FFA Link Pages-Not good for your sites

A Free For All link page (FFA) is a web page that allows anyone to set up a link to their site without having to link back to the FFA page. Webmasters typically use placement software to place a link to their site on hundreds of FFA sites hoping that the resulting back links will increase the ranking of their site in search engines.

Experts in search engine optimization techniques do not give much value to FFAs and search engines consider many of these sites to be bad places to link from. First, most FFAs only maintain links for a short time; too short for search engine crawls to pick them up. Second, the "human" traffic to FFA sites is almost completely webmasters visiting the site to place their own links manually. Search engine algorithms do more than count link numbers, they also check for relevancy and the unrelated links on FFA sites aren't relevant. Another drawback to FFAs is the amount of spam webmasters receive from the owners and paying members of the FFA. Using an FFA can be considered a form of spamdexing.