How To Promote Your Free Wordpress Theme Tips
Here are a number of Tips on how to promote your free wordpress theme that I would like to share with you today.
1. After you have finished uploading wordpress to your own blog, tag it with Technorati, and add a screenshot with tags to Flickr, and next add to some social bookmarks. Next step, go and do some research to find out where else you can submit your themes for the widest distribution.
2. To start, go to the best place at Wordpress Codex. All you have to do is register for an account, and edit the appropriate category in the wiki format to add your theme. The result is an instant PR7 link to your site.
3. As Wordpress-Themes.org has a flashed-based file upload utility that is kind of cool. It’s a small list right now, but it looks like it has a lot of potential. Theme page currently a PR2
4. Next, leave a comment on How to Blog’s list of 875+ free themes for Wordpress and you’ll get some traffic from the comment section right away. And hopefully you’ll get added to the next update of the list. The list is PR5, and the comment section does not appear to use the nofollow tag.
5. BloxFlux Theme Directory requires registration and a screenshot that’s 640×480, but if you jump through the hoops, your theme is added instantly. The theme page is a PR7, but your link will be on a unique page for your theme. Based on the directory structure, that page is likely to get a PR4 or 5 when Google updates again.
6. Wordpress Theme Browser (PR7) takes an uploaded zip file of your theme from your hard drive as a submission, automatically creates a screenshot and grabs the theme info from the style.css file. Very slick, and instant. Be sure to link to your site from the style.css for best effect. Now that this site is up and running, the Wordpress Themepark is offline.
7. The Open Directory Project seems to be listing only those sites that have multiple themes, but if you can make one, you can repeat the process multiple times … and the ODP gets replicated at Google as well as other high-traffic sites.
8. Smaller link directories
9. WordpressTheme dot com (PR5) seems to be down for the count, but it might be worthwhile submitting your theme via the contact form.
10. Not yet fully functional, it seems, is wp-themes.org (PR6), where you can host your theme, and have it displayed wiki-style, like wp-plugins but for themes. Watch this site closely.
Anything else that I have missed? Add a comment.
