How to Build a Link Wheel

Building a link wheel is one of the most innovative ways to get more traffic to your website or blog. While a link wheel is nothing new to the SEO or the article writing services world, it is still a very effective way to get web traffic. The basic concept relies on a series of websites and blog posts all leading back to your website or blog. In order to be effective, a link wheel must contain all original content. This means that you can’t use article spinners or article rewriters for your content. Here is a very easy to follow tutorial on building a link wheel and getting more web traffic organically.

Determine the websites that you want to post your articles on. You might want to consider opening Blogger, Wordpress, Squidoo, Hubpages and Instructables accounts. There are literally thousands of sites out there that you can link to your website, but these are some of the most crawled. You can link from Facebook and Linkedin if the content is appropriate. Setting up these accounts is not going to be easy so make sure that you set aside a lot of time for building your link wheels.

Creating the map is one of the most important parts of building your links. The map is basically your blueprint for building your wheel. Take all of the accounts that you signed up for determine how you are going to link them together. A couple of years ago it was common practice to link in a circle from Account 1 to 2 to 3 and so forth until you got to your real site. Now, it’s best practice to intertwine from Account 1 linking to 3 and 5, account 2 linking from 4 to 1, account 3 linking from 2 to 5 and so for. Once you have this map, you will be able to start posting.

Now you have to log into your accounts and start posting. Log into the accounts and start posting your articles one by one without the links applied to the posts. You will have to post the articles before you can get the URLs for the posts. As you post each article make sure that you are writing down the links to your posts. This list is going to come in handy when you start to create the links in your posts. If you don’t create the links you will have to go back and cut and copy all of the URLs from open windows on your browser.

Once all of the posts have been applied you need to start posting the links to the different URLs. This is where you link map will come in handy. Log into every account that you have made and apply the links from the link list that you created following the map. After you have posted all of the links you should see a spike in traffic within one to two weeks. It takes time for the search engines to see all of the links so be patient and create more link wheels while you’re waiting for the traffic to come in. 

Charles Dovbish is a freelance writer that specializes in Internet marketing and blogging.

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