A lot of people are talking about the Link Wheel, I know about this Link Wheel for a while now and already tried this in some my own personal websites to see the effects in ranking in different search engines.

This is one of the easiest way to obtain a backlink to your website but there are pros and cons of using the Link Wheel if you will not use it properly but first I am going to discuss what link wheel is and how this works.

What is Link Wheel?
Basically, Link Wheel is a group or a large number of websites (Web 2.0) sharing links to each other and then pointing to a website that you want to rank in search engine or to gain traffic. Below is the simple illustration of link wheel for a better understanding.

How Link Wheel works?
In theory, a search engine depends on the quality of backlinks to rank in search engine and that is one of the main factors in ranking a website. Above image illustrates that all web 2.0 website are linking to each other in a wheel “O” manner and at the center is your website which receives backlink to each web 2.0 websites.

A simple link wheel composes of 4, 6, 8 up to 10 web 2.0 website linking to each other. There are also advance and more advance types of link wheel which compose of 10 up to hundreds of web 2.0 websites. Below is an example illustration of advance link wheel.

The 2^nd image illustrates the web 2.0 become the sub wheel and the main website is the focus wheel and another group of link wheel pointing to your sub wheel which is the web 2.0 websites.

The more advance link wheel are mostly the same as the above image which is a link wheel within a link wheel the only difference is more web 2.0 websites are included.

Using Link Wheel method in ranking website in Middle East.

If you remember I post list of social media Middle East website. You can use that as a sub wheel pointing to each other and points to your focus wheel. A simple example of Link Wheel Middle East.

Because this is a simple & efficient way to get a backlink for your website, overusing of this method will definitely ban you in search engine.

So use it wisely and try a different combination of link wheel so you can define your own link wheel strategy.

Happy Link Building!

SEO – Search engine optimization is a process of improving a website by optimizing internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic of a website receiving from different search engine. Optimizing a website for search engine needs to look at so many unique elements to be consider a SEO friendly website.

This SEO beginner’s guide will describe some areas of Search Engine Optimization from keywords and key phrases discovery that will lead you to generate traffics, to making a site search engine friendly up to building a good links and marketing the website in a unique way.

Keyword and Key Phrases Research
Choosing the right keyword is the key for SEO to be success and it is critical in the process of SEO. By not choosing a right terms or phrases it will be resulting in rankings that no one will ever search. Researching a keywords or phrases involves so many processes.

In searching targeted terms or phrases that are used by the type of people you’re looking for will certainly lead to visitors thinking the message you provide. However, terms and phrases that are too popular can be very difficult to rank highly in search engine because of the huge amount competition in a certain terms or phrases, it will certainly take several months or even years for optimizing a keywords or key phrases to come into culmination.

Some pointers that you need to know before researching a terms or phrases.

Brainstorming – Ask yourself which terms or phrases that your customer will type if they are looking for your products. List down some of the terms or phrases that you might think acceptable.

Analyze your Keywords/Key Phrases – Now a days it has several keywords research tool online. You can try Wordtracker, Overture or Google keyword tool . This tool offers keyword information about the number of times users perform specific searches. By using this tools you can see the actual data about the terms / phrases and get the right keywords for you.

Web usability
Another important issue in SEO is the usability of your website. It needs to be analyzed to make sure that the search engine spiders is able to quickly access all of the elements of your web pages and do not jump precipitately.

It should be consider, putting a high priority on web usability since it is not only affects the search engine spiders, but it also affects the user navigation, retention and convertibility.

Some of the webmaster’s have been built websites without SEO or web usability in mind and are now floundering at the bottom of the SE’s with low conversion rates on search engines and generating excessive bounce..

Navigational Architecture
Considering external access to your web pages you must also provide accurate and reliable internal access. The architecture from one page to another may not be an area of web development that you initially considered as a stage in the SEO process but it is. Search engine spiders and visitors can easily become lost in a site that has poor architecture that is difficult to follow.

Providing a SiteMap is alternative in good SEO practice, you can also use text because it allows the addition of keywords in anchor text.

Quality Content
Once everything is in place, from keyword / key phrase research up to usability of your website. The stage will be creating a highly optimized quality content.

Providing a unique information for your visitor is also a key for getting leads in search engine. When creating quality content, try to think outside the box, try to create a buzz, a post the never been seen in the internet marketing world. Adding keyword / key phrases in your content will help your website to be optimized.

Links Links Links
Until now link building has a bigger value when optimizing a website. A highly authority related web pages that link to your website is a higher value will give you by the search engines. Getting a quality links is a lot difficult for to many, that’s why link baiting and quality content is a good part building a backlinks.

Success in SEO campaigns does not rely on a single method of promoting a website. Search engines is using so many factors to rank a website in each and every page and it should be optimized in each of these ways. Continuing the SEO process will retain your website in search engines and building more links will continue to receive more traffic that will converted into leads.