Justification for link farm
August 30, 2009 on 8:58 pm | By admin | In TechnologyThe justification for link farm-influenced crawling diminished proportionately as the search engines expanded their capacities to index more sites. Once the 500-million listing threshold was crossed, link farms became unnecessary for helping sites stay in primary indexes. Inktomi’s technology, now a part of Yahoo!, now indexes billions of Web pages and uses them to offer its search results.Where link weighting is still believed by some Webmasters to influence search engine results with Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask, link farms remain a popular tool for increasing PageRank or perceived equivalent values. PageRank-like measurements apply only to the individual pages being linked to, so these pages must in turn link out to other pages in order for the link weighting to help.