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A Word About Link Farms

July 10, 2008 By: Justin | no comments

tinfoilDuring my time interacting with those in the MMO niche, I’ve been know to directly disagree with advice and wisdom provided by other bloggers, even if they’re big named bloggers (like Vic). And this has saved my as several times from being caught in some crappy situations. I want to briefly discuss the concept of link farms, which seems to be an accepted practice in some circles.

I really enjoy SEO, so I spend a lot of my time playing around and looking at stats. And one thing I’ve noticed is an increasing trend toward the use of blog farms.

My advice, stop blatantly using link farms. Google is going to slap you.

There seems to be the idea that you must have a link farm to be successful. A link farm is not a replacement for traditional link building or legit link acquisition. Yes, successful sites use link farms. But those who get away with it do three things. 1) put effort into hiding them 2) have plenty of legit links to mask them 3) add them over time. Do not hook your brand new domain up to 8 of your link farm sites right out of the gate and allow them to be the only links that site has!

I recently made a post about footprints. I mentioned locating someone’s link farm. Well, last night I found another. If I can find your network, so can another SEO, and Google will eventually. I’m not reporting or snitching to Google on anyone, but I’m trying to keep people from getting their whole network slapped.

Posts I suggest reading:

Link Laundering: If you’re going to run a link farm, be smart about it. Layer it and create segments. Don’t direct link 8 of your sites in.

Footprint: Learn about footprints and how they can be used to track down your network. Use this information to hide yours.

I’m predicting a pretty little slap coming in a few months. Googles actions against BMD/Scuttle links and BANS (specifically .info) should be enough of an indicator that big G keeps an eye on the MMO niche

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