Are Link Wheels Dead???

thankyou my friend,whats up buddy

This question has come up about 17,091 over the past 6 or so months (I have kept a close count).

You are really not going to find a definite reliable answer regarding this topic because everyone has a different opinion about it based off their own observations and results.

I would suggest you simply go the route of trying a strategy out on your own. Link wheels are fantastic because you can customize them in so many different ways; try playing around with a relatively simple pattern to begin with, and see where it leads.

I did this with 3 micro niche sites that I had that I wanted to move up a few rankings on the first page of the search results. I am not going to reveal the results till it has been a few months and my sites have settled to their "natural" ranking. But I will tell you I do not believe it has been a waste of time as of yet.

One thing I do recommend, however is to build a few smaller wheels in place of one larger wheel, and make sure each wheel is different in it's own aspect.

Warriors,

I build link wheels using something different than your standard "A points to B, B points to C, C points to D, and D points back to A, with all of the link wheels pointing to the site."

Also when it comes to building backlinks, I am extremely paranoid to point backlinks directly to my website. That's where link wheels come in handy too because I point all backlinks to the each part of the link wheel, which then most of the link wheels point back to my website.

Link wheels take a little longer to rank than they use to, but I assure you that they still work...

This is always an interesting discussion. I've read and asked questions about link wheels and have yet to read any sort of explanation that gives factual information about why a linkwheel is effective. All accounts, including the "Lemonarian" site seem to be fluff and hype. People may very well have noticed better rankings or traffic after building one, but until they can explain with facts and evidence why the wheel produced those results I consider the results nothing more than anecdotal.

The backlink from a high-PR web 2.0 site makes sense, but the idea of connecting A to B, B to C, C to D and D back to A makes no sense whatsoever to me. How does that provide any type of SEO benefit?

Interlinking your own sites, means YOUR own sites, not your web 2.0 properties

And as far as linkwheels go, from what I heard, you should never close the wheel, mix up the way the properties are linked, randomly link to other relevant sites like Wikipedia, or about.com, and social bookmark, ping, and RSS submit everything. Oh and it's best to do this all on sep IP's.

IMO it's best to outsource all of this, and save your self a crap load of time