Performancing now allows you to support and sponsor pMetrics with either a site-wide text link ad or an image ad.

Get seen by thousands of pMetrics users as they check their stats on a daily basis. pMetrics users are blog users, seo hounds, and stat junkies. If you want to target these demographics, please consider a pMetrics sponsorship.

Sponsorships are only shown to non-paying members of pMetrics, but this makes up about 99% of our users, and includes the Google Bot;-) Sponsorships are available at discounts to paying pMetrics users.

Current pricing is set at a discount level to encourage early adoption. You can expect pricing to change as our user base continues to grow at an exponential rate (people seem to love pMetrics!)

Early Adoption Text Link Sponsorship Pricing:

• $25/month text link for paying premium members
• $29/month text link for other members
• $49/month text link for third parties

Early Adoption Image Sponsorship Pricing:

• $99/month image ad for paying premium members
• $129/month image ad for other members
• $199/month image ad for third parties

These are great prices for what you can expect to be a PR 6 link on an uber-trusted domain with thousands of daily, scratch that, hourly, eyeballs.

With all of the excitement nowadays, concerning boosting search engine rankings, Technorati visibility and creating a steady slew of backlinks to a website, it's hard to know which methods work in the never-ending battle against the powers and which tactics tend not to yield such flash results. One method of advertising a website and receiving a slew of backlinks that is becoming increasingly popular, is the sponsorship of Wordpress themes. Some people claim it's down-right outrageous to have 'sponsored links' in themes, others see it as their right. The way I see it, if a designer has worked hard, creating a theme for general use, the least that a user of the layout could do would be to have the courtesey to give something back to the Theme designer, in the form of a single, small backlink. Is it really all that much to ask?

Of course, ethics aren't the only matter being discussed. The monetary gain included, poses questions too. What should theme designers be charging for a link in a theme? Just recently - Performancing launched it's own "Sponsor A Theme" forum, in which users are being given a chance to openly bid for theme sponsorship, and from what I've seen, it's going pretty well. This, at least, solves the problem of setting a reasonable price-per-theme. In context though, whether you're paying $100 or $1,000 - you're going to be getting yourself a pretty good deal.

At Text-Link-Ads, you can expect to pay $50+ for a PR5 backlink. 1,000 people download a theme which you bid $1,000 to have a sponsored link placed within. 50 of these backlinks are PR5 or higher. Equalling only $1 per link, you're getting yourself a pretty good deal! Considering the fact that the one-way link you've got embedded in so many people's blogs is placed on every single page on the website, in reality, you could be getting tens of thousands of backlinks. The way I see it, opportunity like this is priceless.

Will you be bidding on a sponsored theme any time soon?

This post has been written by David Wilkinson - 13-Year Old ProBlogger.