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[edited by: martinibuster at 3:23 am (utc) on Sep. 18, 2006]
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However, I would define a link farm as a collection of links irrelevant to the site where they are published. Many times, a link farm is associated with high volume linking thus the "farm" label.
To avoid having your links appear as a "link farm", make linking decisions for the end user and keep your linking low or natural volume. That means don't link up with or request links from hundreds of sites in a short period of time.
It's perfectly acceptable to link to sites that benefit your end user in a natural or organic volume.. that means you might obtain 5 links in a given week, then none the next week then 7 the next week, then 2 the next week and so on...
Sites that publish link farms traditionally have done so in high volume with low relevancy and many times with poor organization or categorization. And many times we see link farms produced without editorial discretion. Editorial disrection means a human makes the determination whether to link or not .. so we suggest avoiding full duplex softwares or services which make links without editorial discretion.
Keep your linking natural low volume, with high relevancy, and if you use software to manage your links, make sure you use one that offers editorial discretion on making links. That way you decide who you link to, not some software algorithm.
[edited by: martinibuster at 5:47 pm (utc) on Sep. 18, 2006]
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So what do you think a link farm is?
[edited by: martinibuster at 4:19 pm (utc) on Oct. 12, 2006]
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