Using Link Wheels For A Greater Boost
Link wheels are not a new concept. The idea has been around in one form or another for many years. In fact, It was Michael Campbell from Canada, a well known SEO expert, who first mooted the idea of what is essentially link wheels with his mininets. These are simply small niche web sites arranged in a certain pattern, linking to one another and all linking to a main central web site. The small satellite sites act as a powerful funnel for traffic to the main site.
Link wheels work in much the same way, but they make use of free to use social media sites instead. This has several advantages in that the social media sites used usually have a high page rank number. This can give the site you create a natural boost right out of the gate. Also, because the use of social media sites is free and they are easy to set up, anyone can do it. Setting up several quality link wheels every week would be easy to do.
You can have as many individual sites as you like in link wheels, but around five or six is a good number. The social media sites to use are the ones that allow you to create your own blog or page where you can publish your own article. You also should only use social media sites that allow “dofollow” links to get the most value out of the back links you will create.
Using articles for link wheels
Let’s suppose that your link wheels will have six social media sites each. They could be sites created from the likes of Squidoo, Blogger, WordPress, HubPages, etc. We do not use social media bookmarking sites like Digg or Mixx. You will need to write an article for each of the six social media sites you use. The articles should be about the topic you are targeting, of course, and each social media site should link to one other until they are all linked together in a wheel fashion.
Each of the sites should also link back to the web site you are promoting. This should be your own site, but it can be a merchant site you are promoting. However, if you are promoting a merchant site to collect a commission on each sale, you should check with them if this is allowed under their terms and condition for affiliates.
That’s really all there is to it. If you use carefully chosen keywords for each social media site as its main keyword phrase and you write good compelling articles, linking everything properly, all you have to do is sit back and wait for the results. Of course, you can create as many link wheels as you like.
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