The defition of a link wheel
So what is a link wheel exactly? I think it's pretty common SEO
knowledge that links are good for sites. The more links you have,
and the higher quality those links are, the higher you are going to
rank in the search engines. Of course there are factors that affect
your ranking that you control on your site, but let's save that for
another article.
Anything that happens off your site is known as offsite SEO, and
since links are coming from another site to your site, a link wheel
is an offsite technique.
Okay, so how does a link wheel differ from any other link, and
what's the "wheel" part of the name? Link wheels are one of the most
advanced SEO link building techniques out there right now.
A link wheel is the process of creating 12 or so (or sometimes up to
116) new blogs/microsites on a particular topic. On each of those
sites, you write 200 words of unique content, and include 1 link to
your targeted site, and 1 link to one of your other blogs/microsites.
Now the trick here, and why link wheels are so effective is the new
blogs and microsites we create are on sites like Hubpages.com,
Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, which are established, PR6, PR7, PR8
sites, and the subsequent blogs benefit from these attributes.
Also, by including a single link to each of our new sites, we are
passing the value from one site to another, building up the value of
each of our links. And since each of the links are only one-way,
that is, site 1 links to site 5, but site 5 links to site 2, the
link juice is passed to all of the sites, and not diminished by
reciprocal linking (linking site 1 to 2, and 2 to 1).
So what we have is a network of up to 116 microblogs with 200 words
of content related to our niche, with links all pointing back to our
targeted site, making our targeted site look like an authority on
whatever topic we're trying to rank for.
Example Link Wheel:The link wheel picture to the right
shows a number of popular Web 2.0 services. While in the past it has
made sense to link from site 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and 10 to 1, this is a
pattern that is very easy to pickup on by the search engines.
So now the tradition is to do random linking to make the links look
more natural and harder to pickup as a pattern:
Site 1 to 5
Site 2 to 3
Site 3 to 8
etc.
Web 2.0 Link Wheel Sites
There are hundreds of sites that allow you to write articles on
them, with their classification all being web 2.0 sites. The
important thing to remember is that all sites are not equal. You
want a site that allows dofollow links so that the link juice passes
from one site to another, here are a list of sites that as of the
time of writing this article are dofollow:
Blogsome.com
Squidoo.com
Wetpaint.com
Wordpress.org
EzineArticles.com
VOX.com
Quizilla.com
Weebly.com
LiveJournal.com
HubPages.com
Onsugar.com
Prlog.org
Terapad.com
Beep.com
Webnode.com
Viviti.com
Blogger.com
Devhub.com
Yolasite.com
Be sure to always use unique, high quality content in your link
wheels, otherwise you run the risk of having the articles deleted by
moderators.
Link Wheel Providers
If you are considering hiring a team to do your link wheel
construction for you, there are some best practices you should ask
if they follow:
- Always use unique content, spinning articles produces horrible
content that is unreadable
- Ensure they are auditing their Web 2.0 sites and they are all
dofollow
- Ask if they have any revitalizing options for link wheels (ie
updating content every 2-4 weeks)
- Ensure they are using a random linking pattern to make the link
structure more natural
Speaking from personal experience, I have used outside firms to
build link wheels simply because they are so time consuming. Writing
this article has taken 30+ minutes of my time, and if I was planning
to write the 116 link wheel packages myself, it would take me days.
So whatever your business is, your time is better spent making
yourself more money and leaving the SEO grunt work to the
professionals.
Does Google Penalize Sites for Link Wheels?
This is a common and extremely poingnant question for site owners
looking to promote their services. First of all, offsite SEO
practices have a limited chance of seriously harming a site. Think
about it this way, if offsite SEO can get a site banned, a new form
of SEO would emerge -- competitor killing.
Now, instead of trying to move your site from #10 to #1, all you
would have to do is build malicious links to your competitors in
sites 1-9, and then by default your site would climb up.
Link any form of SEO, moderation is key. So building your SEO
strategy using only link wheels is a surefire way for your site link
profile to look suspicious. But if you link has multiple links from
all sorts of sources, your site looks more and more natural.
More Link Wheel Resources
Link wheels are an ever evolving SEO process, and keeping up with
what is working and what isn't working is paramount for success in
building quality links for your website. Did you know that the
traditional linking from site 1 to site 2 is no longer a best
practice for link wheels?
And If you need good linking from linkwheel and good traffic from it
then you must be use PURE articles with good content.
Structure of keywords linking are -
1) Article no-1
3 Keywords (LInked to 2nd Blog) + 1 Link( Connected to Main website-
Focus link)
2) Article no-2
3 Keywords (LInked to 3rd Blog) + 1 Link( Connected to Main website-
Focus link)
& Same like others.
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