A Link Wheel is when you interlink six web 2.0 properties together. Ok, I know, I lost you right there. Let me start over. Before going into what a Link Wheel is exactly, I’m going to start of my explain why you want to create Link wheels.

By creating a Link wheel, you are able build backlinks much faster and you will rank much higher in the search engines for your keywords or keyphrases. If you still have no idea what I’m talking about, then you haven’t signed up for my 5-Day Make Money Online Mini Course, do that know, so you will understand this post.

As I have said before, keywords and keyphrases are words or phrase you want to rank in the top 10 when they are searched in search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. A contributing factor to your search engine ranks is backlinks. The more backlinks you have the higher you will essentially rank.

Alright, you now know you want lots of backlinks, so you rank high in the search engines, which increases traffic to your page/blog/website, increasing the number of sales you make, increasing the money in your pocket, right?

Backlinks = High Ranking = Traffic = Sales = PROFIT!

Pretty simple concept, right?

So back to the Link wheel. You want to create a link wheel with web 2.0 properties because they rank not only higher, but faster and faster backlinks. Examples of Web 2.0 properties are Squidoo Pages, Blogger Blog, Hubpages, WordPress Blog, etc. There is a bigger list I’ll provide at the end of this post. These are all free to use.

Of course, FREE = You don’t pay anything! = The Way to Go

To make a link wheel, you want to link 6 web 2.0 pages in a wheel or circle. Like in the graph below (click to enlarge)… (yes, first graphic I’m using…finally! By the way, I created this myself at www.bubble.us, it’s complete free and create for creating link wheel or other backlink plans)

In the graph, you will notice I will use 6 different keywords/keyphrase, one for each web 2.0 property. This is just the start though, late I expand on each keyword making a link wheel for each keyword. But to start just make 1 web 2.0 page for each keyword. The web 2.0 ages are in gold, while the red is the product page or my own website. Notice how I labeled each keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3 and so on. I will use them to explain the graph.

After I create each page for each keyword, I need to link them together in a Link Wheel. Each page links to the product page/main site directly, then I begin linking each web 2.0 in a circle. I link Keyword 1 to Keyword 2, link keyword 2 to keyword 3, link keyword 3 to keyword 4 and so on. Creating a full circle, where keyword 6 links to keyword 1. All you need to do is place the link on the page, be sure to use the Keyword as the Link text. So when I put the link for keyword 2 on keyword 1′s page, the link will be keyword 2.

Once you do this, then you want to write 5-10 articles to each Web 2.0 page. To build backlinks to each web 2.0 page. My process is that I write 5 articles, all unique and submit them to 5 different article directories. Then to backlink to the article, I submit the article to FreeTrafficSystem after they have been approved and published.

Below is the expanded graph I made with Bubbl.us to show the articles and freetrafficsystem. Definitely, click on it to enlarge it.

I write 5 unique articles for each keyword, I submit one article to EzineArticles, one to AssociatedContent, one to ArticleBase, one to ArticleCity, and one the Goarticles. Each article will have 2 links. One link will link to the Web 2.0 page and the other will link to the Product/Main Page. Once they are approved and published, I wait a few days for them to get indexed and ranked, then I will copy the article and submit it to FreeTrafficSystem. FreeTrafficSystem or FTS submits your article to a bunch of blogs automatically. With the FTS article I use one link for the original article, and the other link goes to the Web 2.0 page.

This entire process to create a link wheel will take me 8 days, plus a few with the FTS because I wait a bit. Only 8 days and you will have a strong and effective link wheel. The first day, I spend selecting a product to promote, writing a review of the product if I have a website or blog to use as my main site or I simply direct link to the product sales page. The second day I will spend creating each Web 2.0 page and linking them in a circle and to the main page. The third day, I write the 5 articles for keyword 1 and submit them, the next day is write the 5 articles for keyword 2 and so on for each day after. After 8 days, I will have a nice link wheel.

Once I submit to FTS, my link wheel looks like this… (MUST ENLARGE! )

Well that’s how I create a link wheel. Once I’ve done this, my pages will become much higher in the search engines. To expand on this, you can great a link wheel for each keyword! Think of all the backlinks you would be building and all the traffic flowing to the main page

If you have any questions, perhaps I may have been a little confusing at times, please leave a comment and I’ll be happy to help!