Link Farm and FFA Submissions can get you banned

The concept started by Google, now followed by many search engines of gauging the prominence of site using link popularity has given a considerable boost to link farming and stuffing of sites with as many links as possible. But if you by joining link farms and stuffing your site with as many links as possible will make your site popular in search engines, then your thoughts have become obsolete. The more sites that link to yours, the higher your ranking in the search engine results will be because the more links indicate a higher level of popularity among users of the Internet. I agree, but your awful linking habits and skyrocketing strategies won’t land you up anywhere, only it will designate your site as a manipulative marketing effort and might get you even banned from the search engines. Google, which is considered as a giant online has been regularly executing complex algorithms to drive out the sites that participate in link farming. There are many service providers who promise to help you boost your link popularity without even bothering to check whether they are linking to relevant and related websites or not. Here you stand the chances of being eliminated. Even a page of links to other sites won’t save you from being penalized. These unscrupulous so call professionals simple reverse the intended efforts of your website. Even Google is afraid of irrelevant websites linked with others as this mismatch considerably decreases the site's value to visitors and spoil the image of the Website as source of useful content to the visitors.
Also FFA submissions don’t lag far behind in categorizing your site under spam. Like “Link farming” "Free-for-All" (FFA) sites are a collection of worthless links. It is more or less like a storehouse for webmasters to deposit their links to make their site appear more popular. But as soon Google realized "Link Farms" and “FFA” sites were messing up the web and making it hard for users to search valuable content, it immediately started rating the quality of the links. In the process "Link Farms" and FFA sites were segregated as spam.
Search Engines feel suffocated on the mere mentioning of link stuffing. So you should endeavor to submit your links to reliable directories and exchanging links with other significant sites. For instance if your site is related to music you should include links to the musicians, their fan sites and the sites that will serve your visitors with resourceful information.

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