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Free And Powerful Squidoo Blogs At Crabbysbeach

Crabbysbeach.com is a Squidoo blog community that is open to all lensmasters who want to blog about Squidoo or their niche. Built on the WordPress Multi-User platform, the community blogs are free and come with most of the popular SEO powerhouse plug-ins that can be found for traditional "stand-alone" WordPress blogs.

Not only is each blog readied for SEO plug-ins such as Simple Tags and All In One SEO, but many other popular plug-ins are available as well. Apture, AYB Java Script For Posts, and LinkShare Look-up.

We currently have over 60 themes available, including a few stunning magazine themes, and are adding more as we find them.

Why not take control of the blogging portion of your marketing campaign and let the world hear what your are saying?

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Why Blog Squidoo At Crabbysbeach?

Why not?

Besides the fact that Crabbysbeach.com offers free blogs, the facts that Squidoo is a "dofollow" platform and there will be no one at the Beach but Squidoo lensmasters should give some more motivation.

For an in depth explanation of the "dofollow" concept, read lensmaster Pixelrage's excellent discussion at DoFollow: Increase Your Back Links.

Crabbysbeach is dedicated to providing the blogger what they need and want in themes and plug-ins, but the blogger will have to provide any Premium items they want installed.

Already Installed Plug-Ins Include:

All In One SEO ~ Not only the blog, but each post can be armed with well structured meta titles, descriptions, and keywords to build deep relevancy throughout the blog structure.

Simple Tags ~ Own your tags. Automatically suggest tags as well as includes tags in meta keywords. You can list categories as tags as well. These features and many more to help establish authority with the search engines.

XML Sitemap Automatically re-constructs a sitemap after every publish and sends it to the important search engines.

Why Am I Doing All This For Free?

The truth is two fold. One, I love to help the community. There is power in numbers and if we have a place where we can lighten some of the load or pool resources to make a stronger unit, so much the better for everyone. I also love free.

I am going to be upfront and honest on the second fold. I have a stake in this experiment as well. I want to succeed too, and if I can get a sizable community to blog here, then of course it helps me.

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SEO Link Wheel

Are Link Wheels Black Hat?

Generally speaking, Black Hat SEO practices are deemed unethical and include any practice that tries to artificially boost a web site's authority with the search engines. Practices such as keyword stuffing and 'doorway' pages are very Black Hat and will get you a big ol' Google slap faster than you can blink an eye.

Some folks feel that Link Wheels are Black Hat because they artificially build authority back links that pass the Google "juice" into the Money Site. On the other hand, those that state that Link Wheels are unethical typically practice what is known as the Link Web. Same thing as a Wheel, but more random.

Which is worse?

Who is to say? But, I will always believe that if you spread solid, genuine content that is relevant and original, you are doing nothing unethical. All that you're are doing is letting the search engines know where your source is by being relevant.

Besides, based on these descriptions of what is Black Hat and what is not, why is good, basic keyword usage not considered unethical. Aren't we trying to artificially boost our authority by using keywords that are long tailed and then adjusted to more general ones as our sites gain a solid foothold in the SERPs?

The following video gives a solid tutorial on what a Link Wheel is and how it works, however, the product he is shilling in the end of the clip would fall in the category of Black Hat in my world. The software uses the practice of article spinning as one of its tactics. To me, that is as bad as it gets on the Internet.

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What Do You Think?

Are Link Wheels Abusive?

Link Wheels as we've seen above are considered Black Hat in some circles. Personally, I say they are not, but that would be before human hands touch them and try to cheat. This is true with any concept or anyplace we've gone as a race. There will always be those who try to cheat and there is no fighting them directly.

The best we can hope for is to force them in to some other area......like.......back to selling used cars.

Do you think Link Wheels are Black Hat?

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Yes. Very Unethical.

timo5150 says:

If you you article spinners I say yes

Posted December 15, 2011

No. Not until enough cheaters abuse them.

seowizardza says:

Content is king and link wheels are hard work, if you follow all the seo guidelines and you are not creating duplicate content, then are we doing wrong? Not everyone uses one source of directory to search with so get the info out there, I say.

Posted July 11, 2011

kimmie1967 says:

I do not believe Link wheels are black Hat at all if used in the manner they were intended for. Unfortunately people tend to want to take the easy way and that is where unethical behavior comes into play.

Posted February 21, 2010

crosscreations says:

A link wheel is a system and there will always be folks who try to cheat the system. Doesn't make the system wrong in the first place. Link wheels work and can be used quite ethically.

Posted February 20, 2010

Michey says:

The way we progress is through experiment. At this point I cannot see unethical behavior. But if we start experimenting we go no ware.
Just my opinion. Keep on blogging.
Michey

Posted February 06, 2010

aj2008 says:

It depends who is using the Link Wheel. There has to be trust and participants have to see that any unethical behaviour will be dealt with quickly, if it happens.

Posted September 21, 2009

GrowWear says:

No one is waiting on the sidelines to build our authority for us.

Posted September 21, 2009

 

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