Google Guidelines on Linkwheels?

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Have been doing a TON of research on this site the past two weeks, almost too much. Very addicting!

I am confident in the direction that I am going to go to start IMing and as a result have been doing a bit of research on linkwheels. From what I can gather they are a great way to go and provide a lot of traffic if set up correctly...

but why do I also read that they are "b.l.a.c.k.hat" (which I'm not really sure of the meaning yet but figure it's the opposite of whitehat, and also not sure why WF automatically changed that to bluefart) and frowned upon by Google? What does Google have against IMers strategically linking 2.0 sites together? And how exactly do they "punish" you if they stumble upon your linkwheel...?

Any other Google guidelines I should know about before I begin my journey?
#search engine optimization #google #guidelines #linkwheels
  • Let's take the easy one first...

    Black hat gets changed to 'bluefart' because we had a rash of people promoting that type of strategy. If you know it's black hat and understand the risks, that's one thing. If you promote that to newbies who could get accounts closed, etc., that's not cool.

    So the forum owner installed a filter which changes black-hat to 'bluefart' and gu-ru to 'goober'.

    Google doesn't care much one way or the other about "IMers". What they don't like is people trying to manipulate their search results, and linkwheels are one method of doing exactly that. In their way of thinking, building linkwheels for the sole purpose of boosting search ranking is in the same boat as keyword stuffing and using invisible text were in the olden days.

    They can, and sometimes do, "punish" you by simply removing your pages from their index. It's not personal.
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    • The biggest guideline seems to be to do things in a natural way. Avoid mechanical patterns, like putting up a page and then having a complete linkwheel or a thousand links show up a few hours later. Your link text should be a mixture of your url, 'click here' and a variety of related keywords. Having a thousand links, all with the anchor text 'bluefart goobers' is not natural.
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  • I like the idea of a link wheel. Nuke was going to make it easy to create one, but Google seems to know the pattern and now it needs to be randomized. There was a diagram out on how to do the new structure, but it is so complicated that I think the best way is to create little mini-wheels and interconnect those.
  • This is a very simple yet effective form of the link wheel, which has had tremendous successes for our clients.



    Regards, David Pagotto
  • It works if done manually but you must be very methodical...
    -separate c-class ip blocks
    - linking should be well over 40 deep without interlinking
    - research natural linking patterns with the serps for each niche, if your pattern is far off the existing link graph you are asking for serious problems.
    - If your new to this start with some non important sites of yours first to get your feet wet, if you are found out watch out.... It can often be as bad a penalty of offering paid links, etc
  • linkwheels, schminkwheels
    c-class IP's, schmee-classed by pee's.
  • why not just create the links to your website direct....... the amount of time it takes to build a linkwheel can't you just build more natural individual backlinks..?
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    Google Guidelines on Linkwheels?

    Have been doing a TON of research on this site the past two weeks, almost too much. Very addicting! I am confident in the direction that I am going to go to start IMing and as a result have been doing a bit of research on linkwheels. From what I can gather they are a great way to go and provide a lot of traffic if set up correctly...