Can you please explain to me What exactly is a Link Farm ? A freind has 60+ websites which he is offering links on Is that a Link Farm ?
I'd be very leery of your friend. Try to links from sites that are related to your content instead. A lot of links from the same IP address where the content has no relation to yours will through up a red flag with the search engines. If you friend has a site related to yours get a link from that site, but not all 60.
According to Wikipedia: "...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)."
Thanks for that one more question please if someone has 60 sites all on same IP but not linked to each other Is that a Link farm also ? What is the dangers if any in having links on 60 sites all with the same IP ?
Yep google is a hell of a tool, should try it sometime I heard they could be big someday with this technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm
Basically interlinking multiple domains which are not related to each other can lead to google penalization. If you create a page solely for the purpose of putting all the links there, yeah of course, this is considered link farming. I hope that clears your doubt.
If you are not directly hosting the website how does this work? like if you are using easy host companies that might have thousands of websites. Does Google keep track of these/is it safe to have a type of "link farm" within websites hosted on it?
if you have much highpage rank sites, and you will increase few new sites pagerank, I think itis linking farm
A link farm is a group of links on a variety of pages solely for the purpose of increasing link popularity for search engines.
So to test this out I am linking 60 websites from same IP with unique articles with contexual links to one of my sites I have measured where it is for SERPS before doing the test. the sites range from PR0 to PR5 The links will be placed over a 2 week period and then I will see whether we get an improvement in SERPS or a penalty. I will let you all know the results
Yes the question is " What exactly is a Link farm ? " Some say its a group of websites which are all linked to each other Others say its any group of websites being used to promote links Some say its any group of web sites all on same IP I am trying to find out exactly what a Link farm is and exactly what it is not I am also testing some of the theorys about a Link farm being a group of web sites on 1 single IP and whether placing links on these web sites actually does lead to a penalty.