As first I hope I selected right category for that topic When I joined DP I immediately noticed people who are selling sponsor links on their Wordpress themes. I enjoyed this idea, but I have apprehensions how long will this business model work? I believe there will be a big growth of that business model because of the articles outside of the forums. For example it was mentioned on many social bookmarking sites and I also find today an article about that on The Blog Herald Blog - Sponsored WordPress Themes: A Great Business Model. Is that buzz good or bad for this business model? I believe that there will be more and more designers, and web design companies creating Wordpress themes for money or for selling sponsor links on them - which is great for bloggers, because there will be many free themes, but I don't know how it will affect people who are creating those themes, and also the open source world.
yep..finally someone bring up this subject. as for me if you asked me do i support theme sponsor link my answer is yes but theme sponsor seller should minimal to minimum of 1 or 2 sponsors link and 3 the most....for their themes.... i guess its all depends on how you see the things..if you bidding on a sponsorship on a beautifully design and carefully coded themes...it definately worth the green$ for backlinks...and if you're bidding on a clone themes...that's just bad luck but will you still get a backlink to your site...the answer is yes..all and all its a win win situation.... the situation of free theme submit got lil bit frenzy since themes.wp.net...open their door for theme submit...tell you the truth..some great theme were pushed over to the back and never seen the light again when submitting theme had no limit there. anyhow...the method of sponsor link definately one of million ways to promote your site for SEO...lol
This is something similar to what happens for templates. Nothing wrong in this and there should be no saturation of this market. If the templates/themes are good, more people will use it and the developer can sell links at a higher price. The market will control the prices quite easily.
Yeah but the market for Wordpress themes is strange. Every day there are more people offering sponsorships on their themes and the price/link is going UP and not down...
they r all just trying to make money, and the buyers get a boost too, they can get thousands of backlinks with or without PR for a single price, never having to pay again but the links can keep on building, link development is made easy that way for many