Definition of a link farm

link farm    

noun

• a website with little or no content, consisting of mostly (or entirely) links to other websites.

  Search engines do their best to weed out link farms from search results.

  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Jan 24 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

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WDYM	Definitions include: acronym for "what do you mean".
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buy the farm	Definitions include: to die.
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fanny farmer	Definitions include: a homosexual male.
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farmer's blow	Definitions include: a blowing of the nose accomplished by plugging one nostril and blowing forcefully out of the other.
funny farm	Definitions include: an insane asylum.
hair farmer	Definitions include: a person who grows their hair long out of laziness, or a repressed sense of social rebellion.
send to the farm	Definitions include: to kill.
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link rot	Definitions include: the breakage of links on the web as their targets disappear.

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