like the title says.. if you sponsor wordpress themes and the theme gets popular, can you get banned ?
Can´t remember where it was, but there was a discussion about a UK site (I think in the gardening sector) when a Google Staff member complained about a template which a) was used in pornographic sites b) did contain a lot of footer links The site was davalued and had worse SERPS After resolving this problem and reinclusion request it ranked back on No 1 for its search terms
Quite on the contrary, I believe such sponsoring options would definitely help with your site's rankings because templates and themes links are in fact important one way votes.
I don't think so. Never heard of it ever happened. But if so, maybe it will depend on the kind theme &/or it's content.
I think if you sponsor a wordpress them with a backlink to your website and once that theme becomes popular, it will be picked by lots of bloggers for their blogs and websites. This way you will get getting thousand of links with the Same Anchor Text. Having the same anchor text on thousands of website can be an area of concern and Google may have problem with that