Can you get penalized for building a link wheel? Well thats something thats debated quite a bit these days and Im on the side of them being a method you should most likely steer clear of. Why do I state that? Well it is clearly a link scheme defined by Googles linking guidelines because theyre used to inflate your rankings. The other problem is that 99% of the link wheels created out there are being done with spun low quality content, and then blasted with Xrumer, Scrapebox and whatever other spam tool out there.