what exactly is a link farm?

[kyli.smith]

Hi....

can anyone tell me what exactly is a link farm?

I requested a link exchange with another site the other day and the webmaster refused. His reason was that I was linking to a link farm. What did he mean by that?

share your answer...

thanks in advance..

[jackdalson]

In my opinion a link farm is a website set up with the sole purpose of increasing the link popularity of other sites by increasing the number of incoming links to those sites. They are typically made up of long lists of unrelated links. Search engines remove link farms from their directories when they find them. And many also penalize other sites that link to them.

[alvypetersen]

A link farm is a website set up with the sole purpose of increasing the link popularity of other sites by increasing the number of incomming links to those sites. They are typically made up of long lists of unrelated links. Some link farms are created as networks of sites that contain numerous links to one another.