SEO Forum - LINK WHEELS: Which 10 Web2.0 Properties Should I Use To Make An Effective Link Wheel??

I've only used Squidoo, Hubpages, and another site I can't think of the name right now... 5 Squid Lenses, 5 Hubpages, and a page from whatever that site was. I did this about 2 months ago and I didn't think it was working, but yesterday actually I took a look at 2 terms I was trying to rank for and wham... I'm on the #2 spot for both terms.

These aren't highly searched terms though... They have a low search volume but the keywords themselves are what I call "Buyer Keywords." They're keywords that a buyer is more likely to type in.

So... This strategy at least worked with Squidoo, Hubpages, and some other random Web 2.0 property.

BTW, I also blasted 11 articles that linked to the Web 2.0 sites AND bookmarked both the articles and Web 2.0 pages. Apparently that's what Google likes right now...

Your Website < Web 2.0 Links Pointing In < Articles Pointing to Web 2.0 pages < bookmark all

I try to have at least two of the bigger ones (HubPages, Squidoo, Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr) then I fill in the rest with random properties. I have a big list of 2.0 properties for those who need them.

Hi Kate!

The ones I use are Blogsome, Xanga, Slideshare, tumblr, livejournal, wordpress.com, wetpaint, blogger, scribd and vox. These are the best for me, especially scribed and slideshare are Google's favorites right now (from what I have experienced from building the linkwheels).

Currently I use this "linkwheel" (it's not a typical linkwheel), but it has proven to work great for me:

Ursa,

That's a pretty impressive link wheel.

Just two questions:

1. how long did it take you to create?
2. how much traffic is your main site getting?

And thanks so much for taking the time to submit the image. I love visuals. Much easier to grasp the concepts.

KateD

Anoter question Ursa,

I noticed that beside the web2.0 properties, you have noted "article 1", "article 2", etc.

Are these articles on the web2.0 property, or articles submitted to article directories in order to promote the web2.0 property?

KateD

Wow i like your picture.
Im going to mail that guy who is offering web2.0 properties hope yous end me list, thanks.

Wow you guys put a lot of work into this stuff.

Ever consider article marketing?

1 good article could give you hundreds, even thousands of backlinks
over time.

- John

Depends on my strategy, I only spin article for 2 reasons, backlinks and multiple listing...

Adding more content to your web 2 properties will help to keep it fresh, and the best way is get topic related rss feeds...

- Kok Choon

question,
when making a linkwheel around an ezine article for example, do you have to make new web 2.0 properties linking to that article?

Well Kate, I am using very few sites, such as hubpages, blogger.com, squidoo and EZA. With that combination, I used to do some social bookmarks too.

However, I heard that there are risks on doing link wheel, Anyone had heard of that?

Ursa,

What criteria do you use to determine which web2.0 sites to use?

And just one more question (I promise). Of the ten web2.0 sites that you use, which are the best 6 of them?

KateD

P.S. I really do appreciate the knowledge you are sharing.

Hi,

I have a question about do-follow and no-follow. Are we suppose to be concern about the fact that there is no link juice being pass around using no-follow web 2.0 properties?

Or does it still rank if we interlink our web 2.0 properties together?

The reason I ask is, I had tried building linkwheel and sometimes squidoo rank (an inbound link from hub which is a no-follow web 2.0) sometimes not. These linkwheel I make is of the same niche but different keywords.

So what do you guys think of it?

Thank in advance.

Hi Ursa,

Can you please explain the lower right hand of the diagram? What do you mean by social bookmarking block, social bookmark sites (200-300) linking to yoru site?
And what about profiles on PR sites in Google? Sites where you can create profiles, and just place links to your main site in the profile created for each?

Thanks for the info!

UPDATE:

So the other night and went ahead and stayed up until about 4:30am creating my first link wheel to promote a new niche blog I started.

Here are the specifics:

1. I used seven web2.0 sites for my link wheel. They are:

- Squidoo
- Hubpages
- Blogger
- Weebly
- Blogsome
- Tumblr
- Vox

Now, I really didn't want to use Squidoo, but a few of the possible web2.0 sites I was going to use seemed overcomplicated to set up, so I stuck with mostly websites that I'm familiar with.

2. I used 7 original articles. Now, I know that a lot of people would have used just one original article and spun the remaining six from it.

