Help - is this a link farm?

[Sambo]

hi,
i recieved an email where i was invited to
exchange link with many sites:
http://designlab.wholesale-travel.com/resource_directory/resource_directory.php?mode=add_links&email=info@vacans.it&sitelist=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,29,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,30

Is this a link farm or what?
thanks
Sambo

[small mouse]

"Sambo" <goldrake80@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cqc73o$5qk$1@lacerta.tiscalinet.it...
> hi,
> i recieved an email where i was invited to
> exchange link with many sites:
>
http://designlab.wholesale-travel.com/resource_directory/resource_directory.php?mode=add_links&email=info@vacans.it&sitelist=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,29,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,30
>
> Is this a link farm or what?
> thanks
> Sambo


I wouldn't link to these myself, the links pages have very little PR, but I
can't see anything dodgy going on except for the fact that each link page
seems to be an exact copy so could possibly be seen as duplicate content.

If you are in the travel business it may be worthwhile, but make sure you
dilute the links back to them so you don't leak too much PR.

[Eric Johnston]

Looks like a link scheme to me. Do not under any circumstances link TO
any such sites as it could get you yourself penalised. It is worth
regularly testing all outgoing links from your own site to see if they
are still reputable and genuinely of benefit to your visitors. Delete
every outgoing link that leads to rubbish.

The best outgoing links from your site are to quality pages that
provide really interesting and useful information that benefit your
site visitors. Link directly to information pages on other sites, not
the home page. Think in terms of the pages you link to as forming part
of your site, so apply your own standards of readability, speed of
download, lack of pop ups, browser compatibility or whatever to any
page you are thinking of linking to. If necessary, ask the far end
site to improve, e.g. to reduce image file sizes, if you need to link
to them to help your visitors. Be very wary about linking to any page
with zero PR, unless you are certain the page is new and the site
reputable.

If you find reverse links to your site FROM a dodgy link farming scheme
don't worry, it won't do you any harm but it won't do you much good
either.

Best regards, Eric.

[Sambo]

Thnaks a lot guys !!

"Eric Johnston" <eric@satsig.net> wrote in message
news:1103739549.312509.220930@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Looks like a link scheme to me. Do not under any circumstances link TO
> any such sites as it could get you yourself penalised. It is worth
> regularly testing all outgoing links from your own site to see if they
> are still reputable and genuinely of benefit to your visitors. Delete
> every outgoing link that leads to rubbish.
>
> The best outgoing links from your site are to quality pages that
> provide really interesting and useful information that benefit your
> site visitors. Link directly to information pages on other sites, not
> the home page. Think in terms of the pages you link to as forming part
> of your site, so apply your own standards of readability, speed of
> download, lack of pop ups, browser compatibility or whatever to any
> page you are thinking of linking to. If necessary, ask the far end
> site to improve, e.g. to reduce image file sizes, if you need to link
> to them to help your visitors. Be very wary about linking to any page
> with zero PR, unless you are certain the page is new and the site
> reputable.
>
> If you find reverse links to your site FROM a dodgy link farming scheme
> don't worry, it won't do you any harm but it won't do you much good
> either.
>
> Best regards, Eric.
>