How to Build a Link Wheel
Link wheel is an advanced search engine optimization method for achieving higher ranking, and the good thing is that it can be build by almost anyone, even if you don’t know what exactly search engine optimization is. Link wheel is basically an advanced and speedy way of getting quality backlinks to your site form authority sites. If you don’t know how exactly it works, you can read about it here, what is link wheel.
To build a link wheel you need to pick a few blogging platforms or web 2.0 properties. They are free and easy to build and most of them are high ranking sites. Most people start with set of 6 site. You can use as many as you like. Here is how to build a link wheel.
Lets say your main blog/site (the one that we are building the link wheel for to get it rank better) is about making money online. And lets assume we chose these 6 web 2.0 properties to build our link wheel:
wordpress.com
Hubpages
Blogger
Ezine
Squidoo
Vox
1- On wordpress.com write and publish a unique article with 1 link in it pointing back to your main site and another link pointing to hubpages.
2- On Hubpages write and publish a unique article with 1 link in it pointing back to your main site and another link pointing to Blogger.
3- On Blogger write and publish a unique article with 1 link in it pointing back to your main site and another link pointing to Ezine.
4- On Ezine write and publish a unique article with 1 link in it pointing back to your main site and another link pointing to Squidoo.
5- On Squidoo write and publish a unique article with 1 link in it pointing back to your main site and another link pointing to Vox.
6- On Vox write and publish a unique article with 1 link in it pointing back to your main site. At this point point you can either choose to leave the wheel as it is, and leave it “open” or you can close the wheel by linking your website back to your wordpress.com blog. Either way, you will see an improvement in your blog’s search engine ranking.
Remember not to make too many link wheels too fast. It should look natural. Most blogs and websites don’t get hundreds of back links over night from high ranking sites, so you don’t want to make Google and other suspicious of all the quality backlinks your getting. If you can use it wisely, link wheel can be a great tool for achieving a higher search engine ranking.
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March 25th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
So a quick question…do we concentrate on building backlinks to the wheel sites and let them push to the main site? OR do we build another linkwheel (a 3rd tier) above the first one and link to it.
I guess I want to know if my efforts would be better used building web 2.0 sites than blog commenting.
Thanks!
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March 29th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
The best way is to interlink your web 2.0 properties. Say, you make 8 web 2.0 sites, link the first one to the second one, second one to the forth one, forth one to the second one and so on. Of course, make sure to link to your main site from each web 2.0 site as well.
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March 16th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
i love this, to be honest you made seo so simple i thank you for that!. you see alot of hype on line with little content, you gave great content without the hype lol. thank you and i appreciate it
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February 23rd, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I did a thing recommended by Ed Dale in his challenge – setup Web 2.0 sites and post to them through Posterous. The problem with that approach is that all of the sites are getting the same content.
It wasn’t bad by the way but I think that using Web 2.0 sites in Link Wheel will be more powerful.
And… I think that it is important to submit all of these sites to different directories and search engines as well.
For example you can use IMAutomator to do some of this job automatically.
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February 26th, 2011 at 12:10 am
Thanks for sharing your experience Crystal. Its usually best to have unique content on each of the web 2.0 properties you build.
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February 22nd, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I feel like this is an obvious question but I will ask it anyway. I think I get most of it but my question is about the actual links. I have been putting my website link in the resource box. Should I continue to do this? And is that where you put the link to the other web 2.0 site also or does that link go somewhere else.
Thanks
Dean
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February 26th, 2011 at 12:13 am
Dean, it really doesn’t matter where you put your links. As long as they are there and you are using your keywords as anchor text, you are good.
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January 19th, 2011 at 2:42 am
Thanks for your very detailed explanation re: building the linkwheels. I had been getting confused between social book mark sites and web 2.0 now its starting to fall into place a bit better.
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January 19th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Hi Rosemary,
You are not alone, when I first heard of them I was confused too. Glad the article shed some light on it for you.
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January 18th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Hey! Great post and its really help me get the clear idea about link wheel. But, one thing is still ringing in my head? The article that we post in all those free platforms will all they have to be different or you can simply post one article in various websites and link back to your own? Please let me know in this!
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January 19th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Kiran, you don’t really have to change the articles, although some say its best to change it a little bit since they say links from within unique content have more value.
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October 12th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Great link wheel article. Thanks for posting this. I am just getting into building the link wheels. I went to Vox and it looks like they are no longer in operation. Here are more great web 2.0 sites for you to expand your wheel. These are all PR5 sites.
http://tumblr.com
http://weebly.com
http://webs.com
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August 2nd, 2010 at 7:54 am
Interesting and informative post. I appreciate your link wheel strategy Thanks for sharing helpful information.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Building a link wheel as above is a great for traffic and easy for a beginner…. Remember to use social bookmarking also!!