And although I really wanted to do that (to save a TON of time), I didn't because of this thought. If I'm linking these spun articles to each other, wouldn't it be held against me (in terms of SEO), to have them so similar to one another?

So I toughed it out and wrote 7 original articles. But, I wrote these articles around the same keyword phrase.

3. I linked the 7 web2.0 sites in a big circle. Some people don't close the loop. so to speak, but I did.

4. On each web2.0 property, I linked back to my blog homepage, and then to an individual post inside of my blog. I did both these types of links as anchor text links within my articles. Very nice job of it if I do say so myself.

5. Another thing that I did was add three links on each web2.0 property back to 3 articles that I have on Ezinearticles.com. My thinking was that I was trying to give them additional backlinks using the link wheel (and therefore - hopefully - having them rise in the SERPS).

6. To keep things simple, I started a new email address of this link wheel. The next link wheel I created, I will use a new email again, even when promoting this same niche blog.

7. I also took the 7 web2.0 links and pinged them with pingler.com and pingomatic.com. i tried doing the same for the RSS feeds, but I was way too tired to find the RSS feeds for all 7 web2.0 sites.


Now, it's only been a few days since I completed the link wheel and have seen no effects from it. I also have done nothing to promote it...yet.

My goal is to submit articles to promote each property in the link wheel at least once.

So what do you guys think of my my first link wheel? Good or no?

What should I do to improve it?

I'd love to hear your opinions!

KateD

Thanks for all the great info. I have been looking into diving into the link wheel circus lately.

Makes more sense now.

Guys, the only difference between a normal mini-farm linking strategy and linkwheels seems to be the fact that they link to each other. If you did not bother linking them in a "wheel" would it have any less effect? Just curios if anyone has seen anything results wise or if this is bascially a concept people are assuming must speed things up?

wow Ursa I like your link wheel strategy, very detailed thanks for sharing it. I guess using it as template is one thing but I dont like to replicate the model over & over as Google can simply modify the algorithm and if it effects one then it effects all.

Nice work though.

Wow, I was feeling good about myself and the 9 wheels I've set up until I read this thread. Now I can see at least one major mistake i've made.

First of, my contribution. I make wheels that consist of six spokes/sites. Those sites are
livejournal
easyjournal
blogger
blogsome
squidoo
vox

When the wheel has been completed and tested, I use pingomatic.

I've been using one article 6 times in each wheel which is (from reading this thread) a mistake.

Have to work on refining my system.

Silly question but one I just want to be absolutely clear on;

You link all your articles and properties to the next by not using the same keywords

However...

With all the sites you use to link to your main/money site do you point everything to your homepage or do you point any of these web 2.0 properties and articles to any other pages on your main site depending on what keywords your targeting?

Hey, not sure if this thread is still goin, but I really like it. I've been trying some linkwheels and have actually made two, but I just did them as an actual wheel.

Ursa, your pic is awesome! I'm going to try something similar to that. Had a question though. The high PR sites pointing to goarticles... what are those? And are the 100 authority high PR sites kind of like Angela's backlinks?

Some "SEO Gurus" are saying that Linkwheels leave a huge footprint that Google will detect and then slap your moneysite. Is that true?

Hey Ursa, I really like that link wheel image. I was wondering though if you renew that process (partly) for your other blogs. For example you have your blogs pointing to each other and your money site, do you then start doing social bookmarking for THOSE blogs?

THanks
ASCW

Hello Kate,

Here are a few things to remember when creating your linkwheel.

- It is much more beneficial to use Article Submissions and Blog Posts as well as Web 2.0 sites.

- Make sure to create at least 1 break or gap.

Here is an image of our newest strategy which has been proving great results for our customers:



Feel free to ask if you need any further advice,

Regards, David Pagotto

I have found this plan on another WF member. What's your opinion?

I bought Ursa's linkwheel 5 months ago. Don't waste your money! It had no impact on my SERPs. Linkwheels are no different than regular links. It's just all hype.

I also built a few linkwheels. Nothing magical happened with Google...just a few extra links that take a while to get indexed.

i have been using everything on SENuke right now and am loving it. not sure about what is best or not but SENukes list of sites on their website would do just fine

You could use informationjunkie.net, they love IM blogs....

