jhonden

Exchanging links with irrelevant and unwanted sites is known as link farming.

No it isn't, what you are referring to is simply bad decision making when arranging link exchanges. A link farm is specifically a group of websites that all link to each other.

[ozsubasi]

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Originally Posted by icecube_media

The process of exchanging reciprocal link with other website to optimize own website in known as search engine optimization.

There is a lot more to SEO than reciprocal link exchanges

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Originally Posted by icecube_media

The main reason of doing link farming is that it links number of different sites with yours, and this is helpful for getting high rank in Google search engine.

Link farming is definitely not recommended as a way of increasing rankings.

[ozsubasi]

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