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It has been a little while since I have posted anything to the web ! In Fact it been a month or so !!!!

Well I have an excuse I have been busy over the past few weeks with many things but the biggest being moving house. Moving reminded me that “Packing up a house is the pits”.

As part of the move I was temporarily disconnected from the net which was quite disconcerting. Until someone or something takes away your access you do not realise how much you can use one form of communication so much that is be it for banking, investing , communication, or blogging sometimes I forget how much I use the web. Being disconnected was actually a good reminder.

Anyway I digress as usual, now that things have settle down a little I have decided to get back to work and update my web pages at

www.kenwong.com.au
www.hidedesigns.com.au

Begin with updating the theme of this blog.

So as usual after a little searching on my favourite search engine I found the word press theme viewer website

After browsing through the word press themes I discovered that most of the uploaded themes had a few strange non relevant links embeded in the footers.

I thought to my self does this mean that there are thousands of blogs out there with embedded links in them! I would imagine that most of these link salso stay embedde as most end users wouldn’t know how to edit them out of the code.I am not a html php freak so I can tell you I wouldn’t really know how to take them out.

So are these really free word press themes or do they come with a “price” embedded

This begs the question how many of these themes have embedded links?

I have taken around the site and I can tell you that all of the new templates have irrelevant links embedded. As a percentage I have absolutely no idea. Take a look for your self it is quite amazing.

How many of these themes are downloaded?

Well searching by most downloaded shows you just how mnay of the top templates are downloaded.
Tens of thousands, in fact we are talking hundreds of thousands.

How many of these themes are edited by the end user?

Well again i have no idea but I wouldn’t imagine that many are actually edited by the end user.

So if you want passive links from thousands of blogs then start creating good designed word press templates and upload into the word press theme viewer website.

If you have already done this drop me a line let me know how this went, is this ethical SEO link building, does this really work?

I am sure this isn’t a new technique but I just hadn’t realise that some of the links that are in these themes could be so random or rather irrelevant.

Seriously take a look you will be amazed by the types of links you will find in these templates.

Oh update:

This is a form of link baiting !

Not so sure this is an ethical style though. I mean a link back to your design site s fine but putting in links to ohter site that may be you SEO client is another thing altogether. Think I need to write a separate blog on link baiting..will do that tomorrow