As you probably already know, I recently purchased 30 Minute Backlinks (if you don’t know what this is you can read my first post about this here and my second post about this here). My first impressions of this method for gaining backlinks was very positive. To date I’ve created three toolbar using the instructions from Michelle MacPhearson for sites that were either very well established or almost so. Since creating these three toolbars and submitting them to various locations I’ve gained 1,583 backlinks.

But, how much did this help my sites in search engines? I really don’t know because the sites I created these toolbars for have already been around for two to eight months. The results look good but I haven’t been able to gauge the effectiveness of what I did.

The more I thought about 30 Minute Backlinks the more I wanted to know exactly how much it would benefit brand new sites. So, I’ve decided to put 30 Minute Backlinks to a test.

Over the last two weeks I created three web sites. These three sites are brand new, meaning I purchased the URLs either last week or early this week, and have built new niche stores on them. I have done nothing to promote them other than submitting each site’s dynamic sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools. The only marketing I will do for these three sites is to create and promote a toolbar for each site using Michelle’s 30 Minute Backlinks.

To make this as fair as possible I am going to control as much as possible. First, I’m not going to disclose the URLs for these sites until I’ve finished my testing. I don’t want to skew the results by doing this. Secondly, I created three sites that are very similar. The do not contain any duplicate items but they all contain items from the same categories. For example, let’s say I created three sites selling cars (I didn’t but let’s just pretend I did). One site would sell Ford cars, another would sell Chrysler cars, and the third would sell General Motors cars. All the same category (cars) but each sells unique cars so there are no duplicate items on any of the three sites.

The reason I am testing three sites is because I want to compare how effective the different ways of promoting the toolbars is on getting the sites indexed and ranked in search engines. Here is what I am doing to each site:

As of this writing here are the statistics for these three sites:

As soon as I post this on my blog I will submit information about two of the three toolbars I created to software directories as described above. I’ll post again tomorrow with the results from just one day.

Rochelle