How to Build a Link Wheel of Sites
Webmasters who want to drive traffic to their websites have many options available. One such option is to build a link wheel. The wheel consists of a series of websites that link to your main website and to each other. The links are not reciprocal. Rather than each site linking back and forth, the link only goes in one direction. For example, many websites in your wheel link to your main website, but your main website doesn’t link back to any of them.
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Create the main page on your website. This is known as the hub page and is the page you want to rank high in Google to draw traffic.
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Write six or more unique articles targeting the same keywords as your main page. Make each article 300 to 600 words in length. Focus on two or three related keywords rather than just one.
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Use article-spinning software if you don’t want to write several articles. The software takes one article and creates several different versions of it. If you go this route, read over the spun articles to be sure each is unique enough. Google will penalize your sites if they contain duplicate content.
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Submit the articles to various websites such as Ezine Articles, Info Barrel, Squidoo, Google Knol, Articles Base and Hub Pages. Post articles on related websites and blogs you own.
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Link five of the articles to your main page and link all six articles to one of the other articles. For example, link article one to the main page and to article two. Link article two to the main page and to article three. Link article three to the main page and to article four. Link article four to article five but not to the main page. In this way, you create an open wheel that prevents Google from penalizing you for manipulating links. Link article five to the main site and to article six, and link article six to the main site and to article one.
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Link other article directories, social bookmarking sites and social media sites to the pages where your articles reside. These are called indirect backlinks because they don’t link directly to your hub page. This creates a more complex link wheel and draws more traffic.
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