So i bought a wordpress theme sponsor link for 110 dollar the theme got 450 + download 10 link registered from technorati, however, when i check, only two blog still have my link. Others simply removed it or change to other theme i rank #1 for the exact anchor word (a non competitive word like "burn the something something"), 29 for (burn the something), 154 for (burn something, very competitive word). I wasn't ranked for all three keyword before i bought the sponsor link I wouldn't surprise my ranking will be gone by the next update since i don't think the link will stay. no more wordpress sponsor link for me
450 Downloads, after how long? Some people do remove links, I find the best way is to actually contact them and ask them to put the link back or remove the theme. That is actually the responsibility of the person that sold you the links, every blog I find using one of my themes without the footer I try to get in touch with them and get them to put it back up. So far everyone has. Your links will increase with time though. Just thought I'd throw my $0.02 in there as well.
Good for you. Anyway, i don't want excessive amount of footer link with the same anchor point to my site btw, i see you selling wordpress theme, do you have any example so that i can check the # of download, keyword position and # of link of that theme?
Yep people often remove them, its the themes where the sponsor links are to obvious on the template, or when there is up to 3 sponsor links and the designer link also where there usually removed. On a theme i used on one of my sites i recently noticed 3 hidden links and every new post would have a div hidden link at the end of it, maybe thats the future for sponsoring themes now and the only way for them to remain.
That is great to know. I was always wondering how this would work out. Your scenario was exactly what I was thinking would happen.
Hidden link? That's bad.. also, the other sponsor link on the theme has anchor word "Loan". I think that's another reason why people are removing it
Yup id guess a lot of themes have these now and its only by luck that i saw them. I left the footer links but just nofollowed them
http://themes.wordpress.net/index.php?s=mubin Those are all the themes I released so far. Some have 2 some 3 some 4. Hope that helps.
http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2256/ascetic-japan-10/ http://www.google.com/search?q="Spo...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a 2 result http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2349/neon-buzz-10/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...s,+I+buy+Houses+&+Mobile+Phones+"&btnG=Search 1 result that's it?
If you realease the theme under the right license ( I do so under the Share-a-like Attribution 2.5 ) People MUST leave the specified links intact (meaning no modification AT ALL), else you contact them. If the blog owner does not answer or refuses to comply with the license you can contact their webhost, domain registrar and even their revenue source (such as adsense) and submit a DMCA take down notice. Google adsense acts fast on DMCA requests.
Bah! I have not seen many that have bothered to remove the links. I checked on one of the ones I sponsored. It currently has 2200+ dls and there's about 800 current backlinks coming from them. There's quite a number of them as pr6's and one pr8. Gotta be happy with that!! As far as people changing their themes after dl'ing it? That's their decision. There is no obligation to use your theme after dl'ing it. Col
that's nice, can i have a link to that theme? I would like to see the quality of that. and what was the anchor text? I am sure it is part of the reason why some got remove and some don't The pr8 and pr6 is quite amazing cause most old blog doesn't change theme often or have people design their own theme,
Exactly, with the right theme (even 200-500 downloads) can do you a lot of good! If a theme is total shyt and gets a ton of dl's, how long do you think that theme will remain on blogs? You gotta look for quality! Also if your theme designer/owner/whatever you want to call them that your buying the sponsorship from won't act on people removing YOUR paid links, then that is a issue you should really talk to with them. I know my theme sponsors contact me on a regular basis about sites using my themes that have no links or even modified ones. I send out about 5 emails a day, ALL answer back promptly.
question, how do you know people are using your theme if they remove you link? Do you usually leave some trace?
Most people who remove links, will put the theme up and google/yahoo/msn will crawl their site in the meantime. THEN they decide to remove the links... uhh lol all you gotta do is a simple search! Iv been doing some testing, my oldest 2 themes out there brought me over 2K back links to my one site, and got a nice PR4 this update.
Technorati is a great way to trace who is linking to you. The theme I used is here. Or one of them anyway. Col
can i have a link to that theme? and i they remove the link before they upload the theme, there will be no trace?
http://www.google.com/search?q="Cry...en-US:official&hs=Osl&start=110&sa=N&filter=0 that's some amazing number!!! and the theme is very nice. Who did you bought it from? too bad digital point rank #1 for High Traffic Advertising make sure the other link's anchor text. The other link on the theme i sponsored is "loan" that link to a landing page, that may be the reason why my link got removed too