Hi All, I have loads of doubts regarding link wheel creation. Here we go 1. Is link wheel working for you. I know if the quality of the wheel is good with unique contents added to web 2.0 sites it will work out but just wanna confirm with people who met success after creating linkwheel. 2. Is it mandatory to use 6 web 2.0 sites in my wheel. I know that it can be more than 6 but just wanna confirm whether I can create a wheel with 3/4/5 web 2.0 sites. 3. Can I have a nofollow link inbetween. Say for example I have my pages created in 6 web 2.0 sites with my anchors interlinking to make a wheel. What if out of those anchors one or two is nofollow? 4. Should my anchors be inline or it can just be at the end of the page? 5. Should all interlinking anchors and anchors pointing to my main site be the same or it can be different? Say for example I target my main site for xxxxx keyword. Should I use xxxxx as anchor to interlink my 6 web 2.0 sites and same xxxxx as anchor to link to my main site? 6. Once the wheel is up and running, I usually do some social bookmarking to those web 2.0 links and I ping the RSS of those links. Is that enough or I need anything else to do more like article posting with anchors pointing towards my web 2.0 pages? or any thing more? 7. Usually how long will it take to make a difference in SERP. HOpe this is a tough question and hard to answer. Just curious to know the approximate time. 8. Is Google penalizing for making a link wheel? 9. How do I make my wheel look natural? So I escape from Google getting me penalize. Pls share your thoughts. Hope your discussions and suggetions would be helpful to many starters like me. Not necessarily you answer all the questions. Just put the exact question number followed by your answer/suggestions/discussions. Good luck
hey i got some answers to your questions. 1. linkwheels work perfectly fine for me, just make sure you use unique content. This is essential in to make it work. 2. 6 is the minimum i recomend to use. search engines developed over the years and know how to find interlinked sites. so the more the better. 7. well you will start seeing some changes in the serps after a month or so. however, since its a wheel it will gro stronger all the time. hopes this helps a little
Answer for the question number: 4. You anchor line can be in the line and in the end of your content. 8. No, google will not penalized those who do link wheel as long as it is done naturally 9. You can do your link wheel in a more natural way by posting your content on those web 2.0 sites just only once per week. I hope this helps too
Yeah, it helps me a lot. 1. Can I use spun articles? 2. I understand "more the better". But I have created a link triangle [mean to say with 3 web 2.0 sites] but circle is closed. Will it work for me. I really appreciate your valuable comments.
1. Link wheels will be of minimal SEO value unless you promote each 'spoke' of the wheel. If you jsut throw a site up on web 2.0 site, and then forget about it, it's not going to help much at all. What you need to do it build quality, do follow, one way backlinks to each spoke. Only then will it provide much SEO benifit. 2. Use a many or a few as you like. Obviously, the more you build the more backlinks to your target you'll have, but unless you promote each spoke, those backlinks will not provide much value. 3. I recommend NOT linking your spokes together. If you link them together, then it increases the chance that google will identify it at interlinking--which is against Googles terms and conditions--and will discount the links to the point where they offer no benefit at all. 4. I recommend putting any beneificial link in content. Footer link,s and even blogroll links may be discounted by Google. 5. You're making this more difficult than it needs to be. All you are doing wiht a link wheel is building pages that will link to a site you are trying to promote. There's no special 'power' to the link wheel formation. You're just building artificial backlinks, that will be most useless unless you promote them. Build as many of them as you want, and point them wherever you want. If you are promoting site xxx, then I would think your time is best spend building backlinks to site xxx, insteado f to yyy which then links to xxx. 6. Social bookmarking might help it get indexed faster. And if you have very good content, the people that do find it might link to it. But in general, unless you have very good, unique content, you're not going to gain much SEO benifit from social bookmarking. What you really want to do is build quality backlinks, from relevant sites with strong PR and low outbound links. I'd recommend blog commenting, guest blogging, and regular old fashioned web promotion. Skip the article marketing. With google's new duplicate content penalties, article marketing is becoming less and less effective. 7. Like I said, the link wheel by itself offers no value. If you build the spokes up, nad promote them, gaining quality backlinks to each, then they will pass benefit on your your target site. In all, you'r promoting a site that will in turn promote your site. Obviously, this is going to take a bit longer than if you jsut promoted your target site to start with. since it takes a good amount of time to promote a site in the first place, if you plan to promote each site in your wheel, I think you can plan on it taking months not weeks. 8. If they determine that you are interlinking, then yes, they will. 9. Don't link your spokes together. Don't mention your target site by name. Mix up the anchor text you use. Include all links in content. IMO, link wheels can be effective, but only if you heavily market each spoke, and that can be very time tedious. Instead of promoting only your main site, you end up having to promote many.
thanks for this sharing, i'm now trying to do the methode of link wheel, have no result yet as it just begins, hope to know the good news asap...
Thanks a lot for the time taken to share your thoughts. With reference to the 4th answer. Can you kindly educate me what is a) beneficial link in content and b) blogroll links assuming that I know some thing about footer link? Cheers
It's better to have your do follow link in content, within text, than it is to have a link by itself, or surrounded by nothing more than other links.
This is probably the most informative thing about link wheels I have found on the internet. I have been using online marketing for a long time now. And have always wondered about this type of marketing. Thanks Guys!
I've had good success with link wheels too - I would recommend just getting started and putting together 2-3 pages, then a few days later add another couple, then another couple, then start linking them together in a wheel - no strict formula, in terms of making it a "perfect circle", but I just count the overall links each one has (exact pattern doesn't matter, and even helps it look more natural perhaps, and as you grow it then the inner wheel will all have plenty of links to it eventually). After you have 6-8 sites in a rough wheel then I usually add an outer wheel - another larger wheel which links to itself, but also back into the main wheel (and also occasionally direct to my site(s) too), and then through occasional other article writing, blog commenting, spinning I will link to both wheels from various sources so in the end they aren't really wheels at all, but mini, random looking, "link cities" which look more natural, and have definitely given me both decent actual traffic, and better search rank.
Oh, and here is a picture of a link wheel that got me started, it also has the multi levels, but imo you can get creative, mis it up and make your own in the end anyway: http://lexorsoft.net/advancelinkwheel.jpg
for me its depends if the link pointing to your site is do follow and if the articles or content you publish are being approve.