I requested a link exchange with another site the other day and the webmaster refused. His reason was that I was linking to a link farm. What did he mean by that?
A link farm is a web page (or even an entire website) that is set up for the sole purpose of allowing webmasters to exchange links with each other for search engine ranking purposes only. Link farms shouldn't be confused with regular links pages on websites. There is a big difference between the two. Many webmasters create a links page for their site so they'll have a convenient place to put links to other sites with related information. Traditional link exchanges can go there as well. A well-structured links page is an asset to a site because it provides the site's users with links to additional sources of related information. So what makes a "links page" good and a "link farm" bad? Most link farms share at least a couple of these traits: The links page or website was created for the sole purpose of helping webmasters boost their link popularity. The website adds your URL to a long list of URLs and requires that you place that "cookie-cutter" page on your website. In essence, you end up using exactly the same links page as thousands of other sites. A link farm will sometimes consist of a long list of unrelated links, often without titles or descriptions. The entire link consists of nothing but the URL. This type of links page is useless for human visitors because it was designed to be used by the search engines.
Link farms consist of large networks of sites whose sole purpose is to generate pages that can be used to link out to other sites that are actually worth something. They are pretty much essential to rank for more highly competitive keywords but don’t attempt this unless you really know what you are doing. Google is smarter than you!
hello, My friends here, deew and lolija , talk enough about it. Let me just add some points. When you want to exchange links with other websites you should know these things : 1. Exchange links with ONLY websites that are better than yours in Page Rank and Alexa Rank. 2. I have heard recently from one of my friends at google that they are considering do follow links for links exchange and advertising as SPAMMING, I prefer to make NO-Follow , or take the chance on your own and make it Do-Follow. 3. You and the website you offered to exchange with, should be happy. What I mean is that you both should get benefit from these exchange not only you. Talk with him about the place and the nature of the link. I hope you enjoy it.
Great information. Really nice and useful info. Even this "Link farm", many SEO doesn't know about this. This is really very good information that every SEO should know about. Thanks a lot for sharing with us. I really like.