link farm

[moontime]

Doug is this what you consider a link farm? http://linkpartners.com/ and would you get penalized? Thanks




[Moved out of Google forum as that forum is for Google-specific threads only. - Jill]

[mrguy]

This site has been talked about a lot. Do you a search and you'll find the threads.

I initially linked to them and didn't think they were a link farm. Doug thought they were.

In an over abundance of caution, I've pulled my link to them.

Doug is pretty good at figuring out what a link farm and spam is so I think I'll trust his judgement on this one.

Better safe than sorry!

[moontime]

Thanks mrguy- If you haven't a link to them but signed up will the spiders see your url when they crawl that site?

[mrguy]

If they have not taken down the link, then the Google spider will still see it, however if you have removed your link to them then it does not matter that they show a link to you.

They run their own spider to check if everybody who signed up is still linking. When their spider finds your link gone, they will remove your site.

Questionable inbound links for the most part cannot hurt you as long as you don't link back.
:hi:

[moontime]

Thanks- How about affiliate programs like http://www.affiliateshop.com/ ? Are they considered spamming? Do they help?