Beware, Your Post Is a Link Farm!?
Tuesday July 29th 2008
Do you realise that sometimes your blog become a link farm without you noticing it?
Link Farm Definition:
On the World Wide Web, a link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other page 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 search engine (sometimes called spamexing or spamdexing). Other link exchange systems are designed to allow individual websites to selectively exchange links with other relevant websites and are not considered a form of spamdexing.
And for your information. Google penalized a site which is "suspected" a link farm site.
And you say, I’m not doing it.
Oh yeah?
Give me a minutes to explain that to you.
Tagging and Taggie
Many personal blog always play this.
How to play?
- You make a post with a links to your target blog.
- The target blog must copy your post and put another link to target other blog.
- This chanined games continue until the content is all about links.
And no usefull information except links.
This is a link farming. Wheter you agree or not, this is a link farming. Well ofcoz it’s not that obvious, but it is.
So, please avoid this kind of games.
Increase Technorati Authority
This is other games, or a black hat SEO that play with the links.
This games is similar to the Tag & Taggie but the different is the host also update the links.
How to play?
- Make a post with links of your target blog.
- Then the target blog will copy paste the post and add another link into it as their new target.
- And go on.
The different is, anyone can contact the top host(Who start the game) and ask to join in the game. So the new comer will copy paste all the link and add some new link for a new target. And the host will update his link and any new comer also will have to copy the added link and so on. Different from taggie is, taggie just for the one who tag you. While the Technorati games, you can join in anytime.
Unfair Link Exchange
Have you exchange link with other blogger? Good. If you put the link on the sidebar, this is not a link farm. Why?
- The sidebar will appear all together with the content.
When it’s is indexed, it’ll indexed together with the content. - Different from the taggie and authority games, the content itself is the link.
Now beware of the cheater link exchange.
How to avoid cheater link exchange?
- Your link MUST BE AT THE SIDEBAR, HEADER, OR FOOTER which is spread all under his/her domain.
How to know if he/she is a cheater link exchange?
- She make a link exchange page.
- While you link from your sidebar blogroll, she put your link in that page.
Now why she is a cheater!?
For example. My blog is PR4(Indeed is now
)
If I put your link on my sidebar, that’s mean you get a back link from a PR4 blog, and backlink from all of my post!
If I put your link on that exchange link page, that’s mean you’ll get the back link from that post page which it’s PR is not PR4 and backlink from only that one page!
See the different?
The homepage PR and the post page PR is not the same!!!
Sorry for shouting.
I was too emotional…
While she is pointing to your blog from a mere PR page, you’re pointing her blog’s homepage from all of your domain(Sidebar is spread all on your domain)!
Now, is that fair?
NO!!!
So, don’t exchange link with this people. Remove his/her link from your sidebar now. If she ask, ask her to put your link on sidebar, header, or footer which is spread all on her domain.
And what is this connecting to linkfarm?
For those who cheat people like this, that page of exchange link is indeed a link farm because, you don’t have content but all links.
Happy blogging, and I hope you get a benefits by reading this reminder.
And yeah, you can copy this reminder to your blog or even translate it. But please link back to my homepage as a price for taking this article. I never copy cating other bloggers post. If I do(Maybe in the future), I’ll put a linkback to apprrove that is his work. And that is not a link farm. 
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On July 29th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
J Mehmett said:
Nice tip, I like your design by the way…
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On July 29th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Pangeran Wiguan said:
Thanks for droping by.
I’ve visit your blog too(From the Justin’s Forum)and I guess you’re from there too?
Your blog design also “out of the box” creativity…
Guess we are the same…
This design is a “copy cat”.
I mimic the magtheme theme which Justin said was a crappy clone of his structure theme…
So, I have this premium design(Cost you $100 if you buy that magtheme) for FREE!
That’s thank to Justin…
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On July 30th, 2008 at 8:45 am
taukey said:
link farm like the technorati games can really be manipulated. First and foremost install a plugin no follow post plugin (if i am not mistaken). At first people tend to see the entry as do follow but once it reaches a certain time that you selected, the entry became no follow. he he he. but then again we are back to cheater part. we cheat hundreds of people in the games. ha ha. unperfect world for unperfect people.
