Basically, a linkwheel or focus hub is a set of SIX Web 2.0 properties interlinked in a “wheel” structure, all promoting a specific page on the internet which is the focus of that particular “wheel”. Let me explain, or better still, let this image show you.

Hope it makes sense. Basically, you have six properties up, and each contains a link to the “focus hub” AND its ‘neighbor’ as you can see in the image below left, the arrows representing links.

Your “focus hub” could be ANY page you wish to promote. For example a page on your website, or another Web 2.0 property. To expand, you could build a link wheel like this around a page, and then build a new link wheel around each of the properties that are in that link wheel.
For example, in the above image, you would continue building another link wheel having Weebly and Squidoo etc AS the Focus Hub. Make sense?
You could take this idea and apply it to so many different things I’m not even going to bother with covering more scenarios. Use your imagination!

Use of the Link wheel strategy can bring some serious Google domination implications. For keywords with lower competition you could easily take over the front page of Google.

RSS Awesomeness

Each of the web 2.0 properties you publish your content to will also give you an RSS feed. If you can’t find it, on the top of your browser by the URL address bar thingy you will see a little RSS icon glowing if the browser can find an RSS feed on that particular page.

Social Bookmarking

Unless you have access to an automated social bookmarking tool, don’t even bother with bookmarking here. If you do, great. If you’re on a budget, the best FREE bookmarking tool would have to be Onlywire. There’s also SocialMarker and SocialPoster which are free too. Basically what you do here is to just bookmark all the URLs in the Linkwheel. Simple as that.

Web 2.0 Properties

Alright, so those six above are just a few of the different places you can post your content to. Basically – you want to post your content to ANY site where you can, which does NOT make your outgoing links nofollow. Some of the popular sites, such as Zimbio for example, puts a “nofollow” tag on the links you put there, which pretty much makes the link near useless in terms of ranking benefits.You can check if links are “nofollow” with Aaron Wall’s SEO For
Firefox plugin.

Here is a list of some Web 2.0 sites you can and should use.

http://squidoo.com
http://blogger.com
http://wordpress.com
http://quizilla.com
http://livejournal.com
http://weebly.com
http://blog.com
http://jimdo.com
http://tumblr.com
http://blinkweb.com
http://synthasite.com
http://blogsome.com

Again, those are just a handful for you to start off with.

Wordpress MU

To get even further ahead of the competition… There are thousands of sites
running Wordpress MU. MU stands for multi-user… meaning each user can set up their own blog.
The most famous WP MU blog site would of course be Wordpress.com, and from the list above, Blogsome is also running Wordpress MU. But there are literally thousands of smaller ones. Just make sure they’re dofollow. So for each linkwheel, just pick six properties and go!

Blogs

On Blogger.com and all the other free blogs you post to… with each new linkwheel, it’s important to make a NEW blog entirely, as opposed to just making a new post on your existing blogs. You’ll pretty much never have a blog with more than a single post. Often, on sites such as Livejournal and Blogsome for example, you need to create new accounts for each new blog.

Accounts

You’ll eventually have tons of different accounts on all of these different sites, and you might want to organize all the login info somewhere. As for the accounts themselves, stay NICHED within the accounts. For example, within one squidoo account, don’t stray outside of the niche you’re in.
Like, you don’t want to have “gardening” lenses grouped together with “make money online” lenses in the same account. It’s all about that relevance, you know. 100% relevance, always.

Well, that’s it! May sound complicated, but it’s simple once you’ve gotten the hang
of it. Good luck with this, your imagination really is the only thing that’s stopping you.