Term:
Link Wheel
Definition:
A Link Wheel is a set of mini sites using Web 2.0 sites. Link wheels take advantage of the ability to create your own webpage on these popular sites to promote your own site.
The term wheel comes from the way that these pages are linked together. Each page will link to the next page in line until you have made a complete circle using all of the pages. In addition to linking to the next page in line, each page also links to your target page or site, the main one you are trying to promote.
This chain of links help to promote each page in the search engines, as the PR and authority of each page increases it also increases the PR and Authority of the next page inline, while at the same time increasing the PR and authority of the target site.
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