Spamdexing

Link farms were originally started by search engine optimisers back in 1999.

The purpose of these links farms was to take advantage of the dependence upon link popularity that major search engines had at that time.

Because search results were based upon the top one hundred million listings in search engine indexes, link farms exploded on to the net with the sole purpose of creating as many inbound links to websites as possible.

Link farms got their name from how they operated: farming links within, to and from one another’s websites. Continued