Technical Definition
Link farms are networks of websites existing solely to create links to other sites. Part of link schemes. Easily detected by Google. Links from link farms provide no value and risk penalties. Often sold as cheap link building services. One of the oldest spam tactics, still unfortunately common.
Simple Explanation (ELI13)
A link farm is a network of low-quality websites that exist just to sell links. They're easy for Google to detect and links from them can hurt your site. If someone offers you cheap links from lots of websites, it's probably a link farm. Stay away.
Related Terms
Link Scheme, Black Hat SEO, PBN, Toxic Links
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