Why you should avoid Linking buying and Link farms
I’m so amazed at the number of linking buying and links farms out there on the Internet. I suppose it still exists because the attraction of having lots of backlinks combined with the fact that so many people have already done it. Google cottoned onto to these techniques a long time ago and punish your page rank because of it.
Honestly - have you ever gone to one of these pages with lots of links and clicked on a few (wearing the hat of a normal web surfer of course)? I doubt it. Google are constantly changing their algorithms to try and weed out these sorts of tactics and also openly ban link buying and even reciprocal linking. The search engines can also detect the presence of reciprocal links, pages with too many links and common links that appear on every page on your site.
It’s all about authority links. Link farms have a negative authority - Avoid them at all costs as it can undo any good link building you’ve done.
Google also watches frequency of link building. If one day you go from 10 backlinks to 1000 backlinks it’s going to light up a few flags with the google engines and work against you.
Unnatural link profiles glow in the dark when it comes to the search engines. If you have been convinced that buying links are going to help your page rank make sure they are all targeted to your keyword topics are evenly spread across the Internet. Even the location of the links is important - they all need to be on different IP address’s or this will also raise flags.
Quality backlinks are very valuable but it’s easy to undo them with some ugly ones.
If you believe that the links are naturally clicked on and will still bring traffic to your site (and you’re not all that worried about page rank) then go for it but don’t expect to appear high in the list on the search results.
There is still a whole lot more to discuss on this topic and I will uncover the best tactics.
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2 Comments on Why you should avoid Linking buying and Link farms
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Hicham (3 comments) on
Thu, 30th Apr 2009 9:42 pm
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Tim (1 comments) on
Tue, 6th Oct 2009 10:18 am
Well said. It’s important to keep an eye on the ‘quality’ of the link not the ‘quantity’ of links you got. On the other hand, the paid links are just destroying your PR reputation as you mentioned in the article.
Keep up on this great blog 
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They should not ban reciprocal linking. I think Google must limit reciprocal linking but not to ban reciprocal linking technique. Another thing I saw many sites with so many link exchanges. Google must implement the limitation of link exchange.
Thank you for the information very nice post 
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