Comments on: Is it Worth Sponsoring Wordpress Themes and PHP Scripts ?

By: AniNaruto

AniNaruto — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:51:17 +0000

Hi,
First i like to thank for your time to answer my question. I do agree with the “link generator” concept, it sure can generate thousands of “unknown backlinks” pointing straight to your website/blog. However i’ve to admit that there are few downside by sponsoring a theme.
- What i’ve seen that most bloggers that download free wp themes doesn’t respect sponsored links, these links can easily be deleted simply by modifying the footer.php.
- since all wp themes are free, you never who downloaded it… maybe some shady webmaster trying to promote illegal activities.
Well, just my opinion.
Once again Thanks for your time writing this useful post.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:51:09 +0000

I did not have a bad experience by sponsoring Wordpress themes. Many of the people that installed a theme, kept the sponsor link in the footer.

Even if it was downloaded by webmasters promoting illegal activities with their blog, you will never get penalized by Google or other big search engines for this. You can’t get penalized for a certain website linking to you. It would be to easy to kill your competitors if this would work…

Keep also in mind that the same number of people that remove a sponsor link from the footer of a Wordpress theme, would also remove it from the PHP script

By: AniNaruto

AniNaruto — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:02:23 +0000

Hi again,
Yes i agree, but some php script only allow their script to be installed on one domain only and not on multi-domain, they also track the domain where the script been installed. Legal action will be taken if they found out that the webmaster removed the sponsored link without buying copyright removal.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:18:45 +0000

Do you really beleive that the programmer of the script will take a lawyer because one of the people that have already paid 180$ for the script removes the sponsor link you have paid for?I’m quite unsure about this…

By: AniNaruto

AniNaruto — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:08:54 +0000

never have thought that…

By: michelle

michelle — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:28:27 +0000

This post definitely got the wheels turning in my head. Very interesting idea, especially about developing them oneself. (Or getting someone to do it for you and then marketing it…)

By: admin

admin — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:35:53 +0000

You can increase the revenue a lot by doing them yourself. Anyway, even if you take a designer to make the theme, buy his work once he has completed it and than sell sponsor links on the theme to get your money back, you would get a Wordpress Theme that you can promote with your link in the footer for free (or maybe you even manage to make more money, by selling 3 sponsor links, than you have paid for the theme) !

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:29:50 +0000

First, a Wordpress theme is also a php script .
Second, you can sponsor a widget or a plugin for WP because they are php scripts too. If you don’t want to be tied to WP you can sponsor some idea/project that will be implemented using php.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:06:56 +0000

Thanks for your entry Mike. I really did not think about this…this some more useful information for AniNaruto

By: Garchoun Masam

Garchoun Masam — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:09:00 +0000

Very ineteresting post, thanks for your time …

By: Naruto Shippuden

Naruto Shippuden — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:19:41 +0000

Great post. I wonder if they are other sponsoring methods such as this?