What is link farming in SEO?

[MVM Infotech]

What is link farming in SEO?

 

[traveloweb]

A link farm is a website (or a group of websites) created only for the purpose of increasing the link popularity of another site by increasing the number of incoming links. A link farm usually looks like a regular web page, but the majority of the content is hyperlinks -- often random and unrelated -- to other websites.

Link farms can be advertised as services to build up your content.

 

[brandmedia]

Link farming is a questionable search engine optimization (SEO) tactic in which a website enters a relationship of reciprocal linking with another site or pays a provider for a large number of inbound links.

 

[NandiniShinde]

A link farm is any group of websites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group. ... Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated programs and services. A link farm is a form of spamming the index of a web search engine (sometimes called spamdexing).

 

[RH-Calvin]

A link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group. In graph theoretic terms, a link farm is a clique. Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated programs and services.

 

[biglyft18]

link farm is a clique. Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated programs and services. A link farm is a form of spamming the index of a web search engine

 

[kanetailor]

A link farm is a group of websites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group

 

[arindamdutta16]

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.

 

[dombowkett]

Link farming is to interlink a group of website each other.