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Hello everyone...
Can anybody tell me What is Link Farming?
Thnx...:)

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This thread is from 2012, so a few practical clarifications and steps that add to the points raised by , and .

The visible PageRank metric people referenced years ago is no longer a usable signal (Google removed the public toolbar PageRank in 2016). Today the same problem shows up in subtler forms: private blog networks (PBNs), paid/sponsored link rings, low-value content satellites and automated widget/footer link clusters. Value is judged by editorial context, placement and pattern — not an old PR number.

Quick checklist to spot a suspicious network

  • Many near-identical pages or templates across different domains.
  • Pages with lots of outbound links but thin or irrelevant content.
  • Heavy use of exact-match anchor text and rapid spikes in referring domains.
  • Multiple sites on the same IP/C-class block or identical WHOIS/hosting footprints.
  • Links coming from tiny pages with no real traffic or editorial context.

Practical cleanup and monitoring steps

  • Export all backlinks from Google Search Console and a third-party tool, group by domain, and flag obvious clusters.
  • Attempt removal by contacting site owners; keep records of outreach.
  • If removal fails, prepare a measured disavow (disavow only after removal attempts).
  • Watch Search Console for manual action messages and monitor organic traffic trends after changes.

Long-term approach: stop relying on automated exchanges. Prioritize editorial, content-driven links, diversify anchor text, clearly mark paid links with rel="sponsored" or nofollow/rel="ugc" where appropriate, and run periodic backlink audits. For sites facing a suspected penalty, a professional backlink audit can speed recovery.

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Member Avatar for smith warnes

Link Farms are those websites which give backlinks to site without considering the niche.For example if someone has a clothes website and he is giving backlinks to automobile, real estate or other unrelated websites then that website is a link farm. Avoid taking links from such websites.

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@Smith Wanes
Then it means link forming is a irrelevant links strategy .... but what about when a irrelevant site provides you a HIGH PR link ..is it good.... ???

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link farms are now days banned by google. and the links which are involved in the linkfarm as well. what ever the PR, the link should be genuine. Google counts with number of OBL on the particular site and checks for relevance then assigns the value. if your high pr site mate have many links means it's useless!

Member Avatar for Prakasababu

Link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours.

Member Avatar for siyajoshi

Thnx everyone for this information...:)

Member Avatar for Ramkarthick123

After the Panda update, it is better stop doing link farm.

Member Avatar for samuelmax

A link farm is a group of web pages that all links on every page in the other group. It is designed to increase the ranking of all sites in the results pages of search engines (SERPs). Search engines such as Google consider link farming as a form of spam and have implemented procedures to ban sites that participate in link farming.

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A web page which is exclusively designed for trading hyperlinks and contains too many hyperlinks is considered as a weblink farming web page or in simple language web page which is selling hyperlinks is called weblink farm.

Member Avatar for merlinraj

Link farm is a black hat seo.link farm means there is no relevant content,theme,but get number of back links to our site. link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours

Member Avatar for rahul1241

link framin for increase our backlinks so it is very use full.

Member Avatar for deca50055

The group of the websites on World wide Web which have hyperlinks to each other in a group of them.

Member Avatar for mike00

Now it is not effective it may impect negative on your site due to panda update

Member Avatar for ankitaray

World wide Web which have hyperlinks to each other in a group of them.

Member Avatar for mike00

This was method use to get good posotion in search engine , but not effect now it was the process to make the link like a fram .

Member Avatar for indiainternet00

I didn't know this term . Its new for me . thanks for sharing the information . I am also in seo field and completely new to this term .

Member Avatar for John Wilson

A link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to all other site in the group.

Member Avatar for Jobsikd

Hmm thats really interesting information...

Member Avatar for bestwsd

always try to grab links from same nache....... that important

Member Avatar for weighingsumo123

Link Farming is where your website is able to attract thousands of links from one website creating a link farm and gives Google that it is spam or a link farm.

Member Avatar for davidparker

Thank you for sharing this post, this is nice one!!

Member Avatar for gabrielnagy

I think is not good to get backlonk from them...

Member Avatar for Nanny12

Back link from a link farm is irelevant. so avoid taking link from these websites. These sites are on same ip address.

Member Avatar for petersmith5544

A link farm is the process of exchanging number of links in a web site. This is help to increase the search Engine Optimization. It helps to boost the link popularity. Automatically by exchange your link program.

Member Avatar for jamyhoste

Automation is now been banned.

Member Avatar for thefastfingers

Link farming is considered a "black hat" method of search engine optimization,because the content on the web sites linking to each other is often not related, not created by a human and is often of a very low quality.

Member Avatar for willson1

Now link framing is replace by link baiding this is more effective and good as well .

Member Avatar for freesmsjosh

The process of exchanging reciprocal links with Web sites in order to increase search engine optimization. The idea behind link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites according to, among other things, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours.

Member Avatar for Jenelia89

A link farm could be a cluster of separate, extremely interlinked websites for the needs of inflating link quality . participating in an exceedingly link farm could be a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and will be grounds for prohibition.

Member Avatar for smithh34

In this process we exchange reciprocal links with websites and the main purpose of this submission is to increase the link popularity of the website by increasing the incoming links to those websites.

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