Link Wheels
A rather complex looking Link Wheel
This month I have been mainly focussing on looking at new ways to get links for my sites.
I’ve tried a few things including social bookmarking, article submission, blog comments, forum profiles to name but a few. Now I am having a look at link wheels (to find out more click here).
Bascialy you buld some Web 2.0 sites like WordPress.com, blogger etc then link each one to one other site to make a wheel. You also put a link on each of them to your money site. I think you link them in a loop to share the link juice or something then give each one a link to you main site to get your money site a few backlinks and also pass on some of the link love. Then if you chose you can blast each of the sites with some backlinks from other sites like forum profiles or blog comments.
To get going I’ve had a few made for me so I can see what they look like. I submitted spun articles to use as my content so each site or spoke of the wheel has unique content.
So far I have got a few simple link wheels going that consist of no more than 10 sites but some people are making wheels with 100s of spokes that all link in some way.
I guess the more elaborate the link wheel is the better it will serve you. Being able to add more content to the spokes of the wheel over time will probably help too.
This is where it starts to hurt my head! With so many sites, building quality link wheels isn’t really an option unless you can find some decent workers. Even then it will end up costing a fair bit and be hard to manage as there will be so many of them.
Its times like this I wish I just had five or so solid sites that I could really focus on. If I had five sites that were making £200 each per month I could really get down to work on them. I could spend a whole week on a site, adding content, building links etc then the next week work on another, working through them one by one.
One site making £200 per month doesn’t sound like much does it? But at the moment it is beyond my abilities and I can’t afford to take my eye off all my other sites to focus on just five that may or may not reach the £200 threshold. It feels like spinning plates sometimes, as I get one going good another few crash to the ground!
Joe,
very few “link wheels” work these days, and people who know how to creates successful ones will never blog/talk about it..After all some idiot once did it with web 2.0 and every man and his monkey are offerings services which are link wheels but hardly any of them yield results.
As you are rightly finding out, creating these is a lot more hard work.and creating one good proper link can take you anything up to 20 hours..
They are of course not the only way to get links….you have to keep trying different things, no one type of link will every be successful.
I’ve seen a few similar things being offered across the net – some ranging from small 5 spoke wheels through to massive multi level pyramids and have used a few (with various results) myself.
As Mansoor said, there is no magic link or silver bullet that will shoot you to number one. I personally have found that using a mixture of link types, over a longer period of time – including the odd link to other links (ie I have some articles which link to other articles, and some profile links which link to social bookmarking sites etc).
Im constantly trying new things on different sites – I have one site which I have been using purely to test scapebox spamming on. I’ve not bothered using scrapebox how I would normally – I’ve just blasted loads and loads of links at it to see what will happen. I have other sites which I have tried building a handful of links to and then backlinking the hell out of those links etc (in a kind of pyramid style).
Its just trial and error. Domain names are cheap enough – get a couple of domains and try out different techniques on them. If they get blackholed then just let them drop – if they dont – stick adwords/affiliate links on them or sell the domain.
Do you use separate hosting for the sites you test things out on?
Nope – all on the same hosting. You cant control what all the other hundreds/thousands of users do on the same server, so I personally dont think it has any effect. It hasnt harmed the rankings of any of my sites (or sites I have on another account with the same host).
To be honest with you – I have only had one site “banished” and Im still hopefull it will come back.
True, when I look at my sites there are apparently over 250 other sites hosted on the same IP at my host, only a few of these are mine. Hopefully we won’t get penalised for what the owners of the other sites are doing.