Link farms are indeed poison. I am quite fussy about whom I link to. I frequently get requests for reciprocal links and I ignore 99% of them. If the person writing has similar material and a good ranking I consider it. The rest go to the recycle bin.
Oh had no idea google does not like that so if you have google ads like me i would guess that would not be a good thing to do.
Creating a group of websites or blogs that are interlinking with each other. The ultimate intention of link farming is to link and rank a particular single domain. Always you better stay away from black hat strategies.
Link farming is to help group of our website to hyperlink to all other website.The link farming is one of the method to develop quality back links and also is part of the black hat seo.
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.
I'm new to SEO, and I must say I'm enjoying the dynamic between black hatters and white hatters so far. Especially the black hatters who seem like they don't know they're black hatters. Or don't care.