On the World Wide Web, a link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group. Although some link farms can be created by hand, most are created through automated programs and services. A link farm is a form of spamming the index of a search engine (sometimes called spamdexing or spamexing). Other link exchange systems are designed to allow individual websites to selectively exchange links with other relevant websites and are not considered a form of spamdexing. Via wikipedia
Now that you are clear what one is, there are many variations of the links farm. Some are easily picked up by Google and some are not!
Today I am going to go over one of the ways you can do Blackhat Link Farming. (Just because I make post on this site does not mean I do anything Blackhat SEO related.) Remember you must know both sides of the Hat to control what happens to your site.
Now lets get on the the fun stuff! I am going to walk you through for the most part on setting up your own link farm.
Getting A Domain Name
You will need to get two or more domain names to make this work, the more you have the better it will turn out. The first domain name is used for you main site. You want this domain name to mean nothing to you at all. All of the rest of the domain names need to be expired domains. They are plenty of domains that expire each day that have backlinks already pointing to them so some of your work will be done already. Everyone of your domains needs to have “Privacy” Enabled. You do not want anyone seeing who owns the domain names as Google can and will look at these to help find you.
Link Farm Web Hosting
Each one of your link farm websites should be on its own hosting account on different hosting providers. This will help you stay a little more hidden from the all knowing G. If you are cheap you can also use the same hosting, just make sure that each site is on a different Class C subnet mask.
Website Content Management System
You are going to want to install WordPress on all of the Blackhat sites. There are many features and ways to get content easily to sites that use WordPress. On your Main site you should block all search engines from indexing that site. It is you content distribution site. There is no reason the Big G or anyone else needs to see it.
Plugins For Your Main Site
The only WordPress Plugin you need on this site is WordPress Randomizer! This is the only Plugin you need.
This plugin is going to make you content distribution easy! You simply take your content and “spin” it.
The <random>{{pen|pencil}}</random> is <random>{{{{big|large|huge|giant}} and {{black|white}}|{{small|tiny|little}} and {{green|blue|red|yellow}}}}</random>.
This is very simple. Here is the one drawback. For your Blackhat Link Farm, the defaults will not work. You will need to edit the plugin to make it Link Farm friendly.
You need to find the code:
### randomizer routine ###
function random($string, $seedPageName = true, $openingConstruct = ‘{{‘, $closingConstruct = ‘}}’)
And Replace it with:
### randomizer routine ###
function random($string, $seedPageName = true, $openingConstruct = ‘@@’, $closingConstruct = ‘$$’)
So now your spun content will feed into the RSS feed. Keep in mind that doing this means you need to change how you spin your documents.
The <random>@@pen|pencil$$</random> is <random>@@@@big|large|huge|giant$$ and @@black|white$$|@@small|tiny|little$$ and@@ green|blue|red|yellow$$$$</random>.
This is going to make life grand!
Plugins For Your Farm Sites
FeedWordpress
This is the main one you need for the Link Farm. This will pull the RSS feed from you main site and make new post on the farm sites. This is the time saver plugin. You post in one place and content is sent to all of your farm sites. There are some pretty cool features that are in this plugin so look around.
All In One SEO
You should go ahead and make the farm sites good! Do a little SEO setup and then leave it alone.
UAW Plugin
This is the second most important plugin you have on the Farm Sites. This plugin will get you FREE content from other people and help you hide in your Link Farm links. There are just a couple of setting that you need to set. You also need to create “Categories” in wordpress to let UAW know what type of articles to send you. You can get “Categories” from Ezinearticles if you can not come up with good ones. Remember stay generic.
***Go ahead and change the permalink structure to %postname%***
Website Layout
Always make you site look legit! This will save you so much pain in the long run. Make Each Farm site seem real. If i come across the site i should feel that you wrote the content just for that site and it was written just for me. Remember we want this all to be on the down low so the Big G don’t find you!
Advertising On Your Farm Sites
You can do advertising on the farm sites. DO NOT use Adsense! DO NOT be stupid! You can use some affiliate programs to help make you some income from these sites.
Analytics On Your Farm Sites
Do not do it. There is no reason too. You are just getting links back to your main page. There is no reason to see stats of how many people came to the farm site.
Blackhat SEO Link Farm Summery
What every you do, practice first and don’t take my word for it. Like I said earlier I do not do this! I am just telling you to look out where your links are coming from. You need to know all the things that can be done to you.
Practice Safe SEO!
