A link farm is nothing more than a web page or a blog links to other sites without considering the content relations. Link farms came out in 1999 by search engine optimizers.The idea is to increase the number of websites linked to a website. The reason of using link farms is to increase the PageRank of a website so it could get better rankings in the search engines.
Google considers link farms as spams and punishes sites that have link farm pages. If you are involved in a link farm, Google may lower the PageRank of your website or remove your content from the search engine index by placing your site in the sandbox.
[...] main purpose should be getting visitors from those websites rather than increasing your pagerank. Link farms are big No-Nos. You should avoid trading links with link farms. Otherwise, there is a good chance [...]
how many links on a page is considered as link farm ?
How to check a site freedom or not of sandbox status ?
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