What is a Link Wheel?

Everyone already knows building backlinks is important.  If you want to take things to another level then you should consider using link wheels.  If you have never heard of the term, then keep reading to find out exactly what a link wheel is.

In order to create a link wheel, you will need to create an assortment of microsites and blogs.  For each site or blog you will create unique content and create two outbound links.  One link will point to your main website while the other will point to another blog or site you have created.

All of these links combined will form the link wheel.  This technique is particularly useful since the links you will be getting to your main website will actually have some value.  Each microsite or blog will help pass link value to other sites in the network.  There is also the benefit of not relying on reciprocal linking since each link is one-way.

You can use many different web 2.0 sites across the internet as part of your link wheel network.  These websites allow you to join for free and create content.  It is important for you to only join websites offering dofollow links though since it is important for all of your links to pass value to each other.

Forming a link wheel using these established web 2.0 sites is very beneficial.  These sites are crawled by search engine spiders constantly so your links will quickly be picked up and given credit.

You can also use simple article marketing as part of your link wheel network.  Whenever you create a new article you will be provided with a resource box which can contain two or three links.  Just like the other sites you can point these links to your main site and to other blogs you have created.

Link wheels are designed to help you increase your search engine rankings.  As expected, you will not see results overnight.  However, since you will be using established websites the sites you have just created may receive traffic which visits your links.  Therefore, you can see some immediate results from your link wheel.

The best thing about setting up a link wheel is it is absolutely free.  You will not need to pay a dime as long as you create all of the content yourself.  The main disadvantage of using this advanced SEO technique is they can require a great deal of time to implement.  You will find it is worthwhile however.