I did test out the method for awhile before I bought any of the additional software that’s available out there, and it worked just fine. The additional purchases aren’t necessary, but they do make things faster and easier if you want to build a lot of links to multiple sites like I did.

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Thanks for the nudge

Today I added a post, at http://www.nichestorestrategie.....inks-test/, that tells of my conclusion and final thoughts from this test.

Rochelle

Thanks for the nudge

Today I added a post, at http://www.nichestorestrategie.....inks-test/, that tells of my conclusion of this test.

Rochelle

Any update on 30 Minute Backlinks? I’m just curious to see if it’s worth the investment.

Kev

I completely agree about not blasting search engines with a large number of backlinks in a short period of time. I knew that going into this test and am as curious as anyone else about how having done this will effect my site.

Interestingly, I’m coming to the conclusion that it isn’t necessary. So far it seems that doing minimal promotion (for the toolbar, not the niche store) is the better, and easier, way to go.

Rochelle

First I see how many pages my site has indexed. I do this by going to Google and entering my site’s URL as such: site:mysiteURL.com. Whatever the results are is approximately how many pages Google has indexed for my site.

Next I enter my site’s URL just by itself: mysiteURL.com. I look at the results and subtract my indexed pages results, as determined above, to see how many backlinks there are.

Supposedly you can find out backlinks by entering links:mysiteURL.com, but I’ve never gotten that to work so I do the above steps.

There is probably a better method but I don’t yet know one. There are software programs that will calculate this for you but I haven’t liked any that I’ve tried.

Rochelle

I’ve been watching this thread with great interest. I made a toolbar and plan to submit it, so your stats are real helpful to me.

It’s actually a good thing not to get blasted with a lot of backlinks all at one time. That can look suspicious to Google. Slow and steady is usually the best way to go.

Kay