{"id":4174,"date":"2021-09-21T11:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adspyglass.com\/blog\/glossary-link-farm\/"},"modified":"2021-09-28T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:16:42","slug":"link-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adspyglass.com\/blog\/link-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>&ldquo;Link farm&rdquo; is a site or group of websites created to boost another website&rsquo;s ranking by linking to it from different pages in the so-called link farm (created either manually or using specific automated programs and services). That method can be also understood as a form of spamming the index of a search engine (known as spamdexing) which benefits manipulating the site&rsquo;s rankings. In other words, link farms are stealing the traffic from the sites that genuinely earn it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, such a website won&rsquo;t provide any value to users and is prohibited by Google and other search engines&rsquo; guidelines, as they can intrude the ranking algorithms and manipulate the site&rsquo;s position in SERP.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a result of that black-hat SEO strategy, the sites boosted by link farms often lose their ranking positions or even become deindexed as well as the linking farm sites themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The reason why link farming is bad is because it creates artificial links from the sites that don&rsquo;t have any intrinsic value: they usually contain a collection of different website links at best or can duplicate the content copies from other websites to hide their actual purposes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Once your site is involved in or even associated with the link farming practice, you will be penalized heavily for this and can lose all the progress you&rsquo;ve had before.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Link farm&rdquo; is a site or group of websites created to boost another website&rsquo;s ranking by linking to it from different pages in the so-called link farm (created either manually or using specific automated programs and services). 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