The toughest part about starting a new website is getting it ranked in Google. Over the past few years it has been getting harder to rank well in Google – that is an understatement. The best way to rank a site naturally, and quickly using the the better SEO techniques is to build links to your new site -the right kind ones. If Google finds a paid link on your site then you get a slap, or if they find reciprocal links then itʼs another slap. So what the hell are you supposed to do??
In SEO, backlinks are king, (a backlink is a link to your site from another site)
In backlinks, variety is king ( aka link diversity)
Variety in backilinks is achieved through a properly optimized link wheel.
The Link Wheel:
Interlinked Web 2.0 properties, pointing towards the site you wish to rank with.
Only a properly optimized Link Wheel can achieve great PageRank (PR) so they are the most powerful types you can possibly get.
Some suggested web 2.0 sites to use:
- Blogsome.com
- Blogger.com
- Squidoo.com
- Wetpaint.com
- WordPress.org
- EzineArticles.com
- VOX.com
- Quizilla.com
- Weebly.com
- LiveJournal.com
- HubPages.com
- Onsugar.com
- Prlog.org
- Devhub.com
- Yolasite.com
- Terapad.com
- Beep.com
- Webnode.com
- Viviti.com
- Jimdo
- And some social networking websites: Wikipedia has a list
Steps For Creating A Link Wheel
- Write your main article (you'll just make variations or use subtopics to create a variety of articles articles),
- Choose the overall topic for your link wheel
- Create your accounts at the sites mentioned above,
- Post your articles, and
- Make sure that within the article, have 1 link that goes back to your target site, and 1 link that goes to another of your link wheels. Instead of linking all your sites in order, i.e, site 1 links to site 10, site 2 links to site 5, Use a random linking so that if site 1 links to site 6, then site 6 links to site 2, etc. Just be sure that none of your sites link back to each other, and you are going to be in good shape.
- Ping Google using FeedPing to let them know you have created new sites so that Google's spiders can go and index them.aggregators also.
- Submit your RSS feed to RSS directories and RSS
Some points to keep in mind:
For a larger site:
- use a network of more than 100 different sites,
- all on different C-class servers
For all sites irrespective of size:
- Update your link wheels every 2 weeks
- Use unique content, do NOT use spinning services
Creating backlinks using a link wheel is the way to go to rank your website on the first page of google. Read the RSS Twist to get another take on this idea