Link Wheel Building Question

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by elcabron, Nov 12, 2009.

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    I'm getting my head wrapped around the concept of building link wheels. I have a question though:

    Let's say I'm promoting product A via a link wheel I've just built. If I have product B, which is not related in any way shape or form to product A, can I use the accounts of the link wheel I've build for A to promote B?

    It would save time... but should it be done?

    While we're on the subject.... just how many identities should one have for a link wheel on average?

    Also, any TIPS you can pass along for what you should do to make the process more "painless"... Without software automation... and maybe with? From small things such as - do all signups at once or do signup and post together - to bigger stuff etc... Any routines that allow for faster work?
     
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  2. Nigel Lew

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    yeah! I would recommend reading that thread too. :p
     
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  4. elcabron

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    Hi Nigel,

    Thanks for the tips... Well, I did try link building and got a first page on a 8.5k monthly search and I'm bouncing between 9 and 13 and a 135k monthly... so I'm not quite sure if as worthless as that.

    I did try what you said, getting links from other sites. This was after my results described above. NO change however from this strategy even thought I managed to get quite a couple of links. I thinks this is basically because they're all two way links.

    I don't know... maybe this was just in my case. Could be that others are getting bad results with it, but link wheels helped me (and it wasn't even the fancy shmacy 2/3 level link wheels that others built... just a simple one)

    To be quite honest, I think ALL SEO is really 'hocus pocus' stuff... I mean, really, at the end of the day who can say what is relevant content or not? Even Google changes their algorithms and what floats today, sinks tomorrow. So all in all we're dealing with trying to figure out how to abracadabra everything.
     
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  5. simpseo

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    Something doesn't make sense here. First you say that you are getting your head around the concept of building link wheels, then in your next post on this thread you say that you're ranking well for good keywords using simple linkwheels you've already developed.

    If this is working for you, why not just expand on your current linkwheel or create separate ones? If your simple link wheels are getting you such great results, perhaps you could just promote each property on the wheel more to pass more link juice to your money site.

    I'd be interested to know how you managed to rank 9-13 on a keyword with 135k monthly searches using just a simple linkwheel - are you sure you didn't use other methods as well?
     
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    To answer your question, the first link wheel I build I did so without much knowledge of how to do it, or that I was actually doing a link wheel. It was just 1 level... meaning that the article/social etc sites pointed back to MY site, and then I did some bookmarking to make sure that the article/social etc sites were found.

    I did all this just because it seemed LOGICAL to me. At the end of the day I realized (and after reading about it) that what I had done was build some sort of link wheel... or resemblance of it.

    Now, having seen what that did for me I tried to get more details about link wheels. Hope this clarifies my initial post.

    Yes, NOW I am trying to expand my link wheel and do more with it. This was done for just one site so now I'm trying to do it for more and expand. Since the first was done more by "accident" so to speak, rather than intentional design, I thought I'd ask around for advice on link wheels. You can NEVER know too much.

    Getting my head wrapped around link wheels = Trying to learn more about them so I can do them deliberately (and more efficiently) rather than having "happy accidents"

    To answer the last question... NO, I did not use any other methods... Built my link wheel using video, articles and such.... no black hat, blue hat or purple hat ;) for that matter.

    I do have one thing that maybe I forgot to mention or emphasize... and on this point I agree with Nigel 100% ... GOOD CONTENT. I tried to make my stuff by providing stuff that went way BEYOND AND ABOVE the "call of duty" as far as quality goes. Maybe THIS was the secret weapon :D
     
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  7. simpseo

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    It sounds like you have a good formula for ranking well. It's quite possible that if you did build one of those fancy linkwheels that are talked about on this forum, Google would have noticed a lot of interlinking and the result may not have been so successful.

    I, too, like the idea of building a few sites and putting good content on them. I wouldn't personally interlink them too much - not to create a large wheel anyway because all that hard work could amount to nothing if Google detects too much interlinking. Perhaps a few mini wheels rather than a huge link wheel would be a good plan, but I haven't really tested this enough myself to figure out the best way to get the most out of it.
     
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