There are a number of ways to accelerate the amount of traffic your website can achieve, such as search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising.

But one sure fire way to drive traffic to your website or blog is by creating a ‘Link Wheel’.

A Link Wheel is a system created to generate a network of links pointing back to your main website, which create a higher page rank for your site as the search engines see your website as a popular site because you have a group of related and well keyworded sites and popular social bookmarking sites pointing back directly to you.

This may all sound a little complex, so I have created some simple graphics to show you the 4 simple steps to creating a Link Wheel formula that will hopefully drive massive amounts of traffic to your website in no time.

To successfully create a Link Wheel as shown below does take some time and patience. It’s not a fast process, but as they say, there is no quick way to ultimate success, but hopefully this will help you understand and speed up the process of creating your Link Wheel.

Step 1
Once you have your website up and running, search engine optimized and submitted to the search engines, you need to create a series of 8 microsites.
These microsites work best if they have their own domain names that relate to the content of the master website.
For example, if your main website sells car parts for classic cars and your domain name is your business name, then purchase 8 domain names relating to this, such as classiccarparts.com, uniqueautoparts.com, classicpartsforcars.com…you get the idea!
You can buy the domain names fairly cheaply at Godaddy.com for around $11 a domain name.
You also need to now create the 8 microsites. The easiest way to do this is using WordPress, but if you are not a web guru and have no idea how to install WordPress there is a couple of solutions.

Solution 1. Since you need to host 8 websites, the easiest way to set up your blogs is to purchase a hosting account with Hostgator. Hostgator’s cpanel allows you to simply click a button and the WordPress blog is created for you. No mucking around setting up databases, etc. It is done for you in less than a few minutes!
And as you need to set up 8 sites you obviously need them hosted. Rather than paying a hosting account for each site which could cost a thousand dollars or so, Hostgator allows you to purchase the one account for around $8 per month, which you can then split into 8 (or more) sites for no extra cost!

Solution 2. If you already have a hosted account you can go to Fiverr.com and have someone set up your WordPress account for $5 per site. You can sit back and relax and someone will do it all for you!

Make sure each microsite links back to the main website. This starts building your link structure, making it easy for the search engines to list you.

NOTE: Don’t add links FROM your main site to the microsites, only from the microsites TO the main site. This prevents the search engines from busting you for possibly spamming their search engines and earning you a blacklisting.

So once you have your main site and 8 microsites set up, each with their own domain, it should look something like this:

Step 2.
Now you need to add content to the sites in order for them to be also picked up on the search engines.
Create about 4 pages for each of the 8 sites, and make sure the content on each page is keyword specific relating to your main product, and the pages are named well.
For example, titles for the pages such as car-parts-for-classic-cars.html
If you are using WordPress make sure you turn on the Permalink setting. this turns the page numbers into search engine friendly titles. See the setting example below and set your custom permalink on each wordpress site the same as this for best results:

Your Link Wheel should now look something like this below:

Each page doesn’t have to be a huge page of text and images. In fact just a couple of decent paragraphs of well written product-related content per page is all you need.
If you are not great at writing, don’t steal or copy content from other sites. The search engines could catch you for duplicate content and drop you from their searches. Again, go to Fiverr.com and you will find there are people willing to write the articles you require for $5 per article, or search content writers online and you will find cheap packages available.

Now add in a few internal links from related keywords in a few of the pages, pointing them back to each of the other microsites. try not to get two microsites pointing to each other or again Google may pick you up for spamming and your cover is blown! Follow my graphic below, which shows you the correct way of linking each of your sites for best results.

Step 3.
You’re almost there!
Now comes the real dynamic part to the process.
You want to get all your sites and pages listed on as many search engines and social bookmarking sites as you can.
The graphic below shows just a few of the most popular ones to link to. By linking to these will boost not only your page rank but it will attract other members to follow you and link through to your website.
Because many of these sites have so many people already listed on them they have a good page rank already. When you get all your microsites listed on them as well, this boosts up the page rank and popularity of each site, and in turn boosts your main website immediately.
Remember, the microsites aren’t designed to be selling anything, they are purely to generate traffic back to your main website through optimization and link building. Of course you can always add a banner on each microsite to promote and drive traffic to your main site.

Sites such as StumbleUpon and Hubpages work as their own microsites and social bookmarking sites, so you need to create accounts on each one for your pages. This can take a lot of time.
But an easier way is to go to OnlyWire or LinksAlpha and create one account which will post your pages to all these sites and more. You still have to create the initial accounts for each site, but it is all done through LinksAlpha and Onlywire, saving a lot of time.

You have now created your Link Wheel!
Now sit back and watch the traffic start rolling in to your website!

