Link wheels – which Web 2.0 properties do I use?

In my previous post on Link Wheels I gave an overview of how to set up a link wheel, but without providing a list of Web 2.0 properties you can use or how I go about it.

So here is a list of Web 2.0 properties to get you started, but you can also use anything else such as WordPress MU blogs.

Just a work of warning – some of your spokes will be deleted by the site administrators. When that happens simply use the content on a different Web 2.0 property and make sure the link wheel remains intact.

To start your first link wheel you first need to decide whether the link wheel will link directly to a page on your website, or to another Web 2.0 property which will act as a buffer – typically hosted on a Squidoo lens, Hubpages or Blogger.

Once you’ve made that decision you need to write some content related the page you want to promote and decide how many “spokes” your link wheel is going to consist of. You can simply add that content to each spoke in the link wheel, write slightly different content for each, or spin the article to create unique content.

Now you simply pick a Web 2.0 property at random, add the content and include a link to the page you are promoting, and use a social bookmarking tool such as Traffic Bug to make sure the search engine find your content – see the first article in the link wheel series for more details.

Next, pick another Web 2.0 property; add content; add one link to the page you are promoting; add a second link to your previous spoke; add to Traffic Bug.

Rinse and repeat so you have 4 to 7 spokes in your link wheel, then edit the first Web 2.0 property and add a link to the last so that the wheel is completed and Pagerank spread evenly though the wheel.

The process is relatively straightforward to outsource and can be done much cheaper than the link wheel services being currently advertised.

If you’d like a link wheel to be created for you check out my new link wheel creation service.

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This post was written by David