How I Arrived at My Stats for my Testing of 30 Minute Backlinks

Posted by Rochelle in Site Building Strategies, Site Promotion Strategies on 06 18th, 2008 | 4 responses

[2009-03-28 The three sites I created for this test were thin affiliate sites.  I did a very poor job of creating the sites and have not done what needs to be done to make them good sites.  As a result, I have not kept the domains, and you will no longer be able to look up these sites in Google.  If you find any results after this update then that means someone else bought the URLs and anything you find is not mine.]

Someone asked me today if I still think 30 Minute Backlinks was worth purchasing.  He had looked for backlinks to my three test sites and found results that were not even close to what I had stated.  It was a fair question and one I think deserved its own post.

About two or three months ago I purchased 30 Minute Backlinks and put it to a test.  I followed the method explained by 30 Minute Backlinks and then used three different promotional methods for the toolbars I created.  Every so often I posted updates of this test, then eventually concluded the test and gave my findings.  However, I don’t think I explained how I came to the figures that I posted.

Supposedly, Google lets users search for sites that link to a specific site by using the command link:url.com (where ‘url.com’ is replaced with the site you are checking on).  I have never had luck with this command so I don’t use it.  Instead, I searched for the keyword phrases I focused on during my testing.

For example, one of the test sites is a niche store promoting gender neutral toys.  For this site I targeted the keyword phrase gender neutral toys.  To see the results of my keyword phrase I can enter “gender neutral toys” in Google.  As of this writing here is what I see when I do this:

That looks good, but I want to see only the results pertaining to the toolbar I created.  For that I search for “gender neutral toys toolbar” 1.0 or “download gender neutral toys” 1.0.  Now I see results from all the sites that Google has indexed with my toolbar:

Each of the 500+ results contains a backlink to one of my niche stores.  For each of my test sites I searched Google for the keyword phrases I targeted, and that is how I arrived at the numbers I came to in my last update of 30 Minute Backlinks.

Lastly, the person I mentioned above asked if I am still satisfied with my purchase of 30 Minute Backlinks.  Yes, I am.  I’ll admit that I haven’t used it to its fullest, but that’s because I’ve been sick for the last month (did I mention that my illness turned into pneumonia?) and I’ve had some other personal issues occur that have really thrown me for a loop.  But once the dust settles here I intend to create toolbars, and the other four items that 30 Minute Backlinks gives instructions for, to all of my remaining niche stores.

Rochelle

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