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[LuthfiHakim]

I have seen advices that suggest to avoid getting links from link farm due to possible harms with SE. My question is, how do we know if a site/page is a link farm? Is there any quick indicators we should watch for?

TIA

[Alexander]

Link farms are generally large artificial sites, or rather groups of them that link to each other. Search engines see popularity as inbound links, if they are all from the same group of websites with two way links in great numbers, it is deemed to be a site bloating its popularity and is deducted from rankings, considered a link farm.

[BlaineSch]

The way Google ranks is a mystery most is assumption.

If SiteA (Link Farm) links to SiteB (Your Site) they are not related in content. SiteB is a tech blog for instance, and SiteA has no original content and a ton of outbound links to sites not related to yours.

Even if it didn't hurt you, it sure wouldn't help you.

[LuthfiHakim]

@Blaine, yes it is still a mystery. However I have seen many articles from who are SEO expert (self proclaimed or have long experience in the field) that suggest to avoid link farm. I am under the impression that it's very easy getting backlinks from link farm. To avoid or not to avoid, that's the question :c-biggrin:

@Alexander, Thx!

To all, here is a page in google answer that gives a good indicators of link farms. I hope it someone would find it helpful.

[AJKpeter]

Everyone says that we should avoid link farms, but how?)

[LuthfiHakim]

Of course by not exchanging links with them. If you visit the url I gave before, you can see that one indicator of a link farm is that it ask you to backlink to it for a link for you in it.