A link farm is a network of sites that link to other sites for the sole purpose of increasing link popularity. This is when a website gets hundreds of links to unrelated sites in exchange for reciprocal links. This is termed as spamming and any website who relates to link farms is penalized by removal from a search engine?s index.
Backgrounder on Link Farms
Link farms were originally developed by search engine optimizers to take advantage of the Inktomi search engine?s …