No More Theme Sponsor Link In Themes.Wordpress!

There is a lot of talk about whether Themes.Wordpress should allow theme sponsor or not. Now it’s confirm theme sponsor links are not allow anymore in themes.wordpress! Just kidding, it’s just on weblog tools collection.com, but they are leading the movement.

And themes.wordpress.net might just consider the idea to ban sponsor links someday.

Personally, I don’t see it’s unethical to leave a sponsor link there as long as it’s stated that it’s a sponsor wordpress theme download. Blog theme designer need to make a living too. And to have proper incentive is what make our system great in the first place (capitalist).

You got have something to motivated people!

But Are We Taking It Too Far?

Is the whole theme sponsor thing is taking too far? As you know, it’s very valuable to have a theme sponsor on a blog that have google page rank 4-6 and have more then 200 postings. That’s mean the sponsor will get 200 different page rank quality in bound links with little costs. This is why a lot of online marketer have use this to exploit the opportunity. And sometime, you will see 2-4 sponsor links. I said good for them.

Well, as long as it’s inform people that this is a sponsor links theme, and use it as your own risk, we don’t have a problem with sponsor links. But it’s definitely not right not to inform that this is a sponsor theme, and use coding to hide your sponsor link. This is just not the right way to improve your google ranking and make money online.

The Way We Look At It

We don’t like the decision because we think it’s should give incentive and credit to the sponsor who actually paid the bill. But when you look at how the system being exploit and affect those who like to make money online, then you know this stand is necessary.

I know a blogger who write solid content and have good quality incoming links. But his blog can never get a good google page rank. With my little help, we found out that he actually got penalize by Google because of having a sponsor link that link to the “bad neighborhood”. Hmm, this is definitely a sad thing for him and since he has lost so many hair try to figure out what has happen.

Imagine that you are that hard working blogger who is waiting to make some money online and want to see your google page rank go higher and higher, and want to see your traffic coming more and more from google search engine. And it’s never happen! This is why we can see it’s necessary to take the stand now, because base on themes.wordpress, they don’t have the resource to check one by one for the “bad neighborhood” or “sponsor links that go too far”. It’s necessary to protect those new bloggers who know nothing about SEO, but like to make a nice living online. Well, we think …

This is not a right decision, but is the best decision for lacking of resource to check the bad neighborhood.

Anyway, it’s crucial to know a little bit SEO for blogger just like any business owner starting a business without know how to do marketing can cost the business greatly.

How to check bad neighborhood?

Well, you must be wondering how you can prevent this so that you don’t lose all your hair:) You are definitely in good had if you read our hoobin.com blog ( shameless self-promoting trick learning from john chow ). Try this tools Bad Neighborhood Link checker tool here

Anyway, we do favor “black hat” or “quick and easy way” method sometime if it’s ethical and for the best, but honestly we think to learn “white hat” method is best return of investment(ROI) since it’s always apply and relevant for the next 5 years.

By the way, Nate is honoring us the Power Post Blog. This really motivate us to write more great story, compile more information and share our little experiment with what is best to make more money online.

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