So since the official release of my LinkWheel and the LinkWheel traffic system I’ve gotten a whole lot of questions.

Figured I’d answer them all in one place, and if you have another question that is not answered here – leave a comment below.

So here we go…

Q: What do you mean ‘Web 2.0′ property?

A: Basically what I mean is any website you can post content to that allows you to post a link that DOES NOT have the rel=”nofollow” tag. Google ‘nofollow’ if you don’t know what that is. Networking sites like Facebook or Myspace, and video sites such as Youtube are also part of ‘web 2.0′ however we can’t post content in that way there. Sites like Squidoo and Hubpages, WordPress MU blogs like wordpress.com, Blogsome and other free blog sites like Blogger for example, that’s the kind of site we are looking for here.

Q: How can you tell if a web 2.0 property is a dofollow?

A: The standard way of doing it is looking in the source code by right clicking on a page, a clicking ‘view source’. There when you look at a link it will look something like <a href=”http://blabla.com”>LINK</a> and if it’s a nofollow link it will have the rel=”nofollow” tag in it, so the link looks like <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://blabla.com”>…  Fortunately there are softwares that can do this for us automatically, what I use is Aaron Wall’s SEO For Firefox which is a plugin for Firefox. By turning it on it does a whole bunch of stuff, one of them being highlighting all nofollow links. You can find it here: CLICK HERE

Q: What is a ‘sub-wheel’?

A: This is when you build a LinkWheel around a property in an existing LinkWheel, like this. In this case, as you can see – Squidoo is the focus hub for the subwheel. The properties in the new subwheel can be any of the web 2.0 properties we use, as mentioned in the report (don’t forget about WordPress MU!).

Q: There’s no way it takes 25 minutes to do one ‘set’ of the wheel, since you don’t just drop links on sites like squidoo – you need some content too.

A: Content is all explained within the course, read it.

Q: Any idea how to edit a Quizilla story after posting. I’m working back as recommended but can’t seem to find how to edit it and complete the wheel.

A: Just go to the top menu – My Stuff -> Stuff I Made and select the story, there should be an ‘edit’ link right next to it.

Q: So when you say for quizilla it links to the next one and the main focus site I’m assuming within the story you are using 2 outwards links one to each part of the wheel right? I ask because again I’ve notcied in quizilla that the profile page doesn’t allow for a homepage web link, so I’m assuming the only way you can link your wheel up would be within the story?

A: You do straight html links within the story, one to the focus hub, one to the ‘neighbor’ (or ‘neighbour’ if you’re a brit, lol). You just use the standard <a href="http://yourfocushub.com/whatever">Your Keyword Phrase</a> format.

Q: How do you go about linking them? Anchored text?

A: Right. Each LinkWheel is targeted to one keyword, and it’s that keyword and some keyword variations you would use as anchor text.

Q: Does this work well for a keyword with over 50k but less than 100k?

A: There’s no saying… it depends entirely on the strength of the sites that are currently ranking in Google. If it’s full of authority sites like Wikipedia or About.com then you probably won’t get #1 for it, but remember that there are in fact 10 spots on the front page. However, if the front page has lots of Web 2.0 properties and Universal search features on it – that’s a good sign because if it ranks well, you probably will too.

Q: Is there a particular reason it has to be a perfect wheel? Can you do a “broken wheel” and still rank well?

A: Yeah you CAN do that, but the idea is that because all of the properties are connected (indirectly) – if you point links to one property it indirectly affects all of them, thus raising the entire wheel.

Q: What is so special about the LinkWheel?

A: Read previous question.

Q: Does it have to in a certain direction?

A: Nope.

Q: How long does it take to see results?

A: Depends on a few factors such as keyword competition etc, but you should see results fairly quickly, as soon as you’re indexed.

Q: Can you plase add also how could it be combined with article marketing.

A: Read the LinkWheel Traffic System

Q:You said that you use 1 article for the entire linkwheel, but is the content in the focus hub different from the LinkWheel?

A: YES! You don’t want to link to two places from one property that both contain the same content.

Q: What’s the best way to get your properties indexed in Google?

A: Some people have reported having trouble getting their properties indexed in Google, I wouldn’t worry though. Because of the nature of these Web 2.0 properties they are crawled frequently, and add that to the fact that you’re pinging and bookmarking everything they should be indexed sooner or later.

Q: Wouldn’t Google see this as a link scheme if I close the circle?

