[bmilleare]

Please don't call yourself an "SEO guy" and then tell the OP to build what is effectively a very poor, easily identifiable, link wheel.

If you think that's a 'sustainable' tactic then I suspect you won't still be in the SEO industry in a further 2-3 years time. All you'll be doing is waiting for the next Google algo update to kill your clients rankings.

[smalboy]

Linkwheel? Did I tell him to interlink any of his web properties? It's a pyramid structure that have always worked for me, and of course I do vary a lot more factors that I have listed here. I am, however, really curious on your definition of a linkwheel.

[bmilleare]

It's pretty telling that of everything I said, you get hung up on the definition of linkwheel.

It's still a crap tactic regardless of whether it's a pyramid or a wheel. Here's an idea - why don't you work on providing actual value to your clients instead?

[smalboy]

Aha. White-hat all holy guy detected.

I care about value as much as you do. Value is important as far as things goes, but if one does go all holy about providing value and "somehow" the visitors will come, forget about it mate. They won't unless you pay through your teeth for PPC/PPV traffic or you do SEO. White hat SEO? People say that, but do they really know what "white hat" means? White hat means you do nothing more than spreading your links on social networks. If you do ANY form of linkbuilding it's grey/black. No two ways about that mate.

[bmilleare]

Where did the colour hat conversation come from? I didn't mention anything about white/grey/black or whatever. It has nothing to do with it. There are lots of innovative black hat (according to Google) tactics that are killing it right now, but they're a million miles away from anything you're talking about.

The fact remains, you're advising somebody to use poor tactics that will only lead to wasted time and eventual loss of rankings.

And as for this: "White hat means you do nothing more than spreading your links on social networks". You serious or just trolling? I really can't tell.

Either way, this conversation is getting boring. You continue doing your 2008-esque blog pyramids and let me know how that goes for you.

[smalboy]

As a matter of fact it works really well. 2008-esque? I really don;t care mate. They word pretty damn well for me with link diversity. It's not the how you build links, but what kind of links you build, and the anchor text and the sort of links. It's all just making it look natural. You're probably just trolling here so I don't really care. Good riddance.