Author: Chris Bourke of WebSEOCoach and Devision Design Australia.
Chris is a graphic/web designer, affiliate marketer and SEO Coach from Australia

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Unfortunately so many online business ventures fail within less than a year.
The main reason they fail is lack of traffic to the site and product awareness.

There are a couple of very easy steps to increase your website traffic and quadruple your profits online which cost you absolutely nothing, and done correctly can take as little as a couple of hours a week to drive huge traffic, and profit.

Follow these simple steps:

Create a blog.
Blogs are great because they are not only easy to update, but when integrated into your website and each article post is written correctly, the keywords used to describe your products spread like wildfire through the search engines much faster than a standard website or shopping cart.
Best of all you can download the WordPress blog software free from WordPress.org, and if you are a little tech savvy you can set it up yourself, or outsource someone to set it up for you.
A great place to get your blog set up for cheap is Fiverr.com There are people on Fiverr willing to setup your WordPress site on your existing hosting for just $5!

Next thing you need to do once your blog is set up is download a few free plugins, which can be obtained directly through the WordPress software. Search for Ultimate SEO and Headspace under plugins, which both work great for search engine optimising your blog.
Also search for a Sitemap plugin. This will them refresh your XML sitemap, which the search engines read, and inform them that you have new content on your website.
The key to a successful blog is not only the quality of the content, but also how often it is added or refreshed, so the sitemap is essential.

Spreading the word.
Now, a blog is great as people can find your site when they search for products on Google, Yahoo, etc
But how about if you could intensify that number of visitors by around 300% in just a few simple steps through simple social media marketing?

This is really simple but not many people do it…

Firstly, create a Twitter page for your business.
This takes about 5 to 10 minutes to do, but will greatly increase your online presence when included in part of my overall process I’m about to share.
When creating your Twitter page, make sure your Bio not only describes your business but also has keywords that identify your business. This will help your rankings as Twitter bios and posts appear in Google searches.
Also create a Facebook fan page. If you’re not sure how, Click on the Facebook Create a Page link

Now, the key is to integrate all your social marketing tools to work together so that every time you post an article or product on your website blog, it will automatically appear on Facebook, Twitter and over 30 other social bookmarking websites all in one push of a button! How much time would that save you? How much greater an audience do you think it will now reach!

Linking your Social Networks
Now that you have done the hardwork, (which didn’t actually take that long!), here is the easy part:
Create a free LinksAlpha account (http://www.linksalpha.com) and add your blog’s RSS feed to the account. An RSS feed is automatically created in your blog software, and the link to your RSS feed is available in your WordPress Admin panel. Simply cut and paste the link into your LinksAlpha account.

Now, also add your Twitter page address (eg, http://twitter.com/webseocoach) and then add your Facebook business page address)
Now, each time you post an article on your WordPress blog it will automatically send the link to your TWitter account and Facebook accounts simultaneously from your RSS feed.

You have now set up a dynamic online social networking marketing tool, which will save you hours of time and guaranteed to greatly increase your visitors if you use it regularly.

The great thing about WordPress is that you can schedule your article posts to avoid bombarding people with every post at once.
When creating a new post, instead of publishing it immediately, save your article as a Draft, and then schedule it to post on the required date.
You can set up a whole weeks worth of posts at the same time, but trickle-feed them to your networks and blog, which increases your search engine rankings as a new sitemap will then be created every day, as well as new backlinks from your social network posts.

Give it a go and watch your online profits soar!

Author: Chris Bourke from Devision Design & Web SEO Coach
Chris is a web developer, internet marketer and Search Engine Optimisation Coach from Australia

The reason backlinks are suck an important component to a successful search engine marketing strategy is due to the way the search engines like Google place value on your website.

Google measures your website’s overall relevancy based on other sites that are linking to you. It helps Google quickly evaluate your website, and connect it to a specific niche market, making it easier to correctly list your website.

Backlinks also count as votes to your website, so the more votes you have the more popular and relevant your website is deemed, and therefore the higher ranking you’ll receive.
Plus, developing a solid backlink campiagn can greatly help you rank for some very competitive keywords that you may not otherwise be able to secure.
When you work towards developing a targeted backlink campaign, your website will not only gain a higher position on the search engines, but it will begin to appear more frequently.

Organic free search engine traffic amounts to some of the most valuable, targeted and relevant visitors you’ll ever receive, so if you can secure your website in the top search engine results for high targeted keywords, you can eliminate the need to pay for pay-per-click marketing.

While it is recommended you still work on creating good on-site optimization, building a good backlink campaign can instantly generate unlimited traffic by adding a link to your website on other quality, established websites and blogs.

