Sponsoring a WP theme?

[BuckBuck]

This is inexpensive way to acquire unknown number of backlinks. I have never used it before and i dont know what the result could be. This is long term investmeent. I mean the following:

you sponsor a theme>the creater distibutes it to various sites>people pick it up and start a blog=you get backlinks

But their backlinks in the beginning are worth almost nothing it will take them about half a year to develop nice blogs and then you will receive some quality back links. Many of the bloggers will never make it up to this point. Many will remove the links.

Is it worth? I see some nice themes being created lately and i am really doubtful whether i should sponsor a theme.

[abiji]

Thing is lot of bloggers will remove the link. Almost all the bloggers edit the themes according to their taste. Some new bloggers who doesn't know much HTML programming etc might not be able to remove it but sooner or later it will be removed as i have seen people on tech forums asking how should they remove the link from templates.

[BuckBuck]

Thing is lot of bloggers will remove the link. Almost all the bloggers edit the themes according to their taste. Some new bloggers who doesn't know much HTML programming etc might not be able to remove it but sooner or later it will be removed as i have seen people on tech forums asking how should they remove the link from templates.

I was fearing the just same thing. I find it very attractive to my SEO. For now i think i will save my money. It is probably not worth it. Any other forum member has some experience with it?

[abiji]

Actually i have experience in it. I made theme for phpBB long time back in 2002-2003 and saw that lot of people remove the links. After that i didn't created any theme or atleast released it in public.

[BuckBuck]

Actually i have experience in it. I made theme for phpBB long time back in 2002-2003 and saw that lot of people remove the links. After that i didn't created any theme or atleast released it in public.

Thanks for the feedback abiji. Now i know for sure i wont be sponsoring the theme i liked.

[roby006]

Good ! Dont sponsor them almost all the people will removem the links. I know i remove them.