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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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

Many web developers saw immediate changes in how their website’s presence on Google site, even though they may not have changed their own website for some time. Some listings climbed, many fell.

When Google launched Caffeine they wanted to help ‘clean up’ the web at the same time, and in the process rewarded websites that were built well, and penalized sites that weren’t so good though may have got away with it in the past.

So what are the major factors to ensure your website ranks well on Google Caffeine?

1. Website Loading Speed
If you have a fast loading website, Google will most likely reward you and give you prominence over the slower loading websites, even if those other websites may be keyworded better than yours.
Try and avoid elements of your website which may make your site ‘clunky’, such as slow loading Flash graphics or Flash Navigation, large video content on the initial pages of your website, optimize your images so they load fast, and overall keep a nice balance between text and image content so each page loads as fast as possible.

2. Overall quality of your website
Previous versions of Google, webmasters were often told to minimize keywords to just a handful of the most specific keywords. To achieve a broader search spectrum, add a few more keywords than you used to, but don’t go overboard.
Alt tag images with a few more keywords than you used to, and overall ensure the body content of your page has the correct text with the specific keywords you want to be found under.

3. Broken Links
It’s already a common element of a good search engine listing that broken links can affect your ranking, but even more so than ever with Google Caffeine. Check and recheck that your links are all working correctly, and include a 404 page which has a link to your sitemap, to avoid any dead-ends by the search engines.

4. Linking to bad neighborhoods
While it can work to your advantage to get backlinks from other websites, do your research on these sites first and make sure they are not linked to spammer sites, or your ranking will drop swiftly.
stay away from Link farms which have a bad reputation. If in doubt, check them out in Google by searching the website name and the words ‘spam review’ after it.

5. Get rid of any spam elements from your site
Google hates spam! remove anything that could be considered spam by Google, including over-use of keywords throughout a single page, hidden text, or even text that is a similar colour to the background. If you have more than one duplicate website, at least optimize it different from the original and move it to a different hosting provider so the IP address doesn’t match or Google will instantly recognize it’s the same site.

6. Review your website’s design and structure.
Make sure your website is user-friendly and easy to navigate. If it’s hard for site visitors it’s probably hard for the search engines too.
Each page title and description should be unique and relate to the content within that particular page.

7. Obtain links from social media websites and social bookmarks.
Links from social networking and bookmarking sites such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook and even Twitter give you huge brownie points with the search engines in regards to your placement.

Work on these features above and then resubmit your website to Google and you should see a change in your ranking in as little as a few weeks.
Don’t be surprised if you drop off the search engines totally for a couple of days.
Often when resubmitting a website with some major changes Google likes to start with a fresh listing to give you maximum results…if you deserve it!

Author: Chris Bourke – WebSEOCoach.com
Chris Bourke is a web designer and developer in Australia, who also specialises in SEO and affiliate marketing.
Follow Chris on Twitter: twitter.com/webseocoach

1. Provide useful content on your web pages. Search engines are constantly on the lookout for helpful content for their searchers. It will be more like likely to rank your pages higher if you’re constantly updating your site with new fresh content.

2. Put your emphasis on optimizing your pages for the search engine. There are easy SEO strategies you can implement on every web page you build.

These would include targeting a keyword phrase, putting those in your meta tags, including them in your headline tags, and adding them to the body of the web page.

Try and think like a search engine would. If you’ll just let them know what your page is about it will improve the ranking in the eyes of the search engines because you’re making their job easier.

3. Build a keyword relevancy to your web pages by getting back links for those phrases. Article marketing is an excellent way to do this.

You want a hyperlink to targeted keyword phrases in the resource box of every article. You should be linking back not only to your home page but also to your inner pages.

Deep linking through article marketing is a strategy many people don’t properly utilize. However this is a guaranteed way to improve the page rank of that specific page.

4. Start a blog and utilize the same strategies on it. Create your blog articles around targeted keyword phrases and include those in the title and in the body. Submit your blog articles to social directories which can serve as search engine bait and help improve all of your pages in the eyes of Google and other search engines.

5. Add videos to your pages. Google owns YouTube and they rank pages higher if videos are included in those. These are not hard to create today and the benefits of doing video marketing and promoting your web pages with videos is outstanding.

6. If you do any reciprocal linking be cautious of pages that you link to. Giving away page rank is a bad practice in something that can hurt your page rank rather than improve.

These are a few guaranteed ways to improve page ranking that are not hard to do. Any Internet marketer can quickly see the benefits from.

About The Author

Suzanne Morrison is the owner of the Higher Search Engine Rank website – a site that teaches you how to optimize your website content so that it ranks more highly. Sign up for her free seo course to learn more. http://www.3StepsToSearchEngineSuccess.com