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Just 24 hours after my first WordPress theme auction started it received a Buy It Now bid. The sponsorship slot was bought by Maiahost, a hosting company who specialise in wordpress web hosting. It is a great buy for them as their link will be seen by thousands of tightly targetted potential customers.

Spurred on by this success I have decided to auction another theme called ‘Flowers‘. You can see Flowers in action on Themey.com until the end of the auction (at least). Again, I would love to hear comments on the theme and the new site.

The auction is here.

For anyone who would like a bunch more inbound links to their website, here is a great opportunity to buy a shedload for cheap!

Themey is auctioning the Glow WordPress theme over at DP. The starting bid is only $1.

Buying sponsored links on a WordPress theme is a great way to build (potentially) thousands of links. The links are build steadily over time, and you get to specify the anchor text. Check out this article on sponsored theme link building for more on the advantages of building links using this cost-effective method.

For those of you who appreciated my SEO Adsense WordPress Theme, I have created a new and improved theme called (simply) AdSense. The theme is being released through Themey, a new site dedicated to WordPress Themes.

AdSense theme is widget ready and has been designed for WP 2.1 (Ella). I’m hoping that the grey background and grey text should lead the readers eyes to the adsense adverts for a good conversion rate. Again, this theme has been designed without the use of images so it is quick and easy to implement on any WordPress blog.

If you do download and use the theme please let me know what you think by commenting on the theme over at Themey.com

I was writing a comment on RugJeff’s blog this morning which turned into a bit of a ramble, so I brought it over here instead. The post I was commenting on was a paid post sponsored by the PayPerPost service. That I was considering commenting on it, and that I am now linking to it, must mean that it has some real value & isn’t just a ‘junk’ post.

I still can’t make my mind up about PPP and ReviewMe etc. I’ve had some offers from ReviewMe, some I’ve taken, some I’ve not. I guess it depends on how it fits in. If I was to start posting about some of the topics available in PPP then I’m sure my readership would reduce pretty quickly.

I have another old ‘junk’ blog (or two) that has good PR that I have used for PPP and various other things though. You can make quite a tidy sum from blog posts if the PR is good and the niche is high value. If you have a PPP account you will surely have noticed that the majority of the offers are from financial services sectors.

I’m sure there must be a bunch of people picking up dropped domains or buying domains with PR & bleeding these paid posting services for all they are worth. I wonder how many checks PPP make into the background of the domain? Their requirements (from memory) are 3 months age and 20 post minimum. Setting up a blog to look like that by editing timestamps is pretty easy, you could even scrape another blog if you were so inclined. Archive.org generally wouldn’t have a history on a site 3 months old, so what other checks could be made?

Even easier would be to use an old hosted blog address. There are plenty of abandoned and deleted blogspot accounts available, never mind wordpress.com, livejournal and other smaller hosted blog providers. In the case of subdomains there is obviously no useable whois service, which makes checking the background even harder.

In my previous post I detailed some steps for removing comment spam and trackback spam from old WordPress blogs. Checking the logs for one of those sites (topic: computers), showed that it was actually receiving natural search traffic for ‘penis enlargement’.