Do Link wheel works?

[anand2010]

Hello,

I am new to link wheel over web 2.0 sites and then linking your website or website article really helps in SEO and link building.

Do you think its still works?

Since i have also heard that many says that its too ok if we do spin content submitted to our web 2.0 properties small sites which are created for linking back to our main website.

Will wait for reply...

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey

1. Does it work? Maybe, maybe not, a little bit, short term type of benefit.
2. Does it keep working? Nope
3. Will you be trapped in a cycle of building low quality, short term links? Yes
4. Does it get less useful very quickly? Yes

This is not the way to go about things. You will end up putting in maximum effort for minimum returns.

Your time would be better spent elsewhere and these articles are a good start:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/advanced-link-building
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-from-a-to-z

Don't succumb to the dark side or forever will it taint your destiny - Yoda, master link builder.

Cheers
Marcus

[anand2010]

Hello Marcus,

Thanks for your time and detailed reply... I understood that you said it might a short term thing to deal with... however

I am already in follow of open site explorer help, blog comment, article writing and sharing to main article directories only a few 7-10 max., etc which are natural link building processes i am already following. I am also involved in guest blogging sort of good efforts. I already know that i am ranking on 3rd page for one of my new website now in just 1 month and i know so far i didnot done anything for short term or such kind of SEO practices. But i thought if it can help in SEO to create Link Wheel on good web 2.0 sites with SPIN content just to get few more link diversity ?

Or you think its also no use.

Since based upon your last reply i am right now having my mind negative towards it

But i will wait for what you think on it... after reading my above noted reason "Link Diversity"

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey, it's a bad approach. You are polluting the web with garbage and this kind of weak content is filtered with increasing accuracy all the time.

Don't do it man.

[MBayes]

Link wheels in the past have been very effective.  We see them all the time in the link profiles of small SEO firms (or I should say local SEO firms).  Some have built much of their rankings on them.

I am not going to preach here,  we all have strayed no and then into the less "white hat" areas of SEO ( Except us, if Google is reading this ;))

Marcus makes a valid point.  If you are going to be an SEO you have to decide what type of SEO you are going to be. Link wheels are considered cheap and amateur tactics, that have a short self life.  In our research it appears it's like a drug addiction. Once you start, you can not stop or the rankings start to fall.  So you get stuck in the endless cycle of building cheap links to cheap web sites, and then one day you will wake up and Google and Bing will have completely discounted all your work.

Why not look for and express great ideas.  Great content is the starting point. A calculator, a contest, a tips, a cartoon, any thing that will make the clients site more attractive to be bookmarked.

I feel your pain. We have all been there. But do at least consider the more experienced voices on here.

[anand2010]

All the confusions are clear. I understand SEO shall be a long term white hat SEO and shall not contain anything which can create in future cause for the site to degrade its value.

Thanks to Marcus & 1mike for your valuable replies and clearifying my confusions about Link Wheel i agree to both of your comments and thanks for sharing the research work you have done on the same.

[LinkWheelOldSchool]

As with any link building strategy / method, it all depends on the quality of your link wheels.

A poorly built link wheel will provide no noticeable results and in the worst case, you'll end up with a penalty.

A properly built link wheel, will take more time (and/or money) to build but the results will be up there, you'll get increased keyword rankings and also indirect traffic from the link wheel sites, and contrary to popular belief, if you build it right, google will not be able to spot it and you'll be penalty free.

If you plan to build a link wheel, I would recommend you to read all the resources at linkwheel.pro before you start building one.