If you are very crazy about building free word press theme. You not only built links to your website but also you can also earn cash from it. Enjoy it.
Building Links and Getting Traffic
When you build your wordpress template you can use copyright massage and link back url to your website. By using this you can you get link back for for each download of your theme. You can be seen by the search engines and your page rank will get increase. For example if your theme is downloaded 500 times. 500 sites will be linked to you so that you get steady traffic daily
Earning Money
You not only get traffic bur you also get money. In the same way you can have sponsored link in the footer same as powered by link. As of i know some theme designers charge up to 200$ for having sponsored links that is much more then selling your blog.
You can also give upgrade of free template for some $$$ .
This is how you can make cash , page rank and many more by giving free blog……