That is an excellent model to follow. It pretty much spells out a way to do it, and I thank you very much for spilling your "secret recipe for success" so generously, Ursa.

I'm still pretty new to all this though and have a question--Do you create a blog/account/whatever on each of those sites and set the links up with them that way, or do you utilise comment fields in others' blogs/sites on there, or both?

This is an excellent thread that I have come across. I have been using link wheel from few months but have got very little success with it. I used to create a wheel with 6 spokes or web 2.0 properties and after creating a wheel I always used to ping and social bookmark it but I have seen approx zero result of it.
* I tried with both open as well as closed wheel

I just see linkwheels as a good way to build backlinks and get your money site some love, and it naturally makes sense to me.

I would think what you do on the backend to those web 2.0 sites is what determines the success of the linkwheel i.e linking to it, social bookmarking and pinging them.

That said, had anybody worked with any good software that can help build linkwheels? The only I found so far is Daniel Tan's Web Link Robot

@Ursa - Your link wheel seems to be quite confusing for me. I can understand the left spokes but unable to understand the concept of those high PR sites. Could you please explain what are these sites actually??

Is there any service or software you can use to post your articles to linkwheels.

Thanks everyone here on the thread. This has been enlighten me on how the link wheel works. I now understand that it can be a tedious thing to do but I think it is worth the time and effort you put in order to rank high on Big G.

Thanks again,
Oling

So can I use the same web 2.0 sites for promoting multiple niches. Is their a disadvantage to this?

Hey..
Is there any link wheel provider there?? I just need to see a sample report of any of your service then I'll check what the heck I'm doing wrong in my link wheel..

Help will be appreciated..

Here is a collection of the 10 web 2.0 sites we are using. We have a total of 35 web 2.0 sites in our arsenal, but from all of the work we're doing on Web 2.0 sites, the quality has been getting worse and worse. So many automated services are creating link wheels that most web 2.0 sites are banning or spamming legitimate articles so you have to constantly scour the Net looking for new web 2.0 sites that pop up:

Beep.com - Create your own FREE website!
Zoomshare - Make a free website, free home page, online photo album, free blog, free e-mail, free hosting
Create a free website with 350pages website builder
BlinkWeb - Free Internet Marketing Website or Blog!
Blurty - free online journals and communities for adults.
DevHub &bull; Free Website Builder: Turn your passion into a business
http://easyjournal.com
LiveJournal.com - Start a Free Blog / Journal Today
Webs - Make a free website, get free hosting
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

im having a hard time to get dofollow backlinks from the following

squidoo
vox
tumblr
quizilla
blogspot
weebly

any tips, tricks, or instructions to get dofollow backlinks from these domains? because im only seeing nofollows.

Thanks

Very useful thread and i really liked the link wheel image..thanks

Great commentary here. I use:
Squidoo
Blogger
VOX
HubPages
WetPaint
Wikidot

As well as some others I have a list of over 50 web 2.0 properties.

And you should bookmark your money site and all of the sites and articles in your wheel.

I also do link wheels for others because it can be time consuming check my signature below and feel free to contact me for info.

Yes, if only I could imagine ...

Thank God for bumping into this thread.I have learnt so much from all the pages of this tread.Thanks to all for this great thread.

Do link wheels still work and is it a valid strategy to pursue?

I appreciate the link wheel mode. I probably can outsource it, and get it done less than a month. Thanks a lot!

One good way of interlinking the links in the wheel is having no link wheel link to the same link, or else it ends the wheel

wow i made a linkwheel last night. thought i worked so hard on it until i saw the HUGE linkwheel you make ursa. I will for sure try to do this for my site. one question though just want to be sure. the quality of the articles we put in web 2.0 properties dont have to be super good right? as long as the anchor text is ok were good. i know the article cant be garbage either.

Link wheels are still working but if you have provide good contents and done some good onpage SEO within those contents.

seems like lately more people are doing link pushes / pyramids instead of linkwheels or at least not close loop link wheels.

I use 32 web 2.0, Best 10 are...

wow this thread started in 2009 and people are still bringing it back from the dead??
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wait!! I've just done it too

That picture was in 2009 and the only real difference in 2011 is not interlinking the "spokes".

Sohel, what are the other 22?