@mohamedshajid Excellent guide! Keep the work up

Personally I think link wheels are a waste of time - Ezine, Articlebase, Article snatch, Self growth and the rest have become worthless for SEO.
BTW – I wasted $3000 with an SEO company who did this. It did no increase my traffic 1% in 90 days 

I agree with @Mitch-Rezman and @Adam-Connell Besides, when you close the wheel, doesn’t Google see this as Black Hat SEO?  

Anyway, it’s too much work just to be blacklisted or sandboxed.  You have to make the links look natural and organic.  

I still use web 2.0 tools to build links to my blog, but not in the link wheel way.  I will take the articles and almost close the wheel on web 2.0 and have one of the sites pointing back to mine. But don’t use your link in every web 2.0 property.

Whooooooa… Let’s turn this thang upside down a minute… and look at it another way…

I think people get very confused in the midst of so many changes. And all the objections raised may be legitimate, but only if you’re depending on Google for traffic. Your real goal should be to get rid of Google as a traffic source. Period. Then you are free to gain your viewers in the manner which best serves your own site.

What works for YOUR site is what works. Link wheels are not inherently “black hat,” if they lead potential leaders to something they enjoy, spend half an hour reading, and return often. How is that black hat?

Plus, link wheels STILL work for ranking videos… in exactly the manner in which the above writer wrote… pinging all those links along the way. Sorry, but that’s just the facts as they still exist.

Internal “link farms” created by YOU for YOUR internal network still works, are not being penalized by Google, and are NOT the paid-for link farms targeted by Google. Just to clarify… so people don’t get more confused…

If your only goal is to “fool” Google, then that’s a bad goal, no matter what white or black hat you wear.

Like I said, people get easily confused when changes happen fast, don’t make sense in the first place, and are not really focused on what’s important to THEIR site

If Google traffic is all you’ve got, then I’d wager that your site’s in trouble anyway, no matter what you do. If it’s not in trouble now, it will be at some point, if all you do is focus on Google, ranking in Google, and getting their traffic.

I’d rather make a thousand phone calls soliciting REAL viewers than rely on anything Google concocts at this point. I mean… if you don’t know WHO your target viewer/reader/follower is, how could you possibly pick up the phone and call one and strike up a conversation? If you can’t do that, you don’t know who you’re targeting. I guarantee you… they really do have a real phone number, lol. Every dang one of them.

The only judgements to be made about whether something is black or white or works for ONE of our sites but doesn’t for another… is whether it works to bring repeat viewers/readers/followers to a site where they’ll want to spend 20+ minutes reading 15+ pages on your site. If a Link Wheel does that, if you’ve found a way to make it bring you that kind of traffic, it is NOT black hat. It is Google repellant… and Google-proof.

I’d rather have a Google-proof property than be a slave to whatever’s up their sleeve next.

I highly suspect those who have made all out “that’s bad, bad, bad stuff” are not reeeeeeeeally experienced enough to know exactly what it is that they’ve just denigrated. I definitely know that they do NOT know how to rank a Youtube video in an hour’s time. I’d put money on that one, lol.

So in these hours of obvious confusion… let’s just agree to disagree… and perhaps that will give the uniformed or inexperienced time to catch up on what’s what, on what works, and what the heckledoodles they’re still doing trying to chase their Google tails this late in the game.

An internal linkwheel with legitimate curation linkbait is NOT your enemy, lol, and will NOT get you banned. But NOT waking up to getting your viewers from some other source than Google will surely make your sites extinct in the longrun. That’s reality… from the most Black Hat Site out there… yup… that would be Google. I can’t think of another site that’s ever dared to hold ALL world commerce at a standstill if they didn’t conform to their demands… THAT is black hat. Don’t ever forget that for a minute.

Just sayin…

Robin Carlisle

Personally, I would never point a LinkWheel back to my site, but would definitely point it back to ONE video in its own linkwheel of sorts that points back to my site.

Within an hour, if you optimize everything correctly, you’ll see that video appear on Page One in the BigG SERPs where your article will NEVER appear for highly competitive search terms.

I’ll take that legitimate backdoor way to Page One anyday… and with a backlink from YouTube, no less. THAT is how people are playing YT’s game these days… to get their VIDEO on Page One… which leads people back to the article they wanted them to read in the first place.

But trying to rank an article is just time wasted. The game Google has set up now will do the BubbleBurst thangy a LOT sooner than anything else they’ve tried to manipulate commerce before.

It’s a “hanging tree” method built for the masses… but this has been tried and failed miserably before… brought down by the RICO Act no less… and this one will go the same way at some point. Or companies will be brought down playing the Google masses game… too easily manipulated by smoke and mirrors to be trusted.

There’s a plugin to manipulate this “new” system at every turn and on every level. It will fail miserably because of that.

So what’s next with Google to “fix” this mob mess they’ve created? Just something else to pull your string…

Altavista and others can tell you 1998 happened a looooooong time ago. Time for a new kid on the block. Google’s just gotten too big and conceited and “black hat” for their own good. For any of our good.

Still… just sayin… find your audience elsewhere… it’s safer for the longterm.

Robin Carlisle