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Old 11-24-2007, 03:05 PM
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Do you purchase sponsored links on Word Press themes and how often?

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I have done on a number of occassions, did not see any noticable backlinks benfits
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Here is my opinion on sponsored themes...

1. 90% of the time these free themes are very low quality. They made with a single purpose - to spread a backlink.

2. If link is not encrypted 9 out of 10 users will remove it (believe me I have proof)

3. If you decided to sponsor a theme make sure to get all rights from the designer so your link will be the only ONE in the footer.

Another thing about free themes... People who use them obviously not willing to invest time or money into developing unique quality site... What is the benefit of having a link from another useless made-on-the-fly blog?

This is the main reason I stopped making skins for sponsorships and free releases.

Save your money - these links are worthless!
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You have some great points there SkinnerW - Thanks
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I must say people like you are rare exception from the general rule (you know what I am talking about...)
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I quite agree with you Skinner, the few occassions I have paid to sponsore themes, I got a few backlinks for a few weeks and after a while it all disappered.
When I use free themes, I tend to remove the links from the footer too, most of the links link to usually low quality unrelated sites.
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It is totally wrong to remove footer links especially when you have recieved a template for free.

People work hard designing and providing free templates so their link should remain at the footer.
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You are right GKD, one should leave footer template links there or not use the template at all, but sadly, quite a few people do.
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I had done this previously but like Temi did not notice anything really. If I were to use a template designed by someone else that had guidelines not to remove footer links then I would honour that as it is only fair to do so.
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Here is my opinion on sponsored themes...

1. 90% of the time these free themes are very low quality. They made with a single purpose - to spread a backlink.

2. If link is not encrypted 9 out of 10 users will remove it (believe me I have proof)

3. If you decided to sponsor a theme make sure to get all rights from the designer so your link will be the only ONE in the footer.

Another thing about free themes... People who use them obviously not willing to invest time or money into developing unique quality site... What is the benefit of having a link from another useless made-on-the-fly blog?

This is the main reason I stopped making skins for sponsorships and free releases.

Save your money - these links are worthless!
Very good opinion. sponsored links worthless.

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