How I Made $200 While Getting Hundreds of Links to My Site

Finding (or creating) new advertising ideas have always been a challenge. However, getting paid to advertise a website is even tougher, but there are ways. This post will cover one of those techniques, which is template distribution. I purchased a coded WordPress template on Sitepoint for $50. I then created a a thread on the DigitalPoint forums selling links on the template. I sold two links for $100 each (in just a few hours) in the footer of the template prior to distribution. People like to buy the links because every time someone downloads and uses the template to their website, they’ll get a backlink to their site. One interesting point is, that by distributing a WordPress template, I’ll also receive technorati links as well. I added a link to my site in the footer as well and also added the following code to the CSS template:

/*
Theme Name: JetSTAR Premium Blue
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: A Premuim Theme for Wordpress.
Version: 3.5
Author: Internet Marketing Blog
Author URI: http://www.virtualmarketingblog.com/
*/

That code places a link to my site in the backend of WordPress when a user installs and also places a link to my site on some template distribution sites, such as themes.wordpress.net. Speaking of distribution, there are a number of sites to distribute the template too – remember that the more people that download the template the more users and backlinks you’ll receive to the website. I distributed my template at:

• Sitepoint
• Digitalpoint
• Webmaster-talk
• Namepros
• Webmaster Talk
• Weblog Tools Collection
• Wordpress.net

In a little over four days, the template has had about 200 downloads, about 200 unique visitors have visited my website as a direct result from the template, and there are about 10 technorati incoming links to the website as a direct result form the template distribution.  Buying the template, selling links, and distributing the template took about three hours of my time and I profited $150.  It was very well worth it and I’ve started to purchase more WordPress templates.

You can download the themplate at http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2032/jetstar-premium-blue-35/

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Great Idea. I will get on this today!

I know you are promoting your blog very well.
Congratulations for an easy money.

Friend of mine is creating those templates because of the backlinks, but if he had known that he can also made easy money with that… Really great idea!

What do you think, how long will this advertising idea work?

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I’m really excited after reading this post. Could you please post a follow up on if your still doing this or not? I think I’m going to start selling/giving away templates.

be sure you buy a copy that gives you the rights to resell…unles you like getting sued