A: Well, you’d think so, but I haven’t had that happen for me. Maybe they do, I don’t know. I haven’t gotten penalized or anything like that though.

Q: Would Bookmarking Demon be a good one for this?

A:  Yeah it would work. Personally  I use SEnuke and that’s because it automates pretty much all parts of the LinkWheel – read my review here. So that’s pretty neat, but any bookmarking tool would work. Even a free option such as Onlywire.

Q: Do I need to bookmark the wheel properties several times? Or is once enough?

A: I would rather spend that time building more wheels and ‘sub-wheels’ and bookmarking them. If you have automation tools which can bookmark your stuff from different accounts, but if you don’t I wouldn’t spend that time bookmarking when I can be building more properties.

Q: Can you talk a little about the expected results from doing this? If you create 1 wheel should you expect 10 hits per day, 100 hits per day, etc…? (on average)

A: There’s really no answer, and it depends on so many factors… keyword competition, keyword search volume, title optimization and so on.

Q: What is this ‘Project One Hundred’ that appears at the top of the report?

A: Project One Hundred is a complete course I developed that is designed to get you from $0 to $100 per day within a month. The LinkWheel strategy is a part of it. This is not available to the public.

Those are all the questions I’ve gathered so far, if you have any more, just ask in the comments.

Cheers people,

Linus

Since I released the LinkWheel system a few days ago, I have gotten around 150 people opting in…

It actually got shared on BHW and everyone is LOVING it. One guy reported getting ranked on Page 1 with 715,000 competing pages. Rather than telling them to remove it, I played along and helped them out and answered all their questions about it, and the thread is 2 pages long now.

Not trying to brag but people really are loving it…
In fact, I just got a success story back from a guy who did an INCOMPLETE linkwheel and managed to rank on page #1 for a keyword with 715,000 competing pages!
…and people ARE referring to it, like everyone used to recommend Travis Sago’s Bum Marketing Method to all the noobs… remember?

So what I did was this, I registered TheLinkwheel.com and set up a permanent 301 redirect to the optin page.

Okay, so to cut this post down to about one sentence…

If you ever want to recommend my LinkWheel strategy to anyone, feel free to use TheLinkwheel.com when doing so. Easy to remember etc.

So well, I’ve noticed some of you recommending this to people, so this will make it a bit easier to remember I suppose.

And yeah, that’s it.

Cheers,
Linus

Okay, so a lot of you guys are struggling with driving free traffic to your websites, squeeze pages and affiliate landing pages and what have you. I’ve been recommending this particular way to drive traffic to a lot of people lately, first because it’s very very simple, second because it WORKS like gangbusters.

Okay so here’s what you do.

1. Find some good keywords to target. Preferrably less than 10k competing pages, and decent search volume (you decide what ‘decent’ is – how much traffic do you want?)
2. Write a short article on each keyword. Include it in the title and sprinkled throughout the body. Members of NicheChoppers have access to my ‘Article Marketing Awesomeness’ report where I go over how I get up to 50% CTR on my articles, but if you know just some basic article marketing stuff it will suffice.
3. Submit the article to EzineArticles and possibly a few other article directories. If you are at all familiar with Article Marketing you should be used to this… if you aren’t, well read up on the subject.
4. Build one LinkWheel with each article. While you’re waiting for the articles to get approved, build one LinkWheel with each article. So for example if you’ve written/outsourced and submitted 5 articles, you would build a linkwheel with each article (duplicate content is fine) so you’d end up with 5 “wheels”.
5. REPEAT!

That’s the basic strategy. Very simple, expand as much as you wish. Try using press releases and things like that, they will really add another dimension to the whole formula.

These 5 steps to traffic generation will coincidentally add 5 new traffic sources to your website.

#1 Direct article traffic. People browsing EZA. This alone could bring you hundreds of visitors.
#2 Web 2.0 properties ranking in the search engines, and in turn referring people to your website from them.
#3 Loads of inbound links to your website (with good anchor text if you’re smart) both from web 2.0 and article directories – which helps you rank in the search engines on your own.
#4 Articles ranking in the search engines. EZA ranks well, we all know that.
#5 Direct web 2.0 traffic. People browsing the web 2.0 sites…. not so much, if any traffic from here though :P

This is really as simple as it gets, and if you can’t squeeze a few visitors and sales out of this… maybe this isn’t the right business for you?

Enjoy, take action and have fun :)

Linus

And oh… if you want more awesome stuff like this from me, I release a lot of this stuff to the guys at NC where I’m a mod… So come hang out with me there!