Comments on: Sponsoring Wordpress Themes for Backlinks

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:16:41 +0000

It’s a good idea but can be bad idea specially when backlinks are coming from bad sites .. Is int it??
Correct me if I’m wrong…

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118 Blogging Related Bookmarks Knowledge Base — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:59:56 +0000

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By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:26:47 +0000

This is smart thinking, and an easier way to get lots of traffic from a theme. My thought was to make my own theme(s) and of course host them. You can get tons of traffic from the fact that people are USING the theme and you’re linked in the tagline, but this is a VERY easy way to capitalize on someone else’s theme.

By: Maki

Maki — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:10:27 +0000

Stuart,

I wrote about this topic 2 mths ago.. if you’re interested, I’ve linked to it in my URL.

Wordpress Theme sponsorship is ineffectual in the current climate, IMO. There’s just too much heat on it and going big on Themes.wordpress.net won’t be as easy as before.

Producing your own WP theme and releasing is a far better link building strategy.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:05:17 +0000

Depends on the theme, I’d more than pay $300 to sponsor the BloggingPro theme for example.

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:09:36 +0000

$300 would be a bit pricey.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Wed, 09 May 2007 04:35:09 +0000

Will there be a lot of people who remove the footer links? I do that on all my wordpress blogs.

By: Community Building Blog

Community Building Blog — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:46:56 +0000

My only reservation with sponsoring a theme is you do not know what that theme is going to be used for.

The last thing I would want is my link appearing on hate sites or blogs on topics I consider ‘undesirable’.

- Martin Reed

By: Matt Propst

Matt Propst — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:45:10 +0000

Maybe it’s not good to spend that much. I’ll play devil’s advocate and say that on Digital Point Forums you can get a theme coded for around $50 if you look. More often than not you can find one for less than that uncoded. Why would I want to sponsor a theme for that much money when i could have one created for less and just distribute that?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:06:08 +0000

Perhaps a post about Theme promotion might be on the card soon, cheers Dominic

By: Dominic

Dominic — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:00:49 +0000

I agree. I have never sponsored a theme, but the theme I released for my blog has got me heaps of backlinks.
http://www.internetwealthmaster.com/seo-simple/
Also, remember to market your theme or plugin as effectively as possible. There are plenty of blogs with lots of ‘Trust/Page Rank’ that report on recently released themes and plugins. There are also lots of highly ranked directories where you can list your theme.

By: Jon Waraas

Jon Waraas — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:18:08 +0000

I would like to add that this works great. I have made/sponsored a lot of themese. Great way for backlinks