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July 30th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Kim,
Good to see you again, and great point!
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June 29th, 2010 at 4:05 am
Hi Satrap
Great article, i’ve just come across it in my link wheel investigation. Just one question, am i right in thinking that you link each web 2.0 site to the actual article you have written? or to your particular blog homepage?
Many Thanks
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June 25th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Hey,
I have also been building links for awhile and it has not really gotten me anywhere what forums of backlink building would you recommend? I have actually heard that some people really like Blog posting but it is honestly frowned upon by some people.
Thanks
Luke
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April 26th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Yeah thanks for this i have been trying to build links
, it is quite hard but i have managed to achieve PR1
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April 26th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Your welcome Enarcade. Believe me its not that hard to get a higher ranking, just keep building backlinks and create quality content or what have you and you will get there. Al;though PR doesn’t really mean much specially when it comes to traffic. There are thousands of sites with PR0 that get thousands of daily visitors and sites with pr 7 and higher that dont get much traffic. Who do you think is making more money with their site?…
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April 22nd, 2010 at 1:53 am
Great method for getting the incoming links… only tough part is that writing several new unique post for the similar topic…
I will be going to try it out
Thanks
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April 23rd, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Thats true Ashutosh, writing article I think is the hardest part for most of us, LOL. But like they say “no pain no gain”. Good luck with your efforts.
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April 16th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Great article, thanks very much for the advice because I am a novice who is constantly looking for ways to improve and grow in the field of SEO.
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April 16th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Glad to hear that the article is helpful matt. Please feel free to ask any question that I can help you with. Good luck.
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April 16th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Excellent link wheel article, I will try this one on a couple of my niche blogs.
Thanks!
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April 16th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Your welcome Infobarrel Blog, I wish you good luck with your blogs. Please feel free to contact me if you have any question or anything I can help you with.
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April 15th, 2010 at 4:03 am
Hi there, thanks for writing this article. I’ve been trying to picture how a link wheel looks like. Wasn’t clear until I come across this article on your blog. From what you’re saying its like your website is in the middle and the Web 2.0 sites you are referring to are like connections going to the main site just like the spokes of a wheel that meets in the centre. And each of the web 2.0 sites are connecting to another web 2.0 site. Good Luck
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April 15th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Hi Bryan, yes you got it, you link to your main site using the web 2.0 sites and the web 2.0 sites link to each other as well.
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April 15th, 2010 at 3:59 am
This was interesting reading.I have not tried this technique before but after i read your post i know a whole lot more and i will start doing some work.
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April 15th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
I am glad the post was helpful Annette. Good luck with your site.
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April 12th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
link wheel I’m going to have to think about this one for awhile, I have heard of three way link sharing but this is a new one for me. Not sure where the link juice comes from in the wheel.
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April 13th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
The juice comes from the web 2.0 sites you use for your link wheel. For example if you use blogger for your link wheel and linkback to your site, your page will be something like yourpage.blogspot.com which means you got a backlink from blogspot itself which is an authority site with a PR 7. Hope this helps you to understand the link wheel power.
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April 9th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Honestly this is the first time i’m hearing about link wheel, before i try it out i would like some clarification. My site link here is a new blog i just set up some weeks ago and i’m doing well adding articles and recently started commenting on blogs. I really want this blog to start getting a reasonable amount of traffic. So my question is, since this blog is still very new with no PR, if i use this link wheel method, will i see good result? If i wouldn’t see real result since it’s new, i could leave it for later and concentrate on more important things.
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April 13th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Hi Karo, Link-wheel is a powerful method for backlink bulding and getting a better search engine ranking, but since your site is new, I would suggest not to build so many linkwheels at once. You want to make it appear as natural as possible. A new blog doesn’t get hundreds of backlinks from authority sites over night, so make sure you build up slowly, so you dont get in trouble with Google and other search engines. By the way, keep doing what your doing, article submission, commenting and etc. You are on the right track. You will get there, it just takes time and hard work. But, dont give up, you will achieve your goals if you keep doing what you doing and more.
Please feel free to email me if you have any question that I can help you with. By the way I visited your blog and it looks great. I am sure you will make it. Good luck with your blog.
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April 8th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Very interesting… I`ll try this method to increase my page rank. Thanks for the usefull info:)
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April 9th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Thank you Alina. I wish you best of luck with your SEO efforts.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 10:45 pm
i never heard about link wheel before. Its very useful for me. thanks I got a lot of information here
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April 2nd, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Your welcome Heru, I hope this information can help you in growing your site. Hope to see you again here.
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