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Question about link wheels

by jcpeden
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I've had some success with Squidoo lenses and articles linking to my sites but this is the first time I've actually read up at length about a solid SEO strategy and tried to put it into play after using Market Samurai to identify my niche.

I identified about 12 long-tail keywords and wrote an article for each of them which I published on my site. I then completely rewrote each article and had planned to publish all 12 in 3 article directories when I discovered an article on building a linkwheel

It wasn't something I'd come across before so I used all 12 of my articles instead of the recommended 7 in the post I'd found. My question is, can I reuse all the articles to build a stronger link wheel? At present, each directory has only one article published. Can I publish all 12 but change the link structure for maximum effect?

Any further information on linkwheels would be greatly appreciated.
#link #question #wheels
  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    I have a 4 foot by 4 foot dry erase board I use with my link wheel strategy. I suggest spinning the articles, if you have 12, you should probably write 12 more and spin them ALL. I do more of a link push than anything, but you should probably mix it up, spin the 24 articles, about 5 times each.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
    That's going to depend on the policies of the individual article directories. I wouldn't get too concerned about tricky stuff like link wheels. You can use your existing articles and just send other links to them to give them a little extra worth.

    Google stops the supposed postive effect of a link wheel by adding in a decay rate for the link juice - putting your links in a circle doesn't give it the theoretical infinite loop many believe. All it does is create a footprint of your sites.

    Spend some time backlinking your articles but if your primary focus is to rank your own site then place the most time on promoting it.
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    • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
      Originally Posted by Fraggler View Post

      That's going to depend on the policies of the individual article directories. I wouldn't get too concerned about tricky stuff like link wheels. You can use your existing articles and just send other links to them to give them a little extra worth.

      Google stops the supposed postive effect of a link wheel by adding in a decay rate for the link juice - putting your links in a circle doesn't give it the theoretical infinite loop many believe. All it does is create a footprint of your sites.

      Spend some time backlinking your articles but if your primary focus is to rank your own site then place the most time on promoting it.
      A linkwheel of bottom tier sites, integrating into a multiple layer linkpush, is basically infallible.
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    Infallible by whom?

    There are some pretty strong sites on the web that don't rely on unproven theories such as link wheels and micro-networks.

    If Google is using any of the Hilltop Algorithm then they are very aware of assosciated sites and the value of their recommendations.

    Link wheels are great in theory but the time could be better used elsewhere - imho.
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    • Profile picture of the author jcpeden
      Thanks for the input folks, I wrote the 12 articles, published them on my site and then rewrote them to generate another 12 for article marketing/link wheels.

      Still can't post links at this point in time but basically the tutorial I followed suggested not creating an infinite loop link wheel with 6 articles. I've created a broken loop with 12 so it should be interesting to see what (if any) traffic it generates.

      While I'm waiting for some of the articles to be approved, I'm using Travis Petelle's 28-day wash-rinse-repeat traffic strategy. Again, I'm curious to see how it performs. The terms I've gone for are fairly low competition volume and strength.

      From my limited knowledge of linkbuilding and web marketing, link wheels and link pyramids seem to be a fairly tricky method of getting traffic that I'm sure a lot of newbies get attracted to but don't really understand and end up wasting a lot of time.

      Although about 50% of people on here seem to disagree, the method of generating fewer, high-quality links from topic-related sites seems to deliver the best results. Sadly, its easy to say that and pretty difficult to actually build an action plan from it.

      For now, I'm sticking to Travis' method and my simple linkwheel. I'll see what I get in return!
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      • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
        Originally Posted by jcpeden View Post

        Thanks for the input folks, I wrote the 12 articles, published them on my site and then rewrote them to generate another 12 for article marketing/link wheels.

        Still can't post links at this point in time but basically the tutorial I followed suggested not creating an infinite loop link wheel with 6 articles. I've created a broken loop with 12 so it should be interesting to see what (if any) traffic it generates.

        While I'm waiting for some of the articles to be approved, I'm using Travis Petelle's 28-day wash-rinse-repeat traffic strategy. Again, I'm curious to see how it performs. The terms I've gone for are fairly low competition volume and strength.

        From my limited knowledge of linkbuilding and web marketing, link wheels and link pyramids seem to be a fairly tricky method of getting traffic that I'm sure a lot of newbies get attracted to but don't really understand and end up wasting a lot of time.

        Although about 50% of people on here seem to disagree, the method of generating fewer, high-quality links from topic-related sites seems to deliver the best results. Sadly, its easy to say that and pretty difficult to actually build an action plan from it.

        For now, I'm sticking to Travis' method and my simple linkwheel. I'll see what I get in return!
        A simple linkwheel won't work like it used to. That is why link pushing is more viable. Link pushing there is no foot print. I use 3 layers basically.

        You have your main site.... The first layer, is web 2.0 sites, high authority(not article directories). I include a couple doc sharing sites in this layer as well. They all link to the main site without interlinking to each other. I create a couple bookmarking accounts, mainly focusing on digg and reddit for this, and bookmark those web 2.0 site.

        The second layer, I have other web 2.0 sites, that are linking to the first layer. A 3 to 1 ratio. I only include maybe 3 out of the 30 or so sites, as articles from directories.

        The bottom layer, is almost all article directories and microblogs, pointing to the second layer. I once again use a 3:1 ratio on this. The next step, I use social bookmarking to distribute bookmarks to all of the articles on the bottom layer. I distribute through stumbleupon, digg, del.i.cious, technorati, and reddit. Not all of them under the same account.

        It takes a lot of work, you aren't interlinking ANY of these sites, they are all one way links, and the power generated, is very... powerful lol.
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    • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
      Originally Posted by Fraggler View Post

      Infallible by whom?

      There are some pretty strong sites on the web that don't rely on unproven theories such as link wheels and micro-networks.

      If Google is using any of the Hilltop Algorithm then they are very aware of assosciated sites and the value of their recommendations.

      Link wheels are great in theory but the time could be better used elsewhere - imho.
      Infallible meaning it has yet to NOT work on any sites I have applied the strategy on. You can view my other post with an attachment that diagrams this. Link pushing is something that is used for a LOT of very strong sites.
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