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On July 30th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Pangeran Wiguan said:
But, personally I never do it.
Join such games or so.
And I don’t even cheat people with a link exchange page…
If I don’t put their link in my sidebar that their link to, I did put it on other site that they don’t link to.
This is reciprocal link exchange. Correct me if I’m wrong.
For example, you can see at makmalcyber blog and there’s PANGERAN.ORG link in his sidebar… But I don’t link from PANGERAN.ORG. I link back to makmalcyber blog’s hompage from my other blog at wgnwhite.blogspot.com… At the time of the link trade, both my PANGERAN.ORG and WGN_WHITE blogspot blog have the same PR that is PR3.
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On July 30th, 2008 at 9:51 am
taukey said:
a’ah the 3 way link exchange strategy. hehehe. nicely done. that is good strategies to increase pangeran dot org.
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On July 30th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Pangeran Wiguan said:
And to increase Makmal Cyber too…
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On August 4th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Link Love, Announcements, and Other Stuff | Unlock The Online World said:
[...] warned bloggers what Google may see as a link farm when you wouldn’t even think it was [...]
On August 4th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Pangeran said:
Sherry said she can’t comments.
This is a test comments.
I’ve logged out before commenting.
So I am an ordinary commenter.
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On August 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Sherry said:
hi,… trying to comment here.
I can tell you gain I still dont see… what I write in the white box except this box.
let see how it goes..
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On August 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Sherry said:
oh.. now I see the comment. wow.. we are like turning Amirul blog into chat zone.
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On August 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Pangeran Wiguan said:
Yeah…
Hahaha…
Even off topic…
But he didn’t even “say no” to us, isn’t it?
Hehehe…
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On August 4th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Sherry said:
beware he still owner of the blog right.. who knows.. he set rules.. later on.. lol
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On August 4th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Pangeran Wiguan said:
Ya… Better change the game now…
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On August 4th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
shaxx said:
understood. i am considering removing the blogroll all together or may be move it to the sidebar as you proposed… something that i need to think about. thanks bro!
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On August 4th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Pangeran Wiguan said:
If your blogroll is too many… You can use scroll feature by changing some css rule…
We must be fair and square…
p/s: I’ve re-add your link KisahBeruang.com in my WGN_WHITE sidebar (cross domain - PR3) bloglist… Hope u doing so too… Link to PANGERAN.ORG or WGN_WHITE either one…
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On August 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Sherry said:
sure no problem I find your blog useful info
love to link up.
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On August 4th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Pangeran Wiguan said:
So, you want links(cross domain) too Sherry? I was talking to bro shaxx before…
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On August 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Sherry said:
what is link cross domain?
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On August 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Sherry said:
i dont know why.. but I see your message box here is black colour.. I have to hightlight to see them..
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On August 6th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Pangeran Wiguan said:
To: Sherry
Cross domain means appear all under the domain.
Means appear at every page of my blog.
My message box hex color code is #333333. It is not black. Black color is #000000.
Anyway what browser do you use?
I am using Mozilla Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 Vista.
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On August 6th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Pangeran Wiguan said:
Actually this blog’s design is still not complete.
So there is still so many CSS error.
For example, this comments area.
Sorry.
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On August 10th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Sherry said:
hi, firefox too.. oh yeah.. have you joined the freebies4web? I joined..but having problem install code.. dont know if you able to advice..
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On August 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Sherry said:
its kind of weird the code start with
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On August 10th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Pangeran Wiguan said:
To: Sherry
Hi, Sherry.
I don’t have any idea what is freebies4web.
I search on Google but it returns zero result.
Is it a website that have a green elephant in its header?
)
(Somewhat recalling my memory…
Can’t view the code though…
It’s wordpress restriction.
[code=xhtml]
Just Testing - Please ignore this line.
[/code]
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On August 10th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Sherry said:
nevermind.. i will email them to ask..
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On August 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Pangeran Wiguan said:
To: Sherry
He he… Okay.
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