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The major reason why you want to build a wordpress template site is because you want to get more backlinks to your site. Of course, you can also use the site to make money from adsense and do affiliate marketing. However, backlinks should be the number 1 reason.

If you look at all the free wordpress templates site, the function is very simple. Most of them are running using wordpress itself. A lot of them are just collection of themes. However, for some wordpress template sites, they are building for SEO purpose. The website will allow people to download the free wordpress template so people can install the theme. At the bottom of the theme it will hard code a link with the SEO purpose to point back to their sites. Sometime the theme will even call back to the server to get the latest links. So, the SEO company will be able to update the backlinks dynamically.

Think of it, if there is 10 people download your wordpress themes and use it. It is 10 free backlinks for you.

To build the website is easy.

1. Pick a domain name like freetemplate123.com
2. Install wordpress on the domain
3. Install the wordpress theme preview plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-preview/
4. try to find a lot of free wordpress templates or you can create some of the theme yourself.
5. for each theme, unzip it, modified the footer.php file to have your backlink
6. zip it up and post it to your wordpress website.

Then you just sit there and wait for your PR go up.