Linkwheels are not dead
Thought I would share my linkwheel rant from a while back.
There is no question that Google is taking into account linkwheel's and in many cases deeming them spam and punishing websites for using them. Still, linkwheel's are a viable and legitimate way to earn authority backlink's if done correctly. I think that Google has a problem with linkwheel's many times because the information offered on the wheel sites is garbage. More often than not, people go to web 2.0 sites and throw up a page full of junk, link back to their page and hope for some link juice. Panda has stopped that in its tracks but if you do linkwheel's right (which includes taking the wheel out of linkwheel's) you can be successful in driving PR, backlinks and traffic to your site without fear of a Google smackdown.
In my opinion, the key to successful link building is not making it look organic but making it organic.
1. Don't form a wheel, form a random shape with dead ends. Point a few of your web 2.0 sites to your main site then point a few more web 2.0 to the sites pointing to your website. Point a few more to each other and make sure a few are pointed to but point nowhere (confused). That is the point. Do not give Google a reason to smack you. Google can see linkwheel's and knows what you are trying to do. So, make it random. Random is organic, kind of.
2. Take the time to make your pages as high quality as your main website. If your site is for an affiliate program or a landing page, make your web 2.0 sites better than your main website. Google does not punish high quality, original content.
3. Do not create them all in one day. Space them out. Again, make it organic. Use different email addresses, ip's, whatever you want, but creating valuable, quality pages is the key to success.
4. Do not link them all to each other all at once either. Let them get a little age, drive some traffic to them first, then slowly begin to add in links.
The reality is that you cannot trick Google at the end of the day but if you offer them no reason to punish you, they probably will not. Remember, IM is a business and businesses take time to grow. Take it slow and steady and always offer value in whatever you do and you will succeed.
Just my opinion.
Phil
There is no question that Google is taking into account linkwheel's and in many cases deeming them spam and punishing websites for using them. Still, linkwheel's are a viable and legitimate way to earn authority backlink's if done correctly. I think that Google has a problem with linkwheel's many times because the information offered on the wheel sites is garbage. More often than not, people go to web 2.0 sites and throw up a page full of junk, link back to their page and hope for some link juice. Panda has stopped that in its tracks but if you do linkwheel's right (which includes taking the wheel out of linkwheel's) you can be successful in driving PR, backlinks and traffic to your site without fear of a Google smackdown.
In my opinion, the key to successful link building is not making it look organic but making it organic.
1. Don't form a wheel, form a random shape with dead ends. Point a few of your web 2.0 sites to your main site then point a few more web 2.0 to the sites pointing to your website. Point a few more to each other and make sure a few are pointed to but point nowhere (confused). That is the point. Do not give Google a reason to smack you. Google can see linkwheel's and knows what you are trying to do. So, make it random. Random is organic, kind of.
2. Take the time to make your pages as high quality as your main website. If your site is for an affiliate program or a landing page, make your web 2.0 sites better than your main website. Google does not punish high quality, original content.
3. Do not create them all in one day. Space them out. Again, make it organic. Use different email addresses, ip's, whatever you want, but creating valuable, quality pages is the key to success.
4. Do not link them all to each other all at once either. Let them get a little age, drive some traffic to them first, then slowly begin to add in links.
The reality is that you cannot trick Google at the end of the day but if you offer them no reason to punish you, they probably will not. Remember, IM is a business and businesses take time to grow. Take it slow and steady and always offer value in whatever you do and you will succeed.
Just my opinion.
Phil
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