subject: Building Your Seo Fortress With Web Wheels [print this page] I think I'm only going to write about this subject once unless people really like it. One technique I've learned from a couple different gurus and just started implementing on my new 9000 page directory site in the last 30 days are Web Wheels. I understand how SEO works so I understand the concept. Just to give you a little history about a year ago I put up a Squidoo Page on Vintage Skateboards. I remember getting really ticked off and inpatient because it wouldn't index, it took that page about 4 weeks to index. What happened is that I submitted just 5 articles to it to the main article directories.
Fast forward a year later I leave the site alone, check back this week and the site is a PR2. Now a PR2 isn't earth shattering but there are a couple things you need to understand, then it might seem like the golden egg. First of all, I put up the lens myself and wrote the content so getting up the entire site was free. I also wrote the 5 articles myself and submitted them to the top 8 article directories so once again we're still at zero cost. And btw, this was not a web wheel is was a simple squidoo page with just a few articles pointing back to it. And since you don't have to pay any money to host a squidoo page there were no hosting fees involved.
I started putting 2 and 2 together and realized that squidoo didn't mind because they love people to setup lenses and send backlinks to them so they get page rank, because it increases the overall page rank to their site. Then I also started realizing that there are at least 8 stable article directories and at least 30 places that offer free blogs I could implement this technique to. Remember I built this PR2 in one day. The first day I setup my squidoo lens, it took me one night because I was a beginner on squidoo at that time and had to penetrate a learning curve. The next night I wrote the 5 articles and submitted them.
If you don't think this is a big deal consider this. Imagine setting up 45 of these within the next 90 days and they all average a PR2. I mean you could end up getting lucky and getting a few PR3's and maybe some PR1's. That's 45 high quality links back to your offer and who could complain about that.
Now a Web Wheel is the same thing I did above but with an additional twist. Instead of setting up just one Squidoo lens you'll setup a main lens and additional lenses around it in a wheel format. Each of the surrounding lenses which we'll call hubs will link to the main lens. So what I'm doing now is setting up a main lens and still writing 5 articles back to it. Then setting up 2-4 hubs around the main lens which all point to the main lens like I just mentioned, and submitting just one article to each of these to give them some extra link juice. This will make sure they get spidered faster and will give each web property I have out there some extra backlinks.
Web Wheels work great for Web 2.0 properties and free blogging services but you can do limited ones with articles. Just write a nice long article with unique content and submit it to one of the trusted article directories like Articles Base, Go Articles or Ezine Articles. Then write 5 more articles and point them back to this article. Since you're allowed 2 links in each author bio, I'd submit 2 unique articles to 2 article directories then write your 5 articles. Point one link back to your first article and one to your second. This way you'll be building a PR Fortress all around your main income site.
The great thing about this method is that if you write the content yourself it won't cost you anything to do this. And you can build unlimited PR around your site and eventually create a super strong fortress around your web property. Of course you need a website worthy of spending this kind of time on, but it would work best for massive directory driven sites, retail sites and authority sites. And if you had a sales page trying to rank for a high traffic keyword it would work great for this as well assuming the site is optimized well on-site.
