People who make money online know that one key ingredient is knowing how to get more traffic to your site. One way of attracting more visitors to your blog is by increasing your online visibility with the help of the popular Linkwheel. Here's how that works...

A linkwheel is a collection of about six websites, each of which points to your main website (found in the center of an imaginary wheel). And since we're using the metaphor of a round wheel, the six websites point not only towards the central site, they also point to the nearest site on the wheel.

In other words, each of the sites surrounding your main site will have two outbound links: one to the main site, and one to a site that is not reciprocally pointing back. Eventually, the first outer wheel site will link to the last outer wheel site.

Let's illustrate this so that you can better see what we're talking about...

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From the above illustration of the linkwheel, we begin with your main site at the center of it all. Let's assume you will build a site in Vox.com, which will then point to your main site (1). Next, create a site in Squidoo which points to your main site (2), and also to the Vox site you made earlier (3).

The cycle continues until you have completed the sixth outer wheel site (in this example, Google Knol), complete with its links to the main site (10) and also to LiveJournal (11). At this point, you then go back to your Vox site, and provide a link to Knol (12).

Notice how the six sites work together in some kind of daisy-chain fashion, and all boost the main site? You can do the same for each of those six sub-sites and create their own sub-linkwheel.

For example, you can treat your Vox page as another "main" site, and build a series of six sites around it. You can try other sites such as Blogger/Blogspot, GoArticles, Spaces.Live.com, WetPaint, WikiSpaces, WordPress.com, Xanga, Yola, Zimbio, and tons of other Web 2.0 properties.

To be fair to those other web properties, please publish quality or relevant content. It's not just a simple matter of throwing websites and pointing to affiliate sites in linkwheel fashion. It entails a fair amount of thought and consideration, because you need to respect the owners of those sites where you publish your content for free.

Give and take, right? Help others get what they want and... Well, you get the picture.

If you don't feel that comfortable with the thought of creating content for "other" sites, then go ahead and replace those six outer wheel sites with your own sites, or with the blogs of your friends (assuming you're working together in some kind of network).

Please remember, however, that if the search engines take your actions as some form of SEO manipulation, you risk getting de-indexed from the SERPs. If the content you provide is useful, relevant, entertaining or even compelling, then there's a chance your different sites will pass a manual review.

So there you have it, a traffic boosting approach courtesy of the linkwheel concept. Keep on writing, building, and marketing your blog, and I look forward to hearing of your online success in the near future! :-)

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First Posted: July 15, 2009 | Filed in: Make Money Online

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