Wordpress Child Themes Still Effective?

[deaddogdesign]

Do you feel creating Wordpress Themes With Your Branded Keyword Is Still Effective?  Since, the recent change was wondering if footer links should be avoided.  Also, what are some good places to submit your developed themes to?

[JamesNorquay]

To be honest if I was going to roll out a theme and it was used by 10,000 people I would worry if the anchor text is the same on 10,000 sites. I know when Penguin 1.0 rolled out many many websites which footer links on a massive scale were hit VERY hard. Their were even case studies from wordpress theme owners on Moz.

The key element here is you are worried is to make the footer link no follow.

Where to distribute it, depends if you want to push it for free or to make money from it, Theme Forest is a good start, their are 100s of free theme sites in the market.

[deaddogdesign]

Ok thanks.  I should probably consider making them nofollow links.  Submitting to a number of smaller theme directories and will keep those follow and with the bigger ones keep them no follow.  Perhaps I should consider changing my anchored text with branded keywords in them.  I believe a lot of sites were hit from using keywords (not branded terms) in footer.

[BrianJGomez]

I think that is exactly the right strategy - cherry pick when to use follow links