Anyone using link wheels? any advice to make a 5 spoke link wheel more effective would be appreciated.
One of the problems with link wheels is that they don't appear "natural". Mostly , I think, because people implement them too fast. You could probably implement a good mini net utilizing a wheel design if you implement it slowly over time and minimize as many foot prints as possible. A more natural mini net design would be a decentralized one but it would take a lot more links to get the desired boost on the target site.
Not very. That is unless you take the time to build backlinks to each of the outer cogs in the wheel. The main problem with link wheels is that they are still just links form pages that have no backlinks, no traffic, and no pr. Unless you build backlinks, traffic or PR from each of the pages that link to your site, then they are worthless.
Linkwheels are effective! I have had provided this service to tons of clients and received lots of positive feedbacks . Google does penalize you for this but so far nothing happened. If you are good with it, you can easily pull it off! even howie schwartz mentioned the power of linkwheel
I have found that if you are doing many wheels you should direct the outer rings to a single off site page, example a hub page. Then link that hub page to your money site. Seems to work better than having lots of low pr, no traffic sites linking to your money page. Albert
yes link wheel is part of blue hat seo. Where lots of money making can be done especially from social networking.