Link Networks

Link Networks:

Also known as link farms, these have been popular for years. Most are very simplistic in nature. Page A links to page B, page B links to page C, then back to A. These are pretty easy to detect because of the limited range of ip's involved. It doesn't take much processing to figure out that there are only a few people involved with all of the links. So, the key here is to have a very diverse pool of links. Take a look at Link Exchange for example. They have over 300 servers all over the world with thousands of ip's, so it would be almost impossible to detect. A search engine would have to discount links completely in order to filter these links out. Another option is to build a large diverse network of blogs, forums and directories all spread across different servers and ip's. This gives you a large network with which you can create some good one way links. This avoids the label of a link farm in most cases, but again, the key here is in the diversity of the sites from which the links originate.