Comments on: Link Wheels and Money Sites Explained

By: Lambert

Lambert — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:18:51 +0000

Linkwheel said: #1 – the purpose of the wheel is for faster indexing. (nothing else)

Does that mean I would be wasting my time to do this for my older site that is already index?

I was thinking about using it to rank better, but now I don’t know…

By: Henry Go

Henry Go — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:02:42 +0000

Hi there,.. Can you explain to me further about the role of RSS feeds in the linkwheel? Do we need to ping all of our sites everytime we update?

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Link Wheels and Sharing Google Waves — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:31:47 +0000

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By: Leonard Williams

Leonard Williams — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:53:53 +0000

Hi Michael, I’m new to SEO I didn’t quite understand this statement “#3 – another solid technique that I use personally is to deploy dozens of web 2.0 properties (with no interlinking) and then to send 1 high PR comment (for fast indexing).”

Could you go a little further in breaking it down for the newbies?

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:16:52 +0000

Great, glad to hear it. I am going to try it out as well, on one of my smaller niche projects to start. I’ll be sure to post a personal review once that’s complete.

By: Bulk Candy

Bulk Candy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:13 +0000

My big fear with outsourcing something like this is the quality of the work. I am hapy to report that I just spoke with Michael at Linkwheel.com and he pointed me to some samples of their writing and it passed my inspection. I will most likely be trying the service, as an addition to my own.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:00:29 +0000

That’s true if that’s all you’ve done, but if you have quality properties with a lot of variety to your link building – ie natural buzz – you wouldn’t have much to worry about.

It’s all in how it’s done – there’s definitely a right way and a wrong way.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:42:52 +0000

These are great for now. Once google and the other search engines update their algorithms, all this work (if you’re done it manually) and money will go to waste.

But it definitely can’t hurt in the meantime.

By: Link Wheel

Link Wheel — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:27:03 +0000

I wanted to stop back by because this discuss has been great.

Here are some things to keep in mind:

#1 – the purpose of the wheel is for faster indexing. (nothing else)

#2 – you can also obtain faster indexing by not interlinking your sites. (there is no SEO benefit in a particular inter linking strategy).

#3 – another solid technique that I use personally is to deploy dozens of web 2.0 properties (with no interlinking) and then to send 1 high PR comment (for fast indexing).

Remember dropping links and having links indexed are always 2 different things. What we want is to have relevant backlinks that get indexed faster.

SEO is not hard, its just a lot of work.

Cheers,
Michael

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:59:37 +0000

I wouldn’t get caught up in trendy words or definitions so much as I would concentrate on a solid marketing strategy. To answer your question, Article Marketing is not necessarily a part of a social media “linkwheel”, but it’s more in the intention than in the definition – if that makes sense.

Yes it’s safe to write good quality content, and submit it to article directories for syndication. That’s a great way for publishers to find your material and reprint it on their own sites or in their newsletters. The intent is good.

There’s nothing wrong with creating a Squidoo Lens on a micro topic that adds value to the Squidoo network. Just use the sites as they were intended to be used. Anything else is “social media spamming” and just junking up the web…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:03:53 +0000

Thanks Lynn.. That does help. I guess I just need to be careful and stop with the web 2.0 sites as a way of getting links and marketing my site.

Just one other thing, is a link wheel just using web 2.0 sites to link back to your main money site?

Is it safe to continually write articles and post them on article sites and create links to point back to your main money site? Is this Aldo considered a link wheel?

Thanks.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:08:09 +0000

Hi Brian,

My advice has always been to use social properties… as they were intended to be used. Social Bookmarking sites, for example, should be used to bookmark useful relevant content from a variety of sources. The same way you use your browser’s bookmarking feature, but as a way of sharing these with your network.

I know that a lot of people use social media sites as a big part of their marketing and/or link building strategy, but I don’t often use aggressive tactics on my primary sites – or my “money sites”. As I mentioned earlier in the comments here, a linkwheel is something I might test on a side project or on a “hot market/throwaway site”. Does that make sense?

Marketing is about getting in front of your target audience, and engaging them in your offer.

I have never ‘dugg’ my own content, I don’t own any squidoo lenses, Twitter & Facebook are about the only social properties I frequent… and I still enjoy great search engine traffic.

You can browse through the posts in my link building series to get an idea of my methods and how I get quality inbound links:

http://www.clicknewz.com/tag/link-building/

Hope that helps!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:16:36 +0000

Hey Lynn,

after reading this post i am a little concerned. I think i have been creating a link Wheel without even knowing what I was doing.

Question 1:

I have been taught through the 30DC and Michelle Macphearsons Crowd mountain course to put up articles on web 2.0 sites, and then put a link in the article back to your site….so i guess essentially this is a link wheel, is this correct?

Question 2:
I just don’t want to get penalized by Google….on each of the web 2.0 sites I have also used the exact same keyword phrase to link back to my main site….It’s only about 7 of these sites, so hopefully that’s o.k???

Question 3:
Is adding articles to article sites and creating a link to link back to your main site part of a link wheel?

Question 4:
I was also advised that we go to a site called Knowem.com which lists over 100 web 2.0 sites, then do a search to see which of these sites still have your main keyword phrase available to register. Then I was advised to put my main website link up on the profiles i have created to get more backlinks. Is this a good or bad strategy? Should i stay away from web 2.0 sites doing this?

Any advice would be great.

Cheers,
Brian

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:05:51 +0000

I’m finishing up the site now, that I’ll be using this for, so it’ll be a little ways out but I’ll be sure to post a full review

By: Loretta

Loretta — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:19:38 +0000

I’ve seen the link wheel technique mentioned in a few different places recently and while I found it interesting, I kept thinking it was heavy maintenance and somewhat confusing to work on long term. Nice to see that someone has organized a service to manage it all.

At first look I like that they are creating things manually and not blasting out automated fluff to the internet. I agree that hiring a VA to manage this for you would certainly cost more. I know I couldn’t compete with their price structure, that’s a lot of content creation and management going on behind the scenes.

Definitely looking forward to hearing about your results and thoughts on this service and linking style.