It is still much too early for me to tell how well the 30 Minute Backlinks method is working but I want to share something I did that I thought of all by myself (I’m so proud!). As you know, I created a toolbar as explained in 30 Minute Backlinks. When I created the toolbar I filled it with links to the most popular categories in my My Little Pony store. It occurred to me that the toolbar may be of interest to those who visit my site. So I decided to add a link to it in my store.

I did this by creating an anchor text for the phrase ‘Download our free ‘My Little Pony’ toolbar. I used a link to the location of the toolbar on Conduit.com’s web site (where I made the toolbar for free). I could have used a link to where the toolbar is located on my web site but I had a good reason to use the download from Conduit. Conduit actually offers statistics, such as how many times the toolbar has been downloaded and how many times users have clicked links in the toolbar.

It was about 24 hours ago that I added toolbar link to my site and I’m pleased to say that the toolbar has been installed by two people. That may not sound like much, but I happen to think that two downloads in one day shows the potential for using the toolbars on our sites.

Think about it. If you use the method described in 30 Minute Backlinks to create toolbars (or any of the four other software tools) for your sites then you have created a toolbar specifically for your niches. The chances of anyone actually looking for toolbars relating to your niches in search engines is probably very small. But by adding them to your sites you have are offering them to people who are already interested in your niches. This is an extremely easy way to get repeat visitors and/or sales. I will be adding toolbars, as well as the other tools I created, to each site I create them for in addition to submitting them to directories.

A brief update on how my toolbars are doing so far in getting backlinks to my site (the reason for watching the 30 Minute Backlinks videos). To date I have made two toolbars. The My Little Pony toolbar was submitted to directories using a program I bought for the sole purpose of submitting PAD files to software directories. The other was just submitted to a single resource, the one where software directories go to find new software to add to their directories.

• My Little Pony toolbar: Three days after submitting the toolbar I counted 50 unique backlinks in Google (this toolbar will be faster to generate backlinks because I used a program to submit it to over 800 directories)
• Other toolbar: Two days after submitting toolbar I counted two unique backlinks in Google (this toolbar will be slower to generate backlinks because I submitted it to one place)

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