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!