If your like me you hate the pain of getting links or buying links to your sites. Well I have found a relatively cheap and easy way to generate backlinks to your sites. We have all been told that viral marketing is the best way to generate links, but how do you get these so called "magic viral links". One way that I just discovered, is to take advantage of the viral nature of popular web software scripts like WordPress. Millions of people use wordpress to power their blogs. And all these WordPress users want their blogs to look cool. So this is where you can generate your viral links. Many people create these wordpress themes and then sale sponsership links in the footer. They then offering them free to the WordPress community. The cool think about this is that you can for a small fee get your link into a theme that is then installed on thousands of blogs. Imagine the link power you could generate by sponsering a popular theme. I know of one site that has used this technique to get to the number 1 spot on Google for a very competitive keyword term that I have been targeting. (This by the way is how I discovered this technique.) This site has sponsered several of the most popular wordpress themes and now has tens of thousands of backlinks to their site.
That's good idea. I think I might just put together a cool WordPress template, give it away for free and then add my sites in the bottom of the template! I had never thought about it this way...!
Sponsoring WP themes is becoming really popular. My detailed article on Wordpress Theme Sponsorship was picked up on several big blogs and I guess a lot of webmasters are looking into the idea now.
You don't need to have any programming experience if you sponser a theme. Lots of people are looking for people to sponser their designs to make them free - just visit the "link sales" and "template" areas of this forum for people offering sponser links.
better yet, I downloaded a wordpress theme and found that it had the creator's adsense code in it! I wonder how many people downloaded it and did not strip out his adsense code.
Putting your adsense IDs into a theme is not a wise move - because you are not in control of the bloggers content or traffic methods. If a blogger using your theme does not remove you Adsense IDs and then does something against the AdSense TOS, you could risk losing your AdSense account.
people do it all the time -- especially on this forum i've seen lots of sales, dont put adsense codes in ur theme lol, like nichevalue said, you could get in trouble.
"Easy Way to Get Lots of Backlinks", "Well I have found a relatively cheap and easy way to generate backlinks to your sites." Your way is neither cheap nor easy....but it is a good way to promote your site.
It is cheap and easy if you find an open source template and convert it to wordpress. (Which is really easy with tutorials easily available on the web) I earned alot of back links a few years ago doing this for Mambo and e107.
Good idea, seems to me, if I understand it correctly, to not be very different than the people doing this on myspace with myspace layouts etc. Most myspace layouts have the link of the site that the layout was gotten from somewhere in the layout. Adding links in myspace is a great way to get backlinks.
great idea! i've got a couple of wordpress blogs that I'm going to get out in some templates in the future.
I agree .. and I noticed a lot of people doing it and the price has gone up ..lol But still a great idea.
you also can make Joomla or PHPLD templates for generating backlinks...I have use this method several times..