The Original Link Wheel
Here is the original design of link wheels. It was one of the most creative uses of web 2.0 properties. Here is the concept: 6 independent web 2.0 sites, all with high Page Rank values, create a link to your site. And each of the “spokes” create a link to it’s neighbor – forming the wheel. The reason for the link to the next web 2.0 property is to increase the link juice going to each spoke – which, in turn goes back to your site. The “hub” is any page on your website. On each of the 6 sites on the outer wheel we add content optimized around a single theme – a single keyword phrase.
The Evolution of link Wheels
This is the evolution of the link wheel. First an article is created and is posted to Ezinearticles.com or to some web 2.0 property – and the article points to your web site. Then two mini wheels, left and right are created – pointing to the article site – in the configuration shown below. Note that only 3 of the 4 point to the article site (creating less of a footprint).
As it is, the setup is powerful but to add even more link juice – drive as many backlinks as you can through social bookmarking or any other process to (a) The article site and (b) each of the web 2.0 properties.
Steps of Creating a Link Wheel.
Step 1
Write a Squidoo lens about your website topic. Then put a link in your Squidoo lens back to your website. You can open an account at Squidoo by clicking on the link in the resources section of this article.
Step 2
Write an article about your topic and submit it to any of the online article directories. You can use GoArticles or Ezinearticles or any of the other many article directories online. Include a link back to your Squidoo lens in your article or resource box.
Step 3
Create a Hubpage about your topic and link it back to the article that you wrote in step 2. You can open a Hubpages account by clicking on the link in the resources section.
Step 4
Create a Google Knol about your topic and include a link back to your Hubpage.
Step 5
Make a one page Blogger blog and link it back to your Google Knol. You can actually use the same Blogger blog to place links for many different link wheels.
Step 6
At this point you can either choose to leave the wheel as it is, and leave it “open” or you can close the wheel by linking your website back to your Blogger blog. Either way, you will see your website rise in the search engines over the next week or two.