[mira]

What is the actual difference, Im keen to get quality backlinks but dont want to associate myself with link farms, can someone explain the difference or give me a web url as an example?

[agilius]

I can't give you an URL as an example but Link Farm is what the link exchange sections are filled with. Web Directory Submissions are fine, they get you backlinks, but rarely traffic or topic targeted backlinks ( links that come from a site from the same topic/subject as your site ).

[Kelly Anderson]

Hi!

I'm new at this business and have a lot of work to do and learn.
I would be very gratefull if you can show me an example of Link farm and the difference between it and web directory.

Please PM me.

Thank you very much.

[zenneth]

Web directories is different in the sense that all the links are all properly categorized and have proper description to reflect itself as a directory. Linkfarm don't have that qualities and is just basically a site filled with unrelated links where people do exchange. Just be careful to avoid link farm.

[Kelly Anderson]

Thank you for help and advice!

Best wishes

[marketraisecorp]

Web-directory is an important aspect of SEO/SEM. Submitting to web-directories are a must if one needs to improve the visitor rates to the website.What matters is the type of submission that is being made.If it is a paid subscription your website submission is instantly approved and is put right on the top of your selected category.But then when Google updated PR and backlinks last October ,2007,lots of people lost out on PR and Backlinks and there were speculations that links being traded had to be done with the adsense account.I personally have never ever gone in for paid subscriptions ,infact I always prefer free submissions even though it takes me time.Any ways coming back to the adsense part,when I tried discussing it in other web-master forums the web-masters termed my post as crap,even though I knew that there was some truth in my statements after all the statements made after the October Update were made by experts themselves.Coming to free submissions always select the category that either has maximum approvals or minimum reviewals pending.I did it for DMOZ, even though it took my website 6 months to be submitted it finally happened.

As for links ,any link page that has more than 50 links would be termed as a link tree instead of a page and will not be crawled.More over Google has also refused to index the html or link pages that has the term "links" or any alpha numeric character present in their URL.

As we all know links are important for PR and traffic ,it is always important to know the page where the link would be placed.Only then will the link building be significant.

[mira]

I have seen many people mention clearly they dont want link farm then want one way link. So I think directory is much better than link farm.

Is that true?