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aaaaa
26-02-2003, 18:50/06:50PM
:cheers:
Conducting a Search on Google or Msn for "reciprocal link exchange" or "link farms" or "free for all links pages" "ffa" - etc.

... will return webpages with fairly decent PageRanks that have been existing over a period of time on various search services.
Some people use this a standard of whether - or - not
these techniques have validity.

(Why would they thrive on the Search Engines if they were "spam" or "outlawed")

Additionally, search engines "spider" links...
does this linking technique actually increase the frequency of a listed webpage being spidered - thus, decreasing the odds of updates not being reflected.

Is it possible that WebSites have been "dropped" due to programming idiosyncracies of the various search engines
(for examples Google has various "cached" versions with various updates that appear during the month - perhaps not ALL the databases have ALL the pages or SAME pages listed)

Kal
26-02-2003, 23:30/11:30PM
You might think twice about Link Farms if you read this article (http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030226/72/3899k.html) and part two (http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030226/72/3899n.html) of the same article :).

glengara
27-02-2003, 04:07/04:07AM
At least they seem to have done a bit of homework!

BZProd
02-03-2003, 04:34/04:34AM
Great article Kal...I enjoyed it...

Bernard
05-03-2003, 20:08/08:08PM
I'm only getting 404's on Kal's links.

maartenvr
05-03-2003, 21:27/09:27PM
Hmm. Yeah me too. However, when Kal posted those links they did work. I enjoyed reading them too!