LinkWheel methodology

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Thought you would be interested in this email I received this morning from Linus, the author of "the lemonarian Project One Hundred - Linkwheel".
Since I discovered the LinkWheel methodology back in February 2009, a lot has changed.

It's not nearly as effective. When I released the report, it quickly became viral and everyone and their grandmother was doing LinkWheels left and right... a lot of people made money.

Now, it seems Google's caught on.

So I recommend you STOP doing perfect wheels and start mixing it up.

The real power comes from interlinking the web properties. There's nothing magical about the "wheel" structure. That's really just a name.

The power, as I said, is in interlinking them.

So mix it up as much as you can at all times.

Remember not to do reciprocal links.

In closing, here's an example of how you could "mix it up":

<< CLICK - PICTURE HERE >>


Also notice that I never "close" a wheel.

And oh, if you blatantly copy that... well that might not be the best idea, since a couple thousand other people is getting this email.

MIX IT UP!

The principle is still valid, just try to leave as little footprints as possible.

#linkwheel #methodology
  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    This is just common sense.

    It's how linking has always been - you don't need anything complicated - it's easy to get links from enough high PR sites for any site to get decent traffic.

    Most people won't follow that diagram anyway because it's too much hassle - most people are really lazy when it comes to linking. But that's fine because you can be lazy and still do really well.

    I've created many reports and diagrams on this subject over the years, and whenever I think I should update them because of new web properties etc.. I change my mind because it's really still fundamentally the same thing Google looks for now as 5 years ago, and you can get that without anything complicated.

    5 or 6 press releases 10-15 articles, a blog and a few web 2.0 properties and you'll make money in any niche.

    The problem most people have is sticking to a plan, they do a little bit of link building here and there and then if they don't see immediate results, they start doing something else.

    Constantly giving people 'new' methods for building links and interlinking just confuses the issue for most of them.

    You'll get people now seeing that diagram and thinking they need to do that,but they won't do it fully or effectively and in a few months, someone will sell them 'the latest' way and they'll continue on that merry go round.

    I know why some people do it, but linking is pretty simple and can remain that way for 99% to start getting results using methods that don't change every few months.

    Trying to keep ahead of Google is great if you've got nothing but time on your hands, but it's not a great way for most normal people to build their businesses.

    It is tempting to answer the constant calls of 'how do I get traffic', even when you've answered it 100 times already, and you know they'll pay for the answer again and again, so I don't imagine it's something that will stop.

    As long as people will pay for an answer - there'll be people changing the answer and selling it to them.

    Andy
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    • Profile picture of the author Radix
      Even when I tried really, really hard, my wheels always end up like that anyway.
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      • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
        I agree absolutely. I downloaded Linus's ebook a while ago purely out of curiosity, hence I'm on his mailing list. Just thought his current conclusion on linkwheels might be of interest to Warriors ;-)
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        • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
          Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

          I agree absolutely. I downloaded Linus's ebook a while ago purely out of curiosity, hence I'm on his mailing list. Just thought his current conclusion on linkwheels might be of interest to Warriors ;-)
          You're to do it - I'm sure it will be.

          The strategy itself is several years old, I think I covered here first in about 2005, but these things get re-invented on a regular basis for various reasons.

          The main take-away is that you need to focus on what is valuable to your business (go for high PR, varied IP links, the more relevant the better).

          I know that some people will tell you that it doesn't matter if your links are from related pages/sites or not - and right now that may even be correct to some extent, but it's common sense that eventually the SEs will focus in a little more and stop people using irrelevant links, so it makes sense to start from that perspective.

          It may mean a little extra focus when looking for good link sources but there are so many that it shouldn't be a big problem and you get to sleep well when Google slaps the people they're targeting for link spam.

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  • Profile picture of the author JMartin
    Yeah, I was going to say: LinkWheel new in 2009? Before that people even called em wheels because of the spokes.

    Odd.

    Anyway, the problem as was pointed out is perfection, like having your KWP be your anchor link text 100% of the time. Ummmm.

    Given the amount of computing power being G, I'm pretty sure they are very good at sniffing out certain patterns, especially when those patterns are near perfect and the same over and over.
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