Earning from wordpress theme?

by Derek on August 30, 2008

Do you know that you can actually make some petty cash just by selling what you have in your harddisk?Just recently, i am doing monthly maintenance for my computer and i found this wordpress theme file that i used for my previous blog design. Those who visited my blog since the past few months will probably seen it before. It’s a waste to delete it thus i decided to sell the sponsored footer links and release it for public download. I spent around 2 hour packaging it, cleaning up the css codings, enhancing the layout, create screenshots and then listing the footer links for auction. In the end, I managed to get $90usd for the 3 sponsor links. Better than deleting right? Well, i guess this will also help to increase backlinks to my blog and improve the SERPs. I will be creating a section mainly for wordpress theme downloads and you guys can download the theme there.

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1 David August 30, 2008 at 7:55 am

Wow, that’s nice. I didn’t know people actually do buy sponsor links on templates. Maybe I’ll start designing themes in my spare time :)

2 Webmaster Guy August 30, 2008 at 8:00 am

@David, yeah, people buy them to increase the backslinks to their website and build up their site’s metrics.

3 Dan August 30, 2008 at 3:30 pm

“free premium” – which is it?

4 David Koh August 31, 2008 at 12:00 am

I think he meant that the theme is free…but he SELLS links on the footer.

5 Webmaster Guy August 31, 2008 at 2:06 am

@Dan: It’s of quality of a premium wordpress theme whereby you can get it for free :)

6 Otooo August 31, 2008 at 11:57 pm

Yeah, I have been wanting to do this for a while but haven’t got around to doing it

7 SEO forums September 2, 2008 at 6:11 pm

Hey congrats…..but I am not that versed with this designing work.

8 StyleWP October 4, 2008 at 10:01 am

I thought big G was cracking down on these sponsored links supported themes?

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