Link Wheels and Money Sites Explained
filed in Web Marketing on Nov.09, 2009
Over the weekend I discovered a site called LinkWheel that got my attention. They offer a service that creates “link wheels” for you, which is basically the “hub & spoke method” you may have heard about before.
The concept is that you have a money site, and everything else you create is for the purpose of linking to and boosting the ranking of this money site. The money site being where you promote and sell something, the spokes or other sites being relevant content that funnels visitors into that site…
This model can be a lot of work in regards to creating and maintaining all of the content and properties, and getting the link structure right – to and from each property. Done wrong it can ultimately penalize your money site in the major search engines, but done right I’ve seen some marketers have great success with it.
Howie Schwartz came to mind as I was first browsing through the site, and interestingly he was mentioned right there on the main page.
LinkWheel uses more than 60 different Web 2.0 Properties across unique IPs in addition to article directories, pinging, RSS directories, unique YouTube videos, images, etc. They say that all of their work is done manually, not outsourced overseas, and that they are the only link wheel service using 100% unique content.
You own all of the properties they create for you, with full log-in access.
I’ve read through every page of the site, including the 6-page PDF they offer via opt-in, and everything looks to be in good order. They have one-time plans as low as $65, and monthly development & management plans starting at $165.
This post is an advertisement for LinkWheel, and I would like to take this opportunity to open the discussion on their service and on the concept of the hub & spoke model… I’d love to hear your thoughts & questons.
Best,

Original post by Lynn Terry and software by Elliott Back
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