When Does Ordinary Linking Become A Link Farm?, link farms

**xumeng12** · 06-22-2011 09:23 AM

Hi

I am looking to put links out for my web site. I know "link farms" are penalised by Google. but hoew do I recognize a link

farm? when does a website with a huge amount of links and categories for links become a link farm and therefore dangerous?

thanks

**cobybaked** · 06-22-2011 10:10 AM

Link farm is a group of websites linking to each other for the purpose of increasing their site's visibility in search engines. You can recognize a link farm if there is a huge number of reciprocating links on every site on the list.

**peterpatrickgo** · 06-23-2011 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by cobybaked

Link farm is a group of websites linking to each other for the purpose of increasing their site's visibility in search engines. You can recognize a link farm if there is a huge number of reciprocating links on every site on the list.

yeah, definitely never join such link farm, or u would be seriously punished by the SE.