Here are a few tips on creating your backlink campaigns:

• Search engines determine how relevant your site is not just by the number of backlinks pointing to your website, but that the sites that link back to you are relevant and high quality. Don’t just link to any website you can find or this can have negative results for you.
Look for sites which are well established and have been around for some time and receive a significant amount of traffic each day.

• Try and focus on backlinks to other sites in a similar niche to yours as this will create relevancy, however it is also good to link to other non-specific sites, providing they have quality traffic and are well established.

Building backlinks can be time consuming if you are just starting out. I recommend either using software such as WebCEO to help find other sites to link to easily, or even outsource the campaign totally. You can post jobs on sites such as Elance.com or Guru.com, which can be quite affordable.

There are also a number of great packages available online for finding the perfect relevant backlinks. One of the best is NeuroLinker, which provides umlimited relevant backlinks guaranteed to generate huge traffic.

• Search engines love blogs, so search for relevant, popular blogs which are regularly updated, and try and get a backlink on them, providing them with relevant anchor text including your web address and brief description of your site. Make sure your description includes the keywords you would like to be searched for.

Set yourself a goal to find 5 good backlinks each day. It can be time consuming and monotonous work, but you will find if done regularly, you will see a sharp increase in traffic to your website in no time!

Author: Chris Bourke of WebSEOCoach.com

Chris is a web designer, SEO specialist and affiliate marketer from Australia, who makes a living from online business.

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You can pay an SEO ‘expert’ hundreds of dollars for a promise to get your website ranking at the top of the search engines, but really it’s not rocket science, and anyone can achieve the same success in a few steps and a little understanding.

Backlinks
Lets start with Backlinks. Backlinks are links on other websites which link directly back to your website.
It’s easy to swap links with other websites, but you don’t want just any links…you want ‘quality’ backlinks.

Both the popularity and the importance of your website is gauged by how many other website owners consider your website worth linking to, much of which is dependent upon how many sites link back to you.
This is done purely for Search Engine Optimization and getting Google to love your website, rewarding your website by giving it a high page ranking.

Sounds easy, right? Simply link to sites and you’ll get a good Google PR. Wrong!
Before you rush off and madly find sites to swap links with, there are a few rules to avoid bad links and only find the quality links. It’s the quality links that will turn Google in your favour.
Quality backlinks are links from sites with similar content to yours, and are also relevant to their (and your) domain name, the industry and products the website portrays.
From Google’s point-of-view, it’s all about relevancy and the success of your website, and website marketing.

The search engines calculate the keyword relevancy and keyword density for a website, and that figure is also based upon the percentage of related content found on either end of the links.
So for example, if your content is about travel, and the links on the other sites have nothing to do with travel than the link is considered not relevant and you will lose pagerank or be ignored by the search engine spiders.
So not only make sure your website is backlinking to other sites with relevant content, but also make sure they are also linking to other relevant sites, or it will have a ripple effect and drag your pagerank down as well.

It is extremely important for you to regularly check your links and keep track of which sites are linking back to you. If all the links are outbound and not reciprocated with a link back to you, the site on the other end will get all the traffic, and the pagerank.

There are number of tools which can help you with an automated process to check the links for you. I recommend Web CEO software, as it does a thorough fast job, and it can also find reciprocal links for you too, but you can find other good software by simply searching on Google for “verifying reciprocal links” (include the quotes around the text for best results), and you’ll get a list of tools you can use to check.

Anchor Text Backlinks
Another way of creating good backlinks is by using ‘anchor text’, which is actually a link on your own website, but set up correctly to add keyword relevancy, it can help greatly.
For instance, if you have some text that says ‘Click Here’, try changing it to ‘Cheap Travel tips, visit our website’, this uses the keywords which relate to your travel site, and if hyperlinked to a page with a similar title, the search engines will go crazy for it. Text added like this through your site is called ‘anchor text backlinks’.

Finding Reciprocal Sites
There are many ways to find great related sites to exchange with. As mentioned, I use Web CEO, but you can also do it manually by simply using Google, and typing in the particular keywords which relate to your website, and see which competitors come up first. Chances are part of the reason they are in the top spots on the first page of Google is due to their backlinks.
Visit the websites and see if you can contact their webmaster for a link exchange. Some will decline as they might be in direct competition to you so don’t take it personally.
You can improve your success in attracting links though by providing them with details of your current pagerank position, and also a title and description of your site which you’d like them to add, and of course tell them you have already added a link on your website for them. If they decline, simply remove the link from your site, but give them plenty of time to respond.

Author: Chris Bourke – WebSEOCoach.com and UltimateCashBlog.com
Chris is a web designer, search engine optimization pro, and internet marketer from Australia