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Rewrite your website with good copy. Often poor copy is usually the result of the time poor. We rush to get a website up quickly and cut and paste. I suggest you go to a website like freelancer or similar and have some one bid on writing good copy for you. I have used this in the past to have someone write me a few blog pages (which I then customize to my style). They do all the research and make up the content. Look for someone with a good history and feedback. Instead of blog pages they can be content for your website. If you do have the time. This is the process I follow write down everything I know about a topic in bullet points (it can be typed) sort these points into something that makes sense. discard the duplicate or irrelevant points identify the key words or topic from these points develop an opening paragraph sort out the remain points into coherent sentences and structure. Closing / Contact us paragraph Have someone else reread it for clarity and understanding, make any changes. Finally go back and tweak it for keywords and seo Good luck with your website.

There are a number of different keyword trackers out there, which one you want to use will depend on how many keywords you want to track. For a small number of keywords, SERP Fox is a great tool for $10/mo: http://www.serpfox.com/ Another good tool is SEO PowerSuite: http://www.seopowersuite.com/ If you're tracking thousands of keywords, you might want to check out Authority Labs (http://authoritylabs.com/) or LinkDex (http://www.linkdex.com/).

To answer your questions, YES, the link wheel still works, but only if you do it right, I mean, it all depends on the quality of your link wheels. 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.

Generally a week at a time is a good interval, this is also the rate at which Moz sends out crawl reports or rankings. Hope this helps!

Google makes 500+ changes a year which means a minimum 1.4 changes every day. And the SERPs shuffle practically every day to reflect the changes individual sites & pages have made and the changes & new pages/sites crawled & indexed by the spiders. Then there are the big algorithm changes that happen throughout the year at unknown intervals and page rank updates every few months. So don't wait for an update because they're happening all the time. Keep working at it, tweaking things, building your profile, building your presence, creating new content, sharing that content, interacting with your customers/fans/patrons/users, and so on.