Link Farm?

[craig34]

Ok guys, just looking for an opinion on whether you think that this site might be considered a "link farm" by Google or not.

Teraparts (http://www.teraparts.com)

The URLs all link to my other site... and I'm guessing that's bad. The follow-up question is whether breaking this up into separate pages, say by make/model, would make a difference? So instead of having all of these links on one page, I would have about 20-25 internal links on the front page, to a page that has only the links to part IDs for that specific car make.

[Arizona Web]

It isn't a link farm per say, but it is a terrible supporting site. This site was not made for users, it was made for search engines and for 1aauto in specific.

[craig34]

And Google will be able to pick up on that, I assume?

Would my alternate solution from my original post (breaking it into multiple pages) be a good improvement? Or would I need to have links to other websites as well?

[Arizona Web]

Sorry, but I can't really advise you in this matter. I consider myself a very whitehat SEO and this type of thing is too gray for me. I would say just don't do it at all, but others may see things differently.

[craig34]

That's a good enough answer for me then. Down it comes.

I'm doing my best to be "whitehat" myself. It's tough though, when you've got a boss breathing down your neck. At the beginning of the year (and for at least 6 months) I had as many a PR 6 and as 36,000 pages listed in Google. I was flying high, kicking butt. Now I'm down to PR 5 and between 20,000 and 25,000 depending on the day.

Desperate times called for desperate measures, thanks for keeping me sane.

[disgust]

it seems like a lot of things that generally fly fine for most people some people get snagged on.

I've seen sites greybar'd for buying links, and nothing more.